"It's okay, Wei Zhongxian didn't pursue me anymore and said that I would give him five million taels of silver in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, at least I can save a lot of expenses for more than a year." Wei Bao laughed.

Originally, Wei Bao also wanted to draw a bigger cake for Wei Zhongxian, anyway, Wei Zhongxian would not live for the eighth year of the Apocalypse, saying that in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian would be given 10 million taels of silver, and 20 million taels of silver would not be a problem.

However, Wei Bao felt that five million taels of silver, Wei Zhongxian should have been able to accept it, saying too many things, it seemed fake.

"That's good." Wu Xuexia said with a smile: "As long as Wei Zhongxian's large expenses in this regard are saved, our life can be better." When will you go to Liaodong? ”

"Let's leave in two or three days, tomorrow I will go to my wife's house to visit my father-in-law, and then discuss with Liu Chao, Hu Liangfu, and Ji Yong, the eunuchs of the prison army, to leave together." Wei Bao Road.

"Then I'll let someone go and say hello later, my father and eldest brother will definitely be happy." Zhang Meiyuan said happily.

Wei Bao smiled at Zhang Meiyuan: "It's late today, everyone lives in the capital, and besides, I will go back to my father-in-law's house, don't be so grand, just let someone say it tomorrow morning." ”

"Well, when are we going tomorrow?" Zhang Meiyuan asked.

"Noon." Wei Bao smiled. I feel that it seems to be quite good to have an old man who is a British father-in-law.

is the son-in-law of the British duke, and the momentum is not comparable to a four-grade function.

The son-in-law of the British duke, converted into the influence of officials, is at least a feudal official, and the influence of a senior official above the second rank is the prince who has to buy it.

Zhang Meiyuan agreed sweetly.

That night, Lord Wei slept in Zhang Meiyuan's room, and he had to toss and turn.

Although the time spent together is very short, Wei Bao still fully accepts his wife who is alluring to the country and the city, knowledgeable and reasonable, and has a prominent family background, but sometimes he feels a little sorry for Zhao Jinfeng and Wu Xuexia.

Wei Bao and Zhang Meiyuan arrived at the British Mansion, and the British Mansion that had already received the news seemed to be very grand.

It seems that it is not the young lady who is going home, but the emperor and queen are coming.

Even more grand than the emperor and empress came.

You must know that with the relationship between the British government and the royal family, even when Zhu Youxiao is fine, it is normal to suddenly go to the British government to have a meal on a whim.

This is very difficult to develop this kind of affection between ordinary royals and royals.

For example, Zhu Youxiao and his cousins are also very close to the Fuwang family, so they will definitely not be so close, and even because the two families once had a relationship of contention, they are on guard.

And the British government is favored by the emperor and relied on by the Ming Dynasty, not only the imperial court, but also the royal family, otherwise the British public Zhang Weixian would not be able to take charge of the Beijing camp.

"Dad, big brother." Yan Tiannan behaved freely, as if he was returning to his own home, but politely greeted Zhang Weixian and Zhang Zhiji.

"Brother-in-law and sister, sit down, and you don't have to be formal when you go back to your home." Zhang Zhiji didn't care about his father's shelf, and first warmly said to Wei Bao and Zhang Meiyuan.

Wei Bao smiled: "Big brother hasn't seen him for a few days, and his complexion is a little bad." ”

"Didn't you?" Zhang Zhiji smiled and touched his cheek, although Wu Sanfu was gone, he was not short of playmates, drinking wine every day, and having fun.

Wei Bao smiled: "I'll talk to my brother later." He said to Zhang Weixian: "Dad, why are you unhappy?" ”

"How can you be upset? I'm glad to see you and Miyuan. Zhang Weixian said: "Xiaobao, I heard that you killed a lot of people in Shandong."

Wei Bao knew that Zhang Weixian would definitely talk to him about this, and said indifferently: "There are not many, most of them are bandits." ”

"It's a good thing that you killed a horse, but I've heard that you killed a lot of scholars, and it's not a good reputation." Zhang Weixian said: "Being an official is for the official reputation, and the second is for the people, I know that you do your best, all for the good of the people and the Ming court, but no one says hello, what's the use of you doing more?" ”

Zhang Meiyuan heard that her father was reproaching Wei Bao, and hurriedly said: "Dad, it's rare for my husband to go home, don't say it." ”

"What did I say?" Zhang Weixian suddenly became even more angry.

