If it is outside the area of the Heaven and Earth Society, or outside the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Heaven and Earth Society, such as Weijiazhuang, Liaonan and North Korea, President Wei has a way to deal with the hoarders, and the house is over.

Even in Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai, which are under the cross-jurisdiction of the Ming Court and the Heaven and Earth Society, President Wei can decisively use the domineering method of raiding the house to attack the landlord class with hatred and hatred, and solve the problem of hoarding.

However, in the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Heaven and Earth Society, President Wei could not do this, because that would violate the laws of the Heaven and Earth Society, which protects private property, and people can hoard as much as they want, and they cannot interfere with it by force, otherwise it will shake the foundation of the capitalist system.

The capitalist system has made great contributions in the process of the rise of heaven and earth, otherwise there would not have been such a prosperous market economy.

Although the renewal of fixed assets is the material basis of the economic cycle and has a significant impact on the length of time between crises, this point cannot be absolute.

In addition to the renewal of fixed capital, there are also policies and measures for the state to strengthen economic intervention through macroeconomic regulation and control.

These policies and measures can delay or accelerate the outbreak of the economic crisis to a certain extent, and the situation is complex.

The length of the economic cycle cannot be explained by the renewal of fixed assets alone.

Regarding the cyclical nature of economic crises, there are two issues that need to be studied. One is cyclical and the other is the length of the cycle.

The reasons for the cyclical nature of crises should be found in the movement and changes of the market economy.

Although this basic contradiction runs through the entire process of economic and social development, it is not in the midst of serious intensification at all times, but is sometimes acute and sometimes relaxed, showing a state of wave-like development.

The economic crisis is the product of the intensification of this contradiction to a certain extent, which in turn in turn is temporarily and forcibly alleviated by the destruction of the productive forces.

However, a crisis cannot eliminate contradictions, and after one crisis has passed, along with the recovery and development of the economy, the basic contradictions will gradually re-intensify, making another crisis inevitable.

As for the reason for the length of the cycle, when the state's macroeconomic regulation and control does not exist, it is mainly determined by the cycle of fixed asset renewal.

The renewal of fixed assets is the material basis of the economic cycle.

The renewal of fixed assets will inevitably lead to a large demand for production factors such as machinery and equipment, thereby promoting the recovery and development of capital goods production.

This, in turn, will increase employment, increase the purchasing power of consumers, and expand the market for consumer goods, thereby promoting the recovery and development of the production of consumer goods.

Therefore, the renewal of fixed assets prepares the material conditions for the economy to get out of the crisis.

At the same time, it will cause a new round of overcapacity, providing the material basis for the next economic crisis.

In a perfectly competitive market, when we look at material wear and tear together, the fixed assets of the most decisive sectors of large industry need to be renewed in about 10 years on average, and this average life cycle of fixed assets is an important factor in determining the economic cycle and creates a material basis for the interval between periodic economic crises.

The outbreak of the economic crisis has intensified the deepening of various contradictions in society.

It is mainly manifested in the fact that the economic crisis has caused a huge waste of social wealth and caused serious damage to the social productive forces.

The economic crisis has further deepened the basic contradictions of capitalism. The economic crisis has further exacerbated the class contradictions in capitalist society. The economic crisis has exacerbated the contradictions between developed countries and between developed and developing countries.

Economic Crisis: According to the empirical data of world economic development, since 1825, when Britain began to have its first periodic and widespread overproduction crisis, it has occurred at regular intervals.

The economic crisis has dealt a heavy blow to the economy and has unprecedentedly intensified social contradictions.

The crisis has brought great disasters to the people, aroused their dissatisfaction with the social system, and raised their opposition to the social system.

Strike movements, mass demonstrations and peasant movements were on the rise.

Prosperity and crisis are always closely related and coexist.

In order to be soberly aware of the potential crises that may exist in economic development, it is crucial to prevent them from occurring.

Second, in the process of economic development, all governments and different systems should adapt themselves to the continuous development of the economy and adjust their internal mechanisms and policies in a timely manner.

Once an economic and financial crisis occurs, all governments and organizations of various countries should shoulder their respective international responsibilities and obligations, so as to effectively contain the crisis and prevent it from worsening, expanding and prolonging.

President Wei met with the Baojun cavalry regiment that had returned from Gubeikou in a large circle.

When they left the customs, the cavalry regiment of the treasure army was 2,000 people, and when they returned, there were only more than 700 people left.

President Wei is not very distressed, the army is all fought, not to mention the remaining more than 700 people, that is, the remaining 70 people, through a series of wars, can also achieve the role of strengthening the army.

