I'm telling fortunes in North America. I'm really not a wizard.

Chapter 144 Cultural Infiltration, Right?

"You mean to say that the legend of Liu Bowen cutting the dragon vein is true?
What Chen Yaozu is doing now is similar to what Liu Bowen did when he cut off the dragon vein. Is it of the same significance?"

Compared to the astonishment of the two old professors, Tian Erdai knew that his wife had gained insights and knew a lot of things after gaining official power, and he knew that what his wife said was highly credible.

Tian nodded. She was happy to see that her husband had no doubts about her words.
“No, what I meant was that although Liu Bowen’s severing of the dragon vein did happen, it has no direct relationship with what you are about to do now.

But strictly speaking, it is the same behavior.

That is to make the destiny of the Eastern country, Ming, even stronger."

The retired female professor raised her graying eyebrows and said, "Oh...what do you mean?"

Tian took out her phone and pulled out a video: “Last night, when my husband was watching videos, a man in military uniform said something.

What I am about to say probably has the same meaning!"

She found the short video in her favorites, and the other three people saw it and suddenly realized: "Oh... Ai Gong!"

In the video, a scholar in military uniform speaks out in a powerful voice: "Students, do you know what the foundation of a strong country is?"

"What is that...education? No!"

"Technology? Still not right!"

"Economic strength? Think about it again!"

"And what... the army? Wrong!"

“Let me tell you, the strong foundation of a country must first have a vast territory!

Po County, you can’t become stronger even if you kill me!
Although internationally, it seems to have replaced Hong Kong Island and become the financial center of Asia, it seems to be very rich!

But when it comes to strength, no one would even look at him!
A country is its capital, and its capital is its country. If it can't even get its own water, how can it be strong? "

The video ended abruptly, but the three people watching it were still not satisfied.

The retired male professor nodded and said, "Professor Ai is always very sharp in his words. Without a vast territory, there would be no foundation for resources, population, food, or strategic depth.

First of all, we have a vast land area, and other conditions can make up for it! "

"It is true. Just like this time, Cambodia wanted to build a canal, and Annan downstream was so scared that his face turned pale!"

The retired female professor nodded in approval and looked at Tian: "So, what does this have to do with what Chen Yaozu did?"

Tian said sternly, "How can it be unrelated?

It’s similar to what Professor Ai said, and the same is true for the country’s destiny!

The larger the territory, the more abundant the minerals, grains, water, grass, cattle and sheep on the land, the larger the population will be, and the more likely they will be to live and work in peace and contentment.

The stronger the army is, the more people will be attracted to it, and the stronger the country's destiny will be!
After all, a country's destiny is its territory, its army and the people's hearts.

No matter whose people these are!

Whether it is Siam, Sumatra, Java, Sikkim, India, or the black island far away in the barren land, as long as they yearn for the Ming Dynasty, the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty will be stronger!
However, once Eunuch Sanbao died, the military might of the Ming Dynasty could not reach these places and was defeated! "

At this point, she was worried that she hadn’t explained it clearly enough, so she explained, “If the two professors can’t understand, let me give you an example.

For example, the Europe that I have learned about recently are all small countries. No one country is as big as the Ming Dynasty, and some are not even as big as a prefecture.

But these small countries found a way out and were able to occupy many overseas territories, and became increasingly powerful.

My husband said that the order of European maritime hegemons is Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain.

The first overlord was Portugal. Today, Portugal only has an area of ​​more than 9 square kilometers and a population of more than 1000 million. It is only the size of Guangnan East Road today...

Well, it is now called Guangdong Province, a province with a population less than one-tenth of that.

This is still the case now. When Portugal was just starting out, it was impossible for it to be as big as it is now in terms of territory or population. It would have been even smaller, probably two or three million at most!
Because my husband said that the earliest land could only feed one-third of the current population, or even less, because the crop yields at that time were low.

But such a small country actually found overseas colonies, plundered wealth, population and land, and became one of the first maritime hegemons. It also accumulated a lot of wealth through maritime exploration and trade in the 16th century.

Following closely behind are Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

These countries became hegemons only after plundering and occupying a large amount of wealth, population and land. My husband said, the British Isles are so small and have a small population, but they were once known as the Japanese Empire!
At their peak, the territory belonging to them even reached 25% of the world's land.

The population at its peak was almost on par with that of the Qing Dynasty!

How horrible! "

Nodding, the female professor shook her head again: “I admit that what you said makes sense, but times are different now.

The barbaric colonial plunder of wealth, population and land that took place hundreds of years ago is expressly prohibited in today's world, or era!

Of course, the world is not peaceful either, but at least the colonial era is over for now.

Of course, things like America's economic colonization of Mexico, where they couldn't even afford drinking water, don't count."

Tian nodded:

"I know what Mexicans say: Too far from heaven, too close to America.

A poor country that doesn't even have a tank in the entire country because it is too close to America.

My husband said so! "

She added: “My husband also told me that the currency of America is the world’s currency.

Therefore, every major transaction in the world will naturally be shared with the country of America.

So America is the richest country in the world.

In addition, America's military is spread all over the world, with more than 80 military bases deployed in 750 countries.

It is currently the most powerful country in the world.

No matter which country in the world the transaction is conducted in, as long as the US dollar is used, a portion of the luck will flow into America along with the profits.

Military troops intimidate local areas and make other countries dormant. This kind of reputation is also good fortune.

My husband also said that what is even better is to do educational work, publish America's prosperity, enlightened system, and freedom in books, so that everyone in the world will know that this is a paradise, and this is also good fortune.

Therefore, because the education method is too biased, there are many illiterate fools in America.

But it does not prevent talents from various countries from being attracted through various means to absorb the fortune of various countries.

I heard that 20 or 30 years ago, scholars from the East were proud to be able to immigrate to America, that's how it is!"

That seems to be true!
And it is very reasonable. It is an appropriate explanation of the concept of luck.

On the contrary, the retired female professor, although old, was as kind as Jiang Gui and was quite dissatisfied:
“Those who immigrated here are probably those who couldn’t make it in their own country.

Or someone with stains on him!

Otherwise, why do so many talents leave the country every year, while our great Eastern country still ranks second in the world?

I am not afraid to say with pride that by next year, perhaps our country, the University of Tokyo, will be the only one that can still maintain a space station flying in the sky!

Our great Eastern country can dig soil on the back of the moon!
But America, which has so many talented people coming in every year, can’t do that!

Is it because the system is not good?
Or maybe it’s just that the person is not capable of this?”

The male professor chuckled and said, "Look at you, you're so anxious, and you're even imitating the ancient accent of Xiaotian's wife.

However, what you said makes a lot of sense!

I don’t know if it’s the system or the people that are not good enough.

But now I just want to know the answer to one question. Although I have guessed the general meaning, I still want to hear it from you, my wife Xiaotian, so that I can feel more at ease.

What does Chen Yaozu plan to do by setting up this place?
He wasn't qualified for the military base, and Amelica wasn't stupid.

It is also impossible to start a currency war in such a small area.

So there is only the last one left out of the three aspects. It depends on whether he wants to implement domestic laws here or whether he wants to infiltrate the culture?"

(End of this chapter)