Yang Rui's answers to reporters' questions were more and more exciting, and those who wanted to refute just gave him a stage to show his thoughts, and if it weren't for the fact that most of them were Western reporters, the ambassadors of various countries would think that this was a drama written and performed by the Chinese. And because of this, the foreign ambassadors have become extremely anxious and uneasy, which is almost singing about the West, but because the words came out of Yang Rui's mouth, and in an academic way, more importantly, Yang Rui has become a world-famous philosopher of history, and his achievements in the philosophy of history have been recognized and praised by scholars all over the world.

Therefore, they are not only anxious but also anxious, and the French ambassador is the most anxious. Because France is indeed as Yang Rui said, there is no more war, and the whole people hate war more than the Germans, if there is really a second European war, he is very skeptical that France will collapse suddenly like Tsarist Russia. At this time, Mr. Willed was eager to ask Yang Rui how the Second European War would happen? And what if you avoid it? But Chinese and foreign reporters surrounded the podium and threw questions at Yang Rui one by one.

"One last question." Yang Rui, who had just finished answering the Japanese reporter, saw that the time was almost up and was ready to end all this. He looked at the raised arms like bushes, and finally ordered a female reporter, not wanting this person to be a foreigner, and it seemed that she was not a reporter. "May I ask Your Excellency, if it is true that Western civilization will die, as you described, will China and Japan invade the West like barbarians?"

"It's completely impossible!" Yang Rui sensed the danger of the problem and immediately denied it. "If China and Japan fail to adhere to their own civilization and blindly pursue Western ideas. For example, mass democracy, individualism, socialism, and unbridled modernization will also be contaminated with the toxins that came from the decline of Western civilization. Died with Western civilization.

And how the Western civilization died can completely turn the page of history. See how ancient Rome died. In the year 180 of the Jesus calendar, the last Roman emperor, Mark Brown. After Aurelius' death, the Roman Empire began to enter an era of decline, which was also an era of civilization collapse. From this time on, in fact, there were signs of death in Rome before this, such as the decline of the Romans who admired force, the citizens were unwilling to serve in the army, and finally only some nomads were willing to join the army, and then the Roman army in the frontier area was full of Germans and other foreign peoples, and there was still a certain combat effectiveness; There is also materialism and misanthropy.

And after the death of Emperor Aurelius, outside. The empire gradually collapsed; In China, the phenomenon of not marrying and having children after marriage is extremely common. Because the fertility rate is declining, the population is decreasing, and the quality of citizens is also decreasing; Many people would rather accept the state's handouts than work to support themselves, so the whole country was barren and unmanaged, and the whole society was in a state of sitting and waiting, and then the barbarian invasion was just to help clean up the mess. Arguably. The fall of Rome was essentially self-destruction, a sign of the end of civilization. Since this phenomenon could have appeared in the late Roman civilization more than a thousand years ago, it would have appeared in a unified Europe after the Second World War.

And China, Japan, and Korea can prevent the spread of toxins during the decline of Western civilization. At this time, it was only able to protect itself, that is to say, East Asia was in the long Middle Ages at this time; And if we can't put an end to the spread of toxins produced during the decline of Western civilization in China, we will envy the splendid civilization of the West -- just like the reporter who asked the question just now. There are or, like Marco Polo, who took the initiative to integrate into Western civilization. In the same way, we will also go into decline. This is not an invasion of Europe or the Americas by China, Japan, or North Korea. Rather, we were invaded by barbarians, that is, savage tribes from Africa, the Middle East, and South America, just like Europe and America.

From this point of view, it is very necessary for the existence of a multi-civilization system in the world, because when one civilization declines, another civilization can continue to rise, and even if China, Japan, and North Korea and other countries eventually decline because they take the initiative to integrate into Western civilization, the so-called backward countries and backward nations in Africa, the Middle East, and South America can still take up the torch of civilization and continue to move forward. In any case, the decline of Western civilization is the greatest misfortune in the history of mankind, and I sincerely hope that World War II will not happen.

