Volume 1: Theory Chapter 10: If Europe Were Unified1

As we all know, China and Europe are two large cultural circles with distinctive characteristics, and they are also two large cultural circles that are often compared by academics and people, China is the most typical cultural circle of the world's great unification system, and Europe, just opposite to China, Europe is the most typical cultural circle of the world's great division model, in the history of the world, different countries and nations in the same cultural circle, there are always collective psychological demands for great unity, but it is not easy to complete the great unification of a cultural circle, Europe has never been able to complete its unification.

Some people believe that the great unification system is the main culprit for China's backwardness in modern times, and the great division model is the biggest reason why Europe was the first to start a war in modern times for the scientific and technological revolution.

For this point of view, I want to say that since the Qin Dynasty to the present, most of the time in world history, China is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of comprehensive strength, but after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the barbaric rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty caused China to gradually lag behind the West, and when we overthrew the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, China gradually restored its status as a world power, from 1911 to the present, China is realizing the great journey of national rejuvenation step by step, and in the foreseeable future, China will still be the most powerful country on our planet, and the unified system has played an extremely important role in all of this.

Many people believe that the great division model of Europe can really benefit the development of a cultural circle, then the post-war history can show that in the face of the unified United States and the Soviet Union, the scattered Europe can only change from the core area of the former industrial civilization to the arena of the United States and the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, China's rapid rise, from many aspects, in the future, Europe will not have any capital to compete with the two great powers of China and the United States.

If it is not our people, their hearts will be different, and it is impossible for two countries or more countries to twist into a rope in any case, and different countries will only fight with each other, tear down each other, hinder each other, and blame each other, which is determined by the inferior nature of human beings, and when there are blessings, different countries will not share happiness, and when there are difficulties, different countries will fly separately when great disasters come.

From the new crown epidemic in 2020, it can be found that when the disaster came, all provinces in China did their best to help each other, support each other, tide over difficulties and overcome difficulties together, but European countries robbed each other, demolished each other, and blamed each other. When Italy was in the most difficult time, it asked the whole of Europe for help, and no European country was willing to help Italy, even if those countries could come up with a small amount of resources, but they were not willing to lend Italy the slightest spare strength.

Since ancient times, all cultural circles have dreamed of being able to achieve the unification of their own cultural circles, but only China has achieved the great unification of its own cultural circles, and China has completed the feat of great unification in the era of cold weapons and extremely underdeveloped transportation and communications more than 2,200 years ago, and has continued to this day, so it can be said that China has achieved and has continued to this day more than 2,200 years ago, and it is the greatest feat in the world - there is no one!

Why do you say that, this is because, to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two cultural circles and two cultural forms, we must not only look at the short modern 200 years, but look at the entire history, and we must predict the future of the two cultural circles and two cultural forms.

Although China has missed three scientific and technological revolutions, will it continue to miss out in the next 50 years, the next 100 years, the next 200 years, the next 500 years, the next 1,000 years, and the next longer?

No, human luck is equal, in modern times, it is the era of China's bad luck in the West, and after the opening of the nuclear era, China finally ushered in the opportunity to compete fairly with all opponents, and competition, in the final analysis, is the strength of the collective, the great unification is the system that can best show the collective strength, the 1.4 billion people under the great unification system, the power contained in it, is greater than the power of the 7 billion people in the great division mode. Therefore, with the passage of time, China's great unification system will surely become the object of envy of all countries.

Before the age of nuclear weapons, some cultural circles could get a head start through luck and thus achieve achievements ahead of others, and Europe was like this, in the history of the world, Europe has long been on the edge of civilization, but in modern times, Europe has suddenly risen, and what is the rise of Europe? Relying on luck, of course, there are also factors of European wisdom and courage to explore, but these are not the most critical factors, the most critical factor in the rise of Europe in modern times is luck.

But luck is time-limited, when the lucky period of a cultural circle is over, what else can this cultural circle rely on to compete with other cultural circles? We can only rely on the joint efforts within the cultural circle, why do Europeans have to form the European Union, don't they just hope to occupy a place in the world with the help of the joint forces of Europe!

But it's a pity that the EU is not a country, but an organization of many countries huddling together to keep warm, and there will be all kinds of contradictions between different countries.

After so much rambling, now let's bring the topic back to football, we can suppose, suppose, that Europe is suddenly united, unified into a big unified country like China, this country, let's call it the 'Republic of Europe', this 'Republic of Europe', including the entire territory of Europe, the North Asian part of Russia, Turkey, the three countries of the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Israel, and so on.

So the question is, if this 'Europa Republic' establishes a single football league system, with three levels of football leagues and 60 professional teams, and forms a 'Europa national team', then, what will this 'Europa national team' look like?

When it comes to European football, we all know that there is no weak team in Europe, and every national team in Europe has strong strength, except for Andorra, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein and San Marino, I really can't find any other national team belonging to Europe that can't beat the Chinese team: North Macedonia? The Luxembourg team? Kosovo team? Team Lithuania? Georgian team? The Armenian team? Cypriot team? These teams may be ranked lower than the Chinese team, but if they really play, there is a 95% chance that they will beat the Chinese team, and the population of these countries or regions is still larger than the population of Iceland, as for the strength of the Icelandic team, the author does not need to say more.

Of course, to say that Andorra, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein and San Marino are weaker than the Chinese team, people may also collectively express dissatisfaction, after all, in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, the Faroe Islands once beat the Greek team twice.

There are no weak teams in Europe, and the top 20 national teams in the world can easily occupy 15 seats in Europe, Germany, France, Italy, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Croatia, Russia, ...... These national teams are pulled out alone, and their strength has already shocked the world, so if the football of these countries is integrated and integrated into the 'Europa national team', then, will the strength of this 'Europa national team' become a flawless and powerful existence?

The answer is no.