"Governor Xie of the General Affairs Hall once gave a lecture on "Universal Political Chronicles" in the Political Affairs Hall, and Wang Daoshe even directly listed the land and sea enemies of my Yinghua for a hundred years, that is, Britain and Rakshasa . Although the minister is not familiar with foreign affairs and commercial affairs, he also has some experience based on history and me. ”

Chen Wance became a monk halfway, joined Duan Hongshi's disciple, reread history with the study of truth, and was already familiar with Guiguzi's tactics, and he has also made a name for himself in government affairs over the years. At present, with the position of a subordinate servant, together with Liu Xingchun, the governor of the Jiangnan camp, Wu Ya, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the governors of various provinces, Jingping Guozhong, the government and the opposition believe that he is very likely to enter the cabinet and become the fourth secondary.

Chen Wance's opening was obviously from the perspective of history and humanities, and Li Kezai respectfully stood and listened.

"Britain, located in the north of Eurobasil, is a remote island country, and has no inheritance, but it is a wilderness. The Portuguese, Spanish and even Dutch sailed out of Europa and sailed across the world, and the British chased after them. The first three kingdoms were defeated one after another, and the Britons dominated Europa, and at this time there was a tendency to separate from the French. And its hegemony is advancing rapidly, and the Wang Dao Society regards Britain as the old enemy of the sea route, although it is biased, but it is not unreasonable to look at the trend of the West and Tianzhu. ”

"The same is true of the Rakshasas, who live in the northeast of Europa. The land of Rakshasa was already bitter and cold, and its people were fierce and fearless, and the reason why it was able to defeat Sweden and other northern powers at this time was due to the great strategy of its king Peter I. In addition, the Rakshasas are also based on the Orthodox Church, and there is no dispute between Taoism and unity in the country, which is very similar to the Britons who rejected Roman Catholicism and established their own state religion. ”

"The momentum of the global controversy is just like the dispute between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Governor Xie and Wang Daoshe both said that Britain is the Qin State on the sea, and the Rakshasa people are the Qin State on land, and the ministers think so. Why did the Qin State dominate the world, in the past ten years, everyone has held the way of heaven and the truth to reinterpret, it should have been explained thoroughly. ”

Speaking of the Qin State, Li Kezai also showed a somewhat disapproving look. Indeed, the Anglo-Chinese country re-examines history, and people at the level of Xiucai already have a deep understanding.

Why was Qin able to dominate the world? The traditional understanding is nothing more than the right place, the right people, and then the right time.

Today's intellectuals, who have undergone the transition from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the Anglo-Chinese, have a deeper understanding of this historical process. To summarize briefly, the fundamental reason is that the Qin state is on the periphery of the "old world", and it is outside the pattern of interests of the previous era.

Times change. In particular, when the population is increasing, social relations are becoming more and more complex, the rich and the poor are becoming more and more out of touch with the traditional hierarchical system, and it is difficult for the old feudal system to maintain the operation of the whole society. The old world had to be renewed.

At this time, the countries of the Central Plains invariably moved towards the county system, but as the center of the "old world", the interests of the Central Plains countries had accumulated too deeply, the burden was too heavy, and the changes were incomplete, while the Qin State, as a later apprentice, was able to change the law to the end. In a way, this is the barefoot who is not afraid to wear shoes, anyway, low. If you push forward with all your strength, if you can't do it, you will always bleed less than others.

Not only is the foundation good, but the motivation for the Qin State to change the law is also sufficient, compared with the rich and elegant Central Plains countries, the Qin State is a group of hard-working and rough people, in order to live a good life, one country is one heart. Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

"Europa and China are different, and the biggest difference is that they are of different ethnic groups and different languages. Unlike my Huaxia, where books are the same as texts and cars are on the same track, the counties and counties in the world have been in the world for nearly 2,000 years, and the righteousness of great unification has long been established. At this time, the countries of Europa were still the foundation of the feudal system, so neither Britain nor Rakshasa could unify Europa like Qin. However, the reason for the rise of his country is not much different from that of Qin. ”

"The innovations of the Rakshasa lord Peter I, like the Qin State reforms, and the new methods are all learned from Europa's 'Central Plains'. Once his new system is completed, it will naturally expand outward. ..., Chen Wance substituted for Qin. talked about why the Rakshasa people could rise, this is just the background, and then he changed his words and returned to the question of Li Kezai.

