From Chief to Ball

It's better to use the tricks instead of the way, and seek a bright future for yourself.Even if he was killed in the fifth life, it is worthwhile to be able to leave a name in this world of great controversy in this life.

Chapter 48 Change and Unchanging

After finalizing the various general directions of the company one by one, the atmosphere at the banquet gradually heated up. It seemed that a bright future was just around the corner. This empty shell monopoly company would bring more money and more stability to these families than imagined. inheritance of rights.

Everything is changing now, and you can't do it if you don't want to change.The maple sugar franchise that many families were jealous of is nothing now, compared with sucrose and vegetable sugar, the price share has been greatly reduced; the income of some families that were originally prosperous is getting lower and lower, and they even need to borrow from those merchants, or Instead of relying on land rent, hire special managers to manage the land...

Those who can think of changes will eventually have a place in the future.

At the end of the banquet, the last sharp question was raised.

"As you said, we want to declare war on Spain and Portugal, suppress Britain and the Netherlands, instigate internal strife in Europe, and help the mainland and the sea. But as far as the company is concerned, Wangbei City is in the hands of the Mexican Party. They operate regardless of cost. If there is any change in the future , isn’t the Ming Empire worth the vigilance in advance?”

The young man smiled and said: "No need. It's too far away, I can't say for sure. If the Mo Party is not successful, the Ming Empire will not extend its hand. If the Mo Party succeeds, based on their ideas and what I have seen and heard in Wangbei City, it will be inevitable. It is large-scale immigration and opening up frontiers to change the land system. For us, India can collect land rent, which is worth more than the Black Swan River. For them, the Black Swan River can accommodate the excess population, and the value is much greater than India. Now give us the Black Swan We don’t need the entire continent of the river. Now the Mo party has 1000 million people in the Ming Empire, and they don’t need it. Now give us silver, and we are backed by the wealth of the people’s labor of the Republic. Silver is wealth; now give us The Mexican Party and the Ming Empire, what they pursue is the total increase of national wealth, and the wealth created by closed labor, silver is only a medium rather than an end.”

"We are for profit, they are for people, with different values, the focus is also different."

"In other words, although our company collects land rent and poll tax, it is just an armed company. The purpose is to make profits. If there is no profit, it will leave. After they gain the ruling power, they will still collect taxes, but they are partisan , the purpose is that the people in the world manage the affairs of the world, but people can follow the ideas but they must take root and blossom."

"After 50 and [-] years, six generations have passed. The brilliance of a gentleman will be cut off in the fifth generation. Who can say for sure what will happen after the sixth generation?"

Everyone is silent.One hundred and fifty years, no one can really say for sure.How can the past 50 years be compared with the present and the next 50 years?

The original atmosphere of the banquet was also disturbed by this seemingly unpredictable future. Even if the host tried his best to restore that joyful situation, he was ultimately powerless.

When the banquet was over, the host of the banquet went to see his father with the long-term plan that had been sorted out.

After reading it carefully, the real owner of the manor nodded his head one by one, and when it came to the justifiable reasons, he smiled slightly and took out a pen to cross out those reasons.

The son was a little strange and asked, "Father, the name is justified."

"What is right? Who decides what is right? You young people have been lured by the propaganda in newspapers and pamphlets without realizing it yourself. What you call right is what they promote. You also heard those people say Think about what the Mo party did in Wangbei City and the aboriginal tribes there? Civilization? Barbarism? Who decides?"

"But father, if you use the reason that this is for the benefit of the ethnic group, it will reduce a lot of opposition voices."

"Then if the Mexican Party asks you, since it is for the benefit of the ethnic group, you are asked to invest 50.00% of the company's profits in education, poverty relief, immigration and other things, how can you fight with them? If they define the name, you You can never compete with them. Don’t be led by them, and don’t fall into the values ​​​​defined by them. You say that, it proves that you have lost.”

"What should I do?"

