There are many ways to test the power of muskets, such as finding a few random goats, dogs, and other animals to shoot at them, so that you can not only see the killing effect of the projectiles, but also eat fresh meat. Of course, if you don't mind a lead pellet in the stew. So Jiang Tian decided to use a more professional method, he asked Song Yi to prepare a large bar of soap, and then fired at it.

"Although it is our local method to use soap, but the price is ......" Zhang Tao looked at the budget reported and said: "Do you kid hate me for not giving you dividends, so I deliberately?" ”

Jiang Tian shook his head with a smile: "What are you talking about, don't forget that I want to build a scientific weapons research institute, don't you always force me to make something powerful?" I couldn't do anything without that! ”

In the twentieth century, China's military workers relied on cheap soap instead of expensive gel, and after countless practical practices, they sorted out a set of independent warhead parameters, and finally finalized the unique 5.8 mm series of ammunition, so Jiang Tian's construction plan did not surprise Zhang Tao, but at this time and that time, the large soap blocks, which were quite cheap in later generations, were expensive consumables that made people headaches in this era.

Zhang Tao rubbed his sour eyes: "It's not that I said you, you want to be scientific, systematic, and formalized, these are all right, but you also have to adapt measures to local conditions, right?" We can't see the shadow of the chemical industry at the moment, and your advanced things can only be prepared in the state of the real yàn room, so there is nothing that can produce immediate results? ”

Jiang Tian thought for a while: "The propellant of this artillery has also been changed to brown powder, the compressed black powder has also been made into a grenade, and even the fuse has been made, isn't this immediate?" ”

"Alas......" Zhang Tao sighed: "Can't you just pull out the rifling of the barrel?" Even if it's rifling! ”

"You said it simply, aren't I developing a boring machine? The key is that the tool used for cutting is unqualified, even if the rifling is straightened, the barrel head will be scrapped if it can't be processed, so that it can only be issued to the sharpshooter special rifle, and it can't be manufactured on a large scale. ”

"This makes you go back to the basic question, I have always been responsive to the scientific research funding of the Academy of Sciences, and I can't just blossom and not bear fruit, right?"

Whenever these two people began to deliberate, a group of civil and military officials had become accustomed to their closed-door consultations, no matter how big and respected the officials were, it was impossible for them to participate in the talks at this level, and even the little eunuchs who served people with tea and water could not stay in the room. It's not that no one doubts whether these two big men have done something unseemly, but this is limited to their own doubts, and no one dares to share their guesses with others. Besides, there was a rumor in the market that as long as the emperor and Jiang Tian were locked up in the same room for an hour, then it would not be long before whether it was military politics, diplomacy, or even some trivial matters in people's livelihood, there would be some kind of change to a greater or lesser extent, and as for whether this change was good or bad, it depended on the person's own cognition. Therefore, once those officials who are waiting to be summoned know that Jiang Tian has entered the imperial study, then no matter how big the matter is, they must wait for them to finish talking before they can go in and report, and these people are also very curious about the content of the conversation, and they all want to get first-hand political information, but unfortunately the emperor's secrecy measures are too strict, and no one has been able to find out anything useful so far.

Jiang Tian had also heard similar rumors, but he disdained it, the conversation between himself and Zhang Tao really couldn't be known by a third person, but this was out of the need to keep their true identities secret, and because the two future people had insights beyond history, many of their thoughts and thoughts were not understandable to people in this era.

"This is not good...... Jiang Tian habitually scratched his scalp, this problem has not changed even after being forcibly cut hair, he pointed to a fold and said: "Since we have recognized the other party as a friendly neighbor, we can't even refuse to agree to this request, right?" ”

Zhang Tao looked him up and down: "Do you really treat the little devil as a good neighbor?" ”

Jiang Tian frowned and retorted: "Am I so lacking in heart?" ”

"And you're still speaking for them?"

"Alas......" Jiang Tian sighed: "Can we take a long-term view, doesn't he just want to send international students?" Just let him come, and not only welcome students to study abroad, we can even send teachers to the east. ”

Zhang Tao knew that he was not the kind of person who was indiscriminate, and besides, the strategy of hollowing out Japan was still formulated by Jiang Tian, so he didn't understand his sudden change: "What do you think?" He didn't come to learn the Four Books and the Five Classics, people named you by name want to worship you as a teacher, what is the benefit of these advanced scientific knowledge for these grandsons to learn? Even those rotten Confucians said that the important weapons of the country should not be applied to others, why are you so generous? ”

Jiang Tian smiled when he heard this: "A few days ago, I scolded me for being a scumbag with strange tricks and tricks, but now when I see the Japanese begging to come to the door, I will become a key weapon of the country." They nerds aren't stupid either, they seem to have been pretending to be stupid before. ”

It's a little funny to listen to him ridicule, but Zhang Tao still put his face on the face: "Let's get to the point!" ”

"The point is...... Do you remember the wave of going abroad in the early nineties? ”

Zhang Tao thought for a while: "I did have such a crazy gust of wind before I came over. ”

"Then do you know that a large number of international students in my country are stranded overseas every year, and even give up their nationality and have to change their green cards?"

