[While Portugal was exploring the ocean, Spain was rising.]

[Queen Isabella led Spain to capture Granada, and the eight-century-long war was declared over.]

【At this time, the turning point of history came. Queen Isabel summoned Columbus. Before this, Portugal's rapid rise relying on sea power made the whole of Europe jealous.】

【However, the lack of financial, material and human resources has deterred Europe from doing so. 】

[Columbus's rich sailing experience in Portugal enabled him to bargain with the Spanish royal family, and the queen did not think there was anything wrong with sitting down with an ordinary citizen to discuss the issue of interest distribution.]

Ying Zheng thought of the Queen Dowager Xuan, who served as regent when the King of Qin was young. She actively expanded the territory of Qin, destroyed Yiqu, and established new counties.

Which one is not a praiseworthy achievement?

Capable women have never been a minority, only those who have the opportunity to display their talents are a minority.

Queen! Lü Zhi clenched her hands.

There is actually a country ruled by a queen!

And their country recognized her rule. There was even a statue of her meeting a man named Columbus in the square!

Lu Zhi's thoughts were suddenly like a stormy sea. Queen...

Liu Bang couldn't imagine what kind of woman it would be to be a queen, and she actually had a husband!

Is her husband inferior to her?

Madam Qi observed Liu Bang's expression and gently poured tea for him, presenting it respectfully with both hands.

Liu Bang came back to his senses and saw Concubine Qi's charming face. He smiled, thinking that his beauty was still so pleasing to the eye!

Liu Che frowned: What queen? It's ridiculous that a woman can rule a country!

Cao Cao: A queen who could humble herself and discuss things with the people, with such a character, it’s no wonder she was the one who unified the country.

[The Spanish royal family signed an agreement with Columbus, in which he was appointed as the commander of the land of discovery, and could obtain one-tenth of all wealth and goods obtained from the land of discovery and be tax-free. In addition, he could collect one-eighth of the profits of ships that sailed to this territory in the future.]

All dynasties and merchants were instantly in an uproar!

what?

One tenth of all wealth and goods obtained from the place of discovery, tax-free! Is there such a thing?

This is simply unbelievable!

The merchants were both jealous and yearning. What kind of country was that that could give such huge benefits to the people and even collect one-eighth of the tax from other countries bound for the territories!

For a while, the merchants were talking about it like crazy!

The king and his ministers frowned: What's going on with this queen and the royal family?

With such concessions, aren’t you afraid that the other party’s wealth will even exceed the national treasury in the future?

You must know that all businessmen value profit!

The huge profits can drive them crazy.

Scholars also disagreed. If everyone was like this, who would be willing to study and farm? They would all become businessmen.

【After a long sea voyage, Columbus finally saw land, the Bahamas in North America. From this moment on, the divided world began to connect together.】

Zhu Di's whole body was cold. Their original target was the East...

East, Ming Dynasty...

While he was still immersed in the title of Emperor Yongle, there were already people who were eyeing his country covetously.

The opportunity hasn’t come yet, but what about next time?

They finally arrived, in the later Qing Dynasty...

[The news that Spain successfully discovered the New World shocked the whole of Europe. Queen Isabella fulfilled all the material and spiritual rewards given to Columbus. The King of Portugal regretted it because it was he who had rejected Columbus's request to sail west.]

【The theory of the sea at that time was that whoever discovered it would own it.】

【So under the auspices of the Pope, Portugal and Spain signed a treaty stipulating that the East belonged to Portugal and America belonged to Spain.】

[The significance of this treaty in Western civilization is that it established a precedent for the division of colonies among major powers.]

[This trend reached its peak in the subsequent Treaty of Berlin. European countries sat together to divide up all the known and unknown places in the world. This formed the prototype of the current world pattern.]

【We can say that the global expansion of the Western world began with this treaty. 】

[The rules of the game have been set, and now it depends on who can act faster. ]

Kangxi felt like he was falling into an icy cave. It turned out that in the eyes of those Western countries, his early morning meal was their meal...

The West, missionaries...

Those so-called great powers were not even as big as a province of the Qing Dynasty, but they relied on the power in their hands to decide the fate of the Qing Dynasty!

And his Qing Dynasty is what they call a colony!

colony!

A colony that doesn't even deserve a name!

Kangxi thought sadly of the various humiliating treaties, ceding territory and paying indemnities, and all kinds of humiliation in the later period. That was the end of becoming a colony...

"Someone is coming."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"From today on, send more people to the West to study, and make sure to bring back the most advanced technology. Also, find a way to keep all the missionaries here. The Western countries cannot know any news about the Sky Curtain."

"I obey your order." The palace servant retreated hurriedly.

Kangxi fell silent again.

Zhu Di was so angry that he was shaking all over. What right do they have to make the rules?

Why do they divide up the world when no one else knows about it?

Great power, is it because we, the Ming Dynasty, have lost the ocean that we are no longer a great power?

Global expansion, what an aggressive word!

Kublai Khan was more solemn than ever: they were the ones who made the rules of the game, and they had already begun to expand!

The later Central Plains dynasties were doomed.

Zhao Kuangyin's lips trembled: Big countries make the rules!

In the eyes of those great powers, even the later dynasties as large as the Central Plains were nothing more than colonies to be conquered...

If they had unified and become strong earlier, his Song Dynasty would have become a colony of those Western countries before the Jin people invaded.

Li Shimin took a deep breath. Only the strong can make the rules!

Then we, the Tang Dynasty, will make our own rules!

Guo Jia was shocked by what he saw. This, this is the rise of a great power...

It was a rise that he had never imagined. It was not about focusing on domestic development, various measures, or recuperation, but about external aggression and expansion!

Directly plundering the wealth of other lands is simply the rise of bandits!

The entire country’s basic national policy is to become a sea pirate!

No wonder they were able to expand across the globe, accumulating wealth from long-term plunder to an astonishing level, and then began to make rules.

Cao Cao looked on coldly: the Central Plains dynasty under Confucian rule was no match for this kind of bandit.

Liu Bei was stunned. How could there be such a country...

Zhuge Liang felt regretful in his heart that he lost the opportunity to become a rule maker just because of falling behind once.

Liu Che didn't understand: Why did the Central Plains dynasty, which had experienced generation after generation of dynasties, fall behind that small bandit-like country?

Is it just because of their fleet on the ocean? But after such a long sea voyage, how many people will be left when they reach the destination?

No matter how many there are, they cannot match the local people's advantages in terms of territory and numbers. How did they conquer those places?

Liu Bang let go of Madam Qi's hand and hurried to find Zhang Liang.

Ying Zheng looked at the gray sky outside the palace and thought: I am the one who makers the rules of this world!

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