Chapter 58: The Fangs of Industry 2

86_86695As a materialist sociological researcher, Wang Shuhui knows that there is a completely wrong sociological narrative model. For example, when discussing the Industrial Revolution, some people like to say, "Although the Industrial Revolution has promoted the development and progress of the whole world, because there is no perfect social system, the Industrial Revolution has brought great ......,......。 to society ”

From the perspective of character, Wang Shuhui looks down on people who like to be an afterthought and an afterthought. Such people often lack the courage and ability to do things. However, whenever things develop, they always show that they know that they are so badly beaten.

From a scientific point of view, hindsight is another unscientific move that fundamentally violates materialist thinking. As far as the last sentence of the first paragraph is concerned, the productive forces determine the relations of production, and only when there may be an industrial revolution first, and after the emergence of new and advanced productive forces, these new productive forces and the production relations of the traditional agricultural society cannot adapt to each other, and after the process of continuous collision and adaptation between the two, will there be a new and advanced production relations that deal with the industrial revolution.

Wang Shuhui believes that blaming the social impact brought about by the industrial revolution on the lack of a perfect system in advance is an act to excuse the capitalists in the early stage of capitalism for their cruel and inhumane oppression and exploitation of the workers.

In any case, it was not at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, or even before it, that a complete set of production relations was produced, fully adapted to the productive forces of the new Industrial Revolution. This kind of thinking is an unscientific and unrealistic thing in itself.

However, crossing this matter itself has a certain anti-scientific and anti-common sense. Wang Shuhui is a traverser who holds the golden finger of crossing. Already on the basis of known history, the direction of development of society as a whole is known. He could indeed formulate a set of correspondingly perfect production relations before the introduction of some new productive forces in the late Ming Dynasty. As a latecomer, he has this kind of unnatural and unscientific ability.

Wang Shuhui may not have immediately had the ability to create the driving force of the industrial revolution, the steam engine, at the end of the Ming Dynasty. However, through the gate, he could promote the use of the steam engine with impunity. This is what he has done in terms of productivity, which is contrary to scientific common sense. So, in terms of production relations, can he be able to promote the production relations that are higher than the capitalist system in the late Ming Dynasty, when the germ of capitalism has just emerged? The answer to this question is yes.

Even from the point of view of scientific sociology, the development of society can be achieved in leapfrogging ways. On the basis of history, after the founding of New China, under the impetus of powerful and advanced state organizations, some areas in the stage of slave society have also achieved leapfrog development of productive forces and production relations throughout the country.

From this point of view, there is no reason that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, under the condition of having a crossing gate and under the impetus of a firm and united organization, Wang Shuhui could not achieve a leapfrog development of productive forces and production relations in a small area.

However, Wang Shuhui feels that although people are identical in nature, there are almost no fundamental differences. However, the gap between the traveler and the local indigenous people is absolutely non-existent.

From the perspective of the local natives in the historical period of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how advanced their consciousness is, no matter how much they agree with the theoretical ideas of scientific sociology. If they have not seen with their own eyes that enterprises of a scientific and sociological nature are better than and advanced to private industrial and commercial enterprises in all respects, if they have not personally felt that the capitalists are hideous and evil, and have no human face. They will not be profoundly aware of which system is most beneficial to them and which system is based on their interests and standpoints.

Wang Shuhui will not doubt this at all. Because in modern society, many confused young people, under the propaganda agencies and rogue literati who have kidnapped and controlled them by some interest groups, simply think that the capitalists under the capitalist system are as pure and kind as angels. They have no idea how much it is good to have the state power in the hands of interest groups and capitalists.

Wang Shuhui never believed the propaganda of those interest groups and capitalist lackeys. With a clear head, he can easily draw a clear conclusion by simply comparing the living conditions of workers in state-owned enterprises and workers in private enterprises. More importantly, he had read books on the sociology of science at a very young age, and he had a clear and rational understanding of the evil and madness of the industrial capitalists.

The famous leftist revolutionary theory writer Rainbow Cat once wrote in his banned book, "In Europe in the early stage of capitalism, Britain and Sweden were all countries with developed textile industries. In England, a worker, young and old, strong and sick. As long as you enter the textile factory, you will definitely be exhausted to death in less than three years. In Sweden, a worker, young and old, strong and sick, would not die of exhaustion until five years after entering a textile factory. As a result, Britain became the world's number one power in the era of the First Industrial Revolution. ”

Wang Shuhui draws a conclusion from his experience in modern society. Although the people are great and sober. But the people will not wake up if they do not let reality educate them.

As a believer in scientific sociology, Wang Shuhui certainly knows that capitalism is more advanced and more progressive than feudalism. However, proceeding from humanitarian feelings and national feelings of the same Chinese. Wang Shuhui does not want the Chinese, who have endured more than 2,000 years of feudal oppression, to accept hundreds of years of capitalist oppression and exploitation.

You must know that subjectively, capitalism, which is completely different from feudalism, is a more cruel and inhuman system.

