C3301 Monopolies and Empires (1/2)
”Xiang Ying, since ancient times, the hardest thing for humans to achieve was the leap of classes. Anyone who could change the structure of a country's class was a famous person in history!”
”How could these huge military nobles not be loyal to the Bonaparte Family? They were one, their hundreds of acres of farmland, their beautiful country villas, and a few small factories and workshops … It's all thanks to whom? ”
”Oh, the Emperor! It's an empire! Do you think they wouldn't work hard? ”
”As for those capitalists, there's no need to talk about them. No empire is willing to risk their lives to expand their colonies. Where can we find their cheap raw material base and dumping market?”
”All the products are f * cking sold to the domestic market? Is it digestible? ”
”When two huge powers get entangled with each other, it will create the royalist party with a lot of power in France!”
”Especially the military aristocracy alliance that these Bonaparte Family s supported with their own hands. Each and every one of them was injured, and each and every one of them was prosperous!”
In fact, they are engaged to each other. They are friends of more than three generations!
”In this kind of Iron Blood Alliance, any one of them dying would affect the interests of a large group of people … So many have died today, do you think that the military aristocrats who survived will get revenge? ”
Imperialism is the monopolistic stage of capitalism!
The phrase had gone bad in the political textbooks of the twenty-first century, but the children of that era had no idea what it meant.
And only those who had personally experienced the era of overflowing imperialism would be able to understand the three meanings behind it!
Capitalism began as a stage of free competition. The world of that era had not yet been fully explored, and human productivity was not very high. The quantity of commodity production was still insufficient compared to human demand.
At this stage, as a capitalist, the products you produce are almost all marketable!
In this era, merchants competed in terms of price, quality, service, style … There was competition in the market, but it was not cruel!
However, the era was developing. As more and more merchants had their original capital, their factories would get bigger and bigger. This group of people would have a new title, the capitalists!
Capitalists pursue the scale effect, because the scale effect can reduce costs to increase profits, and the amount of money earned is larger!
Scale effect stimulates the development of industrial technology, and thus improves the production efficiency!
If this continued, the output of a Steel plant in the outskirts of London, nineteenth century, would reach the output of hundreds of Steel plant in the entire ferry area in the sixteenth century.
The annual output of a spinning mill could even match the output of the entire UK three hundred years ago!
Great productivity forces the entire society to begin to change, and the development of capitalism will inevitably evolve towards the imperialist stage!
At the end of the day, those rich big capitalists did not want to compete freely anymore. They wanted to monopolize. They wanted to force the country to use their military power to help them monopolize!
”For God's sake, the Great Qing can only buy British textiles, f * ck off France!”
”All the cotton in India belongs to my British Empire. France will send you to Bangladesh!”
”All the coal and iron in Africa is mine. You, Prussia, can't even dream of taking a little of it!”
”I will order the shipping routes at sea. Whoever buys and sells them, I will get a pirate ship to rob you!”
This is imperialism, this is monopolistic capitalism!