Hahaha... Xiao Letian laughed. "That's right, facing the Chinese people who have a huge base and are extremely stubborn and conceited, you have no other choice but to divert them!"
"Especially when it comes to industrializing an entire nation, this huge choice must be made with caution... because China's agricultural civilization of thousands of years ago was really good!"
"Relying on this economic structure, a very splendid culture has developed... You can't even count how many poems, paintings, sculptures, novels, dramas, folk tales... and so on, cultural compositions are circulated among the people! "
"All of these combined together become something called national pride!"
"National pride is a good thing. It can unite the hearts of a nation and keep them standing for thousands of years!"
"The stronger the sense of national honor and the richer the civilization, the more powerful the centripetal force will be on other disadvantaged ethnic groups... Therefore, from ancient times to the present, the civilization of the Central Plains has tried to assimilate the surrounding foreign races, but the foreign races have been unable to assimilate the Central Plains!"
"The Manchus have done well, but under the crushing force of the Central Plains civilization, didn't they also lose their own language and writing?"
"If the Manchu emperor hadn't forced the court to retain the Manchu and Mongolian languages and writings, they would have been completely assimilated in the past two hundred years!"
"Hey...there are too many successful examples in history. Pride is good but it is also a burden!"
"When national pride is too strong, it can easily turn into arrogance, and arrogant people will definitely refuse to change... Even if the foreign devils are beaten several times in a row until they can't find the North, they still can't lose their arrogance. Lose!"
"The same refusal to change. Why is the weapon-only theory so popular in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties now? In the final analysis, it is this conceited mentality that is at work. They refuse to change, refuse to admit that they are not good enough, and refuse to admit that they are not good enough!"
"They can only throw out the only blame for poor weapons. They deceive others and themselves, and they are constantly brainwashing... Tell everyone that there is nothing wrong with our farming civilization, and there is nothing wrong with everything!"
"Our only mistake was not buying foreign guns and cannons! Now that we have bought enough, don't be afraid, let's continue living as we did in the past!"
"The sun rises and the sun sets and we rest! If we are going on a big voyage, we can rest at home! Wouldn't it be nice to hold my wife and have some children during the free time?"
"Is it that the rice cakes are not fragrant enough? Or is it that the fried noodles are tasteless? Is it that the New Year's firecrackers and dumplings are not attractive, or is it that the Double Ninth Festival rice dumplings do not arouse your thoughts and mood?"
"It's all good. Are you going to go sailing on a big voyage with enough food? You have enough to eat and drink and you are busy industrializing? I just don't want to change. I want to live this small life forever!"
"What nonsense industrialization, steel battleships, people flying in the sky...just go away, don't stop me from farming!"
"Look, this is the true inner voice of the people of the Central Plains right now. They are so immersed in the glory of farming civilization that they can no longer get out!"
"Why did the Age of Discovery happen in Europe? Why couldn't it happen in China? Is it all because of the maritime ban policy of the Ming and Qing Dynasties?"
"My child, that is just one of many reasons... and the deeper reason is the powerful attraction of the perfect medieval farming civilization to the population... or the locking force!"
"The most important fundamental condition for the prosperity of a farming civilization is to lock down the population!"
"You have to lock down generations of farmers on the land, and you can ensure the evolution of civilization... This is completely contrary to the pioneering and adventurous spirit of the business world!"
"So when the Ming and Qing dynasties announced sea bans, it was not because they were short-sighted, but because they were actually compromising and giving in to this extremely powerful farming civilization!"
"Not only the Zhu family, not just the Aixinjueluo family, even the Zhao family who was sent to court... As royal family, they don't dare to confront such a civilized core!"
"Who among these dynasties dares to use the power of the government to launch the Age of Discovery? Whoever dares to do so will die!"
"Whoever dares to engage in great navigation and industrialization is an enemy of the landlord class, the peasant class and the tenant class all over the world!"
"In fact, it is an enemy of the entire farming civilization! This civilization will immediately eliminate the dynasty that does not obey it!"
"This power is too powerful. Do you think I, Xiao Letian, dare to fight against it? Hahaha, don't believe those legends. I am really not the reincarnation of a god!"
Xiao Letian never hesitates to instill real knowledge into the direct descendants around him, even if these theories will cause an uproar when put outside, it doesn't matter!
"That's why Master established an industrial zone and prepared a fortress plan... to outsiders, it was just factories and military fortresses surrounded by walls..." Xiang Ying said excitedly.
"In fact, the master is using those industrial zones as aqueducts and flood discharge channels... The ultimate goal is to use these special zones and fortresses to completely drain China's current quagmire!"
"Just like the endless rainforest swamps in Borneo...the foreign devils and the natives were helpless after seeing it, but in the hands of us Chinese it became a smooth road!"
"The situation in the Qing Dynasty is also the same. In the eyes of others, it is a mess, but in the eyes of the master, the chess game has been arranged in all directions!"
"I understand, I really understand this time!"
Xiang Ying excitedly slapped the railing with his hand: "The Central Plains has a population of hundreds of millions, and everyone is very resistant to the industrial revolution and new technologies!"
"They are extreme and stubborn and refuse to change their lives. In other words, they are afraid of change because they don't know what the future will look like after the change!"
"We really can't reason with hundreds of millions of people one by one... The only way at this time is to induce and let them see the changes with their own eyes!"
"It's good if a farmer can earn a living from farming for a year. If any family can save two or three silver dollars at the end of the year, that will be a gratifying event!"
"But what about the skilled workers in the industrial zones? Even ordinary workers who have no skills and just sell their physical strength... can save one or two silver dollars every month except for food and drink!"
"A person who works for one month will farm at home for a year. Isn't such a huge gap more convincing than propaganda and reasoning?"
"We just want to create such a wealth gap. Only by making those people who are stuck in their ways can we force them to change their minds!"
"Who can't live with money? Who doesn't yearn for a better life? As long as they have the desire for a better life, we can force them to change their ideas!"
"Eating dumplings every day... makes them angry and greedy them to death!"
Hahaha... As soon as Xiang Ying finished speaking, the people around him burst into laughter!
