Beijing is under control, something big is going to happen!! This video really stung my heart! It never disappeared, it just turned everyone into a rat that everyone wants to beat! Qiqi Baba TALK 'Refreshing 813' 20261029

This episode explores the severe exploitation and economic distress faced by grassroots laborers in China, analyzes the rollout of the digital yuan in paying university faculty and staff salaries along with its profound implications for personal privacy and financial control, and, in light of CCTV's media incitement regarding the controversy surrounding Kylian Mbappé and China, dissects the current state of Chinese society where Cultural Revolution-style fanaticism could repeat itself at any moment.

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Qiqi Baba. I'm Qiqi. When I saw the video below, I genuinely felt a sharp pang in my heart.

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Actually, inside the Great Firewall, this kind of situation is not limited to this single shop; it's almost in every industry and every household. Uh, there are already AIs specifically generating short videos to describe this kind of content. Let's take a look together. Boss, pause for ten minutes first.

[Video Clip] "Take orders in a few minutes, we still have over sixty cups unfinished." "Why should we? I just paid for promotional ads!" "There are only two of us, do you think we have eight hands?" "When business picks up, you guys need to pull your weight." "You earn more money, I do more work, but my salary is still 2,800." "Why is money the only thing you ever talk about?" "Then did you open this shop just to make friends? I quit." "A customer asked what the fish tastes like? You told them you've never had it and don't know." "I haven't eaten it, so what was I supposed to say?" "If you haven't eaten it, can't you just make up some praise? It's a laughingstock that our staff haven't even tasted our own signature dish." "My monthly salary is 3,200, rent is 1,200, and this fish costs 298. You don't let employees taste it for free, nor do you offer an employee discount. How could I afford to eat it?" "Go scan the codes first, and after scanning, load truck number two. Take care of Xiao Wang's tasks too." "Unloading, scanning, and loading are all dumped on me!" "We're a team, don't draw such rigid lines." "Fine, then share some of their wages with me." "Can't you show a little spirit of dedication?" "You have it, so why don't you lead by example?" "Teacher Li, parents complained last night that they couldn't reach you at midnight. This has already escalated to the school leadership." "Director, I teach three classes and also serve as homeroom teacher. Every day from morning till night... those two kids had a minor disagreement during the day, and I already mediated it." "Mediating it wasn't enough; the parents came straight to me. You're the homeroom teacher, you must take full responsibility." "The homeroom teacher subsidy is 200 a month, and you expect me on call 24 hours a day." "You are a teacher, you can't measure everything in money—this is your responsibility." "Teaching classes by day, on call at night. Are you paying a subsidy, or buying out my entire life? I quit." "Every extra cup made today counts towards a bonus. I've also called part-timers, they'll arrive shortly. It counts for both of you, it counts for everyone." "If it's truly overwhelming, I'll shut down the delivery platform for now." "Don't shut it down, definitely don't shut it down. You pack, I'll make the drinks. Let's finish these orders first; the courier is arriving soon, don't keep them waiting." "Salaries have been raised to 4,500. Going forward, when new dishes roll out, you guys taste them first. As for whether we can make it non-spicy? Yesterday a customer brought a kid." "We can reduce the spice, but it's still numbing. Kids might not be used to it. If they bring small children, suggest ordering the steamed version; this fish is still numbing even if we dial down the heat." "You unload, those two scan and load. Voluntary overtime tonight will be paid separately along with your wages. Yes, verify the hours yourself. This one is heavy, let's lift it together." "The homeroom teacher subsidy is raised to 1,000 per month. If something comes up with students, the teacher on duty handles it first." "What if I'm called back unexpectedly?" "We'll log it for a stipend and arrange compensatory leave. We can't always make you shoulder it all alone." Hmm, because to cut costs.

So, most working Chinese people—regardless of whether it's this kind of grassroots manual labor—actually juggle multiple roles just the same. A single person taking on the workload of two to three people is extremely common, and taking on the workload of four or five people is not rare either. Uh, but under these circumstances, we can also see the streets are filled with people looking for jobs. Yet look: those who actually have jobs are squeezed dry like this. Isn't it simply because the economy is in such terrible shape? Everyone's spending power has dropped, so as merchants, the ultimate move is inevitably to wage a price war. Since people have less money to spend, they will only buy from you if your prices are cheaper. But it's impossible not to make money—slashing prices to run a business at a loss just to drum up buzz, that's definitely not going to happen. So in order to still make a profit, they have no choice but to squeeze costs, and it's the same across every industry. From the most basic materials to labor costs, cuts are guaranteed. And so we see this bizarre phenomenon today: people with jobs are working themselves to death, yet those without jobs still can't find one. Consequently, social purchasing power drops even further, money becomes increasingly harder to earn, and jobs become harder to find. Ah, of course, when involution (rat race) reaches the end, everyone dies together. But as for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), I don't think they care much about this anymore, because they are dead set on implementing North Korea-style management, or rather Xi Jinping is dead set on implementing North Korea-style management. One could even say it's uh, a step further and much smarter than North Korea, because his first step is already about to be taken.

