There is great power when there are many people. This seems to be an absolutely correct topic, but is it really true? No, there is great power when there are many people, but the internal friction is also great. How can you ensure that a group of people think together and do things together? I'm going in one direction.
If there are more people, there will be more ideas. If everyone in the southeast, northwest, and northwest has their own ideas, there will be great internal friction, and many things will fail due to internal friction.
What's more, when there are more people, there are also more traitors. There are always people who are eating from the bowl and looking at the pot, sitting on the boat and wanting to change jobs. The chance of encountering such a person is much greater than the chance of success.
Therefore, for thousands of years, the Chinese dynasties have been a family and a world, but they have not taken the lead in forming an advanced view of the nation and the country. This does not mean that the Chinese are stupid, but that the ancient Chinese were too smart. They had already seen it thousands of years ago. I understand the secret behind this.
Family world is not invented by so and so, but is a natural selection caused by the environment. In ancient China, only the bond of blood kinship can maintain a group of people thinking together, doing things together, and jointly resisting foreign enemies or jointly invading others. , thus forming a relatively loyal interest group.
When brothers work together, they can cut through metal. The truth is actually that simple.
However, this kind of social order that only knows about family and does not know what nation and country are is destined to be only suitable for agricultural society. In industrial society, this kind of thinking will be destined to become a cancer.
How much money does it cost to launch the Age of Discovery? How much does it cost to promote steam engines? How much does it cost to build a national railway network? How much does it cost to send expedition fleets to colonize the world? How much does it cost to climb unknown technological trees? How much money does it cost to burn?
Such a huge consumption of funds cannot be accomplished by one family. Even if one family can spend so much money to do these big things, who can guarantee that other families will not covet it.
Climbing the technology tree consumes more manpower and material resources the further you go. In the early days of the Age of Discovery, if you wanted to build a navy, it would be no problem as long as the supply of wood was high. But by the end of the first industrial revolution, a navy was no longer a problem. The bulk of the money consumed by a sailing battleship was not wood but artillery.
The more money is spent, the more wooden battleships are upgraded to iron-clad battleships, and then to battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers. Then you have to develop the air force, armored forces, and even carry out the Manhattan Project.
Human beings are becoming more and more capable, and the steps to step on are getting higher and higher. In the end, the gap between countries can no longer be calculated by addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It requires several powers of n to perform calculations.
In the mid-19th century, to be honest, this was really the last chance for the Chinese nation to catch up with the European powers. If you don't jump on the train of the Second Industrial Revolution, which has just started, I'm afraid you will never have another chance in the future.
Xiao Letian knew that time was running out and he also knew the seriousness of the matter. He would never forget the humiliating history in his previous life. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the Songhu Battle, the entire country's artillery shell reserves were only enough for three months, and other military supplies were The reserves are also pitiful.
What's even worse is that at that time, the output of China's military factories was not even enough to fill the gap between teeth. Ninety percent of the arms and supplies needed to be imported. Scenes from that humiliating war are still emerging in Xiao Letian's nightmares. .
Look, how can countries survive without industrialization?
Money, money, no matter how rich Xiao Letian is now, if he wants to enjoy it, he can even live a luxurious life like an emperor, but the money is not enough, because Xiao Letian has a dream of a strong country and strong seeds in his heart , he even hopes that China can become the leader of the second industrial revolution.
Is it good that the latest iron-clad battleships appeared first in East Asia? Is it good that the first light bulb in the human world was invented by the Chinese? Is it good that the first tank and the first airplane appeared in the world of China?
What a wonderful scene all this is, but would it be possible without massive funds and a large number of like-minded talents gathered together?
What troubles Xiao Letian even more is that with so much money gathered together, how can he prevent his subordinates from harming the public and enriching themselves? What if all this money is embezzled by me?
As an aside, the reason why China's corruption culture is prevalent is partly related to the cultural tradition of family world. We only know that there is a family but not a country. Then the interests of the family are supreme, and the national interests and the national interests are supreme. It can be completely ignored or harmed at will.
"I don't care if your project is critical to the country. I don't care if it involves the interests of all the people. Your national rejuvenation and national prosperity are none of my business. Anyway, I will give this project to my brother-in-law. Anyway, my family's interests are sacred and inviolable. ...Well, I am so great, my wife may drag my sister-in-law into bed tonight, and it is not impossible to reward me with a double flight."
Xiao Letian had seen too many such things in his previous life, and he knew very well that this group of people had their own set of values, and they would never feel the slightest guilt when engaging in corruption.
