Chapter 621 On Advancement
For the first time, Zhu Erdian learned about Yang Hao's difficulty, which was different from the Chinese diplomats he knew. This person's demeanor and conversation were somewhat different, far from the elegant and elegant style of Gu Weijun, Tang Shaoyi and others, but he had a kind of arrogance that made him quite strange.
This temperament is very rare among contemporary Chinese. Even though China defeated the Western powers several times ten years ago, and has been constantly defeating the Russians on land since last year, from the bottom of the heart, the Chinese are still humble and cautious, and rarely arrogant.
Yang Hao showed him an inexplicable sense of superiority and unconcealed contempt. To be familiar, it is because over the years that the gentlemen of the British Empire have seen the same feeling as ignorant indigenous people around the world, and are above all else.
Zhu Erdian thought this was because China had the capital to challenge the great powers, so he began to think that it was arrogant and arrogant. Now he did not dare to conclude that the pride and contempt that Yang Hao showed and the calmness and shamelessness that were not inferior to Westerners were simply too contradictory.
This made him think of the noble leader who was above the top, with the same temperament and similar thinking, and the incomprehensible strong confidence, as if they came from an era when the Chinese Empire looked down on the earth. The strong confidence that China must be the leader of the world could not be cultivated without the experience of an era.
"how so?"
Zhu Erdian was puzzled, but he still had a look of joy and anger on his face. He ignored Yang Hao's sarcasm and looked at the various groups gathered in the hall, saying lightly: "It seems that your country has been sure to obtain huge wealth from the war in Europe, or you have been sure that you have become the force that decides victory or defeat?"
With his dignified minister of the British Empire, he actually asked Yang Hao, a young envoy, such a question, which was rare.
Yang Hao smiled silently and gently shook his wine glass and said leisurely: "No, in fact, we don't care at all who wins and who loses the war in Europe. China will not be now, nor will it choose to take sides in other people's wars in the future. We are always independent. We have our own development plan, which will not be transferred by the influence of external forces. Unless someone can force us to make choices and changes against our will. Well, just like the Qing Empire seventy years ago."
This is a ruthless mockery of British gentlemen.
Seventy years ago, it was the British Empire who used strong ships and powerful guns to bombard the Qing Dynasty's conservative and ignorant seclusion, forcibly forcing it to accept various unequal treaties imposed on the hundreds of millions of Chinese people. The entire land of China began to change slowly and slowly under such a force.
It was also from that time that Britain began to consciously guide China's development direction, trying to turn it into a colony similar to India. Although they later realized that the possibility was not high, they settled down and shared the spoils with other great powers, but never gave up their influence or even interference on China.
Yang Hao's words are to return to everything the British did.
Zhu Erdian's Taoist practice is profound enough to not be angry at such verbal sarcasm. He raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "It seems that Mr. Special Envoy is very confident in China's future. So have you ever thought that if after a war, a powerful empire reappears in Europe and integrates the power of all powerful countries to expand eastward. Is it possible that China will walk its own way behind closed doors?"
Yang Hao responded without thinking: "You all know that it is impossible. At least before the Western world truly understands what a civilized country is, there is no comparison between the East and the West. It can even be said that the gap between the two sides will grow bigger and bigger. Just as our great head of state said, European monarchs and nobles need a war to learn to respect life and understand the essence of civilization progress. No matter who wins, they will treat the war more cautiously and it is even more impossible to have a comprehensive conflict with China rashly."
Juerdian was angry and snorted coldly: "It seems inappropriate for you to say this? Everyone knows that modern civilization comes from the Western world. The British Empire leader has implemented it step by step and pushed it into various countries."
