I want to be emperor

Luo Zhixue took a train around the island of Ceylon and visited several modern towns on the island. During the period, he also took a look at some ancient city buildings left by the local indigenous people, mainly several temples and palace buildings. .

It is a pity that many ancient buildings in these places have been destroyed, some were directly destroyed by war, but more were destroyed by the Chu army themselves.

When the Chu army attacked the island of Ceylon, they regarded everything as trophies. Even statues and reliefs in some buildings were pried off by many soldiers and taken away, and then sold as rags. Art recycle bin sold to the Imperial Household Assets Division...

So if you want to see some buildings, artworks, etc. of the pure indigenous civilization of Ceylon Island... you can't come to Ceylon Island, but you have to go to the Dachu Empire Royal Museum in Jinling City!

There, you can see the art works of almost all human civilizations on the earth...from the spiers of the Egyptian pyramids, to the Mona Lisa oil painting in the Louvre Museum in France, and even the many murals and reliefs in this palace... and more to many primitive artworks from primitive tribes.

There is almost everything in the Jinling Royal Museum... There are hundreds of thousands of collections, but to be honest, most ordinary people don't know about these collections and don't care much about them!

Even most of them were sealed and stored after being shipped back from overseas, and then stored in the huge collection storage room in the museum... They have never been exhibited, and no one has ever seen them again except for the people who preserved the collections at that time. Over these works of art.

Don’t think it’s strange or a pity… The main reason is that there are too many various art collections received over the past few decades… there are millions of pieces. It is impossible to preserve them well, let alone put them on public display. .

In addition to the large number, it also has something to do with the fact that the Chu people are not very interested in the artistic works of these overseas indigenous people.

If it weren't for Luo Zhixue's bad taste back then, he wanted to build a royal museum to collect art works from all over the world... In fact, the Chu people would not plunder art works from all over the world, because these things are nothing in the eyes of most Chu people. It's garbage.

For example, oil painting... This thing is very popular among European and American cultural groups, but in traditional Chinese civilized society, this thing actually has no artistic value.

Because traditional Chinese paintings have always focused on artistic conception...and they are about the artistic conception in traditional Chinese culture!

To be honest, contemporary Chu people cannot appreciate oil paintings!

Therefore, even though the Mona Lisa, which is a treasure in the eyes of Europeans, has been given a booth in the Royal Museum because it is famous enough, there are not many Chu people who go to see it on a daily basis... In domestic art The comment in the industry is: this thing only looks like a painting, well, the author is a good painter!

Well, it’s a painter, not a painter!

This is not a deliberate disparagement...but the result of a strong cultural self-confidence.

The contemporary Chu Empire at the end of the 17th century has a strong sense of national, ethnic and cultural identity that has never been seen among the Chu people in human history!

For no other reason than because the Chu Empire conquered the world!

When I have defeated the whole world, and the natives of other countries are either dead or used as cattle and horses as means of production for the Chu people... the self-confidence and even pride of the Chu people can be imagined.

In the minds of contemporary Chu people, everything from China is the best... Even the shit we Chu people poop is more fragrant than the shit pooped by the indigenous people. As for the indigenous artworks, they can only be seen at most. It’s a novelty, but it’s impossible to say you like it or even agree with it…

This is just like many people in later generations who do not agree with the so-called traditional art of central and southern African countries.

If you don’t believe it, search it yourself. I’ll give you a few keywords to continue searching for information: African traditional culture, traditional art... Then you can see that masks seem to be very important in African traditional art works, so you go again. Did a search for African masks.

Then you can see a Baidu Encyclopedia of African art: Circumcision Stool...

When you see this thing, you will probably say in your heart: What a piece of shit.

Whether art is good or not, whether it can be recognized by other civilized people, actually has little to do with whether the artwork is good or not. What has the greatest impact is whether the civilization behind the artwork is strong or not...

There are so many statues in Europe, and the paintings are fair and square with birds. Aren’t they also touted as high-end art by many people in China... Why? Because the British-French Allied Forces and the Eight-Nation Allied Forces came here.

Not to mention that aesthetics are unified... Even more than a hundred years ago, we still regarded Europeans as barbarians and called them red-haired ghosts. Seeing Europeans was like seeing living evil ghosts... Why did it change later?

Because aesthetics will change, and the root of the change is the powerful country behind it... Without the Eight-Nation Alliance, you wouldn't think the blond-haired, blue-eyed Ocean Horse is good-looking.

If Africans dominate the earth that day, black pearls will be synonymous with beauty in the minds of people around the world for a few decades at most!

