The arrival of the Dutch envoys in China was a very significant and remarkable event at the time, which neither the Chinese Empire nor the Dutch perceived.

Although the Chinese Empire had only been established for about five years at that time, because in the first half of the seventeenth century, China was still a great, powerful, and great country standing high on the pinnacle of human civilization, so the Chinese still looked at the world from a top-down perspective.

Most of the Chinese, the new Chinese of the Chinese Empire who were personally educated by Wang Shuhui, still have the kind of proud, very strong self-esteem in their minds, and regard all foreigners and foreign nationalities as low-level civilized human Chinese.

Westerners, especially Europeans, because they themselves have just struggled out of the dark quagmire of the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance era has not been over for long, so because the level of civilization has not yet achieved a fundamental leap and progress, Europeans who have just entered the stage of modern history still maintain a perceptual understanding of China, and they have always maintained a habit of looking up at China and Chinese civilization, as well as the vast and rich Eastern empire in their eyes.

In fact, more than 100 years later, the Western thinkers who guided and inspired the French Revolution and shaped modern civilization to some extent still maintain an irrational admiration for China and Chinese civilization.

Voltaire, a famous French thinker, the standard-bearer of the bourgeois Enlightenment, and known as the "king of French thought" and "the conscience of Europe," also carried out a certain rose-colored illusion about Manchu China, which had already begun to enter the stage of regression of civilization, and about Chinese society, when the productive forces began to fall into a stage of total decline.

According to historical records, this thinker was still a fan of Emperor Qianlong, and thought that Emperor Qianlong was a great emperor and poet?

Therefore, for the Chinese Empire and the Chinese, although they have been able to clearly distinguish that the "Hongmaoyi people" are not people of the same country, know that Western Europe, which is not as big as China, is divided into many countries, through the popularization of world maps and the study of geographical knowledge, they realize what the names of those "small countries" in Western Europe are called, and where they are in the world, but most of the citizens of the Chinese Empire know only a little about Europe.

In contrast to Europe, the citizens of the Chinese Empire were more concerned about the vast and barren lands of South China (the Australian mainland) and East China (the American continent) that had already been claimed by the Imperial Chinese Naval Fleet and those that had not been claimed by the Imperial Chinese Naval Fleet, but had begun to be carried out.

Even the citizens of the Chinese Empire were far more concerned and enthusiastic about the cold, vast, barren, and inaccessible wilderness that had become a vassal territory of the Chinese Empire, and which was marked as a white and light white Moshua in the world map published by the Chinese Empire and plastered all over China, far more than the "Henan people" who did not have the civilization of the naturalized people of the vassal states of the Chinese Empire, such as the Japanese people, the Koreans, the Annamite people, the Nanzhang people, and all the other peripheral areas of Asia.

After all, for the citizens of the Chinese Empire, those naturalized people with yellow skin and black eyes may be the descendants of poor relatives who migrated from China in ancient times. As long as these naturalized people are oriented to China and can take the initiative to seriously study the language and writing of the Chinese Empire, then after the civilization is connected, the people of the Chinese Empire will still be very tolerant and generous to welcome the descendants of these poor relatives in ancient times to return to the broad and warm embrace of the Chinese nation.

As for the barbarians who don't speak very well. Is there a need and significance for them who are struggling to save money to buy a car?

For the Dutch of this era, they did not think that the Chinese Empire's attitude towards them was really so cold and tough, nor did they think that the Chinese Empire had swept away their colonial stronghold in Southeast Asia, and it was really unreasonable to put their immigrants and officials in these places in concentration camps.

For the Europeans of this era, especially for the people of the Protestant countries such as "Henan" (the transliteration of the Chinese people of China) and "Yinguo" (the transliteration of the Chinese people), they went through the Renaissance and the Reformation, and completely separated from the Catholic Church and the Catholic countries both ideologically and practically, completely got rid of the dark quagmire of the horrors of the Middle Ages, and began the era of great navigation and colonization. Having restarted the quest for wisdom in the era of classical civilization, they have already developed a clearer and more rational idea of the law of the jungle in the brutal (for the indigenous peoples of the colonized Americas and Africa) colonial occupation, indigenous massacres and slave trade.

Willing to gamble and lose; If you can't beat it, you will admit defeat; Accept reality when there is no way to do so, and keep the contract; Things like making money and having fun together are still very acceptable to Europeans who have not yet developed a good sense of self and think that white people should be superior.

