Borobudur is just a spectacle of a few hundred years, what is the spectacle?

Yang Wenhui has spoken about this issue in internal meetings and in the history of architecture. Why do humans build all kinds of buildings, large and small, with different functions? Some say it's for use, some say it's for defense, and some say it's for isolation. In fact, Yang Wenhui did not give an answer to this complex question. It's like when you're faced with all the problems you can't solve, the way to do it is to put it on hold.

Because they know that a thousand people have a thousand ideas. If everyone can easily get answers to their problems, then there will be no progress in the world and no development in science. When those foreigners in later generations used advanced aircraft equipment to import into the country and stifled the motivation of their own independent research and development, they also used this method. It is difficult to satisfy curiosity and cheap to satisfy the thirst for knowledge is a pair of mortal enemies, and since there is no answer, students will take the initiative to seek it, use a lot of profit and reputation to stimulate them, and maintain this strong motivation so that they will not give up the pursuit easily.

However, Yang Wenhui himself is very keen on building spectacles. Having inherited the genes of great joy, he has not revealed his future plans in the first few years of the empire. However, after receiving the Borobudur blueprints that were shipped back, he proposed a plan at the meeting that was very much in line with the practice of later generations in China. That's the Wonders 10-Year Plan.

Every year after 1945, a super-large functional building was built that could rival these ancient wonders. For example, the Crystal Palace (the venue of the World Exposition), the Eiffel Tower, the glazed pagoda of the Dabao'en Temple, the Wuhan cross-river bridge (an absolutely difficult suspension bridge), the national highway network, the national railway network, the super petrochemical base, the steel trust base, the large agricultural machinery complex, the national hotel (the only 8-star hotel that sets the benchmark of the modern hotel service industry), the World Trade Center building (the towering new landmark building in Xinjing), and the Xinjing Financial Long Street ....... Behind a series of more than 100 mega construction projects is the milestone of China's rapid entry into industrialization, and it is one of the means to learn from the investment-driven economic development model of future generations.

Every ancient wonder is a dynastic talisman, and in the era of no industrialization, every ancient wonder built would greatly consume the huge national power of the building of his dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of manpower consumption, tens of thousands of tons of earth and stone handling and stacking, incalculable food and agricultural production opportunity cost consumption in the construction process.

A little too much will lead to a major loss of the country's vitality. Most of these buildings have a singular function. Like the Colosseum, which embodies engineering technology, the amount of work is not large, and the consumption will not hurt the country. For example, although the pyramids of ancient Egypt cost a lot, the construction period was very long, and a large part of it was intended to prevent young and middle-aged farmers who had nothing to do during the flooded agricultural slack period from picking quarrels and provoking troubles and mobilized to build the project. Although the pyramids will not produce benefits, they reduce the cost of security and stimulate consumption, and Egypt, which is developed in agriculture, can afford to build dozens of pyramids.

As for the large buildings built by the small city-states whose places are no more than 100 miles in length (the three major temples of the Greek city-states, the Colossus of the Sun God of Rhodes, the Colossus of Zeus of Olympia, and the Mausoleum of Mosolasky) and the ancient cities of the Hellenistic regions and the Middle East, such as the ancient city of Petra, the Mausoleum of Alexander, the Hanging Gardens, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, although they are great, they are not worth mentioning compared with the superpowers built by a superpower like China, whose population has remained at an average of tens of millions all year round after entering the era of civilization.

The Great Wall, the ancient capitals of several dynasties where millions of people lived, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor and the tombs of the emperors of all dynasties, Dujiangyan, and the palaces and palaces of the previous dynasties can throw off the face projects and image projects of those small countries and widows.

But in China, there are too few projects like the Grand Canal, Dujiangyan and the Great Wall, and although they can continue to generate benefits and benefit society, if they are too much, they will also greatly damage the country's vitality. China's first unified centralized empire was destroyed by internal turmoil when it built many major projects such as the Afang Palace, the Great Wall, the Chidao system, and the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

This time the agony of early childhood in the age of empires led to thousands of years of vigilance. The construction of large-scale construction has become a standard for later generations to evaluate the king of the dead country.

