I have to say that these veterans who have experienced the rise and fall of the kingdom of heaven are all apprehensive about this kind of 'internal friction'. Since ancient times, factional infighting has been extremely cruel, especially the party strife that has been precipitated in China for thousands of years can sometimes really destroy an empire.

Whether it is the Manchu Dynasty or the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is already an open secret to rely on the hands of the enemy to destroy one's political enemies, and under the banner of righteousness, you will jump into the battle situation of death, do you jump or not? If you don't jump, you will disobey the order, and you will be killed internally, and if you jump in, it will be a life of nine deaths, and you will have to peel off the skin if you survive.

In factional warfare, no one considers whether you are a vassal with you, or whether your defeat will affect the safety of the empire.

The same was true of the First Sino-Japanese War in history, after the Beiyang Naval Division was formed, why did the imperial court desperately try to fund the opening of the fund, not to add ships or even to change guns? In the final analysis, it was a power struggle between the Manchus and the Han Chinese, and even some Manchu nobles at that time hoped that Li Hongzhang would lose.

Because in their hearts, Little Japan is the problem of scabies, and the rise of Hanchen is the big problem!

Xiao Letian calmly watched the generals in front of him divided into two factions, the new generation of officers represented by Xiang Ying, they basically agreed with Xiang Ying's judgment.

But the veterans who have experienced the battle of the Heavenly Kingdom and the brutal infighting within the Great Qing Kingdom are inclined to the views that Luo Huo just said.

For a while, the debate between the two sides was full of gunpowder, and Xiang Ying and a group of other young people were even a little red-faced.

"You don't understand! Europe is different, the spirit of nationalism has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so these politicians have a bottom line when they do things!"

"The country is their bottom line, if British politicians are such guys who don't care about national interests, how can they get to where they are today?"

"Yes! Without the support of the national spirit, Britain would not have been able to administer so many colonies at all! Why is it that no one has been splitting the colonies until now? It is because the nationalist spirit of the people is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people......

At that moment, Xiao Letian's tears of excitement were about to flow out, he didn't expect these Chinese students to progress so quickly!

If nothing else, with the understanding of nationalism, these young people have gone ahead of these old people.

Why did China have to go around on which big 6 for thousands of years, and why did Zheng He not start colonial expansion after he went to the Western Ocean, after he had a very safe navigation chart?

The reasons are complex, of course, but one thing that cannot be ignored is that because Confucianism is too focused on the family and the world, they are completely unable to solve the problem of the centripetal force of those colonists beyond the vast sea.

There is no need to analyze it before the Ming Dynasty, and the two dynasties of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the emperors all tried to establish a highly centralized monarchy, and their hearts could not tolerate the warlords below to tear the soil and seal the king, even if they were called vassal kings.

The sea is a natural barrier, the population of the Central Plains has always been the private property in the hearts of kings and scholars, who is willing to let go of the country to colonize?

Tens of thousands of miles of sea borders, those vast wilderness across the ocean, the city of Beijing is completely uncontrollable! Who can stop those powerful warlords from building their own independent kingdoms? Even if the country is blatantly stated, the emperor of Beijing City can only be angry, and if he really sends warships to suppress it? How much will it cost......

As soon as the county system is carried out, and the Confucian clan ideology is locked, the common people can be tied to the land.

It is precisely because Chinese politicians cannot solve this problem of national centripetal force that China is doomed to be unable to open the era of overseas colonization.

On the contrary, this is not the case in Europe, where the family and clan are completely broken, and no one forces young people to have to support their parents, you have to work in the countryside as a farmer, you have to get married at the age of 18, you have to have sons after you get married.

In Europe, once young people reach adulthood, they face much less resistance than young people in the East.

It is precisely because of this that countless sailors jumped into the sea and marched towards the vast sea of nine deaths, so that there was a magnificent Age of Discovery, and only then did there be the great geographical appearance of mankind.

It's not just emperors and heroes who push the times, people can remember Prince Enrique, but who can remember the ordinary sailors who ventured to sea under the pressure of horror legends?

Can you remember Magellan and Copernicus, but can you remember their second mate, can you remember the sail crew on their ship?

History has forgotten these little people, but it is the countless such little people who make up the history of mankind.

China, it is precisely because of the lack of these little people who can abandon the concept of the countryside and the idea of clans that it is unable to open the era of Chinese exploration.

Europe began to colonize the world, but there were really few warlords in the European colonies, even if the United States, Canada, and Australia were independent from the colonies, but that was the choice of the whole people, not the achievement of careerists.

Why is this so? It is because Europe began to indoctrinate the people with nationalist ideas early on, and the broad masses of the people have a clear concept of nationalism in their hearts.

If you abandon the small family of blood ties, then everyone's emotions depend on the same language, the same culture, the same food, and the same religion...... These columns are the same while locked.

Nationalism is destined to be more advanced than clan thinking, because clans can only lock in the relationship of a group of people who are close in blood, and hundreds to thousands of people are already the limit.

Nationalism, on the other hand, can lock in a nation with a common interest, which is millions of people.

It is conceivable that if these two forces engage in confrontation, you will not be able to fight in a group!

China lacks nationalist ideas, or rather, there are nationalist ideas, but the rulers do not vigorously publicize and promote them.

Therefore, many Chinese only have clans, only chiefs, and only their own selfish interests in their hearts! As long as the interests of clans and families can be guaranteed, it does not matter if they serve as the banner of the Han army, and it does not matter if they are puppet soldiers on that day.

As long as you are a soldier and eat food, it is enough to keep your clan and family without worrying about food and clothing!

What are you afraid of internal friction? What can you do if you harm the interests of the country?

Xiao Letian sighed, he stretched out his hand to suppress everyone's dispute, "Okay, okay!

"Xiang Ying! Your question, in fact, I have already considered it before! You don't have to worry, I have a plan......" Speaking of this, Xiao Letian set his eyes on Wang Huaiyuan, "Wang Ju! You didn't come to Europe last time, you may not know much about the situation in Europe, but many of you have been to Europe!"

"Have you forgotten how the Prussians fought that Austro-Prussian war?"

Hiss...... The people present took a deep breath, and the memories of that year came back to their hearts little by little.

Note: Do you know why you want to destroy the four olds? What is it that is brought down by the Kong family? Think about it carefully, think about it carefully......