The 470th or more light theory

From the port of New Springs to the Governor's Palace, from the Strait of Gibraltar to the puppet island of Corsica, Zhuxia is soaring in Europa. If no accidents happen, the Wei and Xia vassals may take the place of the European nations in the real world, and lead the countries of Eria, Fulangcha, and Bruce to the abyss of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Compared with the troubled Manchu Dynasty, the Wei and Xia domains, which established the Zhuxia order on the earth, were already glorious enough.

As a result of such an evolution, Wei Dongsheng vaguely remembered the many bright lights of civilization.

The theory of bright lights says that China is a big light, and the countries of Europa are several small lights, and when the flame of civilization on both sides shines brightly, the big light of China can always be more dazzling. Unfortunately, the road of civilization is a long one, during which there have been ups and downs.

Taking the most typical Li Tang as an example, when it was strong, it destroyed Goguryeo in the north, defeated Japan in the east, and roared in Central Asia in the west. When it began to decline, Nanzhao and Tubo could come to fan their faces, and the Tang Dynasty gradually became the remaining Tang Dynasty. Since ancient times, there has been no everlasting empire, no everlasting dynasty, and no everlasting civilization.

That's the disadvantage of a headlight.

When it is strong, this lamp is certainly so dazzling; When it fell, once this lamp was extinguished, the land of Kyushu was suddenly so dark that it was suffocating.

On the ocean route, Portugal has turned off the lights and Spain, Spain has turned off the lights, and the Netherlands has turned off the lights and Britain has turned off the lights in the Netherlands; On the land route, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia also shined one after another. When one lamp goes out and other lamps are turned on, the brightness may never be comparable to that of the Chinese lantern, but it will not be shrouded in terror and darkness for more than a hundred years or even hundreds of years.

The history of the struggle for hegemony of the Wei and Xia domains in this time and space has once again verified the theory of many bright lights.

Beginning with the division of the feudal domains by Wei Anhao, Taizong of Xia, the rise and fall of the feudal domains were uncertain, but there was always a bright light that illuminated the land of Kyushu in time.

From 1358 to 1415, the lamp of the Xia Kingdom was the brightest;

From 1415 to 1464, the lamp of the Lu Fan was the brightest;

From 1464 to 1474, the lamp of the Xia Kingdom was the brightest;

From 1474 to 1528, the Yue and Wei domains were lit together;

From 1528 to 1547, the lamp of the Yue Domain was lit alone;

From 1547 to 1588, the lamp of the Wu domain was the brightest, and the lights of the Yue domain, Xia Kingdom, and Lu domain were the brightest;

From 1588 to 1617, the lamps of the Wei Domain were the brightest, and the lamps of the Lu Domain, the Wu Domain, and the Xia Kingdom were the brightest;

From 1617 to 1621, the lamps of the Lu Domain were the brightest, and the lights of the Xia Kingdom, Wu Domain, Zhao Domain, Wei Domain, and Yan Domain were brighter;

From 1621 to 1629, the lamps of the Xia Kingdom were the brightest, and the lights of the Lu Domain, the Zhao Domain, the Yan Domain, the Wu Domain, and the Wei Domain were the brightest;

From 1629 to 1738, the lamps of the Lu Domain were the brightest, and the lights of the Xia Kingdom, Zhao Domain, Yan Domain, and Wu Domain were brighter;

From 1738 to 1751, the lamps of the Xia Kingdom were the brightest, and the lights of the Lu Domain, Zhao Domain, and Yan Domain were the brightest;

From 1751 to the present, the lamp of the Lu Domain is the brightest, and the lights of the Xia Kingdom, the Zhao Domain, and the Yan Domain are the brightest.

The rise and fall of the imperial family was uncertain, and the Lu clan also had several civil strife, but there were always other feudal states that retained the vitality of Wei Xia like the mainstay.

Partitioning has its disadvantages, as well as its advantages.

In a word, it is about "though the kingdom is great, the warlike will perish; Although the world is safe, it will be dangerous to forget the war".

