Dominate the Country

Marx said: "Since it came to the world, every pore of capital has been dirty and bloody, and it is always ready to expand outward."

This sentence is really true.

Chen Ming also recognized this very early, so he put a few chains on capital before it was formed. The "Labor Protection Law" is the most obvious one.

Because capital must have capital to develop, and the more the better. For the sake of profit, they can do everything they can to squeeze and exploit the lower class people who work for them.

The Europeans at that time were pursuing interests, so there was the opening of new routes in Europe. The original idea of ​​the Europeans was to cross the Ottoman Turkey and open up new routes, because the distant East had the gold, silk, porcelain and interests they needed. Later, Columbus discovered America, and Europeans became colonists, first America, Africa, Asia..., Europeans plundered a large amount of raw materials, cotton, gold, spices, cocoa, etc. from the colonies, which laid the foundation for capital accumulation in Europe, also known as capital plunder. At the same time, they implemented cruel rule and extermination policies on the indigenous people in the colonies, which can be said to be extremely evil.

People are not born kind, nor are they born evil. It is "capital" that drives them.

The exploitation of colonies is only a form of "capital"'s external expression. If it is internal, it is the full squeeze and exploitation of the people of the country and the vast number of working people in the country.

Don't think that they will show mercy to their compatriots. For "capital", profit is their greatest pursuit.

What is the reason for the factory owners' wealth to grow so continuously? What is the secret of their wealth?

Don't believe what they say, "I have money, machines, and mines", money can make money, and interest can roll interest, that's all deceiving.

In China today, even elementary school kids understand one truth: all wealth in society is created by "people" through "labor".

Whether it is machines or mines, they are dead things in themselves. Without people, they cannot create wealth by themselves.

As for money, if the factory owners do not use it as capital to hire workers, buy machines, build factories and mines, and open shops, but lock the money in the cabinet, it will never bring them any profit.

In a word, human beings are the source of wealth.

The factory owners' wealth, including their food, clothing, daily necessities, and housing, are all created by the working people, and capital also makes money by exploiting the working people.

Although they clamor: "I 'give' workers wages, which is the remuneration for their labor. I do not exploit workers. This is a fair trade."

But are the wages that workers get really the remuneration for their labor? That is only a small part of the wealth created by the workers themselves through their labor. It can be said that 'wages' are the biggest means for capital to exploit workers.

Chen Ming repeatedly reminded them to increase wages appropriately, but no one listened.

Productivity is developing, production levels are improving, and social wealth is also increasing. Workers' wages cannot get a corresponding increase. This is itself a backwardness and a kind of exploitation.

An example can be seen very clearly. A worker working in a hat factory works ten hours a day and produces five hats for two yuan. However, the five hats produced by this worker in ten hours a day can be sold for fifteen yuan according to the market price. After deducting the various costs of making five hats, tool depreciation, etc., there is still a net profit of ten yuan, which is the value created by this worker in one day.

This worker creates ten yuan of value in ten hours a day, but only gets two yuan of salary, and the remaining eight yuan goes into the pocket of the factory owner. That is called surplus value. The time that the worker works for the factory owner for free is called surplus labor time; the value created by the worker in the surplus labor time is called surplus value. The factory owner makes a fortune by exploiting the surplus value of the workers.

More importantly, the price level in Chenhan has been rising year by year in recent years.

Or some people say that Chenhan has a stable national situation and a great economic development, and the prices of some necessities of life must have fallen year by year. Just like in the first few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the prices of ironware, salt, sugar, grain, textiles, medicine, porcelain, etc., all fell year after year.

But the fact is not like this.

The prices of many types of clothing, food, housing and transportation related to people's lives and rest began to rise ten years ago.

Including iron products and textile products, which are becoming larger and larger in scale, they have all begun to rise.

The Federation of Industry and Commerce played a very obvious role in this.

Therefore, at a time when people's living costs are constantly rising, the wages of workers have not risen for many years, which is a great exploitation in itself. Not to mention that those necessities of life are originally provided by factory owners...

Chen Ming does not believe that the workers in the factory will be calm about this, but the workers can obviously still make a living, but with the development of the times, the little salary in their hands will sooner or later be similar to that of Chairman Mao in the 21st century.

But also thanks to the blessing of "capital", the national power of the Chen Han Empire is booming, and the treasury is full of gold and silver. The people's pride in the country is all overflowing.

The most vicious "capital" on earth so far has given birth to the most prosperous and powerful empire in human history.

As Chen Ming can see now, the population of the Chen Han Empire has exceeded 30 million. After the society is stable and the people have the most basic food and clothing, the rate of household registration growth is shockingly fast.

