I, Zhu Houzhao, join the US imperialist chat group

Chapter 240: The 18th century saw dramatic changes! The protagonist is Louis XVI! The 19th century saw dramatic changes: The protagonist is Napoleon!

[Emperor Jefferson: This topic is actually very meaningful. Your Majesty, the concept of the hundred years I proposed should, strictly speaking, start from 1700... It should not be just you French women and men flying in hot air balloons...]

[Although it was you, the French papermakers, the Montgolfier brothers, who first invented the hot air balloon, allowing humans to truly fly for the first time, and it also has great significance for the progress of science... But I think there should be something more important. ]

[For example: The death of Louis XIV, the Sun King, was a major turning point for France.]

[For example, during the Seven Years’ War, Britain ultimately won, which led to them becoming the overlord of overseas colonies… and also led to the independence of the United States…]

Jefferson took over the topic, which he had brought up.

However, due to the limitations of technological communications, he did not have a complete understanding of the information.

I can only mention a few important things.

[Merizon Grant: What major events happened in the 18th century? I think, apart from Britain becoming the world's factory due to its industrial development, the most influential event should be the French Revolution caused by His Majesty the Sixteenth? ]

【Then there is the birth of our America! 】

This topic also made Grant unable to help but speak.

【Louis XVI: You, you are bringing up... again】

We can’t avoid the French Revolution, right?

Louis XVI did not want to argue.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: Actually... I don't care about your side... I care about how things are going in our East from 1700 to 1800.]

Zhu Houzhao decisively changed the subject.

[Meilizong Grant: Your Majesty, I know this! In the eighteenth century... the past hundred years, because of your existence, the East has been relatively stable! Basically, nothing major has happened... No, it should be from the seventeenth century, or even the fifteenth century... your side has been relatively stable! ]

Grant answered immediately.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: Then, do we have people who can send people into the sky? For example, a hot air balloon...]

Zhu Houzhao was even more curious about this.

[Meilizong Grant: It seems, maybe... no? I'm not sure about that.]

Grant was not quite sure about this question.

[Emperor Cleveland: I can answer this question! Your Majesty, in the 18th century, there was actually a female scientist in your East, a female scientist named Wang Zhenyi, who made many achievements in astronomy and mathematics. She was active between 1768 and 1797... She can be considered a person who could change the world in your country.]

[As for other areas... since the 18th century, you should have begun to lag behind us in the West in all aspects...]

Cleveland did his homework and gave Zhu Houzhao a direct answer.

[Tang Xizong Li Xuan: Wang Zhenyi, a female scientist? Lived less than 30 years old? ]

This was the question Xu Yunmiao asked Zhu Houzhao. Xu Yunmiao had never expected to meet such a remarkable woman here.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Most geniuses have short lives. ]

[Mei Yingzong Cleveland: This topic... I think it is not easy for everyone to talk about. Let me briefly talk about the reasons why the world has changed so dramatically in the 18th century... no, it should be the last two hundred years, three hundred years...]

[I think the reason why the world has changed dramatically is that the East has not changed much, but mainly in the West. It should be that Europe laid the foundation for the world pattern in the three hundred years from 1500 to 1800.]

[The hundred years from 1800 to 1900 were the real hundred years of dramatic changes in the world! ]

Cleveland obviously felt that this topic was difficult to discuss and took over the right to speak.

Then, his views attracted everyone's attention again.

【Tang Xizong Li Xuan: Oh, how do you say this dramatic change? Why did it start in 1500? Why did it mainly happen in your West?】

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect that as he was talking, he had returned to his era.

At the same time, I also feel excluded.

[Emperor Jefferson: The Age of Exploration? ]

Jefferson was moved.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: Yes! It was the beginning of the Age of Exploration... Friends, do you mind if I say it again? After all, my era has a stronger ability to collect information than yours. Because of the emergence of telegraphs and telephones... It only takes a few days for information from far away to reach us...]

Cleveland was modest.

[Louis XVI: Okay... you go ahead and tell the story. After all, you are standing at the back, so it will be easier for you to summarize.]

Louis XVI gave up decisively.

[Mercy Lincoln: That's true. In our era, although our information collection capabilities are not bad, they are obviously not as good as those of you in Cleveland!]

Lincoln also decisively gave up chatting.

[American Xuanzong Jackson: The advantage behind is really too great, let's learn a lesson. ]

Obviously, everyone realized that Cleveland and Roosevelt had the advantage of being latecomers.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: In this case, I won’t be polite! Then I will start! ]

【First, let’s answer His Majesty Li’s question! 】

【Why is the drastic change happening in our West? 】

【The main reason is the situation of unified and bulk. 】

[It seems that you in the East have had a unified centralized authority leading a large area of ​​land since two thousand years ago! ]

[This was true a thousand years ago, from 1500 to 1800, and even today.]

【Unity means stability, and there are fewer uncertainties. 】

[However, we in the West have never been unified? Why do we call the three hundred years from 1500 to 1800 the foundation period of dramatic changes and the formation period of the world pattern? ]

[The first is the early Renaissance! People's minds are gradually liberated...]

