Chapter 279: Three Points (2)
Europe is about the same size as China, but it has been fighting for thousands of years, but it has never achieved a true unification. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
On this issue, many scholars and experts have specially studied this, and Zhou Dong stood on the shoulders of these predecessors and easily summed up many problems.
First, geographical factors.
From a geopolitical point of view, China's topography presents a pattern of closed on three sides; In contrast, the geography of Europe is quite different. It presents an almost open layout.
Factors of different geographical patterns led to the unification of relatively closed China in the Qin period, that is, the unification of writing and currency, which is a major expression of culture.
Another geographical factor is the water source, most of the ancient civilizations originated from the major river basins, China's Yangtze River and Yellow River basin, is the main birthplace of civilization, and the two rivers are very close to each other, resulting in a relatively concentrated population, but also provides a favorable factor for its integration.
Second, the national factor.
In ancient China, a nation with a strong main body and a strong ability to assimilate was a nation like the Han Chinese, which showed a very strong tolerance for other ethnic groups in the unified non-war years, which reached its peak during the Tang Dynasty. Even during the period of domination, the Han people could quickly counterattack and assimilate their ruling nation by virtue of their advanced civilization and the ability to rule and manage accumulated over thousands of years, as is typical of the later Qing Dynasty.
The ethnic groups of Europe are relatively balanced and complex, the Latins, Germans, and Slavs are divided into three parts of the world, plus the Celts, Greeks, Magyars, Bulgars, and other small and small peoples, they are scattered in all corners of the European continent, and the first three main ethnic groups in Europe have always been in a delicate balance of wrestling, and such a struggle will bring about a separate result, even if they will often intermarry with each other, but still cannot change the reality of the lack of main cohesion.
The ethnic groups of Europe have become one of the factors that are not conducive to unification due to the fact that the river basins are not concentrated and scattered in their geographical factors.
Third, cultural factors.
Ancient China owes its credit to Qin Shi Huang's initial book-burning and Confucianism, as well as the later policies under conservative thinking such as the deposition of the Hundred Schools of Thought during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the ban on the sea in the Ming Dynasty, so that the Han culture has always maintained a strong and splendid position.
The same is true of language, Qin Shi Huang unified the language, writing and currency, and his merits were completely worth all his mistakes, and he became the greatest contributor to the unification of China.
After that, there are other factors such as religion and politics.
But in the end, most of the factors can be traced to the cause of geographical factors.
Rao is using Zhou Dong's brain to contain a huge amount of humanities materials from ancient and modern times and a brain power comparable to a supercomputer, and he also feels that the problem of how to unify European countries is also tricky.
In contrast, Natalia's side is the most relaxed, as long as she completely incarnates as the most ferocious king of capital beasts and completely controls the economic lifelines of North and South America, she can control all state regimes like puppets behind the scenes.
On the other hand, if Asia is unified, it will inevitably take the largest country as the main body, and completely conquer and assimilate other countries such as Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, and part of Russia.
The problems of both Europe and Asia are more thorny, while the latter's war history is more problematic, and it is basically impossible to reconcile smoothly.
In this regard, the three of them, who have been working for almost a month, have once again held an important new meeting.
Zhou Dong first put his problem analysis and solutions on the table and shared them with the other two.
If he wanted to unify the three regions in about ten years, or less, as soon as possible, he had to choose between two solutions.
First, extremely high-intensity blitzkrieg.
Second, the forced brainwashing control of protozoa.
Both solutions, both have pros and cons.
Choose war, for example, in Asia, after the core country removed the world's nuclear weapons in Zhou Dong, the power of the whole country suppressed and devoured the surrounding countries with lightning power, and at the same time used protozoa to influence Europe and the United States as much as possible not to affect the war situation here, and the other two continents also set off wars respectively.
The advantage of this is that the culture and members of other countries can be completely shattered through war, and unification can be quickly achieved with a strong posture.
The disadvantage is that a country is not so easy to be annihilated, the hundred-legged insects die but do not stiffen, some regents will become terrorists, thus frequently creating small troubles, and at the same time, war will destroy many important talents and precious resources in other countries, as well as consume their own resources and excellent manpower.
The advantage of choosing the protozoa is that it can complete the unification of the three regions without bloodshed, and retain the resources and excellent manpower that should have been consumed by the war to the greatest extent.
The disadvantages are also obvious, when the protozoa parasitizes the brain, otherwise it will take a long time to modify and affect its thoughts from the subconscious, otherwise when the real environment constantly reminds them, so that the host protozoa's personality conflicts with the expectations of the protozoa, it will cause the host to have intense pain, seriously affect its physical and mental health, and even have a high probability of causing its mental collapse.
The trio spent several days simulating the aftermath of the two options, and finally settled on the choice.
"Looks like we've all chosen war." Zhou Dong compared the final plan decided by the three of them, and his tone was slightly surprised, but it was actually expected.
Zhou Dong chose a spiritual and cultural war, using the protozoan spirit to brainwash the mainstay, supplemented by national power to carry out cultural propaganda and brainwashing, and the two prongs were in one, and the unification of Europe was completed without bloodshed.
Compared with the problems left over from the country's history, for Zhou Dong, it is still more tangible interests, so he chose the second option.
As for the psychological obstacles caused by the guidance of protozoa, the efforts of the propaganda departments of various countries can affect the subconscious transformation of the general public, and further strong intervention and control of the inner circle of the national government can be adopted, and then the game world of the third world 'virtual reality' dominated by the real world can be opened up as soon as possible, so that the general public's concept of the state will become more and more vague and diluted, so that their psychological resistance to the merger of major regions and countries will become weaker and weaker, and the disadvantages brought by the second choice will be reduced to the greatest extent.
Natalia's choice remains the same, she takes the path of economic warfare, turning into the strongest capital beast, devouring all other capitalists, and rebuilding a supergiant that monopolizes all major industries in the world like in the X-Men world.
And the simple thinking of the snow's children made her choose the most direct way - to conquer by force.
However, in order to prevent the blitzkrieg in Asia from developing into a world war, she can only make pre-war preparations now, and she must wait for Zhou Dong and Natalia to basically control the other two regions, so that Europe and the United States do not participate in the war in Asia, so that the war can be quickly resolved.
After all, there are protozoa secretly affecting their spiritual consciousness, as long as the three of them are inclined to a certain country, this Asian war will be more concise and fast than conventional wars.