Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 293: Feeling like facing an abyss, like walking on thin ice

In fact, there is a question that Zhao Guangmei has been thinking about for several years since he founded the trading company: Is the financial capital society really better than the imperialist society?
In other words, when the imperial era is destined to be lonely or upgraded, should society be pushed into a state capital society or a financial capital society?

Once upon a time, this seemed to be an issue that did not need to be debated. Zhao Guangmei herself had no brains and instinctively felt that social capitalism must be superior to imperialism.

However, with the intervention of Zhao Guangmei in the Song Dynasty, black technology was in chaos, and the industrial revolution was in chaos. In addition, the size of the Song Dynasty was far beyond that of small countries such as Britain and France, and the Song Dynasty had just emerged from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Now, the army can fight, is warlike, dares to fight, and is even particularly cruel to a certain extent, with special characteristics of animals.

In essence, the Song Dynasty was about to enter, or even had already entered, imperialism.

At this time, if we want to push forward the Song Dynasty in terms of social structure, we can only prepare for the next financial capital or national capital.

Then, when Zhao Guangmei was actually in it, he finally discovered that financial capital or state capital was really a superior society to imperialism?

The so-called imperialism means that the country and the entire society have fallen into a huge industrial frenzy. For the sake of new markets, new raw materials, and new labor force, the entire society will be coerced by capital and invade and invade the world all the time. Colonization means taking the people's fat and anointing from other weak countries in the world to support themselves.

There is definitely something wrong with it on a moral level. In my childhood texts, I cursed the imperialist powers thousands of times.

But morals aside, the Song Dynasty’s army and even the essence of society really had no morals. Just from a practical point of view, is such a society really bad?
The weaknesses of imperialism are nothing more than low efficiency and the tendency for a world war to break out.

The low efficiency is nothing more than the fact that in the process of imperialist aggression, the colonized areas will awaken their national consciousness and resistance consciousness, and will continue to strengthen themselves through constant resistance.

War is easy to break out simply because the imperialist powers are not one and they compete for each other's territory.

In fact, low efficiency is also closely related to competitors, because often the resistance and independence of the colonized people must rely on and exploit the contradictions between imperialist powers.

But the problem is that for the Song Dynasty, there is only one cloud in the sky and the earth.

Among the imperialist powers, they are the only one, the Song Dynasty.

Other countries, none of them have entered the era of hot weapons so far, and some even don’t know how to smelt iron. They are all not on the same level. They are all dimensionality reduction strikes. The Song Dynasty’s military front The only limiting factors are transportation and logistics.

According to the experience reported back by Zhao Kuangyin, after the Song army went to sea, the casualties caused by the indigenous armed forces to the Song Dynasty were not as great as those caused by mosquitoes overseas.

The situation on Zhao Guangmei's end is similar. Basically, they can attack wherever the supply lines of the Song Dynasty are sent. The Dashi Empire, which was once known as the invincible in the world, sent as many as they could when facing the Guiyi Army. The real Song Dynasty It is enough for the elite to do some guidance work. After fighting for many years, there have always been zero casualties.

There are no great powers. Isn’t there only one heaven on earth?

Moreover, it is still early for those overseas colonies to have independent national consciousness.

This efficiency is not low at all.

If it really takes society a step further, is this really a good thing?

There are only two directions for reform. One is to introduce a large amount of social capital, emphasize the free circulation of capital, and cultivate a group of so-called financial griffins. They will no longer pursue pure force rule around the world, but through financial control. An important resource of the country to support compradors.

In fact, this is what the Song Dynasty meant to the Khitan.

Although the external harvesting of financial capital will be very efficient and more hypocritical, financial capital is really a double-edged sword.

The history of imperialism lasted for more than 200 years of prosperity before coming to an end during two world wars, but this thing of financial capital...

Strictly speaking, its peak period only lasted for more than 30 years. Why does it feel like it is already declining?

The essence of this thing is a double-edged sword. While financial capital is harvesting others, it is also harvesting itself.

There was a time when I was envious of the so-called professional manager system and the so-called modern enterprise management system, thinking that it represented advancement.

But then I quickly figured out that that stuff was bullshit. If you really believed in it, you would be doomed.

Chou Country himself was almost killed by this trick.Because financial capital does not need to hold a company all the time, it does not value long-term benefits but only short-term benefits. For financial capital, is the most profitable way to run the industry well?
Definitely not, it must be to directly invest in a mature company, then squeeze out all the potential of this company, and finally leave a lot of bad debts, leaving it to the investors to take over at a high position to find the next target.

