Chapter 35: The Only Chance for Victory
Send away, four messengers.
Liu Meng slumped in his chair.
During this time, he was tired.
He just wants to do a research and development quietly, but it seems that this matter is not so easy. It can be described in four words: internal and external troubles.
There is Emperor Xia inside, the ministers are eyeing him, and there are barbarian countries who want to kill him outside.
It's just a little more settled now.
Emperor Xia won't touch him for the time being, although I don't know how long this relationship can last, but at least it's safe for now. Originally, he thought that there would be no problem in honestly engaging in business, but it turned out that he thought too much, whether he was in business or an official, once the power and financial resources reached a certain level, it would make Emperor Xia jealous.
In this world, you can be rich, but you can't be richer than the emperor.
In this world, you can have power, but you can't have more power than the emperor.
Because in this world, the richest and most powerful person can only be one person, the emperor.
No matter which aspect is surpassed, it will arouse his jealousy.
The word power and wealth in this world is the most murderous, because most of the things in this world can be solved with these two things. It is not only the desire of the heart, but also the ladder of continuous social progress. Power and wealth are never bad things, it's just people's hearts that are bad.
A good person who has the right and wealth is the Holy Emperor.
If you are not kind, you are tyranny.
Just look at whether it's good for the majority or a small number of people.
Emperor Xia is also a smart person, he wants his power to be the greatest, and he also hopes that he can solve most problems. And most of the problem comes from money, which is an important measure of a country. If he has money, he is not afraid that the army will not have weapons and the disaster will cause displacement.
Someone else could do it, but he wanted it to be him.
Because he can only be remembered.
Liu Meng has no money, but the Institute of Industry and Information Technology is now a money-making machine.
Earn your own country's money, and it will never be impossible to dominate the world.
Why is there a war?
It's to plunder resources.
If the resources of the majority of the world are provided to a small number of people, the small number of people will be rich. You will enjoy it.
Now the Xia Kingdom has become stronger, but the strength is limited. When there are no planes and artillery, manpower is still an important criterion for measuring a country's combat effectiveness. He could have conquered the city, but that would be too much of a waste of life and money.
If you don't do it, you will be exposed.
Emperor Xia knew very well that the internal contradictions had not been completely resolved.
Internal troubles are incomprehensible, let alone external worries.
What if you can't fight a war and want to get more resources. Liu Meng's proposal to realize the plundering of resources by buying goods to other countries, and even forcing them to use Xia coins, is the safest way.
It's just that all of this needs to be led by Liu Meng, and others may mess up.
In the hands of Emperor Xia, Liu Meng has such a talent. So Liu Meng is safe.
Liu Meng knew exactly this situation, and now he didn't want to cooperate with the barbarian country so quickly. He knew that once the cooperation was smooth, Emperor Xia would definitely unload the mill and kill the donkey. As for the technology that is decades ahead of the future, as long as it is not a weapon, it is not important to Emperor Xia.
As long as you have strong national strength and stabilize your position, what does it matter if this day is sooner or later.
If you don't even have your own status, what if you are reunified. He's not still a loser.
He didn't want to be such an emperor.
This point was discovered by Liu Meng after a year of travel.
He found that Emperor Xia's ambition was beyond everyone's imagination. In fact, the current power of Emperor Xia is not worse than that of any previous emperor, but he is not satisfied, he wants all the power to belong to him, he wants to say that the wind is the wind, and the rain is the rain. It's not wind and it's wind, it's not rain and it's rain.
Liu Meng knew that it was not a good thing for the emperor to have too much power, and the more centralized the power, the more it would test the temperament of those in power. No one can stand such a test, because any human being is just a man, not a saint, not a god. They have emotions, seven emotions and six desires, and their own likes and dislikes.
When the power is so great that his likes and dislikes can decide everything. The people down there will be great pain.
Not only Emperor Xia, but the rest of the people also wanted to tear a piece of meat off him. It's just because he has the big backer of Emperor Xia that he is not afraid. Now Emperor Xia's power is the largest in Great Xia, and in today's words, he is the largest shareholder of this group. The rest want to rebel, but only by uniting will they have a chance.
But everyone understands that they will not be united.
So, Liu Meng is safe now.
At least until the relationship is fully solidified, he is safe.
As I said before, Liu Meng is a relatively lazy person. After making sure that he was safe for the time being, it was like taking a break and staying at home comfortably for a while.
He suddenly had a dangerous thought.
Why not, change the system of this world. From centralization to republicanism.
As soon as the idea came out, it spread like weeds, spreading and ......
He made a lot of assumptions, but the one he couldn't avoid was the army. When the value of force is not equal, fairness is also vulnerable.
Emperor Xia will not sit there and let him fight, he will resist, fiercely, violently resist. Once he starts to do this, then the next thing he has to face is war, and he has to face a dynasty.
A dynasty that has stood for more than two hundred years.
Although the dynasty is decaying, he is still strong.
And, he is only one person.
Just one person.
What he wants to change is everyone's minds, and what he wants to remove is the shackles that have been imprisoned for thousands of years. Without external force, he could not break this shackle.
He wants to convince everyone that freedom is a God-given right for them.
He wants to convince everyone that power is the right that everyone deserves.
He wants everyone to believe that you and I are the same.
There is no such thing as the Son of Heaven, everyone is the Son of Heaven.
It's a dangerous idea, and it's a dangerous move to make it a reality. The slightest mistake is an abyss, and the people who die are not only him, but also his father, his mother, his lover, and those relatives whom he cannot name, even those whom he has never met.
He doesn't have an army now, but he has other advantages, cell phones, smartphones.
Once smartphones become widespread, this movement of freedom will burn like a flame to every corner of the world.
He is even faster, in all those in power, who have not yet reacted, to turn the phone into a powerful weapon.
No one knew what might be done with this thing in his hand.
Because the future is known only to him.
Standing at the forefront of the times, he knows that this can go on. What's more, the so-called technology in this world is only in the hands of some people.
The rest of the people are not even toddlers. They can only passively receive the culture that Liu Meng has imported.
When this culture takes shape, some people realize that it is too late.
Without an army, information, the seeds of freedom, his only chance of victory.