Chapter 290: The Reason for the Empire's Hegemony
Wisdom and channels
It is a finite world, but technology can turn it into an infinite world, and the agricultural technological revolution that has passed through the old time and space has increased the population ceiling from 1 billion to 8 billion, and the innovation of industrial technology has made the standard of living infinitely high.
And what the revolution in business technology has brought to the world is obviously lower costs and less waste. The progress of agricultural technology has made the output of land higher and higher, the unit area of land can feed more people, and the development of industrial technology can make people live a more convenient and comfortable life, and can also turn the garbage that was not used before into resources and industries to stimulate employment, but all this will become empty talk without the progress of commercial technology.
The masters of the ancient world did not know this truth, and the core idea of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce and political power from the barrel of a gun was the core idea, and the dominant family of modern society knew this truth and did not want too many people to know it, so they vigorously publicized the importance of scientific industrial and agricultural technology instead of propagating finance, commercial systems and technologies.
It's not selfishness, it's fear that the power of finance is too strong. The ability of modern finance to gather resources is thousands of times greater than that of ancient times, and it can promote economic development a thousand times and destroy economic development a thousand times more. (There is only one thought between illegal fundraising and fraud)
The progress of commerce is the premise and foundation of the development of industry and agriculture, without the maturity of the commercial network and logistics system, all industries can only stay in the primitive state and cannot become a large-scale high division of labor system. In a word, 'If you want to get rich, build roads first'.
Roads are not only political, economic, and military ties that connect various places, but also channels for controlling various resources and forces in various places. Only the people who know this truth are willing to spend money to build an unprecedented road network and software. This money must be used on the correct and reasonable high-yield projects to reflect the level of the crossing. And the ages. The highest-yielding investments are road building and education.
Of course, if you want to build roads, you can't just use hardware and not software. Hardware is infrastructure, and software is obviously the platform for education and supporting institutional and business information exchange. Merchants in ancient Europe knew that a shipping route to the East and charts meant endless wealth. These 'roads' are naturally becoming more and more difficult to carve out, and the hardware is the easiest to achieve (the roads of ancient Rome have been used until modern times). As long as you spend money, you can get things are not rare), talents and systems are also easy to reach the standard (it is also a matter of money and determination, as long as you make up your mind to ask for money and shameless, the ancestral law and faith can be abandoned, and it is a trivial meaning to change your life, Britain is the inspiration from Magna Carta), the most difficult thing to get is the information and channels that mean endless wealth.
Take, for example, the nautical charts of shipping routes to the New World. This invisible path is the most difficult to open up, not only does it cost a lot of money, but countless people have to die on it one after another. Without dozens or hundreds of years to accumulate, summarize, compile, proofread, approve, keep secret, block, and utilize, this invisible road cannot be completed and opened to traffic until the toll period expires and is open to traffic free of charge.
The biggest advantage of traversing people is that they don't need to spend money on this invisible road, and they skip this step directly according to the information of the old time and space, saving countless funds and manpower and material resources. directly stabbed the material toll channel to the door of Europe. Dumping and investment were directly initiated. This is equivalent to completing the project of the century directly before the project was established in Europe. This kind of behavior is quite shameless, but it is also quite effective in cutting off all potential competitors and completely monopolizing the most critical channels and information in the entire market.
Even if Europe gets the Zenith of aliens, it will only become a sweatshop without upstream pricing power and channels such as raw materials and downstream pricing power and channels such as terminal markets.
In terms of business technology, the absolute leading edge of the crossing is vividly reflected. Joint-stock system, unlimited liability, mortgages, redeemable bonds, advance payment and credit purchase system, futures, bidding, auction, open and hidden bidding, investment promotion, advertising, discount promotion, rebates, membership system, brand packaging, vouchers, trademarks and a series of technologies have appeared in the Song Dynasty as early as the Song Dynasty and were widely used in the territory of the Song Empire.
Although these are only the prototypes, they also shocked the traversers. In this kind of highly developed commercial fertile soil that does not require much effort to cultivate new ideas, it is natural to open the golden finger of technology and get twice the result with half the effort.
