In fact, Edward should be glad that Tang Yi was not a white man during the Great Voyage and Colonization, he would not use bloody occupation to achieve conquest, let alone exterminate everything like when they went out.

Otherwise, what awaits West Sasacks may not be assimilation, but extinction!

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In fact, the definitions of "occupation" and "conquest" in later generations were established by Westerners over a period of hundreds of years and the annihilation of countless races.

It was the Indians who were killed as "protected animals", the Aztec Empire that perished because of friendship, the Inca Empire that was also barbarized, and the naïve Mayan Empire......

Unlike modern Homo sapiens, Tasmanians, who have taken another evolutionary path tens of thousands of years ago due to various factors, are the definition established by blood, tears and extinction of non-white people in the world.

"To conquer, that is, to destroy."

"Possession, that is, plunder."

This is a typical Western value, and its influence is unimaginable, so much so that in China, where Han culture is the foundation, there are also a considerable number of people who recognize and worship this kind of "conquest".

However, the establishment of such values has nothing to do with the Han people, and our ancestors did not do this at all.

"The Art of War" says:

The art of all use of arms.

The whole (preservation) of the country is the first, the country is second, the whole army is the first, the army is second, the whole brigade is the first, the brigade is the second, the whole is the second, the whole army is the second, the army is the second, and the army is second.

Therefore, a hundred battles are won, and the good who is not good, the soldiers who surrender without a fight, and the good who are good.

Therefore, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the last is to attack the army, and the last is to attack the city.

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"Going to the army to fight and plotting", "surrendering the army without a fight", and "attacking the heart for the top", this is the conquest of the Han people.

You can understand it as "false benevolence and false righteousness", or you can say that it is a kind of wisdom.

In fact, the barbaric plundering of the Europa people is not innate.

Before the Age of Discovery, before the Americas saw a population explosion in the world, wars and conquests were not directed against civilians. To put it bluntly, if he wants to kill, someone has to kill him.

Moreover, the ruler is not stupid, there are people who can create wealth, and killing one is one less.

Therefore, whether it was the theocratic aristocracy in Europe, the caliphate in the Arabian Peninsula, including Egypt and Dongying at this time, war was the prerogative of the aristocracy, and it was completely separate from the commoners.

Civilians are civilians, just farm the land, wars, dead people have nothing to do with you.

Only the steppe barbarians of Northwest Asia, as well as the Crusaders, a military group like Dick Silk, can do the stupid thing of killing and robbing everything, and fishing with all their might.

And the Chinese civilization has a much deeper, earlier and far-sighted understanding of the population than the West.

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Since the Qin and Han dynasties, in addition to the hateful massacre of nomadic peoples, in the southwest and southeast coasts, the rulers have never harmed the population of Baiyue and Nongli ethnic groups.

We have another set of definitions of "conquest", "occupation", "assimilation".

However, having said that, if you don't count the Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan Hui in later generations, the Chinese initiative and the largest assimilation and conquest should be the Lingnan region outside the Five Mountains.

It is close to the Central Plains, and there is no racial difference.

Like Tang Yi, who went to the Mediterranean to play cultural invasion, not to mention that there is no precedent for success in the future!

"It's kind of!" Tang Yi himself was skeptical.

"What's a bit of?"

Cao Lao Er and Song Kai couldn't help but ask when they saw him talking to himself there, as if he was a demonic barrier.

Tang Yi said the cause and effect to the two of them, Cao Jue didn't understand this matter very well, and he didn't have much right to speak, but Song Kai pouted:

"You're a Tang madman, haven't you done more nonsense?"

"Huh, too!?" Tang Yi was happy, licking his big face and following Song Kai's words. "Anyway, it's a no-brainer!"

Cao Jue interjected, "Hurry up and go back, this place is not interesting at all." ”

"It's coming." Tang Yi answered simply this time.

"Two months at most, let's sail back!"

"Really!?" Cao Jue's eyes lit up.

Although he is belligerent, there is no better place than home!

"Seriously!" Tang Yi nodded.

"You can go and get Uncle Yang now, and ask him to command the Mamluk cavalry regiment to set off for Sinai first. As long as the Seljuk are repelled and Egypt is stabilized, then we can go home. ”

"What about Rome?"

"Rome?" Tang Yi smiled playfully. "Leave it to the Romans to defend themselves!"

"Cut!"

Cao Lao Er grinned, why did he not believe it so much?

Tang Yi's goods were tossed in Rome called a Huan, and they were rectified from top to bottom, and fools knew that this goods were ready to let Da Song take root here and not leave.

He can rest assured that Rome will be handed over to the Romans, there must be something greasy in this!

"What the hell do you think?"