If Chen Han did not have family planning, two or three children in a family would be the minimum configuration, four or five would be considered normal, and six or seven would be common. As for some wealthy families, more than a dozen children are common.

After all, China now has too many opportunities. No matter how many children there are, going to the Americas, Southeast Asia, and Southern Minzhou is still a bright future. There is no need to worry about them competing with the legitimate sons in the family for the right to speak.

But as a Chinese, Chen Ming also loves his family. Why does he lead China on the path of capital-based constitutionalism? Isn’t it because you want your descendants to still have the enjoyment of wealth and wealth a hundred years from now amidst the tide of world change?

Even if you are a direct descendant of the old consortiums in Europe, you have lost the real dominance over the consortium, but you can only enjoy the dividends and the influence brought by the consortium, which is very high.

From this point of view, Chen Ming is no different from thousands of Chinese elderly people, who only want his children and grandchildren to live a good life.

But if we want our children and grandchildren to live a good life, we cannot let ‘capital’ oppress the people at the bottom too much. Many people may say that China has a vast territory, much larger than the United States in later generations. Like the Americans, the large amount of land support can share a large part of the social pressure and reduce a lot of pressure. A large number of social conflicts.

If you don't have enough to eat in the factory, then go back to work as a farmer, or even immigrate to a place outside your homeland...

Among the major capitalist countries in Europe, the United States, and Japan in the original time and space, only the lighthouse countries did not need to face the fierce red ideological movement in the country. As for other capitalist countries, whether it is the old capital empires Britain and France or the newly rising Germany and Japan, which country does not have a large number of socialists in its interior?

It is land that greatly differentiates the United States from the course of social development in Europe. Why does the United States not have a problem with red ideas? It is because the United States has a unique situation - it has abundant land resources that can absorb excess labor and urban losers. Social class contradictions are not as sharp as in narrow and densely populated Europe. Red ideas are difficult to solve. Have appeal.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the popular remarks within Chen Han are based on facts. This is also the biggest reason why Chen Han's business community turned a blind eye to Chen Ming's previous intention to increase workers' wages. Even if that ‘fact’ can no longer truly appear in this time and space.

However, the lack of appeal of red ideology in the old United States does not mean that there has not been a major conflict between the two major class camps of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

How did May Day International Labor Day come about?

What is the reason why labor unions in the United States are so powerful?

In Chen Ming's view, the development of the situation may not necessarily be like this. He feels that the latter's support groups have ignored a very important factor - the growth rate of China's population.

God, how many people have immigrated to Nanyang, Nanmingzhou and America in the thirty or forty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China?

The number of Chinese in America, including immigrants and their descendants, has already exceeded 20 million, while the Chinese in Southeast Asia have passed the 50 million mark and are striding towards 100 million. Even the remote Nanming Prefecture has one or two million people.

Add to that Annan, Burma, Ceylon, India and Africa, and there are millions more in total.

Adding this to China's mainland population [counting Mongolia, Northeast, Outer Northeast and Northwest], 400 million may not be enough, but 370,000 to 8,000 people are definitely there. This is 60 to 70 million more than China at the same time in the original time and space.

In a future society where the pressure for food and clothing has been greatly reduced, Chen Ming believes that in 1900 AD, China's native population could surpass the 800 million mark and touch the threshold of one billion. Compared with China after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's medical standards today are still very lacking. But in twice the time, it can equal the population growth of China in just 40 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the previous life, right?

The population of the United States only climbed to 300 million after entering the 21st century. When class conflicts were at their peak, the population of the United States was only 100 million. This population gap of at least 700 million cannot be ignored.

"Have the national security, police and local garrison assembled?" Chen Ming asked Sun Xu next to him.

"Your Majesty, the national security, police and local garrison are on standby!"

"Deploy the Imperial Guard into Shanghai and let the Marine Corps impose martial law on Guangzhou."

"Waiting for my order..."

Chen Ming wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, but he had no intention of eradicating the root cause. Now he has raised his arm holding the machete to see how many people below are looking for money rather than their lives.

"Take a look at the movements of the Datong Party. Anyone who dares to stir up trouble will be arrested."

After the exchanges between China and Europe became closer, many European ideas flowed into China, including the red ideas in the utopian stage. After they were organically combined with the brains of some people in China's local Confucian school, a new political group - - Datong Party is freshly released.

Chen Ming has always paid close attention to this party.

The times are progressing, and the power of capital is really powerful. Under the mighty trend of history, rhetoric cannot stop it at all.

Even Chen Ming must pay careful attention to this monster that has formed a class and has vitality. When his 'will' could not make the industrial and commercial class bow their heads, Chen Ming could only use guns and cannons to force capital to bow their heads, making concessions to internal interests and concessions to the lower classes.