The first half of the 15th to 18th centuries was the 300 years when the West was rapidly catching up with the East.

The rise of one European country after another, the great voyages and geographical discoveries allowed Europe to completely get rid of the poverty of the Middle Ages, while wealth propelled the progress of society, promoted the development of science, and allowed Europe to overwhelm the evil Ottoman Empire and the ancient Eastern Empire in force......

I believe that in the first half of the 18th century, if there had been a war between the East and the West, perhaps the Qing Empire would have been strong, but it would definitely not have the overwhelming superiority of the current Chen and Han Empires......

The Emperor of China once said: "For the past three hundred years, China has been a sleeping dragon in the East, and outsiders can only pray that this terrible dragon will never wake up." Because when it wakes up, the whole world will tremble. “

Now the sleeping dragon has awakened.

Ten years of war declared the Qing Empire a historical term, and in the far east, a new China appeared in front of the world, and the ancient dragon woke up. The Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Russia, the Kingdom of Spain, the Netherlands, and ...... were defeated or subjugated to a country that accounts for more than one-third of the world's population.

The awakened Chinese dragons roared at the Western world, brandishing their minions and robbing the Western world for centuries of accumulation and pioneering - the South Seas and North America.

There is a voice in China that they want to take back all the land that once belonged to 'theirs' in history – even if that person is Genghis Khan, whom the Chinese themselves do not want to recognize, and who they say is theirs as long as the Chinese have visited. Following the westward migration of the Northern Xiongnu, the Western Turks, and the Mongol expedition to Europe, the Chinese once again pose a heavy fear of the Western world, and if their global expansion is not curbed, it will not be long before the New World discovered by the Western world's three hundred years of hard work and exploration will completely fall into the hands of the Chinese, and all the achievements will be stolen by the Chinese. The whole planet will be shrouded in yellow.

Russia's mission is to completely strangle the Chinese in their infancy before they succeed in dominating the earth.

1790 Russian Tsarina Catherine II, "White and Yellow - Russia's Historical Mission"

Of course, this is all ten years later.

At that time, China had already exposed its sharp minions and greedy appetite in the face of the West.

But what about China now? What China has done is only within the 'duty' of an 'empire'.

Judging from China's actions, China is still pursuing a 'regional' hegemony. This is not much of a threat to the Western world. Who allowed the East and West to be too far apart in this era?

China has yet to show its desire for global hegemony, and it has huge interests in it.

Looking through the decade of 'political vision', this is not something that can be casually owned.

And then again, a powerful empire never becomes overnight, and it's like the Western proverb: Rome wasn't built in a day. The foundations of an empire are not strengthened overnight.

China's oriental dragon can wreak havoc on the world, not only because of China's huge population and abundant capital, but also because Chen Ming himself at that time would put 'universal education' as one of the centers of China.

The high-quality national group not only represents the source of high-quality military soldiers, but also has an unimaginable driving force and promoting role for the whole society. Because Chen Ming's ideas can be directly infiltrated in the compilation of teaching materials, this popularization education will play an important role in the great strides of the whole of China in the next ten years.

Even in the current era, the role of education has been faintly manifested, and this is clearly manifested in those places where universal education is developed. For example, Lushan!

As the former capital of Chen Han, Lushan has an extraordinary place on China's political map. Although the geographical environment and social and cultural conditions have limited the sustainable development of Lushan's economy, Chen Ming has found another way out for Lushan - that is, education.

From the most basic primary schools to junior high and high schools, and then to the major colleges and universities, the number of colleges and universities in Lushan is more than the number of colleges and universities in the entire Central Plains Province combined.

And it is not only limited to ordinary colleges, but also art colleges and military academies, and almost all the top domestic colleges and universities in various majors have set up branches or branches in Lushan.

For example, medicine, law, engineering, opera, painting, as well as several comprehensive military university branches, as well as specialized colleges of various arms, plus politics, economics, diplomacy, and so on.

Central Plains Province was originally a big education province, because of Chen Han's high-level personal feelings, when establishing and building colleges and universities, Central Plains Province was the key place to support, and Lushan was the top priority.

