Wealth can be accumulated, knowledge can be accumulated, and experience can be accumulated. But people often overlook that risk can also accumulate. Our primitive nature makes us accustomed to seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. We always habitually identify with the good and subconsciously ignore the bad. But the reality will not change based on our personal wishes. People always ignore the changing winds and clouds on the horizon, ignore the ravines on the road ahead, and only focus on the clusters of flowers under their feet, thereby losing themselves.

In 1942, a century before the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty had one-third of the world's population and the largest economic aggregate in the world. Its foreign trade had also been in a state of excess for a long time. After the Kangxi, Qianlong, and During the nearly hundred years of prosperity of Yongzheng, he was even more arrogant. He claimed to be the Holy Kingdom of Heaven, regarded the territories outside the Qing Dynasty as barbarian lands, and regarded other people as uncivilized people. After the Opium War, after Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu, in just seventy years, it disappeared from the forest of the world. It was so fast that people had no time to sigh for it. They couldn't help but lament that its prosperity was as fast as its demise. .

The Qing Dynasty lost itself in the prosperous age before it, closed itself off to the country, and became self-righteous. During the century-long prosperous age, the crisis of destruction was also slowly accumulating. Historically, quantitative changes to qualitative changes occurred. So secretly and suddenly, the world eliminates you without even giving you a chance to say goodbye. In addition to bringing economic prosperity, the century-old prosperity also has some by-products: arrogance, lack of thought for change, and contentment with the status quo. Even if there are some unstable factors in the country, Ren Ran believes that they can be controlled and will not affect the overall situation. Even though external challenges have become increasingly obvious, it is still believed that it is not difficult for the great powers of the Celestial Dynasty to restrain those barbarian countries with a combination of strength and softness. Ultimately, while prospering and developing, it is being eliminated by the world. By the time I reacted, I thought it was too late.

Excerpt: Liu Guangdi, one of the Six Young Masters of 1898: "All political affairs are related to the current situation of peace, and the outcome is played out... The ministers secretly live in peace, hold on to their salary and support friends; the small ministers fight If you work hard, you will be private. Those who are serious in doing things think they are stubborn and not tactful; those who write bluntly think that they are impetuous and not calm. "

What can pull people out of tranquility is worry. The premise of worry is looking forward. There is no forward-looking, no distant view of the changing wind and clouds on the horizon, no thinking about the possible obstacles ahead, only the flowers under your feet, and where are the worries.