There is no problem with Rome's behavior in Liu Bei's view. After all, when he was in peace, the Han Dynasty did a lot to add obstructions there. There are only so many countries in the world. Rome wants money and the Han Dynasty wants land. The two sides can be regarded as a perfect match.
Besides, Rome sent people to Kushan, not to mention selling some military supplies to Kushan. The Han Dynasty had nothing to say. After all, the empire has been like this since ancient times. What can you do to others, beat them? Are you kidding me? I would start fighting if I could fight early. It’s not that I can’t fight. I still have to do the business that needs to be done.
"Isn't the current focus of Rome on the Atlantic side?" Liu Bei remembered certain things very clearly and asked casually.
The Han Dynasty knew that Rome spent a lot of money on the Atlantic Ocean. There was no way. The Romans wanted to eat sugar, but the climate of the Mediterranean could not grow the Han Dynasty's sugar cane. If the Han Dynasty's sugar cane was grown, it would become The Romans' livers were shattered when they broke the reed pole.
This problem also exists in Africa, so the Romans took the sea route to find places where they could grow sugar cane. However, the environment on the Atlantic side is relatively harsh. It is not clear whether the Romans have recently sailed to South America.
It should be mentioned here that because the earth is a ball, the North African region of Rome's homeland is actually several kilometers closer to Brazil than to the Caribbean Sea. This is also the reason why European navigators in the early days went to South America first. On the one hand It's smooth sailing, and on the one hand it's also close.
However, the shipbuilding technology of the Romans was about the same as the shipbuilding technology of the Han Dynasty ten years ago. The shipbuilding technology of the Han Dynasty came from seven hundred years ago, while the Roman shipbuilding technology came from about five hundred years ago.
After all, the Han Dynasty had Chen Xi cheating, and its potential quickly exploded in terms of relatively easy-to-copy technology, but Rome had a headache. A ship that could run in the Mediterranean did not mean it could run in the Atlantic, so the Romans needed New navigation technology and new warships.
The Han Dynasty didn't care about this, because the distance between the Han Dynasty and Rome was really painful, and the relationship between the two parties was quite harmonious. Therefore, the Han Dynasty gave Rome some foundation for shipbuilding technology, but compared to Due to the great advancement of the Han Dynasty, Rome finally copied the turbine and keel, and finally decided to copy the rest from Kushan.
After all, there are still some differences between the technology of the Han Dynasty and the technology of the Kushan Dynasty. The Han Dynasty is obviously a little confused? The details of the Kushan Dynasty are very complete. If the Romans want to upgrade, they naturally find a good one to copy? Plus Following Masinde's original proposal to Selian, the Romans directly sent an observation team to Kushan's warships to learn and absorb Kushan's technology and knowledge.
To put it simply, the Han Dynasty and the Guishuang were fighting to the death and struggling to move forward? But Rome picked up what was ready-made for nothing.
But there is nothing to say about this? This has always been the case in imperial wars. If Rome is strong enough, it is qualified to take advantage of it. If it is too weak? If you dare to have such an idea of coveting, you may not be killed on the spot.
"Probably still struggling in the Atlantic Ocean. I heard that the boat capsized several times? I don't know what the situation is, but I guess it's not a big problem." Chen Xi thought for a while and replied.
When the feudal empire was at its peak? Its execution and national strength were not inferior to the garbage industrial countries? Therefore, although the Atlantic Ocean is wide, if Rome insists on going there to see it, to be honest, Rome can find a way to get there without the technology provided by Guishang, so this is A matter of time.
"Speaking of which, after Kushan, do we need to adjust our diplomacy with Rome?" Zhao Yun asked solemnly after eating the meat from the bones.
"No, the Han Dynasty will definitely pass by then. If we rely on the feudal state, the most we can do is blood transfusion, even to the Yuan family, which is currently the strongest." Chen Xi waved his hand and said too lazy to say.
Yuan Tan's current performance is indeed very amazing, but it is useless. Yuan Tan has too few chess pieces that can be used as the backbone. There is indeed no shortage of combat power in the middle and lower levels, but the lack of the upper level has reduced the overall combat effectiveness of the Yuan family. Big question.
If Yuan Tan currently has the luxurious civil servants and generals that Yuan Shao had in the middle period, even if he cannot defeat Rome, with the will and belief that Yuan Tan has shown now, it is basically impossible for Rome to kill Yuan.
It's a pity that this is impossible. The battle between Yuan and Liu happened at that point. If Chen Xi didn't kill a group of Yuan family's main forces, then the battle of Dingding in the north might not end until five or six years. By then, the essence of the entire north The whole district will be blown up, and then there will really be nothing left to do.
What's more, if the battle of Dingding in the north lasts for five or six years, it will take more time to defeat Cao Sun. By that time, not so many people will die, and it will be impossible to suppress the general trend of the world and let them follow Chen Xi's plan. Went out.
