Chapter 1095: Reflections on Western Society......

As a 'China expert', Charles knows the ancient Chinese culture very well, not to mention thousands of years ago, even the previous Manchu Dynasty, which is too different from Chen Han.

In Europe, there are more than one or two people who feel that Chen Han's policies are more like Europe than the traditional Chinese system. The act of exalting industry and commerce and belittling Confucianism does not look like what the Chinese can do. Of course, Chen Han also inherited the mantle of China, and the superiority of the imperial examination system completely beat the whole of Europe in this era.

Now the major European countries, which one has introduced the 'imperial examination system'. And the Chinese have made all kinds of laws and are constantly improving them, which is like an upgraded version of the European system.

Britain learned China quickly, and Napoleon did not learn China as fast as England. The biggest difference between Napoleon's empire and China is that Napoleon's political and economic control over France is too weak, and even far less than the British prime minister, while China's Emperor Chen is even more supreme and arbitrary.

Charles came to China as part of a British business delegation, and trade between China and Britain is becoming more and more important to the British, not only in terms of their own country, but also in the Americas and the United Kingdom, and even in the conflict of interests on the Indian side. Almost every year, there are business delegations to and fro, either from China to the UK, or from the UK to China.

However, when the fleet arrived in Malacca, Charles, as the deputy head of the team, received an urgent appointment from India, and he was appointed by the Indian governor as the British consul in Canton.

In addition to being a diplomat, Charles was also a business owner, and his family owned not only a sizable shipyard but also a steam engine factory in the port city of Liverpool in Merseyside. It can be said that he is a big capitalist among diplomats.

Have a certain understanding of industry and relatively advanced technology.

As an 'expert', Charles knows very well that the level of science and technology in Great Britain is the best in the world, and the Chinese have caught up quickly in recent years, but at most they have caught up with Great Britain. However, in terms of the physical industrial application of science and technology, they are still inferior to China.

The first important task of his visit to China was to come up with an assessment report on the development speed, prospects and current strength of the Lingnan industrial and commercial cluster in Chen Han, with Guangzhou as the center. It's a lot of work, and he's sure he's not alone.

For example, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Yanjing......

China's emperor has just carried out a great feudal, and hundreds of Chinese magnates, large and small, are transferring wealth, manpower, and material resources to the Americas. This will inevitably cause huge fluctuations in China's political, economic, and financial fields.

The Kingdom of Great Britain must be well aware of the implications of such fluctuations. You know, sometimes water waves can also bring thrust.

As long as the person in control of the rudder is in charge, this kind of fluctuation that shakes the whole of China will only turn into waves that push the big ship of China forward without stopping.

After more than 30 years of great development, China's industrial progress is quite obvious, how long can this rapid development continue? How much stronger can China be in the future? What is the force behind this phenomenon? Is it just a complete financial benefit?

For decades, Europeans have been studying China, and many things have now come to light over time.

Compared to Europe, China is really lucky. They had a great emperor who had the courage and courage to surpass many great emperors in history.

He used a grand goal to attract the attention of the internal ruling class, and he didn't paint a big pie in vain, no matter how long the time was, didn't he achieve all the big pies that Chen Ming painted now?

Do you still think that the lighthouse countries and the Portuguese Brazil and Spanish Argentina in South America can withstand the attack of the Chinese?

Europe was not so lucky. In Europe, sometimes the businessmen do not only fail to promote the development of advanced technologies, but also hinder the diffusion of advanced technologies.

The attractiveness of economic benefits is two-sided. For example, the original Jenny machine, such as Newton's steam engine.

More than 40 years ago, J. Hargreaves, the inventor of the Jenny Machine, co-founded a spinning workshop in Nottingham to produce knitting yarn on Jenny spinning machines. The high efficiency made Hargreaves' business profitable, and the news of the "Jenny Machine" gradually spread.

But just as the Hargreaves were dreaming of a prosperous future life, the door of their house was violently slammed open, and a group of angry men and women rushed in. They couldn't help but say that they destroyed all the "Jenny Machines" made in the room, shouting: "To hell with the harmful machines you made!" He then set fire to Hargreaves' house and drove the couple out of the small town in Lancashire.

