In the school classroom, Xu Hao brought a pair of glasses without lenses and taught history classes to a group of students from the age of seventeen or eighteen to the age of twenty.

Now the school has a dedicated history teacher, and students can also learn through books, so Xu Hao is talking about Western history and must change the ignorance of young people towards the outside world.

Therefore, he combined the information obtained from Baihua with what he knew, and students were generally very interested in this. History and military are the interests of boys, and they also had a strong desire for knowledge about the unknown world.

Seeing nearly a hundred students taking notes seriously, Xu Hao was very satisfied and said slowly: "In the last class, I talked about the Roman Empire. With the demise of the Western Roman Empire, a number of barbarian countries appeared one after another in Europe. The reason I call them "barbarian" is that like the Huns and Turks in the north, they only know how to conquer and destroy other civilizations but not build them. Although these barbarians also have their own unique and long history, as long as they do not have written inheritance and etiquette that everyone knows, it is difficult to call them civilization.

Of course, after the Yuan Dynasty was founded in the Central Plains, it would naturally evolve a new civilization based on the original civilization, either assimilated or borrowed.

The same was true in Europe. The Germans gradually became new masters. One of them was called the Franks, and established the Meweng Dynasty. Through alliance with the Roman Church, they gradually occupied all the territory called Gaul. With the continuous expansion of the kingdom, they became the most powerful country in Europe.

Europeans were accustomed to signing contracts. Later, the changing kingdoms died due to the death of the kingdoms and the war between the royal families led to split. The Treaty of Verdun was signed, thus forming the Kingdom of West Frank, the Kingdom of East King Rank and the Kingdom of Italy.

Another group of the Germanic Anglos, the Saxons, entered the Great British Isles across the strait, forming seven kingdoms, and finally the Kingdom of Visax annexed the other six kingdoms, similar to our Warring States Seven Heroes finally returned to Qin and gave birth to the Kingdom of England.

Around the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Duke of Normandy in Frank demanded to inherit the throne of England by kinship. After being rejected, he led his troops to cross the sea with force, known as the Conqueror William, and established the Normandy dynasty in England.

As a result, during the period when Emperor Gao led the Han soldiers and civilians in the world to resist the Tartars, England claimed that they had the right to inherit the throne against Frank, who had lost the king. The two countries fought each other for more than 50 years and are now in a period of truce."

A student raised his hand. Xu Hao asked him to speak, and the student asked, "Sir, the conquests among the countries originated from the demise of the Roman Empire, which was indeed similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period that did not follow the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty. Do the European heroes who lost the Communist Party of China also adopted the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers like our dynasty?"

Xu Hao first pondered for a moment, then resolutely said: "I have repeatedly said that foreign countries are not barbarians, but also civilizations that are no less than China. Therefore, we cannot be arrogant and only think that we are the country above the Celestial Empire. Think about the Yuan Dynasty, this is an eternal shame for the Han people.

Perhaps because of the small country, in order to balance the brutal king, parliament appeared in England. The upper house composed of nobles and the lower house composed of representatives of knights and citizens can compete with the royal power and govern the country together. In other words, the royal power is no longer supreme. This is the parliamentary monarchy invented by Europe."

Looking at the entire classroom that had become silent in an instant, Xu Hao knew that after his words, he might have laid the cause of beheading himself.

Xu Hao didn't know whether the constitutional monarchy was useful to the Ming Dynasty. However, according to the evolution of natural laws, the constitutional monarchy was the supreme one. The cabinet system and the six ministers of the Ming Dynasty were also equivalent to constitutional monarchy in a sense because they could compete with the imperial power, but the imperial power was ultimately supreme.

The same is true in the West. The battle for royal power is endless, and the parliament will continue to fight in the internal struggle. Even if the emperor is abolished, the battle for power will still be endless.

It depends on the right opinion on which political system is the best, so Xu Hao just pointed it out. It is manifested as saying it only as a foreign fact and interesting story, and he has no ability and does not want to discuss it in depth.

I hope that as the sea route is opened, the knowledgeable people of the Ming Dynasty will go out to sea to explore everything outside. If they can be influenced and learned from the Western world, they will come back and strive for the revolution. Otherwise, it is also due to fate.

Xu Hao was unwilling to end the Ming Dynasty alone. That road was too difficult. Without that ability, it would be better not to have delusions. An ordinary person in his previous life would never be able to become a great man after traveling through time. The chance of success is too small. People should have self-knowledge.

Facing the students' continuous questions, Xu Hao did not answer, and only said if you are interested, you might as well go out to sea to see it yourself.

Compared with politics, the knights are most interested in students. Xu Hao said: "Knights were developed from cavalry. In the past, cavalry in Roman times had no stirrups, and the role of fighting was limited. As stirrups were transmitted from the east, cavalry could defeat infantry, which was one of the reasons for the rise of the knight class.

In the early days of the Roman Empire, the people were simple. Due to continuous victory, the land became larger and larger, and the wealthy people gradually became corrupt. We should also take it as a warning now. The Roman legion, like the army of our dynasty, defeated the enemy with strict military discipline. The emergence of cavalry on a large scale in the later period was like many invincible generals in history. The courage of individual generals was respected. For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, a good general was able to serve as a pastor or a city lord, which was European knightism."

The students nodded one after another, and someone smiled and said, "Sir, most of the generals of the Three Kingdoms period were also nobles. Otherwise, how could they learn martial arts and military strategies? Is this the same in Europe?"

