"I understand. In this case, it seems to be quite troublesome." Zhu Wenkui thought for a while and accepted his sister's statement.
"The imperial courts of all dynasties actually had similar ideas in this regard. The smart people in the imperial court will first look at whether you have the conditions to rebel, then whether you have the ability to rebel, and finally whether you have the heart to rebel."
"Because the mind usually follows the conditions. When the conditions are met, it doesn't matter if you don't have the mind. And ability... There is never a shortage of capable people in the Central Plains. In fact, there is a surplus of such people. So it makes no sense to consider these. It is most appropriate only to look at the conditions at the time."
"Looking at it this way, the only way to break through is to avoid this problem. Apart from that, there may really be nothing we can do about this matter," he said frankly.
Monk Dao Yan nodded, seemingly accepting Zhu Wenkui's answer.
"In fact, if you think about it the other way around, it would be difficult for the imperial court to make concessions - if you look at Nanyang now, you will know it. This is not unfounded. After these overseas people become big, they will really want to compete with the imperial court for legitimacy. ." Little Jeanne also said.
"If they are strong, they will learn from the Javanese Yuan and intervene in the fight for the only legal system; if they are weak, they will learn from Jiaozhou back then, actively draw a clear line with the Central Plains, and classify themselves as natives, so as to maintain the chieftain status. She thought for a while and gave an example: "But if you put it this way, it seems like a choice between two bad outcomes for the court..."
"You see, the worst case scenario is that these people lead some Central Plains people to establish themselves as kings and break away from the control of the imperial court. They are likely to take away a considerable part of the semi-Chinese territory, leaving the previous foundation in vain, and also letting the natives People are stronger.”
"The worse situation is that these people are directly opposed to the imperial court. If you fight them, you will have to fight for the expedition; if you don't fight them, it will seriously affect the authority of the imperial court."
"So for the imperial court, if they are far away, they can pretend not to know; if they are extremely close, the imperial court will take action; as for those who are not far or not close, it is the most disgusting. I guess it is almost the same as waiting for them to disappear every day. Even if it is not close, the imperial court will take action. Being wiped out by barbarians is a good thing."
"For our country, it actually doesn't matter. Because our country is just a country and doesn't care about the existence of other countries." She compared: "But the Central Plains Dynasty is not actually a country, it is 'Tianxia'. This kind of regime It is impossible to accept an organization of the same culture and level.”
"But on the other hand, as long as you avoid these, you can still deal with them. After all, our place is really far away."
Guo Kang nodded in approval. But before he could speak, Monk Daoyan spoke.
"The princess is smart." He said politely: "These ideas should not have suddenly appeared, but have been carefully considered and sorted out. Have you thought about it before? Or has an expert given you advice?"
"Master Qi has already talked about the basic principles." Little Jeanne said: "As for the specific case, after a preliminary understanding, it should not be difficult to understand the whole story."
"Then he meant what he said." Monk Daoyan commented: "But why haven't I seen them?"
"Together with my father, they study issues such as sect-vassal relations every day, so they think about it very clearly - I also listened to what they said." Zhu Wenkui said: "However, nearly a year ago, my father said that the northern general If something serious happens, we urgently call Master Qi and others to help. Although we haven’t seen anything happen until now..."
Monk Dao Yan nodded and did not ask any further questions.
Guo Kang estimated that this was also expected. Although the previous results were very unreliable, Qi Tai was still an elite bureaucrat of the Ming Dynasty, and the basic ideas of these courts should still be very clear.
"We do have this idea." Guo Kang and Theodora looked at each other and said taking advantage of the situation.
"Actually, this is not intentional. You should also be able to see that it is very difficult for us to maintain orthodox Chinese culture here. Therefore, we simply chose a completely different route."
"How are they different?" Monk Daoyan asked with great interest.
"In the area around the Central Plains, people all learn from other people's systems and cultures, and then carry out top-down transformation within themselves. But we can do the exact opposite," Guo Kang said.
"They start from the end and learn the results of the development of the Central Plains; we start from the beginning and refer to the development process of the Central Plains."
"I've been here for several years and I haven't seen this idea." Zhu Wenkui said helplessly: "What kind of strategy is this? Can you explain it in detail?"
"Actually, this is not an 'idea', but a natural development. My thoughts are just a hindsight-style summary - I don't have the power to formulate and implement strategies." Guo Kang first made a statement.
"The essence of this question lies in the understanding of 'Rome'. In other words, what is Roman civilization, especially our current Roman civilization?"
Monk Dao Yan still looked at him with interest, little Jeanne began to think, and Zhu Wenkui looked like he was listening attentively. Next to her, Princess Ma calmly picked up the soup bowl and drank it, as if she didn't care much about it.
"My idea is that Rome is actually the product of a half-developed Chinese-style regime." Guo Kang continued.
"I know you are promoting my beard transformation, but these are just legal myths, right? Do you still take it seriously?" asked little Jeanne.
"Of course those myths are just myths, for everyone to understand easily." Guo Kang didn't care: "Isn't the real situation, as I said, the other way around?"
"The other way around?" This time, little Jeanne didn't react.
"Yes." Guo Kang nodded: "As I said, the countries around the Central Plains are a typical 'learned' model. But here, the actual situation is not like this. .”
"Before we came here, Roman civilization had been developing for a long time. It did have many places close to the Central Plains, but these areas were not directly learned. After all, because they were too far away, the two sides were very far apart. There was little communication for a long time.”
"Then think about it. In this case, there are many similarities. What does it mean?" he asked.
"You mean, different civilizations will actually develop in the same direction?" Little Jeanne had chatted with Guo Kang many times before. Knowing some of his ideas, she immediately reacted.
"Yes." Guo Kang nodded: "I call this 'convergent evolution'. We are all human beings, so the final choices may be very similar. And if we continue to develop, we can actually use 'can communicate with the Central Plains' "This is a way to communicate with different civilizations. I think this is a better choice."
(End of chapter)
