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Chapter 1137 The Advantages of Civilization ([-]th update today, please subscribe)
The Empire brought civilization to the world!

This civilization is not the "civilization" that Europeans boast about, but a real civilization!
Maybe the empire is conquering, it is aggression, but it is definitely not slavery.

The reason why many Europeans cannot find the answer is not because there is no answer, but because they cannot understand the answer.

In fact, the answer lies in the tradition of China - "if there are barbarians, it belongs to China".

For the Anglo-Saxons, for the nations of Europe, what was their conquest?It is for slavery, for plunder, as early as the Roman era, what was the purpose of the Romans' war?
To rob slaves, to rob land.

In contrast, Zhou Tianzi entrusted the princes and the Quartet, what are the princes doing?It is "to caress the barbarians so that they belong to China".

It is to use advanced civilization to educate the Siyi, make them belong to China, and finally merge into a part of China.

It is this essential gap that makes the behavior of the two essentially different.

""East is called Yi, west is called Rong, south is called Man, and north is called Di."

In the class of Chinese studies at Yingtian University, Liu Zhongjiao wrote these words on the blackboard that the emperor of the courtyard, Li Shi, was a great Korean Confucian of Ming Dynasty who went into exile with Ying.

Then he asked back.

"Siyi is the collective name of the various ethnic groups around the Central Plains in ancient times, that is, Dongyi, Nanman, Beidi and Xirong. Shaanxi, Northern Zhili, Shandong, Huguang and other places are all the land of the Four Barbarians, so where are the Four Barbarians now?"

"The four barbarians have long been integrated into our China. In the book "Mencius Liang Huiwang", there is "come to China and caress the four barbarians". It is ignorant and belongs to civilization, which is "to caress the barbarians so that it belongs to China". Finally, after thousands of years of cultivation, the four barbarians have all merged into China..."

The student's answer made Liu Zhongjiao, a Confucian master, nod his head deeply. As a fundamentalist Chinese, not only would he not reject the words "there are barbarians so that they belong to China", but it came from the bottom of his heart. recognition.

For hundreds of years, North Korea has called itself "Little China" and is proud of it, but in their bones, they are more eager to truly become a part of China, just like Japan now, no, like Dongying, isn't it "Huaying Tongzong" , belongs to Huaxia".

In the next class, Liu Zhongjiao talked from "education" to "the debate between Hua and Yi", and talked about "those who are barbarians and Chinese are Chinese; those who are Chinese and barbarians are barbarians".

The real source of "Entering barbarians, barbarians entering Xia, summer" was invented by the pseudo-Confucianists Hao Jing and Xu Heng who served the Mongolian Yuan to discuss the legitimacy of the Mongolian Yuan regime. The arguments of Hao Jing and Xu Heng are The typical pseudo-theory of "Using barbarians to change Xia, no ruler and no father" serving the rule of foreign races, this theory was carried forward by the pseudo-Confucians under the Manchu Qing rule, and it is really a harm to our Confucianism."

When mentioning Xu Heng and other pseudo-Confucians, Liu Zhongjiao still looked indignant and impassioned. It is no wonder that in the past 200 years, under the influence of Song Shiyeol and others, Korean scholars used "Chunqiu Dayi", "Hua The source of his thoughts is the "Debate of Barbarians" and, coupled with Smecta's unique stubbornness, the "Debate of Hua and Barbarians" has long been deeply rooted in his bones. When he mentions those pseudo-Confucians, he naturally looks resentful.

"...This sentence comes from the book "Original Dao" written by Han Yu after the Spring and Autumn Annals. Han Changli's "Admonishing the Buddha's Bone Table" was dissatisfied with Hoover. It is obvious what Han Yu meant by this sentence: Barbarians and Dies must use Treat barbarians in the Chinese way, because barbarians will definitely treat China in the same way as barbarians. Therefore, treating barbarians in the Chinese way means that either barbarians accept Sinicization and take the initiative to surrender. Or they should be expelled from the barbarians and then educated..."

In Liu Zhongjiao's class, there are not only Chinese, but also Europeans. Among Europeans, there are Hispanics, Italians, and of course Europeans and Indians. But this does not hinder their learning, and it will not even arouse their dissatisfaction. .

In fact, in the past ten years, Daming found the root of resolving internal racial differences in the traditional Chinese Confucianism.Unlike European culture, which emphasizes the differences in the advantages and disadvantages of races, Chinese Confucianism never talks about the advantages and disadvantages of races, but only emphasizes "education" and "great harmony".

Why do countries and regions other than China call themselves "Little China" or "China".This kind of thinking is derived from Chinese thought and is essentially a product of Confucian culture.Korea, Vietnam, Japan and other countries, which are alien races, have even produced the idea of ​​"being proud of China" in this kind of education. From admiration to self-willing integration, this is where they are most successful.

Maybe Confucianism has problems of one kind or another, but Confucianism's "world harmony" based on "education" is also what the empire needs.

Just like the European students in this classroom, not only will they not reject "Tianxia Datong", but they will even take the initiative to welcome and accept it.In fact, this is also the most fundamental difference between Chinese culture and Western culture.

In the name of civilization, Westerners divide human beings into "civilized people" and "barbarians", and regard the enslavement of civilized people to barbarians as a matter of course, but what about China?In fact, it's the same, what about respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians, what about appease the barbarians, is essentially discrimination against barbarians, but the key point is that there is another thing that does not exist in Western civilization-"return to Xia", that is, barbarians can belong to China and become A part of China, and what is this process?

It is "education", so there are also barbarians, so that they belong to China.

Under the leadership of this kind of thinking, the expansion of the empire can be said to be "educating the Quartet and thinking of Datong", which is also the mission of the empire.

Because of this, the expansion of the empire was cleverly disguised as another purpose - the spread of civilization, but this kind of spread is different from the West. In the process of spread, the elite groups in the conquered areas, and even ordinary people, all The possibility of being a part of it can be seen in Chinese culture.

It is not a possibility, but an inevitability, and it is this inevitability that allows them to integrate into it willingly. This is one of the reasons why even the most stubborn Jews can integrate into China in the long river of history.

In essence, the empire is now absorbing a part of the Confucian civilization that is beneficial to the empire and making it serve the expansion of the empire and the great cause of colonization.After all, expansion has long been engraved in the blood and bone marrow of the empire, no matter what excuses and reasons it is, it is essentially serving this purpose.

But an expansion with a mind is far better than an expansion without a mind.

It is through the promotion and inheritance of this culture that the Ming Empire can turn its former enemies into its own people, but this is something that European countries such as Britain and France cannot do. They may establish their own overseas colonial empires.

But a real empire can never be built.

Just like the UK, even if the Queen of England is the emperor of India wearing the Indian crown, but under the rule of the British Empire, the Indian Assam will never be British, the British are British, and the Indian Assam will always be the Indian Assam , always the colonized, the enslaved.There is a clear distinction between the two. When an Asian elite under British rule cannot see the possibility of becoming British, resistance to British rule becomes inevitable.Then the colonial empire collapsed.

But under the rule of the empire, the Dongying people will integrate into the empire after several generations of integration. Of course, the so-called Chileans, Argentines, Brazilians, Peruvians, and Bolivians will also integrate into the empire and become a part of the empire , to become a member of the empire.When local elites become part of the empire, they automatically become its defenders.

All these are the advantages of Chinese civilization.

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