Chapter 15 1. Your own conditions are very important

The first expansion of the industrial revolution was France. Although France is the second industrialized country after the United Kingdom, there is a big gap between the second and the oldest.Why such a big gap?Because of the barriers of its small and medium-sized enterprises, small farmers' economy and usury capital, it develops slowly. Which French product is the best in your opinion?Perfume, wine, and LV are the best. Can these things be mass-produced? LV produces 100,000 pieces a day. That is China. The output of LV in China is definitely larger than that in France. You can see that it is everywhere in the subway, and everyone walking in the morning market is wearing LV.But that's not true.Anyway, that thing is used by nobles in France.Everything is limited, depending on your passport, you can only sell it to you, one big and one small, if you register your passport number, you are not allowed to buy it again, it is to ensure the noble quality.You are everywhere, so it is not aristocratic quality.There are often Chinese people who pour this bag there. He bought it there and sold it at a high price when he returned home. It cost 600 euros there and 12,000 yuan when he returned home, which can double the price.You think it’s very exciting to produce this kind of thing. How exciting is it for me to produce luxury goods? I sell a package for the price of a car, and you forget that I’m pretending to be you, what should I do?We Chinese don’t buy real ones, we buy real ones and people think they are fake, so I just buy fake ones, I’m counterfeiting, but can you counterfeit high-tech products?I'll take a piece of paper on the plane, who would dare to sit on it?So why France is not commensurate with its national strength, the reason is here, 40% of the products exported by France every year are luxury goods, mainly sold to Asia, East Asia, and the Greater China economic area, so it hinders its economic development.

The United States has unique conditions for the development of the industrial revolution. The United States is really a big country with abundant resources, while China is "thin".You see, our piece of land claims to be 9.6 million square kilometers, with seven mountains, two waters and one field. 70% of the land is not suitable for human survival. It is not terrible that there are many Chinese people. The most terrible thing is that the distribution is too uneven.From Heihe in Heilongjiang to Tengchong in Yunnan, the two points are connected by a line. The east of the line accounts for 90% of China's total population, and the population of more than 4 million square kilometers on the other side is very small.You see how big Tibet is, 1.3 million square kilometers, and there are not as many people as Haidian.The United States is really a vast land and abundant resources, uniquely endowed by nature, and the conditions are particularly good.There are two oceans in the east and the west, no strong enemies in the north and south, and the land is arable almost everywhere. There are no real mountains in the United States. There is an Appalachian mountain in the east, and the Rocky Mountains are in the west. The entire Andes, the Rocky Mountains, and the two sides Leaving a passage in the middle of the mountain is the Louisiana area.The large granary in the central part of the United States, the industry and commerce on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are developed, the economy is uniquely developed, and the resources and environment are particularly good.When President Clinton signed an order, the oil in the Gulf of Mexico was not allowed to be drilled before 2010, leaving it to future generations.After the Americans bought oil, they buried it, and poured it barrel by barrel into the oil storage tank in the mountain. The oil storage tank was a stainless steel barrel, three kilometers long, and poured barrel by barrel of oil into it.Therefore, when the war breaks out and oil imports are completely cut off, the United States can persist for more than 400 days, Japan can last for more than 180 days, and China can only last for 7 days.Therefore, China’s oil imports will definitely be cut off when a war breaks out. People give you everything in the Strait of Malacca, and your navy can only fight pirates.For your tank aircraft, the tank is not 5 oil per 100 kilometers, but the tank is 500 oil per 100 kilometers.Think about tanks with 1,000 liters of fuel tank running 400 kilometers. You still think about civilian vehicles. All gas stations are closed and you have to support the army to go to war. How do you keep warm when there is no oil? How do you generate electricity? Go light the wax .So resources and the environment are a benefit of its economic development.

The second is to be less harmed by wars and less disturbed by wars.You have to envy this to death. 6,700 people died in the eight-year war of resistance in the United States, and 18 million in China. He actually fought for 6 years in 8 years, more than 1,000 people a year, a total of 1 million people from the War of Independence to the Vietnam War, the most of which was the Civil War, 600,000 people died, 300,000 people died in World War II, and the rest of World War I, Korea World War II, Vietnam War plus a total of less than 100,000 people, so the American war is the most precious human life, life is the first.When we Easterners fight wars, victory is the first priority, no matter what the cost, people are on the ground.Americans don't see it that way, and Europeans don't see it that way either.Lost positions can be recaptured, lost weapons can be rebuilt, and dead people cannot be brought back to life.

