Back at the government office that day, Gao Hanwen didn't care about the Xu family's troubles. Instead, he continued to discuss with Leonardo and Guo Youde how to compile foreign stories, that is, to talk about the historical changes in Thailand and Spain and Leonardo's travels to the east.
Since Old Man Yu is already involved in the Three Kingdoms project which is relatively mature, he is not allowed to continue to get involved here. But the problem is that without the old man, Guo Youde, a fat little black guy, doesn’t speak Italian well enough, and it’s difficult to even guess. The basic plot line relies entirely on Gao Hanwen's work behind closed doors. Only when the people from the Seikan arrive can some real names of people and places be embedded. In this way, it is easiest for the audience to believe that real people are not real.
The kingdoms of Europe and the West have been fighting warlords since about two thousand years ago. Although the Roman Empire achieved brief unification in the middle, it soon fell apart.
Unlike the legendary Peach Blossom Stone, which achieved early unification, the Thai and Western countries had no Rome after Rome. The local nobles could only hear that there was a peach blossom stone in the far east, which was rich in silk and porcelain, and the people there were wealthy and healthy.
Relying on this kind of fairy tale, we have been able to survive in the war until now.
Unlike Peach Blossom Stone, which always achieves unification, the Thai and Western countries have different languages and characters, so it is difficult to achieve unification. But these are not the focus, because we sent people to visit Peach Blossom Stone around 600 AD. You know, there once was an emperor in Peach Blossom Stone whose writings were in the same text and his carriages were in the same track.
We have been fighting for years, and there is no shortage of heroes with such courage.
The real problem is that we in the West are far less lucky than the peach blossom stone. In the land of the West, an ice age will inevitably occur every three hundred years. The so-called ice age means a great cooling and a great drought. The land that originally did not produce much grain was even more barren of grass. This ice age can last from 50 years to 100 years.
Conservatively speaking, Europe and the West will only have a peaceful climate for two hundred years. But the climate is peaceful, which does not mean that people can be peaceful. In order to prepare for this hundred-year disaster melee, we must prepare for war at least a hundred years in advance. Only the strongest forces will have a chance to survive the natural disaster. Calculated in this way, Taixi will only have 100 years of peace.
In the past 100 years, the first 50 years were still the post-disaster reconstruction of the last ice age. This true prosperity lasted less than 50 years. As long as the actual bureaucrats don't seize the opportunity, they may only be in 2030, which is less than two generations.
So in the West, after the division of the Roman Empire, the lords of major cities and states often dismissed hundreds of families and only respected military strategists. Due to nearly two thousand years of military conquests, military preparations had to be advanced, and hatred gathered everywhere. Such an environment can never be unified and peaceful.
However, the city lords or country lords are different. Due to the fierce conquests, only a few powerful forces can survive forever. The heads of the countries in Western Europe often have a history of thousands of years, but the capable military officers have changed one after another.
Contrast this with the collapse of the Roman Empire, where the royal family was slaughtered. Now the kings of the country have discovered that if they continue to fight like thisWar, the method for the longevity of the royal family is also good. Ever since, there is no motivation to change anything. As a result, although there was foreign trade, there was almost no external exploration and exchange. At best, it's called path dependence; at worst, it can be said to be looking at the sky from a well.
Although there is a story about the Peach Blossom Stone, no one wants to believe it, thinking it is just a made-up fairy tale.
Until around 1200, a powerful cavalry force attacked from the east. Some people called it Khitan, some called it Peach Blossom, and some said it was Mongolia. This group of people was as invincible as the whip of God, and even reached as far as the Danube River, only a few hundred miles away from Rome.
These people are different from the legendary peach blossom stones, they are very vicious. Because of the defeat on all sides, we can only modify the doctrine and call it original sin. As soon as their cavalry arrives, we all give up resistance and plead guilty. I only heard that the biggest leader should be named Genghis Khan. Like peach blossom stones, they come from the East. I wonder if the Peach Blossom Stone can resist Genghis Khan, or is it just like the Huns in the past, these are all tribes driven over by the Peach Blossom Stone.
Although this group of people did not fight for long, they brought about the largest natural disaster in history. Black Death. Their cavalry scattered rats and corpses infected with the Black Death.
After they left, the entire Thai and Western countries lost 80% of their population due to the epidemic, and many city lords and country lords lost their heirs.
Although there were suddenly fewer people and more land, due to the epidemic and war, various tools were in short supply, and it coincided with the natural disasters of a new ice age. The countries in Europe and the West lived in turmoil for almost a hundred years.
In this way, around 1300 AD, an Italian businessman named Marco Polo returned to Rome and suddenly said that he had been to Peach Blossom Stone. And the Genghis Khan troops back then were peach blossom stones. To be precise, the Peach Blossom Stone is gone and has been occupied by the group of savage troops.
Now the population and wealth of Taohuashi belong to the descendants of Genghis Khan.
This was like a thunder, shocking the entire Thai and Western countries. The military-style governance of the country was already on the verge of collapse, and the distant Peach Blossom Stone was defeated by the descendants of Genghis Khan. That was the Peach Blossom Stone Heavenly Kingdom, which had recorded records of one person destroying a country, demolishing cities and villages, and being invincible, but all of them failed. What if the descendants of Genghis Khan attack again
The entire Thai and Western countries are full of despair, both disillusioned with their own fairy tales and worried about the fate of the country.
At this time, a military strategist named Columbus of Italy and the Portuguese royal family decided to go out to open up wasteland. The West is too small, with a flat plain on its own and the sea on the west. Once it is plotted again, it will be a tragic disaster for both the stone and the stone. In this case, it is better to go west to the sea and see what is to the west.
