Learn how to run a successful country-hating business from the Enlightenment | Anti-thief's Guide to Monetization |

I believe that many anti-thief YouTubers will receive comments like pink. You are not just making money from anti-China traffic, or relying on foreign forces to distribute dog food to survive, etc. The reverse is also true. If the anti-thief group can only make money outside the wall, then the patriotic group can be said to be a joy to harvest on both sides of the wall. In terms of economic benefits and personal IP, it can be said that it is better than the anti-thief. It is much more flexible to attack and defend. Here I must say for sure that hating the country and patriotism are indeed a business, but for the business of hating the country, it is not an easy thing to do well in this business, and it is very difficult to achieve both fame and fortune. Yes, but it is not completely impossible. If you accidentally succeed, you may be free of wealth, and there may be a chance to be famous in history. Today we're going to talk about how to start a great country-hating business.

Hello everyone, I'm Marley, this is a channel that advocates thinking and tearing fifty cents by hand. In each issue, we will combine a political and economic case to discuss the reasons behind him and different thinking dimensions.

When it comes to money, whether it is the Patriotic Party or the Nationalist Party, everyone is more or less reluctant to face this issue. Because in the public's cognition, the unquantifiable things such as opinions and thoughts belong to the expression of the spiritual level, and the people who express it are often expressed in the form of true feelings. Sayings like paying money, especially in the era of we-media, and especially in the Chinese-language we-media circle, especially in the Chinese-language we-media current political circle. Picking up a career partner must be wary of hurting the audience's values, and of course pink's cynicism. In fact, everyone knows that love alone can never generate electricity. Love and knowledge, especially for the "hate country thought", must become electricity, become light, and spread it to everyone's heart. Capital is absolutely indispensable. pushed.

As early as more than 200 years ago in France, have you ever thought that the "Enlightenment Movement", which is considered to be the spiritual heritage of all mankind, was actually promoted by a group of profiteers and gradually affected the whole world, thus changing the fate of each of us. In the 1970s, Professor Robert Darnton, a leading figure in European cultural history, wrote a book called "The Business of the Enlightenment" after research to reveal such a story to us.

In the winter of 1746, a major publisher in Paris asked a 33-year-old young man to compile a set of popular science books he planned. This young man is a little-known, freelancer who writes snarky jokes and occasionally acts as a freelancer. In the feudal and authoritarian France at that time, keyboard warriors like him were a very niche and humble profession, often having one meal but not the next. The key point is that he himself has to take care of a junior who likes to buy, buy and buy. Hard-pressed. Suddenly such an opportunity to write a reactionary publication, not to mention a good income, made this young man naturally unable to refuse such an attractive offer. So he did what he said, he pulled a group of friends who were almost like him, and started to write this reactionary pamphlet. And this small booklet was later known as the representative publication of the Enlightenment movement - "Encyclopedia", this young man is the famous French philosopher and thinker Denis Diderot, and the gang of rebels Inside, it includes names such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau and so on. This group of people later became known as the "Encyclopedia School".

Speaking of which, you must think that these people are big Vs. Isn't the Enlightenment driven by the thoughts and theories of such a group of big Vs? However, this is not the case. Although before Diderot, the ideas of the Enlightenment movement had been around in France and Europe for nearly a hundred years, but they were really recognized and understood by the common people, and triggered the butterfly effect later. It took root and sprouted after the publication and popularization of a large number of banned books. In other words, the enlightenment movement was not enlightened by the ideas of these big Vs, but driven by the interests of profiteers.

Regarding the precise division of the Enlightenment, the academic world does not have an accurate definition. But basically, after the Renaissance, people gradually transitioned from the imperial power and religious ideology to the era of believing in science and reason. Therefore, "heretics" such as "encyclopedia" that directly challenged imperial power and religion were considered by the booksellers at that time as the outlet of the next era, and they would surely win the attention of readers and sell well. However, those angry youths represented by Diderot who have drank some foreign ink will naturally become the best candidates in the eyes of the "anti-French forces". He is young and passionate, and the most important thing is that he is cheap, just give money. Books at that time were very expensive to buy, and publishers could make a fortune by subcontracting them. However, in France at that time, publications were licensed and reviewed, which means that France already had the General Administration of Radio, Television, Press and Publication as early as the feudal era of the 18th century. Therefore, if you want to become a bookseller in that year, an important survival ability is whether you know someone in the bureau, so through bribery and relationship, package it as popular science knowledge, and occasionally bring some private goods, the first volume of "Encyclopedia" The Complete Book was successfully published in 1751, and it was a big hit as soon as it went on the market.

Uncle Ma seems to have said that as long as there is a 300% profit, the capitalists will dare to take risks. According to the textual research of the book "Business", at that time, the publisher paid Diderot the most 80,000 livres, the cost was between 1.5 million and 2.2 million, the total income was 4 million liv, and the income was as high as 2.5 million liv. 35 times more), which was an astronomical figure in the 18th century. What Uncle Ma didn't say is that, apart from the coveted profits of the capitalists, the vested interests are not idle. "Encyclopedia" can be successfully published, except that there are people in the bureau, at least on the surface, publishing can promote the development of printing, papermaking and other related industries. This is a good way to boost GDP. Government officials like this the most. kind of project. But for a book that refers to Sang and scolds Huai, the risk of being harmonized cannot be avoided. Therefore, the general practice is familiar to Chinese people, and it is exactly the same as the anti-pornography campaign. I will send you a letter when the wind is tight, and you can do it yourself. When the wind is quiet, everyone makes money and is happy. Therefore, a series of banned books such as "Encyclopedia" wandered on the edge of piracy and official acquiescence.

