"If they want to invest money in education, they have to reduce military spending. What fools are going to do that?"
"Remember what I said. This applies not only to feudal society but also to our modern society. Just as survival is humanity's top priority, the top concern of all countries is the security of their regime."
"The Song Dynasty was the only country that invested 90% of its fiscal revenue in military spending. The Song emperors were not concerned with making the country rich and strong, but with how to keep their throne."
"So they would choose to increase military spending while compromising with foreign powers. They would only pray that money, land, and women would be given to the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties in exchange for their own little territory."
"Under these circumstances, it is impossible for them to invest more in basic education and thus cultivate a large number of science and engineering talents needed for industrialization."
"So as long as we maintain a servile attitude, no matter how the people develop and grow, those brainless emperors of the Zhao family will strangle it all in the cradle, even if industry would make the country extremely powerful."
"This is the change brought about by cultivating the soil. Europe had this soil in order to give birth to the Industrial Revolution. The Song Dynasty system is here, and the imperial power is supreme. They would not allow this thing to appear."
After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he was filled with righteous indignation. Although he also had the surname Zhao and was a descendant of the Zhao family, he really wanted to curse his ancestors for the Zhao family's outrageous actions, and he couldn't help but express it in his heart.
What the hell are they?
With just these things, you still want to develop the industrial revolution?
Even if you were given rubber and oil as industrial raw materials, do you have the ability to invest financial resources in the education system to cultivate a large number of outstanding engineering talents to strengthen industrial development?
A bunch of idiots want to go to heaven.
You’re dreaming!
I heard Zhao Jun's words scolding the Zhao emperor harshly.
Zhao Zhen's face flushed red as he angrily said, "This is all fantasy. If, I mean if, there was a Song Dynasty emperor who wanted to make the country strong and really invested a large amount of money in basic education, could he have launched an industrial revolution?"
"That's impossible. My mentor, Professor Wen, once said that modern science was born out of war. Because Europe hadn't yet achieved unity, it developed rapidly to meet the needs of war weapons."
Zhao Jun heard the voice of the argumentative Wazamuguo and retorted without hesitation, "The Song Dynasty, in its wars with the northern ethnic minorities, developed a large amount of advanced technology: gunpowder, smoke balls, crossbows, and catapults. But did it also experience an industrial revolution?"
"No!"
Zhao Jun raised his voice and continued, "Because war is only one of the reasons. We also need to bloody plunder of colonies to complete the accumulation of primitive capital. The Song Dynasty itself lacks martial virtue. Would it dare to go abroad to colonize? Would it dare to plunder global resources?"
"Also, if we invest a lot of money in basic education, what will happen to wars? With the character of the Song Dynasty emperor, not to mention the Liao and Jin dynasties, even Li Yuanhao of the Western Xia would scare them to death."
"Before the feudal power structure broke down, the Song Dynasty's emperors needed the people to be stupid and self-sufficient through small-scale farming. They didn't need a large number of intellectuals, as this would create instability."
"Once people's wisdom is awakened, dissatisfaction will arise. As intellectuals, the people will inevitably be dissatisfied with the status quo, which may lead to class struggle and countless rebellions. Given the Song Dynasty emperors' perverted desire to control power, it is impossible to promote basic scientific education."
"The West was able to achieve this, firstly, through colonies, secondly, through the enclosure movement, which bankrupted farmers and used overseas slaves as a labor force, and thirdly, through movements such as the failure of the Estates General, the Charter Movement, and the Glorious Revolution, which broke up the Western feudal system and gave rise to a free market for capital."
"Except for the second item during the Song Dynasty, where those brainless emperors refused to curb land annexation, leaving a large number of bankrupt farmers in the country as free labor, which of the other items could be achieved?"
"So if we want an industrial revolution, we need the soil to foster it. And if we want the soil to foster an industrial revolution, we must kill all the emperors of the Song Dynasty. In short, if the cowardly Zhao is not killed, the people of the Song Dynasty will never see the light of day!"
By the end, Zhao Jun had already shouted it out like a slogan.
These passionate words made everyone's face change drastically, and Zhao Zhen's face turned pale.
What's the meaning?
Does this mean that the Industrial Revolution must break the feudal system?
Over the past few days, they have also learned what the feudal system is and what the backward and corrupt old society is.
The so-called feudal system in a narrow sense refers to a social organization form centered on feudal imperial power, a social and economic system with the feudal royal family as the leader, the feudal aristocracy as the ruling class, and the peasants as the main body.
The Song Dynasty was such a system.
In other words, in order to complete the Industrial Revolution, the imperial power must first revolutionize itself?
How is this possible?
Zhao Zhen's face turned pale as he muttered to himself, "Does the Industrial Revolution mean the loss of imperial power?"
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