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The Road to Industry
”Do you know why A Gubai has to lose? Because from the bottom of his heart, he was driving the reverse of history! The ultimate fate of Western Regions is to be bound together with Chinese civilization! ”
”In the entire Chinese civilization's industrial development system, it would already be very good if he could successfully complete some of these difficult tasks!”
”He simply does not have the qualifications to complete an industrial system on his own! So what if A Gubai is delusional? So what if he lets the Western Regions be independent? ”
”In the end, he was still crushed by an even more advanced industrial civilization, because he didn't even know the most basic construction of the feudal epoch and was still hoping that he would be able to accomplish the heavy task of industrialization in the future.”
There were some things that Xiao Letian could not tell the rest of the world. The memories of his past life were still fresh in his mind, and when the human Industrial Revolution climbed up to the peak step by step in this brutal competition, many of the Country s would be eliminated step!
In the late nineteenth century, humans only had steam engines as the most complex industrial product!
A Iron-armored Ship like that would need hundreds of thousands of parts to be assembled, and how big of an industry would be needed to support these parts?
The answer was a million levels! In other words, it's enough for a Country to have a population of one million industrial worker to engage in this industrial chain. This way, the Country with a population of four to five million can support the industrial system of a million people!
Because it was impossible for a Country to only have worker s, and they also needed Farmers s, herdsman s, service industries, soldiers … And so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so
So in this epoch, the Belgium could also be called an industrial power, and the Netherlands could also produce Steel battleship s!
However, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the industrial system had been further classified into electrical, chemical and petroleum industries. The complexity of the industrial system had suddenly increased by several times, not because of linear growth, but because of a geometric burst!
The complexity of all the industrial products had suddenly soared by several times!
Among them, there were the First World War, UK's Elizabeth and Germany's Baden's battleship!
This kind of main battleship, the number of parts had long surpassed two million, and even late stage modified models could reach more than three million!
At this time, industrial products were not something that a small country could afford to play with! Small countries with millions of people like Belgium and Netherlands were excluded from the ranks of the powerful industrial nations!
At this time, only a large country with a population of ten million had the qualifications to step onto this card table and play a few games!
At that time, there were over forty million people in France and over sixty million people in Germany … Only this kind of Country had the ability to support tens of millions of people in industry, and thereby support such a large branch of the industrial tree!
Only by saying that a Country could keep all the branches of industry within his own country and not rely on other Country, could he be considered as a true industrial powerhouse!
During the Second World War, the number of basic components increased to a few million, corresponding to a Germany of 65 million people who could start a war, and France would be eliminated one month after the war.
However, the Germany must also give up on developing and producing super weapons like strategic bombers, aircraft carriers and atomic bombs.
Japan with a similar population could build aircraft carrier but could not build a proper tank.
On both sides of the sea, there was only USA with a population of over a hundred million.