Chapter 1197: Modern Army

However, Su Fan does not want to do this. He can indeed maintain it for a few hundred or even a thousand years, but by then, the world will still follow the original path.

Aristocratic families and powerful clans are greedy. The destination of feudal dynasties is unavoidable. In terms of land, the carrying capacity is limited.

Indeed, the Jiuzhou are very large, but without the development of the Imperial Court, the carrying capacity of the land currently developed in the Jiuzhou is actually still limited.

With the current productivity, a population of 100 billion is already very extreme.

Unlike the Great Qin era, the productivity of the Great Qin era was much more powerful than the Liu Han Imperial Court, and the yield per mu was even one or two times higher than now.

So the 100 billion population of the Great Qin was not a burden at all, but a dividend.

But the Liu Han Imperial Court is different.

Seventy percent of the money and grain are controlled by those aristocratic families and powerful clans, which is different from the Great Qin era, where the Imperial Court controlled seventy percent of the money and grain.

Once any natural disaster is encountered, the Imperial Court and government offices can quickly go to govern the disaster. The cohesion and mobilization ability of the government offices are far from comparable to the Liu Han Imperial Court.

So the Liu Han Imperial Court, by now, is already at the end of its road.

The previous methods were just treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

Only by developing productivity and constantly developing new land can the upper limit of the population be improved. As for what to do when the Jiuzhou are all developed—

Once the Jiuzhou are truly developed and productivity is improved to the upper limit, then the strength of the human race in the Jiuzhou will also be very powerful. By then, they will be enough to leave the Jiuzhou and head to the Honghuang Sanjie.

However, wanting to develop the Jiuzhou to the limit requires a strong government.

Even the Great Qin of that time did not do it.

Of course, if time were given to the Great Qin, with the Great Qin's cohesion, it would not be impossible to develop the Jiuzhou.

After all, as long as that First Emperor sat in command, the officials of the world would not dare to be slack. The laws of the Great Qin are not a joke.

It can be said that the efficiency of the Great Qin's officials was definitely the peak among all dynasties.

The Great Qin was not an ordinary feudal dynasty.

However, the Great Qin is gone, and Liu Han is just a feudal dynasty. Although it has mysterious power, unfortunately, it still cannot stop that kind of great trend.

And Su Fan chose Zhang Jiao, hoping to make a change and see if he could avoid the flaws of feudal dynasties.

A highly developed society might avoid it. Just like the world of "Swallowing Star World," the more developed the technology, the harder it is for chaotic times to occur.

Unless some external crisis occurs.

However, in the Jiuzhou, the external crisis is also the fusion of that world in the future, but to be honest, it actually has no great relationship with the Jiuzhou.

After all, that crisis relies on the power of all living beings in the Honghuang Sanjie. If the Jiuzhou develop a peak Liu Han Imperial Court, it will not be of any help.

After all, the peak of the Liu Han Imperial Court at most had a few True Immortal levels, or a Golden Immortal luck golden dragon. Such power cannot compare to a sect in the Southern Continent.

But if in the future great trend, the technology of the Jiuzhou can develop to the level of a high-level universe country in "Swallowing Star World," then it will be of great help.

But is this possible?

Su Fan cannot be sure either. A high-level universe country has a population far beyond what the Jiuzhou can reach. In terms of technology, only with a population explosion can there be a technological explosion.

Without a sufficient population, wanting technology to explode is definitely not that simple.

Historically, technology exploded in World War I and World War II. Besides the catalyst of war, it was the population explosion.

Otherwise, why couldn't technology explode in the Ming and Qing dynasties? It was still the population problem. The wars in Europe at that time were also very numerous.

The restriction of population is very important.

Now the Jiuzhou have a population of 100 billion. If everyone is truly literate, it will be different. But wanting everyone to be literate is not simple.

Even in later generations, a large number of people are still illiterate, let alone in this era.

But Su Fan needs to promote it, and the Taiping Dao is already promoting it. The disciples of the Taiping Dao are all literate, fully literate, and then fully promote education.

Starting from the Taiping Dao, slowly now, many believers in the countryside have also started to learn to read.

Of course, this is not mandatory, it is entirely voluntary. Those Taiping Dao disciples, in the process of preaching, guide agricultural affairs and medical skills, and themselves also teach those common people to read.

It is just that most common people do not have this idea. They put all their minds on agricultural affairs, thinking every day about how to prepare more fertilizer, thinking all day about how to increase the grain in the fields.

There are not many who truly have insight, but there are also some common people who are more willing to let their children learn.

This part of the believers is more valued by those Taiping Dao disciples, and their descendants get more guidance.

In the future, they will also become the focus of the Taiping Dao, and even the smart ones will be absorbed into the Taiping Dao disciples.

Zhang Jiao's policy, Su Fan was also very satisfied upon hearing it.

Literacy education is very important. The earlier it is promoted, the faster the development of technology will be in the future.

Moreover, the construction of an army of literate and illiterate people is also two different things.

The elites of an ordinary dynasty's army are limited, but an army that is literate and composed of high-achieving students is completely different.

In the future, the Taiping Dao's army will also be dominated by firearms and even current weapons.

Indeed, the firearms of the Ming and Qing dynasties were not good enough, but the weapons of World War I and World War II already have stable suppression for the armies of the Liu Han Dynasty in the Jiuzhou.

Unless it is an army led by martial generals like Lv Bu, which might be a threat to them.

But once modern weapons like fighter jets and tanks appear on a large scale, even if Lv Bu and the others are fierce, what can they do?

As long as someone blocks these fierce generals, the remaining modern weapons can make the other party's army have no resistance.

And these modern weapons are not something ordinary people can play with.

It can be seen from the modern world that many countries in the Middle East and Africa have indeed bought many fighter jets and tanks, and even missiles.

However, their military power is still not taken seriously by the great powers. One is that their industrialization and logistics do not have subsequent replenishment.

Just like the Great Qing facing the Western powers in history, without industrialization, relying on buying guns and cannons, how could they be their opponents?

Secondly, the quality of the soldiers is too poor, completely not understanding the principles of many operations, relying on rote memorization, how can they exert those modern weapons to the extreme?

For the time being, the Taiping Dao's firearms are not enough, but that kind of gun and cannon is actually not difficult to improve. As long as Su Fan gives a hint, they can soon reach the level of World War I and World War II.

The power of that kind of artillery is strong, but it also has great requirements for the quality of the artillerymen. Therefore, literacy is the foundation, and after that, they must learn various knowledge to exert the power of artillery to the maximum.

All this, the Taiping Dao has already started, and Su Fan sees it in his eyes. ===== CHAPTER 1198 =====