Chapter 209 Cultural Centripetal Force

"Maritime trade is the mainstream, let's not talk about standardization! Last year, when we issued our seafarers' professional qualifications, we had to cancel the results of the examinations in India three times due to a mistake in the translation of technical terms. It's all done in Chinese, so why do you have to do Arabic test papers? Can those illiterate sailors still pass the exam? Why do you do all this? The shipping industry in the Arabian Sea is also about to be monopolized by us, so why should we preserve this nautical language that will disappear? Wang Xinyu still demands, as always, the extinction of this civilization that is anti-human and anti-civilization.

"We have an absolute say in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, but it is more difficult to say in the western part of the ocean, especially the ports of the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden and the Ghaznavid coast off the Arabian Peninsula. What these regions produce is unattractive, but it connects more than 40 million consumers in the Islamic world. We have very few ports and wharves in these places, and our influence simply cannot extend to the inland and grassroots. We deal with local princes and wealthy people, and our sales are limited to luxury goods (silk, lacquerware, spices), special medicines, porcelain and exclusive toiletries, and the bulk commodities such as salt, wood, grain, cloth, copper and iron ore, coal, and industrial raw materials are simply a trickle. It is not enough to meet the construction of each port itself, how can it be shipped back to China?

The relations between the weakened Ghaznavid and the friendly Seljuks and our country must be handled through greater economic cooperation and cultural exchanges. In the case of insufficient domestic transportation capacity, it is necessary to make maximum use of the transportation capacity of the Arab forces to operate through leasing. In this way, at least with the help of the forces behind these shipowners, the inland market and channels can be opened.

In the future, Tibet will only be an autonomous region in the interior of the empire, and its status will be infinitely weakened in the absence of neighbors, and at most it will be a place for tourism. India, on the other hand, will become a core overseas market for our exploitation of capital. The first step of the trilogy has already begun, at least the entire coastal and inland of East India has stood on the carriage of our international division of labor, and the run-in and full colonization of the second part will have to wait for a few years, and in more than ten years, we will be able to set off the tide of industrialization in India, which will continue to provide us with thousands of times the benefits of the plateau.

It will also be the most important front line and base for us to control the entire Islamic world. India does not give us as little as the plateau. What is that bit of gold and silver medicinal herbs in the Guge Kingdom and the Weizang region? A 100,000-ton hydraulic press will cover their national income for 20 years.

India can provide us with at least 1 million soldiers, at least 2 million tons of rice and 3 million tons of animal protein every year, 1 million tons of cotton, flax, jute and other textile raw materials and 2 million tons of steel, and can get nearly 100 million yuan in taxes every year. How can this be provided by a small Tibetan population? Li Ji handed the information in his hand to Lao Wang, and explained the reasons why he could not attack the Islamized Turkic countries for the time being.

"So, our first language of diplomacy should be Arabic and not Hindi, which is about to become a dependent part of India? We started too slowly, it took 20 years to get merchant ships into the Persian Gulf, is it not time to engage in hostilities? The Islamic world today is not at its peak three hundred years later. The only big empire is the Seljuks, plus the smaller Ghaznavids and Fatimas and the divided Qarakhanid state has an area of tens of millions of square kilometers. Bai Jia strongly objected.

"Hindi is definitely going to be used, but it doesn't have to be too scaly. The speed of assimilation depends on three factors, first, the strength of the enemy and the enemy, the second is the gap in the degree of civilization development between the enemy and us, and the third is the scale of communication between the enemy and the enemy. In terms of strength, we surpass all countries in all aspects, whether it is economic, military, political, cultural or religious, we have an overwhelming advantage. All countries outside the members of the Chinese Alliance are deserts of civilization indistinguishable from primitive people, and there is no resistance to our powerful culture. The only place we need to work hard is in all aspects of communication, from architectural styles and urban planning to small road logos, all using elements of our imperial civilization.

Cultural assimilation does not happen overnight, and every civilization that eventually stands at the top of the mainstream culture is the result of generations of hard work. When Britain became an empire, most of the nobles on the European continent spoke French!

Why? Wasn't it because the widespread spread of the French language and the arts, which had resulted from a great deal of cultural exchange, made all the European aristocracy consider French to be the most advanced language! Without a lot of cultural export and innovation, who would give up their native language to learn a foreign language. Liu Xin spends on elements of civilization assimilation in addition to economic power.

"Our cultural erosion in the maritime realm and in the commercial sphere is the first step against the Islamic world, and the nautical standard technical vocabulary and the commercial standard technical vocabulary are the stepping stones. The knowledge imparted by the imams could not include these new industries and new vocabulary in fields with a highly developed division of specialization, and those who wanted to use them had to use Chinese pronunciation and Chinese characters to learn these highly specialized knowledge. Examinations and qualifications are only one of many means, sailors should be the most knowledgeable and visionary people of this era, these people are logically elite in business and management, and the stimulation of wealth and appreciation provided by examinations and qualifications is the driving force for the best learning of our language and culture by the many discerning and knowledgeable sailors. As an authority in the marine industry, Li Fei naturally knows the power of standardization.

