"The Rise of Great Powers" was not published in the mainland. However, there are more than one million officials and party members who read the book by handcopying it.

At this time, the rise of Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands in "The Rise of Great Powers" has been hotly discussed among civil servants across the country.

It can be said that Zhang Shaojie's many fierce and novel ideas have brought a storm of ideas to many civil servants in China who are eager to accept new ideas! It is very beneficial to enlighten the outlook on life, world view, and values of officials at this time!

Zhang Shaojie's views are neither like extreme socialism, nor do they blindly worship the Anglo-American system. It is a more pragmatic pragmatism and take-it-or-leave-it, which is beneficial to the development of the country, and is not confined to the dispute between doctrines and doctrines, which is in line with the cat theory that "no matter whether it is a white cat or a black cat, it is a good cat if it can catch mice" put forward by Chief Deng later.

Because of the Korean War, the Cold War and other factors, China has been blocked economically and culturally for decades, and even its understanding of Western countries is stuck in World War II. Although China won the strategic initiative on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, it was a loser politically and economically!

The United States and United [***], in the Korean theater, suffered a tragic and bloody battle similar to the battlefield of World War II.

During World War II, when the U.S. [***] team faced the elite German troops, it was also able to fight tenaciously and dare to fight for their lives, but in the Korean battlefield, the U.S. military continued to surrender and desert for the first time. Almost every day, hundreds of people fled from the battlefield, and every day the officers needed to shoot some deserters to boost morale.

It can be said that because of the cruelty of World War II, all the US troops and the military of the British Commonwealth and other countries involved in the war are extremely war-weary. At that time, 90% of the soldiers of the United [***] were looking for opportunities to escape, retire, and surrender. In this case, it is impossible to fight at all!

Because of low morale, the soldiers, who have just come out of the European theater after many years of hard fighting, are extremely tired of war! An armistice is a choice that the United States has no choice but to make. After the end of the Korean War between the United States and China, the economic blockade of China was immediately launched.

In the face of the economic blockade of Western countries.

[***] arrogantly said: "Blockade, blockade for ten years and eight years, we have everything!" All reactionaries are paper tigers! ”

It wasn't just a 10-year lockdown, but a blockade from the late 50s to the mid-70s. It is precisely because of the years of blockade and the Iron Curtain factor of the Cold War that China is quite unfamiliar with the outside world!

Zhang Shaojie's "The Rise of Great Powers" undoubtedly played a role in making closed China re-understand the countries of the world.

Moreover, there are many good prescriptions. Zhang Shaojie advocated that reform cannot be radical! It is necessary to carry out reform bit by bit and in light of our own realities. It is necessary to take one step at a time, and at each point of reform, the important thing is to consolidate the achievements of reform and maintain social stability, and this is the royal road.

In particular, "open boiling" is not a panacea, because of the large number of colonies, the exploitation of a large number of foreigners, and the possession of a large number of slaves. In this way, it is possible to practice open cooking among a small number of "citizens".

One of them is American hegemonism, which plunders the world's underdeveloped countries through economic, monetary, political, military, and other multi-level forces, and regularly reaps economic benefits from some defeated countries in World War II where the United States has military garrisons. in order to be able to afford the high-cost open cooking. Moreover, the American Ming Cook is also the Ming Cook of hundreds of political gate valves composed of the founding father families of the 1% elite, and the chaebol formed by the economic consortium family, which has nothing to do with the 99% of the people.

China's boiled centralism, which governs the country by the party, is essentially more popular with the people than the American-style system of political and economic gates taking turns to sit in the bank! Because there are 60 million party members, a large number of ordinary people can join the party to participate in politics and discuss politics. On the contrary, the probability of obtaining an official position is higher than that of the United States!

The American-style Mingzhu election requires a lot of commercials, hype, and publicity, which is certainly not something that an ordinary family can afford, so the election must be sponsored, and the patron must be a rich person or a powerful person. Therefore, in the American-style election, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to elect the people who come to power, or to serve the 1% of the chaebols and political gate valves.

Some of those who are clamoring for total westernization are all those who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic!

This kind of fear that the world will not be chaotic exists in any country, because the order is chaotic and the society is in turmoil, so that some people can fish in troubled waters.

The Soviet Union began to carry out radical reforms in the 80s, completely according to the prescriptions prescribed by the West, and the whole country was torn apart! The whole country was betrayed by the reformers from above, the people were even more miserable, industry was rapidly declining, and only a few oligarchs were able to reap the great benefits of such turmoil!

Of course, the future radical boiled reforms of the Soviet Union caused a tragic situation. Zhang Shaojie did not explicitly put it forward, but vaguely pointed out that reforming too radically and too quickly will not make the country better and the people happier and richer, but will be seized by the cabal for economic and political benefits

Of course, in Zhang Shaojie's comments, the "prophecy" often released aroused the opposition of some readers! Of course, there are also some readers who strongly agree with Zhang Shaojie's views and "prophecies"!