[Video Clip] We are now at Shenzhen Airport, which you are all familiar with. The team has just returned from a research trip to Shanghai. I was chatting with a university professor from Jiangsu just now, and there is one thing I'd like to share with everyone: the promotion of our e-CNY (digital RMB) may be accelerating. Recently, many universities in Jiangsu are going to announce that starting next month, they will pay their faculty and staff salaries via e-CNY wallets. Ah, pay attention, we are talking about e-CNY here, not the Alipay or WeChat Pay that everyone usually uses. It is legal tender issued by the central bank, except that it exists in digital form, is fully equivalent to physical RMB, and possesses legal tender status. So here comes the question. In fact, many friends will ask me: why promote it? What kind of grand strategy is the state playing with e-CNY? What are the very specific impacts on ordinary people? Over the past few years, we have actually been promoting it continuously. The main method of e-CNY promotion was giving out red envelopes and offer discounts to let people try something new. But the problem is, once the red envelopes were claimed, many people went right back to using WeChat or Alipay as usual. Now, starting from inside the system by paying salaries, it is meant to cultivate everyone's habit of using this e-CNY. So what kind of grand strategy is the state playing? The most direct level is penetrating management of fiscal funds. In the past, money was allocated from the state treasury to units, and then deposited into individual bank cards. Once it entered this commercial banking system, it became quite difficult for the fiscal end to trace. e-CNY is a bit different; every single transfer leaves a record, which is equivalent to installing a GPS on your money. If funds are intercepted or corruption occurs, it can be easily tracked. If inter-company transactions are also promoted in the future, the cost of tax supervision will be much lower. Ah, many friends may have gotten the point: tax evasion will become much more difficult in the future. Even if everyone uses e-CNY to top up prepaid cards in the future, you won't have to worry about merchants absconding anymore. Going a layer deeper, monetary policy can achieve precise targeted irrigation. e-CNY is programmable; smart contracts can also restrict fund flows, letting money truly flow to where it should go, preventing many loans from failing to reach their intended destinations or diverting from the real economy to the virtual sector. In the past, when the central bank released liquidity, the tracking cost of where this money actually flowed was actually very high. Now, if this link is fully connected, it can become measurable and controllable, and the transmission of our monetary policy will be clearer. Speaking on a larger scale, it also involves issues of financial security and monetary sovereignty. Traditional cross-border payments actually involve many steps, long chains, and high transaction fees. Therefore, in recent years, USD stablecoins have begun to accelerate their penetration globally. For our central bank, we cannot cede the legal tender system to private stablecoins or external forces. To ensure that our legal tender system is not marginalized, we must push forward our e-CNY. This sounds grand, but from the perspective of strategic weight, it is extremely high. So what are the impacts on ordinary people? Many people worry and ask, "Hey, will the salary I receive be restricted in terms of how I spend it?" Rest assured, the digital salaries issued currently are not bound by money with smart contracts; you can dispose of it freely—you can transfer it back to your bank card, or use it for consumption and transfers. The kind of money earmarked for specific uses is currently only in the pilot stage for special subsidies and has not yet reached the salary level. In the long run, funds benefiting the people—such as student loans and relocation compensation—may increasingly be handled via digital currency in the future, arriving faster and leaving less room for fund interception. In cross-border settlements, it also leaves a backup path that does not rely on external systems.

[Video Clip] Mm.

[Video Clip] Anyway, it serves to hedge against the impact of USD stablecoins, but don't think that WeChat and Alipay are going to be phased out. The two have a complementary relationship; in the future, the payment page might offer several choices. Uh, the operations you are familiar with shouldn't change. To put it plainly, this salary payment agency means the promotion strategy has shifted. Uh, drawing traffic with red envelopes was just a temporary hype, whereas salary is a hard-demand scenario that forces everyone to use it long term. The short-term feeling isn't significant, it's just one more channel for receiving money. Looking long term, I think the underlying infrastructure of our digital payments is changing quite fast. This point actually requires everyone to stay alert, because new business opportunities might extend from here.

