The sun never sets

An economic crisis is also a great opportunity for mergers and acquisitions, just like the landlords in the old days took advantage of floods to merge land.

For the real ruling class, economic crisis is a great thing.

For the rest of 1928, the United States continued to thrive, as did the Alliance. Other countries, such as the German Empire, the Anglo-French Alliance, and the Central American Syndicalist Alliance, all developed to varying degrees.

The emergence of new technologies can bring more vitality. The Alliance Bank has experienced several technological innovations and created many new theories, so its economic development is faster than that of the United States.

With the current size of the alliance, even if it keeps pace with the United States, the absolute growth rate is still very impressive. What’s more, the alliance’s growth rate exceeds that of the United States?

The Human Innovation Alliance's economy was developing strongly, and it had defeated the Germans in India, and it immediately became a beacon of the world, the light of humanity. A large amount of capital poured into the alliance, and the number of people applying to immigrate to the alliance increased significantly compared to before.

The union has a minimum wage, distributes land to farmers for free, the annual interest on bank loans cannot exceed 5%, there is a universal education and medical system... and so on. These things are very attractive to German farmers and workers.

Many Germans fled to Red France, and many people lined up to join the Alliance. Although the Alliance had strict control over religion, there were many Germans who did not believe in religion. As long as the Alliance's tax revenue was a little lower than that of the German Emperor, many people were willing to give up their original beliefs and become/pretend to be an atheist.

Chapter 807 The Jews

The Alliance does not need to recruit farmers and ordinary workers from Europe and America. The population of the People's Revolutionary League has exceeded 7 million, the largest population in the world. What the Alliance lacks are scientists, senior engineers or skilled workers with special skills.

If it weren't for the fact that training by themselves is too slow and costly, the alliance would probably not even want scientists and senior engineers. Since the day the People's Party was established, it has regarded "standardization of writing and standardization of vehicles" as one of its main goals. How could it accept immigrants on a large scale?

It was possible to work in the Union, but it was difficult to obtain a passport, which was in stark contrast to the United States. Even so, many Germans, Turks, and people from other countries fled to the Union, but the largest number of them were Jews.

Because there were so many Jews, the Immigration Bureau had to list the Jews separately and report the matter to the state.

The Jewish problem has a long history. This ethnic group is extremely unwelcome in Europe and Asia. Anti-Semitic movements often occur in Europe, and the Middle East also raises the butcher knife against the Jews from time to time, which sounds very pitiful.

In the beginning, that was a thousand or two thousand years ago, the Jews were not yet the objects of universal hatred and discrimination, nor were they compared to rats in the sewer. In the beginning, the Jews were domineering in the Middle East for a long time, and they did a lot of things like massacres.

After that, the Jews were defeated and massacred people everywhere during their escape, which aroused the anger of many countries. For a time, the Jews became rats crossing the street, and everyone wanted to kill them. After that, Israel was destroyed, which was a common thing at that time. The rise and fall of countries happened countless times.

Many medieval literary and artistic works and paintings portrayed Jews as extremely unbearable, and some works even directly compared Jews to sows. In 19, in the mid-to-late 1928th century, the anti-Semitism in Europe was getting stronger and stronger. Whenever there was an economic recession or social crisis, Jews were considered the main culprits.

If the Jews were just rich and just loaned money at high interest rates, it wouldn't have escalated to the point of genocide, because there's a saying that goes "the meat is rotten in the pot." The problem is that the Jews are generally not loyal to their homeland or don't have a homeland, which is something that all nation-states in a naked law of the jungle cannot tolerate.

After the rise of nationalism, the Jews suffered more discrimination and persecution. Religion and ethnicity have always been the best way to distinguish "them" from "us". The Jews are "them" in terms of religion and ethnicity, so it would be strange if they were not discriminated against.

But this problem is not entirely the fault of the Jews, because historically the Jews lost their homeland and wandered around. In their hearts, there is only one homeland, which is Israel. And the countries they wandered to discriminated against and restricted them, making them feel even less at home. In addition, the Jews scattered in various countries have inextricable connections, and these countries are often hostile to each other.

In this situation, Jews who were not loyal to their homeland and only pursued money became a thorn in everyone's eyes and flesh - although for Jews, they were originally second-class citizens in their country. Of course, there were many Jews who fought for their country, but betrayal was always more glaring.

