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Chapter 1214: World Center Status (First Update, Please Subscribe)
We are Nanyang people!

Over the past decade or so, this consensus has been formed across Nanyang, and it is this consensus that has led more and more people to regard Nanyang as their home rather than "living as guests" in Nanyang.

It was under this trend of thought that the awareness that "we are Nanyang people" became more and more the mainstream trend of society. Whether they were Chinese or Europeans, they all reached this consensus.

But at the same time, Li Yian had to consider a very realistic issue.

It is the future of Nanyang, or the future Nanyang.

Where is the future Nanyang?

"Eastern sentiment, Western charm" is the cultural positioning of Nanyang, but it is not just that. Li Yian also needs to consider another issue - the roots of hundreds of millions of Nanyang people.

In another world, there are two textbooks, one is from Singapore and the other is from Malaya Chinese.

The former is the official-led "de-Sinicization", while the latter has been insisting on Chinese education for decades without any official subsidies. It even issued a cry of "Culture is the soul of the nation! Chinese schools are the cultural fortress of the Chinese!"

Everything else can be abandoned, but Chinese schools must be opened, because this is related to the soul of the nation! In the end, relying on donations from the Chinese community in Malaya, Chinese schools have been opened, and the Chinese community in Malaya has become the only region that retains complete Chinese education, apart from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

With these two examples, Li Yian certainly had to learn a lesson.

"You are right. The weakening of the connection between the Tang people and Tangshan is a slow process. With the aging of the first generation of immigrants and the growth of the second generation, it is natural for the third and fourth generations to weaken. And this "diluting" is precisely what is "diluting" the root of this nation."

When this common root is gone, then the "blood connection" will naturally no longer exist. Things like "banana people" will inevitably happen. Therefore, reading "Outline of National History" is to strengthen this "root" and trigger a sense of inner identity through pride in national history and culture. "

In fact, there is a precedent for this, just like the migration of the scholars and people to the south during the "Five Barbarians' Invasion". The scholars and people who migrated south maintained their identification with the Central Plains through cultural identity. If there was no cultural identification among the scholars and people who migrated south, what would have happened?

Therefore, it all comes down to culture, and that is why Nanyang needs the Outline of National History. In fact, in Li Yian's mind, the Nanyang people are essentially Chinese who "migrated south with their clothes and hats", and he is absolutely unwilling to erase this innate sense of identity.

"With this sense of historical identity, the Tang people and Tangshan are connected by blood. But..."

Li Yian deliberately emphasized his tone and said:

"In addition, there is another point, that is, this kind of historical and cultural identity not only involves the roots of Nanyang people, but also the roots, or the future, of Nanyang. For Nanyang, we also need to build a circle of friends in Nanyang through Chinese civilization."

When talking about "circle of friends", Li Yian deliberately made a circle with his hands.

"As we all know, any circle of friends must have common values. After all, birds of a feather flock together. Just as the Western world builds its basic values ​​on Christian civilization, and the Eastern world builds its values ​​on materialism, only with common values ​​can we have common cognition, and only in this way can we work for common interests."

Leaning back in his chair, Li Yian spoke while thinking about another Japan.

In another world, although Japan created their "flying geese model", in East Asia, Japan is the leading goose, and the rest of the countries follow behind Japan. Under the guidance of the "flying geese theory", Japan transferred its backward domestic production capacity to Southeast Asia on a large scale. The rise of the "Four Asian Tigers" also benefited from this.

However, Japan's "flying geese model" ultimately failed, because Japan's industrial radiation to Southeast Asia only remained at the level of industrial radiation. As the leader, it was only a "leader" rather than a "head goose".

In other words, Japan's "flying geese model" is a "flock of geese model", which develops a group of geese, and each of them is independent and does not agree with the "leader". They may be close to each other, but they do not agree with each other. This is the fundamental reason why the "flying geese model" failed, and it is also the core factor of the failure of the "Asian economy".

Why has Japan never been able to truly build its circle of friends and construct an Asian economy?

Apart from the fact that Japan itself is submissive to the United States and is a dog tied with a chain by the United States, there is another core reason - the failure in exporting values.

There is no common value orientation between Japan and those countries!

Among the countries supported by Japan, is there any country willing to take advantage of Japan's fire?

No!

But what about the Western world?
In the 1980s, Reagan imposed a comprehensive embargo on the Soviet Union, not only the United States, but also required other Western countries to do the same. West Germany, which had been doing heavy trade with the Soviet Union in the past 20 years, faced the map head who came to persuade it and faced the losses of tens of billions of dollars each year. The German Chancellor just answered with one sentence - Germany still belongs to the Western world after all.

In other words - Germany must defend its circle of friends, even if the cost is heavy.

