For the first time, Zhu Erdian learned about Yang Hao's difficulty, which was not the same as the Chinese diplomats he knew. This person has a bit of a gap in demeanor and conversation, far from being the elegant and dignified of Gu Weijun, Tang Shaoyi and others, but has an arrogance that is quite unfamiliar to him.

This kind of temperament is very rare among contemporary Chinese. Even though China has won several victories against the Western powers ten years ago, and has continued to defeat the Russians on land since last year, the Chinese are still humble and cautious in their bones, and rarely arrogant.

What Yang Hao showed to him was an inexplicable sense of superiority and undisguised contempt. To say familiar, it is that over the years, the gentlemen of the British Empire have looked at the ignorant natives of the world with the same sense of superiority.

Zhu Erdian originally thought that this was because China had the capital to challenge the great powers, and he began to think that he had no one in his eyes. Now he didn't dare to conclude that Yang Hao's pride and contempt and shamelessness that were not inferior to Westerners were simply too contradictory.

This made him think of the lofty head of state, His Excellency, the same temperament, similar thinking, and incomprehensible strong self-confidence, as if they came from an era when the Chinese empire was proud of the earth, and the kind of strong self-confidence that China must be the head of the world, without the experience of an era, it cannot be cultivated at all.

"How so?"

Zhu Erdian was puzzled in his heart, but he still had an expression of joy and anger on his face, ignoring Yang Hao's sarcasm, looking at the various groups gathered randomly in the hall, and said lightly: "It seems that your country has been sure that it can obtain great wealth from the war in Europe, or rather." Have you determined that you will be the decisive force for victory or defeat? ”

He was honored as a plenipotentiary minister of the British Empire. He actually asked such a question to Yang Hao, a young envoy like "Yang Ziyan". It's a rare low profile.

Yang Hao smiled silently, gently shook his wine glass and said leisurely: "No, in fact, we don't care at all about who wins and who loses in the war in Europe. China will not and will not choose to take sides in other people's wars, we will always be independent, we have our own development plan, and we will not be diverted by the influence of external forces. Unless, someone can force us to make choices and changes against our will. Well. It's like the Qing Empire seventy years ago. ”

It was a merciless mockery of the English gentlemen.

Seventy years ago, it was the British Empire that bombarded the Qing Dynasty's conservative and ignorant seclusion and forced it to accept all kinds of unequal treaties imposed on hundreds of millions of Chinese people. It was under the impetus of such a force that the entire land of China slowly and sluggishly began to change.

It was also at that time that Britain began to consciously guide the development of China, trying to turn it into a colony similar to India. Although they later realized that that was unlikely, they retreated to the next best thing and shared the spoils with other powers, but they never gave up their influence or even interference with China.

Yang Hao's words are a tribute to everything the British did at the beginning.

Zhu Erdian's Taoism is profound enough. will not be angry at such verbal ridicule, and his brows are slightly raised. "It seems that Mr. Special Envoy has a lot of confidence in China's future," he asked. Have you ever thought that if a powerful empire re-emerges in Europe after a war, and the forces of all the great powers are integrated to expand eastward, will China still be able to go its own way behind closed doors? ”

Yang Hao replied without thinking: "You all know, that's impossible. At least until the Western world truly understands what a civilized country is, there is no comparison between the East and the West. It can even be said that the gap between the two sides will widen. As our Great Führer said, the monarchs and nobles of Europe need a war to learn to respect life and understand the essence of civilization and progress. Whoever wins, will be more cautious about the war, and it will be less likely to rashly enter into a full-scale conflict with China. ”

Zhu Erdian was moved in his heart, and snorted coldly: "It doesn't seem appropriate for you to say this, right? Everyone knows that modern civilization originated in the Western world, and the leaders of the British Empire realized it step by step around the world and promoted it to other countries. ”