"Fang Caichen is talking about why the Rakshasa people can have the power to occupy the land, and His Royal Highness asked why the Rakshasa people are so keen to occupy the land, even if they occupy the entire far north, they are still like jackals, invading the border in the south? The answer is very simple, Your Highness should know very well that the land in the far north is very empty, the land is vast, but the production is not much, and the thirst for land of the Rakshasa people is beyond the ordinary people's understanding. ”

"It's like farmers all over China who have different feelings about the land. In the barren land of the northwest, dozens of acres can feed a family, but in the land of the south of the Yangtze River, less than ten acres of land can keep a family warm and even study. Everyone says that the people in the northwest are rough, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful, but they don't know that in the northwest, they are not rough enough to live. ”

"Shuchen said vulgarly, the Rakshasa people have lived in the bitter cold for a long time, and their coveting of the land has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, but he is not a madman, but has rules. This kind of hunger, when entering the banquet, the first thing is not to chew on the table, but to run to each table and spit it, first drive away the guests, and then eat slowly. What he wants is not a full meal, but a lifetime of fullness. ”

Chen Wance said it vividly, and Li Kezai also laughed, thinking that this metaphor was particularly vivid.

"The minister then said that the second reason His Highness asked, why can't I do it in Huaxia?"

"This question is wrong, I have already done it. In the past, the Yellow Emperor went out of the Wei River, and Emperor Yan, drove Jiuli, and I have today's China! Not only occupies an area, from the Guannai to the Central Plains, and then to the south of the Yangtze River and even Lingnan, it is a reckless land of smoke and miasma, and today it has also been longitudinal and horizontal. ”

"Now that China is alone in the east pole of the world, the population is multiplying, and there are also Nanyang lands that can accommodate hundreds of millions of people. In the far north, if it weren't for the bitter people who were ten times more rude than the people in the northwest, how could they be able to see it? If you have no desire, you have no desire, and the Far North is not what I need in China, and of course we can't do it like the Rakshasas. ”

Chen Wance's remark, Li Kezai was stunned, it sounds really reasonable. The ancestors have laid a huge family foundation, and the future generations should cheer up, the first consideration is to expand the ancestral industry, and the second is to pick up the development of the new industry. Fighting for the tundra wasteland with the Rakshasa people is like robbing Hanako's job, which doesn't make sense, unless the offspring's skull is caught in the door.

After tasting it for a while, Li Kezai frowned, although Chen Wance's words were reasonable, they were not to his liking. The so-called brain grows on the ass, and he wants to win the bet, so he says something like "we just can't be the Qin State, and we can't learn the Rakshasa people". No matter how reasonable it is, it is all wrong for him.

What's more, what Chen Wance said is probably also "the truth grows on the buttocks", Chen Wance's position is very clear, even if he does not oppose the northward expansion, he also opposes the northward expansion. Li Kezai thought about it a little deeper, and felt that this guy was originally from a Confucian background. It is a virtue to be corrupt with the corrupt Confucians in the country, as well as the Confucianism in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and always criticize the father and emperor for being a great merit and a reckless soldier. The strategy of using troops in the northwest. There is no shortage of opposition in the government and the opposition, and Chen Vance is obviously one of them.

"Chen Shizhong said that Britain and Rakshasa are the roots of the two sea and land Qin countries, and he said it very thoroughly, but I am afraid it is not enough to persuade His Highness to give up the idea of pondering the North Court like this."

