In Jia Huan's view, the establishment of one or several treaty wharves in the coastal areas would be of great benefit to Bactria .

After the establishment of the wharf, a large number of merchants would soon gather in the area, which would facilitate the trading of large quantities of goods, from which Great Xia could collect a large amount of commercial taxes.

If it works well, the commercial tax that can be collected by a wharf can even be compared to the tax of several counties.

The prosperity of business activities will also drive the development of all walks of life.

The civil and military officers of the Manchu Dynasty who are now gathered in the Jinluan Palace, at least those civil ministers, are about the smartest people in Great Xia, and they have no reason not to see through the tricks.

However, what Jia Huan never expected was that the vast majority of Wenchen were actually refusing to open the dock, and they were not willing to trade with Zhenzhenguo.

The reasons for this can be summed up in three ways.

The first is that Great Xia has ancestral training, and the sails do not go to the sea, and they do not trade with overseas people. The Great Xia court should inherit the ancestral teachings and should not have business dealings with the real state.

The second is that the national policy of Bactria is to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, and the establishment of wharves to focus on commerce is not conducive to agricultural development and harmful to social development.

The third is that those who are not of my race will have different hearts. Not only did they disapprove of commercial trade with Zhenzhen, but they also refused to exchange cultural exchanges with Zhenzhenguo.

The leaders of the opposition are Cabinet Scholar Zhu and Cheng Scholar.

Jia Huan, who was watching from the sidelines, only felt very ridiculous.

It is good that Great Xia has ancestral teachings, but when Great Xia first opened the country, there were internal and external troubles, and there were foreign pirates constantly invading the coastal cities of Great Xia.

At that time, the Great Xia army was limited, especially the lack of a strong navy, and the troops defending the coastal cities were stretched.

Therefore, Xia Taizu had to relocate the people in coastal towns and set a strategy of going to the sea with a piece of canvas to avoid overseas trade.

In fact, this was just a compromise that had to be made under current events at that time.

However, the situation has changed now, and it is completely different from the situation when the country was founded.

Can't these scholars, who have read poetry and books, see this?

At the scene, only Zhao Shi and a few people were supporters, and they combined the facts and fought on the basis of reason, striving to open the wharf.

However, they are not a single opponent of the opposition.

Jia Huan watched coldly, and did not have the heart to participate in the debate.

Others are soft-spoken, and they don't even have the qualifications to speak.

The final result of the discussion was that there would be no commercial and cultural exchanges with the real country, but the two countries could interact normally.

Jia Huan wondered very much, without commercial and cultural exchanges, what else would the two countries have to do?

Alice was very disappointed with Da Xia's reply, and she couldn't help but say:

"Your Majesty, Emperor Great Xia, Great Xia is a mysterious ancient kingdom in the East. I like the Great Xia civilization very much, but everything is constantly evolving. ”

"And you Great Xia are conservative and resting on your laurels, and sooner or later you will be abandoned by the times. In our real country, as well as in other countries, the humanities are developing rapidly. ”

"We've built a horse-drawn carriage that can run fast and carry more cargo, which greatly increases the transport capacity."

"Our arithmetic has taken a big step forward, and now your arithmetic in Great Xia is far behind us. Our natural sciences are evolving and thriving. ”

"Our industry is changing dramatically, we can smelt all kinds of alloys, my ships are getting stronger, we can easily travel thousands of miles of sea."

"If you Daxia don't learn from us, you will be left far behind by us."

After listening to Princess Alice's words, Jia Huan was taken aback.

Although this world is an alternate world, there are some similarities in its development and original history.

According to Princess Alice's description, the West is probably in the stage of the Renaissance and the first industrial revolution.

I don't know if they invented the steam engine, once the steam engine is invented, then its industry will inevitably enter a stage of explosive development.

And according to their greedy nature, they will inevitably colonize the whole world.

When the time comes, Daxia and them will have a battle sooner or later.

And the ministers of Great Xia were completely enraged by Princess Alice's arrogance.

At this time, Fan Zhongyu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't help but stand up and ask: "Princess Alice, you said that your country's arithmetic has far surpassed our Great Xia, which is really a big breath. ”

"You might as well come up with a few questions, let's learn one or two, and also see which of our two countries' arithmetic level is better or worse."

Princess Alice nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll come up with the easiest question." If you know a right-angled triangle with two right-angled sides of one length, find the exact length of its hypotenuse. ”

Hearing this question, Jia Huan couldn't help but smile slightly.

Princess Alice has a problem with irrational numbers.

In fact, in ancient China, there was already the concept of opening squares, which is described in the nine chapters of arithmetic.

Even they have discovered the existence of irrational numbers, but unfortunately they did not delve deeper into it, but chose to bypass the problem.

For example, if there are some numbers that cannot be opened in square terms, they are directly marked as unopenable, and then their approximate values are taken.

Jia Huan is sure that this question will definitely stump everyone on the scene.

But this time, Jia Huan was not ready to make a move.

The West is developing rapidly, and Bactria is still too conservative.

This is not conducive to the development of Great Xia, maybe it is a good thing for them to suffer some blows.

Fan Zhongyu has a deep study of arithmetic, and he was dismissive of Princess Alice's question at first.

At first, he did oral calculations, but soon found that oral calculations were a bit laborious.

Next, Fan Zhongyu asked for a pen and paper and began to calculate on the paper.

He used more and more paper, and his body began to sweat, and after a while, the sweat soaked the court clothes.

However, he was slow to figure out the answer.

In addition to Fan Zhongyu, above the court, there are several ministers who are proficient in arithmetic, and they are also calculating.

However, their situation is no better than Fan Zhongyu.

Princess Alice looked at them with a smile and said, "My lord, your calculation is already wrong in the fifth decimal place!" It can be seen from this that you have no systematic summary of this kind of problem. ”

Despised in person, the civil and military forces of the Great Xia Manchu Dynasty were very angry and ashamed.

However, they have nothing to fight back, and they really can't give the right answer to this question.

Although arithmetic is a small way, it is still very uncomfortable for them to be compared to a small overseas country.

At this moment, Princess Alice looked at Jia Huan and asked with a smile: "I wonder if Jia Sanshou, the first prodigy of Great Xia, can answer this question?" ”

I didn't expect this foreign girl to ask herself.

Jia Huan was not going to get involved, so it's a good thing to let these stubborn guys suffer some blows.

But the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop!

(End of chapter)