It was already dark, and it was the time when I couldn't see my fingers, but the conference room of the imperial boat where Chen Dexing was riding was still steaming. There was no shortage of strange food and drink in Chen Dexing's court, and it was not tea that was used to refresh the important ministers attending the meeting tonight. Rather, the coffee is brewed by a white slave girl named Natalie. The coffee beans were also sent by Chen Huaiqing from Tianzhu, saying that they could be used as medicine and had the effect of refreshing the mind. Chen Dexing saw this thing and knew that it was coffee beans, so he wanted to get it to drink, he liked coffee very much in his previous life. It's a pity that he can only make instant coffee, not coffee beans. As a result, these coffee beans have been left in the palace hospital until a dozen white slave girls enter the palace, and a girl named Natalie will do this.

Cups of hot coffee were brewed by Natalie, and the white slaves who served as palace maids were constantly sent into the conference room. These girls are really beautiful when they are cleaned up - this is not a foreign charm, this Western girl is this species, there are many beautiful people in the Lori era, and the longer they get older, the rougher they become. That Selassie. Of course, Solomon won't sell some aunts to Daming, all he ships are high-priced beautiful Lori. Among them, Natalie was the most beautiful, she seemed to be of Polish or German species, and her father (illegal) was a minor Polish nobleman who joined the Order, surnamed Leshinski, who died in the defense of Antioch.

The conference room was full of important ministers of the Ming Dynasty who returned to the north by car, Huang Zhishen, who had not officially left the throne of prime minister, Ren Yijiang, deputy prime minister who was preparing to be corrected, Qu Huajie, who had just become the minister of finance, and Li Xiong, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Li Cuixian's brother). Of course, there are also the leaders of the four military departments, Lu Hu, Wang Lufei, Gao Da, and Gu Dali. I don't know if it's because of the effect of caffeine, everyone is in good spirits. Speak loudly or talk in a low voice. are expressing their opinions.

Chen Dexing sat at the top of a long conference table, holding a cup of fragrant coffee. Listen quietly to what the crowd is saying.

There is a majority of people who agree to the peace talks! Everyone has the same idea, Europa may be good, but it's too far to reach. The way to Europa is too deserted and there are no good places. Compared with Mingzhou, Tianzhu, and Nanfan, it is far worse.

Moreover, the Mongols were not very weak, and it was quite difficult to fight. It would be better to spend this energy in the New World and the newly discovered Oceania. The North Ming Continent, the South Ming Continent and Oceania together seem to be several times larger than the Ming Dynasty. Digested well is the foundation for Huaxia to dominate the world forever!

Actually, these people don't think badly either. Compared with the old continent, the unexplored continents such as Mingzhou and Oceania are the real treasures. Who owns there. Once it is developed, it will undoubtedly be the dominant force in the world.

Didn't the white people who came out of Europa rely on these three continents to crush the yellow peoples of East Asia?

In this time and space, Chen Dexing opened the golden finger of the Age of Discovery to Huaxia, as long as these three continents were digested. World hegemony is stable for hundreds of years! Who has the strength to pursue the Mongols? Isn't this full of food? The characters in this conference room are all qualified to seal a country in Mingzhou.

Therefore, speeding up the development of Mingzhou is the most important thing. Kublai Khan or something, let him toss in the west. At most, the Ming Dynasty supported the Christian countries of Europa, let them contain Kublai Khan, and they would not be able to get their hands on the New World.

Chen Dexing's eyes fell on Monk Liu. The monk is also in his fifties, his hair and beard are gray, and he has also made fortunes, so it seems that he will not be able to go to the battlefield again. He looked at the Land Rover again. This evil tiger also seems to be old, in his forties, although it still looks a little vicious. But the bones have long been soaked in wealth. In fact, he was just an ornament in the War Department, and everything was left to the following group of high-achieving students from the Army Military Academy Staff College -- all of them had served in the army for more than two years after graduating from the Army Military Academy, and then returned to study for a year and a half. I studied campaign organization, strategic analysis, and the like. The best of the graduates are assigned to serve as staff officers in the War Department and the Army General Staff. And the situation is similar with the Admiralty and the Naval Staff.

