This cocktail party at Longfeng Tower was not recorded in any official history of the Chinese people, but the impact of this conference on the future of the Chinese people was extremely huge.

A huge invisible financial empire has both advantages and disadvantages for the Chinese. The disadvantages are obvious that once this financial empire is formed, it will definitely be a monopoly. In the future, any bank, company, or enterprise will not be able to escape the control of this financial empire.

This elite group will form a truly invisible aristocratic group, with huge financial resources that can subvert the country and provoke wars, suppress all dissidents internally, and the wealth they control is something that civilians can never imagine.

However, if all things in the world are harmonious, one will bring about one's disadvantages when one's prosperity is good. Such a financial trust empire is also beneficial to the rise of the weak Chinese.

The Chinese people led by Xiao Letian will definitely follow the path of a large industrial system in the future, which means that the Chinese people must be able to produce themselves. More than 80% of the world's heavy industry, light industry, and military products can only be controlled by others if they develop their own industrial systems. Even if there is a war in the future, they will have an independent industrial system to confront the enemy, and will not be stuck.

For example, in this Far East War, all the Chinese arms storage was consumed by the end, and there was still a little bullet left, but all the shells were exhausted, and even the Zhiyuan ammunition tank reserves dropped sharply to only 30%.

In the late period of the war, Xiao Letian almost bit his back teeth and imported from the United States at high prices, because the sea routes in Europe were all controlled by the insidious British people. On the surface, they hoped that the Chinese would defeat Tsarist Russia, but they did not want the Chinese to win so easily. What the British wanted to see most was the scene of both sides suffering.

Only one seller in the United States can supply the goods, so the price of arms rises directly, and the prices of many shells start three times.

Xiao Letian didn't want to live such a life of swallowing his anger. He had to develop his own industrial system, especially military industry.

But all this requires money. A lot of money is an ideal state to hide wealth from the people. Xiao Letian must have a water pump to draw funds from the people. He must extract the wealth hidden among the people and mobilize it.

Only by concentrating resources to do big things can large-scale heavy industries appear, the ship industry can be developed, the deep blue fleet can be built, and basic science can be developed... Such a huge investment of capital is simply impossible to achieve the old tax-raising army model in the past.

The financial system of medieval countries was nothing more than levying money, grain and trade taxes by the government, and then the concentrated money and physical goods were then turned into the salaries of officials, the army's food and salary, infrastructure maintenance, etc. Finally, see if there is any financial surplus, and if there is any, you can consider some things that will be included.

For example, launching a war to increase territory, building a naval fleet, or building a Great Wall or other things.

You can imagine how low the efficiency will be in this backward fund mobilization model and how serious the corruption and waste will be in the middle. More importantly, this model is completely transparent and has no secret at all.

How much money the court has is, as long as anyone with a heart, can be found out. For the inside, all factions will compete for their own selfish interests. Qingliu wants more money to build a school palace and a Confucius Temple, the Eight Banners want to pay more flag pay, and the governor wants to intercept more lijin... Although they all know that money should be spent on the edge, a navy should be established, and a new army should build factories.

But people are selfish, especially the struggles between factions magnify the conflicts between people. Internal friction will quickly consume the limited surplus of the court, not to mention that the emperor himself wants to build a few more palaces.

This amount of money is not only thought of by insiders, but also by the enemy country. They will formulate different diplomatic strategies based on your financial situation. Western powers are accustomed to extorting and deceiving that. They cannot give you enough capital to develop industry and technology. It is in their interests to weaken you.

The Chinese must break all this. They must have a very hidden capital pump, start the era of internal combustion engines, start the era of power, and start the era of petrochemicals... The development of these basic technologies cannot be achieved by the people themselves. The Chinese have lagged behind Europe.

It is necessary to invest and support with state capital, especially basic education, which is very expensive. Together, these investments of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of yuan are there, where can the money be obtained?

If the Chinese people rely on the old tax system to accumulate this capital, don’t talk about whether they can save it successfully. Even if you save it successfully, what do you want to do when the hostile forces see that you have saved so much money?

What business is worth investing in the world by Xiao Letian in one go for 100 million silver dollars, or even 1 billion silver dollars? As long as this information is placed on the British Prime Minister's desk, you can wait for the war!

It can be said that the Hidden Dragon Plan was tailored by Xiao Letian for the rise of the Chinese people in this era. Although in the future, an oligarchy will form, which will cause a serious gap between the rich and the poor, and will create a group of invisible nobles.

But it is undeniable that this plan is indispensable to the Chinese people today, because what the Chinese people now want is not how to perfectly divide apples, but to try every means to protect their own apple trees and even go out to grab other people's apples.

The Hidden Dragon Plan can firstly draw capital from the public to make large investments efficiently, and secondly, it can improve the level of confidentiality without realizing it, and these two points are the most important.

There is no way to achieve both sides. In order to reverse the gap that has been lagging behind in the past few hundred years, Xiao Letian could only bite the bullet and advance the Hidden Dragon Plan, because he knew very well what the Chinese people needed most now.

It’s not about fairness, but about living, but about not being massacred by aliens. It’s about saving one’s life first and then considering happiness. This is the way to govern the country.

When all the God of Wealth in the Dragon and Phoenix Tower were ready to accept the Prime Minister's plan unconditionally, the top-secret plan outline was sent, and everyone could only watch it here, relying on their own brains to remember it, and no one could take it away.

For a moment, these gods of wealth were like elementary school students, sitting on chairs and reciting words by word. They wished that every word would be imprinted in their hearts.

Fan Jian looked at them and sighed secretly, "This is the thirty-three major families in the future. Even if the century-old family has sprouted today, I really want to see who can protect the wealth of three generations, and who can protect the glory of hundreds of generations!"

Liu Juehe looked at the old shopkeeper's complicated expression and could vaguely guess what Fan Jian was thinking. He leaned over and whispered, "Give them another hour, it's almost time to announce the third major event, right?"
Chapter completed!