"These brutes, who have learned and don't know how to serve the country, betrayed their ancestors just for glory and wealth!"

Seeing that Zhang Tao had a tendency to be filled with righteous indignation, Jiang Tian hurriedly intercepted him: "That's not the case, human nature is greedy at all, for people who have no discipline, their desire is to eat the world, and it is ridiculous to expect these people to serve the motherland." Besides, it's not because we can't provide enough tempting conditions, otherwise you see that they are reluctant to give up their nationality. But we can look at this matter backwards, in this era, no one can provide a super-first-class quality of life better than us, we can win over those outstanding Japanese talents, and finally use them, even if only three or four of the ten people take the bait, they can come to study with me naturally their aristocrats or elites, as long as such a group of pro-China leading party is cultivated, even if Japanese people with lofty ideals want to revitalize Japan, they will be abandoned because of the lack of talent and internal constraints. Besides, at this time, the world has just begun to sprout nationalism, except for the Chinese, few countries can distinguish the difference between the nation and the state, and little Japan has been in civil strife for a long time, it is when the national cohesion is not strong, and when will it not be divided and disintegrated at this time? ”

Zhang Tao gasped when he heard this, this soft knife kills people and doesn't seem to see blood, but it's actually bloodier than real knife and real gun fighting! As a battle-hardened veteran, his natural way is that many times he can't conquer a nation by force alone, for example, when little Japan failed to conquer China, but looking at Jiang Tian's statement, it seems that destroying a nation in a joke is like digging for something!

"Then why did you send a teacher?"

"Do you remember what it was like in the 80s when foreign fast food and Hong Kong and Taiwan pop culture swept the mainland? In fact, these lifestyles are not good things, but the Chinese people are eager to do this and even take pride in the foreigners, in the final analysis, it is just the blind worship of the poor to the rich. Similarly, in today's Sino-Japanese relations, no matter how poor we are, Japan is smaller than him, and accepting foreign students only corrodes its upper class, and sending teachers is a key step to promote soft power, expand China's influence among the Japanese people, create public opinion, and publicize the advanced nature of Chinese civilization. ”

Zhang Tao is more familiar with this theory of mobilizing the masses and relying on the masses than Jiang Tian, but in the past, it was only aimed at his own people, and he had not yet thought of using it on outsiders. Jiang Tian focused on explaining to him what soft power is, this is not something invented by someone out of thin air, but has always been the inherent value system of human society, when a country or nation becomes the apex of existence within a certain range, the desire for a better life in human nature will turn into worship and jealousy of the strong, and if the country and nation are so strong that people can not challenge, it is the key node where soft power begins to play a role. China has always been the undisputed leader on the continent of East Asia, whether it is economically, culturally, scientifically, technologically, except for the occasional bullying because of military weakness, it has never encountered an opponent in other fields, which is why the assimilation ability of ancient China is unique in the world's secret, any nation and culture, as long as it is transmitted to China, it will rarely change its taste, even if it is known for its stubbornness Jews and Mu @ Si @ Lin, after arriving in China, it will gradually converge with the mainstream culture in the long river of history, At least China's Muslims will never allow their daughters to be brutally circumcised.

"Then you get the idea! It's not that people in the 90s admired the foreign, but at that time our culture lost its charm and was far from the West, so some nature in the human heart was triggered, and the outside world of flowers was of course more attractive than the rigid Chinese society, and the level of science and technology outside also determined that its products surpassed our industrial products, so that the national pride that lasted for nearly two thousand years disappeared, and it is no wonder that some people who are not firm in their will will rebel. However, in this era, we are still leading the world in many aspects, such as the level of medical care and the social welfare system, as well as a more open and unrestricted social atmosphere, and at the same time, the commoditized social system is developed, and various resources are more abundant. We want to play a business card of the Chinese Dream to publicize that there is no religious oppression and no racial discrimination here, that any citizen can get a decent income and life as long as he works hard, and that there is a perfect judicial system for arbitration in the event of a dispute. Criminals are punished for moderate laws, and any child has the right to education, of course, just to learn Chinese. We are here in a pure land of democracy, freedom, prosperity and harmony! ”

"I'm listening......" Zhang Tao raised his eyelids and looked at Jiang Tian after pondering for a long time: "No matter how you listen to it, it seems to be a lie, and it is exactly the same as the propaganda of some Western bourgeoisie!" ”

"I can't help it! We are in the same position now as they were when they treated us. What a perfect plan to weaken the enemy, we didn't name and say which country is bad, it's just that we are tirelessly promoting our excellence, people who like blind obedience and no opinions will of course be attracted to us, then we can also refer to the immigration policy of the United States, we are not elites, we resolutely do not, but once they are identified as Chinese citizens, they will absolutely enjoy national treatment. ”

"Even if the other party is Japanese?"

