After three days of trekking on the road, the people of the Liberation Society finally arrived at the training camp prepared for them by Blackwater and began their intense study life.

The camp was restored from the original abandoned gold mines. The original gold mine was much larger than the current workshop, so naturally only a limited number of houses were restored, and the others were left in a state of ruins. However, the fence has been repaired. Although the collapsed area was not re-built, barbed wire was still put up there.

"It's basically going to prevent brown bears and wolves from running in. Also, you should be careful not to walk around outside the fence. As you know, this used to be a gold mine, so it's heavily defended. Within a distance of 200 metres outside the wall, a large number of mines had been laid. Later, when the gold mine was abandoned, all the personnel were gone, but the mines remained. Because it costs a lot of money to get rid of them, and it's dangerous, and no one will come to this place anyway, so these mines are left here. It's been a few years now. However, MacDonald's mines, of very good quality, are still very lethal even after being buried in the ground for many years. So, don't run around because it's okay, it's blown up by a mine, but no one dares to go into the minefield to save you. ”

After entering the camp, James first explained the precautions to the students, and then took the students to visit the camp.

"This is the theory study classroom, this is the warehouse, and the other side is your dormitory." James led them to a larger house and introduced them like this:

"That's how the curriculum is set up. Every morning is devoted to the study of scientific knowledge, tactical knowledge, intelligence knowledge, and communication knowledge, the afternoon is devoted to combat skills training, and the evening is devoted to the study of economics and sociology. There are elective courses in the morning, such as bomb making and use, such as reconnaissance and counter-detection, military logistics, information and communication (disinformation technology), etc., etc., and you can decide for yourself what those people will study. ”

First of all, the study of scientific knowledge and tactical knowledge is naturally indispensable, and the same is true of combat skills, and the so-called learning of social knowledge is in fact brainwashing. The reason for arranging this course is very lofty, that is, the revolution is not only a military issue, but also a political one. Even the political question is the main one, and the military question is only a subsidiary one. So if you don't know anything about the world and politics, then how can you make a good revolution?

So what exactly does social knowledge learn? Scrooge himself set the tone for what he learned: free trade is the first of all kinds, and the only way for a country to succeed.

"There's an old Chinese philosophy that says everything goes its course and that there is as little human interference as possible. This perception is very beneficial to us. Therefore, when we train them, we must convince them that at all times, a completely free economy without restrictions is the most effective solution to all problems, and it is a universal norm that can be applied everywhere. It is with such a free economy that we in the United States have grown up from a wild continent. "This is the instruction given by Scrooge.

This argument is naturally a lie, if nothing else, if the United States really relied on a thorough liberal economy to develop, then how could there be a Civil War? Wasn't the Civil War because the Yankees wanted to undermine the principle of free trade? To be honest, in the Civil War, the South, which insisted on low tariffs, was the one who insisted on free trade.

But even authentic Americans may not understand the truth here, let alone those who come from closed China. Moreover, on the one hand, these people generally lack economic knowledge, and on the other hand, China's long-term weakness towards the West has made them lack confidence in the face of Western theories. Coupled with the fact that most of these people had spent time in Japan, Japan's success relative to the Manchus was often reduced by them to learning from the West. In this way, it will naturally be easier to fool them by taking advantage of the dominant position of Western civilization.

In addition, the time arrangement is very interesting, that is, in the morning to learn science and tactics, and then in the afternoon to carry out the most physically demanding military skills training, in the evening, people's energy will naturally decline, at this time, it will be more efficient to use these things to fool them.

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The next day, the study of the revolutionary training class named by Chen Guang as the "Yuanpeng Class" officially began. Strictly speaking, one or two years is not enough to complete the relevant training. However, Scrooge had no real intention of raising these people to be very good. Therefore, although there are many subjects, the duration of the study is quite tight. In this way, the students' learning tasks are naturally very heavy, and they have to spend most of their energy every day to receive new knowledge and apply it, and naturally there is less time to spend on the brainwashing free trade that they receive in the evening.