The rebellion of the Eight Kings in the early Sima Jin Dynasty and the change of five dynasties between the Tang and Song dynasties were obviously "belligerent and must die", and the frequent and fierce civil wars quickly exhausted their vitality, the former inducing the Wuhu Rebellion of the Chinese Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the latter leading to the invasion of the Central Plains by the Liao soldiers. The power of the sub-feudal system is weak, which is the Achilles heel of the sub-feudal system, even the European countries, have been frightened by the Ottoman Empire's western invasion of the pale face. If there are frequent civil wars when the strength is weak, it will definitely run out of vitality faster, and then be taken advantage of by foreign enemies.

Therefore, there are two types of sub-seals, relatively stable sub-seals and chaotic short-term sub-seals. The pattern of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is a relatively stable partition, and no matter how strong Qi Huan and Jin Wen are, they have no idea of banning the Ji Zhou Dynasty; The Rebellion of the Eight Kings and the change of the five generations are chaotic and short-term separations, and the emperor takes turns to do it, and he will come to my house next year.

The Wei Xia Empire was very lucky, and the second emperor Wei Anhao appeased countless powerful generals in time and luckily established a feudal empire; The fourth emperor Wei Yongfeng also had the legacy of Wei Anhao, although he was unwilling, he was able to efficiently stabilize the vassal states at the moment when the feudal order was about to be unbalanced, and finally succeeded in avoiding the hidden worries of the Eight Kings Rebellion, so that the feudal order moved closer to the Spring and Autumn hegemony model. The Wei Xia Empire did not die twice, which was Wei Anhao's merit; The Wei Xia Empire did not evolve into the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, which was the merit of Wei Yongfeng and Wei Shansheng's father and son.

In all of this, the Wei and Xia empires could be divided into civilizations, and finally ushered in a new round of great speculation that could comprehensively cover Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and other Enlightenment thinkers. For example, the two major political factions of the Wuwei faction and the conservative faction, which replaced the cabinet of Bingzheng and Lu Fan, both of which came from the reinterpretation of the theory of the hundred schools of thought.

Is it true that civilization has many bright lights?

Perhaps.

However, Wei Dongsheng felt that there must be room for application of multiple bright lights.

In real-world history, for example, the brutal First World War has been hailed as "the lights of Europe are dying out and will not be rekindled in our lifetime". At the end of the two world wars, the center of gravity of the world shifted to the Soviet Union and the United States, although the European countries remained among the developed countries.

The European nations were very fortunate that after the European flame was extinguished, the United States continued to illuminate the world.

However, since ancient times, there has been no everlasting empire, and the United States will definitely escape fate. Or 30 years, or 100 years, or 200 years, when the fire of the United States is extinguished, will the European nations continue to illuminate the world? The possibility of such a possibility is not ruled out, but the probability is obviously very low. At least in the real world of 2017, we do not see the hope of Britain, France, Germany and other countries surpassing the United States to lead the new era.

If the United States were the end of European civilization, the theory of multiple beacons would inevitably come to an abrupt end.

All of the above are Wei Dongsheng's thoughts.

Specific to the Wei and Xia vassal states in this time and space, Wei Dongsheng also had such worries.

If this evolution continues, will the Portuguese, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French, German and other countries that are only the cultural faces of Zhuxia repeat the real world history in the future? If the War of the Great Alliance was the Wei-Xia version of the French Revolution, wouldn't there be two brutal world wars decades later?

And then what?

Perhaps, in the sound of nationalist clarions, Shandong formed the Lu State of the Lu Nation, the Northeast formed the Yan State of the Yan Nation, and Hebei and part of Inner Mongolia formed the Zhao State of the Zhao Nation......?

Perhaps, a group of Penglai Republics will survive the fittest, giving birth to the Weixia version of the United States of America?

Wei Dongsheng found it very boring.

Even if the future is still the world of the Zhuxia Order, such a world is not the world that Wei Dongsheng wants.

Furthermore, the tenth rebirth has reached the ninth life. The inaction of the second and eighth generations was due to Wei Dongsheng's desire to witness historical changes as an observer and to comprehend some details that cannot be described in history textbooks. Now that the end of the tenth reincarnation is approaching, Wei Dongsheng has no need to hibernate and is unwilling to do nothing anymore.

At least, Wei Dongsheng did not want the land of Kyushu to experience the hardships of two world wars.

This is the end of the evolution of the European nations that tend to the real world.

In 1799, Wei Dongsheng returned to the Lu Domain, looking for a foundation that could end the war.

