“…… In fact, the direct factor that led to the collapse of the Paris Commune so quickly was the money of the Banque de France! ”

In front of the Red Army generals, Professor Yang said such an unbelievable answer, and immediately explained, "...... It is important to know that any regime that wants to run the state apparatus in an organized manner needs money. Without money there can be no mobilization of resources and no war - the fall of the Paris Commune was a bloody lesson.

At the time of the birth of the Paris Commune, the Banque de France, which was under its control, was the heart of Paris's financial industry, which at that time was not only the economic and financial center of France, but also the financial center of the entire European continent. It issues francs that are the legal tender of France, its foreign exchange and gold are the guarantors of the franc's international purchasing power, and the bonds it sells enjoy the highest credit rating and are the main source of funding for the French government.

However, the leaders of the faction that controlled the economic policy of the Paris Commune naively believed that the goal of the Paris Commune was the local autonomy of Paris, not to become the central government of France, and therefore had no right or need to take over the Banque de France as the central bank. These morally clean revolutionaries made a fatal mistake by allowing the bank to be in the hands of bankers with close ties to the reactionaries.

The leaders of the Paris Commune did not realize that whoever controlled the Banque de France would own the economic lifeblood of France. This lifeblood determines both who deploys resources and for whom the state apparatus serves. So this is not only an economic mistake, but also a political mistake. As Engels said. If the Commune had violently taken over the Banque de France, 'it would have meant more than taking 10,000 hostages'!

They are even less aware of the relationship between the financial capitalists, who are not engaged in production and who are cunning and extortionate, and the proletarian power. There is an irreconcilable natural contradiction, and even when the other capitalists have already succumbed, the financiers will still frantically fight with the proletarian revolutionaries until the moment of zuihou!

As a result, during the more than two months of the existence of the Paris Commune, the Bank of France had billions of francs on its books in cash alone. The Commune only got a pitiful loan of 16 million francs from the Banque de France - the Commune did not take over the Banque de France, and as a result, they starved on their jobs and could not force the bankers, led by Rothschild, to put pressure on the Versailles government. Forcing them to make peace with the Paris Commune instead gave the bankers the opportunity to send more than 200 million francs to Versailles! With this huge amount of money, the government of Versailles was able to "reward the brave man". A lot of money was spent to recruit troops, and on the basis of the original defeat of more than 10,000 remnants, it only took a short time to regroup an army of 110,000 to launch a counterattack on the commune!

On the other hand. It is precisely because of these international bankers who thread the needle, persuade and exert pressure. Only then did Prime Minister Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm, who had already come to Paris, force them to make concessions to the French government -- not only did they repatriate tens of thousands of French prisoners of war on the spot and maintain the cooperation of "neutrality", so that the French government could obtain valuable reinforcements, and even allowed the French troops on the Versailles side to penetrate the German defense line and launch an attack on Paris!

The reason why the Germans had to obey the orders of the bankers was also very simple - these bankers had an unshakable position in the international financial markets, and if they did not help to destroy the Paris Commune and restore order in France, the German army would never have wanted to receive five billion francs in war reparations!

Even if the Germans wanted to seize a large part of the French territory to make up for the loss of reparations, it would not have worked at the time. Because there would be intervention by Britain and Russia, and Germany had not yet been truly united. The army was already exhausted, and Prime Minister Bismarck did not dare to drag on the war.

As a result, under the magic of money, Germany and France, two bitter rivals, quickly formed a counter-revolutionary united front and began to unite to destroy their common enemy, the Paris Commune. At the same time, the revolutionaries of the Paris Commune spent their time and energy on trivial matters such as how to improve the salaries of teachers. And so, tragedy struck so inevitably......"

Speaking of this, Professor Yang couldn't help but sigh faintly, "...... The lessons of the Paris Commune showed how fragile and vulnerable a revolutionary regime without an economic lifeblood was; It also shows that in modern society, banks, especially the financial system with central banks at their core, are very important for a regime and an economy. Even China, which is poor and weak, is no exception!

Now, since we have entered the ten-mile ocean field of Shanghai Tang, it is tantamount to grasping the heart of the Chiang Kai-shek regime and the imperialist powers in China! If we don't take the opportunity to dig out their hearts and trample them hard, will we still let these banks continue to supply blood to Chiang Kai-shek and the imperialist powers in China, fund them to recruit troops and buy horses, and even bribe the armies of the great powers to intervene and raise their knives to kill us revolutionaries? ”

“…… Then as long as the foreign capital and the Kuomintang banks are eliminated, Weishenme will also be a killer against private banks? Su Yu asked.

“…… Hum! Which of these private banks' butts is clean? They also inherited the war debts of the Kuomintang, raised military funds for Chiang Kai-shek, and accepted the instructions of the international bankers to strangle the Chinese revolution in every possible way! Professor Yang replied with a cold snort.

“…… In economically backward semi-colonial China, the landlord class and the comprador class are completely vassals of international capitalism, and their survival and development are dependent on imperialism, and the so-called Chinese-funded banks are no exception. Japan had financial giants such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi with a strong sense of nationality, while the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China were rich in financial compradors like the Dongting Xi family, which was the backstage of Yu Qiaqing, the big comprador of the "barefoot God of Wealth" Yu Qiaqing. Yokohama Shojin Bank was the financial knife of Japan's invasion of Shijie, while Shanghai's financial market was a colonial weapon for foreign banks to control China.

In today's Shanghai Tang, there are two kinds of people we need to eradicate the most, one is the traitor who betrays the country to seek glory, and the other is the financier who does not produce and enjoys huge profits - in fact, the latter is basically a variant of the former, and it is more hidden and vicious!

Since the Opium War, imperialism has controlled China financially through the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie of China. In the past 100 years, the foreign capitalist shili, the foreign comprador class, and the bureaucratic landlord monopoly class have formed a huge, intertwined, and interlocking network of relations in China, and no matter which warlord is in power or which government comes to power, they have to rely on and rely on this network of relations. They collude with each other, shelter each other, and work together to exploit the masses of the people. Only by cutting off the infiltration and control of foreign capital into China from the root of finance, and eradicating this huge network of cancers, can we even dig into the ground to ensure that there will be no future troubles.

Therefore, just as we have to fight local tyrants and divide the land in the countryside, we must also fight financiers and rob banks in Shanghai to survive......" (to be continued......