History is an empirical subject, and many people ignore the important role of history. For those who ignore the important role of history, one sentence can actually convince them.
'Talent is not enough, history will make up for it! '
It's very simple and straightforward! You can also say that if you lack talent, you need experience to make up for it!
Experience is history, and history is experience. Isn’t the historical experience condensed by thousands of years of blood and sweat and billions of lives of our predecessors wealth?
Isn’t it worth learning for you?
You want to be an excellent military strategist, politician, educator, big businessman... These ideals can actually get sufficient nourishment from history.
What do you do when your talents are not enough to make you a leader in these ideal professions? Make up for it with diligence? How do you know if your diligent path is the right one?
If you don't have enough talent, you still need to find your shortcomings from history, learn from the experience of your predecessors, study carefully, enrich and perfect yourself, and finally become a leader in that industry.
Even if your ideal is to be a corrupt official, a traitorous minister, or even your ideal is to rebel and become the emperor!
For these partial ideals, you also need historical experience. You have to read history books carefully to see the experiences of corrupt officials, traitorous ministers, and rebels in history.
How did they succeed? How did it fail? What's the process like? Don’t you need to study these historical experiences?
The more important point is that it is difficult for people who are proficient in history to be deceived in the face of big issues of right and wrong!
Especially the kind of confrontation between countries, between nations, and even between civilizations, and the kind of mutual intrigues!
Many of them are very deceptive, and they are all poison covered with honey. What can we rely on to break this kind of conspiracy? Rely entirely on one's own talent and IQ? In fact, it is not that complicated. If you have seen too many conspiracies and conspiracies in history, you will naturally not be fooled by the scam in front of you.
Too many things are just changing the soup without changing the medicine!
In Xiao Letian's previous life, during the more than thirty years of openness, the strategies used by the entire Chinese civilization were just two idioms.
'Lie down the fuel and taste the courage' and 'hide your strength and bide your time'!
If the country lacks strength, it should pretend to be a grandson and use strategic deception to win a rare period of historical development, allowing China to complete the make-up lessons for the first and second industrial revolutions, and then jump directly onto the chariot of the third industrial revolution.
It is such a grand strategy, and the great man who formulated this strategy actually looked for solutions to practical problems from China's rich history.
Does the current dilemma have the same existence in history? So how did the wise ancients solve it? Can those experiences be repeated and used?
Change the soup but not the medicine! The final solution is to take two idioms from the history of Chinese civilization, which can solve the thorny problems of the Chinese nation.
Eat your courage and keep a low profile! These are all real allusions to famous people in history. Copied from thousands of years ago, they can also solve modern dilemmas!
You can imagine that if there is no such a rich history, then if this nation wants to solve the current dilemma, will it have to study from scratch, a little bit of deduction, a little bit of analysis, how terrible it is to start from scratch. ?
What's even more frightening is that even if that great man found the right solution by his own ability, how much time and energy would it take for him to convince the huge bureaucratic management class?
It is difficult to convince a plan from scratch. Once you have convinced most people, the rare historical opportunity may have disappeared and been missed.
At this time, we still have to look at the influence of thick history, because the great man and the entire national management class around him were influenced by the knowledge of national history and were brought up.
Then it becomes simple for the great man to convince so many people in the entire country's administrative management. He throws out these two historical allusions, and then compares them with each other against the current national predicament.
There is no need for great men to talk nonsense. History books can actually help him convince many people. Do you think it is very efficient?
This is the real benefit brought by history. If you want to govern a thousand-year-old civilization like China, you will definitely not be able to manage it if you are not a master of history!
Samuel Baker is indeed a very famous explorer and scholar in British history. His insights were indeed at the forefront of society at that time.
But he is an Englishman after all, and he doesn’t know the Eastern people well enough. He sees the crux of the problem, but can’t find a solution...or he can’t find a solution for the time being.
Under Gordon's questioning, Samuel could only say vaguely, "If you want to destroy a country, you must first destroy its history! But I really haven't figured out how to destroy this nation's love for history. Please let me think about it again..."
"Don't rush me, let me wander around the Central Plains more and investigate more... Maybe I can find a way to destroy Chinese history..."
"If Western civilization wants to completely unify global thought... it must destroy the history of Eastern civilization. If history is destroyed, their culture will also be cut off..."
"But my mind is in a mess right now. Let's wait until I recover..."
The answer that Samuel Baker struggled to think of has always been hidden in Xiao Letian's heart. The Europeans at that time did not find the key to unlock the lock. When they found it, they found that the historical opportunity that locked down the Chinese civilization had been broken. .
Maybe there really is a kind of great rule that controls China's national destiny!
The miracles created by New China in Xiao Letian's previous life, as well as the miracles created by Xiao Letian after time travel, actually have a common pattern.
That is, Chinese civilization has obviously fallen behind. If it wants to catch up with the great powers, reverse the national destiny, or overtake others with a scimitar, it needs a turning point!
What was the turning point? It is at that critical juncture and time point in the upgrading of industrial civilization!
Humanity moved from agricultural civilization to the first industrial revolution. It was the British who stepped into the right rhythm and took the lead in seizing the productivity explosion dividend of the first industrial revolution.
That’s why the United Kingdom was able to defeat Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and other star countries in the Age of Discovery, and become the world’s top power.
After the first industrial revolution upgraded to the second industrial revolution, who was the nation that seized the historical opportunity and rose up? The United States and a united Germany, of course.
Including the Soviet Union who got on the bus last!
The first industrial revolution was dominated by steam engines, railways, and textile machines, while the second industrial revolution was dominated by the internal combustion engine, petroleum industry, chemical industry, aerospace and other industries.
Before and after World War II, including the Cold War, it was the decades when the Third Industrial Revolution emerged. Industries such as atomic energy, computers, networks, aerospace, etc. exploded. Until the 21st century before Xiao Letian traveled through time, humans were still eating The benefits brought about by the third industrial revolution...
The key point of the rise of New China is that the historical timing was well chosen. It happened to be stuck at the juncture of the breakthrough of the third industrial revolution and made full use of the historical opportunity period of overtaking in the corner.
