My Daming New Empire

Even in the 21st century, this means of controlling other countries through technology leadership, industry leadership, and trade means is still the main means of those developed countries.

Although Zhu Zhanji will not abandon the first two methods, he will not send troops to occupy when it is not necessary.

This is not only due to increased military expenditures, but also because the current world is a powerful country like Ming Dynasty, and if Ming Dynasty wants to become the guardian of the world, it must establish a positive image of itself.

Occupation by force will only lead to the rise of local resistance consciousness. Through trade means, those areas will become vassals of Ming Dynasty and serve Ming Dynasty, which can save military expenses and make all countries respect Daming even more.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji would rather let the Secretary of General Administration use various means to control Europe than send troops to fight.

Today, we have sent troops to fight, and we still have to send troops to garrison, and we still have to face all kinds of resistance, but the rewards of predatory methods are not high.

After analyzing these three different ways of plundering with Chen Shu and Hou Tai, Zhu Zhanji concluded: "The overall strength of any country is basically composed of politics, technology, industry, education, military, trade and finance. consist of.

Finance aside, in the first six aspects, our Ming Dynasty must become the benchmark of the world. Only in this way can the whole world willingly follow our Ming Dynasty.Only those who are disobedient need to be taught a lesson.

The role of the General Administration Department is to win over all possible targets and weaken the strength of disobedient countries. This kind of expenditure is more effective and has a better reputation than my Ming Dynasty sending troops.

As long as it is necessary, no matter who it is, it can be used by the Secretary of the General Administration, including my daughter.However, the Secretary of General Administration needs to form a complete system of symptoms, and have a clear understanding and positioning of each person's different roles.do you understand? "

Hou Tai bowed, and Zhu Zhanji asked again: "So, Zhang Han, how are you going to use it?"

This time, Hou Tai hesitated.This Zhang Han is not only not a useful talent for him, but also a dangerous person, because he is somewhat uncontrollable.

"Your Majesty, the Secretary of General Administration has reported Zhang Han's psychological analysis..."

"I know, I have also read the information you reported, otherwise it would be nonsense to tell you so much today!"

Hou Tai originally thought that Zhu Zhanji didn't read their analysis results, so he said that the Secretary of the General Administration should use Zhang Han.How can such an uncontrollable person be used?

But now that Zhu Zhanji has read the analysis and thinks that Zhang Han is suitable for the Secretary of General Administration, he is also a little confused.

Chen Shu helped Hou Tai out and said, "Your Majesty, according to what I have seen, it is better for Zhang Han to stay in Daming."

Zhu Zhanji shook his head with a smile and said, "You guys, you haven't seen Zhang Han's role clearly at all..."

Chen Shu and Hou Tai looked at each other, not understanding what Zhu Zhanji meant.

Zhu Zhanji didn't keep them confused for too long, hooked his fingers, and Li Liang immediately asked an eunuch to bring over a stack of documents.

"Look, Zhang Han wrote these things. It is said that he spent more than a month writing in the cabin of the ship on his way back to Daming from Europe. Do you know what he is writing?"

Chen Shu and Hou Tai looked at it. These materials were reported by the Secretary of General Administration, so they naturally read them too.

As for what Zhang Han wrote during this period, they don't know anymore.To them, Zhang Han is just an insignificant role, but they don't know why His Majesty attaches so much importance to it.

Chen Shu shook his head and said, "I'm ignorant, I don't know His Majesty's deep meaning."

Zhu Zhanji said to Li Liang: "Send someone to Liang Guogong's mansion and ask Zhang Han to bring the manuscript he wrote on the way home tomorrow."

Looking back, he said again: "From Zhang Han's manuscript, I saw the birth of a great thinker comparable to Confucius. You think his thoughts are not divorced from some discussion nests of the court on society, but I think What I got was his profound thoughts on the formation of the whole social system and its future development.”

Chen Shu and Hou Tai were taken aback. If the person in front of them was not the emperor, they would have accused each other of talking nonsense.

