For a country that thinks it has a historical background, especially a group of aristocrats who pretend to be superior, how can Ah San's high caste be so ignorant Ah San has not risen many times in history, but the civilization is really not bad at all, they once established a powerful country, and once almost unified the territory west of the Himalayas, that is, since the Mauryan Dynasty, it has been repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies, and after the Dayue clan came, it was reduced to foreign rule.
The Gupta Dynasty was built on the ruins of the Kushan Empire, which at that time was divided into two parts, the north being the territory of the Otsuki aristocratic group and the south being the territory of the Asan natives.
During the period of the Kushan Empire for three hundred and seventy years, although Ah San was conquered by the Dayue clan, to be honest, he may not be really convinced, and some conflicts often broke out between the north and the south.
Ah San may not be able to fight in the war, but they are very good at engaging in sect 1 religion and pleasure, and they can't do the big moon clan people in force, but they use the sect 1 sect to pull the big moon clan people into the big pit, and in the end, because the big moon clan people counterattacked, they really started a north-south war, and Ah San, who lost most of his life, won once in that war, and the Kushan Empire came to an end.
"There are many records about the Han Kingdom in the historical records of the Yueshi people."
"Yes, yes, they are ashamed, we are gloating."
For a period of time, the Kushan Empire was also a hooligan who collected tolls on the Silk Road, but the real conflict with the Han Dynasty was because the Han army entered the Western Regions again, and the two sides actually did not send a large number of their own troops to fight, but supported the countries of the Western Regions to carry out proxy wars.
Later, the Kushan Empire didn't want to fight because of the troubles of Ah San in the south, so he thought of marriage when he returned to the relationship, and sent someone to the Western Regions Protectorate to hand over the letter of state, but he didn't understand the importance of the eldest princess of the Han family, and he didn't understand that the Han family was not the country that needed to marry the princess to seek development time.
They were not the Xiongnu who were at their peak, and of course they were taught a hard lesson, and the Han family at that time was only to dispatch the garrison of the Western Regions Protectorate and mobilize the servant armies of the countries in the Western Regions.
The defeat of the Dayue clan in the Western Regions was indeed regarded as a joke by the Asan natives in the south, and it was precisely because the Dayue clan was defeated in the hands of the Han family, who took the servant army as the main force in the war, that the Asan natives had more courage to become independent.
So if you think about it seriously, the collapse of the Kushan Empire is somewhat due to the Han family, and the other driving force is the Sassanid Dynasty after the restoration of the Persians.
"Whether it is the same man who appeared in our sea is unknown."
Katruk Karp shook the glass glass in his hand, which contained wine from the Western Regions, and a smile curled into the corner of his mouth: "The reason why they attacked ships in our sea is even more unknown.
It is the safety of sea routes that should be taken seriously, so our fleet is in action.
But those are secondary."
The lord of a city is still a brahmin, and the pomp and circumstance of Katruk Karp cannot be too small, there are strong men with big axes at the front of the procession, samurai with shields and spears on both sides, several large carriages surrounded by cavalry in gorgeous armor, some men carrying flags, and most importantly, the number of accompanying servants must not be less, and a lot of pleasure items must also be pulled up several carts.
There were, of course, the Han Chinese who were imprisoned, who were kept in iron cages, who looked like they had not been mistreated for the time being, and who did not appear to have languished mentally.
It takes hundreds of miles to get from Cuttac to Fahrenheit, passing through many cities, towns and villages.
During this thirteen-day journey, Li Ming saw at least a part of the Gupta Dynasty with his own eyes, and the rumors about the development of agriculture here are not false at all.
Li Ming, of course, was a Han soldier, and he was the highest-ranking of the captives.
Because of his status, he was treated much better than his comrades, he could ride in a fairly comfortable carriage, and he even had two dark-skinned Ah San to serve.
According to the servant taking care of the captives, it is an exaggeration to talk about Ah San's social culture, Katruk Karp learned from the translator that Li Ming was a nobleman, but he was actually a second-class superior, and he gave the necessary respect according to Ah San's social tradition, and Li Ming's comrades who did not have a title did not have this treatment.
The Gupta Dynasty was located in the East Indies, and at this stage it was occupied by India, and it was somewhat of a rising regional power.
They were relatively peaceful with the surrounding countries, and they did not deal much with the Vakya Tuoga in the southwest and the powerful Sassanid Empire, but the Sassanid and Gupta Empires were separated by several countries, and the border pressure was also on the border of Vakyataga.
Because it occupies the golden area of the Ganges River Valley, the Gupta Dynasty has a natural advantage in agricultural development, and because the national situation is relatively stable, Li Ming sees a peaceful scene, that is, some things are not so understood.
What Li Ming doesn't understand is how there are so many races in a country, the whiter the skin, the more noble the status in the Gupta Dynasty, and the darker the skin, the more lowly it looks.
What he usually saw was that the people who worked in the countryside were dark-skinned, and they were usually very thin and poor, judging by the way they dressed.
He has also seen more than once that dark-skinned untouchables need to make way for those who are nobler than himself, and there will be untouchables kneeling on the ground and kissing the land before the noble people planted their feet, even if they are beaten, they do not resist, and appear extremely deferential.
Social phenomena can often directly explain the current situation of a country, people in different regions have their own social rules, what Li Ming extremely does not understand is what method the upper echelons of the Gupta Dynasty used to adjust 1, so that those groups defined as untouchables are as docile as lambs, and even the untouchables take everything for granted.
If Li Ming couldn't understand the social phenomena he saw, the monks who could be seen anytime and anywhere, and the cows that could run around casually, these two also seemed to have a status that he couldn't understand on Ah San's side.