It is reasonable to say that the first unified empire lacked experience, but the Song Empire, which learned the lessons of the blood and tears of the four predecessors of the Han, Jin, Sui, and Tang, was too embarrassed, and there were almost no big projects that could be handled.

Although there are many wonders, the wonders of the industrial age are very different from the agricultural society. In the planning of the traversal, the Chinese Empire was different from the Great Song Dynasty, which did not need to build spectacles, it was a dynasty that was equivalent to merging the British dynasties from the Hundred Years' War to the pre-World War I. From the Age of Discovery to the establishment of the colonial system before World War I, a large number of milestones were required.

From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, then through the Age of Discovery, then to the Great Colonization, and finally into the Industrial Age, the process was completed in Western Europe after more than 500 years from the 14th to the 19th century, and 50 years of preparation for the journey. A section of the carriage is driven by a crowd with the wheel of a Ferrari car, and the frequency of natural milestones is proportional to the speed. A tenth of the time naturally requires ten times the speed.

What is the spectacle? In the eyes of the traversers, the spectacle is a business card that shows the national strength, and the business card is to tell everyone how much money the main body of the spectacle has, how much strength, how much advanced technology, how high the status, values and ideological bias and so on. Borobudur is a typical example of Buddhist architecture, and for a small country with a population of less than 10 million (all the countries of ancient East Asia were small in front of China), it has far exceeded the critical point at which its national strength can afford it. It remains to be seen whether the Charentra dynasty was overthrown because the building ran out of power, but it is known that there are consequences for printing false business cards.

Individuals who print business cards that exaggerate their actual strength can lead to fraud charges and jail time. What about the country? It is not the legal system and the prison system that punish them, but the rolling wheels of history. In ancient times, this theory in the East was called the end of the five virtues, and in the West it was called the will of God.

In a scientifically informed information society, this is called the objective law of social economy.

But in front of the crossing crowd with the golden finger, this objective law is invalid. In agrarian societies, the increase in resources and productivity is very slow, and an increase of 1% per year is a high growth. It is only in the process of industrialization that the minimum 5% growth rate of society is considered justified (capital escapes turmoil and strife, and its surname is timid). This is true, but not the whole truth. Capital is afraid of no profit or too little profit, just as nature is afraid of a vacuum. As soon as there is a proper profit, capital is emboldened. If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it becomes active; With a 50% profit, it takes risks; For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking hanging its head. If unrest and strife are profitable, it encourages them and strife. The smuggling and slave trade is proof of this. Thomas. Joseph. Denning's "Trade Union and Strike" is a footnote to Marx's "Capital", and the appropriate profit is 5%, that is, the average rate of profit in society).

In the eyes of the public, the 40% GDP growth rate of the Chinese Empire, which has opened up its technology and institutional golden fingers, is slow. Why does the late-mover advantage grow faster than the first-mover advantage? Short industrialization? Engaging in copycats is actually a kind of background similar to goldfinger.

Those who have enjoyed the life changes brought about by this rapid progress will naturally not use this set of combination punches, and the benefits of copycats are far greater than when they maintain intellectual property rights, only brain-dead people will support intellectual property rights. Anyway, my skills are almost free, and I won't turn them into money if I hold them in my hands. Only by spreading it quickly and for free can you make money with follow-up technology, or from peripheral technology.

Building dozens of wonders in the next 50 years of condensation is not a big deal at all. Today's Chinese Empire's fiscal revenue exceeds 200 million yuan, and the annual growth rate is maintained at 20%. It is a spectacle that builds dozens of tens of billions in a few decades, and it is a spectacle of positive returns, and it is simply not wanted. (To be continued.) )