Chapter 781 China's history is a mirror of Europe (please give me a monthly vote)

Rosvenor Square, South Kensington Gree, London, England.

When the oak door of the Baisven mansion was pushed open, the former Qing minister, who was dressed in a well-dressed black tuxedo and had a gold pocket watch given by Prince Albert on his chest, was now a British royal consultant and a British Magic Commission consultant, and looked at the Europeans who were smoking inferior cigars in the room with a smile.

George Ozer of the British Federation of Trade Unions was poking a very "Q-bombing" crystal shrimp dumpling with a fork. French worker representative Angli Torun frowned at the sesame sugar cake. Russian Bakuning poured Longjing tea into a vodka bottle and said that he wanted to "make the Eastern Revolution more violent"!

"Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce a copy of the "Jotian Order" of the North Korean Heaven. This is an original copy. I brought the UK from the North Korean Heaven. It is now collected in the British Museum." Bai Siwen unfolded a roll of yellow silk and his fingers passed through the proverb annotation in the Chinese characters. "According to this "Jotian Order", around Pyongyang, Xijing, North Korea, seven years ago, more than 100,000 tenant farmers were assigned to the land of two groups of landlords. Each household was divided equally by population. After the land was equal, about a quarter of the harvest was handed over to the holy treasury of the Heavenly Kingdom." He specifically pointed to the red seal on the silk, "This is the king's seal personally built by Yang Xiuqing, the East King of the North Korean Heaven."

Friedrich stood up from the sofa, his eyes shining, and looked at Bakuning and said, "Mikhail, the Eastern King of North Korea's Heaven has made much progress than the 'revolutionary tsar' in Russia! He liberated the serfs at the same time and divided the land equally. What's more important is that he completely eliminated the two nobles in North Korea and eliminated the possibility of feudal restoration!"

He turned to Moore, "Moore, do you remember the steam silk reeling factory we saw in Shanghai? Those machines were purchased with the funds of the Holy Ku, and a considerable portion of the funds of the Holy Ku came from the confiscation of the squire landlords!"

Moore nodded: "Yes, it is very worth learning from the experience of using the Holy Ku funds confiscated from the squire landlords to build factories and build a large number of factories without capitalists' investment. Both the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom do this! Among them, there are still a large number of private factories, and the capitalist group still exists. However, in the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom, except for the ‘Busan Free City’, there are almost no private investment industries in other places. All industrial construction, including railways, mines, and large factories, are built by the Holy Ku funds!"

"The funds of the Holy Cut are not stolen?" Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazini suddenly slapped the table and said, "They Chinese just moved the gentry's vault into the yamen. What's the difference between this and the Bourbon dynasty's taxes? The practice of the North Korean Heaven is even more hateful. If I'm not mistaken, it's a colonial country! Moreover, the wages of workers from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom are very low, about one-third to one-fifth of that of Britain!"

Bai Siwen poured Pu'er slowly: "Mr. Mazinney, the daily salary of female workers in Changzhou silk reeling factory is one-third of that of female workers in Lancashire in the UK." He paused and added, "But China's prices are about one-tenth of that in the UK."

Frenchman Torun frowned: "Low wages, low prices...Isn't this just disguised exploitation?"

"That's right!" Bakuning suddenly stood up, "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom use low prices to maintain workers' lives, which is actually transferring rural wealth to the city and allowing farmers to bear the cost of industrialization!" He took out a stack of leaflets and threw it on the coffee table, "Look! This is the accusation of the poor farmers in the occupied areas of the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom - it is said that it is equal land, but all kinds of harsh and complicated taxes together account for 40% of the harvest! The so-called quarter of the harvest tax cannot exist at all. I guess the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not much stronger, right?"

The fireplace suddenly became dark.

Moore stood up and walked to Bakunin, took the flyer in his hand and looked at it. A wakame accusing the "True Shinto" of exploiting and enslaving Japanese peasants was vividly displayed on the paper: "Comrade Bakunin, this is a leaflet of the Japanese revolutionaries. The accusation happened in Japan, not Korea and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

"But the economic model of the North Korean heaven cannot be maintained at all!" Ozheer suddenly interrupted, and he opened a book called "The Eastward Journey" - this is the work of Moore and Friedrich, "Yang Xiuqing's North Korean heaven relies entirely on colonial exploitation of Japan! They plundered food and minerals from Japan, and even participated in the evil activities of selling Japanese women to the New World to maintain the operation of the Holy Ku industry!"

Friedrich nodded: "Indeed, the industrialization of the North Korean heaven is based on external plunder. Similar situations have also occurred in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and their industrialization also relies on external resources and markets."

Bai Siwen smiled softly: "East Asia's population accounts for 40% of the world, but how much land resources it occupies in the world? If you don't develop foreign immigrants and guard that acre of three-point land, can you develop in the year of the monkey and horses every month?"

"Immigration and development to the outside world? Not colonization?" Toren sneered. "The Korean Heavenly Kingdom colonized Japan, while the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom expanded everywhere on the west coast of Southeast Asia and the Americas. What is the difference between this and Britain, France, Spain and Russia?"

