Chapter 235 Background and Software for Expansion

Whether it's the smallest or the largest organization, if you want to expand, you need enough hardware support, otherwise you will be limited to a certain size expansion limit. In fact, the best tissues in nature are higher plants that have survived disasters.

It is the highest in terms of size, longevity, number of reproduction, competitiveness of offspring, anti-risk ability and other biological physiological parameters. The giant sequoia tree is the king of gymnosperms. Sequoia has a strong natural regeneration ability, and can germinate 5~10 times the seedlings on the logging site, and the root tillering is also very vigorous. Sequoia is one of the most photosynthetically efficient plants in nature, so it grows particularly fast. It can also grow well under shaded conditions of only 1% of full light, which shows its strong resistance to negative. In Sequoia National Park in California, there is a redwood tree that lived in the jungle long before the birth of Jesus, more than 3,200 years old, this "old birthday star", with a chest height of 4 meters in diameter, an estimated height of about 247 feet (about 75 meters), and a single tree volume of more than 700 cubic meters. Its timber is used to build more than 30 rural houses. A local church with a capacity of 500 people was built from the timber of a single redwood tree, and the remaining timber was used as the cover of several houses. This kind of tree has no lifespan limit, and there is no limit to the size, it is simply a quality that all enterprises dream of.

The animal kingdom is not so powerful, and according to the analysis of existing specimens and fossils, the largest animal, Seismosaurus (Diplodocus hastelloy), was only 40 meters long, and its weight of less than 200 tons can only be dwarfed by several times the weight of redwoods.

What does it take for species in nature to expand themselves? It is the vitality and competitiveness of a combination of strong support structure, effective immune system, accessible circulatory metabolism and strong environmental adaptability. Without a dense xylem trunk and root system made up of dense wood fibers, can ferns grow up to 10 stories tall? Without fragrant resins and alkaloids, can plants withstand the erosion of pests and diseases? Can a dinosaur live to be 1000 years old? Can it reproduce millions or tens of millions of offspring in a lifetime?

Therefore, strength requires accumulation and connotation, and longevity is also inevitable. Strong and long-lasting is the eternal pursuit of all living organisms. Those short-lived empires, although they ruled across two or three continents and conquered hundreds of peoples when they were in the prime of life, were only Tyrannosaurus rex-like peoples, and after a certain environment or conditions were no longer available, they could not adapt to changes and perished. Only a nation like Sequoia can stand on its roots, survive countless cataclysms and become the pinnacle king.

The traversal is well aware of the pros and cons and prerequisites of expansion, so at the beginning of the line was drawn that the empire must not dominate the world until it enters electrification. The traditional colonial expansion of the minority ruling the majority was not suitable for the Chinese Empire under the leadership of the Crossing Crowd. The reason is simple, it is not necessary. Is it a quantitative change that the traversal pursues? No, it's not material wealth or something that can be exchanged for money. It is the highest need, like a god who has reached the realm of selflessness, worldly wealth is only a floating cloud to decorate the façade, and winning the highest divine throne and the ultimate truth is his pursuit.

The partners and other capital predators under the crossing are still in the realm of utilitarianism. The pursuit of fame and fortune and more wealth. They can be given to them through the Crowd, but what is outside the Empire can't get into their eyes at all. Whether it is a church in Europa or a temple in Egypt, they are only a very small number of fine works, and they are not destined to belong to only one person or family, and the only ones left are the palaces of those emperors, which are not something they can touch.

And chattel, that's funny. At this time, the empire was in full swing and the national power was at its peak. The only existence that truly belongs to the superpowers and the most advanced countries. When the output value of the entire Europa is not yet equal to that of a Dongyi Island, why is it necessary to go overseas to conquer?

The premise of Europe's great voyages was the desire for the goods and wealth of the East. There is motivation to have motivation, so what other incentive did the wealthy Chinese Empire have to expand overseas? It takes time and effort to go overseas to occupy a piece of uninhabited land, but also to invest time and energy to spend money on development, attract investment, improve local productivity and purchasing power, and build infrastructure to optimize the living environment, so as to attract immigrants to the construction market and reap profits. Who is rare in black Africa, which is poor and white? It wasn't until the First World War and the electrification revolution that the imperialist powers penetrated into the interior to carve up the wastelands.

