"Xiang Ying! You answer and tell Bingtaro what's going on!" Xiao Letian said.
"Yes, Master!" Xiang Ying looked at Hyōtaro and smiled and said, "Class contradictions are indeed irreconcilable. Of course, conflicts will break out between capitalists and the working class, but when we look at this issue from the perspective of history, they are actually one. !”
"This is the two sides of the Industrial Revolution!"
Xiang Ying has realized the real worries of the head of state, and has also grasped the core of the problem!
Although the capitalists and the working class are contradictory opposites, they are also two sides of the industrial revolution. You must know that the working class did not exist at all in the 17th and 18th centuries. Only in the late 19th century did such a class exist .
In the final analysis, technology is developing and productivity is improving, which has resulted in the current situation.
What accompanied the early stages of the development of the bourgeoisie? It was a great geographical discovery in the Age of Discovery. At that time, industrial production in Europe actually existed in the form of small workshop owners!
The mainstream way to obtain wealth in that era was plunder, which was to directly plunder populations and resources from colonies!
Spain and Portugal are representatives of that era. They did not industrialize in their own countries, but produced in small workshops scattered all over the country. A large number of people at the bottom were not workers but farmers and herdsmen!
Therefore, the power of feudal lords in that era was still very strong. The main contradiction in society was the contradiction between capitalists and feudal lords, and wars were fought between them!
Externally, these countries mainly sell black slaves, which is directly plundering the population, or robbing gold, silver, pearls, gems and other precious natural goods!
No one is interested in developing the colonial economy. They don't even bother to industrialize their own country, so they will invest in the colony?
So in that era, the working class did not exist!
It was the British who changed this situation. The British themselves lagged behind Spain and Portugal during the Age of Discovery. When the British began to expand overseas, there was not much ready-made fat to grab.
They could only plunder from the Spanish little by little, and then were forced to increase domestic productivity and use the commercial trade model to earn gold and silver from other countries.
To put it bluntly, you are responsible for robbing, and I am responsible for manufacturing daily necessities and selling them to you, and then making money back!
The textile industry is the earliest industry to industrialize, and textiles are an absolute livelihood resource that every country needs. Moreover, they are consumables and require a large amount of replenishment every year!
What is the essence of the Industrial Revolution? In the final analysis, it is to increase productivity and then reduce the cost of unit products, and finally let the country's products earn money all over the world!
For the same piece of cloth, the same quality and color, the cost of making it in Spain alone is only fifty pounds, while the retail price of the one made in England is only 30 pounds and you still make a profit!
How can we compete? Even a fool will buy high-quality and cheap goods!
It was through the textile industry's pioneering industrial revolution that Britain earned the first pot of gold in the rise of its empire!
At that time, British textiles were really being sold all over the world. When Napoleon, the god of war, was sweeping across Europe, he was at war with Britain, but on the other hand, his soldiers' uniforms had to purchase British fabrics!
This is not a joke, this is the real historical fact at that time!
Britain's success ignited the interest of various countries in the Industrial Revolution, because competition in national power is a life and death game, and everyone wants to be the strong one!
Britain's money-making effect triggered imitation across Europe, thus promoting the process of industrialization in various countries. It was also during this era that the working class gradually took shape!
If you understand history, you will also understand the crux of the problem. Why did the working class appear? That's because of the large-scale construction of factories and industrial zones!
And why are factories being built on a large scale? That's because capitalists need factories to produce, workers to work, and then make a lot of money!
Why can you make a lot of money by building a factory? That's because technology has improved, productivity has increased, factories are more efficient, and the products they produce can completely overwhelm the handmade workshop industries of other nations!
Moreover, in the minds of the country's top leaders, if the industrial strength of their own country has improved, but the industrial strength of other countries is weak, then their own products will impact the economies of the weaker countries!
There will be a trade deficit, and your own country will become richer and stronger, while other countries will become weaker and weaker!
Not just commodity competition, even the military industry needs industrialization!
Our country can produce 10,000 cannons and a million rifles a year, but the enemy can produce a hundred cannons and a thousand rifles a year!
With such a gap in productivity, isn't it just easy for me to bully you? Expanding the territory and colonizing other ethnic groups is such a great feeling that you don’t want it!
"Hahaha... Do you understand now? My brother Hyoutaro! Everything is caused by cause and effect. How did the working class appear?"
"It's because the rulers of these European powers and the capitalists within the country need factories, and they need the working class to be their slaves!"
"It is a capitalist society that requires more and more workers to work... because the more workers there are, the larger the country's factories are and the higher the productivity, and the stronger the country's strength will be!"
"Now do you understand what the industrial revolution means? Do you still want to control the size of the working class? If you dare to control the size, the first ones to impeach you will be the capitalists!"
"Because you suppress the development of the working class, you cut off their financial resources!"
"In fact, in the eyes of those capitalists, the working class cannot be reduced in size, but must become larger and larger... Otherwise, why would there be an enclosure movement in the UK? Come and learn about the history of sheep eating people!"
"Actually, if you study European history carefully, ever since the benefits of the Industrial Revolution were tasted by all Europeans, capitalist forces have consciously begun to squeeze farmers!"
"They are constantly working hard to force the peasant class to change careers to the working class! That's why there is the British enclosure movement, and that's why sheep eat people!"
"All the complaints of the capitalists and all their suppression of the labor movement...the starting point is not that the working class is too big. On the contrary, they actually want this class to be even bigger!"
"All their grievances, all their repressive actions... are actually just angry that the workers refuse to be obedient slaves! The workers are unwilling to follow the rules of the game they set and always want to increase their income!"
"What is the nature of capital? It is to pursue profits!"
"What is the natural enemy of capital? It is profit-seeking!"
"Capitalists always want to make more and more. Any behavior that makes them make less money is rebellion. How can this not be suppressed?"
"But suppression is suppression. They cannot completely suppress this class. If all workers go home to farm and stop working in factories, industrialization will cease to exist!"
Bang bang bang... Xiao Letian clapped his hands slowly, "Very good, I didn't teach you in vain, you understood what you said thoroughly!"
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