Self-cultivation and Qi family rule the country and level the world, this is a famous Confucian saying that has influenced Asia for thousands of years, on the surface it seems to be just a motivational sentence, but this sentence has exposed the real social structure of ancient Asia, especially in the Confucian cultural circle.

Self-cultivation is to strive to improve one's ability and moral cultivation, only self-cultivation to become a moral gentleman, you have the qualifications of the Qi family.

In ancient times, the family was a very important cornerstone of the social structure, a family of three was also called a family, hundreds of clans were also called a family, and the seven clans and five surnames that even the emperor did not dare to provoke before the Sui and Tang dynasties were also families.

Even the royal family of all dynasties is fundamentally a family. As for the country and the world above the family, many times it is a very illusory existence.

For example, the famous Qinghe Cui clan in the history books, from the Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, all the way to the Sui and Tang dynasties, they are all high-ranking families in the Central Plains, and the country above their heads has changed one after another, but in their hearts, only the longevity of the family is fundamental, and everything else is nonsense.

After the Song and Ming dynasties, although the perverted big family disappeared, the people's family concept was still there, the Yuan Dynasty fell to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty died to the Qing Dynasty, and in the eyes of the people who valued the family, what they cared about was only the longevity of their clan.

As for the country, the world, it's all full of food and shouting to play, don't take it seriously.

And Japan, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, began to accept the transformation of Han culture, and of course the dry goods in Confucian culture are also copied.

The same is true of the Shimazu family, since the establishment of the family during the Kamakura shogunate, it is equivalent to the establishment of the family from the Southern Song Dynasty, and the family has had several ups and downs for more than 700 years, but it is indeed very remarkable.

Even in their history, there was a feat of almost the entire same Kyushu, when they almost became the daimyo of Japan.

Not only the Shimazu family, but also the Oda family, the Toyotomi family, the Mori family, and the Uesugi family, which are famous in Japanese history...... Even the current Tokugawa shogunate was essentially a large armed group with the family as the core.

In fact, the whole of Asia has been ruled by this family culture for thousands of years, and no matter how dynasties change, its essence has not changed in the slightest.

But just when all Asians thought that this kind of family world would be eternal, there was a stunned young man who returned to Asia alone, jumped out and said to the Asian elites, "You fools, the family world has long been unworkable, from now on it will be an era when the nation and the country will sweep away, and those who do not conform to this era will be conquered..."

The scolder is naturally Xiao Letian, and the point of view he expounded is still too advanced for the current Asia, after all, and the people who can accept it are really not willing to accept it except for the big-headed soldiers under him.

It's not about right or wrong, it's just about interests, and no one can contradict you, even if you say it so cleverly. But if you run to the Manchu royal family and say, "Sooner or later, you will be finished, not only will you be finished, but also the land outside the Guanxi and Mongolia will have to be spit out, so that the whole nation and the country will ......be divided equally."

That scene was so beautiful that even Xiao Letian didn't dare to fantasize about it.

There are only two exceptions, under the Asian sky, there are only two forces that are now willing to listen to Xiao Letian's reasoning, and they are also really considering his reasoning, one is the Ryukyus of Wanguo Jinliang, and the other is the Shimazu Satsuma Domain, which has been beaten with a large bag.

There is a reason in the fist, this is really true, you can only show incredible force to convince the Japanese who worship the strong, and once they are convinced, they will immediately turn on the learning mode and try their best to squeeze you dry.

Of course, Xiao Lotian knew that the Shimazu family would come to Ryukyu to mix sand, and Sakamoto Ryoma, who received his blood, had already become his little brother, and the internal intelligence of Japan was open to Xiao Lotian.

Xiao Lotian is waiting for this opportunity, his career is not limited to a Qing Dynasty, in his eyes, the forces that can be united are worth trying, since your Shimazu family is ready to be brainwashed by me, then wait to accept my ravage.

In a small class specially for the elites of the Foreign Legion, Xiao Letian's deafening voice completely convinced these 'secret agents' of the Shimazu family, and even Shimazu Hisamitsu and Shimazu Tadayoshi were convinced by this great truth.

"Remember, you must remember me...... The world of the future is destined to be a complete collapse of the world, and a world where nationalism is rampant, and all the old ideas are swept into the dustbin..."

"Don't be unconvinced, let alone look at me with idiotic eyes, you can argue if you are not convinced, now I will tell you what the hell is in the world..."

