Then we went back to the car to the train, and finally talked about the steam engine, and then there was talk about the history of the industrial revolution in Europe, saying that Watt had not yet been born, and we had already brought the steam engine to the new world.

However, all the men in science and engineering shook their heads and said that no one was embarrassed to replace us, and we were not so thick-skinned.

The people who eat melons were quite unimpressed when they heard it, saying that what is embarrassing about the new world? Don't be unevenly distributed because you are not convinced by each other, right?

These science and engineering men actually nodded when they heard this, and said yes yes, who do you say that the people in our basket should go down in history? If I were the only one who crossed the country, labor and management would dare to take all the inventions and creations of mankind in the next few hundred years on their heads, and their faces would not be red and their hearts would not beat!

Obviously, there are so many people now, and it seems that the right to invent this invention is not easy to distribute, but it has to be discussed.

However, Boss Luo interjected next to him and said, in fact, we have all discussed, people like Watt, Maxwell, Tesla, and Edison all say that they are our parents' ancestors, and they are really our ancestors in terms of age anyway......

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then someone reacted and muttered in the back, who did Nima just say that his skin was not so thick......

At this time, another group of people were talking about the Netherlands, saying that this small country with a population of less than two million is precisely because it has the most open and free business environment in Europe, which has made this country quickly rise to become a sea coachman, and you say that if we also have a population of two million, what kind of impact will it have on the world?

Someone in the crowd immediately said, I don't know what the impact will be, anyway, I'm going to build my supermarket chain all over the world.

Another said that it is estimated that eating with chopsticks will be a cultural fashion in the French court.

Chinese is definitely the language of the world, and when I preside over the international Chinese exam, I will put a song of Dong Chou to test my listening, so as to avenge my IELTS test for my revenge!

Some people said that they had recently read Milton's "Paradise Lost", and they were very emotional, saying that the current European Renaissance and Enlightenment should not be underestimated, especially the Puritans in England, and I heard that those people were going to do something soon.

This is the person next to him said disapprovingly, what is it doing in Europe, it is too far away from us, or care about the things at the door of the East, I have heard Dr. Zhu say, this year is the year of the Yongli Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline, Sun Kewang is about to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty seems to be more and more stable, I have to say, we will definitely have to deal with the Qing Dynasty in the future!

At this time, someone in the conference room said angrily, what is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty! That's the Manchu Tartars! Our China was invaded by foreign people, and the Chinese nation has since gone into darkness, and at this time, Europe has begun a historic rise of great powers!

Well, it turns out that this kind of topic is very damaging to the atmosphere of harmony, sure enough, as soon as this statement came out, it immediately attracted a round of ridicule, saying that now the Qing Dynasty is also an orthodox dynasty, although there is a system of eight banners, but the children of the people also read the Four Books and Five Classics, pay attention to Confucian etiquette and morality, and follow the traditional culture, the Qing Dynasty is unbearable, and people don't seem to be disrespectful to the Confucian classics and Confucius, right?

Didn't you shout to smash the Kong store, right?

Pull it down, what else do you say about foreign invasion and go into the dark, you don't pee and take a picture of yourself, how many lines can you memorize in the three-character scripture and thousand-character text? Can you write traditional Chinese?

Cut! Still calling itself Huaxia? Are there any real Chinese sons and daughters who can't memorize traditional classics such as "Three Character Classic" and "Analects"?!

The refuting made the brother speechless.

At this time, a few old guys next to him spoke, so ah, I advise you young people, it is better not to talk about what Tartars are at every turn, you don't forget, Confucius made it clear two thousand years ago: the difference between Huayi and Yi is culture, not race! Do you understand?

A group of people next to him were a little confused when they heard it, and they all said that they couldn't understand it, words like Huaxia barbarians, not about human race, what are they talking about?

At this time, Ren Ke, a college student, knew some Confucianism, he said, in fact, in the eyes of Confucius, as long as you accept the way of Confucius and Mencius, and act according to the Confucian set of ethics and morals, even if you are a blonde and blue-eyed foreign devil, it also belongs to China! But if you don't accept this set of ethics and morals, even if you are black-eyed and yellow-skinned and have grown under the roots of the imperial city for three lifetimes, you are a barbarian! You understand, don't you? Silly fork!

Who are you scolding stupid?

You're stupid!

Your whole family is stupid!

Well, here it is again, it is obvious that such an attitude cannot be discussed in a harmonious manner, and no one can be convinced after this noisy argument.

However, in the end, only Dr. Zhu was left in this group of people talking, and everyone finally entered a state of listening to each other.

No way, first of all, Dr. Zhu has always talked eloquently, no abuse, always spoke calmly, and never participated in those fierce meaningless quarrels.

Therefore, there are always a large number of listeners, not to mention that Dr. Zhu was originally a top student in the Department of History, or a doctor in the direction of Ming and Qing history, once it comes to the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it seems that no one among the people can discuss with him on the same platform, only obediently listen to the lecture.

Therefore, in the end, everyone was quietly listening to him alone.

Of course, from time to time, some people raised such and such questions, and Zhu Beiguo also responded patiently, so everyone found that such discussions and explanations were very effective, so that later, everyone simply formed an unwritten convention, and every time the New Year's talk would be, Dr. Zhu would first ask Dr. Zhu to make a report on the world situation, and then everyone began to raise issues of their own interest, and on this basis, they were discussing in various groups.

Since then, the World Situation Report of the New Year's Symposium has become Dr. Zhu's annual routine for a longer time, but of course this is another story.

Now, Dr. Chu's history lecture is back on:

“…… Due to the global eruption of the Xiaoice Age, throughout the seventeenth century, from the forties onwards, the world's civilizational circles were in turmoil, so this state was global, not just in the East.

Of course, there is no unanimous opinion in the academic community on the so-called Xiaoice River period, and some scholars still believe that this is nonsense to dump man-made disasters on God. But in any case, the historical facts are there, and both the East and the West were indeed in turmoil during that time.

For example, in Europe, there are many wars between countries, and I think it is worth mentioning the English Civil War, which is not an exaggeration to say that this war changed the history of human civilization.

In 1641, the Parliament of England passed a document called the "Great Protest", a total of two hundred and four articles, which proposed the freedom of industrial and commercial activity of the people, and that high-ranking officials and ministers could only be appointed by those whom the Parliament believed in, and that the parliament should be reformed to require the establishment of a ** accountable to the parliament.

In 1652, three years before we arrived in the new world, Winstanley issued his famous Liberty Act, which emphasized the people's supervision of public officials and the election and dismissal---- which was a direct challenge to the power of the monarch. ”

Speaking of this, Dr. Zhu looked at the lecture and listened quietly, and everyone laughed:

"You're already familiar with these words, aren't you? If we change the place a little to say that ---- appointment of ** officials can only be based on the consent of the governed, you see, isn't that very similar to the spirit of the Mayflower Convention? ”

"Hmmm......"

"Yes......"

"And then?"

Everyone's interest increased and the room became quieter.