Take on the British Empire!

If you say this to the old farmers in Ganxi or the farmers in Xianghu, they may not be too surprised.

After all, the inherent concepts left by the Celestial Empire for thousands of years have not had time to be completely destroyed under the defeat of one battle after another, and the hypnosis of some literati over and over again.

For these people who have never opened their eyes to the world and have lived in a closed place all their lives, the Chinese Dynasty and barbarians are respected side by side, which is already very worthy of barbarians.

The barbarians also want to kowtow to the emperor!

This is what the world should be in their minds.

But the closer they got to Beijing and the southeast coast, the more people realized the strength of the foreigners, especially the British.

For these overseas Chinese who are in the South Seas or in the British colonies, the British Empire is an indescribable and terrifying existence.

If Zheng He and the Ming Empire behind that huge fleet are the rulers of the old days in ancient memory, then the British Empire, with a total area of 34 million square kilometers and a population of 420 million, is a veritable true god of the world, a sea and land immortal!

It actually rules 24.75% of the world's land area, and the 24 time zones on the earth have the territory of the British Empire, and the population is similar to that of the Qing Dynasty, occupying 14% of the world.

In addition to the actual territory, the areas that are influenced by its culture and economy are much larger.

"The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltics are our forest areas, Australia is our pastures, Peru is our silver mines, South Africa and Australia are our gold mines, India and China are our tea plantations, the East Indies are our sugar cane, coffee, spice plantations, and the southern United States is our cotton plantations."

This is by no means an empty phrase, but a reality maintained by nearly 200 capital warships all over the world.

Words like "the world's great power is only bright and heroic" is undoubtedly a thunderclap that makes everyone's minds buzz.

Fortunately, all the people present were young people, and they were not only able to accept such bold words, but also enthusiastic about them.

It has to be said that young people are enthusiastic and energetic, and lack reverence for authority, but they also lack more comprehensive thinking, and they are easily encouraged.

The Ming Dynasty's layout of Nanyang is to win over these young Chinese, whose worldview has not yet been finalized, and whose fear and worship of foreigners have not yet penetrated into their bones, to fight for the right to speak with the West.

Compared with his peers who are gradually falling into fanaticism, Gu Hongming is frowning.

A feeling that everyone in the world is drunk and I am alone arises.

To put it simply, as one of the few Chinese teenagers present who have received a systematic Western enlightenment education, he unlocked the skill of "independent thinking" without a teacher.

It is this skill that made Gu Hongming not easily become a spiritual prisoner of Western powers in history, and now, it also makes him not simply fall into the ideological trend of Ming nationalism.

Indeed, Xia Zhixin is painting cakes.

But he's definitely not just painting cakes.

The coconut milk canning company, the Oriental Society, the Chinese mutual aid organization, and the Daming patriotic education funds are all really already on the plan and will be implemented soon.

These are the preliminary basic work for the future of Nanyang to be included in the Ming Dynasty and the South China Sea to become the Taiping Inland Sea of the Ming Dynasty.

It is necessary to dig deep into the layout.

To a certain extent, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance and precautions of the British, and even terrorist persecution.

Daming already has a relevant plan.

Although it does not have the strength to compete with the British Nanyang for the time being, the Ming Dynasty objectively has a certain ability to protect the Nanyang diaspora.

This is not to say that once the British raised a butcher's knife against the Chinese in Nanyang, or instructed the Dutch and Spaniards to raise a butcher's knife against the Chinese, the Ming Dynasty would send a navy to Malacca to fight a war against the British.

Such a war is extremely unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, and it will obviously not succeed.

But Daming has its own way, that is, meat ticket bundling strategic deterrence.

In later generations, there was a nuclear binding strategy on the Internet that was rumored to be miraculous.

To put it simply, when the people of the United States throw strategic nuclear weapons at us, we throw strategic weapons at Russia in order to force Russia to use its huge nuclear arsenal to provide strategic nuclear protection to our country.

This kind of popular argument is actually very unscrutinizable.

However, Zhu Fugui can still learn from similar ideas.

In the words of the instructor, it is called you hit yours, I hit mine.

In esports parlance, it's called the all-tactical switcher.

That is, the Ming Navy was absolutely inferior to the British Navy, but the Ming Army had a clear advantage in local wars.

Therefore, the two million British expatriates who remained in the British colonies in North America were the meat tickets in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the British side cannot ensure the safety of the lives of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, then Daming will send a telegram to the world, announcing the same countermeasures against British immigrants in British Canada.

Although this is not as quick as the soldiers in the Thames and the blood-stained Buckingham Palace, it is the most effective means that the Ming Dynasty can use when it is currently at a strategic disadvantage.

