Chapter 987: The Arrival of European Students

The chaos in the Middle East did not affect the Ming Dynasty's communication with Europe.

However, the news that the Qing army defeated and defeated the Ottoman Empire and captured the Arabian Peninsula, Palestine, North Africa and other large territories that originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire still quickly spread to the Ming Dynasty Nanjing City.

Zhu Ciji didn't care about who won and who lost, even if the territory of the Manchu Qing was greatly expanded after conquering the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, but the Manchu Qing was still not worth mentioning in front of the Ming Dynasty, and it was impossible to get the strength to compete with the Ming Dynasty.

What Zhu Cizhen was most interested in was that the Manchu Qing Dynasty fought against the Ottoman Empire for a whole decade in order to confront the Ottoman Empire and defeat the Ottoman Empire.

For example, in India, if the Manchus had just destroyed the Mughal Empire and conquered India, India still had a population of 37 million, but after ten years of war with the Ottoman Empire, it was directly reduced to a little more than 30 million, a decrease of nearly 7 million India's population.

The reason why there was so much reduction is also due to the fact that when the Mughal Empire had just fallen, all the men who died in the war were young men, and the ratio of young and old was already old, and then it was at war with the Ottoman Empire for ten years.

In this war, there is no doubt that the main force is the huge number of Indian flags.

At the peak of the Qing army, there were 900,000 troops, of which more than 600,000 were Indian flags, and no less than two million Indian soldiers were transferred throughout the ten-year war.

Moreover, war is not only a battle in the direction of soldiers, but also logistics! In addition to the two million Indian soldiers who were successively formed and transferred during the ten-year war, there are another million logistics personnel, also composed of young Indians.

There are also weapons forging, iron ore mining, and so on, why the war that exerts the strength of the country will consume the national strength so much, it is in these aspects, it is the superposition of these aspects, a large number of young people went out to fight or died in battle, and finally led to the population of India not only did not increase at all, but also decreased by as much as 7 million in just ten years.

In addition to the population of India, the population of Persia has also plummeted, originally 13 million, but after the 10-year war, it also decreased to 11 million, a sharp decrease of 2 million.

As more and more elderly people continue to die out, it is believed that in the next three or four years, it will be difficult for the Manchu population to grow, and at most it will maintain its current number.

"There are still 30 million people, and the population density is still a bit large compared to other places, and Dolgon still needs to work hard!" Zhu Ci said meaningfully.

After allowing Dolgon and the Manchus to toss around in the Middle East for so many years, the results obtained completely exceeded Zhu Ciji's expectations. Not only hit the divine power hard, but also greatly reduced the population there, and even brought a part of the Central Plains culture there, if the Ming Dynasty ruled there in the future, Dolgon and the Manchus made these foreshadowing, I don't know how much effort can be saved for the Ming Dynasty.

In general, Dolgon and Manchu still have a lot of credit.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty came from the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, although it moved westward, but Zhu Ciji did not intend to let them go, and that part of the Middle East, there is the 'blood' of the future industry, which is a necessary resource for development after the second industrial revolution, which is very important, and the Ming Dynasty must take it.

At present, the Ming Dynasty is still developing and operating the American continent, but it is expected that it will be able to free up his hands in a few years to completely solve the grievances between the Ming and the Manchu Qing Dynasty and send troops to the Middle East.

Because of the great changes in the Middle East, the huge world map of the Golden Luang Temple was changed again, the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was expanded, Austria and Tsarist Russia were expanded, and new republics such as Georgia and Serbia that had just broken away from the Ottoman Empire were born.

On the contrary, the territory of the originally huge Ottoman Empire has been sharply reduced, and now only a million square kilometers of territory remains, and the national strength has been sharply reduced.

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In the 28th year of the Ming Dynasty, in February, the first batch of European students finally arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing for Daming at the moment is to deal with the problem of European students.

The reason why I agreed to send students to Europe to the Ming Dynasty was because we could export the culture, values, etc. of the Ming Dynasty to Europe first, cultivate a group of pro-Ming students, and promote all kinds of beautiful 'public knowledge' of the Ming Dynasty to Europe.

If you want international students to go to Daming in person and become the 'public knowledge' that Daming needs, the first thing is to familiarize them with Daming's culture and values, so that they can see the charm of Daming culture and identify with Daming's values.

Because they are the first batch of international students, most of them are unfamiliar with Daming.

In fact, the main purpose of sending these students from European countries is to learn the advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty, such as shipbuilding, guns, electric lights, railways, cement and other advanced scientific and technological products.

And these advanced scientific and technological products, Daming naturally cannot be so easy for European students to come into contact, especially in railways, steam engines, this is the key to the first industrial revolution, Daming does not intend to let European countries embark on the road of industrial revolution so early.

The courses arranged by Daming for European students are based on the aspects of written language and culture, first teaching Chinese and Chinese characters to European students, and leading them to learn and understand the culture of Daming. As for the advanced technology, it is not known how long it will take for European students to become familiar with the Ming language and language.

This is undoubtedly contrary to the purpose of sending students to European countries, but it is necessary to learn the words and languages of the Ming Dynasty before learning the techniques of the Ming Dynasty, and the European countries have no reason to object, so they can only ask the students to learn the words and languages of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.

As many as 450 European students came, as well as some envoys from various countries, a total of more than 700 people, a little less than the last special envoy of various countries.

This time it was from the port of Kuala Lumpur in the province of Malay and took a train from the railway station in Kuala Lumpur to the city of Nanjing.

Before coming to Daming, European students have heard about the advanced and powerful Daming, and they undoubtedly came with a longing heart.

"Oh, God! Is this a train, what a miracle! "Boarding the train and looking at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window, the European students were shocked for the first time.

Although the envoys of European countries had already told a lot about the Ming Dynasty when they returned home, this was just a 'talk' after all, and it could not be compared with the shock brought by seeing it with their own eyes.

Under the influence of these shocks, European students' perception of the Ming Dynasty's strength and advancement will gradually go deep into their hearts, and eventually it will inevitably evolve into various worship and praise for the Ming Dynasty, so that they will gradually become a qualified 'public knowledge'.

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