Not only will aesthetics be changed, but even culture and art will be deeply affected.

Many people in the original time and space began to think that European and American things were good at the end of the 19th century, and this trend of thought reached its peak in the following decades.

For a long time, quite a few scholars have advocated the abolition of Chinese characters and then a comprehensive shift to the Latin system.

They all feel so inferior that they don’t even want to use the language system that has been used for thousands of years... You can imagine the impact.

Don’t blame them. It’s normal for some people to have this kind of thinking during special times. If you’re not strong enough, you have to learn from other people’s good things...

It’s just that in special times, some people’s ideas are so extreme that they will remain infamy for hundreds of years!

But there is no problem with the idea of ​​​​learning from the strengths of the foreigners to control the foreigners... As a latecomer, if you don't learn from the advanced ones, what else do you want to do?

We started to learn this kind of thing in the late 19th century and have continued to do it until the 21st century, and we are still learning one by one. We will learn from whoever is stronger... It may seem shameless and ugly, but if the country and the nation want to develop, you It's hard to say that to me?

To develop a country, you have to be shameless. What you want is to be a mother if you have breasts. Are you telling me to imitate others and not show shame? Wouldn’t that make the people stupid in the late Qing Dynasty?

We studied English and French in the early days, then Japanese and German, then Soviet Union, and finally American...

Of course, when we reach the final stage of learning beauty, we don’t say learning anymore. Instead, we call it: crossing the river by feeling the eagle sauce.

What he said about taking Yingjiang's path left Yingjiang with no way to go!

After all, times have changed. In later generations, the online public opinion environment is too sensitive, and people's psychological tolerance is too low. If you want to say that we must unswervingly learn from foreign countries for development, it always feels a bit embarrassing.

But if you change your tone to ridicule and say "take the path of Yingjiang and leave Yingjiang with nowhere to go", then the feeling will be different, right...

But the meaning is still the same: in the 21st century, Rabbit is the best student of Yingjiang, and he is the kind who pays for his own money, shameless, and has to follow his example at all kinds of trade and military confrontation!

Not to mention, the effect is quite good, almost driving Yingjiang to panic... He pointed at the rabbit behind him and yelled: How shameless are you? A thousand-year-old Confucian civilization does not study the Four Books and Five Classics, and the study of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

You want to learn from me how to engage in high-end industrial manufacturing, as well as aircraft carriers and stealth fighters, and they look so similar to me. Isn’t this nonsense!

If you continue to imitate me, I will beat you up...

Well, to paraphrase a joke: Look, it’s anxious, it’s anxious!

After hundreds of years of hard study and tenacious development, the ancient nation is about to return to its rightful place!

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A strong country will definitely add points to its culture and art... not only culture and art, but even cats and dogs can increase their worth.

For a long time, Starbucks has been synonymous with high-end atmosphere and class. It is not a place for drinking coffee, but a place where couples go on dates and business people like to go...a cup of industrially produced coffee. , can actually drink it and feel like a master.

Although this situation still exists in small numbers, there are not many anymore...

This was also reflected in the Chu Empire and many indigenous countries.

In particular, the natives who were lucky enough to come to the hinterland of the Chu Kingdom even believed that the Chu Empire was closer to heaven, because they found that the moon they saw in the Chu Kingdom was larger.

The air in the Dachu Empire is also better...especially the air in Songjiang City where the smell of horse urine and coal dust is mixed together. It smells more fragrant than the air in Paris and London, with a special and refreshing smell. The unique aroma of developed civilization!

After some indigenous diplomats returned to their respective countries, some of the photos or paintings they brought home, especially the paintings they drew themselves, were basically based on the cities of the Chu Empire.

After a Spanish diplomat returned to his country, he also brought back an oil painting he painted himself, which he named: Distance!

What is in the painting is Songjiang City... Both sides of the Huangpu River are huge urban buildings that can be seen as far as the eye can see. The buildings are filled with fog, and there are many 100-meter-high buildings in the fog that break through the smoke. The rooftops welcome the splendid and even sacred city. Sunlight.

The sun shines through the gaps in the smoke onto the many buildings on the ground, making the buildings in the entire city shine with golden light...

In fact, it was the depth of winter when this man took the scene and painted... Songjiang City in winter, haha, everyone who has lived there said it was fatal.

Large-area smog comes frequently, causing respiratory diseases on a large scale, and many people die every year... Now the Chu Empire is worried to death about the smog phenomenon in big cities. For three days The two sides are locked in a debate between the environment and the economy.