Long before the power of the Crossing Crowd spread throughout East Asia, the exquisite textiles and brands produced by the Crossing Crowd penetrated many Muslim tribes in West Asia. And in the official opening of the country. After the announcement of the student visa system that allowed residents of all allied and friendly countries (countries that had established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level) to study at the Empire's native universities by passing the exam, the comprador power of the Empire grew rapidly. The children of wealthy families with money can become high-quality comprador candidates for the empire. Poor families with no money but were smart were able to complete college on scholarships and become loyal supporters of the empire. The top-down Chinese style of the courts of various countries is also the result of the influence of this advanced system of soft power.
Since the development is so labor-saving, it is naturally even more amazing to come up with commercial technology that is not available in this era. As soon as the global commodity trading market settles in Xinjing, it will naturally gain pricing power and infinite influence as soon as the global commodity trading market can unify weights and measures and prices across the country and even the world. The power of the modern monetary and bank credit system is even more endless, the abolition of taxes in kind, the implementation of a single monetary tax has allowed the empire to enter the threshold of the market economy, take off the coat of the small peasant economy, abolish the poll tax and agricultural tax is to lift the shackles of the small peasant economy and most of the burden on rural households, and expand domestic demand several times.
After studying the essence of the planned economy, the plan for the revival of the national road network (expressways) and the plan for the three links and one level in the tall villages and villages (the roads or islands are open to navigation, postal services, trade, and living and production on flat land, and the settlements that are inconvenient in the deep mountains and old forests are all abolished and demolished on flat land. This program is carried out in parallel with the integrated watershed management plan for soil and water restoration) provides unlimited business opportunities and orders. For the traversal who has the essence of the means of creating orders without orders, this is not a matter at all.
Overcapacity can never be in this world. The biggest difficulty in integrating micro enterprise-level business technology and macro national-level economic system lies in the word talent. Therefore, as soon as you travel through a new time and space, you will put down everything and engage in education. To build an efficient team, we must start from the baby, and you can't buy it with money and official positions.
The near-infinite upside allows every student to maximize their potential. After the efforts of countless gods in the old time and space were poured into the students by the Crossing Crowd, this special class quickly snatched the right to speak from all the classes of the Great Song Empire.
After graduation, those who became officials had the support of the people who had direct conversations with the Imperial Family. are all rocket cadres; After graduation, those who are in business have opened plug-ins to provide unlimited funds, supply of goods and even perfect channels and after-sales, and fools can be business giants; After graduation, those who farm can become manor owners and plantation owners, and become the supplier of Chenji Group who guarantees income during drought and flood, and Fubi Princes is just a trivial meaning; If you engage in technology research and development after graduation, you will not only get the support of the world's best software and hardware and sufficient funds, but also get guidance from the public. You must know that the workload of the previous research institute in the past year can make countless people tired to death can easily avoid the detours, and no one has taken credit for the results. If you get a bonus, you can become a rich man, and if the results can be commercialized, you will become rich overnight.
Whether it is a tangible road or an invisible road, the traversal is a master, and the investment income is definitely far more than the profit rate of any capital operation. Why? Because the government is in their hands. These roads, both tangible and intangible, are difficult to see in the direct accounts. But the indirect related projects are gone. Investing in an illiterate university student costs about $2,000 in education advances. In the rest of his life, the government overcharged the personal income tax from the college student's personal account and the wealth created by the job and the tax collected by the related industry post was thousands of times higher than the investment income. The benefits of roads and railways are the same, and highways and railways bring countless business opportunities and jobs to every settlement on the line, and these operators maintain and create jobs and tax revenues several times the investment in transportation construction and maintenance every year. This kind of business is cost-effective even if it is loss-making, not to mention that it is impossible to lose money? (The government's taxes and expenditures are uniform, there is no drawback of the tax-sharing system, and all taxes, fees, fines and investment income are all received by the Ministry of Finance, and then approved by the Senate in accordance with the budgets of various localities and departments)
China has been a perfect ethnic complex since ancient times. Although most of the time it shows the virtues of simplicity and industriousness of the agricultural people, there is never a lack of the bloody ambition of the nomadic people and the shrewd calculation of the commercial people. Open the archaeological history map and take a look. The territory of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties became larger and larger, and each unified Chinese national dynasty (the main ethnic group before the Han Dynasty) was built on the basis of the great reshuffle and wealth transfer of the ruling classes of various ethnic groups at home and abroad. Every inch of the territory that was repeatedly fought for and finally incorporated into the territory of China was the valuable territory of the agricultural society that did not lose money at that time.
