C3129 Comprehension (1/2)
”Xiang Ying! Answer me, and tell Bing Tai what happened! ” Xiao Letian said.
”Yes, Master!” Xiang Ying looked at Bing Tai and laughed, ”Class conflicts are indeed irreconcilable. The capitalists and the working class would of course clash with each other, but standing on the river of history, they are actually one entity!”
”These are the two sides of the Industrial Revolution!”
Xiang Ying had figured out the real worry of the leader, and had grasped the crux of the problem!
Although the capitalists and the working class were contradictory to each other, they were also one and the same. It had to be said that the working class did not even exist in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and only at the end of the nineteenth century did there exist such a class.
At the end of the day, technology was still evolving and productivity was increasing, resulting in the current situation.
What accompanied the early stage of bourgeois development? It was the great geographical discovery of the The Age of Great Navigation. At that time, the industrial production in Europe was actually in the form of a small workshop master.
The main source of wealth from that era was plundering. It was directly plundering people and resources from the colonies!
Spain and the Portugal were the representatives of that era. Their own country did not carry out industrialization, but rather, small workshops were scattered about, and a large number of people at the bottom were not workers but farmers and herdsmen!
Therefore, in that era, the power of the feudal lords was still very strong. The main contradiction of society was the conflict between the capitalists and the feudal lords.
Outside, these countries mainly sold black slaves. This was a direct robbery of people, or taking gold, silver, pearls, gems, and other precious natural goods!
No one was interested in developing a colonial economy. They were too lazy to industrialize their own country, so how could they invest in a colony?
So in that era, the working class did not exist!
It was the British who changed this. In the era of the Great Geographic Discovery, they were behind Spain and the Portugal, and when Britain began to expand abroad, there was not much fat left to snatch.
They could only plunder from the Spaniard little by little, then be forced to increase their domestic productivity, using the business model to earn gold and silver from other countries.
To put it bluntly, you are in charge of robbing. I will be in charge of manufacturing daily necessities to sell to you before earning them back!
The textile industry was one of the first industries to go into industrialization. Textiles were the absolute living materials that any country needed. Furthermore, it was a consumable product that required a large amount of replenishment every year!
What exactly was the nature of the Industrial Revolution? In the end, it is to increase productivity and reduce the cost of unit products, and finally let the domestic products make the world's money!
The same cloth, the same quality and color, you need fifty pounds just for making in Spain, and you can make a profit for a British retail sale of only thirty pounds!
How could they compete? Even an idiot would buy something of high quality or low price!
It was because of the textile industry's first Industrial Revolution that Britain had earned the first pot of gold in the rise of the empire!
When the Napoleon the War God swept through Europe, one side was at war with Britain, and on the other side, he had to buy British fabrics for his soldiers' uniforms!
This was not a joke, this was the true historical fact!
Britain's success had ignited the interest of many countries in the Industrial Revolution, because national power competition was a life and death game, everyone wished to be that strong person!