Yang Hao raised his right index finger and shook it gently: "No, no, no, you didn't understand, what we call modern civilization in China is not the same as you understand. The Western world believes that the warships are large, the main guns are large, the colonies are wide, and the population enslaved is the higher the level of civilization. We believe that the high respect for life and the protection of the right to survive. The equal enjoyment of national interests of people of all classes and no longer always thinks about enslaving, ruling, oppressing, and destroying whom. That is the real progress of civilization. Now Europe, as China in the Warring States Period two thousand years ago, has not seen much better except for the more advanced weapons."
Juerdian sneered and laughed: "These words sound very much like the so-called communist arguments in Europe. But the China I see is exactly the same as Europe. Privileges and interest classes rule the entire country, and the vast majority of ordinary people can only share a little of their interests. This is not the same as what you said."
He just pointed at Yang Hao's nose and scolded him for being hypocritical.
Yang Hao shrugged: "So we must constantly innovate politics, and continuously improve and improve on the premise of ensuring economic development and the basic living security of the people, and ultimately reach a new height of civilization where the whole people share common prosperity and peace and happiness. Of course, we also admit that the war breaking out in the West provides us with the opportunity to carry out such reforms. In a sense, we have taken advantage of it."
Zhu Erdian almost burst into anger. You are just taking advantage of it. From beginning to end, you Chinese are adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes. Now you start to share the dividends from this. They are all covered with the blood of the European people. You don’t think they are cruel?
Of course, Juerdian would not say this. The British who were the most beautiful person in the former world who used this excuse to condemn others was the British. They were beaten almost all the places that could invade the world. In terms of the number of enemies, the wide range of killings, and the great sins, they were beyond their reach.
Later generations of Germany Hitler killed millions of Jews. The entire nation was burdened with heavy culprits and was condemned and criticized for the long years. Later, the blood was simply castrated and the entire nation almost became a representative of the brainless Virgin Mary.
On the other side, what about the other great powers back then? The Spaniards destroyed the entire Mayan civilization and created ethnic vendetta everywhere; European hooligans jointly killed tens of millions of Indians, and then held a Thanksgiving Day to celebrate the "selfless dedication" of the idiots every year; let alone the British, and the French, there was no need to say that the Russians? They killed a lot of their own people.
But which one was condemned?
In the final analysis, under the cognitive system of Western civilization, the winner is the king, and the big fist has the final say.
Yang Hao directly opened their old foundation. The British gentlemen didn't think there was anything wrong. Instead, China's seemingly tall slogans were so loud. It was a bit shameless - you can't do it at all, so why do you promote it like the real thing? Who doesn't know who!
Therefore, Zhu Erdian didn't believe Yang Hao's words at all, and he realized that if he continued on this topic, he would not get any valuable information in the end.
After pondering for a moment, he said again: "It seems that your country is determined to play the role of fisherman in the European War. Well, let's say you have achieved great success and become the unique and strongest country in the world after the whole of Europe has been transformed into ruins. Will you continue to attack westward until the hegemony of the whole world is completed?"
Zhu Erdian didn't think there was anything wrong with discussing this topic with Yang Hao and "Yang Ziyan".
Now in the eyes of the entire Western world, this young man who looks less than thirty years old is a guy who is as terrible as the head of state. He just went out to wander around for two rounds and then did two major events that affected the world.
One is that Russia has been fooling around and has now lost millions of square kilometers of land, plus a huge loss of more than half a million troops.
The other is that it damaged the reputation of the British navy in front of the whole world, and secretly sold advanced warships to the Germans, and directly promoted the outbreak of the European war.
This is a special existence that can represent the will of the great head of state, and it deserves his greatest attention and protection.
Yang Hao did not accept his seemingly flattering statement. He waved his hand and smiled, "We cannot afford to say what the Minister said. Whether in the past, present or in the future, China will not become the world hegemon. This is determined by the nature of our culture. Not to mention that it will be difficult for us to achieve economic and military strength of that scale in at least fifty years or even a hundred years. More importantly, that is not the goal we pursue. That kind of idea is harmful to our country or other countries and nations."
