I Became a Witch and Started an Industrial Revolution
Chapter 336 ·Because We Were Here
In this way the production capacity unleashed by the Alliance’s previously wartime-converted factories would have somewhere to be released,and by controlling the source of aid,to a great extent the Alliance could directly influence the direction of that nation’s government。
And what Ernesto needed to do,was continuously transmit all kinds of ideologies throughout this extremely long-lasting aid and revival plan。
The reason the Alliance itself did not stand at the forefront,ultimately was because the Alliance did not want to plant the impression among the people of these new nations that the Alliance’s Great Government system was superior,otherwise there was no guarantee that some nations would not imitate it later。
Anyway as long as the plan was successfully implemented,the elites of the Main Continent would basically all have to come to the Alliance for advanced study before going back,for the Alliance to grasp this force was already enough。
And Ernesto’s model possessed extremely high general applicability in this transformation of the Continent,first of all concentrating farmhouses、equalizing land and exempting taxes would directly cause a certain impact on the old Business Owners of the Continent。
They wanted to share the postwar division of the cake with the Alliance,Mitia did not want that,she had no interest in letting others take advantage of her。
It was not exactly burning the bridge after crossing the river,rather how this cake was divided,by whom,which group took the largest share,who got to eat it,all of these things had to be decided by Mitia。
Business Owners were also different from one another,there were disorderly expansion types,and naturally there would also be law-abiding Entrepreneur types。
Once Trade Unions、Farmers’ Associations bloomed everywhere across the Continent,the people who had originally been at the bottom would possess the capital and confidence to negotiate with the mainstream,and the Business Owners’ beautiful dream of staking claims everywhere would inevitably be shattered。
Having Ernesto implement the egalitarian collective model would naturally provoke a fierce counterattack from some Business Owners,and this would be an excellent opportunity to distinguish friend from foe。
Only by taking advantage of this window period would she have time to organize the local resource information submitted by the various nations,merge and redistribute the Astal Family’s resources,and make targeted investments after each new nation completed its regional division。
Actually the giant enterprise model was also extremely simple,or rather its core was universal。
That was a unified market,and a unified market meant that from extraction、production to sales,from food、clothing、housing and transportation to long guns and short cannons,from raw materials to finished products,it possessed a complete production chain。
Possessing this complete chain,a nation occupying the dominant position was called a【Great Power】,and a giant enterprise could also complete this closed chain loop。
Whoever controlled the dominant position in this chain was a Great Power,it did not necessarily have to be a nation~
The Alliance occupied the leading distribution position in the global Industrial Chain,the Alliance could not swallow the entire share,because the chain consisted of the complete process of raw material extraction、processing and production、sales and distribution,the Alliance only needed to take the largest share of the profits from these links。
To put it plainly the Alliance would serve as the sole top level,using the largest share of the profits to maintain an oversized armed system,serving as the stabilizing pillar of the system。
Meanwhile the middle-level allies、Brother Nations would serve as the actual workers within the system,manufacturing、processing and producing goods。
The other nations at the bottom would serve as the source of goods and dumping markets,with the largest share of the profits divided between the Alliance and the middle-level nations。
If this goal was to be achieved,a great deal of Manufacturing Industry would be relocated to other nations,in order to ensure that the situation from her previous life would not occur,Mitia would use internal operations to bring as much as possible of the relocated mid-to-high-end Manufacturing Industry under the control of her own Family,only the remainder would be divided among the other forces。
Then even if the Alliance truly transformed into the Evil Dragon,the Mitia Family holding the mid-to-high-end Manufacturing Industry in its hands would also possess the ability to restrain the Alliance in return。
Of course,if that situation never occurred,then everything would remain peaceful and prosperous and everyone could do their own thing,every company would be independent of one another,the Industrial Chain scattered throughout the various nations,a piece in the east and a piece in the west,and the Alliance itself would not feel any threat。
Only at dangerous moments would these companies merge into a single general representative,and only after integrating together could they truly pose a threat to the Alliance。
In Mitia’s estimation,if she could accomplish this,then on the foundation of forcibly setting a century-long milestone extending it for another eighty or a hundred years should not be a problem。
After all that she was actually still thinking about her own little patch of land,with such a good opportunity for ideological export she was still always thinking about interests interests,like a petty person who knew only利益,not Red at all。
Mm,if the emotions she had when shouting slogans were set aside,then rationally speaking,she truly was not Red,and did not feel much about it either。
