Chapter 216 East Asian Integration Strategy (I)

"We've taken this piece of rice from the bottom of your foot, do you want to eat it or throw it away?" Bai Jia asked Li Jidao after the signing of the Samarkand Agreement.

"How can I eat rice that has been stepped on by the soles of my feet," said Leeki, who had little identification with the Qarakhanid region, which had become fully Islamized.

"So what are you going to do? Do you just leave it alone? Wang Neng has a huge investment in the northwest region, and he wants to know about Li Ji's thoughts.

"What can I do if I drink it?" Lee Ki had an indifferent look on his face.

"What do you call brewed wine?" Liu Jiao asked with interest.

"Do you need to ask? What do you want to make wine? Don't you know? Li Ji asked rhetorically.

"Yeast, koji, sterile cooked grain, sealed environment!"

"Think about it, what do these things correspond to!"

"Education, media, children, boarding schools?"

"That's right, but unfortunately there is no prize!"

"Militarily we have obtained the land of Central Asia, economically we have mastered the lifeblood of Central Asia, and politically we have achieved legal unity, we cannot yet say that we can absolutely occupy this land, we still have to rule the hearts of the people religiously, and implant identity and loyalty in culture. Only then can we get this land forever. ”

"But this grain of rice is too small, I have nothing to say for this 3 million square kilometers of land, but there are only 6 million people in this land, and I feel that it is difficult to get a return on investment. The Seljuks on the other side of the Amu Darya River have a population of 24 million, and you don't care so much. Sun Chang complained.

"You just didn't travel. Next month, we'll take our annual leave and take a trip to the Indian Ocean at the turn of spring and summer to see how the long-awaited Maldives is doing. It's enough to make up for the regret that you didn't make it to Ghaznavid, right? Liu Xin suggested.

"Yes! We haven't taken annual leave for several years, and we've been together for almost 20 days, and it may not be long before we can fly from Guangzhou to Yangon to Colombo. Our Air Force One has been building for months. ”

"This large passenger aircraft, which is similar to the B29 bomber, is also embarrassed to be called Air Force One, haha! Liu Jiao, you, the head of the Aircraft Design Institute, are really funny. Bad joke. Liu Xin teased.

"This is the latest mature model developed in Lanzhou, and the results of the wind tunnel laboratory in the past ten years are like this, and you want to see a giant like the Airbus A380 for ten years."

"I don't care what you do. Now it is enough to be able to use the supercharged star engine, and the speed of 350 km/h is enough for us. Now don't talk about this nonsense, although these five countries are just fish on the cutting board, it still takes time to process and cook it in the mouth. At present, the pro-China factions that have not taken the initiative to control these countries have directly and openly declared peaceful annexation to our country. It's time to use these long-sealed pieces. ”

"I don't think you're going to mess around. Those chess pieces are better not to use, they are worthless if they are used, and we don't need these chess pieces, just induce a few students to come forward, we can go directly to these places immediately, why always pretend to be outsiders, do you still need to be so careful! I do not believe that there are still people in these countries who can hinder the merger. Zhao Shouzhong did not agree to waste time, and said that he would simply and decisively solve the procedural problems at one time.

"Pro-China students should not be used as cannon fodder for peaceful evolution. Because in the end, these events will be declassified by historical researchers, which is not conducive to the image of the great glory of our Chinese Empire. Just let it be, don't be in a hurry, as the old saying goes, 'you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry', we have laid out a perfect situation, the rest of the things are waiting, we still have a lot of tasks not completed, last night another student discovered the process of purifying hormones, and the tasks of our project team are too heavy to pay attention to this kind of task that does not need to be stared at. "Wu Qi has always thought about problems from the perspective of the overall situation, and always hopes that harmony is precious, and unnecessary losses and expenses will not be generated.

The biggest headache for the crossers is not whether they can annex these countries, but the question of governing the various regions and ethnic groups of multi-ethnic countries with different levels of development.

In terms of invigorating the economy, giving those people in agricultural societies more opportunities to participate in the global division of labor, learning all kinds of modern life and work skills, they have no pressure, and they have the capital and technology to enter the modern society at any time.

In the political struggle, the traversal with countless hole cards is not afraid of any opponent, in fact, at this stage, the feudal lords and the powerful families who solve the hostile country do not need to cross the crowd at all, and many students of the political college can solve all the problems perfectly.

