4360 (AD 1663), August 15th.

Today is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, the day when wanderers return home.

Even a wanderer who cannot return home will still send a telegram or write a letter.

Zhao Yuguang, a professor of history at Huaxia University, chose to give an open class to college students who could not go home during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Professor Zhao Yuguang is a retired staff officer and a specially appointed expert of the General Staff Department of the Metropolitan Government.

He is not like many university professors today who only know empty talk.

Professor Zhao Yuguang, who is over 50 years old, has served in the Royal Army for many years and has participated in many major battles as a staff officer.

Professor Zhao Yuguang failed to stand out in the military. His on-the-spot command ability was only average.

He had never been able to find a field in which he was good at, and after retiring, he was assigned to teach at a university.

After he engaged in academic research, combined with the knowledge he learned in the army, his academic level improved rapidly.

Professor Zhao Yuguang stepped onto the podium, and the students of Huaxia University immediately applauded enthusiastically.

Prince Su Shu and his staff Ge Yunhong came to Huaxia University during the Mid-Autumn Festival to visit the famous professors of Huaxia University.

They learned about Professor Zhao Yuguang’s open classes.

Prince Su Shu has heard about Professor Zhao Yuguang.

He is a professor in the history department, but the level of the history department is average, but he is extremely good at international relations.

The imperial court's implementation of the New Deal has achieved good results, and Prince Su Shu has been in a good mood recently.

He also learned about some situations in the vassal country and felt very confused.

He wanted to hear different voices from the people.

Prince Su Shu also dressed up in disguise, wearing a huge hat that covered half of his face.

Her eyes are also wearing large-frame sunglasses that have recently become popular.

The clothes he wore were also nondescript and were very popular in China.

In addition, Ge Yunhong was covering up from the side.

The way Prince Su Shu is dressed does not look like a student of Huaxia University.

But Professor Zhao Yuguang's open classes also attracted many people from society. Before Prince Su Shu's identity was revealed, he was just an ordinary listener.

Professor Zhao Yuguang walked to the podium in the center and tried the microphone in his hand.

The speakers installed in the classroom can produce sound normally.

He made preparations for the lecture, then looked at the students in the audience and said: "Before I lecture, I would like to ask you a question.

You will be worried about your own survival. If you have enough food today, you don’t know whether you will die in the wilderness tomorrow."

The college students from Huaxia University answered neatly, and all of them answered no.

Professor Zhao Yuguang looked at the neat answers in the classroom, and he was not surprised at all.

If he asked other questions, or asked other groups of people, the answer might be different.

He asked the proud students of Huaxia University, and there was only one answer to this question.

Professor Zhao Yuguang used this answer to introduce his topic.

"Everyone's answers just now were very neat, and your answers sounded reasonable to me.

I feel that the country should provide security and the world should be peaceful."

After he said this, the classroom, which was originally noisy, immediately became extremely quiet.

Many college students looked at the reactions of their classmates.

Their reactions were very similar. I don’t understand why Professor Zhao Yuguang said this?

Isn't peace what it should be? The imperial court provides a safe environment, which is what the imperial court must do.

Professor Zhao Yuguang said in a calm tone: "I am a professor of the History Department, so let me start with history.

Your generation is the new generation born after the founding of the empire.

If you question what I said, then go back and ask your parents, or your grandparents, who will definitely be able to verify whether what I said is true or false.

Officially produced films can basically restore some facts.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, some places had reached the point where nine out of ten rooms were empty.

They died of war, hunger, and plague.

Even in the wealthy Jiangnan area, the price of rice has risen to two to three taels of silver per stone.

Such high rice prices are simply unaffordable for many farmers at the bottom, so they can only survive by selling their land and livelihood.

This was still in the Jiangnan region, the northern region at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not easy to survive even barely.

If the government of the Ming Dynasty would not let the people live, the people would definitely live in their own way.

A peasant uprising spread across the country.

Our founding emperor Su He was one of the rebels."

After Professor Zhao Yuguang told this example, there were college students in the audience who could not help but retort:

"Professor Zhao, we have entered the era of industrialization, and society is developing at a rapid pace.

Now is an era of peace, and war is very far away from us.

You used the late Ming Dynasty as an example, which is very inappropriate.

The development of the world has always been on the rise.

Professor Zhao, your knowledge should be updated.

In the agricultural era, whether it was the Pre-Qin Dynasty thousands of years ago or the Ming Dynasty a few decades ago.

They spanned thousands of years, and the structure of the country and the living conditions of the people did not change much.

If a person from the pre-Qin Dynasty could survive, he would have seen the situation of the Ming Dynasty.

There will be no surprise for him, he can be free and live a good life.

But the development of the industrial age is far beyond everyone’s imagination.

When I was a child, four-wheeled carriages were still on the road.

The vehicles running on the road now are indeed four-wheeled cars that burn oil.

Today’s world is changing so fast.”

Professor Zhao Yuguang was refuted by his classmates, but he was not angry.

This is a normal academic discussion, not a bottomless insult.

Professor Zhao Yuguang has a high tolerance for academic discussions.

"This classmate, you think peace is a necessity in life.

A country in the industrialized era should provide safety and security for its people.

My point of view is that peace is not a necessity, but a rare luxury.

We live in a peaceful environment now, only because there is a strong motherland behind us.

The strong motherland blocks all prying eyes from outside the national borders.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The classmate just said that in the industrial age, it is very easy to gain peace.

Wei and Cao in South America have just reached a truce agreement.

Note that this is a truce, not an armistice.

This means that if one side gains the upper hand, it will continue to start a war.

The four European countries of Guangxi, Fujian, Qing, and Tang formed a military alliance. Could it be that these four countries formed an alliance casually?

All signs have shown that the world is in great uncertainty.

I dare to draw a conclusion here: within ten years, a war that will shock the world will definitely break out in the vassal countries of the empire."

Professor Zhao Yuguang's clear language silenced many students attending the lecture.

They are the proud sons of Hua Xia University, not the gangsters in the market.

Professor Zhao Yuguang gave examples, and they would not disagree.

The vassal states of the empire, even the Qi State, which has always been based on animal husbandry, have many mines and mineral-related companies in the country.

Qi State is an industrial country, and no one will deny this.

This shows that Professor Zhao Yuguang is right: war will never stop just because we enter industrialization.

The peace of the empire is indeed extremely cherished. It is a luxury item that the people of the vassal country dream of but are hard to obtain.

Some students immediately said with emotion: "I was surprised before that the major vassal states chose to recruit people in the empire.
To be continued...