C2309 The Cruelty to Competition in the Fast Track

Starting from the Industrial Revolution, human research on natural technology had entered the fast track, with new technologies being brought forth, and then with the power of capital, human research into science and technology had turned into actual productivity, which had greatly increased the national power.

This was why an island nation like Britain could become a British Empire. This was why in his previous life, he could rely on his industry to humiliate large countries as a small country.

There is no limit to the pursuit of power, because it is not only about the interests of money, but also about the survival of nations.

Great Powers had annexed small States, Great Powers had dismembered weak States, and countless races had been colonized. Countries with great powers had already swept away the wealth of the entire world.

This was an era where the weaker one was, the stronger one would become, and as time went on, the trend would accelerate.

One of the reasons for this was because of the further development of technology. Some people called it the technology tree. It exploded from one source and then started to branch out in large amounts.

In ancient times, there might have been people who were proficient in all kinds of science, but as the science tree became more and more studied, the proficiency was gradually replaced by the proficiency. It was already good enough for a single natural person to be able to understand one category in a lifetime.

As a result, a country could not rely on the contributions of a small group of technology elites, but on the overall strength of a huge research team.

This group of people focused on electricity. This group focused on chemistry. This group focused on oil. This group focused on machinery … Only on the basis of an incomparably large number of researchers would they be able to create one or two flowers of miracles.

Thus, it can be seen that in the later stages of science and technology development, the powerful countries could develop their branches of science and technology independently due to the integrity of their scientific research system and the large number of their own population.

As for the weak countries, they could only selectively invest all of their energy into a part of the technological branch. It was impossible for them to become geniuses.

This was very scary! Gradually, the dependence of the weak on technology from the large countries would grow stronger and stronger. In the end, the fate of the weak countries could only depend on this path.

Just like what Xiao Letian had just mentioned, in the Sail battleship era, a battleship only had two to three thousand different types of parts. This ensured that small countries like Portugal and the Netherlands could produce all the parts on their own.

If he could produce and process them, he would not need to rely on other countries. Naturally, he would be able to build his oceanic fleet at a very economical cost.

However, with the development of technology, when steam power s began to traverse the ocean, the average number of parts on a battleship would explode by ten or twenty times.

At this time, small nations like the Netherlands or the Portugal, due to their small size and small population, were simply unable to independently construct Iron-armored Ship s by themselves. They could only produce part of the Iron-armored Ship s by themselves, and then purchase other parts such as English and French or Prussia.

There was nothing he could do about it. Reality was just that cruel!

What would happen after that? When the Iron-armored Ship gradually evolved into an advanced battleship, when the gas turbine replaced the old boiler, when electricity began to be popularized on the battleship, when the navy entered the post-Fearless Battleship era … At that time, how many parts would a battleship have?

No one could make a concrete count, but in that era, the complexity of battleships was more than multiple times that of Zhiyuan Warship, even if it was increased by five times, in other words, the number of parts on a battleship alone was over a hundred thousand.

What a terrifying number! Even if the people of a small country were to vomit blood, they would not be able to complete such an autonomous technological classification!

Weak nation! Small country! Their natural industrial system was incomplete, and they had to rely on industrial powers to supplement their imports to produce finished products.

But relying on a powerful country doesn't feel good. Not only will you have to pay more money, you will also get stuck in the throat of others. Those key techniques and parts, if you want to punish you, you can't do anything about it.

This proved to be true. During World War I, especially in the later stages, the Navy officially entered the era of the Fearless Ship, and the number of countries that were able to manufacture this type of warship during that era were few in number.

As for the remaining countries, they were cruelly kicked out of the competition arena of the naval arms race. Even the veteran powerhouses such as Spain, the Portugal and the Netherlands would occasionally have large warships entering the water, but many of the key parts would have to be imported.

The strong and the weak were already very obvious. During World War II, when the aircraft carrier replaced the era of the Big Ship's Big Cannon, the complexity of the aircraft carrier increased yet again.

To the aircraft carrier, it was very easy to have more than a million parts, and after the second world war, it became even more terrifying. With the advent of various new technologies, the aircraft carrier could truly become the pinnacle product of the human shipbuilding industry, and the number of parts could even reach up to ten million.

At this time, the weak nations had been completely kicked out, and only a few countries in the human world were able to afford to play with such complicated and expensive toys.

As for the space field, this was even more bullying.

If military work was like this, then civil industry was actually the same as well. It went from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, and their productivity also rose accordingly.

Under such a general trend, compulsory education is actually the core competitive ability for a country and its people to survive. The overall quality of the entire nation directly determines whether your country is powerful or weak.

At the moment, Britain had already fallen behind Prussia, and in ten years, even the United States would surpass him.

In the huge British Empire, only Gladstone and the others were aware of the danger in the future, and many others, like Benjamin, were still immersed in the splendor of their old ways, unable to extricate themselves from it.

The colonial war, the continuing colonial war, was always trying to rely on looting the wealth of other races to alleviate the crisis, while ignoring the best opportunity to cultivate internal energy. How could Benjamin not lose!

Xiao Letian ripped the problem apart bit by bit like he was peeling an onion. The dark matter under the lantern was actually solved by him easily, although he did not reveal the secrets of the future, just the changes that had occurred had already moved the eavesdroppers' faces.

The's Vice President's handkerchief was completely drenched, the business leaders gaped as they muttered to themselves, "Why didn't we think of that? How did the Chinese figure it out first? "God, please accept our confession!"

Until the very end, when Xiao Letian let out a long sigh, "My future Prime Minister, please firmly remember this sentence that I've given to you!"

"In the end, you will replace Benjamin. However, all of this is not because of some crafty scheme, but simply because you are on the right path!"

"It is because the UK needs your policies, it is because society needs change, and it is this great power hidden deep in the pool that drives you!"

"What a time to become a hero! Please remember, this is a time for heroes, not a time for heroes! "