Zhu Erdian felt aroused in his heart and said in surprise: "Oh? It seems that your country has considered this possibility? But why should we give up? Isn't it the most accomplished thing to make the Chinese people the highest ethnic group in the world? As far as I know, China has been obsessed with becoming the center of the world and becoming the master of the whole world since ancient times. You have always claimed to inherit and carry forward Chinese culture. How could there be a completely different development idea? Don't you think this is a contradiction?"
Yang Hao replied without hesitation: "Your understanding of Chinese culture is biased. We have believed that China is the center of the world since ancient times because there has been no civilization comparable to that in the long history. Our self-confidence and superiority are also based on the height of culture. It is not a boast, but a lack of comparison."
"When we were widely exposed to Western civilization during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese at that time did not lack the initiative to actively learn and absorb, which is enough to show that we are a culture that can be inclusive, constantly developing and progress. At the same time, we are never stingy in spreading our advanced civilization achievements to neighboring countries and neighboring countries. Please note that it is spreading, not imposed on others. This is essentially different from the practices in the Western world."
Zhu Erdian immediately grasped the key points in his words and asked aggressively: "Do you think there is something wrong with the Western world's approach? Isn't it as good as Eastern civilization?"
Yang Hao said proudly: "First of all, I want to point out one mistake. There is no so-called Eastern civilization. In the East, only Chinese civilization can be used to truly bring light and progress, happiness and peace to the entire human world. Western civilization is too pursuing forceful plunder and following the law of the jungle, which is a betrayal and regression of the value of mankind, and is not desirable."
Zhu Erdian disagreed with it. Where did he get the development capital without plundering? You Chinese are still cheating and seizing resources and territory everywhere to actively spread their own excess population and gradually squeeze out the living space of other surrounding ethnic groups?
It has only been more than ten years. In addition to Mongolia, Western Xinjiang and Far Northeast China on the road, the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Luzon, Borneo, Malaya, Indonesia, and even as far as Australia, Hawaii, and the west coast of North America, the Chinese immigration and expansion pace are better day by day, and now there are at least tens of millions of people going out!
Perhaps in another ten or twenty years, when a new generation of overseas Chinese grow up, they will become the main body of those places, backed by a powerful mother country, and without using weapons, they will naturally expand their dominant territory to the entire Pacific Ocean.
The territory of China at that time was probably much larger than that of the current British colonies!
When Zhu Erdian thought of that terrible scene, he felt a chill in his heart and couldn't help but sigh secretly. Unfortunately, the nobles and monarchs of European countries were short-sighted and still did not realize how threats the Chinese people were. They locked up and fought in the internal struggle, giving the Chinese people valuable development opportunities in vain.
After comparing the two things, he had to admit that there was nothing wrong with Yang Hao saying that "China has its own development ideas." It's just that it's too much to take advantage of it.
Yang Hao seemed to talk about sex, and without waiting for the old devil to refute it, he continued: "The reason why I say this is based on evidence. The Minister, you have a deep knowledge and should know that there is a deep-rooted problem in Western civilization, which is that the power of the divine over human rights. No matter how great a scientist is, you must first admit that they believe in God, otherwise no matter how high the academic level is, it will be a heretic."
"And everyone knows how many jokes that cannot be explained by this first cause have been made from birth to the Middle Ages to today. Nowadays, human beings have begun to explore the universe and don't know how those charlatans will continue to be compiled. But there is no doubt that if the West does not solve the problem of secularization of religious beliefs for a day, they will sooner or later suffer a great loss on this. On the other hand, our Chinese civilization does not have this burden, so we can go into battle lightly and will definitely come from behind in the development prospects and future achievements."
This has touched on the fundamental issue of faith. Zhu Erdian could no longer bear it and scolded: "I am sorry to agree with your opinion. I also have this question. Could it be that in your opinion, there is no such fundamental issue in China?"
Yang Hao's face turned solemn, and Zheng pointed: "Yes! And it's not less trouble than the West." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!