Introduction: Blessed by misfortune! The country was cut off 80% of its land, and as a result, the remaining territory was found to be a great treasure
The state is a large family of hundreds of millions of families. We have always been a very prosperous country, and every dynasty in history has been very prosperous. But in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, due to the incompetence and extravagance of the Qing government, we began to decline slowly. We are not only facing the dilemma of being invaded, but also have to pay compensation for the cession of land and lose power and humiliate the country. For a time, a great country that was once incomparably beautiful was reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.
Later, the army composed of poor people defeated the invaders, and eventually, the founding of New China, at this point, the country began to grow and develop. In fact, no matter which country or region it is, it is the same reason that backwardness will be beaten. In the West, there was also a country that, because it was backward and did not have the strength to resist foreign invaders, was invaded and lost 8,000 square kilometers of land, which is not a small amount. You know, if the country does not have this 8,000 square kilometers of land, it is equivalent to not having 80% of the country.
This country is Luxembourg, which has experienced 3 invasions in hundreds of years. These 3 invasions can be said to have left the country behind and impoverished for a long time. Now the area of the country is only 2500 square kilometers. In the earliest days, the country once had an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers. At the time of the Franco-German War, France, as a defeated country, needed to cut up land, but instead of cutting up its own country's land, it invaded Luxembourg. This poor country was thus given to Germany by the invaders. Not only this time, but also the two invasions of other countries before and after, so that the land of this country shrank again and again, and finally became what it is now.
But they can also be said to have been blessed by misfortune, because they found that there was a great deal of treasure in the remaining land. These treasures are iron ore. With the support of a large number of iron ore mines, the country's economy began to develop. With the passage of time, under the maintenance of iron ore, the country began to become rich and became one of the most highly developed countries in the world.