Xiao Letian's words were resounding, like iron ingots hitting everyone's new building on the rostrum. People could hear from between the lines how difficult it is for the Chinese nation to rise, and every word was oozing with blood and tears. Vertex Novel Ｘ 23 Ｕ Ｓ． COM
It is not easy to change one's destiny against the will of heaven. Not to mention a country or a nation, even if a family wants to change its own destiny and improve its class, it is an arduous task like shaking a mountain. .
From the moment of the great geographical discovery, the Chinese people have begun to fall behind. The backwardness of Chinese civilization definitely did not start with the industrial revolution, but with the great geographical discovery.
Before the Industrial Revolution, Europe had accumulated enough capital for the capitalist revolution through navigation and plundering resources, that is, sufficient monetary funds.
China has been short of gold and silver since ancient times, and there are not many gold and silver mines in Europe! However, for the development of capitalism, the first and most important thing is an adequate supply of money. This is the foundation of everything.
Spain and Portugal, through trade with backward peoples, including direct robberies, plundered countless amounts of silver and gold. These precious metals were finally transferred to countries such as Britain, France, and Prussia through their hands.
It is precisely because of the support of such a large amount of precious metal currency that it is possible for the small profession of merchants to develop into a capitalist!
Upgrading costs money!
It is precisely because the power of the capitalists is getting stronger and stronger. They have enough money to hire armies to fight against the king's army. This is how the subsequent revolution came about, the capitalist revolution!
From the geographical discovery to the Industrial Revolution, Europe had already begun to consolidate its foundation, and at that time, China was still in the most primitive farming civilization.
Even the Ming Dynasty still closed the country, forcibly suppressed the merchant class, and even used a strict household registration system to lock people's right to move. All roads to develop capital were blocked.
In fact, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties cannot bear all the blame for the backwardness of Chinese civilization. The signs have begun to appear since the Ming Dynasty!
When the Ming Dynasty closed itself off to the outside world, what were the Europeans doing? The Spaniards are desperately trying to snatch gold and silver in South America!
In three hundred years, the Spanish alone stole 2.5 million kilograms of gold and 100 million kilograms of silver from South America, accounting for 83% of the world's precious metal production at that time.
During those three hundred years, Spain single-handedly more than tripled the purchasing power of gold and silver in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.
It is true that a certain amount of gold and silver was transported to China and exchanged for porcelain, silk, tea... but it was definitely just a little leftovers. Most of the precious metals eventually became the raging fuel of the capitalist revolution!
The Industrial Revolution was only a superficial phenomenon promoted by this force later. It would be a very serious mistake to analyze the gap between the East and the West only from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Throw away the power of 2.5 million kilograms of gold and 100 million kilograms of silver and simply analyze the industrial revolution? This kind of wrong understanding is either caused by people who don’t know how to do it, or people who have ulterior motives!
Xiao Letian's theory has re-stretched the timeline and redefined the dividing point between the strength of Eastern and Western civilizations. The final result is also very terrifying!
If China wants to rise again, the difficulty is much greater than imagined. At the beginning of the time travel, Xiao Letian also believed that saving China and changing one's fate against fate was not that complicated.
Establishing a strong army, carrying out strong industrialization, and using some golden fingers to come up with several technologies in advance will naturally overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a new China.
Maybe if you feel better, you can catch up with the Premier League and the United States, or you can kill the sun and colonize the solar system!
But in reality, the difficult journey of blood and tears made Xiao Letian understand that even if he is a time traveler and wants to shake the capitalist power accumulated in Europe for three to four hundred years, it is absolutely impossible!
How many cheats do you need as a time traveler? How big an army will you build? How large an industrial area are you going to build?
How much power do you need to continue to compete with the entire Western capitalist world?
How can the change that one person can bring about be compared with the power brought by such huge capital as 100 million kilograms of silver and 2.5 million kilograms of gold?
In real Europe, its capital strength is probably dozens of times greater than this number!
In such a cruel jungle, can Xiao Letian survive without being abnormal? Can his army survive without perversion?
No one can understand how much pressure the head of state is under, let alone how much pain he has in his heart!
The strong side towards the entire world cannot actually cover up the weakness of the entire Chinese civilization at this moment!
Xiao Letian himself has a clear understanding of himself. He once gave a very sad example!
"I, Xiao Letian, and the Chinese people I lead, if we are one person, then we are a sick teenager in a slum with the highest crime rate!"
"I look tall and powerful, but years of hunger and illness have made me extremely weak... And just like this, a child who retreated to the dark corner of the alley to lick his wounds met adults who were like a pack of wolves. world!"
"There is no mercy, no kindness, just reckless punches and kicks. They want to take away the last bits of bread from you!"
"What do you do when you face a group of vicious gangsters alone?"
"There is no other way but to turn yourself into a madman. You can only roar like a wolf and attack like a madman. You have to catch a gangster and beat him to death!"
"Because you can't deal with everyone. You can only let others punch and kick you, then knock down a gangster, bite his throat, and drink his blood!"
"You have to use such perverted methods to scare other gangsters, so that you can establish your position in this chaotic neighborhood and survive!"
Very cruel survival rules, the survival rules of the lowest level of society can actually be applied to the competition between countries!
Anyone who has been in a group fight knows very well that when you are alone and have no way to escape, and the other party refuses to let you go even when you kneel down, what should you do?
There is no other way but to forget about life and death, choose an enemy and kill him, even if we die together, even if we go to see the Lord of Hell together!
Only by turning yourself into a madman will other gangsters be afraid of you. Instead, they will not dare to attack and will disperse in droves!
Xiao Letian must be the madman who bites the enemy's throat and drinks blood, and leads his brothers crazy together, in order to see a little hope of counterattack in this land of China where the national destiny has been weakened for three hundred years!
The Franco-Prussian War proved the madness of the Chinese people, and the Victory Parade in Paris proved even more the perversion of the Chinese people!
"How did you train your Prussian soldiers? I, the Chinese, are ten times more perverted than you!"
"Dear Your Majesty, my soldiers are just a bunch of machines, a bunch of emotionless machines trained from hell!"
"If you want to survive in this world, you can't do it without being perverted!"
