It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to resolve family affairs. As a politician, it is also difficult for Xiao Letian to resolve conflicts within the family. All his power and authority outside cannot be used in front of his wife and children. This feeling of powerlessness is like punching cotton in the face. Very uncomfortable.
Xiao Letian is definitely not a saint. He knows very well what kind of person he is. He chose not to be the emperor and not to let his children become emperors. The launch of the Hidden Dragon Project was not based on any great and lofty ideals and morals.
That's all nonsense and deceiving people. Xiao Letian's decision not to be emperor is just a clear judgment. The future world is an era of killing kings. Crowns are stained with blood and fall into the dust. Restless ideological frenzy sweeps the world. The two world wars completely changed the human world.
Genius Xiao Le would not let his precious son pursue that false reputation. It seemed like he was standing on that dazzling high platform and enjoying the admiration of thousands of people, but in fact it was just a dance on the tip of a knife.
If this was the era of the late Ming Dynasty or the late Song Dynasty, when imperial power was still the mainstream and Enlightenment ideas had not become popular, it would be possible to have an emperor as the leader, but now? It's better to save it, this era is becoming more and more pragmatic, and false reputation is useless.
But people are selfish after all. In the face of the tide of the times, some things can be given up, but some things cannot be given up, such as capital and influence.
The nobles of the Chinese race, especially the emerging nobles who have been integrated into the Hidden Dragon Project, are completely different from the nobles of the old era. They have no slaves under them, and they do not need to be knelt down by the people. They even have to accept the same legal sanctions as the people. .
Killing people to repay debts and repaying money is a matter of course. It is unrealistic to expect to create a privileged class like the Eight Banners.
The powerful class in the Yinlong Plan are more of the capital elites. What they enjoy is the capital skynet created by intricate cross-shareholdings.
The Skynet created by money, power, and resources will eventually realize the pattern of killing all the Chinese elites in one fell swoop, thus giving the Chinese a certain centralization advantage in the formulation of large national strategies.
In other words, when the Chinese nation faces serious internal strife in the future, these people in the Hidden Dragon Project will still be able to form a unified front and attract more social elites to promote some large-scale projects.
If human beings want to develop, they must be stimulated by some large-scale projects that can lead to qualitative changes. The Manhattan Project, the space race, the moon landing program... These are all projects that cost a lot of money in a short period of time but have an important long-term impact on mankind.
Including basic physics, mathematics, chemistry... these seemingly useless subjects for civilians also need funds to support them. Although they cannot directly generate money, they can greatly help social development. This is the case for all applied sciences. Foundation.
The reason is actually very simple, but humans have never been a reasonable species.
Investment in such large-scale projects and basic science will always consume a lot of money, and there will definitely be no obvious benefits in the short term.
When in an era, say between ten and twenty years, a large-scale project takes away a large amount of resources from a country, then the corresponding other industries will be in a state of anemia. There will be more on one side and less on the other. This is inevitable. of.
After high-level projects take away a lot of people's livelihood benefits, there will definitely be resentment in society. Human beings are a very selfish group. Even if what you do is the right cause, but it affects his interests, he will definitely oppose it.
People will protest, march, and impeach the government... They will use every possible means to curse the rulers.
Maybe they know very well that investing in super projects will be beneficial to the future, but the future is too far away and who can guarantee that they will survive until that time?
Let me suffer and let others enjoy the blessing, even if that generation is my descendant, people are reluctant!
When this phenomenon occurs, there are only two results. One is that the government succumbs to public opinion, and the other is that public opinion is oppressed by centralization of power.
There is no absolute right or wrong, everyone is guilty in the face of history!
The Qingliu scholars in the late Ming Dynasty shouted that they could not compete with the people for profit, thereby closing China's door of opportunity to the sea and handing over maritime interests to the Europeans. Can you say they were wrong?
In fact, when Emperor Yongle built the super fleet, the common people were indeed miserable as the scholars said. They had to pay more taxes, do more corvee work, countless people went bankrupt, and countless people broke their homes. This is all true. in history.
At that time, there were indeed countless people who had their taxes, money, and food reduced because of the cries of these scholars. You cannot say that these scholars were sinners.
But in the face of history, these people are indeed sinners of the Chinese nation. It is difficult to verify the historical allusion that Liu Daxia, the Minister of War, burned Zheng He's charts, but it must be admitted that there were a large number of officials like Liu Daxia in that era. Desperately destroying all ocean data.
Those sea routes, maps, star charts, shipbuilding skills, wind weather information that countless ancestors of the early Ming Dynasty spent their lives exploring... those precious information that Europa racked their brains but could not obtain, gradually disappeared in the destruction of these people. .
For history, are they sinners? And when they were alive, were they heroes among the people?
The bloody lessons were placed in front of people, and Xiao Letian had to think about it. Is the Hidden Dragon Project really an organization that creates welfare for children and supports idle people?
Wrong, the Hidden Dragon Project is actually to form a powerful invisible centralized force in a democratic country, a far-sighted institution that can break the short-sightedness of the people.
The Hidden Dragon Project has countless capital, the ability to allocate global resources, a reserve of top scientists, and an unimaginably large network of contacts!
There must be such an organization to crush all short-sighted behaviors, so as to ensure that society moves forward step by step, and not let all people sink into the sinking of only knowing pleasure.
The Chinese cause has just started. The people cheering for Xiao Letian for a short period of time is all an illusion. Xiao Letian knows very well that once he acts according to his plan, when the Franco-Prussian War in Europe ends, it will be the moment when he shows his cards to the people.
Xiao Letian even had a premonition that one day he would be ousted from power by the people!
Because after the end of the popularization of the law, it was the time when the Chinese people worked hard to cultivate their internal strength, especially the strategy of building the largest navy in Asia and the second most powerful navy in the world, which was the trigger of the conflict between Xiao Letian and the people.
Don't think that the people will always shout "Long Live Xiao Letian". If the naval expansion plan is launched, the people will find that their incomes will drop sharply and taxes will increase sharply.
Paper money will experience a period of slow inflation, and people's wealth will gradually be plundered!
Maybe Xiao Letian is more gentle than other people in history, maybe he can keep the people's food and clothing higher or higher, but it is undeniable that the Chinese want a powerful navy, the most advanced technology in the world, and With a complete industrial system, you will have to live a hard life with Xiao Letian for twenty years.
"Prime Minister... Prime Minister!" The shout woke up Xiao Letian, who was deep in thought. "We are just ahead of Amami Oshima. We will be able to land at Kunigami Village Military Port in four or five hours. You go and have a rest..."
Xiao Letian rubbed his face with a wry smile, turned around and said to Ito Hirobumi, "Give me a cup of coffee. I'm not sleepy at all. I have to think about some things. Think about it again..."