"The crusaders of the Church have already entered the Apennine Peninsula, not far from us. If we withdraw now, Rome may not be able to hold it. ”

When Tang Yi heard this, he was still indifferent and spread his hands, "Then eat it." ”

"How to eat?"

"Huh." Tang Yi laughed dryly. "Use what I do best."

"Day!" Cao Lao Er rolled his eyes. "Again!?"

He'd said it once before, use what he's best at.

"Can't you just have a good time?"

"Not right now."

As he spoke, Tang Yi got off the boat and left.

There are still a lot of things to do before leaving Rome, and I don't have time to grind with Cao Lao Er here.

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Cao Jue looked at Tang Yi's departing back and hated itchy, from childhood to adulthood, this product will always be half of the words left in his mouth, and there is no time to make you happy.

At this time, Song Kai next to him suddenly said: "I seem to understand what he is going to do." ”

"Speak quickly!"

Song Kai hehe, "I can't say!" ”

"Get out!!"

Cao Jue almost kicked him into the sea, and there was no good thing!

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In the following days, Tang Yi was really preparing to leave.

First, 20,000 Mamluks boarded the ship and set off to reinforce the Sinai Peninsula.

There, they would be re-commanded by the Western Marshal of the Great Song Empire, Suma, against the Arab coalition led by the Seljuk Empire.

You must know that even if Mamluk did not go to Sinai, Suma would be able to fight against the Arab coalition forces with the equipment, grain and grass transported from the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the 70,000 troops of the original Fatimid Dynasty.

It would not be difficult for this army of slaves, which had terrified the whole Arabian Peninsula, to hold the eastern line of Egypt, or even push the border to Damascus, if not to win, if not to win.

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The remaining 10,000 Mamluk heavy cavalry, plus 30,000 Yazhou troops, together with the grain ships of the Great Song Dynasty to aid West Sakex, went north to the British Isles to help West Saksak defend against the upcoming French invasion.

In this way, on the two fronts of western Europe and southern West Asia, the strength of the Great Song Dynasty was basically stable.

In addition, Rome is still guarded by 30,000 Song troops, the Eastern Roman Empire, which has just completed the annexation of Holy Rome, and the Arab League, in the face of the Great Song Dynasty, there is a feeling that there is no way to speak.

The broken ship of the Great Song Dynasty, although it is chaotic and messy in China, has magically built a safe haven in the Mediterranean......

Actually stood still.

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Wen Yanbo and others in China saw the details of the recital from Europe, and they were all dogs. That madman just stayed in Europe, which could not only make many people in Song down-to-earth, but also prosperous.

Moreover, in the Great Song Dynasty, except for some potential unstable factors, in the past two years, because Tang Yi has not done anything, life has been much better.

First of all, the Southwest Alliance led by the Angkor Dynasty has been much more honest in the past year, and Shi Jinwu actually shocked Angkor with the old and weak soldiers in his hands, and occupied the border of Chazhou for more than a year.

And Yelu Hongji of Daliao ......

That's a pure man, he said that if he didn't fight, he wouldn't fight, he held back his big moves in a down-to-earth manner, and was ready to save enough money to compete with Da Song.

And the Western Xia ......

Li Jie won the prize!

In September last year, Li Jie led the six party departments to take Yinzhou, broke the city at dawn, killed the emperor of Western Xia and deceived the palace, and became the hidden emperor of Western Xia in one fell swoop.

That's right, it's the Hidden Emperor!

Li Jie is in power, and he is already the actual emperor of Western Xia. However, I don't know what he thinks, or if there is a problem within the six departments of the party that followed him, Li Jie falsely invaded Yinzhou and pacified the civil strife in Western Xia, but he was unable to claim the title of emperor for a long time, and the relationship with Liao and Song was unclear, and he did not agree or fight.

Song and Liao are itching in their hearts, and they don't know what kind of medicine is sold in this mud-footed new emperor's gourd.

However, this is enough, the Great Song Dynasty only asked the Western Xia to "not fight", and everything else is easy to say.

As long as he doesn't fight, Da Song will still be able to hold on!

And the domestic situation in the Great Song Dynasty is even better than the side affairs.

Although the imperial court's finances are still tight, a shocking news last year shocked the entire Great Song Dynasty on the outside and tender on the inside.

In Yazhou, there are only 500,000 acres of land, and the annual harvest of grain and rice....

5,000,000 stone !!

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What is the concept?

That is to say, even if Yazhou pays the most basic agricultural tax, without adding miscellaneous donations, it can pay 500,000 stone grain and rice to the imperial court.

500,000 stone of grain, which is exactly equivalent to paying one stone of agricultural tax per mu of land...... That's not a small amount.

