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Chapter 742 The Manifest Destiny of the Ming Empire (Second Update, please subscribe)
It is indeed photographed!

Although many years ago, Emperor Zhu had discussed the national policy of Ming Dynasty with Zuo Zongtang and the others.

But Zuo Zongtang and the others were thinking about the Central Plains and their homeland.

To put it bluntly, he is an old scholar from the Central Plains, and the ancestral temple is still in the hands of foreign races. How can Ming Dynasty stay out of it?
To put it bluntly, who doesn't want to return home.

The rebellious minister of the past is now the prime minister of Ming Dynasty, under one person, above tens of thousands, what a beauty!
That's why they hope to use Guo Songtao to promote change, whether it is creating civil strife or competition, as long as the situation in the Central Plains becomes chaotic, they will be sure to persuade the emperor to extend his hand in the future.

With Daming's strong troops and strong horses, it is not a matter of minutes to sweep the Central Plains.

But now a little contact with the mentality of those foreign students, they seem to understand His Majesty's thoughts.

"Your Majesty's deep intention is to use the overseas students as the driving force to bring about great changes in China..."

Wang Youling was surprised for a while, then said,
"Your Majesty's foresight is beyond our reach! The reason why Your Majesty went to Japan at this time is probably to use Japan as a springboard to set up a school in Japan to attract foreign students with the advantage of being close to the land. If the Central Plains soldiers and scholars in the future , all from Ming Dynasty, within ten years, even if Li Zeng and others do not rebel, the young officers in the army will rebel, and when the time comes, the world..."

Is the world changing, or...

Zuo Zongtang nodded in agreement with Wang Youling's analysis, and then said.

"In this way, only a few million yuan in tuition fees per year, not only can train tens of thousands of talents in China, but also make China a new look. At this time when the Anglo-Saxons are rampant in the world, only the inside and outside of China can be twisted together. Only then will it be possible to make the world of the Anglo-Saxons become the world of my China, and if my Great Ming is strong, then China will be strong, and if China is strong, then my Great Ming will be strong..."

Taking a long breath, Zuo Zongtang's eyes became a little fanatical. His fanaticism was not because of other things, but because of an unprecedented mission.

In the past, he was just the prime minister of Daming, and all he thought about was governing Daming, but now?He is the face of the empire, and his field of vision is not only Daming, but the entire China, the entire world.

It is a competition between Eastern civilization and Western civilization.

"Your Majesty... the True Sage!"

Once again, Zuo Zongtang completely bowed to Emperor Zhu's vision, and Wang Youling also agreed with him. "It's a great fortune for me to be born into your majesty's sage, to create the world of China, and to create a world of great harmony in China. If I can see such a world of great harmony in the future, I will be willing to die even if I am smashed to pieces. !"

"The Great Harmony World of China!"

Zuo Zongtang was drunk.

Although the cup was green tea from the foggy top of the Central Valley, the pleasant aroma of the tea made him drunk.

Drinking the tea in the cup, his mind seemed to be in a trance, and he seemed to have a dreamlike feeling, "This tea was originally produced in China, but now it is bred in South America. When China comes into harmony, the world will definitely be like China. World……"

When they said these words, Zuo Zongtang and Wang Youling seemed to understand His Majesty's thoughts, and of course they also found their mission.

It was also on this day, near the end of the Lantern Festival in 1875, that the Ming Dynasty really became a world empire.

What is a world empire is an empire with a mission.

What is a real empire?
It is not an empire in name. A real empire must first endow itself with a universal mission. By giving itself this mission, the empire will make its people willing to promote the great cause of the empire. At the same time, this mission will also make the existence of the empire become sacred.

Regarding this point, there are too many empires that can be used as examples, such as Tsarist Russia, whose mission is to turn itself into the "Third Rome". He has the mission of conquering barbarism, civilizing barbarism, and restoring the Roman Empire.

The Spanish Empire believed that its imperial mission was to resist religious reform and maintain Catholicism. On the one hand, this idea allowed it to expand its territory in the New World, and on the other hand, it also made this mission a burden that the empire could not shake off. In Spain At the time of the decline of the empire, efforts were still made to restore Catholic power in Europe.

What is the mission of the British Empire?

It is to squeeze the world through trade and colonization, and exchange the poverty outside the empire for the happy life of the people of the empire. In short, it is "the border of the empire is full of food and clothing; outside the empire, poverty is oppressive."

And what is the mission of the Ming Empire?
Not just a promise of prosperity for the people of the empire: "In the borders of the empire, there is plenty of food and clothing; outside the empire, there is poverty."

Perhaps this is the most powerful source of imperial legitimacy.

But the Ming Empire is different, because the Ming Empire is different from the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has no mission of civilization. The British Empire itself is a traitor in the Christian world—the first one to betray Catholicism and establish a country with Protestantism, spreading Christian civilization?

Isn't this bullshit?

Christ's Glory British Empire A Yarn?
The mission of the British Empire is very simple, it is commerce, it is trade, it is to make money.It is to prove everything with the prosperity of the empire.It is to use poverty outside the empire to achieve a happy life for the people of the empire!

But Ming Dynasty is different from Britain.

Because Daming is the inheritor of Chinese civilization, this means that the mission that Daming has to shoulder is not just the prosperity of the empire, but the continuation and development of civilization.

In the continuation and development of this civilization, the most important thing is of course expansion. What is the expansion of the empire for?
Since it is to obtain wealth, it is also for the spread of civilization.

While gaining wealth, Chinese civilization spread all over the world.

For the revival of Chinese civilization - this is the mission of the Ming Empire!
And this mission will definitely conflict with Britain, because the British world empire has seriously affected Ming Dynasty, and the expansion of Ming Dynasty in the world also threatens the interests of Britain.

On the surface, it seems to be a conflict of interests between two countries, but in fact it is a conflict of civilizations.

In this world, there is only one king, either the world of European civilization represented by the Anglo-Saxons, or the world of Chinese civilization.

On this day, Zuo Zongtang and Wang Youling talked a lot. They kept chatting and talking in the office. What was the core of what they were talking about?

It's the clash of civilizations, the competition of civilizations, and of course, it's more about the mission of the empire. On this day, the lights in the Imperial Administration Council were on all night. The two of them were drinking tea, chatting, discussing, and discussing.The topics they discussed ranged from the distant Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire, from the Roman Empire to the Great Qin Empire, from Spain, to England, and finally back to Daming.

In the early morning of the next day, Zuo Zongtang, who drank another cup of strong tea, opened the curtains when the sky was about to dawn, and said with admiration as he looked at the rising sun.

"This is Daming's manifest destiny!"

What is Daming's Manifest Destiny?
It is definitely not to focus on the old place of China, but to look at the whole world and implement the comprehensive expansion of Chinese civilization around the world!
The destiny is manifested, the destiny is manifested!
But it is the world of Great Harmony in China!
Wang Youling agreed deeply.

"Here, the world of Great Harmony!"

(End of this chapter)