Chapter 208: The Confused Elder
In fact, this is a very dangerous signal.
When those in power no longer care about food production, road construction, judicial fairness, educational fairness, and economic construction, most of them will be in trouble.
Civil servants or politicians need to brush up their presence from time to time to maintain their status, and even "go further", but if they become such a guy every day, then the so-called progress will be short-lived.
Bad money drives out good money, doesn't it.
There is a problem here, any kind of system has its own fucking and gruesome places, and the biggest problem for the elders is that they are not yet conscious of the ruling class and do not have a strong enough team to assist them, they are required to study the techniques of world domination.
The transition was tough.
You have to be able to judge the situation, select talents, judge fairly, and not be arrogant because of your position.
The technological advantages of the elders gradually began to shrink with the deepening of their rule, at least the people of the imperial capital had no sense of excitement about the occasional spaceship that took off, and it basically didn't matter what they watched for a long time.
With the development of the economy, the social situation in the imperial capital also became complicated, and when a social system began to transition from a small-scale peasant economy to a capitalist economy with great love in three or four years, various problems proliferated.
Compared with the development of the commodity economy spontaneously carried out by Europeans, the imperial capital that originally belonged to the agricultural society was very uncomfortable from the beginning, and the economy of those acquaintances began to be destroyed, and there were many people who took the opportunity to make trouble and make profits.
Originally, the big gentry in the imperial capital went to a small shop to ask for dry shares, and they could scare them, but they had no business sense and began to look for backers at every turn, which was already a habit.
Of course, they have nothing to do with the elders, and the elders have their own ways of making money, but the corruption of those lower-level officials is very great.
In fact, these people are by no means willing to be cheap, they are completely due to the experience of countless years in the past, and people who have no background or filial piety often have to face countless exploits.
All this is naturally mixed in by all kinds of people, and these people who were ancient people before should understand what a contract is, what a contract is, and what credit is.
Under the stumbling, countless ridiculous lawsuits appeared.
"Actually, I especially understand that no matter how angry, petty, hysterical, ignorant and shameless a person is, I don't discriminate against him."
Shanghai.
Li Xiangqian stood with his hands tied, watching the young men carrying all kinds of boxes lively, Shanghai at this time was not as lively as the later generations, it was much quieter, at least compared to the tugboats that came and went in the later generations, it was much more harmonious.
Li Xiangjun asked, "Huh? ”
Li Xiangqian said: "The shaping of ideology is a social thing, you see how similar the Wen family is to Jia Baoyu's family." ”
"Is this a compliment?"
Li Xiangqian thought for a while and said: "Jia Baoyu is a miracle, the reason is that in the history of mankind, there are few upper-class nobles, and the descendants will be downtrodden to the point of writing, Jin Yong of later generations, the descendants of traitors who are attached to the Manchus, it can be said that he is the worst person in the history of the family, and it is already written like that, this is a common phenomenon all over the world, the family is not what the nobles like to do, and he did it, of course, basically to vent his dissatisfaction." ”
Li Xiangjun said: "I just think Baoyu is not like an ordinary person." ”
"A person's self-praise always likes to say that he is morally perfect, but if you think about it, the descendants of a family of military generals, only two generations, have become something? The aristocracy, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, was really the master of eating hard in peacetime and playing with his life in wartime, but what about them, a nest of waste eating and drinking, in the same way, even if the Wen family is hostile to us, but in terms of mobility, it is also the best in the waste heart, the reason is that under the Ming Dynasty system, waste is the era. ”
Li Xiangjun said: "Poetry and painting are also a skill......
Li Xiangqian smiled and said: "The so-called painters, aren't they all poor worms who are hyped up by big capitalists for profit after they die, there is a poor worm named Van Gogh in Europe, when he was alive, no one wanted to give him paintings, but after he died, he was touted by people with a heart and became a high-ranking person, the real reason is just because of those famous paintings, you can see it, so we are abnormal." ”
Li Xiangjun seems to agree with this statement.
"In later generations, those rich people, or rich women, like to play this kind of trick the most, they go to various occasions, looking for the kind of art students who do not meet talents, or think that they do not meet talents, and are about to starve to death, eh, the paintings they paint, the words they write, the various works of art they do, buy most of them first, and then, they start to find a way to pick them up, generally to help them brush up the grid, at the same time, to feed this art student, it is best to give more beauties and spirits, and drugs should also be enough, try to make them survive before the age of 30, like this, As a talented artist who died young, he can naturally hype up his works, which will be called a domestic artist in later generations, and he will have money. ”
Li Xiangjun smiled and said, "It's really like that. ”
Li Xiangqian said: "Your words, you still have to pay attention, don't give people paintings and writes, our identity is sensitive, if you send it casually, it will be hyped up, it's not good, who let you be the person next to me." ”
Li Xiangjun smiled and said, "Yes, husband, I will definitely ......"
Li Xiangqian said: "That's the thing, well, after a few years, you don't have to stay in the country all the time, for example, this winter, we can all go to Australia for the winter." ”
In fact, Australia is not very suitable for winter, this can still be said clearly, although because of the climate, when China is winter, there will even be a feeling of summer, but everywhere is the stimulation of giant snakes, even those poor immigrants are initially recruited.
Li Xiangjun suddenly pointed and said, "That's what I'm going to pick up......"
