I became famous for broadcasting my life as a social animal to different dynasties

[After a long sea voyage, the Portuguese fleet finally arrived at the port of Calicut in India, which was also the place where Zheng He demonstrated the power of the Ming Dynasty when he sailed to the West 70 years ago.]

[Unlike Zheng He, the Portuguese brought not only friendly greetings, but also missionary work and the plunder of resources. ]

How arrogant and how rampant!

Xie Jin's hair stood on end. For the first time, he deeply understood what civilization and a country of etiquette meant!

The purpose of Ming Dynasty setting sail 70 years earlier than Portugal was just to show the national power, but Portugal directly and undisguisedly plundered!

For a moment, he didn't understand which one could adapt to the new world better, the big country with a long history of civilization or the small country that had just been unified but had shown its sharp fangs.

And judging from the sky, it is obviously the latter!

Bandit-like plunder can create astonishing wealth, and this huge amount of wealth can enable this small country to develop more rapidly.

He thus stood above all the still ignorant countries and began to complacently formulate rules of the game that would bring him the greatest profits!

The more Xie Jin thought about it, the more frightened he became. While they were still immersed in their own world, others were already sharpening their knives.

[After nearly 100 years of arduous exploration, decades of accumulated knowledge and courage by European navigators began to transform into dazzling wealth. ]

Dazzling wealth?

Kangxi watched coldly, Tianmu's words were too mild, wasn't this wealth stained with blood?

No matter how mild the words are, they cannot conceal the nature of plunder.

He didn't believe that the locals were willing to give resources to the pirates.

Even the most uncivilized person knows to hold on to the thing that feeds him.

【Portugal's success inspired Spain to set out again, and Magellan began the first voyage around the world in human history.】

[Although he was unable to return to Spain, he illuminated the progress of human civilization. The new routes opened up by the navigator became the iron chain for Europe to control the world.]

[Under the fierce attack of powerful ships and guns, strategic points of maritime transportation became the possession of Portugal one after another.]

【It was through these strongholds that Grape Leaf monopolized the merchant shipping routes in half of the world and became the most powerful country in maritime trade at that time.】

[Compared to Portugal, Spain's plundering of the American continent was more direct. According to data, in more than a hundred years, Spain obtained tons of registered silver and 200 tons of registered gold from the Americas. In the later period, Spain accounted for 83% of the world's total gold and silver production. ]

The various dynasties were stunned by this horrifying number.

Tons of silver and 200 tons of gold!

Can you swallow this small country? Aren’t you afraid of choking to death?

What does this mean? The whole of Spain can use this to annex neighboring Portugal!

Ying Zheng's eyes turned red with envy, but when he thought about the situation at home, he suppressed his ambitions.

The foundation of the Qin Dynasty was not stable, and the remnants of the Six Dynasties were still hiding in the dark with evil intentions.

Liu Bang was also jealous, thinking that this money was so easy to make!

Zhang Liang, however, was unusually calm: There must be countless bones beneath those mountains of gold and silver.

How much blood and killing are hidden in those few plain words on the sky?

He suddenly thought of one thing. His former homeland was destroyed by the First Emperor. He overthrew the Qin Dynasty with a heart full of hatred. But in the long river of history, who would hear and see those lives that were destroyed by the rolling wheels of history?

Just as what was presented in later generations on the sky curtain, they only remembered the achievements of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in unifying the six kingdoms and the hundreds of years of glory of the Han Dynasty. What about those insignificant lives that were not even worth a mention in history books?

No one remembers.

Just like no one remembers the bones beneath the mountains of gold and silver.

History is written by the victors.

【The expansion of Europeans was accompanied by the tragedy of the two major civilization centers in the Americas.】

[War massacres and epidemics from Europe caused the local population to plummet, and the indigenous people of the American continent decreased by 90%. ]

It was indeed so! Zhang Liang felt chilled at the sight.

Even though that person was thousands of miles away and he had never met him, he was still shocked by it.

Liu Che shook his head. This was the reason why they were so backward in strength and could not withstand even the slightest storm from the outside world.

In this way, only through active external exchanges can we know what stage our own strength is at. Otherwise, if the Han Dynasty makes a move, wouldn’t the country be destroyed?

Cao Cao asked Guo Jia: "Feng Xiao, do you think I can be like that small country?"

"No." Guo Jia shook his head: "The Central Plains is vast and rich in resources. Moreover, nearly 100 years of exploration is not something that can be done by one country alone. It requires the entire country to formulate policies. That small country took this as its basic national policy."

However, Liu Bei was extremely disgusted. Didn't those local people have their own lives? It was not the behavior of a wise ruler to take human lives so lightly.

Zhuge Liang shook his head: "My Lord, for those two small countries, the huge wealth brought back by the navigators is the most correct decision made by their wise rulers. Others are not in their consideration."

[However, although the Iberian Peninsula conquered the ocean and gained the world, the wealth that poured in like a tide was almost all used to support religious beliefs, rather than to develop industry and commerce that could truly make the country rich and strong.]

[The powerful princes and nobles did not want to see the development of industry and commerce, and they even drove away tens of thousands of foreigners engaged in industry and commerce.]

【They gradually got used to not investing in their own industries but buying expensive foreign goods instead. 】

【Over time, domestic industry has shrunk drastically, the currency has depreciated sharply, and people are still addicted to consumption. 】

[An institution is likely to die because of its inability to change, and these two countries declined because of their inability to change.]

【Thus, the Iberian Peninsula, which once had countless gold and silver and a powerful state machine, began to fall. 】

! ! ! !

The various dynasties were caught off guard and saw this result.

Is the curtain down?

Is this extinction or decline?

Hundreds of years of navigation and exploration, conquering the world's oceans, obtaining countless gold and silver, and then it was gone just like that?

This is incredible!

Li Shimin saw the sentence: Industry and commerce can really make the country rich and strong. His heart beat violently. Industry and commerce! Can make the country truly rich and strong!

So the question is, what is industry and commerce?

Does Gong mean craftsman? Does Shang mean merchant?

How can craftsmen and merchants make the country strong and prosperous? So how can we develop...

Li Shimin discussed the matter in detail with his ministers.

Zhao Kuangyin was very surprised: it rose so vigorously and declined so quietly?

Were all those gold and silver used to worship Buddha?

What about the army and people's livelihood? Don't you think about it? It's like a dandy boy who spends money like water, and when the money is gone, he becomes poor...

Kublai Khan sneered: Sure enough, a country without a strong cultural heritage is just a flower stand, no matter how much gold and silver it has, it will be useless.

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt fortunate that he had fallen, otherwise the Ming Dynasty might have become a terrible colony.

Kangxi did not feel relieved at all. Although these two countries declined, a more powerful country would rise again soon.

For example, France under Louis XIV...

Yong Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If they hadn't declined, he would have really become weak...

The Qing Dynasty is already full of uprisings, and if two more sharp fangs appear, he really won't be able to keep this country...

Damn it! Whoever wants to be the emperor can do it!

The people who watched the whole process: …

Does this mean that these two countries are doomed again?

That’s great! Our already difficult life cannot be made worse by the presence of foreign predators!

Well done!