"It's okay, it's okay." Wei Bao hurriedly played a round and said to Zhang Zhiji: "Big brother, you accompany Meiyuan to talk first, and I'll talk to my father alone." ”

Zhang Zhiji said: "Dad, don't you say a few words, Xiaobao and my sister rarely go home, it's time for dinner, can't you finish eating?" ”

"What did I say? I haven't said anything, you guys one by one. Zhang Weixian exclaimed angrily: "Let's start eating first." ”

"That's right, your old man is, don't be like a lot of gas all day long." Zhang Zhiji said with a smile.

"I'm not mad at you?" Zhang Weixian didn't want Wei Bao to think that he was targeting Wei Bao, so he found a step by himself.

"Okay, okay, it's all my anger." Zhang Zhiji smiled indifferently.

Wei Bao sighed secretly, knowing very well that a traditional grandfather like Zhang Weixian, Zhang Weixian was completely from the position of the big landlord class.

He frantically suppressed the big families of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai, even if there are no people who have a good relationship with the Zhang family and have world friends, there must be many rumors that have reached Zhang Weixian's ears, Zhang Weixian must be unhappy, and he will feel uneasy.

Wei Bao implemented the capitalist system, in order to make the small capitalist sprouts of the Ming Dynasty blossom and bear fruit.

This certainly touches on the interests of traditional feudalism.

In fact, in Wei Bao's view, although he hit the landlord class of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai very hard, he did not break his bones, and Wei Bao was still relatively protective of small and medium-sized landlords, at most squeezing about half of their net worth, and did not want to die.

Wei Bao copied a lot of people's homes, most of them were official gentry, and those were all big landlords!

These people are the most against him, and they are the richest, if they don't raid these people's homes, the people of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai will not be able to survive this winter!

Therefore, because of this, Zhang Weixian will have opinions on what Wei Bao did in other places.

Wei Bao also seems to find that he is still very unfamiliar with the real upper class like Zhang Weixian, and it is easy to be cold, and he doesn't know what to say.

Maybe because of the age and experience of the two people, there is too much difference.

The main thing is experience.

Although Wei Bao has graduated for many years in modern times, he can do the simplest manual labor, and the level he touches is the lowest level of society.

For example, in the high-end environment of the British Mansion now, Wei Bao still sometimes feels that he is still very uncomfortable and cannot really be so natural.

This is to be accumulated over time, the environment is like this, and so is the people, and the people who come into contact with them are all powerful people, people in the middle and upper classes of society, and of course, people at the bottom of society.

Zhang Weixian's knowledge is broad, while Wei Bao's knowledge is narrow and shallow, these are the barriers between the two people.

Of course, the most important thing is the irreconcilable contradiction between class positions, or the difference in views of the world.

This has risen to the level of a contradiction in the worldview.

Zhang Weixian didn't know, but Wei Bao was really clear.

The germination of capitalism in China can be roughly divided into several stages.

Capitalism has long arisen in China, and by the Qing Dynasty, China had entered a period of commercial capitalist development.

"The sprouts of a new social and economic system" have already emerged within China's feudal social and economic structure, and "factors negating its parent body already exist and develop in the body of Chinese feudal society." Assuming that there was no invasion of international capitalism at that time, China's feudal society might have collapsed and degenerated into a capitalist society due to the development of the negative factors contained in its own body.

However, the invasion of foreign capitalism cut off this historical stage and enabled China's economy to embark on a semi-colonial and semi-feudal development path to socialism."

The degree of capitalist development in China is limited, and it is only a quantitative change, not a qualitative change.

At that time, the operation of the handicraft industry had not yet reached the stage of completion of the factory handicraft industry, and the capitalist method of production had not really matured.

What exactly is the germination of capitalism and when did it appear, originally most scholars advocated the Ming and Qing dynasties, and later the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty appeared.

Evaluate the degree and level of capitalist development, and whether there were qualitative changes in Chinese society from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Opium War.

Did the budding capitalism have any impact on the class structure of the society at that time, and whether there was a civil society and a citizens' movement during the Ming and Qing dynasties, involving the silk weaving industry, mining and metallurgical industry, porcelain industry, paper industry, oil extraction industry, sugar industry, agriculture, etc.

These problems are very heavy, Wei Bao turned out to be a bottom of society, and he did not touch such a big topic at all.

But Wei Bao is now the prison of an organization like the Heaven and Earth Society, and he is the only big guy, so he has to think about this.

Capitalism is a historical movement as a whole, not an individual economic phenomenon.

Only by studying the problem of the occurrence of capitalism from various aspects and angles can we obtain a more objective understanding.

Many scholars admit that some elements of capitalism first occurred in Italy, and some believe that "the elements of capitalism were clearly discerned as early as the 11th century".

"The system established in Venice raised from the outset all questions concerning the relations between capital, labour and the state".

The subsequent economic powers were Portugal and the Netherlands, whose fleet at its peak was equal to that of all other European countries combined.