"Of course! Without the world's elites gathering to the United States, how could it ascend to the throne of the world's number one. The reason why the Tang Dynasty was able to shine in all directions was also because of its unparalleled openness and tolerance, many people said that the dynasty lived with backbone, and there was no peace and no reparation in the end, but I want to say that in the eyes of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, only the highest interests of the country need to be adhered to, and the others are just means used to achieve this goal. ”

This sentence has a great impact on Zhang Tao, he has always admired the backbone of the Ming Dynasty that would rather die standing than kneel and live, after all, this is very close to the unyielding military soul of the new Chinese soldiers, so in Zhang Tao's eyes, although Chongzhen has all kinds of problems, but this courage and arrogance are not what others can have, although the Ming Dynasty ended on the coal mountain as in history, but as a modern soldier, Zhang Tao still admires his father-in-law. Listening to Jiang Tian's explanation today, it seems that the Ming Dynasty will die in the future, if it is like the Han and Tang dynasties in history, it will show weakness first, even if it is a minister, and then show down with the enemy after accumulating enough strength. Perhaps it will continue the dramatic turn of the Jedi counterattack that many dynasties in history have done.

Jiang Tian's views on this issue are of course derived from the rich content of the Internet in later generations, which is naturally fresh and subversive for Zhang Tao. In a 21st-century China where utilitarianism is prevalent, it seems that everything must be supported by certain interests, which leads ordinary people to be dissatisfied with the foreign policies of many countries. Or they just borrow this point of view to express their dissatisfaction with the state of life in disguise, but it leads to an indescribable historical reversal of the case in society, which is naturally mixed with many unknown dirty thoughts, or foreign Internet trolls want to take the opportunity to create a public opinion offensive, fortunately, Jiang Tian, as a small person who is crawling in the rivers and lakes, is not completely affected by it, because he knows the sentence that the ass determines the head, so standing in the position of the decision-maker, face is sometimes dispensable, Short-term interests are also dispensable, and the supreme ruler needs to consider the rise and fall of the country, and in order to continue the current prosperity in 200 years, what about sacrificing short-term interests for decades? So Zhang Tao understood that in order to completely eliminate the unstable factor that may exist in Japan in the future, it was very necessary to start accepting Japanese students now and continue the assimilation policy of the Han and Tang dynasties, and Zhu Yuanzhang's continued isolationism was very undesirable.

Coming out of the imperial study and watching the afterglow of the setting sun, Jiang Tian felt dizzy, as the vice minister of foreign affairs, he finally played a decisive role in foreign policy. It's hard to imagine that a little person like himself can also influence the country's politics, and his own small private school will be more lively in the future, because not only the Japanese, he and Zhang Tao have made a unified plan for the various regulations and systems for international students, and in the future, students from any country and nationality can obtain the qualification of international students as long as they can pass the guò "Chinese Proficiency Test for Non-native Chinese Speakers", of course, these people must also have a "non-malignant infectious disease quarantine certificate" issued by a medical institution, and finally they can choose to enroll in that school. At present, there are only two options: Guozijian and Jiang Tian's private school.

Later generations spoke highly of the introduction of this policy, both at home and abroad, and even openly wrote in the history textbooks of the neighboring countries of East Asia: "...... Confucius's idea of education and non-class has been completely inherited, which has enabled the advanced Chinese civilization and science and technology to be widely disseminated throughout the world, and opened the curtain of the wave of globalization......

European history textbooks have a similar assessment: "In the early Renaissance, European thinkers and reformers were still groping in darkness, and it was the Eastern civilization that spread during the Age of Discovery that enabled the sages to see the dawn of hope and find a way forward......"

History textbooks are sometimes deceiving, the international high praise of China's open education industry, is completely based on the overwhelming advantage of Chinese civilization, in fact, since the seventeenth century Europe has been confronting China in various fields, and at the beginning there was a small advantage, but the European countries have not been able to form a unified camp, and when confronting China, it is naturally impossible to form an effective resistance force, until in the nineteenth century, after China took the lead in entering the second industrial revolution, After two world wars, Europe's rapid decline, coupled with China's international instigation of the colonial democracy @ independence movement, dealt a heavy blow to the European powers, and talent began to flow into China like an avalanche, and finally established the status of the only superpower on earth in the 20th century. And in terms of overall strength, it leads the sum of the bottom 20 countries.

Of course, Jiang Tian didn't know how difficult this road to hegemony was, but he understood that his seemingly inadvertent move had already had a fatal enough impact on the world, and the trend of international history in the future would be even more confusing, and he would not be able to use known knowledge to predict. A little weak-hearted, he walked a little swaying.

"Lord Jiang......" When he was thinking nonsense, an official in a red official robe walked over with a smile on his face: "Looking at the appearance of adults, I must have overworked for the country!" ”

This sycophant, although it is a fact, also makes Jiang Tian a little embarrassed: "Oh...... It turned out to be Lord Liang, I don't know what to call this official? ”

The person who came was Liang Fan, the right attendant of the former military department, at this moment he did not have the calm appearance of the original approachability, but was a little sincere and fearful: "The lord has tormented the officials, a few days ago, the old ministers in the rest of the camp were entrusted with new positions, today I want to get together to discuss how to live up to the emperor's grace, I happened to see the adults you overworked, and I was greatly impressed in my heart, so I wanted to invite the adults to go with you to relax, and the saint always said that he wanted his subordinates to combine work and rest......"