Chapter 494, Economic Purposes Under the Mask of Military Operations

In the original historical time and space, Ma published an article entitled "The Chinese Revolution and the European Revolution" in the New York Daily Tribune in 1853.

In this article, Mr. Ma pointed out the essence of the capitalist economic crisis in a rare and popular word, that is, "the expansion of the market cannot keep up with the growth of industry".

What will happen if the expansion of the market cannot keep up with the growth of industry?

As soon as the expansion of the market does not keep up with the growth of the industry, the sales of the product will stagnate. Once the sales of products come to a standstill, the manufacturers of the products, whether capitalists or state-owned enterprises owned by the whole people, will have their profits declining or even not making profits.

Then it's clear what happens next. Under capitalism, the capitalists are not accountable to the workers, they fire their workers and close their factories.

However, unlike the capitalist factories under the capitalist system, as a people's democracy under the ownership of the whole people, the Chinese Empire will not let its workers lose their jobs and close down its state-owned enterprises.

However, the rapid development of industrialization, or the extraordinary speed of industrialization carried out by the Chinese Empire under the leadership of the Baath Party in the 17th century with the help of extraordinary time and space, caused the phenomenon that "the expansion of the market does not match the growth of industry", which is much more serious than the development of capitalist industrialization under natural circumstances.

Around 1620, after the Baathist industrialized the Jingzhou region, the Huguang area alone was barely a market for Baathist's industrial products.

Around 1625, the Baath Party controlled the entire area along the Yangtze River in the Huguang region, and established two industrial bases in Jingzhou and Wuchang, not to mention the entire Huguang area, even with the surrounding provinces, as a market for Baathism's industrial products.

By about 1630, after the Baath Party took control of Hubei, Ludong, and southern Liaoning, even though the liberation of the whole of northern China by the Ba'ath Party immediately consumed a large number of industrial products produced by the Baath industrial system, by this time the Baath Party could no longer help but expand its market beyond the whole of China.

Before the founding of the Chinese Empire, the entire region of East Asia, where international trade was not in full swing, was very narrow as a market for Baathism's industrial products.

At this time, the Baath Party had to turn its attention to Southeast Asia, on the one hand, using armed force to completely eliminate the Western colonists entrenched in Southeast Asia, and occupy their original colonies as their own industrial markets. On the other hand, the Chinese Empire fought one faction and one faction. While resolutely cracking down on the arrogance of the Western colonizers and restoring the suzerainty system of the Chinese Empire, it also took the initiative to establish relatively good relations with the Portuguese, Dutch and other colonists who were relatively active in international trade, and found a way for the industrial products of the Chinese Empire.

However, the implementation of the foreign policy of the Chinese Empire was far less rapid than the industrial growth of the Chinese Empire.

Before the Chinese Empire, which had cleared the whole of Southeast Asia and re-established the Chinese suzerainty system, straightened out its relations with the Western colonizers and reopened the path of selling industrial products to Western countries in an all-round way, because of the establishment of New China and the rapid industrialization of Baath China, the markets in the entire East China Sea and South China Sea, including East Asia, had already entered a state of saturation under the existing conditions.

This was when the Chinese Empire fully opened up the market for the northern steppes, as well as the markets in the Western Regions.

By this time, not to mention that the Baath Party, which led China, had already discovered that there was a problem with economic development, even the ordinary citizens of the Chinese Empire had discovered that with the saturation of the international market, the internal competition within the industrial system of the Chinese Empire had begun to become more and more intense.

To give a simple example, in 1620, when the Baath Party established the first thermos factory in Zhijiang, thermos were still a very lucrative luxury in the whole of China. At that time, in the Jiangnan area, the bamboo shell hot water bottles produced by the Baath Party were sold for about 20 taels of silver. With such a high price, the sales of hot water bottles are often out of stock.

At that time, the merchants of the Jiangnan area surrounded the enterprises of the Zhijiang Industrial Zone, competing like madmen for the products of the various enterprises of the Baath Party, and some of the very old workers in the industrial system of the Chinese Empire still talk about it.

