160【Free】Your Majesty's left and right fight

Comprador businessmen like the Democratic Party naturally wear pairs of pants with the great powers because they rely on their strength to make money from their compatriots in their local area.

But such people greatly harmed the interests of another type of hero.

Naturally, it is a local businessman who does not have the conditions for monopolizing the market.

Yes, all the tycoons were supported by the Sea Emperor. Although the Sea Emperor provided great money, talents and technical support to local cloth merchants, arms merchants, shipping industries and other major Western learning industries, this group of merchants faced competition from the great powers when they developed, because the industry they were in was freely competitive.

For example, in the Far East arms market, local brothers and Huang En competed fiercely with foreign arms dealers;

In the East Asian textile market, Zhou Kaiyuan and the great powers' fabrics are very fussy and dumped at a price reduction;

Needless to say, the original tycoon He Bo has become the poorest tycoon. Almost all the small competitors on the route from Haijing to Shanghai have been eliminated. Are there only the two largest shipping companies in the United Kingdom and the United States? I wonder who can survive until the last moment of the enemy's death. It's a completely Russian roulette game.

Compared with the competitors of the great powers, the baby-like local industry and commerce are at a disadvantage in technology and talent accumulation. The only advantage is that the emperor strives to protect and support them, cheap labor costs and familiar with the marketing of their own culture.

However, even this advantage was offset by the "leader party" and the "big traitor" - comprador merchants. Comprador merchants provided local business intelligence, management talents, and marketing strength to the capital of the great powers that were eyeing them.

The strong foreign capital that local merchants cannot match can penetrate into the State of Song like a drilling platform, and then continuously absorb local gold and silver, causing local business competitors to wither. The drill bit of this drill must be a comprador merchant.

So even tycoons like Zheng Abao often can't sleep well at night, and have nightmares, they still work as a big arms dealer such as Krupp to build a cannon factory in Song State. The emperor helplessly threw his contract off the imperial throne and said, "Your cann't win the bid. I can't help you."

And this is possible

Zhong Jialiang had stabbed the local arms dealer.

This is because his industry's ability to attract money has declined. After accumulating a large amount of gold and silver, he turned his attention to various industries including arms.

The income from distributing foreign opium is decreasing for the following reasons:

1 Because of the belief in the Song Dynasty, the source of opium decreased, most of the young people born in the 1950s were Christians, and they were ashamed of smoking opium. It is also a terrible fact that they could not become officials in the Christian court of the Song Dynasty, so parents do not want their children to smoke;

2 The introduction and popularization of Western medicine has also further reduced the source of customers. The proverb used to say: "Toothache is not a disease, it will be a life if it hurts." A poor man cannot treat toothache, so he can only rely on opium, a sedative and pain-relieving drug; but now Western medicine says: "Toothache is also a disease, and it will cost you life if it is cured." Why can heal a certain pain, and you still need opium, or even addiction?

3 There are strong competitors.

The Qing Dynasty discovered wealth. Opium, a beautiful and evil plant, can grow well in China, and is really better than wild grass. Opium is growing in large quantities in various parts of the Qing Dynasty, making it rich in batches of people and poisoning more compatriots.

Due to soil problems, the various opium morphine contents in East Asia are as follows:

Macedonian Opium 15-17;

Persian Opium 12-12.5;

Turkish Opium 11-15;

Indian Opium 8

Qing Dynasty Opium 6;

The Qing Dynasty had the lowest content of morphine and the weakest toxicity, which was more in line with the constitution of the Qing people: smoking foreign opium can make you so excited that you can stay up all night, while the domestic opium is not like this. It is easier to quit. Because the popularity of opium smoking is extremely high, the proportion of people who are heavily addicted to smoking is relatively small. Choosing local opium is the best choice, the so-called thin poison can be more discontinued, and thin poison can be more smoked.

Moreover, because the labor cost of the Qing Dynasty was very low, the transportation cost of self-producing opium did not need to be added to foreign opium, so it was naturally cheap.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's self-grown opium is booming, while foreign opium sales are getting smaller and smaller, and it is trending to drive out foreign cigarettes and unify East Asia.

