Through the experience of later generations, Chai Dongliang understands a truth. A truly strong country should be a country with an extremely prosperous culture, any foreign population and culture will be integrated by the mainstream culture here, and the foreign culture will become the nutrients of the mainstream culture, making the country's culture richer and stronger, and at the same time easier to export. A developed culture can provide a relaxed environment and superior living conditions, thereby attracting outstanding talents from all over the world to enter China and contribute to China's construction. When they develop a sense of identity with this culture and this country, they will choose to settle in China, and then naturalize. This is an ideal cycle of good surnames.

What will be the most expensive in the world of the future? Talent! A country that can attract a large number of talents must be a strong country!

In Chai Dongliang's memory, in the United States alone, there are 16,000 Tsinghua graduates on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in California alone, and the American dream has almost become the common dream of elites all over the world. The United States is not beautiful, the security environment is not as good as Europe, and the natural environment is not as good as Canada and Australia, but the United States is big enough, the United States is open enough, and the population of the United States is large enough, and it is enough to accommodate the dreams of the world's elites. Not to mention those economically underdeveloped countries, even wealthy Canada, a quarter of the population works in the United States.

Because the United States has the opportunity and environment to enable them to develop their talents, which is unmatched by other countries.

The Chinese are studying the most cutting-edge basic sciences in the United States, the Indians are developing more advanced computers in the United States, the descendants of European Jews are integrating the world's financial industry, and the African descendants are enriching the American spirit in sports and culture??? The whole world is nourishing the United States with its own flesh and blood, and with such a huge talent pool, how easy is it for other countries to try to surpass the status of the United States?

A big country like China deliberately emphasizes ethnic diversity, and even separates many naturalized ethnic groups from the main ethnic group, which is tantamount to asking for trouble.

Chai Dongliang's ideal China is not only yellow Han Chinese, but also white, black, and brown people, who have different religious beliefs and prophecies, but their next generation will speak the same language, have a common cultural identity, and all regard the land under their feet as the motherland.

In the future of China, there will be no nationality column on the certificate, and there will no longer be a distinction between Manchu, Han, and Mongolian returning to Tibet, no matter where their ancestors came from or what their skin color is, they all belong to the same nation: Huaxia! Everywhere in the world, they all have a common identity: Chinese citizens!

If this is not done, the strength of the state is like a tree without roots and water without a source, and any outsiders will be ostracized by the Juche nation, and they will automatically form small groups and form a new nation with great hatred for the Juche nation.

With the development of science and technology, trains, ships, and airplanes have connected the world as one, and the movement of people between them will become extremely frequent, and unless the country is closed to the outside world, it is impossible to prevent foreigners from entering China. If they cannot naturalize foreigners, they will always regard themselves as outsiders, and it is certainly unrealistic to expect them to serve China wholeheartedly. People who do not have a sense of belonging do not have a psychological burden when they do evil, and when they commit crimes, they will not only not have a sense of guilt, but will have a sense of pleasure in taking revenge on the main nation. The high crime rate of foreign ethnic groups will make the main ethnic groups even more contemptuous and disgusted with them??? This will form a cycle of evil surnames, which in turn will make the national surname more closed.

In the world of the future, a closed country will hardly be able to survive, let alone develop.

Fortunately for Chai Dongliang, in the early years of the Republic of China, there were only five major ethnic groups in Manchu, Han, Mongolian, and Tibetan, and the Zhuang and Tujia ethnic groups had been naturalized for many years and became a branch of the Han nationality. Of the 450,000 million Chinese, more than ninety percent are Han Chinese, and the vast China is almost a single ethnic state. Of course, this is not a natural formation, but a situation that has been formed after thousands of years of countless swords and swords, countless marriages between men and women, and the most cruel and intimate means.

In later generations of Asian countries and regions, only the truly developed are Yuben, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, all of which belong to the traditional Confucian cultural circle without exception, among which Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are mainly composed of the Han nationality, and other Asian cultures can hardly be perfectly wedged with modern civilization. Although Confucian culture has all its drawbacks, it has one of the greatest advantages, that is, it is very tolerant, which is incomparable to other Asian cultures.

The main culture of a large country must have an inclusive surname, and Chinese traditional culture has precisely this characteristic, the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism have been able to live in harmony in China for thousands of years, and even the three religions are integrated and blended with each other, which is almost impossible to happen in other cultural circles. In the vast border areas, if the minority ethnic minorities who do not agree with Chinese culture account for the majority, it will inevitably pose a major threat to the country's security. Chai Dongliang has a very clear understanding of this point, so he hopes to be able to integrate the Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups outside the Guanxi in the shortest possible time and become an important part of the Chinese nation.

