After finalizing the general direction of the company one by one, the atmosphere at the banquet gradually became enthusiastic, as if a bright future was in sight, and this shell monopoly company would bring these families far more money and a more stable inheritance of power.

Everything is changing now, and you can't change if you don't want to. The maple sugar franchise, which was originally popular with many families, is now nothing, and its share is greatly reduced compared to cane sugar and vegetable sugar; Some families who were originally prosperous had lower and lower incomes, and they could not make ends meet, and even had to borrow money from those merchants, or no longer rely on land rent, but hired special managers to manage the land......

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

At the end of the feast, one last pointed question was asked.

"As you say, we will declare war on Spain and Portugal, suppress Britain and the Netherlands, incite internal fighting in Europe, and support the land and the sea. But as far as the company is concerned, Wangbei City is in the hands of the Mo Party, they operate regardless of the cost, once there is a change in the future, isn't it worth being vigilant in advance for the Ming Empire? ”

The young man smiled, "No. It's too far away, I can't say. If the Mexican Party is not successful, the Ming Empire will not reach out. If the Mexican Party succeeds, with their ideas and what I have seen and heard in Wangbeicheng, it will inevitably be a large-scale migration and frontier reform of 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 a surplus population and is worth much more than India. Now give us the entire continent of the Black Swan River, we don't need it; Now in the Ming Empire, the Mexican Party is given 10 million people, and they don't need it. Give us silver now, we have the wealth of the national labor of the republic behind us, and silver is wealth; Now to the Mexican Dangming Empire, what they are pursuing is to increase the total wealth of the people, to close up the wealth created by labor, and silver is only a medium and not an end. ”

"We are for profit, they are for people, and with different values, different focuses."

"In other words, although our company collects poll tax on land rent, it is only an armed company, the purpose is to make a profit, and once it is unprofitable, it will leave. After they gain the right to rule, they will still collect taxes, but they are partisans, and the purpose is that the people of the world are in charge of the affairs of the world, and the idea of people can take root and blossom. ”

"One hundred and fifty years later, six generations have passed. The gentleman's ze, the fifth and beheaded. Six generations from now, who can say for sure? ”

The crowd was silent. One hundred and fifty years, no one really can say. How can the past 150 years compare with the present and the next 150 years?

The original atmosphere of the banquet was also disturbed by this unpredictable-sounding future, and even if the host tried his best to regain that jubilant posture, he was powerless.

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

The true owner of the manor read it carefully, nodded one by one, until he came to the justifiable reasons, smiled slightly, and took out his pen to cross out those reasons.

When the son was a little strange, he asked, "Father, the name is right." ”

"What does it mean to be positive? Who's going to make the right decision? You don't even realize that you young people have been swept up in the propaganda in the newspapers and pamphlets. What you say is right, and what they proclaim is right. You've heard from those people about what the Mexican Party did in Wangbei City and the local tribe aborigines, right? Civilization? Barbarous? Who decides? ”

"But father, if you use the excuse that this is for the good of the community, there will be a lot of opposition to it."

"Then if the Mexican Party asks you, since it is for the benefit of the ethnic group, you are asked to invest 50% of the company's profits in education, poverty alleviation, immigration, and so on, how can you fight with them? If they define the right, you will never be able to compete with them. Don't be led by the nose by them, don't fall into the values they define. By saying this, you prove that you have lost. ”

"What then?"

"Nothing is explained, it's just that it's reasonable and legal according to tradition. Don't say that what you do is for the good of the community, the more you say, the more people think about it, is it true? Is that right? ”

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

"Fight? Even your minds are bewitched by those pamphlets and follow their train of thought, how can you fight? It's ridiculous that you want to justify what you are doing within the framework they have stipulated. Just like the labor theory of value they put forward, is it possible for you to justify rent and rentier on the basis that national wealth is derived from the income of labor? But if on the basis that because I have done military service for the republic, I can get the land to dominate the peasants and be reasonable, how can they win over you? ”

"What then?"

"Tradition. Traditionally, does such a thing need to be explained? There is no need, because everyone acquiesces that this is reasonable, and habit becomes natural, and the customary law quietly becomes a natural law. ”

"You mean not arguing? Don't talk about the right thing? Wouldn't it be worse if it went on like this? ”

"You think it's useful to 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? Won't they demand the liberalization of monopoly franchises? Won't they ask to join and ask for a stake? So, don't fight for fame. When someone objectes, just pull some people in. Many people, not against injustice, but against injustice The beneficiaries are not themselves. So, it is best to keep the injustice, but at the right time to draw some people into the beneficiaries of the injustice. ”

The son thought for a while, and said, "But if it succeeds, the wealth will indeed increase, even according to their statement of increasing the total wealth of the nation, this is also correct, and it is correct on their basis." ”

The owner of the manor frowned and said, "Abandon the book!" They propagated the sum of national wealth in order to justify a greater share of the pie between labour and capital, and not simply for the sake of an increase in the sum of national wealth. The recognition of the question of national wealth proves that they are right. They are right, so they are right to ask for a share of the bread according to work and wages. Can you admit that one plus one equals two, and then not admit that two minus one equals one? ”