However, the Qing Dynasty not only produced and sold itself, but also smuggled to the Song Dynasty in a crazy way, because the Song Dynasty was a state-run monopoly on opium distribution, and the price was ridiculously high. Even if the smuggled Qing Dynasty tobacco was retailed at a very low price compared to the state-owned opium restaurant, it could make huge profits of more than ten times to dozens of times its own sales in the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhong Jialiang's industry was also affected by the land tobacco in Qing Dynasty. He was so angry that he wrote to the emperor several times, demanding that—more, more, more, more unimaginable—a crackdown on the smuggling of cigarettes in the Qing Dynasty. The ban on opium smuggling in the Song Dynasty became more and more severe, but it could not withstand the huge price difference between the two countries on similar products. Drug dealers were willing to lose their heads and smuggle them to the Song Dynasty.

His aides suggested that Zhong Jialiang said: Smuggling is just a wound of scabies and does not hurt the fundamentals; the problem is that the opium consumption market in the country is shrinking. Not to mention that churches everywhere are free drug rehabilitation centers, how many young consumers can be driven away by the Emperor of Light God who does not allow opium addicts to be officials? The gains of wealth in the past decade are actually the last bus to catch the Qing culture. The country is built with a god, and the opium market will always shrink to a certain level. Instead of waiting for death, it is better to take advantage of the fact that what you have money in your hands now and enter the current booming Western learning industry, and move from a strategy of sweeping the world with giant ships to an invincible multi-industry business strategy for fleets.

When Zhong Jialiang turned around, he cried when he looked at the local businessmen in which industry.

I can't resist this bastard who is rich and has a bunch of rich, skilled and experienced foreign friends. It takes a minute to enter any industry.

Zhong Jialiang also wants to enter the arms industry and get a share. Who said that the Far East is the world's largest arms market? But the low-end market is all occupied by brothers and emperors. He wants to start from the high-end market, that is, the heavy artillery market where local practitioners are very proud of the technology, because he has a good relationship with foreigners. For example, the British giant Jardines Trading Company is his loyal friend. Members of the British Parliament know that Zhong Jialiang is an important local partner of his country (UK) free trade in the Far East; so it may not be impossible for him to buy more advanced patents and equipment from Britain or other powerful countries to form an artillery factory.

The emperor wanted to obtain advanced military technology and agreed to Zhong Jialiang to use his own strength to form an advanced artillery factory, and even asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help Zhong Jialiang mediate the matter with all his might.

Now that the Chu and Han struggle for power may become a three-country tyrant. Will the brothers and the emperor want to eat Zhong Jialiang's meat? And it is raw. Before eating raw, you have to torture him to admit that he is a traitor.

Not only do local arms dealers hate him, but other industries also hate him.

Zhong Jialiang also formed the first Song State private bank, "Song Shang Bank". It is not necessary to think that most of this talent and capital came from his great power buddies. With a bank, the money that can be used as investment will continue. To some extent, it is to lend usury to foreigners to deal with local enterprises.

Zhong Jialiang formed the "Song Shang Textile Factory". The most advanced equipment came from Great Britain intact. He dug up a deputy general manager of Zhou Kaiyuan Textile Enterprise as general manager. Although the scale is not as large as Zhou Kaiyuan, it is technically the most advanced textile factory in the local area. Zhou Kaiyuan wanted to bite him to death. He was fighting with foreign cloth and was stabbed by this traitor behind him again.

He also wanted to invest in the American shipping company, which was fighting with Royal Shipping, who went bankrupt first. Because he wanted to take advantage of He Bo's in a hurry to acquire part of the shares of the local shipping overlord Huanghai, and He Bo would not sell it to him, so he wanted to threaten He Bo with supportive opponents and force himself into the industry like a robber to pick up the fruits that He Bo had fought for so many years. The three major shipping giants were all dying and just came to the scene to pick up the fruits and eat them. He Bo, who had been so scared that he had already been viscount, burst into tears in front of the emperor. The emperor immediately asked Zhong Jialiang to play mahjong all night, and Zhong Jialiang would not mention this matter.

