At the critical moment, the old shopkeeper had to speak. He was the only person present who was senior to Xiao Letian!
"I will be responsible for all... all the sins! It was me who failed to take care of these debts. I will bear my responsibility!"
Xiao Letian looked at his father-in-law with pure white hair and stretched out his hand to support him. "Father, please sit down first. Don't be anxious. We Chinese are still young. It is inevitable to make mistakes on impulse!"
"Instead of punishing you, I am willing to let you truly understand the seriousness of this matter. Your ambiguous acquiescence shows that you simply do not understand how terrible this matter will be to the Chinese people a hundred years from now!"
"Let me tell you in advance, after all, it was an attempted financial collapse that was stopped before actual action was taken, so I will not build a big prison, let alone kill people!"
"I won't even kill you, Zhang Xiaowen!"
As soon as he said this, even Zhang Xiaowen, who was kneeling on the ground, was stunned. "The head of state...I..." His eye sockets became sore, and tears fell down.
Xiao Letian looked at him and said coldly, "The death penalty can be spared, but the living crime cannot be avoided! Because you have a destructive heart!"
"If you succeed in this premeditated financial strangulation, do you know what will be the greatest harm to our Chinese people? It will set a precedent. This precedent will surely be followed by countless others!"
"There is a chariot in front and a rut in the back. The founders of a country, the actions of the first batch of people will affect the character of a country!"
"Money is a good thing! Who doesn't want to make it? At this point, Europeans are much more pure than us. The dark Middle Ages is over, and after the Age of Discovery has begun, no one can control the power of businessmen. Living!"
"Even the Pope in Rome cannot use the power of the Pope to suppress him!"
"Feudalism in early Europe was gradually replaced by mercantilism, and mercantilism stimulated the great geographical discoveries and accelerated global colonization!"
"Europe controls more and more money. When the money is gathered together so much that it cannot be transformed into physical objects without investment in the real economy, the world of capital will open up!"
"This is a process of money detaching from materialization... I think you should understand!"
"What did the early European merchants make money for? They would build factories, build farms, and even invest in building sailing ships, including supporting wars..."
"Money will turn into physical objects, even villas and real estate...use these physical objects to make money, and then invest in factories, real estate, ships, and various commodities..."
"But this model has to come to an end. Slowly, these European businessmen discovered that more and more gold and silver were plundered from around the world, and there was no longer such a large real economy to support it!"
"Their gold and silver can no longer be turned into physical objects, let alone make money from physical objects!"
"At this time, capitalism will definitely appear... To put it bluntly, money no longer relies on physical objects to make profits, but relies on money itself to increase in value!"
"The stock market, futures, loan sharks...including our various bonds are all tools played by capital itself and itself!"
"When money gradually breaks away from the real economy and becomes self-aware capital, no one can suppress this monster, because it relies on human greed to survive!"
"Human greed is endless, so naturally this power will be endless!"
Tears even flashed in Xiao Letian's eyes. "Once a trend appears, it will be difficult to suppress it! Capitalism will escalate into imperialism sooner or later!"
"The pursuit of monopoly profits is their only destiny. For this destiny, why should capital be afraid of a financial crisis? They will not hesitate to provoke a world war!"
"Do you still think this is a small matter now? If Zhang Xiaowen really succeeds, then the history of the founding of our Chinese nation will forever be stained with black history!"
"What will future generations think? Will they have an idea...our ancestors can do it, why can't we do it?"
"This is a curse! Setting this precedent is like opening the door to hell. In the future, this kind of crazy financial collapse will happen one after another!"
"You, Zhang Daudao, have only gathered tens of millions of capital to play this game. In the future, there will be one billion players, or even tens of billions of players coming to play this game!"
"If the financial crisis is really that big, I'm afraid Daluo Jinxian won't be able to save us Chinese people!"
"And... and you now dare to unite the capital of the Qing Dynasty to loot Jiangnan. In the future, will future generations unite the capital of Britain, France, the United States, Germany... and even other countries to loot the wealth of our Chinese people?"
"Zhang Xiaowen, answer me! Why are you mute now? What if something like that really happens? You will become an eternal sinner of the Chinese race!"
Everyone's expressions were ashen. This horrific scene made everyone present feel frightened. Luo Huo became angry when he saw the limp Zhang Xiaowen and wanted to beat him on the spot.
Mr. Long had already noticed Zhang DaDa, and when he saw Luo Huo was about to make a move, he quickly stretched out his hand to stop him, "Listen to the head of state, control your anger!"
"What a bastard! What a bastard..." Luo Huo's hands started to tremble in anger.
Xiao Letian took a deep breath and said, "Remember, remember...capital has no country and does not love any nation. It only loves itself!"
"As long as he can pursue huge profits, he will commit murder and arson!"
"There will be a day in the future when a group of traitors will appear in our Chinese financial circle, colluding with foreign capital to plunder the wealth of our compatriots... Just watch, sooner or later there will be such a day!"
Everyone saluted Xiao Letian solemnly, "Please... the head of state break his confusion and become enlightened! My subordinates are stupid, please tell me how to deal with such a crisis in the next hundred years?"
Xiao Letian waved his hand, "Let's talk about Zhang Xiaowen first! You are exempted from death penalty, but living punishment will not be comfortable... From today on, I will deprive you of all positions and honors, go to the Jiangnan Stock Market and become the lowest level trader!" "
"You remember, give him the minimum salary, just enough to eat and drink... Let him do the most tiring and tedious work, fill out forms for the people, and handwrite stock receipts!"
"Go and take a good look at the simple faces, feel the warmth of the silver dollars in the hands of the people, and know how hard the poor live!"
"You have lived a good life for too long. You are in a state of ecstasy in that exquisitely decorated office. Do you still think you are a big shot?"
"It's time to break this illusion in your mind. You have to learn how to be a new person!"
"Take it away!" Xiao Letian waved his hand and stopped looking at Zhang Xiaowen.
Zhang Xiaowen was choked with tears at this moment. He knelt on the ground and gave the head of state a deduction without saying a word. What hit him most today was not the punishment, but the collapse of his faith.
He thought that what he did was right, but he never thought that when looking at the problem from a historical perspective, he would be so immoral!
One wrong step and everything is wrong! Zhang Xiaowen kowtowed and accepted his fate!
