In the third year of Zhang Wu's reign, on the night of Tuogu in Baidi City, a modern college student who died suddenly due to the "uselessness of liberal arts" was reborn as Zhuge Liang's eight-year-old eldest son, Zhuge Zhan.
What he brought was not gunpowder and guns, but a set of institutional design and civilization-building thinking that transcended the times. In the crisis of the Five-Road Expedition against Shu, he relied on his vague historical memory and macro-strategic analysis to help his father Zhuge Liang break through the crisis in a thrilling way. In the secret room, an eight-year-old child actually proposed a ground-breaking new strategy: "If you want to conquer the Central Plains, first consolidate the southern border."
From then on, history quietly turned.
Zhuge Liang suppressed the call of the Central Government to "put the Northern Expedition first", and father and son joined forces to start a silent revolution: developing Nanzhong as the experimental field, using poor bureaucrats as the backbone, and using institutional innovation as the engine. Zhuge Zhan captured Meng Huo seven times, and brought water conservancy, medical care, agricultural tools, and official markets with him each time he was released. He built the Protectorate on the red soil and turned the barren land into a granary and money store.
While the gentry in Chengdu were still vying for power, a new force composed of Tao hunters, Yi descendants, and civil servants from poor families had grown vigorously in southern Xinjiang. While Cao Wei and Soochow were still busy fighting for power, Shu Han had quietly completed a transformation from a warlord regime to a civilized country.
This is a big gamble to use liberal arts thinking to change the world.
When the Xuanjia cavalry rushed out of the Qinling Mountains, when the promise of "equal land, imperial examinations, and medical insurance" spread throughout the Central Plains, when Yi and Han boys studied together in new-style schools... The modern soul who had been ridiculed finally understood that the ultimate power of liberal arts lies not in reciting classics, but in designing a system that allows hundreds of millions of people to live better.
Reader comments
The book is good, a bit retro, and I don't know how to plan it in the future. In this period of Ji Han, if he wanted to seize the world, three points have been broken, which is impossible. Cao Wei is powerful and Jiangdong is backstabbing. He only relies on Yizhou (the land of the three provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan). Liu Yan's population is about 9 million when he enters Shu. It will only be more, because there are still barbarians. The development is good around Chengdu, and there are a lot of plank roads in other areas, including to There are a lot of plank roads in Jiaozhou, and the products in Jiaozhou are also rich. Otherwise, Shi Xie would not be independent. It is not easy to defeat him. There are only a few large cities, such as Longbian, Nanhai, etc. The core area is today's northern Vietnam and Guilin.) Difficult, if you don't go to the Northern Expedition, you will die faster. If you don't have the actual land, population and key roads in the Northern Expedition, you will have to wait to die. The only way to defeat Yongliang and enter Guanzhong is to make a surprise attack on Jiangdong and divide the world into two parts. Otherwise, three parts of the world will be blocked.
The book is good, a bit retro, and I don't know how to plan it in the future. In this period of Ji Han, if he wanted to seize the world, three points have been broken, which is impossible. Cao Wei is powerful and Jiangdong is backstabbing. He only relies on Yizhou (the land of the three provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan). Liu Yan's population is about 9 million when he enters Shu. It will only be more, because there are still barbarians. The development is good around Chengdu, and there are a lot of plank roads in other areas, including to There are a lot of plank roads in Jiaozhou, and the products in Jiaozhou are also rich. Otherwise, Shi Xie would not be independent. It is not easy to defeat him. There are only a few large cities, such as Longbian, Nanhai, etc. The core area is today's northern Vietnam and Guilin.) Difficult, if you don't go to the Northern Expedition, you will die faster. If you don't have the actual land, population and key roads in the Northern Expedition, you will have to wait to die. The only way to defeat Yongliang and enter Guanzhong is to make a surprise attack on Jiangdong and divide the world into two parts. Otherwise, three parts of the world will be blocked.