However, after 1634, the Baathists established a large number of industrial enterprises in all regions of the country by copying. By this time, the export price of hot water bottles with a thin iron sheet as a shell and a variety of beautiful patterns decorated with them was less than three taels of silver.

In the Chinese Empire, even if it is a young worker who has just gone to work and started a family, there is no one with three or four hot water bottles in any family.

In this way, after only more than 10 years of hard work, under the system of independent accounting of profits of Baath Party's state-owned enterprises, under the policy of Baath Party to encourage competition among enterprises, under the premise of rapid and comprehensive industrialization in the whole of China, and under the huge competitive pressure, the product of the hot water bottle itself has taken the initiative to realize the upgrading.

But at this point, no matter how hard you try, until there are no further breakthrough innovations in the production process of thermos, the market potential of this product is also like this.

With the unremitting efforts of the Baath Party to carry out education for all the years, and the full popularization of newspapers and radio, the workers of the thermos enterprises have discovered a problem, that is, if they want to keep their enterprises profitable and want to further increase their wages and dividends, then they must further expand the market for the thermos in the world.

By the extension of the thermos to all manufactured goods, the workers of the entire Chinese empire became imperialists.

In their view, the Chinese Imperial Government wants to find markets and outlets for the products it produces, and as long as there are factors hindering the sales of its products in all countries and regions in the world, then the Chinese Empire under the leadership of the Baath Party must use all means to eliminate these unfavorable factors that hinder the sales of its products and affect the increase of its wages and dividends.

This is why, after learning of the success of the Tokugawa Shogunate's military campaign, which had been closed to the outside world and hindering the full sale of the Empire's industrial products in the Wa Kingdom, the workers of the Chinese Empire spontaneously organized a high-spirited celebration after learning of the success of the Tokugawa Shogunate's military campaign, which had been pursuing a policy of seclusion and seclusion.

Thousands of miles away, in Edo Castle, the administrative center of the Wagawa Kingdom, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the leader of the Tokugawa shogunate, had no idea that the workers of the Chinese Empire were celebrating their defeat with great vigour.

After reluctantly signing the humiliating "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Imperial Wa Kingdom" with a deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese Empire, Tokugawa Iemitsu immediately began to do two things.

The first thing he did was to capture all the people of the entire puppet emperor as quickly as possible, and then stuff all the puppets who were likely to be used by the opposition forces of the Tokugawa shogunate into the warships of the Chinese Empire.

At this point, the emperor is no longer a signboard of the Tokugawa shogunate. In the view of the very rational Tokugawa Iemitsu, after the Tokugawa shogunate led by him signed the "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Wakuni Clan", the emperor family became a very dangerous destabilizing factor.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was very aware that as soon as he signed the "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Wa Kingdom", his Tokugawa shogunate became a regime with no legal basis in the Wa country.

At this point, the emperor was no longer the legal basis for the Tokugawa shogunate to rule the Wakoku. The current Wa Kingdom is already a very pure, very red fruit, without any false words to cover up, whoever has a big fist, who is strong, who is good at talking.

Therefore, for Tokugawa Iemitsu, not only the emperor himself, but also all those who had the blood of the emperor in the land of the Wakoku became a potential threat to the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate over the Wakoku.

In this case, Tokugawa Iemitsu even hinted at the diplomats of the Chinese Empire that it was better to let the emperor's entire family evaporate from the earth.

After the diplomatic officials of the Chinese Empire gave a clear refusal, Tokugawa Iemitsu even secretly prayed to the Buddha of the Heavenly Empire that the ship carrying the Imperial Family would be wrecked on the sea.

However, for Tokugawa Iemitsu, before the treaty was signed, the existence of the emperor in the Wa Kingdom was something he fought for. However, after the treaty was signed, Tokugawa Iemitsu felt that the Chinese Empire was still very supportive of the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Wa Kingdom. After all, objectively speaking, the arrest of all the Imperial Family to the Chinese Empire was definitely a good thing for the Tokugawa shogunate.

In addition to the emperor's problems, Tokugawa Iemitsu was more concerned about the benefits that the Chinese Empire had promised him during the signing of the treaty.

