Chapter 43: Not the Problem of Opium
Monopoly can create excess profits, and a load of tea you can earn in a monopoly state of flat treasury silver, in a state of full competition, you can't earn a hundred loads. The profit obtained when a piece of porcelain is monopolized cannot be compared with a whole shipload of sea porcelain. When a piece of silk is monopolized, it is a myth, and when it is competitive, it is a textile. Once the monopoly disappears, the market and profits will kill both ends of the market, and roll back your production capacity.
Before the first crow, the industrial output value accounted for a very small proportion among the powers, and it was only a primary industrial society, and the influence of the late Qing Dynasty until the Republic of China was not industrial products, but bulk raw materials and handicraft commodities.
Opium will form excess profits after manufacturing artificial shortages, and its pharmacological properties are to cause atrophy and dependence of human body functions, but the essence is only the agricultural products of small-scale farmers' economic planting, and opium itself has very low added value. Like tea, it has the attributes of medicine and hobby, and the tea is subject to high taxes, strict control, and artificial shortages, which still cause the Boston tea pouring incident, and the United States can pour it out.
Opium is not a bulk commodity, let alone an industrial product, and its added value is not determined by industrial production efficiency, but by artificially created demand and shortage. The reserves and production of many things such as jade, amber and diamonds in the Soviet Union are huge, far exceeding those of South Africa. The cost is the same, but it can't be sold by De Beers, who monopolizes the channel to sell some certificates as jewelry, and the Soviet Union can only sell diamonds as mineral products. Shandong sapphires can't be sold in Sri Lanka, and rare earths are also sold as mines. The essence is actually the same, it is a non-bulk natural ore.
The world can't sell wood in China, and the Chinese can play with wood and sell it as a luxury product. I can't play diamonds and sapphires, but I can play jade and jadeite, and the East and West play differently, but the essence is still the same.
The essence of the desolation of the late Qing Dynasty after the first crow was that the efficiency of the production organization of the agricultural society at its peak could not do the efficiency of the production organization of the primary industrial society, the army was a kind of organizational form, and the agricultural organization form could not do the industrial organization form, it was as simple as that. All opium is a phenomenon, and the pharmacological effect and scope of opium before a crow are very small to the base of the Qing Dynasty, and what really amplifies the poison of opium is the result of losing the Opium War.
If you can't do it, you can't be autonomous, economic control and drug supervision can't be autonomous, it will magnify your disadvantages, create your disadvantages, and affect all aspects of society, not to mention the concretization of opium as a commodity category, just find that it is harmful and banned, the list of prohibited drugs has been updated and has never stopped, and it is a normal drug tube.
The key is that it can't be stopped, the influence has expanded dramatically, and the impact is getting wider and wider, and the impact that comes out is just a phenomenon, just a symptom, and why can't it be banned is the essence.
For example, the opium trade brought serious disasters to China. The large import of opium has changed China's position in the balance of payments, China has changed from being in excess of the state to being in the balance, and it has been forced to sign some unequal treaties, and so on.
The disaster was caused by the inability to ban the late Qing Dynasty, not the problem of opium. What does the balance of payments status have to do with opium? Change a toothbrush and sell you 200 million taels of silver, and you don't want to buy it with a cannon, and the balance of payments status is determined by a toothbrush?
Once people think according to these appearances, they will subjectively go towards hatred, hatred is the most able to cover their eyes, and there is equality and inequality in treaties? It's okay not to learn, instinctive practice can form a self-guiding theory, once an inherent concept is formed, it will use the wrong methodology to guide specific behavior practice.
Treaties are agreements of rights and obligations, rights and obligations are the Western-style thinking, the Republic of China either does not learn, you learn the Western-style system and the military system and engage in subjective imagination, in 1923 Sun issued the "Chinese Kuomintang Manifesto" or a bunch of unequal treaties such as subjective imaginary words, the alliance under the city was born into the Western value system, this is the four dislikes, even thinking is a subjective imagination thing, it learns a hammer.
Isn't it a stipulation that encourages rights and obligations as long as you don't agree with your own wishes, isn't this just a joy if you win, and a good thing if you lose, what kind of spirit is this encouragement? If you want to invalidate it, it is very simple, directly declare it invalid and bear the consequences, or declare it, and the treaty will be automatically invalidated once declared, this is the meaning of why the West is engaged in treaties, and the rules of the European melee are called the rules of the legal system, which is the general righteousness of the West.
The rules of the legal system can still be played, and the Western ruling class is playing with it, but it is played under the rules of the West's righteousness, just like Japan's heavenly punishment and China's hanging of the people and the dismissal of the people, the righteousness of the East and the West are different, but they do not delay each playing its own game.
The Republic of China used the subjective morality of the East to learn the objective and institutionalized righteousness of the West, and it was strange that it could drive by riding a horse. The little daughter-in-law came to an unequal treaty, and it was written into the official declaration, so don't engage in any contracts and rules and regulations in the future, and don't sign any contracts with other countries, no one recognizes it, the southern national government does not recognize the results of the Beiyang election, and subjectively imagines that it will protect the law as soon as it comes, and as a result, no one in all walks of life in the country believes in it, and it is a mess, relying on subjectivity, and trying to make others objective?