For once it happens, the death knell will soon be sounded, and then you will find that all Europeans, like the ancient Romans a thousand years ago, will no longer be soldiers, with an aversion to war and extreme pacifism; At the same time, under the influence of nihilism, misanthropy, and extreme individualism, they are reluctant to marry, let alone have children; Finally, under the ideas of mass democracy and socialism, the welfare of society as a whole will be very high, and the taxes on the propertied and large and small corporations will be very heavy. At this time, no one will go to work anymore, everyone enjoys the benefits of the state, and everyone's life is exquisite and comfortable, almost reaching the ideal of distribution on demand, but since the comfortable autumn has come, will winter be far away?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, for the sake of time, this is the end of this question, and I have only one sentence for you at the end: Ducunt.Fata.volentem, no-lentem.trahunt. Yang Rui spoke in Latin, looking at those Chinese reporters who didn't understand, he had to translate: "Those who are willing, fate will lead them; Those who don't want to, fate drags on. Thank you! ”

An ancient Greek philosophical proverb originally written at the end of the second part of "The Decline of the West" was uttered by Yang Rui at this time, which made him as sacred and inviolable as if he were reading the will of God; And the time was close to noon, and the bright sun shone directly from the sky, and in the halo, he was like a god.

Since the press conference is over, the reporters are about to be sent out of the Forbidden City by the Praetorian Guards, but Zhang Taiyan, who didn't want to listen all the time, suddenly took more than 600 representatives of the two houses to dress up their crowns, and then wanted to bow down to Yang Rui, including Wang Guowei in a Manchu official uniform.

Kneeling was abolished in the country as early as now, and there were only four bows to King Min (if he was called the emperor, it would be five bows), but now Zhang Taiyan's kneeling is three bows and nine bows, which is obviously a great gift to meet the emperor and worship the ancestors. Yang Rui was shocked while avoiding it: "Uncle Mei, why are you here?" Rise up, yourselves! ”

He said on his side. But Zhang Taiyan and the others were still indifferent, and only bowed three times and nine bows to the position where he was before. After getting up after the ceremony, Zhang Taiyan said: "It has become a holy!" To the saints, we naturally have to bow three times and bow nine times. After answering Yang Rui with this sentence, he said to the Chinese and foreign reporters who were stunned and were taking pictures: "Since the beginning of the Qing Daoguang." The failure of Chinese culture is like this, but today it has become the reincarnation of civilization, which has made us enlightened: civilization is born and dies, and culture is prosperous and must decline. Our country and our people do not have to be thin on national studies and specialize in the west wind. From today onwards, "The Decline of the West" and "The Revival of the East" are the supreme classics of our Greater China, and the way to govern the country and the world is all in it! ”

After Zhang Taiyan finished speaking to the reporters, he ignored their questions and waved his hand to let the Praetorian Guards send them out. Yang Rui didn't expect that the epiphany a few days ago would have such an effect, and he was still dumbfounded when he saw him behaving like this, when did he actually become a saint?

"Your Excellency Prime Minister...... "Yang Rui has not yet settled the account with Zhang Taiyan. The foreign ambassadors gathered around again, but it was clear that the German ambassadors and the Soviet Russian ambassadors were deliberately squeezed out of the way. "Will World War II really happen?" The Frenchman Willied said anxiously: "Can't we stop the war?" ”

Originally, he wanted these foreign ambassadors to come to discuss World War II, but Yang Rui had to put down Zhang Taiyan's side when he saw this, and said with a smile: "It's very pessimistic, it's almost impossible." After he finished speaking, he saw that the foreigners were anxious, and said: "I have said before that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on Germany, and the occupation of the Ruhr area in previous years was too reckless. Now every German has a grudge in his heart. And if an understanding is to be reached, it will be necessary to cancel the huge reparations and return the lost German territories.

However, if the indemnity is canceled. Great Britain, France, and Italy will have to repay the more than $40 billion in war debts owed to the United States on their own, including interest, and this will obviously not satisfy the peoples of the countries. Therefore, the only thing that works now is for the United States to lend to Germany through the Dawes plan. The profits of the German economy turned into reparations and went to Great Britain, France, and Italy, and then to the United States. And so on forms a cycle. But the cycle is not stable, and the U.S. economy seems to be booming. But that's just a false prosperity......"

