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"Commander-in-chief, what if the British suddenly attack? What will we use to stop them? "Some officers of the Second Army asked. Apex Novel
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Vézé listened quietly, wondering if these soldiers objected to the farmers getting farming tools first, or if they could not accept the result of the war after a few months. Or were there other reasons that forced them to continue to pester the British threat?
"According to the data analysis, the British will not attack again before sending more troops." Without waiting for Vézé to speak, Chief of the General Staff Hu Chenghe made his attitude clear. "After this battle, we have publicly set up an office in Hong Kong. The British do not have the guts to touch our observation post."
Setting up an office in Hong Kong was the price the British had to pay for their failure. The Liberation Army had publicly set up various units on Hong Kong Island and in the concession. In fact, the British knew very well, and the Liberation Army knew even better, that those were observation posts for surveillance purposes. For example, the observation post of the port was directly observed with binoculars from a three-story house. This was a blatant expression of their attitude towards the British. But the defeated had to accept the result. The British could only watch the Liberation Army do this.
Some officers of the Second Army were still trying to argue. The commander of the First Army was Wei Changrong, so no one in the First Army participated in this debate. It was just that the Chief of the General Staff Hu Chenghe was pressuring them, and the officers of the Second Army were finally defeated.
In the end, Vézé explained the idea of building a new "people's army" to everyone. Although everyone was shocked, no one dared to oppose Vézé's idea.
When the meeting was over, Vézé was completely in no mood for specific work. He simply went home. Lying in bed, Vézé repeatedly thought about his recent work and the problems he had encountered. He determined that the problem the Liberation Army was facing now was the lack of a complete set of guiding ideas. The guiding idea of the new China was needless to say, Marxism-Leninism. No matter how much the seniors knew about Marxism-Leninism, the upper echelons were still true believers of Marxism-Leninism. Furthermore, there was still the Chairman, a god-like person who could turn Marxism-Leninism into China.
As the leader of the Revival Society, Vézé did not have the ability to do so. More realistically, Vézé had too many government affairs to manage, including promoting the industrial development of the Viceroy's Office. When the new China was founded, it had experienced many years of being beaten, bullied, and invaded. The whole party had a deep consensus on industrialization. As for the consensus to restore the Martial Governor's Office, there was probably only one "conquer the world and rule the world."
This reality put Vézé in a very awkward position. He wanted to do two jobs at the same time, but he really didn't have the ability to do both at the same time. Now, he needed an almighty who was in charge of ideology to be in charge of theoretical construction. After thinking about it, Vézé really couldn't find anyone.
"Do you want some tea?" Li Yifang appeared beside Vézé with a teapot and a teacup.
Vézé wanted to say no, but he really needed some water at the moment. So he said, "Give me some."
Li Yifang poured some water for Vézé and waited for Vézé to finish drinking before putting the cup back on the table. She sat next to Vézé and gently massaged Vézé's temples.
"No need, I'm feeling vexed right now." Vézé gently pulled Li Yifang's hand away and said weakly.
Li Yifang leaned closer to Vézé and let Vézé's head rest on her thigh. She then laughed softly and said, "Governor, you've achieved so much, but you're still vexed. I don't understand why you're vexed."
"Sailing against the current, one must advance or fall back. Resting on yesterday's achievements and relying on yesterday's achievements is akin to digging one's own grave." Vézé replied somewhat perfunctorily.
Hearing this, Li Yifang couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Governor, you're indeed a great hero. When I heard you talk about criticism and self-criticism during your lectures, I even felt that you were being unreasonable. Now I know that you haven't slacked off on your training even for a moment. "
Vézé also laughed bitterly and said, "Now that I think about it, those were indeed unreasonable words. At the very least, criticism and self-criticism must have a principle that everyone agrees with as a benchmark. Otherwise, criticism and self-criticism will have no source. I originally thought that I could make up this principle, but now it seems that I was too arrogant. "
After saying this, Vézé originally thought that Li Yifang would tease him a little, but unexpectedly, Li Yifang didn't say a word. After a moment of silence, Vézé couldn't help but ask, "Why aren't you laughing at me?"
Li Yifang said gently, "What you don't understand, I don't understand either. Governor, you can laugh at yourself, but if I were to laugh at you, then I would be overestimating myself. "
"This …" Vézé realized that he was actually speechless. Li Yifang's attitude was proper, and she didn't deliberately try to curry favor or lower her status. This response surprised Vézé quite a bit. He couldn't help but sit up and look at Li Yifang. "I think that in terms of breadth of mind and calmness, Yifang, you're much better than me."
