Chapter 264 (Big Chapter)

News of Huo Hai’s position spread throughout Chang’an.

Duke of Anguo, Grand Marshal, General of Chariots and Cavalry, and Prime Minister.

He is not only a duke, an independent country, but also the Grand Marshal who can mobilize troops from all over the world, and the Prime Minister who oversees all political affairs of the world.

What’s the difference between this and regent? Isn’t this just a fake emperor?
This is one level higher than the fake jiyue.

This is equivalent to a long-term use of the imperial power.

Moreover, the temporary imperial seal and axe are usually granted only when the person is on a diplomatic mission, but Huo Hai is now the temporary imperial seal and axe holder who can be used anytime and anywhere for a long time.

In other words, as long as the emperor is not around, Huo Hai has the final say.

In addition, after the restoration of the fifth-rank duke title, the Han Dynasty now has twenty-one ranks of nobility. Currently, there are four dukes, all of whom are from the Weihuo family.

Wei Qing was the Duke of Khan, Huo Qubing was the Duke of Xia, Huo Hai was the Duke of An, and Huo Hai’s son Huo Yan was the Duke of Nan.

However, there are only three dukes in the court now, and Huo Yan has not been in the court for a long time.

In addition to this news, there was also news that Princess Wei Chang became the head of the country.

The Minister of State, Pinxu and Regent are equivalent to those who have an overall view of the political affairs of the Han Dynasty and Huazhou.

What’s the difference between this and the emperor?
“Why did His Majesty the Emperor give Huo Hai and his wife each a fake emperor position? What for?”

“Don’t you understand? Our prince is probably unlucky. I’m afraid our Han Dynasty will have an empress.”

“Alas, is there a prince who has been a prince for thirty years in this world?”

“Correction: thirty-six years.”

“That’s right. The prince didn’t become the crown prince until he was six years old.”

What people who understand talk about is not the same topic as what people who don’t understand so well.

The other restaurant has a completely different style.

“Although Huo Hai holds a high position, he has never appeared in Chang’an in recent years. Can he convince the public?”

“That’s hard to say. I went out to work for three years and was almost bitten by my own dog when I came back. The old dog forgot about me, let alone the court?”

“Ten years. How many decades are there in a lifetime? I’m afraid few people take Huo Hai seriously.”

The old people in Chang’an shook their heads when they heard this.

“Old man, what do you mean by shaking your head?”

Old man: “Do you know how many of the dozen or so ministers in the current dynasty were trained by Huo Hai himself?”

“You don’t know, right? Do you know that when the Jingzhao Yin of Chang’an was 18 years old, he served under Lord Huo? You don’t know?”

“Do you know who established the parliament? Do you know who proposed the new law? Do you know how the new business reform came about?”

“Do you know where the chairs and tables you sit on, the bowls and chopsticks you eat with, and the wine you drink come from?”

Someone added: “Even the peanuts you eat were brought back by Lord Huo Hai.”

The person eating laughed and said, “You are framing me again. I don’t know peanuts. Aren’t peanuts brought back by General Ge San from South America?”

The old man said, “Then did you know that Ge San was just a soldier at first, and he was only made a marquis after he followed Huo Hai, the commander of the Imperial Guard, to the north to the Xiongnu?”

The people eating were stunned for a moment and then sneered: “It’s as if you saw it with your own eyes.”

“If you say that when Master Ge was a guard in the Imperial Guard, his achievements were attributed to Huo Hai, then I understand where Huo Hai’s achievements came from. He kept switching positions, didn’t he create achievements?”

The people of New Chang’an laughed loudly.

Old man: “When you look at it from the side, it’s a mountain, and when you look at it from the front, it’s a peak. It looks different from different distances and heights. I can’t see the true face of Mount Lu because I’m inside it.”

People of this era cannot feel the greatness of Huo Hai, simply because Huo Hai has not yet become history, so history classes have not had time to teach Huo Hai’s history.

At this time, a soldier hurried into the house and knelt on one knee when he saw the old man: “General, the camp has received an order to reorganize and set out to rescue the Yellow River flood. The things you want will have to be delayed.”

