Governing a country is actually no different from treating a disease. After discovering the problem, you must find the root cause. For example, in France now, it seems that the failure of the war and the wide gap between the rich and the poor have caused chaos in the entire society.
But the core problem is still because of France’s national competitiveness!
The core of any social problem is actually an economic problem, and most economic problems are business problems. What is business?
After all, it’s competition! You also want to make money, and I also want to make money, so this creates a competition, who can win?
In the final analysis, high quality and low price!
At the end of the 19th century, Prussia's industrial strength ranked first in the world. France was no rival, and even Britain was no rival!
After reunification, Germany had the largest number of scientists, engineers, intellectuals, and teachers in the world at that time... This country's literacy rate was the highest in the world.
Because the literate population base is too large, various industries will flourish!
The devil is in the details! Sometimes the competition in national strength is really not about the big things, but the small things!
What is the so-called big item? I have a steam engine, you don't! This is called the big technology gap.
I have an internal combustion engine, but you don't have one. I have an airplane, but you don't have one. I have a radio, but you don't have one... These epoch-making technologies are all big items.
In fact, the European powers still attach great importance to big-ticket technology, because the top leaders of the powers understand the importance of technology!
But Prussia is not only good at large-scale technology. Due to its high level of education for all, Prussia is also very good at small and detailed technology.
There is a devil here. The so-called competitiveness is revealed from the detailed technology of these small pieces.
Mathematicians and outstanding blue-collar workers may get together and study for a few days to optimize the production process of the steel plant. It is not a problem to reduce the number of labor required per ton of steel by dozens.
Using cheap steel to replace bronze to make cannons, in fact, as long as the desulfurization process and the double-layer steel casing method are solved, a perfect product can be produced.
For the same railway construction, if Prussia had more engineers, it could build railway bridges and dig tunnels in mountainous areas faster, better and cheaper.
The technology is still the same, Germany has it, France has it, but Germany can do better optimization, but France can’t!
Those who invent epoch-making technologies in human history will always be remembered in history!
But the people who optimize these epoch-making technologies are unknown!
But it is these unknown people who enrich the high-tech product line, try to make the technology more perfect, and try to make it quantifiable and marketable!
These unknown heroes are so respectable. Together with those great scientists who are famous in history, they have laid the foundation for a country’s comprehensive national strength!
France was actually defeated by the huge German folk masters!
Before the Franco-Prussian War, French industrial products were in a state of complete defeat in the global market, and Prussian industrial products were occupying the market at an almost dumping rate.
Prussian industrial products, especially heavy industrial products, can be said to be price crushers. Wherever they rush, the original price system will be smashed to pieces.
The profit-making products are being pierced one by one. The Germans can always make their products of very high quality, and the cost is much lower than yours.
How can this compete? With such cruel market competition, French companies can only decline on a large scale.
The profits of enterprises have dropped sharply, how can they pay high wages to their workers? What can you use to increase your money?
Like peeling an onion, Xiao Letian began to analyze the problem layer by layer. Raoul Rigault and Eugene Andre were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats when they heard the end.
In fact, it is just a layer of window paper. When no one breaks it, you think it is a wall, but when you break it, you realize that this is what it is.
"Do you understand now? The key factor in France's failure is that the economy did not do well, and the reason why the economy did not do well is because your technology did not do well..."
"The reason why science and technology has not been done well is because education has not been done well..."
"To be honest, Napoleon III has done a very good job. He keeps expanding outwards and fighting for what? In fact, in the final analysis, it is three things, one is logistics, the other is raw materials, and the last one is Dumping market…”
"Actually, Napoleon III was not a war madman, and he did not have to go to war to enjoy success... His global expansion actually wanted to solve France's economic problems!"
"He hopes that France's economy will be better and that French companies will be more competitive... After all, only after your French companies have higher profits will you have extra money to raise wages for workers!"
"The truth is very simple. The Emperor has actually been working hard..."
"The navy protects France's logistics lines, and the army goes to attack and seize more raw material bases, and then your factories process them, and finally dump them to the colonies..."
"This has been a perfect business cycle for hundreds of years! But you French people have just forgotten that in addition to these three points, there is a fourth point..."
“That’s the blessing effect of technology on productivity!”
"And what does the explosion of science and technology rely on? It's an extremely large educated group! It's a pity that the Prussians have already started laying out the plan sixty years ago, and you, France, still haven't figured it out yet..."
Xiao Letian looked at the dumbfounded Raoul Rigault, "Now do you understand what's going on? The main reason for your failure is that your vision of the problem is not broad enough or high enough..."
"You always focus on France to analyze problems, and you are always short-sighted and see the gap between the rich and the poor... In the final analysis, you are still emotional, which is too extreme..."
"The fundamental willingness that caused this situation is actually a pity...it is still the education work that has not been done well. You people are too poorly educated and may not be able to understand the intricate competitive relationships between big countries..."
"You and the capitalists are one and the same, but both of you are actually suffering... You are both being squeezed by the powerful Prussian industrial power!"
"The hard life for all of you is ultimately because you can't compete with Prussia in the international market!"
"It's such a simple and obvious truth, but tens of thousands of people have died and you still don't understand it?"
"It shows how poorly educated you people are and how short-sighted you are..."
Xiao Letian's words were not only meant for the French, but also for the disciples around him. Xiang Ying was covered in cold sweat when he said this.
"That's it...that's it..."
"It turns out that the French capitalists and the working class... were originally two bitter gourds on the same vine. They both grew from the same root. As a result, they became life-or-death enemies because of their short-sightedness and emotionality..."
"That's right, that's it...it's clear that the source of their suffering is the cruel competition between the great powers, but the result is that they complain about each other, attack each other, and have civil war with each other..."
"If you analyze it this way, then the French emperor, nobles, capitalists, workers and peasants... these people are actually tangled together and are like a bitter melon on a vine!"
Hahaha... Xiao Letian laughed, "Not bad, not bad, you understand well!"