The main advantage of this was that the Chinese Empire would help the Tokugawa Shogunate train a relatively advanced army to help the Tokugawa Shogunate maintain their rule in what is now the Wa Kingdom (Honshu Island).

After experiencing the powerful combat capabilities of the Chinese Loyal Army, Tokugawa Iemitsu coveted the arms of the Chinese Empire.

The reason why the Chinese Empire initiated this "Asian Co-Prosperity" plan and implemented the "Honshu Liberation" plan of the Japanese part of this "Asian Co-prosperity" plan is not really because it has any idea about the barren land of the Japanese State.

The fundamental reason why the Chinese Empire launched this military campaign was also to fully open up the market of the Japanese state.

For the Chinese Empire, a stable, obedient puppet regime ruled by the Wa State was a better market for the industrial products of the Chinese Empire.

What's more, helping the Tokugawa shogunate train the army was in itself a good opportunity for product sales. 10,000 weapons and equipment, 10,000 clothing, shoes and hats, 10,000 barracks construction, 10,000 training consumption. Whether it was guns and ammunition, clothing and cloth, daily necessities, building materials, bricks and tiles, etc., these things were not provided by the Chinese Empire to the Tokugawa shogunate free of charge. The Tokugawa family had to pay for these products with real money.

Of course, the Tokugawa shogunate at this stage may not have enough money to buy these "good and cheap" products. But it doesn't matter, you can't pay, "you can also use Xi'er to pay off the debt."

The young men of the Wa Kingdom could be used as consumables for the Chinese Empire to open up the rainforests of Southeast Asia, and the young women of the Wa Kingdom could be used as wives of unmarried men of the Chinese Empire.

In addition, the newly established Imperial Bank of the Chinese Empire could also provide financial services with "reasonable" interest rates for the Tokugawa shogunate. Take out the tariffs as collateral, take out the Silver Mountain Gold Mine as collateral, and that's it.

"Just 998, flintlock smoothbore guns, Napoleonic iron cannons, black powder grenades to take home".

Spurred on by the real profits, the first weapons and supplies ordered by the Tokugawa shogunate arrived in Edo in less than a month.

Along with this, there were a large number of sales leaders of the major enterprises of the Chinese Empire under the leadership of the Ministry of Trade of the Chinese Empire, as well as the people's representatives of the enterprises responsible for supervising the work of these sales personnel.

In less than three months, before the first 3,000 new troops of the Tokugawa Shogunate had completed their initial training, the five newly opened treaty ports and the shops in the major cities of the Wagawa Shogunate were already filled with all kinds of high-quality and inexpensive industrial products from the Chinese Empire.

State capitalism is also capitalism. People's imperialism is also imperialism. The old man told us:

"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all the means of production, and by the extreme convenience of transportation, has drawn into civilization all nations, even the most barbarous."

"The low price of its commodities is the heavy artillery it uses to destroy all the Great Wall and conquer the most tenacious xenophobia of the barbarians."

"It compels all nations, if they do not wish to perish, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; It forces them to promote so-called civilization in themselves, that is, to become bourgeoisie. ”

"In a word, it creates a world for itself in its own image."

More than 200 years later, the Japanese could not resist the strong ships and cannons of the United States. Now, the Japanese are also unable to resist the giant ships and cannons of the Chinese Empire.

In the face of the powerful productive forces, in the face of the absolute strength of the powerful industrialized countries, there was no ability to build the Great Wall at all, and the reactionary and backward Wa state, which was similar to the Manchu Empire, was forced to be involved in civilization like all barbarian peoples.

In later generations, we called this phenomenon "globalization".

Western merchants marveled at the high quality and low prices of the goods of the Chinese Empire, believing that "you can make money by buying anything".

What they did not see, however, was the complete destruction of countless countries, all countries and nations whose level of productivity was not as high as that of the Chinese Empire, and of their backward national industries that used simple machinery or simply carried out manual production.

This point will soon be felt by the Wa Kingdom, which had just signed the "Treaty of Friendship between the Chinese Empire and the Wa Sect and Vassals."