The old man stood up and helped the soldier up: “Tell your general that disaster relief is urgent. Go.”

The old man stood up and said, “I’ll find a way to get what I want.”

After the old man left, the soldier who brought the news also had to leave.

The curious diners stopped him and said, “This gentleman!”

The soldiers stopped.

Diner: “That old man was a general? What kind of general?”

The soldier bowed his hands in the air and saluted: “Of course it’s the South American general.”

After he left, the others came to their senses: “Was that Lord Ge Sange, the Northern Marquis just now?”

“Master Ge should be less than fifty, why does he look so old?”

“Spending a long time at sea, feeling the sea breeze, and guarding the sea borders, what do you think?”

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. So, even the South American general Ge San attributed the merit of sea exploration to Huo Hai?

Fortunately, ten years is not very far away, twenty years is not far away either, and twenty-five years is a little bit far away, but fortunately, people now live longer, and most of the people back then are still alive.

Everyone recalled Huo Hai’s achievements.

At the age of seventeen, he invented a process for treating coal toxins, took charge of Chang’an County, lifted the ban on business, reformed the streets, promoted business reform experiments, and proposed scientific, educational, cultural and health goals.

In just one year, Chang’an County surpassed Wannian County, which had a similar foundation, by a thousand times.

In just two years, Chang’an County’s tax revenue directly exceeded the tax revenue of the entire Han Dynasty.

He led technological innovation, developed firearms, laid the first railway in Dahan, built the first joint venture company in Dahan, and established the Dahan Stock Trading Center.

Develop armaments, improve logistics, and lead the Han army to directly crush the Huns.

Build canals, build roads, and build new houses.

Promoted the construction of Shuofang, launched the Westward Movement to develop the Western Regions, led the steamship project, and led the project to explore the New World.

Promoted new medicine, developed shipping, opened banks…electrical engineering.

Until ten years ago, the washing machine was invented.

From that day on, Wu Hou disappeared in Chang’an.

People who realized it later discovered that when Huo Hai was there, Chang’an developed rapidly, but now that Huo Hai is not around, Chang’an’s development is actually slowing down.

Because at that time, a huge amount of new things appeared every year, which was shocking.

Now, although the economy is still developing rapidly, it is indeed reaping the dividends of the time, and the pace of scientific and technological innovation has slowed down a lot in recent years.

Now that Lord Huo has returned to his Chang’an City, is an era of prosperous development coming again?

At this time, Huo Hai had returned home and began to take over the data reports of these years.

After Xiang Xu finished speaking, he concluded: “We believe that the Han Dynasty has been absorbing the welfare of the world, and the current welfare is enough to last for 30 years without deflation breaking out.”

“If we relax the food program and continue to stimulate population growth in the parts of Europe and Africa that we are about to conquer, we are unlikely to be threatened by deflation for fifty or even a hundred years.”

Huo Hai shook his head.

Economic laws are economic laws. Now we can use our power to digest the world’s fluctuations to resist such fluctuations. Even if we can’t see the fluctuations, they will disappear.

However, the waves will always hit the shore, and when they hit the shore, it becomes the ebb and flow of the tide.

What thirty or fifty years.

In the tenth year after unifying the world, deflation is bound to break out.

Even if you dominate the world, you will still have a lot of profits.

In fact, the current group of wealthy people in the Han Dynasty has roughly taken shape in the past twenty years.

It will be difficult for those who are not granted a title of nobility now to do so in the future.

It will be difficult for those who are not billionaires now to become billionaires in the future.

And those who are granted titles of nobility now will only have a few more marquises in their family after they have digested the world in the next ten years.

And today’s billionaires will grow into tens of billions and hundreds of billions in this process.

By then, the tycoon with hundreds of billions of dollars will truly be a tycoon with assets worth over 100 million Chinese yuan.

After unification, deflation will inevitably come in another ten years.

