Chapter 188: Great Ideals
Genius remembers in a second [Aishang Novel Network biquge.info] to provide you with wonderful novel reading...... Ji Yaoguang said, "Xiaojian, you are already the head of the family, it is up to you to analyze the shape of the world and show us the way out."
Ji Ao felt a heavy responsibility, and his heart was like walking on thin ice, and he immediately pondered unconsciously, and he had thousands of thoughts about the current situation in his mind, but he felt that the pressure was getting bigger and bigger, and it was gradually difficult to breathe
Now the family is in a storm, the country is also in a storm, the road ahead can be said to be a bumpy trance, he remembered the practice of the head hanging blade and the feeling of hiding the edge of the eyebrows, no matter what kind of pressure he encounters, as long as he can persist in facing it, his mood will naturally improve
After a long time, Ji Aojian cautiously spoke, "The country is in contention, the national strength is the most important, the military strength is second, and the power plot is again."
Ji Moli asked, "How does my China's national strength compare with other countries?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "The national strength is extremely strong, and in the past 1,000 years, the country's GDP can be said to account for one-third of all countries in the world."
Ji Ye Ai said, "Brother, what is GDP?"
Ji Aojian thought for a while, "It can be roughly understood as national wealth"
Ji Yeai was stunned, "All the nations of the world, the national strength of China is already one of the thirds of the world, how can the future generations be catastrophic?"
Ji Moli said, "Xiao Ai, national strength does not mean military strength, in the past thousand years, the Central Plains has been sunk twice, once by the Mengyuan, and once by the Manchu Qing."
Ji Ao Kendao, "For a country, the national strength must first be converted into financial strength, and then there is the basic strength of the dynastic system since ancient times, and the financial resources drawn are only three or four hundredths of the national strength."
Ji Moli smiled, "It's easy to understand if you have numbers, why can the dynasty only absorb so little?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "China has been established by Confucianism for two thousand years, and Confucianism has served as dynasty officials at all levels from zhongyāng to the local government, and the bureaucratic system of Zhongyāng is delegated downward, and the end is only to the county government officials, and then the vast rural townships are gentry autonomy, and cooperate with the county government lord to manage the local area, since the zhongyāng institutions are not deep enough, and there is a huge gentry class to share profits, the ability to collect taxes is naturally limited."
Ji Yao bowed his head, "It seems that a country that can only collect three or four hundredths of taxes cannot be regarded as a strong country in the new era."
Ji Ao Kendao, "The new era can be regarded as a strong country, how can it requisition two or three out of ten of the national strength If it is a big war, wartime control is implemented, and even more than half of the overall national strength can be requisitioned."
Ji Moli sighed, "This is really efficient"
Ji Ao Kendao, "The so-called Chinese national strength accounts for one-third of the world, but it is only in the agricultural era, and it is very different when it enters the industrial age, and now it is a turning point of the times, and the Western countries are about to complete the industrial revolution one by one, and the national strength will fly thousands of miles to a hundred years later, China's overall national strength is less than one percent of the world's largest power, the United States."
Ji Yeai hurriedly said, "Can't even compare to Yicheng?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "The national strength is not even comparable to the nearby Japan, it is much weaker"
Ji Moli snorted, "Dongying's little projectile land......"
Ji Yaoguang said, "If Dongying's national strength is stronger than that of Huaxia, it must have come over."
Ji Aojian said strangely, "Eldest sister, did you guess?"
Ji Yaoguang said, "During the Wanli period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the heart to conquer China, and he sent troops to invade the DPRK twice, and their national strength was really stronger than China, so how could they not come to plunder?"
Ji Aojian sighed, "In fact, the national strength is still between the two sides, and the First Sino-Japanese War has been fought, plundering 230 million taels of silver, and laying the foundation for the next fifty years."
Ji Moli shook her head, "230 million taels, what a big appetite, we don't have so much silver even if we sell it out."
Ji Ye Ai said, "That is to say, after the completion of the industrial revolution in the new era of the powerful countries, the national strength is far stronger than that of the agricultural countries, and they can still levy one-third to one-half of the national strength, if they build an army, what kind of strength should this be?"
Ji Ao Kendo, "Modern countries mobilize troops, can afford to supply one percent of the population to the army"
Ji Moli sighed, "Our country now has a population of 40,000,000, and if we can recruit a chéngrén into a source of soldiers, there will be 40 million troops."