Another voice sounded, but it was Song Ji, the head of the Hanlin Academy. Seeing Song Ji, Chen Wance smiled bitterly: "Is Master Song ready to talk about the way of commerce and goods?" ”

Song Ji shook his head: "There is its own avenue behind the merchants, and I, Yinghua, are now relying on this avenue to reorganize a country, and the changes are even deeper than the changes in the Qin period." Why is the servant still so cheap? The waiter just mentioned that the Rakshasa people changed the law, and I think there is still something to discuss. Where are the Rakshasas changing? Peter I's new policy is mostly in the strong army, not as good as the foundation of national politics, not cutting the aristocracy, not liberating the serfs, the essence is just Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu riding and shooting ........."..., elegant posture, calm speech. But the two of them are on the tip of the needle, it is a war of words, Li Kezai is happy in his heart, it seems that Song should support him.

Song Ji continued: "When the waiter talked about the greed of the Rakshasa people, Song thought of a word: overkill, and there is a saying that starvation dies from gluttony, but the reason why everyone keeps saying these words is because this is the case. Change always has to go a few more steps, and expansion always has to go beyond the limit. Qin prospered because of the law, but also died because of the law II, Sui because of the great cause of the situation, but also because of the death of Emperor Yang, everyone seems to have a conclusion. Everything is too much. ”

But is this a one-size-fits-all theory? Song felt that this was not the case. ”

"In the case of the Rakshasas, why are they able to occupy the far north, and continue to move east and south? Not only do they want to get commercial goods, but they also want to get trade routes, especially sea routes. In the west they fought the northern kingdoms, in the east they marched east to occupy Kamchatka, and their explorers groped their way to the sea in the icy ocean of the far north, all because they wanted to break free from the shackles of land and become a global self-reliant race. ”

This is a bit far, Li Kezai began to scratch his head, he didn't understand much, sea route?

Song Ji didn't care if the eldest prince could keep up, and said to himself: "If today is the world of businessmen, the world is a family, and they communicate with each other." There are those who colonize and accumulate goods, and there are those who trade to and fro for profit, but they all have to do so by sea. The sea road is like the avenue, in this world of merchants, whoever deviates from this avenue is like being strangled by a rope, and the fate of a country and a clan is difficult to determine! ”

"The sea route is not a simple sea area or port, but also includes whether the road to and from is restricted by other countries, the Rakshasas first for the fur, and then for the land, at this time, Dongzhou, that is, the Americas called by the Europeans is no longer a birthplace, although the Rakshasa people in Europa won the sea to the sea, the sea route is extremely narrow, and it is also controlled by many powerful countries, they will naturally want to get the sea route to the Americas in the east."

Song shook his head and said: "The profit of the land not only depends on whether the land itself can be cultivated, can feed the population, and whether there are all kinds of minerals, but also whether the land is like the pass avenue, and there are other interests and disadvantages in the pattern." This profit is not only beneficial to the peasants, but also to the industry and commerce, and even to the people of a country. The land that has both this benefit is a desert, and what can be taken should also be taken. The reason why the Rakshasa people are so hot for the land is that they are still pushed by this kind of profit. ”

Speaking of this, Li Kezai understood, and interjected: "This is like Mobei and Malacca, they themselves are not beneficial, but they have to cross Mobei to go north, and if they want to control the South Seas, they have to seal the gateway of Malacca, so they will occupy it." ”

Of course, Chen Wance was not convinced by Song Ji's point of view: "We already have a sea route in Huaxia, and the Rakshasa people go to find his sea route, so why should we compete with the Rakshasa people in the Far North Wasteland?" This is to the detriment of others and not to oneself. ”

Song Ji said with a smile: "The Huanyu family, the east and west are similar, and they rely on business routes. Whether it is by sea or land, the trade route depends on the geographical advantage. And the location is natural, and if others gain it, I will lose it. In this case, the gain of others is to my detriment! A sentence that Li Ru often says is very appropriate in this matter, the benefit of the world is a fixed number......"

This debate is a little deeper, the theme has shifted to "living space", Li Kezai is ignorant, he feels as if he has opened a mysterious curtain, and the colorful new world behind the curtain is calling him to go deeper step by step.