What is the reason for this? At that time, Britain had just won the Seven Years' War and occupied India as a colony, and the cotton textiles produced in India were cheap and high-quality, and they were sold for a while, triggering the prosperity of Britain's local cotton spinning industry. However, the efficiency of the loom has been improving, but the yarn is still slowly spun by the spinning wheels of many cottage industries. Therefore, cotton yarn is in short supply, and the purchase price is higher. The invention of the Jenny machine led to an increase in the production of cotton yarn, so that the price of cotton yarn purchased by the weaving mill would fall. Those spinners who do not use Jenny machines not only have low yields, but also do not sell cotton yarn at a good price, so they will naturally not sit idly by. And there is a darker hand manipulating it inside.

Because Hargreaves, who was poor before, did not have the money to apply for an invention patent for the Jenny machine.

This has been repeated more than three or five times on the European continent. The promotion of every advanced technology in society always has to go through a long period of accumulation and training.

But in China, even the most advanced technologies can be rapidly promoted, such as ships and trains. This is a huge change in transportation, and in the UK, people have pulled out cannons to bombard trains, and it is even more common to cut off the tracks and rip off the tracks. But in China, I have never heard of it.

Is it true that a full-time monarchy is better than a parliamentary system?

Every European politician believed that Emperor Chen's tremendous role was in China's rapid development.

Although China has a lot of different situations than the British, such as their emperor has been playing 'dividing the feud'. This old system, which had been abandoned by the Chinese for more than a thousand years, was revived at the hands of Emperor Chen.

The land of America has become a carrot for him to fish for the appetite of the Chen and Han magnates, and a magic weapon to unite the hearts of the Chen and Han magnates, and China has this advantage that Britain does not have.

The power of hundreds of powerful people of all sizes working together is indeed incredible.

However, the words "centralization" and "full-time" inevitably circulated in the ears of many Europeans.

Charles, for example, was very interested in Chen Han's system and Chinese history.

In contrast to the Magna Carta 600 years ago in England, the power of the Chinese emperor seems to have been incredibly powerful from the very beginning. Look at the bloody tragedies of the struggle for the throne in Chinese history, the affection of father and son, and the will of brotherhood have all become vulnerable in the face of supreme imperial power.

Therefore, although China has also experienced an era of faith fanaticism, faith has always been under the imperial power.

Under the characteristics of centralization and full-time, although China has fallen into a cycle of three hundred years, it can also develop rapidly when the Ming monarch is in power.

This point is compared with the contradictions between the monarch and the aristocracy and the parliament in European countries.

So is it possible to combine the advantages of both sides in a unified way?

That's what Charles thought when he was in Europe, and that's what he thinks when he leaves the train station now.

"Look at the newspaper, read the newspaper. There is an update on the war in the northwest......"

Sitting in the carriage waiting outside the train station, Charles had just pulled out a cigarette with a cigarette holder from a cardboard box, and before the match could be struck, he heard the shouting of the little newsboy outside.

Charles immediately said to the secretary, "Go buy one and come back." ”

Although the war in the Northwest did not have much to do with his tasks and responsibilities, people were curious.

The last time Charles paid attention to the situation in the northwest, Konstantin, the strange archduke of the European world, was rushing towards Astrakhan with hundreds of thousands of Russian reinforcements.

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........., in the completely dark night sky, the western sky suddenly lit up with a red color, and fiery red streaked across the sky, like burning meteors. And then there was a storm of thunder and lightning! Along the battlefield, from west to east, hundreds of thousands of glittering 'clusters' dispersed and illuminated the darkness. The earth trembled violently, and a thunderous roar came! …………”

It was a rocket salvo from the decisive battlefield in the western part of the Volga.

A loud roar had already resounded, creating a hurricane-like whistling sound over the Wehrmacht positions. The earth trembled violently. Although the power of a single rocket is very limited, hundreds or thousands of them explode together, and the wind and waves after the explosion of the shell can carry dust into the sky.

The IDF then launched a counterattack. Bursts of exploding fire were rising from the positions of both armies. Hundreds of exploding points appear at the same time. Large and small flashes of light burst out in succession over the positions on both sides at an uninterrupted frequency.

Rockets this thing is not there exactly. Its only function is to shoot a salvo from the sky, and it only needs to fall on the top of the opponent's head, which is very sharp. It was as if countless burning meteors had suddenly fallen from the nine heavens, drowning the formations in a sea of fire!

Regardless of how effective this actually is, just from the scene, it is very powerful.