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[1200 Don't talk to Europeans about unification]

In European history, no unified monarch has ever been on the same rule as the same book, the same text, and the same railroad, forming an instable nation-state.

Moreover, Europe's economic foundation is not like China. The development of farming technology is very uneven, the animal husbandry seems to be good, the economic foundation is already mixed, and there are many ethnic groups.

Although China is also a multi-ethnic, the ethnic minorities in China are willing to convert to Emperor Taizong of Tang in Tiankhan.

In Europe, the power of religion is in the world. Everyone believes that God is equal to everyone. They want to fight for control of people's thoughts but can only preach.

Although there are religious wars and throne succession wars, Europe does not have a stable and unified powerful entity to promote great unification.

In general, European culture, economy, and ideas cannot be unified together.

Emperor Hua believed that the unification of Europe was a trend, and even the unification of the world was a trend, especially at the end of the 19th century, this great turning point in human history.

Because, Europeans believed that cannons were the best diplomacy of a country.

If Emperor Hua wants to reach an agreement with Carol I, to a large extent, he can only rely on military strength. However, the military strength of China is difficult to show in Europe.

Even if you recognize the many obstacles, you will still push forward firmly.

The geographical location of the European continent is very superior. In ancient Europe, Greece, Germany, Italy and France (Roman Empire) were seen in the Middle Ages, and in modern Europe and Britain, two great battles were the world!

Europe, full name is Europa, Europa is from Greek mythology, just like Chinese mythology and legends include: the Three Realms, the Five Continents, and the Western Paradise.

The area of ​​Europe is indeed not large in the eyes of the Chinese. Now that the whole of Europe has combined, it has not recovered the Chinese nationals in the area east of the Ural Mountains, let alone the Chinese nationals have also recovered Central Asia.

Many small countries in South Asia are also vassal states of China. Therefore, it makes sense for European powers to be wary of China. China does not have to be discouraged because its industrial foundation has just begun. China has a good foundation! Once it is exerted, it will look like, even Emperor Hua himself dare not imagine what it will be.

Europe starts from the Atlantic Ocean in the west, faces the Arctic Sea in the north, and faces Africa in the south through the Mediterranean Sea.

The Strait of Gibraltar is the dividing line between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean. The word "Gibraltar" itself comes from Arabic. The Arabic world in North Africa and the European world have confronted here many times, which has also caused chaos between Spain and Morocco for many years!

If the three directions of the west, north, and south are natural boundaries, then in my opinion, the East is more like the boundaries between race and geopolitical. The East is bounded by the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and Asia.

As the European headquarters with the Charlemagne as the main body has rejected the Slavs since ancient times. Think about the context of the two world wars - first the Germans aroused the Slavs, then the Slavs rose up to resist, and the last battle broke out, and then all those who took advantage of the situation and those who took advantage of the situation and fished for troubled waters joined in.

The Germans lost the war, then "slept on firewood and tasted gall", and finally World War II broke out. Then, this time, all the miscalculations of taking advantage of the situation and fishing for troubled waters could not afford Hitler's blitzkrieg. So the world war in the true sense was also the detonation of the War of the Century on Earth.

Perhaps only Europeans know the thoughts brought to Europeans by the two wars. The most hateful one is not the subject of the conflict. The two sides of the war are the third party watching the tiger fight across the mountain. The facts have proved that sooner or later they will have to pay back. If Iroku Yamamoto had not built Pearl Harbor, the United States might not have participated in the war.

From the two levels of tangible and intangible, from organic to inorganic, from politics to economy, from economy to politics, from politics to culture, from culture to politics, arrangement and combination, Europe is similar to the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: the three-dimensional integration of politics, economy, and culture.

The Hundred Years' War in Britain and France, the war between Prussia and France, and England and Scotland fought in an unparalleled battle on the British Isles.

The Yanggelu Saxons and Celtics, from the beginning of the fifth century AD to the completion of the British bourgeois revolution, these two national subjects continued to fight. Scotland achieved independence in 1314. On May 1, 1707, the United Kingdom of Queen Anne merged the Parliament of England and Scotland. The two sides gave up their independence and merged into the unified Kingdom of Great Britain, of course, merged with Wales later. So why did the two sides stop a hundred years of war? Because they had the same queen - h    macalpin!

Therefore, it can be seen from the different autonomous regions of European unified countries that European countries have a strong national consciousness.

The cute president divides European countries into small regions: Western Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and Southern Europe.

Western Europe mainly includes: Britain, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, and Monaco.

Among these countries, the main ethnic group of France is the French, as well as the Corsicans and the Brinis. This French nation is the descendant of the Gauls, so of course France is an independent state system.

The Irish nation was descended from the Celtics. Before 1922, Ireland belonged to the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Irish independence. After 1922, a new independent Kingdom of Ireland was established, and Ireland in the north continued to remain in the British Empire.