Li Xiangqian said: "Naturally, we have not been in Suzhou for a long time, and if we want to leave an impression here, we should invest the least amount of resources, and also require the maximum effect, and let this effect stay on our credit, so as to avoid creating an embarrassing situation where the white dog does things and the yellow dog receives the credit, which is the best." ”
The people on the boat were busy with their work, and it seemed that after packing up a car, a person came from the boat, Chen Xiaoshui waved his hands and said, "Hey, we are busy doing things, but you husband and mother don't come to help." ”
Li Xiangqian pointed and said, "Old minister, don't say it, aren't you also a conductor with apprentices, how about it, it's very fulfilling." ”
"Well, this time I brought the twelve big bells to Jiangnan, but there is a problem before I come, we will build twelve identical Big Bens at one time, which is a bit of a duplication of construction."
Li Xiangqian said: "Do you think you have the ability to design twelve versions of the bell tower construction sketch according to the surrounding buildings, or in the case of a large shortage of skilled workers, it is best now, it is almost difficult for us to imitate the Palace of Westminster, but if we only build that clock tower, the price is cheap and the quality is good, choose enough city construction, and each time you build one, you can almost become a landmark building of that city, right." ”
Chen Xiaoshui said: "You also said that you are not doing the work of training local personnel for maintenance and frequent maintenance, although someone must pay for it." ”
Li Xiangqian said: "This is also very simple, haven't you heard of selling pre-sale properties, let's build the bell tower first, that place must be the central business district, just rely on investment can make a sum, and it is a good place for a long stream, of course, it is not easy to get in, I think about it, we can influence and enter the place, that is, in the seaside and the Yangtze River can radiate the state and county, small places do not go to it, then Shanghai, Yangzhou, Suzhou and Nanjing, there are many places to tackle one by one, and then look for agents, We still have to chart a path for the future. ”
Chen Xiaoshui waved his hand and said, "Okay, Shanghai has been ready for a long time, just install Big Ben at any time, at least it can guarantee that it will not be bad for fifty years." ”
Li Xiangqian said: "After fifty years, it won't be needed." ”
"That's right, if fifty years later, we still require people to use big clocks to keep time, and we don't have the minimum timekeeping equipment, then it is too incompetent."
The establishment of a sense of time is very important.
In an agrarian society, even with an advanced timer, it is almost useless.
The sun rises and the sun rests, and the daily production and life depend on the sun and rain, there is no pressure, and the main life revolves around agricultural labor.
In such a situation, it is nonsense to sell watches.
That is, in the business era, when a lot of money can be lost if you are really short of one minute, the concept of time will be absolutely valued.
"The most important thing is to integrate into life, into the life of the local people, from dawn every day, our big clock to help them start the day's life, so it's very good."
Things are not so simple, there are also such simple, many traversers' routines are more limited to making firearms, selling glass, and developing the army after making money, thinking that everything will be fine, but there is one thing, people are strange about you.
How is it possible that there is no class that is attached to you, only thinking of relying on a little artisan, to improve their status, and threatening the scholars who originally occupied the ruling class.
People have already fought back.
For the people of Jiangnan, the fineness of handicrafts is not to say, craftsmen can even engrave words on rice grains to help some imperial examinations.
It's not just some of the jobs that come with the bell tower, but the huge industry that accompanies the appearance of the bell tower and the building that is being built next to it.
That's right, for the construction sites in various places, the elders gave up the trouble of direct control, but "outsourced" out, first according to the design of Big Ben in the Palace of Westminster, built the clock tower, and then made the clock tower become the place where everyone attracted attention, and began to build a shopping mall next to the clock tower.
The mall is naturally a good place to sell all kinds of northern goods.
The advantage of this plan is that the use of private capital, relying on loans as the initial initial capital, except for a small part of the investment of the bell, the elders can get a large shopping mall that is completely owned by them at almost no cost.
"But there is a problem...... "After loading the goods, Chen Xiaoshui followed the horse team and started to set off together, this time he as a master, he is basically just a conductor, once the apprentice hatching work is over, then you can watch them grow up little by little, "The agent we choose must be reliable, otherwise, there will be a lot of problems, and besides, if you have a stake in this kind of business, will it give people a feeling of being an imperial businessman." ”
"This will not be at all, we must also grasp business, everything is from commercial considerations, not blood, this, you all know, how the Republic of Venice ended, the Council of Ten, after the appearance of the Golden Book, the people's hearts were directly scattered, in other words, we don't care about those big gentry, in fact, there is no problem at all, as long as the interests are transferred to the lower classes, the original middle and upper classes have no way at all."
The Republic of Venice is a Mediterranean commercial powerhouse.
It was originally the younger brother of Byzantium, and later this horse boy saw that the boss Byzantium could not mix, so he opened his own hall, Haonan deserved to be Haonan, from Tsim Sha Tsui to Causeway Bay had no opponent, and soon monopolized the Mediterranean trade, and even the capital of the former boss Byzantium had land mortgaged to the younger brother.
But after occupying the high-profit business of transporting pepper, cinnamon, cloves, cane sugar, precious stones, silk fabrics, etc., which were shipped from the East to various parts of Western Europe at high prices, they began to be unenterprising, and the right to elect members of the Great Council was restricted, and only the hundreds of noble surnames listed in the "Golden Book" had the right to vote, that is, only your father was a cow, and if you had the ability to do it, your father could not do it or not.
So in this context, who cares about you if you have the ability?
This is like playing a table of mahjong, there are losses and wins, everyone can still talk and laugh and play, even if the person who is unlucky to lose, you can also say that you are unlucky, and win back next time.
However, if you stipulate that only I can win money on this mahjong table, and you are not allowed to eat or touch, then who will play with you?
Next, countless people began to run to Portugal and helped Prince Enrique develop an African route around the Cape of Good Hope.
Therefore, it is impossible for any place to start playing with the theory of blood, or to fantasize that I am good to the old nobles, and they will be good to me, so their plan at the beginning is very simple, to find the low-level heroes.