A shrewd merchant nation is the essence of China, and only by combining the infinite desire of the agrarian people for arable land and the belief of the nomads in war can they gradually develop from an Erlitou tribe to a world empire. Most of the worthless uninhabited and wasteland of ancient times is still wasteland today, and it is of little practical significance to include it in the territory, and those densely populated agricultural areas in ancient times are now granaries with countless living people. A high-quality population is the source of all strength, and China's emphasis on education and childbirth has been the core policy of all dynasties.
However, when Wang Xinyu proposed to solve the Western Xia by force, he was opposed by many old parties, and after the fact, when the gains and losses were calculated, all participants made a lot of money. The limitations of the times are the most fundamental reason for this situation.
In the land economy of feudal society, only arable land is valuable to the ruling class, while in capitalist society, any land that can be inhabited, lived and developed is valuable, deserts and grasslands are also valuable land, especially underground mineral deposits and large pastures, in the territory of Western Xia, there are large areas of northern Shaanxi oil and gas fields and the value of the Hetao Plain after development is enough to shut up, not to mention that there are countless pastures and mines to provide a large number of war horses (before full industrialization, Horses are still indispensable, and even if they are industrialized, they can be exported or developed in the riding industry), dairy cows, beef cattle, wool and ore.
Not to mention the opening of land trade routes with the Uighurs of Gaochang and other countries in the Western Regions, the military, strategic and political significance of deterrence to various countries, coupled with the commercial significance of the opening of trade, has greatly boosted the national prestige and international image.
Technological advances in military force and industrial technology have quickly brought all the communities of the newly occupied territories into order, with elite troops armed to the teeth with advanced weaponry on the one hand, and wealth channels that bring countless good things that they have never dreamed of.
The big stick and carrots of military and industrial technology had to be used and executed by the merchants of these backward tribes, and profits were the only driving force for these merchants in Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road, which were plagued by Western Xia, to go to the territory of the former sworn enemy feud and to buy local products and promote consumer goods in harmony.
A ton of worthless wool is hand-processed into a felt blanket but a little more valuable, and the selling price on the grassland may be 5-10% more expensive than the wool on the bad street, but after combing, sorting, grading, degreasing, weaving, printing and dyeing, drying, polishing, cutting, stitching, and adding a few buttons and brand tags, the wool can be sold for a thousand times the price.
It turned out that the grasslands and barren mountains in the barren land in the eyes of scholars have also become the production areas of commercial raw materials with high and stable yields, and they can make a profit in the cultivation of industry (making money and buying industries are two different spiritual needs), and the glory of the ancestors (when there is money, whether it is exploration or election, you can mix the title, and fulfill the dream of yourself and your ancestors), so you will naturally do everything possible to break your head and compete for it.
The land is in the hands of the enclosure kings of the main war faction led by Wang Xinyu, and if they want to get a piece of the pie, they must closely unite around the emerging capitalist oligarchy with the Senate as their base camp.
The motto of Chenji Academy, "If you master true wisdom, you will master wealth and power", has been passed down among the majority of alumni and family members. True wisdom is not all kinds of information and books, just a few words. This is the truth of the false transmission of thousands of books, and the true transmission of one sentence. The prosperous channel is king, the chaotic cash is the king, high throwing and low sucking, people abandon me, people take me and so on.
Great wisdom is the choice of timing, direction, and means to use these true transmissions. When the traversal provided a golden age of prosperity for all, the level of this great wisdom requirement was reduced by many times. As long as you choose to stand on the side of the crosser, you can enjoy the preferential treatment of reducing the difficulty, and if you stand on the wrong team, then you are sorry, whether it is an individual or a country, it is difficult to survive at least and there is little chance of survival at worst. (To be continued......)