"Arabia's many ports have a lot of land transportation links, although it is not as developed as our domestic road network, but it is still much stronger than India. Our progress in these areas is in line with our expectations, but there are many Kafiles who wish to emigrate to the Empire, including many Jews who have been in contact with our close allies, the Joy of Labor, and their families have moved to various ports to await the issuance of visas and citizenship cards by our immigration authorities.

For example, the Seljuk Empire, the Qarakhanid State, and the Ghaznavid Kingdom were early feudal states that did not yet have centralized power when the Turks ruled many ethnic groups. They are very rude and disrespectful of knowledge and property rights.

The few Kafir elites who have been excluded and suppressed in various ways with certain commercial and industrial expertise, including a large number of Jews, Persians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, and Armenians, agents and artisans, and Kafilee landlords, wealthy merchants, and art workers who have to wait until the first migration is completed before the second group of immigrants can begin. Our freedom of religion and non-discrimination environment are competitive and attractive for the Kafiles of West Asia. This is an important part of the cultural centripetal force, and they are rarely willing to emigrate too far, and most of them have migrated to the coastal ports of India that we initially control. Bai Jia, who is in charge of immigration, emphasized the progress.

"Can we only deal with these countries by passive defense and sneaking blood to absorb skilled immigrants?" Wang Xinyu complained.

"No, our newspapers and publications have already penetrated their market, and I can't do anything about an environment where their literacy rate is only one-tenth of ours. It is true that these Arabic-speaking countries have difficulty developing cultural industries, and the rich and leisurely classes, who spend a lot of time on religious ceremonies every day, have no time for study and cultural pastimes, let alone illiterate people. Arabic newspapers and novels of all kinds barely sold sustainably. Romance novels and magazines that sell so much among our women in the country simply do not sell in these countries, and all of their women are illiterate. The largest sales volume turned out to be professional and technical publications containing business intelligence and advertising, and the majority of the buyers of these publications were Jews and Persians. Turkic and Arab cultural consumption is outrageously low. How do you tell me to attack? Zhao Shouzhong, as the head of the Ministry of Culture, looked helpless.

"The consumption of paper and stationery among cultural consumer goods is also miserable!" Liu Jiao asked.

"Not really, paper stationery that can be used for copying and drawing is selling very well, and many rich people in the area like to copy poems and illustrations in praise of Allah. Our best-selling comic book is naturally the Quran, followed by the best ** comic strips sold on the black market.

It is worth mentioning that we opened a number of large craft factories for the import of the empire and cheap restaurants for the lower classes. Most of the factories are the largest carpet and tapestry workshops in the ports and the emancipation centers for the emancipation of women for local exports. The cheap fast food and non-alcoholic juices and carbonated drinks provided by the restaurants attracted a large number of people, which provided great convenience for us to gather intelligence and develop the colonial cause and take the cannon fodder offline. This can be regarded as an attack, Lao Wang! Wang Neng explained.

"Fast food culture is good! It's better to liberate women! This is the case with all-round cultural assimilation on land, sea and air. Broadly speaking, culture refers to the sum total of material and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the course of social and historical development. It includes three aspects: material culture, institutional culture and psychological culture. Material culture refers to all kinds of material civilizations created by human beings, including transportation, clothing, ordinary goods, etc., which is a visible and prominent culture; Institutional culture and psychological culture refer to the life system, family system, social system, way of thinking, religious beliefs, and aesthetic tastes respectively, which belong to the invisible incognito culture. Including, philosophical, political, etc. Culture in the narrow sense refers to people's general social habits, such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, customs, lifestyles, behavioral norms, etc.

Having dealt with half of the population, there is nothing that can be done. To turn all their household purchases into 'luxury goods' that we produce, we have to start with the housewives who have mastered the market.

If you think about it, all the women who work in the factories use the high-quality and low-cost industrial products we produce, all the packaging of consumer goods is our words and trademarks, from clothes to shoes and socks, from kitchen and bathroom products to bedding, all of them are made in the empire, and the material culture is basically done. Isn't the other thing just water milling? Time and swords will settle the rest. Lee Ki is very satisfied with this approach of starting with half the world.

"Yes! All we want is the market and a more open free market, everything else is a cloud. There is no need to care whether these Islamic countries will break up or disappear. As long as it doesn't affect our market, it doesn't matter if it's a coup d'état every day.

As long as the economy is tied to us, I don't care when his culture is assimilated, and culture also serves economic development. I will never give money to Muslims who come to China to make a fortune and then betray us (similar to Pu Shou Geng) unless they all convert to China. Wang Neng looked like he would never agree with the establishment of a preferential treatment system for foreign businessmen.

"I agree that the manifestation of the centripetal force of culture is nothing more than the result of greater attraction than centrifugal force. We have the most powerful new gravitational force of our time, as long as it is displayed in front of the people of foreign countries through a lot of propaganda and communication, it is enough for us to make use of it, and we do not need to practice and test the truth that the hearts of those who are not of our race must be different. Bai Jia said.