The main body of the Netherlands is the Dutch, and the ancestors of the Dutch were descendants of the Freis, Batavi, Frank, and Saxons of the Germanic tribe. The main ethnic groups of European countries are new national subjects produced by the integration of native European nations and foreign nations. At their roots, they are all descendants of several ancient nations (Germans, Slavs, Gauls, and Celtics). In a sense, they have the prerequisites to move towards unification.

However, Emperor Hua believed that at most it was local unification, and it was impossible to unify tens of millions of square kilometers together like China.

They lived in different regions and finally formed an independent national character. From this level, they already had the conditions to establish an independent regime.

Nordic and Nordic regions mainly refer to Scandinavia, including: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark.

The main ethnic groups of these five countries are basically descendants of the Vikings. Because the Vikings lived in Northern Europe with bitter and cold natural conditions for a long time, they were fierce by nature. So in the vision of the orthodox nations on the European continent, the Vikings and barbarians are inseparable from the perspective of the orthodox nations on the European continent!

This is a common understanding of history. Some winners are kings and losers are sighing!

Since Scandinavia is separated from its European territory, the main entities of the peninsula are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Nordic, Iceland, Denmark on the Jutland Peninsula, and Greenland Island, which is the territory of Danish.

Among these five countries, except Iceland is an independent island, the other four countries have influenced each other in the long history. One time Norway respects Denmark, and the other time Norway respects Sweden. Finland was ruled by Sweden in the 12th century. After the Russian-Swiss War in 1809, it was incorporated into the Imperial Russia as a whole.

If the effect of political marriage in ancient China was a helpless move made by the Central Plains dynasty due to the continuous infringement of the nomadic regime, then its effect in Europe was to strengthen Europe towards integration, so the European royal family interpreted the history of the separation and reunion of European countries.

In 1397, the Kalmar Alliance led by the Denmark Queen Margaret I was formed, and the three countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway formed an alliance, which lasted for 126 years.

Eastern Europe, the main countries Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Eastern European part of Russia.

These countries are basically descendants of the Eastern Slavs, and the Three Baltic Kingdoms and Belarus have many special features!

There are many unified history of small regions in European history, including the Roman Empire, the Frankish Kingdom, the Napoleon period, the Yugoslav Union, etc.

When talking about the current situation in Europe, we have to mention the Frank Kingdom. Starting from the fifth century AD, the Western Roman Empire was unable to rule Western Europe due to internal and external troubles. At this time, the Franks took the opportunity to expand their strength and establish a country. However, a decree of the Frank Kingdom completely changed the situation in Europe. That is, after the king's death, the sons divided their territory equally. In 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned and became the Charlemagne Empire. In 843, the empire was divided into three, becoming the prototype of the later French, German and Italian countries. This has to be said to be a historic "dividing up".

Central Europe mainly includes Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

The European continent faces the sea three times, with a terrain mainly based on plains, and the main landform factors are the Apennines, Iberian Peninsula, Balkans, Scandinavia, Greek Peninsula, Jutland Peninsula, Greenland, Iceland, etc. Based on the geographical conditions for forming civilization, Europe has a flat hinterland, including the Rhine River, the Danube River, and the Mediterranean once became the inland sea of ​​the Roman Empire.

Is the Roman Empire's rule in Europe considered a great unification in the practical significance of the European continent?

Huahuang believes that it should be counted.

If we count, then the only unified unification achieved by the European continent is the Roman Empire.

The scattered national system in Europe cannot be based solely on the general historical laws. The Mesopotamian civilization, the Indus River and the Ganges River created Indian civilization, the Egyptian civilization of the Nile River, the Yellow River, and the Chinese civilization of the Yangtze River Basin.

In modern history, which region had the earliest national awakening? The strongest national self-cognition awareness? The earliest national independence revolution began? The only answer is - Europe!

And European countries have completed the gorgeous transformation from the national independence revolution to the bourgeois revolution.

If an advanced social system combines rich capital accumulation and independent national subjects, will it promote the birth of a country?

Taking Central European countries as an example, Austria and Hungary were originally important parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Hungarians were descendants of the Huns defeated by the Han Empire. In 1867, Austria and Hungary formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed and Austria and Hungary split.

The two world wars had a profound impact on the territory of European countries. Without the two world wars, there would be no territory of European countries today.

Poland, a country in the middle of the Germanic and Slavic nations, the Poles are the Slavic nations. When we see that Hitler's angry gun was aimed at the first place during World War II, Poland (if Britain and France were a feud, and the Hundred Years' War was in conflict, Henry VI and Joan of Arc, one invaded and the other anti-aggressive). Then, the "invasive bag" of the European continent was Poland, invaded by Prussia and interfered by the Tsarist Russian Empress Ekaterina II. Since May 1772, Poland has been divided up three times, and the three culprits are Tsarist Russia, Prussia, and Austro-Hungary.

Why do Poland gets "beat up" from time to time? Poland is at the intersection of Europe and Warsaw is in the center of the intersection.

There are dangers all around you, and you are not afraid of cars or people beating them! Poland is constantly changing, but it has never been transformed by the surrounding ethnic groups!

European nations are rarely transformed by a powerful and culturally advanced nation. They always maintain the uniqueness of their own nation!

