The Chinese nation is the most successful farming civilization in human history, bar none. If the Chinese are to say they are second in farming, no one in the world would dare to say that they are first!
Before the Age of Discovery, during the years when farming civilization was the dominant force, the Chinese who had mastered the core competitiveness of farming could eventually recover no matter how the dynasties changed or how cruel the war was!
It is still a powerful medieval civilization country and has the world’s largest GDP!
However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Agricultural civilization has always been weak in terms of force value. This is not to say that the Chinese are inherently weak, but that the agricultural civilization is too developed, leaving generations of Chinese people lacking in war training!
In the pastoral scenery of affluence and courtesy, few people train in the art of killing every day. We are not a miserable nation that cannot survive even the white-haired snowmen outside the Great Wall. People do not need to compete with wild wolves for food, nor do they need to be afraid of other tribes. Come and exterminate your clan!
Without those worries, people who farm will naturally be peaceful and live a happy life!
Generations of idyllic scenery will naturally wear away people's martial spirit, and the more stable the Central Plains Empire is, the rulers will be able to guide the people not to practice martial arts!
If the world is peaceful, why are you learning martial arts? Will it increase the difficulty of government governance?
There are too many reasons that make the martial spirit of a nation become increasingly scarce, until finally there is a strange dynasty in which a few foreign races come to dominate the Central Plains and rule the majority of the Han people!
How to reverse this situation, and how to make up for the shortcomings in martial arts that the Chinese have lost over thousands of years?
Xiao Letian gave the answer, "Everything is about industrialization, everything is about improving productivity!"
"What should the Han people do if they don't have enough military force? Learn from the Prussian people and become soldiers? They have been soldiers for several generations, and in the end the national character has been changed!"
"This kind of special case can still be used in a single ethnic group with a small population. China is so large and has many ethnic groups that are so responsible... With such national conditions, can you implement a model where all people are soldiers?"
"There is only the last way, and that is to accept industrialization, or even lead it, and rely on the power of technology, machinery and steel to make up for the shortcomings of the martial spirit!"
"Agricultural civilization is good at construction, developing industry and increasing productivity. This is a unique skill of the Chinese people!"
"It is obviously the most suitable for the Chinese character, but you don't want it? Do you have to use swords, spears and tons of steel to fight?"
Xiao Letian knocked on the small blackboard and said solemnly, "All remarks that confuse the Chinese people and tell them not to develop industry or improve productivity have ulterior motives!"
"The purpose of those people saying these things is to hope that the shortcomings of the Chinese people's martial spirit will never be made up for!"
"They just hope that the Chinese people are still so weak. How wonderful it would be to pick chrysanthemums every day and see Nanshan. How wonderful it would be to write and draw every day without any competition!"
"Isn't it better to be a slave forever and pursue the small happiness of being ruled?"
"The wolf's ambition is obvious!"
Xiao Letian's theory has been accepted by a group of enlightened Han officials including Zeng Guofan! It is precisely because Xiao Letian has a complete and detailed revival plan in his hands, and he has a mature theoretical support!
Only in this way can top politicians like Zeng Zuo be convinced, and only then can they be willing to cooperate with Xiao Letian's strategy!
In the final analysis, those cities opened by the fortress plan had to be issued by Zai Chun, and the local forces of the Qing Dynasty also needed Zai Chun to cooperate in cleaning up!
Therefore, before the walls of those fortresses are repaired and before the factories are put into operation, the Qing Dynasty must stabilize and stabilize with Zaichun as the core!
Power must be handed over to Emperor Tongzhi step by step!
No one can count on it, not Cixi and Ci'an, not even Yi Xuan... These people are all old foxes in the political arena, and they will never cooperate with Xiao Letian's baton!
Only Zai Chun is the most suitable. This young middle-aged boy who was brainwashed and educated by the head of state, only he can have the idea of radical reform, and only he is better at deceiving!
"Since Zai Chun launched the coup to seize the Donghua Gate, let him seize it!" Zeng Guofan, who rushed to the palace, made up his mind!
All the factions in the capital have moved into action, and the foreign devils are also very well-informed. Not far south of Dong'anmen is the foreign embassy area!
When a large number of soldiers of the Nine Admirals appeared on the street to block the road, the embassies of Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries all sent military attachés, counselors and other staff to go out to check!
As a result, these people were blocked at the Royal Bridge by the soldiers of the Nine Admirals. The Prime Minister's Yamen sent a letter proficient in foreign languages to politely ask the foreigners not to go any further.
The Royal Bridge where the foreign devils were stopped was actually on East Chang'an Street, at the intersection of Nan Heyan Street and Chang'an Street in later generations!
Looking to the north from here, you can vaguely see the gathering crowd, but you can't see the details clearly!
The soldiers of the Nine Admirals lined up in a human wall with numb faces. Master Yang looked over there, and their human wall was blocking them in that direction. It was like a tug-of-war.
During the stalemate, Marshal Zeng's official sedan appeared on Chang'an Street. These Yixuan's men dared to stop ordinary soldiers and civilians, but they did not dare to block the Marshal's sedan. They moved out of an alley to let Marshal Zeng in.
When Zeng Guofan approached Donghua Gate, he realized that the place was already tense and about to start a fight!
Zai Chun, who had eaten a bowl of bean juice and had two burnt rings, was standing inside Dong'an Gate, while Prince Gong and Prince Chun were kneeling on the ground on the left and right, arguing with the emperor!
"Your Majesty, you can't! The access control system of this imperial city is a rule established since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The system of our ancestors cannot be changed!"
"The Hujun Camp has been guarding Donghua Gate for two hundred years. There is no credit but hard work! Are they all dismissed now? This is not convincing to others!"
Zeng Guofan looked around and understood what was going on. Standing inside and outside Dong'an Gate and Donghua Gate, including on the towers, were these imperial guards in new military uniforms!
It turns out that the military uniforms of the guard camp are no longer visible. Emperor Tongzhi is going to completely take over the security of Donghua Gate!
Zai Chun relished the taste of the bowl of bean juice and looked up to see Marshal Zeng coming over. He smiled and nodded, "It's good that Marshal is here. Marshal will comment. I have suffered so much grievance today. Have you dealt with it?"
"As an emperor, I don't even have the right to go up to the city tower? I don't even have the right to leave the palace and visit the people to observe the sufferings of the people?"
"How dare a small co-leader bring up the ancestral system to stop me from doing this or that? I am confused, why did the ancestral system not work when Emperor Qianlong left the palace? Come to me Is everything working?”
"Since I, the emperor, can't even order the soldiers in the palace, what do you want them to do? Let's all go home and eat the hard-core crops. From now on, the Donghua Gate and Dong'an Gate will have new Yulin troops to guard the gates!"
"This is the imperial edict. Let me see if anyone obeys it?"
