There are many people and great power, which seems to be an absolutely correct topic, but is it really the case? No, there are many people and great power, but the internal friction is also very large. How can you ensure that you think together and do things in the same direction?

If there are more people, there will be more ideas. If there are one person in the east, south, west and north, there will be great internal friction. If there are many things, they will be defeated by internal friction.

What's more, there are many people and many traitors. There are always people who eat in the bowl and look at the pot and sit on the boat and want to change jobs. The chances of encountering such people and bad things are much higher than the chance of accomplishing things.

Therefore, all Chinese dynasties have been in the world for thousands of years, and the advanced view of nation and country has not been the first to form. This is not to say that the Chinese are stupid, but to say that the ancient Chinese were too smart and had already understood the tricks in it thousands of years ago.

The family and the world were not invented by anyone, but were natural choices caused by the environment. In ancient China, only the blood relatives and clans could maintain a group of people thinking together, doing things together, resisting foreign enemies or invading others together, thus forming a relatively loyal interest group.

If brothers work together, the principle is actually that simple.

However, this kind of social order that only knows the family but does not know what the nation and the country are is destined to be only suitable for agricultural society, while in industrial society, this kind of thinking is destined to become a cancer.

How much does it cost to launch the Age of Discovery, how much does it cost to promote steam engines, how much does it cost to build a railway network across the country, how much does it cost to send an expeditionary fleet to colonize the world, how much does it cost to climb unknown technology trees?

Such a huge amount of capital consumption cannot be done by one family. Even if one family can spend so much money to do these big things, who can guarantee that other families will not covet it?

Climbing a technology tree is the more it consumes manpower and material resources the more you go. In the early days of the Age of Discovery, there is no problem as long as the wood is supplied. But at the end of the First Industrial Revolution, the big part of a sail battleship that consumed money was not wood but artillery.

The more money you spend, the less you need to spend. Wooden warships are upgraded to armored warships, and then to battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers. Then you have to develop the air force, armored forces, and even the Manhattan plan.

As human beings become more and more capable, the step of stepping down is getting higher and higher. In the end, the gap between countries is no longer calculated by addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Then it takes several powers of N to perform the calculation.

In the mid-19th century, to be honest, this was really the last chance for the Chinese nation to catch up with the European powers. If you don’t jump on the train that has just started in the Second Industrial Revolution, you may never have a chance in the future.

Xiao Letian knew the urgency of time and the seriousness of the matter. He would never forget the humiliating history of his previous life. After the Lugou Bridge Incident and the Battle of Songhu, the entire China's shell reserves were only enough for three months, and the reserves of other military supplies were pitifully small.

What's even more serious is that at that time, the output of China's military factories was not even enough to block the teeth, and 90% of the arms supplies needed to be imported. The scenes of the humiliating war even emerged in Xiao Letian's nightmare.

Let’s see, how can a country without industrialization survive?

Money, money, although Xiao Letian is now rich enough to rival a country, if he wants to enjoy it, he can even live a luxurious life like an emperor, but this money is far from enough, because Xiao Letian has a dream of a strong country and a strong seed in his heart, and he even hopes that China can become the leader of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Is the latest armored warship the first to appear in East Asia? Is the first light bulb in the human world being invented by the Chinese? Is the first tank and the first plane appearing in the world of China?

What a wonderful scene all this is, but is it okay to not have a large amount of funds, and can it not be too many like-minded talents gathered together?

What bothers Xiao Letian even more is that so much money is collected together, how can he prevent his subordinates from harming public and private? What if he embezzled me all this?

To put it bluntly, the reason why corruption in China is prevalent is somewhat related to the cultural tradition of family and world. If you only know that there is a family but not a country, then the interests of the family are supreme, while national interests and national interests can be completely ignored, or they can be harmed at will.

"I care whether your project is the key to the country, whether you involve the interests of the people, whether your national rejuvenation and national prosperity and strength are all my business. Anyway, I will give this project to my brother-in-law. Anyway, my family's interests are sacred and inviolable... Well, I am so great. My wife may also bring my sister-in-law to bed tonight, and it is not impossible to reward her with a double flight."

I have seen too many such things in Xiao Letian's previous life, and he is very clear that this group of people has their own set of values, and they will never feel guilty when they are corrupt.

Because they believe in the style of Jiatianxia, ​​their thoughts were originally stuck in the ancient agricultural society, and they even believed that their thoughts were correct, because Jiatianxia's values ​​ruled Asia for thousands of years, while nationalism and modern concepts of state have been popularized for hundreds of years.

