Chapter 550 “Profit”

If someone made a movie or TV series about the self-improvement movement, Pomona would definitely watch it.

It can be said that Hu Xueyan's purchase of raw silk was to break the monopoly of foreign businessmen, or it could be said that it was to establish a domestic monopoly for himself.

Li Hongzhang's purpose in controlling the self-improvement movement was also half for public benefit and half for private gain.

It is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to consolidate the basic industry from scratch. First of all, it is not easy to find so many "people" with the spirit of self-improvement.

It takes ten years to cultivate trees and hundreds of years to cultivate people. Zhan Tianyou is still a minority. The first batch of young children studying in Britain and the United States were 120, and only 90 returned to China. There are egoists everywhere, and those who have learned knowledge to make profits for themselves

The material life is definitely more comfortable than that of people who are dedicated to public service. There are many people, but talents are rare. It is very difficult to "become a talent". There are not even 11 people among 1.2 billion Muggles who can play football. Looking for

If you can't find the right people, it's better to imitate than to imitate, and there's nothing wrong with imitating or buying. Anyway, the funds given to those people will be wasted in the end.

Li Hongzhang deposited millions of taels of silver in the Chashan Coal Mine Company of Japan. Although the East India Company stole the cultivation methods of black tea, the tea produced in India did not meet the taste of the Japanese. The export of tea and coal mines to Japan was an important domestic fiscal revenue.

Li Fengbao is another story. Rebates for purchasing warships were a common practice in the business community at that time. Armstrong Company usually gave 5%, but some people accused him of not abiding by customization abroad and traveling with prostitutes. Some people said that the quality of the warships he ordered was inferior.

It even started from the speculation that "one person spends millions of dollars, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not receive bonuses and other disadvantages", and developed to "purchasing two iron-clad ships for three million taels, using a 20% discount, and embezzling 600,000

Use gold to fatten your bag.

Li Fengbao did not do these things that were fabricated out of thin air. The thick files are kept in the British Library. It will be obvious whoever falsely reported prices during procurement and enriched his own pockets.

Nash equilibrium talks about non-cooperative games. Warship procurement is like the most beautiful girl. If all the men attending the dance pursue her, then her female friends will turn around and leave. Military industry procurement is not only warships, but also machine tools.

Steel materials, equipment, and the first bridge over the Yellow River in Lanzhou were all built with steel materials shipped from Europe. These people gave up the most beautiful girl, but pursued her female companions, so that everyone benefited.

When the enemy is trapped, do not fight, but lose strength and gain strength. This is one of the thirty-six strategies of waiting for work, allowing the enemy to internally engage in internal friction, resulting in a situation from prosperity to decline, from strength to weakness. Although the people of Qin are the ones who unified the world,

The people of Chu overthrew the world of Qin.

Although there were three households in Chu, Chu would definitely be destroyed if Qin was destroyed. In Zi Zhi Tong Jian, when Wang Jian regained the Chu Kingdom, he used the method of waiting for work in leisure.

When the people of Chu heard that Wang Jian was coming with his army, they learned that the soldiers of the country were defending him, but Wang Jian built a strong wall and refused to fight. The number of people in Chu challenged him, but he could not come out. Wang Jian took his soldiers off every day to wash and bathe, and he was good at eating and drinking, and he was close to the soldiers.

Eat together.

The terrain of Chu State is complex and it is difficult to transport food. Qin State uses the Yangtze River and canal transportation. Qin State advocates water virtues and is especially good at water conservancy projects. With a stable food supply, it can go through the hard battles of conquering Han, Zhao and Wei.

Then rest and recuperate.

The princes of the Chu State would work together when facing a war, but if time went on they would argue over their own interests. After waiting for nearly a year, Wang Jian had no trouble sending troops to attack the Chu State again.

What changed European civilization was silk, gunpowder and printing. Not only were the Chinese translating Western works, the West was also translating Eastern works. Hu Xueyan’s act of monopolizing the market did not require foreign businessmen to do anything at all. They just waited for work and watched the Chinese people.

Just fight. This kind of Chu-style thinking has troubled the Chinese people for two thousand years, especially the business class.

There is competition and internal strife in the West, but "guilds" can eliminate these contradictions. They can mediate internal disputes and formulate business rules. Audi used to be four car companies, but later merged into one, which reduced competition. In the past, there were also guilds in China.

With a similar effect, the guild halls and business rules after comprehensive Western studies are gone. Everyone relies on their own abilities. Many strange people in the business world have emerged, but more people have been eliminated. National capitalism is difficult to survive under the squeeze of feudal bureaucracy and foreign capitalists.

It has not become a dominant force in the social economy.

The first group of people in China to become rich have a common characteristic. Although they don’t read much, they started from the bottom and worked hard. They are very familiar with the world and can think about problems from the perspective of others. Some people are addicted to getting rich and become addicted to it.

Becoming carried away, some people will clearly realize the importance of reading, send their children to prestigious schools, and take courses that they do not understand at all.

The Nash equilibrium is actually what the Chinese played two thousand years ago. If you don’t understand the loss of strength and the gain of softness, another way of saying it is to settle for the second best and not get the best. As long as it is relatively better, the win-win effect can make both parties

Satisfied, achieving the goal of making progress by retreating.

Those who are eager for quick success are often easily fooled, or do reckless or even harmful things. Li Fengbao occupied a good job, so many people competed with him, and there were too many things framed against him in the memorials. Unfortunately, there was no slander at that time, and he did not

He had no choice but to sue those who slandered him, and in the end he had no choice but to leave his job and go home to translate books.

In the herd effect, people will imitate the choices of others, while Nash equilibrium is to make the best choice in the overall situation that you can, no matter what others choose.

People are imperfect, and everyone has shortcomings, big and small. Tolerate those shortcomings, achieve harmony without differences, and cooperate for a common goal. This is a true gentleman.

The man who says that a woman is guilty if she is not chaste is a hypocrite. Anyone can criticize others from the moral high ground. It is the 21st century. Do we still need women to build a chastity arch like in ancient times to commend them?

The God of Love in the sky is only in imagination. The God of Love on earth is very worldly. Even Lotus has to eat and go to the toilet. Everyone wants not to make mistakes and make the right choice every time, but sometimes women will choose the wrong person and end up with the wrong person.

It is unfair to place all the blame on women.

She was deceived, or she acted foolishly on impulse. Who doesn't have a young age?

After it was over, Severus hugged her and cried. He cried so hard that he didn't look as majestic and cold as before.

Pomona said nothing and hugged the Death Eater quietly.

In the 1970s, Voldemort was surrounded by elites, either heirs of large families or capable people. Anyone who wanted to manage "connections" would find a way to get in.

No one thought that the handsome Dark Lord was a madman.

A madman often doesn't feel that he is mad. He has his own logic. Nash is a madman.

There is often only one step between genius and madman. It is not easy to find someone who completely understands you. This may be the reason why the old fool has always been obsessed with the old madman, but he dare not take a step forward, because the old fool wants to be gregarious too much.

The old crazy prophet who was ahead of his time was not a man of the same world.
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