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Chapter 36 - Xiao Letian s Advice

The quiet study room was deathly silent. Xiao Letian remained silent for a good fifteen minutes. To be honest, Xiao Letian was just an ordinary little white-collar worker before he transmigrated. He was more willing to study military and history, no matter what.

However, it was because he had so many hundreds of years of history in his mind that he was able to calmly face the current situation. In Tongzhi's years, it was precisely the period when human history had changed from the first time it was seen on the Industrial Revolution to the first time it had ever been on the Second Industrial Revolution. The first time Industrial Revolution was represented by a steam power, so China had completely missed it. Then, would China miss the first time Second Industrial Revolution was represented by an electric current?

This year was 1865, and in three years' time, Japan would have changed its foundation. The important historical Minzhiweixin s would begin, and in the current era, there were already a number of people like Sakamoto Ryoma, Gao Shanjinzuo, Dazzling Spring and the others who were desperately trying to think of ways to change the situation. Furthermore, the conservative factions and the Reformist s had already killed them a long time ago.

Three years from now, the boat will be modernized, and in just 27 years, in 1894, the small Japan will be able to defeat the mighty Qing, tearing flesh from the Chinese to feed its people.

He only had twenty odd years to do this, and that was something that troubled Xiao Letian the most. There isn't much time left, and it's a major change that hasn't even reached 3000 years of age. You want to learn from other transcenders, overthrow the Qing Dynasty with armies, build a new country, and also let China complete its initial industrialization? The most important thing is to overcome tenacious traditional ideas?

Alright, I'll see if there are any wild Ultraman that I can catch. It might be more reasonable for me to tame two of them.

Time passed minute after minute, General Gui Zi Liu and Jiu Shuai waited quietly with patience they never had before. Other than leaving behind a note, the rest of the servants had all left.

Xiao Letian seemed to be making an extremely difficult decision, to the point that even sweat was dripping from his forehead. When he opened his mouth to speak, the Duke and Jiu Shuai were stunned.

”If I am unable to say anything, will I have to face the blade and axe? Is there an eight hundred blade and axe hand lying in ambush outside this door? ” Xiao Letian was too funny, the serious atmosphere that she had just accumulated in the study room disappeared in one go.

In the eyes of General Gui, if Jiu Shuai said that, then it would be a blatant declaration of war. But from Xiao Letian's mouth, it could only be a joke.

”Haha, Mr. Xiao really did return from overseas. Seems like I've heard a lot of legends about the Heroic Assassins of the Three Mountains and Five Mountains and Five Mountains, and I've even forgotten what is drama and what is reality … Hahaha, you are really only a scholar, you really only know a little about the affairs of Home Country … ”

Yi Yu and Ceng Guoquan both laughed, and secretly sighed in their hearts. Eight hundred blade and axe hands? Was there anything better than a Gun in this world for killing people? If I wanted to kill you, a scholar, I would have attacked you when you were plotting against the Wong Lao-Han Lin. Do you really think those bandits can protect you?

Of course Xiao Letian was not an idiot. He was just pretending to be stupid and purposely said some foreign words to prove his identity as the Alone overseas. They would only be at ease if there was no label of a domestic power on their bodies.

”Well, since the Prince did not arrange for the sabre and axe hands to chop me to death, I have nothing to say.” Xiao Letian carefully recalled the paths of reform of the various races in the future generations, and slowly laid out the plan that he had thought of for a long time, which was gradually becoming more mature.

On the table, thirty years old red flowers were exuding a strong aroma of wine. The food had been cold for a long time, but without the king's order, the eunuchs outside the study did not dare to come in and change the dishes.

”In such a large empire, it's extremely difficult to change anything. He's like a cart full of goods, once it moves in one direction, it will create a strong inertia. If you want to change this inertia, you need to exert a greater power, and if the two forces clash too fiercely, it's very easy for the entire carriage to be damaged or even disintegrated …”

Xiao Letian started with the principle of turning around in a boat. He abandoned all of his idealism and laid out all of the problems facing the Great Qing one by one. The core problem was the Empire's rejection of Western ideas.

You said the railway can pull thousands of kilograms of goods in a day? If I had to say that the train was loud, I'm afraid it would have alarmed my ancestor's grave. You said that the steam engine was highly efficient and powerful, but I just had to say that this steel monster and the people fought for benefits, harming the farmers.

And you say the earth is round? I'm sorry, but I don't believe that evil thing. Even if you asked me to travel around the world, I wouldn't be interested. As for opening a ban on the seas and building a merchant caravan in Yuanyang, we can't do that. We don't want to change the policy of establishing the Ming Dynasty, and we can't change it either. Whoever changes it will be the sinner of all ages.

In fact, the core contradiction was to use Confucianism as a representative to show off his knowledge. From the bottom of his heart, he was afraid of the invasion of Western learning, and if one day the country did not need to show off its knowledge to select talented people, then wouldn't these Confucian Scholars have to drink northwest wind? So the rise of Western learning must face countless resistance, even bloody resistance.

At that point, Xiao Letian could not help but think of the time when the six noblemen of Wan Xiang were fighting. That was the era when Japanese was just defeated, when the last bit of shame cloth on Great Qing Dynasty was torn to shreds. It was an era where almost all scholars knew that one would wait for death if they did not change.