"Before I go with you to Professor Galileo, I have many questions that I need you to answer."

Facing such aggressive questions from Rudolf, Philip frowned when he lowered his head, but when he raised his head, he already had a warm smile on his face: "Okay, my dear Rudolf, what questions do you have?"

"When I came back this time, I heard that the railway from Madrid to Bilbao was opened. So I made a special detour to Bilbao and took the train back from there. At the exit, I met many refugees. They were in poor clothes.

Ragged, with obvious malnutrition on the face, it is said that it is leftover from the factory or used up by the factory?"

"...Yes, in fact, most of them are used up by the factory."

"Philip! How could this be like this! We are time-travelers, modern people! Of course I know that the primitive accumulation of capital is full of blood, but we are time-travelers! Can't you do something for these people?"

"... Rudolph, please sit down first. Well, tea or coffee? Ah, if you don't say anything, I will make tea for you."

Philip got up, poured a cup of tea for Rudolph himself, returned to his seat and sat down, then turned his chair, faced a huge floor-to-ceiling window outside the office, looked at the setting sun, and cleared his throat:

"Two and a half years ago, when we introduced steam engine technology to the private sector, I also built a new industrial group powered by steam engines based on my previous private industry in Asturias. This

The group is mainly involved in the fields of energy, military industry, media and financial industries. In addition to this, the people's livelihood industry, which is mainly light industry, is open to the private sector and provides technical support. But! Our Spanish farmers

There are too few people who are conservative in thinking and still stubbornly want to extract wealth from the land and are willing to join the industrial and commercial circles. I have no choice but to open these things to the British, French and even Germans. My only requirement for these people is that factories

Must be set within the Iberian Peninsula.

Now, because all the railways that extend to the seaside converge in Madrid, Madrid has naturally become the first choice for these businessmen to open new factories. Dear Rudolf, for a factory to be established and developed, it takes roughly

What is it?"

"Capital, land, technology, factories, workers, raw materials, products, sales, and markets."

"That's about it. Capital is a thing, because the first batch of people to join the steam engine industrial factory were the most powerful business families in Western Europe, such as the Capet family, the Wetting family, the Este family, and the Wittelsbach family.

Families and so on are all enthusiastically entering this circle... It is equivalent to a group of the richest people in Europe entering Spain with a large amount of cash. Therefore, in the short term, there is no problem with capital.

As for land, technology, factories, etc., there is no need to say more. Next, I want to talk to you about workers and raw materials. In fact, most of the people you saw at the train station are not Spanish."

"That is?"

"The British, the French, the Germans..." After pondering for a while, Philip continued: "I just said that our Spanish aristocrats have rigid thinking and still stubbornly guard their farms and land.

.So, in fact, there are not many bankrupt farmers in Spain, and there is no need for them to enter Madrid to do hard work. In fact, because the lords in places like England and France wanted to have more land to raise sheep, they had more

The wool was sent to factories near Madrid to be woven into woolen fabrics and sold. Therefore, the most famous "sheep cannibalism" in the initial stage of liberal capitalism has begun to occur widely in Western Europe."

"Then a large number of English and French peasants who were driven out of the land had no choice but to cross the ocean and come to Madrid in order to seek employment opportunities?"

"Yes." He held up the bridge of his nose without glasses again and said: "When you led the army to station at the border between Denmark and the Shinra Empire, a new industry had been born in Western Europe. Well, actually for you and me

They are nothing new, they are just smugglers. Once they hear that a local lord has converted a farm into a pasture, they immediately swarm there, use various means to abduct local farmers who have lost their land, and cross the sea with their families to Madrid.

Then......"

"Philip, I am not a communist, but in our era, workers lived a very good life. Although I also know that the current productivity cannot meet the conditions of future generations, but these poor people should be given some protection and

Helping, isn't it what you should do as a king?"

"There will be appropriate protection. For example, I have suggested that factory owners reduce the working hours of workers from 18 to 20 hours a day to less than 16 hours. The minimum daily wage is raised from three copper coins to five copper coins. At the same time,

It is recommended that they urge their governments to further increase the colonial development of Africa and use the black slaves there to engage in the most difficult and dangerous work such as lead extraction, sulfide extraction, coal mining and other related work."

"That's it? And you also introduced a large number of black slaves?"

"What should we do?" Looking at Rudolf, who still looked calm, Philip felt a little angry, but he quickly adjusted his mood and continued to explain patiently: "Rudolf, I am a historian, and I am traveling through time and space.

One year ago, I was a visiting scholar in the United States, and I had an exchange with an immigration official. He told me that the United States is actually not too afraid of Latino, African-American, and Indian immigrants entering the United States on a large scale. They are the most

What I’m afraid of is the large number of East Asians, especially Chinese, entering the United States.”

"How did it get into this? Well, why?"

"Because the first generation of Latinos, African Americans, and Indians who entered the United States will wash the dishes honestly, and the second and third generations will most likely continue to wash the dishes honestly. And East Asians

, especially the Chinese, the first generation of immigrants may wash dishes honestly. But by the second generation, or at most the third generation, they will have to compete with the Anglo-Saxons for various high-end white-collar jobs such as engineers, lawyers, and doctors.

.

The Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are all believers in Confucian culture in general. Confucianism, well, actually I don’t know much about what kind of culture it is. But it seems that the citizens of the countries in this cultural circle basically

They are all smart, hard-working and perseverant. What is even more frightening is that they attach great importance to the education of future generations. For the sake of better education for future generations, parents will not hesitate to sacrifice anything. Such a nation

Characteristics are the most frightening.”

With a heavy sigh, Philip turned his back to Rudolph and looked out the window: "Although we Europeans are all Caucasian, at least we Castilians are not known for our diligence. Really speaking

Among the Caucasian race, the ones who are hard-working and disciplined are probably the Germans, Anglo-Saxons and Russians. But even so, compared to the diligence, patience and tenacity of the East Asian race, we actually have many shortcomings.

.

Dear Rudolf, you and I are both time travellers. You should see that in Europe and even North America in the 21st century, due to the expansion of trade union power and the decay of democratic systems, many European countries have excessively high social welfare security systems.

This has raised too many lazy people. If I introduce too many worker protection policies at this time, on the one hand it will greatly hinder the investment businessmen from recovering costs and further expanding production. On the other hand, it will lead to increasing social welfare requirements.

The more we have, the less assets we will have for waging wars in the future. Therefore, I can only provide the most basic protection measures and let Africans die instead of some Europeans.

I have said that although there are seven time travellers, in the end, this is a competition between Eastern and Western civilizations. In such a competition, in terms of the fundamental nature of the nation, we actually do not have an advantage. If we want to win, we can only

It relies on our Europeans’ advantages in IQ, technological development, and the fact that we are much more familiar with the system that is most suitable for this stage of productivity than the Chinese time traveler. Also, in terms of military development and tactics,
Chapter completed!