Huo Hai: “No need to discuss, everything will be carried out according to my instructions. All territories outside Huazhou will start to use the Han currency system from now on. If you don’t accept it, you will die. After we take it back, we will directly send royal family members and marquises to take charge.”

“Everywhere began to collect heavy commercial taxes and store some of them as reservoirs.”

As soon as deflation comes, the water accumulated in the global pool will be immediately released into the Han pool.

The thirteen core states of the Han Dynasty will naturally not lack water.

As for the fact that the outflow of money will lead to more money circulating in other places outside the Han Dynasty, causing the prices of various raw materials they produce to start to rise, those are all small matters.

Because the final cost will be borne by all people in the non-Thirteen States region.

When they suffer hardships, their days are difficult and they can’t bear it anymore.

Deflation in the Han Dynasty ended and began a cycle of inflation.

A large amount of Chinese currency will be invested in these places to find a new round of profit points, and their economy will naturally be boosted.

And each pulsation process is a process of global inflation.

That is the process of plundering the whole world.

And with inflation, the percentage of wealth held by the original billionaires is decreasing.

This system is definitely a virtuous cycle for the Thirteen Provinces of the Han Dynasty.

For the world, this cycle is a tight ring that tightens every ten years.

However, they are now eating raw meat and drinking blood, and are at a stage where the survival rate of their children is less than half. Why would they not accept working every day and having enough food and clothes, but having one difficult year every ten years?

Xiang Xu put away the notebook: “Prime Minister, there is also the issue of workers…”

Wu Da came in and said, “Sir, General Nanmei is here to visit.”

Huo Hai: “Please.”

After Ge San entered the room, he bowed and saluted: “Commander-in-chief!”

Huo Hai smiled and said, “Ge San, you are already an old general, why are you still calling me Commander-in-Chief?”

Ge San: “Leading the Han people is also a leader.”

Several people laughed.

Ge San: “I originally went back to Chang’an to ask for people, money, and technology, but I didn’t expect to meet the Prime Minister returning to the court. Now I have a place to go.”

Huo Hai: “What’s the matter?”

Ge San narrated the story again.

It turns out that the Han Chinese who are now digging for silver and other things in South America rely on the natives to carry them to the east coast of the Pacific Ocean in baskets.

If you take a boat, after getting on the boat, you have to go around South America before you can reach Central America, and then you can go to Dahan.

This will waste several months and the transportation cost will be extremely high.

If it is the first case, there is a shortage of people in South America now, and even if a large number of people from the Sushen and Xianbei regions go there, it will not be enough.

But if we use shipping, there are not enough ships and the transport capacity is insufficient.

So, Ge San wanted to build a canal.

In this way, ships on the Atlantic coast of South America can go directly through the canal to the Pacific coast, thus solving the transportation problem.

Huo Hai: “So you want people and technology to build a canal?”

Ge San nodded.

Huo Hai: “This matter is both troublesome and simple.”

Ge San was puzzled.

Huo Hai: “There are a lot of people in Europe and Africa.”

Currently, the names for Europe and Africa have been determined.

Ou, the same as ou, is the same word used by the Yue State in the past. The ou in beat means to hit by a hammer.

Europe, which means where the barbarians with hammers live.

Africa, a name given by Nasus, means that this continent is the area where Egypt is located, but there is no civilization beyond the northern desert.

It’s not Huo Hai’s fault. Europe was named based on what the Romans said, meaning the land of barbarians, and Africa means the land of uncivilized people.

Nasus also gave them names.

According to the old Han custom of naming people Xiongnu and Qiang.

Call Europeans foreigners.

Ocean means the other side of the ocean. People are like sheep. Sheep are cold-blooded animals among warm-blooded animals and have no emotions.

Among the six domestic animals, why is the sheep used as a symbol of princes?

It’s because the sheep are not well-trained. No matter how many years you raise them, they may jump up and hit you.

Therefore, foreigner is an insulting word.

Of course, when Europeans learned that they were called foreigners, they did not necessarily know that this was a derogatory term for them.

The Huns knew this because they learned Chinese, but Europeans had no chance to learn it.

