Zhao Jun's words are thought-provoking.
In the Constitutional Court, everyone suddenly understood why Zhao Jun was so hostile towards Japan.
It turns out that the national character of this country is so inferior.
They want to invade the enemy at all times, but they still maintain disguise on the outside, which makes it impossible to guard against them.
The room fell silent for a moment.
Because Zhao Jun's ideas were simple and crude, they were easy for them to understand.
So everyone was thinking about this passage.
After a long while, someone asked, "But now that the Song Dynasty is strong, the Japanese admire our strength, so how dare they offend us?"
Zhao Jun smiled and shook his head. "There's a very famous book in later generations called The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, written by an American cultural anthropologist on behalf of the US government."
"It aims to analyze Japanese society and national character, revealing the contradictory character of the Japanese and the duality of Japanese culture through the two symbolic elements of "chrysanthemum" and "sword".
"For example, they love beauty but are warlike, value propriety but are aggressive, love novelty but are stubborn, and are obedient but not tamed."
"To put it more intuitively, if their opponent is very strong, they will be polite and humble to you. But once you are weak, they will immediately bare their fangs and pull out their daggers."
"So this is the inferiority of this nation. Now that our Great Song is strong, they will not offend us. However, they will pretend to be respectful on the surface, but secretly harm our interests."
At the end, Zhao Jun tapped the table lightly and said, "This is the nature of this nation formed over thousands of years, and it is also a historical necessity."
Although it takes a long time for his insiders in Japan to pass on information, he asked Song Caisu Jian and others to gain an in-depth understanding of Japan and record their internal situation, and they had already figured out most of it.
Combining his understanding of daily life in his previous life, and through sending secret agents from the Imperial City Bureau, he finally understood the inferiority of this nation.
No matter what era it is, the greatest desire of this nation is always to escape from the island country where earthquakes occur frequently.
Just like Japan in later generations, before World War II, faced with the shock of modernization from Western countries, it was submissive and willing to give up its policy of isolation and serve as a trade transit station for Western countries.
But when they became powerful through the Meiji Restoration, they immediately showed their ferocious claws and began to be on an equal footing with Western countries. They even thought they were powerful and invaded the mainland, wanting to shake up the world order.
Therefore, after summarizing some of the news sent back by Japanese insiders some time ago, Zhao Jun believed that as long as Xiaozi saw the strength of the Song Dynasty today, he would definitely take action.
And this action is most likely just as he guessed, maintaining respect towards the Song Dynasty on the surface, but actually wanting to take back the resources and benefits, taking the opportunity to steal technology and systems, innovate again, and covet the land of the mainland.
"Oh? Harming our interests?"
Hearing this, everyone's face became serious.
Yan Shu said in a deep voice: "If it infringes upon the interests of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty navy will not agree."
"good."
Song Shou also said: "Now our Great Song is powerful and is not afraid of any challenge. They can give it a try."
"If that's the case, then the plan to attack Japan must be brought forward."
"The Great Song Dynasty does not wish to provoke war, but it is not afraid of it either. The Japanese have made mistakes themselves, and their death is imminent."
“Everyone is united on this point.”
Several people also spoke.
Today, Japan provides the Song Dynasty with millions of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold every year.
Moreover, this number is still growing. The top leaders of the Song Dynasty have long regarded it as a piece of cake, and naturally cannot afford to lose this part of the benefits.
"However, how will they harm our interests? Will they close their borders and forbid trade with us?"
Yan Shu raised another question.
"That shouldn't happen. They're not that bold yet."
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "They still have to maintain a humble attitude towards us. How dare they close their country to the outside world when they are stealing from us?"
"What is that?"
Everyone was puzzled.
"If my guess is correct, Japan will most likely choose to be humble externally in exchange for our favor. Internally, they will strike hard and quickly recover those gold and silver mines."
Zhao Jun continued, "Only in this way can Japan control financial resources and continue to deceive us, stealing our systems, knowledge, and technology to strengthen itself and complete reforms. Once the reforms are successful, hehe."
He said with a sneer.
The Japanese people are actually not very resistant to reform.
Just like before launching the war with the Tang Dynasty, they completed the Taika Reform, which made the Japanese think they were strong and then dared to invade Korea.
Before launching the war with the Ming Dynasty, the transformation from cold weapons to hot weapons was also completed. With the addition of muskets, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the confidence to clamor for the unification of the Three Kingdoms.
Not to mention the Meiji Restoration in later generations. Once their national strength became strong, they would openly express their ambition to invade other countries.
Therefore, now that there is such an opportunity in front of the Japanese, I don’t believe that they will not be tempted.
"Um."
Everyone nodded after pondering, thinking that although Zhao Jun might be worrying too much, it was not completely unreasonable.
If they were in that position, they might also think of taking the things back and using them to exchange for technology instead of a bunch of useless Song Dynasty artifacts.
But the problem is that the current strength of the Song Dynasty makes it difficult for them to make such a decision, unless the Japanese nation is really as Zhao Jun analyzed.
"As I said before, Tsushima Island is in our hands first."
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