It would be strange if a person like Zhong Jialiang doesn’t attract hatred.

Therefore, in the Longchuan election, when someone challenged him and threw 100,000 yuan in vain, he didn't know who this guy was, because there were so many enemies, and his enemies could not be thrown for free, but they could afford to throw 300,000 yuan in vain. It depends on how powerful you are, it depends on how powerful your enemy is - how powerful the enemy is the richest man in the Song Dynasty?

The Democratic Party is not only hateful, but also hateful. Not to mention that he also used power to demarcate a field for him to monopolize, and the court also found money and technology, which means that the court forced a new tycoon. In fierce competition, businessmen in various industries are envious and jealous of such official supervision of business enterprises. At the cocktail party, there is always a small group of people in the corner. Looking at the back of the proud and proud poet Weng Jianguang of the Song Dynasty, secretly said: "In that bastard's boss chair, even if the emperor puts a monkey, it will be so prosperous today. What's so crazy about garbage?"

Also because capital, technology, and talent training are all bought from the great powers. Weng Jianguang is also a foreigner's tycoon, and he is desperately trying to curry favor with Zhong Jialiang, an official and business tycoon who is the same nature as him. The local tycoon who could not stand it was arranged: "Weng Jianguang's ancestor is the emperor, his grandfather is the foreigner, and his father is Zhong Jialiang, and he is just a clue."

This is generally the case with all the Democratic tycoons.

Of course, it is biased to say that the Democratic tycoons are despicable and shameless and do evil because they are hated because they are despicable and shameless. Because in terms of being ruthless, the Liberal tycoons are not inferior to those of the Liberal tycoons.

Needless to say how vicious the two major arms dealers are, and they want to fight every day; it’s just that because becoming an arms industry giant requires a high technical threshold and power backend, and small arms dealers do not pose a threat to them, so they are not as cruel to small competitors as other tycoons;

He Bo's Royal Shipping fights all the way to the entire coast of East Asia, there are only three shipping giants. Behind this brilliant fact is that the price war between the giants has caused all small shipping practitioners to be defeated. If your company's ships are not merged into one of the three giants, you should wait for bankruptcy;

Zhou Kaiyuan doesn't have to know who his opponent is when he kills competitors. He just needs to look at the report and the cost of a new batch of products can be reduced. Because the American Civil War ended in the world's largest cotton-producing country, cotton prices were greatly reduced, and the cost was reduced. Zhou Kaiyuan is planning to launch a new round of price wars. As for the Qing and Song farmers who lost the traditional economic structure, the man and the woman woven the latter part, and the complete destruction of the local cloth market structure will lead to the displacement of many farmers, he does not consider it. On the contrary, he cheered. Only by eliminating the local cloth can machine-made cloth be unified; the extremely cheap machine-made cotton yarn will drain all the blood of the Song farmers, and the bankrupt Song farmers also have the choice to go to the sweatshop in the city and sweatshop. What will happen to the Qing farmers? Zhou Kaiyuan doesn't care. He has been upgraded from baron to viscount by the God Emperor because of his achievements.

As for why this group of equally stingy Liberal business tycoons hates the Democratic tycoons and backbones, the reason is that the other party is too easy to make money: the emperor has a piece for you to monopolize, and this fool can make money, while he faces a free competition market, working hard like fighting to earn wealth; even the small comprador businessmen in the Democratic Party, because they have a good relationship with foreigners, are familiar with Western learning, and changing careers and finding new fields to make money are more advantageous than the small businessmen in the Liberal Party, so the Democratic Party is God who gives you wealth and gold nuggets; while the Liberal Party is God who gives you hard work, and you work hard to repay your call, and God will give you wealth and honor;

So these guys from the Democratic Party are hated.

In addition to the different ways of making money and the greater comprador power, local industrial and commercial workers are at a disadvantage, which leads to great differences in their political views.