Let's take a look at what happened to the countries that went out in Europe. The Spanish and Portuguese countries on the Iberian Peninsula, which were on the verge of bankruptcy due to huge military spending, could not even come up with the venture capital funds to finance Columbus, and like the bankrupt tenants in the eastern part of the country, they pressed their hopes and last fortune on a gambling exit strategy. At this time, Europe could be said to know nothing about the new shipping routes, and after the traditional trade routes of the Old Continent were blocked by Turkey, they were almost drained of the last oil and water after their financial resources were cut off, and they had to risk their lives.

After the Black Death, Europe saw a massive population boom, an agrarian crisis, and famine before the advent of agricultural technology and artifacts such as potatoes. It doesn't matter if you don't have enough grains to eat, you can't die of two hungry meals. The aristocracy could not bear it, and Europe without spices could not preserve the meat of livestock slaughtered in summer and autumn, and who could stand the days when they could only eat salted fish and salted meat every day? There have been extreme prices for a piece of ginger from Egypt for an ingot, not to mention the frenzy of peppercorns from the Spice Islands being squeezed by Italians for the same volume of gold.

No one can endure this extreme environment of monopolizing the sale of the only condiment at a monopoly price in front of foodies, and the upper echelons of Europe must find a way out before it is completely squeezed out. Don't think about leveling Turkey by force, the whole of Europe has trembled in front of Turkey's military power for hundreds of years, and it is difficult to reproduce the coquettishness of the Crusader era again.

Portugal's curvilinear salvation road is in the northeast trade wind belt between the Canary Ocean Current and the subtropical high and the equatorial low pressure belt, and the journey from the mainland to West Africa is smooth, but the return journey is an eternal headwind, and in the Middle Ages, when navigation technology was more primitive, this exploration was a suicide that never returned. When the seafaring skills are enough to allow the explorer to sail on a route against the wind and water. Portugal successfully found a direct route to India to get rich overnight.

Spain also became a pants under this stimulus, and the queen also gambled with her private money and jewelry money. What is the background? Fight against the water! Only when they are fighting against the odds can these state-level organizations go out at such a high risk.

Let's take a look at the Chinese Empire. The domestic market of the superpower, which accounts for 95% of the world's GNP, accounts for 99% of the world's trade and the purchasing power of its inhabitants exceeds 98% of the world's total. What capitalist or aristocrat would venture out to sea and go overseas to dig for gold? Unlike Europe, the people who go out are all the opposite class, the European explorers are all intellectuals and scientists, all of whom belong to the social elite, and the captains who can be captains are all heroes who can live in the field of both civil and military affairs. It doesn't matter if it's a pirate or an executioner, no matter how many people are killed and how many people die. As long as he can bring wealth and more wealth to the country, he is a hero. This kind of thinking only exists in the poor families and bandit families in the East.

And what about the East? On the contrary, those who went out were illiterate and poor middle peasants. Almost all of the people who went to Nanyang were bankrupt farmers and foolish people. They all go to places that are poorer than their homeland, not to mention going back to their hometown to bring back wealth and pay homage to the marquis, and it would be good if they didn't bring back the plague. With the exception of a few parts of the Middle East and India, there are few places in Asia or even the world that were richer and more civilized than China before the Industrial Revolution.

If your brain is caught in the door panel, you will have a thankless time to go out and enclose. In an era when the productive forces are not developed enough. This kind of expansion is called the blue wisp of the road, which is a nice and elegant saying, in fact, it is that there are too many people to support and go out to open up a way out, isn't this called capital accumulation? It's really not called capital accumulation.

