"To tell you the truth, no matter whether the Central Plains civilization chooses economic blockade or open free trade, as long as there is no compensation policy for economically disadvantaged ethnic groups, the final result will end with the collapse of the disadvantaged economies."
"Under the economic blockade, the grassland people collapsed a little faster. After free trade was opened, the collapse slowed down a little, but the result was always the same, and in the end it was a massive collapse."
"Do you really think that nomads are born with a bloodthirsty nature? You are wrong. In fact, ordinary herdsmen are also born and raised by parents. They also find wives to have children. They also covet comfort and hope to enjoy life!"
"If you can live a life without dying of cold and hunger, who would be willing to behead someone?"
"You have to remember that whenever there is a serious famine in the grassland, that is when they go south to plunder the most. Everything is just for survival!"
"You, Xiang Ying, can swear to them that you will only kill the Manchus and not touch the Mongols. I also assume that they will believe your lies, but believe it or not, you have not solved this economic terminal disease in the end!"
"Have you ever considered how the Mongols would survive without the privileges the Manchus gave them?"
"Haha, you have too many cannonballs in your head. I'm afraid you haven't thought about how the economy works at all! The Manchus and the Mongols jointly squeezed the oil and water from the Central Plains. In fact, this is a kind of feedback to the weak economies! "
"The Han and Mongolians have always been in a strong position during the economic and trade activities of the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years... You don't need to refute me, I know what examples you want to give!"
"You will say that the Manchus imposed too many taxes and excessively bullied the Han caravans, and then the law was unfair and the Han people's interests suffered serious losses!"
"I see these things more clearly than you. Of course I know how the Manchus oppressed the Han people. I am also very angry! But you forgot to observe another detail!"
"Why do the Han people, despite being treated so unfairly, continue to open up trade routes to the grasslands? Caravans continue every year, and trade between the grasslands and the Central Plains has not stopped for more than two hundred years. Why is this? "
At this point, Wang Junlan's ears suddenly stood up. He realized that the real information was about to appear, and the pen in his hand began to sketch.
"Why? I'm afraid you won't be able to understand this for the rest of your life. Let me tell you... No matter how hard the Manchu and Mongolian princes and ministers squeeze them, as long as the caravan trade continues and even continues to scale, expand!"
"This shows that the trade between the Central Plains economies and the grassland economies is still profitable! Although the Han caravans were extorted from part of the profits, they did not lose money on the rest, and they could still make profits. Got the money!”
"This is the root cause! If all the Han caravans have no profit, then even if the Manchu and Mongolian princes do not bully them and offer merchants to the sky, I am afraid that no merchant will set foot there. grassland!"
"Isn't the truth very simple? Maybe the merchants thought that he should make five thousand taels of silver from this caravan trip, but because of excessive taxes and corruption by corrupt officials, the final profit was only two thousand five hundred taels..."
"He can complain and scold, but complaining is just complaining, and scolding is just scolding! In the end, business has to be done as it should. Even for the profit of 2,500 taels, he will organize more goods to go north next year. trade!"
"Continue to make money, no matter how much you make, the money on the grassland will always flow to the Central Plains, and the goods from the Central Plains will continue to pour in to the north!"
"Why did the grassland economy not collapse after two hundred years of such trade and such a severe trade deficit? How come there was money for the Han people to earn for two hundred years?"
"Why didn't the kind of collapse I just mentioned happen? In the final analysis, the answer lies in politics!"
"After all, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are in a quasi-alliance with the Eight Banners of Mongolia. The Mongols have already served the Manchus as their orthodox masters, and the Manchu and Qing Dynasties will naturally repay the Mongols with real money!"
"Not only the preferential treatment in various policies, but also the annual payments to the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the salary rewards to the princes and ministers are a large amount. In addition, the Manchu Qing gave the Mongolian princes the right to tax, so in At the same time as the net outflow of currency, there is also a water pump pumping the wealth of the Han people back into the grassland!"
"Do you understand now? Can you understand this economic game?"
"Because money comes and goes in this game, this game can be played for two hundred years without crashing! The people in the grassland have enjoyed various commodities of the Han people, and the Han people have also made money and wealth on the grassland... "
"Soon after, the Manchus used various means to replenish the wealth of the Han people to the grasslands, and the cycle continued endlessly. In the process of this continuous trade cycle, peace actually appeared!"
"The thousands of years of war and confrontation between the Central Plains and the grasslands have actually subsided for two hundred years! This is the power of the economy, and you, Xiang Ying, don't understand this power at all!"
"Okay, let's look at the First Opium War again! By the same token, Britain needs a lot of Chinese goods, but China needs a small amount of British goods, which creates a serious trade deficit. !”
"The British cannot just watch their gold and silver continue to flow into the pockets of the Chinese. If this continues, wouldn't it be the final collapse I just mentioned?"
"If a country or a nation is drained of gold and silver currency in commercial circulation by another nation, then there is only death waiting for it!"
"That's why the British came up with the idea of opium as a trade cheating device!"
"While Chinese porcelain, silk, tea, bristle... and other commodities were pumping gold and silver from the British economy like water pumps, the British also started high-power drug pumps to pump money from China. Draw gold and silver back from the economic pond..."
"They have to ensure a balance of trade. Let alone making money or not, they have to ensure the stability of the water in their ponds! This is a matter of survival and is a red line that cannot be touched!"
"But when Emperor Daoguang was about to destroy the last water pump, the British became angry. They knew that once this water pump was destroyed, they would never be able to find a tool to make up for the trade deficit! "
"Since your Qing Dynasty will not let me, Da Ying, live, and has also closed the door to negotiations, then there is only one last resort, and that is war!"
"This is how the First Opium War came about. The root cause of the war still lies in the key point of trade inequality!"
"Imagine if Emperor Daoguang could sit at the negotiating table and negotiate with the British. After smashing the drug pump, he could also help the British start other reasonable trade counterfeiting procedures!"
"When the British see that trade balance can be achieved without war and the deficit is not fatal... I think that war will not exist!"
"Xiang Ying! You must always remember this. War is just a concentrated outbreak of various conflicts in human society. In the final analysis, it is trade conflicts that trigger economic conflicts, and it is because economic conflicts trigger political confrontations! "
"Political confrontation will naturally activate the country's propaganda machine, thus creating national hatred! And once national hatred spreads, it will eventually escalate to such a fierce form as war!"
"The war... in the final analysis is because there is a big problem in the commercial and trade field. This is the root cause!"
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