Chapter 200: Catalysts
Walking out of the cabin where Ef Mondrich was working, and then through the corridor shrouded in warm white lights, he came to the main conference room of the command post of the "New Life". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Next, I would like to invite the director of the Public Opinion Research Office to publish the results of the survey."
The lights in the room linked to the projector turn off as the light on the screen comes on. A bespectacled figure then got up from the conference table, took the laser pointer from the person next to him, and began to point at the curtain.
"Judging from the 1,465 cases of public opinion surveys from the local Bi-monthly Church in the Principality of Rohrluli, as well as the 84-page report obtained from the local Bi-monthly Church by our clerk Eufe Mondridge, my opinion is that it is feasible to quickly promote the rapid export of livelihood products locally."
As soon as this remark came out, the bigwigs who supported business expansion couldn't help but be secretly happy in their hearts. At the meeting just now, the comrade in charge of the economic survey also confirmed the rationality and bright prospects of business expansion, and if the external wind environment can also support it, this route will basically be a sure thing to move from idea to reality.
Specifically, 248 out of 1,465 cases were positive, and the rest were negative. Research on negative cases has shown that the vast majority of negative cases are for our physical features, as well as the legend of defeating the Church of the Two Moons, and the legend that we built the 'Great Iron Ship'. ā
Speaking of this, he smiled and continued: "Of course, they were right in this matter. This 'eerie, terrifying, stiff and impersonal' steel floating city is indeed made by us, but as for the other opinions and descriptions, they are basically untrue. How to describe it, it's the same as 'foreigners' knees can't bend'. ā
Hearing that "foreigners' knees can't bend", a mistake made by the ancestors of those present, and that it is also a historical joke today, the participants couldn't help but laugh out loud. It's not that they've never heard of the "yellow-skinned devil" and "cannibalistic otherworldly", but this is the first time they've heard such a vivid metaphor.
In the past, there was Tongzhi Yushi Wu Ke read in the middle of the song: "Foreigners are no different from beasts, so that they can perform the ceremony of kneeling three times and nine knocks, just like a strong beast and perform the ritual of five Lun, which can make them do it, not for the glory of the court; If you can't make it happen, it won't be a disgrace to the court', and then the scholar Xu Tong saw that the foreigner refused to kneel down when he saw the emperor, and concluded that the foreigner did not have long knees, so he gave the soldiers a long bamboo pole in order to defeat the foreigner in the war.
This was the time of the "One Crow". After that, although the invincible Qing Empire took advantage of the lip service (unilaterally), it was still holding a clean bucket (filled with human feces and urine, aunt's blood) and was beaten into a dog by foreign guns and cannons. Such a rumor is far less powerful than a powerful charge, or an ignition rod in the gunner's hand, or even less powerful than a Mini round.
"As for the positive cases, the vast majority of them are concentrated in the goods that we put on the shore. Since a large number of evaluations are the same, it brings the illusion of a small number. What I need to point out here is that the number of cases does not represent the actual intensity of public opinion. In other words, the assessment that 'Chinese matches are very useful' in the 248 cases is probably far stronger than the smear against the ship and ourselves. ā
Ah, not only is it weaker than a Mini bullet that is not yet in the chamber of the gun, but these thousands of rumors and rumors are not as powerful as a match.
"In addition, among the negative cases, there are nearly 50 cases against the reselling merchants of the Duchy of Rolluli who have raised prices and then turned their anger on us. At least eighty percent of the total number of products we put on the market do not go into the hands of the end user, which is also clear in the previous research report, right? ā
Quite a few people in the audience nodded. First, the total amount of goods they put in this time is too small, and they can't let the "speculators" and "merchants" scattered around the country have leftovers after they have eaten their stomachs; Second, their administrative power in Rolluli is far less powerful than in Sierta to influence the market mechanism and exercise strong control over the prices of daily necessities.
Different from the development of Cierta and even the continent of Elta, in the early stage, they had multiple tracks and simultaneous transportation systems to provide sufficient transportation capacity to meet the needs of Cierta for people's livelihood goods, and in the later stage, Sierta had various factories for people's livelihood products, and the hematopoietic function continued to grow.
But on the other side of the sea, in the Duchy of Rohrluli, everything had to be transported by ship. You must know that no matter how strong the shipping is, where is the railway transportation capacity? It is true that the Chinese side has plans to build the railway to the mainland of Bahivita in the future, but it is still a flash in the pan, and not even a single station has been built in South Elta, so where can we talk about the railway?