Xiao Lotian smashed three blackboards, and finally made these Japanese suddenly realize that there were some inconspicuous things on the surface, but there were very deep doorways inside.

In fact, the family is an inevitable choice after human beings evolve into social animals, and the era of the collapse of the tribal system and the rise of city-states and states is the era when human beings begin to evolve the concept of family.

To put it more clearly, a man's strength is weak, in the face of floods, beasts, wars, pestilences...... Humans can only increase their chances of survival if they are huddled together.

And human nature also has a strict violent gene, extremely good at infighting, and it is very common to rob each other, and it is precisely because of this that human beings have chosen the only relationship that can be relied on by clan blood relatives.

In primitive societies, including agrarian civilizations, families with strong cohesion always have more resources and a greater chance of survival than others.

Taking the Han people, the representative of the Central Plains civilization, as an example, if they had not had the strong cohesion of the clan for thousands of years, I am afraid that they would have been completely wiped out in several foreign invasions.

In other words, the family system that we are now overthrowing was not synonymous with backwardness in ancient Asia, but in fact it was an advanced social structure that was very adapted to Asia at that time...... But why do I say that he is advanced on the one hand, and overthrow him on the other? This has to take into account the great subject of the changing times......"

"You have to remember that ancient society was a relatively closed environment, Japan was surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the Central Plains civilization was surrounded by deserts, plateaus, and frozen soil...... Such an environment naturally protects us..."

"Japan's enemies come from the sea, and the enemies of the Central Plains come from the north, which has become an inherent mode of thinking, and in the tug-of-war for thousands of years, although the family concept of the Central Plains civilization has occasionally suffered small setbacks, it is still not a loss on the whole, so they have no motivation to take the initiative to change......

"But now......" Xiao Lotian smashed another blackboard with a bang, "but now, a more advanced and terrible enemy has crossed the sea, and all the peoples who survive under this sky have encountered the most severe crisis, if we can't cross this hurdle, then what is the result waiting for us?"

"Then there will be only colonization, no oppression, and even the extinction of the country... Don't have any illusions that the family that has protected you for thousands of years can continue to protect you, in the face of such a powerful enemy, even the Manchu royal family is a paper tiger, let alone your little Shimazu family......"

"Do you remember the raw wheat incident? Did you protect you with the three steamships that you had bought from the Shimazu family? How long could you resist under the guns of the British? You only saw Europa's cannons, but do you know what the invisible hands of the cannons were?"

"Now I tell you that all the European powers started with nationalism, and nationalism is the cornerstone of a modern state, and he tells you that there is a nation and a country above the people's homes. Only a country that has been baptized by nationalism can burst out with vigorous vitality......"

"Only with this kind of dedication can we unite the strength of the whole country to accomplish such a major event as the Industrial Revolution...... The great era of vigorous development of science and technology is unfolding in front of us, and every progress and development of science and technology requires countless manpower and material resources, and the emergence of any emerging industry needs a large amount of capital to feed ......"

"May I ask you, how many resources can a backward society like ours gather and how many great things can it do? In the end, it is just a matter of harming the public and private interests, and it is just a matter of hiding it among the people......

"Time is running out... Time waits for no man...... While we are eating and waiting to die for a day, the nation-states of Europe are tightening their belts and saving money to build a big industry and a big military...... To be one step behind is to be a slave forever..."

With a loud bang, Xiao Letian smashed another blackboard, and his roaring voice even frightened the sentry standing guard outside, "Just when we were still hesitant and couldn't see where the road ahead was, the battleship of Europa was going to the sea like dumplings, and it was desperately upgrading like not asking for money......"

"And their technology, in just a few decades, a rear-loading rifled gun will replace a qiē front-loading gun, a fixed bullet will replace a qiē split ammunition, the telegraph network will cover the entire earth, and I can even foresee that the time for mankind to conquer the sky is not far off......"

"You unenlightened elm pimples, just guard your acre and three points alive, and when the enemy can fly from the sky and throw cannonballs on your heads, you will find that the gap between the East and the West is as wide as the Pacific Ocean..."

Shimazu Dairo on the city wall, never thought that he would have such a good eloquence, at that moment he was really possessed by the prime minister, and his poisonous tongue was depicted vividly.

At this time, King Shotai spoke, "Yes, I also attended that small class, and that was on that day, I made the same decision as the head of the Shimazu family, we want to see the future depicted by the prime minister, and we also want to integrate into the new world......"

"Since change is inevitable, let's stand at the head of the tide..."

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