However, this kind of urban smog... in the eyes of this Spanish diplomat, a serious Spanish elite, it is full of powerful and developed atmosphere!

Because he knew very well that behind the fog were countless large-scale factories and millions of people working together to create a scene of life! The seemingly deadly smog is actually something that European countries like them cannot ask for, and cannot even hope for!

How can you not be envious?

With this kind of envy, although the Songjiang City in his painting was during the smog period, it did not have the gloomy and gray color of the smog weather.

Instead, it is colorful, with a sense of sanctity outlined by bright light that is common in Western religious oil paintings.

After he brought this painting back to China, it was quickly sought after by local dignitaries in Spain... and even in a recent transaction, it was sold at a high price of more than 5,000 yuan.

It's a pity that every European elite who has seen this painting is basically shocked at first, then pondered, and finally showed a look of loss... Even some people who can't control their emotions will shed tears when they see it!

With such a city and such a great Chu Empire, there is no possibility of catching up... No, there is no chance of even getting close!

Looking at it like this, you can probably understand why the artist named this painting "Distance"!

Nominally, it is the city closest to heaven... but in fact, it is said that this city is further away from them than heaven...

This kind of distance cannot be shortened by them in this life, or even by their descendants in the future!

What this brings is intense despair!

Some people who have poor mental endurance and are worried about the country and the people can even burst into tears on the spot after seeing it...

When you have been working hard, thinking that as long as you work hard and work hard with the people around you, sooner or later you will be able to drive away the Chu people, make your country a powerful country, and let your people live a prosperous life.

But when you see such a painting, the artist doesn't even use any words, he just needs to show you the smog that spreads all over the city, then you will be more desperate than anyone else!

It's the same smog. What people in Chu see is environmental pollution and they can't hide from it!

But in the eyes of the indigenous people, these hazes are a powerful symbol!

Think about it, you can't even produce farm tools yourself, you can only import them from the people of Chu. Then look at the country of Chu... but there are countless factories in the whole city. There are so many factories that the smoke from the factories even covers the entire city. Covered!

How can this gap not make people despair!

National strength and culture are all related to each other. This is why the people of Chu have little interest in the cultural and artistic works of indigenous countries. They only look at them as novelties.

If Luo Zhixue hadn't wanted to collect cultural and artistic works from all over the world and build a museum to satisfy his own evil tastes, the Chu people would not even have collected these indigenous works of art.

This kind of collecting behavior also resulted in the so-called traditional indigenous art buildings that Luo Zhixue saw on the island of Ceylon. Many of them were in tatters.

However, Luo Zhixue still looked at it with great interest... These shabby indigenous art buildings are, to some extent, a symbol of the power of the Chu Empire!

Without any strength, how can you plunder and cause destruction around the world?

Of course, it was just a novelty. After satisfying his curiosity, Luo Zhixue ended his inland inspection trip in Ceylon Island and quickly returned to Colombo on the royal special train.

Later, Luo Zhixue took the Royal Princess and crossed the strait to Cochin, the provincial capital of South India.

In the city of Cochin, Luo Zhixue hosted a number of meetings with local officials from surrounding areas, focusing on the role of the agricultural economy of the Indian peninsula in the empire's global economic system.

The important role of the Indian peninsula was once again emphasized, and we must strive for greater agricultural development to provide more food and other economic crops for the Chinese people. We must focus on development and expand the local cotton planting area.

Today's Indian Peninsula is the supply base of grain and cotton for the Chu Empire. The Chu people have opened up a large number of plantations throughout the Indian Peninsula to grow grain, cotton and other economic crops. At the same time, these large plantations often also raise cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.

It also produces some minerals.

The rich local labor resources made the Indian peninsula an important crop supplier, which the Chu Empire still valued.

Every year, the Chu Empire imported a large amount of various crops, livestock products, and mineral products from the Indian Peninsula to meet the huge consumption in the local area.

At the same time, these places have a large population, and only a large population can consume a large amount of industrial products, thus forming an economic cycle!

The various agricultural, livestock and mineral outputs of the Indian Peninsula and Europe, as well as the consumption of industrial products by the large local population, are an important part of maintaining the so-called global economy of the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire still attached great importance to the Indian Peninsula. When summoning local civil and military officials in the Indian Peninsula, the focus was on local resource development and trade affairs.

As for other things, there is less to say, and Luo Zhixue is not interested in conducting inland inspections in India... The local transportation facilities are also relatively backward, and it is not suitable for inspections across the entire Indian continent.

After all, even the directly governed Indnan Province actually doesn't have many railways...it's only more than 600 kilometers in total, and the total railway mileage is not as good as that of Ceylon Province.

