86_86695Capitalism was a very new thing for Ming China.

Unlike the Chinese hundreds of years later, the Chinese at the end of the Ming Dynasty have never seen and have not had the opportunity to see what a capitalist country is. What the state form and social structure of capitalism looks like, no one can see. In the 17th century, the mainstream of the world was still feudalism.

In this time and space, the birthplace of modern civilization, major European countries are still trying to break free from the ignorance and darkness of the Middle Ages.

People in the "big cities" of European countries such as London, Paris, and Madrid still live with fecal garbage every day because they do not have perfect urban sewage facilities. The people of the Western world, with the help of "Western medicine" who were completely in the state of witch doctors, had unbridled outbreaks of infectious diseases and plagues were on the rampage. For the people of the Western world, it is completely a norm.

The representative of the later capitalist system, the "beacon" of the Western world, the United States. It is still a colony of various European colonial powers.

Therefore, as the leader of an advanced political party, Wang Shuhui has no way to tell everyone what capitalism is, and there is no way to tell everyone how to avoid the danger of capitalism. Because even if he did, the members of the Revival Society would not understand.

Wang Shuhui deeply knows the truth that "if you want to know the taste of pears, you must taste them with your own mouth". Therefore, the method he adopted was to provide the necessary and necessary conditions for the development and maturity of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty.

This is why he is so accommodating to the Zhijiang Business Alliance.

What is wrong with capitalism, how terrible is the oppression and exploitation of the working class by capitalism, Wang Shuhui needs a negative teaching material to educate the members of the Renaissance Society.

How bad feudalism is, how corrupt and degenerate the feudal system is. There is now the Ming Dynasty that has begun to decline as a negative teaching material, and there are a large number of historical materials in history books as examples. The members of the Revival Society, who have real-life experience and have been educated in historical materialism, are all able to know and understand deeply.

However, how bad the bourgeoisie is, how barbaric and cruel the capitalist system is, not to mention these grassroots people in the Ming Dynasty who were born in mud, as far as Wang Shuhui, the proletariat of modern society, has not seen much comprehensively and profoundly.

Therefore, the establishment of the Zhijiang Business Alliance, a target that can be controlled, is a standard control carried out by Wang Shuhui, a researcher of social sciences. He wanted to get acquainted with a capitalist group and become a negative teaching material for the members of the Renaissance Society.

Wang Shuhui will certainly not establish a capitalist social system in China in this time and space. He does not mention the evil nature of capitalism, nor does he mention the evil problem of the bourgeoisie. Purely based on national feelings, Wang Shuhui did not want the Chinese, like the people of the major Western countries in the nineteenth century, to go through the life of blood and tears in the primitive accumulation stage of the early stage of capitalism.

Let the Chinese, as Engels said, generations of people, be used as expendable materials for industrial capitalists, and within two or three years a batch will be consumed and died. Wang Shuhui doesn't have such a hard heart. He couldn't bear something like this in his own hands.

Wang Shuhui believes that the most ideal social system is China's social system in the 21 st century. It is the primary stage of socialism and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.

The advantage of this social system is that the core ideology and economic model of the state are socialist. Capitalist relations of production, capitalist organizational model, and capitalist ideology can be used as a complementary, competitive, and negative textbook-like force to enliven the market economy, stimulate the development of the state-owned economy, and guard against the ruling party and the people as the main body of the state.

If this is to be done, it is necessary to cultivate a small group of weak capitalist forces in China. Then, in the general environment of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the establishment of a social system similar to that of modern China is valid in terms of theoretical conditions.

Historically, did the Chinese people choose a more advanced socialist system after seeing clearly the true colors of feudalism (warlords and landlords) and capitalism (imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism).

Wang Shuhui believes in one thing. Like China before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the capitalist forces of the Ming Dynasty, which were born out of the feudal landlord class, will definitely eventually become the same as the capitalist forces before the founding of the People's Republic of China, either they will become a national bourgeoisie with a strong feudal flavor (Zhang Qian and others), or they will become accomplices of the feudal bureaucracy and foreign forces, the bureaucratic bourgeoisie (the four major families of Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen before the liberation).

Wang Shuhui believes that with the help of the revolutionary organization of the Renaissance Society, the Chinese people will eventually make a historical choice.

What Wang Shuhui wants to do now is to promote the further development and growth of the Zhijiang Business Alliance, a capitalist organization. He wants to lead all the revival members to monitor and observe all aspects of the Zhijiang Business Alliance in an all-round way, just like the real yàn personnel observe the guinea pig.

If it weren't for this reason, how could the International Trade Office easily obtain relevant information from the Intelligence Department? Wang Shuhui had already given an order to the Intelligence Department, allowing them to carry out a comprehensive infiltration of the Zhijiang Business Alliance. Even, like Li Mingzhi's house, there are intelligence officers from the intelligence department lurking and observing.

Wang Shuhui has long speculated that the Zhijiang Business Alliance will face two dilemmas. One is the internal problem of the Zhijiang Business Alliance, and the other is the external problem of the Zhijiang Business Alliance.

