A brief stop during the journey led to a question, but the answer was completely different. These close disciples whom Xiao Letian valued gave completely different answers.
Simple questions are often the ones that reveal the most character. Xiao Letian looked at his disciple with cold eyes and it was clear what he was really thinking.
King Shangtai has completely given up on his past self. The so-called title of king is just a burden to him. This is a king who is truly willing to integrate into the Chinese race. His current interest is nothing more than adventure.
In the rainforest, only King Shangtai was the most active. He took many photos, recorded a lot of data, and collected countless animal and plant specimens. He was also the first to jump off an elephant in the gem mining area to observe the entire mining in person. process.
As for Xiao Letian's question, he will analyze it completely from the perspective of a businessman and explorer. He will talk to you about where the global gem mining areas are concentrated, which country's colonies they are, and how many European companies are monopolizing it.
Based on all this, he can analyze the future direction of the jewelry industry! This is really a great skill, because the industry model that Shang Taiwang guessed is really the true appearance of the global jewelry industry in Xiao Letian's previous life.
In fact, jewelry itself is just formed by the two forces of crustal movement and volcanic movement. There are a lot of colorful stones in the earth's crust, and with the development of science and technology in the future, humans will be able to make them artificially.
It is not a very valuable thing in the first place, but humans have been pursuing it for thousands of years. Didn’t that girl in Xiao Letian’s previous life dream of having a diamond ring as big as a pigeon egg?
Why are things with a lot of storage so expensive? In fact, it is related to the common industry secret of the entire jewelry industry, which is monopoly.
Large consortiums monopolize 90% of the world's jewelry mining areas. They determine the amount of water released upstream. The number of jewelry put on the market every year is calculated, and there is no large-scale dumping at all.
Artificially create a hungry market, and then promote jewelry culture through advertising, especially to open the mouths of female consumers, so that money will naturally flow into their pockets, and the entire industry is completely under control, and there is no need to worry about resource depletion. .
Seeing King Shangtai thinking like this, Xiao Letian was relieved. He could let King Shangtai fly with peace of mind and let him realize his dream of becoming the King of Explorers.
But Zai Chun's answer was a bit worrying. This boy actually had the idea of replacing him with a man. A gem island could trigger the greed in his heart.
The bit of aggression gene from the Aixinjueluo family that Zai Chun inherited in his bones was completely churning at this moment, and greed took over his heart.
Does the Manchu Qing want to revive? Still want to industrialize? Why do you want to? It turns out that all he wants is to build a large military and then follow the old path of exporting war.
Completely learn the old path of the European colonists, invade and squeeze the weak nations, use the blood of the weaker nations to replenish the weak Qing Dynasty, and give blood to the dying regime.
In the gem mining area, Xiao Letian could not see a trace of pity in Zai Chun's eyes. Those miners who were soaked in muddy water and destined not to live past the age of forty seemed as if they did not exist.
Zai Chun could only see the jewelry with human blood, but didn't care about the bleeding people.
The emperor was completely obsessed with militarism. It seemed that the genes inherited from generation to generation in his bones and soul could not be erased by Xiao Letian, a master with a few words.
The answers of King Shangtai and Zai Chun were still under Xiao Letian's judgment, but he didn't expect that another Xiang Ying would pop up in the end.
Lord Long's nephew actually took the initiative to find him, and even said such a truth.
Xiao Letian was shocked. He had no idea that Xiang Ying's ideological realm was so profound. He could deduce it so deeply without following him personally, just by listening to the onlookers' retellings, and it directly reached Xiao Letian's heart.
Being able to analyze the essence of European colonial policy from a gem mining area, and also be able to match it with the in-depth colonial policy promoted by oneself, this ability to draw inferences from one instance is already terrifying.
I never expected that Xiang Ying could utter a prophecy in the end, a prophecy that has been verified by history.
The battle for national rejuvenation must be realized within a hundred years. The current madness of the European colonists is nothing more than burning oil and flowers, and it is just a return to the past.
Everyone has his or her own destiny, a family has its own destiny, a region has its own destiny, and countries and nations also have their own national destiny.
Things like luck cannot last forever. When it rises, it will decline. Where there is a cause, there will be an effect. Everything cannot escape the law. So what if there were strong men in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was just a matter of hundreds of years of national destiny.
What was the ancient Roman Empire like? In the end, it just perished at the hands of the barbarians. So what about the current empire on which the sun never sets? Wasn't there a time when he was kicked out of first place?
Of course, there is no eternal empire in the world, and the British are not immune! Brutal rule will definitely reap the fruits of revenge in the end. Those colonial natives who have been conservative and oppressed for generations will only accumulate their anger from generation to generation, and finally explode in a big way.
The peaceful colonies are actually just active volcanoes. The anger accumulated by hundreds of years of oppression will one day explode, and Xiao Letian can clearly feel the surging power and the huge pressure underground.
Thinking of this, Xiao Letian suddenly turned around and stared at Xiang Ying. "Do you think you are smart? Do you think you can show off in front of me? Do you think you must be my heir?"
"Xiang Ying, Xiang Ying! Let me give you a sentence, 'If the king is not secretive, he will lose his ministers; if the ministers are not secretive, they will lose their virginity; if matters are not secretive, they will be harmed!' If you want to be a trendsetter who leads the trend of the times, you must learn to control it. You're such a bad mouth!"
Xiang Ying never expected that what he said out loud would be scolded by the head of state. He stammered, "Master...I, I, I...did I say something wrong?"
"Shut up!" Xiao Letian suddenly became angry.
"Xiang Ying, let me tell you, what you said is not wrong. What you said is what I have deduced. But you must always remember that just because you talk, you do it. Being able to talk doesn't mean you will definitely succeed! "
"You are smart, good at analysis, and have deep eyes and wild thoughts! But you must also remember your shortcomings. You are too radical. Just from your performance just now, I have already seen your radical character!"
"Did I ask you? Xiang Ying, did I ask you that question? Who asked you to jump out and answer? What are you thinking? Your behavior can only prove that you look too ugly. Why are you so expressive? powerful?"
"Do you think you have understood this world? You are still far from it! Want to become a real leader who will leave a mark in history? You haven't even touched the threshold!"
"Stop trying to be clever and get out of here!"
