Zhao Han and the girl began to take action.
How could they establish a stable system? Fundamentally, they first needed to expand living space and broaden their ideas.
The two of them thought it over carefully and devised a twenty-year plan, divided into four stages.
Each stage would last five years.
After initially dealing with the problem of food, they would develop radio technology.
Without radio, a unified land empire would find it difficult to keep information flowing freely.
And without smooth information flow, without such a material foundation, ideas could not spread.
Education and cultivation would also be limited.
Why did local clans and country gentry rule the countryside? Because the informational foundation was insufficient.
Only radio, transmitting information at the speed of light, could allow new ideas to gain popularity.
Just like during the Republican era, many breakthroughs in ideas had been possible because of radio.
Radio stations and telegraphs allowed newspapers to rapidly spread the latest thoughts, ideas, and events.
This was also what eventually caused many unpresentable warlords to fail.
Developing radio was a foundational step.
Without radio, no matter how many methods a unified land empire had, they would all be empty.
The time cost of communication alone was enough to render any change from the center meaningless.
A new technology or idea emerging in the capital would take a month or even half a year to reach the lower levels.
Nothing could get done.
But with radio, those loyal to the imperial court could receive support in time, strengthening their sense of unity.
Thus, they began by researching radio.
In truth, radio was not difficult.
Electromagnetic phenomena—electricity and magnetism—could be handled with early industrial technology.
After deciding on radio research, the two gathered some newcomers, integrated them into their previous ideology, and seamlessly connected