Chen Xi believes in a saying that the best way to predict the future is to actually create the future yourself.
After all, if you don't create it yourself and just rely on prediction, accidents will inevitably happen. Therefore, even if Chen Xi is prepared for the super sect to fight out the ancestors early in the morning, he still has a rough idea of the future direction, but after facing an uncertain direction, he makes a decisive choice It’s up to you to create the future.
After all, it is better to rely on the intelligence to collect and judge than to rely on your own skills to create. At least when the latter does it, you have to be mentally prepared for what consequences will occur and how to correct the leaks.
"In this case, there won't be any major changes in our diplomacy with Rome in the short term. After all, the Yuan family and Rome are struggling like this, and there is no reaction from Rome." Zhao Yun shook his head repeatedly. He said about Rome's system. It always felt outrageous.
"It's not that Rome didn't respond, but for Rome, these losses are nothing at all." Chen Xi shook his head and said, in the Roman system, citizens were the backbone, and non-citizens, barbarians, and slaves only fought for the citizens. exist.
There are six million citizens, and barbarians and slaves are six or seven times as many as citizens. On average, from a national perspective, for each citizen, there are six or seven employees for each citizen.
Not to mention the semi-slave and semi-feudal society, these people can be used to death. Take now, for an ordinary person, there are six or seven people who follow your blind orders, move bricks when you are told, and fight when you are told. Employees don't need to be used to death like in feudal society. Everyone contributes half of their income to you every month, and you can live a good life.
This is why citizens can raise their own weapons and equipment, as well as their own war horses. This is also the reason why under the Roman citizenship system, even if taxes were increased, all citizens only scolded the emperor for being crazy, but strongly supported the citizenship system because of their Taxes can be passed on to others.
This is also the reason why after Caracalla gave an order to grant citizenship to everyone, not only the original citizens rebelled, but also the barbarians and slaves rebelled.
Because what the barbarians and slaves want is a citizen who, on the surface, is just a citizen, but in fact exploits more than 85% of the country's people and provides less than one-tenth of the remaining people. perfect benefits.
This is also the reason why the Roman emperor found that his ruling class was crumbling after having a reference, because this method was too unstable. Of course, if the upward path is clear, like Severus, in this way, barbarians and slaves They are also very motivated.
Who doesn't want to live such a life? But the problem is that the number of citizens that Rome can support is limited, unless the citizenship status of some people is eliminated to allow the system to flow.
But if it moves, it means disturbing the civil system, and if the civil system is disturbed, it is basically finished. This is Rome's Achilles' heel, and what Rome is currently doing in Eastern Europe is to thin out the elite among the barbarians, and to free up additional resources. The location of some citizens.
Yes, the positions of citizens are also being vacated. Although it is not many, it is true.
This is also the reason why the war in Eastern Europe cannot end, because Rome has realized the fact that it seems that their system can continue as long as they fight.
"Actually, I have a question I wanted to ask before." Gan Ning didn't care too much after listening to Chen Xi's narration. His thoughts were actually mainly on Kushan.
"What's the problem?" Chen Xi picked up a piece of meat and asked sideways.
"There are so many Roman barbarians in Kushan. Will they really return to Rome in the future?" Gan Ning has a good vision, enough strategic thinking and adventurous spirit, and he can get ideas when he has an idea, and when he is thinking about it, he can There are many strange conclusions, but in essence this guy is still a second haha, even though he is the king of haha!
"What are you worried about?" Zhang Fei looked at Gan Ning in confusion and asked.
"What should we do about moving the capital of Guishuang?" Gan Ning looked at Zhang Fei and asked.
"Didn't they just move the capital?" Zhang Fei had not yet reacted.
"You wouldn't say that Kuishang moved directly to Africa." Chen Xi pressed his temple and asked. He really hadn't considered this kind of question. This question is ridiculous, but if you think about Kuishang's shipping capacity carefully, it can be said that it can In later generations, Indonesia and Malay had the land to build cities, and they could even run to Rome.
"Why is it impossible?" Gan Ning looked at Chen Xi and asked, "When I was chasing Meng Kangbu near Australia, I was thinking about a question. Have those Kushan people been to Africa? They are now They are at the beginning of their ****, they are the weakest, but if they run away by boat..."
Chen Xi pressed his temples. This is really a trouble. If you think about it this way, if the Wu family can go to Africa, maybe Zhu He will come and let those guys go. If you think about it again, the wise men of Guishuang will The grand strategy seems to be pretty good.
With Kushan's shipping capacity, well, let alone Kushan. With India's shipping capacity, it is really not too difficult to transport millions of people to Africa. However, the Han Dynasty's invasion of Kushan is now very smooth. Kushan If you go to the middle of the African continent and survive for twenty years, you will really die.
As for the African beasts and so on, unless those things become spirits, they will never be able to defeat Kushan. Kushan is also an empire after all.
