Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period once said, 'You can't live up to your reputation and deal with real disasters! 'Those who really understand this sentence thoroughly are actually businessmen and capitalists.
Only those who have very tragic memories of being oppressed will have a natural intuition for danger!
Throughout history, whether in Asia or Europe, the merchant class has had an extremely dark history. Needless to say, in Asia, under the suppression of Confucianism, merchants have become fat sheep that can be slaughtered by the imperial power and bureaucrats.
It was not all smooth sailing for European merchants. In the era of the alliance between religious and feudal forces, the status of European merchants was not as good as that of their Chinese counterparts.
The priest who sells indulgences bets on your doorstep and forces you to buy them. If you dare not buy them, your daughter will be condemned as a witch and burned to death!
It can be said that for thousands of years in the East and the West, the imprint of insecurity has been too deep in the genes of the merchant class, so these people have a natural intuition for danger.
In fact, in real life, those businessmen who show off their wealth cannot actually be regarded as real capital aristocrats. The real capital predators are very good at hiding themselves.
Basically, their names will not appear in newspapers, let alone on the lists of external shareholders of big banks or large companies. These people have their own circle, and they usually launch a spokesperson regularly to maintain their reputation. right.
For example, the Rothschild family, which currently controls the gold trading market in the UK, is just a spokesperson pushed to the front by a huge force.
The real richest man in the world never appears in public!
Would these people who didn't even want to be published in newspapers be interested in the throne or imperial power? Will they rebel and become emperor?
Don't live up to your reputation and get into real trouble!
It's cold at high places, what's the benefit of being an emperor? On the surface, you may appear to be rich and well-off, but once you need to take the blame, you still have to take the blame, and you may even lose your head.
How wonderful it is to hide behind the scenes of the human world. In fact, they enjoy much higher blessings than the emperor. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty has three palaces, six courtyards and seventy-two concubines. We top rich people are not bad either!
Who hasn’t slept with a few beauties in their life? A thousand might be an exaggeration, but there are always eight hundred!
You said the emperor ate 108 dishes in one meal? But isn’t the belly just that big, and how much can it eat? Who among us has not tasted the dishes you ate?
Even the emperor can't taste the delicacies in some private restaurants!
You said your Forbidden City is extremely luxurious, where is the happiest place to sleep? Get it quickly, no one wants this kind of blessing given to them for free.
The Forbidden City is indeed magnificent, but from another perspective, it is almost like a prison. If the emperor wants to leave the palace, the civil servants may curse him.
It is the invisible rich who are the most leisurely. They buy islands in the Pacific, have gardens in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and have their own private houses on the three mountains and five mountains!
I can go wherever I want to play in my life, including Huangshan Mountain, Lushan Mountain, and the Five Mountains! Buy a piece of land and build a house in the most beautiful place.
The grassland of Saibei, the snow outside Guanwai, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the wind at the harbor... How many of these beautiful scenery can you, the emperor, enjoy? Haven't you spent your whole life wandering back and forth to the Forbidden City and the Summer Resort?
When it comes to eye-opening, the emperor is incomparable to these invisible rich people!
This is a state, a state that Zai Chun has never imagined. It was only when Xiao Letian took him to travel around the world that he had a little contact with it.
Moreover, Zaichun also knew very well how the power of European capitalists killed feudal emperors. There were really kings in England and France who were killed!
But what is very interesting is that the capitalists who promoted the killing of the king did not covet the throne in the end. After those people completed the bourgeois revolution, they then turned around and disappeared from the world.
It's like they never existed!
This is the rule of the game for top capitalists. They never seek fame, but always seek actual benefits. They always hide from fame.
Precisely because Zai Chun understood a little bit about the rules of the game of this kind of capital elite, when the master cursed and called himself a capitalist, the little emperor calmed down.
The master keeps saying that he is a businessman and a capitalist, so does that mean that he has no interest in the throne of the emperor at all?
From the beginning to the end, the master wanted to be rich and make money. His Chinese clan wanted to provide protection to a group of frustrated businessmen?
If the master really means what he says and wants money but not political power, then these treaties are not unacceptable!
After all, it is much more reasonable than the treaty between Britain and France! This will give me money at least, more than 30 million a year!
And no matter what, the industrial zone was also built on the land of the Qing Dynasty. They only leased it and did not cede it out completely.
I am still young, I will at least die behind the master!
Master is a mountain that is difficult for me to climb, but no matter how high the mountain is, there will be times when we get old and frail!
I have endured this hurdle, and sooner or later my power will grow and I will take revenge!
Zhang Juzheng was also an imperial master, so wasn't his grave dug up in the end? There is no need to rush when it comes to revenge, there is still time!
Fifteen-year-old Zai Chun lowered his head, hugged his master's leg and cried, but no one knew that his eyes were shining like poisonous snakes at this moment.
He is now relieved and can accept this treaty, but he still wants to fight for it.
"Master... Master's teachings, the disciple has firmly memorized it... But the disciple signed such a treaty just after taking office, how will the world think of it!"
"Master, please be a little considerate and considerate of the disciple. Let's discuss it slowly after the disciple ascends the throne... Please feel sorry for the disciple's difficulties!"
Xiao Letian looked at the crying Zai Chun and sighed and said, "Your Majesty, do you know that suspicion breeds hidden ghosts? Once the seed is planted in your heart, it will not be easy to dig it out again..."
"Why did you betray me to the French? That's because there is a ghost hiding in your heart! It has been hidden for many years..."
"You can't catch this kid... because that kid is China's imperial ideology for thousands of years!"
"Everything in the world is not the king's soil, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers! This kind of thinking is a ghost, and the two of us can't get better without him!"
"Get up, don't let me look down on you! Things are already like this, so let's talk about business like businessmen!"
Zai Chun suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiao Letian with tears on his face, "Master... can't you forgive this disciple just once? This disciple really did something wrong because he became neurotic because of the assassination!"
"No...no...that thing is not the ghost in your heart, the ghost in your heart is actually...the emperor's dictatorship!"
"Get up! Don't let me look down on you!"
Xiao Letian roared, and Emperor Tongzhi trembled with fright. He stood up immediately with his legs struggling!