1International relations:

Compradors are all the bad guys of foreigners, and they fully support the demands of foreigners. They do not want conflicts and conflicts between the State of Song and the Great Powers; they are all pacifists in the eyes of the Great Powers;

Local industrial and commercialists fear the strength of the industrial and commercial strength of the great powers, hoping that the State of Song could establish tariff barriers and protect themselves from impacts; in the eyes of the great powers, this is a group of nationalists and has strong xenophobia;

2 opinions on the prey on Qing Dynasty:

The compradors were all imperialists strategically, hoping to seize the territory and people of the Qing Dynasty; because they mainly rely on monopoly or have good relations with the great powers, they have advantages over East Asia's industry and commerce in terms of technology and capital; one more piece of land is equivalent to one more piece of silver; for example, Zhong Jialiang immediately established an opium museum in all the cities in the territory east of the Hunan Xiangjiang River in the Qing Dynasty occupied by the Song Dynasty, and the annual report was so beautiful; Weng Jianguang hoped to attack Beijing, and it would be better to attack Moscow based on the premise that the imperial court gave money to build railways;

The compradors are all tactical people who maintain the status quo, because conflicts with the Qing Dynasty will affect their long-term and short-term interests: Take Zhong Jialiang as an example, every time the conflict between Song and Qing Dynasty conflicts, his sales of foreign medicines declined. The reason is that at this time, the number and frequency of religious activities in various places have increased sharply. I prayed for the frontline war, and I went to church. Who still smoked opium?

Other compradors are attached to the capital of the great powers and because the great powers are relatively strong in the Far Eastern forces, they will be stable with their natural returns. Once wars in East Asia start, the stable returns will fluctuate downwards. If their pool has not expanded because of this, of course no one wants to do this;

Moreover, the constant conflicts with the Qing Dynasty meant that the empire's military impulse was released, and traditions would gradually form, resulting in each conflict that consolidated the status quo of separatism, and the large-scale military actions that could cede land would inevitably be reduced, because they were increasingly unrecognized by the great powers.

In a word, the compradors hope to endure it again and again, and they can’t bear it anymore, and there is no need to endure it anymore; if they don’t fight, they will be fatal to cede the land.

Local industrial and commercial workers are all strategically maintaining the status quo, because they have an absolute advantage in the battle against competitors of the Qing Dynasty with the sacred national policy of the Sea Emperor: the court supports and encourages them, with less taxes, less fees such as likin, advanced technology, gradually complete laws, and corrupt officials with corruption and extortion, but few; so the products of Song State are really as devastating to competitors of the Qing Dynasty, and their only opponents are foreigners, and the latter faces the disadvantage of transportation cost bonuses from too far away;

If you can make money every day, it would be great to maintain the status quo;

If the whole world is unified, there will be elite merchants from Song State in various places under the rule of the Sea Emperor. Will the internal competition be intensified? Now the greedy officials of the Qing Dynasty are joining the merchants of Song State to deal with Qing Dynasty industry and businessmen. The competitors of the Qing Dynasty should not be bigger. If the heroes of Song State are bullied, how good is this

Besides, if the Sea Emperor carried out a great war to conquer the Qing Dynasty, how many years would it take? The wool was born on the sheep, and the military expenditure would not be born on the merchants? The people went to war, who came to the factory to work? Who bought their own products? The business development would stagnate; they would not be happy to stop for a day.

Even the fire merchants of the Song Dynasty believed that after unification, the world was cleared, and no one dared to threaten the Song Dynasty was the most terrible situation: the world was peaceful, and the swords and weapons were put into the warehouse, who would still buy my arms?

