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Chapter 199 Jiang Zhe, who looks at the world

As a scholar who can pass the imperial examination, Jiang Zhe still has a rich knowledge reserve.

When he first saw the globe at Liangjia Academy, he immediately remembered the "Comprehensive Map of Kunyu and Wanguo" from the Wanli Dynasty of the former Ming Dynasty. The shock at that time was great.

It can even be said to be a destruction of the three views.

Because he had never seen the "Kunyu Wanguo Map" with his own eyes before, he just knew that there was such a map that drew all the nations in the world. He had known this in theory.

But theory is theory, which is completely different from what he felt after witnessing the size of the Qing Dynasty on the globe.

The education he received in the past was China, the central empire of the world, and there were barbarians outside China. But now, are these barbarians too huge?

The "world" I thought in the past was too small compared to the real "world". Such a destructive perception of the three views was a very strong impact on Jiang Zhe.

Especially after Zhao Liang passed on some of the European history preached by Fernando, or more accurately, the colonial development history of the Europeans, to him one after another, Jiang Zhe's heart was even more intense.

After all, some of the things inside were processed by Zhao Liang himself?

Jiang Zhe is an eye-opener.

Never thought that the outside world was so wonderful and so huge that he had to be fascinated. At the same time, the Europeans' predatory colonial behavior in Africa and North and South America was so cruel and violent, but their benefits were so huge...

These things are all "big killing weapons" that break Jiang Zhe's cognition and smash Jiang Zhe's three views.

If you are a cynical and corrupt scholar, you are afraid that you have already criticized Europeans from the perspective of "morality" to demonstrate your morality, benevolence and righteousness and your own superiority.

I can't see any.

But Jiang Zhe is not that kind of person. Although he is extremely bad at Europeans, colonial plunder is very different from Confucianism's knowledge, he can see a threat from it.

A threat from foreigners.

Not to mention that foreigners are thousands of miles away, isn’t Nanyang now the world of these foreigners?

The Spanish and Dutch had already arrived at the Central Plains during the Ming Dynasty. Both of them even invaded Penghu, a major military officer, and fought several fierce battles with the Ming army. This was completely different from the way the Portuguese stayed in Macau. Even a Spanish governor, Luzon, had formulated a combat plan to invade the Central Plains. Although the plan seemed ridiculous to Jiang Zhe, this could fully demonstrate their threat, right?

That's already very big and deadly, okay?

Jiang Zhe knew nothing about military affairs. When he heard that after the destruction of his invincible fleet, he quickly formed an equally large fleet, he scoffed at the Spanish's "invincible" and had to admit his financial power.

After all, it was a powerful fleet of more than 100 warships and more than 3,000 guns.

Moreover, the Spanish fleet of treasures also made him fascinated by it.

However, things can change at any time. The powerful and arrogant Spain has now fallen. Instead, the British who once competed with the Spanish on the sea have become stronger.

No matter how fast the British developed in the Indian region or the powerful British Royal Navy, Jiang Zhe was worried.

More than a hundred huge ships, carrying seventy or eighty cannons, five or six hundred soldiers, and even more warships. This force is simply not something that the Qingshui Division can resist at present.

He had read Qi Jiguang's military books. General Qi once said that naval battles only rely on ships to defeat small ships, and more cannons beat few cannons.

But how can the bean-sized warships and small cannons in the Navy of Daqingguo?

Before seeing the description of the Class 6 sail battleship of "Fernando", Jiang Zhe did not even have such a huge battleship in his mind.

Compared with the sixth-level sail battleship, the rushing ships, bird boats and the like in the Qingshui Navy are like children's toys.

Even if the size of the Big Bird ship can almost catch up with the sixth-class sail battleship, when comparing the cannon loads of both sides, let alone the tactical qualities of each other's sailors and the performance of the artillery, the British's last-class sail battleship can easily crush the largest offshore warships in Daqingguo.

Shouldn’t a central empire completely crush foreign countries in all aspects? Why has the Qing Dynasty now become the one that has been crushed?

Jiang Zhe had to care about it. He and Zhao Liang seemed to have an unknown little secret, so he naturally became more and more intimate with the Zhao family.

However, as the relationship between the two parties continues to deepen, they can no longer see the word "interest" and are more like-minded.

Zhao Liang told Jiang Zhe that his ideal was to lead the fleet to visit the foreigners' local area one day.

Jiang Zhe was very impressed by Zhao Liang's grand wish, and his ideal was to stand at a high place in the court one day, describe the dangers and threats of foreigners to the emperor, and sound the alarm for all the people in the world.

Zhao Liang felt that Jiang Zhe's perception was even better than him because he was a time traveler, while Jiang Zhe was just an indigenous person.

"Mr. Jiang, for your ideals and ambitions, you must hurry up and get promoted."

This official is not promoted to a certain level, and you don’t even have the qualifications to stand in the court, let alone make generous speeches to the emperor and the civil and military officials of the court.

Moreover, what Jiang Zhe wanted was to convince the emperor to persuade all the civil and military officials of the court and to give the whole world a string of people.

After hearing this, Zhao Liang felt that Jiang Zhe’s ideal and ambition was more difficult to accomplish than his grand ambitions. Is this the best portrayal of the history of the late Qing Dynasty in the original time and space?

However, this really inspired Jiang Zhe to "climb upward", and then he changed his carelessness towards Zhaojia Textile Factory and became more concerned about the textile factory than the prefect Minglun.

More than half a year has passed, and the textile factory set up by the Zhao family outside the city has already started production, and thousands of employees have entered the factory, and the benefits have begun to show results.

Well, this benefit refers not only to the benefit of the Zhao family, but also to the income of the people in the city.

Thousands of workers are involved in thousands of families.

As they receive their wages, how can the original family life not be changed?

The Chenzhou Prefecture market has obviously flourished.

From grain, vegetables, flesh, cloth, oil and salt, other daily necessities, the changes can be seen by the naked eye.

Moreover, with the implementation of the textile factory division system, the number of various types of workers required in the factory will further increase, which will only have an increasing impact on Chenzhou Prefecture.
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