After all, the seventeenth century was not the era when the arrogant whiteskins took turns ruling the world and taking turns to be the world hegemon.

For China, for the strength and toughness of the Chinese Empire, they will not be like the post-era, in front of what still think about the archway, in front of the disgusting posture of China's powerful power.

Whether the Portuguese and the British, who had signed formal diplomatic treaties with the Chinese Empire acknowledging that their actions in Southeast Asia had endangered the interests of the Chinese Empire, recognizing the Chinese Empire's domination over the entire Eastern world, recognizing the absolute sovereignty of the Chinese Empire over its vassal states, and attaching to the formal diplomatic treaties which clearly marked the territorial sovereignty of the Chinese Empire over two-thirds of the entire Eurasian continent and the South China Sea (from the South China Sea to Antarctica) and the East China Sea (including all the islands in the Pacific Ocean and the eastern continent of North America), The Dutch, who had just come to the Chinese Empire and couldn't wait to sign a series of such treaties with the Chinese Empire and establish comprehensive trade relations, were very rational in their attitude towards the Chinese Empire.

Whether in terms of documents or thoughts, they feel that they have the same industrial level as the science fiction world, with countless railways, countless factories, countless citizens, countless armies, and countless wealth; Armed with ironclad ships, cannons, machine guns, rifles, airships, and even biplanes that they could not understand, the Chinese Empire was supposed to be the leader of the world, both in theory and in practice, and it was only natural that it should occupy the vast territory marked on the map.

China doesn't care about the world. It can even be said that there is no need for China to care about the world. Because China is the world.

The Chinese Empire was the most advanced country in the world. The Chinese nation is the greatest nation in the world. The Chinese are the most civilized people. This was not only the idea of the citizens of the Chinese Empire, but also the consensus of all Westerners who had begun to fully understand and know the actual situation of the Chinese Empire, the current Spaniards, Portuguese, British, and Dutch, as well as all the Westerners who were about to indirectly learn about the actual situation through their European compatriots and the large-scale fleets of the Chinese Empire that went to Europe to trade.

However, the arrival of the Dutch, especially the Dutch, who completed diplomatic negotiations, quickly signed a series of treaties with the Chinese Empire, and established a comprehensive trade partnership with the Chinese Empire, did have a huge impact on the development of history.

You know, the Dutch at this time were very powerful in terms of transport (for the Western world), dominating Europe with commerce and trade.

It was not as obsessed with the great industrial production capacity that Britain would later have, but it did have a much greater capacity for ocean-going trade than it is now and for a long time to come.

More than 15,000 merchant ships are no joke. After all, the advanced ocean-going steamships of the Chinese Empire could not become tens of thousands at once.

Therefore, the Dutch, with their strong transportation capacity and well-established commercial system, hit it off with the Chinese Empire, which was suffering from a surplus of products.

Because all the products produced by the Chinese Empire, with its strong industrial production capacity, whether agricultural or industrial, whether ordinary beverages or industrial machinery, from the most basic grain to the most high-end steamships, were of higher quality and cheaper than their counterparts in any European country.

So, when the merchant ships of the United Provincial Republics, which had established formal diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire, flocked to Europe and returned to Europe with huge quantities of Chinese Empire products, a huge ripple effect occurred.

Later historians of the Third World, especially some "people of insight" who returned to their home countries after learning advanced knowledge in the People's Democratic Republic of China, believed that the combination of the Dutch as a coachman on the sea and the Chinese Empire, the ruler of the Eastern world, in the seventeenth century was a complete disaster for the whole of Europe.

A huge amount of extremely cheap, extremely high-quality industrial and agricultural products, from handkerchiefs to artillery ships, covered all the products of the Chinese Empire, which was unimaginable and did not exist, and completely destroyed the industry and agriculture of the fledgling European countries.

On the one hand, because the Dutch thinker Van der Per, who was recuperating and recuperating in China and then conducting a comprehensive investigation of the Chinese Empire, returned to Europe and enthusiastically promoted the Chinese Empire through his books, a large number of European intellectuals who had persistent and fanatical pursuit of science and civilization were all lost to the Chinese Empire, which interrupted the development process of European civilization.