"Mr. Prime Minister, this ......" When it came to the U.S. economy, U.S. Ambassador Ma Murui couldn't sit still, but when he thought of Yang Rui's title of 'management scientist and economist', he couldn't question it, after all, he was just a diplomat.

"Ambassador Ma Murui, your country's economy has been in a bubble during the European war, when the war is over and Europe is gradually recovering its industrial capacity, because of political reasons, your country is still unwilling to squeeze out the excess production capacity generated by the war stimulus. Your country's production capacity is so huge that it can only rely on foreign exports to drive the economy, but your country has raised tariffs so much that countries around the world have no way to get dollars to buy your goods.

The reason why it can be maintained now is that every year your country borrows $1 billion from foreign countries, and your citizens spend $600 million on European tourism meetings, and this money barely stimulates your country's domestic economy. But the economic model of relying on foreign loans to boost exports is unsustainable, just like relying on stock market speculation to sustain prosperity, and when the stock market collapses, it will be too late. ”

"Your Excellency, what does the U.S. economy have to do with the war in Europe?" Seeing that Yang Rui was only talking about the U.S. economy, Wei Lide couldn't help but ask again, in his opinion, this had nothing to do with the war in Europe.

"The U.S. economy is, of course, closely linked to Europe. The German economy is fully supported by US loans. In the Ruhr crisis five years ago, Germany was already politically turbulent, and if the US economy had a crisis, then the German economy would be the most affected. ”

Yang Rui originally wanted to achieve two goals through the press conference: first, to plunge the United States into isolationism; The second was to prevent the Second World War. But now, because of the improvisation when answering reporters' questions, something new suddenly appeared in his mind, and he suddenly found a trap, a huge and cruel trap, so at this time he didn't want to say too much about the Second World War, in other words, at this time, he once again felt that he should adjust the national grand strategy, and this would be the last adjustment, because at this time he was completely transparent about history and the future.

When leaving His Majesty, banquets, and returning home, the streets became a sea of people to retain people, and in the end, the Yellow Flag official car was not driven away. Instead, he was pushed away by the people until he reached the gate of the Guogong Mansion - everyone cried and shouted that they were reluctant to let him leave his post, and even more reluctant to let him leave the capital. But this cannot be changed.

However, on the night of this day, Wang Jitong, Zhang Taiyan, Xu Huafeng, Du Yaquan, and Xie Jintai were all invited to the house by him. He felt that what he had felt during the day had to be shared with them, and that it was related to the fate of the whole country and the nation.

"Please come, I suddenly realized a trap, and this trap has the meaning of inviting you into the urn, you have to enter if you don't enter." In the reception room of the hidden secretary's room, although Yang Rui, who took off his official robe and was dressed in silk, no longer had the majesty of the prime minister, his voice was still extremely calm.

"Please say it." Wang Jitong glanced at the others, and felt that the matter should not be small, otherwise he would not invite everyone over.

"Let me start with a statement. I don't say this because I want to change anything, but just to show that there's a big problem here. Yang Rui said cautiously, "And the reason why I tell everyone is to reach a consensus; As for the solution, there is no way to rush this. After he finished speaking, he saw that the five people were sitting in a precarious position, listening attentively, and then said: "I only summed up the theory of the life cycle of civilization a few days ago, and when I answered reporters' questions at today's press conference, I realized that we are in a huge trap. Although it was just realized. I didn't have time to prove it, but my intuition and experience told me it was real. ”

Not as impassioned as the press conference in the morning, Yang Rui's expression was extremely calm at this time, but he was hesitant in his heart. He was hesitant to admit that he was from the next year and from 2013, but Zhang Taiyan's speech made him hold back, and he said, "It can be done." You say it, we believe everything you say. ”

"Good! Please keep it confidential. Yang Rui habitually opened. Then he raised his voice before he said, "As I said in my answer to reporters in the morning, if Europe goes through another war." That is, the Second World War, then Europe will move towards reunification and civilization will enter decline, but the roots of American civilization are in Europe, and the Americans will definitely stand up and take Britain's place and become the world hegemon, which is a historical trend that we have discussed before and have to find a way to stop. Because Britain will not suppress us when it rules the world, but the Puritan American rule will definitely hate us and try its best to make us accept American democracy and American culture. ”

"Survival?" A cadre looked at Yang Rui, a little difficult to accept this word.