The internal problems of the Zhijiang Business League were mainly due to the fact that the vast majority of these new capitalists were themselves born out of the feudal landlord class. They themselves may gradually evolve into the bourgeoisie by establishing capitalist enterprises. However, their origins determined that their families, all their families, were backward from the feudal landlord class, both ideologically and in life.

The conflict between capitalism and feudalism will first appear within their families, within their families.

The external problems of the Zhijiang Merchant Alliance were mainly the contradictions between these emerging capitalists and the pure feudal forces that held the state power in the mainstream of society in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Jiangnan merchant groups in the Jiangnan region with a strong capitalist nature but still a feudal landlord class in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, the economic power in the Jiangnan region, which is known as the embryonic capitalism, was itself a feudal landlord class. Moreover, it is the most corrupt and degenerate, the bureaucratic landlord class. Historically, although commerce flourished unprecedentedly at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinshang Group, the Yangzhou Merchant Group, the Jiangnan Merchant Group and the Maritime Trader Group had been formed. However, the central government of the Ming Dynasty was unable to reap any benefits from the unprecedented prosperity of commerce.

The main reason for this phenomenon is that the power of the Ming government as a whole has been fully controlled by the representatives of these merchant groups.

Officials from the south, whether they are the Zhejiang, Chu, or Donglin parties, are in fact representatives of the interests of the southern business group. The vast majority of officials from the north were representatives of the interests of the Jin merchant group.

In fact, a detailed examination of the origins of the officials who held government power in the last years of the Ming Dynasty reveals that these officials were either themselves part of these merchant groups, and their own families and families were also involved in these economic activities. Either from the beginning of his career, he was funded by these business forces, and finally rose to a high position.

Speaking of which, in the political structure of the Ming Dynasty, only the eunuch forces were completely loyal to the imperial power. Even a spy agency like Jinyiwei, whose power was completely dependent on the imperial power, became a political tool controlled by the bureaucracy and the forces behind the bureaucracy from the Wanli period.

It can be said that the civil official group that held state power in the last years of the Ming Dynasty itself had two attributes: it was born from the feudal landlord class and occupied a large amount of land, and the main component was feudalism. However, at the same time, the families of these bureaucrats were also constantly involved in commercial activities, establishing a large number of workshops and factories, and actively participating in overseas trade and international trade (the commercial activities of the Jin merchants and the barbarians outside the Guan, the commercial activities of the Jiangnan merchants and pirates, the maritime merchants, and the red-haired people). So, it has a capitalist character in itself.

The external problem of the Zhijiang Business Alliance is the contradiction between it and such a powerful civilian-official group in the late Ming Dynasty, a group with vested interests through and through.

However, from the current point of view, the first thing that broke out in the organization of the new capitalist was its internal problems. The major change of management of the four textile enterprises is a specific manifestation of the internal problems of the Zhijiang Business Alliance.

On the third day after the conflict between Xiecheng Buzhuang and the Fuxing Society, Wang Shuhui had just begun to arrange the corresponding assignments to the Standing Committee of the Fuxing Society to observe in detail the development process of the Zhijiang Business Alliance, a new capitalist force. Sima Feng, the head of the Zhijiang Business Alliance, handed over a post and asked to meet Wang Shuhui.

As the main population supplier of the Fuxing Society, the relationship between Sima Feng and Wang Shuhui is relatively close. On the one hand, Wang Shuhui admires Sima Feng's temperament, which is very similar to that of a modern social entrepreneur. On the other hand, it is because Sima Feng is quite afraid of Wang Shuhui and is full of sincerity in cooperating with Wang Shuhui.

As soon as Sima Feng saw Wang Shuhui in Wang Shuhui's office, he usually had to do two things first. The first thing is to complain to Wang Shuhui about how difficult it is to do human trafficking, and how many difficulties and pressures there are. Sima Feng's purpose in doing this was mainly to show his merit to Wang Shuhui, hoping that Wang Shuhui would remember his contribution to the revival society.

The second thing is to complain to Wang Shuhui about the financial policy of the Renaissance Association. What kind of reconstruction bank is too domineering, and can only exchange land and shares for funds. The trade office of the Renaissance Society is too rigid, and only the silver dollars issued by the Renaissance Bank can buy machinery and related technical services. What Fuxing shipyard is too much, the price of a ship made of wood is sold for a ship made of gold (Jiangbei Shipyard can already fully produce its own small-tonnage iron-ribbed wooden hull, steam and sail hybrid paddle steamer).

Anyway, after he finished expressing his merits and complaining about the various grievances that the revival would give him, he would talk about the topic.

Of course, Wang Shuhui was completely unmoved by Sima Feng's performance and complaints.

It's not that Wang Shuhui has no conscience, but Wang Shuhui believes that to provide market price steam machinery to the Zhijiang Business Alliance, which is the Fuxing Society's fulfillment of the cooperation conditions of "exchanging population for machinery". On the other hand, as the only organization in the world capable of producing steam engines, the Revival will set the conditions for steam machinery and related financial services to be higher, which is also completely in line with the laws of the economy.

After all, for now and for hundreds of years to come, only Fuxing will have the ability to mass-produce steam machinery. In the past hundred years, Wang Shuhui, who has mastered the gate of time and space, has always faced a seller's market with less supply than demand.

The high price of the Revival Society is just a normal economic tool