Chapter 531 [Autumn Wind Movement]
When the Daqin Times was first established, people were only shocked and surprised, but few people could see the huge changes that "information" brought to this era.
In the distant Persia, Abhas and Mogina were undoubtedly beneficiaries after the beginning of the Information Age. The crumbling Persian dynasty was already in name only when the destruction of Xerxes III and his Eternal Legion. The Persian nobles today were like fence-bearing grass, standing left and right in the gust of Abhasan and Mogina; the first thing they had to do every morning was to pick up the Persian "The Great Qin Times" to read, and learned that China was a huge country with a long history and even better than Persia. They learned that the distant East had powerful Shandong countries, and that there were six countries in Shandong.
The rich and powerful Chu, the old Qin, the controversial and passionate old Qin, the controversial hundred schools of thought in Confucianism, Taoism, Mo and Law, and the scholar-officials who can always be denied for honor... It turns out that this country has experienced many disasters and countless wars like Persia, and has experienced repeated divisions. But since the person called the Western Lord Bai Zi appeared, the country seemed to be full of vitality, and the ferocious Yiqu people were conquered. Bai Zi built the "My City" on the huge Western Xinjiang. The economic and cultural reforms he promoted have strengthened the once poor and weak Qin State, and also secretly changed the entire China.
Many suffering and wars are due to greed and conquest, and there are also many killings and blood that were not necessary to be caused by strangers. When these nobles had the opportunity to learn about the powerful country in the East and the great Baizi through the Great Qin Times, their malice unconsciously turned into guilt and timidity in the face of the strong and eager to join the revolutionary team. Now all Persian nobles can see that the Chinese are not trying to destroy Persia, and the spokesperson selected by Baizi is only Abu Hassan, the royal family and Mojina, who has royal bloodlines. These two spokespersons are really important. Kneel to our "Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom". Kneel to "Japanese" but the absolute unsupportant mentality exists in this country.
Perhaps there are still some Persian nobles waiting and watching. But those Persian merchants who had been pursuing wealth throughout their lives had already piously held up the Great Qin Times, and looked at the "First Theory of Capital" and "Introduction to Capital" published in the newspapers over and over again, and regarded Bai Zi of Qin and Zhong Wuyan, the strange woman from Qi, as messengers stationed on the earth. Each of them was the most savvy merchant. From the Nile River to the Aegean Sea, and then to the Persian Plateau, they had seen many dynasties and saw many wars and peace. But even the greatest kings and commanders in history could not truly convince them. They were never confined to Persia, but were looking at the whole world! But the appearance of "Capital" allowed them to find a god that is truly worth worshipping and a goal that they could spend their whole life pursuing!
Zhong Wuyan's lecture at Jixia Academy was very successful. Especially when Bai Dong, who was pressing the big shaft, then climbed to the podium, the Chinese businessmen were even more excited, including Xu Gong, who always liked to look at Bai Dong with affection.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the thoughts were most liberating and active, no businessman was a self-supporting fool. They had long been exposed to the so-called "capital" in their years of business activities, but their understanding and use of capital were mostly limited to the level of "making profits for capital". They could not see how great changes the real power of capital and the operation of large capital would bring to this country.
Is the market just a "customs" that are shoulder to shoulder in the capitals of various countries? Only the stupidest people think this way. The market has always been a microcosm of this country. It is another "world" composed of commodities, currency, and labor. You cannot grasp it and put it in front of you. However, no one will be affected by it, from the emperors and princes to the people and the people. They are all affected and changed by the market, and at the same time, changing this market.
This market is the fairest. It will not have human emotions, likes and dislikes. Even the most powerful countries and the most powerful traders with the most financial resources will find it difficult to completely control and change it; it will only be affected by its own laws, and this change will often affect and change those powerful countries that build them and the meat eaters who control these countries... Even the huge country with a territory of one hundred thousand miles will rest and violate its laws. If it is forcibly violated, it will inevitably bring great disasters! But the smart people in this world can use the power of capital to guide it, just like Wu Yuan, just need to give out money, and money will produce more money in people's hands. It is precisely because the currency fulfills its mission of "circulation" that it has a miraculous result...
Commodities, currency, labor, circulation, production and surplus value, value and use value... Bai Dong has never been a person who likes to follow the steps. What he wants to do is butterfly. It is not possible to create a god in a world in seven days. Therefore, the lecture at Jixia Academy is more like cramming ducks. It is just that Zhong Wuyan and him join forces to torture or be happy with the smartest and most diligent businessmen of Xu Gong. It is natural that they can understand it, and it doesn’t matter if they don’t understand it. Does China still lack the people who follow the "giant" steps to support themselves? I wonder how many Redologists have been supported in the later "Dream of Red Mansions"...
When he heard that the economic laws represented by the market are the changes, affecting the origin of China, any force other than that is just a weak mantis in front of economic laws, when he heard Bai Dong's evaluation of goods and values, as well as positive and correct evaluation of surplus value, Xu Gong's breathing was a little rapid, his handsome face was red, his starry eyes flashed, and his heart was bumpy... If it weren't for being stopped by Li Niang, he would rush to the stage to hug Bai Dong and kiss him, just like the most fanatical chasing famous clans. It was not rare to pursue famous clans in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Confucius often encountered such fanatics back then, and Mo Zi was the same. No matter how exquisite the sword technique was, he could not scare these fanatical fans.
Bai Dong is not an economist, but Xu Gong and the businessmen who were sitting in the audience had the potential to become economists. There are also many smart people who are striving to be on the front line of the business world. Therefore, he only needs to make a correct summary and generalization from a theoretical perspective. These talented and thoughtful people will result in the fire of letters he conveyed, lit up this country with commodity trading but no real commodity economy, and market but lack market rules. This is not the Xia Dynasty in the era of ignorant mythology, but this is the axis era where thinking and learning are active in the controversy of hundreds of schools of thought! This is not the China, which is still stuck in the primitive economic environment. This is a new Warring States Period with newspapers, navigation, silver coins and Bai family money!
The superstructure of China has now seen the capital era and commodity economy era that are about to come through the corner of the tomb cloth unveiled by Bai Dong; while the Persians have seen the changes in China through the Daqin Times. The developed information has made many people excited, many people feared, and many people uneasy, just like a stone thrown into a lake, causing countless ripples.
Just when Bai Dong was worried about Zhong Wuyan's fame and marriage to Qi Palace, Mu Xijing, who was in Western Persia, finally could not wait, which would make him lose his last chance; at the same time, there was another man who traveled thousands of miles from the Eastern China to the once glorious Susa, and this Persian giant city also cared his last hope... (To be continued...)
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Chapter completed!