As for other parts of the Indian peninsula except South India... there is no need to go to small-scale directly governed territories. As for administrative territories and even colonies, these places will not go.

This overseas inspection will not go to those administrative territories, let alone those indigenous vassal states and protectorate areas.

Although these places are also controlled by the Dachu Empire, there are too many local indigenous people and there are many potential troubles.

Many dangers are not something you can avoid if you want to. No matter how good the precautions are, the boat may capsize in the gutter.

The natives also had rifled guns... If the natives found the opportunity to shoot Luo Zhi from a few hundred meters away, wouldn't they be doomed?

Although the Great Chu Empire has strict export controls on rifled weapons, they actually prohibit large-scale exports, and some sporadic smuggling has always been difficult to avoid.

The empire is too big, and there are too many people in Chu... This forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and many of them have been secretly smuggling rifled weapons to the natives for profit.

Although the imperial military and local patrol departments have been cracking down on this, it is difficult to completely ban it... After all, the Chu Empire itself has a large gun production capacity, and at the same time it allows civilians to hold guns, and even encourages them in some overseas territories. People carry guns.

In the civilian firearms market, there are not only shotguns and revolvers, but also some civilian single-shot and even repeating rifled guns.

Many defense companies operating overseas also need these rifled guns.

With such a huge civilian weapons market, coupled with the loss of military weapons on the battlefield, it is inevitable that some black markets will emerge, causing rifled weapons to flow into indigenous countries on a small scale and in scattered ways.

But it's just not on a large scale... No one can resist the military suppression of the Da Chu Empire with the sporadic rifled weapons smuggled from the black market.

However, the sporadic rifled weapons in the hands of the indigenous people can still pose a certain threat to the small-scale Chu army and individual Chu people.

Over the years, there have been instances of Chu State administrative territory officials being shot dead from long distances by natives using rifled rifles.

In order to avoid accidents... At the same time, Luo Zhixue himself is not very interested, so this time's overseas inspection itinerary will not include any administrative territories, let alone vassal states or protectorates.

At most, they will stop at some supply ports in administrative territories that must be passed through during the voyage, but they will not get off the ship.

After Luo Zhixue completed his inspection in Cochin, he continued to walk west, all the way to Bombay... This Bombay is also a directly administered territory and is under the jurisdiction of South India Province. It is said to be a province, but its area is actually not small, covering more than 100 kilometers in radius. place.

Luo Zhixue briefly stayed here for a day, met with local officials, and by the way met with the king of the Mughal Kingdom who came to have an audience. After reluctantly accepting more than ten fair-skinned and beautiful girls presented by the Mughal Kingdom, Then set off for the Persian Gulf region in West Asia.

Where he will go to Peninsular Province.

The Peninsula Province was a new province established after negotiating with the Ottoman Kingdom and acquiring the territory of the Suez region and the entire peninsula.

Generally speaking, it includes Suez, the Sinai Peninsula, Kuwait, southern Iraq, and the peninsula where Saudi Arabia is located...This territorial map was drawn by Luo Zhixue himself...Anyway, it brought in the oil producing areas of later generations in his memory. .

Later, the Chu Empire began to engage in the oil industry and found oil in Kuwait... In order to develop local oil resources and better control the Suez Canal, the Chu Empire simply established this large area as a directly administered territory, the Peninsula Province.

Anyway, most of these places are actually deserts, and there are not many local indigenous people... After talking to the Ottomans, all the indigenous people in the peninsula were moved to the Ottoman Kingdom.

Therefore, the localization work of the newly born Peninsula Province is actually very easy... It is not like other places, accompanied by the sound of gunfire... The localization work here is basically very calm, and the Ottoman Kingdom itself A few scattered desert nomadic tribes were taken away, leaving nothing for the Chu people except a piece of sand.

And there’s oil beneath the sand!

The Chu people still attach great importance to the Peninsula Province. After all, there is too much oil in this place... and there is also a Suez Canal under construction.

Although the local natural conditions are not very good, the empire still organized a large number of official immigrants and built some water conservancy facilities in the area. Of course, what is more important is the transportation of food and other materials from other places. In addition, there are still many people in the lower reaches of the two rivers. With some water resources and farmland, a city of more than 50,000 people was built in Basri... This city is a typical oil industry city, and everything is for the purpose of extracting local oil.

In view of the importance of local oil resources, when Luo Zhixue passed through the peninsula, he also detoured into the Persian Gulf and went to Basra to inspect the local oil fields.

Then he saw countless oil wells in the desert...