It’s indeed a photo shoot!
Although Emperor Zhu Da discussed the national policy of the Ming Dynasty with Zuo Zongtang and others many years ago.
But Zuo Zongtang and the others were thinking of the Central Plains and their homeland.
It sounds nice to say that they are old people from the Central Plains, but the ancestral temple is still in the hands of foreigners. How can the Ming Dynasty stay out of the matter?
To put it bluntly, no one wants to return home in glory.
The rebellious minister back then is now the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty. He is inferior to one person and superior to tens of thousands of people. What a glorious sight!
Therefore, they hope to use Guo Songtao to promote changes, whether it is creating civil strife or competition, as long as the situation in the Central Plains becomes chaotic, they will be sure to persuade the emperor to intervene in the future.
With the Ming Dynasty's powerful soldiers and horses, it was not a matter of minutes to sweep through the Central Plains.
But now I have a little contact with the mentality of those international students, and they seem to understand His Majesty's thoughts.
"His Majesty's deepest intention is to use international students as a driving force to promote great changes in China..."
Wang Youling was surprised for a while and then said,
"Your Majesty's foresight is beyond our reach! The reason why Your Majesty personally went to Japan at this time is probably to use Japan as a springboard to set up schools in Japan to attract foreign students with the advantage of proximity. If there are soldiers and scholars from the Central Plains in the future,
, all originated from the Ming Dynasty. Within ten years, even if Li Zeng and others do not rebel, the young officers in the army will rebel. By then, the world..."
Is it a big change in the world, or...
Wang Youling's analysis made Zuo Zongtang nodded in agreement, and then said.
"In this way, with only a few million yuan in annual tuition, we can not only train tens of thousands of Chinese talents, but also give China a completely new look. At a time when the Anglo-Saxons are rampant in the world, only the inside and outside of China can be twisted into one,
Only then is it possible to turn the world of the Anglo-Saxons into the world of China. If our Ming Dynasty is strong, China will be strong. If China is strong, our Ming Dynasty will be strong..."
Taking a long breath, Zuo Zongtang's eyes became a little fanatical. His fanaticism was not because of anything else, but because of an unprecedented mission.
In the past, he was just the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and all he thought about was governing the Ming Dynasty. But now? He is the prime minister of the empire. His vision is not just the Ming Dynasty, but the whole China and the whole world.
It is a competition between Eastern civilization and Western civilization.
"Your Majesty... you are also a true saint!"
Once again, Zuo Zongtang completely admired Emperor Zhu Da's vision, and Wang Youling also agreed. "We can be born into your majesty's holy king, and can personally create the world of China and create the world of great harmony in China, but it is really three things."
I am so lucky to be alive. If I can live to see such a world of great unity, I will be willing to be shattered into pieces!"
"The great world of China!"
Zuo Zongtang was drunk.
Although the cup he drank was green tea from the foggy top of the Central Valley, the pleasant aroma of the tea made him drunk.
While drinking the tea in the cup, his mind seemed to be a little dazed, and he seemed to have a dreamlike feeling, "This tea is originally produced in China, but now it is cultivated in South America. When the era of Chinese Great Harmony comes, the world will definitely be the country of China."
World……"
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When he said these words, Zuo Zongtang and Wang Youling seemed to understand His Majesty's thoughts, and of course they also found their mission.
It was also on this day, when the Yuanxiao Festival of 1875 was about to pass, that Ming Dynasty truly became a world empire.
What is a world empire? It is an empire with a mission.
What is a true empire?
It is not an empire in name only. A real empire must first give itself a universal mission. By giving itself this mission, the empire can make its people willing to promote the great cause of the empire. At the same time, this mission will also make the empire exist.
become sacred.
Regarding this point, there are too many empires that can be used as examples, such as Tsarist Russia. Its mission is to turn itself into the "Third Rome". It has the mission of conquering barbarians, civilizing barbarians, and restoring the Roman Empire.
The Spanish Empire believed that its imperial mission was to resist the Reformation and maintain Catholicism. This idea not only allowed it to expand territory in the New World, but also made this mission a burden that the empire could not get rid of. In Spain
During the decline of the empire, it still tried to restore Catholic power in Europe.
What is the mission of the British Empire?
It means squeezing the world through trade and colonization, exchanging poverty outside the empire for a happy life for the people of the empire. In a nutshell, "within the empire, there is plenty of food and clothing; outside the empire, there is poverty and oppression."
And what is the mission of the Ming Empire?
It is not just a promise of prosperity for the people of the empire: "Within the empire, there is plenty of food and clothing; outside the empire, there is poverty and oppression."
Perhaps this was the most powerful source of imperial legitimacy.
But the Ming Empire was different, because the Ming Empire was different from Britain. Britain had no civilizing mission. The British Empire itself was a traitor in the Christian world - the first to betray Catholicism and establish a country with Protestantism to spread Christian civilization?
Isn't this nonsense?
Glory of Christ British Empire yarn?
The mission of the British Empire is very simple, it is business, it is trade, it is to make money. It is to use the prosperity of the empire to prove everything. It is to use the poverty outside the empire to achieve a happy life for the people of the empire!
But Ming Dynasty was different from Britain.
Because Ming Dynasty is the inheritor of Chinese civilization, this means that the mission that Ming Dynasty must shoulder is not only the prosperity of the empire, but the continuation and development of civilization.
In the process of the continuation and development of this civilization, the most important thing is of course expansion. What is the purpose of the expansion of the empire?
Since it is to obtain wealth, it is also to spread civilization.
While gaining wealth, Chinese civilization spread throughout the world.
For the revival of Chinese civilization - this is the mission of the Ming Empire!
And this mission will definitely conflict with Britain, because Britain's world empire has seriously affected Ming Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty's expansion around the world has also threatened British interests.
On the surface, it seems to be a battle of interests between two countries, but in fact it is a battle of civilizations.
In this world, there is only one king, either the world of European civilization represented by the Anglo-Saxons, or the world of Chinese civilization.
On this day, Zuo Zongtang and Wang Youling talked a lot. They kept chatting in the office. What was the core of what they were talking about?
It is a clash of civilizations, a competition of civilizations, and of course, more importantly, it is the mission of the empire. On this day, the lights in the Imperial Government Office were on all night long. The two of them drank tea, chatted, discussed, and discussed.
The topics discussed ranged from the distant Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire, from the Roman Empire to the Qin Empire, from Spain to England, and finally returned to the Ming Dynasty.
In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was getting brighter, Zuo Zongtang, who drank another cup of strong tea, opened the curtains, then looked at the rising sun and said with a sigh.
"This is the manifest destiny of the Ming Dynasty!"
What is the Ming Dynasty’s Manifest Destiny?
We definitely do not focus on the hometown of China, but look at the entire world and implement the comprehensive expansion of Chinese civilization worldwide!
Destiny is manifest, destiny is manifest!
This is just the world of great harmony in China!
Wang Youling expressed deep agreement.
"This is the world of great harmony!"
This chapter has been completed!