Look, they will use simple words to tell you a truth. Our set has existed for thousands of years, and we are right. Your set will never work. Come and surrender to us. We are already standing by the river. Why don’t you wash your feet?

Look, this is the value of corrupt people. If people in this world do something, as long as there is a kind of thought to support them, such people will no longer be able to overcome it.

Xiao Letian would not give these people a chance, and he was not interested in letting the execution hall draw a lot of manpower and material resources to supervise these people. Xiao Letian traveled to this world and was not here to be a bad person. He could not change everyone, and he was not interested in redeeming everyone.

"I'm not a clay statue of a god who will always be able to fulfill my requests. People don't want to rely on others except to save themselves in their lives. Xiao Letian is just a spreader of new ideas. Anyway, if you believe what I say, you believe it, and if you don't believe it..."

Xiao Letian still admired Mr. Deng very much in his previous life, especially the special zones he created. In fact, he copied Mr. Deng as it was. Don’t you all oppose me? Are you all confused? Then I will create a pilot project and I will lead a group of people to come out first. Living examples are always easy to slap in the face.

Time is endless. Xiao Letian really doesn't have time to convince the powerful and powerful one by one. All he can rely on now is the existing resources, the new army, Ryukyu, and the Satsuma vassal that no one can imagine.

The new army was established by Xiao Letian, and he saved Ryukyu. From beginning to end, Xiao Letian has been instilling his new ideas. He can be said to have no choice but to brainwash. As for those who have doubts about him, those with low identities have long been ruled out, and those with high identities like Jin Changsen were also secretly monitored. Anyway, they cannot ruin their careers.

The new army and Ryukyu are reliable, while the Japanese Shimazu family's surrender was a bit unexpected, but Xiao Letian has his own plans. First of all, the Japanese nation is very good at learning from the strong. As long as you conquer him and you can trust their loyalty before he surpasses you.

In addition, in history, the Shimazu family in Japan was also the first daimyo to receive Western knowledge. Before Xiao Lotte came, the Shimazu family had already purchased three steamships and fought a Sayings and Ying War in August 1863.

At that time, the Satsuma clan had eighty forts, three steamboats, and even a modern industry research institute, which the Japanese called the "integration hall".

The Satsuma clan claimed to be a defeat in the war, but from a military perspective, both sides should be tied. Although the Satsuma clan's forts, institutes, and steamships were destroyed, one British warship was also seriously injured, two were slightly injured and even two captains and sixty sailors died.

The final result of the peace talks was fair. It would be fine if Japan paid the British 25,000 pounds. However, Britain had a little respect for the Satsuma family since then, and the cooperation between the two sides became closer in the future.

If such a war ended up with the Qing Dynasty, it would definitely be a big blow, and it would even be advocated by the Qingliu in China as a rare victory in the country. However, the Japanese were very practical. They would not care about this little face. The Satsuma family fell into deep thoughts instead.

Why do we also have sharp firearms but the final result is still a failure? Even if there are some technical gaps in the firearms, the Satsuma family still has the advantage of geographical advantages. More importantly, there was a small typhoon passing through Kagoshima during the war, which is also the blessing of Amaterasu.

It was after that war that the Satsuma family and Shimazu family finally understood that the power of Westerners was definitely not just because of their strong ships and powerful guns. They must have a secret weapon that Asians do not know, and perhaps that weapon is invisible to the naked eye.

It was from that moment that the Shimazu family launched a camp of honoring the king and expelling the barbarians because they knew that expelling the barbarians was unrealistic. No matter how loud the slogans were, the roar of the cannons would always be louder than yours.

The Shimazu family was confused until they met Xiao Letian. When Xiao Letian led his poor new army, he relied on a few slogans of national justice to the fighting enthusiasm of the 100,000 Chinese people, and when the warriors of the Shimazu family were completely driven out of Ryukyu.

The Shimazu family finally understood a key point. The answer they wanted was Xiao Letian, which was the fundamental reason why Shimazu Daro and those daimyo warriors secretly entered Ryukyu.

Gong Cheng and Molière had never guessed that before they came to Ryukyu, these people had already accepted Xiao Letian's nationalist indoctrination and understood the core secrets of the new-style country's victory over these backward countries.

Fortunately, it is before the Meiji Restoration, and fortunately, there is no advanced nationalism and national concept on the Japanese archipelago. If you want to mix sand into it, now is the best opportunity.
Chapter completed!