Whether it is for Zhang Shaojie or against Zhang Shaojie!

Beginning in August 1980, with the publication of "The Rise of a Great Power", Zhang Shaojie's views began to form a huge influence in mainland officialdom!

A large number of officials who have read Zhang Shaojie's works will inevitably be inspired when they implement reforms and take charge of the government in the future!

―――――――――― has the help of the Guangzhou Education Bureau.

At the end of August, Ma Rongcheng searched for more than 30 outstanding art students in Guangzhou.

Having a drawing skill is only a foundation, and the core comic storyboards that are more core of comics are the core skills that ordinary painters cannot master. However, Ma Rongcheng has been in the industry for many years, and he has mastered all the core skills that should be mastered.

With these qualified manpower, Ma Rongcheng can be the main writer himself, draw the storyboard, as well as some important parts, and other illustrations, all of which can be drawn by assistants.

The first issue of Hong Kong comics generally has between 40~60 words, and each word generally has 3 to 8 comics.

The style of Hong Kong comics is generally more delicate and realistic, and in terms of painting, it is more refined than that of comics.

Of course, in terms of technical level, although the per capita level of painting skills of Hong Kong comics artists exceeds that of their peers. It's a pity that Hong Kong comics' way of expressing stories, that is, the style of painting, is often not as mature as that of the cartoonists.

It is often through character dialogues to promote the plot.

Hong Kong comics, on the other hand, inevitably have some remnants of the comic book style, and some narration is needed to explain the plot, which makes the reader's sense of substitution far inferior to that of the comics.

Ma Rongcheng brought 30 painters recruited from China to Tianxia Publishing Company.

More than 30 people made a commotion, which made Zhang Shaojie a little surprised.

Zhang Shaojie smiled: "Why did you recruit so many people? ”

Ma Rongcheng said: "It's not a fox and a fake tiger, rely on your majesty!" ”

Zhang Shaojie was surprised and said: "What's the explanation? ”

"Shaojie, you don't know! In the officialdom of the mainland, at least the officialdom of Guangzhou, you are famous! Those officials in the mainland are loyal readers of your "The Rise of Great Powers"! Even, in the party newspaper in Guangzhou, I often see some articles about the after-reading and learning experience of "The Rise of a Great Power"! Ma Rongcheng said with a smile, "They say that you are the young generation in Hong Kong, the number one thinker and historian!" ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned for a moment: "Damn, no!" "The Rise of Great Powers" has not yet been published in the mainland! Where did they read "The Rise of Great Powers"? ”

"Guangzhou Municipal Axe, subscribed to 5,000 copies of "Ming Pao"! Every day, 3,000 copies of Ming Pao were sent to other provinces across the country, while Guangzhou kept 2,000 copies. Of course, in the mainland, "Ming Pao" can only be a high-ranking official, study materials internally, and prohibit illegal printing and sales to the outside world! Ma Rongcheng explained, "Because the number of these Ming Pao is limited. Those officials and intellectuals, if they want to read "The Rise of a Great Power", they must bring paper and pen to copy it again! In Guangzhou alone, there are more than 10,000 officials, party members, and professors who have copied and studied "The Rise of a Great Power"! ”

Zhang Shaojie was snickering with joy and said with a painful face: "Damn! My royalty income. If it is officially published, then one yuan a copy, 10% royalty is calculated, and selling 1 million copies is also a manuscript fee of 100,000 yuan."

Seeing this, Ma Rongcheng said with a smile: "It is said that there are already many publishing houses in the mainland that intend to publish. However, with the approval of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Culture, and other departments, mainland publishing houses will soon come to Hong Kong to negotiate publishing! ”

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but express his expectation, compared with Hong Kong and Taiwan, everyone is looking forward to success on a bigger stage in the mainland market.

At this time, the most popular thing in China is to read!

After the resumption of the college entrance examination in China in 77, the whole country fell into a cult and thirst for knowledge!

All kinds of book-related things are in high demand in the market!

In bookstores, whether it is poetry, philosophy, novels, or scientific and technological books, there are a large number of readers who buy them. Some readers in this era earn dozens of yuan a month, and 20 yuan can eat and dress. Many young people only have a few yuan of savings every month, but many young people would rather eat a little less and save some surplus money to buy books to read!

In the early years of reform and opening up, it was not unusual for a book to sell millions of copies!

Later, when the material prosperity and glitz became more and more flashy, the number of readers per capita in China decreased. By the beginning of the 21st century, analysis data showed that Israelis read 64 books a year, Russians read 55 books a year, Americans read 50 books a year, and Chinese read only 5 books a year.

The number of books read per capita is too low, so that although China's productivity has developed, its creativity has lagged behind.

Zhang Shaojie is in a good era, this era is the era of great construction with passion and a hundred wastes waiting to be rebuilt, and it is also the era when Chinese are most keen to read!

(To be continued)