The 1896 Olympic Games left many videos and images, and the Min dynasty was not stingy as a public investor. Even if Western and Northern European countries were relatively close to Greece, athletes had to pay for their own travel expenses. Those countries without money enjoyed the transoceanic transportation provided by the Min dynasty.
Because of the strong protests of South American and Caribbean countries, the U.S. delegation did not appear at the opening ceremony and venue of the Olympic Games. In addition, the delegations of those feuding countries gathered under the five rings of the Olympic Games. Based on the tradition of the ancient Olympic Games, the Olympic Committee sent telegrams to all countries, asking them to stop all acts of war during this event.
As a representative of China, Wang Mingshan delivered a wonderful speech of "faster, higher, stronger." After reviewing the history of the ancient Olympic Games, he gave a new meaning to the modern Olympic Games. For a time, Europe's evaluation of the Min dynasty was higher. At least these people agreed that the Min dynasty was a highly civilized country. On this earth, it was normal for a highly civilized country to go on a killing spree.
After the Olympic Games, the Min dynasty won the first gold medal, and the British Empire won the first medal by two points ahead of the Min dynasty. This made the Min dynasty sports world have to admit that the British's reputation as the world's hegemon for hundreds of years was not undeserved.
A sports event attracted a lot of attention, but failed to solve the economic problems of various countries. The speed of British immigration to North America did not slow down. While the absolute population of Great Britain decreased, grain, meat, fish, and a large number of cheap food from North America sold even better in Great Britain. Britain had always been the largest buyer of European food. After the market remained saturated for a year, the low price of European food continued to ferment.
The Min dynasty had its own views on inflation. In the history of China, after the introduction of paper currency in the Song Dynasty, there were many cases of excessive paper currency leading to malignant inflation. In the era of metal currency, the problems of various coinage were also very serious. But most of them were inflation. Now Europe may face the problem of deflation. Wang Mingshan already had a strong desire to watch the fun. Military Governor Vaize said that high-speed inflation would inevitably lead to social unrest. Deflation was no less destructive to the economy than high-speed inflation. The Min dynasty had never encountered any deflation in all these years. Wang Mingshan had made a lot of preparations, hoping to write an excellent paper on deflation. He even hoped to open up a new research direction in the field of economics.
Not long after the Olympics, Hungary entered the autumn harvest. The ultra-low price of grain had directly caused a commotion in many villages. Wang Mingshan wrote in the draft of his masterpiece, "… The farmers who had to repay all kinds of loans and even usury sold their food at heartbreakingly low prices, but even if they sold all their food, there was no way to repay their debts. The usurers, tax collectors, landlords, nobles, and the Church are like vultures hovering over the heads of dying animals, staring at their prey. While they are feasting on the corpses of their prey, they are also ready to peck at the flesh of the next victim … "
On September 19th, 1896, a young man finally had the chance to sit in front of Wang Mingshan. Getting a meeting with the head of the Endowment for Democracy takes a fair amount of testing.
"We need weapons to resist the tyranny," the young man said straightforwardly.
Wang Mingshan didn't answer immediately. The young man looked less than 20 years old and had the handsome face of an ancient Greek statue. The pair of lively, sad, and determined light blue eyes were something that a statue could never embody.
"Can you give them to us?" The young man saw that Wang Mingshan didn't say anything, so he asked again.
"After taking these weapons, what are you going to resist?" Wang Mingshan asked. Although he wanted to support the previous radicals, Wang Mingshan didn't see the appearance of the Restoration Party in those people. Where there is injustice, there will be cries, and opposition will easily arise. But what about after opposition? After treading on a bloody journey, could there really be a future of flowers blooming?
The young man replied readily, "We heard that the farmers of the Min dynasty didn't pay taxes. Hungary has a land area of 200,000 square kilometers and a population of 20 million. Excluding the urban population, the per capita land area is at least one hectare. I hope that the time when all the land belongs to the people will come as soon as possible. My comrades and I are going to resist the enemies who prevent the arrival of this new world. "
"How many people do you have?" Wang Mingshan continued to ask.
"400 … Now there are only 360 people. I hope you can provide 400 guns. "When the number was mentioned, the young man's face showed some sadness.
"Some people have left?" Wang Mingshan asked.
The young man shook his head, "They have been sacrificed."
Seeing Wang Mingshan's silence, the young man straightened his back, "Sir, we will die in battle, but we will fight for our ideals to the last breath. Broken weapons have cost us too many comrades who could have survived. We are here to ask for your support so that we can fight longer. "
Wang Mingshan met the young man as an "ordinary staff". From this level, the young Hungarian revolutionary seemed to be worried that the Min dynasty couldn't provide those weapons. Wang Mingshan's face was expressionless. After the North American War, the Min dynasty eliminated millions of light weapons. The Osman Turkish Empire, which bordered Hungary, had all replaced China's old weapons. In order to avoid trouble, the weapons sent to the Cyprus warehouse this time were also old. So Wang Mingshan only said one sentence, "You can rest assured about the weapons."