It wouldn’t be a big deal if someone learned some knowledge from foreign sources and spread it in Europe.

Because I have a great scholar to debate the scriptures for me, and according to the interpretation that Qiang people are shepherds, foreigners can also be interpreted as people who raise sheep on the other side of the sea.

That way it’s not insulting.

Africans are called black people. Of course, that is the name used in Africa. If they come to the Han Dynasty, they are called Kunlun slaves.

Why would Huo Hai agree to be called like this?

Because Huo Hai wanted future generations to remember that foreigners are hard to tame.

The foreigners are a little better. Huo Hai doesn’t want to kill them, otherwise he would be the same as the Japanese.

But that doesn’t mean Huo Hai will let them have an easy time.

Huo Hai told Ge San that as long as they took over Rome, they could take over the European continent. Then they could get foreigners from Europe and send them to North America to build railways and to South America to dig canals.

In previous lives, when foreigners were powerful, they treated the Chinese in the same way.

But the difference is that we have a solid foundation and finally recovered, so we will continue to criticize the big railway issue again and again, and this matter will never end.

Foreigners will never be able to get up under Huo Hai’s system. They will only feel proud that they once built the great railway.

As for sins…

It’s okay. The Feather Tribe will celebrate Thanksgiving for them, thanking them for their hard work, dedication and sacrifice, which brought the great railway to North America, the canal to Central America, and the great port to South America. Ge San calculated the days and said, “I’m afraid I may not live to see that day.”

I’m almost fifty.

After we take over Europe, we will pull people from Europe to North America, and then we will bring them to America to work on these big projects.

This will take at least thirty to fifty years, right?
Huo Hai: “Good food is worth a day. As long as you make a good start, things will be done naturally.”

Ge San was stunned for a moment, then nodded: “That’s right.”

Huo Hai knew why Ge San was so anxious to make a contribution.

The probability of an excellent person giving birth to an excellent son is not high.

Ge San didn’t meet him.

His son is not very smart.

He was also anxious to raise a grandson.

Now it seems that although my grandson is not stupid, he will not be able to achieve anything great.

Therefore, Ge San wanted to make more achievements so that his descendants could enjoy a peaceful life.

If a piece of land near the sea in South America was granted to Ge San as a fiefdom, his descendants could collect 1% of the local commercial tax for family use, and they would never be short of money again.

It’s that simple.

But some things cannot be completed in a short time.

Huo Hai patted Ge San on the shoulder and said, “I will mention this to His Majesty. Your fiefdom will be moved to South America.”

Xiang Xu: “Among the six states in the world, Huazhou comes first, followed by Asia, then South America, then North America, then Africa, and finally Europe. It is better to choose Asia and South America for the title of nobility.”

Huo Hai shook his head.

If Huo Hai had not realized the existence of geographical determinism after all these years, he would be a fool.

South America and Africa are really not suitable places for struggle.

When you go out, you will see stupid monkeys breaking bananas on the trees. With one arrow, the monkeys and bananas will be taken away together. You can be home in five minutes after going out… How can you struggle?

Although this is not all, geographical determinism accounts for at least 30% of the factors.

The remaining 70% is genes.

If Huo Hai were to choose for himself, his first choice would be an oil-producing area, his first choice would be Parthia, his second choice would be North America, and his third choice would be the North.

If we want to predict the future, Huo Hai would still be better at predicting North America.

But rest in peace that place exists specifically for a piece of cloth on the head.

It is easy to mine and has abundant reserves.

The future era of oil will last at least 200 years, right? Let your own descendants create it for 200 years.

As for North America, try to get Huo Kun to go to the Lone Star State.

Life may be difficult for ordinary people in these places, but if you are a noble, you can just lie down and count your money.

After so many years, Huo Hai has roughly sensed some things.

Some things can’t be changed.

I am accelerating the arrival of the era of the aristocratic families.

Moreover, the better the Weihuo family does, the greater the possibility that foreign relatives will take power in the future.

