452th industrial nobles and land nobles

The republic system naturally attracted the unanimous hostility of all monarchs and vassals, but Mao Jiuzhong stood behind the Luyu Republic. When signing the Jinan Covenant, Mao Jiuzhong carefully declared that the Luyu Republic was the protectorate of the Wei and Shengmeng states based on weakening the influence of the Wei family. Any invasion of the territory of the Luyu Republic would be regarded as a violation of the Jinan Covenant. The vassal states of the Central Plains were afraid that the invincible Mao Jiuzhong would return to Kyushu, but could only sit back and hate the birth of the Luyu Republic.

However, the impact of the Luyu Republic is limited.

Because the republic system of the Luyu Republic is not the universal republic in the real world in 2016, it is more like a noble republic or a family republic. Except for the absence of a king, there is no essential difference between the Luyu Republic and other vassal states. The cabinet is still filled with a group of nobles and families. Furthermore, Van Beek has been trying to reconcile with the Lu royal family after the announcement of the Republic. As long as the Lu royal family is willing to give up the autocratic privilege and accept cabinet supervision from then on, the cabinet led by Van Beek will readily agree to the return of the Lu royal family. Realizing that the Luyu Republic was just a compromise that Van Bick did not dare to usurp the throne, the Central Plains vassal states slowly relaxed their vigilance and let the Luyu Republic continue to exist.

The camera returned to Wei Dongsheng.

What has Wei Dongsheng been doing during Mao Jiuzhong's leaping horse and the whip for more than 20 years?

The answer is to run a school.

Wei Dongsheng gradually realized the difficulty of Qin Shihuang's great cause, and instead started with little things, and improved the basic education level of Zhu Xia within his ability. Inferior Products Tomorrow prohibits Wei Dongsheng from spreading natural sciences and social sciences, but allows Wei Dongsheng to gather scholars and craftsmen with power or capital to indirectly speed up the improvement of the science and technology tree.

One of the important reasons why Mao Jiuzhong was able to run across the world was that the military science and technology trees of the Central Plains vassals were far ahead of the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire.

In the real world, 1611 was the 47th year of the Wanli of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, only eight years before the opening ceremony of the Daming Curse. In a historical traversal novel involving the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, the protagonist of the traverser often took the trouble to introduce the Spanish phalanx, hoping to use the Spanish phalanx's advanced tactics to hang the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. A horizontal comparison of the military technology evolution history of the Wei Xia Empire in this time and space shows that the large Spanish phalanx is only equivalent to the Yue Wuzu phalanx that has been eliminated for many years, the Wu Wuzu phalanx improved by Qi Jiguang and the Wei Wuzu phalanx improved by Mao Jiuzhong, etc. , The fighting power is far ahead of the Spanish phalanx.

In other words, even if Wei Dongsheng did not take the initiative to spread the natural sciences and social sciences, the technological tree of the Wei Xia Empire climbed slightly faster than the real world.

This is also the advantage of the Wei Xia Empire.

Wei Dongsheng hoped to further indirectly strengthen the advantages of the Wei Xia Empire through educational investment.

All the profits made by Wei He Chamber of Commerce are used by Wei Dongsheng to invest in running schools. Because the foundation of contemporary education is very weak, Wei Dongsheng must start his own business from scratch and personally spend countless efforts to improve all aspects of shortcomings. Not only need to build schools for supervised examinations, but also improve more basic elementary education. Even considering the difficulty of the supervising examination and the large number of people who fail each year, Wei Dongsheng splits out the vocational colleges for students who are repeating students for more than two years from the school system to export professional talents.

Of course, the difficulty of education is quite high.

In the final analysis, Wei Dongsheng's sixth-generation identity background is just a commoner, and the commercial development reaches a certain level before hitting the ceiling. It is not that the Weihe Chamber of Commerce cannot continue to be bigger, but that if you want to continue to grow Weihe Chamber of Commerce, you must look for a noble family umbrella, and the noble family umbrella obviously does not wait to see Wei Dongsheng's stupid behavior of investing all the profits under his name in basic education. When he came to aristocratic family, Wei Dongsheng didn't want to develop basic education to his heart's content; while keeping a certain distance from the aristocratic family, Wei Dongsheng didn't want to grow Weihe Chamber of Commerce as he pleased.

Being in the blood is all the noble feudal order, and the background of common people frequently hinders Wei Dongsheng's development plan.

The more bloodline restrictions he encounters, the better Wei Dongsheng can understand the difficulties of the civilian class and sincerely support the people to overthrow the backward feudal order.

The Lu civil war induced by Mao Jiuzhong immediately became a rare opportunity for Wei Dongsheng to smash the class barrier.

Carefully study the Lu civil war, whether the Baowang Society loyal to the royal family or the cabinet society that restricts royal power, the leaders are all nobles or aristocrats. In terms of superficial attributes, the Lu civil war seems to be no different from the Yan civil war and the Zhao civil war. It is all about the aristocratic groups fighting for power. However, Wei Dongsheng was keenly aware of the significance of Lu's civil war with reference to the real world history, because the leaders of the cabinet were all industrial nobles or industrial families.

Industrial aristocracy means that these aristocrats rely on industry to get rich, or they control the marine trade chamber, or control dozens of workshops, or operate thousands of acres of plantations overseas, and so on. More vividly, they can be called aristocratic capital, that is, powerful capital that relies on aristocratic privileges and greed to grab commercial profits.

The leaders of Baowangshe are a group of land nobles or land families, who mainly obtain profits through land rent and house rent, and can be regarded as big landlords in the general impression.

Unlike the chaotic civil wars of Zhao and Yan, the class attributes of the Cabinet Club and Baowang Club are extremely clear. The Lu civil war this time is not just a dispute between the aristocracy and the royal family over centralized power or not, but a line struggle between the land aristocracy and the industrial aristocracy.

In the real world, someone once said that bureaucratic capitalism is the worst capitalism. Wei Dongsheng feels that this sentence is a bit wrong, because aristocratic capitalism is obviously worse than bureaucratic capital, and the limitations of aristocratic capitalism are even greater than that of bureaucratic capitalism. But in 1608, aristocratic capitalism was obviously superior to aristocratic feudalism, and at least the industrial aristocracy was more likely to accept the civilian class than the land aristocracy. The value of the land aristocracy lies in the appreciation of the land, where the land is, the wealth is there. You work for the land aristocracy, and no matter how smart you are, you can only mix with the steward, the master, and the guest. For the industrial aristocracy, the industrial aristocracy often promotes those talents who have real materials because of the fierce market competition tendency, whether he is a commoner or a ruined aristocrat.

If unfortunately born in the civilian class, the service industry aristocracy is obviously more promising.

Wei Dongsheng believes that aristocratic capitalism is more advanced than aristocratic feudalism, and actively supporting the cabinet society headed by industrial aristocrats will certainly promote the historical process of the Wei Xia Empire. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Lu Civil War, Wei Dongsheng decisively stood in line with the cabinet agency, not only urging the Weihe Chamber of Commerce to send military supplies to the cabinet agency, but also donating the limited profits of the Weihe Chamber of Commerce to the cabinet agency leaders in need. After the Cabinet Club wins the final victory, this political investment is expected to bring rich returns to Wei Dongsheng.

In 1608, when the Jinan Covenant was signed, Mao Jiuzhong gave his full support to Fan Bike in governing the Republic of Shandong and Yu with his chief and auxiliary official positions.

Van Beck’s position is not stable. Outside, there are concerns about the restoration of the Lu royal family. There are also many other faction opponents within the cabinet. Van Beck clearly understands his shortcomings and waits for him to hold his military power in his hands to implement a military dictatorship, quickly plant his wings, and reward those who are willing to be loyal to him. For example, Wei Dongsheng, who has invested in politics for many years, was awarded the honor of Lifetime Tinghou by Fan Bike.

Lifetime pavilion belongs to the honorary title, has no territory, and cannot be hereditary.

Despite this, Wei Dongsheng's social status has also been greatly improved, and he has officially squeezed into the upper class.

In the contemporary era where the concept of bloodline is prevalent, honor titles have countless hidden privileges. For example, Wei Dongsheng's sixth-generation ideal of running a school. Fan Bike's party initially held an indifferent attitude. After Fan Bike tactfully awarded Wei Dongsheng the Marquis of Lifetime Pavilion, the middle-level cadres of the cabinet successively expressed their willingness to provide limited support for Wei Dongsheng's education. After Wei Dongsheng's operation for a year, Van Beck even allocated about 15 million square meters of vast land in the suburbs of Qingdao Port to Wei Dongsheng to build a new school free of charge, and helped raise education funds through tax exemption and sponsorship.

Unfortunately, the construction of the Qingdao campus is destined to be full of ups and downs.

During the period of Mao Jiuzhong's rise, the alliance between Vietnam and Wei declined. The northern vassals such as Yan, Zhao, and Lu were bruised and swollen by Mao Jiuzhong. The royal family also had no time to take care of naval construction because of the crisis of life and death. Among the vassal states along the coast, only Wu State did not fear the threat of ground war, and merchant ships roared around the world. In terms of the most obvious economic indicators, before the Wei-Yan War, the average income of Wu nationals was about 0.8 times that of Lu nationals; when the Jinan Covenant was signed, the average national income of Wus had slowly risen to 1.25 times that of Lu nationals. This period can be described as a well-deserved golden age of Wu.

Unknowingly, Wu has become the new marine overlord.

The vassal states such as Yan State may be willing to accept Wu State's new maritime order, while the Luyu Republic cannot tolerate Wu State's monopoly on global trade. As mentioned earlier, the Cabinet Agency represented by Van Beck is a large alliance of industrial aristocrats and industrial families, and commercial profits are their lifeline.

As an old saying goes, the state is a tool of the ruling class, and the machinery of the Republic of Shandong and Henan must give priority to safeguarding the interests of the industrial aristocracy and industrial families.

In 1611, Mao Jiuzhong smashed into the Russian Empire while his quasi-ally Luyu Republic took the lead in challenging Wu. The Republic of Shandong Province uses state machinery to protect the interests of the industrial class and requires that goods imported into the Republic of Shandong Province must be transported by ships of the Republic of Shandong Province, that is, administrative measures are used to interfere with the free competition of the survival of the fittest.

The sixth generation Wei Dongsheng was born in Wu State, and the Weihe Chamber of Commerce also has a strong Wu State color. Naturally, it is within the scope of the Luyu Republic. Fortunately, the Luyu Republic does not have any national ideology. The industrial class only cares about business share. Not only will it not discriminate against Wei Dongsheng because of his birthplace, but instead eagerly invite Wei Dongsheng to move the headquarters of the Weihe Chamber of Commerce to the Luyu Republic.

Wei Dongsheng has decided to support the industrial aristocracy bit by bit to disintegrate the land aristocracy, and simply emigrate to the Republic of Shandong and Yu.

In other words, the Wei Xia Empire can be regarded as Wei Dongsheng’s legacy. In the process of the sixth generation, he played for Jin, sometimes for Jiaozhi, and sometimes for Yue. How can he care about the difference between Luyu and Wu today? . Wei Dongsheng has no psychological barriers in terms of immigration issues. After all, Wu and the Republic of Luyu are his legacy.

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