Marx said: "Since coming to earth, every pore of capital has been filthy and bloody, and it is ready to expand outward at any time. ”

There is really nothing wrong with this.

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

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

At that time, the Europeans were in pursuit of interests, so there was the opening of new European shipping routes. The original idea of the Europeans was to cross Ottoman Turkey and open up new shipping routes, because the Far East had the gold, silk, and porcelain they needed, and the benefits they needed. Later, Columbus discovered the Americas, and the Europeans became colonizers, first the Americas, Africa, Asia, ......, the Europeans plundered a large number of raw materials from the colonies, cotton, gold, spices, cocoa, etc., which laid the foundation for the capital accumulation of Europe, also known as capital plunder. At the same time, they imposed a cruel rule and extermination policy on the indigenous people of the colony, which can be described as the most evil.

People are not inherently good, nor are they inherently evil. It's 'capital' that drives them.

The exploitation of the colonies is only one form of 'capital' externally, and internally, it is the extrolution and all-out exploitation of the people of the country and the mass of the working people of the country.

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

What is the reason for the continuous growth of the factory owner's wealth? What's the secret to their riches?

Don't believe what they say, 'You have money, machines, and mines', money can make money, and profits can roll profits, that's all a lie."

In today's China, even the children in elementary school know a truth: all the wealth in society is created by 'people' by virtue of 'labor'.

Whether it is a machine or a mine, they are all dead things, and they cannot create wealth by themselves without people.

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

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

The vast wealth of the factory owners, including what they eat, wear, use, and live, was all created by the working people, and capital also made a fortune by exploiting the working people.

Although they shouted: "I 'give' the workers wages, that is, the wages of the workers, I do not exploit the workers, this is a fair deal." ”

But is the little pay that workers receive really the reward for their labor? That is only a small part of the wealth created by the workers themselves with their labor, and it can be said that 'wages' are the greatest means by which capital exploits workers.

Chen Ming reminded them several times to raise their wages appropriately, but no one listened.

The productive forces are developing, the level of production is rising, and the wealth of society is also rising, but the wages of workers cannot be increased accordingly, which in itself is a backwardness and a kind of exploitation.

This can be seen clearly by taking an example. A worker working in a hat factory worked ten hours a day, producing five hats for two dollars. However, the five hats produced by this worker in ten hours a day can be sold for fifteen yuan according to the market price, and in addition to the five yuan spent on making five hats, the depreciation of tools, etc., there is also a net profit of ten yuan, which is the value created by this worker in one day.

This worker made ten dollars worth ten dollars a day, and he only received two dollars in wages, and the remaining eight dollars went into the pockets of the factory owners. It is called surplus value, and the time when the worker asks the factory owner for nothing is called surplus labor time; The value created by the worker in the surplus labor time is called surplus value. The factory owners, on the other hand, make their fortune by exploiting the surplus value of the workers.

And more importantly, Chen Han's price level has been rising year after year in recent years.

Or someone said that Chen Han's country is stable and the economy is developing greatly, and the prices of some daily necessities must have fallen year after year. Just like in the first few years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, ironware, salt and sugar, grain, textiles, medicines, porcelain, etc., all declined year after year.

But that's not the case.

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

Including iron products and textile products, which are becoming more and more large-scale, have begun to rise.

The Federation of Industry and Commerce has played a significant role in this.

Therefore, at a time when the cost of living is constantly rising, the wage level of workers has not risen for many years, which in itself is a great exploitation. Not to mention the necessities of life that were provided by the factory owners......

Chen Ming didn't believe that the workers in the factory would be at peace with this, but the workers could obviously still live, but with the development of the times, the little salary in their hands would sooner or later be similar to that of Grandpa Mao in the 21st century.

But it was also thanks to the blessing of 'capital' that the Chen Han Empire was thriving, and the treasury was full of gold and silver. The people's pride in the country is overflowing.

The most vicious 'capital' on earth to date has given birth to the most prosperous and powerful empire in human history.

As Chen Ming sees now, the population of the Chen Han Empire has exceeded 30,000, the society is stable, and after the people have the most basic food and clothing, the growth rate of household registration is shocking.

