我不是第一次去欧洲，但每次去欧洲都有惊艳. 我们这次旅行坐国际航班，去的时候是我的行李上的锁丢了，而且拉杆右边孔不知道被人注入什么液体，还好箱子里面一层布是防水的，不然箱子里衣服都会弄脏. 回来的时候，Jackie的箱子锁给弄开了，锁钩只有一半片挂在箱子拉链上面. 我的箱子根本就没上锁，里面一大袋巧克力有两小袋居然跑出来了. 去年我们去印度回来时，锁也是莫名其妙被松开了. 我们不知道是锁的质量问题，还是有人故意想表示什么意思. 本能告诉我是后者，因为没有那么轻易开锁的. 鬼神这些年老跟着我，管他啥意思，吃饱撑的没事找事. 说起欧洲一言难尽，没有比较就没有鉴别，我回到美国还是觉得美国好. 为啥呢，一回到美国飞机场，人头攒动，比起欧洲的稀稀拉拉，那是亲切温暖多了. 在欧洲，我们无论去哪里上厕所基本上都要钱，1欧元。搞什么鬼，而在美国到处全免费. 在欧洲高速公路休息区，第一是没什么好吃的，第二是贵的要死. 在美国五块钱买一个大披萨，在欧洲我花12欧元才买了五个炸鸡翅，搞什么鬼！ 走在欧洲老城区的石子路上，我不禁感叹当初美国建国者的智慧和设计理念，“不要这高不要这多雪，安得倚天抽宝剑，” 怎么样？把美国虽然分成50个州，但是基础建设的规范却整齐归一，而且当初美国是一张白纸，杀了几百万印第安人，留出空间和排除阻挠，可以画最新最美的图画. 因为美国的简单，因为美国没有历史的包袱，没有东部到西部的语言差别，没货币转换，没文化认同，没有各自为政的政体，没有宗教上的冲突，所以少很多麻烦，可以一网打尽大市场. 这样所以才高效率，才可以快速高能收获高利润，迅速强大. 我 一边走一边给Jackie讲欧洲历史，欧洲的历史就是那些 distributed control 小国之间打来打去的历史, 一会儿西罗马帝国，一会儿神圣罗马帝国，一会儿普鲁士，一会儿卡玛协议，又是奥匈帝国，拜占庭，奥特曼帝国. 他们从来没有一个大一统欧洲的概念，都是非常自我的，对各自的文化非常保护的. 只有最近才有欧盟，而且还只是经济上的. 相比之下两千多年前中国就已经由秦始皇中央集权成泱泱大国了，美国很短就成为世界强权，也因为它是合纵国呀. 我在想你们的一带一路，是在古老文明的国家的政体之上再建立一个权力机构，古老文明的根深蒂固，人们观念中的守成和排外，不可能像美国那样一张白纸从头设计的. 你看看央视里边的中国文人的酱缸程度就知道了! 对这些国家要从根本上改变，也是非常困难的，88，你们一开始是不是也像欧盟模式，从经济开始？

This is not the first time I went to Europe, but every time I went to Europe, it was amazing. We took an international flight on this trip. When we went, the lock on my luggage was lost, and the hole on the right side of the lever did not know what liquid was injected. Fortunately, a layer of cloth inside the luggage is waterproof, otherwise the clothes in the luggage will be dirty. When we returned, Jackie's luggage lock was unlocked, and only half of the hooks were hanging on the zipper of the luggage. And my luggage was simply having no lock, there were two bags of chocolate inside a big bag actually came out. When we came back to India last year, the lock was also inexplicably released. We don't know if it is the quality of the lock, or someone intentionally wants to mean something. Instinct tells me that it is the latter, because unlocking is not so easy. Ghosts have followed me all these years, no matter what he means, they are full and have nothing to do with trouble. I said that in Europe, it ’s hard to say. Without comparison, there is no discrimination. I still feel that the United States is good when I return to the United States. Why, once I return to the United States The airport is full of people, which is much warmer than the sparseness of Europe. In Europe, wherever we go to the toilet, we basically need money, 1 Euro What the hell, and it ’s all free in the US. In the European highway rest area, first, that ’s nothing delicious, and second, it ’s expensive to die. In the US, you can buy a big pizza for five dollars. I bought five fried chicken wings for 12 Euro What the hell! Walking on the stone road in the old city of Europe, I can’t help but lament the wisdom and design philosophy of the American founders. "Don't be so tall, don't be this snowy, how can I draw a sword against the sky," How? Although they divided the United States into 50 states, the norms of infrastructure construction were neatly unified. At the time, the United States was a blank piece of paper, killing millions of Indians, leaving space and eliminating obstructions, and painting the most beautiful pictures. Because the United States is simple, because the United States has no historical burden, there is no language difference between east and west, no currency conversion, no cultural identity, no separate political system, no religious conflict, so there is less trouble, and a large market can be formed. That’s why it ’s efficient, it ’s fast, energy-efficient, profitable, and powerful. I’m telling Jackie about European history while walking. European history is the history of the distributed control of small countries, the West Roman Empire for a while. Holy Roman Empire,

Prussia for a while, the Karma Agreement for a while, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire. They never had a concept of a unified Europe, and they are very self-protected and very protective of their respective cultures. Only recently has the EU and it is only economical. In contrast, China has been centralized from Emperor Qin Shihuang to a big country more than two thousand years ago. The United States has become a world power very shortly, because it is a unified country. I was thinking your Belt and Road Initiative is to build an authority on top of the political systems of many ancient civilizations. The ancient civilization is deeply ingrained. The preservation and exclusion in the concept cannot be designed from the ground up like a blank piece of paper in the United States. You can know the degree of the Chinese literati inside the CCTV! You have to fundamentally change these countries. It is also very difficult. 88, did you also start from the economic side like the EU model at the beginning?