readx;?“ Your Majesty, the international situation is not stable now, the Roman Empire is afraid of civil strife, the German Empire is about to move, and the United States and Slavia have also come to the news of the conclusion of a secret treaty. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info just want to go outside, you must first settle inside, which is the same principle through the ages. ”

Right Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong took over Li Hongzhang's topic at this time, changed his direction and continued to persuade. Of course, the Socialist Party was anti-war, and in fact, the anti-war ideas of the Socialist Party did represent the interests of the majority of the working people in the Ming Dynasty. It is not more than 2o years ago, and the Great Chinese Empire, which occupies half of the world, already has enough living space and resources, and the question now is how to make good use of these territories for the benefit of the people, rather than expanding desperately until the whole world is unified."

However, most of the heavy industry giants of the Ming Empire are mainly fighting, after all, they are not the ones who go to the battlefield to die, and their factories will get countless orders from the military. In the last world war, there were a lot of industrial giants! In addition, the naval and army officers of the Ming Empire are also the main battles, and if they don't fight, the officers can only fight for their seniority, and most of them have gray hair, that is, they are just school officers. As soon as the war starts, the army alone will have to expand several times, and the path to promotion will suddenly become broader!

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Zhu Guoxiong thought for a while and said, "Why don't you agree to some of the demands of the Socialist Party?" ”

"By all means, once this precedent is opened, I am afraid that it will encourage the trend of getting something for nothing, so that the lazy and stubborn people will benefit in vain!" Zhang Zhidong immediately whispered to dissuade. "The court is in charge, and it should reward and punish laziness, not the other way around.

Zhang Zhidong's view is in direct opposition to Kang Youwei's, who believes that capitalists exploit labor for nothing. And the labor struggle is only to get back a part of the fruits of labor that should belong to them. It's perfectly legitimate.

"There are also many children of Emperor Taishang who are getting something for nothing, right?" Zhu Guoxiong glanced at Zhang Zhidong. Said faintly, "The nobles of the Great Chinese countries who take annuities together have hundreds of thousands, and they seem to get nothing for nothing?" ”

"This ......" Zhang Zhidong was dumbfounded by Zhu Guoxiong's question, and he didn't understand what this emperor Lao Tzu was talking about, there are indeed a lot of nobles in Greater China, and there are three or four hundred thousand with titles and annuities! The annual pensions of the nobles (including the annuities of the emperor and the king) issued by the governments of the countries of Greater China add up to hundreds of millions. However, compared with the current financial income of the countries of Greater China, these annuities are not too much of a burden, and many of them are meritorious heroes or meritorious heroes, and there is no family or people's old son. Where are the countries of Greater China strong today?

"Your Majesty, the annuity nobles are all meritorious to the country, and their annuities are earned by merit, not for nothing." Li Hongzhang said lightly.

"Yes," Zhu Guoxiong nodded, "Now the working class is also fighting for the welfare of themselves and their descendants, and what they can fight for is not for nothing." ”

"Fighting" and "earning" are of course two different meanings, but in Zhu Guoxiong's view, they are the same thing. The reason why heroes can enjoy wealth and nobility is not only because of their merits to the country, but also because they have guns in their hands. If Zhu Jishi and his sons are too stingy, I am afraid that the throne under the ass will be unstable!

"In addition. Every year, the major consortia of the Ming Dynasty will give two or three thousand positions with less money and more money to the retired naval and army officers. Zhu Guoxiong then asked again.

It is an unspoken rule for big conglomerates to arrange for retired officers to come up with positions, and the parliament has not passed relevant laws, but if any consortium refuses to take up positions or casually fire veteran officers, then don't want to get any government or military orders!

"Your Majesty, this is to appease the army." Zhang Zhidong said with a frown. In fact, it is not only the conglomerates that have taken up positions, but also the Shabaab and Donglin parties will also improve some opportunities to enter politics and use them as golden parachutes for senior military officers who have retired from the army.

"It's just spending money to buy peace." Zhu Guoxiong smiled and said the essence of this unspoken rule. Meritorious officers can be nobles and receive annuities, but what about peacetime? Can it really make thousands of middle- and low-level officers work hard for a lifetime and get nothing, and finally live the rest of their lives on a few "meager" pensions? If this is really the case, as soon as Zhu Jishi dies, how many of Zhu Guoxiong and his king brothers will be able to sleep?

"The emperor means to spend money to buy an Annei?" Zhang Zhidong seemed to understand what Zhu Guoxiong meant, and his brows furrowed tightly. "It's just that there are tens of millions of workers in the Ming Dynasty, and a salary increase of one dollar per person is tens of millions, and I am afraid that it will cost an extra billion a year......

"Zhang Qing has any other way?" Zhu Guoxiong glanced at Zhang Zhidong.