If Chen Han didn't have family planning, two or three children in a family would be the lowest configuration, four or five would be considered normal, and six or seven would be commonplace. As for some large families, more than a dozen children are also ordinary.

After all, there are too many opportunities in China now, and no matter how many children there are, it is not a bad way out for a bright future to go to the Americas, to Nanyang, to Nanmingzhou. There is no need to worry about them competing with their sisters-in-law for the right to speak.

But as a Chinese, Chen Ming also 'loves his family', why should he lead China on the road to capital constitutionalism? Doesn't that mean that you want your children and grandchildren to still have a wealth and enjoyment in the tide of world change a hundred years later?

Even if they are like the descendants of those old consortia in Europe, they have lost their real dominance over the consortia, but they can only enjoy the dividends and the influence brought by the consortia, and the compulsion is also high.

From this point of view, Chen Ming is no different from thousands of Chinese old people, bent on the good life of his children and grandchildren.

But if you want your children and grandchildren to live well, you can't let 'capital' oppress the people at the bottom too much. Many people may say that China's territory is vast, much larger than that of the United States in later generations, and that like the Americans, a large amount of land support can share a large part of the social pressure and reduce a large number of social contradictions.

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

In the main capitalist countries of 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 at home. And in other capitalist countries, whether it is the old capitalist empire Britain and France, or the newly rising Germany and Japan, that country does not have a large number of socialists?

It is the land that sets the United States apart greatly from the European process of social development. The question of why the United States does not have red ideas is because the United States has a unique situation -- it has abundant land resources that can absorb surplus labor and urban losers, and the social class contradictions are not as acute as those in Europe where the land is narrow and densely populated, and it is difficult for red ideas to have appeal.

Therefore, to a certain extent, there is still a factual basis for this kind of remarks that are popular within Chen Han, which is also the biggest reliance on Chen Han's business circles to turn a blind eye to Chen Ming's previous intention to raise workers' wages. Even if that 'fact' could no longer have actually appeared on this plane.

However, the fact that the red ideology in the old United States did not have appeal did not mean that there was no great conflict between the two major class camps, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

How did May Day come about?

What is the reason why the union of Lao Mei is so powerful?

In Chen's view, this is not necessarily the case. He feels that the latter's supporters have ignored a very important factor – the rate of population growth of the Chinese.

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

The number of Chinese in the Americas, including the descendants of immigrants, has already exceeded 20 million, and the Chinese in Nanyang have crossed the 50 million mark and are striding towards 100 million, and even the remote Nanming Prefecture has 1 or 2 million people.

Add to that Annam, Burma, Ceylon, India and Africa, and there are millions of them.

Combined with the population of China itself [including Mongolia, Northeast China, Outer Northeast and Great Northwest], 400 million may be less, but 370 million or 800 million people are definitely there. This is 60 or 70 million more than China in the same period of the original time and space.

In the future society, where the pressure of food and clothing has been greatly weakened, Chen Ming felt that in 1900 in the Western calendar, China's local population would be able to surpass the 800 million mark and touch the threshold of 1 billion. Compared with China after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's medical standards are still very lacking, but twice the time can be worth the population growth in the short 40 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, right?

The population of Laomei only climbed to 300 million after entering the 21st century, and the national population of Laomei was only 100 million when class contradictions were at their most tense. This is a population gap of at least 700 million that cannot be ignored.

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

"Back to Your Majesty, the national security, police, and local garrisons are all on standby!"

"Send the Praetorian Guard into Shanghai and let the Marines impose martial law on Guangzhou."

"Wait for my order......"

Chen Ming wanted to kill chickens and monkeys, but he didn't plan to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Now that he was holding the machete, his arm was raised, and he looked at how many of the people below were still asking for money.

"Let's get an idea of the trend of the Datong Party. Those who dare to cause trouble will be arrested. ”

After the close exchanges between China and Europe, many European ideas flowed into China, including the red thought in the utopian stage, and after the organic combination of the brains of some people in China's native Confucian school, a new political group, the Datong Party, was newly born.

Chen Ming has always been very concerned about this party.

The times are advancing, the power of capital is really strong, and under the general trend of history, the mouth cannon cannot be stopped at all.

Even Chen Ming should 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 to force capital to bow their heads, make profits internally, and make concessions to the lower classes.