The people who applaud had different thoughts, but the listeners in front of the radio had simpler ideas. They didn't really care what Yang Rui said, all they cared about was Yang Rui's attitude. There is no need for any reason, as long as Yang Rui says that there is hope for China, then there must be hope for China -- the prime minister is a hero of China, and now for the sake of China's eternal survival, he has abdicated and made way for the virtuous, and what reason do people have not to believe his golden and jade good words when he left office?

In Yang Rui's words, they only remembered that 'China (civilization) is unique, because when other (civilizations) disappear, only we will survive ......, and our ancestors will bless us...... just these few words can make everyone completely reassured.

However, some people who wanted to hear about the policies and opportunities from Yang Rui's speech were very disappointed: Liang Qichao in Shanghai turned off the radio immediately after listening to the speech; Hu Shi of Yenching University smiled bitterly while listening; The representatives of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, while listening, look around, they can hardly distinguish the business opportunities and national policies, in fact, there are many explanations of 'self-protection', such as protecting overseas Chinese is also self-protection, and the navy patrolling the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Persian Gulf is even more self-protection, but what is not self-protection?

In addition to these people, the officers and soldiers of the Baath Army were disappointed. If they don't do anything externally, it means that they have no chance to be knighted and feudal, people will be old, and if they really have to wait until the day they retire, there will still be no war, so isn't it a great pity in this life? None of these people were knighted, and many were not even knights.

And those generals and colonels who have already made meritorious contributions do not pay much attention to the foreign policy mentioned by Yang Rui, and they who already have fame and property are not as eager for quick success as the poor young officers. What they care about is that Yang Rui has really retreated, which is equivalent to saying that everything is true - there are many people who have not yet recovered from Cai Yuanpei's Qi Qingyuan incident. They originally thought that the position of prime minister would always belong to the Revival Association, but this time they brought Song Jiaoren up!

Tell the truth. Yang Rui's speech was like ice water poured into boiling soup, and the whole did not stir up any big waves. But as soon as this ice water entered the pot, it quietly sank to the bottom of the pot, and became the most important ruling foundation of Greater China, and also the ruling foundation of all subsequent governments.

"Prime Minister, do you really think that Europe will be occupied by barbarian tribes from Africa and the Middle East?" At the beginning of the reporter's question time, the first person to stand up to ask questions was the Times reporter Mo Lixun, who should have died of illness seven years ago because he continued to stay in China and lived a long life. He admired Yang Rui, but Yang Rui's argument that Europe would be occupied by aliens in the future was too scary.

"Of course, it's very likely." The first question Yang Rui asks at every press conference is to Morrison (in exchange for his cultural relics remaining in China forever). When he was dumbfounded and asked why. Yang Rui said again: "But there is one premise that cannot be missing, that is, another world war." At that time, all Europeans will fervently pray for peace, just like some people in France now. At that time, France and Germany will be reconciled, and the other countries will also be reconciled, and then the whole of Europe will finally begin to be substantially united.

This is similar to the sweep of the Six Kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang of China, of course the process was not so bloody, and the unification was that all Europeans were tired of war. Achieved by politicians at the negotiating table. Although it is not bloody, it has exactly the same effect as Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six kingdoms, and in such a Europe, science will continue to develop. But philosophy can never surpass the achievements of European philosophers before it, when scholarship simply derived other definitions from the definitions of nineteenth-century philosophers, like branches growing out of the trunk of a tree. Everybody knows that. Since it is a branch, its height and depth can never exceed the trunk. Because the nutrients accumulated in the Middle Ages have been exhausted, the flame of civilization is gradually being extinguished.

Meantime. Public opinion will be the same as in France today - I regret that I have mentioned France many times, not because I think that the French soldiers are not brave, but because France lost millions of people in the last war, and the battlefield was also in France, so the French people's prayer for peace is the strongest. If there is another world war, one can imagine what kind of devastation the Second World War will cause, how many people will die, and by that time the whole of Europe will be tired of war. At this time, public opinion will push peace to the extreme, and it will also push mass democracy to the extreme.

The white leftists ......" Yang Rui said a common word in later generations, and seeing that Morrison did not understand it at all, he had to add an explanation: "That is, Political-Correctness, in order to avoid war and turmoil, they vigorously advocate socialism and mass democracy, and the result will only turn Europe into a country with high welfare, high taxes, and low fertility; Moreover, in the spirit of universality and pacifism, they will be extremely tolerant of immigrants, they will love all living things in the world, including poultry and animals, and may even think that animals are much better than people. (laughs)

Europeans seem to be worried that Chinese immigrants will occupy Europe, but in fact, they should think that China is far away in the East, Chinese cannot go to Europe at all, and the Chinese government does not want its citizens to go to Europe. Instead, North Africa and the Middle East on the Mediterranean coast, where migration is likely to flood Europe in a few decades.