Moreover, these theories of free trade are not problematic for ordinary people. Over the years, in order to open up for "free trade", the guys at the University of Cleveland's Rockefeller School have not been idle. They started from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, expanded and carried it forward, added a large number of mathematical models and various hypotheses, and finally succeeded in making it so that the vast majority of people could not understand it and could only be unaware of it; on the basis that most people could not read economics works, under the guidance of Scrooge, Huacke, a professor of economics at the University of Cleveland's Rockefeller School, recently published a very high-quality economic book that can be read by most people who do not understand economics half-understood -- The Road to Serfdom". Although some economists in Europe criticized the book as "not a work of economics at all", the book was widely sought after, and Professor Harker himself won the "MacDonald Prize in Economics" for it.

Such a thing is naturally not something that Qiu Jin and others, who have no big social production practice at all, can see the problem. In addition, the people of the Liberation Society themselves have anti-. Politics. The government has a tendency to interfere, and when they first established this group, one of the most important ideas for the future of China was that the government would not collect taxes.

Although after seeing the world outside, the people of the Liberation Association also admitted that the ideal of the government not to collect taxes from the Donglin Party may be a bit taken for granted. But the idea that the government should interfere as little as possible is still natural and more acceptable to them. So after three months of study, these people of the Liberation Society have basically mastered some skills, but they have also become brain-dead fans of free trade.

Free trade is indeed a good thing, especially when it is expressed in the letter of the law, which is absolutely very fair. But in reality, such "fairness" is only beneficial to the strong. In a sense, the biggest role of an unrestricted free trade economy is to ensure that the strong will always be strong.

In later generations, the bald government once signed a very equal trade treaty with Ah Mei on menstruation - "The Commercial Agreement between the Flower Planter and Ah Mei on Menstrual Holiday", in which it was stipulated that the two countries would practice fair free trade, exempt each other from all tariffs, give each other full national treatment, ships on both sides could enter each other's territorial waters at will, and enterprises on both sides could operate in each other's territory like domestic enterprises. For example, mining is not a problem.

However, such an equal treaty was later scolded by some people as the largest and most thorough traitorous treaty in the history of the flower planters, why? Because if such a treaty is really implemented, it is equivalent to letting the baby and the heavyweight boxing champion compete fairly in the same ring, and the result will naturally be that the baby is completely wiped out and the boxing champion wins.

In fact, Americans shouted "free trade" for a few years, and for a long time after the Civil War, Americans insisted on high tariffs. It was only in these years, when the U.S. economy surpassed Britain's, and there were signs of market saturation at home, that the U.S. began to become a propagandist of free trade. Strangely, Britain, which was the loudest clamor of free trade in the early years, unwittingly changed its tune.

Of course, it is not enough to just brainwash ideas, and the most reliable thing is always profit. Therefore, the binding of interests is naturally more important. Historically, the Restoration Society has actually always looked down on the people of the Xingzhong Society unpleasantly, but for a long time it can only form an alliance with them, and a big reason is that Xingzhong will have more overseas backs. Jing, you can get more money.

And now that Scrooge has the idea of co-opting multiple factions, he will naturally have corresponding arrangements. So while the study class was still going on, in Tokyo, with Chen Guang in charge, Larry, a representative of the MacDonald Foundation, discussed with other members of the Liberation Association how to cooperate in business.

Chinese have a bad impression of compradors who are spokespersons for foreign companies, because these fake foreign devils often bully people with the power of foreigners. Most of the people of the Liberation Society came from small and medium-sized landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they also "hated and bitterly hated" these compradors. Suddenly let them do comprador things, firstly, they are not very willing, and secondly, it is easy to shake their basic market. So it's not a good idea to have them act directly as an agent for MacDonald's products.

However, there is another way, and that is to open medical schools and Western-style hospitals through their connections.