If one day, the Jianghuai army occupies Yuben, then there is nothing wrong with naturalizing the Yamato nation, and it is obviously unrealistic to kill all the ethnic groups with a population of 60 million, but it is very possible to integrate them into other ethnic groups. Although most of the women are not tall and are born with radish legs, the tens of millions of singles in China who can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law should not be so picky!

In fact, in another time and space, it is said that the imperialization of Manchuria was also for the same purpose. However, the number of people in Yue himself is not directly proportional to the Chinese, and the hundreds of thousands of Yue Ben pioneer regiments are placed in Manchuria, which has a population of 30 million, which is pitiful, and the paranoia and narrow-mindedness of the island people in the natural surname of Yue Ben are really not suitable for assimilation of other nationalities as the main ethnic group.

Any country that tries to be strong will export its culture abroad, but some countries' economic and military culture can reach that height, so they are getting stronger and stronger, and some countries are powerless. The export of culture is not only a competition for force and economy, but also a long-term strategy of the country and the quality of the people.

Like Sora Aoi, Aunt Mutoran, and Sister Maria Ozawa??? Comrade Chai Dongliang welcomes the naturalization of these people's artists who are deeply loved by the masses, and I believe that many Chinese men will have the same view, at least they can add a touch of color to China's long-standing Qinglou culture. In the Tang Dynasty, there has never been a shortage of Qiuzi's pipa and the dance of the bearded girl.

The means of integration are, first of all, economic interests, and foreigners who are willing to integrate and naturalize enjoy the preferential treatment of the main ethnic group, while those who are unwilling are marginalized and are at a disadvantage in terms of economic and political status??? Human beings are naturally profit-seeking animals, and economic means are often more effective than butcher knives!

Kuang Haishan was tired to death in Mongolia, and Gu Mazi was not idle in Fengtian City, in addition to carrying out land reform according to the experience of Jiangxi and Anhui, he was also engaged in ethnic integration. The Manchus have been in the customs for hundreds of years, and almost no one can speak or write Manchu, whether it is clothing or style, there is no difference between them and the Han people, and even in eating, drinking and having fun, they are more proficient than the Han people. After the Xinhai Revolution, many Manchus, fearing reprisals from the Han Chinese, changed their Han surnames one after another, and they were already exactly the same as the Han in appearance and language. Gu Mazi's integration of the Manchus in Fengtian Province was done extremely smoothly, much easier than Kuang Haishan in Mongolia.

In addition to economics and politics, Gu Mazi's energy is mainly focused on the construction of the arsenal. The Fengtian Arsenal is completely different from the two arsenals in Wuhu and Shanghai, in addition to producing a small amount of standard weapons of the Jianghuai Army such as the Hanfeng I-type rifle, the main production is still in accordance with Russian standards to produce the Mosin Nagant rifle nicknamed "Shui Lianzhu" and the Russian-style double-wheeled Makqin, of course, this kind of Makqin is still different from that of the Jianghuai Army, there is no increase in anti-aircraft shooting devices and flat-range strafing devices, practice shotgun masks, firing, insurance, and tripods are not manufactured in accordance with the standards of the Jianghuai Army. The Mukden Arsenal produced older models that had not been improved.

This is specially arranged by Chai Dongliang, in preparation for the First World War that will break out next year, these water Lianzhu rifles and old-fashioned double-wheeled Makqin are ready to be sold to the Russians, using the same standards and standards as the Russian army, of course, the quality must be guaranteed, but some new technologies are not necessary to be used here.

Chai Dongliang must ensure that the Jianghuai army's weapons are one or even two generations ahead of those sold to warlords and foreigners in various provinces. According to the current firepower configuration of the Jianghuai Army, each division needs at least two million silver dollars a year to be fed, and if it starts a war, it will consume at least three times as much, which is also the reason why Chai Dongliang has not been able to expand the army on a large scale.

With the economic recovery and development of the Jianghuai region, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces now have reached more than six million per month, and businesses from all over the country have come here to invest in the stability of the Jianghuai region and the support policies for industry and commerce, and the economic problems that have been plaguing Chai Dongliang have been greatly alleviated.

Chai Dongliang has always pursued the policy of integrating soldiers with the people, and a large number of non-government-funded shooting, equestrian, and aviation clubs have sprung up in the Jianghuai region, and these non-governmental organizations have received official financial support. There are already thousands of registered pilots in the aviation club alone. The number of registered men in shooting and equestrian clubs has reached 100,000, and the number of war horses has also reached tens of thousands.

These people are all soldiers who can fight against guns when they take off their civilian clothes at the sound of an order, and they are all military enthusiasts, and they belong to absolute war maniacs!

Hanfeng I rifles, grenades, grenadiers, mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, improved Makqin, Depp light machine guns that have just passed the actual test, and if the 105 and 120 mm caliber howitzers and cannons of the Shanghai Guanghua Arsenal are successfully produced in a trial trial, the army of the Jianghuai Army will really be armed to the teeth, and such equipment level will be regarded as first-class in Europe, and it will almost be a steel monster in Asia. With the same number of troops, the firepower of the Jianghuai Army was about three times that of the Beiyang Army, and one and a half to two times that of the Yue Army.

