Chapter 780: Domination of Southern Xinjiang (6) The Crown of Thorns and the Golden Cross
There were many nobles involved in the Enlightenment, and even the advocate of the Enlightenment, Arue, was a nobleman himself, but there were only a few nobles like Aroue after all, and most of the nobles who participated in the Enlightenment were mostly dilapidated small nobles, so the main cornerstone and audience of the Enlightenment was the general citizen class of the merchant group.
The burghers' desire for parliamentary elections based on property qualifications, the abolition of some overly bad feudal privileges, the deposition of the power of the local aristocracy to set up checkpoints, and the free circulation of goods and trade were largely ignored by Battyros, and the Enlighteners could only beep in the press.
This situation has only now been changed by Fawit II, whose two years in Hado were not without success, at least for Fawuti II to discover the influence of the Enlighteners on the general public, and the desire for an "enlightened ruler" who would take their advice into account.
Behind the enlightened people, there are mostly large and small merchant groups, although these merchant groups rely on the protection of the nobility to do business, but they obviously have new plans now, or since the time of Arue hundreds of years ago, the enlightener is their mouthpiece.
"Although the Enlightenment is a bunch of rubbish who can only verbally condemn, the merchant group behind them is quite rich, and if I unite with this group of merchants, I may be able to suppress the old nobles who want to hinder me. ”
Fauti II was not afraid of the backlash of the nobles, as long as he had money, he could bring the army, and the merchant group could provide him with money, then he could recruit many troops, the merchant group colluded with the enlighteners, and the citizens listened to the propaganda of the enlightened people the most, then they had a source of soldiers, and the flint gun had been invented Today, the training time and gap between the army and the army are not large.
In this way, the money bag is grabbed by itself, and the gun is also grabbed by itself, so with these two things, they are still afraid of a bird noble? If they have to risk the world's condemnation and press all the nobles to the ground and rub them, what can they do?
Of course, when Fauti II decided to do this, his heart flickered a little uneasy, but it was just a flicker: "After I die, I don't care if he floods!"
Since Fawit II made up his mind to cooperate with the Enlightenment, he took many measures that were in line with the Enlightenment, although politically it was not easy to implement, but some other social aspects were easy, such as the opening of the party ban, the abolition of press censorship, the freedom of the press, etc., so Fawuti II was known as an enlightened president.
With the support of an enlightened president, the Enlighteners formed political parties to promote the "enlightenment" of society, and one of the most influential groups called the "reformists" soon became popular in the political arena.
In any case, the merchants had to give the green light to Fawuti II's policies and sell their kidneys to support Fawiti II's reign and overcome the economic crisis.
However, this economic crisis was more serious than everyone expected, and once the "Navarre Rebellion" was the focus of attention on the southern Xinjiang mainland, but soon the focus shifted from the Navarre Rebellion to the economic crisis, and major newspapers and periodicals made evaluations, and this economic crisis can be called the largest economic crisis in history.
Leng Yi naturally knows the reason for this, you must know that the generation after the end of the Apocalypse War has grown up, and the loss of the impetus of the Apocalypse War, as well as the impact of the "Metatron Disaster", began to gradually ferment, and the dividends obtained by opening factories in the Apocalypse War stage are now declining, thus triggering this economic crisis.
Nearly 1,000 years after the implementation of the "Iron Ambition" plan, Leng Yi has long since discovered that he has chosen the southern Xinjiang mainland as the stage of the plan, which is too small.
The excessively small area makes it difficult for them to support the development of capitalism, and the southern Xinjiang mainland, which has not yet developed to the stage of monopoly capitalism, is gradually unable to carry its own productive forces.
To put it simply, the selling price of a commodity = profit + workers' wages + other costs, then the total selling price of all commodities in the southern Xinjiang continent = total profit + total wage + total cost, and the second is the marginal consumption tendency in Keynesian theory, which simply means that although the rich consume more than the poor, the proportion of consumption may not be as good as that of the poor.
The result of this is that the wages of the workers cannot buy all the goods, and there are always goods that cannot be sold, so the result is the economic crisis, in fact, since the time of the Dorfan I, the southern Xinjiang continent has been based on the Sibo from time to time fluctuations in the economic crisis, and with the passage of time and the increase of productivity, the economic crisis of the Sibo is becoming more and more destructive.
Or to put it another way, after Siber entered the industrial age, the development of the economy was linked to the population that provided labor, and the population showed a geometric multiple growth in the scientific and technological explosion after the industrial revolution, which in turn stimulated the expansion of productivity and economic scale, so that the amount of gold was not enough, and the gold standard prevailed in the southern Xinjiang mainland.