By that time, immigrants were everywhere in Europe, her economy was growing at all or slowly, and every family didn't want to have children - mind you! One of the missions of human life is to reproduce, and when a civilized family does not want to have children because of the influence of public opinion, then the civilization has begun to die.

On the one hand, Europeans do not want to have children, and on the other hand, immigrants from North Africa or the Middle East are attracted to Europe in large numbers by Europe's high wages and benefits, and it is conceivable that Europe will completely fall in 200 years. ”

“No！” Like Morrisun, the ambassadors of European countries to China looked at each other and were dumbfounded after listening to Yang Rui's answer, especially the French ambassador was the most shocked, but at this time Yang Rui had already named the second questioner, an Associated Press reporter.

"Mr. Prime Minister, you seem to have a very bad feeling about democracy, is it possible that democracy will be the cause of the death of civilization?"

"Exactly!" Yang Rui doesn't care about expressing his true thoughts. "You can go to the southern states of the United States and look at that, although the constitution says that everyone has the right to vote, but in the South. There are also many people who are not eligible to vote. From the standpoint of humanity, this is inhumane and undemocratic. But from the standpoint of purebred Americans, you can't say it's wrong. So this point is the most tangled in me when dealing with overseas Chinese in the United States. It is precisely because of this that I will demand that your country protect the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese in the United States on the one hand, and strictly control the number of overseas Chinese in the United States on the other hand.

If you find it difficult to find answers in the southern states, it is advisable to take a look at the history of ancient Greece and study the transition between monarchy, nobility, and republican forms of government in the ancient Greek city-states. When republican democracy reaches its extreme, empires will emerge, as is very clear in ancient Greek and Roman history. And when the monarchy reaches the late stage, tyranny politics will rise. Specifically, countless voters elected a person who claimed to love and serve the people as the president of the United States, and the first thing this president did when he came to power was to confiscate the property of the American propertied and distribute it to the poor voters who supported him in office. ”

"It can't be! Mr. The Associated Press reporter, while praising democracy, could not imagine such a president in the United States.

"If Europe does evolve like what I just said, it's entirely possible." Yang Rui thought of the medical bill of the future Aohei, and smiled in his heart. "For example, in the Health Care Act, there are a lot of poor people in your country who don't have health insurance, but if a president mandates that they be covered by health insurance. But these poor people have no money, so they have to raise taxes on the propertied people. At this point, do you say it's a robbery of the rich or a government tax increase? You can't say it at all. If the ideas of the European white left are transmitted to the United States, public opinion will generally demand that the United States implement the welfare system that Europe has already implemented. Then Congress and the Supreme Court would agree to such a bill.

And that's just the beginning! Once a president succeeds in robbing the rich, there will be more and more robberies in the future. This is the same as in the democracies of ancient Greece and Rome, in order to get popular votes. Campaigners can make unbridled promises and pay for those promises. Often from the own country of the propertied people, but when these propertied people are slaughtered and the whole society becomes a sand society. Tyrants will come to power, so I have always believed that popular democracy and tyranny rule are just a wall. Conquerors by force are not terrible, but democratically elected tyrants are the most terrible.

In terms of civilization, American civilization and European civilization have the same roots, and once European civilization declines, because of the connection in the context, American civilization will also decline. From this point of view, I think that the United States Congress was absolutely right not to approve your country's entry into the League of Nations, because if civilization dies, Europe must precede the United States. Therefore, not intervening outside the American continent and cutting off the transmission of ideas from the United States during the decline of European civilization is the only effective means of keeping American civilization evergreen. ”

"Your Excellency, why does the Chinese civilization have a second round of life? Can you elaborate on that. After fooling the Americans, Yang Rui's third reporter was Huang Yuanyong of the Imperial Times.

Seeing that what he asked was actually this, Yang Rui smiled and said, "Next year I will publish a book, and the title of the book is called "The Revival of the East". But here I can briefly answer your question.

First of all, the reason why the Chinese civilization has a second round of life lies in our geography, although this is not a major reason, but it is also an important factor, even now, the Yangtze River is also a military natural danger. When the Hu invaded across the Great Wall, the Yangtze River automatically became the second line of defense, which was not available in the first barbarian invasion of Rome.

Secondly, the size of the Chinese civilization is very large, and our population exceeded 30 million during the Han Dynasty. The maintenance of civilization requires a sufficient population, and the army needs enough strong men, so those who think that Chinese civilization will surely perish are simply blind, they cannot see that the population of China has exceeded 50,000, and they cannot see that every family wants to have more children. In fact, as long as we do not deny ourselves and do not slander ourselves, Chinese civilization will continue forever.

