Chapter 23 Cultural Export

Using food to attract and conquer the queen of the big-headed ant relict clan is a cultural export strategy that the protagonist has already "planned".

In the human world, the weapon of conquering and assimilating other nations and countries is culture more effectively than military warfare with open swords and guns, and since ancient times, some more developed forces have exported their own culture, intentionally or unintentionally, and have played a good role.

In the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties of ancient China, there were a large number of foreigners who admired the Han culture to serve the central power, and even held high positions, or the commander of the army even did not hesitate to fight against their own people.

For example, Jin Riyan of the Han Dynasty, Gao Xianzhi and An Lushan of the Tang Dynasty, etc.

The same was true in Europe, where many of the senators and generals of the later Roman Empire were not the most traditional Roman inhabitants, Latins, but came from conquered regions such as Gaul, Greece, Carthage, Egypt, and Syria.

Known as the "last Roman", Aetius, a general at the end of the Roman Empire, was of Vandalish descent and became the pillar of the increasingly flagging Roman Empire with his diplomatic skills and superb military ability.

What attracted these foreigners to abandon their blood ties and take refuge was largely due to the attraction and assimilation of advanced culture.

The assimilation of culture generally presents the law of advanced assimilation and backwardness.

After the relatively weak and backward side and the relatively strong, advanced, and perfect side culture come into contact with each other, they gradually introduce and learn from the strong advanced culture, and are influenced by the strong culture, and have the characteristics of a strong and advanced culture. Some individuals with weak cultures may even abandon their own culture in favor of strong cultures.

When a weak culture has the characteristics of a strong culture, we say that the weak culture has been assimilated by the strong culture. When an individual with a weak culture is integrated into a strong cultural group, the individual is assimilated by the dominant culture.

The examples of Jin Riyan, Gao Xianzhi, An Lushan, and Aetius, who were raised before, were all assimilated by individuals.

Chinese ethnic minorities such as the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty were quickly assimilated in part or in whole after they established power in northern China or throughout the country, which is a typical case of the assimilation of the entire ethnic group. In today's China, the Manchus are indistinguishable from the Han in many ways, and those who have been famous in history for a while, such as the Dongyi, Qiang, Xiongnu, Karasuma, Rouran, Xianbei, Khitan, and Dangxiang, have long disappeared and have been completely integrated into the mainstream ethnic groups.

In Europe, the barbarians who overthrew the Western Roman Empire, such as the Franks, Goths, and Vandals, also regarded themselves as the successors of the Roman Empire, and were also deeply influenced by cultural assimilation.

It is precisely because of the powerful power of culture as a weapon, which can even achieve the effect of surrendering without a fight, that in modern times, many countries in the human world have consciously exported culture.

In the human world in the 21st century, there is a common view that the real mark of becoming a big country lies in whether its ideology and culture are recognized by the world.

When the Han and Tang dynasties were strong, the influence of Chinese culture spread throughout East Asia, and even after hundreds of years of social and world changes, elements of Chinese culture can still be seen in countries such as South Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

At the height of the Roman Empire, Latin was spoken throughout Europe, and Christianity spread throughout Europe.

In the heyday of France, the nobility and intellectuals throughout the European courts took pride in speaking French, and all diplomatic texts were written in French. French is known as the most beautiful language, and Paris became the political, economic, and cultural center and meeting place of Europe.

After Britain became the "empire on which the sun never sets", English quickly spread all over the world, Shakespeare's works are well known to the world, and there are still many countries and regions where afternoon tea is popular, and vehicles drive on the left.

The strength of the United States in the world today does not only lie in its military power, Hollywood movies occupy 80% of the world's market share, the influence of American dramas is all over the world, and American values are recognized by the whole world.

Some cultural exports are unconscious, but in modern times, many cultural exports like the United States have been consciously and purposefully, and have a distinct strategy, making indelible contributions to maintaining the world hegemony of the United States after World War II.

The protagonist is now in command of the Divine Envoy King Army, although the territory is vast, there are many ant mouths, and the strength is strong, but the original big-headed ant kingdom is a relatively backward race, and there is no culture that can be used.

And from the contact with the queen of the big-headed ant relict clan, the protagonist can see that his race is far ahead of himself culturally from the clothes, crown, drink, peck, and indoor furnishings.

According to the law of cultural assimilation, it should be that the culture of the big-headed ant remnants gradually assimilated the Divine Envoy King Legion, and in fact, after coming into contact with the big-headed ant remnants, some male ants have already said that they can learn from each other's style.

But fortunately, the Divine Envoy King Legion has such a "golden finger" as the protagonist, and the world he comes from, the degree of development of its material culture and spiritual culture may exceed the most exaggerated imagination of the wisdom of all the ants in this world combined.

Although the protagonist can greatly improve the culture of his own race as long as he takes out some random things, it is difficult to say what kind of impact this cultural transformation from the human world will have on an ant collective.

In particular, the Divine Envoy King Legion is now facing a great external threat, and rashly carrying out internal cultural upgrading and transformation may affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

For example, after the ethnic minorities in northern China are sinicized, their combat effectiveness often declines rapidly. At that time, people thought that it was because of the luxury of the Han land, but in fact, the bigger reason was that after the sinicization of the ethnic minorities, they accepted the production and lifestyle of the Han people, and naturally lost their most powerful weapons - the hard work and skill of archers and horses brought by nomadic or hunting life, and it is understandable that the combat effectiveness fell off a cliff within a few generations.

If ants quickly adopt human culture, will it be difficult to maintain the current will to fight and absolute obedience to the ant nature? The protagonist does not dare to take risks.

At least it is understood that although the troops of the more culturally developed big-headed ant remnants are assisted by beetles, their overall combat effectiveness is not much better than that of the troops of the old big-headed ant kingdom, and their will to fight is even weaker.

Fortunately, the protagonist still has a cultural card to play with almost no side effects, and that is "food".

Distinctive cuisine is a natural calling card of a culture and a gift that is hard to refuse for any life in need of food.

Therefore, there was the scene where the big-headed ant remnants were impressed by the food before.