Uh, he's definitely going to say that this thing is positive. We can ignore this point in the video, uh, because there won't be a single positive aspect. The biggest entity that steals money from the Chinese people is definitely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government, so rolling this out is even more about tightly controlling the Chinese people, and also preventing them from realizing this, uh. Actually, from the very beginning when the CCP proposed this idea, I told everyone that from the moment it was fully implemented, the Chinese people completely became transparent people in front of the government. It's not to say that privacy existed before, uh, it's just that there is even less privacy now, relatively speaking, they've become completely transparent. And look at the old days, right? To control, uh, some consumption of the Chinese people, you still needed to issue food coupons, fabric coupons, and things like that, but now you don't need to anymore, right? And then North Korea later came up with a method, saying that they would change the currency every once in a while, changing the currency like this, so that they could wipe out all the savings of the North Korean people, right? Making them unable to keep any money for themselves. Well, look, the CCP, hey, based on the progress of technology, uh, has now directly digitized it. After digitization, the money of the Chinese people has zero security, it's zero security, because how much you can actually spend? And what is its value? The CCP completely and fully masters this. This doesn't even require printing, uh, money doesn't even need to be printed anymore. So all things considered, I think the Chinese people are much more miserable than the people described in 1984, uh. Because at least, uh, the people in 1984, I think some of them might have been aware of their situation, uh. But the Chinese people are clearly in a state of being completely hoodwinked, and even feel that they are very free, and feel that life is pretty good. Because the CCP must make the Chinese people think this way. Many friends always say the CCP hasn't done things like in 1984, like strict control, and so on. When a pig-killing scam is scamming you, does it say I am scamming you? And of course, it varies from person to person. Now that the times have developed to this point, the CCP will certainly use these new technologies to accomplish these things. Why must they make the Chinese people clearly realize that they are being monitored? Because what the CCP hates the most is creating any unnecessary resistance. I said, stability maintenance is always placed in the first place. Just like back then when the Nazis were going to purge the Jews, would they tell the Jews directly? Right? Many Jews actually didn't know what was happening until the day they died, they were still waiting to be sent home after their inspection showed no problems. Yes, so the CCP is definitely the same, uh, it will absolutely, absolutely not let the Chinese people have the feeling that they are going to be tightly suppressed and controlled. Uh, just like a bird in a cage, it will always make the Chinese people feel that the world inside the cage is the best and safest. But in reality, do the food and drink of the bird living in the cage depend entirely on the CCP's mood? Therefore, everything about the Chinese people is going to be ruthlessly controlled by the CCP, this is what the CCP likes, and this is what they want. Of course, the Chinese people haven't realized at all what is about to happen next, because they are passionately hurling abuse at Mbappé. Let's see how CCTV describes this matter. I really find it hard to imagine, uh, that this is an official channel.

[Video Clip] Real Madrid, don't hide behind Mbappé and pretend to be asleep. A slip of the tongue can be called a mistake, but doing it repeatedly is a habit. As the captain of the French national team and Real Madrid's star player, Mbappé treats anti-China malicious memes as everyday chat material with friends. This is not a lack of culture; it is being soaked for a long time in a certain culture jar that is unfriendly to China, soaked to the point that one's sense of smell has failed. Blaming everything solely on Mbappé is letting him off way too easy. Real Madrid, the entity behind him, is the one that should be questioned further. When their own club players were wronged on racial discrimination issues, they issued statements faster than anyone else, but when it came to the anti-China controversy, they remained silent on Chinese platforms and pretended to be deaf on overseas channels, while internal disciplinary actions have made zero progress—as long as the Chinese market doesn't press the issue, it seems this matter can just be brushed aside. A team captain doesn't develop this kind of desensitization out of nowhere. The locker room atmosphere he immerses himself in daily, the club's indulgence in crossing cross-cultural boundaries, and the consistently low-cost handling of anti-China offensive content—this is the true soil for frequent occurrences. If Real Madrid truly takes the Chinese market seriously, they should answer: does your player management include a bottom line regarding respect for China? The brand's severance of ties has provided a market answer, but commercial reactions cannot replace an attitude explanation. Mbappé owes an apology, and Real Madrid owes an explanation.

Do you all realize this outrageous aspect? Because CCTV dares not talk about it, the Chinese people actually have no idea what Mbappé said. It's only because officials said he insulted China and insulted the leader that they started following along to oppose Mbappé. But as for what Mbappé specifically said, the Chinese people do not know. Yet they go and cut out his face from products in supermarkets, burn his jerseys, and so on. This is the Chinese people! Look, they can be incited so casually to do some fanatical things. The Cultural Revolution can start at any time because it has never disappeared. The CCP has always kept the majority of Chinese people in a state of being benighted by them; it's just that without an assigned enemy—meaning the authorities haven't designated an enemy—there hasn't been a situation like the Cultural Revolution that killed countless people, and that is all. In fact, it could be restarted at any moment. As long as someone is pointed out immediately right now, they don't care at all what this person said or did; look, they can instantly develop a deep-seated hatred for this person and immediately cast them into the deepest abyss of hell. You simply cannot see the original video of Mbappé within the Great Firewall; anyone who posts it will have it deleted, or even face an account ban. Look, official CCP organs don't dare to say a single word either, yet Mbappé has already become a rat crossing the street that everyone wants to beat, even though the Chinese people have no idea what he said or did. How ridiculous is this! Neither hating nor loving someone is of one's own will, and they might not even know why themselves, because they simply have no idea what happened. They are told to love because others say so, and told to hate because others say so. So, standing from an outsider's perspective, the Chinese people are naturally quite pathetic, even though they may not think so themselves, or feel pathetic at all. Alright, that is all for this episode's content. If you want to support me, please join the membership channel. If you have any other questions you'd like to ask, I also very much welcome everyone to join in. Well, in a few days, we should be holding a live stream, so I hope everyone will keep an eye on the community announcements. That's all for this episode's content, see you in the next one.