On the other hand, there is nothing to doubt about the industrial and agricultural products (agricultural products) of the Chinese Empire, considering that the British could still make huge profits after growing grain in the colonies of India in the seventeenth century and returning home. The workers and peasants of Europe, which were in the midst of a difficult development and recovery, began to launch an all-out revolt in despair against the ruling classes of Europe, which were transforming into compradors of all kinds, and plunged Europe, which had just regained some calm, into a total chaos that lasted for two centuries.

In particular, the leadership of the Chinese Empire, which had already transformed into imperialists, adopted a policy of bad intentions towards European countries and incessantly provoked European countries to war with each other.

Even at the end of the 17th century, the Chinese Empire directly supported a powerful alliance between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, and repeatedly fought wars with the alliance of Britain and France, on the one hand, sucking up all the wealth of European countries, and on the other hand, destroying tens of millions of European people.

This made it possible until the 21st century, when China, which had completed the four industrial revolutions and had begun to carry out in-depth development of outer space, the European countries were still in the primitive steam power era, the total population of each country was less than 100 million, and even the human basic conditions of the second industrial revolution could not be satisfied.

Advanced, systematic and perfect, scientific research system that can achieve self-development; a national management system that is fair, reasonable, comprehensive and able to meet the needs of all; Uninterrupted development, leapfrogging productivity; Non-stop innovation, all-round self-revolution of production relations; After less than ten years as emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Shuhui's efforts to abolish the imperial system and establish the republic model after the new generation of new Chinese who had received a comprehensive industrial education grew up, it took several decades to complete all of them.

How old did Wang Shuhui live?

In the mysterious legends of the history of industrial China, whenever there is a crisis or disaster in China, whenever there is a setback and difficulty in China, a person who is always wearing a gray-white uniform, full of white hair, and always maintaining a young face like Wang Shuhui will appear with new methods and plans, and then the "rumors" of the king are raging, is it true?

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, was there really a super-intelligent body sent by the high-dimensional universe that could solve all the problems of scientific and cultural development in the legendary Xishan base in China?

The steam engine revolution of the first industrial revolution, the electrical revolution of the second industrial revolution, the atomic energy, electronic computer, space technology and biological engineering revolution of the third industrial revolution, and the pollution-free revolution of super energy and super intelligence of the fourth industrial revolution were all formulated by Wang Shuhui himself?

And so on, countless legends and countless questions, those mysterious questions that are involved in everything from stall literature to advanced studies, have always attracted Chinese.

In fact, Wang Shuhui himself feels very funny about his existence.

A materialist, faced with a series of influences from the unknown super-existence that cannot be rationally cognitized because the level of development of the productive forces is insufficient, will sometimes inevitably produce some kind of nonsense.

After all, the impact of the space-time gate on Wang Shuhui is too bizarre.

First of all, because of the radiation influence of the space-time gate, Wang Shuhui's life was extended indefinitely. is Zhu Weiyan, who lives with Wang Shuhui, and their children who have Wang Shuhui's genes in their bodies, have become very abnormal.

Zhu Weiyan actually maintained the appearance of being in her twenties and lived until she was more than one hundred and eighty years old. It wasn't until one night in the twenties of the nineteenth century that she safely maintained the appearance when she was in her twenties and just married Wang Shuhui, and died peacefully in Wang Shuhui's arms.

And Wang Shuhui's six have all become the children of scientists and scientific research workers, and they have generally lived to the age of about 130.

Therefore, Wang Shuhui, who watched his wife and children die in front of him and endured great pain, was indeed unable to die forever because of the time and space gate.

However, the truth is not as exaggerated as those mysterious legends suggest.

After all, after nearly a hundred years of copying a China that Wang Shuhui was familiar with in the ancient world, China and the Chinese themselves are fully equipped to constantly solve the new problems they encounter.

Occasionally, because of the perfect system, Wang Shuhui may change his face and take on another identity to make suggestions for China's development again.

But most of the time, Wang Shuhui quietly and obscuribly watched the rapidly developing China and the Chinese people.

In fact, after Zhu Weiyan and the children passed away one after another, Wang Shuhui spent most of his time in China in another time and space, living a plain and ordinary life in another China.

Wang Shuhui once saw an interesting question on the Internet when he was young. On a Q&A website, Wang Shuhui came across a question about eternal life.

The question asks, "Is eternal life a torture for man?" ”

Wang Shuhui felt at the time that this question was really very nonsense, after all, it was like "What is the life of an alien like?" "Such a question is the same, such a question that only an alien can give the right answer. If one cannot live forever, how can a person who has not practiced such a practice answer the question of whether it is a torment to attain eternal life?