"I don't explain anything, just according to tradition, this is reasonable and legal. Don't say that what you do is for the benefit of the ethnic group. The more you say, the more people think that this is true? Is it right? ?”

"Why don't we fight for the right to speak?"

"Arguing? Even your thinking is bewitched by those pamphlets and you follow their ideas. How can you argue? You want to prove that what you do is reasonable within the framework of their regulations. It's ridiculous. Just like them The labor theory of value is the same. Is it possible for you to prove that land rent and rent are reasonable on the basis that national wealth comes from labor income? But if you stand on the basis that I have made military achievements for the republic, I can get land to dominate farmers and justify this Basically, how can they compete with you?"

"What should I do?"

"Talk about tradition. In tradition, do such things need to be explained? No, because everyone acquiesces that this is reasonable. Habits become natural, and customary laws will quietly become natural laws."

"You mean no arguing? Don't talk about what is right and proper? Wouldn't it be worse if this continues?"

"Do you think it will be useful if you fight? When one day the wealth and profits there are attractive enough, do you think those who want a piece of the pie will not object? Don't they ask for the release of monopoly rights? Don't they Wouldn’t you ask to join and ask for equity participation? So, don’t justify your name. When someone opposes it, just bring some people in. Many people are not against injustice, but the beneficiaries of the injustice are not themselves. So, keep it unfair, but appropriate It’s the best way to draw some people into the beneficiaries of injustice.”

The son thought for a while, and said: "But if it succeeds, the wealth will indeed increase. Even according to their statement that they increase the total national wealth, this is correct, and it is correct on their basis."

The owner of the manor frowned and said: "Abandon the root and chase the end! They promote the sum of national wealth to prove that it is reasonable for labor and capital to share more pies, not just for the increase of the sum of national wealth. Recognizing the issue of national wealth proves that They’re right. They’re right, so they’re right to ask for a pay-for-work. Can you admit that one plus one equals two, and then deny that two minus one equals one?”

Speaking of this, the owner of the manor was a little helpless, and reprimanded: "According to them, do you think you are worthy of having so much wealth? What have you done? What have you paid? Without capital and labor, land is just land, how can wealth be produced?" ? If you admit that what they said is right, the Mexican party will immediately take people to the Black Swan River to reclaim the land, and withdraw the people after reclaiming, and exchange the land that someone here can use with you, do you want to trade?"

The young man who was reprimanded bowed his head and said, "I know I was wrong."

"It's not that you know you're wrong. What's wrong with you? It's that you don't argue with them about right and wrong. Once you start a dispute, you will fall into their trap. The more people discuss, the more troublesome this matter will be."

After the reprimand, he finally relented, shook his head and said: "We are not the same as those old stubborn. There are still some people who are still trying to argue for rationality, and those people from the old school are still trying to argue in newspapers. Isn't that stupid? Let's not tie them down In a boat, we are gaining now, and all we can do is to delay their victory without arguing, and continue to gain during this time; before they win, become like them. If it does not change , we are still a military family; if it changes, we will be the directors of the merchant, factory owner and banker company. Between the change and the same, we are not only the military family, but also ready to be the director of the merchant factory owner banker company.”

"Yes, the child understands."

"It's good to understand. I usually go to those places where young people gather. There is no harm in listening more. Whether you do it or not is up to you. Okay, you go, and you have to prepare to talk to Chen Jian about negotiating with Europe in a few days." I have to read the book again. About the company, don’t be so ostentatious, you a group of officials and family children get together, keep a low profile, and hide behind the scenes. The actors are glamorous, but the people behind the actors are the manipulators.”

"Yes."

Backed away in response, the owner of the manor squeezed his head, the servant brought tea, took a sip, and flipped through the "Global Experience Records", staring at "the contradiction between West Holland, West England, the Habsburg family and Protestantism" This article is constantly marked with a pen.

Although I have read it several times, I am still secretly shocked. What is said here fits perfectly, but I have only been in contact with Europe for a few years. How did that young man do it?