But all local industrialists and businessmen are imperialists tactical. The reason is simple. It is not in their short-sighted interests to launch large-scale national conquest wars or even regional conquest wars. However, small regional conflicts will increase the deterrence of Song State against the Qing State and greatly improve the operating advantages of Song State's industry and commerce in the Qing State. For example, if the Song army won the Hunan Army, the Hunan Army would not dare to collect the tolls of Song Shanglijin; if the Song army and the Ming army won the Huai Army together, the customs controlled by the Huai Army had to be honestly followed the "Song-Qing Treaty", and the tariffs were the same as those of Britain; if the Song army fought the Fujian Nanyang Navy and fled back to their nests in a panic, the Song State merchants would be arrogant in Fujian and enjoy super-national treatment;

So although local industrialists and businessmen essentially hope to maintain the status quo, they encounter troubles, such as the murder of preachers, the beaten fishermen of Song State by Fujian fishermen, the detained businessmen of their country by Qing State, etc.; as long as the newspaper reports, they are more fierce than anyone else, they howl and let the emperor and the army vent their anger for them, and implement God's justice - if they win, the emperor has face and compensation, and everything else is the same, and those merchants who need to go to the Qing Dynasty often feel good, the Qing officials in the place will be honest for a few years.

These considerations based on their own interests have led to the automatic division of merchants: compradors and rustics.

The compradors felt that the locals were all short-sighted nouveau riche: they didn't know how to consider the overall situation and always said unrealistic slogans. The Song State is not a great power yet, and can they have an advantage in diplomacy? Just a few salivas? When the Qing Dynasty encountered small things, they would jump up and down to show their loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and they did not consider the long-term at all. They did not understand the principle of keeping low profile and seeing the sword; pretending to be stupid |

The locals think that the compradors are all traitors who are elbowing out: they obey foreigners' words, dare not say a single fart, and their mouths are all from friendly countries; they say a few sarcastic words when everyone is patriotic, they say a few sarcastic words, what are you not impatient, and what are you waiting for the opportunity; when everyone feels that "enough, restore peace and continue to make money", they are excited and insist on killing the Qing Dynasty; is this arguing specifically about singing opposites to others?

However, whether it is a comprador, a tycoon or a small businessman, they all have one common characteristic: they are particularly loyal to Your Majesty.

If Your Majesty does not understand the grace of business, you will know it from a few days of traveling to the Qing Dynasty that the Qing Dynasty merchants lived the same life as their grandsons, and there were only two types of businessmen: officials and businessmen.

As for all the business tycoons in Haisong, almost all of them were supported by this divine emperor.

People are always ungrateful, but they don’t necessarily remember their kindness.

But there is another point. The emperor killed anything that he would support a tycoon in a minute. The tycoons in the official supervision and business office should not talk about it. They rely on the intention of the Haihuang to be more eunuchs than eunuchs in front of the emperor. Not to mention making jokes, or even deliberately expose their ugly appearance. They stole the positions of crosstalk actors and clowns. Once they played mahjong, the Haihuang accidentally touched his husband (teared one more card), and found that all the other three families had been full of their husbands. I don’t know when they stole the cards for their husbands;

The tycoons who compete freely also count on the emperor's favor, otherwise a new tycoon with equal strength and favor in their field would appear in the blink of an eye. Even if they lose the emperor's favor, they would fall overnight in front of powerful competitors. Therefore, they were more eunuchs than eunuchs in front of the emperor. Not to mention pretending to be crazy and stupid, or even waiting for the emperor to speak something, they would do it for him quickly, consolidate their position in his mind, and if it spreads out, they would steal the head. Once, at a court reception to entertain big capitalists, the emperor accidentally said that the tofu brain he had eaten when he was a child. The next day they offered more than a dozen tofu brain masters, and the brothers gave two arms: one was good at making salty tofu brains, and the other was good at making sweet tofu brains.

Extreme fear can also produce faith, not to mention that fear and love are intertwined, and countless competitors want to squeeze out the emperor who dominates the emperor's favor. Can tycoons not love the emperor? Do you dare not love the emperor?

Even the extremely crazy arms dealers believe that it is necessary to maintain the chaotic times in the Far East, but our Song State must be stable and strong, otherwise our roots and backend will be cut off. Without root support, how to make money, isn’t this nonsense?

Listening to Zheng Abao's gritting teeth, the essence of the two parties was clearly outlined in Jin Zhongji's heart:

"The Democratic Party is a great comprador and a government-supervised commercial office, while the Liberal Party is a local capitalist, and the two are just the emperor's left and right hands." ...
Chapter completed!