The young man saw that the purpose of this trip had been achieved and looked much more relaxed. The two sides talked for a while about their views on the Hungarian Revolution. The young man's attitude was relatively blank. He had also been exposed to a lot of revolutionary propaganda and knew the political system of the Min dynasty. Unlike the firm attitude of Wang Mingshan and the members of the Restoration Party, Hungary did not have a leader like Vézé, and everyone's ability to understand the revolution was insufficient. After the young man left, Wang Mingshan wrote in the report, 'The Hungarian Revolution lacks a leadership group that stands at the national level to understand the revolution, and there is no revolutionary leader with great appeal. The Hungarian Revolution, which lacks a core, is more based on resistance to the cruel oppression of the old era, so individual spontaneity is strong, organizational discipline is insufficient … '
In January 1897, Wang Mingshan learned that the young man had risen to fame after a few months of fierce fighting. The young man might be a very talented person in music, or there was such a talent in his team. A local Hungarian ballad soon spread. 'The nobles have never thought about eliminating poverty, they will only kill the poor.'
As the saying goes, a tall tree attracts the wind. The team led by the young man was immediately surrounded by the Hungarian regular army and militia. The troops were scattered, and the young man was arrested while covering the retreat of his comrades. Such a fierce bandit naturally had to be publicly executed with great fanfare. The young man shouted to the onlookers in the face of death, "The nobles have never thought about eliminating poverty, they will only kill the poor. People of Hungary, rise up and fight for yourself! "
The Foundation for Democracy had begun to develop a certain number of personnel in the middle and lower levels of the Hungarian army. From the bail requests passed on by these personnel, the performance of the Hungarian revolutionaries during the public executions led the higher-ups to make a new decision. 'In the future, all the revolutionaries caught will be executed on the spot or not in public. Only the photos of these people after they were executed will be released to the public.' In addition, the Chinese Revolutionary Song, which had been renamed the Internationale, and the Poor Unite, which had been created by the young man, were all publicly designated as banned songs. Those who sang them would be labeled as "rioters" and would face imprisonment and fines.
This news made Wang Mingshan feel that something was wrong. Before this, the Hungarian revolutionaries still had an unconfident attitude, which made Wang Mingshan feel that they could not be helped up. He did not expect that this group of inexperienced revolutionaries would stir up trouble for more than a year, and the panic of the Hungarian higher-ups was even greater than the revolutionaries.
'Deflation has caused the entire social wage to shrink. The reason why prices are getting cheaper is not based on the improvement of production efficiency, but on the lowering of production costs. It is generally believed that workers' wages will substantially increase due to the lowering of prices caused by deflation, but in reality, because of the lowering of commodity prices, capital profits are reduced. Therefore, capital has to lower wages and even have to stop work. Because some production costs are not immediately reduced, production even has the problem of losing money. Even if it looks like a mild deflation, the effect is stronger than ordinary high inflation … '
Wang Mingshan spent a lot of effort to investigate deflation, which made him very interested in deflation.
'The root cause of the economic crisis of the capitalist system is that surplus value has been taken away. Under deflation, surplus value has become less, and the contradiction between capital and labor has become stronger. The less surplus value there is, the less money people have to spend. Without money to spend, the less surplus value there is. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has no colonies, and Hungary has no chance to expand its market. The narrow market of its own country has led to a rapid formation of a crisis … '
In March 1897, the first to collapse was not the long-depressed food industry, but the timber industry, which was the largest export in Northern Europe. Hungary, a grain-producing country, was only one of many countries affected by deflation. No matter how cheap food was, it was a relatively stable and valuable commodity. The contraction of production caused by deflation greatly curbed production investment. No one needed to build factories, and no one built new houses, so the demand for wood plummeted. The Northern European countries were sparsely populated, and trees could grow again after being cut down. It was a recyclable resource. Under the need for foreign exchange, they took the lead in the first shot of the trade war, using super cheap wood to obtain as much foreign exchange as possible.
In July 1897, more than a dozen major industries in European countries entered a fierce competition of price cutting. Uncle En lay in the hospital in London, quietly looking at the sky outside the window. During this season, the weather in London was generally good, and this year's weather was much better than usual.
The absolute population of London was declining, and compared with London, the proportion of the population in other cities was declining faster. In some small towns, except for the elderly, nobles, and landlords, everyone else had left. At a time when North America could rent a lot of land from the country, people who had no money chose to leave. Land meant wealth in the British's mind. After arriving in North America, they could have wealth. This was now the fastest way to get rich in Britain.
There was a letter in Uncle En's hand. It was a letter from Wang Mingshan to Uncle En. The letter asked Uncle En to make some comments on the deflation. In the recent trade war that was in full swing, the industries involved were all 'renewable resources' without exception. Trees would grow on their own, and the same was probably true of labor. Reduce wages, fire workers, increase the hours and intensity of labor. The capitalists were fighting fiercely with the spirit of 'after I die, even if the flood rises to the sky.'
Uncle En's smart brain was also thinking about this problem. He felt that Wang Mingshan's honesty was far less than his politeness. This crisis was undoubtedly a crisis that appeared after the size of the entire European market was determined. The RMB of the People's Republic of China was the legal currency. The Europeans were extremely resistant to this kind of currency without reserves, and the People's Republic of China had no intention of changing the model. Then the Min dynasty's market was closed to European countries. Not only did the Min dynasty not tend to Europe in terms of procurement, but it also did not open up opportunities for European countries to invest in the Min dynasty industry. Before, the United States at least raised a lot of funds from Europe, and Europe received tolerable returns by investing in stocks. At the moment, everything was completely separated, and Europe could only rely on itself.
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