Subject!

National!

What is a subject? What is a citizen?

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An article may seem inconspicuous, but sometimes it can have a great impact on people, for subjects or for citizens?

For people who have been in Kaihong for five years, maybe not everyone will notice this, but it doesn't mean that everyone will ignore it.

“…… May you be the citizens of the Chinese Empire under the rule of His Majesty the Emperor! ”

After reading this article on "Nationals and Subjects" in the newspaper, Zhu Yifeng didn't even notice that his expression had become solemn, and even his breathing had become a little strange.

He was thinking about this matter repeatedly in his mind, thinking about the question of "subjects" and "people", and one thing is for sure, this article has caused an unprecedented impact on Zhu Yifeng at least at this moment.

This is the awakening of the populace!

Almost instantly, Zhu Yifeng got an answer in his mind, and this answer even made him a little excited, as if this article was to some extent a result of Kaihong's initial enlightenment of the people in the past five years.

Yes, the enlightenment of the people in the past five years can be seen from this article. The opening of the people's wisdom is not symbolized by how many students have been trained and how many universities have been built, but in this process, whether the people have a sense of ownership as the standard, whether there is a national consciousness as the standard, of course, now all this is just a vague consciousness, but it is certain that from now on, once the road of people's wisdom is opened, it will be unstoppable.

"Is this right or wrong?"

Suddenly, in the face of this sudden emergence of "national consciousness", Zhu Yifeng was actually a little worried, what he was worried about was not anything else, but whether all this happened too early, and more importantly, whether it would affect his own power. What is more important is whether it will affect the rule of the dynasty and affect his rule.

"Oops, these things seem a little too far ahead of their time......"

Muttering in his heart, Zhu Yifeng glanced at the newspaper again, and although he was a little worried, he didn't have anything to worry about, because no one knew politics better than him, at least in China, no one knew more than him.

Perhaps the awakening of the people's will will to some extent force the government to cede some power in the future, but for the royal family, this is not a bad thing. Power needs to be checked and balanced, and the power of the government is now controlling it by itself, but in the future, it can be checked and balanced by the people, as for the so-called "aristocracy...... They are of course also an important part of the dynasty, but they also need checks and balances.

Sneering, Zhu Yifeng seemed to remember something, and some reports from the Intelligence Bureau came to his mind, in the past five years, because of the restrictions on land in the Chinese Dynasty, those nobles of the new dynasty have all invested in industry, investment in the financial industry and industry and commerce, especially the former, all the banks in the country, except for the central bank of the empire, other government and private banks, have the shares of the nobles of the new dynasty, and they affect industry and commerce through their control of the financial industry.

Zhu Yifeng has always held a tacit attitude towards these behaviors of the nobles of the new dynasty, just like when he was in Wuchang, he did everything possible to combine the interests of the officials of the Governor's Mansion with the Governor's Office, and the fiefdom of the colony was just a bundle of interests, as for now, their investment in the financial industry, industry and commerce is also a kind of bundle of interests, and only by bundling their interests with the interests of financial industry and commerce, they will support the new policy of the new dynasty.

Indeed, it is thanks to their support that they have always spared no effort in attacking conservatives in order to ensure their own interests, just as in the old days, officials did everything possible to ensure their interests in land. And all of this is stimulating the development of domestic industry and commerce, and it is thanks to their full support that the domestic industry and commerce have made rapid progress.

It is not that Chinese people are not good at business, and once they have a good environment, they will immediately show their talent for business. However, while the national power increased rapidly due to the development of industry and commerce, and the financial revenue of the Chinese Dynasty increased several times in just five years, the combination of nobles and commerce also revealed another disadvantage, especially after the outbreak of war.

Zhu Yifeng, who had his eyes closed, flashed documents and tables in his mind, and of course, all kinds of numbers and articles, and gradually, all of this turned into pictures and stories that seemed to be real in front of his eyes:

After the outbreak of the war, with the support of the domestic financial community, bonds totaling more than 5 billion yuan were issued in three tranches, and the 5 billion yuan raised after the issuance of these bonds were used separately under the banner of military appropriation and industrial promotion.