The third is immigration.When the Declaration of Independence was published in 1776, the United States had 3 million people. From 1860 to 1861, when the Civil War broke out, it reached 31 million. The population increased by 10 times in 80 years, and the Chinese were not able to give birth like this.With a 10-fold increase in the population, most of them are immigrants. What kind of immigrants do Americans want?two kinds.One is technology and the other is investment.Of course, it was also short of labor at that time, mainly in technology and investment. If you immigrate to the United States today, investment immigration will cost at least 800,000 US dollars.You have to spend 800,000 in the United States, and 600,000 to buy a villa in the United States to register for you. If you say I keep it here, it won’t work.The other is skilled immigration, which is highly valued by the United States.When I first started working, we were opposite each other in the language group, and there was a language teacher whose husband was a doctor in the United States. In 1994, I heard that his annual salary was 250,000 US dollars, which we couldn’t figure out. It was roughly equivalent to 2 million RMB. Counting the money every day was tiring, and he worked really hard.Why his salary is high, because there are only three people in the United States including his husband who can do that kind of surgery. He went out after finishing his doctorate in China. When he arrived in the United States, he became an expert and got a green card.The Chinese teacher went to visit relatives twice, and then the third time. The American embassy said that you can no longer visit relatives, but only immigration.She said my Chinese teacher, why should I go to America?Teaching Chinese in Chinatown?Or just wash diapers and just watch the child, but the child is too old, so there is no need to take care of it, and there are not enough people to play mahjong, so why am I staying there?It doesn't matter, if you want to see your husband, you have to immigrate to the United States. If you apply for a family visit visa, I will refuse it, because you have come twice, and the incident is only three times. What if you call your husband back to the country the third time? .Of course, if her husband came back, it would be crazy. It is impossible to earn 5,000 yuan without earning 250,000 US dollars.You don't want to go to the United States, you have nothing to do, but your husband is useful, and the value created will definitely support you, so you have to get her there.Of course, the United States does not want everyone. Those who are beneficial to the country are warmly welcomed; those who come here with smuggled immigrants will be rejected.Go back where you came from, bye.

The fourth is standardized production.What is the standardization of machine parts?Most obviously, there is an example of standardized production around you——McDonald’s, Chinese fast food can’t do foreign fast food, because foreign fast food is standardized production, and one cook in the world is enough.When I was in college, there was no McDonald’s. I fried chicken at KFC. Put the chicken nuggets inside, put a watch next to it, press it, and take it out after three minutes of pressing it. Who can’t do it?No technical content is required.Can you shred the onion?Pork and green onions, that is definitely a technical job; can you make buns?I love potato shreds, and the taste of potato shreds in each restaurant is different.But French fries taste the same all over the world, and McDonald's all over the world taste the same. They are produced in a standardized way, so you can't do it.I like this taste, but that restaurant doesn’t have this taste, so I’ll change to another one; if you like this one, this restaurant has changed cooks, and the taste has changed, so I have to change until I find a place that suits my taste.So the chef is the most important in the hotel. Chinese recipes say to put a little salt, and foreigners will get dizzy when they see it. How much is a little?One gram or two grams, the chef told me to tremble twice, if I tremble less, the dish might not taste good, and it is easy for the chef to make trouble for you.You can't do foreign fast food, that's why.

I studied in Hong Kong for a month, Chinese University, I can’t eat the food in Hong Kong, a green vegetable is very long, uncut, and it seems that there is no salt, boiled in water, four on a plate, ten people at a table, you Talk about how to eat this thing, after eating for a week, my little body lost three catties.Those big men in the Northeast couldn't bear it even more. They were all teachers from all over the country. We couldn't stand it anymore. Later we protested to the school.The school said to give everyone a subsidy, 70 Hong Kong dollars a day, you can go out and eat.When I thought about how I could finish eating 70 yuan, I might have 50 yuan left to buy something with my appetite.I went outside and saw, well, a short fried dough stick costs 7 yuan, and 10 yuan is half full. It's over, this time I will starve to death in Hong Kong.I saw that there are McDonald's near the Chinese University. I ate McDonald's three times a day for three weeks. After returning to Beijing, let alone see McDonald's. As soon as I heard people say these three words, I felt like throwing up. I was transferred for a month. .The United States was the first to invent this, and these are all ideas of the Americans.

After talking about France and the United States, the third country expanded by the Industrial Revolution is Germany.Germany is not the same thing as the Germany we talk about today, it is not a concept, Germany is English, German is Deutschland, we translate it into German, look at the license plate of the European Union, the German license plate is D, not G, and the Netherlands is also, The Netherlands is N, Niederlande, it is not English, it is in its local language.Germany was only a geographical concept at that time, not a political concept.At that time, Germany was a loose confederation of 34 states and 4 free cities. The fragmented political situation hindered the development of the German Industrial Revolution.

In addition, there are two late-stage capitalist countries, Japan and Russia, which are still in their infancy. As late-stage capitalist countries, the two industrial revolutions are interleaved.