"Haha!" Li Yifang was amused. "Governor, I rely on you to support my family. My sister is working outside and also getting a salary. I just need to stay calm and not cause trouble for everyone. Then, I can continue to live like this. If you ask me to do things for you, I don't have the ability to do it. If I can't handle things, I might even have the heart to die. How can I still stay calm? "
Vézé knew that Li Yifang wasn't such a housewife. Just this tranquil state of mind alone was not something an ordinary person could compare to. He said, "There's something I can't decide on, so I'm impatient. I wonder how Yifang would deal with such a situation?"
Li Yifang looked at Vézé's frank gaze and couldn't help but sigh. "Don't be quick to learn the classics. Following the person's good manners is secondary. You can't be good at the top, and you can't be courteous at the bottom. You're just a scholar who follows the book. In the end of the world, you can't help but be a poor scholar. Generals are originally kings, benevolent and righteous. Then, courtesy is a unique path. If you pick up the collar of a fur coat and hold it with your five fingers, there will be countless people who are obedient. "
After finishing the passage in the 'Encouragement to Learn', Li Yifang continued, "Governor is a great talent of the present age. You can just look for a teacher. There's no need to think hard and waste time. "
In the Encouragement to Learn, Xunzi said that the fastest way to learn was to find a good teacher. Once the theory was settled, the rest would naturally be easy to handle. Vézé naturally understood this passage. Because he understood, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Where could he find a good teacher who understood Marxism-Leninism?
Just as he thought of this, Vézé was startled and smiled bitterly. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly laughed out loud. There were good teachers who understood Marxism-Leninism in this era. The two great teachers, Marx and Engels, were still alive. If one were to talk about ancestors, there was no one more suitable than these two.
"Hahahaha!" Vézé convulsed with laughter. Inviting these two great teachers to China to guide the revolution was a very correct choice in theory. However, when he thought about putting it into practice, Vézé's heart was filled with an indescribable feeling. This was beyond the limits of Vézé's imagination.
Li Yifang looked at Vézé with a gentle smile. When Vézé stopped smiling and frowned, she stood up and left the room. After a while, Li Yifang returned with a pen and paper and placed it on the table. Vézé couldn't help but praise such a thoughtful gesture.
He got up and sat in front of the table. He couldn't help but pull Li Yifang over and kiss her on the cheek. Then he said, "Take a look at what I've written. If you can understand it, it means that I've written it well."
Then, Vézé closed his eyes and thought for a while. He picked up the pen and wrote.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the industrial revolution was completed and immediately integrated with capitalism. From then on, workers could produce supplies that far exceeded their basic needs. Humans began to worry about overproduction — although it was a pain in the ass. Around 1825, the first economic crisis broke out in England. Because factories cut production and closed down, the price of machinery and equipment fell to almost the same as scrap iron. But at this time, England was the only industrial country in the world. When it came to competition, other European countries were no match for it. So England worked hard to expand its market and solve the problem through external dumping. So the crisis passed in one or two years, and then there was another decade of prosperity.
When the crisis of 1837 came, things were different. Not only did England learn to use machinery to produce, but Germany, France, and the United States also began to develop industries. England couldn't find a market in its old friend, so the crisis lasted for a long time. It lasted for six years, and the industrial scale of all countries shrank by more than half. The trend of economic decline only recovered in 1843. The prosperous era after the crisis only lasted for four years. In 1847, another crisis broke out.
The crisis of 1847 was unusual. The first characteristic was that the crisis lasted longer than the prosperous era. This was a great psychological blow to society — ordinary people felt that there was no hope. Secondly, the crisis did not spare any country. As long as a country had already entered capitalism, it all collapsed and lost jobs. The scale of new industries such as machinery and steel was reduced to one-third or even less of their original size. The combination of these two problems led to a third result — a full-scale political revolution. The French ousted the king and reestablished the Second Republic. The German insurgents occupied the capital and forced the king to establish a parliament. The Austrian royal family was scared away by the demonstrations. The Italian Mazzini occupied Rome and tried to reestablish the Italian nation-state. As for Hungary, the Czech Republic, and other small countries, when the old aristocracy heard that a revolution was coming, they immediately ran away. For a time, the newly emerging industrial cities were in the hands of the new proletarians.
