Chapter 55: Could it be that China has discovered alien technology?

What happened in China thirty years ago?
This issue is much more important to the old father than all the achievements that China has shown today combined!
He still couldn't understand the changes in the past thirty years, but he had to admit that China was no longer what it used to be. So he was even more curious about why this was happening!
The United Arab Emirates has taken off since the 60s and has become one of the richest countries in the world. There is no doubt that it is because of oil! But what is the reason for China's rise? It can't be that they really discovered some alien technology!
This question obviously also affected the emotions of everyone in the live broadcast room.

They have all heard to some extent about how backward China was in the past, so when they saw the prosperity of China today through the camera of the live broadcast room, they were so shocked and couldn't believe it. Their first reaction was that China was faking it!

Everything has a cause and an effect. China's current achievements are unquestionable, but what is the reason that has made China unique in the entire blue planet?

This question stumped Lin Yan.

It’s not that he couldn’t answer this question, but the answers to this question were too many and too complicated to be explained in just one or two sentences - he couldn’t even finish the beginning.

My father-in-law is really good at finding faults. He brings up such a serious issue right from the start.

Seeing Lin Yan having a headache, Martha thought that Lin Yan was stumped, so she took the initiative to speak up:
"Yan has explained this problem to me!"

Martha enthusiastically joined the discussion: "The most important reason why China has undergone tremendous changes in the past thirty years is 'unremitting self-improvement'! Every Chinese has put in three or four times their own efforts in building their motherland, which is why there have been such changes today!"

Strive for self-improvement?

New viewers in the live broadcast room were a little confused when they heard this word and didn't know what it meant.

It was the old audience of Alian Chiefs who had to explain it to them. Talking about the doctors working in shifts in the hospital and the Chinese attitude of striving for perfection in everything, these new audiences were instantly stunned.

"Oh my God, how can the Chinese be so cruel to themselves?"

"No wonder they were able to change like this in such a short time! Their lives should be getting better now!"

Even with such a straightforward explanation of the term, they instantly accepted the answer.

Hard work should be rewarded - this is a truth recognized by the world.

But in the eyes of politicians, this truth does not apply.

"Continuous self-improvement can be considered an explanation, but it is not enough."

The old father calmly retorted: "The Chinese are not the only ones in the entire Blue Planet who are working so hard. The poor countries in the Sahara Desert, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and other countries in central and southern Asia, they have never lacked people who are willing to work hard, but they are still poor today."

"You can get rich by your own hard work? Do you think I will believe this absurd political propaganda that sounds like a fairy tale?"

The originally noisy voices in the live broadcast room suddenly fell silent.

Even if no one wants to admit it - this person might be right.

On the entire Blue Planet, the Chinese are not the only hardworking and brave people. And if we narrow the scope to individuals, they have seen many hardworking and struggling people, and they are not just in China.
But is it useful?
In those poor countries, they work hard and risk their lives, but they still cannot change their fate of poverty! Although there are occasional successful cases among those who struggle, they often end up ruining their bodies and are still trapped in the vortex of poverty!

Work hard to get rich, and change your destiny with your own hands. This is just a beautiful fairy tale!

They actually knew it, but no one was willing to expose this beautiful lie!

After all, life in this world is hard enough. Without these beautiful fairy tales to numb their souls, how can they face the cruel reality of this cold society!
Martha was speechless at this moment: "This..." The idea that she believed in so firmly a few days ago was actually so easily pointed out by her father?
At this moment, Lin Yan's eyes gradually turned gloomy.

"Uncle, I don't mean to misinterpret your meaning, but I seem to have read a hidden meaning from your words. You think that China's current changes are not achieved by its own efforts, but by something else that you think is more 'realistic', is that what you mean?"

"Yes, you did not misunderstand me."

The old father said calmly, "I never believe in getting rich through hard work, because I have seen too many poor people who died from hard work. They could not afford a full meal or good clothes until they died. But I have also seen a country go from poverty to prosperity, and the reason for their success was not because of their hard work, but something very realistic that had nothing to do with fairy tales."

He didn't say it directly, but everyone could understand what he meant.

oil.

Before the rise of the industrial age, there was no place to use oil. Although the Arab Empire at that time had its heyday, it eventually declined amid repeated upheavals.

The Allen Chiefs at that time might not be considered "difficult", but it was definitely not the same as the Allen Chiefs today.

It is precisely because he has witnessed the changes in the Arab Emirates throughout the process that the old father does not believe in the fairy tales of "getting rich through hard work" and "constant self-improvement".

Lin Yan half-closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about something, but soon felt relieved.

"Do you think this is a fairy tale, a miracle that can't happen in the real world?"

"if not?"

The old father said coldly: "There has never been a country in the world that has become strong by relying on 'constant self-improvement'. Can you, China, be an exception?"

"If that's what you think, then you've clearly made a huge logical error."

Lin Yan replied solemnly: "If we want to assume that something is 'impossible', we don't need 99 positive examples. We only need 1 negative example to prove that this thing is indeed 'possible', and that assumed 'impossible' is wrong."

"Since the new era, China has been weak and strong, but we have never invaded other countries, never bullied the weak, and never bowed to the powerful. We have very little oil, and we don't have the kind of gold mines that are huge enough to make billions of people rich. If we hadn't changed all this with our own hands, wouldn't everything in China today be a gift from God?"

He held up the camera in the live broadcast room and showed his old father everything about the surrounding commercial street while talking to him.

"You are watching the live broadcast, right? What do you see in the live broadcast? Is it the extremely prosperous night mall? Is it the night security in China that is praised by everyone? No, you don't see the truth behind all this splendor!"

"We are not rich, and many of us still need to worry about our livelihoods! So, even though it is already three o'clock in the morning, and every shop owner is so sleepy that he wants to go home and sleep, as long as there is one more customer coming, it means that today's income can be increased by one cent! So they resist the sleepiness and still greet every customer with a smile, just to squeeze out their rest time and add even one more cent of wealth to their family!"

"In the same way, in the late hours of the night, our police officers have always been patrolling tirelessly to maintain law and order, so that when any emergency occurs, they can be dealt with immediately! It is their uninterrupted patrols for decades that have finally achieved our excellent law and order that allows people to do whatever they want on the streets at three in the morning!"

"And this is only a small part of what my small lens can express, a drop in the ocean of the vast land of China!"

"Our prosperity and public security are not gifts from God, but the result of our joint efforts!"

(End of this chapter)