Not to mention seventy people, even if there are only seven people left, each with a company, can quickly restore the formation.

The cavalry regiment brought back three men to President Wei, Abai, Tanggu and Zhuotmur.

President Wei was not interested in meeting Nurhachi's two sons, but was quite interested in meeting the son of the leader of the Nekharkha tribe, Droriktu.

President Wei wants to get tens of millions of taels of gold, and he can't just wait for Nurhachi to agree to peace talks and agree to pay 10 million taels in compensation.

10 million taels of silver is converted into gold, which is only about 3 million taels, which is really a drop in the bucket for the amount of gold that the Heaven and Earth Society needs at least about 20 million taels now, and it can't solve the key problem.

Besides, Nurhachi doesn't seem to have the intention of giving in at all now, and is still in a comprehensive confrontation with the treasure army, so he can't wait for Nurhachi.

If you want to make a fuss in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, now that the text inventory has ended, or basically ended, it is impossible to make money by copying your home.

It is a good way to sell the official mantle, but it is a pity that Wei Bao does not have such great authority, only Wei Zhongxian has such great energy.

But even if Wei Zhongxian himself went crazy and sold his official beard, the eunuch party was still involved in the Donglin Party, and Wei Zhongxian did not dare to go too far in order to prevent the Ming Dynasty from collapsing quickly.

Therefore, even if it is Wei Zhongxian, it is impossible for Wei Zhongxian to get 20 million taels of gold in the short term.

President Wei has always wanted to do the arms business, but there is no channel.

The north can, Lin Dan Khan, Jiannu, and the Mongolian tribes are all potential customers, and everyone has realized the power of the treasure army's firearms.

But Wei Bao didn't know how much money he could get from the north, and the economy of the Ming Dynasty was mainly in the area of Nanzhili, but unfortunately, there was no war there.

Although there was a small rebellion in Suzhou, it was too small, and the poor had no gold to buy arms.

I have to say that in the Apocalypse Dynasty, there was really no large-scale peasant uprising, don't care if Wei Zhongxian is bad or not, under the management of Wei Zhongxian, Daming is really moving forward in an orderly manner, and this big ship is not leaking.

In the south, Wei Bao originally had another channel.

Because he had rescued Yan Siqi at the beginning, Wei Bao was nominally the owner of Yan Siqi, the largest pirate force in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that Yan Siqi is dead at this time, and Wei Bao can't even keep his nominal master's status.

Yan Siqi is a legendary figure, and his death is also full of legends. In September 1625, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Siqi and his subordinates went to Zhuluo Mountain to hunt, drank and overeaten, and unfortunately contracted typhoid fever.

A few days later, Yan Siqijing fell ill and died young at the age of 37.

On his deathbed, Yan Siqi summoned everyone to tell him: "I have worked with the public for two years, and I have created a meritorious career in this issue and promoted China's reputation." Today's ambition is unsuccessful, the middle way is dead, and the public is waiting for its succession. ”

Yan Siqi also deliberately asked people to report his death to Wei Bao.

It's a pity that Yan Siqi's subordinates didn't report it, but the Statistics Bureau of the Heaven and Earth Society learned about it through intelligence, and then passed it on to President Wei.

After Yan Siqi passed away, the public recommended Zheng Zhilong as the leader of the alliance and continued to expand the great cause.

Obviously, Zheng Zhilong did not respect President Wei as much as Yan Siqi.

If you want to sell arms, you have to be in an area where there is a war.

Wei Bao originally felt that Yan Siqi's road was the best target, because they not only plundered the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, but also confronted the Dutch and the Spaniards, and the demand for arms was very large.

If the reputation of the Baojun arms can be beaten out on the southern coast, it is even possible to sell the Baojun's arms to the Dutch, Portuguese and Spaniards, and develop foreign trade orders.

It's a pity that now the southern pirates can't count on it, even if Zheng Zhilong still recognizes Wei Bao as the master, there is no way to communicate all kinds of details for a while.

Moreover, the arms of the treasure army are very scarce, and there is no way to supply them everywhere.

So one can only count on the northern market.

President Wei's most reference for how to rise is the history of the United States.

Historically, Native Americans have inhabited this land for more than 15,000 years. Europe began to colonize the Americas at the end of the 15th century.

In 1607, the first English colony was successfully established in Virginia.

Over the next two decades, a number of Dutch colonies were established, including those in New Amsterdam and New Jersey.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain gradually occupied areas of the Dutch and other European colonists, and colonized the East Coast of the United States extensively, establishing more colonies.

