In the aristocratic era, the minor aristocrats were the middle structure of the entire social system. They were more virtuous than those at the top, and had more cards than the bottom. They were the backbone of society and had huge influence.
Small nobles are often the greatest guarantee during the founding period of a kingdom, but they are also one of the reasons for the decline of the dynasty.
Because small nobles will also build intricate personal relationships, deceive superiors and deceive subordinates, and become a stumbling block to the stability of the country. If superiors do not implement orders that are not beneficial to them, they will block the upward path of others.
This is also the case for the small nobles of the empire. Even in the army, they are a very large force. Almost all middle and lower-level officers are nobles, and the entire army is controlled by the nobles.
These nobles don't care about the life and death of the bottom of the empire. If they continue like this, they will naturally be eliminated. However, Duran will fight against each other to win over the progressive nobles, unite the compassionate and enlightened nobles, and eliminate the backward nobles, of course.
The ultimate goal is to eliminate the entire aristocratic class and usher the empire into a new era.
There is no moral bad or good, only advanced or backward, so Dulan actively carried out activities.
Duran's current target is a man named Erich von Lerugen, a loyal staff officer who is devoted to the country. He is a young man in the army who is responsible for formulating the imperial strategy. At the same time, he is indifferent to some systems in the army.
habits, such as corporal punishment from superiors to subordinates, or expressing uneasiness about the situation in the empire.
However, as a loyal minister, Lei Rugen is also devoted to the country. If the superiors make a decision, even if it is unreasonable, he will work hard to make it happen.
He was a consultant, and Dulan was a primary school teacher. They were completely unrelated to each other, but Dulan naturally had a way to create chance encounters.
The simplest thing was to touch porcelain. Dulan and his students stared at the cars coming out of the military camp. After Lei Lugen's car came out, Pude rushed to the road to touch porcelain.
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The brakes squeaked and the car stopped in front of the child. At this time, Dulan rushed out.
The driver was very innocent: "It was the child who rushed out without looking at the road."
Of course Puder was fine, even if he was hit. However, Duran still glared at the military vehicle righteously: "You must apologize. Do you think that as a soldier, you are superior to others and can run rampant on the road?"
Lei Lugen got out of the car and found that there was nothing wrong with the children: "I'm very sorry, what are you doing with these children?" He found that Dulan was on the road with a large number of children who didn't know what they were doing.
Of course it's a pity, is it an extracurricular activity?
"We are raising funds for primary schools, and the Education Bureau has been in arrears with funds for several months. But these children still need to study, even if they are rural children, but they cannot be deprived of their right to study. You are a senior official, have you seen what is happening now?
What is the countryside like in the empire?"
Lei Rugen was stunned by the question. Although he knew that the situation in the empire was not good, he really didn't know how bad it was in the countryside. Looking at these sallow and skinny children, he suddenly felt powerless.
The empire is corrupt, but he can do nothing. How can we make the empire better? He is one of the few nobles who thinks about this problem, and he does not think that the problem can really be solved through war. Although living space is important, once there is living space, everything will be lost.
Is it really better?
War only destroys, but some things cannot be obtained through destruction.
Lei Lugen took out his wallet and took out all the money inside: "There's not much I can do."
Duran took the money and said: "Everyone can do a lot, but no one realizes it yet. When everyone realizes their mission and energy, the empire will be reborn in the fire. This country will inevitably
There will no longer be tragedies of man eating man or god cannibalizing man."
"?" Lei Lugen was stunned, because it was too obvious that there was something in this sentence. Not to mention that he, the staff officer, could understand it even if he read a little bit.
The other party was a rural teacher, who must have read books, and seemed to have his own opinions on the development of the empire. Lei Lugen wanted to hear it: "Well, I'll treat you all to a meal, and we can talk alone."
The children were happy because they were indeed hungry.
Dulan was also very happy, because the other party had fallen into the trap, and as expected, the trick of tricking the opponent was tried and tested. As long as he hit the opponent's itchy spot, he could use it as an entry point to lure the opponent into the trap.
After finding a restaurant and ordering enough food for the children, Lei Lugen and Du Lan sat aside and asked, "There seems to be something in what you said before. Please tell me straight away." He was also thirsty for knowledge, because he also
I hope that I can lead the empire out of the predicament, but unfortunately there is no clear goal at present, and the upper management only seizes the living space to talk things over. But is the empire's problem really only lies in the living space?
The young staff officer didn't think so, but his ability was limited and he could formulate strategies, but he couldn't summarize the experiences of various countries and deduce the problems of the empire.
Now that the empire suppresses scholars, there are no scholars who specialize in studying these issues. Lei Rugen suspected that the Dulan in front of him was one of the suppressed and frustrated scholars.
"The empire's problems are greater internally than externally. The main reason is caused by the objective factors of the development of the industrial system. The Industrial Revolution has the advantage of being a latecomer. We must first determine this. Before the Industrial Revolution, the strongest was the Armada. They raided
Colonial gold and jewelry were bought and resold all over the world to earn the price difference. However, because their development model limited their investment entities, they were finally defeated by the late-developing industrial civilization. The Invincible Fleet also disappeared and national power declined. What followed was industrial civilization.
era, the United Kingdom established the largest colonial power."
Lei Lugen nodded.
Duran continued: "Now everyone knows that industry is good, so now everyone is developing industry. The United Kingdom, an industrially developed country, has fallen behind. This is because the industrial revolution has the advantage of being a latecomer, and latecomers cannot
A large amount of money needs to be invested in research and development, and it only needs to copy the technology, and the burden of the latecomer countries is not that big, so it can enter the internal combustion engine era and the electrical age before the United Empire." "The problem is that the empire has various reasons.
The reason is that it was a little too late. Although we have more sophisticated industries and better-quality products than other countries by virtue of our late-mover advantage, the market does not belong to us, and the good things we produce cannot be sold at all."
"Yes, that's the problem." Lei Lugen finally saw that this was the main problem of the empire: "Then how to solve it?"
"There are three solutions. One is to unite other late-developing countries to form an economic alliance with complementary industries. The second is to launch a war to clearly break the industrial system of competitors, so that no one has anything and I have it, and occupy the market advantage. Finally, there is
One is to overthrow the nobility, redistribute social resources, carry out industrial reforms, and develop new technologies." Duran provided three suggestions in one breath: "I recommend the third one."
However, Lei Lugen obviously didn't take it seriously. He only felt that Duran was the talent the empire needed. Compared with him, he was like an idiot. Such a high-level opinion was actually suppressed. The top management of the empire was really speechless. He excitedly said
Said: "Please go back with me, I will definitely recommend you to the Ministry of Economic Affairs."
Instead, it was Lei Lugen who recruited Duran, which was completely the other way around. It was clearly Dulan who came to oppose him.