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Chapter 614 Aggression and Morality

"Your Majesty, I heard that Governor Yuan's navy has captured the Port of Manila and plans to build a city there to control the people and place it under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Is it true?" When he mentioned this question, Du Wenhuan immediately thought of another thing.

The Ming court only had a partial understanding of what the navy was doing in Manila Port, and few people except the emperor's closest officials knew the true situation. As Jun Song's nephew, he only heard a few words from his uncle.

"Of course it's true. I spent so much effort sending the navy across the ocean to attack Manila. You don't think it's just to punish the Spaniards, do you?"

In fact, it was no longer necessary to conceal the truth about Manila Port at this point. Hong Tao was just not sure whether the local area was convenient for governance and how far the navy could go, so he did not instruct the newspapers to publicize it. Since Du Wenhuan wants to know, let's talk about it.

"...But Little Luzon does not belong to the Ming Dynasty. If it were taken by force, would it be suspected of bullying the weak?" Du Wenhuan swallowed, took a deep breath, and with an uneasy mood, proposed a question to the emperor. Not very favorable question.

"What is the purpose of the Western countries sending ships thousands of miles to the Southeast Asian countries, the Ming Dynasty, and Japan? Two words, profit, huge profit, so big that it can influence the rise and fall of a country. Since they want to grab the profit, As a close neighbor, Ming Dynasty has no reason to turn a blind eye.

Emotionally speaking, I drove away the Spaniards and saved the people of Little Luzon from misery. Shouldn't they contribute something to the Ming Dynasty?

Theoretically, the Ming Navy obtained Little Luzon from the Spanish. Youdao means that every wronged person has his own owner, and even if he wants to repay it, he should pay it back to the Spaniards first. As for whether they dare to come back and get it, they have to ask the King of Spain.

I am not taking Little Luzon by force, but I am keeping it for the local people so that they will not be bullied by foreign countries again. If one day the people of Little Luzon can resist the foreign invaders, the Ming Navy will naturally withdraw and will not be attached to it in the slightest. "

Du Wenhuan was not the first to ask the question of whether the Ming Dynasty should expand outwards. Yuan Keli, Yuan Yingtai, Ye Xianggao, Fang Congzhe and many officials in the DPRK had raised it in different ways.

Hong Tao's answers were all the same, four words, confusing. It’s not that I don’t want to be reasonable, but that some of human behavior is simply unreasonable. Regarding international relations issues such as aggression, expansion, and competition, no clear answers have been found until later generations.

The earth is like a big forest, inhabited by many ant colonies. Each ant colony is a country, or a collection of several countries. If a country wants to develop, it will definitely need a population, and more people will consume more resources.

But there are countless resources in the forest, and the speed of development can never keep up with demand. At this time, the question arises, how should each ethnic group define who can occupy how much resources?

If it cannot be clearly defined, there must be a contradiction between some people occupying more and others occupying less. When there is a conflict, there will inevitably be competition, and then a war will begin. In the end, the winner takes up most of the resources, and the loser can only survive.

Humanity once planned the allocation of resources, and established international institutions for this purpose, such as the League of Nations and the United Nations. However, the power of this kind of organization is not strong enough, and it still cannot achieve fairness in everything. Therefore, there are still many contradictions in resource allocation, and then the war will continue.

Hong Tao is just a time traveler, not a highly intelligent creature from extraterrestrial space, so he cannot surpass humans cognitively and cannot solve this problem. All he can do is take the opportunity to grab more resources for his ethnic group and country, and formulate some longer-term rules. But whether future generations can preserve these resources, he is still powerless.

As for those who say that invasion and colonization are immoral and anti-human, that is all nonsense. People who say this are usually the ethnic groups that were invaded and colonized. They did not enjoy the dividends of invasion and colonization, and they are envious and jealous.

The so-called butt determines the head, this is the kind of person. They are not seeking justice and justice, they are just venting their dissatisfaction. As long as you can eat four dishes, you won't be obsessed with it.

Of course, most of them are just fools who follow what everyone else says, and this kind of person is not worth even taking a second look at. One day you still care about all mankind, but tomorrow you become a populist again. If they don't even understand who they are, it would be too inhumane to expect them to distinguish right from wrong.

If a nation or a country wants to survive on earth, there is only one option, and that is to step on the corpses of other nations. Human beings have not been peaceful creatures since the day they were born. It will never be possible to coexist peacefully until the genes of self-interest are completely deleted.

Instead of laborious political appeals, we should delve into medicine and genetics to see if we can completely solve the problem at the genetic level, that is, change human nature.

But the question arises again, if human nature has been changed, are people still human? Will it become a new creature and bring new problems?

"Actually, Liaodong, the Mongolian Plateau and the Port of Manila mean the same thing, but I have never heard anyone say that occupying these two places is considered bullying. More people are eager to bully the weak. The Sulu Dynasty is the imperial court, the Spanish are the imperial court, and women are The real people and the Mongols are also in the imperial court, so why are they treated so differently?
You go back and think more, I'm going to take a nap. There will be a quiz here at lunch tomorrow. Whoever comes up with the answer will be rewarded. There will be no penalty for wrong answers. After night falls, two cannons are fired every quarter of an hour, and then the city defenders light up the lanterns.

Don't think this is a small skill, big victories are all accumulated from bit by bit advantages. Don't let go of any advantage on the battlefield, no matter how small it is! "

The question of whether Manila Port should be occupied is actually related to nationality. The Han people are a standard land nation. Even if they rely on the sea, they still love the land. This is also a cultural inheritance habit that is difficult to change quickly and needs to be guided slowly.

After lunch, the Jurchen army did not launch another attack, and the two sides quietly stayed two miles apart and did not invade each other. But after dinner, a spot of light suddenly lit up on the top of the city, and then there was a rumbling explosion.

There was such a big movement, without waiting for the detective horse to report it, Daishan and Hu Erhan rushed out of the tent, arranging their troops and horses while wearing their helmets and armor. When the troops and horses were ready, the light on Ningyuan City disappeared, and silence returned.

After a false alarm, the Jurchen soldiers had no choice but to settle their horses, return to the felt tent, take off their armor and cover it with furs. But just as his eyelids were closed, the sound of cannons came again, the lights on the city were bright again, and there were still figures shaking.

Come on, get up again, it's still a toss-up, and then it's still a false alarm. Not even half a person could be seen near Ningyuan City. The scouts reported that only two cannons were fired on top of the city and no personnel were dispatched.

(End of this chapter)