Liu Yan told a lot of stories outside the "world", not only about the territory of Asan, but also about the North Sea north of Lake Baikal, north of the Western Regions, and north of the steppe.
When talking about Ah San, Liu Yan never lacked some cynicism, and the impression given to the courtiers was biased towards that the people on Ah San's side seemed to be nothing, and the obstacle for the Han State to conquer Ah San was the road, and after overcoming the difficulties of the road, the army would inevitably be able to take it when it arrived at Ah San's territory.
In fact, Ah San's combat effectiveness in the era of cold weapons was not weak.
Alexander of Macedonia, who fought all his life, was finally defeated by Ah San, and after retreating to Persia, he never had the opportunity to make a comeback to the east again.
The invasion of the Dayue people in the Asan region was to defeat the cavalry group of the Asan in the Kashmir region, and then overturned the war elephant group near the Ganges River valley, and fought for a marriage between the two sides, and then was gradually advanced by the Dayue people using encroachment methods, but the Dayue people also failed to completely eliminate the local power of the Asan, the north belongs to the Dayue nobles, and the south is still dominated by the Asan natives.
The Kushan Empire adopted a system of government that resembled a dualistic system, more similar to the structure of the Liao State that divided the two capitals.
The Da Yue clan occupies the territory of Ah San, but it also fell into the big sinkhole of Ah San's surname system and sect 1.
Later, there was a north-south infighting in the Kushan Empire, and the two sides fought so much that the dog's brains came out, but it was the Asan natives in the south who won the final victory, but the Dayue people still left the northern habitat, but the Asan natives were divided after the war.
At present, there is a relatively powerful Gupta dynasty in the northeast, a Vakya dynasty in the center, and the rest are fragmentary states, especially the small states on the southeast coast.
Of course, Liu Yan didn't know what the situation was on Ah San's side now, he only knew that there were no big countries, and even the northwest of Ah San was basically a vassal of Sasan.
It should be said that the Gupta Dynasty's maritime navigation was very developed, and their main trade objects involved Eastern Rome, Greek city-states, Persians, Arabs, and even the Egyptians were also one of the main trade objects, and even discovered the existence of the Strait of Malacca early, and had maritime trade with the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
It is difficult to say exactly when the Maritime Silk Road began, but some relevant documents and relics indicate that there were ships in the Strait of Malacca even earlier than the Han Dynasty, that is, in the pre-Qin period.
The official definition of the Maritime Silk Road is that the Maritime Silk Road flourished from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty, and even the Eastern Romans traded with the Tang people by sea.
The Sui Dynasty had a maritime Silk Road, but the people on the Central Plains didn't care at all, and even just knew that those merchants came from the sea, but they didn't care where they came from or what routes they had on the sea.
By the time of the Song and Song dynasties, because of the rise of the Arabs, the Arabs actually cut off the trade between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Mediterranean countries.
This war was a contest for control of the Silk Road, and the Arabs had absolute naval superiority, but because of the war, the Song people's maritime trade was forced to stop.
There is a saying that the death of the Southern Song Dynasty was due to redundant soldiers and officials.
However, the phenomenon of redundant soldiers and redundant officials in the Northern Song Dynasty was already very serious, especially as long as an official could hold several "titles" of receiving salaries, until the interruption of maritime trade, there was rarely a dilemma of lack of money, and it was only when the maritime trade was cut off that it fell into a financial crisis, and finally the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed.
Maritime trade taxes were an important source of revenue in the Southern Song Dynasty, accounting for more than 20 percent at one time, and related commercial taxes accounted for 53 percent of the total revenue.
Maritime trade is cut off, and the corresponding commerce must also be affected, which is simply a personal life.
The current Arabs are either ruled by the Eastern Romans or the Sassanid Empire, not only do they have nothing to do on the land of Central Asia, but they will not have their right to speak at sea, it is certain that the Gupta Dynasty is definitely rich because of the prosperity of maritime trade.
Liu Yan didn't know that there was maritime trade with the country on Ah San's side long before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he waited until the navy reported that an unknown ship had been found, which was sunk earlier, and then captured, so that he could be regarded as getting relevant information.
According to the captives, Gupta had trade with many countries, and the country was extremely wealthy.
Militarily, there were 600,000 infantry, 100,000 cavalry, 30,000 charioteers, 20,000 war elephants, and more than 500 ships.