[Second, as President Jefferson said... the Age of Exploration had begun! The most important thing was that Columbus discovered America! The discovery of America allowed Spanish coachmen to bring some high-yield food crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes to the world...]

[These things feed a lot of people invisibly! They increase the world's population...]

[As the population increases, resources become scarce. Some people obviously have to look for new ways to develop around the world... start gold mining, engage in slave trade, etc.... This promotes the integration and conflict of population, ethnicity, and culture... and also promotes the development of science and technology. ]

[During this period, France and the Holy Roman Empire were considered the most powerful countries in Europe...]

[Spain was once powerful, but was later defeated by Britain...]

[Faced with the new world revealed during the Age of Exploration, that is, America... European countries began to occupy territory in America and develop... In this way, after about three hundred years of development, the population of America also increased. Coupled with the three hundred years of development, Europe was originally such a small place...]

[Your Hundred Years' War and Seven Years' War between England and France... generally speaking, it was also a fight for territory and the right to speak, and the wars led to the escape to America...]

[Anyway, after all the fighting and quarreling in the war... our America also gained independence in 1776...]

[Basically, the two hundred years from 1500 to 1700 were a period of development amidst conflict...]

[The protagonists are Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, etc., which take turns to become powerful. In 1707, England and Scotland officially merged into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and they became the protagonist and began to compete with France... Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, they completed the integration, defeated France and Spain, and officially began to set foot on maritime colonization! ]

[The outbreak of our War of Independence... can be regarded as the majority of countries bullied by Britain to fight against them. The result is... our America became independent, and France was seriously injured. If Britain had not entered the industrial age due to two hundred years of technological development during this period...]

[It is highly likely that Europe will still fall into a period of chaos...]

[However, he took advantage of the development of the industrial age and became the world's factory, with his hands on four continents... and became the empire on which the sun never sets! ]

[This is the era from 1500 to 1800 when the world was discovered, the human population increased, and humans spread all over the world except the Antarctic and the Arctic, slowly developing and laying the foundation for the world order! ]

【After 1800... science and technology exploded! The telegraph shortened the distance of human communication! The use of steam engines increased the speed of human feet and provided power... The popularization of education and the growth of human collective wisdom, all of these are the reasons for the dramatic changes that have taken place in the past century...】

[For example, before 1750...if a person could travel to different eras at any time, then...whether he went to France in 1600 or England in 1400, he could still live a normal life and would not notice any changes in the times and the world...]

[But people before 1750...if they came to America after 1840...they would be extremely uncomfortable! It's like going from the Stone Age of the tribal era to the era of His Majesty Li...]

[If His Majesty Li came to our America after 1840... he would be extremely uncomfortable! ]

[But if he went to the Qing Empire... he would not feel uncomfortable at all. ]

[Because... the East in 900 AD, in fact, and the East in 1900 AD... I don't think there is much difference! ]

[But the West in 1900 AD and America in AD... are two different new worlds and new realms! ]

[To us, you are all illiterate ancient people! ] Cleveland gave a general introduction to the development and changes of the world after 1500.

This unscientific introduction allowed group members to further understand the preliminary outline of the unprecedented major changes in the world.

"Unification, let us move towards stability... and then there won't be so much change?"

"And the West, instead of being unified from beginning to end, has brought more changes and variables?"

Cleveland's introduction undoubtedly gave Zhu Houzhao an epiphany.

He walked to the world map without realizing it, looking at the continents of the world.

Especially when looking at the Eastern Continent separated by mountains and oceans, I seemed to gradually understand it all.

"Ah Shou, it seems that..."

"They said..."

"In fact, we are two worlds, the East and the West, and we have taken two different paths?"

Xu Yunmiao also understood.

"Yes... It seems that we have been on the path of great unification since the time of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Until 1800, three hundred years after the Ming Dynasty, we in the East have always been in the leading position."

"After 1800...Westerners occupied such a vast land and ocean..."

"Plus, having sweet potatoes and potatoes will keep their people from starving to death..."

"They have so many people and use so many resources..."

“It seems destined that he will surpass us in the end.”

"After 1800, the Qing Empire...did not seem to go to the West to occupy these places, nor did they know that there was actually a wider territory in the world, which led to...they caught up."

With the help of the world map, Zhu Houzhao finally had a general understanding of the development trajectories of the East and the West.

"At present...in America, actually...these Westerners have not yet set foot..."

"It only took the United States a hundred years to swallow up such a large piece of land."

"If we allow Ming to occupy such a large piece of land from now on..."

"The equivalent of half of the world's resources... are also ours..."

"It will also take two or three hundred years from now to develop America..."

"In that case... our Eastern civilization will be able to continue to lead the world after 1800?"

Looking towards America, Zhu Houzhao also discovered that this unowned land of America had strategic significance for the future of the Ming Dynasty, no, for the entire Han nationality.

Zhu Houzhao fell into deep thought and considered the future of the Ming Dynasty.

In the chat group, the presidents also experienced an ideological baptism.

