Between the royal families in Europe, there is a very interesting thing, that is, the royal family and the people are actually separated, in Europe, you can't see the embarrassment of the royal king's selection of concubines and draft girls, in fact, people are still afraid that their noble bloodlines will be polluted by the dicks, of course, if you simply play with it, you are still willing.

In many cases, it is more of two hostile countries, and their royal families still have kinship, and even if the royal family of one country cannot find an heir, they can go to another country to find it, but the king comes to this country, and he quickly learns to fight for the interests of his own country, and there is no possibility of worrying about his own family affairs.

The most striking example of this is of course the wonderful example of the British dealing with the Germans under the leadership of a group of Germans during the First World War, and of course, the family was very clever enough to change their English name, Windsor, to make the British forget their German attributes.

For example, the change of the Spanish royal family that caused the Franco-Prussian War, the Habsburg family or something, that is a bigger joke, so Xu Hao also has dry goods and says it in his heart......

"Reform of the political system?"

"That's right, the system problem, many of your country's problems, can be attributed to the system problem!"

Luther Basten hesitated, thought for a moment, and said: "I don't know much about your country's system, but I'd like to hear about it in detail." ”

In the old time and space, how could a veteran like him have the opportunity to reprimand the president of a high-ranking university? Xu Hao said proudly: "The key is to cook, your country to the people of the dish is not enough, how many years, are the nobles are noisy, and the dish is a universal value that is universally applicable to all over the world, only by insisting on the dish cooking, in order to let the people work with peace of mind, in our country, there are often fart people, through their own personal efforts, to reach the top of the world, or for the first auxiliary, or for the rich, in fact, at this time the richest man in my country, is the teenager with nothing, under the inspiration of the Ming dream, step by step to become a huge rich. ”

Xu Hao said that the huge rich, naturally our Comrade Zheng Zhilong, if purely from an inspirational point of view, Zheng Zhilong is simply a model of the human elite in this era, his Zheng pirate group, almost in terms of strength to beat the so-called East India Company, of course, only in terms of paper strength.

Of course, the elders who know history know how big the gap is, and the Zheng Group has always been inseparable from the burden of poor standards, even if the book strength is strong, but for the absorption of external talents, the order of internal distribution of spoils is very problematic, which has led to the fact that the Zheng Group's land war performance is not to mention, and the rebellion and civil strife are always continuous.

This problem can be said to have been entangled in China for hundreds of years, and regional discrimination can exist, but within a group, engaging in such regional groups, and always lacking a modern-level team, is a problem.

Guangxi's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mightily conquered half of China, but when the upper echelons were corrupted and degenerated, they melted away like ice and snow in spring, and a fundamental reason is that the old brothers of Guangxi did things back and forth, and other people who worked later were never reused.

At this point, the eldest brother Mo said the second brother, the essence of the Hunan army and the Huai army that defeated them was almost the hometown association, and then looked at the later Northeast Army and the fruit army, back and forth also became the scope of the hometown association.

The group that played a real national prestige in North Korea is one of the few groups in Chinese history that breaks the regional view, and everyone can know how powerful it is, but as for other circumstances, it is difficult to express.

However, one thing has to be admitted, although the East India Company may not be very strong in absolute strength, it is almost a modern organizational model, with strict internal management, all considerations are based on actual interests, and there are clear rewards and punishments.

Of course, the Dutch don't know this, or rather, only a rough idea.

This is where the gap between East and West comes in.

It was not until after the Second Opium War that the Europeans finally realized the reality of our Qing Dynasty's foreign powers, and before that, it was still a very normal thing for countries to fight each other.

How bad is my Daqing doing in this regard?

In 1870, the Tianjin teaching case occurred, France took a group of accomplices from other countries to extort money, and the incident began in June, but if it lasted another month, it would face the Franco-Prussian War, the French were beaten with chicken feathers and duck blood, and the capital was slaughtered, that is to say, if there is a person who understands the situation in Europe to preside over the affairs, then hundreds of thousands of taels of silver do not have to be paid......

History has no regrets, saving these hundreds of thousands of taels may not be able to save our Qing Dynasty, but at least it can be relieved a little and save more face, but at the moment of facing the enemy, even the enemy's true movements cannot be clearly understood, so he is so frightened that he scares himself......

However, now, this one-way transparent situation has been transferred to the side of the Presbyterian Church, relying on historical data, for the Dutch to know how much energy the Dutch have, the most lethal point of the Dutch is that the land is next to a regional power France, at least before the emergence of Napoleon, France is a pivotal existence, of course, after Napoleon, France was made to lose its previous status, and the rise of Germany suppressed the Dutch like a bullied little daughter-in-law.

How could a country with a population of one million like the Dutch survive the repeated onslaught of a maritime power and a land power with a population of 10 million?

However, at this time, in the minds of the Dutch, Xu Hao is from an extremely advanced country in the East, on the one hand, it is advanced, then it is naturally very advanced in other aspects.

"I don't want to say too much, if your country wants to forge ahead, it must innovate and develop in the system, which means that the aristocracy oppresses the commoners from time to time, which is obviously not conducive to the accumulation of wealth...... Ahem, in short, dish cooking is good, what is dish cooking? I know that your country is still an aristocratic country, but you also have to think about how to decide when you encounter a problem like that of the British. ”

Luther Basten was naturally also an aristocrat, but he was not very optimistic about what was happening in England, a group of rebels who could kill the king could almost set off the same hatred of the whole of Europe, but it was also a good opportunity to rise to the institutional side.