The original version of the Communist International, which advocated that workers have no country and that the proletariat of the world should unite, had a large proportion of Jewish thinkers and revolutionaries in its early days. It was also Jews who put forward the theory of science without borders.

In another world, Jews are also the main force behind advocating multiculturalism, demanding tolerance of LGBT, and encouraging immigration. And they have succeeded at least in Europe and the United States. In Europe and the United States, which are multicultural and tolerant of LGBT, Jews have thrived without any danger.

You can't even criticize Muslims, blacks, and homosexuals, so how can you criticize Jews, who are even more harmless?

The People's Revolutionary League does not like multiculturalism and immigration, does not allow public expression of opinions on LGBT, and does not include Judaism in the officially recognized religions. It should have kept all Jews out of the country.

However, the People's Party absorbed many Bolshevik members, and many of the Bolshevik leaders were Jews. Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Dzerzhinsky were all Jews.

With these people around, Jews can always find connections to work in the League. Although it is not easy to get a passport from the People's Revolutionary League, they will be less discriminated against in the League, and as long as they do not violate the law, their personal safety is guaranteed.

But that was all in the past. With the death of Lenin, Dzerzhinsky and others, the People's Revolutionary League's management of Jews became increasingly strict. The League's embassy had rejected Jewish naturalization applications many times and rejected more Jews who wanted to work in the League.

In the past ten years, the Jewish communities in the Union lived together, and the government turned a blind eye to many of their actions. From now on, even in Jewish communities, Jewish pastors could not preach outside of religious places. Otherwise, the government would use an iron fist to destroy their churches and exile all religious people to Siberia.

This condition is already very good. It is equivalent to implicitly recognizing the existence of Judaism and giving Jews the same treatment as other people.

The religions publicly recognized by the Human Revolutionary Alliance are still the same as before, Taoism, Buddhism, Orthodoxy, Islam and Shintoism. These religions have their own festivals, which are recognized by the Human Revolutionary Alliance government. On the day of each religious festival, the corresponding religious figures can preach their own doctrines in public.

As for other religions, such as Judaism, Catholicism and Christianity, they are minorities within the Union and have very few believers. The Union government suppresses them equally.

Even so, there are still many German Jews who want to join the alliance. There is no other reason, the German government has already begun to harvest the Jews. Germany suffered heavy losses in the world war, and just recovered, it was hit head-on in India, and the contradictions within Germany became more and more serious again.

In order to divert domestic conflicts and make up for the financial deficit, the German government needed to treat the Jews as the common enemy of the country.

Of course, Jews could also go to Paris, London, or the United States, but it was most convenient to enter the Union. The Union and Germany had a long border, and if they could not enter the Union through formal gatherings, they would take less formal methods. There was no wall on the border, so they could just find a place to get through.

Chapter 808 Einstein

Lin Yongchang had no prejudice against Jews. He did not think that Jews were rats in the gutter, as was the mainstream view of the time, but he did not have any pity for Jews either. The influx of Jews caused many problems, and many comrades in the central government believed that Jews should be dealt with specially, and those who sneaked in should be sent back, and those who did not have passports should also be sent away.

Some Jews said they came to work in the alliance, and they tore up their passports after entering. Local governments found it difficult to deal with such situations. Unless the central government issued an order, they could not arrest people at will. Many old comrades working in the European area were Jews.

The League Central Committee never took action against the Jews, partly because it wanted to win over Jewish scientists such as Einstein, Lazarsfeld, etc.

The German Empire treated Jews badly, and although Jewish scientists were respected, they were inevitably affected. They had access to more information than ordinary people and had a clearer understanding of what might happen.

However, Einstein, Lazarsfeld and others were not very interested in recruiting the alliance. The Human Reform Alliance was suppressive towards all kinds of religions, which many people thought was too unfree.

The persistent Black Revolutionary League of the European powers over the years has left many people with a bad impression of the alliance. The United States has always advertised itself as a free country, and the "American Dream" still has a lot of appeal to Europeans.

The threat posed by the People's Revolutionary League and syndicalism to Germany was great. Germany had been very close to the United States in recent years, and the domestic media had to speak well of the United States. Moreover, the United States was in a period of economic prosperity. For the wealthy, the United States seemed to be a better choice than the People's Revolutionary League.

