Wang Miaoyin murmured: "Ansa, Ansa? I have never heard of it. Are you saying that just like the tribe names like Xiongnu and Xianbei, there are two tribes called Angles and Saxons who conquered these Western countries." Are you going to invade your original country?"
Liu Yu sighed: "During the Han Dynasty, we once passed through the Western Regions, and then went westward from the Western Regions to Daxia, where Da Yuezhi was located, and then westward to Daxia, to the Parthian Empire. You know this. Well, it’s also recorded in our history books.”
Wang Miaoyin nodded: "I have seen these, and it is said that the Han envoys heard in An'an that there was a powerful empire thousands of miles west of An'an, called Da Qin, right? This Da Qin was still in the Later Han Dynasty , sent envoys to pay tribute to the Later Han Dynasty."
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "Our history books will call all the countries and forces that send envoys tribute. This is the mentality of our Central Plains dynasty, Lao Tzu, who is the best in the world. In fact, to change the idea, the Han envoy Zhang Qian came out To make the Great Yuezhi, could it be that we, the Han people, paid tribute to the Great Yueshi?"
Wang Miaoyin smiled and waved her hand: "We all understand that this is just to save face. The culture of the Central Plains has always been to pursue the style of the barbarians from all over the world, even if they come from far away. Don't worry about this. I heard that the Great Qin is only 20,000 to 30,000 people away from us. Is it true that it is so far away?"
Liu Yu nodded: "That's right. Da Qin is just a name we give randomly in the Central Plains. It is not their real name. Their real name is the Roman Empire. They once established a vast empire with an area of thousands of miles and a population of tens of millions. This super empire, in terms of scale and population, is not inferior to our Central Plains dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, it was also a great world empire that rose to prominence in the West."
Wang Miaoyin said sternly: "I know that the Great Qin, well, in your words it is called Rome, is a very powerful empire, even Anxi is in awe of it, so how could such a large empire give such things to the Anglos and Saxons? Have the pirates been conquered?"
Liu Yu sighed: "It's a long story. Time is running out now. We don't have time to review history here. You just need to think about it. Our Central Plains dynasty has a long history and strong national power. During the Western Jin Dynasty, it once seemed like a foreign country. Binfu, invincible in the world, with a large population and a vast territory, how could it be that in just a few years, the Yongjia Rebellion allowed the Wuhu to take over, and until now, the north is still occupied by the Hulu?"
Wang Miaoyin frowned: "That was because of our internal struggle for power and the Eight Kings Rebellion, which allowed the barbarians to take advantage of the situation. Could it be that the Roman Empire also fell like this?"
Liu Yu nodded: "It's almost the same. When the Roman Empire was strong, the people were warlike and proud to sacrifice their lives for the country. But after hundreds of years, they were arrogant, extravagant, greedy for life and afraid of death. They were no match for those in our era." Scholars and nobles all hated being soldiers, and military households almost became inferior slaves. Even Huan Wen would be laughed at by the gentry's children for being a veteran. If not, how could the noble families lose their military power, leaving us Qiu Ba? What about the chances of getting to the top?”
Wang Miaoyin sighed: "It is human nature to be greedy for life and afraid of death, and to be lazy and comfortable. In troubled times, only joining the army can protect one's family and life. As time goes by, the status of soldiers will naturally be reduced. This has been an unchangeable fact throughout the ages. It seems that Rome The empire cannot escape this fate. Brother Yu, the system of delegating military merit and nobility, and non-nobles and non-officials, that you implemented is probably to prevent this situation from happening again."
Liu Yu waved his hand: "This is a later story. Let's not mention it for now. Let's get back to business. In the later stages of the Roman Empire, no one wanted to join the army, so they had to recruit troops from the barbarian tribes in the empire on a large scale. Oh, by the way, I forgot. I told you, there are many barbarians in the Roman Empire, and speaking of it, they are related to us Han people!"
Wang Miaoyin was a little surprised: "What does this have to do with us Han people? They are tens of thousands of miles away, and there is no record of the Roman Empire or the Qin Dynasty in the history books."
Liu Yu smiled and said: "Do you still remember the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu? Starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's official counterattack against the Xiongnu, the Han-Hungarian War lasted for hundreds of years. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty turned into the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, General Dou Xiancai conquered the Northern Xiongnu. , sealed the wolf in Xu, which can be regarded as completely expelling the Xiongnu forces from the Mobei grassland. The Xiongnu royal tribes moved all the way westward without a trace. It was also during this period that the Xianbei tribes, especially the Tuoba clan, came from the bitter cold north of Liaodong. If those who moved westward and entered Mobei were still in the Xiongnu Khanate, how dare they do this?"
Wang Miaoyin laughed: "Yes, where did the Xiongnu escape to? This is an unsolved mystery in history. On one side, barbarians from all walks of life entered the Central Plains. By the Western Jin Dynasty, the five southern Xiongnu tribes were moved to Bingzhou as a whole. Guanzhong was also divided equally between Han and Qiang, which eventually led to the Five Huns' chaos in China. On the other hand, after the Northern Huns went west, there was no news, and they seemed to have disappeared in the long river of history. Do you want to say that the Northern Huns In the end, he actually wandered all the way to the Roman Empire and became a barbarian in their territory?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "You are half right. In Mobei, to the Western Regions, and then to the river, there are vast grasslands with a radius of thousands of miles. On these grasslands, there are also thousands of nomadic tribes, large and small. After the Northern Huns moved westward, the specific history is unknown, but a hundred years after they moved westward, a tribe called the Huns suddenly appeared on the eastern grasslands of the Roman Empire. They burned, killed, and plundered, and did all kinds of evil. The Huns' approach was almost exactly the same, forcing numerous nomadic tribes on the grasslands within thousands of miles to be unable to gain a foothold and had no choice but to flee into the Roman Empire. Oh, by the way, the collective name of these tribes is German, just like us These nomadic tribes on the grassland are collectively called Xiongnu."
Wang Miaoyin nodded: "I kind of understand it. Just like the Southern Huns were attacked by the Northern Huns and were unable to gain a foothold in Monan. Later, they were threatened by Xianbei again, so they simply asked to go to the Central Plains for protection and became subjects of Cao Wei. This Rome The empire also took in the Germanic tribes that were attacked by the Huns, oh, no, they were attacked by the Huns, and entered the empire. It happened that the Romans did not want to be soldiers, so they let these Germanic people join the army as soldiers. Just like the Eight Kings During the rebellion, the imperial court ordered Liu Yuan to return to the five Xiongnu tribes to recruit troops to quell the rebellion?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly: "Yes, Rome will also face the attack of the Huns. It is difficult for the Roman army at this time to deal with the Huns cavalry coming and going like the wind. You know, even the emperor of the Han Dynasty had to fight against the Huns when he first encountered them. With the shame of Baideng, the Roman legions, which were also dominated by chariots and infantry, were also unable to defeat the Huns' cavalry. Later, they relied on the support of the German tribes to barely win. The Huns retreated in defeat, and then again Disappeared into the grassland." (End of chapter)