Finally, and most importantly, the continuation of Chinese civilization exists in the particularity of Chinese characters. Writing is the only carrier of civilization, and the demise of writing is equivalent to the demise of civilization. As we all know, we used hieroglyphs, while the ancient Romans used the Latin alphabet. Although we held the south in the battle of Weishui in history, the north still fell, but unlike the European barbarian tribes who used the Roman alphabet to create their own script, it was difficult for the Hu people to borrow Chinese characters to create their own script.

It can be said that there are only twenty-six letters. Barbarians can borrow letters from them and add their own unique roots to recreate a word. Latin was completely discarded and became a dead language. But kanji can't do that. You can't tear down a radical and piece together a radical and say that this is the Xianbei script, or that this is the Qiang script. It's going to make everyone laugh! A discerning person can see at a glance that this word was stolen, stolen from the Chinese civilization, and I think that except for some countries with the same roots and origins as China, other countries really dare not use this kind of word.

Even if there were Hu people, such as the Western Xia and Khitan, they borrowed Han radicals and strokes to make characters, but once this kind of writing was met with Chinese characters. Even if the fake Li ghost meets the real Li Kui, even illiterate people can understand that the Chinese characters are complete, and the Khitan script is lacking. It is important to know that Chinese characters are the precious accumulation of thousands of years of Chinese civilization, and the calligraphy related to writing has become extremely exquisite, which cannot be subverted by a few geniuses of the Khitan tribe who forget to sleep and eat.

Because of this, the Hu people, who conquered half of China, could not really borrow Chinese characters in the same way that the European barbarians borrowed the Latin alphabet, and they had to learn Chinese characters if they wanted to rule China, and Chinese characters were not only twenty-six letters, they had to learn them all. So when the Hu people have learned all the Chinese characters, they will suddenly find that they have been sinicized (laughing, applauding).

So, from that point of view. The continuation of Chinese civilization is closely related to Chinese characters, and the reason why Europe is not unified is also because of the inability to unify in writing. And we don't care about the small seal changing into a book, and the traditional style becoming simplified. But when all Chinese characters are changed to pinyin alphabet one day, the 4,000-year-old Chinese civilization will be destroyed in one fell swoop. ”

"Excuse me, Prime Minister. Is the continuation of civilization so important? For ordinary people, all they care about is their own food, clothing, housing and transportation...... "The reporter who asked the fourth question was not as special as before. Yang Rui chose the person who raised his hand the highest this time, however, this person was a Westernized element.

"Then you can go and ask the people, it's so troublesome to worship ancestors, why do you have to sacrifice every year?" Before he finished his question, Yang Rui interrupted his speech, but this person did not want to compromise, he hurriedly said: "This is a manifestation of ignorance and ignorance, any such country must be a backward country, just like India." And in those advanced countries, because of the general morality and democracy in the society, the people tend to live better, enjoy more freedom and power, and the society is more harmonious. Prime Minister, isn't this the trend in today's world? However, instead of eliminating the ignorance and ignorance of the people, the Chinese government blindly encourages them to be ignorant and ignorant, and even defies the condemnation of the world to establish a state religion. ”

"Is this reporter finished?" Yang Rui looked at this young man and was angry.

"I'm done." Years ago, the reporter stretched out his hand to hold his glasses, and the press card hanging on his chest was deliberately half-hidden, revealing only the word 'Ping'. Although he was extremely nervous, he still managed to keep his composure.

"At the height of the Tang Dynasty, Europe was still dark. Suppose that a European who had traveled through the Tang Dynasty magically appeared in Italy, Rome, or Paris at this time, what he said was exactly what you are talking about now. At the very least, he would describe like the kings of the Frankish and Burgundian kingdoms how vast the territory of the Tang Empire was, how rich the emperor was, and how common people even wore silk and satin that only European nobles had, and their personal wealth was greater than that of some European lords; He will also certainly say that that is the trend of world civilization and the direction in which mankind is heading......

But does that really make sense?! Yang Rui looked at the young reporter, he saw that he was dodging, "Don't say that during the Tang Dynasty, even Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled to China during the Mengyuan Dynasty, also sincerely admired the wealth of the East. But this kind of comparison between civilizations is really meaningless.

This is like when a man has not yet made a career, his mother-in-law looks down on him. For example, when I asked my wife for marriage more than 20 years ago, my father-in-law was worried that I was a revolutionary and almost wanted to knock me out of the house. How did he think that I would be the founding premier of Greater China?

The comparison between civilizations and civilizations is simply not equal. First of all, it is completely wrong to compare the Chinese civilization that is now on the verge of death with the West that has just passed its prime, which is like comparing the Middle Ages in Europe with the Tang Dynasty, which is not comparable at all. Moreover, the prosperity of any civilization will absorb the nutrients of other living or deceased civilizations, especially if there is an exchange between East and West. For example, gunpowder was transmitted to Europe with Genghis Khan's army, and the foundation of today's Western civilization is based on this. Without this foundation, where do foreign guns and foreign artillery come from?