Although a huge country called the Central American Syndicalist Federation appeared on the border of the United States, its land area, population and industrial strength were not as large as those of the United States. During the Central American War, if it were not for the wholehearted support of the Anglo-French alliance and the People's Revolutionary League, the Central American Syndicalist Federation would have been crushed by the United States.

Many Europeans fled to the United States because they could not survive there, and many others could not stand the endless wars on the European continent.

The situation between Germany and the People's Revolutionary League is tense, and it is possible that they will fight again at any time. Therefore, although the alliance offered high conditions, Einstein, Lazarsfeld and others

I still prefer to go to the United States.

"Mr. Einstein has again refused to visit Chang'an."

"Are they planning to go to America?"

“There is no news on this yet, but those Jewish scientists are very close to the American scientific community.”

Technology is the primary productive force. Falling behind means being beaten. Both the Americans and the Germans have experienced this. The German government also pays attention to the development of technology, but what Einstein and others studied had nothing to do with weapons, so it did not prevent them from contacting the United States.

"If Mr. Einstein doesn't want to go to Chang'an because it's too far away, then invite him to Moscow for an academic visit."

Lin Yongchang said: "We should be more tolerant towards world-renowned scientists."

He can obtain a lot of technologies that surpass generations through the [Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire] system, but it is not enough to just have the technical data. If he wants to fully understand the technical data, transform it into productivity or create new weapons, it requires the efforts of many scientific workers.

In addition to training its own high-level talents, the alliance also recruits scientists and senior engineers from all over the world. But since Einstein and others want to go to the United States, that's fine. They can't just kidnap them back.

When thinking alone, Lin Yongchang thought about whether he should follow the example of Americans and Israelis and assassinate scientists from hostile countries. But after thinking about it, he decided to forget it. He is not an Anglo-Saxon or a Jew, so he still has a bottom line.

Lin Yongchang was not the head of state, so he would not build a gas chamber to bathe the Jews.

Without Zhang the butcher, we would not eat hairy pigs. Without Einstein and other Jewish scientists, would the science of the Alliance not be able to develop? Of course not.

"So, what is the report from the Immigration Bureau comrades?"

"Let's put it aside for now. We don't need to deliberately target the Jews, but we don't need to give them any preferential treatment either."

"Yes."

Lin Yongchang made this decision not because he wanted to wait for Einstein and others to change their minds. It was not like that. This decision was made out of practical considerations. No matter what you do, you have to pay a cost, and the same is true for repatriating illegal immigrants. Carrying out special activities requires a lot of manpower and a lot of money, so it is better to leave it like this for the time being.

Often, the work of government departments is significantly delayed. For example, during the special campaign to eliminate gangs and eliminate evil, many of the "vibrant social groups" caught had been committing crimes for more than a decade. Did no one report them during these ten years? Definitely not. The police force is limited, so they can only focus on bigger and more serious cases first.

If things drag on like this year after year, wouldn't it be more than a decade? Of course, the members of the vibrant social groups all have people behind them. If no one follows up, entertainment venues and the like will be ruined in a matter of minutes.

Comrade Stalin of the Commission for Combating Counterrevolutionaries believed that the society was now full of all kinds of reactionary elements and that another severe crackdown was needed to correct the unhealthy social practices.

After becoming the chairman of the "Pursuit Committee", Stalin became one of the most powerful people in the Central Committee of the Union, but everything he did now was just following the path opened up by Comrade Dzerzhinsky.

Stalin arrested some typical corrupt officials, but that was not enough.

If he wanted to achieve greater results, he had to launch a severe crackdown to make people aware of the prestige of the Purge Committee again.

The reasons were all ready-made: the influx of Jews and a large number of immigrants had led to the deterioration of public security. There were also the aristocrats, landlords, rich peasants, capitalists in society, etc., the "landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists" of the previous dynasty, all of whom were the targets that Stalin was determined to attack.

The Purge Committee also had its own rules and could not arrest people at will. Stalin wanted to launch a new round of crackdowns, but he needed the approval of the Central Committee of the League. He wrote a report and submitted it, but it was quickly rejected.

Chairman Lin personally issued a directive, "The current contradictions in society are not yet serious enough to require a severe crackdown."