The national-level strategies of these great power games are naturally qualified to be known by the future overseas Chinese leaders in Nanyang who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

But on an occasion like today, Xia Zhixin will never talk about it.

Ordinary Chinese teenagers don't think so much, but Gu Hongming inevitably feels a little exaggerated.

He raised his hand and stood up, and asked, "Xia Saijiu, may I ask you that you have repeatedly accused Westerners of misconduct and forcible seizures all over the world, but as far as I know, Westerners came to Asia, brought advanced science and technology, established hospitals and schools, and brought literature and etiquette.

My godfather, Mr. Brown, for example, was a devout Catholic who was always willing to help the poor, and what I saw was not what you say! ”

Gu Hongming's words quickly caused a huge controversy, and before he could finish his words, he was hit in the cheek by a ball of paper flying from an unknown corner.

However, this behavior was quickly stopped by the brocade guards present.

Gu Hongming's stubbornness was also reflected, and under the excitement of the crowd, he looked straight at Xia Zhixin.

And the latter did not get as angry as he imagined, but shook his head with a smile.

"First of all, I do not deny that there are good people in the Western world, just as there is no shortage of one-man thieves in Chinese history.

However, to substitute temporary, partial, and trivial people and events into the great changes in the world today that have not been seen in 3,000 years is to make the mistake of personal empiricism by taking a general view from a point and looking at the leopard in the tube. ”

This point is discussed in detail on page 75 of the Notes on the Life of the Son of Heaven.

"As for your statement that Westerners have brought advanced science and technology to the world, this is even more nonsense."

"I, the Ming Sage Son of Heaven, with the assistance of Wolong in the world, overcame all obstacles and established the Royal Guozijian with the most reasonable discipline setting, the most complete categories and the most powerful teaching strength in the world from scratch, and its teaching level far exceeds that of Cambridge and Oxford."

"Sir Darwin, who shook the world of science and theology in Europa with The Theory of Evolution, you know?"

Gu Hongming nodded subconsciously.

Darwin: He really knew.

Because of his opposition to creationism, Darwin was the public enemy of missionaries almost all over the world.

If it was hundreds of years earlier, it would definitely be the kind that would have been burned at the stake.

However, after the Renaissance and Reformation, Catholicism gradually declined.

After the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, a large part of the territory of the Papal States was annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, that is, Italy, and the Papal States was left with the city of Rome.

And the reason why this city can stay is because of the great filial son of God, the Second French Empire, the great Napoleon III, sent troops to garrison.

Now His Majesty is a guest in the apartment of the City of the Five Nations, and the French in the city of Rome have withdrawn from Rome.

After three hours of bombardment, the Italian army blasted a gap in the walls of Aureliu, and then entered the city of Rome, where a grand entrance ceremony was held on the Via Appia.

His Majesty took refuge in the Vatican Castle and went from being a "prisoner of Rome" to a "prisoner of the Vatican".

In this case, Darwin did not follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and was not liquidated by religion.

On the contrary, as an instrument of the emerging bourgeoisie against religious power, Darwin also gained great fame.

Father Brown would never accept the theory that humans evolved from Australopithecus.

In order to disprove Darwin's theory, Father Brown, like religious people all over the world, studied Darwin's theory repeatedly in an attempt to find evidence to disprove it.

Therefore, the young Gu Hongming was also fortunate to learn about Darwin's name and the general content of "The Origin of Species" before Yan Fu.

In Gu Hongming's view, although Darwin's theory is not necessarily correct, it is undoubtedly very lofty, and it is the most advanced and cutting-edge knowledge in the world.

He didn't expect that this summer festival wine, who looked very much like a private school teacher, would still know this.

What he didn't expect was that Xia Zhixin stroked his beard and smiled: "This little brother, I advise you to study Chinese characters hard, it's useless to learn foreign languages, you can't write Chinese characters well in the future, but you can't be a scholar."

Well...... I estimate that within six months or so you will be able to read in the newspapers the scene of Sir Darwin asking about the boots of our rich majesty. ”

"But ......"

Gu Hongming bit his lip, but still argued, "Godfather Brown told me that European civilization is the oldest civilization in the world, and he brought order to the whole world ......"

"Shameless statement!"

This time, Xia Zhixin didn't give Gu Hongming, the little ghost, face, again, "Hao's first horseman!" Bearded old thief! Referring to the deer as a horse, upside down turbidity, I have never seen such a brazen person! ”

As he spoke, Xia Zhixin jumped down from the podium.

Gu Hongming was startled, thinking that Xia Zhixin was going to beat him.

Under the influence of Daming's high-quality diet and martial arts culture, even Xia Zhixin, a middle-aged man in literature and art, is exercising daily, and he looks quite prestigious.

Fortunately, he didn't come down to beat people, but rummaged through a large box in Susanna's care and found a few slides.