"Five years is just five years... I have to tell you, you can't be hasty in governing a big country. Managing a big country is like cooking small dishes. If you are too impatient, you will burn the pot..."
Zai Chun smiled bitterly and shook his head and said to Ci'an, "The Queen Mother...do you know why I wanted to entertain Mr. Cai in this Qiwang Tower? And I didn't call my queen mother..."
"It's not because you know something about Western affairs and you're not a closed-minded person... but you still haven't bypassed the past experience!"
"Everything you said is correct. My son also knows that running a big country is like cooking a small one, and he also knows that three to five years is not a long time for an empire..."
"But this issue must be considered comprehensively! You have to incorporate the issues of the current era... Just thinking about past experience is not enough..."
"Why are the principles said by the conservatives so confusing? Because the set of theories they established avoids a fundamental issue at the core!"
"What is it? It's the enemy's progress! Queen Mother, we can't always close our doors and settle our own accounts without settling the accounts of Europa, including the Chinese!"
"I still always want to close the country and walk with my head down... Don't I know the benefits of steady reform? Don't I know the disadvantages of radical reform?"
"Am I the kind of cruel and murderous person? Do I have to use human lives to fill the pit of innovation? If this was a hundred years ago, no, no, no... Even fifty or sixty years ago, I would not be so impatient. It’s okay to slowly reform over twenty years!”
"How old am I? There's no rush to change it to forty or fifty!"
Zai Chun shook his head and sighed and said, "But that's not the case. The problem now is that we are not in a hurry. We are in Europe, and Western society is advancing rapidly. We are in a hurry..."
"This trip to Europe made me understand very deeply what the head of state said... The master once said, 'The future world is destined to start a very cruel arms race. Many countries will drain their national power to build warships and build warships." New weapons'..."
"This so-called arms race will squeeze out the last coin from the people and make their lives more and more difficult!"
"But there is no way. This arms race is not something you can just stop engaging in if you don't want to engage in it. As long as your competitors are advancing, you have to follow up!"
"Why? Because today's world is an era brewing a world war. If you are one step behind, you should fight!"
"Their army will attack our capital again and again, kill our people, and rob our wealth! This is the most terrifying place!"
"We are not in a hurry, but others are! The Queen Mother... they are in a hurry to come back and steal our money and food!"
Cai Bixia was secretly shocked. She didn't expect that the head of state could talk to Zai Chun so deeply. A teenage boy was not simply looking at the problem from the perspective of reform. He was actually able to see it from the perspective of an arms race. Come and think!
Zai Chun was right. The core of his anxiety and impatience was still the arms race! This is also the biggest difference between him and many courtiers!
Can you say that Guiziliu is also opposed to Western technology? Of course not. If Guiziliu really opposed it, he wouldn't practice Xishan Camp!
Weng Tong and those people are really fools. Can they just not see the power of industrial power? He has visited Ryukyu and knows how powerful the Chinese productivity is!
They all know it, they understand everything, but they just don’t understand it deeply enough. They think reform is also necessary, but there is no need to be so impatient and fast!
They always dream of slowly making small changes without breaking the old rules of the past, and gradually allowing society to accept new things!
To put it bluntly, they are afraid that drastic changes will bring strong contradictions and conflicts to society!
In addition, the conservatives are reluctant to part with their own vested interests!
But Zai Chun has truly accepted new ideas, and the perspective on problems he influenced Xiao Letian is very tricky and profound!
The starting point of all his impatience is actually this 'arms race'! Zai Chun knows that in the future, global military technology, military systems, and military thinking will undergo major changes!
The frequency of wars will double. The world in the future will not get better and better, but will only become more and more dangerous. This is a major trend and it is inevitable!
what to do? You can only grit your teeth and try your best to get back the time you lost before! So he couldn't wait five years, not even three years!
The Chinese have already begun to try to use airship troops, and the Chinese Air Force has begun to engage in combat. We don’t even have a steel production company here. If we don’t catch up on this gap, how long will we wait?
What Zai Chun said made Ci'an speechless. Empress Dowager Dong's face turned pale and she drank two glasses of wine in succession to suppress her shock!
"I know, what you said is a bit too frightening... Are we going to have to fight in the future? Can't we live a peaceful life?"
"Queen Mother! You can live a stable life, but the prerequisite is that you must have strong self-protection capabilities so that your competitors will not dare to take action. Only then can you continue to farm with peace of mind!"
"The truth is so simple, doesn't the Queen Mother just not understand?"
Having said this, Zai Chun gritted his teeth and looked at Cai Bixia coldly and said coldly, "Special Envoy Cai... let's open the sky and speak frankly! It's not that I don't understand your character, you are not the kind of person who can tell the truth!" "
"Since you proposed this method, there must be a solution... Make an offer! We can talk about whether the sale is successful or not!"
Cai Bixia and Er Mao looked at each other, both showing their admiration for Zai Chun. This little emperor can really hold his own!
"Your Majesty! Since you said that, I have nothing to say... This equipment cannot be sold, but these Chinese businessmen must be willing to sell it!"
"Your Majesty, what price can you offer them? With all due respect, these businessmen have already passed the stage of being short of money! They have no shortage of cash..."
Zai Chun also imagined that the Chinese suddenly received so much war reparations from France, and now money is at its easiest. These businessmen all made contributions during the war. How could Xiao Letian not reward them generously?
Those high-interest war bonds will allow them to issue one, and there will definitely be a large number of low-interest or even interest-free loans in the future!
Money has become just a number for those capitalists!
"Stop going around and tell them what they want? I know that people from these four major families must have secret connections with you!"
Cai Bixia smiled slightly, "Of course we have the connection... In fact, what they want is exactly what His Majesty lacks the most!"
"Land! Just land! Lots of land!"
"Your Majesty! It's time for you to fulfill your promise... These Chinese businessmen want a special zone. This is their fundamental demand. You can't offer anything else, and nothing can impress them!"
Zai Chun stopped talking. He finally waited for this day, a day that he was completely unwilling to face!
Secret promises must be fulfilled!
The air suddenly solidified, and you could hear a pin drop in the Qiwang Tower!
Er Mao even closed his eyes and didn't want to watch this difficult decision moment!
What did Zai Chun think? In fact, Xiao Letian from Borneo has already analyzed and understood it!
"Zai Chun, this little bastard, actually just wants to default on his debt! I've known him for a long time!"
