Munitions Empire-Chapter 1238 - 1158 International Quality Management System

While the war on Ben Island’s frontline persisted without pause, Tang Country at home was far from idle. What was happening within the Great Tang internally? Tang Mo was spearheading a massive reform initiative.

He drafted a series of stricter production management standards for the Great Tang Group, akin to the ISO9001 international quality management system standards implemented by Western nations, to regulate his group’s management and ensure the countless subsidiaries could develop more orderly and with higher quality.

The Great Tang Group couldn’t continue growing recklessly in chaotic fashion. It needed self-improvement, maintaining a healthy cycle amidst continuous expansion.

This system had long been experimentally implemented internally, then piloted, and eventually promoted as a standard. All processes were executed according to the standards, providing a basis for lawful and reliable management.

For Tang Mo, rather than deceiving others and awaiting significant misjudgments on their part, it was better to strengthen oneself and become invulnerable. Only by establishing oneself as unassailable could one have the leverage to anticipate the opponent’s blunders and openings.

That Western approach was far too vulgar. Tang Mo was a man deeply invested in developing his own hard power. He firmly believed in the principle that "you must be strong to forge iron," and thus he refused to follow the old paths of Western capitalism.

These people, ultimately, are shameless. Back then, the 400 million "rabbits" lived agrarian lives of subsistence—eating vegetables, sweet potatoes, and cassava, weaving cloth to wear, without industry or money, harmless to man or beast… Then these people came knocking, attacking the rabbits until they were bloodied and broken.

If you didn’t buy their goods, they’d sell you opium. If you resisted, they’d aim cannonfire at your face. Then they’d turn around and complain about the rabbits’ closed-door policy, insisting the rabbits open up and offering their so-called industrial civilization as "modern warmth."

A century later, it was still these bastards, trying every tactic to plead with the rabbits to deindustrialize, attempting to persuade them to stop eating meat and eat more vegetables. Shamefully fabricating lies so the rabbits could revert to the agrarian lifestyle of a hundred years prior.

Why, you ask? So that once the rabbits believed their nonsense, they’d all go back to eating grass, abandon their industry, throw away their weapons—then they’d attack the rabbits again, forcing them to buy opium from them once more...

Isn’t it ironic? Those who devise such schemes must be true masters of twisted logic, right? Actually, they’ve used this strategy in many countries—and they’ve succeeded.

First, they support a batch of agents—or simply pawns—using money and status to allow them to monopolize discourse. Immediately afterward, they start spewing nonsense, steering public opinion to align with their wishes.

Things like "participating in global division of labor," "abandoning heavy industry for environmental protection," "not eating meat for the sake of forests"… They feed people endless lies, crippling them mentally. Then they leverage capital for an overwhelming attack, downgrading the opponent to a primitive society, taking control of their food and minerals.

Making money—it’s not something to be ashamed of.

If your country has mines, they’ll use food to pacify you, making you obediently extract the mines and sell off your ancestral property. Without mines? Then they’ll use food to provoke internal strife, consuming your resources. After all, what’s the point of feeding so many people when there’s no mining wealth?

And if you’re thinking of tackling food control by farming for self-sufficiency or mining for industry—making tractors, dishes, refrigerators… Hmm, noble idea, but nations who’ve tried have their cemeteries overgrown with grass.

Honestly, instead of shamelessly insisting that every rabbit living an "eagle’s lifestyle" is unsustainable for the world, why not focus earnestly on expanding the metaphorical pie for all to share in the future!

Lighthouse Country has no such vision. Their worldview is limited to killing those who want to eat more meat and trampling on those who strive to share the pie.

But in reality, once someone expands the pie, leading the poor toward a prosperous future, a hegemon like Lighthouse Country will be abandoned, ultimately collapsing into history’s dust.

The masses rally around the leader expanding the pie, ensuring that everyone has a slice to eat. History will make the most correct choice! The Great Tang Empire clearly needs to learn from Lighthouse Country’s mistakes and choose the path of pie expansion.

Since the emergence of Tang Mo’s Great Tang Group, he has consistently been expanding the pie. Only by growing the cake on the metaphorical platter will he garner countless vested interests standing by his side.

Even if his goal is to overthrow this world’s feudal monarchy system, even if he aims to eliminate the old nobility, the old gentry, and the old landlord class.

As long as resources remain unevenly distributed, humanity’s commercial activity cannot come to a complete halt. Even barter is fundamentally a primitive form of commerce.

Where there is commerce and trade, a class uninvolved in production will emerge. Thus, Tang Mo cannot directly hand the means of production to commoners. In the face of this inevitable reality, Tang Mo can only eliminate the more degenerate and corrupt old classes, constructing a newer, more advanced, efficient, and ruthless class.

Commercial activity cannot be eradicated; market-driven transactions are irreplaceable for now. Hence, merchants cannot be wiped out. These individuals will inevitably control more means of production; this is a certainty.

Merchants holding the means of production also shoulder the risks inherent in production and trade. The profits they earn are essentially compensations for bearing these risks.

Of course, to mitigate such risks, merchants strengthen themselves, expanding their capital until it reaches a level where risks are manageable. Through cycles of devouring and elimination, they consolidate and distill. Those who survive grow stronger and larger...