In this way, the soldier Columbus led a fleet of 600 people to drift on the sea for a full month before he saw land. At that time, two-thirds of the crew on board had been lost due to illness, despair, and suicide.
Only 200 people left to reach the new continent. For the sake of disciplineRemembering the peach blossom stone in the fairy tale, Columbus named it the new peach blossom stone. What is gratifying is that the talents there mastered stone tools and bronze.
As a result, Columbus, who had just arrived, led the 100 mercenaries who disembarked and killed thousands of local indigenous people.
In this way, the Portuguese royal family funded the military strategist Columbus to discover the New Peach Blossom Stone, where they drove and captured the local indigenous people and made them slaves in the Portuguese plantations. The food produced was continuously shipped back to Portugal. A few years ago, gold and silver mines were accidentally discovered there. The free slaves then continuously mined the wealth and sent it to Portugal.
Then all the countries in Europe and the West rushed to learn from it. The new Peach Blossom Stone is a terra incognita, or the original natives are powerless to fight back. A few matchlock guns can occupy hundreds or thousands of hectares of land. Isn't it much better than fighting life and death in the West?
Through this round of great navigation discoveries, various countries have increased their wealth and enriched their weapons.
Now the price of silk from the Ming Dynasty will be dozens of times higher if it is shipped directly to the West. In this way, the dignitaries in Taixi were willing to buy it, because they no longer knew what it meant to be short of money. Why? Because a large amount of gold and silver were mined from the New Peach Blossom Stone. The nobles who originally kept the gold and silver in the cellar found that gold and silver were becoming less and less valuable. Only the gold and silver that was used was money. Otherwise, after a few years, their families would lose their money. The gold and silver can only exchange for half of what you once had.
Now Rome is also imitating the peach blossom stone of the past, and the Roman Forum and the central street are covered with silk on both sides. This piece was bought for nearly a hundred taels of silver each, and is of the finest quality silk. These etiquette are still mentioned in the records left by the last batch of official envoys to send Taohuashi.
In this way, the more luxurious the nobles are, the more they need to hire people, and the higher the income of the people. The higher the income of the people, the more taxes they pay, and the more luxurious the nobles become.
From two thousand years of military strategism to governing the country, through a great voyage, the countries in the West seemed to have found a new way to govern the country luxuriously.
Once this belief is established, all countries will understand that the division of overseas wealth is the foundation of domestic prosperity. If you want to fight for land and colonize, you must have armaments. As a result, the countries in Europe and the West have now developed a standing army of guards that must be drilled every working day. The latest firearms, such as artillery that can be pulled out into the field and flintlock muskets that can be fired without ignition, have been invented.
Colonial officials mined gold and silver and produced food in exchange for weapons that had been eliminated from the King's Guards. The king took gold, silver and grain to encourage the invention of newer weapons.
However, the 100-year voyage and colonization is coming to an end, and the New Peach Blossom Stone Continent is about to be divided up. Now the kings still have money to buy expensive silk from the East. Once the carving up is completed in the future and the gold and silver mines are revealed, this silk will definitely not be in such a good condition again. I don’t know how the Thai and Western countries, which are used to colonizing by force, will respond.
But now the monarchs still encourage the expansion. For any new land occupied, 3050 will be given to the monarch, and the rest will be given to the navigators themselves.Yes, it has inspired many people to go overseas.
Although Portugal only has a few million people in total, it occupies more than a hundred times the land of the mainland. Hao Jing'ao, which is as far away as the Ming Dynasty, is their foothold. In addition, the Netherlands among the Thai and Western countries established a stronghold in Ryukyu, and the rest established strongholds in many islands in the South China Sea, Luzon, and Vietnam, and colonized countless local indigenous people.
The Thai and Western countries have become accustomed to the path of extravagant governance and colonization to support the country. The new development path may be able to support our Thai and Western countries for thousands of years.
Gao Hanwen has almost finished compiling the outline of the entire story. The cook Jin Cuilan came over to inform the front hall that the police from Siyi Pavilion had arrived.
Gao Hanwen looked at Jin Cuilan and felt that he had to arrange something with her. , before I thought about it, I went to the front hall of the Yamen to check the room.
"Why are you the translator?" Gao Hanwen only saw a rough and arrogant policeman. The scholar responsible for the translation was missing.
"Your Excellency, there are very few interpreters in the Siyi Pavilion. We Shaoqing said that it is these Yi people who learn Mandarin. How can I, the people of the Celestial Dynasty, learn the Yi language. So after Emperor Wuzong, There are no more posts. A few years ago, there was no one left after the Italian Ayi interpreter retired and returned to his hometown. This time, His Majesty ordered assistance. When we tried to choose, it turned out that he had passed away and his son had no successor. I'm going to take the formal exam. This is the manuscript left by the interpreter. Sir Gao, it might be helpful. I'm sorry." The messenger apologized with a flattering look.
Gao Hanwen took the manuscript and found a familiar feeling of returning to nine-year compulsory education.
The Chinese characters are marked next to the pronunciation of Italian, as well as the lightness and stress of different syllables, as well as explanations of the meanings of the words. It can be regarded as a dictionary without a table of contents.
Picking up this thick basic manuscript, Gao Hanwen threw it to Guo Youde without hesitation, letting the boy work more. As a leader, you should give your young people more opportunities to learn and grow.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt at ease. After Gao Hanwen sent the police away, he returned to the backyard.
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