However, in the field of culture and thought, which can only be achieved by using water grinding kung fu, without several generations of continuous assimilation and education brainwashing, it is simply impossible to erase the subconscious civilizational forces such as the consciousness of resistance and the rejection of Chinese civilization by the people in these newly conquered regions who already have national culture. This civilizational power is constantly imprinted in the consciousness of people from birth to adulthood, and it is extremely difficult to integrate and assimilate.

According to the latest results in sociology, the cost (time, money, energy, etc.) required to adapt and integrate a cognitively stable adult into a completely different civilized environment is extremely staggering, at least ten times more than the cost of raising a young child to grow into an adult. Lao Xi said, 'To destroy a nation, first disintegrate its culture; To dismantle its culture, first of all, to destroy the language that bears it; To eradicate the language, start with their schools. ’

For primitive tribes who did not have a written language or a state, two generations was enough time for them to assimilate into the advanced civilization of the Chinese Empire, which was several eras ahead of them. For those feudal nation-states that already have mature civilizations, the difficulty of being integrated by advanced civilizations can be said to be at least positively correlated with the geometric multiples of the gap between the civilizational eras. If the difficulty of the industrialized Chinese Empire to assimilate a Malay primitive tribe is 1 (with 6 eras in between: the era of tribal union states, the era of slave states, the era of feudal states, the era of centralized empires, the age of great navigation, and the era of colonization), the difficulty of integrating the Tibetans divided by a slave dynasty is 100, and the difficulty of integrating an Indian state in the early stages of feudalism is 1000. Then the difficulty of assimilating a multi-ethnic Ghochang Uighur with a centralized empire-era civilization is 100,000.

In the eyes of the travelers, it would cost 1,000,000 to each of the European powers in the heyday of kingship, which were already initially capable of participating in the global division of labor and navigation. The complete annexation of a large country with colonies all over the world starts at 100 million. Digest an industrialized country with a population of more than 10 million, don't even think about 10 billion.

The best way to rule the world at a low cost is to grab time and swallow each opponent before he enters a more advanced civilization.

In order to achieve this, it can be seen from the 1959 government budget of the Chinese Empire how much of the Empire's financial and material resources were consumed for this purpose. The country's defence budget as a whole accounts for only 12 per cent, while more than 80 per cent of national welfare expenditures are spent on infrastructure, subsidized public transport, free compulsory education and subsidized higher and vocational and technical education, resettlement, public health, and free medical care for common and endemic diseases. Less than 8 per cent of expenditures were spent on administrative expenses.

This structure is an almost impossible miracle in other agrarian countries that have not yet transitioned to an industrial society, with military spending of more than 60% of the tax expenditure of any country outside the Greater China Union (Greater China Alliance) perennially and almost zero expenditure on national welfare. Many countries with constant wars would levy taxes frequently to the point of provoking riots, such as the Hundred Years' War between England and France, which almost bankrupted the royal families of both countries. It is not uncommon for borrowing money to become insolvent. On the one hand, there is unproductive fiscal expenditure on pure consumption, on the other hand, there is a large amount of productive construction expenditure, on the other hand, there is a vicious circle, and on the other hand, there is a virtuous circle, as long as the people who are not in the water of the brain know that they should emigrate to that country.

The premise of integration is economic integration, which is known to every modern person who has received a higher sociological education, the economic base determines the superstructure is the eternal truth, in order to achieve this, throwing money is the fastest way to accelerate the integration of the economic base, from the old Song Dynasty a few decades ago, through the public is trying to establish a trade complementarity and pillar industry dependence is very high to get rid of the East Asian economic pattern, now is finally the time to harvest the fruits.

When the countries are immersed in the prosperity and wealth that has been brought by the Chinese Empire, they unconsciously fell into the killing situation under the cloth of the people, whether it is Yelu Yanxi or Wanyan Aguta have seen their own end, in the face of the absolute population advantage and economic and military strength of the Han people, less than a million Khitans and Jurchens have long been corrupted into a plate of scattered sand by wealth, they have been selling themselves for several years in order to get a reasonable price, and a prince is their highest luxury. Omata and Japan's newly released monarch Sohito (also known as Emperor Toba) also submitted a request for attachment (a certain place itself was a subject state of the imperial court, and then went to the country to be demoted to the rank of self-requested to set up an administrative unit, which was for the purpose of annexation).

The most unresponsive Uighur monarch of Gaochang was the old fritter of the Jin of the Uighur monarch Vijab, who had to shake off the joy of having just acquired a large area of territory in the northwest, and accepted the reality that all this was the fate arranged by the Chinese Empire, and handed over the seal on the Empire's National Day in 1959. (To be continued......)