Xiao Letian was obviously trying to clear up Raoul Rigaud's doubts, but he was actually taking this opportunity to teach his disciples how to develop the Chinese nation in the future and what minefields they needed to avoid. These truths are not explained. Understanding is not possible.
In fact, most people in this world are short-sighted. They cannot see high or far. They can only explore the sufferings of life from what they can see.
The working class in France only knew that the capitalists would not raise their wages, that the emperor always sent troops to suppress them, and that the aristocrats were arrogant, extravagant, and lustful.
Yes, their eyes only stay on the internal distribution of national wealth, but they do not skip the national level to think about how the world's wealth should be distributed!
The earth is so big. According to the technological level, productivity level and total population of mankind at that time, the wealth he can obtain every year is limited.
Whether it is renewable resources such as wood, food, animal husbandry, etc., or non-renewable resources such as gold, silver, copper, iron, petroleum, coal, etc.
This wealth must be distributed, right? How to determine the distribution ratio? Can it really be averaged according to the total population of all mankind?
That is impossible. In the final analysis, it still depends on the competitiveness of the country and the competitiveness of each individual!
Everyone wants a little more, and a little more will lead to conflicts. When conflicts arise, there will be competition. When competition arises, it will gradually escalate into war.
Regardless of civil war or national war, in the final analysis it is a question of resource allocation!
In the final analysis, the civil war in France is due to the failure of all domestic forces to recognize this cruel fact. Their vision is extremely short-sighted and they always look at the little dog food bowl in their own one-third of an acre of land.
Everyone is snatching the wealth in France, but not many people are willing to explore, make progress, and snatch more wealth from around the world.
When the entire ethnic group is so short-sighted, when a few far-sighted people suddenly appear, they regard them as aliens.
The emperor and those senior generals were obviously aware of this problem, so France would train its troops desperately and then deploy its troops around the world. Isn't the purpose of competing with Britain and robbing as much wealth as possible to repay their country?
There is nothing inherently wrong with this strategy!
But the mistake lies in the fact that the education in France is not done well. Most of the people are too poorly educated and cannot understand the thoughts of the emperors, generals and ministers.
Great power competition is great, and victory can always bring new spoils, but don’t forget that the initial investment in great power competition is very high.
A strong army is not brought by strong winds, and bragging cannot create a powerful fleet!
Whether it's a mule or a horse, it still needs to be walked on the battlefield!
But can we fight without spending money? And where does the money come from? Before we can capture the spoils of war, don’t we still have to squeeze the country’s wealth?
How can the people not complain when less wealth is distributed to them?
However, people with low education levels do not understand the principles behind the struggle between great powers. They do not even know the words. What else can such people figure out other than looking at their three meals a day?
Anyway, I am hungry and I want to eat. If I don’t have enough to eat, then I will protest and march and eventually riot and civil war!
To put it bluntly, the French nation lacks a spirit from top to bottom, that is, "sleep on the fuel and endure the gall"!
The entire nation is passionate, romantic, and very artistic, but it lacks one thing, which is the most important spirit in the struggle between great powers, patience!
The French are not afraid of death or fighting. They can take to the streets to protest and march, or they can throw weapons at the powerful.
They could even drag the emperor to the guillotine and set fire to the entire old world!
There is a fire burning in the heart of every French person, as long as you throw in some slogans of fairness and justice for the free people, and then add a little match of the gap between the rich and the poor to light it.
With a bang, the fire is burning, and these people can charge forward with their chests puffed out against the rain of bullets!
What's so scary about death? The terrible thing is to live humblely!
Die in battle, burning in revolutionary enthusiasm, even if my soul flies to the sky, I will go side by side with the sun!
This is the French, a nation that is extremely romantic and obsessed with people!
If a young man has a dozen beautiful girls around him to encourage him, he will dare to assassinate the emperor with a gun!
This nation is not afraid of death, not afraid of revolution, but it is afraid of a little...that is, sleeping on the hard work and enduring hardship. They are afraid of a little bit of endurance and hardship. They cannot stand the painful torture in the process of accumulating national strength.
This is a matter of national genes. As long as you look carefully at history, when the capitalist powers in Europe first accumulated their first pot of gold, the people were actually very miserable.
Have the British people never suffered? Have the German people never suffered from hunger? Are there no beggars dying of cold and starvation in the United States?
All of them are present. When any capitalist power starts, it will accompany generations of people as burning coal, draining all the people have to be qualified to compete with big countries.
If you don’t want to accept this bloody fact, then you don’t want to join the ranks of the first-rate powers!
There is no difference between running a country and running a family. If it weren't for the generations of ancestors who worked hard to create and lay the foundation, how could there be enough food and clothing for future generations?
Didn’t the good life of those dandies in Dream of Red Mansions come about by their ancestors carrying corpses on the battlefield with their heads tucked into their waistbands?
A nation that is unwilling to endure hardship and only knows how to vent its emotions violently is not qualified to join the ranks of the first-tier powers!
Xiao Letian looked at Raoulli and said coldly, "I have said enough. I can make a prediction about France..."
"From now on, France is destined to become a second-rate capitalist country, and your country will never become the most powerful military power..."
"Of course, you will not become the weakest country. Your cultural and economic development will be good, but the most basic element of becoming a superpower...military! Don't even think about it!"
"In the next one hundred to two hundred years... I don't see any possibility of you becoming a superpower!"
"Just settle down and be an ordinary small rich country in Europe. This is your destiny!"
Raoul Rigaud was in despair when Xiao Letian tore open the last layer of window paper and exposed the bloody truth of the world in front of him.
This strong revolutionary finally had his soul taken away!
"The head of state...if it were you...what would you do..."
Xiao Letian shook his head, "I can't do anything. In fact, for France, this challenge is actually an opportunity. If we can get through it, maybe the world will be brighter!"
"You should have reached a comprehensive reconciliation before. All the people should understand the truth and understand that this is a critical moment for France's upward impact on the national destiny..."
"All walks of life should unite and tide over the difficulties together!"
"The poor class should stop making trouble, and instead help the French Emperor win the war and seize more colonies together!"
"Aristocrats and capitalists should also understand the principle of prosperity and prosperity, and should use part of their profits to bridge the emotional rift in society..."
"Emperors and nobles should lead by example! Why can't we just have one meal a day when we know we need to get through difficult times together?"
"Even if this meal only has one rice ball... no, no, no, I mean bread..."
Xiao Letian sighed and said, "This is the only way to break through the obstacles in the national destiny, but you can't do it... On the one hand, it is a fundamental problem of the nation, and on the other hand, the education level of the whole people is too low..."
"Hey... if you had 30,000 or 40,000 schools in France right now, I guess those teachers would be able to help you stabilize your people..."
"Forget it, these are all assumptions. Anyway, the current situation is like this..."
Note: Is there really some kind of coincidence? At the critical moment when the European plot ends, when we are about to completely decipher the inside story behind the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune.
In reality, France is actually in chaos again! The yellow vests are rioting!
Could it be that there are ghosts and gods hidden in this book? The timing is so precise, it’s terrifying to think about it carefully!
History is reincarnated. I believe that by reading this book, everyone has thoroughly understood the details of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune movement!
Things in the world are subject to change. After understanding these principles in the book, I believe you will be able to figure out some patterns when you look at the current chaos in France.
Recently, I have heard a lot of criticism from readers. I don’t want to say anything more, so I will just give you one sentence.
Everyone likes "Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty" because this book is different from other books, not because you like "Hidden Dragon" because it is the same as other books!
Tough to pronounce? But the reason is very clear!
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