She was actually quite selfish,in her previous life,and in this life as well。
So she handed the Aid Construction Plan to Ernesto to implement,gave the prestige to them,and let them take up the baton and continue moving forward according to their ideals。
Once this round of the Continental Aid Construction Plan began,Ernesto as the principal executor would receive the love of the People of the Main Continent,and their ideology would merge into the hearts of the People of the Continent。
Perhaps in the future the ideology might be suppressed and hidden,but as long as there was an opportunity,the momentum of a prairie fire could take shape again。
The first trump card to open this grand drama of ideological export,was gender。
At the Sigloy Peace Summit,after the pro-war forces of the Allied Nations had been purged and detained,Alliance representatives convened the First Provisional World Conference in the Capital of the Mantogol Empire。
This conference did not belong to the normal diplomatic category of meetings between nations,it merely gathered the representatives of these nations together,gave the other side a rough framework for the subsequent process,the Alliance spoke,they acted,it was that simple。
They could also refuse,just as Aldahir was still clamoring that he would resist to the death,except the Alliance simply ignored him,and directly excluded the Britian Empire from this meeting。
If the rest of you who had already surrendered had any opinions,then you could conveniently go pay your respects to the enormous crater left by the small nuclear bomb a hundred kilometers away。
And there was nothing particularly special about the venue of this conference either,the Mantogol Imperial Palace had merely been temporarily borrowed for use。
After seeing this set of statues and hearing the explanation from the Seris Alliance diplomats,the faces of the high-ranking officials and Nobles from the other participating nations turned green。
Damn it their nations were going to become like this in the future?This seemed rather different from what they had imagined,how were they supposed to accept this?
In the eyes of Landlords、Nobles、Clergy,who was poor and who was rich,who was noble and who was lowly were all decrees of the benevolent Emperor and the almighty gods,and what the Seris Alliance was doing,was challenging and transforming the laws of the gods。
Was this not simply bullying them because they currently could not resist?
Under the romantic and incomparably magnificent privilege systems of the Kingdoms and Empires,the greatest effort a woman of the privileged class would make in her entire life amounted to little more than defying her parents’ wishes and eloping with a handsome young officer。
They,or rather the men behind them,had never imagined and would never think about how those Ordinary Women curled up inside thatched huts,or even homeless,struggled every day to survive amid such cruel、painful darkness,for nothing more than a piece of black bread mixed with wood shavings。
According to the Alliance’s own experiences and later investigation records,Women basically could only engage in two occupations throughout their lives,rural labor and selling sex。
When the Seris Alliance was established the number of Women nationwide making a living by selling sex was approximately 2 million,and that only counted those caught and tallied when fixed establishments were cleared out,there was simply no way to count how many operated randomly。
Sadly,the quality of life of these Sex Workers was actually much better than that of their rural sisters,they could even be considered a high-income group。
Before the Alliance comprehensively advanced Women’s Equality,among the wages Landlords paid hired farm laborers in rural fields,for the same amount of work a man’s wage was 5 times that of a woman,Women at that time were the most disadvantaged and poorest group under the era。
And they were not even the winners of this contest of misery,under the sacrificial religious code prevalent in the more medieval-feudal Kingdom of Paria,Child Marriage and Human Trafficking were fine traditions of the Kingdom,Women as property could be bought and sold at will,and whenever they went outside they could not expose their faces。
A husband could freely kill a wife who did not wear a veil,while the Priests used religious scripture to support this custom,and before the rise of Seris,these tragedies had already played out across both lands for thousands of years。
Until the establishment of the Seris Alliance directly smashed this interlocking chain to pieces,as one of the benevolent policies of the new dynasty after the establishment of the Alliance,apart from Equality for All、Gender Equality,the Alliance also granted female Alliance citizens a right that in this world was earth-shattering,the Right to Vote。
As the name implied,it was the right to political participation,something that they with their formerly low status would not even have dared to imagine,this was also their complete transformation from tools into people,legally legitimizing their sacred Democratic Rights。
With this right,their rights to Education、Political Participation、Military Service、Employment and so on were all protected by law,no one could deprive them of obtaining economic returns through learning,nor could anyone discriminate against them。
When Equal Pay for Equal Work was first being advanced,before entering factories to work even most Women simply did not believe they could learn how to operate machines,they themselves believed that they possessed an innate intellectual deficiency compared with men。
Because of this before officially starting work they had even gathered together to discuss whether they could actually learn things like Machine Tool Operation。
