Chapter 344: The World (2)
So, as soon as Chamberlain came to power, he asked the new ambassador to China to ask China about the products (excluding medicines, which had been sold for a long time.) Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info) can be sold, Li Hui considered that they have all lost the advantage of being ahead of the highest level of the West, and the Chinese army has used newer products, and there is no longer a need for strict secrecy, in this case, why not sell if there is money to be made? If the planned economy does not pay attention to profits, it is within the system, and foreign exports should still give priority to profits, otherwise it will not become a big wrong? What's more, China is now "preparing for war and famine," and it can take the opportunity to increase imports of agricultural products to complete its reserves more quickly.
Although the overall quality of workers is still relatively poor, the products of Chinese enterprises such as Laizhou Special Steel Plant and Tangshan Chemical Plant are worse than the quality of direct production of the system, especially the pass rate, but because the labor cost is very low, and the advanced management system that is ahead of the world has greatly improved the production efficiency, the cost is much lower than that of similar products in Germany, even if only those high-quality products are sold, there is still a lot of profit, not to mention that even those defective products can be sold at a lower grade, so the profits are very considerable.
And if the British are willing to offer a very high price that is enough to make Li Hui's heart move, and pay with spot gold and silver, then Li Hui is also willing to use the system to directly produce nearly perfect products to meet the needs of the other party, but Britain is now far from being as rich as ten years ago, in addition to the high-precision machine tools with strict requirements for workmanship, the others have to consider a little cost performance, the quality is not worse than the German goods, but the price is only ninety percent of it (the freight factor is also included) The "ordinary" Chinese products have made the old Chamberlain very satisfied.
Although Britain is no longer the world hegemon, but her influence in the international is still no country can be compared, after Britain opened this head, many European and American countries have followed suit, and China has opened up the export of these products is also responsive, so that the German boutiques that were once popular in the world have hit a wall everywhere, and the German economy has just come out of the Great Depression, and life is sad again.
Although the Germans cannot openly accuse Chinese goods of stealing their business, because this is only a normal export and does not violate market norms at all, cutting off people's financial resources is like killing their parents, and the Germans are already anti-China, and now that their jobs have been robbed, it is inevitable that they will be even more hostile to China, and the German government has further propagated anti-China remarks in order to divert domestic contradictions, and the relations between the two countries have deteriorated rapidly. This is what Li Hui did not expect, sure enough, there is no perfect thing in the world, although a single nation state has the advantage of strong cohesion, but at the same time it is accompanied by such a small family spirit, which makes Li Hui, who is accustomed to the bearing of a great country, extremely unhappy, and has no good impression of Germany since then.
However, the Germans hated Britain even more, and China's exports were still reasonable and legal, and Britain's obviously overkill trade protection policy was a complete scoundrel, so the Anglo-German relations, which had been deteriorating since the Boer War, became more and more tense.
This was originally what Li Hui was looking forward to, because the intensification of the conflict between Britain and Germany in history was an important reason for the outbreak of World War I, and only by fighting within the West could China reap the benefits, get rid of the danger of being besieged by the entire West, and take the opportunity to rise to become an invincible supergiant, and from then on completely invincible. However, Li Hui was overjoyed, but he did not expect that the United States, another victim of Britain's "closed off country" policy, would become an unexpected spoiler......
Theodore Roosevelt became vice president of President William McKinley for a second term by virtue of his heroic role in the Spanish-American War, but neither he nor the financial capital behind him had the patience to wait for another presidential term, especially since they foresaw that the decade-long depression was coming to an end, and that the credit would not be given to the current president in any way. It wasn't long before President McKinley was assassinated by an "anarchist," and Theodore Roosevelt, who was not yet 43 years old, sat on the presidency as the youngest president in the history of the United States.
Although we know that the economic crisis is coming to an end, if no new policies are enacted, not many Americans will take credit for Theodore Roosevelt, even if America's foolish propaganda has always been successful. As a result, Roosevelt, who was afraid that he would be a step late, did not wait for the presidency to become hot, and vigorously promulgated a number of important policies, which are known as the "Roosevelt New Deal" in history.
Since Keynesianism had not yet emerged, the elder Roosevelt's reform measures were much rougher than those of his nephews in history, but he had read Marx's "Capital" and still understood the causes of the economic crisis, so he firmly grasped the key point of "expanding demand". Whether it is to increase government procurement (including the expansion of armaments, the construction of new large-scale projects, etc.). The first social welfare bill in the United States was enacted to expand domestic demand for services, and even the Antitrust Act, which is unique in the world, will help achieve this goal in the long run.
A trust is one of the advanced forms of capitalist monopoly organization, formed by the merger of many enterprises that produce similar goods or products that are closely related, with the aim of monopolizing the sales market, the origin of raw materials, and the scope of investment. Although the scale effect can reduce production costs and enhance market competitiveness, once a high degree of monopoly is formed, such as Mobil Oil Company accounts for more than 90% of the oil production in the United States, and the United States Steel Company occupies more than 65% of the steel production in the United States, once it reaches this level, because there are no competitors in the domestic counterparts who can challenge them, they can lower the wages of employees and raise the sales price beyond the limit to obtain greater profits.
This is naturally a good thing for enterprises and bosses, but for a country, this is undoubtedly magnifying the contradiction between commodity production and consumer demand (with purchasing power), and the reason why the economic crisis has become more and more intensive and destructive in the past 30 years is an important reason, and the deepening of the monopoly of the economies of various countries......
Note 1: After careful consideration, the time of the first war against the United States was postponed by me, which is conducive to cooperating with the front page on November 26, anyway, as long as China and the United States are openly hostile, it is enough to contain the international financial capital group, and will not affect the old Chamberlain's coming to power and reforms. (To be continued.) )