To be honest, Ji Chang was a little shocked by this news, and he said cautiously: "Gupta also has a neighboring country, called Vaga Tujia, and the number of troops is only a little less. ” There are 600,000 infantry alone, and counting other types of troops, it can't exceed one million, Liu Yan is honest, and he is a little confused, he really doesn't know that in addition to the Peacock Dynasty and the Kushan Empire, there is such a dynasty with such a large number of troops.
"Captives must exaggerate their strength in order to survive."
Liu Yan had to stabilize himself, but on the other hand, he didn't believe it at all: "The climate of that place is pleasant, suitable for agricultural production, and the population is quite large.
The widow does not believe that a country can feed a million armies for a long time. ” Even the Western Han Dynasty, which once "exploded", recruited soldiers to establish an army of about 700,000 at the most exaggerated time, and the army of all dynasties has always been maintained within 300,000, and they are basically conscripts, and there are 10,000 or 20,000 professional soldiers.
The Han State had thirteen standing armies that were not engaged in production, with a total of more than 200,000 people.
Behind them, there are more than 300,000 Tuntian legions and nearly 400,000 slaves dedicated to food production, but they are a bit too much to support, not counting the support of weapons and equipment.
It is really not clear how many people Liu Yan has in the Gupta Dynasty, considering that it is too easy to grow grain over there, and according to some data from the Kushan Empire, there are twenty or thirty million people who should be a more reliable guess, but even if the grain production there is good, it will not be able to raise a million troops for a long time "Your Majesty, the professionalization of soldiers" Ji Chang didn't dare to say that Liu Yan was also frightened, but he had to remind: "Organize more than 200,000 non-productive regiments, and you are the only one." ” In the past, there were too few dynasties that raised professional soldiers.
In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, there were the Northern Army and the Southern Army, and later Liu Che began to gradually become a professional army, which was divided into three departments and eight schools.
The three are the attendant army, the period gate army, and the Yulin cavalry, each of which is actually the establishment of more than 1,000 people, and the Yulin cavalry selected by the orphans of the fallen soldiers is also 700 people.
The Eighth School is actually the so-called Central Guard of the Praetorian Guard, they are the middle base, tun cavalry, infantry, Yue cavalry, Changshui, Hu cavalry, shooting sound, and tiger ben, and the establishment of each school is only 700 people.
Then it can be seen that after Liu Yan gradually became a professional army, the professional soldiers who were not engaged in production in the Western Han Dynasty were worth 8,600 people.
There were only five schools in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was to dismantle the Southern Army, which was considered to have little combat effectiveness, and integrate the eight schools of the Northern Army, and reduce them into five battalions: Tun Cavalry, Infantry, Yue Cavalry, Changshui, and Shooting.
The establishment of each battalion is different, for example, the infantry battalion formed by the Han people has as many as 3,000 people, and the battalion composed of Karasuma and Southern Xiongnu people such as Changshui and Yueqi has 700 to 1,000 people.
Due to the frequent changes in the establishment of professional soldiers in the Eastern Han Dynasty, sometimes there are still empty numbers and no actual soldiers, and it is really hard to say how many professional soldiers to raise, but it will not be less than 10,000 people after all.
Yiyang is 200,000 professional soldiers who do not do anything about production, not only to recount the previous dynasties, but also to appear in the Chinese civilization in modern times in the future, Liu Yan is so incomprehensible There are too many people, if it is not for the threat of Hulu, I don't know how many people oppose it.
"There are only more than 17 million people in the Han Dynasty" Ji Chang has long wanted to seize the opportunity to persuade Liu Yan, the people are finished, Xianbei is no longer so threatening, it can be said that there are really no countries around that can put too much pressure on the Han State, and it is really time to downsize.
Halfway through his words, when he saw Liu Yan looking at him unkindly, he swallowed back the words behind him and changed the topic: "If Gupta really has a million troops in this country, it can be seen that it is a country with a lot of military force. ” In the era when productivity was not very good, it was a relatively normal proportion for ten families to raise a soldier, Ji Changcai did not believe that the Gupta Dynasty had a population of 100 million, but he had to think more, the king of his own family dared to recruit more than 200,000 soldiers when the population was more than 100,000, and there would be an example of everything, so he could only think that the Gupta Dynasty was a country with poor soldiers.
"It's a pity that there is no more information."
Ji Chang now wondered if the Gupta Dynasty was at war with which country, and if the Gupta Dynasty was at war, it might be true that it would have a million troops: "Could they be at war with that Vagataka, and enter the decisive battle stage?"
How did Liu Yan know?
