Chapter 1365 The Truth of the Abolition Proclamation, and
Nearly a hundred years ago, why did the United States liberate black people?
There are many reasons, but there are several clear points. First, the US economic development requires more human resources; second, the US market requires more consumers; third, the US needs more population to participate in national construction.
In other words, slaves were no longer suitable for the needs of economic development at that time, and were only suitable for simple manors. For the American industrial economy, what was needed was free people with more experience and skills.
This was also the development trend of American society at that time. Of course, there were some superficial reasons, such as human rights, democracy, etc., but they were all tricks.
To put it bluntly, there is no labor force in the north, but there is no freedom in the south, but slaves are not free and cannot migrate freely, so the north is under the name of a benevolent and righteous teacher, and everything is caused by interests.
Of course, you can also understand it as the abolition of the US imperialists back then was just a fitting cloak of anti-schizophrenia. We Chinese have been talking about the reputation of our masters for thousands of years. Isn’t this difficult to understand?
Similarly, in the Atlanta Empire.
Although he was named feudal rule, he was actually a semi-slave country.
Although slaves are the cheapest labor force, they are also the most powerless consumers. Therefore, if the things produced by producers do not have enough consumption power to consume, operations will not be able to enter a virtuous cycle.
Another, slaves just enter another form.
It’s like the boss of a private company is thinking that you will work for him to death, but he doesn’t want to pay you a salary. Did he suddenly realize it?
Zhu Zilong called on abolition of slaves, one to gain reputation for himself, and the other is that it is necessary to realize large-scale primary industry in the sooner or later Chinese bases and within the controllable area.
If the Atlanta Empire was still slavery, although the wages of slaves were cheap, their work efficiency and consumption power were too low, and they would not have much effect on the economy.
Recalling today's China, there have always been brick-makers saying that the rising prices of Chinese workers will harm the Chinese economy, but in fact, the high labor price also has the effect of increasing domestic demand. At the same time, although the price of Chinese labor is high, its labour efficiency is indeed higher than that of Vietnam and India.
The first thing that industry needs is efficiency. Efficiency comes from the enthusiasm of workers. Positiveness: Without freedom in life, even life is not his own. Can he be proactive in doing things?
Agriculture is relatively scattered industry, and it is quite tiring when sowing and collecting, and there is not much else. Industry needs to be done non-stop, without the enthusiasm for labor, and basically cannot command slaves.
If you want a slave to make precision machinery, it is as ridiculous as if you want a cow and horse to weave cloth.
So, no matter how you look at it, Zhu Zilong's seemingly kindness is actually full of routines.
His integrity is just as before and still fluctuates on the edge of negative numbers.
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Of course, Zhu Zilong's unconformity still has a bottom line.
In the future, even if the indigenous people were to become cannon fodder, it would not be as ugly as when he developed industries in the early days of British capitalism.
For example, in the early days of the industrial revolution on Earth, Sweden and the United Kingdom were engaged in the textile industry. The child labor mortality rate of Swedish textile mills exceeded 30%. The British textile mills guarantee that no matter who you are, workers will be exhausted to death after three years of entering the factory!
From the perspective of later generations, many modern Chinese envied the prosperity of Britain in the era of the Industrial Revolution, and despised the late Qing Dynasty China's eyes closed and corruption and decline.
But if you really traveled to the mid-nineteenth century and the British Empire at its peak in the Victorian era, then it is probably hard to say which one of the farmers in the late Qing Dynasty or the workers in the British were more painful?
At that time, the average life expectancy of the upper class (noble, freelancer, etc.) in Liverpool, England was thirty-five years, and businessmen and handicraftsmen with better conditions were twenty-two years old, and workers, short-term workers and general wage workers were only fifteen years old!
That's right, the average life expectancy of the Chinese people is lower than the war years of the Three Kingdoms and the war years of the late Ming Dynasty in Chinese history.
At that time, more than 57% of the children of workers in Western countries died before they were five years old. The result of the Industrial Revolution actually made people live even worse!
I have to work for 17 or 8 hours a day and have no food and clothing. I am unable to raise my offspring. My children are not educated and have malnutrition. I have to enter the factory at the age of five or six, and then I will die after three years of entering the factory...
The hegemony of the British Empire in the Victorian era was really exchanged for the lives and flesh of millions of British workers. It can only be maintained by constantly devouring and eliminating their own citizens!
China accounts for half of the history of the world's people's uprisings, and no matter how European countries look at it, the lords use the lives of the people to make the dog's brains.
Why did the uprisings surging and even create a Soviet Union in modern times?
Because before, it was better to live than to die. Now, "if you don't have a revolution, you're just looking for death, and the revolution is looking for death", haha!
Of course, no matter how bad Zhu Zilong is, he will not be so bad. Perhaps for the cannon fodder workers in the Atlanta Empire, eight hours a day to get off work and four-6 days a month may be a dream.
So, I used to be a slave. Now I am giving a lot of wages and freedom. I go to and from get off work twelve hours a day, and take leave a day a month, and take leave if I have something to do. Military management should not be considered too ugly, right?
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As the God of the "Abolitionist Manifesto" unfolded, and immediately under Zhu Zilong's suggestion, Pingna carried out a thorough reform of military nationalization, abolished the private soldiers of the nobles, and all the troops belonged to the state.
Of course, there are two most important things for her right now, one is a complete reconciliation with the desert nation and other great empires that lend troops to the second and third princes.
The second is to accept all the property of the old empire, crown it as a queen, and then marry Zhu Zilong!
Late at night, in the Palace of the Empire of Atlanta!
After processing the last batch of memorials of the day, Princess Pingna stretched tiredly.
The female court official next to him, the confidential female secretary, Du Meila sent a cup of hot tea, looked around, suddenly opened a soundproof barrier, and said softly to Princess Pingna: "Your Highness... Are you really going to marry that General Zhu Zilong? I think he doesn't seem to be 100% same as those Chinese. Compared with the Chinese, he seems to have intentionally eroded and embezzled our country!"
"I heard an old Chinese saying that those who know affairs are heroes!" Princess Pingna sighed and said:
"The original regular army of the empire, and my subordinates were almost completely killed or injured. The troops are now recruited, and nine out of the ten are joined by the army for less than two months. And most of them were forcibly recruited, and basically did not regard joining the army as their life choice. At most, they can only be said to be temporary workers in the military camp, or even worse, it is the hour. There is no gun in his hand, so he can only do whatever others say! "
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Chapter completed!