Lin Haoda's massacre plan against Belgium this time was not simply to kill for the sake of killing, but to find a reasonable reason to turn the Belgian region, which is close to the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, into a logistics base for supplying the army for free.

Therefore, Lin Haoda mainly dealt with the rich class in Belgium who accumulated wealth, and most of the Belgians who couldn't even fill their stomachs were not taken to heart by Lin Haoda.

The slaughter of more than 3 million people by 200,000 people is an unscientific thing in itself, after all, people are not animals, they have brains, and it is impossible to get together stupidly and let Lin Haoda's soldiers do it.

Belgium is so big, Lin Haoda's army is spread out, and it is not easy to control the city, and when the news reaches the vast rural areas, the Belgians will naturally not obediently wait for the butcher's knife to fall on their heads.

Because of this, there have been many instances of the slaughter of cities in wars in the past, but it will be a long time before a nation is really destroyed.

The extinction of a nation is not more about the killing of the population, but the assimilation of the culture by a large number of immigrants, and assimilation is not the prerogative of the Han Chinese, and any powerful nation in history has tried to integrate other peoples into its own country.

Especially in ancient times when the literacy rate was not high, as long as the regime and the leader were finished, the hometown was occupied, and being assimilated was a very simple thing, just like the Han nation, before the Qin Dynasty, there was no such concept at all, and it was not the peak of the Han Dynasty's national power that ruled the Central Plains for hundreds of years before the title of Han people was handed down?

At the beginning, it was the general name of the Hu people to the Han Dynasty, but the population of the newly unified Han Dynasty was still divided into Chu people, Qi people, Qin people, Yan people, Wei people, Zhao people, Han people and even Baiyue people, etc., but after a long time, the country was unified and the people were stable, and they naturally merged with each other.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the Han people called the people of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty by the Hu people, and little by little they were accepted by the Han people themselves, and they merged into a vast ethnic group with a large population!

With the victory of the Han Dynasty against the Hu ethnic minority, this ethnic group gradually precipitated its own unique cultural heritage, as for Confucianism can take such deep roots among the Han people, the reason is very simple, the Han Dynasty at that time respected Confucianism!

If a culture and even religious ideas want to really develop, they first need the strong support of the rulers of the current dynasty, the three major religions in later generations, Christianity because it became the state religion at the height of the Roman Empire, and green because Muhammad founded a **** Arab state and laid down an empire across Europe, Asia and Africa!

The originator of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, is himself a high-ranking 'nobleman' in India, and the Buddhist saying of the afterlife and this life tells most poor people that they can be rich in this life if they are poor in the next life, so if they are poor in this life, they will endure it, and they may be princes and nobles in the next life

This set of doctrines that fooled the poor and commoners and did not strive to make progress was very much in line with the rule of the Indian princes at that time.

Therefore, Buddhism was developed and spread with the support of the Indian princes, and it has to be said that the teachings of Buddhism were very popular with the ruling class, and if it were not for the fact that Christianity and the greens started earlier than Buddhism, and the teachings were expanded in Eurasia with the sword, the spread of Buddhism would not have been confined to this part of the Asian subcontinent.

Of course, it is precisely because Buddhism is so 'soft' that it is difficult for countries that believe in Buddhism to have a truly aggressive country, and as a result, the world is gradually divided between Christianity and the greens, and almost the whole world has been turned into its own followers by these two sects, except for the distant and populous Oriental peoples.

Once religion takes root, it is difficult to get rid of it, unless it really kills a river of blood, however, with the progress of civilization, the act of slaughtering cities and exterminating the people is rejected by the world, after all, no one wants to see the rise of a force that exterminates the nation at will, God knows if this force will one day put the butcher knife on his head!

This is the crisis instinct of human beings, just like the Mongols who swept the Eurasian continent at the beginning, almost fighting the whole world, but because the technology at that time was too low, the Mongols were too capable of fighting, so such a group of forces that slaughtered cities and exterminated tribes failed to collapse.

Most people think that the Mongols will only fight the world but will not rule the world, but in fact, the Mongols have maintained their rule for more than 200 years!

As for the Mongols who collapsed so quickly in the Central Plains, it was only because the Han people were stronger and too difficult to control, and the Mongol rule section, the Central Plains Dynasty in the East was the first to collapse!

It is conceivable that the stability of a regime does not lie in tyranny and benevolence, but that benevolent government has the advantage of benevolent government, and tyrant has the means of tyrant.

However, the defect of benevolent government is that it is stable internally and weak externally, while the rule of tyrants is internal fanaticism and a desire for external aggression.

Both kinds of consciousness have their own benefits for the common people, the benevolent country has less pressure on the civilian life, but often has to face the invasion of external powers, and the tyrant country has a lot of pressure on the civilian life, but can base their happiness on the pain of the foreign race.

When the nomadic regime was strong, even the most ordinary herdsman looked like a superior in front of the weak Central Plains people, and he didn't even treat the other party as a human being at all!

If you really want to calculate it, the living conditions of this herdsman are not as good as those of the Central Plains, who he looks down on

After all, what human beings really worship is force, and how many unorthodox things have Americans done in later generations, if it were according to the rules of morality, the behavior of Americans should have been attacked by a group a long time ago, but what is the result?

Southeast Asians, Japanese, Koreans, and other countries are obviously oppressed by the Americans and cannot raise their heads, and their economy and politics are infiltrated by the Americans, but they still have to pinch their noses and appoint them, but instead they are waving their flags and cheering for the Americans, and grinning at the countries that really put on a friendly posture and contribute money to subsidize them.

It's not because people of those nations don't know gratitude, it's just because the human instinct is to follow the strong!

It is precisely because of this that Lin Haoda dared to behave like this towards the Belgians.