"Yes, life." Yang Rui said with certainty. He thought of China, which was reopened in later generations, of the G2 meeting that decided to call the world economy the G20 summit, which was actually only between China and the United States, and of the Pacific Economic Circle, which drove the world economy. After thinking about these things, he sighed: "Europe is indeed about to decline, but because of historical reasons, even if it has no colonies, it still controls the economy, trade, finance and technology of the whole world, which are the sources of profit; And the United States is the world hegemon, just as the Roman Empire will not watch Greece fall, and the United States will not watch Europe fall.

Therefore, the United States will help old Europe to renew its life, and the whole world will help the United States to renew its life. The specific approach is that the world currency will be exchanged from the pound sterling to the dollar, and the dollar will be decoupled from gold at some point, and those dollars that are not backed by gold will eventually use oil as the anchor of the dollar currency - they will reach an agreement with the oil-rich Middle Eastern countries that the oil trade can only be settled in dollars, and in the end, because all countries have to hold dollars, and the dollars without gold reserves can be printed at will, which is tantamount to the United States collecting seigniorage from the world.

In addition to maintaining the hegemony of the United States, this seigniorage is transformed into the welfare of the people of Europe and the United States. If you don't have money, you can open a printing press, if you don't have money, you can do quantitative easing, the whole world is a dumping ground for dollar banknotes, and in exchange for these printed dollars, the whole world has to support the United States and Europe, and the economies of these countries can indeed prosper, but the bulk of the profits have been harvested by the United States and European countries. These harvested profits formed a source of high welfare in European and American countries, which allowed Western civilization to survive, because of the lack of these tributes, they would have died long ago. ”

Yang Rui said without stopping, Wang Jitong and Zhang Taiyan, who were not familiar with economics, didn't know what this meant, but Xu Huafeng, Xie Jintai and Du Yaquan could barely understand, Du Yaquan said: "Why would countries around the world be willing to use the US dollar instead of other currencies? Even gold. ”

"The production of gold is limited after all, and. The most important thing is that the foreigners hit us with guns. Then we have to learn everything about foreigners and take everything they say as a guideline. The foreigners say they want to modernize. Countries around the world are modernizing; Foreigners say that gold is a relic of barbarism and should no longer adhere to the gold standard, so countries around the world will abandon the gold standard and adopt the dollar standard; Foreigners say that democracy is good and just, so we also want democracy; Westerners advocate individualism and indulge in material hedonism, so we should also advocate individualism and material hedonism.

When the whole country is brainwashed by Western civilization, it is the proper meaning to imitate foreigners culturally, ideologically, economically, and financially. Those civilizations that should be called late-developing countries, or developing countries, although they are paying tribute to foreigners, at the same time the goods within these countries will become richer. People who have fallen into materialistic hedonism are naturally supportive of a government that can provide unlimited goods. In the same way, the toxins produced during the decline of Western civilization will also be transmitted to these countries, and these countries will use their accumulated civilization energy to prolong the life of Western civilization.

In the end, the signs of decline that should have occurred only in Europe and the United States will happen in these countries, such as declining fertility rates, extreme individualism, such as everyone wanting to get something for nothing, waiting for state relief. These countries are like being sucked by vampires, replacing Western civilization and entering the decline of civilization in advance.

It's a trap, but we have to jump into it. First, the people will be tempted by Western materialism and American-style democracy, and once the rulers are unable to provide abundant goods. They will protest and rebel, and the countries of Europe and the United States will demand that you join the world trade and join the blood-sucking economic network they have formed. Second, if you don't obey and refuse to be fooled. The foreigners will naturally use guns against you in the name of human rights and justice, and if you want to contend with them, you will naturally jump into the trap they have set. to obtain the weapons created by Western civilization, so ......"