Large-caliber artillery is just a piece of cake for the Shanghai Guanghua Arsenal, which copied the German Krupp 305-mm caliber coastal defense gun and the British Armstrong 235-millimeter naval gun at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The biggest advantage of the Jianghuai Army is not the ferocity of firepower, but more importantly, these weapons are all produced by enterprises controlled by Chai Dongliang, and the supply of spare parts is not a problem at all, and the ammunition for light weapons is also universal, and the logistical support pressure is countless times better than that of the Beiyang Army, which relies almost entirely on imports.

Of course, the Jianghuai Army is not flawless, and the grass-roots officers have undergone joint training with the Gurkha Guards, but the tactical command is still lackluster, and the senior generals are all promoted by rockets, and the lack of practical experience is extremely high, and the soldiers are generally illiterate, and they only learned to write after joining the Jianghuai Army, and they are quite slow to learn the use of new weapons, which objectively restricts combat effectiveness and increases the difficulty of expanding the army.

Compared with the army, which generally received free education, and the senior commanders of the army, who basically received formal education from the army of the army, in terms of the quality of soldiers and officers, the Jianghuai army is not a little worse than the army, and it is even more different from the European continental powers.

But there is really no way about this, Chai Dongliang has already implemented six-year free education in Jiangxi and Anhui, but it is not a year or two to achieve results, and the outbreak of World War I has been less than a year??? The congenital defects of the soldiers had to be compensated for with a more rigorous training company. In fact, the ordinary quality of the regular army of the Jianghuai Army was even inferior to that of the soldiers of the reserves, and most of the members of the shooting, flying, and equestrian clubs were from fairly good families, and most of them had studied. However, compared with the expansion of the army, Chai Dongliang attaches more importance to the construction of infrastructure and industry, which is inseparable from a large number of talents with new education??? He won't do stupid things like ripping flesh and mending sores.

Leaving Anqing Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory, Chai Dongliang sat in the extremely luxuriously decorated Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and went home.

The streets of Anqing are already connected to trams, and office workers only need to spend two dimes a month to buy a monthly pass, which of course is indispensable to the financial subsidies of the Military Advisory Office. When the train first opened, many people came to see it, and after a long time, they turned a blind eye.

Halfway through the car, Chai Dongliang had a whim, I don't know what Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian are doing now?

"Turn around and go east, go to Wu's house and have a look!" Chai Dongliang instructed the driver in English.

The current driver was no longer the original British, but a capable soldier of the Jianghuai Army, and he turned the car around without saying a word and drove towards the Wu family in the east of the city.

As soon as he arrived at the door of Wu's house, Chai Dongliang was taken aback, he rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was not mistaken, needless to say, the eight-lift sedan chair with two times five phoenixes facing the sky is still normal, and what shocked him was that there were hundreds of bicycles covered in colorful silk at the door!

The bikes are all new, the plated parts glistening in the sun, and a large red silk ball tied to the front of the bike.

Sending off relatives on a bicycle? It can't be so funny, right?

Chai Dongliang suddenly woke up to the fact that the current bicycles are genuine luxuries, and the lowest price of each bicycle is sixty silver dollars, not to mention that these bicycles are all equipped with bells and lights, and they are made of manganese steel.

Using a hundred bicycles to send relatives is definitely more flamboyant than using a BMW team in later generations, and the Wu family is really painstaking!

Cars are rarer in this era than private jets in later generations, and this Rolls-Royce Silver Phantom is the only one in Anqing, and Wu Jintang, who was waiting at the door, immediately greeted him.

"Governor, you're here? Inside please! Wu Jintang respectfully opened the car door with his own hands.

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Brother Yinfu, you will be my eldest brother from tomorrow, our family doesn't have to be so polite, right?" ”

Wu Jintang said with a smile: "That's nature, that's nature." ”

Although he said so, Wu Jintang was still respectful to this person who was about to become his brother-in-law, although he was a big bully in the store, but the big customer could still bully the store. Two years ago, although the Wu family was nominally the president of the Wuhu Chamber of Commerce, the actual financial resources were not strong, but it was just a vain name, after attaching to Chai Dongliang, in just two years, the family wealth exceeded tens of millions of silver dollars, worthy of the name of the richest man in Anhui.

In Wu Jintang's eyes, Chai Dongliang's face was all round and square-holed??? Where is this brother-in-law, it is clearly the God of Wealth!

As soon as Wu Jintang and Chai Dongliang walked to the door, they saw the old man Wu Xingzhou standing at the door with a jewel-encrusted cane and a smile.