[Emperor Jefferson: After listening to what you said, Cleveland, I feel that... we, America, seem to be the catalyst for the development and progress of the world? No, it should be the entire South America, which is the catalyst for the development of our Western world? ]

Jefferson did not expect that Cleveland could jump to the Age of Discovery and talk about today's situation.

【Messerschmitt Roosevelt: I think so! After we became independent... I feel that the world has accelerated.】

[American British Cleveland: No, Roosevelt, you are wrong again! I feel that our American independence is not that great. It is the discovery of America and the greatness of Columbus! If America is not regarded as the East...]

[Uh... I feel like this is because of the East...]

[If the East had not been ahead of the world for a thousand or two thousand years...]

We wouldn't be so obsessed with him.

[Then...if the East is very backward, maybe...we won't be interested in external expansion.]

[If we hadn’t expanded, we wouldn’t have discovered the American continent. ]

[If the American continent had not been discovered, the potatoes and sweet potatoes given to us by God would not have been brought to the world. ]

[It is these two things that feed more people and allow more people to appear in this world...]

【When there are more people, our footprints will be everywhere in the world. 】

[And because of the social nature of human beings, sooner or later people will gather together to form organizations, city-states, countries...]

[The gunshots in Lexington may be accidental, but they are inevitable in the development of society...]

[Without Mr. Washington and his people establishing America, it is possible that with Majesty Louis and his people in France, France could have been established.]

These remarks made people feel a little strange in Washington.

[American Emperor Washington: Not really. We in the thirteen states of North America have a spirit of resistance, but Louisiana doesn't have that much of a spirit of resistance. France itself hasn't oppressed them either, so it's unlikely that France will do that.]

Cleveland's denigration of America made Washington feel a little uncomfortable.

[Mercy-Lord Lincoln: Wait, Cleveland, I also feel that your historical inference is problematic. There are Mexico and Canada, but they don't seem to be that good either. The development of the Brazilian Empire is not as good as our America...]

Lincoln also felt that Cleveland's statement made America too mediocre.

[Messiah Roosevelt: I think the doubts raised by President Cleveland and President Lincoln are reasonable... Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, etc. were founded only 20 to 30 years later than us, but... their development did not lead the world to change? Instead, we, America, have become unique.]

Roosevelt couldn't help but think carefully about this issue. Some countries in South America might be copies of France, Portugal, and Spain.

[American British Emperor Cleveland: Actually... the reason is very simple! We are the second, and I don't pay much attention to countries that are weaker than us... There is another important reason. In the past hundred years, we have basically followed the footsteps of Britain and France more thoroughly, especially the perspective of the British Empire... In addition, we are relatively independent and have a stable political system to support the United States. ]

[On the contrary... Argentina and Brazil, although they also had independence movements, they were comparing themselves to Spain and Portugal, which even allowed the military government to grow. Their mother countries were not doing well, so how could they develop?]

[We, America, do have a certain unique charm! ]

[This powerful gene...is probably injected into America by outstanding presidents such as President Washington, President Jefferson, and even President Jackson.]

【Mercius Lincoln: Wait a minute... Speaking of this, I'm reminded of the Brazilian Empire! They were also dependent on Britain in the early days... But Pedro I also became an emperor! If President Washington also took the path of monarchy... Will our America become like the Brazilian Empire in the future and become less powerful?】

Speaking of this, we finally talked about the history of some countries in South America.

The independence of the United States set an example for the South American colonies.

They subsequently became independent.

It is also an attempt to build a new country by referring to the model of America after its independence.

But they all have their own strengths. For example, the Portuguese royal family, which was reborn through a backdoor listing, went to Brazil to establish the Brazilian Empire. In fact, in another sense, they also took a similar path to becoming emperor.

This is the case with Pedro I, the founding father and monarch of the Brazilian Empire.

[Emperor Washington: Hmm? This Pedro I, did he implement a monarchy? ]

Washington was definitely curious.

[Louis XVI: Wait a minute... Brazil and Argentina popped up again. What kind of countries are these? Please stop adding new characters while you're chatting. I can't handle it anymore.]

As soon as the topic deviated slightly, Louis XVI immediately felt that his brain was not enough.

[American British Emperor Cleveland: Well, the topic has changed again... I won't elaborate on it! Anyway, in one sentence, it is... influenced by the successful founding of the United States and the enthronement of His Majesty Napoleon... the people in South America, which were originally colonies of Spain and Portugal, also rose up in rebellion, either establishing their own countries in the same way as the United States, or also adopting a monarchy...]

[That’s what I said… our American brothers…]

[But...whether it is Argentina, Mexico, or Brazil, they are not as well developed as America! ]

[They basically haven’t undergone any major changes over the past century…]

[A century of great changes has taken place in America, the country on which the sun never sets, and Germany...]

【This is a dramatic change in the 19th century! 】

[The dramatic changes of the 19th century belonged to Napoleon, Queen Victoria, and Prussia...]

[The dramatic changes of the 18th century belong to His Majesty Louis XVI, Queen Catherine, and our America...]

[As for the 20th century, the dramatic changes after 1900, I don’t know…]

Cleveland came to a conclusion that was like a closing statement.

(End of this chapter)