The residual poison of later textbooks is still deep, and some courses can be the main point of view, the Chinese are not more true, yin and yang view, but since the Western set of rules and regulations is to be learned, don't learn the skin, this is the methodology of the way of rule, not the core of civilization, and it is okay to learn it.
Treaties are subjective, economics and other courses that focus on planning and function operations are subjective, so pay the price, India even cut down trees to produce carbon trioxide, Japan dropped atomic bombs on the United States There are textbooks, and the reason why the third brother is happy is decided in the classroom. The old American textbooks avoid the theory of evolution, the advantages of piety are simple, the disadvantages are that cults are rampant, and the general intelligence of the people is worrying, and there are both advantages and disadvantages, which are also decided in the classroom. British children have watched adults in textbooks since they were young, and there are quite a few such countries, which determines that they don't take this thing very seriously. The children educated by the Japanese militarism and soul were murderous, and then they were not allowed to do so, so they learned to sell cuteness. Just as the outcome of the Franco-Prussian War was decided in the classroom, there is a reason why you just feel that others are rigorous and cannot just look at appearances.
If we are trapped in the superficial and the reasons for the introduction are all wrong, emotions are redundant in Western strategy, and subjective imagination cannot play a role in logical principles, and we have not been able to adjust it since the end of the Qing Dynasty, that is, we have a very clear view of the internal structure, but we know that the inherent ruling mode of the great unification of the two thousand years is too difficult to change, and if we move a little, it will be chaotic.
The outside is too difficult to see, and it has been trapped in the surface and going around in circles, until the Republic of China still cannot understand the operating principle of monopoly capitalism and the true meaning of industrialized society by the Western powers.
There are very few countries that really have an industrial revolution, and a few of the great powers are added to the number, until before the First World War, there were only five with the characteristics of an industrialized society, Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan, France, and Tsarist Russia counted half, its base is too large, and it is gone, Austria-Hungary and Italy have added everything, and there are only a dozen real industrial countries in later generations, but all of them are detached from the characteristics of industrialization, without exception.
In the era of the Republic of China, there were many bandits on the land, there were many bandits and robbers on the water, there were water bandits, gunboats and foreign warships, warlords from all walks of life sounded horse robes and beards, and various forces at home and abroad were mixed up, and it was not only businessmen who did business, but all of them were eight-armed Nezha, and none of them had a pure background.
The Sun family is definitely not a good thing like the ancestors of the Yang family, the great-grandfather and the great-grandfather of the underground party are the friendship that came out, the great-grandfather always wanted to tie up the black-hearted grandfather for revolutionary funds, and the grandfather moved against the trend of history, and could not recognize the revolutionary situation, but the officials and the ground frantically chased and killed the great-grandfather, and the two guys who were not from a good background were killed until the Japanese army fully invaded China, and when they saw that the Oriental people wanted to be fathers, they were both unwilling to recognize their fathers.
Just grandpa's background, can his family settle after the founding of the People's Republic of China? Under the turmoil of the great era, all these crooked seedlings have been pulled out, and the grandfather's family has moved in faster than the chairman, and even the consciousness of the soldiers to carry it to the end is lacking.
It is said that a person like Grandpa Tai, who always moves against the tide of history, should be hostile to the people's government, right? On the contrary, the wandering criminals can best understand the meaning of the family, the hatred of destroying the family is a personal grudge, the feelings of the family and the country are the duty, without this duty, why should a person like Grandpa Tai be the ruling class in the old society, the flies and dogs are all small roads, people who can leave their names in history and participate in changing the trajectory of history, people who can stand out from history, people who can stand on the ruling class, no one lacks this duty, even if Zhang is bearded, even if Huang Du is a black tycoon.
Yang Wei's father Yang Limin, the eldest Bo Li Guo, the second Bo Li Tai, the younger uncle Li'an, obtained the Guotai Min'an, Yang Wei's mother Sun Rong, the eldest uncle Sun Fan, the third uncle Sun Chang, and the younger uncle Sun Sheng, and achieved prosperity.
According to the political component, the Yang and Sun families were all the ruling class in the old society, the Yang family betrayed their own class, and their own family did not fall into the good, and the Sun family was beaten away by the people's dictatorship-iron fist, but it is very strange that they did not resent the new era, but hoped that the country was good, isn't it a strange thing?
In fact, this is a common phenomenon of large families who have come from that era, and the big families before liberation have really seen money, and they understand that money is only a component of interests, and they understand better what the interests of the nation and the state mean, but they will not be as hungry and thirsty as those who have never seen money.
For thousands of years, the ruling class has massively betrayed its own class, just this once. It turns out that it is still the ruling class to change the dynasty and surrender, and it is normal for the family to extend for several dynasties, and no one betrays the class. The family gate valve and the big clan, many branches and houses, just bet on many parties, and the one of them is promoted to the patriarch, and the family is still protected.