Yang Hao raised his right index finger and shook it gently: "No, no, no, you haven't figured it out, the modern civilization we talk about in China is not the same thing as what you understand." The Western world believes that whoever has a large warship, a thick main gun, a large colony, and a large enslaved population is the higher the degree of civilization. We believe that the real progress of civilization is the high respect for life and the protection of the right to life, the equal enjoyment of national interests by people of all strata, and the fact that they no longer think about who to enslave, dominate, oppress and destroy. Today's Europe, in the Warring States period 2,000 years ago, is not much better than China's weapons, except that the weapons are more advanced. ”

Zhu Erdian puffed his beard and sneered: "These words sound very much like the arguments of the so-called communists in Europe. But what I see in China is exactly the same as in Europe. Privileges, interest classes rule the entire country, and the vast majority of ordinary people can only share a small benefit. It's not the same thing as what you said at all. ”

He almost pointed at Yang Hao's nose and scolded hypocrisy.

Yang Hao shrugged: "Therefore, we must continue to innovate politics, and on the premise of ensuring economic development and people's basic living security, we will continue to improve and upgrade, and finally reach a new height of civilization of common prosperity and peace and happiness for all people." Of course, we also admit that the outbreak of war in the West has provided us with the opportunity to carry out such reforms, and in a sense, we have taken advantage of a certain advantage. ”

Zhu Erdian almost blew up his lungs, you guys are just taking advantage there, from beginning to end it is you Chinese fanning the flames behind your back, and now you are beginning to eat the dividends that come from this in advance. It's all stained with the blood of the European people, and you're not cruel?

Of course, Zhu Erdian will definitely not say this. The most beautiful person in the world used this excuse to condemn others was the British. They have been beaten almost everywhere in the world that they can invade, and the number of enemies, the breadth of killing, and the prosperity of evil are unparalleled.

Later, Hitler killed millions of Jews in Germany, and the entire nation was condemned and criticized for a long time, regardless of justification. Later, he was simply castrated and lost all his blood. Almost an entire nation has become a representative of the Virgin's brain.

What about the other powers of the day? The Spaniards wiped out the entire Mayan civilization. creating ethnic vendettas everywhere; European hooligans collaborated to kill tens of millions of Indians, and then held a Thanksgiving day to celebrate the "selfless dedication" of fools every year; Not to mention the British, not to mention the French, the Russians? They killed a lot of their own people.

But which one was condemned?

In the final analysis, under the cognitive system of Western civilization, the winner is king, and the big fist has the final say.

Yang Hao directly lifted their old bottoms, and the British gentlemen didn't think there was anything wrong. On the contrary, it is a bit too shameful for China to shout such a seemingly lofty slogan so loudly -- you can't do it at all, so why bother to promote it as if it were the real thing, who doesn't know who!

Therefore, Zhu Erdian didn't believe Yang Hao's statement at all, and he also realized that if he continued this topic, he would not get any valuable information in the end.

After a slight sigh, he said again: "It seems that your country is determined to play the role of a fisherman in the European war. All right. Suppose you have achieved great success, after the whole of Europe has been reduced to ruins. To be the strongest country in the world like no other. What's next, will the offensive continue to the west, until the hegemony of the whole world is completed? ”

Zhu Erdian didn't feel that there was anything wrong with discussing this topic with Yang Hao and "Yang Ziyan".

Now in the eyes of the entire Western world, this young man, who looks less than thirty years old, is as terrible as the Great Führer, who only went out for two laps and did two great things that affected the world.

One is that Russia has gone limp and has now lost millions of square kilometers of land, plus huge losses of more than half a million troops.

The other was to damage the prestige of the British Navy in front of the whole world, and by the way, secretly sell advanced warships to the Germans, and directly promote the outbreak of war in Europe.

This is a special being that can represent the will of the Great Führer himself, and deserves his greatest attention and embankment.

