China is in a stir.

While the guns and cannons on the battlefield in the northwest were still ringing fiercely, there seemed to be an extraordinary storm in China.

God knows how strong the shock caused by tens of thousands of Praetorian Guards after they took a steamship from Nanjing to Shanghai, and the huge influence of the central government's rapid entry into Shanghai at the same time. The entire Shanghai industrial and commercial tycoons are stunned at this moment, and there are thousands of ordinary people. No matter up or down, everyone felt the extreme danger of the nest being smashed, and the murderous aura that was as cold as winter could not deceive people......

But fortunately, after these people arrived in Shanghai, they did not do it immediately.

Although the terrifying air pressure hangs over the whole of Shanghai, many people's heads are still on their necks, at least for now.

The changes that took place after that were not involved in the business circles, but many bureaucrats in Shanghai were sent to prison one after another in the past few days.

Don't think that severe punishment can completely scare everyone's greed, if that's the case, Zhu Yuanzhang won't be able to kill so many officials.

As long as the officials have the heart to hold money, no matter how strict the rules and regulations are, they can find loopholes and play tricks. Just like the lighthouse state of the 21st century, there is a lot of corruption. As the central city of China's finance and trade, Shanghai is naturally also the hardest hit area by corruption.

Therefore, in the past few days, Shanghai has only been unlucky with a large number of bureaucrats. Chen Ming came to clean up!

However, none of the business tycoons in Shanghai think that the guillotine on their heads really does not exist, and anyone who can go to the position of the leader of the industrial and commercial class is a fox of a thousand years, and they are all cunning, how can they not know that the knife of the imperial court is still clamped around their necks.

Several front-line bigwigs of the Shanghai Advisory Bureau, as well as representatives of the Information Administration Yuan and the Federation of Industry and Commerce, have not been seen in the past few days. Why did they go? The top executives of Shanghai's business community are very clear in their hearts.

And at this moment, when there was a little panic, the news of martial law came from Guangzhou at the same time, and the timid industrial and commercial owners in Shanghai were about to be frightened.

Don't think that if something goes wrong with the officials, they can easily get rid of it. It's as if they weren't involved in the bribery.

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There was a big drama in China, and the news spread quickly throughout the country, although the only cities under martial law by the army and the dispatch of central inspection teams were Shanghai and Guangzhou, but it should be clear that these two cities are among the few big cities in China. Together with the two capitals in the north and south and Wuhan, these are the top five big cities in China.

In the first decade of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lushan was very awesome, and in the second decade, it was lacking in stamina, and in the third decade, it completed the overall transformation, from the industry, commerce, education and finance to the second-tier city in China with education first, finance second, and industry fading. Up to now, Lushan has not even ranked in the middle and upper reaches of second-tier cities, and has gradually fallen into the middle and lower reaches of the second-tier city rankings.

Of course, the Lushan government was in a hurry, but they were used to it when they were in a hurry. After all, the traffic restrictions are there, and in the case of the same industrial cost, the defect of inconvenient transportation directly cuts off the industrial development road of Lushan.

Unless they have their own unique skills, but is that possible?

Therefore, everyone can think of the shock of this sudden incident to the Chinese people.

In the past few days, newspaper sales in the eastern region have increased by several percentage points, and not only Chinese, but also a large number of Westerners, these foreigners who have come to China to do business and study, have also been shocked by this incident.

Such a shock would seem impossible to many Westerners. How can any country still be at war and vigorously engage in a big upturn within itself? To the surprise of many Westerners, not a single part of the newspaper or the variety of comments they wanted to see about the possibility of China's internal strife affecting the war in the Northwest was the surprise of many Westerners.

The Chinese are really as confident as a mystery!

It can't be said that foreigners are all impure guys. It's that today's China is too coquettish on the planet. Leaving people far behind, then don't blame the boundless jealousy that rises in people's hearts.

More importantly, China's strength is now in the past 40 years. With the rise of China, its old foundation has also been cleaned up by European countries early. This great country has not always been strong and perverted, and they have their weak moments.

Although China at the end of the Ming Dynasty collided with Westerners' warships several times, and all of them were victorious. During the Qing Dynasty, China's national strength was really not weak compared to European countries, but there was no harm if there was no comparison.

In the eyes of some Westerners, a powerful China is like an upstart, which is certainly envious.

At present, if China's newspapers are to make a big deal about the war in the northwest because of the sudden outbreak of political struggle within them, this will certainly satisfy the dark psychology of many Europeans. But no!

The fact that none of the newspapers reported on this statement means that the Chinese simply do not think that the great fighting that broke out within themselves would affect the war that broke out in their mighty Russia in the far northwest?

This is another form of ignorance.

It hurts the hearts of some Westerners with dark minds too much.