Yang Rui, who said this, stood up and spread his hands. Again: "It's like a scholar encountering a gang of robbers, and you don't join the gang." Then kill you, rob your property, or control you through puppets; And if you join, then you, as a novice, will pay tribute to the bandit leader for half of the property you have robbed.

In fact, the bandit leader was going to die, but the things you robbed were just enough to keep him alive. Although you have gained something, you could have been on your own in the future, but now you may even be killed in a robbery, you did not die for yourself, you died for the life of the bandit leader. In this mode, the bandit leader will starve to death only when the last good guy who was coerced by the robbers dies.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the trap that I see, or rather, it should be called the modernization trap. The modernization of any country will stimulate the world economy, and stimulating the world economy is equivalent to renewing the life of Western civilization; But if you don't modernize, the foreigners will overthrow you, and then instill Western civilization in the country, and someone else will start modernization.

And, in the eyes of the people, you are evil, but Americans are righteous. For the Americans, the American spirit, could give them more material things, though they had to pay a heavy seigniorage for it; Although in a few decades, hundreds of years, they will replace the Americans and Europeans to lead the decline, but who cares? Foreign compradors, who indulge in materialism, utilitarianism, and individualism, will instead complain about those who are self-conscious and not greedy, because this prevents them from getting rich. ”

Yang Rui stood up and spread his hands, but Zhang Taiyan jumped up after listening to it, and he said, "It's right!" Twenty years ago, Gu Hongming wrote a letter to the Russian writer Tolstoy, and Nas's reply was published in the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, in which Si said, "It is not advisable to cut off the Fas-Westerners," but to "keep the agricultural life and believe in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and the disaster will disappear."

In fact, it is the same trap that the British tried their best to open the ports of the Manchu Qing Dynasty even at the cost of a war, what they really wanted was goods, and these goods eventually became the welfare of the British to support all whites. ”

"Actually, this thing is ......" Xu Huafeng is an industrial party, what he cares about is that China has its own industry and is no longer bullied by foreigners, but how can this fall into the trap of foreigners? He smiled bitterly: "Actually, is it true that we, as well as Japan, have worked hard and done all the wrong things over the years?" ”

"Of course it's not wrong." Yang Rui knew that his efforts were all in industry, and immediately comforted him. "I'm just saying there's a trap where we have to avoid the risk and get the benefits......"

"Can't we use dollars in the future?" Du Yaquan said, "If other countries abolish the gold standard, can't we abolish it?" Also, didn't you say that the oil and gas fields in Beiting are enough for us to use for a hundred years, and we don't buy oil. ”

"But what if oil is cheap in the Middle East?" Yang Rui asked rhetorically, "Although our territory is large, the world's products are extremely rich, according to the rules of the market, we must participate in world trade to obtain cheaper raw materials or commodities; And to participate in world trade, it will naturally accept Western ideas, and eventually the whole country will inevitably fall into world trade, which is tantamount to falling into the trap of foreigners. It is conceivable that at that time, the most active place in the world economy was in the Pacific Ocean, and the world economy was the largest in the two economic entities of China and the United States.

But how is it? Can you not pay tribute? If you are big, you can not buy US Treasuries? International law, international trade rules, the International Monetary Organization, the World Bank, the League of Nations, these are all formulated by foreigners, and you have to accept these rules; And once you accept it, you will begin to use our blood and sweat to provide benefits to the white race and renew the life of Western civilization, and you will end up with chicken feathers! ”

Yang Rui's voice said that the back was getting louder and louder, and he thought of the future at this time, although there was really no other way at that time, but he was unwilling in his bones. He is not against industrialization and cannot oppose it, so why should he pay tribute to foreigners? "That's what I just thought about. The brain is very messy, you should also think about this matter, and we will discuss it before leaving Beijing. He said. (To be continued.) )