After reading history, do later emperors need to think about it? They can just pick out all the relatives by marriage and expect them to be their bosses.

In this case…the emergence of Wang Mang is inevitable.

Even if Huo Hai killed Wang He, there would be a Li Mang, Yang Mang, or Zhao Mang in the future, and they might be even more rebellious and abstract than the rebellious Wang Mang.

Therefore, Huo Hai had to find a way to ensure one thing.

That is, after the catastrophe of that absurd social experiment, the world is still firmly in the hands of the Han people.

As for the rest, it all depends on fate.

Speaking of destiny, Huo Hai couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

This old guy Dong Zhongshu is over eighty years old and still alive.

He also does research.

The research is called fatalism.

It has the same name as the previous theory of destiny, but the content is completely different.

In his new theory of destiny, Dong Zhongshu attached great importance to logic.

Didn’t he come up with a theory that conforms to scientific logic?

Because he was familiar with scientific logic, he came up with a logically self-consistent theory that could not be overturned.

The new theory of fatalism believes that there is a certain destiny among all things in the universe. This destiny is real, but it conforms to the objective laws of basic physics of the universe.

Simply put, two people with the same birth, same age, same appearance, same education level, same hometown, and same family.

The final outcome may be that one person keeps meeting noble people and eventually climbs very high, while the other remains poor all his life.

This is destiny.

Before destiny happens, no one knows how to find it.

When it happens, it is the time of destiny.

Destiny is the basic natural law, a collection of laws that inevitably arise from the operation of the current cosmic environment.

The emergence of the Han Dynasty was in line with destiny.

How to refute this theory? !
This set is too outrageous.

At the same time, Dong Zhongshu also put forward a set of maxims.

That is to say, once certain words are born and resonate with destiny, they will become entangled with destiny.

For example, when apes stand up in the trees, they have already overlapped halfway with humans’ destiny.

When certain apes came down to the ground and still stood, their destiny had completely overlapped with that of humans, and they became humans.

For example, the name of the Han Dynasty was Han, which was a reference to the trajectory of the Milky Way in the sky, so the Han Dynasty was the final destiny under this starry sky.

If his stuff can be refuted, it can only be refuted when humans leave the Milky Way and move to new territories.

Anyway, Huo Hai couldn’t refute it.

This thing has the ability to evolve. What should I do?
Dong Zhongshu had already thought of this all along. What he had been studying at home over the years was not how to fool people, but how to use words and sentences to write his theories into a book, making it impeccable and impossible to refute.

Huo Hai was also helpless.

Newton spent his later years studying theology. Niu Dong was even more amazing. He understood it better than Newton and he created theology.

As soon as the theory of destiny came out, Confucianism directly adopted it.

The Confucianism that is now expanding outward has used the theory of destiny as a club.

Although Huo Hai does not believe in the theory of fatalism.

But Huo Hai also has his own beliefs.

Huo Hai began to believe that the wheel of history seemed to be moving forward in the same rut.

However, Huo Hai did not try to cause trouble.

Huo Hai now has only three simple ideas.

First, the Han people will always live better than other people.

Second, the descendants of the Huo family live better than other Han people.

Third, no one can resist the first one.

After making a promise with Ge San, Huo Hai began to summon all the generals to arrange disaster relief.

In fact, he was also planning to send troops to the west.

This time, it will take a long time. If I don’t fully digest Parthia and Rome, it will be a failure!

So, there is a lot of preparation to be done this time.

Huo Hai’s ultimate goal is to digest Parthia and Rome in one fell swoop and make all their cultures disappear.

For this purpose, Huo Hai also prepared a good thing.

That is to ‘invent’ a language yourself.

Of course Huo Hai cannot invent a language. He only knows one language other than Chinese, which is English.

Originally, Huo Hai had no idea what he could do with this thing in his life, such as whether he could use it to buy fried rice when traveling abroad.

I get it now.

English was to exist as the language of Europe’s slaves.

In order to divide these places, Huo Hai planned to use English grammar and letters to create various languages.

Let Europe remain a fragmented Europe.