The high-ranking Shangshu and Shilang are all veteran generals with old qualifications, and their business level is not high. Just sit in your seat and watch the scene. In fact, the people who do things are some officers who were admitted to the military academy before the first year of the Ming Dynasty and the first year of Tiandao, and now they are all school officers, and most of them also have the titles of viscount and baron. is also considered to be famous, the young man is ambitious, and he is also a stable general by virtue of his qualifications. If you are willing to go to Mingzhou for a few years, it is also safe to be promoted to an earl. Therefore, these school officials also have the intention of seeking stability.

As for the real backbone soldiers in the Ming Army and Navy, they followed Chen Dexing's old brothers in the early years, and now most of them have been promoted to officers, a few have been knighted, and the land has increased from 300 acres at the beginning to at least 1,000 acres! Properly he is a big landowner. In the past two years, there have been more and more non-commissioned officers who have reported on the grounds of injury and illness to ask for retirement and retirement to live a comfortable life. And those sergeants who have a particularly strong desire for fame, but cannot be admitted to the military academy, and do not have much future in the army, most of them want to retire from the army to become Chen Dexing's sons and the disciples of the heroes - because these people will sooner or later have a feudal country, and these gentlemen and soldiers are all ministers when they arrive in the feudal country, and they are all ministers with their eyes closed.

In contrast, the expedition to Europa seemed to be a bitter, tiring, and dangerous one, and the benefits were not very high. Since everyone can easily and safely become ministers, who wants to go to Europa and fight with the Mongols?

This is probably the so-called twilight, right? Chen Dexing thought of the Song army in the past, isn't it that the newly recruited soldiers are all willing to fight, the time-honored troops are all dull, and a group of military leaders who are soaked in wealth and nobility are not very willing to fight. The same is true of the feudal army that came from the Great Song Dynasty system today, and at least two-thirds of the soldiers would rather go home to farm than open up colonies. Each feudal town can only take out one-third of its fame, and the backbone has not yet faded, and then recruit some mercenaries to go on an expedition. Moreover, many of the heads of the generals themselves are unwilling to go to sea, and only seek the status of a rich prince to retire in Jiangdu.

In their view, the overseas feudal kingdom with great achievements is just a place for the idlers in the resettlement clan, and at most it is just a retreat to prevent the family from perishing because of the domestic political struggle.

It seems that if you want to go west to Europa, you can't rely on those aging gentlemen. You'll have to use elite officers and mercenaries......

"Sage," Huang Zhishen, who was about to go to the New World to become president, suddenly interrupted Chen Dexing's thoughts. He gently turned the coffee cup in his hand and said lightly. "Chen has been reading the books that Wen Wenshan brought back these days, including his Europa volume of "Wen Shan's Manji". He also talked with Archbishop Doria and Ambassador Godenigo about the political history of the countries of Europa, and had some insights. ”

"Thoughts?" Chen Dexing smiled, "Then let's talk about it." ”

"The Europa people are not barbarians, but a country of civilization and etiquette like China, with a long history and a brilliant ancient cultural relics, which are better than China."

If these words were placed in the Qing Dynasty, they would definitely cause an uproar. Didn't Guo Songtao, who went to Europa in history, be impeached and sent to the opposition because he said some good things about the West in a book "Chronicles of the West", and even his reputation stinked?

However, no one in the Chen Ming Empire, which directly inherited the Great Song Dynasty, cared about this, the Great Song Dynasty was relatively open, and there was no idea of the Heavenly Empire, and Chen Ming was simply a world empire - no matter how brilliant the ancient civilizations of those foreign countries were, they were now all vassals of the Ming Dynasty, what else could not be said?

Chen Dexing nodded and said with a smile: "In ancient times, thousands of years ago, they were relatively developed. Outside Cairo, Egypt, there are many pyramids as tall as hills, all of which are made of stone. It is said that it was built 4,000 years before the birth of Jesus and was the tomb of their ancient Egyptian king. ”

"Ancient Egypt is nothing remarkable."