In fact, it only needs to be forced for more than ten years, and when Charles II, who is still in the Netherlands, returns to London, the British upper echelons will run in with each other and walk out of a system with a constitutional monarchy as the core, which is also forced, but it is the right path.

What the Presbyterians are thinking about is naturally going the other way.

Of course, they can't fool a group of nobles and say, "You should hand over power to the commoners", such a "big rebellion" idea, in fact, people may not think so.

In this era, the theory of descent and aristocracy is the core idea of Europe, even if it is Xu Hao, he can only follow the script and speak little by little: "My country's system is based on test scores, although there are some small problems, but compared to private teaching, it can establish a system that convinces everyone, such as the TOEFL test in Rotterdam these days, although some people think it's a pity, but what do you think, it's a fair exam, and I accepted it for students." ”

"But there are always kids, like hands-on skills, drawing skills, that can't be measured by exams," Luther Basten said. ”

"This is also ......" Xu Hao must admit this, think about it left and right, and said: "My country's system, in addition to the cooking system, but also the examination system, the so-called primary school examination, middle school examination, university examination, civil service examination, driver's license examination, as a big examination country, this is also the foundation of our country's strong country, compared to the previous kind, the big nobles occupy a high position, and the small nobles can only reluctantly do some small positions, which is naturally completely different." ”

This is a big deal, Luther Basten has been Amway several times, and he also knows that the civil service examination mentioned by the Chinese is much more advanced than the original appointment according to the rank of the nobleman and the closeness to the king, but he himself belongs to the aristocratic class, and naturally it is impossible to accept it.

"Let's talk about the joint venture, you know, we are the Netherlands, the land of the ruling prince, and we have no regrets about protecting the safety of foreign investors."

Xu Hao thought about it, the location of the Netherlands, in Northern Europe, it can be said that the transportation cost is very high, if you don't build the railway, then no matter how you look at it, it will be troublesome......

"You mean...... Glass? ”

"That's right, glass."

That's not going to be easy.

In this era, when it comes to the technology that has been strictly guarded and preserved to the death, it is almost Italian glassware.

At least countless people who want to imitate and steal can only guess and think of ways in a daze, but compared to other people who cross Xiaobai to find a craftsman and say some routines, you can make glass, and then rely on this glass bottle to earn 10% of the country's GDP.

When the news came, everyone understood one thing, that glass technology, which was regarded as a treasure and guarded by the Florentines, was nothing more than an inconspicuous thing in the minds of the Orientals.

This naturally aroused the greed of countless people, there are no fools in this world, who doesn't want to do the trade of glass balls for jewelry? But you can't do it.

Xu Hao thought for a while and said: "This glass manufacturing technology is only a public sale in my country, in fact, this year in the north, we have invested in several glass factories, but the requirements of this glass factory are very high......

"I don't think there's anything that hard workers can't do......"

"So, first of all, this plant can't be old, otherwise it will cause pollution, it is best to use reinforced concrete, which requires the construction of a large steel plant, cement factory ......" Xu Hao snapped his fingers and said slowly: "There is sand, we all know that glass is made of sand, but how to choose sand and use sand is also a technical job, and it will be delayed." ”

Xu Hao said a lot in a row, and said that the difficulty of the glass factory was fantastic.

Having said that, at this time, the level of the major Italian workshops was not high, and the production capacity was actually not as good as a large factory, but the requirements were not high.

However, China still has some advantages in developing this technology, after all, the traditional fist export project, porcelain has no strong competitors, and there is not that kind of technology, after the technology leakage, the added value of British porcelain is higher than that of Chinese porcelain.

For the support of the local industry, I am afraid that I can't do my best, but no matter how big they are, it is impossible to teach a group of semi-literate people to learn the tricks of industrial production, so although they work hard, it still takes time, however, porcelain production and glass production are the same place, whether it is the grasp of temperature, or the appearance of exquisiteness, can learn from each other, therefore, take the road of national investment, technical support, and guild supervision.

Of course, as we said before, the Thirty Years' War and the constant chaos have reduced the spending power of Europeans to a historic low at this time.

However, after this trough, Europe is also about to grow and begin to occupy the future of the world.

Naturally, the elders will intervene, with academia being one and industry being the other.

Thinking of those high-tech glass-making technologies, the high profits, Luther Basten can't be calm, this is not a million or two million things, but the red fruit represents countless money.

"As you wish, I think I can send more students to study the technology you have arranged."

Xu Hao was extremely satisfied, he tinkered for a long time, didn't he ask for something to happen in the Netherlands, without him, as long as there are interests involved, it must be a place where he can exert influence in the future.

Of course, at this time, the Netherlands was thriving, and the new opponents Spain and Britain each had their own streets, and the French king in the south was still a milk doll, and it was not difficult to deal with, as for Prussia and Austria, there was also a scar, and for a while, it was actually the best day in the Netherlands.

Xu Hao brought the amulet Charles II to the Netherlands, and his own mind was to hope that Britain would fight as hard as possible, and it was best to maintain this feeling of not being up or down.

Historically, civil wars are extremely tragic, but they are often an opportunity for a country to rise, do you fight a war, fools basically can't survive one episode, those who are unlucky will live two episodes, those who are corrupt will be killed, those who are not determined will collapse sooner or later, those with poor political strength will collapse financially, and those with insufficient force value will be pushed down at one time.

The history of mankind is not only a history of war, but also a history of civil war.

(End of chapter)