Silves shook his increasingly confused head,

"I don't want to think about these things first, let's try this treatment first, can I help thousands of employees!"

Tom? Smith's Smith medicine can study that cholera is not directly fatal.

Didn't the Yankee and the old Europeans have advanced medical research institutes?

There must also be, and the medical institutes of France, Great Britain, Yankee and other world powers have all studied that cholera kills people by dehydration and malnutrition.

But why didn't Elder Yang and the elders of Europe go to the rescue of the seriously ill victims?

The reason is the same as when the economic crisis started to lay employees off instead of taking care of them.

The relationship between the elder Yankee and the old European top brass is not monolithic, but a class with constant internal infighting.

Neither Elder Young nor the old European aristocracy could guarantee that they would give their employees additional benefits and that they would continue to stay in their factories after the cholera disaster.

Even if there is a factory owner who has a great conscience and raises the victims of the disaster and helps the employees to tide over the difficulties,

After the disaster, because of the recent disaster, there will definitely be a shortage of labor.

At that time, other factories will only need to pay $0.05 more per day to talk about these employees who have survived the disaster.

There is no morality between the employee and the factory owner, and whoever pays the highest salary will go to whose factory.

And the owner of this factory will waste everything he has done for his employees in the disaster.

Factory owners, who waste these resources in vain, will undoubtedly be obsolete and abandoned by the times because of this additional expenditure.

It is only a matter of time before they slip from the high factory owner bourgeoisie to the middle or petty bourgeoisie, and then to the bottom of the workforce.

This kind of involution between the ruling class is the reason why no aristocracy has opened a warehouse to release grain in the history of the United States and even all European countries, no matter how great the disasters and civil strife are.

(It's not completely none, but the relief in European history is negligible compared to the relief on the surface of the history of the earth.)

In the aftermath of the disaster, no matter how much money and food for disaster relief can eventually go to the victims, at least the central government will provide large-scale relief for the famine.

The simplest comparison is the Great Famine in Ireland.

This level of famine is placed in the Di Dynasty, and even if the Di Dynasty Emperor is mediocre, the courtiers who are attached to the Di Dynasty Emperor will try their best to force the Emperor to go to the disaster.

The root cause of these differences is the different degrees of concentration of power.

The degree of concentration of power here is based on Europe as a whole, and the core population of the region as a whole.

It is not a single European country to be compared to the earth.

If Great Britain is to bail out Ireland in all its might, it will need to reduce government spending in other areas, the most important of which is military spending.

But this inevitably requires the risk of being invaded by France, Prussia, Tsarist Russia and other countries.

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For the British government, it was far more important to guard against other European countries than to rebel in Ireland.

On the other hand, during the period of the great unification of most of the local dynasties, the combat effectiveness of foreign countries was far inferior to that of the great unification of the local dynasties.

Therefore, for the emperor's political system of the earthly dynasty, it is generally difficult for foreign enemies to destroy the dynasty.

And the influence of popular uprisings on the political system is far greater than that of foreign enemies.

Throughout the history of the local dynasty, the most fundamental reason why the local dynasty was oppressed by foreign countries was never the strength of the foreign state, but the loose, corrupt, and unappealing political system within the country, which made the local dynasty unable to stimulate the productivity advantage brought by the population.

Not to mention the ancient battlefield, even the modern battlefield, productivity is the first factor affecting the quality of the army.

The only question is whether these productivity can be concentrated on the cutting edge.

Is it to concentrate the productive forces in the burned forest garden like the old ghost, or to concentrate the productive forces on the mass army like the majestic and high-spirited.

So the United States does not have the threat of a powerful neighbor on land, can it also pay more attention to its employees like the local government?

The United States borders two land neighbors, one is Mexico, which was beaten by Texas in the south.

One is the loyal Canada of the North.

(Canada was the first Dominion in the history of Great Britain, and that's so loyal!) ）

Even if you count the great powers far away in Europe, why don't the great powers bully the African countries and the fat countries of Asia that can be manipulated at will, and want to bully the United States, which has a modern industrial system?

No matter how you look at it, the United States has no strong enemies.

In this way, the United States has the potential to become a political system similar to the local dynasty that focuses on the internal livelihood of the people.

But there are some things that limit the United States from becoming a unified government for the people.

That is: freedom, democracy, equality.

Each state has its own free legislative power,

Every citizen must have his or her own vote on the president.

Every citizen of the United States is nominally equal at the legal level.

Of course, the scope of American citizenship was different at different times.

These seemingly beautiful ideas limit the unification of the United States.

It makes America's system of power politics complicated.

It is difficult to emerge a highly unified strongman government to carry out drastic reforms of the country.

Even if people from this political system are aware of the problem, it is difficult to overthrow their supporters.

And Vanderbilt, like Tom and his contemporaries, as well as later Rockefeller and Morgan, had the opportunity to join this system.

Join this inclusive and highly competitive system.

Even Tom himself knew that he would take the Smith family to join the political system in the United States, headed by the Boston consortium.

can obtain greater political and economic benefits in the short term.

If Tom hadn't been the crystallization of the knowledge of the chemical industry for the next 150 years, he would have joined this political system long ago, and he would have been unknown to the public.

After all, except for Tom, no factory owner can guarantee that he can lead the technology for a long time.

But Tom has this strength and confidence, and most importantly, the support of later generations of scientific and technological knowledge, to ensure that Tom can guarantee the advantages of the Smith factory area for at least a few decades.

Even if the industry of the era develops, Tom can rely on his later experience and combine the new technology of this era to reinvent his Smith factory.

Tom? Smith should take advantage of his own advantages, within the scope of his life, to let mankind embark on a path as much as possible.

A path that in Tom's memory, humanity has not taken, but which may theoretically be possible.