Japan does not have such a circle. If it did, it could help the United States take advantage of the situation. Thinking about the pros and cons of Japan's "flying geese model", Li Yian continued:

“Then the question is, what about Nanyang? What values ​​should Nanyang use to build its own circle of friends, and in the process build an Asian economy that can compete with Europe and the United States?
Obviously, there is only one option - Chinese civilization! This option can even be said to be the only one! "

Sitting in the luxurious leather swivel chair, Li Yian glanced at the "Outline of National History" spread out on the table.

"Thanks to the glorious history and splendid civilization created by our ancestors, over the past thousands of years, areas influenced by the Chinese civilization have been formed in East Asia and parts of Southeast Asia. They use Chinese characters and have used "Chinese characters" as written language. The basic elements of the East Asian cultural circle are Chinese characters, laws, agricultural and industrial skills, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism. These elements have had a profound impact on the languages, ideologies, social organizational structures, and the level of development of productivity in East Asian countries.

This East Asian cultural circle was created by our ancestors over two thousand years.”

For Nanyang, these are Nanyang’s treasures—the kind that are exclusive to the circle of friends. They only need to be modified according to Nanyang’s needs.

Just like the Americans printed "In God We Believe" on their banknotes, but in essence, they are just doing it for the sake of united front, to tell those little European brothers, look, we are the same.

According to the Vatican, the British and American approaches are standard heresy, but that does not stop them from using them as a banner.

“Although later generations despised it, and this circle became fragmented as China sank after the Jiashen Incident, it did have a profound impact on countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam, and affected every aspect of their lives.

What Nanyang needs is to build and create a circle of friends in Nanyang based on common values ​​of civilization. With common values ​​of civilization, this circle of friends can be more stable and not be rootless.”

After listening to your story, Lin Jiachao, who has served as the mayor of Dongning for so many years, finally understood why some policies in Nanyang were adjusted fifty years later, just like the simplified Chinese characters that were abandoned halfway - the simplified Chinese characters in Nanyang were not fully implemented and even died halfway.

However, later on, a "Handwritten Running Script Sample" was compiled and vigorously promoted among middle school students through the education authorities, so that students could recognize traditional Chinese and write simplified Chinese, making the depressed turtle less depressed. The running script characters compiled in the "Sample" are the same as simplified Chinese characters.

In essence, it is to ensure civilizational identity with places like Japan, South Korea, and even Saigon, and ultimately, to build common values ​​based on this identity, and then to protect each other for the common good.

And this circle of friends is the circle of friends centered on Nanyang.

Listening to your story, Lin Jiachao now understands your far-reaching plan. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why Nanyang can rise. It is not because of anything else, but because under your guidance, every step of Nanyang is extremely solid.

From developing industries and promoting national economic development in the beginning, and then, after the economy developed, gradually looking for opportunities to expand Nanyang's international influence, each step was precisely focused, allowing Nanyang to get the greatest return with the least effort.

And now?

Your Excellency has set his sights on a more long-term future - this future is no longer just about "Nanyang", but about "us"!
Just as the United States has their Western world and the Soviet Union has their Eastern world.

Maybe Nanyang is a member of the Commonwealth, but... the Commonwealth is just the Commonwealth. Nanyang will become a strong member of the Commonwealth, but it is very difficult and a very long process to "replace it". Only the Asian world is the real "us".

This is the future of Nanyang!
"Jia Chao, you know what the foreigners fear the most, is East Asian unity! Because from the perspective of civilization, East Asian civilization is the only civilization that can challenge the Western world. History has long proven this."

Li Yian stood up and walked towards the window.

Looking out through the thick bulletproof glass window, it was already dusk outside the window. Just like that, concentrating on the dusk, Li Yian said slowly.

"There are East Asian cultural circles, Western Christian cultural circles, Eastern Orthodox cultural circles, Islamic cultural circles, and Indian cultural circles in this world. However, only two cultural circles were once the world's civilization centers: Western civilization based on Roman civilization, and East Asian civilization based on Chinese civilization. They were both the centers of the world. As for the others, they were just vassals of the two civilizations.

So, now, what we are doing is not only to build our own friends, but also to regain the status that belongs to us Tang people, the status of the center of world civilization! "

When he said this, Li Yian's expression became a little excited. He didn't know when his mentality had changed.

Over the past decade or so, he has been constantly changing from the initial survival to the later foothold, and later to the desire to build Nanyang into a powerful country. Now, some of the things he desires have changed again.

In fact, this is the change in people's hearts. People will always change with the changes in the environment.

Now, it is just to gain a status that can match the strength of Nanyang in the future.

After all, the Nanyang today is no longer the Nanyang of the past.

(End of this chapter)