As soon as he heard his father mention "the hearts of the people in the country are unstable", Zhu Guoxiong couldn't help frowning, "Father, it's not that people's hearts are unstable, but that people's hearts are insufficient." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Lack of heart?" Zhu Jishi laughed, "People's hearts are always not satisfied...... You and my father and son are not satisfied with the rich world, and the small people below do not even have a piece of land to stand on, how can they be content? ”

The saying that "the wealthy and the huge houses are thousands of rooms, and the small people have no land" is quite popular in the current Ming Dynasty and can often be seen in the newspapers. The Socialist Party, the Narodya Volyams, and even the opposition bourgeois parties (the Young People's Party or the Donglin Party) used this to block the ruling faction.

"Father, the saying that the small people of Shengdou have no place to stand has passed." Zhu Guoxiong smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I have townhouses for the poor in Daming, and every Daming couple is eligible to buy it once when they get married, and now the highest standard has reached 5o square meters (used in the suite)." ”

&nb square meter ...... It's enough to stand upright. Zhu Jishi took a sip of tea, "It's just that the common people don't know how precious this 5o square meter is." ”

When Zhu Jishi spoke, he felt some emotion in his heart - the area of 5o square meters of the suite could almost arrange a set of 2 bedrooms and a living room in later generations, in metropolises like Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, such a house is something that ordinary working-class people can't afford to work hard all their lives...... At present, everyone is eligible to buy a set with an average salary of 2 and a half years, and they can also pay in installments! If you let the Chinese people who are trapped in high housing prices in later generations know that there are such cheap houses in this time and space. I don't know how I feel?

"It's just a dilapidated house,......" Zhu Guoxiong turned the teacup lightly, and what he said was an understatement, he couldn't believe that similar properties would be worth two or three million in another time and space. And the people also paid for it themselves. It's nothing. ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, "It's also said, some things are precious only if you want them but don't get them, and if everyone has them at their fingertips, no one will cherish them." ”

Zhu Guoxiong smiled, "It's not a valuable thing, it's just some steel, ash, and masonry." ”

It seems that not only the people who have it at their fingertips do not know to cherish. Even the Ming Emperor who gave them out casually didn't know the true value of these houses...... From the beginning of the 186o years after the beginning of the 15o years of the implementation of the terrace house policy, throughout the Great Chinese Empire. In total, more than 300 million homes or homestead plots have been casually sold or distributed to the public at low prices by the government! Billions of dollars of wealth have been squandered, as if they never existed.

Although the real estate industry in Greater China did not disappear because of the selfish desire of Zhu Jishi and his sons to maintain reactionary rule forever, it prospered in several metropolises for a time. But there is no way to compare the prosperity and development of the entire industry with another time and space......

"It's not worth much, indeed." Zhu Jishi also nodded. For Zhu Jishi, who won half of the world and distributed it to his sons, money was no longer a big deal, and even he was not interested in the other half of the world, and how to pass on the country and society in peace and stability was what Zhu Jishi and his sons who were emperors and kings were most concerned about -- at present, it was an era when the international GC movement was surging, the red flag was already flying on both sides of the Atlantic, and the countries of Great China were empires and kingdoms of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, not people's republics that were completely immune to the workers' and peasants' movement in later generations. How dare those in power negotiate a few small sums with the common people in such a world environment...... Well, even if the house in Yingtianfu is fried to tens of thousands of Chinese yuan per square meter. Selling land to earn 1o trillion yuan every year is just a number for Zhu Jishi and his sons. In case of forcing out a red revolution. Send yourself to the guillotine, but the bamboo basket is empty!

"It's a pity that just a townhouse can't buy people's hearts!" Zhu Guoxiong sighed, "In the past 20 years, Daming's agriculture has been somewhat depressed under the impact of Donghua, Beihua, and Nanhua agricultural products. Every year, millions of bankrupt peasants flock to the cities...... These people are the most easily deceived and taken advantage of. ”

Unlike the poor peasant households who poured into the city in the early years, the people who sold their land in the countryside to the city to earn a living are all the original middle-class and upper-class peasant families. Originally, there were 20 or 30 acres of land. Some are still scholarly families, and some are even after the "heroes" (all small soldiers) who raised troops from the dragon in the early years. The days before the last world war were relatively good. Now that he has entered the city to become a proletariat, the psychological gap is naturally not small, and it is understandable that he is full of complaints, and as soon as he is instigated by the Socialist Party and the Popular Opinion Party, he has become the main force of the Ming workers' movement!