Of course, the high profits make countless booksellers salivate. At this time, the giant of the Paris publishing industry, Pang Kuk, took the shot (call him Pang Ge later). He purchased the copyright of the various editions of the "Encyclopedia" from the first-generation publisher LeBreton in 1768 and became Die Dro's new boss. In addition to being richer, the biggest feature of this Pang is that his backstage is tougher. The police, press and publication, import and export and other departments are the relationship and interest chains that he has managed for many years, so it can be said that he is prudent in the gray area. die. He was also a member of the Paris Publishing Guild, which monopolized the publishing rights of French books in the 18th century. That is to say, he is a French publishing house of people's education. Although the "Encyclopedia" has "obscene" and "unhealthy" clips, but other booksellers want to share this cake, there is no way, unless you pirate. But Brother Pang has money, and the easiest and crudest way to deal with pirates is to throw money at it. Just when he was thinking about this lucrative business, an out-of-town spoiler appeared, this guy's name is Duplan (let's call him Xiaodu).

Xiaodu himself is also one of many pirates, but he has a characteristic of sharp business acumen. At the beginning, we said that the books at that time were very expensive to buy, and the layout was huge, and the people who could afford the books were some dignitaries and the upper class. When ordinary pirates were still stupid enough to copy everything, Xiao Du thought, how to make books smaller and cheaper so that ordinary people can also consume them. Speaking of which, don't think that the capitalists are benevolent or committed to the development of rural revitalization. He just hopes that Lao Tzu will pirate and steal a personal IP, so that this book can be bought more and made more money. So Xiao Du put an advertisement in the newspaper, which roughly means that I am going to crowdfund and publish a four-format "Encyclopedia" (only 1/4 of the previous layout), and the price is only 1/4 of the original, and The layout has been redesigned, the UI is better-looking and more portable, and some mistakes in the old version will be revised. Welcome to book. (This TM is the originator of ppt car builders and off-plan house pre-sale.) As a result, many suppliers are flocking to it.

Lao Pang saw that this buddy was not easy. At first, he wanted to use the power of the government to mess with him. Later, he felt that it would be better to cooperate with him instead of going through such troubles. So Lao Pang changed his plan, found Xiao Du, and contacted a publishing company in Switzerland to sign a contract to work together on this matter. The Swiss publishing company is called Neuchâtel Printing Company (STN), which is a long-established overseas pirate bookseller and has cooperated with Lao Pang before. The advantages of doing this are: first, the new edition of the book is printed overseas, which can greatly reduce the risk of the authorities in case of surprise seizure; second, it can effectively avoid the risk of funds and reduce the cost of publishing. So Lao Pang, Xiao Du and STN formed a powerful "Sikai Group", combining their respective advantages to jointly deal with other pirates. These pirates aren't vegetarians either. For example, they release an octave version of the Encyclopedia, which is more portable and cheaper. By bribing the French authorities and other means, they also smuggled into the French market for a time, posing a great threat to the genuine quarto. However, the interior of the "Sikai Ben Group" is not peaceful, it is this kind of greed, the competition for interests, Lao Pang, Xiao Du, and STN are also fighting to the death. Finally, it was squeezed out of the domestic market, and the quarto group eventually fell apart. Finally, it gradually formed the world where the domestic quarto is the world, while the octavo is sold well in other European countries.

This round of intrigue and competition of interests has undoubtedly caused God's messenger to speed up the popularization of the "Encyclopedia" in Europe and into the homes of ordinary people. This reminds me of the old saying that every Chinese film critic owes the original author a movie ticket.

"Encyclopedia" sells well all over Europe. From an economic perspective, it has greatly developed the European publishing and printing industry, as well as the entire industrial chain of paper, ink, and linen at the back end, which once made the raw materials of various supply chains. All have risen sharply, and related business owners have also made a lot of money. It is said that in 1778, printing houses all over the city of Geneva were printing the Encyclopedia. From a social perspective, as we said at the beginning, the popularity of the "Encyclopedia" has brought people's thoughts from idealism to materialism, and belief in science, truth, and reason has become a new trend of thought. As Diderot said, enlightenment The essence of the movement is to change the way people think, thereby accelerating the disintegration of lies under imperial and religious rule. This made it unexpected for the imperial bureaucrats who acted as umbrellas for publishers for their own interests.

It can be said that the emergence of the "Encyclopedia" was an epoch-making event of the small masses of thinkers, scientists, and philosophers in the Enlightenment, the underground counter-revolutionary, and anti-thief thoughts, which were widely spread and enlightened to ordinary leeks, and then the French Revolution broke out. event. The original booksellers may just have a simple business idea for their own business interests, but they have affected the world's scientific, political, and economic structure for more than 200 years in later generations. Of course, we cannot compare their contributions with these human masters. , but without their greed and selfishness, the works of these masters may only become a historical material in the ivory tower, which does not represent any practical significance. What will our world be like now?

Seeing this, my friends should be reminded of a program I did on "The TV Series That Changed Romania's Destiny". A small pirated TV series actually overthrew a arrogant dictatorship. Therefore, although patriotic and law-abiding businesses are profitable, there is no shame in hating the country’s illegal businesses, not to mention that many of these laws are bad laws.

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