Speaking of this, the lord of the manor was a little helpless and reprimanded: "According to them, do you think you deserve so much wealth? What did you do? What did you pay for? Without capital and labor, how can wealth come out of land just land? If you admit that they are right, the Mexican Party will immediately take people to the Black Swan River to reclaim the land, and after the reclamation is completed, they will withdraw the people and exchange it with you for the land that someone here can use, will you change it? ”

The reprimanded young man bowed his head and said, "The child knows that he is wrong. ”

"It's not that you're wrong, what's wrong with you? If you don't argue with them about right and wrong, once you start arguing, you will fall into their trap, and the more people you discuss, the more troublesome it will be. ”

After the reprimand, he finally relented, shook his head and said, "We are not the same as those old stubborns. Isn't it stupid that some people are still trying to argue for reasonableness, and those who are old-fashioned are still trying to debate in the newspapers? Let's not tie ourselves to the same boat with them, we are profitable now, and all we can do is not argue, delay their victory, and continue to maintain profits during this time; Become just like them before they win. If it doesn't change, we are still a family of military merit; If it changes, we are the directors of the merchant factory owner banker company. Between change and change, we are not only a military family, but also a director of a businessman, a factory, a banker, and a company. ”

"Yes, the boy understands."

"It's good to understand, usually go to those places where young people gather, and it doesn't hurt to listen more, whether you do it or not is on yourself. Okay, you can go, in a few days I will be ready to talk to Chen Jian about the negotiations with Europe, and I will have to read the book again. The company's affairs, don't be so public, a group of you children of the official family get together, keep a low profile, and hide behind the scenes. The actor is glamorous, but the talent behind the actor is the manipulator. ”

"Yes."

In response, the owner of the manor pinched his head, the servant brought tea, took a sip and flipped through the "Global Experience", stared at the article "The Contradictions between the West and the Dutch, the British, the Habsburg Family and Protestantism", and kept marking it with a pen.

Although I have seen it several times, I am still secretly frightened, this is a perfect match, but the contact with Europe has only been a few years, how did that young man do it?

…………

Chen Jian is actually extremely concerned about the affairs of the Indian company, but he also knows that the wood is already in the boat and cannot be changed, and he can only find out the beneficial side in the future from the unchangeable facts, and perhaps he can only force a group of small and medium-sized businessmen to the side of opposing the monopoly franchise, and he will definitely make trouble in the future.

What we need to do now is not to immediately reprimand this monster for being unreasonable, but to continue to help strengthen those who will pull this monster into the water in the future under the condition of not being changed.

The capital had enough capital, but a lot of it was not invested in appreciation. On the one hand, the monopoly monopoly led to the monopoly of extremely profitable industries by rights, and on the other hand, there were many things that had to be led by someone to raise funds.

When it comes to the leader, there is probably no one more suitable than Jian Chen, whose previous reputation has now become a kind of invisible capital and appeal.

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

The "Minerals, Metallurgy and Infrastructure Investment Company", which has already begun to plan in Min County, not only needs the money of Min County, but also needs the capital investment of the capital city to build Min County and invest in mining abroad, so as to reduce the contradictions and pressure of Min County with the capital of the whole country, and also to involve more people.

Even though books like "Global Observations" have begun to be published on a large scale, some officials have been slow to respond. At the instigation of Chen Jian, many small and medium-sized businessmen in the capital were convinced earlier than some of the old officials that Europe was about to fight, and at this time they began to invest in copper and iron, guns, saltpeter, sulfur, and explosives, and they would definitely make a lot of money.

As for the construction of canals and roads, this is a mandatory goal of the company, and the shareholders must take out a part of the shares to invest in the infrastructure of Minjun, although the return on profit is slightly lower, but it is sure to make money. As for overseas copper mines, saltpeter, acid and alkali workshops, Chen Jian uses information monopoly and technology monopoly to seek rent.

Money, it must be earned, but the additional condition is to engage in infrastructure with a not too high rate of return. If you don't buy shares, where are the overseas copper mines and saltpeter mines?

Since the monopoly of rights can be rent-seeking, attaching military and political conditions that have nothing to do with profits; Then the rent-seeking of information and technology monopolies can also be attached to some special conditions.

Love doesn't come.

All voluntary.

However, with the Nanyang Company, Standard Kerosene, Navigation Insurance, Glass Mirror Joint Monopoly, and Cement Manufacturing Technology Alliance in the forefront, and the prospect of Indian companies taking shares, many people are convinced that this "minerals, metallurgy, and infrastructure investment company" will be a shining new star, and its brilliance may not be as bright as the previous ones.

Many people think very simply, in addition to the immigrant investment that is not for profit and is purely fed, does the industry owned by the Mexican Party lose money? Moreover, now that the tobacco and seeds of new crops in the Great Wilderness City have begun to be sold, who would have thought that five years ago there would be money to be made there? And who would have thought six years ago that there really would be a land suitable for farming?

It's been missed too much, and it's better to keep up this time.