Looking around the current Wei and Xia feudal empires, the Lu Domain, the Xia Domain, the Zhao Domain, the Yan Domain and other countries are called the top four.

When it comes to strength, the Lu Fan is naturally the strongest, and the Lu Fan is the birthplace of the industrial revolution in this time and space. Compared with the real-world Britain, the geographical advantage of the Lu Fan is a little worse, but the advantage of population size is several times better than that of the United Kingdom. But, like the Victorian British Empire, the cabinet of the Lu Dynasty was full of institutional and theoretical self-confidence, and it was difficult for Wei Dongsheng to persuade them to change their political course in the most powerful era.

Xia Guo's strength is slightly inferior, but it has the strongest potential. Unfortunately, because of the centuries-old tradition of cutting the feudal domain and opposing the feudal domain, all the feudal states resisted the expansion of the Xia kingdom within Kyushu, and the slightest change was another cruel war against the Great Alliance.

The Yan Domain, in the corner land, has the most advantageous geographical advantages, but Wei Daye, the king of the Yan Domain, is an obstacle. In recent decades, the inheritance of the Yan domain has been full of blood, starting with Wei Daye, and counting upwards, the seven vassal kings have all come to power through the coup d'état of the Guards. Wei Daye was not only a beneficiary of the Guards coup, but also a victim of the Guards coup, and after he succeeded to the throne, he did everything possible to suppress the cabinet. Lu, Xia, Zhao, Yan and other Xia powerhouses, Yan is the only standard monarchy vassal state, and the cabinet prime minister is still prostrate and kneeling in front of the royal power.

Counting back and forth, only Zhao Fan is desirable.

Of course, Zhao Fan also has shortcomings.

For example, the last six vassal kings of the Zhao clan were generally excellent. Beginning with Wei Dalian's defensive counterattack and the defeat of Mao Shang, the king of the Wei domain, Wei Dalian's descendants led the Zhao Domain's mansions to slowly rejuvenate, annexed the high-quality inheritance of the Wei Domain to the north, and took advantage of the war of the Great Alliance to expand eastward and occupy the Taiyuan Mansion of the Jin State. The six vassal kings were virtuous and virtuous from generation to generation, and the people of the Zhao clan respected the royal family very much. Even though the idea of the cabinet is now rampant, the royal family of the Zhao clan still enjoys great prestige among the people, which indirectly leads to the fact that the cabinet of the Zhao clan seems to have become the real monarch constitution with the characteristics of the Zhao domain.

If Wei Dongsheng wants to occupy the magpie's nest to control the Zhao domain, he will inevitably play with the king of the Zhao domain in the future.

When it comes to doves occupying magpies' nests, the difficulty is not that high.

Different from the chaotic wars of the European countries in the real world, the chaotic wars of the Wei and Xia feudal domains are more like the Spring and Autumn Warring States in ancient times. With the banner of the emperor and the slogan of respecting the king, Zhuxia has always been regarded as an organic whole. Just as Shang Ying, Li Si and other people of the Six Kingdoms were all successful in the Qin State, at this moment, many talents who were not successful in the domain also circulated with a high degree of freedom that European countries could not imagine. As for the recruitment of talents from the foreign domain, the Zhao domain was one of the best, and it opened its doors to welcome all the strange people of the feudal kingdom.

In 1800, the revolutionary industry of the Lu clan had blossomed, and the feudal clans were keenly aware of the importance of railway transportation and invested in the construction one after another. The Zhao clan was financially weak, relying only on government investment, and was unable to quickly build the sound railway network that the Zhao vassal king and the Zhao clan cabinet wanted. Therefore, in addition to government investment, Zhao Fan also promulgated various preferential policies to attract international capital to invest in the construction of domestic railways.

When Wei Dongsheng served in the Governor's Mansion of Xinquan Port, he used events such as Elia's cession of the Strait of Gibraltar and interference in the internal affairs of Corsica to make huge profits. Back in Lu Fan, Wei Dongsheng knew that the era of railway profiteering was coming, and invested all he had in a railway construction chamber of commerce. After everything was ready, Wei Dongsheng brought this railway builder association to Zhao Fan to cooperate, and successfully won the post of director of the Hejian Railway Bureau.