Chapter 809 Bridle

Stalin had been the chairman of the "Commission for the Elimination of Counterrevolutionaries" for two years, and he had made a lot of achievements in his post. But compared with Comrade Dzerzhinsky, Stalin's achievements were not amazing.

Whether in terms of work ability or personal integrity, Stalin was a little inferior to Comrade Dzerzhinsky, the "Man in the Iron Mask". Many comrades in the party believed that "Iron Stalin" was the perfect successor to Dzerzhinsky, but Lin Yongchang did not think so.

Although Comrade Dzerzhinsky signed thousands of execution orders and exiled hundreds of thousands of people, it must be emphasized that the "Man in the Iron Mask" was essentially self-controlled, kind, and good. Dzerzhinsky always had sympathy and grief for the lower-class people. Whether they were workers or peasants, he believed that they should be treated well, so he would resolutely oppose Stalin and others' agricultural collectivization.

This approach alienated many cadres from the Bolshevik background, but Dzerzhinsky did not change his political stance.

What about Stalin? He was undoubtedly a man who could get things done, but he was only good at uniting the workers and turned a blind eye to the hardships of the peasants. He also did not spend time collecting information and did not understand the actual situation in the rural areas of the People's Revolutionary League.

The land area controlled by the alliance reached 4000 million square kilometers, which is a behemoth that has never appeared in human history.

In terms of area, the economic income structure and problems faced by rural areas in different places are different, and the same method cannot be used to solve the problems.

Stalin and his friends proposed to promote agricultural collectivization across the country without conducting detailed investigations in rural areas across the country, which made Lin Yongchang very unhappy.

When Stalin became the chairman of the Anti-Counterrevolutionary Committee, Comrade Gangtie did a lot of small things in secret. For some reason, Lin Yongchang paid special attention to Comrade Stalin and knew everything Stalin had done over the years. However, although Stalin was suspected of forming cliques, it was not a big deal.

"Without a party within the party, there is imperial thinking. Without a faction within the party, there are all kinds of strange things." No matter when, no matter how the rectification movement is carried out, the problem of filming cannot be completely eliminated.

As long as Stalin is put on a bridle and his arbitrary behavior is restricted, this iron comrade can still play a very useful role. Comrade Stalin should be reused, but he should also be punished.

For example, decisions such as "severe crackdown" can only be made by the Central Committee of the League. The "Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries Committee" is an executive body, not a legislative or decision-making body.

Lin Yongchang criticized Stalin in a mild way, asking him to focus on the work at hand instead of making decisions on behalf of the Central Committee. Then, he temporarily put Stalin and the PRC aside and began to deal with other matters.

The war and foreign aid in recent years have seriously hindered the economic development of the Union, but promoted the expansion of the steel industry, shipbuilding industry, military industry and chemical industry. According to the industrial capacity data in the first half of 1928, the total steel production this year will exceed 8000 million tons, which is more than the United States and Germany combined.

After the war, a considerable portion of the industrial capacity developed by the Alliance during the war was converted to civilian use. The total fertilizer production of the National Jinmian is expected to reach 1700 million tons, which is a very astonishing figure. The problem is that the territory of the Alliance is too vast. According to the calculations of experts, in order to fully meet the needs of agriculture, at least 5000 million tons of fertilizers are needed each year.

China, Russia, Japan, Mongolia, the Siberian Republic, Southeast Asian countries, India, and Australia all require large amounts of fertilizers and pesticides.

The Human Innovation Alliance has a long way to go and a lot of potential to tap. Some areas of the Alliance have developed very well, but some areas have not developed so well.

Moscow is one of the largest cities in the Union. The city has been electrified. The city is brightly lit every night and there are people on the streets until one or two in the morning.

But apart from Moscow, you can see a completely different world by taking a half-day train ride. The villages are still poor and backward. Apart from the electric poles on both sides of the road and a few brick-and-wood houses, many rural areas look no different from four or five years ago.

Of course, there are actually many differences.

The popularization of broadcasting systems, telephones, and telegraphs has enabled the state to convey its will to every village. Radios and televisions have enabled the people in the vast rural areas to see the outside world, to know in a timely manner what major events are happening in the world, and to know the direction of national policies.

The country’s tie class would appear in the 7 o’clock news broadcast every evening, and sometimes Lin Yongchang would also appear in the news broadcast.

