In troubled times, there was a land enclosure movement. Landlords and gentry annexed land, built fortresses, and then waited for the next era to come. The era of fortresses may last for one or two hundred years.
At this time, enemies from the north and south will continue to invade, leading to further intensification of chaos. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the reason why the Five Husbands invaded China is actually because there was no unity within the Jin Dynasty. All the clans closed themselves off and built a large number of fortresses without caring about other people. In this case
, you can naturally take advantage of it.
In Temujin's era, Xixia, Jin, Liao and Song fought back and forth, and in the end Temujin reaped the benefits. Of course, the Yuan Dynasty was also internally unstable and was picked up by Zhu Yuanzhang. Europe was reduced to a pot of porridge, and finally
The American emperor smiled and picked the fruits.
Once everyone is on their own, the strength of a fortress is not enough to defeat foreign enemies. This is naturally the best time for foreign enemies to invade.
But it is impossible to unite people in a crisis. After all, the crisis itself is caused by disunity. If we can unite to deal with the crisis, the crisis will not be a crisis.
It is because we cannot unite that a crisis is a crisis.
Even if they knew about Temujin's threat, Xixia, Liao, Jin, and Song Dynasty still had to fight. There was no way. There was no money to fight against Temujin, but there was money to fight against others. Countries were under great pressure internally, so they knew that they were most dangerous.
It was Temujin, but Temujin was a distant enemy, and lack of money was the enemy in front of him.
As a result, they fought back and forth, failed to get the money, and their energy continued to weaken, and finally he was killed by Temujin.
History has always been like this. No matter how powerful a force is, once its people's hearts are dispersed, it will have to experience shocks. No country can avoid it, but if it can experience shocks, its cohesion will naturally increase.
Of course, most civilizations cannot experience shocks, and they will be scattered all over after a shock. But that’s fine, everything will survive once a whale falls.
When Alexander died, the country split into several forces. When Temujin died, the country also split into several khanates. Ancient Rome stood side by side in the east and west, and then the east and west Rome continued to divide. As soon as the sun never set on the Empire, more than 60 countries were added to the total.
Two hundred countries.
When a whale falls and all things are born, if a behemoth dies unable to withstand the shock, a large number of new forces will naturally be born.
So what is a shock? It means that when social resources are extremely low and social conflicts are extremely high, can everyone find a way to tide over the difficulties? That is, can we rebound from the bottom and have the ability to revive? Can we bring the dispersed teams together?
United again and great again.
Dulan looked at the fortresses built one after another and said that even superpowers could not unite everyone: "Sure enough, we still owe too much money. The money earned by superpowers is not enough to repay the interest, and the financial leverage is so terrible."
An item worth ten yuan was blown up to ten thousand yuan. When the truth was revealed, the situation was not sustainable at all.
"Asset capitalization is to find a way to sell something worth ten yuan for a hundred yuan. At first, it is through plundering and making up the price difference. Then it starts to use industrial production to process things worth ten yuan into one hundred yuan. Finally, through finance
Lever, blow things into pieces worth a hundred dollars. Industrial production is the way to sustainable development. Use technology to break down and reprocess things worth ten dollars into new commodities to meet new needs." Duran is very fond of it.
Those who support industry to promote productivity, unfortunately, in the end, all the old industrial countries have gone to finance.
Dulan believes that it is not that they are stupid, but that they have nothing to do. The old empires are all about capital enfeoffment, and they must pay attention to control. Enfeoffment has limits and cannot continue to expand, otherwise it will be easily shaken.
It's like the Emperor Zhou couldn't control the enfeoffment once he enfeoffed too many. So enfeoffment can be done, but it must be controllable.
Keren's control power is definitely limited, and so is the control power of a country. In the final analysis, the comprehensive strength of a country is the sum of its labor force and resource transformation capabilities. The population is limited, the factories are also limited, and the area controlled is also limited.
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Moreover, control costs will continue to increase.
In order to maintain control, financialization is necessary. Industrialization makes things worth ten yuan turn into one hundred yuan, but the maintenance cost is already one thousand. Then we can only use financialization and blow things worth ten yuan into one.
Ten thousand to cover the cost of one thousand.
In fact, this is an overdraft. If someone takes over, it's fine. If no one takes over, it's just borrowing money to pay for the cost. And the more you borrow, the harder it is to let people know that you have no money, otherwise you have to pay back the money.
In order to maintain their status in the altar, they had to do this. If they didn't do this, they would have collapsed long ago. Therefore, the financial institutions of the empire can be said to be the saviors. Without them, industry alone would not be able to maintain their status in the altar.
The operating costs were too high, and the money earned by industry could not cover the cost. In the end, the money earned by industry was not enough to cover the cost. In the financial era, costs remained high, and the money earned by industry could only pay interest, but could not return the principal at all.
Therefore, even if a black technology like Potion No. 5 is developed, the money earned is far from enough to cover the operating costs.
"So control is two-way. Small countries are controlled, but big countries also pay the cost." Dulan said that control is indeed easy to use, but the cost is not low. No one has enough money to control others forever.
Using financial leverage is an inevitable choice for control, otherwise you won’t have so much money.
The small country knew it was being controlled, so why didn't it resist? Of course it was because it had money. The nobles of the small country made money through trade, but they also had to face a choice, whether to use money to develop the country and shake their own status, or to invest the money to earn more
Money for yourself?
Then they definitely choose to make more money for themselves and not invest it. So small countries send money to the financial leverage of big countries, and if they are lucky, they can make a lot of money. Of course, there are risks in investment, and there will definitely be losses.
It doesn't matter if you lose money, just pass the cost on to the people in the country, and then curse the evil of the mysterious big country in the East.
A mysterious country expressed its intention to lie down. It cannot criticize the US emperor because it still hopes to continue to make money, so it can only criticize a country that has a different system from its own and has little to do with it.
The nobles of small countries send the money they earn to the US empire to play with leverage. This is why the financial game of the US empire can continue. However, the cost of the financial game will still get higher and higher, because the US empire needs to maintain the appearance of being invincible.
Only by making people believe that his finances are invincible can everyone have confidence. But being invincible requires controlling the world, and the cost will definitely remain high.
"Making money is just the beginning. After making money, how to choose the money is a big problem. No one wants the money to depreciate, so the money must be speculated, invested, or annexed and converted into assets. It is impossible to invest because investment
If it goes on, it may shake the status of the nobility. Speculation is a good choice, and annexing land is inevitable." How to keep your money from depreciating is a problem that rich people have faced since ancient times.
Investment is definitely not the best choice, because if you invest in new industries, new aristocrats may emerge at any time to replace the old aristocrats, and they will certainly not be so stupid.
Speculation is a good choice, not to mention annexing land. Speculation will result in profits and losses, and land will rise and fall. But if speculation fails, it will not shake its dominant position. The price of land will fall, but land is the foundation of everything.
There is no problem in preserving capital.
Since there is a demand for speculation, there is naturally a market for financial leverage. From Lu Buwei's speculative support for Ying Zheng's father, to the tulip bubble, and later to financial leverage. The speculative market will never disappear.
As for the annexation of land, all funds have become land. Although money is circulating in society, inflation will become more and more serious because the output of the land has not changed and resources have not increased.
What really has social value is investing in infrastructure, education, factories, medical care, etc. to cultivate more labor and improve resource conversion capabilities.
Then there is no need to control the world, because you can't control it, just do trade safely.