Chapter 3355 Chapter 3357 [The teacher returns to the court]
Because any issue has supporters and opponents, the supporters and opponents will be divided into more radical and more conservative people, and the division will continue...
In this way, they only focus on arguing about these issues and will no longer pay attention to the essence of the matter.
For example, the reason African Americans live in poverty is because they have been enslaved and exploited by capitalists for a long time. But they are arguing endlessly with the red necks who are also being squeezed, and few people think of fighting for their rights and interests with the capitalists.
Xiang Nan is now learning from the United States and England, trying his best to mix sand into Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia to make them more chaotic. In this way, it will be difficult for anyone to rise up against him again.
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In the 30th year of Qianlong's reign, Xiang Nan unified the world, and then returned to the capital in glory.
Hundreds of civil and military officials lined up in the suburbs to welcome Xiang Nan. Envoys from various countries, wealthy businessmen, and ordinary people, millions of people crowded at the top of the city to welcome Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan went on an expedition in the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign and returned today. He has been away for eight years in total. In eight years, we conquered North Asia, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe, Africa, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Tianfang, Tianzhu, and Central Asia...
The entire Eurasian continent was conquered by him and fell under his iron heel. From ancient times to the present, no emperor has ever had such divine martial arts.
Although the imperial court fought wars for many years, the people of the Central Plains were not living a hard life. On the contrary, they were better off than before.
First, because through the war, Xiang Nan's army plundered a large amount of wealth. Not to mention anything else, rice from Southeast Asia and potatoes from Rakshasa country alone have filled many hungry bellies.
The second is to solve the living problems of ordinary people through immigration. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the domestic population reached 200 million. In the early days of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 70 million people in the country.
The population has tripled, but the fields have not increased much, leaving many people hungry and impoverished. It also caused a high degree of involution in human resources. At that time, the price of a person was less than that of a cow.
Therefore, even though cattle farming had already appeared in the Central Plains as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, in many rural areas, people still use plows to plow fields because human power is cheaper than animal power.
After Xiang Nan opened up the territory, a large number of poor people immigrated to the Western Regions, Central Asia, the Rakshasa Kingdom, Europe, Canada, the United States, Southeast Asia, Tianzhu, and Tianfang...
There, they can receive fields, houses, and livestock, and their quality of life has been greatly improved. As for the people who stayed in the Central Plains, their employment pressure has been greatly alleviated, and their lives have naturally become much better.
Third, with the advancement of science and technology, industrial chemical fertilizers have gradually become popular, and ammonium chloride is widely used, resulting in an increase in grain production.
Coupled with the continuous import of grain, livestock, and fruits from overseas, the living conditions of the people have improved significantly compared with before. At least they can have a full stomach and wear warm clothes. Therefore, the people are naturally grateful.
Seeing Xiang Nan's chariots and horses coming from a distance, they all knelt down and shouted long live, long live, long live. For a moment, the shouts were loud and deafening.
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His creation of territory and territory was so large that no previous dynasty could reach it. It was probably unprecedented, and there would be no more in the future. This was enough to comfort our ancestors.
The main reason why he was able to achieve such great achievements was because of the time difference. If he had started fifty years later, after Europe had carried out the first industrial revolution and the first bourgeois revolution, progress would not have been as easy as it is now.
Because the first industrial revolution would not only make European countries richer and stronger quickly, but also make them less easily defeated. And it will also lead to the complete rise of the bourgeoisie.
Once the bourgeoisie fully rises, they will demand more power.
For example, personal property is sacred and inviolable, such as the right to participate in political discussions, such as the pursuit of democracy, freedom and equality... After the bourgeois revolution, the feudal concept of the divine right of kings will be completely shattered.
At that time, the old system will die and a new system will rise, and the whole of Europe and even the world will be shaken. And the awakened people will never be easily tamed from now on.
Just like Napoleon, he was a man of great talent and strategy. At his peak, Spain, Prussia, most of Italy, and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw were all his territories. Even so, if he fails, he will be ousted by the people.
Therefore, after the completion of the first industrial revolution and the first bourgeois revolution, European countries and their people will no longer be easily conquered.
Xiang Nan just hit this time gap and stopped the first industrial revolution in time before it was completed.
Now, the advanced industries of Britain, France, Prussia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Rakshasa countries have all been destroyed by Xiang Nan in the name of struggle, and the industrial base has been set back for hundreds of years.
And well-known scholars, university professors, and progressive people from various countries are also immigrants who can be killed and immigrated.
For example, the mathematician and physicist Lagrange, the king of mathematics Euler, Watt who improved the steam engine, the polymath Buffon, etc. They were all put on a train by Xiang Nan and sent to the Central Plains. They were placed under house arrest at the Academy of Sciences in Xishan, Beijing, so that they could continue to use their talents and talents while preventing their inventions from being leaked.
In addition, universities and middle schools in various countries were banned and libraries were emptied out. All kinds of progressive books were banned, publishing machines were confiscated, and the books in people's homes were searched and burned, leaving only the Bible to read and only church schools to attend.
The purpose of this is to imprison the people's thoughts, and the effect of this is naturally significant.
Just like the late Ming Dynasty, the sprouts of the bourgeoisie have appeared in the Central Plains. After the Qing army entered the country, they launched a literary prison to imprison the people's thoughts, causing the civilization of the Central Plains to retreat instead of advancing. This is the reason.
Furthermore, in order to prevent a resurgence, Xiang Nan also conducted a large number of immigrants, exchanging people from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Nowadays, in major cities in Europe, there are people from the Central Plains, Mongolia, the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, Tianzhu, and Tianfang.
White Europeans no longer have an absolute advantage in population. Moreover, it is difficult for people of different nationalities, different skin colors, different cultures, different languages, different customs, and different beliefs to unite together.
This is like the story of the Tower of Babel.
It is said that people once wanted to build a Tower of Babel that reached the sky. God knew about it and secretly destroyed it, making everyone unable to understand each other's language, unable to communicate, and unable to cooperate. In the end, the building of the tower had to be abandoned.
With his actions, Xiang Nan believed that Europe would never have a chance to rise again. After all, just unifying our thoughts is an extremely difficult thing to achieve.
Coupled with the opening of two China-Europe railways, the longest journey from the Central Plains to Europe is only twenty or thirty days, which is shorter than the time Kangxi visited the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, any problems can be dealt with in time.
(End of this chapter)