After the collapse of the Kushan Empire, the Asan side split and began to fight against each other, the Gupta Dynasty and the Vagata Dynasty were established by the nobles in the south during the Kushan Empire, and there should be wars against each other, but the big countries are relatively peaceful, basically the big countries are bullying the small countries.
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"There is absolutely no army of millions."
Liu Yan doesn't think that every ruler is a madman like Shi Hu, and not everyone can have Fu Jian's courage: "Regardless of the strength of Gupta after mobilization, cut half and half, it is too much to have an army of 120,000 in battle." ” At this time, Liu Yan was a turtle, and the Gupta Dynasty was really not so stingy, and the army that was waiting for battle during the period of Chandragupta I was not less than 300,000, and Shamadhara Gupta also maintained the corresponding number, and the scale of a million troops really exploded during the reign of Chandragupta II Chaori King.
Now the Gupta Dynasty is the reign of Shamodhara Gupta Gupta , he does not surpass the spirit of the Sun King, but in order to deal with the threat of the northern Serbs and the southwest Vagadhara Dynasty, it is also because the Gupta Dynasty is not short of money because of its prosperous trade, plus it occupies the grain-producing area of the Ganges River Valley, and it is like feeding 300,000 troops to follow and play.
"Even if there are only 200,000, how many troops should the Han send to effectively invade" Ji Chang thought about it a little and his brain hurt, it was not that he could be caught and beaten when he went abroad, it was to sail tens of thousands of miles of sea, and how many ships would be used Liu Yan is also bitter in his heart, he really wants to invade the territory of Ah San, even if he doesn't deliver food, it will not have much effect, and it is a severe test of transportation capacity if he wants to send a large army.
He asked Cui Zong to find the map and wait for it to be rolled out and stepped on to patrol around.
"What kind of country is this" Liu Yan stopped at the junction of Myanmar and Thailand in later generations, and pointed to the location on the shore of the Andaman Sea named after later generations: "A port must be established here to open up a place for troops to be stationed." ” The coastal area that was pointed out to was the Muslim Dawei, but Liu Yan shook his head again and pointed to Yangon again: "It depends on the situation, if this place will alarm the three countries, then retreat to the Dawei here." ” Ji Chang has also been a prime minister for several years, and his horizons have broadened a lot, and the country has always been in a state of war, which makes it difficult for him to learn strategy and tactics: "It is indeed necessary to have a transit station." ” "Let the Liang clan, the Chen clan, and even the Sima clan mobilize one by one, and concentrate their forces on the development of this place, and they will complete the military port and the cantonment area."
Liu Yancai didn't care what impact that would have on those colonial legions: "The widow allowed them to go out to colonize to obtain great benefits, and the country should do its best to complete it if it needs it."
As the prime minister, Ji Chang of course agreed, and he even thought that Liu Yan was deliberate, not wanting those families to have time to breathe, let alone allowing those families to accumulate too much strength to threaten the homeland.
"One soldier of the Great Han can be worth five Hu people."
Liu Yan recalled for a moment and said, "In the past, the Great Yue Clan, they could rule over thirty or forty million Ah San with a population of less than two million.
It's only been a few years, how can Ah San harden one by one after eating divine oil, and a Han army can be worth seven or eight Ah San?"
The fact that the Dayue clan can rule 20 or 30 million Ah San is that the Dayue clan people fully respect the traditions and sects of Ah San, and as a result, the Dayue clan people also fell into the sinkhole, but the Dayue clan really completed the great cause.
According to the urine nature of the Central Plains Dynasty, whether it is weak or strong, there have always been only foreign races to get used to the customs of the Central Plains, and they are trying their best to suppress the sect 1 religion or something, anyway, the Central Plains Dynasty loves to do everything in every place to promote sinicization, and it is said that it is said to bring advanced civilization to a group of guys who drink blood from Ru Mao, and I really didn't think about still following the customs of the locals.
The preconceived Liu Yanzhen didn't look down on Ah San, his impression was that anyone could go to Ah San to spread wild, the Da Yue clan, Persia, and Arabia in the era of cold weapons took turns to bully Ah San, and in the era of firearms, the Spaniards and the French went to colonize first, and the British actually picked up the advantages of the Spaniards and the French, but the Westerners could really suppress tens of millions of Ah San with one or two hundred thousand people.
Anyone can bully Ah San, Liu Yan naturally thinks that it is not difficult for the Han State to bully, even if he is more cautious, he doesn't do the kind of thing that sends thousands of people and expects to win, and he can always press Ah San on the southern coast to the ground and rub it with an army of 50,000 at a time: