"Things in Hades are beyond the control of that child." Alicia couldn't help but say, "He will open a Pandora's box! What is the purpose of this child?"
"Although he hid it so deeply that he even deceived Albus, he couldn't deceive me." Xia Ya whispered in a low voice.
“This kid has a lot of hatred deep inside him.
This hatred did not disappear because of the death of the leaders and main promoters of the religion that persecuted his mother. "
"What does he hate?" Alicia asked with a frown.
"Remember the small village we arrived at when we first went to the south?" Xia Ya said.
Alicia nodded.
“As the priest branded us as evil wizards, the entire village raised their pitchforks and hoes, clamoring to have us burned at the stake.
Gayward's mother had a similar experience. "
Char murmured softly.
“Everyone in the whole block was shouting that the witch should be executed.
No one spoke for her or interceded for her.
Even before the results of the trial came out, everyone had already identified her as a witch in their hearts.
Compared to us who are strong, the despair a weak woman and an underage boy suffer is unimaginable.
The whole world is against them.
Imagine when your mother was sent to the stake, screaming in pain and buried in the sea of fire.
What comes to your ears is not an unbearable exclamation, but only excited shouts and joyful cheers. How would you feel? "
Alicia took a deep breath and said, "So... he hates Brittanians?"
Xia Ya did not answer, but continued, "Albus will handle it well, believe in his ability."
"Tomorrow is New Year's Day, and there seems to be a lantern festival in Beichen. Let's go and see it together, and we can also stop by to see the new school.
The construction team has told me that the general construction and soft furnishings are almost complete. "
In this world now, there is only one magic school, Hogwarts.
All wizards come from Hogwarts.
If this situation continues for a few more years, Hogwarts' status will even surpass that of the Magic Association.
With Albus's retirement, this school will almost visibly take a wrong path that Char will not want to see.
In a sense, the reason why Gayward's Witch Party was able to be established is because he was the tutor of Hogwarts in the past.
The magical world also needs checks and balances, so the establishment of other schools is necessary.
Alicia nodded.
A day flies by almost instantly for Char.
Xia Ya and Alicia joined hands and came to a city located south of Beichen.
The night sky is covered with stars, and it is already late at night, but the city has no intention of taking a rest. The lanterns hanging in front of the buildings and shops on the streets illuminate the city brightly.
There were no shortage of people on the streets either. People were coming and going, and the chatter was very lively.
Xia Ya was in the center of the street, quietly looking at the city and the crowds of people coming and going.
Although the people in this land have the same origin as the people in the country where Char used to be.
But the architectural style here is very different from its previous life.
Char's country has lost a lot of its traditional architectural style due to its century-old history of humiliation, the influence of foreign colonizers' culture, as well as the influence of building materials and a huge population.
Most of the houses are square cement coffin houses. Even if there are some other styles, they are mostly European style.
But the architecture in this country in the world is more traditional.
Whether it is a palace, temple, residence, etc., regardless of its size, the appearance is composed of three parts: the platform, the body and the roof, and a single building is integrated.
Of course, as materials advanced and the population grew, it became apparent that using firewood as in the past was impractical.
People developed new Chinese-style buildings from traditional buildings.
While retaining the traditional style, newer and cheaper materials are also used, but wood is still used in some places, and even if not, it is imitated with other materials.
Ridges and tiles, as well as doors, windows, door knockers, and angular leaves, all have very distinctive decorative shapes or patterns. Most of these decorative components are exquisite and clear woodcut shapes.
The far-protruding eaves, the elastic curve of the eaves, the slightly recurved roof formed by the lifting frame, the slightly tilted roof corners, as well as the hard hills, hanging hills, resting hills, verandas, jianjian, and crosses Various changes in roof forms, such as ridges, domes, double eaves, etc., as well as dazzling glazed tiles, give the building a unique and strong visual effect and artistic appeal.
However, these traditional buildings do not bring any sense of antiquity, but instead have an indescribable grandeur and shock.
Because of the use of new materials, there is naturally no single two- or three-story building limitation like previous buildings.
Xia Ya even saw a ninety-nine-meter-high antique glazed tile building built against the mountain not far away. This building was backed by a mountain and faced a river. It was almost as high as the mountains behind it. It was abrupt and independent. It looked impressive at the scene.
Not to mention during the day, especially at night when the retro lanterns light up at the same time, the whole city becomes a city that never sleeps.
People walk through this city, have fun, get drunk, and talk, and the clothes they wear are all in the style of this country.
Of course, they are not ancient costumes, but modern costumes with obvious traditional styles. You can see history and a nation in these clothes.
Everyone's face is filled with happiness and confidence.
Sheng.
This was Xia Ya's first impression when he saw this city. It was neither rich nor powerful. It even had a feeling of prosperity and extravagance, which made people worried whether the next second, this city of bliss would be transformed due to its prosperity. It will eventually collapse and collapse.
Xia seemed to be able to see through this era the scene of the prosperous Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago when all nations came to court.
Char watched all this absentmindedly. Over the years, due to various reasons such as the castle being too eye-catching, he had been traveling in natural scenery, but this was the first time he came to a major city like today.
For a time, some past memories and various complex emotions surged in his heart.
Alicia on one side obviously noticed something strange about Char, she turned her head and asked in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Xia Ya wiped the corners of his eyes, "Just a little emotional."
Alicia nodded, and she looked at everything in a daze, "What a beautiful city. It's hard to imagine that this is not even the capital."
"Co-capital." Xia Ya said, "Beichen has a multi-capital system and has multiple co-capitals."
The multi-capital system was actually very common in history. Although the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty was not large, in addition to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, there were also Henan Prefecture in Xijing, Yingtian Prefecture in Nanjing, and Daming Prefecture in BJ, a total of four capitals.