In the 1760s and 1770s, tensions between the 13 American colonies and Great Britain culminated in the Revolutionary War, and the colonies' representatives signed the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

In the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), George Washington led the Continental Corps of 13 colonies against the British.

The colonies created the Continental Legion in the '76 convention, but did not authorize them to levy taxes and enact federal laws.

In 1777, the independent colonies formally adopted the Articles of Confederation, established a federal sovereign state, and a federal government with administrative powers, and ratified the U.S. Constitution.

After a grueling war of independence, the Continental Army finally defeated the British.

On September 3, 1783, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, in which Britain recognized the independence of the United States and recognized the boundaries of the United States as bounded by Canada and the Great Lakes region to the north, Florida to the north, the Atlantic coast to the east, and the Mississippi River to the west.

In this way, the United States expanded from more than 900,000 square kilometers at the beginning of the Revolutionary War to more than 2.3 million square kilometers.

While the national map has multiplied, the country risk faced by the United States has also increased year-on-year.

In this regard, Washington, the first generation of founding leaders of the United States, had a very sober judgment.

In an article for The Independent, Hamilton said: "There are indications that allow us to speculate that the United States has upset several of Europe's maritime powers. Several countries with colonies in the Americas want to stop us, monopolize our interests, clip off our wings so that we cannot fly to dangerous heights. ”

And that's exactly what happened.

In the 82 years between the Treaty of Paris, in which Britain recognized American independence in 1783, and the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Britain did not give up for a moment the actual efforts to divide the United States.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain intercepted American merchant ships and obstructed American trade with Europe.

In 1812, the United States and Britain went to war. British troops occupied Washington, burned the White House and the Capitol, and attempted to take advantage of the opportunity to dismember the United States.

It made a request to the United States parliamentarians for the establishment of a neutral Indian buffer state along the United States border.

Until the American Civil War in 1861, Britain declared a policy of neutrality towards the American Civil War, recognized the Confederate as a belligerent, and secretly provided assistance to the South, and also sailed its navy into American waters.

It was only because of the rapid shift of battlefield superiority to the north that Britain's plan to intervene in the American Civil War fell through.

There were also those who had hoped that the United States would be divided.

After the outbreak of the American Civil War, the attitude of some Europeans was one of schadenfreude.

The French Foreign Ministry has said: "A protracted war is bound to divide because of the accumulated hatred and suffering." The North could not defeat the South, and did not know how to control the South for a long time, which would only lead to the dissolution of the Union, which was in the interest of France's national interests. Just give it enough time, as long as the warring sides continue to be angry. ”

This confession represents a European idea.

What they fear is that the United States will become a powerful country after the reunification of the North and the South, and "the United States will no longer be a federation of equal sovereign states, but will become an empire."

This idea is a theoretical preparation for the Europeans' attempt to dismember the United States.

Even in 1863, when the North had won a decisive victory, the German newspaper Die Presse argued: "It is becoming more and more impossible to unite a divided federation by force." ”

The "Two Worlds Magazine", which is still pro-North, also believes that an occupied South will be "an eternal thorn in the flesh of the victors."

The victorious North will also be punished by heaven for stealing the Heavenly Fire, just like Prometheus.

In Britain, the mainstream of public opinion is also the desire for a split between the North and the South in the United States. At that time, John Roebuck, a leading supporter of the separatist forces in the South of the United States, said in the British House of Commons: "The North will never be our friend, but the South will be the object of our friendship."

Ironically, the European slaughter of force and culture did not intimidate the Americans.

On the contrary, the Americans, under the weight of Europe, have risen forcefully after more than two centuries.

The United States was unified after the Civil War, and after the Civil War, the United States rose rapidly.

American capitalist industry developed by leaps and bounds.

In 1860, the United States ranked fourth in the world in industrial production, and by 1894 it had jumped to the first place in the world, accounting for about half of the total production of European countries.

From 1860 to 1900, U.S. industrial production increased sixfold.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the industrial superiority of the United States was even more prominent.

In 1913, the industrial products of the United States accounted for more than one-third of the world's total industrial products, more than the industrial products of Britain, Germany, France, and Japan combined.

Among them, the production of coal, iron, steel and oil increased significantly.

At this time, the theory of the "American threat" appeared in Europe, and the theory of the "American economic threat" was first exaggerated.

In 1893, Emile Barbière wrote Travels in the Golden Yuan Empire, accusing American goods, locomotives, coal, silk, fruit, cotton, and American wine that had flooded Europe.

Economist Paul de Lucière, in his 1892 book American Life, wrote that "America went from being a curious thing to a frightening thing," and that the United States had become a formidable adversary of the Old Continent, with "French soldiers carrying cans of beef produced in Chicago in their backpacks."

