Chapter 2482: Fraud
In the aristocratic era, the petty nobles were the middle structure of the entire social system. They were more virtuous than the upper class and more respectable than the lower class. They were the backbone of society and had great influence.
The petty nobles were often the greatest guarantee of the kingdom's founding period, but they were also one of the reasons for the decline of the dynasty.
Because the petty nobles would also build intricate personal connections, deceive the superiors and the subordinates, and become a stumbling block to the stability of the country. They would not execute orders that were not in their favor, and block the upward channels of others.
The petty nobles of the empire are also in this situation now. Even in the army, they are a very large force. The middle and lower officers are almost all nobles, and the entire army is controlled by the nobles.
And these nobles do not care about the life and death of the lower class of the empire. If they continue like this, they will naturally be eliminated. However, Duran will pull one faction to fight another, strive for those progressive nobles, unite the sympathetic and enlightened nobles, and eliminate those backward nobles. Of course, the ultimate goal is to eliminate the entire aristocratic class and let the empire enter a new era.
It is not morally bad or good, but only advanced and backward, so Duran is actively carrying out activities.
Duran's current target is a staff officer named Erich von Rerugen, who is loyal and dedicated to his country. He is a young member of the army and is responsible for formulating the imperial strategy. At the same time, he is not used to some systems in the army, such as the corporal punishment of subordinates by superiors, or expressing uneasiness about the situation of the empire.
However, as a loyal minister, Rerugen is also dedicated to his country. If the upper level makes a decision, even if it is unreasonable, he will try his best to do it.
He is a staff officer and Duran is an elementary school teacher. The two are completely unrelated, but Duran naturally has a way to create a chance encounter.
The simplest one is to hit the car. Duran and his students stare at the car coming out of the barracks. When Rerugen's car comes out, he lets Pude rush to the road to hit the car.
Squeak——
The brakes sounded, and the car stopped in front of the child. At this time, Duran rushed out.
The driver was innocent: "It was the child who rushed out without looking at the road."
Pude was naturally fine, even if he was hit. However, Duran still glared at the military vehicle with righteous words: "You must apologize. Do you think that you are superior as a soldier and can run rampant on the road?"
Le Lugen got off 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 Duran was taking a large number of children on the road and didn't know what he was doing.
Of course it was a scam, could it be an extracurricular activity?
"We are raising funds for the primary school. The Education Bureau has owed funds for several months. But these children still need to go to school. Even if they are rural children, they cannot be deprived of the right to go to school. You are a senior official. Have you seen what the countryside in the empire is like now?"
Le Lugen was stunned by the question. Although he knew that the situation in the empire was not good, he really didn't know how bad the countryside was. Looking at these sallow and skinny children, he suddenly felt powerless.
The empire was corrupt, but he was powerless. How can the empire be better? He is one of the few nobles who think about this issue. He doesn't think that war can really solve the problem. Although living space is important, will everything really be better after having living space?
War is only about destruction, but some things cannot be obtained through destruction.
Leilugen took out his wallet and took out all the money in it: "I can't do much."
Duran took the money and said: "Everyone can do a lot, but no one has realized it yet. When everyone realizes their mission and energy, the empire will be reborn in the flames. This country will never see the tragedy of cannibalism and god cannibalism again."
"?" Leilugen was stunned, because the words were too obvious, not to mention that he, a staff officer, could understand it, even if he read a little.
The other party was a rural teacher, and he must have read books, and seemed to have his own views on the development of the empire. Leilugen wanted to listen: "How about this, I will treat everyone to a meal, and we will talk alone."
The children were very happy because they were really hungry.
Duran was also very happy because the other party fell into the trap. Sure enough, the trick of deliberately making a mystery is tried and tested. As long as you poke the other party's itch, you can use it as an entry point to pull the other party into the water.
After finding a restaurant and ordering enough food for the children, Leirugen and Duran sat aside and asked, "Your previous words seemed to have hidden meanings, please speak frankly." He was also eager to learn, because he also hoped to lead the empire out of the predicament. Unfortunately, there was no clear goal at present, and the upper echelons only talked about the living space, but was the problem of the empire really only about the living space?
The young staff officer did not think so, but his ability was limited. He was good at formulating strategies, but he could not summarize the experiences of various countries to deduce the problems of the empire.
Now the empire suppressed scholars, and no scholars specialized in studying these problems. Leirugen suspected that Duran 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 one was the Armada. They looted Colonial gold and jewelry were bought and resold around the world to earn the price difference, but because their development model limited their investment entities, they were eventually defeated by the late-developing industrial civilization. The Invincible Fleet also disappeared, and the national power declined. era, the United Kingdom established the largest colonial power."
Lei Rugen 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 lot of money needs to be invested in research and development, just 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 electric age before the United Empire. ""The problem is that the empire has various problems. The reason is that it was a little too late. Although we have more sophisticated industries and better quality products than other countries due to 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 aristocracy, 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 said excitedly Said: "Please go back with me, I will definitely recommend you to the Ministry of Economic Affairs."
Instead, Lei Lugen recruited Duran, which was completely the other way around. It was clearly Dulan who came to oppose him.