Ji Yaoguang smiled and said, "I can't afford to raise this."
Ji Moli said, "Of course I can't afford it, 40 million people, every day the rations have to be piled up, if we fight a year's war, how much do we have to prepare for weapons and baggage?
Ji Ao Kendao, "The ability to collect taxes and the ability to recruit soldiers are actually the same thing, both reflect the country's organizational ability and mobilization ability"
Ji Yaoguang said, "In this way, the biggest gap between agricultural and industrial countries is reflected in organizational strength?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "That's right, if you want to save the country, you first need the country to have a system that can go deep into the grassroots and have a strong mobilization organization."
Ji Moli nodded, "The traditional dynastic rule relies on gentry autonomy at the grassroots level, what kind of organizational power can this have?"
Ji Yaai asked, "Two sisters, brothers, how can they be organized?"
Ji Moli said, "What I know, one is the army, and the other is the hall, which can be regarded as well-organized and orderly."
Ji Yeai said, "Is it possible to turn the country into a big military camp, or into a big gang, and you can increase the national strength?"
Ji Aojian shook his head, "You can't save the country by relying only on the army and the lobby mouth."
Himeya asked, "Why?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "Because the army and the gang, there are no ideals"
Ji Yaoguang said with a smile, "The little explanation sounds very reasonable, let's talk about it carefully."
Ji Ao Kendao, "The stronger the power, the easier it is to lose yourself The warlord is in power, and what I want most is to live a happy life of the king and the handsome, which is nothing more than a situation of division and separation, and the people in the rivers and lakes are fighting to come out, in order to drink wine and eat meat in a big bowl, and divide gold and silver in a big scale, and they only want to enjoy it happily, and I don't know if the flood will be monstrous in the future."
Ji Yaoguang said, "What if the leaders of the soldiers and gangs are people with lofty ideals to save the country and the people?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "It's useless for a person to have ideals, he must play according to the traditional rules, otherwise everyone will not follow him, for example, you have soldiers and horses, dominate one side, and your subordinates naturally want you to be the emperor and sit on the dragon chair, so that you can be born from a dragon, but in today's era, if the country wants to progress, what is needed is to establish a new system of efficient mobilization, and changing the dynasty will not help the country in the slightest."
Ji Moli said, "Then how to let everyone have the ideal of saving the country and saving the people?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "This must first have a blueprint for building a new society, a bright prospect that is enough to convince the people, and then there is a group of people with lofty ideals who fully believe in ideals, take the lead in sacrificing and dedicating, teaching by word and deed, and instilling the concept of the new society into everyone's mind, when everyone has become a person with ideals, they can not enjoy it, but only seek to save the country and benefit future generations, this is naturally a system that can be mobilized efficiently."
Ji Moli asked, "Can there really be such a group of people?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "Yes, these people who spread ideals are called political parties."
When people have lofty ideals, they will not look at the present, but look to the future, so that they can abandon pleasure and do their best for the public
Although ideals may also be shattered, but the greater the ideal, the greater the potential, and after sincerely striving for the ideal for a lifetime, the world will definitely have changed into a nirvana that was unimaginable at all
Ji Moli said, "Then where did these people come from?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "The people with lofty ideals who save the country and try to survive are the earliest traditional literati, compared to Confucianism, Confucianism is still the most ideal and farthest group of people at the moment, when the country encounters a crisis, the pioneers who explore the road to save the country are from here"
Ji Moli nodded, "Yes, the theoretical legitimacy of dynastic rule has always been demonstrated by Confucian scholars to explain the changes in troubled times, how the country responds, and where to go, naturally some people will have a sense of responsibility."
Ji Ao Kendao, "So for thousands of years, China has been suppressing warlords, and the people of the world believe and approve of Confucianism, and those who want to dominate the world by military force have never won the hearts of the people."
Ji Yaoguang smiled and said, "The ancients had a few words, which were excellent."
Ji Aojian asked, "Eldest sister, what are you talking about?"
Ji Yaoguang said, "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations"
Ji Moli said with a smile, "Now the situation has changed greatly, I want to find out what unique learning from the past classics to save the country, but I'm afraid I can't."
Ji Ao Kendao, "There is not enough knowledge in China, and there is still foreign knowledge."