However, Wang Shuhui still needs reality to educate the people. So. Located in Dongtankou, Zhijiang County, it has convenient water and land transportation, prosperous industry and commerce, and capital and labor force that have begun to take shape. In Wang Shuhui's eyes, it is a good object that can be used for the social realization of the capitalist system.

Therefore, to promote advanced, miniaturized, industrialized, and convenient steam engines to the handicraft owners of Dongtankou, and provide them with steam engines that can drive a large number of machinery even if they burn wood waste. It is Wang Shuhui's plan to promote the transformation of these handicraft owners who have begun to have a capitalist consciousness into capitalists, and to promote the development of these feudal handicraft industries into capitalist enterprises.

Wang Shuhui believed that the capitalists and capitalist enterprises formed under his subtle impetus and different from modern society, which were completely free of any restraint and suppression, would profoundly educate the Chinese people in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

After these capitalist and capitalist enterprises have developed and established themselves in parts of China. After the Chinese people have been educated by the original feudal system, the slavery system in the surrounding barbarian areas, the newly emerged capitalist system, and various backward and evil social systems, the advanced ideas and organizations proposed and established by Wang Shuhui will become the only choice for the Chinese people in despair.

With the understanding of known history, Wang Shuhui has great confidence and belief in this.

Moreover, in the eyes of Wang Shuhui, a traveler, even if in the end, in his lifetime, he cannot establish his ideal social system in China, it does not matter at all. This is because even the capitalist system is more advanced than the decadent and backward Manchu society, which will eventually plunge the Chinese nation into a desperate situation of national extinction.

This is the confidence and reason why Wang Shuhui dared to promote the advanced and epoch-making production tool steam engine in the last years of the Ming Dynasty and comprehensively and profoundly interfered in the process of social development.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dongtankou was at the peak of this small industrial and commercial center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. At present, there are more than 300 trade names in Dongtankou, and 1,000 donkeys carry goods on the street, with an annual turnover of more than 30 million yuan in cash.

The thriving logistics of Dongtankou has made the commercial and land transportation industries very busy, and at the same time, it has also led to the development of handicraft workshops.

From the field investigation of the instructors of the camp, it can be seen that the main industries in Dongtankou at present are grain processing, such as whole rice, oil extraction, soybean crispy, sauce garden, etc.; Cotton processing includes ginning, elastic flower, spinning, weaving, kicking and dyeing, etc.; Metal products are processed with gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, glacial iron (i.e., white iron) casting, etc.; In addition, there are workshops for the production of straw weaving, incense burners, square bucket paper, brown hemp rope and so on. There are as many as 50 kinds of industries and hundreds of products in the whole Dongtankou.

The steam engine that Wang Shuhui sold to the Shao family workshop, which specialized in the rough processing of grain, was known to the local population as the "true qi engine", and soon unleashed its enormous power as the driving force of the industrial revolution. The two mills that used to control the rough processing of grain in the entire Jiangbei region together with the Shao family workshop collapsed in response to the roar of the steam engine. Shao Kailin bought two mills at a very cheap price, and became the only grain processor in the Jiangbei region.

Even in the era of feudalism, capital has an unimaginable sense of smell. After knowing that the magical thing of "True Qi Machine" came from Yibin Mansion, Sima Feng, one of the giant businessmen in Dongtankou and Wang Shuhui's collaborator who bought private salt, came to the door.

For his partners, Wang Shuhui is still relatively polite. What's more, Sima Feng happens to be the kind of entrepreneur with a very practical spirit that Wang Shuhui admires. But even so, Sima Feng's thoughts, his advanced consciousness, still made Wang Shuhui breathtaking.

Because after seeing Shao Kailin's small and exquisite, but full of power "True Qi Machine", Sima Feng, who runs a textile workshop and a kicking and dyeing workshop with hundreds of workers, asked Wang Shuhui if he could provide a supporting "True Qi Machine" to his own textile workshop and kicking and dyeing workshop.

How could Wang Shuhui refuse him. You must know that the beginning of capitalist industrialization was the steaming of the textile industry. Wang Shuhui proposed a high price of 1,000 taels of silver to Sima Feng. Because, he has decided to provide Sima Feng with a complete set of modern textile machinery with perfect design, fully adapted to the characteristics of cotton in the Ming Dynasty, and the use of steam power.

Wang Shuhui felt that from the perspective of the business methods and consciousness of businessmen in this era, once Sima Feng's steam textile workshop was launched. The drastic reduction of costs and the drastic improvement of quality will make Sima Feng begin to earn huge profits. After this situation appeared, not only Sima Summit rapidly expanded its own enterprises, but also the entire Dongtankou businessmen engaged in related industries will be moved by the wind and begin to use steam-powered textile machinery.

Wang Shuhui took a day out to return to modern times. He called a few of his friends from graduate school. His friends are all engineering graduate students who like to open their minds. As a group of Industrialists, they often discuss some nonsensical ideas in QQ groups. Wang Shuhui just needs their help now