"That's right." Xu Hao said: "Knights are the same as military generals, but they are also somewhat different due to different customs. They cannot live with their family members at the age of seven. They have to go to a noble family with higher status than their family and start to learn the necessary knowledge of becoming a knight. They have served as the personal attendant of the noble knights since the age of fourteen, that is, the entourage of the family generals in our country, and gradually serve as deputy generals of the teeth, and eventually promoted to a qualified commander."

A student said disdainfully: "It turns out that the European countries are far behind our dynasty, and are only equivalent to the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties. Since the Song Dynasty, our Han people have completely suppressed the military rebellion. It can be imagined that the continuous war in Europe is precisely because the military people violated the ban by using martial arts and were doing evil."

Xu Hao said: "Yes, but the knights are also a dependence on ensuring the survival of a country. The Tang Dynasty was destroyed by warlord separatism, while the Song Dynasty was exempted from warlord separatism, but it was destroyed by the powerful enemies in the north.

You all claim to be literati, and now you are the dominant scholastic family. The military officers have a slightly inferior status, and the soldiers who defend the country are even less than those of farmers. You should respect every soldier. This is not the topic, so I won’t talk about it.”

After saying that, Xu Hao paused for a moment, but couldn't help but say, "You will definitely become pillars of the country in the future. So I hope you will think about it carefully, what will happen to the future of the Ming Dynasty?"

The students all thought about it, but soon turned their attention to other places. Someone asked: "Sir, what kind of clothes do Europeans wear? The barbarians in the capital all followed the local customs and dressed the same as the Han people."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "Due to the development of society, Europeans are still a little worse than our food, clothing, housing and transportation. However, with the rapid development of navigation technology, if we cannot keep up with the pace of the times, then we are standing still, but others gradually conquered the world, invented and created all kinds of things, and drove a warship to our doorstep. At that time, we will not be as good as others in all aspects. I hope everyone will remember these words."

Originally, Xu Hao wanted to describe it in truth. After thinking about it, he said: "Because of the prosperity of navigation and trade, the economic prosperity, the development of agriculture, commerce and handicrafts, and the influence of Eastern civilization, Europe has undergone many changes in clothing nowadays. People pursue fashion, and women compete with each other for beauty.

Everyone knows the boldness of the Tang Dynasty. There is this trend in Europe now. Women are popular with collars that expose their chests. Tops have sleeveless, short-sleeved arms, and Europeans especially like silk in the east and jewelry inlaid with gems. If they can't buy them, they will come and rob them. I can even predict that our enemies are in the north and will face the covetousness of the whole world in the near future, because sea ships will connect countries that were thousands of miles apart. Don't think that forbidden seas can stop them, it's just to stop us from going out, but cannot stop the enemy from coming in. Japanese pirates are the best example. It is better to attack instead of attack instead of attack.

Of course, the gorgeous and exposed clothes in Europe were also opposed by secular society and churches, who believed that clothes that could not be shy were not elegant and too frivolous."

The students laughed and couldn't help but think of the legendary ladies of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. They were bold and open and unscrupulous. Someone raised his hand and asked, "What about sir's opinion on this? It is said that you have been vigorously tying your feet and don't care about the women going out for a trip."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "My point of view is not important, what matters is your point of view. I think you all know that the wife and sisters at home pursue beauty, apply makeup, brow drawing, picky about satin fabrics, and love for gold and silver jewelry. Women should be tolerated by those who please themselves.

I can only say that the legitimate pursuit of beauty should not be regarded as unfaithfulness. Not to mention that women like gorgeous clothes and jewelry, men also want to wear better? If you reveal a little arms, you think it is inequality. Isn’t it too extreme?”

"Okay, it's time for this class soon." Xu Hao took off his glasses, clapped his palms, and said to all the students: "I'll say the last thing, Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism have undoubtedly played an active role in educating the people about knowledge and etiquette, cultivating sentiments, and maintaining stability in the world.

But at the same time, I firmly oppose the conservative trend of the current Corporate Lin holding the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and believed that it was a famous saying for measuring everything in the world. Nowadays, many scholars regard Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as a stepping stone to gain fame and fortune, and hold on to the preaching of every word and meaning, which has led to the development of Neo-Confucianism becoming more and more out of reality and becoming an empty statement that is useless. Yes, what I said can be understood as accusing the eight-legged article.

If my words come from an ordinary scholar, will it become a tool for some famous scholars to "kill people with reason"? The answer is obviously self-evident. Fortunately, I am not a scholar.

So I hope you can understand that the Han Dynasty respects Confucianism for the progress of the entire country, which came from the actual needs of the time, rather than just to promote a doctrine, so that the gentry can obtain the patents of the superiors and achieve the purpose of imprisoning other doctrines. The development of a nation is like sailing against the current, and if you do not advance, you will retreat. You can become the pillars of the country and nation, and you can also become the eternal sinners of the country and nation. Okay, let’s come here.”

After coming out, Xu Hao sighed. Because there was no personal pain, young people today would never understand how terrifying it was in the late Yuan or late Ming dynasties. The blooming thoughts and powerful army meant singing and dancing to achieve peace and not being bullied. It is definitely right to use civil servants to suppress military officers. Even in later generations, all powerful and stable countries were controlled by the literati cabinets.
Chapter completed!