At the time of the collision between China and the West, there were countless Western ideological currents entering the country, first enlightened people opened their eyes to the world, then the Westernists introduced science and technology, then there were reformers to reform the ancient system and change the law, then the revolutionaries wanted to establish a republic, and finally the reconstitution of the mountains and rivers
Ji Yaoguang said, "No matter which country's sage and knowledge, as long as they can save the country, they are all peerless, and they are all for the peace of all generations."
Ji Ao thought that the concept is really to open peace for all generations and said, "If you really want to learn Western ideas well, you must completely deny the ancient classics if you can't say it"
Ji Moli said, "Of course, if the whole country does not completely lose confidence in the ancients, how can they accept modern concepts?"
Ji Yaoguang sighed, "But if Huaxia is completely disappointed in tradition, it must also encounter an extremely deep crisis."
Ji Ao said, "It was in the Gengzi Change, China was almost carved up by the great powers, and from then on, the whole country no longer believed in the sage's theory, and the Western trend of thought entered the peak period."
Ji Moli asked, "Xiaojian, you said that the Western trend of thought, but do you want to build a political party?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "It's still early, we haven't really understood the power of the great powers, and the whole country has neither a deep sense of crisis, nor naturally there is no soil for spreading modern thought."
Ji Yaoguang said, "The crisis is coming soon"
Ji Aojian hurriedly asked, "What crisis?"
Ji Yaoguang said, "At the end of last year, Master Hubu Shangshu Kong went to Guangzhou to ban opium smoking, and this year I am afraid that the British gunboat fleet will go to the capital to ask for an explanation."
Ji Aojian was stunned, could it be that the Opium War was indeed inevitable, and it was actually because of the sale of cigarettes?
He asked, "Why don't the British go to seal the Grand Canal, isn't this more threatening to blackmail the imperial court?"
Ji Yaoguang said, "They had a boat that entered the Yangtze River last year and was robbed by the sixth sister, how dare they enter the inland river again, naturally they will only blockade and threaten the coast."
Ji Ao thought that the sixth sister did this vote, and she could still scare the foreigners into not daring to enter the Yangtze River, which was really an unexpected gain
Ji Yaoguang said again, "But in my opinion, after this battle is over, after the foreigners get the benefits, maybe they will discuss with the imperial court to join forces to fight piracy."
Ji Aojian thought for a while, "This is very likely, during the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French alliance fought fiercely with the imperial court in the north, and the governor of the southeast border was still dealing with pirates with the British navy."
Ji Moli said, "The coastal blockade can't hurt the muscles and bones, the imperial court will not be able to pull down its face and give in for a while, and this battle will be fought for a year or two, or more than a few years, and the sixth sister still has time to maneuver."
Ji Yaoguang said, "Xiaojian, the crisis is coming, how will my family act?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "Even if the imperial court loses this battle, it is just that it thinks that it has lost to the strong ships and cannons of the foreigners, and it is far from enough to alert the people of the world that there should be a large construction of gun factories and shipyards in the future, and within ten years, it will definitely be able to build a modern army known as the first in Asia."
Ji Moli asked, "Then how can we wake up the world?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "If you lose to a small Asian country that starts at the same time, you will realize that it is a system problem, and this will enter the stage of changing the law from simply introducing guns and cannons."
Ji Ye Ai said, "Only at this time can we just start to change the law, so when will we be able to replace the imperial court and establish a modern state with efficient mobilization?"
Ji Aojian said helplessly, "Wang Chaomu has a history of thousands of years, and it is highly anticipated, if it can't be completely proved useless, how can people in the world throw it lightly."
Ji Yaoguang said, "That's true, those small countries change their laws smoothly, because the ship is small and easy to turn around, the resistance is not great, China is vast, and the potential is endless, and it will definitely be the hegemon of the world to become a modern country, so it is extremely difficult to be reborn in Nirvana."
Ji Ao Kendao, "Actually, my family can also start from a small country first"
Ji Moli said with a smile, "After talking about it, we should say that Xiaojian is going to fight the Northeast again."
Ji Yaoguang said, "This is different, Xiaojian points out the difference between a modern country and a traditional dynasty, and explains the future path clearly and thoroughly."
Ji Moli nodded, "Yes, Ai, we have to have lofty ideals."