The Franco-Prussian War must be mixed in, because Xiao Letian knew that France would be defeated in this war. How happy it would be to follow Prussia to harvest the wool of France!
Moreover, the compensation after the Franco-Prussian War was also a windfall. In the later period, the Qing Dynasty's domestic fortress plan was launched, and the initial start-up funds relied on this compensation!
Moreover, through this war, we can also establish good diplomatic relations with Germany, a future European power. The Chinese people really need such an ally to lead the way as they catch up with the world.
There is also military training, so that your officer corps can feel what war in the new era is like, and let this rare cross-era war become a whetstone for the Chinese officer corps.
The Franco-Prussian War was a springboard to use this war to enhance the international influence of the Chinese. This has been approved by most people within the Chinese.
At present, the opposition to this war within the Chinese community has become much smaller, but as the war ends, a new question arises, that is, whether it is necessary for the Chinese community to get involved in this siege.
In particular, the head of state seemed to pay too much attention to the Paris Commune, which had nothing to do with it!
It's just a rebel organization within France. Why is the Head of State so worried when it comes to this? And it’s a little too caring.
These people don't understand Xiao Letian's painstaking efforts, because they have no idea what those people in the Paris Commune represent!
That is the biggest volcano in human society in the future, and it is also the biggest point of conflict in all countries!
The Paris Commune was the first attempt of the human proletarian movement and the first cry of the workers' movement. It opened a new era and made the world understand that the fundamental contradictions of human society have changed!
Before the Paris Commune, it belonged to the era of enlightenment and development of capitalism. At that time, the main contradiction within European countries was the contradiction between the feudal system and the capital system.
The kings and capitalists were killing each other. The feudal lords, represented by the king, combined with religious forces to strangle the capitalist forces. The purpose was still to compete for power and wealth!
After hundreds of years of conflict, it was capitalism that finally won. The monarchy and religious power of all countries were defeated. Capitalism has become so dominant that even kings and popes dare not do whatever they want.
The capitalist forces finally recovered from being bullied and oppressed from the beginning. However, the capitalist forces after the recovery were not good men and women. Immediately afterwards, the social contradictions changed.
The bearded men in London have already discovered these subtle changes in society. At present, the contradictions in Europe are shifting. The contradictions between capitalists and the working class have gradually replaced the original social contradictions and become more and more intense!
Some people may ask, where has the king gone? Where have the feudal lords and religious powers gone?
The answer is simple, they have begun to unite with the capitalists, and they have begun to integrate!
Since I can't beat you, I'll become you! Isn’t it just capital investment and making a fortune together? The king can do it, the nobles can do it, and even the church has countless real estate for investment!
Therefore, in this era, the Queen's property can be invested in business, and the Duke of Newcastle can also combine funds from other nobles to run a high-end gourmet business with Xiao Letian.
Is Fresh Source a good project to make money? Come, come, invest with us nobles, and we will drag in a few more bankers!
In other words, at the end of the 19th century, it was no longer clear who was the aristocrat and who was the capitalist, they were one and the same!
Capitalism has finally completely taken control of the entire Western society. Then this absolute power group will also eat people, and the main body they exploit is the proletariat, and the representative among them is the working class!
Capitalists are profit-seeking. They do business not to do good. During the Industrial Revolution, their oppression of workers was extremely cruel!
The lowest salary, the most dangerous working environment, long working hours, and no work-related injury insurance!
In the eyes of capitalists, all workers in factories are just coal in boilers, burned into cinders and then discarded!
Contradictions do not accumulate in a day or two, but accumulate over decades or even hundreds of years. But why was there no large-scale workers' movement before the Paris Commune?
In the final analysis, this is still about the development of science and technology, or the improvement of productivity!
Before the Paris Commune, the degree of industrialization in Europe was actually not high, and the strength of the earliest working class was also very weak because there were so few people!
Workers at that time were also oppressed, but because their numbers were too small, even if they wanted to protest, they didn’t have the strength!
Hundreds and thousands of people just want to take to the streets to demonstrate? Just want an armed riot? The police in the city can suppress them all!
Only when the industrial revolution develops in depth, only when technology develops, can large-scale factories and large-scale industrial areas be created, and then tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers can gather together!
At this time, the quantitative change will become a qualitative change!
There is strength in numbers, there is power in numbers!
The loose group of workers has finally become the working class. At this time, their ability to resist oppression will become stronger and stronger. At least tens of thousands of people can be organized to march on the streets!
The police can no longer suppress it, so the army must come in, and the more the army suppresses it, the stronger the resistance becomes!
What's more important is that these workers still have votes, so naturally politicians will come to get close to them and provide some theoretical guidance!
Why did the French Emperor deprive Blanqui and others of their right to vote? Why characterize them as criminals from the beginning?
Because the French Emperor knew very well that Blanqui and the others controlled hundreds of thousands or even millions of votes!
This is an unsolvable problem!
Human society has finally entered a new stage of contradiction and conflict, that is the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, that is the bloody struggle between the capitalists and the working class!
In Xiao Letian's eyes, this contradiction is temporarily unsolvable. No one can adjust this contradiction, not even God!
And Xiao Letian knows very well that this contradiction will soon be transmitted to the Chinese, because if you want to industrialize, a working class will definitely be born!
This is a contradictory product accompanying the industrial revolution, and no one can avoid it!
Xiao Letian hopes that these direct descendants who came to Europe with him will see this cruel revolution with their own eyes and ponder the cause and effect relationship!
Let them know that Paris now is also Naha, Shanghai, and Beijing in the future!
Face this contradiction and conflict squarely and use the efforts of several generations to resolve it!
"Don't take it lightly. What happened in Paris today will happen around us tomorrow! How to solve it?"
"You must not treat the people in the commune as ordinary thugs. If you do, it will be very superficial!"
"Remember... you have to treat them as a natural law, a fate that we can never avoid!"
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