In China now, the number of colleges and universities and development prospects there are not as good as Nanjing.

Although the proportion of taxes paid to the state treasury in Shuntianfu is the same as that of Lushan, they are a special case in China's political map, with the small head of the tax being handed over to the state treasury and the large head being kept for their own use. Therefore, the annual education fund support is much more than that of other places, and the local government has a lot more money.

For example, 70% of Shanghai's finance and taxes are handed over to the central government, and 30% are kept for local government use, so Nanjing and Lushan are 30% handed over to the central government, and 70% are kept for their own use. This obviously has a big advantage.

In terms of economic volume on both sides, Nanjing obviously has a great advantage over Lushan, and if the latter is small in scale, even if it stays more, it will have limited effect. But not busy, Lushan's education funds never count on government funding, and their main source is social donations.

Whether it is the royal family's charitable fund, or the meaning of powerful ministers, or the donations of private giants such as Kyushu Chamber of Commerce and Zhongyuan Bank, Lushan's education can invest more money every year than Nanjing.

And how many people are there in the whole of Nanjing? How many people are there in Lushan?

So in the fifth year of Chengtian, that is, last year, the Lushan government announced that the compulsory education of the school was completely universalized, that is, children do not need to spend money to go to primary school, as long as you have a Lushan hukou, your son and daughter can enter the school. And it's mandatory.

At the same time, since the first year of Chengtian, Lushan has set up night schools and technical schools on a large scale. The 'lasting stability' here has not only existed for five years, since the Fu Han army has made a noise, there has been no threat in this Lushan territory, and it has been stable here for many years. Prior to this, the investment in education of the General's Mansion and the Han Wang's Mansion had already laid a little foundation for Lushan, and now this seedling is growing rapidly.

Also last year, the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, which brought new development to the economy and education of the entire Lushan. At the same time, a large number of people began to donate money for Lu Shangang, but the queen's family donated more than one million last year. This gave Lushan's investment in education a ride. In addition to compulsory education, the Lushan government launched policies last year, as well as a scholarship system for junior and senior high schools and institutions of higher learning, as well as an education subsidy system for poor students and an education loan system for poor students, which directly enabled the Lushan government to complete the education plan for the next three years.

This also makes Lushan the real 'first' in China's education.

People from other places, the children of wealthy families still can't go to school, because the school collects a limited number of students, but Lushan is a township with at least five primary schools, two middle schools, one high school, and night schools and technical schools for adults......

Lushan has its own unique regional advantages, and all the graduates who have gone out of Lushan colleges and universities in recent years have a decent appearance, which makes the local people in Lushan pay more attention to the meaning of 'university'.

Because of the government's mandatory requirements, the school-age enrollment rate in Lushan reached 100% for the first time in the country. Although all this is piled up with money.

The sky slowly brightened.

The eastern sky revealed a touch of fish belly white, and clouds gathered in the eastern sky as if gathering, and the light of the rising sun seemed to be soaked in red brocade, revealing a faint crimson.

The moon, which had completely lost its brilliance, turned into a crooked crescent moon, hanging like a small boat in the western sky, blinking and peeking at the people of the Nether.

The world is gradually revived.

Sunlight rises over the horizon, revealing the blue sky.

It's April, but the morning in Lushan is still a little cool.

As the earthly world gradually recovers, more and more people start a new day of busyness, as if it has never changed since eternity, day after day, year after year.

The houses in Lushan County are very crowded. The houses in the city were lined up one after another, one after the other, one after the other, and although they were different from the old and the new, they were all the same color, and from a distance they looked blue-gray.

The people in Lushan City finally have a higher income, and they can at least afford to buy green bricks to build a house, otherwise it will be all mud houses.

The whole city woke up. Groups of women with various household belongings appear at the faucet, which has become popular in Lushan. Even if someone would rather fetch water to save those two dollars, they would not be able to find the well. The latter is either capped or disappears entirely. The transformation of Lushan urban area - sewer project and water supply project has changed the city too much.