After Wang Shuhui is really immortal, his opinion on this issue is also very simple.

For a materialist, for someone who stands on a materialist standpoint, immortality is definitely a benefit.

With so much knowledge, so much culture, so much richness in the world, and having an unrestricted life, for him, he didn't even think about "Is eternal life a kind of torture?" "This kind of problem is a kung fu.

Keep learning, keep thinking and can't get busy? How could he waste time and energy pondering such boring things?

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In 5697, on Mars, in a remote scientific research base far from residential areas, a scientist in his forties from the Chinese Academy of Space Sciences nervously watched a person who was heavily armed and equipped with strange-looking equipment step by step towards the light gate in the center of the laboratory under the constraints of the huge space teleportation device that constantly emitted strange light.

He subconsciously wiped the sweat on his forehead that didn't exist at all, and then nervously said to the white-haired "old scientist" who was standing next to him and looked at the scene with interest:

"Teacher Wang Cixin, do you think this space teleportation experiment can be successful?"

Wang Cixin's "old scientist" is a very fashionable picture, and it is often seen in this era that young people will never age because of genetic modification.

He said very easily:

"Based on our theory, as well as previous years of experimentation, spatial teleportation is a proven technology that is completely safe and reliable. The next step is finally to experiment with time travel. I've been waiting for that moment for a long time. ”

When it came to professional issues, the middle-aged scientist subconsciously frowned, and then said:

"Teacher, you always say that time travel is completely feasible, and you are always so anxious about time travel experiments. However, according to our theory, both space teleportation and time travel are valid. But in the absence of experiments, as scientists, we can't always be absolutely sure of the possibility of time travel. It's not rigorous after all. ”

Just as the middle-aged scientist was seriously expressing his attitude, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted in the laboratory.

It turned out that in another laboratory on Earth, the news of the success of the experiment came back for the first time.

In this burst of cheers, the middle-aged scientist did not hear the excited whispers of his teacher, Wang Shuhui, who goes by the pseudonym "Wang Cixin":

"I can finally put my mind at ease. We also need to really master the space travel technology, ah....... How can a person who has not practiced such a practice answer the question of whether immortality is a torment?

After Wang Shuhui is really immortal, his opinion on this issue is also very simple.

For a materialist, for someone who stands on a materialist standpoint, immortality is definitely a benefit.

With so much knowledge, so much culture, so much richness in the world, and having an unrestricted life, for him, he didn't even think about "Is eternal life a kind of torture?" "This kind of problem is a kung fu.

Keep learning, keep thinking and can't get busy? How could he waste time and energy pondering such boring things?

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In 5697, on Mars, in a remote scientific research base far from residential areas, a scientist in his forties from the Chinese Academy of Space Sciences nervously watched a person who was heavily armed and equipped with strange-looking equipment step by step towards the light gate in the center of the laboratory under the constraints of the huge space teleportation device that constantly emitted strange light.

He subconsciously wiped the sweat on his forehead that didn't exist at all, and then nervously said to the white-haired "old scientist" who was standing next to him and looked at the scene with interest:

"Teacher Wang Cixin, do you think this space teleportation experiment can be successful?"

Wang Cixin's "old scientist" is a very fashionable picture, and it is often seen in this era that young people will never age because of genetic modification.

He said very easily:

"Based on our theory, as well as previous years of experimentation, spatial teleportation is a proven technology that is completely safe and reliable. The next step is finally to experiment with time travel. I've been waiting for that moment for a long time. ”

When it came to professional issues, the middle-aged scientist subconsciously frowned, and then said:

"Teacher, you always say that time travel is completely feasible, and you are always so anxious about time travel experiments. However, according to our theory, both space teleportation and time travel are valid. But in the absence of experiments, as scientists, we can't always be absolutely sure of the possibility of time travel. It's not rigorous after all. ”

Just as the middle-aged scientist was seriously expressing his attitude, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted in the laboratory.

It turned out that in another laboratory on Earth, the news of the success of the experiment came back for the first time.

In this burst of cheers, the middle-aged scientist did not hear the excited whispers of his teacher, Wang Shuhui, who goes by the pseudonym "Wang Cixin":

"I can finally put my mind at ease. We also need to really master the space travel technology, ah....... ”