Anyway, they can't know what the game is within. Seriously, all the Westerners in China are trying to blow up their brains, and they can't possibly know that the cause of this incident that shook the entire business community in China was actually because of the issue of raising workers' wages.

If the Westerners found out, they would rush to the inexplicable. Isn't the salary income of Chinese still not high?

You must know that in Britain, which had the highest wages for European workers in this era, a male textile worker in the prime of life and experienced was only paid two pounds a month, which was converted into Chinese Chinese dollars, only 70 yuan.

And this is already a very high level of wages in all walks of life in the UK.

But the same experienced male weavers earn between 100 and 150 yuan a month in China, and the prices of necessities in China are much lower than in the UK. Although Chinese newspapers clamor them for rising prices every year, no matter how fast they rise, they can't compare to similar prices in the UK.

Look at the price of grain in London, which is completely beyond the imagination of the Chinese. In 1810, the price of grain was 30 shillings a bushel, which was a toothache. A bushel is about sixty pounds, which is only forty-five pounds, and 30 shillings is a pound and a half, which is equivalent to 50 Chinese dollars. China's grain prices have risen and fallen over the years, and now the price of high-grade finished flour is only two dimes and one catty. That's a six-fold difference.

Of course, expensive cereals have also made many Brits get into the habit of eating meat, so that they can eat less bread.

Doesn't it feel a bit absurd of 'why not eat minced meat'?

But it's really unique.

Relatively expensive compared to cereals, 1 shilling can only buy 2 pounds of cereals, and with this 1 shilling money to buy beef, you can get 3 pounds.

The British have now introduced alfalfa cultivation in large quantities, allowing forage to be grown on wasteland that would otherwise be unsuitable for farming, thus expanding the output of livestock and milk. Grains are expensive in the UK anyway, while meat/dairy products are not.

Historically, the British enacted the Corn Laws after defeating Napoleon, which was intended to protect British landowners from competition from grain imports from foreign countries where production costs were cheaper. The English landowners included hundreds of lords, 60,000 barons, and non-aristocratic squires. At the height of cereal prices in the UK, cereals reached a quart [about 12.7 kilograms] and sold for more than 80 shillings/£4. In this regard, the British are the grandfathers of Han Bangzi in the 21st century. The car in Rabbit Country is also an example. Although Chen Ming did not know this interesting history.

Moreover, the British can also eat fish, and the North Sea fishing ground at the door of the British is one of the world's famous fishing grounds, and fish has been one of the traditional foods of the British since ancient times. The price of fish fluctuates greatly, but most of the time it is cheaper than beef.

It is unreasonable to extrapolate the real standard of living of the British only from the grain, and it is also unreasonable to infer the real standard of living of the British from the price of meat compared to China. This is just one piece of data from Chinese and Western scholars, and they also have to include a lot of data on other aspects, such as beverages - tea, coffee, cocoa, alcohol, textiles, entertainment, education, etc., and then evaluate them comprehensively.

Compared with the hard life of British working families, Chinese dual-income families can support the husband and wife plus a few children in addition to paying the rent. To a certain extent, this is like Britain in the mid-to-late 19th century, when the wages of Chinese workers were absolutely acceptable.

The Europeans in China want to break their heads, and they don't understand this either.

But they 'guessed' one thing, that is, whether it was Chen Ming, the initiator of this matter, or the Chinese business community, which was a passive participant in this matter, neither side of the country took the Russians seriously, and no one thought that the bilateral struggle would affect the war against Russia in the northwest and drag down the Wehrmacht in the war.

At this time, China really had the confidence of a mystery.

In the history of China, this event also had a certain influence. When the time came to the end of this century, when the European countries were shrouded in a red specter, only China, the most powerful and prosperous country, was 'out of the way'. Therefore, China is special, China's status is exceptional, and 'Chinese exceptionalism' has swept across Europe like a storm.

At that time, countless people turned their attention to China's vast and boundless 'national border'.

While the capitalist countries of Europe are constantly devouring their interests in half of Europe, seeking markets, resources and colonial expansion, China is focusing on its southern 'frontier'. Because China's intractable movement did not require a large army and colonial infrastructure, China's attrition was minimal.

Nanyang and Nanmingzhou are the particularities of China. The further development of the south was like a colony established overseas by European powers for the Chinese, providing abundant natural resources for the homeland and a new place to sell the vast quantities of manufactured goods produced in the industrialized and urbanized east. Because in the past few decades, the Chinese have only developed planting and mining in Nanyang and Nanmingzhou.

China was able to forge strong ties and ties very cheaply, without the need for war over new colonial scrambles.

The costs and gains of the Chinese government are completely disproportionate.

The above is the central idea of China's exceptionalism, but after entering the new century, some sociologists have pointed out the great role of China's "Labor Protection Law" in the great social changes.

Of course, that's all for later.