Huang Zhishen shook his head. Laughing: "They were just good in ancient times, and then they couldn't." What really surprised the ministers were the ancient Rome and ancient Greece, whose science and principles had a long history. It seems to be in harmony with the way of heaven preached by the sages, and both countries have so-called republican democracies. Establish a law elected by the citizens and establish an elected parliament. There is no princely name, no hereditary rules, and public weapons are paid publicly...... All kinds of systems are all in line with the law of the people of our Ming Dynasty to discuss politics. Moreover, its republican democracy, its ancient science and truth, although it has been covered in dust for thousands of years, has not been cut off, and there may not be a day of revival in the future. ”

This was really said by Huang Zhishen! It's the so-called "Dark Middle Ages" in Europa, and it's a little darker, but it's not dark either. Europa's ancient civilizations, sciences, and institutions are now preserved in Italy's commercial city-states and universities. The theocracy of Christianity can be used in faraway Ethiopia, but it can do nothing about the city-states and universities under its nose. And the development of these city-states and universities to a certain extent led to the so-called Renaissance.

And now, the westward expansion of Chinese civilization will definitely affect Europa. Especially the Italian city-states, which can almost ignore the authority of the Pope, will surely absorb the most nourishment from the Chinese civilization!

In this time and space, there is a good chance that Europa's Renaissance will come at an accelerated pace! And will the industrial revolution and industrialization follow closely and appear in Daming and Europa at the same time?

"Million, you have some truth in what you say." Chen Dexing took a sip of coffee and said lightly, "The only civilization in the world that can be comparable to my Chinese is Europa!" ”

"The saint's words are wrong."

Huang Zhishen shook his head slightly, and said with a smile: "According to the statement in "Wenshan Manji", the cultural customs of Tianzhu and Tianfang Sect are no less than those of China, and even surpass today's Europa. In particular, the civilization of the Tianfang Sect was developed by absorbing the strengths of ancient Rome, ancient Greece, ancient Persia and ancient Tianzhu, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the masters of the Bo family. Many of the manuscripts of ancient Rome and ancient Greece translated by Wen Tianxiang were translated from the manuscripts of the Great Food Language, and there were also many things from the scholars of the Great Food Country. ”

Although Wen Tianxiang had never been to the territory ruled by the Heavenly Fang Sect, he found a civilization no less than that of China in the library collection of the University of Granada-the Heavenly Fang Sect Civilization!

Unlike the Arabian Peninsula in Chen Dexing's impression of terrorists except for oil, the medieval Arab civilization far surpassed the Christians in Europa in terms of culture, art, science, commerce and many other aspects!

And Granada is just a scrap of the Celestial Cult civilization, and the real center of this civilization is in Baghdad! It was the same Baghdad that had been trampled by the Mongol cavalry and slaughtered! Before the Mongol invasion, Baghdad was in the heyday of culture and art, with two prestigious universities: the University of Niezemia and the University of Mustansiriya, which offered courses not only in religion but also in philosophy, literature, medicine, zoology, mathematics, astronomy, and more.

Compared with those Italian universities, they are not inferior in terms of ideology and scholarship. The University of Granada, which is far from them, attracts an unknown number of international students from Christian countries.

Chen Dexing already understood what Huang Zhishen meant, he nodded and said: "Now that the Heavenly Fang Sect has been destroyed, the Mongols have destroyed them, their essence is gone, only the religious things are left, and there is no time to recover." ”

Religion and culture are not the same thing, religion is sometimes very stubborn and easy to pass on. But culture is easy to destroy! The Mongols destroyed the Arab culture with butcher knives, but they themselves were subjugated by the Arab religion. But the religion of the conquered Mongols did not, and they could no longer restore their former civilization.

Although after the decline of the Ilkhanate, a powerful Ottoman Empire arose in the Celestial Sect world, and it was once impressive, but the Turks who established the Ottoman Empire were themselves barbarians, and it was already good to be able to inherit the civilization of the Celestial Sect world, and it was almost unthinkable to expect them to carry it forward. At the same time as the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the Europa people had already begun the Renaissance and discovered the Americas, the chosen country with almost unlimited resources and land. The civilization of the Heavenly Sect can only look for the possibility of revival in their scriptures......

"Fortunately, we were not conquered by the Mongols, otherwise it would have been the same fate as the Heavenly Sect!" Chen Dexing put down the coffee cup in his hand and said lightly, "Although my Chinese bloodline civilization will not perish, there will be a time to recover in the future, but this vitality is broken after all...... This Europa, let the Mongols spoil it. Even if it's just a few decades, it's enough to delay them for hundreds of years! That Liu Bingzhong, just ask him to come to Beijing to see him! (To be continued......)