Yang Hao didn't eat his seemingly flattering statement, waved his hand and said with a smile: "We can't afford His Excellency's statement. No matter in the past, present or future, China will not become a world hegemon, which is determined by the nature of our culture. Not to mention that we will not be able to achieve that level of economic and military power for at least 50 or even 100 years, and more importantly, that is not what we are pursuing. That kind of thinking is harmful to our country or to other peoples. ”

Zhu Erdian's heart moved, and he said as if surprised: "Oh? It seems that your country has considered this possibility? But why give up, isn't it the most accomplished thing to make the Chinese the highest ethnic group in the world? As far as I know, since ancient times, China has been obsessed with becoming the center of the world and the master of the whole world. You have always claimed to inherit and carry forward Chinese culture, how can you have a completely different way of thinking? Don't you think that's a contradiction? ”

Yang Hao replied without hesitation: "Your understanding of Chinese culture is biased. Since ancient times, we have believed that China is the center of the world, and that is because in the long history, there has not been a comparable civilization around it. Our self-confidence and sense of superiority are also based on the height of culture, which is not boasting, but a lack of comparison. ”

"When we were widely exposed to Western civilization during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese at that time did not lack the initiative to actively learn and absorb, which is enough to show that we are a culture that can be inclusive, constantly developing and progressing. At the same time, we have never hesitated to disseminate the achievements of our advanced civilization to neighboring countries and neighbors, please note that it is to disseminate, not to impose on others. This is fundamentally different from what the Western world has done. ”

Zhu Erdian immediately grasped the main point of his words and asked aggressively: "Do you think there is something wrong with the Western world's approach?" Not as good as Eastern civilization? ”

Yang Hao said proudly: "First of all, I want to point out a mistake, there is no so-called Eastern civilization, in the East, there is only Chinese civilization. Secondly, in terms of the essence of civilization, only Chinese civilization can truly bring light and progress, happiness and peace to the entire human world. Western civilization pursues excessive plunder by force and pursues the law of the jungle, which is a betrayal and retrogression of the value of human beings themselves, and is undesirable. ”

Zhu Erdian disagreed, did not plunder where did the development capital come from? Aren't you Chinese still cheating and abducting resources and territory everywhere to actively spread out your own surplus population and gradually squeeze out the living space of other ethnic groups in the surrounding area?

It has only been ten years, in addition to Mongolia, Western Xinjiang and Far Northeast Xinjiang on the main road, the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon, and even Borneo and Malaya, Indonesia, and even as far as Australia, Hawaii, and the west coast of North America, the pace of Chinese immigration and expansion is getting better day by day, and now the population is tens of millions!

Perhaps in another decade or two, when a new generation of overseas Chinese grows up, they will become the main body of those places, backed by a strong mother country, and will naturally expand their domination to the entire Pacific Ocean without using swords.

At that time, China's territory was probably much larger than that of the current British colonies!

Thinking of that terrible scene, Zhu Erdian's heart was cold, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly, but unfortunately the nobles and monarchs of European countries were short-sighted, and still did not realize how big the threat of the Chinese was, locked them up and fought inwardly, and let the Chinese get valuable development opportunities in vain.

Comparing the two, he also has to admit that Yang Hao is not wrong when he says that "China has its own development ideas". It's just that it is too much to criticize the Western world in such a way as to take advantage of it and sell it well.

Yang Hao seemed to come to talk about sex, and he didn't wait for the old devil to refute, and continued: "The reason why I said this is grounded. Your Excellency the Minister is well-educated and should know that there is a deep-rooted problem in Western civilization, which is the supremacy of theocracy over human rights. No matter how great a scientist is, he must first admit that he believes in God, otherwise no matter how high the academic level is, it will be heresy. ”

And the existence of this first cause, from its birth to the Middle Ages to today, has made many jokes that cannot be justified, and everyone knows it. Now that human beings have begun to explore the universe, I don't know how to weave those magic sticks. However, there is no doubt that if the West does not solve the problem of secularization of religious beliefs, sooner or later it will suffer a great loss in this regard. On the other hand, our Chinese civilization does not have the burden of this aspect, so we can travel lightly, and we will inevitably be able to catch up in terms of development prospects and future achievements. ”

This touched on the fundamental issue of faith, Zhu Erdian couldn't bear it anymore, raised his eyebrows and rebuked: "I don't dare to agree with your opinion. In the same way, I also have this question, could it be that in your opinion, there is no such fundamental problem in China? ”

Yang Hao's face was solemn, and he nodded solemnly: "Yes!" And no less troublesome than in the West. (To be continued.) )