86_86695 I have not been in a capitalist country, especially in a country in the period of capitalist primitive accumulation. Without such experience, it is difficult to have a concrete and profound understanding of the capitalist countries.

The modern capitalist countries that the Chinese living in the new society see are all mature capitalist countries that have gone through the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism for more than 200 years, have passively realized the threat of class contradictions to the regime, and have taken the initiative to adopt moderating measures to reconcile class relations.

It is no longer realistic to want to see a social form at the national level, in the stage of primitive capitalist accumulation, in the 21st century. Because the completion of globalization has brought the whole earth into a new social stage.

However, it is not entirely impossible to see capitalism as it appears in the primitive stage of accumulation. Wang Shuhui has seen it.

Of course, Wang Shuhui has not seen it with his own eyes, but has seen it through the news media and the Internet. The child labor in the political textbook is what he has seen in modern society through guò online media. The term "Liangshan child labor" can be found by searching on the Internet.

Of course, the survival of child labour is only an ordinary phenomenon of capitalism in the primitive accumulation stage. In Britain, where the capitalist system was first established, how many child laborers died and how many workers died in the primitive accumulation stage of the early stage of British capitalism, these numbers are drowned in history.

What modern people often see is the glossy appearance of those capitalist countries that have been painted with high welfare after hundreds of years of global plunder and frenzied exploitation of their own workers.

To give a simple example, we are talking about the early stage of primitive accumulation in capitalism. "At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, both Sweden and Britain were engaged in the textile industry, and the Swedish textile mills had a child labor mortality rate of more than 30%. The textile mill of the British. Whoever you are, the workers will be exhausted to death after three years in the factory - because the textile industry in Sweden is not as costly as the British, and in the end it is crushed by the British......".

Engels' view of the so-called Victorian heyday of the British Empire was that "the might of British industry was maintained only by the brutal treatment of the workers, by the destruction of their health, by the neglect of the development of whole generations of men in social relations, physically, and spiritually." ”

Therefore, in comparison, the existence of "Liangshan child labor" is indeed educating the Chinese what is called capitalist primitive accumulation with bloody facts. But, after all, in our country, the news of the existence of these child laborers can be reported and disseminated. Once the government is aware of these things, it will take corresponding measures to solve these problems.

Anyway, after Wang Shuhui saw such news, on the one hand, he felt creepy, and on the other hand, he was quite happy. After all, China today is not a Western country in the initial stage of primitive accumulation of capitalism.

By the time Chinese society developed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, capitalism had already sprouted in Chinese society. Wang Shuhui fully agrees with this.

In Wang Shuhui's view, as long as the market is the goal, factories are set up, and specialized commodity production is carried out, even if it is a form of capitalism.

It is clearly recorded in the historical materials that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in the Suzhou area, "the people who are helpers count the days and receive the duty, and each has a permanent owner." Its impermanence is the master of the dawn, and the bridge is waiting to be called; The forging workers stand the flower bridge, and the yarn workers stand the Guanghua Temple Bridge. There are also car spinners called car craftsmen, Lilian Xifang. Even hundreds are groups, and they begin to disperse after porridge. ”

Taking Hangzhou in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty as an example, among the total population of more than 700,000 in Hangzhou, there were many people who were "Hangzhou people and semi-merchants", and there were many people who were "servants at dusk" and "floating food".

After the development of history to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, because the development of population exceeded the bearing capacity of the land, a large number of peasants in the Jiangnan area went bankrupt and became free laborers. On the other hand, because the "sea ban" was lifted in the era of the Longqing Emperor, the huge market generated by the massive demand for silk, tea and porcelain by Western colonists led to the establishment of a large number of textile workshops in the Jiangnan region in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

In the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, textile workshops that employed bankrupt peasants as textile workers were for the purpose of selling goods. Moreover, their sales targets are not only for the domestic Chinese market, but also for the international market.

The existence of wage labor relations is the core of capitalist relations of production. At this point, everyone has to admit that these textile workshops in the Jiangnan area, which target the international market and the domestic market, are indeed capitalist enterprises.

Just like the famous theoretician Comrade Ma Qianjun said, capitalism does not suddenly pop out of the cracks in the stones. In the long feudal society, capitalism has always existed. In the Song and Ming dynasties, when industry and commerce were developed in Chinese history, the existence of capitalism was not a special phenomenon.

But as we all know, Chinese society did not develop a capitalist superstructure in these two eras.

