Chapter 072: Longpan Jingzhou (5)
So what exactly is politics?
In fact, the so-called politics is, to put it mildly, the communication, coordination, and distribution of interests. The so-called good and bad, righteous and evil, are to a large extent results-oriented, and the difference between noble and low-level is only public interest or private interest.
Specific to those who want to make meritorious achievements, in fact, the key to success is really not how you can kill, but how many people support you. Don't be unconvinced, killing people is only one of many political means, and the number of supporters and the strength of support can really determine the direction of history.
Can the CCP overthrow the KMT? Is it really the PLA that is invincible? In fact, in terms of training level, officer quality and other aspects, the PLA is inferior to the Kuomintang army, but in just one point, the previous advantage of the Kuomintang army has all turned into sludge. What is it? Not afraid of death, the core of the crowd tactics advocated by both sides in the War of Liberation is not that there are many people, but that the heart is united, and it is not that one person who is not afraid of death, but everyone is not afraid of death.
It's strange to us that the same people as Weishenme, with modern equipment and regular training, could not do this?
Soon we found a very reasonable answer: faith!
What beliefs? Naturally, it is not a communist belief, and those who can uphold this belief are all proletarian fighters, and even if the commanders and fighters from peasant backgrounds have studied for a long time, they may not be able to reach this level. So what is it about the belief that makes them throw their heads and spill their blood without hesitation?
It is the belief in life, the belief in the pursuit of happiness, and specifically, a piece of land.
Alas, don't underestimate such a piece of land, with a piece of land that belongs to you, for farmers, there is hope and a future. The greatest thing about China is that it has learned the lessons of the peasant uprisings of previous dynasties, and has achieved a perfect connection between the proletarian revolution emphasizing the workers' movement and China's national conditions.
Without much further talk, Wang Zhenyu's thinking has returned to the present, what kind of political concept is he going to propose? What kind of political philosophy can be used to win the support and support of all walks of life, and finally realize one's life ideals?
Fight local tyrants and divide the land? Wang Zhenyu shook his head and directly denied that the Great Revolution would fail, in the final analysis, because of the blind and radical implementation of these six words.
Think about it, who are most of the officers these days? literate people; So what are the origins of these literate people? Wealthy families.
Also, who can afford to read without money, children born in poor families, without money to study, let alone talk, even their own time is at the disposal of their parents to chop wood and carry water, herd cattle and feed pigs.
Then the answer is very clear, most of the officers of the Northern Expeditionary Army are the children of landlords, and they are reforming the lives of the Beiyang warlords in front, but you are reforming the lives of your fathers in people's homes! In this way, the question of the right and wrong of the revolution simply becomes, supporting the revolution is equivalent to killing his father, or he is inhumane and unfilial.
Holding the pickets of 800,000 workers in Shanghai, a certain party with a million-strong peasant army in Hunan was still unable to succeed in the agrarian revolution, Wang Zhenyu looked at the little liliang in his hand, and it was better to move the great ideal of fighting the landlords to the corner.
Facing the reality, Wang Zhenyu was also in distress, and he casually picked up the information about Hongjiang sent by He Jian and looked at it.
If you don't look at it, it's just that, when you look at it, your eyes suddenly light up, and this Hongjiang is really interesting.
According to previous information, Wang Zhenyu already knew that Hongjiang was actually a commercial city, and the merchants here had even surpassed the local government.
He remembered a stand-alone game he had played in later life, Guilds, which was set in the Italian Renaissance setting, in which almost every city's council and government were controlled by the local guilds, or by powerful merchants.
There was also a time in history when the United States was very much in line with this game, and I still vividly remember a caricature in a history textbook: several strong, round-waisted bosses with a round waist holding dollar bills in their hands, sitting behind members of Congress and pointing at them, and the American congressmen in the cartoons also looked back from time to time.
The theme of this cartoon is to satirize the current situation of the American monopoly consortium using money to control the decision-making of the US government.
But now that I think about it, businessmen Weishenme can't control the government. He is also a citizen and a citizen, you can't even deprive him of his basic right to be a human being because he is rich.
In fact, as long as there is no state monopoly and no micro-intervention, the lifeblood of a country's economy will inevitably be in the hands of businessmen. There is nothing wrong with this, a group of people who know how to do business must grasp the lifeblood of the country's economy is certainly a hundred times stronger than a group of state-owned enterprise bigwigs who can only be officials and only rely on policies to make money.
However, thanks to Confucianism, even the basic livelihood can not be done haodeConfucianism is not only not ashamed of poverty, but proud, it seems that as long as everyone is poor and thrifty, Shijie will be peaceful, and mankind will be happy. Therefore, in terms of China alone, Shinong, industry and commerce, and commerce are the last.
What were the officials of all dynasties treated as merchants? When you become a pig, let you grow meat first, and cut some meat from time to time, like an ATM. When you grow up and get fat, then you can kill it.
And what about merchants? Except for the Song and Ming dynasties, since the Han Dynasty, there has been no political guarantee, and there is no other way out except to use it as an ATM for officials.