Moore's German fellow William Liebknesi nodded in agreement: "I also think the revolutionary experience of the Chinese people has no reference value. I have read the history of China. The Chinese have been trapped in a cycle of governance and chaos in the past two thousand years. Their society is stagnant, and the future can be seen at a glance, which is repeated cycles."

Moore smiled and said, "William, my friend, you should study China more carefully, and then there will be surprises! Although there is indeed a cycle of governance and chaos in China's history, is there a possibility that when the European feudal system collapses, our future will fall into a similar cycle?"

"No, that's impossible!" Liebknesi shook his head, "European history is constantly improving!"

Just as the debate was intense, Indian servant Amir ran in panic: "Master, an official from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has arrived."

When Ma Bao first entered the door, he brought a unique neatness in the rising period in the "circulation of chaos". The cotton robe with coarse fabric was worn by him, and the feeling of a woolen military uniform.

"Mr. Liebknesi"

Ten minutes later, Ma Bao participated in the discussion and took over the question raised by Liebknesi, "You said that China's history is a stagnant cycle, but do you know that China had completed the transformation from feudalism to centralization as early as two thousand years ago?"

Liebknesi frowned: "What does it mean?"

"The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period." Ma Baocai took out a volume of replicas of the bamboo slips he brought from China and gently spread them on the coffee table. "This is an excerpt from "Shang Jun Book" - Shang Yang's reforms, abolished the Shiqing and Shilu, and awarded military merits, transformed the Qin State from a backward feudal state into a centralized and efficient war machine."

Bakuning sneered: "So what? This just proves that you orientals have learned autocracy earlier!"

"No," Ma Baocai shook his head, "This proves that China entered the era of 'nation-state' two thousand years earlier than Europe. The mobilization ability, bureaucracy and legal unity of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period are no essential difference from Prussia and France today." He paused, "And the victory of Qin proved the efficiency of the centralized state - just as Napoleon's France swept across Europe."

Torun thought: "You mean, Qin is the Napoleon Empire in the East?"

"That's it." Ma Baocai nodded, "but the problem is that this kind of victory in a centralized country will eventually give birth to his own gravedigger."

"Grave Digger?" Ozer was puzzled.

"Chen Sheng, Wu Guang." Ma Baocai's eyes were sharp. "After the unification of Qin, the old nobles of the six countries and the emerging military meritorious class were all included in the ruling system. However, the war was over, the upward channel was closed, and the labor force for building the Great Wall was getting heavier and heavier. In the end, a group of workers who built the Great Wall rose up, and the old nobles of the six countries took the opportunity to respond. In just three years, the strong Qin was destroyed."

Moore suddenly interrupted: "Just like Europe after the Napoleonic Wars - the restoration of old nobles in various countries, but the proletariat born from the Industrial Revolution can no longer return to the shackles of the past."

"Not only that." Ma Bao turned to Liebknecy, "You said that European history was 'progressive', but please tell me-if Napoleon really unified Europe, could his empire avoid the fate of Qin?"

The room was silent for a moment.

Friedrich slowly exhaled a cigarette: "No. The victory of a centralized state will eliminate feudal separatism, but it will also create new contradictions - the deprived old nobles, the civilians who have lost their ascending channels, and the over-mobilized finances will eventually lead to revolutions from the weakest links."

"And this is China's 'cycle'." Ma Baocai looked around everyone, "Every time the collapse of a unified dynasty is essentially a 'worker-people revolution' - the garrison soldiers at the end of Qin were laborers, the Yellow Turban Army at the end of Han was peasant, Huang Chao at the end of Tang was a salt dealer, and Li Zicheng at the end of Ming Dynasty was a postman. The working people in China spent two thousand years overthrowing the centralized empire that oppressed them over and over again, and after each revolution, the new rulers had to make concessions - the Han Dynasty reduced labor, the Tang Dynasty implemented equal fields, and the Ming Dynasty implemented the one-whip method."

Bakuning suddenly slapped the table: "But what's the point? It's just changing from one tyrant to another!"

"The meaning is." Ma Baocai's voice is increased, "China's 'cycle' proves one thing: no matter how powerful it is, it will eventually be overthrown by the awakened people. Today, the nation-state in Europe is just a replica of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. If you really achieve 'European unification', then what awaits you is the great uprising of the workers and peasants in the late Qin Dynasty! If unification cannot be achieved, there may be other models of workers and peasants uprisings!"

Moore stood up suddenly, his eyes flashing with excitement: "Baocai is right! China's history is not stagnation, but an epic of struggle that has been covered up! The significance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not only lies in its overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, but also in its prove that the workers in the East can also establish a new order in the era of industrialization!"

Liebknesi was silent for a long time and finally nodded slowly: "Maybe. We did underestimate the experience of the East."

Outside the window, the fog in London gradually dissipated, and a ray of sunlight shone through the glass on the volume of "Shang Jun Book". Ma Bao gently stroked the handwriting on the bamboo slips and whispered:

"European workers, China is not 'stagnation' - China is a mirror of the future. Looking at this mirror, you should know what is going to happen next?"
Chapter completed!