The Western civilization that has absorbed elements of civilization from all over the world and is in its heyday is used to slander the Chinese civilization at a low ebb. This is something that Westernizers talk about, and this is also the real root cause of some people advocating the abolition of Chinese characters, the abolition of written Chinese, and all Westernization. They were born on their knees, and they only saw the prosperity of the West, and they did not think about what this prosperity was built on.

They also despise those peoples who are now regarded as backward and barbaric by the world, such as India, Africa, and the Middle East, and are complacent about their uncivilized, because compared with the West, he thinks that he is backward and barbaric, but when he sees these peoples, he has a sense of superiority. Look, there's worse. On the one hand, I have no brainless envy of Western civilization, and on the other hand, ignorant and despised backward nations, I think there is no more contemptible posture.

In fact, we can predict that when Western civilization gradually declines, it will rise instead of these so-called backward and barbaric peoples, religion and tribal primitive beliefs let them maintain the vitality of the nation, and hundreds of years later, when religion fades, philosophers who have been imprisoned for a long time will appear, and the existing technology will allow them to stand at a higher starting point. They will be able to create a civilization that is twice as large as the current Western civilization.

At that time, Europe would have been occupied by them, even if there had been no ethnic massacre, and one of the most important reasons was that every European was single. They all live only for themselves, and family life bores them, so they are reluctant to raise offspring. Because the future seems completely nihilistic to them. And those tribes in North Africa and the Middle East are willing to have children, they have just come out of religion and tribes. There is no concept of the individual at all, but the absence of the concept of the individual does not mean that they will not use individualism or take advantage of mass democracy. As you can imagine. When part of Europe is black or Islamic green, the death knell of European civilization will be sounded.

And not only the death knell is ringing in Europe, but also in the Americas, with which it is closely connected - I am talking about nihilistic thought, extreme individualism, and the idea of the White Left Madonna. If the Americas fail to uphold isolationism, they will follow in the footsteps of Europe and go into decline. This is exactly the same as the decline of ancient Rome, when the ancient Greek civilization was in decline and passed on the ideas generated during its decline to Rome, so that the electoral pattern that took place in Athens was repeated in Rome hundreds of years later, and the republic eventually became an empire, and the empire eventually went to ruin.

As for your other question, the establishment of a state religion. In fact, religion is the only way for a declining nation to come back to life, because those individualists who are full of nihilism and pessimism and refuse to have children can only get rid of the characteristics of a declining civilization after hundreds of years of religious immersion. Any civilization, whether it is the first round of life or the second round of life, must go through a long religious era. Taking the second round of Chinese civilization as an example, if there is no baptism of Buddhism, there will be no splendid Tang Dynasty, which is why the order in the history of literature is Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan Qu, and then to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ming Dynasty still has novels to support the façade, but the Qing Dynasty only has exegesis.

The era of civilization is actually the era when it has just gotten rid of religion, which is the ultimate reason why Shakespeare can never be surpassed, and future generations can only imitate Shakespeare; This is also Li Taibai - 'You don't see the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, rushing to the sea and never returning.' You don't see the sad white hair of Gao Tang Mingjing, and the morning is like green silk turning into snow at dusk. Life must be happy, don't make the gold bottle empty to the moon. I am born to be useful, and I will come back when my daughter is gone......

Ladies and gentlemen, is there such a poem after the Tang Dynasty? Do you have such a galloping feeling? No, because that was the pinnacle of the second round of Chinese civilization. Don't talk about Tang poetry, even the achievements of Yuan Qu cannot be surpassed by future generations, why? Because the nutrients of civilization accumulated in the religious era have been exhausted, the more the world has become more secularized, utilitarian, and despicable in the later years.

There is a way to be a literati who is as subservient to high-ranking officials and nobles, a literati who cares about money, and a literati who lives in a secular utilitarian society, and there is no way to write such heroic verses. Because people who can write this kind of poetry will be deceived into moving bricks in the black brick kiln as soon as they get out of the train station. (Laughter)

In the Tang Dynasty, which was not completely rid of Buddhism, in Renaissance Europe, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, when the patriarchal system had just been relaxed, there was no such experience at all. Therefore, only religion can enable the people of the declining civilization to get rid of the worldly and nihilistic and regain their innocence, and only the innocent people will be full of hope for life, and this hope is the driving force behind the creation of everything and the foundation of the prosperity of civilization. But when the people of a civilization become faithless and believe only in themselves, society goes to vulgarity, and civilization goes to death. (To be continued.) )