1855 United States Tycoon

After three days of trekking on the road, the revivalists finally arrived at the training camp prepared for them in Heishui, and began an intense life of learning.

The camp was restored on the basis of the original abandoned gold mine. The original gold mine was much larger than the current study class, so the study class naturally only repaired a limited number of houses, and the other houses continued to be left in ruins. However, the wall has been repaired. Although the collapsed area was not rebuilt, the barbed wire fence was still pulled there.

"This will basically prevent brown bears and wolves from running in. In addition, you should be careful not to walk outside the fence casually. You know, this is a gold mine in the past, so the defense is tight. Two hundred meters outside the fence. A lot of mines were planted within the distance. Later, after the gold mine was abandoned, the personnel were all gone, but these mines remained. Because it would cost a lot of money to get rid of them, and it was very dangerous. Anyway, this place won’t Someone came, so these mines were dropped here. It has been many years now. However, McDonald's mines are of very good quality. Even if they have been buried in the ground for many years, they are still very lethal. So, don’t run around if it’s okay. You’ve been bombed by a landmine, but no one dares to enter the minefield to rescue you."

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

"This is the theoretical study classroom. This is the warehouse, and the other is your dormitory." James took them to the front of a larger house and introduced:

"The relevant courses are set up in this way. Every morning, we study scientific knowledge, tactical knowledge, intelligence knowledge, and communication knowledge. In the afternoon, we study combat skills. In the evening, we study economics and sociology. The subjects in the morning are Elective courses, such as the manufacture and use of bombs, such as investigation and counter-investigation, such as military logistics, such as information dissemination technology, etc., etc. You can discuss and decide what those people will learn. "

This course is not set randomly. First of all, the learning of scientific knowledge and tactical knowledge is naturally indispensable, as is the combat skills, and the so-called learning of social knowledge is actually brainwashing. The reason for arranging this subject is very lofty, that is: Revolution is not only a military issue, but also a political issue. Even the political issue is the main issue, and the military issue is only a subsidiary issue. So if you don’t know anything about the world or politics, how can you make a good revolution?

So what exactly do social knowledge learn? Scrooge personally set the tone for the content of learning: free trade is the first of all good things, and it is also the only way and the only way for a country to succeed.

"China has an ancient philosophy, believing that everything goes with the flow, the less human interference, the better. This concept is very beneficial to us. Therefore, when we train them, we must make them believe that at all times , A completely unrestricted free economy is the most effective way to solve all problems. It is a universal rule that applies everywhere. It is this kind of free economy that we in the United States grew up from a wild continent. "This is an instruction from Scrooge.

This statement is naturally a lie. If United States was really developed by relying on a completely free economy, then how could there be a Civil War? Wasn't the Civil War just because the Yankees wanted to undermine the principles of free trade? To be honest, during the Civil War, the South that insisted on low tariffs was the one that insisted on free trade.

But the truth here, even the authentic United States people may not understand, let alone those who come from the closed China. Moreover, these people generally lack economic knowledge on the one hand, and on the other hand, China’s long-term weakness in the West has made them lack self-confidence in the face of Western theories. In addition, these people have generally stayed in Japan, and Japan's success relative to the Manchus is often simplified by them as the result of learning from the West. In this way, it will naturally be easier to take advantage of Western civilization and fool them.

In addition, the time arrangement is very interesting, that is, learn science and tactics in the morning, and then conduct the most physical-consuming military skills training in the afternoon. At night, people's energy will naturally decrease. At this time, use these things to fool you. They are naturally more efficient.

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The next day, the study of the revolutionary training class named "Yuanpengban" by Chen Guang officially began. Strictly speaking, to complete the relevant training, no one or two years is not enough. However, Scrooge did not really intend to train these people how well. So although there are many subjects, the school system time is quite tight. As a result, students’ learning tasks are naturally very heavy. Every day, most of their strength must be spent on accepting new knowledge and using it. The time for the brainwashing free trade that they receive at night will naturally be spent. not enough.

Moreover, these free trade theories cannot be found by ordinary people. For so many years, in order to open their eyes for "free trade", the guys at the Rockefeller College of the University of Cleveland have not been idle. Starting from Adam Smith’s theory of the wealth of nations, they extended it, added a lot of mathematical models and various hypotheses, and finally succeeded in making it so that most people can’t understand it and can’t understand it. On the basis that most people can’t read economics books, and under the guidance of Scrooge, recently, Professor Hacker of the Rockefeller School of the University of Cleveland published a very high-quality, and An economic book that can be read by most people who do not understand economics-"The Road to Serfdom". Although some economists in Europe criticized this book as "not a work of economics at all," the book was still widely sought after, and Professor Huck himself won the "Macdonald Prize in Economics". ".

Such things are naturally not something that Qiu Jin and others, who have no large-scale production practice at all, can see the problem. In addition, the people of the Liberation Association themselves have a tendency to oppose government interference. When they first established this group, an important idea for the future of China was that the government did 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. However, the idea that the government should interfere with everyone as little as possible is naturally more acceptable to them. So after three months of study, the gang of Liberation Association have basically mastered some skills, and they have also become fans of free trade.

Free trade is indeed a good thing, especially when this kind of thing is reflected in the legal provisions, it is absolutely very fair. But in fact, such "fairness" only benefits the strong. In a sense, the greatest function of an unrestricted free trade and free economy is to ensure that the strong are always strong.

In later generations, the Bald Government once signed a trade treaty with A-mei on official holidays, which was very equal in terms of terms-the "Flower Growers and A-mei Period Trade Agreement", which stipulated that the two countries should implement fair and free trade and exempt each other from all tariffs. , To give the other party full national treatment, the ships of both parties can enter the other's territorial waters at will, and the enterprises of both parties can also operate in the other's land just like their own enterprises. For example, mining is not a problem.

However, such an equal treaty was criticized by some later as the largest and most thorough traitorous treaty in the history of flower growers. Why? Because if such a treaty is really implemented, it will be equal to letting babies and heavyweight boxing champions compete fairly on the same ring. As a result, the babies will be wiped out and the boxing champions will win.

In fact, it has been these years that the people of United States chanted "free trade". For a long time after the Civil War, the people of United States have always insisted on high tariffs. It was not until these years that the size of the United States economy surpassed that of the United Kingdom, and there were signs of market saturation in the country, that United States began to become a propagandist of free trade. The strange thing is that the United Kingdom, the loudest voice of free trade in the early years, has changed its tone unknowingly.

Of course, it is not enough just to brainwash the idea. The most reliable thing is always profit. Therefore, the binding of interests is naturally more important. Historically, the Revival Society has always looked upon the group of Xingzhonghui people as unpleasant, but for a long time they could only form an alliance with them. The big reason is that Xingzhong will have more overseas backgrounds. Can get more money.

Now that Scrooge had the idea of ​​wooing multiple factions, naturally there would be corresponding arrangements. So while the class was still in progress, in Tokyo, Chen Guang led the way, and Larry, a representative of the Macdonald Foundation, discussed how to cooperate with other members of the Liberation Council to do business.

The Chinese people have a bad impression of being a comprador as a spokesperson for a foreign company, because these fake foreigners often bully people on the strength of foreigners. Most of the people in the Liberation Association came from small and medium landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they also "deeply hate and ache" these compradors. Suddenly asking them to do comprador things, firstly they are not willing, and secondly, it is easy to shake their basics. So letting them directly act as agents for McDonald’s products is not a good way.

However, there are other ways to open medical schools and Western-style hospitals through their relationship.

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