This money and huge military spending are quickly transferred to hundreds of domestic enterprises, of course, those business owners will never lock their money in a safe, the power of money lies in its flow. Entrepreneurs immediately use them to buy machines and increase factory capacity, while they also experiment with weapons, recruit more industries, and switch to profitable or lucrative weapons to meet the sudden expansion of military demand.

But this is only a small part of it, and the part that ordinary people can imagine is only the tip of the iceberg. And not all of the money, the normal profits of those enterprises, is invested in the development of new weapons or the expansion of industrial production.

This part of the money is used to subscribe to the government issued treasury bonds, of course, this is only a small part, it is a gesture of patriotism by enterprises, and for them, for those enterprises, what are they going to face? They were faced with a world that had been beaten to the ground, and they found that there was too much innumerable wealth left over from the British colonies, and this wealth was waiting for them to accept and take over. More than anything else, that's all that matters!

The war brought new opportunities, and the mines and land in the colonies were the most rewarding investment compared to others, and with the support of the military control authorities, those people bought many of the most promising mines and real estate at ridiculous prices.

In the process, power and money are so well combined that even the officials who oversee them are helpless - there is no supervision there, and the nobles have their own reasons.

"To support the cause of the Empire!"

In this kind of "support", those banks and enterprises have extended their tentacles from their homeland to overseas, and they are silently building a new colony, which is different from the colony managed by the Imperial Colonial Department, but the colonial department cannot do without them and their support, because the colonial ministry needs these banks to build finance in the colony, and enterprises need to establish a certain industrial and commercial foundation there, and only with finance and industrial and commercial colonies will they prosper. to be able to show the changes under the governance of the empire.

And at what cost of all this?

The military shed blood, but big business and big conglomerates got everything.

It seems inevitable!

All of this was inevitable, just as the merchants of Huguang and other places followed in the footsteps of the rebels into the country and eventually grew into the most successful group of merchants in all of China, and now, those companies are also following in the footsteps of the imperial army and extending their tentacles to the rest of the world.

While the Imperial armies were working around the world to build a world empire, the merchants were also building their spheres of influence, which of course was different from the maps of the Military Staff, unlike any other map.

Despite knowing all this, Zhu Yifeng could not stop these behaviors, because in the process of forming a colonial empire, these commercial forces were indispensable, and it could even be said that they were necessary, and the empire needed to carry out an "industrialized division of labor" on the colonies and obtain benefits from the colonies, which all needed to rely on merchants and need businessmen's contributions.

But on the other hand, Zhu Yifeng had to be vigilant about the actions of these businessmen - they were not a group of simple businessmen, they were a group of nobles, and those imperial nobles have now profoundly affected the country's economy, and it can even be said that they are forming another kind of force.

This kind of power has never been possessed by any of the nobles and officials of any dynasty in China, and their power lies in money! Of course, it is also about power and status, and when all this is combined with money, what kind of changes will happen?

Checks and balances!

Thinking of these two words, a thought flashed through Zhu Yifeng's mind, in the future, who will check and balance them?

For Zhu Yifeng, who believes in the way of balance, he knows that once the balance of power is lost, the results will be extremely terrible. Just like in the Ming Dynasty, the dominance of the civil service group that lost checks and balances eventually led to the decline of imperial power and the demise of the dynasty.

If they were allowed to control the most powerful of forces, the consequences would undoubtedly be catastrophic!

Who can check and balance them?

While thinking, Zhu Yifeng, whose expression became more and more solemn, slowly fell to the newspaper, looking at the small words in the newspaper, he seemed to see another kind of power, since their power can be used to balance the government, it can also be used to balance another group of people.

Just when Zhu Yifeng realized that he could borrow another power to balance all this, another voice surged in his heart.

"Isn't there some unfounded concern?"

After all, now the war is still going on, after all, now those so-called "consortia" are cowering in front of the imperial power.

"Still, we should find ways to prevent it......"

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