From the memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon, you can clearly see the appearance of Louis XIV's court, but even then, the commoners and merchant class could not rely on it, there was no imperial examination in Europe, the ruling class was solidified, the aristocratic system was sprinkled all the way, there were armed landlords in the villages, and the upward channel was blocked.

Earlier in ancient Greece and Pan-Italy, not to mention those city-states, the real Europe stood out on the world stage, stemming from the great geographical discoveries, which used to be a big pigsty.

After the Dutch Revolution, the big bourgeoisie really began to play, and Cromwell dismantled the King of England and the old aristocracy. The Netherlands is the source, Britain because it is the industrial revolution, more attention to it, the Netherlands and Britain, one after the other, brought the big bourgeoisie to the stage, but not the big businessmen, not the upper class, because many of the big bourgeoisie are big aristocrats.

Britain is a monarch, the House of Lords, the House of Commons, a three-tier system, the House of Commons has been suppressed, it is the real House of Commons, Cromwell greatly improved the status of the House of Commons, the Glorious Revolution was done by the House of Lords, the House of Commons is not discriminated against by the monarch and the House of Lords, and it really plays the role of parliament, until the era of the Opium War, which was in the middle of the nineteenth century.

The Glorious Revolution is 1688, Mr. Ma's capital theory came out in 1867, just in time for the nineteenth century to raise the status of the House of Commons, there is that atmosphere, plus a hundred years ago Adam Smith was deeply influenced, Adam's buddy is a lawyer, monarchs and nobles do not hire lawyers, of course he advocates free competition and free trade, deliberately downplaying the aristocracy and highlighting the common businessmen, but he can't understand Chinese civilization, and the late Qing Dynasty looks at the West from an Eastern perspective, even Mr. Ma overestimated the role of the Glorious Revolution on non-aristocracy, two hundred years.

In the context of Mr. Ma's big bourgeoisie, including aristocrats and capitalists, it doesn't look at identity and religious beliefs, it depends on whether you have the means of production, and you don't mention aristocrats and religion.

Are the aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie the upper class? No, that's the ruling class. It's not shameful enough for people to call themselves upper-class people.

Not to mention the aristocracy and big bourgeoisie in old Europe, until later generations, the American upper class was still a closed circle, and the word itself contains the meaning of inheritance.

The upper class is a snobbish society that wants to lean upwards and can't be attached. Self-styled gadgets, imitating aristocrats and big bourgeoisie, imitating food, clothing, sitting and lying down, talking and acting pretentiously, and being soft and pretentious, is a kind of imitation.

But that's the appearance, and the appearance is useless, and it has nothing to do with the essence.

The ruling class is not playing with appearances, the House of Lords, the House of Commons, everyone has seats, discussing something is called a bill, snobbery talking about name brands is called, and how is the upper class, don't be funny.

A few people of the big ruling class can decide the fate of countless people by talking about something, and the two big bourgeoisie in big pants next to the racecourse can talk a few words, and a world-shaking acquisition will be made.

A club changing owners can turn the media of your entire Europe upset and affect the minds of countless people, which may be just an idea by chance and a ticket.

The local ruling class can discuss some matters and decide whether the price of taxis will rise or not, whether motorcycles will be allowed to go on the road, which buildings will be built, which bridges will be built, and how the social security allowance will come will also affect countless people.

Especially in the context of Chinese, the ruling class and the ruling class, it looks at dominance, has nothing to do with temperament, has nothing to do with lifestyle, has nothing to do with drinking foreign wine or eating stinky tofu.

The ruling class is very busy, and has no time to study the question of what famous brands, how to dress and drink, and has only seen the self-styled upper class get around the ruling class, but I have never seen the ruling class make up the lively activities of the upper class.

Isn't it an upper-class party for children to celebrate their birthdays at home by the ruling class, old friends get together to play cards and catch a fish, come to the river to catch two kings, isn't it still an upper-class party, and a bunch of bare pigs in the steam room are still upper-class parties?

People are not people in the ruling class, no matter how big the scene is, no matter how high the aristocratic fan, it is also a dream lost in the appearance, there is this kung fu to want to promote the ruling class is serious, take wine to sprinkle on people, pretend to be drunk and lean on people, and use a little cleverness to rub a little chance is better than spending energy on the appearance, and you can't be blinded if you want to be blinded.

Isn't it that the ruling class is self-proclaimed in the upper class, unable to connect to the sky, not grounded at the bottom, and floating up and down without relying on it, isn't this self-isolation from the people?

The tiger wolf is still a sheep, not the skin, the sheep looks at this, the tiger wolf does not look at it.

