2025 Fallacies
"Good question!" Xiao Letian couldn't help but applaud, whether Xiang Ying was a fanatical militarist or not, but it was undeniable that this kid's brain was smart, and his analysis of problems was profound.
The second-generation disciple Zaichun is indeed much worse than him, of course, there is also an age factor here, if Zaichun meets someone who understands and really helps, his ability in the future will not be much worse than Xiang Ying.
I'm afraid history won't give Jae-soon too much time!
"Xiang Ying, your question is the most confusing part, many people are confused by this kind of argument...... Remember, in the future, when our Chinese nation becomes stronger, there will definitely be Western politicians, experts, and scholars who will advocate this kind of argument for you!"
Obviously, the current utilization rate of land on the earth by human beings is still very low, that is to say, the renewable resources provided by animals and plants are far from reaching the limit!
"The second point is non-renewable resources, which are destined to have a big increase in output with the continuous rise of human science and technology! This can be seen from the development of human mining technology!"
"In ancient times, human beings only relied on human and animal power to dig mineral deposits, and in deep mines, mortals needed to use their hands and iron pickaxes to dig down, but now?"
"Mr. Nobel's safety explosives have increased the efficiency of human mining hundreds of times, and the explosion of a bundle of explosives may yield more ore than hundreds of miners do in a month!"
"And the most advanced blast furnace steelmaking method, especially our American partner Carnegie Steel, can produce more than the entire Qing Dynasty in a month......
"Do you know why the international price of silver has plummeted in the last 50 years? Why Britain, France, and the United States have all adopted the gold standard? To put it bluntly, it is the great improvement in the efficiency of silver mining, which has led to the strange phenomenon of global silver flowing to Asia......
"The potential of the land has not yet been exhausted, and the blessing of science and technology is still soaring, which means that the base of 100 I just assumed is actually rising every year, and the total amount of resources available for human distribution is constantly increasing......
"Hahaha......" Xiao Lotian laughed loudly, "how beautiful all this looks! It seems that a life like heaven is waiting for us in the future! It seems that in another hundred years, all human beings on the whole earth will be able to live the same happy life as the British?"
"Xiang Ying, isn't this what you wonder? If the total amount of resources per year is suddenly increased from 100 to 1,000 or even to 10,000, then won't human beings solve the problem of distribution?"
"Your problem, I can sum it up in one sentence, is that productivity ultimately determines the distribution model!"
"Confused! shallow! Take it for granted self-righteousness!" Xiao Lotian roared and frightened the people seated, and everyone was sitting in danger, not knowing which way Xiao Letian was crazy.
"Let me refute this fallacy one by one! First of all, you don't even have the data on population growth...... Let me ask you, isn't the population of the earth growing?"
"Let's not talk about the whole earth, let's just say that the Qing Dynasty, the population of Xianfeng has reached 300 million, a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, I'm afraid there will be no less than sixty or seventy million dead, right?"
"Even if we have 250 million people, so many mouths are waiting to be fed, and people in China are starving to death every day! So what if China's population exceeds 800 million one day? What if it exceeds 1 billion!"
"Impossible!" The cabin exploded completely, and Wang Junlan, who was unlucky, broke a fountain pen again, and he was stunned by the Führer's words.
One billion? This is an astronomical figure that the ancient people could not have imagined at all! As long as the population of ancient China exceeded 50 million, it was an absolutely peaceful and prosperous era, and the Qing Dynasty was rather special, because of the popularization of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and other high-yield crops, the population of the middle of the Qing Dynasty exceeded 300 million.
Not to mention 300 million, the population of 200 million has already made the Confucian scholars shout wildly about the prosperous era of Kangqian, and today the head of state is even bolder and directly comes to a billion.
Xiao Lotian sneered and looked at the incredulity of the people present, and suddenly a feeling of triumph welled up in his heart, he shook his head and said, "Can't believe it? If you want me to say that as long as there is no war, as long as Chinese can defend the enemy from the country, then what is one billion, and thirteen billion is no problem......
"Okay, let's not worry about whether we can reach this number, you just say that once the population expands rapidly, will this resource still be enough?"
"Xiang Ying, what you said about the increase in the total amount of resources brought about by digging deep into the potential of the land and the improvement of scientific and technological strength can top up the gap caused by population growth?
"I can tell you for sure that the next hundred years will be the era of population explosion in the history of mankind, and there may be wars and other reasons in the middle that will cause a short-term decline in the population, but the general trend will definitely not change!"
"In a hundred years, mankind may give birth to the total population of the past thousand years!"
"In the face of such an era of population explosion, who dares to pin the hope of national resource security on the potential of land and the growth of science and technology? In the final analysis, we still have to exhaustively plunder in the international community and use military or commercial methods to eat and occupy more!"
"Now the British eat wheat from the North American continent and Odessa, Ukraine, while our Chinese Special Industrial Zone eats rice from the South Seas, and even a quarter of the food supply in Beijing is rice from overseas!"
"Have you forgotten all this? Do you think that the stable price of rice in Sijiu City is because the grain merchants have a good heart? No, the most important thing is that the total supply has increased, so that the people can afford it!"
Xiao Letian coughed a few times and cleared his throat: "Population growth is just the first ironclad evidence for me to refute that crooked reasoning! There is a second article below...... What is it? It's war!"
"We Chinese people started by war, there is no one here who is not familiar with war, we have come to a profound conclusion from the study of military history, with the development of science and technology, the intensity of war is getting bigger and bigger, and the lethality and destructive power are getting stronger and stronger!"
"A set of armor of ancient people can be passed down for a hundred years, and a steel knife can be used again after sharpening it, so as long as the ancient generals create an iron army, they can use it until they die!"
"What an economical, environmentally friendly, and economical mode of warfare this is! But what about now? Mankind has completely entered the age of firearms, and the destructive power of war is getting bigger and bigger, but the money burned is also increasing!"