However, the fruits of capitalism's triumph were not enjoyed by these earlier European powers, but were ceded to Britain, which came later.

The reason why capitalism blossomed and bore fruit in Britain was because Britain had the comprehensive conditions for capitalist development and modernization; The reason why other countries did not go on the path of modernisation before or at the same time as Britain was because they lacked the conditions of one kind or another. At present, some scholars argue the reasons for the success of capitalism from the special advantages that Britain has, and the more representative views are the industrial revolution, coal and iron resources, and breakthroughs in science and technology.

All of these arguments are valid, but they are only one aspect of the story.

The British model of modernization from capitalist development does have its peculiarities, which other countries cannot have, that is, its environmental advantages, resource advantages, market advantages, developed financial industry, rich reporting of overseas colonization, early industrialization, technological breakthroughs and scientific inventions that accompany industrialization, and the progress of knowledge, including humanities and social sciences, and so on.

Other countries may have one or several of these factors, but not all of them, for example, Italy has a market advantage, but does not have a resource advantage, industrialization advantage, etc.

The Netherlands had advantages in the environment, the market, and the overseas colonization, but the Netherlands was not on the way to industrialization, and the commercial capitalism of Amsterdam was soon defeated by the attack of industrial capitalism in London.

France, on the other hand, lost the opportunity to compete for the first place in Europe due to the premature loss of its colonies and the missed opportunity to industrialize.

It is not difficult to see that Britain is blessed with unique conditions, and in this sense, Britain is indeed special, an "exception", and the rest of the world is the norm.

The general law of the expansion of social reproduction, embodied in the British experience, is applicable to the modern chemical industry of any country or region.

However, as a specific historical phenomenon, the British experience is very unique and not universal, and in this sense, the British model is not of universal significance to the study of the occurrence of modern industrialization in other countries or regions."

The economy is never isolated. The place of economic activity is also the cultural, social, and political refuge of other entities, which are constantly infiltrating the economy in order to promote or hinder economic development.

It is difficult for these entities to separate from each other because the experience we observe is real and forms a whole.

In the second half of the fifteenth century, all the factors and forces that influenced the transition of Europe from the Middle Ages to modern society were at work at the same time, and sometimes they even merged together, making it difficult to distinguish them. These forces are a mixture of objective conditions, practices, and ideas.

Comparing the experience of Europe, especially the United Kingdom, Wei Bao has conducted an in-depth study of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has also made his own exploration of why capitalism did not occur in China.

Wei Bao believes that the backwardness of science and technology since the Ming and Qing dynasties is the main reason for the sluggish development of modern China.

"Overdensification" due to population pressure is the root cause of the failure of the new mode of production.

China's excessively centralized system and lack of a tradition of number-based governance have hindered China's move toward capitalism.

The lack of energy in the south of the Yangtze River in China and the pattern of relying heavily on light industry and heavy industry are major obstacles to China's modernization.

China's energy production, mainly due to the failure to solve the problem of power in coal, the deterioration of the ecological environment, the rapid increase in population and other factors, has led to the "great divergence" of the historical development of China and the West.

There are many other arguments, such as China's excessively high transaction costs, such as too high taxes levied by the state, plundering by corrupt officials, lack of laws, unstable property rights, forcible seizure by the state, large rural population, and closed geographical location.

As he stays in this era, Wei Bao is actually very confused at times.

Wei Bao also doubted whether he was doing the right thing, it seemed that the closer he was to the emperor, Wei Zhongxian, and Zhang Weixian, the easier it was for him to do things, and the greater his achievements.

But on the contrary, unlike their Tao, the greater Wei Bao's resistance, many times it will feel thankless.

Therefore, sometimes, Wei Bao is also very painful, thinking about going with the flow and mixing to the end, anyway, there are Weijiazhuang and Liaonan at the bottom, and it is no problem for him to be a warlord, he can go back to Weijiazhuang to be a warlord now.

No one can stop it.

But as a reborn crossing giant, if the goal is just to be a small warlord in a corner, Wei Bao himself will look down on himself a little, and feel that he is sorry for himself as a reborn crossing giant, beyond the knowledge of everyone in this era.

After all, I know very well the direction of history, and I know very well which direction history will go in the future.

Wei Bao doesn't want to see that the people are hungry and unclothed, struggling on the line of life and death.

I don't want to participate in this period of history, still as before, slowly go to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to enter the customs, and slowly wait for the great powers to come and open the country with strong ships and cannons, and everyone will be slaves of foreigners.

Therefore, even if Wei Bao is contradictory, he has not changed his original intention.

For people like Zhang Weixian, the best way is to have less contact, but unfortunately Zhang Weixian can't do it, this is his father-in-law.