What kind of bullshit professional managers are there? Just look at the increasing number of Indian senior officials in Silicon Valley and you will know that this stuff is pure nonsense. Who wants to run a good company and hire Indians?
The biggest characteristic of Indians is that they are really obedient. They will do whatever the boss tells them to do. Generally speaking, as long as there are senior Indian officials in a company, in the next few years, everything that can be outsourced will be outsourced. All the baggage will be thrown away. R&D will be cut, channel fees will be cut, suppliers will be bullied, all long-term projects will be cut off, and a lot of specious and non-existent projects will be created, but the gimmicks are great and very suitable for bragging PPT.

This ability, to put it mildly, is called being good at integrating supply chain resources.

But to put it bluntly, this is called being good at being a dog.

Ordinary white elites, or even Chinese elites, really cannot do such shameless things.

These measures will quickly enable a company to earn huge short-term profits and hand over an extremely beautiful financial statement to deceive investors.

But after being bullied, will suppliers turn to competitors or even expand their own industrial chains? Will the researchers of long-term projects that have been cut off turn around and go to your competitors? What is the true meaning of being squeezed out by PPT? Whether technical personnel will consider starting their own business is something that financial capital does not consider.

Their purpose is to take advantage of the high price of the stock and throw it to the taker to run away. Are these things related to others?
When the time comes, corporate profits will decline or even go bankrupt, employees will lose their jobs, and core technologies will be exported to other countries. These will make the country's deindustrialization more serious. What does this have to do with them?
The so-called de-industrialization, generally low-end industrialization is indeed wiped out by labor unions, but the real high-end manufacturing is completely wiped out.

If you think about it for a moment, you will know. In my impression, those high-end companies on the other side of the ocean that once reached the sky, truly led the world, and led the transformation of the productivity of all mankind, have they all been squeezed out since the Indian senior officials were replaced? Have you had toothpaste for years?

All the technical backbones have come to Dongda University, and Dongda University as a whole is almost catching up in terms of scientific and technological strength.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for the incompetence of financial capital, it might be difficult for Dongda to close this technological gap in 100 years. However, with the help of these financial capital, it seems that it will not be able to use it in ten years.

Thanks to the financial capital and senior Indian officials for their indelible contributions to the rejuvenation of the ancient oriental nation.

So this is actually Zhao Guangmei's biggest concern about the social reform of commercial banks.

The efficiency brought by financial capital is high, but now that the Song Dynasty is seeking defeat, there is no need to make the efficiency so high. It is better to be more stable.

However, he still understands the principle that blocking is worse than sparing. With the further development of society, social capital will inevitably be willing to get on the bus, and preventing people from getting on the bus is not conducive to the gap between the rich and the poor.

The affairs of the trading company cannot always be controlled by Zhao Guangmei alone. Sooner or later, he and Zhao Kuangyin will grow old and die.

After the two of them died, no one in the world would still have such a high prestige. It would be a matter of time for social capital to join the train. Europe already had a large number of Jews representing financial capital during the imperialist period, and Jews were not It only came into prominence after World War II.

Moreover, if finance serves as the lubricant of the real economy, in fact, as long as the priorities are not reversed, it can still promote society to a certain extent, and there is no need to kill it with a stick.

Therefore, what Zhao Guangmei should do should be to guide their financial development in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, in addition to financial capital, there is actually another method called state capital. To put it bluntly, the imperial court has absolute control over finance.

This approach... there must be no problem in the early stage. In fact, in Zhao Guangmei's view, the large capital of their Song Dynasty is now in the hands of the commercial banks. In essence, it is in the hands of the imperial court.

Isn’t their Zhao family the country?
But the biggest problem with the development of state capital is that it will definitely turn into bureaucratic capital.

Bureaucratic capital must be controlled, otherwise its destructive power will be no less than that of financial capital.

Therefore, this is a question of who is more difficult to manage, financial capital or bureaucratic capital, and Zhao Guangmei himself does not have an answer to this question.

How to maintain the balance between the two is his biggest challenge in reforming the Song Dynasty Commercial Bank.

This kind of major event related to the development of a country or a nation for hundreds or even thousands of years suddenly fell on his shoulders when there was no standard answer.

Only then did Zhao Guangmei finally truly experience what it means to be in an abyss and to walk on thin ice.

(End of this chapter)