The years of crisis began to be more than "normal" years. The fact that the proletariat occupied most of the industrial cities greatly encouraged the proletariat and the young Marx. In 1847 and 1848, the world's first communist party appeared — the League of Revolutionaries. … In short, Marx felt that capitalism had almost reached its end. It was only a matter of time before the proletariat took over.
The first reason for the easing of the crisis was actually wonderful — gold mines. In 1848, gold was discovered in San Francisco, and in 1851, in Melbourne. Both places were in a state of anarchy, and the mines weren't buried too deep. It didn't take much investment to dig for ore. You didn't even have to dig a hole to pan for gold in the riverbed. So poor men from all over the world flocked in, hoping to turn things around overnight. The American cowboys had knives and guns. Australia had always been a place of exile for prisoners, and the residents were extremely fierce. In such a place, whether it was the landlords who first occupied the mines or the consortiums who came later, they couldn't turn the gold mines into a source of income for a few people. They could only watch as nearly a million men became rich. Many ships arrived in America and Australia, and at night half of the low-wage sailors escaped to pan for gold. When the captain woke up, he couldn't even sail the ship.
What good was this gold rush for the world? Nothing good. Gold couldn't be eaten or worn. From the perspective of the world as a whole, there wasn't one more grain of food, one more cotton yarn, but there were tens of thousands less able-bodied people engaged in production. More harm than good.
But what good was the gold rush for the world of capitalism? A life-saving grace. What capitalism lacked was demand, and demand was money. In the era of the gold standard, gold was purchasing power! Of course, according to the principle of diminishing consumption mentioned earlier, if the gold was concentrated in the hands of a few big mine owners, it would only increase the collection of gold bricks in the castle of the rich, and it wouldn't increase the purchasing power by much. But the gold mines in Australia and America were in the wilderness, and they were scattered among countless gold miners. The gold they took out was resounding purchasing power. It was as if God hired these people to inject hard currency into the whole of capitalism, so that both buying and selling flourished, and the economic crisis was suddenly alleviated.
Using the God-given method of gold to alleviate the crisis sounded wonderful, but in fact, it was a very ridiculous thing. The reason was the same as mentioned above. Gold couldn't be eaten or worn, and it consumed labor, but it could actually alleviate the crisis and promote prosperity. This showed that the problem of the economic crisis was not material, but human beings finding trouble for themselves. Gold saved the world, which reflected the absurdity of capitalism. It was because of this absurdity that Marx proposed to create a more rational society. But man proposes, God disposes. Marx didn't expect God to be more absurd than him. He placed two shallow gold mines in the New World, and they just happened to be unearthed during the world economic crisis. The crisis was thus alleviated, and Marx continued to read in the library. The "Declaration of Freedom", a famous work with both literary talent and content, could only become a historical document.
Of course, the gold mines could only be saved for a while, but not forever. Slowly, the shallow gold mines began to decrease, and the mining area gradually established "order". Gold mining became a matter of a few people making a fortune, and the majority of people working as laborers. Even if such a gold mine continued to produce gold, it would not be as effective as it was in the past. But capitalism, whose industrial capacity had multiplied several times, still needed external purchasing power. What to do?
In fact, there was an even bigger gold mine in the world — the East …
This article took a long time to write, and it was a voluminous thing of tens of thousands of words. Vézé, who wrote the article, wrote it seriously, and Li Yifang, who read the article, also read it seriously. When Vézé finally finished writing the article, Li Yifang said with an apologetic expression. With an apologetic expression, Li Yifang said, "Commander-in-chief, I can understand the article, but I feel like I'm reading a story. There are many terms in it that I don't understand at all. Who is this written for? "
Vézé gulped down a mouthful of water and said tiredly, "It's written for the person called Marx. He has a friend called Engels, and I want to invite his friend to come here and be a teacher for us."
"Huh?" Li Yifang was stunned. "Commander-in-chief, you don't seem to have said too many good things about Marx in this article."
"That kind of great sage doesn't care whether others say good things about him or not. What he cares about is whether the contents of the letter are acceptable to him." Vézé replied tiredly.
Li Yifang could understand Vézé's words. She nodded slightly and said, "That is indeed the demeanor of a great sage."
Vézé panted and continued, "In addition, I'm going to give Marx 200 taels of gold as a meeting gift. He owes a lot of money. Life is not easy for him. I hope that after reading my article and receiving the money, Marx will be interested in letting Engels come here and teach us. I hope so. "
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