Then there is the theory of the "US military threat".

In 1898, the United States took Hawaii and challenged Spain to invade Cuba and the Philippines.

This has set off a wave of "American threat" theory in Europe.

It is believed that the United States "has always harbored deep hostility towards the Old Continent."

Now that this hostility has finally erupted, confrontation is inevitable.

In various parts of the planet, the United States will soon inevitably come into conflict with Europe.

The United States wants to snatch the world from Europe.

However, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the capitalist countries of Europe made the transition to their ultimate stage, that is, imperialism, which produced a wide range of irreconcilable contradictions.

Against this backdrop, a world-class imperialist war took place in Europe in order to re-divide the world and compete for global hegemony. That is, the First World War.

After the outbreak of World War I, most European countries were involved in the war, with the exception of the Nordic countries such as Switzerland and Sweden, which remained neutral.

Even some Middle Eastern countries have entered the war.

At the very beginning of the First World War, the United States declared its neutrality.

Then, it began to actively develop trade in Latin America and the Far East. Constantly consolidate the interests in these places and reap a large number of foreign trade interests.

During the First World War, they were able to hold on to some important resources in their own hands. Especially Latin American countries.

Like coffee from Brazil, oil from Mexico, tin mines from Chile, etc., the Americans have taken them into their arms.

The First World War lasted for four years and three months, and more than 30 countries participated in the war, with a population of about 1.5 billion, accounting for 67% of the world's total population at that time.

In dollar terms at the time, the direct economic losses of the participating countries were as high as $180.5 billion, and the indirect economic losses were also $151.6 billion.

The level of industrial production in Europe has been regressed for at least 8 years.

Tsarist Russia, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire were overthrown.

Although Britain, which was originally the world's financial center and world hegemon, increased its territory after the war, its control over the territory was greatly reduced by the huge casualties and material losses of the war, and its economy was also greatly affected by the war, and there was a serious recession, and since then its status as a world financial center has been ceded to the United States.

Perhaps it was the second global-scale war fought by God on the United States from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 with the three Axis powers of the Third Reich, the Empire of Japan, and the Kingdom of Italy, and the anti-*** alliance around the world.

Among the major belligerents of World War II, Germany was defeated and divided into two decades.

Japan almost perished and became extinct.

Italy surrendered earlier, but the losses were still huge.

The USSR won the Great Patriotic War, but with 35 million casualties, the whole country was in shambles.

China won the War of Resistance Against Japan, but with no less than 30 million casualties and the country was bruised.

In the end, France also won the war, but the losses were huge and the national strength was greatly reduced.

Britain won the war, but its territory was heavily bombed, its national power weakened, and the reputation of the empire on which the sun never set came to an end, and its overseas colonies were basically independent.

For the independence of the United States, there has been no war on the mainland, and the state apparatus has not been destroyed.

First of all, the relatively peaceful environment attracted scientists from all over the world at that time, and the United States laid a solid talent base for this.

Second, when the war was at its most intense, the United States launched a huge production machine, and when it came to the aid of the Allies, it did not forget to make a lot of money on arms and lay a solid economic foundation for the development of the United States.

In the end, France and Britain were powerless to compete in the distribution of post-war benefits, and only the United States and the Soviet Union shared all the cake.

In particular, the Pacific Ocean, which has strategic interests in the whole world, is completely controlled by the United States, giving the United States a geopolitical advantage over the Soviet Union.

Since then, the United States has become the new leader of the Western powers, the only superpower in the world, and dominates the capitalist world.

Wei Bao wanted to copy the line of Lao Mei, but unfortunately, there was no historical environment and no large-scale war.

It doesn't matter if there is no war soil, what makes President Wei even more headache is the step-by-step development speed.

For example, the transition from the age of the steam engine to the age of electricity was achieved by the overall development of industry.

Now the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society has just entered the era of steam engines, and the steam engine technology has been mastered, but it has already made samples of generators.

This is still done when the steel industry is almost zero, and the industrial base is almost zero.

It can only be said that it is useless to make a generator, even a diesel engine and a gasoline engine, because the generator is not automatically developed and upgraded, but is imitated by relying on the samples brought by President Wei, which has little to do with economic development and scientific and technological development.

Wei Bao received the captured Zhuo Li Ketu's son Zhuo Temur at the Maritime Chamber of Commerce in Shanhaiguan.

Although one is a high-ranking lord of the Ming Dynasty, he is still a marquis.

One was a captive Mongol tribal descendant.

But both sides attach great importance to this meeting.