Chai Dongliang respectfully bowed his hand and said: "Elder Zheng, if you have a bad leg, you don't have to pay a visit in person, and you won't lose your courtesy if you have a brother from the Yin Mansion acting on your behalf." ”

Wu Xingzhou's head shook like a rattle: "No, no, the Wu family is not as good as before, the more Xuan He is, the more polite he is, and the guests can't feel that the Wu family doesn't understand the rules." ”

After saying that, Wu Xingzhou suddenly narrowed his eyes and said, "Dudu, why are you still called Zhenglao?" ”

Chai Dongliang was stunned for a moment, and then bowed down: "Father-in-law is above, my son-in-law has saluted you!" ”

Wu Xingzhou laughed, helped Chai Dongliang up, and said, "Which one is this singing by the governor?" How do you make it look like a drama? ”

Chai Dongliang also smiled: "Father-in-law, is you still called the governor?" ”

Wu Xingzhou was also stunned, and then twisted his beard and said proudly: "A virtuous son-in-law doesn't have to be polite??? How can I talk like a singer?

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Chai Dongliang helped Wu Xingzhou to walk towards the inner hall.

A middle-aged woman with a beaded hair quietly walked up to Wu Jintang and asked, "Who is this?" The old man respects him so much? ”

Wu Xingzhou said with a smile: "Erniang, this is the new aunt, the governor of the Jianghuai patrol!" ”

The middle-aged woman frowned and said: "According to the rules, three days before the wedding, the new aunt is not allowed to enter the door of her father-in-law's house, this is a broken rule, although Meiqi was not born by me, I am also her second mother, right?" The new aunt is unruly, and I, who is a mother-in-law, have to stop him! ”

Wu Xingzhou glanced at him and said: "Erniang, you save it, the old man doesn't say anything, you will make a mess, be careful to provoke the old man, and hand you a letter of resignation, you can't be a mother-in-law!" ”

The middle-aged woman gasped, hurriedly changed her smiling face and rushed up: "You are Chai Dudu, right?" My Maggie is talking to you every day! Today I can see a real person, a talented woman, what a natural match! ”

Chai Dongliang hadn't seen her, and he was stunned by her, and he didn't know what to call her.

Wu Xingzhou's face tensed: "Uneducated things, where is your place to speak here?" Don't go down and prepare food and drinks! ”

The woman's face turned pale with fright, and she hurried away.

Wu Xingzhou snorted coldly and said: "This is Meiqi's second mother, I neglected to discipline my inner family, which made the governor smile!" ”

Chai Dongliang realized that it was the concubine of the old man Wu Xingzhou. He had long heard that Wu Meiqi's mother died early, and Wu Xingzhou never renewed the strings, but only took the personal maid into a concubine room when he was thirty-five years old.

In this era, it is almost natural for a personal maid to be a concubine, but if a concubine wants to be a wife, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky. Seeing Wu Xingzhou's unpretentious appearance towards the woman, Chai Dongliang really understood the status of the concubine in this era, and it seemed that he was not as face-saving as many slaves.

Chai Dongliang remembered that Wu Meiqi once said to herself that she didn't care about her reputation, even if she was a concubine, she was willing to marry him! Chai Dongliang couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, he was really not very good to Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian, and it could even be said to be very bad.

Wu Meiqi was born in a wealthy family since she was a child, and her father and brother regarded her brocade clothes and jade food as the pearl of her palm, Mo Xiaolian's family background is not bad, and her brother-in-law is a senior officer of the Jianghuai Army, both of them are very aware of the consequences of being a concubine for others, but they have no regrets??? In contrast, Chai Dongliang couldn't help but be embarrassed, especially when he remembered the rude reprimand of Wu Meiqi last time, Rao is old and thick-skinned, and he was still red.

Chai Dongliang remembered this time that according to the rules of this era, men and women are not allowed to meet before marriage, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the woman.

"Father-in-law, Chai has lacked a tutor since he was a child, and many rules are not very clear, but he vaguely remembers that before marrying, it was inconvenient to meet his fiancée, Chai Meng Lang!" Chai Dongliang said in a proper manner.

Wu Xingzhou laughed and said: "The governor is a new-school figure, and he still pays attention to these vulgar principles? Well, tomorrow is the right day anyway, so if you don't see it, you won't see it!"

Chai Dongliang found that what the old man said seemed to be very indifferent, but there was still a relaxed look on his face. It seems that he doesn't want Chai Dongliang to meet his daughter at this time.

"Father-in-law, take care of your health, Chai has taken his leave!"

As soon as I got out of the door, I heard Erniang's shout: "Dudu, why don't you eat and leave?" ”

Wu Xingzhou lowered his voice and scolded: "Shut your mouth, no one sells you as a dumb person, are you afraid that others will not know that the new aunt has entered our door?" ”

(To be continued)