Although Confucianism is not valued by the imperial court today, over the past few decades, imperial examination officials have become increasingly weak in the imperial court.Only young people who have graduated from polytechnics and other professional schools will be reused.

But Confucius was still made a symbol and a benchmark by the imperial court.

Now His Majesty even said that Zhang Han has the shadow of Confucius, even if there is only a little resemblance, it is an unparalleled compliment!

"It's getting late today. At noon tomorrow, your General Secretary and Zhang Han will meet together! At that time, I will talk to you again."

After Chen Shu and Hou Tai left the palace, they still felt a little unbelievable.This Zhang Han, they have conducted an in-depth analysis of his experiences from childhood to adulthood, including the reasons for the formation of his character.

In their view, he has some depth of thought, and the articles he writes also have some merits.However, he is still too young, and many ideas are unrealistic and not desirable.

They didn't understand what His Majesty said, which meant that they must have overlooked something.

"My lord, I want to go back to the Yamen and read Zhang Han's article again. Until now, my subordinates don't believe that there is anything special about Zhang Han."

Chen Shu also shook his head and said: "I will go with you. Since Your Majesty said so, we must have neglected something. His old man will not treat Zhang Han differently just because he is his grandson. There must be something wrong." The place is what we don't understand."

Since Zhu Zhanji came to this era, what he was most wary of was not the Mongolian people, but the Europeans.

He was well aware that it was during this period that the Renaissance in Europe took place.

In the original history, the revival of Europe represented the suffering of the whole world.As long as they are not white, in the next few hundred years, all will be subjected to the most brutal oppression and exploitation.

It was not until the middle of the twentieth century that countries around the world gradually broke free from the shackles. In the 21st century that Zhu Zhanji traveled through, most countries were still in a situation of being exploited.

At the beginning, Zhu Zhanji thought about using various means to deal with white people.

But after Ming had already occupied the Americas, Australia, Africa and most of Asia, Zhu Zhanji's defense against white people gradually weakened.

Today's Europeans have lost their development foundation, they have no sources of various resources, and relying solely on the barren Europe, it is impossible to become Ming's opponents.

There is only one thing that Zhu Zhanji has never forgotten, and that is the basic essence of the European Renaissance.

What is the Renaissance?This is a very broad question. The impact of the Renaissance on human society is far-reaching, but the essence is actually very simple.

That is the spirit of humanism proposed in this period.

Before the Renaissance, Europeans always believed that gods created the world, and human beings were just appendages, living under the care of gods.

But the core of the spirit of humanism puts forward a human-centered rather than God-centered, affirming the value and dignity of human beings.

Since this period, human society has advocated that the purpose of life is to pursue happiness in real life, advocate individualism, oppose ignorant and superstitious theological thoughts, and believe that man is the creator and master of real life.

If we only look at it from this aspect, the East has always been civilized, unlike Europe, which still had the ignorant Middle Ages.

But don't forget that although the East does not have theological thought, it has Confucianism and the restrictions of emperors.

Europeans freed their minds, and they were immediately in the fast lane.But the East is still confined by emperors and Confucianism.

Therefore, when Europeans came out of ignorance, they quickly got rid of the shackles and started a great leap forward.

Even so, it took them hundreds of years to catch up to the east.

However, after 200 years, the stagnant East encountered cruel alien rule, and society regressed, eventually falling behind the whites.

Zhu Zhanji has been paying attention to the trend of the Renaissance in Europe, but he doesn't know how to restrict the other party, because even the cruelest rule cannot suppress people's thoughts.

Moreover, because Ming occupied Gibraltar, occupied Crete, suppressed Ottoman, and dug the Suez Canal.The exchanges between the East and the West further promoted the speed of their ideological emancipation.

In the original history, the Papal State was still strong at this time.

But now, Europeans all know that Ming people don't believe in gods at all, they only trust the emperor, but they are more civilized than them.

Therefore, the status of the current pope in the hearts of Europeans has also plummeted.