"Currently, the Europeans have been the most successful attempts at genetic diversity in civilizations in human history... Look at the entire continent of Europe, although it is fragmented into many countries and divided into several languages, but their Civilization has a certain unity..."
"The dawn of civilization came from Greece, flourished in Rome, and then merged in the Middle Ages... There are basically coordinated and unified religions, exactly the same technology tree system, and interdependent philosophies and systems..."
"Such an almost identical cultural system allows people across Europe to move freely and learn from each other! You can imagine a boy from a rural town in Eastern Europe coming to the bustling London or Paris. As long as he can overcome the language After this difficult problem, the rest of life is not difficult!”
"The same religious beliefs, the same skin color and race, similar values and logical systems allow him to easily integrate into local life. But if you bring a black boy from Africa, let him try to integrate... "
“Not only does individual life benefit from this environment of cultural convergence, but also national development can benefit from this convergence... This is mutual learning and reference among political systems!”
"Prince Enrique of Portugal has just discovered the west coast of Africa, and Spain can see the benefits from it, thus starting the era of the Spanish Armada. This is learning..."
"Britain, seeing the Spanish making a lot of money, immediately devoted all its efforts to the cause of great navigation, and even allowed official pirates to rob on the Atlantic Ocean. This is also following the footsteps after seeing others succeed..."
"In the first industrial revolution, Britain became the most powerful country in Europe. Then France, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia would also follow suit and work hard to bring the power of industrialization to themselves..."
"There is even a national system. All the emperors in Europe now, even Napoleon III, the emperor of Austria, the czar of Tsarist Russia... No matter how many titles they have as emperors, they have gradually recognized the British constitutional monarchy in their governance philosophy! "
"Isn't this just learning? Which country in Europe doesn't establish its own fundamental constitution now? Even the emperor must receive certain restrictions, so that he is not like an antique and backward like Asia!"
Xiao Letian smiled, "The same civilization system is divided into countless countries. For a nation like the Chinese who have been completely brainwashed by the idea of university, they absolutely cannot understand and do not want to learn!"
"But you have to jump out of this circle, stand in a position that no one before you could reach, and think about this issue..."
"The convergence of European culture and the division of countries have actually produced a very subtle chemical reaction... That is, every country is actually a testing field, and all countries are making various attempts to reform and develop the country! "
"Every attempt has its failures and gains. These are experiences that can be easily copied by any country. Because the culture is the same, there will be no acclimatization problems if we learn from it!"
"Since each experimental field is relatively small, successful experience will quickly spread throughout Europe, while the consequences of failure will only cause damage in this small field..."
"At the same time, other countries will immediately learn a lesson to avoid the recurrence of bad consequences. This will limit the destructive power to a small area without causing chaos throughout Europe!"
"This is the fundamental reason why European countries became so powerful after getting rid of the shackles of religion after the Renaissance!"
"Does it feel a bit familiar to you? That's right... isn't this the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! Do you want to deny the explosion of Chinese intellectual circles during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? Hundreds of schools of thought, so many ideas collided back and forth, even triggering wars..."
"But don't forget, it is precisely because of that era that China has left countless cultural heritages to us, so that our descendants can sit on the thoughts of our ancestors and play with the doctrine of appropriation..."
"Chinese people don't actually need to think. As long as you can learn everything left by your ancestors, there are already answers to all problems..."
"I see..." Wang Huaiyuan looked at the porthole with blurred eyes. His fingers were tapping on the table unconsciously, and he was mumbling to himself, and his mind was spinning rapidly.
"You are right, there is indeed a certain truth to it...China has always emphasized unification and centralization of power since ancient times, but this has created a situation where the ship is in trouble!"
"After every prosperous age, there must be a great chaos, because we are not as flexible as Europe... The decline of Portugal and Spain proved to the Europeans that the path of maritime colonization and plunder alone will not work..."
"So Britain must pursue a new path that combines industrialization and maritime trade, thereby creating an empire on which the sun never sets! The decline of Portugal and Spain will not affect the entire European civilization, because Britain took over!"
"That's right! You are now enlightened. Just because the ship of China's unification is too big, when it encounters historical opportunities and adopts the correct national policy, its brilliance will be even more dazzling!"
"But if the big ship of China suddenly encounters some natural disaster, and then there is no better national policy to tide over the crisis, it will also be because the ship is too big and the inertia of the old forces is too strong to turn around, and it will eventually hit the rocks. ……Broken!"
"There is nothing better than a change of dynasty, so the phrase I hate most about the Manchus is that 'ancestral family laws are immutable.' In fact, the same was true for the Ming Dynasty. The harsh system left by Zhu Yuanzhang was still retained during the Chongzhen period!"
"The family tradition of our ancestors! This world has already entered the era of big ships and huge cannons. How can we still dominate the world? The death of Baliqiao was not tragic enough!"
This conversation in Port Said was so profound that it would probably take Wang Huaiyuan a year and a half to fully comprehend it. The gray-haired old intelligence chief asked with emotion.
"I understand. You still don't want to be the emperor. You want to take precautions to kill all signs of attempts to centralize power within the Chinese people! So you are allowing Xiang Ying and others to develop their own power? Are you not afraid that he will really do it? A militarist government?"
"Don't be afraid! If the big tree of the Chinese ethnic group wants to be successful, it can't do it without going through some hardships... There have even been several controllable civil wars. I think it's just a pain that must be experienced in growing up!"
"Human, how can you have immunity if you don't experience the pain of inherited diseases!"
"Wait a minute..." Wang Huaiyuan suddenly stopped Xiao Letian's words. "Are you going to do this European thing within the Chinese people? Do you want to create unlimited experimental fields? Do you want to split the Manchu Qing Dynasty? You don't want unification. of China?”