Some people may wonder, didn't Leng Yi give the Southern Xinjiang Continent an alchemy plug-in? Isn't the Southern Xinjiang Continent able to extract metals from the gaps? However, you must know that this spell has been invented for almost a thousand years, and even the output of the Southern Xinjiang Continent has begun to decline even in the rich mineral area, but the industrial productivity is still soaring.
So the question arises, in a society where the quantity of money is constant and stable, and the quantity of goods increases dramatically, what happens to that? Prices fall, wages fall, and there is an economic crisis.
First of all, falling prices mean that the real purchasing power of money rises and the value of goods falls, which is a good thing for consumers at first, but it is a curse for producers, because it means that the goods needed to repay the original investment loan are also increasing, and the real debt of producers is increasing.
In this way, the faster production expands, the faster labor productivity rises, the more prices fall, and the heavier the real debt of the capitalists, the closer the risks of investment will be.
The capitalists are not philanthropists, and the policy they can adopt in this case is to reduce the number of hired workers, to lower their wages, in order to reduce their investment in the factories, but for society as a whole, the increase in the number of unemployed leads to a sharp contraction of social purchasing power relative to the huge supply of goods.
In this way, the more the price of goods is reduced, the more they will not be able to sell, and soon the price drop will become "common sense", and the whole society will enter a downward spiral channel of "oversupply - shrinking demand".
Secondly, the commodities produced by the capitalist loan and their prices themselves are an important basis for the banker to decide whether or not to repay the loan according to the financial situation of the capitalist factory.
As a result, the crisis will spread from the real economy to the financial system, and then spread to the entire southern Xinjiang continent through the world trade system, and eventually everyone will end up together, which is the crisis that Siber is facing.
Faced with this scene, Leng Yi couldn't help but think of a passage from the earth, "You put the crown of thorns on the heads of the workers, and you crucified mankind on the golden cross!"
In the past, Siber's response to the economic crisis was nothing more than to follow the idea of free trade, and let the lower classes of civilians die, and throw it to the colonies, but now the colonies are becoming more and more saturated, and they can no longer carry new immigrants as in the past, or the immigrants were still unemployed in the past, and the other point is, why is this crisis so long.
Spring and autumn came again, but the crisis was still there, and it was fortunate that he won over the enlighteners, so that Fawuti II's reputation was not affected much in this great crisis.
Why? You must know that the enlighteners have been boasting that as long as there are rulers who use their theories, then the economy will improve and the world will be in harmony, as if their ideas were a panacea, but unfortunately they have been secretly invested by Mingzhu, and now that the rulers have finally partially adopted their theories, how can they criticize it?
Of course, the enlighteners cannot slap themselves in the face, nor can they scold the ruler who has finally adopted the measures of the enlighteners, otherwise the other party will turn around and choose to compromise with the old aristocracy again, and then the enlighteners will not have to sit on wax?
But the economy is not good, everyone is having a hard time, and your ideas have not been able to revive the economy, who are you not scolding? At this time, someone has to take the blame, and the object of the blame is the nobles, especially those who oppose Fauti II.
It is not our fault that the enlightenment measures failed to save the economy, nor is it that Fawuti II did not try, but because these old-fashioned nobles used various means to obstruct the implementation of the new policy, which caused the situation to become the way it is, so the only way to save the economy is to bring down the old aristocracy.
Although the Enlightenment has been going on for hundreds of years, in these hundreds of years, the articles of the Enlightenment only dare to criticize some minor nobles at most, and the main object of criticism is only some ugly phenomena, but now it is different, freedom of speech is not illegal, so the Enlightenment people have stepped up their efforts to lash out at all the nobles.
According to the new statement of the Enlighteners, the economy is not good because of the obstruction of the old aristocracy, and if you want to save the economy, you have to defeat the old aristocracy, but the union of Fauti II and the Enlightener is already his limit, and he is a royal family himself, so he will not really defeat the old nobles in a frenzy.
So the situation was so deadlocked, Fawit II took enlightened measures, achieved certain results, but the overall situation was still grim, the enlightened people on behalf of public opinion have attacked the old aristocracy, of course, most of the old aristocracy itself is indeed hindering the implementation of the new policy, and Fauti II is unwilling to do anything to the old nobility, so it can only be limited to verbal scolding.
It was not until 2908 that the economic crisis officially ended, because enough people jumped into the river, and those who fled to the colonies fled to the colonies, although the colonies are not as popular as they were in the past, and they are still alive or less, and of course, the most important thing is the discovery of dragon fruit.
Seriously, when Leng Yi heard this name, the idea of using the system to rename this thing lingered in his head for a long time.
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