After more than a decade of compulsory education, rural youths have reached the level of junior high school students. They have received education and learned how vast the outside world is. Many of them are unwilling to stay in the countryside. Young people take trains to big cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg or Chang'an to seek development.

The flow of population provided sufficient labor for industrialization and injected vitality into the People's Revolutionary League. People gained rewards through labor, and when they had money, they could spend it, which promoted the development of industry. The development of industry required more workers.

Once the economic cycle starts, it will drive the Human Innovation Alliance forward. Everything is moving in a positive direction, and the average life expectancy of the people is constantly increasing, which is the best indicator of the country's development.

People's living standards are constantly improving. Even during the war, only the price of meat rose sharply. Under the state's forced intervention, the prices of major grains remained basically stable. There were some increases, but the increases were not large.

After the war, pork prices quickly returned to normal levels, and the prices of other bulk commodities also gradually fell.

Some newspapers describe the current good life as the "golden age". Most people have expectations for the future and believe that the future will be better than the present. However, although everyone believes that life will be better in the future, there will inevitably be some complaints, as long as money is becoming less and less.

Ten years ago, the three most important items for marriage in China were "watches, radios and bicycles", but now they are "TV sets, refrigerators and washing machines", and some places have added cars. The prices of these items are many times more expensive than the old three items, especially cars. Even the cheapest car costs more than 500 yuan, which is the salary of a worker who doesn't eat or drink for several months.

Under normal circumstances, a worker needs to save money for a year to be able to afford a car. Buying a car is just the beginning. You also need to register for a license, pay insurance, etc.

Gasoline is not expensive, but it is still an expense after all.

Chapter 810 Promotion

The "installment payment" invented by Americans is very good and powerful. It has effectively promoted the economic development of the United States. After discovering such a good financial tool, domestic economic experts decided to introduce it into the country. However, the [People's Revolutionary League] has very strict supervision over the financial industry, and the country has been promoting hard work for decades. "Installment payment" has nothing to do with hard work no matter how you look at it.

However, as long as there is profit to be made, there is no need to worry about no one finding excuses. There is a group of people in the world who are responsible for propaganda and hype. They can say black is white and white is black. They can also put two completely unrelated things together.

If those people start to invent some new terms, such as "ecological counter-attack", "people's rich", "patriotic thieves", "negative growth" and "flexible employment", or say something that obviously goes against common sense, such as "raising prices to reduce inventory", there is no doubt that those people are not stupid, they are just simply bad.

In order to introduce the financial instrument of "installment payment", the central government of the Union needs to relax financial supervision. Some newspapers began to promote the benefits of "installment payment", which is undeniably reasonable.

In fact, this kind of transaction method has long existed within the People's Revolutionary League. For some products with long production cycles and high costs, such as the export of complete sets of equipment, large-scale transportation vehicles, heavy machinery and equipment, the installment payment method is to pay a small part of the payment as a deposit after the import and export contract is signed, and the rest of the payment will be paid in installments after the product is partially or fully produced and shipped, or when the product arrives for installation, commissioning, and commissioning, or when the quality assurance period expires.

Now that the feasibility of this transaction has been proven, why can't it be expanded to general goods? Whether it is a tractor, a car, or a television, a washing machine, or a refrigerator, you can use the installment payment method.

Many young people have a need for a higher quality of life, but they do not have enough cash. If they could buy various high-tech products in installments, it would promote consumption on the one hand and provide convenience to buyers on the other. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?

A lot of new things appear in the alliance every year. We should be more tolerant and understanding of new things. We can let them grow freely first, and it will not be too late to regulate them if we find anything wrong.

There has been a lot of discussion about similar things in newspapers, television and other media. Comrades in the Party have also discussed this, and many people think it is worth trying. Not only "installment payment", but many other financial instruments and derivatives can be used first.

Didn't Chairman Lin say that we should adhere to the "take what is available" principle? As long as it is good, we can use it for our own benefit, without being bound by whether it is capitalism or syndicalism.

“Recently, many people are discussing financial innovation.”

Wang Qi said with emotion: "I have never encountered such a problem before. The more we develop, the more problems we encounter. The previous methods and experiences are no longer effective." He smiled and said: "I think what the economic experts said is right. Many things need to be tried first. It is better to open up than to block."