There are three ways to expand in the Age of Discovery, one is the bandit expansion of Spain and Portugal, which can only rob and kill, cheat and cheat, and engage in triangular trade after obtaining precious metals. Spice silk, one is the expansion of the British, French and Dutch mill owners and profiteers. By robbing Spanish treasure ships and providing outbound cargo sources and transportation forces for triangular trade, he accumulated funds to develop his own industry and strength. There is also the traditional expansion of the Russian nomads, staking as much as possible, pushing the borders of the country in every direction as much as possible, regardless of whether there is anyone in this direction or not, if there is a robbery, if there is not, continue to expand; What should I do if I can't grab it? Then sign a treaty, negotiate peace, and wait until it can be fought until it is outdated.

Obviously, the second is the one that history proves to be the most in line with the mainstream of civilization development, naturally these three countries have developed the fastest, the two predecessors of Spain and Portugal squeezed out the puffed wallets of the colonial people were squeezed dry by the consumer goods produced by Britain, France and the Netherlands and fell on the beach, the younger generation of Russia has no wallet to squeeze and no production capacity to squeeze, the original accumulation of capital is all land, and there is no dime, cash and precious metals, so they can only announce the emancipation of serfs and then sell them wasteland to squeeze some money to start industrialization.

Did the Chinese Empire need these three ways to accumulate raw capital? Not at all necessary. After the assets crossed the public and built a unified monetary system, money became the easiest thing for capitalists to get, and there was no need to go to the murder and arson pit to be abducted. China's land and real estate can squeeze out huge amounts of wealth, and those cellars of gold and silver can make the shameless second coward of Clay Wu speechless, and any gold finger can create hundreds of millions of purchasing power out of thin air.

Therefore, guiding the people of the empire to go out is only one of the means to force the price of land to fall and squeeze out the wealth of the land, not for the sake of capital accumulation.

Let's use an analogy! The European countries of the Age of Discovery are like plants that have just sprouted in the forest, and they must compete and expand to the death in order to compete for limited sunlight and rain, and they can fight for nutrients, territory and space (wealth, raw materials and markets). At this time, the empire was already a towering giant tree, and it could squeeze out tons of deciduous stumps at will. Every year, the equipment and production capacity eliminated by crossing the crowd are enough to meet the total demand of Europa.

The current empire has a population of less than 200 million and an area of more than 20 million square kilometers. Before entering the era of electrification, there was no need for the empire to go out and compete for hundreds of years of foreign oil fields and mines that could only be used in hundreds of years.

Since the background is so unfavorable to expansion, why should the traversal crowd expand? Yanwu Xiuwen is the ultimate pursuit of embodying the magnanimity of a great country. With the initiative in hand, this gesture of not taking the initiative to provoke a war is also one of the arts to reduce the cost of promoting and leading the construction of a system in various fields of globalization.

The level of science and technology before the First World War had been fully realized, and the more than 400 higher education and vocational education colleges that it had opened and co-founded had all graduated from each year. Among them, the vast majority of practical technical personnel and scientific research and theoretical talents in science, engineering, agriculture and medicine are employed at the grassroots level and within the Chenji Group system, and the scale of employment arrangement is dozens of times larger than that of the imperial examination. The rapid industrialization of the empire under the leadership of the Crossing Masses was the most important demand for talent, not the original capital and technology that Europe needed most. Therefore, the requirements for high-quality labor in the hardware of software are like towering trees, and what is needed to grow is no longer a mechanical organization such as xylem such as real estate and public facilities. Rather, it is a powerful transportation organization that efficiently distributes nutrients such as capital, technology, production products, and consumer goods to various parts, and these transportation organizations are talents who use technology and knowledge. A country without talent is like a plant without a transport organization, which can only be a small point such as low-grade aquatic plants and lichens, and it is almost impossible to grow into a big tree to dominate the world.

The wealth accumulated by thousands of years of civilization has long been the period when the empire has skipped the rooting and growth period of the primitive accumulation of capital, and what the empire that is already a big tree needs is only to train a group of skilled workers and the middle class to directly leap into the era of the industrial revolution, and there is no need to compete for limited nutrients, territory and space (wealth, raw materials and markets) like those poor eggs in Europe.

