In the Qingfeng Tavern, a famous tavern in Warsaw, Shu Kingdom, Ji Qingyuan, a teacher from the National University, was standing in front of the microphone and giving a speech.

"Compatriots, during this period of time, I came into contact with a new theory.

Mi Youde, a scholar from Chu State, believes that European countries are now in a state of false prosperity.

He predicted that the false prosperity would be exposed and Europe would surely enter turmoil.

If I could walk in front of a Milton scholar, I would loudly tell him that this is not a prediction, but a fact that is happening.

Our country of Shu is at the stage where its false prosperity has been exposed.

Why did our prosperity collapse so early?

Because our Shu Kingdom is only an agricultural country, and its industrial scale is not as large as that of a county in the empire.

However, the imperial court wanted to go all out with force and expand the army.

Weapons and ammunition cannot be produced by oneself, and a large amount of weapons and ammunition must be purchased from the empire.

The money spent on this last year was as high as two million taels of silver coins.

With such an aggressive military campaign, Shu's fragile economy, which looked prosperous, was like the moon in a mirror and could not be sustained at all.

What can we do now?

The only thing that can be done is to fight against the war.

With the protection of the empire, as long as we do not want to join the war, we will not be threatened by the war and can develop ourselves stably.

The imperial court's militarism has put all of us in danger.

Shu is an agricultural country with low war potential, but it competes with industrial countries.

This is like hitting an egg against a stone. We are shattered to pieces, but no one else is harmed.

When everyone came to Shu, they just wanted to have a farm, marry several wives, and fill their house with children and grandchildren.

Once war comes, as an agricultural country, we will pay extremely heavy casualties.

When the time comes that we die in battle, our property, wives and children will all be at the expense of those Westerners.

Think about it, everyone, the Xiyi people who work as farmers on the farms, they sleep with your wives and beat your children."

Ji Qingyuan's words were extremely inflammatory, especially his last sentence, which directly caused many people to break their guard.

Just as Ji Qingyuan said, due to various reasons, Shu's industry has never developed.

Factory owners, a major group in other countries, are very rare in Shu.

The current backbone of the Shu Kingdom are farmers who own at least 500 acres of land.

They are the ones who control the wealth of Shu.

Ji Qingyuan knew that these people were a different kind of gentry. After they gained wealth, they wanted to make their voices heard.

Ji Qingyuan also knows that he must have the support of his basic base in order to achieve his goals.

He hit it off with the farmer, which led to this tavern meeting.

Ji Qingyuan did this to unify his thoughts and unite more farmers to achieve his goal.

As soon as he finished speaking, many farmers immediately raised their hands and asked questions.

Ji Qingyuan randomly named a few people and asked them to come to the stage for consultation one by one.

These people are not trustees, but truly randomly selected people.

Only by doing this can we mobilize more support from farmers.

Ji Qingyuan was eloquent and could defend his theory without any preparation.

What's more, he has already prepared answers to all kinds of tricky questions in this tavern meeting.

Relying only on the knowledge of these farmers, the questions he asked were not difficult for him at all.

Instead, he will ask the questions he wants to answer because of his speaking skills.

The first question came from a fat man wearing a military uniform.

"Mr. Ji, you said that Shu has passed its stage of prosperity.

Why didn't I feel why the Shu Kingdom was so prosperous and the shelf life was so short?

It went by in a flash, and it doesn’t have as long a shelf life as wheat, which is really strange.”

Ji Qingyuan has already prepared for this issue, and the information is very complete.

As long as you look at things from different angles, the same information can give completely different explanations.

Ji Qingyuan replied with a serious expression: "This gentleman's question is very typical, I think everyone also has this question.

At what time did Shu become prosperous, and why didn’t we feel the prosperous scene?

This question is easy to answer. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Shu Kingdom has been in a stage of rapid development and entered a prosperous period.

When I told this answer, no one could believe it.

How is this possible?

This is what things are like. Everyone should remember that our country of Shu is an agricultural country.

The economic crisis in the empire and other countries was caused by overproduction in industrial countries.

As an agricultural country, our country, Shu, has always been in a state of scarcity of industrial products, so how could it possibly become too prosperous?

It is precisely for this reason that the Shu Kingdom has not experienced an economic crisis. Instead, due to the economic crisis in various countries, the price of industrial products has dropped.

Our Shu Kingdom will have less money to buy industrial products, but it will become more prosperous.

Mi Youde, a scholar from the Chu State, observed that his experience in society was based on the judgment of an industrial country.

He simply does not have enough experience in the development of an agricultural country.

This is also the reason why he made a misjudgment about Shu.

From this perspective, the environment in our country of Shu is still very good.

Just because the imperial court recently wanted to realize its ambition of royal hegemony, it began to become militaristic.

This caused the originally prosperous period to suddenly take a turn for the worse and the market became depressed.

As long as the Shu Kingdom disarms, it will become a permanent neutral country protected by the sovereign state.

Without the millions of taels of military expenditure every year, we can all live a good life.

Because there is no war, everyone does not have to worry about losing lives and property.

You don’t have to worry about your home being in ruins and your wife and children being displaced.”

Ji Qingyuan's words are still very inflammatory.

Some farmers immediately shouted: "Permanent neutrality, abolish the army."

When Ji Qingyuan saw the lively scene, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

As a scholar who was deeply influenced by traditional Confucian thought, he did not want to see rivers of blood in Europe and the Han people killing each other.

He considered various methods, and the best method was to put down their weapons.

As long as there is no threat of war, the world will surely become prosperous.

His ideas have been labeled as heresy, but he has recently received funding from knowledgeable people.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He knows that these people’s funding purposes are not pure.

But in order to realize his ideals, he accepted all this funding.

Ji Qingyuan saw the excited expressions of these farmers, and they all resonated with this matter.

A dark-faced young man was given the opportunity to ask questions, and he asked in a serious tone: "Mr. Ji, the Kingdom of Shu has always been the Kingdom of Shu.

I know that economic prosperity requires extremely high investments.

When the Shu Kingdom was founded, in order to suppress the resistance of the Western barbarians and the empire's European war, the French dug up the main river embankments in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

This resulted in major floods in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which affected many places.

This amount of disaster relief funds is higher than the current military expenditure, so how come there are no problems in the court?"

When Ji Qingyuan heard this question, he knew that this farmer was definitely not an ordinary farmer.

But this problem still didn't trouble him.

Ji Qingyuan stood in front of the microphone and replied confidently: "I borrow the words of Chu scholar Mi Youde.

He said that all European countries are now experiencing false prosperity.

I said that the Chu State has been in false prosperity from the time of its founding to the present.

It is very simple to draw this conclusion, because the funds for the development of Chu State did not come from itself, but from the empire.

Everyone knows that if you want economic prosperity, you must invest in advance.

Whether it is building factories or promoting the development of industry and commerce.
To be continued...