The most important reason why the five major countries choose to close themselves off and charge heavy taxes on imported goods is that they hope to develop independently, develop relevant technologies, and have their own complete industrial systems.
If we don’t do this, we will be stuck in the future, and even if we want to launch a war to seize technology and talents, we will not be able to do it, because once a war is launched, the domestic technological level and people’s livelihood level may be significantly regressed, and the people will be war-weary by then. Emotions will reach an incredible level, and the cost of continuing the war will become extremely high.
If we want to independently develop technology, it is necessary to impose heavy taxes on imported products and strictly restrict the entry of foreign industrial products.
This is a very simple reason. If tariffs are not charged on imported products, and the foreign technology is higher, the quality and price of these products will be much more advantageous than domestic products. This is why technological backwardness must The dilemma faced.
Since the products produced by ourselves are expensive and backward, why don’t the citizens buy foreign goods? If you just rely on patriotism, it can last for up to ten days and a half. After a long time, people will still be unable to help but choose imported products.
It’s not just consumers who do this. Local companies will soon give up on localized production and choose to become compradors with advanced purchasing technology if they find that the products they produce cannot be sold at all. Even if they are sold at low prices, they will not make much profit. By purchasing products from other countries and then selling them at a higher price, you don’t need to pay a huge price for technology research and development, and you can earn much more than if you honestly develop your own products.
Such a social environment has caused domestic enterprises to make no money at all, and everyone has gone to work as compradors. How can it be possible to develop its own industry?
It is precisely because of this realization that major countries have chosen to close the country, impose heavy taxes on imported products from the Kingdom of Akatsuki, and subsidize domestic enterprises. Trying to allow local industry to develop, however, is very uncomfortable for people in big countries. They cannot buy industrial products that can be easily purchased in small countries. Even if they want to buy, the price will be very expensive.
However, those domestic substitutes are of poor quality and expensive, but they have to hold their noses and buy them. The money they have earned through hard work has been returned to the hands of the country to subsidize the development of these industrial enterprises.
Wealth is created by labor, and if a country wants to subsidize the development of industry, it naturally has to obtain wealth from workers in other industries. Therefore, the intuitive feeling of people in major countries is that their lives are miserable.
People living on the border have spontaneously appeared many trespassers or smugglers. They go to nearby countries, even small ones, where they can easily buy cheap industrial products, then sneak across the border and return to the big country. , and then sell these products at a higher price, even if the price is doubled, they are still much cheaper than buying them from formal channels, and some of them are even impossible to buy from formal channels.
The above are the jobs of smugglers, some are done by ordinary people, and some are done by ninjas. After all, crossing national borders is not so easy. You can use seal scrolls and use various ninjas. Ninjas who are good at hiding their figures are naturally very vulnerable to smuggling.
Many ordinary people have gone to great lengths to make this money. The customs of the Country of Fire have found out that civilians leaving the country have hidden the seal scrolls through their sphincter. It can be said that it was quite a struggle to stuff five seal scrolls inside at once and carry imported products worth millions.
As for how many goods ninjas can smuggle, it is an even more desperate figure. The feudal systems of major countries limit their ability to control the grassroots, and ninjas cannot be tools without emotions.
Although there are certain risks in smuggling, carrying out ninja tasks does not involve risking one's life. In comparison, the risk of smuggling industrial products from the Kingdom of Akatsuki is much lower, and the wealth that can be earned is The reward is much higher than the mission. Not all ninjas will be brainwashed by the will of fire or other nationalist ideas.
Even high-level officials in various countries will take advantage of their positions to carry out official reselling in order to get a piece of the pie.
This makes the top leaders of various countries extremely desperate. Their ability to manage domestic problems has resulted in smuggling being completely unable to be curbed. Citizens would rather buy illegally smuggled products than buy their own products.
In addition to the ability to control the grassroots, the size of the country also restricts the development of the industries of the five major countries. From the above phenomenon, it is not difficult to see that the development of industry requires a market. Although Xiao's own citizens are limited, Relying on its own more complex and perfect social system and more enlightened technical atmosphere, it has achieved a leading position in science and technology, so that the whole world is a market for Xiao, and it is profitable to continue to develop industry, which can fully support the healthy development of the industrial system. cycle.
But the five major countries do not have such a market. Perhaps their countries already have a large population. They are the five countries with the largest populations on the continent, but these populations are divided among the five countries. The population of each country is not enough to support In the market for the development of the industrial system, they cannot support the development of industry just by relying on the domestic market like China does in reality.
As time goes by, the industries of the five major countries have not only not developed at all, but their technology has even begun to lag behind that of the surrounding small countries. Their situation should not be compared to China, but should be compared to North Korea, which has established its own industrial system. Determination but no market to support its development, the gap between China and other countries in the world will eventually become wider and wider.
Although some words cannot be said openly, the top leaders of various countries already know that now is the last time for them to launch a war. Although the technology has fallen behind, it is not too far behind. The main factor that determines the victory of the war is still the ninja. , taking this opportunity to completely destroy the Xiao organization and plunder their technology and talents.
Although this will lead to a significant drop in domestic living standards, or even a return to the level of decades ago, it is equivalent to bringing everyone back to the same starting line. Although the cost is heavy, it has won the technological leadership for our country. Chance.
This is a unanimous decision made by the top leaders of the five major countries. Even the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who has been preaching the will of fire, is silently preparing for this war. Compared with the Akatsuki in the original work, the current Akatsuki organization has not done anything It cannot do anything evil, but its existence is a hundred times more evil to the major countries than Akatsuki in the original work. The Akatsuki in the original book would at most bring disaster to the world, but now the Akatsuki wants to replace the dominance of the five major countries in the world!
[To be continued]
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