pappabearbooks Chapter 62 The Story Behind the Enlightenment...
Chapter 62 The Story Behind the Enlightenment...
"...I see! I would be very happy to become a consultant for your hospital and pharmacy!"
Thomas Raven and the other doctors all breathed a sigh of relief and subsequently expressed their willingness to serve as consultants for Robin Hospital and Pharmacy.
30 pounds!
This is a stable source of extra income, so why not take it? It's just a matter of occasionally going to the hospital and pharmacy to make an appearance!
Seeing this, Chen Wenbin smiled broadly. He looked at the doctors in front of him as if he were seeing machines that could print gold coins for him!
It's important to know that the Royal College of Physicians in London is the most authoritative medical institution in the UK. Its core members are all doctors who directly treat the royal family and nobility. In terms of both influence and authority, it is top-notch!
They're only being manipulated because of allicin, so they have to bow down to him. If they don't take advantage of this opportunity to get him to help promote and sell aspirin and malfi, he won't forgive himself!
"...In addition to Robin Hospital and the chain of pharmacies, I also plan to establish a London Doctors, Hospitals and Medicines Development Foundation to promote medical progress in the UK. Your consulting fees will also be paid by this foundation."
At the same time, I would also like to invite you to serve as directors and advisors of this foundation, with a salary and compensation of around £30!
Chen Wenbin chuckled as he explained his plan: a consultant alone wouldn't be enough to keep these doctors tied down, but what if they became directors and consultants of the foundation?
He had basically reached an agreement with old Joseph: the East India Company and many London nobles and wealthy merchants would become new shareholders of PUIC, and they would then invest in the London Medical Development Fund as well…
Hmph! Will these doctors dare to go against me in the future?
Not to mention that Chen Wenbin was 98% confident he could persuade George III to invest in spinning machines, aspirin, and Maffei!
First, build a reputation, then use interests to bind interest groups and key figures, and then in turn continue to consolidate the reputation to gain even greater benefits and influence... Boss Chen is becoming more and more proficient in this snowballing strategy.
Actually, this is nothing new. When it comes to manipulating and controlling public opinion, then using it to gain commercial benefits, and finally influencing and controlling the country's administrative decisions and politics, the real experts are the Jews!
The difference is that Jews started by lending money at high interest rates, manipulating currency and finance, and only later began to influence public opinion, loosen their own constraints, and then influence politics!
Take the Enlightenment in Europe today, for example. Besides the Freemasons, an elite group, and the merchant class in various countries who demanded restrictions on royal power, are there no Jewish figures behind the movement?
How is that possible?
The biggest beneficiaries of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution were the Jews, who had long been excluded and suppressed by mainstream Christian society in Europe!
Even Freemasonry was declared illegal and suppressed by various countries after the French Revolution, but Jews were not greatly affected and instead achieved a basically equal social status in Western Europe.
Equality for all, inherent human rights, freedom and the rule of law, limiting royal power, and abolishing divine authority... These Enlightenment ideas not only liberated the people of Europe, but also removed the shackles that had bound the Jews for the past thousand years!
After the French Revolution, Europeans were indeed gradually liberated from royal and divine authority, but they also lost a part of their social organization.
Because some individualistic tendencies of the Enlightenment thought evolved into the "mainstream ideology" of selfishness and profit-seeking that was widely believed in by the elite class, they no longer rejected cooperation with Jewish merchants and financiers. As a result, the economies of Western European countries gradually developed, but the achievements of overseas colonization were also gradually eroded by Jewish capital.
The Netherlands was the first domino to fall. They took in Jews who fled from Spain, and then the Netherlands became the first truly capitalist republic, with the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, a European financial center.
Then came England. The Glorious Revolution in England made Jewish merchants and financiers from the Netherlands "favored the emperor" for William III, and eventually the Bank of England and the British national debt system became synonymous with reliability.
Next up is... America!
Historically, when Franklin, that fat old man, was the ambassador to France, did he have any contact with Jews besides the Freemasons and Rosicrucians...? It's hard to guess!
Therefore, some Jewish families in Europe could be considered among the original shareholders of America. However, because the local tyrants and rebels in America, like the British, liked to turn their backs on people and discard them after they had served their purpose, they were kicked out not long after American independence, until the Civil War...
Chen Wenbin was able to analyze these things not only because of some conspiracy theories he had read, but also mainly because of his conversations with Franklin and Joseph Sr.
Franklin, needless to say, was a long-time Freemason, and theoretically, he was Chen Wenbin's "mentor"! Of course, he boasted a lot to him, including the inside story of European Jews and the Glorious Revolution in England... In fact, these things were basically common knowledge to the upper-class rulers of various European countries.
Could they not know that some Jewish merchants were supporting the Enlightenment?
Of course I know!
But their own emerging businessmen and intellectuals also supported the Enlightenment!
Are we only targeting Jews? Wouldn't that scare away our own businessmen and scholars to other countries?
Moreover, Europe's financial system and a portion of international trade are actually controlled by Jews in various countries, not to mention the two major commercial and maritime powers, Britain and the Netherlands. How could you not do business with Britain and the Netherlands?
Of course, at that time, Jews were still a marginal figure, certainly not as powerful as they are in the 21st century, when the world's superpower was on the verge of being possessed...
The current maritime hegemon, Britain, or rather the Anglo-Saxons, certainly employs sophisticated political tactics.
Britain only allowed Jews to engage in finance, trade, and handicrafts, and prohibited them from purchasing land, owning merchant ships, or holding public office. Moreover, after realizing the problem in 1753, Britain quickly abolished the Jewish naturalization law, clearly treating Jews as tools for making money and as second-class citizens.
The most obvious example of this attitude is when Joseph Coates, the old Ansar, talked to Chen Wenbin about whether any Jewish businessmen would become shareholders of the company, and he spoke very frankly to him.
"...We allowed them (referring to the Jews) to engage in finance and trade in order to serve the interests and development of Britain, not to make them our masters!"
So apart from Aaron Lopez, the North American slave trader, there probably won't be another Jewish major shareholder in Chen Wenbin's company.
In contrast to the Jewish community in Britain, Chen Wenbin, although also an outsider and an Easterner, has converted to the Baptist Church. Even if he is not the Church of England, he is still a church in Britain, and he is about to marry a British noblewoman.
Therefore, in the eyes of old Joseph and others like Ansar, Chen Wenbin could barely be considered "one of their own." In the future, his and Diana's child would definitely inherit everything, so they could speak much more freely.
As for Chen Wenbin entrusting him to arrange for the East India Company to transport some Chinese from Asia to North America... that's really nothing, since it's not British territory and there are still many Native Americans to kill.
It's a good thing that Chen Wenbin is willing to spend a lot of money on immigration. The Chinese who follow Chen Wenbin are more reliable than the Native Americans and the French who stayed in North America, right?