"The reason why they are dissatisfied with the inflated prices of goods is that they have an urgent need for the livelihood goods we provide. Demand exists, but rising prices and demand itself have spawned hoarding. It was the combination of hoarding and speculators that gave rise to this situation. ā
This is a fact that needs to be clarified. These grievances are not directed at the Chinese and Elta exports themselves, but are derived from the premise of satisfaction with these goods, that is, "Chinese goods".
This proves that there is room for commercial expansion - not only that, but this land, like Elta, is unexplored virgin land!
As long as the things are good, they naturally don't have to worry about not being able to sell. Even if it is the lowest level of neighborhood dictation, it will spread the beauty behind a towel, a match. Modern industrial products can not only do what people can't do, but also cheap and high-quality, who can refuse them?
The outcome of the meeting is clear, and the city of Mendong, thousands of miles away, has agreed to give a greater share of exports to the mainland of Bahivita - it is irrelevant whether to let the speculators "go bankrupt". From another point of view, perhaps their unlimited rentier can also become one of the driving forces to force the emperors and generals to change.
Of course, the impact of these commodities is far more profound than the sum of their profits. Soon, several countries in the Principality of Rohrluli in the broad sense also became countries that "tasted" Chinese goods. Within two days, the bordering city of East Buikanchi had naturally become a new target for profit-hungry merchants, along with several other countries bordering the Duchy of Rolluli.
These merchants generally have the right of way at various checkpoints and passes along the way, and at such a great price and with such a wide range of contacts, the targets they want to aim at are naturally extraordinary.
Their clients were either royalty, wealthy merchants, and powerful landlords. The money they spent on passes, taxes, road fees, connections, long distances, and unclogging joints had to be completely earned back by this painful knife - this was the case before, and it was still the same when the Chinese tentacles first reached the continent of Bahivita.
Nowadays, most of the chambers of commerce in Elta have signed agreements with Chinese, and the sales price of a certain product in a certain area must be based on the agreed "recommended retail price", and cannot be arbitrarily increased or lowered. In addition, there is a special inspection team, that is, the Economic Crime Department of the Public Security System under the dual leadership of the Erta Public Security System and the Ministry of Commerce, which inspects all parts of Elta from time to time to supervise and correct local prices.
Promoting a new lifestyle and economic coverage with the guide price as the core (and bottom line) is in line with Elta's compromise, and it is also a comprehensive consideration for the continued economic growth of Elta's empire and the stable revival of various places. Whether it is dumping without a lower limit in order to bring down competitors, or colluding in the industry to form an underworld force to raise prices in a certain place or something, the overdraft is either economic health, national credit and national prestige, or both together.
But moving the stage to the continent of Bahivita is not the same thing. None of these countries have lost their economic foundations, and all of them are outright feudal states -- two countries that claim to be "republics" even make the possession of slaves legal, is it possible that countries with de facto slavery will be able to make progress by installing the names of "republics", "dishes", and "peoples"? This is obviously impossible.
and then to "raise" the economic base of these feudal countries...... Yes, it is possible to finally make the economic base of the countries of the Bahweta continent strong enough to shake the superstructure, but will the businessmen who have always profited from these channels be so comfortable with this package? Obviously, they are accustomed to maximizing profits, and they will not easily accept this "seemingly unprofitable" solution.
This approach seems to be a significant reduction in profits, but it actually brings a very clear gain to the market. How to make it bigger, and the pool of deep market is the king road to accommodate more wealth water, rather than thinking about how to pump the water in the pool clean. It may take hundreds of years for them to ignore this reasoning themselves......
On the other hand, the lack of purchasing power in the economy has made them realize that they can no longer afford the consumer goods from Elta and China, and the use of war pressure and diplomacy to use the bimonthly church to check and balance has no longer achieved the goal, and can only increase their own productivity to adapt to the growth of demand.
This is the strategy of the Chinese. As long as the productive forces grow, the relations of production must be changed according to the needs of the productive forces. As a result, there is no need for war, no need for conquest, and the new wind of progress will naturally blow into the most difficult political fortress to penetrate, and eventually transform these countries into one or more new countries that adapt to China and meet the needs of the times.