As for the descendants of the poor middle peasants who moved to the cities in their early years, because they received a higher level of education in the big cities, or because they inherited the large and small businesses pioneered by their parents, many of them rose to the middle class or even the bourgeoisie, and even if they were still working workers, most of them were high-paid skilled workers -- now is not an era when cheap industrial goods can be produced by relying on automated equipment and simple labor, and skilled workers are far more popular than later generations.

Moreover, the industrialization of the Great China Empire began at the end of the first industrial revolution and completely experienced the entire second industrial revolution. As a result, those mechanics have high wages no less than those of white-collar workers, and some even own a little factory share, and they are no longer considered bitter proletariat.

"It's good to get past this level." Zhu Jishi paused, and said, "This is the last pass on the road of industrialization and urbanization, as long as you survive for another twenty or thirty years, everything will be stable...... These sufferings must be eaten. ”

Zhu Jishi and Zhu Guoxiong, father and son, did not mention the implementation of agricultural product protection. Because the agricultural products that are now impacting the Ming Dynasty are mainly from Donghua, Nanhua and Beihua. These three countries are also important sales markets for Daming's industrial products -- Daming industry, Zhuxia's agricultural and mining industrial layout, driven by the integration of the Greater China market, has been fully formed. This is not forced by bayonet or executive order, but is the result of real market choice.

With a large population and abundant industrial resources, the productivity of the Ming and Han dynasties after the completion of the Second Industrial Revolution was difficult for the industries of the rest of the Greater China to contend with. Of course, this is not to say that the rest of the Greater China countries do not have industry, but that there is no complete industrial system, and there are only some industries with obvious resource cost advantages.

For example, Donghua's arms, steel, petrochemical, non-ferrous metal smelting, food processing and other industries rely on resources or markets to compete with the related industries in the Ming Dynasty.

Although under Juan's manipulation, the Donghua government has always focused on supporting industry. But under the rules of the game of free trade in Greater China, industrial capital will always flow to the place where the cost is lowest, not higher. No matter how hard Juan tries, he will not be able to compete with the forces of the market unless he dismantles the Greater China market.

The ban on the import of agricultural products from North America to the Ming Dynasty and the impact on the Ming market is a way to dismantle the Taiwan -- even if Donghua and Beihua do not take any countermeasures, they will reduce the amount of industrial products imported into the Ming Dynasty because they cannot obtain enough Chinese dollars from agricultural products. Of course, the farmers of Daming will gain strong purchasing power because of the increase in the price of agricultural products to make up for the losses caused by the shrinkage of the Donghua and Beihua markets to Daming industry. Similarly, after the agricultural products of Donghua and Beihua lose their markets, agricultural production will also drop significantly, and a large number of agricultural people will move into the cities to become cheap labor, thereby reducing the cost of industrial production in North America.

In this way, North America and Daming will become two relatively independent markets. After losing the interdependent unified market, North America and the Ming mainland will become more and more separated.

Zhu Guoxiong picked up the tea bowl, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "What Erchen knows, Greater China must have a unified market, otherwise it will fall apart sooner or later." ”

He didn't want Beihua and Donghua to develop their own industrial systems. Without a strong industry, it would be impossible for Zhu Juan to challenge the Ming Dynasty with troops. Moreover, the Eastern and Northern Chinese, who can make a good living by selling agricultural products and resources, will not follow Juan to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

"It's good to know." Zhu Jishi picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and asked slowly, "Emperor, I still have about 2 or 3o years to be in Great China, I think Nechaev and Zolg and the like won't give us that long, right?" ”

"And Kaiser Wilhelm II," Zhu Guoxiong added with a frown, "Wilhelm II has to fight!" ”

"Have to fight?"

"In recent years, there has been a surplus of German industry, and the markets of the United Kingdom of Poland and Sweden can no longer absorb the huge industrial production of Germany. Moreover, the industrialization of Russia (Slavic Union) was initially completed, and the demand for German industrial goods was decreasing. The international trade rules devised by Mr. Engels during his lifetime are no longer able to meet the needs of Germany. And the only way to change Germany's disadvantageous position in international trade is to wage war! ”

The international trade rules of this era were "barter" on the surface, but in fact they were trade balances between several large regional free trade areas - Greater China was one, Rome and the Socialist United States of America plus Belgium, the Netherlands and other small European countries were one; The German-British-Polish Monarchy, the United Kingdom of Sweden, Denmark and the Slavic Union counted as one. In addition, the Austrian Empire, the Turkish Empire, and the Indian Empire, three small and independent markets, also signed barter trade agreements with the three major free trade circles.

In other words, each free trade circle is a relatively closed and self-sufficient market, and it is difficult for goods outside the circle to enter...... Unless a war is waged! (To be continued)