IT tycoons like T-shirts, sportswear, and sneakers, and the media is making a fuss, what do you think, Li Ka-shing wears a shoe to discuss and discuss, why should he replace the old one with a new one? Is that an industrial phenomenon, is that the way the ruling class distinguishes?

The line has always been an appearance, Rockefeller drove an old Ford and he was a tiger wolf, he was still a tiger wolf when he flew a plane, he was still a tiger wolf when he rode a bicycle, and the sheep were full of famous brands, and then he would drink red wine and eat Western food, and then he pretended to be, how could he be mistaken for a tiger wolf if he couldn't see your tiger power and sharp minions?

Sheep will follow the appearance in circles, and tigers and wolves never care what skin you wear.

After the reform and opening up, the kind of rich people in Hong Kong will be called wealthy, that is, socialism has swept away the big households in the mainland, and really made room for the poor.

Hong Kong's huge wealth has only been rich for decades, many of them are supported by the old money of Nanyang, and the people who went to Nanyang were poor people in the past, and the best traditional Chinese customs are Nanyang, which is different from the West and the East.

Macao was originally a street, not even a village, Macao Street, and later reclaimed from the sea for a hundred years to only 30 square kilometers, too small to use.

Hong Kong is the only window, only one toilet is allowed to operate on a street, and the fees for peeing are rich to death, let alone one window in a country.

Before the reform and opening up, the head of the mainland was generally poor, and the big households were not even rich, but the country was indeed strong, and the ancestors knew what rules and etiquette you had to silence, and you couldn't look at others squatting there with chopsticks and bowls and say that this is not good, you look down on the working people, and fight you to death a black five types of cubs.

This is the real Chinese traditional etiquette that set to cut off, the vision is also narrow, all the poor, 10,000 households are rich, of course, look at Hong Kong's kind of called wealthy, what is Hao, a only trading port, the great changes in the country show it, it will be done some construction service industry.

Before the liberation, the large households in the mainland can stretch for many generations, the Han Dynasty has been through the Western Regions, international trade has been directly to Rome, Tang Chang'an has nothing to do with the World Expo, what is the hand of the sea owner of the Song Dynasty, and the business of the Jin merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties was done in Moscow.

Don't think that this is a government act, no, this is done by a large family, the clan has a family study, there is a field and a shop and a caravan, those who have the ability to study go to the official, those who have the ability to do business go to the caravan, the big households have all the military, politics and business, and they are married to each other, like a spider web.

The big households will build bridges and pave roads, promote righteousness, give porridge and rice, monopolize and give alms to employment opportunities, and buy people's hearts and minds when they fight out small fights, and that set of ruling methods will paralyze the majority of the people, and you will not be able to move, but you will be grateful to Dade, which is the same as the ruling methods under capitalist democracy.

Since ancient times, the noble family wants profit, not money. Those who can tell who they hit with money have never seen money. Since ancient times, salt merchants have been wealthy, and the status of salt merchants in the mainland is nothing, only money is beyond everyone's reach in traditional Chinese cognition, let alone the family, let alone the nouveau riche.

After the reform and opening up, a group of local people who are nesting in a city and building houses can be called wealthy families, that is, the mainland has completely crushed the real wealthy families and really let the poor people turn over, and people say that they represent the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people.

There is also an interesting phenomenon, like Yang Wei's great-grandfather, who really fell in the years of burning passion, but he really has no complaints, don't take the scar literature and the things made up by later generations as the psychology of the parties, a bunch of things written by the educated youth, and they have never fought the educated youth, but the educated youth are scarred, inexplicable.

Without the large-scale construction of colleges and universities and compulsory education in New China, where knowledge comes from is a problem, then it is not called intellectual youth, it is called tenant youth.

If you don't believe it, you can check the claims of countless people who really experienced it yourself, not to mention that they really fell like Yang Wei's great-grandfather, that is, the people who came out of the cowshed, and see how many of them complained about that era.

It's weird, this is the collective unconscious of the big era, not as superficial as later generations imagined, don't look down on your predecessors, and think that if you are wronged, you will be resentful.

If Yang Wei's parents didn't have this kind of dream of a thousand years of family and country, it would be impossible for them to walk together.

Sun Fan was used to fighting wits and amusing his little nephew, and his face didn't blush when he was exposed, and immediately changed the topic: "Who, so important, dare to leave our little master waiting to take over?" ”

Yang Wei waved his little hand and didn't mind: "Foreign guests, you have to put the shelves of foreign guests to be reliable, I specially found a thunder, by the way to help us put the thunder on the top, if it really sounds, you have to pay attention to the international influence, and then change it to an anti-bombing one." ”

Sun Fan felt a chill when he heard this, and he had a deeper understanding of the murderous nature of the little nephew who didn't take the lives of foreign guests seriously when he talked and laughed......

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