The streets and alleys are all concrete, and the main road is paved with bluestone slabs. Familiar neighbors greeted each other cordially, and laughter filled the city. In proportion to the enthusiasm between people is their rules of conduct, and the Lushan people, who have been tamed by the "Code of Conduct for Urban Civilization", have long been no longer going to defecate in the open on the corner of the street and dump garbage and sewage everywhere at their own doors.

Many people also take advantage of the time before breakfast to go out to exercise. Lushan has this condition, although the urban living area is getting narrower and narrower, but the urban parks planned before are still parks, and no one will and dare not demolish them.

Chinese believe that the season of the year lies in spring, the season of the day lies in the morning, and exercising the body bones in the morning is only good for longevity in the future.

If it weren't for the fact that the crowd here for morning exercise only saw men and not women, this scene would have given Chen Ming a sense of familiarity in the depths of his soul.

And this is the old capital of Chen Han, which Newton commented on on his letterhead to England: This is a paradise on earth. It is not known for its beautiful scenery and intoxicating culture, but this city, which was unknown 20 years ago, exudes a unique charm that attracts the attention of countless people.

It is the first city in the East to implement compulsory education, and it is the first city in the world to achieve 100% school-age children.

The flower of civilization blooms here, and a great spirit of humanistic expansion and concern for mankind based on the bottom line of human conscience shines on the whole world like the holy light of the Father's care......

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Qiqihar, this is a young city. In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, the Manchu Qing Dynasty set up Bukui Post Station, which gradually became the center of Zhuyi Post Station in the western region of Heilongjiang and developed into a village. In the thirtieth year of Kangxi, the Qing court built Qiqihar City at Bukui Station, and awarded the title of deputy capital of Mabudai, the governor of Solon, in charge of the construction of the city. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the Heilongjiang general Yamen moved to Qiqihar City.

It can be said that the city has been in full swing for less than a hundred years.

When the Fu Han army entered the city, it was bloodless, and everyone bowed their heads to them, including the surrendered Manchu Eight Banners and the rescued Korean serfs, as well as some Han people, and some people with ulterior motives.

Now the latter has happened.

A fierce battle is being fought in a village on the outskirts of Qiqihar.

The iron-clad captain of the armed police brandished a saber and hacked another stout Mongol to death. His body was already painted, his arm was bitten by the rubble from the earthen cannon, and the two revolvers that he had originally equipped with at his waist were all out of bullets, and he didn't have time to reload!

Because now we are engaged in a hand-to-hand fight!

The Qiqihar police station, which finally finalized the suspect, did not wait for the arrival of the border guards, and the officials of the police station and the county government hoped that they would take down the person first and find all the evidence of the crime, so as to reduce their own responsibility.

A smuggler is hiding right under their noses, and for a year or two, they have not even noticed it, which is a dereliction of duty, or even a dereliction of duty.

The sound of shooting subsided from the battlefield, and there was a high-pitched shouting of killing. The armed police unit under the division of the Wehrmacht used standard triangular tactics and stormed into Zhuangzi. It is safe to say that the big picture is decided. It's just that the resistance of this smuggling caravan far exceeded the expectations of the Qiqihar officials, and the deputy director who led the attack first has become a corpse......

This is an age full of delusions and all kinds of evils. High-rise buildings and slums coexist, heaven and hell coexist. Compared with the stable and peaceful atmosphere of Lushan, the outskirts of Qiqihar, where screams and moans are everywhere, it is not the same world at all.

But this is the current situation in China, and this is the current Northeast at the moment.

There are many places where the magistrates of Qiqihar have made the same choice, and the officials will hold on to their hands even if they want to seize the slightest opportunity.

For a whole decade, gunshots and shouts of killing rang out in many places in the central and northern parts of Heilongjiang. All the smugglers who have been identified have been punished, and at the same time, thousands of people and more than 10,000 family members have suddenly changed from a stable and prosperous life to a member of a labor camp.

They wept and cried and pleaded, but received no mercy.

It is gradually moving towards the obsolescence of the purpose, facing the sunshine towards a bright future......