……

Chen Jian is actually very concerned about the affairs of the Indian company, but he also knows that the situation cannot be changed. He can only find out the beneficial side of the future from the unchangeable facts. Perhaps it can only force a group of small and medium businessmen to oppose the monopoly franchise. Right here, there will definitely be trouble in the future.

What we need to do now is not to immediately reprimand the unreasonableness of this monster, but to continue to help and strengthen those who will pull this monster into the water under unchangeable circumstances.

Capital City has sufficient capital, but a lot of capital has not been invested in value-added.On the one hand, the monopoly of franchise rights leads to the monopoly of highly profitable industries, and on the other hand, many things require someone to take the lead in raising funds. The method of concentrating social capital in Min County is not very popular in the capital.

As for the leader, probably no one is more suitable than Chen Jian. The previous reputation has now become a kind of invisible capital and appeal.

For Chen Jian, defrauding and investing more capital to the south is also the top priority of his trip to the capital.Spontaneous flow takes time. What he can do is not to move against the market, but to turn spontaneous flow into guided flow in advance.

The "mineral, metallurgical and infrastructure investment company" that has already started planning in Min County not only needs the money of Min County, but also needs the capital investment of the capital to build Min County and foreign investment in mining, and use the capital of the whole country to reduce the burden on Min County Conflict and pressure, but also to involve more people.

Even as books such as "Global Insights" have begun to be published on a large scale, some officials have been slow to respond.Under Chen Jian's instigation, many small and medium-sized businessmen in the capital were convinced that Europe was about to fight earlier than some conservative officials. At this time, they began to invest in copper, iron, guns, saltpetre, sulfur, and explosives, and they would definitely make a fortune.

As for the construction of canals and roads, this is a mandatory goal of the company. Investors must take part of the shares to invest in the infrastructure of Min County. Although the return on profit is slightly lower, it will definitely make money.As for overseas copper mines, saltpeter, and acid-base workshops, Chen Jian uses information monopoly and technology monopoly to seek rent.

Money is definitely earned, but the additional condition is to engage in infrastructure construction with a low rate of return.If you don’t invest in shares, where are the overseas copper mines and saltpeter mines?

Since the monopoly of power can be rent-seeking, military conditions and political conditions that have nothing to do with profit can be attached; then the rent-seeking of information and technology monopoly can also attach some special conditions.

Love will not come.

All voluntary.

However, Nanyang Company, standard kerosene, marine insurance, glass and mirror joint monopoly, cement manufacturing technology alliance and other pearls are ahead, and Indian companies have no hope of taking shares. Many people are convinced that this "mineral, metallurgical and infrastructure investment company" will be another shining star. The new star, its brilliance may not be inferior to the previous ones.

Many people think very simply. Except for immigrant investment that is not for profit and is purely enough to support the food, is there any industry that is owned by the Mexican party that loses money?Besides, the tobacco and new crop seeds in Great Wilderness are now being sold continuously. Who would have thought that there would be money there five years ago?And who would have imagined six years ago that there really was a piece of land suitable for farming?

I have missed too much, this time it is best to keep up.

Chapter 49 Return Report

Merchants and industrialists with a small amount of assets want to make a profit, and the southward flow of capital is itself reasonable.

Even if it is investing in land, the land in the south is more profitable than the land in the north.Not to mention the geographical advantages of the special envoy of Min County. When European trade and Spanish colonial trade are developing day by day, Min City has naturally become the place with the highest return on investment theory.

With the appeal accumulated before, the company's investment raising went smoothly.Even if the investors are still in the capital, the capital has flowed to Min County, which is a necessary condition that cannot be ignored in order to pass the transition stage safely.

Today, the main strength of Min County is to fight against reactionary and conservative forces, because passing through the transitional stage of bloody accumulation in a relatively stable way is beneficial to the development of bourgeois forces, and will not be strangled by reactionary conservative forces.

However, the darkest days are yet to come, and once the transition phase has deepened and the capitalist system has stabilized, the main direction of the struggle will be a fully laissez-faire primitive capitalism.