In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, in addition to the well-known Chang'an City, there were four accompanying capitals and a total of five capitals.
And five capitals is not the highest record, and the Jin Dynasty stood side by side with the Song Dynasty. During the Jin Xizong era, there were six capitals.
Almost all dynasties in history had more than one capital. In addition to the capital that was the political center at that time, rulers would also set up other accompanying capitals for various purposes, which had a relatively important impact on the dynasty. .
Some dynasties established an economic center capital in a relatively developed economy, which could promote the economic development at that time.
Some dynasties established a capital in the place where their ancestors prospered or where they traditionally worshiped their ancestors. This could have an important impact on the thinking of the people at that time and consolidate the foundation of cultural rule.
When some dynasties faced the eager gaze of other regimes, they would establish a capital with national defense needs in the corresponding military town.
Therefore, with the continuous changes in the political environment, the capital establishment system of the dynasty has been constantly changing between two capitals and other multi-capital systems.
Beichen's territory is huge, but its transportation capacity is far from being able to connect the whole country with one capital, so the existence of a multi-capital system is very necessary.
For example, Kyoto established in the west can communicate with Central Asia. After Beichen moved its strategic center to the south, in order to control the islands in the south, a southern Kyoto will be established in the south.
Beichen conquered Kyushu Island more than a hundred years ago. The East China Sea and the Yellow Sea are basically inland seas, so the safety of coastal cities is guaranteed.
The next few hundred years will be dominated by sea power, and it is very important to have a Kyoto along the coast.
However, except for Kyushu Island, that country has still been preserved. For Beichen's strategy, the land in this country is of little use except to withstand some typhoons and tsunamis, and there are many earthquakes.
As long as Beichen firmly controls Southeast Asia, this country can only follow Beichen closely.
Of course, there is only one capital, and it is still in the north.
At present, the enemies in the north still need to be guarded against, not only Russia, but also Britannia.
In the event that a war breaks out, it would be more convenient to set up the capital in the north and continue to retreat south. In addition, with mechanized troops in the future, you can also start directly and go straight to Moscow. The road is almost all plains, and the two bordering countries have a deterrent force of five to each other. Five open, you can maintain a good balance.
The territory is too big and the ambitions are too big. Choosing the capital is indeed a bit of a headache. Kyoto in the north is too far to control Southeast Asia. Yingtianfu is too weak. The dynasties that chose this place as their capital basically have no good results. Guangfu is a bit neglectful. , and may even lose the north side.
The north is not a traditional Han land. If we don't choose a place in the north as the capital, there will be worries about the people in the north becoming disloyal and unethical.
In general, Beichen's strategic layout in recent years has been very far-sighted.
In Char's world, a man named Mackinder once proposed a concept called the World Island. The World Island, composed of Europe, Asia, and Africa, is the largest, most populous, and most fertile land combination in the world.
In the center of the World Island, from the Volga River to the Yangtze River, from the Himalayas to the North Pole, this is the heart of the World Island and the area with the most abundant resources in the world.
He believed that when Eurasia was covered by a dense railway network, a powerful continental country would dominate this vast land starting from the gateway to Eastern Europe.
And this will be the prelude for this country to dominate Eurasia and then the world: "Whoever controls Eastern Europe controls the heartland; whoever controls the heartland controls the world island; whoever controls the world island controls the world."
Therefore, the core of Beichen's strategy for hundreds of years has always been Central Asia. In the era of agricultural land rights, it seized a large amount of plain land, reclaimed farmland to develop the population, and managed Central Asia. However, because of the barriers of deserts and mountains, it wanted to completely control is unrealistic.
If you are too eager for success, you may even lose the fundamentals of the land of China and let it disintegrate internally, which is not worth the gain.
So Beichen settled for the next best thing and started Chineseizing Central Asia to prepare for the future.
In fact, their strategy was very successful. Although Beichen was disintegrated, the countries in Central Asia are still Han dynasties.
Before the disintegration, the population of the Han people in Beichen had reached more than one billion.
Of course, there are not so many people in the Central Dynasty. There are almost 500 million people in the dynasty.
It's not a lot. The population of the Qing Dynasty during this time period was almost the same.
The current population of Southeast Asia is only around tens of millions, and there are even many Han people in it. With the current industrial output value of Beichen and the land productivity of Southeast Asia, it is still possible to support these people.
In the next few hundred years, it was a world of sea power countries, so their strategic center shifted to sea power and operated in the south.
In fact, the resources in the south are not inferior to those in the north.
For example, the Natuna Islands were under the control of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, and then belonged to Indonesia.
It has 40% of the world's proven reserves of oil and 40% of natural gas, which is richer than the oil reserves of the Persian Gulf, but it is more difficult to exploit.
But these will not be problems in the future.
Xia Ya feels that the way the ruling class of this country handles national affairs is very similar to that of a certain country, and its policies are consistent, unlike other countries that stop or even reverse a certain policy after a new political team comes to power.
Instead, it has a national plan that lasts for years, even decades, or hundreds of years, and it is steadily advancing.
Of course, these are only good aspects.
The national situation of this country is very similar to that of Britannia. The oppression of the lower class people by certain powerful classes represented by the monarch still exists.
They still lack a real revolution, otherwise, it may be the end of Britain.
No country can prosper all the time.
Southeast Asia is very close to Beichen and has national and cultural advantages. There is no need to worry about the weakening of local political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects of management due to the export of domestic elites.
However, the huge land requires sufficient military force to protect it, and military expenditures will also be huge. Unfair capital distribution will also make the country's people more conflicted.
However, Xia can help. After all, if Beichen weakens, Britannia will be the only one in the family, which is not a good thing. (End of chapter)
