Chapter 236: Capital Accumulation with Blood
"Indians...... Aztec ......"
Elizabeth looked at her father with a look of surprise and asked, "Daddy, is this Mr. Arthur telling the truth?" ”
Governor Swan said with an embarrassed face, "This ...... Ahem...... We're English, and Hernando is Spanya, so it's none of our business. ”
Elizabeth said with anger on her face: "The Indians are the natives of this place! How could the Span people be so cruel! Thank you, Mr. Arthur, for telling me about this coin, if you hadn't told me, I would have thought it was a pirate coin. ”
Xu Feng smiled faintly and didn't say anything.
In fact, Pirates of the Caribbean does not explain in much detail the ins and outs of the Aztec coins.
But the Aztec gold coin is real.
The Aztecs of the Indians are also real.
Just like Xu Feng said, they took out almost all their wealth, just to be able to live peacefully in their own land, but unfortunately......
If you fall behind, you will be beaten, this is the truth summed up by the saints.
Your enemies will never stop bullying you just because you are weak.
Why has the Western world been so developed for nearly 300 years?
Is it their civilization that is excellent?
Are they inherently strong enough?
Neither.
Before the Age of Discovery, they had no "civilization" at all, and the ones that really had a complete system of civilization were the four ancient countries.
After the opening of the Age of Discovery, they relied on their own strong ships and cannons, and continued to plunder, completing the primitive accumulation of capital.
100% of modern Westerners have directly or indirectly benefited from the burning and looting of their ancestors.
The high welfare and high treatment that their descendants now enjoy is not the result of their ancestors' hard work and every penny saved, but the result of their ancestors driving strong ships and guns and plundering away the fruits of other people's ancestors' hard work and every penny.
This is the accumulation of capital with blood.
Is capital accumulation important?
For capitalism, without capital accumulation, there is nothing.
It's like if you're going to open a small supermarket, you have to buy goods, you have to yard goods, you have to deal with returns, you have to smile at customers, you have to be careful of thieves or anything - but none of these factors matter, the most important thing is that you have to have the capital.
A bottom merchant rents 30,000 yuan a month, and the decoration of container channel products is messy to invest 100,000 yuan at one time, and if you hire a helper, the start-up capital must be prepared at least 200,000 yuan.
You earn 3,000 a month, how can you take out the 200,000?
In other words, by what means do you accomplish this "capital accumulation"?
The correct answer should be through one's own hard work, one year not two years, two years, three years, five years, and ten years.
For the empires of the 17th century, they used a simpler method, which was plunder.
If you don't have gold, it's okay, just grab it.
The locals are against it, it doesn't matter, just kill them all.
The Indians once ruled the whole of the Americas, including South America, North America, and the Caribbean, but now purebred Indians are as precious as giant pandas.
What's wrong?
They were all slaughtered.
The marauders not only slaughtered the Indians, but also erased their remaining culture.
Not only the Indians, but also the Tang people, the Indu people, and many other ethnic groups that were not technologically developed at that time were plundered.
There are really not many nations that can survive that wave of looting.
It was in this way that the Western powers completed their capital accumulation, and then it became bigger and bigger, and the whole West has been strong for nearly 500 years now.
These 500 years of strength have been strengthened by sucking blood.
When this part of capital accumulation and the gains from commerce in the early stage begin to fade, their mask of "civilization" will be torn apart again, and another round of capital accumulation will be carried out.
However, when the time comes, things will be different.
Because they will face an Eastern power that has awakened.
The reason why the Western powers are now able to be polite and assert any "human" rights is because they have monopolized most of the vested interests in this world, and they can proudly stand on the moral high ground and criticize others.
But without the initial accumulation of capital, they wouldn't be any.
Without funds, their technology cannot be developed, and they cannot have any renaissance, they can only continue to nibble onions and grow potatoes every day!
Many modern Tang people worship Westerners and think that the West is rich and powerful, but they don't know where their wealth and power come from.
Their riches are through plunder, and their strength is the killing of all the heroes who rise up against them.
After all the heroes of a nation are killed, the backbone of the nation is broken, and they can easily enslave or wipe out the nation.
Only when there are people who continue to stand up and resist, and when people continue to become heroes, can there be hope for the nation.
It is precisely because of this understanding that heroes such as Huang Feihong and Huo Yuanjia will follow one after another, and use their own efforts to awaken the numb Chinese people.
Are the Dons strong now?
It's not strong, it's still far from those old Western empires.
However, the Tang people came from the point of being poor and white, not through plunder, but through their own hard work, and gradually caught up with those empires that started by plundering, and even now they are plundering oil resources!
This is the proudest place of our nation!
In the whole earth, there is no nation that can be as industrious, brave, and tenacious as the Tang people.
The genes of the ancestors are passed down through the bloodline, generation after generation, and they have never really succumbed!
Not in the past, not now, and not in the future!
As soon as he thought of this, Xu Feng felt his blood boiling.
“…… I actually admire pirates. Elizabeth fumbled with the Aztec gold coin in front of her heart, and sighed faintly, "It's hard to say, whether the pirates are more murderous, or our sailors are more ruthless, our sailors only protect their own ships, but at the same time they can plunder the ships of other countries, and can slaughter Indians...... Our sailors are actually more like the biggest pirates. ”
Governor Swan hurriedly said, "Elizabeth! Don't talk nonsense! ”
Elizabeth shrugged, "Okay, I'm just going to say it casually, don't take it personally, this dress is too uncomfortable, I want to end the ceremony early." ”
Governor Swan said, "Then you can wait for me in the car." ”
Elizabeth nodded at Will before walking up to Xu Feng, "Mr. Arthur, you are so knowledgeable, and I look forward to seeing you again." ”
As she spoke, Elizabeth handed her right hand, which was covered with white gloves, in front of Xu Feng.
Xu Feng hesitated for a moment, but finally took Elizabeth's hand, lowered her head and touched it with her lips.
It's called a hand gift.
And men can only do so if they want to.
A lady is willing to let the other party do it, which means that she basically recognizes the other party's identity or ability.
Xu Feng smiled faintly: "It's very simple if you want to see me, just look for Will." ”
Elizabeth smiled at Will, and then walked to the luxurious carriage with her personal maid.
“…… Goodbye, Miss Swan. Will plucked up his courage, but in the end he didn't dare to call her "Elizabeth".
[This chapter is a bit of a private item, purely written and written, not vomiting or unhappy. If you don't want to read it, you can skip it, and if you don't agree with my point of view, you can also abandon the book. 】