There are, of course, other options...... For example, send agents of A.Y.L.I.E.L.D. to assassinate Kang Youwei, chairman of the Socialist Party, or arrest Kang Youwei on the charge of treason and betrayal! As long as Kang Youwei is eliminated, the Socialist Party will be able to stop for at least a few years, even if it does not fall apart.

But Zhang Zhidong didn't dare to say this to Zhu Guoxiong, let alone put his claws into the Aegis Guard. He is just a cabinet minister elected by the propertied class of the Ming Dynasty, not a dictator who can manipulate the secret services to put his opponents to death! If Aegis Guard really listened to his words and killed people and set fires, not to mention what Zhu Jishi and Zhu Guoxiong would think, even those chaebol leaders in the Ming Dynasty would also regard him as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, who dares to guarantee that Zhang Dayouxiang's spies will not go to a billionaire's house to steal people? Such a right phase is more dangerous than Kang Youwei!

Therefore, this wicked man can only be the son of tomorrow...... This is not the king under the king, but the king on the law! Those rich and oily Ming chaebols will really support a son of heaven who can wipe them out anytime and anywhere?

"The politics of my Ming Empire should have a bottom line, and no one can break through it, including me myself!" Zhu Guoxiong's voice was already lowered, "Zhang Zhidong, I know that the Socialist Party has put forward unreasonable demands, this time I will push all the petitions they put forward to the parliament for discussion, and now the Donglin Party and the Shabaab still occupy more than 8o% of the parliamentary seats, otherwise they are." ”

Zhang Zhidong and Li Hongzhang glanced at each other, with the emperor's words, they can be regarded as having achieved part of their goals, and they can also explain to the consortium behind them. But everyone knows that the Socialist Party will not rest on its laurels, and it will not be long before they will organize a new round of petitions, just as they did during the British constitutional movement, which dragged on for more than ten years!

"However, it can be stopped for a while, and most of these unreasonable demands put forward by the Socialist Party have been realized in Donghua and Beihua, and they have also been partially realized in New Japan and Xihua." Zhu Guoxiong said lightly.

Military service in Donghua, Beihua, and Xihua, as well as in New Japan, has always been heavy, and the people there are always ready to take up arms and enter the war. In the last world war, Donghua alone suffered more than one million casualties on the battlefield, accounting for about 1o% of the total population of Donghua before the war! Such a people naturally deserve a ballot that will give them the power to "get it for nothing" and all kinds of benefits.

Moreover, the light industry of these vast and sparsely populated countries of Greater China is not developed, industrial consumer goods are all imported from the Ming Dynasty, and the economic pillars are either agriculture and animal husbandry, which rely on land, or mining and heavy industry, which are highly dependent on resources, and the wages and benefits of workers do not account for a high proportion of costs, so they can naturally bear high labor expenditures. However, the light industry of the Ming Dynasty is mostly labor-intensive, and the proportion of labor expenses in the total cost is higher, if the wages and benefits increase significantly, the cost of the factory will increase greatly, and if the cost cannot be transferred to the consumer, the profit of the factory owner will naturally decline.

"Your Majesty, in fact, my Ming salary has risen a lot over the years." Zhang Zhidong, the right minister, said in a low voice, "According to the statistics of the Ministry of Labor, the average wage now has risen almost twice as much as that in the early years of Xuanwu, and if it continues to rise, the factory will not be able to bear it......"

&nbWages have doubled over the years, which is incomparable with China bathed in the spring breeze of reform and opening up in later generations. However, considering that the inflation rate of Daming in the past 20 years is almost zero, agricultural products from North America and Australia and long-term sluggish housing prices, as well as the improvement of industrial production efficiency and cost reduction brought about by the second industrial revolution, all of which have greatly bottomed out Daming's inflation, such growth is not too low, but it is still far from the profit growth rate obtained by Daming capitalists. Taking the industry to which the Daming Imperial Fund belongs, for example, the total net profit in 1899 has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan, of which the net profit realized in Daming has exceeded 1.5 billion yuan. That's several times more than 2o years ago! Moreover, the profit growth of the royal fund is only mediocre in the entire Ming Dynasty. So if the factory can't bear the rise in wages, Zhu Guoxiong won't believe it at all.

Zhu Guoxiong waved his hand and interrupted Zhang Zhidong, who was complaining for the capitalists, "Okay, okay, I don't know if the businessmen are doing well?" I understand that they don't want to raise workers' wages, and they don't want to pay for workers' pensions, unemployment insurance, and health insurance. The more the workers take, the less the boss will take (the increase in workers' income will promote the formation of the domestic consumer market or something is macro, and in the micro aspect, it is naturally more advantageous to reduce labor costs). However, what the Ming court can do now is to administer according to law, and if the parliament can pass any laws to suppress the labor movement, I will not stop it. ”

The implication of this is that the parliament can't pass the kind of law that offends people, and the Ming Emperor will not come out to be a villain. The only way to do this is for the capitalists to slowly concede to the working class and give more wages and benefits...... (To be continued......)