What would happen if that happened? Obviously they are all Chinese, but they are divided into several classes. Among them, the businessman class is the most embarrassed, not only to act as an ATM for government officials, but also to be promoted by the mainstream media as a "traitor", bearing the anger of "hating the rich" from the bottom of the society, and this is fate, even if businessmen continue to donate and do good, the government will definitely use them as a shield, according to the needs of stability and unity at any time. In a word: there is no compatriot love.
Moreover, once the merchant class cannot become a pillar of the country and cannot be tolerated and respected by society, the consequences will be very serious. Because a businessman is a human being, not a pig, he will have his own ideas, and even if he is really a pig, he still knows whether to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages.
The biggest benefit of globalization comes out, no one regards my brother as a human being, right, my brother's property is not guaranteed, my brother is destined to have no political status, right, my brother only has the share of money and has no right to speak, right, my brother doesn't play anymore, and they are all transferred to countries where businessmen have status.
Look, it's such a situation, everyone knows where the root cause is, but they can only watch the tragedy repeat itself.
Can you change all of that on your own? Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but ponder. The Republic of China in later textbooks was a mixture of poverty and weakness, in short, a poor word can be summed up. But Wang Zhenyu, who has actually studied economics, has his own understanding of wealth. The so-called wealth is actually closely related to money, and money is just a monetary symbol. The real wealth is not money, but commodities, Weishenme said that the number of people is large, that is because the number of people in the guarantee of the consumption base also means the production base. And production is the only real source of wealth, everything else is false.
Therefore, the poverty and weakness of the Republic of China was caused by the political turmoil in the three aspects of production jishu, production organization, and market environment.
But isn't being poor the same as being poor? No, because after dealing with Ye Zuwen and others, Wang Zhenyu knew that in addition to the fact that the Beiyang government was really poor, a lot of wealth was in the hands of Chinese businessmen. This can explain the reason why during the Weishenme period of the Republic of China, on the one hand, the state power was mixed to live by issuing bonds, and on the other hand, various business kings emerged one after another.
The money is in the hands of businessmen, how to take it out, do you want to learn from the Red Guards, go to raid the house, go to rob and smash? I'm sorry, even Ye Zuwen knows that he put money in HSBC, how can other businessmen not know?
Wang Zhenyu took out a close-fitting Guangyang and threw it on the table, and then looked at this Guangyang in a daze. But there is a very practical question in my mind:
If you want to develop in Xiangxi, you have to run an industry, you have to build roads, you have to develop education, and you have to ...... There are too many, and all of this is inseparable from a money word. How do you get money out of a merchant's pocket? Why should they give you money? Is it just because you're the government, you have guns, jokes!
That's right, why! Wang Zhenyu suddenly found the key point of the problem, is this?
Wang Zhenyu found that he was also deeply poisoned by traditional education, the most notable of which was that he regarded businessmen as non-humans.
As long as you can give a farmer a piece of land and a piece of "land" that also makes them happy, then you will definitely be able to encourage them to support you. And once you can get the support of the entire group of businessmen, what can you not do in terms of large sums of money support?
The key is that this piece of "land" that can impress businessmen to make a living, this land is naturally not land, people have money, and they can buy land directly. So what is there that businessmen can't buy with their money in this country?
Wang Zhenyu patted his thigh and thought: "Power." "All along, every Chinese longs to have power, because power is largely equal to legal harm, and people with legal harm have always been extremely awe-inspiring existence. Weishenme Later generations of businessmen want to transfer assets? Just because of the county order of the broken family, the mansion Yin who destroyed the door. It is very likely that a department-level cadre will bankrupt you, and a department-level cadre will send you to the guillotine. Private property is not effectively protected at all, and at the same time, there is no channel for businessmen to engage in politics, so in addition to spending money to buy deputies and committee members to avoid low-level physical attacks, it is tantamount to a fantasy to enter politics and have the same legal harm to protect themselves.
So if you can give the merchants such a channel to protect their private property fundamentally rather than verbally, and to change their social status from humble to respected, then what use do they have to do not be tied to their own group?
And as long as you taste the sweetness and get the benefits, don't you want money to contribute, but to contribute?
Therefore, the core of one's own political reform can be roughly determined, and there is only one thing: putting the cart before the horse, with business as the head and officials as the last. In today's popular parlance, it is to build a service-oriented government. And those successful businessmen, if they find business boring, can also run for election to become high-ranking officials in the government to lead the government. In fact, successful businessmen may not have a high degree of education, but their ability is definitely no less than that of cadres who kill all the way from the grassroots level to the department level under the centralized system, and even they are more pragmatic and efficient.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu has initially realized that if he really wants to change like this, it will definitely have a subversive effect in China at the beginning of the 20th century, and even if he goes back a hundred years, it will be the same, it will really be upside down!
So he thought about it for a long time, and asked Song Haomin, who was also his adjutant, to go to the Jingzhou Chamber of Commerce to invite President Chen Hongji and others to come over......