The bright red flag with the word "Ming" began to flutter over the city of Vienna and at the northern foot of the Alps.
What Li Dingguo would not know in this life is that the Ming Dynasty in another time and space would die with hatred on the border of Yunnan, instead of entering this important European town known as the capital of music in later generations like now.
Looking at the many Baroque buildings filling his eyes, he couldn't help but smile.
As a son of the Han family, being able to one day ride on horseback in this foreign land and make everything here belong to the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly an achievement worthy of being praised.
The trembling European nobles were still kneeling on the ground, glancing at the Ming army entering the city.
They reluctantly accepted this outcome.
I can only watch helplessly as the wealth I have accumulated for more than five hundred years will soon be lost to these people from the East.
Military victory was accompanied by cultural victory.
Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng, who were ordered to come to Europe to spread Confucianism, also came here shortly after the Ming army entered the city of Vienna.
During this period, Confucian scholars such as Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng did not shave their heads and grow braids because the Manchus took over the Central Plains at this age. Instead, they were still brought to this Western land by E Guanbo.
After seeing the murals and various sculptures in the Baroque buildings here, Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qi met these great scholars. After all, they were Han Chinese in this era, when the country was powerful and the people were proud, so they scorned these Western cultures.
Wang Fuzhi directly reprimanded them: "It's simply nondescript! Witchcraft is rampant! They must accept the education of Confucianism as soon as possible!"
Sun Qifeng nodded and agreed with this, and said: "First build a Confucian temple and build a statue of the Emperor and Confucius. Then the first batch of Confucian boys can first pay homage to the emperor and the sages, and then accept Confucianism and Taoism." Teach.”
Wang Fuzhi, Sun Qifeng and others did what they said.
Faced with the military threat facing the Ming Empire, the European nobles did not dare to stop it, so they could only cooperate, and were forced to start wearing Confucian crowns and Confucian robes.
Because Wang Fuzhi strongly demanded that the Dingxi general Zhou Yuji issued an order to the Western barbarians who requested surrender, otherwise they should be hanged for refusing to obey Wang Hua.
The Westerners still care more about their own lives than their loyalty to God, so most of them honestly implement the policy of easy service and easy hair.
On this day, in mid-spring, the city of Vienna was filled with the fragrance of flowers. Thousands of Western scholars, led by Wang Fuzhi and Sun Qifeng, began to kneel down to worship the Emperor of Heaven and Confucius.
Wang Fuzhi even gave a speech, talking about the virtues of cultivating oneself and managing one's family.
"I have to examine myself three times every day: Have I been unfaithful in my plans for others? Have I not trusted my friends in my dealings? Have I not been accustomed to spreading the word?"
“Whatever the people want, God will obey.”
"The emperor has no relatives, only virtue is his assistant."
"Cultivation of oneself to bring peace to the people."
"Giving generously to the people can help everyone."
"The people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the king is the most important."
As Confucianism spread widely in the West with the help of the Ming Dynasty's military expansion, some Western scholars seemed to be opened to a new world after coming into contact with Confucianism.
In particular, Confucianism's focus on self-awareness and people-centered ideas made Western scholars who had just enlightened their minds in this era be shocked by these Confucian words after coming into contact with them.
At this time, Locke, who was historically one of the founders of the English Whig Party and an English Enlightenment thinker, and who was the first person in the West to reflect on his own heart, learned about Eastern Confucianism while studying in the Netherlands. Later, he was very horrified by these materialism and people-oriented ideas that were still lacking in the West, and therefore he kept muttering these Confucian sentences very addictedly, and said to the Prince of Orange:
"It turns out that people in the East have had the idea of people-based human rights for a long time! And they existed thousands of years ago! The civilization of this country is really advanced!"
The Prince of Orange also lamented: "Yes! We are really too backward, and only now are we starting to get rid of our ignorance."
China does have strong cultural advantages.
Therefore, these Western thinkers who were still in the stage of ideological enlightenment were shocked after seeing these Chinese cultures.
In fact, it was not just the people-centered thinking that began to emerge in the Western Yi.
Even in terms of economy, the economic thought of government control of the market economy existed during the Guan Zhong period, and the economic thought reflected in Sima Qian's "Biographies of Huo Shi" is exactly the same as the thought in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations".
This shows the richness of Chinese culture.
It's just that later generations failed to live up to expectations and read the scriptures more and more crookedly, which led to the phenomenon that Eastern learning was not as good as Western learning.
But this does not mean that all kinds of ideas accumulated by thousands of years of civilization are really obsolete.
But in this life, when Dongxue was pushed by Zhu Youxiao, the Ming Emperor, to practice education in the wilderness, it did not appear useless.
Actually very useful.
For the Westerners who had just emerged from the Middle Ages, many Eastern ideas made them feel quite fresh and enlightened, but they were not as repulsive as they imagined.
However, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, with the Lu Wang Xinxue, the thinking of Ming scholars was opened up, freeing them from the confinement of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and they began to inquire into their hearts and think independently again, ushering in an era of great explosion of ideas. In addition, the emperor After Zhu You expelled the Tatars from outside the school and suppressed the reactionaries from within, and promoted civilian education and reshaped the nation, local scholars began to criticize and develop after re-inheriting the learning of the sages.
Today's Ming Dynasty has tended to distinguish people by class and the nature of the country by interest relationships.
It is very difficult for any class of people to fool the majority of the people.
Because the local people of the Ming Dynasty had already gradually become wise due to decades of civilian education.
Even if someone with ulterior motives wants to fool the people, it will eventually become a joke and be punished with an iron fist by the empire.
When Leopold VI came to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, because of this, as soon as he landed, he was surrounded by a large group of newspaper editors and asked him many questions.
Questions such as "As the king of the Habsburg dynasty, how do you feel about becoming a subjugated king?" and "Why didn't you avoid the current ending by freeing your serfs?"
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty are now very enlightened, and many people read books and newspapers. Almost everyone likes to pay attention to various current events, such as the wars between the Japanese and British and French countries in the Americas, and whether there is a conspiracy in the fall of Louis XIV in Europe. These are all their affairs. A hot topic for discussion after dinner.
Even the traffickers and lackeys were worried all day long about whether the vassals in various places would rebel, and which prince would inherit the throne of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
And precisely because there is such demand, there is a corresponding market, so the editors of major newspapers and periodicals are very active in collecting and editing all kinds of news, like hungry wolves that smell meat.
People like Leopold VI would naturally be actively picked up by many newspaper editors as soon as they came to the Ming Dynasty.
King Leopold VI was shocked when he saw this scene. What he didn't expect was that in this eastern country, the civilians would be as curious about him as the ruler. The whole country seemed to be more than just the ruler's country.
"No wonder this Eastern country is so powerful! It is really different from me in Europe!"
King Leopold VI sighed.
After he arrived in Ming Dynasty, he was naturally assigned to the Institute of Foreign Education to receive Chinese language.
The person who received him at the College of Education was King Ovitsky of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Ovitsky excitedly said to King Leopold VI: "I came a while before you, so, by order, I am your senior brother! From now on, whether it is cultural classes or labor classes, you have to listen Senior brother, do you understand my arrangement?"
