"What can cause more harm to the nation-state than the faint monarch is the unprincipled ruling team and bureaucratic groups, what is more destructive than this group is the ignorant and conservative mainstream ideology and statecraft, and what can drag the people back more than ideology is the education and retreat of the foolish people. Therefore, as soon as the commander-in-chief came to power, he emancipated the mind, resumed the college entrance examination, and propagated reform and opening up everywhere.

Our grasp of Amdolu is an opportunity to implement reforms, and as long as we set a successful example in Amdolu, our supporters in the court will increase greatly. There is no other region in East Asia that is more backward and poorer, and if we double our GDP growth in three years, we will have enough resources to promote miracles. The situation of partisan strife in the court can be steered to the discussion of reform that is in our interest. Zhao Shouzhong took out a notebook full of experiences and pointed out the key points for the future.

"Okay! You kid doesn't spend less time researching anthologies than I do. You have learned such a superb method, put aside the controversy, and jointly make the cake bigger is not something that ordinary people can learn and apply. Even if we have this advanced means, we do not have this advanced strength. The old and new party struggle was the fundamental reason for the disappearance of gentleman politics, and the last hope of the Great Song Empire was exhausted by the party struggle at the end of this century. This is not an ordinary power struggle, but a power struggle that has a bearing on the destiny of the country and the nation in the next thousand years. We need to stand at the highest level where we can stand, to see, influence, and change this struggle. We need a ruling team with at least an absolute majority at the Empire's decision-making level to advance our plans. Otherwise, if the reform team does not have sufficient political resources to promote reform, or cannot occupy an absolute advantage, it will be held back, and the party will strive to raise the cost of reform to a sky-high price that the country cannot bear, or even directly destroy the country.

As long as we have an advantage, we can greatly reduce the cost of reform, or at least the cost of institutional innovation. As long as no one deliberately drags its feet, it may not take thirty years to achieve the goal of global hegemony. According to research, the GDP of the Northern Song Dynasty was US$26.55 billion, accounting for 60% of the world's total economy, while the GDP of the Qing Dynasty in 1820, before the Opium War, was US$228.6 billion, accounting for 32.9% of the world's total economy. It shows that the Northern Song Dynasty is the highest peak of China's GDP accounting for the world's share. You must know that the Qing Dynasty was four times larger than the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was also four times that of the Northern Song Dynasty, the technological level was advanced for 800 years, and the GDP should be at least 20 times that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was only 8 times.

The per capita GDP of Chinese in the Northern Song Dynasty was US$2,280, while the per capita GDP of Western Europe was US$427, while in 1820, the per capita GDP of the Qing Dynasty was US$600, and the per capita GDP of the United Kingdom, which had completed the first industrial revolution, was US$1,250. Of course, the data is questionable, but it is enough to show that the national wealth is sufficient to promote the industrial revolution. We don't need the primitive capital accumulation of foreign violent colonization to obtain a drop of blood.

Culture aside, I believe that you have enough experience in the process of educating and training skilled workers, and a society without illiteracy can directly enter a socialist society.

If Lenin had been to the Northern Song Dynasty, he would not have said, 'In a country full of illiteracy, there is no way to build a [***] society." Illiterate people stand outside of politics and must first be taught to read. If you don't know words, you can't have politics, and if you don't know words, you can only have gossip, hearsay, and prejudice, but no politics. Laborers thirst for knowledge because it is necessary for them to win. Nine out of ten working people already understand. Something like that.

It was the top intellectuals who did not meet the definition of illiteracy who led the country to lose to the illiterate nomadic empire. It is those politicians who do not hesitate to lose their weight in order to defeat their political opponents, and use the delay to allow the enemy country to win in order to obtain evidence of the opponent's incompetence or dereliction of duty. It can be seen how accurate the definition of socialist intellectuals with Chinese characteristics that [***] has said. 'If you take the wrong route, the more knowledge you have, the more reactionary it is!' Have you heard of it? This is the crystallization of the study of history! Li Ji gave several examples of the deeds of Zai Fu with the characteristics of pseudo-villains in the history of the future until the Battle of Jingkang.

"Do you mean that without a strong enough modern ruling team and grassroots officials, we will not be able to successfully eliminate party disputes?" Qian Jin asked.

"No, the reason why the Shang Dynasty reform was successful was because the Qin kings and successive emperors supported the core purpose of continuously strengthening centralized power, and the focus of the success of the reform in ancient times was to have the purpose of strengthening one's own power in favor of the most powerful ruling class. Successful reforms were carried out because they defended the interests of the most powerful royal families and emperors, while reforms that failed because they contradicted the interests of the ruling strata at the lower levels of the social pyramid, such as families, bureaucrats, large landlords, and aristocrats, who were more powerful than the emperor. It is not the superficial reason of lack of executive power or talent that determines the turning point of failure or success, but the strength of the class that benefits from the reform determines success or failure. ”

Li Ji pointed out the key, and then said, "Execution and talent are not the key to success or failure, but the key to determining the cost of reform." No matter how good good governance is, it needs people to carry out and promote it, and without talent, Lenin's sentence is fulfilled: 'In a country full of illiteracy, there can be no [***] society." ’”

"The Amdo area is a virgin land that has not been developed, and it is a blank sheet of paper for us to delineate, as long as we do a good job in this experimental field, we can train a group of talents with strong execution. Even in the imperial examination the following year, we are fully sure that our people will occupy 100% of all Amdo places. ”

"Lao Zhao, aren't you talking nonsense? There are a few people in the Amdo area who are not illiterate! The literate people are all Han Chinese, only our people are eligible to participate in the imperial examination, if you don't get all the quotas, you will have no face, and you dare to look for death here? Wang Neng teased.