This forced Mitia to use every means of propaganda available to tell all the People of the Alliance,as long as you were a healthy Human,you could basically learn how to operate a Machine Tool and work normally。
There were no rights without obligations,Labor was the sole foundation through which Women obtained rights,no matter what Women entering factories to work had to be carried through to the end。
There had even been a female university student trained by the Seris Federation who went to a remote Alliance region to provide volunteer teaching,encouraging local Women to fight for their own rights,several days later a carriage brought her corpse that had been cut to pieces back to the school,with words written on the carriage saying that this was the retribution for Women pursuing freedom。
During the first 5 years before the founding of the Alliance,thousands of Women every year were beaten、tortured and killed merely for not wearing veils,which also completely extinguished Mitia’s idea of taking things slowly despite her nickname at the time of Benevolent Emperor。
To her,dealing with the people who raised the problem was the simplest solution,wherever her Fist of Benevolence struck,that region achieved equality of status on the physical level。
It was also from that year onward that Women throughout the entire Alliance finally completely removed their robes and shackles,and as free people declared to the world:“Your Worker Grandma is here!”。
In the Mitia Constitution later promulgated by Seris the importance of Gender Equality was further established,by that time the proportion of local female representatives in the Alliance had already exceeded 35%,and the nationwide female voting rate exceeded 88%。
Alliance Women participated in the construction of the Alliance as this great Lighthouse in their capacity as masters of the nation,what men could do they could also do,where men could die they could also die。
From nothing to something,under Mitia’s unwavering advancement this road had also stumbled forward for several decades before most of the ugly phenomena were finally reversed,and this was under the premise that her prestige grew together with the nation and no one could compare with her。
All of this was actually only meant to explain one thing,that if the Main Continent in the future wanted to truly welcome change and completely seal away the Privileged Nobility,the power of Women would be the most important weight on the scales。
Because during the Feudal Era,Women were purely personal private property、reproductive tools,they had enjoyed few of the benefits brought to them by the system。
They were the group most determined to push forward Social Transformation,because they needed room to survive,and were the group most suitable to unite。
The Continent was too large,if it merely underwent another territorial division,then for many old Noble Landlords there would basically be no effect at all。
At most resources would simply be exchanged among themselves,and they could continue being wealthy local magnates or even local emperors in their regions。
And the Alliance did not have the energy,nor did it have any way to extend its reach into every aspect of the Main Continent,that was unrealistic,even in her highly developed previous life problems like these in remote regions could not be completely eradicated。
The greatest point of conflict between the two sides was that the nations headed by the Alliance wanted to dismantle the soil in which the Privileged Nobility existed,while the Nobles did not want to lose their power。
The defeat in the World War did not truly injure their foundations,the destruction of defeated Families or even Empires,and the destruction of their entire social stratum were two different things。
But with the hands of the female population and the subsequent Revival Plan,the Alliance possessed an opportunity to eliminate them。
The Revival Plan itself was a continuous Aid Construction Plan,this would create an astronomical number of jobs,and the vast majority of groups would be separated from their former mode of survival dependent on Manor Lords and Nobles。
Combined with the latent power released by the call for Independence and Equal Rights,the Alliance could free itself from the previous potential difficulty of having weak foundations on the Main Continent and struggling to clean out the local powerful Families,transforming in an instant into the Light of Women。
In addition after having just experienced a World War,the remaining male population was far smaller than the remaining female population,relying on the rise of the female population,after they entered positions throughout every sector of the nation,it would become extremely easy for the Alliance to seamlessly integrate into every level of every nation。
The Alliance actually did not lack the ability to physically eliminate Privilege,what it lacked was sufficient intelligence to distinguish friend from foe。
However just like the various difficulties Mitia had previously faced while advancing reforms within the Alliance,if this road was to be completely traversed,the number of comrades sacrificed along the way would be impossible to count。
But just as those words said
“After we leave,
They will build schools and hospitals for you,
They will raise your wages,
This is not because they suddenly discovered their conscience,
Nor because they became good people,
But because we were here。”
When in the not-too-distant future,Women could dress according to their own preferences,discuss knowledge beneath the sunlight,be elected as officials and swear to uphold justice,train and struggle in the Military,and discuss discrimination,it would be because we were here。
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