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After Ren Woxing read a lot of foreign news, he wanted to go outside for a walk. Just reading the news was not interesting. He wanted to see the world. This idea is getting stronger and stronger: "I want to travel around the world."

After hearing this, Shi Qiang wondered if it was a little early to travel around the world. After all, many ports have not been developed and many routes are unstable.

But it is not impossible to travel around the world, from the Silk Road to the Mediterranean, then from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean, and then to the New World.

However, it is not easy to travel through the New World now, but it is not impossible if there are Indians leading it. The New World was not highly developed, but the Indians were still scattered. It was possible to travel from one Indian tribe to the next and cross the New World.

The problem is that it is difficult to return to the Central Plains from the New World. There are no flights or ships in the Pacific.

There were ships on the Atlantic Ocean, and there were sailing ships sailing around Africa, but there were no ships returning directly from the New World to Asia through the Pacific Ocean.

So traveling around the world gets stuck in the Pacific.

"Global transportation has not yet been established, so there is no need to worry, just wander around the Eurasian continent first." Shi Qiang said.

"Then why not build it?" Ren Woxing said.

"Who spends the money? Haven't you read the Book of Songs?" Shi Qiang asked.

"No, doesn't the Book of Songs say, 'A fair lady, a gentleman is a good man?'" Ren Woxing said.

"The Book of Songs also contains content about the Emperor Zhou asking the Eastern princes to build roads and build inns. However, the Eastern princes originally had no money, so they had to build roads and build inns. After they were repaired, they would be exploited by the Western princes, so the Eastern princes were very unhappy. , has been complaining. Shi Qiang said: "The current problem is the same. Who will pay to repair the station and open the route? After it is completed,

Can you make money?"

Ren Woxing thinks so. He can't ask others to pay for his around-the-world travel: "It's really troublesome. I don't know how many more years it will take before I can travel around the world."

Shi Qiang thought that "Around the World in Eighty Days" was set in 1872. It first arrived in Egypt from the foggy city. At that time, there was the Suez Canal, which directly entered the Red Sea, entered the Indian Ocean, and then passed through Tianzhu to East Asia, and then from East Asia to North America. Rely on the railway to cross North America and return to the foggy city through the Atlantic Ocean.

It has experienced ancient trade routes and emerging trade routes, connecting old and new routes together. Although the old trade routes in Eurasia were well established, with the development

There are also many shortcuts on the old routes.

For example, in the past, Europe needed to go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to go to Tianzhu, but after the opening of the Suez Canal, it went directly from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and then into the Indian Ocean, without having to go around the Cape of Good Hope.

Then in Tianzhu, you can also rely on trains and water transportation to directly cross Tianzhu, and then take a boat through the Strait of Malacca to East Asia, and then take a boat to North America. Then take the east-west train across North America to the east coast. You must know that before there were trains, ships from east to west usually went around South America.

Later, the Panama Canal was developed, which also made it very convenient to enter the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.

The Suez Canal, Tianzhu Train, Pacific Route, North American Train, and Atlantic Route are all newly developed routes. With these foundations, it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days.

It is obviously difficult to travel around the world now, unless you hire a ship to go around Africa, around South America, anyway, it is very difficult to go around the world.

Definitely, it is very simple to follow the existing routes on the Eurasian road, such as the Silk Road to the Mediterranean, or the Maritime Silk Road to Tianzhu.

But going to the New World is not easy.

In the Book of Songs, the land of the eastern princes was underdeveloped and they had no money. They still had to build roads and inns, and they were full of complaints against the Emperor of Zhou.

The colonists built these infrastructures entirely at the cost of the colonies. The colonies became poorer and poorer, and eventually the colonies became independent one after another.

Afterwards, the Emperor of Zhou became more and more declining and poorer because of the war. At this time, the State of Qi emerged. It had economic hegemony on one hand and military hegemony on the other, creating the idiom "the blessings of Qi people". At the same time, he held high the slogan of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians, held high the ideology of Zhou Li, and attacked opponents.

The American Empire is very similar to the Qi State. After the decline of the old empire, one hand was military and the other economic. At the same time, he upholds the ideology of freedom and attacks his opponents.

Those who oppose Qi are barbarians, and those who oppose American imperialism are dictators.

Shi Qiang wanted to expand in similar eras, either the Zhou Dynasty model, the Roman model, or the sun never sets model [simply put, it is a model dominated by aristocrats.

But expansion will eventually come to an end. Most of the expansion targets are already developed lands, and will not grab those worthless undeveloped lands.

It can also be seen from the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" that wherever the protagonist goes, there are barbaric, backward and ignorant "aboriginals". As long as the indigenous people living here are not like orangutans, they will definitely produce and live, develop the land and create value. This is the most valuable expansion goal.

The colonists were not stupid either. They would not go where there were no indigenous people. Where there are no indigenous people, the conditions will most likely be poor and it will be difficult to survive.

When all the land developed by the aboriginal people is robbed, expansion will come to an end, and internal fighting will naturally follow, which will lead to the collapse of civility.

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Definitely when the order is still there, someone will jump out and say: My father is dying, and my brother has to take care of the family. This is true for Qi State, and so is the US emperor.

Qi State respects the king and resists barbarians, while the American emperor defends freedom.

The only difference is that in the era of Emperor Zhou, no country had accumulated thousands of years of historical experience, and everyone's level of governance was actually about the same.

But in this era, the colonists faced many ancient civilizations with thousands of years of history. These civilized aborigines knew the game rules of this land very well.

Although the colonists would say that the aborigines were ignorant, backward, and insensitive, the aborigines were too clear about the colonists' goals, and any behavior the colonists did would be seen through.

That is to say, the indigenous people of North America were integrated by the colonists because they were too young. The indigenous people in Eurasia were very clear about every move of the colonists, so they had a well-founded basis for advance and retreat. They only had to wait for the colonists to expand to the limit and wait for civil strife.

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Standing on the river bank, the enemy's corpse will naturally float down.

Qi's hegemony did not last long, although they had Guan Zhong, a genius economist, and a powerful army of martial arts warriors. But the dominance soon shifted, and the reason was very simple. The operating costs of Qi State were getting higher and higher, and merchants had no choice but to leave Qi State.

Expansion first, and then through economic and military control, this is the most primitive management method and cannot solve the internal cost problem. If the internal problems are not solved, once it is unable to expand, it will mean that the Huru will not survive for a hundred years.

This is also a problem that the Central Plains has faced for thousands of years, that is, after expansion to a certain extent, how to resolve internal conflicts, how to break through the curse of Hulu that cannot last more than a hundred years when there is no expansion, so that the dynasty can reach two or three hundred years? From Doubling in one hundred years is the result of the Central Plains' thousands of years of hard work.

If there is expansion, it will be easy to deal with, and it will be no problem if it lasts for eight hundred years. No expansion is the big problem.

Definitely Shi Qiang doesn't know how to break through the dynasty cycle, and he doesn't care about it. What he considers is that if Ren Woxing wants to travel, he can just wander around Eurasia.

"If you want to travel, just go. I can provide funds." Shi Qiang still supports warriors to go out and see, but there is no need to go out to colonize, just go and see, and then wait for the indigenous people from various places to come to the Central Plains to purchase.

The so-called coming of all nations to Korea actually means coming for trade. They can come if they like, and it doesn't matter if they don't come. There is really no need to colonize outside, because the Central Plains is currently the most developed region, and expansion outweighs the gains and losses.

Only by grabbing developed land can there be profit. However, it is difficult to make profit by expanding after occupying the most developed land. .