As for the differences between these languages ​​and the German, French, Italian and Spanish in previous lives, that is none of Huo Hai’s business. It is something for others to study.

In addition to handling state affairs, Huo Hai now teaches English at the International College.

To destroy a culture, the most important thing is to destroy their language.

Although English has a little connection with them.

But… they themselves don’t know.

All they know is that the language they are learning is a variant of the Great Han Mongolian Pinyin.

The reason why we teach them English is that the English language is extremely perverted.

It is a specially designed tool for ruling.

Specially used for industry isolation.

In English-speaking countries, people from different industries speak to each other as if they were speaking two different languages.

Different from the Chinese words ‘车’, ‘汽车’, ‘火车’, ‘风麻’, the English words are ‘vehicle’, ‘car’, ‘train’, ‘windmill’.

Unless one sees the real thing, English speakers would never guess that a car and a train have anything in common.

People who learn English will never know that raisins are made of grapes.

Not to mention wine.

This means that people who learn English need to learn a lot of professional terms as industry tools when it comes to a specific industry.

The process of learning these languages ​​is a natural moat.

If you want to learn these things, pay for it.

Once these things become a business, it will be a pipe dream for English-speaking people to surpass the Han people in science.

Even the poorest and most remote mountain villages in the Han Dynasty may give birth to scientific giants, but people who study English have no way to change their destiny even if they want to learn it.

More importantly, Huo Hai forbids people outside Huazhou from learning Chinese. Even if someone secretly learns Chinese, how much can they learn? They definitely cannot learn all the scientific knowledge in the industrial sector.

If you haven’t learned everything, how much can you teach if you continue teaching?
How risky is it to learn secretly?

If it is spread internally in English, how difficult would it be to learn secretly through a barrier?

All of this was designed by Europe and the United States in the past in order to turn education into an industry.

When they discovered that the people who achieved results in all walks of life were Chinese, and that the confrontation between Europe, America and Dragon Country had turned into a confrontation between the Chinese and Dragon Country people, it was already too late.

It’s hard to return.

In this world, Huo Hai put three layers of dog chains on all the slaves from the beginning.

If anyone could break free.

Then congratulations.

You are the chosen one, and you are qualified to live a good life in the Han Dynasty.

However, your children cannot stay in Dahan.

By the way, he can’t learn Chinese unless he goes through your meritorious service again.

The most he was allowed to do was become a rich man.

What? How many generations of rich people have been passed down?

Sorry, outside of the Han Dynasty, there is a heavy inheritance tax.

No one can be extremely wealthy for three generations.

If so, then there is something wrong with the gene and the animal must be slaughtered.

This set of things were invented in Europe and the United States, and Huo Hai pushed them to the limit.

It’s not that Europe and the United States don’t want to reach their limits, it’s that they don’t have the ability to reach their limits. After the transposition, those who should reach their limits must reach their limits.

As for why Huo Hai did not directly clear the living space, it was because there must always be slaves, and the enslaved people should never be Han people.

Huo Hai admitted that this evil system, which had almost no loopholes, was evil.

But this system is so powerful that it is almost impossible to break from the outside.

If it is breached from the inside, it doesn’t matter where.

As long as they persist long enough, the technological gap between Hanhuazhou and other continents in the world is too long. Even if the rules are broken, they will not be able to catch up in a short time.

As long as the rulers of Huazhou discover the problem and find that it was a mistake to break the rules, they will inevitably restore the rules.

This is the set of rules that Huo Hai designed for this world.

Now, we need to teach the dog how to understand “suck, suck, suck”.

No, dogs are actually sensitive to the sound of “sucking”. You don’t need to put in any effort. Just tease them a little and they will learn it.

Huo Hai was making various preparations for war and preparing to destroy the two civilizations of Parthia and Rome.

Huo Qubing is sharpening his spear.

I haven’t been out for twenty years.

No one has ever seen Huo Qubing achieve his full potential after the age of forty.

Huo Hai has never seen it.

Huo Qubing himself had never seen it.

(End of this chapter)