Speaking of which, the reason is simple. The development of capitalism is based on the leapfrog development of the productive forces. So, without the invention of the steam engine, there would have been no first industrial revolution. The capitalists are really able to pull gold and urine silver, even if they really have the blessing of some Jewish shackle who can turn water into wine, and the British cannot afford to build a capitalist social system.

Chinese society was not able to develop into a capitalist society in the early 17th century. The fundamental reason is that, unlike in the UK, the steam engine was not invented in China. The first industrial revolution did not break out in China.

It is precisely for this reason that although capitalist production relations arose in Ming China, there was no capitalist social system in China because of the lack of the steam engine, a revolutionary tool of production, and the ensuing impetus and promotion of the industrial revolution.

However, in this time and space, now that there is Wang Shuhui, a time-space traveler, things are completely different.

The climate of the Xiaoice River has not changed in any way because of the arrival of Wang Shuhui. Led by abnormal weather and population growth, a large number of displaced people and a large number of bankrupt peasants are still objectively providing sufficient cheap labor for capitalist enterprises. The newly established machinery factory of the Fuxing Society provided a wide range of steam engines with a complete range of models, rich types, stable quality, and a large number of steam engines for the merchants who established various factories in the Zhijiang area.

Even Wang Shuhui's Fuxing Bank has provided special financial services to businessmen in Zhijiang County. Merchants who lacked funds were allowed to exchange land and shares for funds.

Wang Shuhui established a model in which merchants traded land to the Renaissance Bank in exchange for silver dollars with actual precious metal content much less than the value of the currency. These merchants then used the silver dollars they had exchanged to go to the Revival Society's factories. Buy the various models of steam engines you need. At the same time, silver dollars can also be used to hire Renaissance production and construction soldiers to help them build factories and train workers.

Under the triple conditions of abundant cheap labor, advanced machinery, and perfect financial services. It is normal for the Zhijiang Business Alliance to expand rapidly with an unbelievable development speed of the ancients.

Let's take the shortest answer example. Next door to Zhijiang County is Songzi County, where Zhan's village is located. Like other counties around Zhijiang County, the market and resources of Songzi County are all monopolized by the Zhijiang Business Alliance. A large number of coal and iron pits in Songzi County, which were once controlled by the armed bandits in the mountains, are now controlled by two metal manufacturing enterprises of the Zhijiang Business Alliance.

At present, only one-third of the coal and iron ore in the steel complex of the Fuxing Society is the product of the Zhijiang Renaissance Association's own mining enterprises. Because of his experience in modern society, Wang Shuhui has particularly high safety requirements for mining enterprises. The Renaissance Society's mining plants have invested heavily in production safety, which has led to high prices for the Renaissance's own ores.

After the Zhijiang Merchant League took control of the mines in several surrounding counties, the raw materials for the steel plant were mainly purchased from the Zhijiang Merchant Alliance because of the low price of the ore they provided.

The two mining enterprises in the Zhijiang Business Alliance, one called Hutchison Workshop and the other called Zhao Ji Workshop, were originally formed by more than 30 small workshops engaged in the metal processing industry in Dongtankou.

They used the method of enterprise share swap, and after borrowing from the reconstruction bank, they mainly purchased mining machinery produced by the reconstruction association. Both companies have seen a dramatic increase in productivity levels after using steam-powered mining equipment. And because of the massive demand for ore from the Fuxing Iron and Steel Complex, a lot of profits have been obtained, and it has risen rapidly.

They will not take the safety and welfare of workers as seriously as Wang Shuhui did. They treated the displaced and bankrupt peasants as expendable means of production.

An investigation by the Fuxing Society's intelligence agency found that the Hutchison Workshop and the Zhao Kee Workshop first used bribery to recruit the bandits who had been entrenched around the surrounding mines. After that, they co-opted these mine bandits, used them to form a team of overseers as a deterrent and management team, and enslaved those displaced people who could be deceived with two steamed buns, and opened up mountains for mining.

In addition to the mining machinery purchased from the Renaissance Society, the only expenditure of the Hutchison Workshop and the Zhao Kee Workshop was to buy the miners. As a result, the production costs of these two companies are much lower than those of the mining enterprises of the Renaissance Society.

However, Hutchison Workshop and Zhao Kee Workshop are also the enterprises that consume the most workers in the Zhijiang Business Alliance, except for Sima Feng's Sima Textile Factory. Even, the boss of the Hutchison Workshop and Tianbao, the owner of the Zhao Ji Workshop Zhao Laifu, plus Sima Feng, were collectively called the "Three Blacks of the Business Alliance" by the Zhijiang Business Alliance