Wanli 1592

Chapter 960 Fate Line

Go for it!

Open up a wider territory.

Open your eyes and your minds.

Don't be limited to one place in China anymore, think about looking further afield.

A powerful China should look at the world, spread its footprints all over the world, dominate and lead the times, instead of being complacent and degenerate.

Go out, follow in the footsteps of the predecessors, set sail in the era of great voyages, and embark on a different path that symbolizes the unknown and hope.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know what kind of changes this would bring to the land of Huaxia. There might be good changes, and there might be bad changes, but he knew very well that this was the only way and the way he had to take.

He is very clear that the history of human beings is a history of cannibalism. The only difference is whether we eat each other or unite to eat others. Our ancestors chose to eat their own people for thousands of years. The effect is not good.

There is no doubt that in the era of Ming Dynasty, China's navigation technology was obviously stronger than that of Portugal and Spain, and it obviously had a first-mover advantage in the issue of launching a great voyage, but this was of no use and did not bring great benefits to Ming Dynasty. any real benefit.

Because Zheng He's ship was full of the pride and arrogance and superciliousness of the kingdom of heaven, while Columbus' ship was full of absolute greed and desire.

It is easy for modern Chinese to criticize the Ming government's ocean policy as an extremely short-sighted policy, and to close the country is an extremely short-sighted behavior. It is sad and angry. Why not learn from Western colonists to colonize the world and absorb the flesh and blood of other nations to enrich On the contrary, he ended up in a passive and beaten situation, controlled by others everywhere.

There is no need to deny that Xiao Ruxun once hated like this, and the hatred was so painful that she wished she could go back to that era and lead the trend of the times.

But after personal experience, Xiao Ruxun understood.

Even the time-travelers could never succeed in persuading the Chinese, who regarded benevolence, righteousness and morality as absolute political correctness, to implement a strategy of colonial expansion.

Political correctness has a strong binding force in any era, especially political correctness standing on the moral high ground, it is simply impeccable, and it cannot be changed by one or two people and one or two new ideas.

Those who traveled back to that era vigorously advocated foreign colonial expansion and sought breakthroughs within the system. They could only get heretical treatment and would not end well.

The way out of the vicious cycle of reincarnation and breaking the situation was blocked by moral masters in the name of Confucius, and people of that era could not change it.

Under such a major premise, the Chinese civilization that has been leading the way will suffer the fate of falling behind and being beaten in the next few hundred years.

Although the Ming Dynasty’s policy of preferential treatment of gentry created unprecedented cultural prosperity in the Ming Dynasty, the increasingly autocratic and rigid political system and guiding ideology all prepared the elegy of Chinese civilization. The sea breeze after Zheng He’s departure could only play bacterial guns and steel The concerto, and all of this does not belong to Huaxia.

The aborigines of Australia and America, which were indifferent to the world, were massacred for various reasons, and blacks and Indians were enslaved in large numbers. On top of these bones and crimes, the pirates completed the primitive accumulation of capital, lighting up the near future. The glory of modern civilization has suddenly become the benchmark of civilization and has been sung by all mankind to this day.

Two lines of fate collide in 1840 AD.

What happened afterwards is known to everyone who has gone to school, so there is no need to say more.

So Xiao Ruxun figured it out, reform is an extremely thankless thing, especially when the goal is too big and the resistance is greater, reform is no different from seeking death, reform without absolute foundational support will inevitably fail, it is impossible success.

He admires the courage of Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng for daring to kill vested interest groups, and he also admires the will and determination of countless reformers, but this is meaningless, and reforms that do not change the foundation are just life extensions.

Xiao Ruxun chose to cut off its foundation to promote a revolution in the true sense, endowing the word revolution with a new meaning, and since then led this country to a completely different path and a different future.

For his followers, the impact of all this is very great. They have never imagined looking overseas and pursuing their own future on the endless sea.

The farmers who were born in the mountains are used to the mountains surrounded by small streams, and the scholar-officials who grew up on the earth with ample food and clothing are used to the wind blowing the wheat, the waves, the flowers, the snow and the moon, and they are used to being down-to-earth. They are naturally confused about the endless ocean. with fear.

For this point, Xiao Ruxun is very clear.

The military generals under his command basically came from peasant households to eat from the ground, and the civil servants who followed him all grew up reading the Four Books and Five Classics.

He knew that he could not, with a word or two, dispel the doubts and fears of his followers and lead them to the sea.

But he hopes, he will push it to happen.

So he will still give land and privileges to his followers, so that they have the most basic trust in him, and have the minimum courage to go overseas to open up a new world.

This is the basis of their going to the ocean.

"In the future, my policy goal is to open the sea in the southeast, open the treaty ports, and encourage private and official transactions with Daqin, and Japan, North Korea, Southeast Asian countries, and European countries. I will promote and encourage this Everything, reset the city ship department, reset the local transshipment envoy, and use it to accumulate money for the restoration and construction of the interior.

And my request to you is to lead the army to organize and manage refugees and refugees in the future, to overhaul the world, to adopt Qin Shihuang's policy, to repair the Great Chi Road from the capital to all parts of the world, and to strengthen the central government's control over local areas Li, during this period, I need you to build roads and quell disobedience in the world at the same time.

And during this period, I will eliminate all hidden dangers. After all this is over, we will turn our attention overseas. At that time, you will find that there is a wider world outside of Daqin, where you can gallop freely . "

After Xiao Ruxun finished speaking, he looked at the bewildered eyes of the generals, paused, and said, "I know you will also have concerns and doubts, because Song Taizu chose to drink wine to release his military power after adding the yellow robe. "

This is the key point. After saying this allusion, the eyes of the generals instantly became sharp.

It is impossible to say that there are no such concerns.

They all know the story of the release of military power with a glass of wine, and they also know what happened to the warriors after the yellow robe was added to the body.

But they couldn't resist the temptation of the benefits after adding the yellow robe, so they did it resolutely, but after doing it, more worries also appeared.

Because if Xiao Ruxun wanted to attack them, they would be powerless to resist.

Xiao Ruxun's prestige in the army is too great.

"I understand that you have such worries, and I am also very aware of such concerns. If I exchanged identities with any of you, I would also be worried."

Xiao Ruxun said slowly: "You will be worried that I will be suspicious of you, and I will be worried that your subordinates will do the same thing to you, so I will use a glass of wine to release the military power to solve my worries, and go back to the old way of the former Song Dynasty. I will even learn from the former Ming Taizu and kill you."

The expressions of the generals became unnatural.

(End of this chapter)