There was a northwest wind of level 7 or 8 outside the snow nest, and the temperature dropped to more than minus 30 degrees Celsius, but it was warm to around zero degrees in the snow nest.

As long as you wrap it in such a temperature, you don’t have to worry about the cold when you wear a few more layers of fur. Samuel Baker’s face is obviously much better.

After eating a few bites of air-dried beef and drinking some whiskey, Gordon and Samuel's faces became somewhat flushed.

Gordon half leaned against the sheepskin mattress, took out a box of paper-shell bullets and started to disassemble them. In the early days of the birth of the fixed-loading bullets, many military experts from all over the country were reluctant to use copper to make bullet shells.

In order to save money, many countries choose paper shells with less stability to make wrapping shells!

The disadvantages of this kind of bullet are very obvious. If the paper shell is not burned enough, it will block the barrel and affect the next firing, so this kind of bullet is not very useful on the battlefield.

However, for a team like an expedition team that does not require long-term combat, it is still very necessary to carry a batch of paper-shelled bullets for cost and load considerations.

"Simple signal flare, what are these Chinese people's names... Second kicking... It's really a weird name... By the way, Samuel, how do you feel about this trip to China?"

The two were lying in the warm snow nest. The thick snow bricks separated the northwest wind and the cold, giving people a full sense of security.

Gambling dry beef around candles, making signal flares, and then chatting is also a good way to pass the time.

Samuel Baker was a famous British explorer. His knowledge does not need to be a normal politician, so Gordon was very similar in his conversation with him.

"You know, the directions I explored and studied in the first half of my life were in the Middle East and North Africa... I explored the source of the Nile in 1863... Because of such credit, the Ottoman Empire gave me the post of Pasha..."

"I don't know much about this mysterious East... But this time I entered China from Central Asia, it brought me a great spiritual shock!"

"I have a vague feeling that this country and this civilization... seem to be completely unable to be assimilated by us!"

Gordon paused his hand, and the sharp dagger almost cut his finger. He was stunned for a moment, "Why did you have such a conclusion? You have only been here for a short time, and you don't see everything... Why are you so pessimistic and negative?"

Samuel Baker took a sip of whiskey and felt the warmth in his stomach. "Authentic, the whole Western world knows that Chinese civilization has declined. Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, this civilization has no longer had its past glory..."

"Poverty, ignorance, rejecting the latest science, and even starting serious xenophobia since the government... They have no idea of ​​reform at all, as if everyone is living in a daze..."

"Along the way, I have taken a lot of photos, and I have seen many ordinary people... All I can see from their eyes is insensitive..."

"Those skinny civilians have empty eyes, just like the bottomless abyss in the Atlantic Ocean... nothing..."

"No wealth, no dignity, no ideals, no resistance... nothing, only complete emptiness and numbness!"

"They seem to have been completely drained by suffering, and they are like walking corpses..."

Gordon put down his dagger and smiled, "Isn't this good? Their hearts are empty, and our thoughts can naturally be replaced... Isn't it what our times desire to let Western civilization completely rule the East?"

"No...no no...no...thing is not that simple..." Samuel Baker shook his head. "But when I actually came here, I discovered a very terrible phenomenon, that is...big!"

"Yes, this country is surprisingly large, and their civilization is surprisingly large..."

"No matter in Africa, North and South America, or even in Europe... there has never been such a huge civilization that uses a single word and language!"

"It's so scary... haven't you noticed it? From Yili to Tacheng, and even to the Mongolian grassland... These places where the Han people do not exist, have been ruled by Chinese characters and Chinese!"

"You can always see some books written in Chinese characters in the yurt, those things called perpetual calendars, those things called traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, and even the Chinese characters used to wrap tea bricks..."

"Although the Mongolians have their own writing and language, they have to be very knowledgeable about Chinese if they want to live a better life..."

"The same is true in Xinjiang. Whether in southern or northern Xinjiang, if you want to use products from Central Plains, you need to know a certain Chinese character and Chinese... Isn't this a terrible thing..."

"The edge of civilization, this is the edge of civilization, and cultural infiltration has reached this point. Do you think that after we truly enter the Central Plains, the powerful force of their culture can be overcome?"

Gordon suddenly became speechless and after a long time, he said, "I understand. The example you gave is that Chinese people rely on goods to infiltrate culturally?"

"Don't worry, sooner or later, our strong industrial power in Europe will fill the world with our goods... By that time, our English is the mainstream language in the world!"

The sick explorer nodded, "You are right, but the current difficulties will be more than this... I am shocked by other aspects!"

"I just said that this country has too many low-level people like walking dead... But don't forget that the population base of this country is too large. Even if there is such an elite among a thousand people, the total base will be large and unimaginable!"

"Doro is also a Relu, but he is actually just a guard in the Forbidden City, a low-level military officer... But have you noticed that, along the way, they talked between them, including understanding the situation with local officials, and not simply looking at the problem from the perspective of a military officer..."

"These two people will ask about the local economic situation, whether the trade routes are smooth, whether there is enough food, and what changes have occurred in the prices in Aguba..."

"Is there any conflict in the sect?... I can't believe that two military officers who have not been systematically trained can think about problems from many aspects: economy, culture, religion, trade routes...!"

"Even some veterans stationed in the local area can say that the enemy is... the rabbit's tail cannot grow this sentence... and what makes the veterans judge is not military, but just because Agubo's brutal rule and acts against the contrary!"

"God, this is really a strange thing... I have never discovered such a phenomenon in other civilizations... I feel that Chinese people can always look at problems without sticking to their own professions!"

"Even an uneducated veteran can tell from the fact that Agubo's doomsday is coming soon! Why is this? He obviously only knows less than a hundred Chinese characters? This is definitely an illiterate level, why does he have such a thinking pattern!"

Samuel Baker subconsciously sat up and covered his back with his wrap. He seemed to have forgotten that he was a patient!

"Chinese people have a very strange thinking pattern... Even people who are not educated will vaguely analyze the problems from the overall perspective..."

"What's going on? There are very few ordinary people like this in Europe? In our Europe, unless you are a person with higher education, you will make the same judgment on what profession, class, and circle they all have!"

"They all look at the world from their narrow corners and analyze problems...How can Chinese people have a cross-border vision?"

"I'm not talking about the elite class. What I'm talking about is that among the people at the bottom, those ordinary people who don't know much literacy, have such a global concept?"

"Strange, what a strange civilization!"
Chapter completed!