Therefore, when Emperor Hua intervened in European politics, he was cautious. Moreover, Emperor Hua did not rule the world with force. Emperor Hua was not Hitler or a psychopath. In the eyes of Emperor Hua, Hitler was an orthodox psychopath, and fascism could never be reliable!

Relying on one's own development to form a strong country so that all countries can be obedient in peace and mind, this is the direction of Emperor Hua, rather than everyone stepping on it.

Southern Europe is the most culturally influential region in Europe. Southern Europe, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Malta, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Slovenia. This is the core area of ​​Greek civilization and the Roman Empire. Greek civilization comes from the Minoan culture in Crete and the Mycenaean civilization in the Peloponnese Peninsula.

The Greek city-state gave Europeans the revelation: after the outbreak of the Hippolar War, Sparta and Athens abandoned their past grudges and formed a coalition force to resist foreign enemies.

From another perspective, it can be said that the Greek city-state system started the process of urbanization in Europe, and it was also a leading cultural factor that prompted the formation of political cognition among different ethnic groups in Europe and groups of different ethnic groups.

This does not exist in China at all. Even though the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty finally led to the disputes between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. After the unification of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang's county system was a work of heaven and man. He cleverly concentrated power to the central government and the Han Dynasty divided the kings. Later, it was not that King Liu Bi of Wu rebelled against the central government. However, we found that from this time on, the balance of power had turned to the central government, because the central government tightly grasped the finance and the main armed forces of the state. During the Western Han Dynasty, our salt and iron were monopoly, and this monopoly was just a state monopoly. This measure greatly increased the central government's wealth accumulation.

War is a contest of financial resources. Therefore, looking at Chinese history, unification-schizophrenia-unification.

The Roman Empire made its fortune in Italy. In 241 BC, after the Second Punic War, Sicily was included in the empire territory. In 202 BC, he defeated Carthage, Spain, and Greece under the rule of Caesar. Under the rule of Caesar, he conquered Gaul and Egypt. After Caesar's death, his adopted son Octavian took over Anthony and Egypt's Queen Cleopatra. In 27 BC, Octavian officially established the Roman Empire. Constantine declared Christianity the state religion. In 330 BC, Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium, and finally died in the Goths and Vandals.

To talk about the failure of the Roman Empire, it was that it did not strengthen centralization.

After conquering Egypt, Caesar fell into the gentle land of Cleopatra, and in the end Anthony actually had an affair with Cleopatra. He did not dismantle Egypt's resistance in time but allowed Cleopatra to continue to rule. So Cleopatra was so amazing that she dug a tomb for the Roman Empire.

This was the case with Rome over the conquered Gaul, Spain and England.

A country with two consuls must be a way to cause chaos. Zhao Kuangyin, the Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song Dynasty, has a famous saying - How can others snore on the side of the bed?

So sometimes Emperor Hua couldn't figure out the thinking of Europeans.

Moving the capital to Byzantium was also a failure of the Roman Empire. The Romans arrogantly believed that they could continue to move eastward with Byzantium as a springboard. Before it even started, the backyard caught fire!

Taking 395 as the boundary, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires were divided, but the Roman Empire after the division was like a fallen strongman. Anyone could come up and kick it, and the glory was gone from now on.

The demise of the Roman Empire tells us that Europe can have no Roman Empire, but it cannot have independent nations!

In modern times, southern Europe is also a tough place. We have to mention the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Without this unlucky country, the first real confrontation between China and the West would not be the Opium War, and it might have come early.

Because the Ottoman Empire mastered the main transportation routes and cut off trade and exchanges between the East and the West!

Later, the fuse of the First World War was ignited in Serbia, and the Slavs' alliance split and merged. The countries in this region mainly resisted the rule of the Ottoman Empire. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Albania successively achieved national independence, and Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Austro-Hungarian Empire were also able to get rid of Austro-Hungarian.

In terms of economy, from ancient times to the present, Europeans have rarely demarcated economic territory on the European continent, which means that the European countries we see today are only the main bodies of states under political factors.

So today the EU has banks, euros, and various services that facilitate economic exchanges between European countries.

In terms of culture, Europeans’ inheritance of Christian culture and talking about European culture cannot avoid religion. Christianity is indeed particularly complicated. From the founding of Jerusalem to the religious reforms initiated by Martin Luther and others in the 16th century, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxism, it put forward the advanced concept of "culture is determined by the state". The Reformation is of great significance to the birth of independent European countries! The Renaissance was carried out at the same time, and this revolution in the cultural circle prompted the later "Enlightenment Movement". At the same time, the Enlightenment Movement designated the direction for the European bourgeois revolution and the national revolutions of various countries. The national revolution and bourgeois revolution in European countries were basically carried out at the same time.

Europe has a flat land and a superior position, but there is never a unified central government and there are many small countries. If this phenomenon is put into China, such as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco... it would have been annexed for a long time, and Europe has decided in many aspects such as past and present life, economy, politics, and culture.

So Emperor Hua never thought of calling for unification with Europeans, and they even like anarchism!
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