Because they themselves believe in the Jia Tianxia system, their ideas are originally stuck in the ancient agricultural society, and they even think that their own ideas are correct, because the values of Jia Tianxia have ruled Asia for thousands of years, and the national The concept of doctrine and the modern state has only been popularized for a few hundred years.
Look, they will tell you a truth in very simple words. Our way of thinking has been around for thousands of years, and we are right. Your way of thinking will never work. Come on, come and join us. , you are already standing by the river, why don't you wash your feet.
Look, these are the values of the corrupt themselves. If people in this world do something, as long as they have an idea to support them, such people will no longer be able to defeat them.
Xiao Letian will not give these people a chance, and he is not interested in letting the punishment hall devote a lot of manpower and material resources to supervise these people. Xiao Letian did not come to this world to be a bad person. He cannot change everyone. He is also not interested in redeeming everyone.
"I'm not a clay statue that responds to requests. You should never expect anyone else except yourself to save yourself. Xiao Letian is nothing more than a disseminator of new ideas. Anyway, you can believe what I say if you like it. If you don't believe it, let me down..."
Xiao Letian admired Deng Gong very much in his previous life, especially those special zones he established. In fact, they were copied from Deng Gong. Aren’t you all against me? Aren’t you all confused? Then I will come up with a pilot project. , I will lead a group of people to come out first. Living examples are always easy to slap in the face.
Time waits for no one. Xiao Letazhen has no time to convince the powerful people one by one. All he can rely on now are the existing resources, the New Army, Ryukyu, and the Satsuma clan that no one can imagine.
The New Army was founded by Xiao Letian, and Ryukyu was saved by him. From the beginning to the end, Xiao Letian has been instilling his new ideas. It can be said that he spared no effort in brainwashing. As for those who have doubts about themselves, their status has long been low. Being excluded, people with high status like Jin Changsen were also secretly monitored. Anyway, they could not be allowed to ruin their careers.
The New Army and Ryukyu are reliable, and the Japanese Shimadzu family's defection is a bit unexpected. However, Xiao Letian has his own plan. First of all, the Japanese nation is very good at learning from the strong. You can trust their loyalty before they surpass you.
In addition, in history, the Shimadzu family in Japan was also the first daimyo to accept Western knowledge. Before Xiao Letian traveled through time, the Shimadzu family had already purchased three steamships and fought a samurai war in August 1863. British war.
At that time, the Satsuma Domain had 80 forts, three steamships, and even a modern industrial research institute, which the Japanese called the "Integrated Pavilion".
In this war, the Satsuma Domain declared a defeat, but from a military point of view, the two sides should be tied. Not to mention that the Satsuma Domain's forts, research institutes, and steamships were all destroyed, but one British warship was also seriously damaged and slightly injured. Two captains and sixty sailors were killed on both ships.
The final result of the peace talks was also very fair. Japan only paid 25,000 pounds to the British. The British had some respect for the Satsuma Domain from that time on, and the cooperation between the two parties became closer in the future.
If such a war ended for the Qing Dynasty, it would definitely be trumpeted, and it would even be trumpeted by the Qing Dynasty in the country as a rare victory for the country. However, the Japanese are very practical, and they will not care about this false pretense. , Satsuma Domain fell into deep thinking instead.
Why did we also have sharp firearms but the final result still failed? Even if there were some technical gaps in firearms, Satsuma still had the advantage of geographical location. More importantly, there was a small war in Kagoshima during the war. When a typhoon passes through, this is also the blessing of Amaterasu.
It was after that war that the Satsuma clan and the Shimazu family finally understood that the strength of Westerners was definitely not just due to their strong ships and powerful artillery. They must have a secret weapon unknown to Asians, maybe that Weapons are invisible to the naked eye.
From that moment on, the Shimazu family launched the camp of respecting the king and resisting the barbarians, because they knew that resisting the barbarians was unrealistic. No matter how loud the slogans were, the roar of the cannons would always be louder than your shouts.
The Shimazu family was confused until they met Xiao Letian. When Xiao Letian led his poor new army and relied on a few slogans of national justice to arouse the fighting enthusiasm of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Naha, Shimazu After the warriors of the Tsu family were completely driven out of Ryukyu.
The Shimazu family finally understood a key point. The answer they wanted lay in Xiao Letian. This was the fundamental reason why Shimazu Dairo and those famous warriors secretly entered Ryukyu.
Gong Cheng and Molière never guessed that before they came to Ryukyu, this group of people had already accepted Xiao Letian's nationalist indoctrination and understood the core secrets of how a new country could defeat these backward countries.
Fortunately, this is before the Meiji Restoration. Fortunately, there is no advanced nationalism and national concepts on the Japanese archipelago. If you want to add sand to it, now is the best opportunity.