You must know that there are 120 million mu of cultivated land in the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, excluding official fields, school fields, vocational fields, and private fields, and collecting grain taxes last year, including miscellaneous taxes and harsh taxes, it is only 24 million stones.

This means that in addition to Yazhou, the fields of the whole Song Dynasty are counted in the service money and harsh taxes, and the output of each mu of land collected to the imperial court is only one-fifth of that of Yazhou!!

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Whether it's Zhao Zhen or Wen Yanbo, even an old and serious person like Fu Bi was shocked and didn't fall asleep all night.

The ministers in the court didn't dare to think that if the grain production level of the whole Song Dynasty was the same as that of Yazhou......

Well, even though there is an advantage that Yazhou can plant three seasons a year, it should not be difficult to reach more than half of Yazhou, right?

That's three times the original agricultural tax!

Coupled with this donation and that service, the imperial court charged an extra 18 million yuan of silver...... Isn't that just fun?

And that's not all, the significance of increasing grain production is much more than the income of the imperial court.

The surplus grain in the hands of the peasants has increased greatly, which means that the entire Great Song Dynasty will become rich.

There is no shortage of food, which means that the people's ability to resist disasters will be enhanced, and the cost of disaster relief for the imperial court will be reduced.

When the people have food in their hands, what is the first thing they do?

Have a baby!

The population will rise like never before!

In the long run, the booming population will lead to business and other growth!

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Moreover, as the emperors and ministers in charge of the dynasty, they know more than ordinary people and see more far-reaching, that is: the land of the Great Song Dynasty is far from being fully developed.

When Tang Yi gave a tax lesson to Confucian scholars and ministers in Guanlan, he once calculated an account for everyone, and the current land cultivation rate of the Great Song Dynasty is far from saturation.

Not to mention saturation, even "making the best use of things" has not been achieved!

According to Tang Yi, the land cultivation rate of the Great Song Dynasty has not yet reached one-fifth, and eight out of ten of the land is either barren and idle, or has not yet been developed.

What is the concept?

That is, as long as the Great Song Dynasty wants to engage in it, coupled with the temptation of high yield and high income of new grain varieties, the agricultural tax of the Great Song Dynasty will be promising, and it can even be very special!!

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It was not until this moment that Zhao Zhen and Wen Yanbo really understood why Tang Yi spent tens of millions of dollars to build that ocean-going fleet;

only then did I understand what Qi Xuefeng, Song Kai, and Wang Zehai, these young generations who risked life and death to go to sea, meant to the Great Song Dynasty;

Only then did he understand why Tang Yi had to rescue Song Kai after attacking tens of thousands of miles from afar, and he also wanted to avenge Qi Xuefeng......

Only corn alone, these people and this fleet are worthy of the expedition of the Great Song Dynasty!!

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This time, the Great Song Dynasty did not forget its roots, and the scholars and doctors did not hesitate to praise.

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First of all, as soon as the harvest report of Yazhou arrived in Kaifeng, Zhao Zhen ordered the rapid promotion of the whole Song Dynasty, and the first thing he did was to give Haizhou and Tang Yi a personal mention of the monument set up for the ocean-going fleet-

"Great achievements, a thousand years of glory!"

And then......

Song Kai was named the Duke of Qi, the doctor of Guanglu, and the hereditary three generations;

Wang Zehai sealed the Marquis of Qinghai, left the scattered service Duwei, a bounty of one hundred taels, five hundred silk;

Qi Xuefeng posthumously gave Pei Guogong, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, and the nickname Zhongyuan.

Tens of thousands of ocean-going warriors were promoted three levels in a row according to their ranks, and were given gold and silver.

In addition, there is a "Baohua Palace" in the Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, which has a special exhibition room for placing exotic objects, as well as a worship hall for those who died because of the search for food for the benefit of the Great Song Dynasty.

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Zhao Zhen and the scholars and doctors this time can be said to have done a very good job from the inside to the face, and in the end, they still did not bury those real heroes with the mentality of "everything is inferior, only reading is high".

Even those Northern Shi clan groups who didn't look down on Tang Yi and the ocean-going fleet didn't jump out to do things this time. They also had no objection to Zhao Zhen's will, and almost unanimously agreed.

It's really too much credit to bring back grain from the Americas, and it can't be ignored or buried!

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However, Tang Yi doesn't see it that way.

Song Nei's courtesy to the ocean-going fleet seemed to him, in addition to being a matter of course, there was also a trace of relief.

Although the literati group has done a lot of things for him, although it can be said to be the cancer of the Great Song Dynasty, at least the literati of this era have not lost their dignity and integrity.

"Not bad......"

"There is salvation."

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