Chapter 2884 Original Accumulation
Military expansion to the extreme will lose money. If military expansion can be maintained, then the British Empire, which only understands the language of cannons, should become the master of the earth. Unfortunately, Britain also faces the problem of colonies. Should it build or not?
If it does not build, it will be used as a raw material production base, which obviously cannot be maintained because the management cost is too high. If it builds, it is difficult to control.
It was not until the financial hegemony of the American Empire that the problem was somewhat eased by controlling the latecomers through financial harvesting. The comparative advantage played by the United States is that the United States is the core, divided into allies who undertake industries but are under financial control, and more peripheral countries that provide raw materials.
But obviously, the hegemony of the United States also encounters the problem of building or not building, so it has to maintain military deterrence, which is also very costly.
In fact, the five-service system of the Zhou Dynasty is a comparative advantage. The core city masters high-end technologies such as shipbuilding and bronze smelting. Outside are Muye, which uses these technologies, that is, the area of farming and grazing, and outside are barbarians. Through such comparative advantages, the territory can be well controlled. In order to resist the barbarians, the nobles formed an army, but it was obvious that the maintenance cost of the army was very high, and the barbarians could not be defeated at all. In the end, they either chose to let the barbarians join in or be eliminated by the barbarians. Of course, there were also those who built walls directly.
All military expansionist countries will encounter these problems, and the Fire Nation is naturally no exception. Her Royal Highness went down the bureaucracy and saw the chaos of the Fire Nation. She used to think that the Fire Nation was the most powerful country in the world, so there was no enemy at all, but after understanding all aspects, she finally realized that this country was not as powerful as she imagined. Facing three volcanoes, it could collapse at any time, and any volcanic eruption would be irreparable.
Now she can understand why her wise general uncle would rather follow her brother than stay in the Fire Nation: "It seems that the uncle is very clear about the military expansion volcano, asset bubble volcano, and geographical environment volcano faced by the Fire Nation. It is not something that can be solved by one or two people, so he chooses to support the story of the king brother."
The story of the prince is to change from external to internal, uniting everyone to build the Fire Nation together. The prince is kind and benevolent. He can tolerate everyone and care about everyone's life. Such a person can call on the residents who have been ignored to unite around him and change the military expansion volcano and the asset bubble volcano.
"Yes, the so-called asset bubble is actually a pool with too much water. When the domestic construction starts, you can dig another pool in other places and divert funds to the new pool that can make money. In this way, the assets will not continue to appreciate on a large scale. Transferring a large amount of technology from the military to the civilian sector is a necessary step for digging a pool." Duran said that the prince's kindness and kindness cannot completely solve the problem, but the role of kindness is to unite everyone to dig a new pool, as long as it succeeds.
"If he can do it, I can do it too." The princess clenched her fists and said, "My 'Supreme Master of the Imperial Art' can also be built and dig a pool."
"Ambition." Duran thought that the princess had changed a lot under his teaching. Although her personality did not change, she was on the right path. So a bad personality is not a problem, the problem is not finding the right direction.
It was very ambitious, but the princess still needed the dog-headed military advisor to give her some advice, because she had no idea where to dig a pond.
"Tell me what should be done specifically?" the princess asked.
"I think we can sell all the military equipment of the Fire Nation to the enemies of the Fire Nation to complete the primitive accumulation, and then develop heavy industries such as automobiles, motorboats, and lathes, and then develop volcanic ash fertilizers and logistics and transportation." Duran said that the Fire Nation has colonies everywhere. Although there is no governance, it is enough to use them as transit stations.
Duran said that he was an old capitalist as soon as he opened his mouth. He would sell the Fire Nation for money.
The princess widened her eyes and felt that she was still too young. She had never thought of selling weapons to her enemies. Isn't this selling the rope for hanging?
"Princess, after selling weapons, the military industry will slowly lean towards you. To be honest, the military industry of the Fire Nation is already backward, because there is not much money in the military industry, but if more people need weapons, the military industry can make money again. If they can make money, they will naturally support you. Even if you sell weapons to the enemy, for military enterprises, the most important thing is that they survive in the short term." Duran said seriously.
"With money, we can develop volcanic ash, which is a natural resource of the Fire Nation. Volcanic ash is a very good fertilizer, and all countries must need it. After establishing trade, we will make money from the military and sell various other products to other countries through logistics. As long as our Fire Nation actively participates in international trade, even if the Fire Nation loses the war in the end, it will still have absolute influence." Duran's plan is very simple, that is, to change from military expansion to trade bundling.
As long as the Fire Nation actively participates in international trade, no one can refuse the Fire Nation.
With the route, the princess took action directly. However, development and the supremacy of the artificer are actually contradictory, because development requires everyone to join together, which is a big reshuffle, and the supremacy of the artificer cannot mobilize everyone.
If there is only one pool, then the order and amount of water that everyone takes is basically determined. But if a new pool is dug, the order will be disrupted and it will have to be re-arranged, and new rich people will appear, which is beyond the control of the magician.
Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and heaven and earth do not distribute, so we can only look at each person's own ability. The weak and the strong will determine the division of the pool, and then we will enter the era of 'benevolence', which is the era of distribution.
The law of the jungle is used to stimulate everyone's fighting spirit in the development stage. The strong eats the biggest piece. Then the era of law of the jungle ends and the strong is responsible for distribution. Each pool has different strong men. Every time a pool is dug, it is a shuffle for the strong ones.
Because once the water in the pool starts to flow to the new pool, although the strong people in the old pool can still control the distribution, their power is not as good as before, and their influence is not as good as before. This is the so-called sunset industry.
The princess thought she could dig a pool while being the master of magicians. That is overthinking, because the supremacy of the magician is solidification, and digging the pool is shuffling, and the essential contradiction between the two cannot be bridged at all.
But there is fun only when there are contradictions. Duran wants to see the princess grow up in contradictions. This is the meaning of growth.
The first step was to resell arms. The princess thought that the goods were ready-made. The Fire Nation had a lot of arms that needed to be eliminated, but where to find sellers? Although there are many troops opposing the Fire Nation, they are not easy to find.
Regardless, the princess went to the manager of the military factory first, and then directly said that she could help the military factory increase sales and let him supply goods.
Then the princess first found the resistance organizations in the Fire Nation and sold weapons to them first. Then go to various colonies to find security forces. These security forces are short of food and clothing, and there must be channels for selling arms to the guerrillas. In short, the weapons of the Fire Nation must be sold to the enemies of the Fire Nation. Only with money can we develop industries and reorganize the military industry.
It can be said that raising tigers is a disaster, and it can be said that the guerrillas are the princess's food and clothing parents.