History is really regular. After entering the rational era, natural science began to influence human society, science and technology have become the most basic driving force for changing human society.

Any breakthrough in basic science can bring about huge changes in human society, and even major shocks in geopolitics.

Without internal combustion engine technology and petroleum refining technology, there would be no oil, the pillar energy that relies on for survival!

Without the oil industry, the Middle East would always be a nomadic desertification zone. Without the storage of coal and iron ore, this area would not be able to lay the foundation for the first industrial revolution.

However, new technologies have made humans urgently need oil, and oil has changed the geopolitical pattern. Wars broke out, and tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people have actually lost their lives because of the sharing of the oil industry.

The small amount of oil forced Hitler to fight on both sides and fight against the Soviet Union. The dark black gold made the Middle East the best bucket for the entire 21st century!

And all this is actually just the in-depth research of a small group of scientists on oil, such as resources. Every small breakthrough in technology will profoundly change the world!

What if it is a concentrated breakthrough in a batch of technological breakthroughs? That is the so-called technological explosion or industrial upgrading!

Only when such a curve occurs can backward nations have the opportunity to overtake, and this kind of overtaking is still very dangerous.

For example, for a nation that also took advantage of the opportunity of the Second Industrial Revolution, the United States is a typical example of success in overtaking, while Germany is a painful lesson in overtaking failure.

But it is undeniable that even if Germany fails to overtake, they can still gain a lot of benefits during this historical opportunity period of overtaking.

If they cannot become a world-class military and political power, then the little legacy they have left can also ensure that they become a world economic power.

With a thousand words, once these "bends" appear in the competition track of human civilization, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Any nation that sees the curve must sacrifice its life to seize this historical opportunity.

Don’t be afraid of failure, don’t be afraid of sacrifice, don’t be afraid of the price of development... Just rush forward desperately, and if you fail, you will also leave benefits.

Japan and Germany failed thoroughly in World War II, right? But the military failure does not mean that the ancestors had failed in their efforts to compete in technology and industrialization. Their past foundations can still achieve an economic miracle!

After Xiao Letian left this world, his descendants sorted and refined the head of state's notes and speeches for twenty years, and compiled them into volumes in batches.

There is a passage among them that was named a classic by later Chinese people. "As long as you find that there are a lot of breakthroughs in technology, and as long as you have a premonition that a new industrial upgrading period is coming, the entire Chinese must concentrate all resources to quickly seize the track of history...'

‘It is the best or even the only opportunity to catch up with other nations through shortcuts… In such a period of historical opportunity, the country must use centralization instead of decentralization. Even if it exploits the welfare of the entire Chinese, it must concentrate resources to seize this historical period!’

‘The opportunity to overtake on the curve of industrial upgrading is hard to come by. Once this historical opportunity arises, it proves that the Chinese people cannot waste their resources on enjoyment in the past few decades!’

'All Chinese members, from the nobles of six titles and eighteenth grades, to the common people, must have a clear understanding!'

‘The historical opportunity period for overtaking on the curve is the period when the whole people tighten their belts and endure hardships to plant trees and lay the foundation! Since you have been reincarnated for these decades, you must understand your responsibilities!’

‘Struggle! Fight to the death! Only when you truly succeed in this historical period and truly plant a great forest of blessings can your descendants get real rich materials to enjoy life!’

This passage later spread to the West and caused a stir in the Western academic community. Many politicians felt heartbroken and regretted that their previous parents did not curb the rise of the Chinese nation in advance.

They even complained that their parents were so unsighted and allowed the Chinese to overtake in the early stages of the development of the Second Industrial Revolution.

That's right, the rise of the Chinese people is not because of how capable Xiao Letian is. In fact, the rise principle of him is the same as the United States and Germany.

That is, during the decades when the First Industrial Revolution was upgraded to the Second Industrial Revolution, the Chinese, the United States, and Germany made very correct strategic decisions, just taking the right path!

But what made Westerners even more regretful was that just after Xiao Letian passed away, a large number of dusty letters were suddenly exposed shortly after these notes were sorted out and published.

This is a series of family letters written to his family during his expedition in the East, with more than fifty letters, which have already explained the concepts that are basically the same as Xiao Letian.

In fact, when she was in the snow, Samuel Baker vaguely found the key to curb the Chinese people. After that, Samuel Baker finally found the key to the problem.

In his letter at home, he once complained about European governments, and these governments that were defeated one by one by Xiao Letian for their own interests made wrong decisions in the most critical historical period.

Just because of the Franco-Prussian War and the subsequent Frankfurt Treaty, Europe lifted the scientific ban on the Chinese people, and finally allowed the Chinese people to start huge infrastructure and comprehensive industrialization in Asia.

Such strategic mistakes directly led to the rapid rise of the Chinese people!

Moreover, in the letter, Samuel also mentioned many times that he had recorded and analyzed this issue in his notebook in detail.

But what makes Western scholars incredible is that no descendant of the Samuel family has ever seen this diary of the Eastern adventure!

In other words, this diary disappeared strangely!

Samuel Baker, employed by Gladstone and Benjamin, two former prime ministers, the task he carried was to go to Asia to carefully explore the reality of the Chinese people.

The two prime ministers hope that Samuel Baker will analyze the Chinese people through the eyes of a generalist scholar, rather than a simple analysis like those in the past.

Through these fifty letters from home, European scholars in later generations were shocked to find that Samuel had found the answer to the question at that time and found a way to curb the rise of the Chinese people!

But what about that note? Where did that Eastern Expedition Diary go?

In the 21st century, "Samuel's Diary" has become a cultural symbol. This diary that has disappeared into the long river of history has become a synonym for people to describe the loss of the key to historical opportunities.

Whenever people shook their heads with regret and said, "My Samuel Diary!" As long as this sentence is said, it proves that this person is pitiful. Even though things are about to succeed, they fail at the critical moment!
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