The period from 1600 to 1699 was the seventeenth century in Western history, the West was prosperous, it was a century of succession, although Russia had the influence of war, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Turkey also participated, and even the Italians participated in it, but these waves did not set off much waves in the Western world at all, affecting the upper class of the West, among the aristocracy, the lower class of commoners, or other circles, still progressing and developing step by step.

And the results were fruitful: "The 17th century was a century of colonialism. Voltaire called the 17th century "the century of Louis XIV." In the history of science, Whitehead called it the "century of genius." At the beginning of the 17th century, the main subjects of elementary mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry) had been basically formed, but the development of mathematics was in the ascendant, and it entered the next stage of the history of mathematics at an accelerated pace: the period of variable mathematics The difference between this period and the previous period (often called the period of elementary mathematics) is that the previous period mainly used static methods to study individual elements of the objective world, while this period explored the process of change and development of things from the point of view of motion.

Romanticism, Impressionism, and 20th-century Fauvism and Expressionism; The academic classicism of the 17th century influenced the later neoclassicism and cubist art, etc.; The realist art tendencies of the 17th century also had a clear influence on the later civic art of the 18th century and the realism of the 19th century. ”

These are simply unheard of and unseen for the Chinese Empire, as if it has been a few centuries, and it feels like the Chinese Empire is a primitive society, and the West in the 17th century is the high-tech era of later generations, and the gap is so big that it is desperate.

Ordinary people are nothing, but when Zhang Qiang thinks about it, he listens to it with great sadness and despair.

They had just crawled out of the primitive era of slash-and-burn farming, and had just replaced the cold weapons in their hands with fiery arquebuses and flintlock pistols, while their neighbors and enemies were already wearing doctor's hats, wearing doctor's black robes, driving Ford cars, swimming among the high-sulfur buildings, the factory's machines were semi-automated, workers wore hygienic and safe laboratory hats, walking in the clean factory, one product after another walked down the assembly line like dumplings, and the Chinese empire had just peeled a bud with his hands. His face was spotted with blackberry gray, and he saw beads of sweat on his forehead.

Looking at the opposite combine, the combine harvester hurriedly swept over the one-person-tall corn stalks, and then a large space appeared.

Yes, what a surprising thing, for thousands of years in China, these things that can change life and improve production are regarded as strange skills, or the ninth rate, and do not pay attention to them, and only more than half of the Han Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty and several other dynasties that created the foundation of China will pay attention to these, and have great respect for these, and after Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty, Confucianism and pseudo-Confucianism gained power, and these became strange and skillful, and then they were carried forward in the Ming Dynasty and were forced to change, but when they arrived in the Qing Dynasty, they were also forced to change. Between development and rule, progress and foundation, all the Chinese rulers, after the Great Qin, regarded rulers and reading as extremely important, and while struggling to find a good life, they did not systematically transform or summarize the knowledge system of thousands of years.

And to the Great Celestial Empire, the most important thing is not to summarize the knowledge system, but to summarize how to rule longer, although this is the foundation of peace and stability, but still the main work is still on the retreat, until an old man drew a circle on the seaside, the Great Celestial Empire suddenly woke up.

But it is already a millennium behind the world.

Until the rapid development of 30 years, it still can't change Confucianism, mainly because of the corruption of the political system by pseudo-Confucianism, still can't change the official position, the control of the bureaucracy, and still can't change the tragedy of panicking and helplessness when watching his body rot.

In this way, they can only ****.

The positive and progressive things of Confucianism have not been learned, the skills of the Mohists have not been learned, and Chinese medicine has not learned how to deal with development, change itself, and explore itself, but has learned to advance like the medical insurance of the West, advance, use more than a billion dollars to develop new drugs, and then push the drugs to a high position that people simply cannot afford to use, so that in the end of the era of rapid technological change, it can only treat some colds, even if it can kill cancer, in fact, there is nothing to do with the common people, and the government can also protect the state medical treatment, although the treatment is not thorough, But it can also prolong the time of death, the nobles can live to be eighty or hundred years old casually, and the people can only die sadly at the age of fifty or sixty, because they can't afford to see a disease.

This is not the case with the Chinese Empire, Zhang Qiang is working hard to improve and surpass, but he has done more in expanding his territory, doing more in military feats, less in basic living guarantees, and less in science and technology and book knowledge, and he still allows them to develop freely.

He did not use the advantages of his crosser to help, because he was a citizen in the previous life, a low-level worker, so he himself did not have much knowledge of the future, nor did he have the shrewd and intelligent brains of those overseas Chinese who returned to China in later lives, and could regard earning Chinese money and playing with Chinese IQ as their own show-off capital, but to be honest, they do have materials, there are things in their heads, which is the same as you don't know how to do accounts, knowing that a little accounting can make you sign and sell yourself, and you have to count money for him happily.

The use of pseudo-Confucianism to harm Russia, the use of Chinese characters and doctrines of the Han people, and the idea of commercial occupation of the Russian nation, but in terms of scientific and technological development, it really cannot be compared with Russia's natural advantage of being close to the West.

Russia was originally a descendant of the Germanic division, and it can be said that the whole of Europe, and even Russia in Eastern Europe, are the descendants of the Germanic division, while the pure Germanic Germany is still a small country with many princes and has not been united.

This could not be reversed until the late eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, and the figure who reversed it was Frederick the Great.

Now it is the United Kingdom that dominates the world, and Britain has not yet been completely unified, and there is still England, Scotland, or something, but nominally it is still unified.

And the most powerful thing is France, the vassal states are unified, although there is still something this grand duke, that duchi, but still under the rule of an emperor. It can be said that France is actually more powerful.

What makes people desperate is that a country created by the Mayflower, composed of thieves, exiles, daughters, fallen nobles, deserters, and vagabonds, has now gradually taken shape and has gained the power of thirteen states, and the future hegemony of the United States is secretly developing in North America.

Due to the relationship between the times and technology, the Chinese Empire has not yet been able to compete with the United States for the rich American continent.

Now Zhang Qiang has gradually grown old, and the new generation has grown up, but it has not yet reached the ability to fully grasp a huge empire of 20,000 kilometers, and the Chinese Empire is still brought out or recruited by a group of Zhang Qiang, and the captured old officials are in power, and the new officials and trained officials are not enough to master and operate a huge empire.

This made Zhang Qiang very sad, it was impossible for him to adjust, thinking about the empire that he had struggled all his life and created for more than 50 years, as a result, when he thought about it, he was still not as advanced as the West or ahead of his time, and he was very anxious.

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