Chapter 158: Shift in Strategic Focus

"Our feud and old enemies are all in our hands, the northern minorities and regimes that have invaded us have basically lost the possibility of attacking the Central Plains, Japan, Goryeo, Liao, and Jin have become semi-colonies, Tibet has become an autonomous region, Gaochang has just bordered is an ally at the strategic level, and the future Mongols, the whip of God, are also at our disposal, and there is basically no problem with our land borders." Wang Xinyu proudly said his greatest credit.

"So the problem is with the little countries of the ocean?" Bai Jia asked rhetorically.

"There are so many of us, most of them are otaku who are on the journey in the sea of stars, and there is really no passion for learning from the Mongols to conquer the land where there is not much difficulty, and now is not the era of the 18th century when the great powers competed for hegemony in the seven seas and the angry sea, those small countries with a population of no more than 10 million and an output value of only hundreds of millions of dollars were weak compared with many powers in the 18th century, how could they pose a threat to the survival of our nation?" Sun Chang asked.

"Not now, it doesn't mean that it won't be in the future, and in the future, this possibility will be completely eliminated, and the world must be unified first. In a hundred years, the Xiaoice Age may begin, and we must at least get the tropical land. Whether it is to deal with the problem of eating and drinking hundreds of millions of people in the future or the bottleneck of upstream and downstream constraints on industrial development, we must go to the ocean and out of East Asia. "Li Fei has long been tired of being the principal of the Navigation Academy, and he is eager to go to sea to rob those pirates.

"The last decade was a time of self-seeking security and accumulating resources, and we have done well. The next decade is the time for us to go out, and it's time to embark on our plans for the population explosion and the colonization of the world, which are hundreds of years in advance. Zhao Shouzhong said that he wanted to transform.

"Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the distribution of the Han nationality had always been centered in the Yellow River Valley. Why has the Han Chinese never been able to form the same population density south of 30°N as the alluvial fan of the Yellow River? Why was it that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the economic center and population shifted to Suzhou and Hangzhou, but the population density of the Yangtze River basin and the Pearl River basin could not be evenly maintained?

The answer is plague and parasites. These things were the decisive factors in the fact that the anointed lands of later generations are still in the desolate swamps or forests of the present day.

It was only after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 that schistosomiasis was largely eradicated. This single parasite alone reduces the chances of occurrence by at least 100 million people and causes 400 million people to die or die young. It can be seen that the cost of living south of the Jianghuai line is much higher than that in the Yellow River Basin. In the current Jiangnan, the population is extremely unevenly distributed. It can be compared with the difference in population density between Shanghai and Hoh Xil in later generations. The population of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Chengdu has almost reached the upper limit of what can be accommodated by an agricultural society, and compared with these populated areas, the granaries of the Lianghu Plain and the Pearl River Plain in later generations are almost the same as the barren areas of the Han Dynasty. Terraced fields can be reclaimed on the coastal cliffs in Fujian, and there are not many people in the Lianghu Plain! This extreme distribution is not due to war or policy, but simply because of the harsh natural environment, and no nation in the whole of mankind has reached the level of technology that can overcome this environmental threat. Wu Qi pointed out the reason sharply.

"The great affairs of the state are nothing but sacrifice and war, which are the values of the ruling class in a slave society. It has deeply influenced the thinking of China's ruling class for thousands of years. However, the practice of maintaining the legitimacy of rule by relying solely on internal propaganda and war expansion to give the 'common people' spiritual comfort and actual wealth, land, lost its basis after the Qin dynasty. After the Qin Dynasty, the expansion of the Han nationality basically stopped due to environmental obstacles and technical limitations. The lame ruling class is caught in a vicious circle of land annexation and dynastic change.

And what about the modern state? What is the source of the legitimacy of the rule? It is nothing more than the absolute violent superiority of the ruling class or the stable and peaceful environment within the territory established by the balance of external forces, and the industrial order and development environment established by the absolute economic superiority of the ruling class or the balance of external forces. The religious and cultural order and degree of development in the field of spiritual propaganda only determine the national independence and civilizational specificity of the country, and cannot play a decisive role.

Finance, or our strategic priority, is to grasp the power that determines the industrial order and promotes the development environment. With this, the advantage of violence can also be smoothly obtained.

And we can basically decide the industrial order, and it is almost time to promote the development of the environment.

The industrial order determines the employment and jobs of the people, and you can only make people take the job by mouth, and only by satisfying him can he be convinced. Li Ji concluded.

"You have been talking for a long time, you are going to engage in convincing software and hardware construction! That's what you're good at. Pension, medical care, and education are the kings to buy people's hearts. It took Lao Wu ten years to train 800 doctorate-level surgeons, serve as attending physicians in more than 200 hospitals, and have at least one graduate degree in surgery who have been commissioned to train and communicate with each other, but these people could not have played a decisive role in the Great Song Empire, which had a population of 100 million. Dialectical treatment is difficult. Lack of experience will harm people, and barefoot doctors and health promotion are the hope of the vast number of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America to cure diseases.

Lao Wu's work in the medical industry can be said to have reached perfection, and you, Lao Liu, as the underground finance minister, have a lot of criticism for the pension and security work within the construction group. Every day and night, there are reports from the internal inspection department that your people are corrupt and bribe-taking, and that they have embezzled employee pensions and insurance funds. What do you have to say? Wang Xinyu pulled Liu Xin, who didn't speak, in.

"I don't know, don't talk nonsense, I'm misappropriation? It's not like the boss wants to do big projects all day long. The problem arises only when the cash flow is not effective. The money was all in the account, and I didn't put a cent in my pocket. Liu Xin argued.

"Alright. Don't be crooked, keep the discussion! Is it the first to develop the two-lake plain. Seeing that his small vault was in danger of being poked out, he hurriedly covered up.

"Let's push it, anyway, in a hundred years, the land in the south of the Yangtze River will have to be developed sooner or later, as long as the reclamation of the lake and the reclamation of laterite hills are not too excessive, there will be no rocky desertification and too serious soil acidification, I will not object." Sun Chang expressed his support.

"What we have is money, but we are afraid that the appreciation of land will be too fast, so that those guys who have just learned to speculate in securities will be too crazy, and the land bubble blown out will be too exaggerated, which will inhibit development."

"Then make a good plan first, clean the house and welcome the guests. The task of eradicating parasites and plagues was given to Wu Qi and Sun Chang's team. The work of remediating rivers, filling in swamps, and eliminating pests can be subcontracted to agricultural reclamation companies and water conservancy construction companies, and as long as the results are accepted, we are not afraid of delaying the progress of the work. ”

"Lao Li, you started digging a pit again for us to fill in! This time, I really let you be the shopkeeper. Zhao Shouzhong teased.

"I don't dig a pit, who digs? The boss just wants to dig a pit, and if he can't dig it, he won't give it to his subordinates to fill it is not a good boss. (To be continued......)

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