The parts of the tree that lack conductive tissue are lifeless xylem and can decay easily, so the center of the tree is mostly hollow. To maintain the normal operation of the transmission organization, it is necessary to learn the evergreen way of the tree, and the meristem that will never stop is the source of the vitality of the tree. The vitality of a country is the factors that directly affect the quantity and quality of human resources, such as education and fertility.

After crossing the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has been busy working around these things, and the original main business such as staking and listing money has been put in second place. In fact, the core business has not changed since the establishment of Chenji Academy. Teaching and educating people has always been the main core work of the Crossing Public.

The fact that a large number of overseas talents are brought to the empire at any cost is also a fundamental nirvana to dig up other countries, just like dealing with those weeds and seedlings, the best way to solve them is to splash herbicides. Most herbicides work by using chemical reactions to stop their photosynthesis or transpiration, leaving them starving to death. Then the best way to strangle a civilization is to dig out its roots and become the hardware of a great power. That is to poach their teachers and train talents.

There are many ways to be strong and ahead of the curve. But there are two fundamentals, one is to maintain pressure, the truth that hard work can rejuvenate the country is known to the ancients, and the other is to weaken opponents and potential opponents. There are countless examples in ancient and modern China and abroad, and in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before the empire, the feudal monarchs understood the art of combining vertical and horizontal. Among the allusions to excavating talents, especially the 'horse bones of Qianjin City' are the most. The people who traveled through the public could not help but give high treatment to scholars who came to China to study and teach, and also gave great courtesy to famous scholars and sages who died in various Western civilizations, not only enshrined the names and century contributions of ancient Greek sages such as Euclid in textbooks and new world history. There are also a large number of ancient Indian and Middle Eastern ancient Persian ancient scientists who have been searched for and used as a shield to cross the golden finger of the public. In the Middle Ages, when the literacy rate was only in the single digits, it was the great intellectuals who could have the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. In a family environment where the aristocracy could only use the sword to cut people and only knew the content of the Bible, the top talents that could emerge were theologians in the fields of logic and scholasticism, and translators who had some use in linguistics. The role of admiring the sages of the West is many, and the most obvious is to destroy the theoretical sanctity of Christianity and to dig down the corners. Since the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome could have developed well without Christianity, the significance of Christianity is not so important.

Since the Bible was squeezed into the corner of bookstores by cheap printed materials (comics, comics, magazines and newspapers) exported by the Empire, the dominance of the spiritual world was naturally replaced. The various works of the Western sages and the crystallization of various civilizations of the empire were made into bilingual translations and placed on the front desk of the bookstore, and this subtle erosion was also a ploy for the false way of cultural export.

Now that human-oriented software is in place, and the cultural industry, which uses information carriers (books and newspapers and other media) as tools, is also monopolized, then expansion will be twice the result with half the effort.

The nations were almost overwhelmed by the empire's sea of information, like the shadows of towering trees covering their sunshine, and the fallen leaves buried their bodies, although these fallen leaves were nutritious, but they all carried a sharp weapon against the ruling Christian system, mathematics can make the church lose a lot, astronomy and physics can make the church lose its mystery, literature, art and entertainment methods such as novels and plays can greatly reduce the attractiveness of Christianity, when wealth, health, longevity, food, When the need for rich and colorful entertainment was brought to Europe by the imperial offensive, the authority of Christianity was easily crushed. All the opportunities and soil for the future development of national culture in these countries were squeezed out, and the princes who were originally united under the banner of the Holy See defected under the bribes of the empire, and not only those who used software became loyal supporters of the empire, but even the Eastern Roman Empire, which symbolized Western orthodoxy, became allies and vassals of the empire. (After the Crusaders were controlled, they were armed, and the Seljuks were defeated and retreated, although they got a large amount of land, and finally they were cheaper than Marco Polo's Kingdom of Solomon, and the Seljuks could only attack the weak Eastern Rome if they wanted to find a way back, so the rich but relatively militarily weak Eastern Rome had to look for imperial mediation, and the result was naturally reduced to a semi-colony) (To be continued......)