Finally, it was little Jeanne who spoke up and said, "After talking about it this way, it seems that this is really the case."
"Not to mention those other small countries under the rule of the Mongols, Europe may be even more different. Before, apart from my great-grandfather, I had never even heard of anyone acting under the slogan of resisting alien rule - the alien lords seemed It's part of the order." She thought for a moment and shook her head.
"Even the war against the Saracens was against pagans, not foreigners. Judging from a series of records, as long as the other party is willing to convert to another religion, our kings and lords will even welcome them. It is said that some nobles, Our ancestors were the Saracens who converted to the Saracen faith back then, and on the opposite side, there has always been no shortage of people from our side who defected."
"There is no shortage of these in story books." Zhu Wenkui thought for a while and then added: "I think both the Franks and Saracens particularly like to write stories about their heroes falling in love with women from the other camp. . And both of them are very convinced that the other side has a large number of female knights and other characters. Many stories started when these people were captured..."
"What's wrong with you, looking at this kind of thing?" little Jeanne asked.
"Is it my fault? They write this kind of thing every day, and it's not me who wrote it." Zhu Wenkui denied decisively.
"This... is normal." Guo Kang explained: "In a long-term confrontation, women will definitely participate in combat, and then leave this impression on everyone."
"Besides, this kind of example is not unheard of. I heard that in Spain, the local nobles specially awarded honors to women who participated in the defense of the city. In the east, there are also such deeds in the places where we are in contact. In fact, it's just me... uh, According to the news I have heard, such female warriors have appeared in our Catholic countries in the northwest and the Turkmen people in the east."
He originally wanted to talk about his adoptive father's experience, but after thinking about it, he changed his words and avoided the topic: "It can be seen that if the fighting becomes more intense, these things may happen."
"You are right." Little Jeanne admitted directly, but she changed the topic and asked: "But think about it, is there such a story between the Central Plains people and the grassland people? Such a long history, 豼Have you ever seen a writer or folk singer talk about this subject?"
"Well, I only know Hua Mulan..." Zhu Wenkui thought for a while and said, "Did I study too little? I can't think of anything else."
"But Hua Mulan is the author's own heroine." Little Jeanne pointed out.
"Women from the enemy generally can't be written about." Zhu Wenkui said: "Maybe it's the same as what I just said, because the lessons of the Zhou Dynasty were harsh. Therefore, no one talked about marrying barbarians anymore."
"This may not be just a moral issue - the scholar-officials opposed it on a moral level, but it is still very popular among the people. In fact, there are too many of them, and they can't be controlled at all. This kind of subject matter does not exist among the people. It can only be said that everyone really I don’t like it anymore. People from the Central Plains probably really look down on barbarians and are not even happy to fall in love with them.”
"In that case..." Little Jeanne thought for a while and then asked: "Mulan is a character in the Northern Dynasties. These people are already relatively civilized. If the cultural level of the Northern Dynasties and the grassland people is too different, the contemporaries What about the Southern Dynasties? Are there any works in which the Southern Dynasties capture the female knight Hua Mulan or fall in love with them?"
"This is even more impossible." Zhu Wenkui said in surprise: "The armies of the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties can only fight occasionally. Most of the time, they are defeated as soon as they go out. And when it comes to fighting When the battle is won, no one is in the mood to care about such things."
"Right, look, I'd say the difference is quite big." Little Jeanne nodded confidently: "It turns out that the Seris people have always been serious. I have never seen the English want to expel the invaders. Pass."
"Ah, this is really..." Guo Kang thought for a while and found that it was indeed the case: "I even doubt why you call them 'Anglos'. The Anglos are already extinct, right?"
"This is just a customary name." Little Jeanne could only explain it this way.
"Hey, that's what it's called in French." Zhu Wenkui didn't react yet: "Is it actually gone?"
"There must still be survivors, but they are gone in the ethnic sense." Guo Kang told him: "The Anglo-Saxon tribe entered England in the 5th century, when the Roman Empire collapsed. There were not many of them. , after conquering the local area, they only existed as the upper class. Of course, this is not surprising, it is the same all over the world. Since ancient times, it has been difficult for outsiders to replace the locals based on blood. "
"After that, these people did not rule for long before they were constantly attacked and eroded by the Vikings. Later, the Normans gave them a fatal blow. Records from the time of William the Conqueror said that there were a thousand first-class lords in England , only 13 people survived after the conquest, and only 10% of the 8,000 second-level lords remained. In the relatively prosperous York, the population was only a quarter of the previous one, and in several other counties, more than half The settlements were destroyed. These places have not recovered even now, hundreds of years later.”
"Then the Normans occupied the upper echelons of society, and the Anglo-Saxons, who were already on shaky ground, effectively disappeared."
"I thought the war in the Central Plains was miserable enough..." Zhu Wenkui muttered.
"Actually, the whole world is just as miserable. The Central Plains is even worse because there are more records. England only has detailed records this time, so we only know this time." Guo Kang shook his head and said, "As for other civil wars and conquests, I can’t even find any reliable records. People don’t know, so they just pretend it didn’t happen.”
"Moreover, the rule of the Normans is also extremely stable. Over the years, although the king has changed several families, the overall composition of the nobles has remained the same. If there are no surprises in the future, it is expected to continue."
"This is normal, it's a common thing here." Zhu Wenkui was not surprised: "It was during the Northern Song Dynasty when they occupied England, right? I guess there will be no problem if they persist until all the remaining members of the army are destroyed."
Guo Kang thought for a while and felt that he was still too conservative.
Not to mention the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, even the demise of the Qing Dynasty, this time was too short - in the original world, until Guo Kang traveled through time, this pattern had not changed much.
According to the research of modern British scholars, at the rate of decline of the local aristocratic class, it would take a thousand years for a family to drop to the average level of society. This is still an ideal figure. In fact, it will be longer due to intermarriage, shell-changing and other techniques. Of course, the rise of civilians is also very difficult. It takes an average of 10 generations to rise from the lower class to the middle class.
In the 800 years that there is data, most surnames have not experienced any ups and downs, and they are still in the same position as before. Comparing the student lists of top universities in the 13th century and the 21st century, we can also find that many noble surnames are still particularly prominent.
This is even different from France next door. In this era, the average knight family in France can only last for three or four generations before it begins to decline. The great nobles persisted longer, but they soon faced an increasingly powerful king and gradually lost their privileges.
Not to mention the Ming Dynasty. According to statistics, nearly 50% of Jinshi people have not even had a living member within three generations of their ancestors, and they belong to the lower class of society in the true sense. No matter how feudal and backward it is, it is also a bureaucratic empire with an imperial examination system, which is not comparable to an aristocratic country at all...
"The people in this country probably can't be saved," Guo Kang said to them.
(End of chapter)
