Looking at the history of the struggle of the Chinese nation, it is actually a history of national integration where the big fish eats the small fish. There was no concept of Han nationality in the world. Before the Han Dynasty, people had only one concept in their minds: "China".
This is not China in terms of later generations, but China in terms of geography, economy, culture, including military. The center of the world has the most powerful productivity, the most advanced technology, and a culture that attracts all nations. It is the dream country in the minds of all foreign races.
China is a country that foreigners scold for its weakness every day, but they still want to live in it personally. This has nothing to do with blood, but only represents the inner desire of human beings for happiness.
Historically, before entering the Central Plains, the foreign races around the Central Plains were all eager to use all military means to destroy China, take away the population and wealth, and take away the happy life they dreamed of.
However, reality has taught them cruel lessons time and time again. Every time a foreign invasion of China will be transformed by the powerful Han culture in a short period of time, no nation can avoid this curse.
Why? In fact, this is related to the primitive desires of human beings. Who doesn’t like a prosperous life? When the wild people outside the Guan Dynasty discovered that meat cooked with exquisite kitchen utensils is more delicious than eating it raw, who would miss the taste of raw meat?
When the Central Plains women with skin like gelatin and exuding a blue fragrance walk into the hearts of barbarians, who will look at those old tribal women who bite like buckets, with skin all over their bodies covered in grease and yelling and cursing on the street all day long?
When they discovered that recording history with words was far more accurate and convenient than recording with murals and songs, it became inevitable to put down their swords and learn calligraphy.
The process of assimilation of civilization is actually a process of assimilating a happy life to an unhappy life. Just imagine that when your life in the Central Plains is extremely perfect, you are suddenly thrown back to a place where even eating salt is a problem, you don’t even have an iron pot to cook, and you don’t have to spend the winter. Can you still adapt to the bitter cold land without a house like your ancestors?
The reincarnation of the Central Plains civilization started over and over again in conflicts. The Han people left behind countless memories of suffering and glorious history. Almost everyone who has lived through history books will denounce the weakness of the Song Dynasty and the corruption of the late Ming Dynasty. Whenever China suffered The history of bullying by foreigners is an untouchable pain in the heart of every Han people.
Even though thousands of years have passed since this kind of pain, the Han people still cannot forget it and always mention it with a few curse words and slurs.
But all the Han people have overlooked one point. How did a small tribe originating from the Yellow River Basin in the Central Plains gradually turn into a unified country of more than tens of millions of square kilometers? So much land, so much living space, could it be given away for free?
If you can break out of the strange circle of emotionally analyzing history, you will find that it is actually suffering that has made China and China a success. In history, no matter how arrogant and arrogant the nations around China have been, they will all be annexed by China in the end. its territory, changing its people.
In fact, if their ideological realm reached the level of Zeng Guofan and Xiao Letian, it was impossible for them not to analyze such a problem. This included the Manchu emperors, especially the generations of British rulers who had just founded the country. They had to think hard about this dilemma.
To be fair, the Manchus ruled the Central Plains with alien races. In the history of thousands of years, they were really the best among the ethnic minorities, because they knew how to analyze history and learn, and they were constantly thinking about how to escape from the past. The Chinese curse exerts this kind of control over ethnic minorities.
Whether it was Kangxi, Yongzheng or Qianlong, they all had that faint curse affecting them in their hearts. The Manchus had been thinking about how to escape from this reincarnation for two hundred years after entering the country.
Of course Xiao Letian knew that no matter how the grasshopper jumped, it could not escape the cold wind of late autumn and winter. It was fate for the Manchu land to be integrated into China, and it was not something Cixi and her group could resist.
But Xiao Letian also has to admit that the Manchu minority has been much more successful than other ethnic groups in history. In terms of the length and depth of its rule over China, no dynasty established by any foreign ethnic group in the Central Plains in history can be a match for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
For two hundred years, the Manchus worked hard to study the Han people, Confucianism, and the landlord class. Gradually, this group of people found a set of classic laws that restricted the Han people.
Shaving hair and changing clothes, using slaves to rule slaves, bringing Mongolian and Tibetan people back into alliance, supporting Qingliu to fight against Han governors... Various preventive measures have only one purpose, which is to break the rule of ethnic minorities in the Central Plains for thousands of years. That curse, that curse of assimilation.
The fact that some things are not said does not mean that both parties are not aware that the Manchus want to rule the Han people and use the Central Plains as an inexhaustible gold mine. However, the Han elites are watching with cold eyes, watching history go in that inevitable direction. They They are waiting for the Manchus to hand over the land outside the Pass and eventually become China's inherent territory.
One wants to be permanently enslaved, and the other wants to gain all his wealth in the end. This kind of confrontation is very hidden but is everywhere. Only a few true scholars in the world can clearly see this conflict between national destiny and the ebb and flow of this power.
Zeng Guofan understands this truth, so Zeng Guofan can clearly judge the decision that the Manchus are about to make. This group of Manchus will never let the Han people grow bigger. They are destined to fall into the arms of foreigners at the most critical moment, that is, There is a 90% chance that the Rakshasa ghost will agree to its request.
But this cannot be said to Fu Qing. After all, Mr. Qing is still a member of that group. He can only give a little reminder and stop there. It is not that he expects Fu Qing to change. The commander-in-chief means it from a side perspective. Warning, warning those in the Forbidden City not to go too far, my eyes, Zeng Guofan, have not yet bloomed.
Fu Qing wanted to continue discussing this topic, but he suddenly found that the commander had stopped talking, so he could not continue asking. After three glasses of wine, Fu Qing came up with the final question.
"Commander, in this war between my brother and the Rakshasa ghost, who do you think can win? Now in the whole of Asia, you are the only one who can analyze such a big event. Please clarify this for me, Marshal. …”
Zeng Guofan did not answer directly but asked instead, "What do you think? Or who do you want to win?"
"Of course I hope Xiao Letian wins, after all, he is my brother, my relative..."
"Hahaha... Not necessarily! If Xiao Letian wins, it may be good for you, but what about the court? Is it good for you?"
Fu Qing's face froze and he opened his mouth, but no word came out. He was a little embarrassed to answer. yes! Is it good or bad for Xiao Letian to win? As the Chinese continue to grow, the threat to the imperial court will become greater, but if the Rakshasa ghost wins, who among us can be willing to do so?
Zeng Guofan sighed in his heart, even you, Fu Qing, are hesitant. I think this court is hopeless! How could two hundred years of inertia stop the car so easily?
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