There are two kinds of monks that Li Ming saw, one monk was extremely luxurious at first glance, and the other monk was in a state of masochism all the time, but both of them were able to be highly respected.
Once, during a pause in a city, Li Ming was invited to a party because of his status as a nobleman.
It was a kind of debate in the open air, where no one was the moderator, and there were clear class limits to the groups that could participate, and there were no untouchables anyway.
The people who participated were also diverse, some were ready to enjoy everything, and some were just sitting down.
He didn't know Sanskrit, and it was only under the translator's explanation that he knew what he was debating, and thus he also knew that Ah San was obsessed with the sect and religion, and that he would be able to talk for days and nights because of what a certain god did, and no one could finally convince anyone.
In fact, Zhuxia in history also had the habit of holding gatherings in the open air, but it was presided over by the village elders, talking about the year of the village, usually related to farming, how to seek favorable policies from the government, or a folk culture of eating and drinking.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of gathering is quite effective, at least the grassroots government cannot ignore it, and can play a role in the voice of the people to the center.
If Li Ming has made any discoveries, it must be that he has seen Ah San's possession of gold, and there is no shortage of all kinds of gold jewelry on people with a little status, even those so-called untouchables will try their best to collect gold.
He didn't need to deliberately calculate, just from the amount of gold he saw, he could see that Ah San's holdings were really quite amazing.
Li Ming's "sightseeing tour" was accompanied by the arrival of Fahrenheit City and reached the end, nearly two months of study allowed him to learn some basic Sanskrit, for his arrival at the place to still maintain good treatment, that is, to have a comfortable residence and servants, I really don't know what kind of mood it should be.
When he arrived in Fahrenheit City, Li Ming was treated differently again, and he was even accepted into Ah San's palace city, and was arranged in a place with a very good environment, and he was usually able to visit to a limited extent.
Fahrenheit was located on the lower reaches of the Ganges River, near Patna in present-day Bihar, Asan.
It is called Balian Fuyi in the Records of the Buddha 1 Kingdom, and it is called Bozha Lizi in the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.
Whether it was during the Kushan Empire or during the period of Asan independence, it has always been one of the largest and most prosperous cities in ancient Asan.
And all of it has such a background is because the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty, which was once the "Great Unification" of Ah San, is here.
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Li Ming lived in Ah San's Miyagi, but the first one to usher in was Kapil Malik, who had too much contact on the road.
"Our contact will end with separation."
Kapil Marik was a big man in Cuttack, but when he arrived in Fahrenheit, he became an inconsequential little character.
He came to Li Ming with only one purpose, to make a final attempt: "I thought that if the news spread, your people would come to rescue me during the two-month journey, but it didn't happen.
It seems that you are not an important person, as you can tell from the intensification of the attacks at sea. ” "Kshatriya is your warrior class, right" Li Ming found that the Ah San in front of him had some kind of purpose, and he also intended to make contact, that is, the language barrier was difficult to communicate outside of the two, and he waited for a little Sanskrit to stumble to communicate: "I am also a class similar to you."
Although I don't understand your customs, people like me don't seem too noble in the Han Dynasty, and only have privileges worthy of the title, but they don't have as many privileges as your Kshatriyas. ” "Oh, you've finally told something about the country."
Kapil Marik seemed to like to shrug his shoulders and talk, he spread his hands: "Can you tell me, why are you here", he saw Li Ming's indifference, continued to shrug his shoulders and said: "There is always a purpose, isn't it, maybe what you want doesn't need to be in the form of soldiers." ” Li Ming wasn't quite sure if what he heard was what he understood, but he heard some key points, such as Kapil Malik didn't care how much the Great Han had caused to the Gupta dynasty, and what Kapil Marik wanted was to gain benefits.
"We are a rich country, and everything starts with prosperous trade."
Kapil Marik was somewhat proud of this, but then made a mocking expression and said: "You may not understand what a prosperous maritime trade means, that is, once we are serious, there will be an overwhelming number of warships to fill our seas, and you will never be able to achieve what you want by force." ” Li Ming was completely unaware of the recent developments in the situation, and was silent for a while, and asked, "Do you know the big man?"
"Of course."
Kapil Marik craned his neck and said proudly: "The surname Marik has a history of more than 400 years. ” Li Ming also wanted to say that the surname Li has a history of thousands of years, but he was reluctant to talk about it, and then asked: "Then what do you know about the big man?"
"The Xiongnu have a long history of defeating the mighty Huns and can despise the Yueshi people" Kapil Marik shook his head and said with a smile: "Those are not important to us, your land force is strong, but it cannot threaten us. ” The Gupta dynasty was not wrong in their perception that none of them could cross the Himalayas themselves.
And even if the Han State re-entered the Western Regions, the Han army would still have to defeat the Hunnites and many ethnic groups, and it is more likely that it would be directly carried by the Persian Sassanids, and there would really not be much spare strength to invade the Gupta Dynasty all the way south.
The Gupta Dynasty, which inherited the sea power of the Kushan Empire on the sea, their trade was based on the use of the sea, not to mention the long-term maintenance of hundreds of warships, and the outbreak of war could be "rioted" at any time, stemming from the development of maritime trade, there was no shortage of soldiers familiar with the sea.
In this way, their confidence in their maritime power does not stem from arrogance.
Li Ming's knowledge base is limited, and he doesn't even know that the Han family has taught the Kushan Empire a lesson, and he knows more or less that if he can invade Ah San by land, he won't play the sea invasion that he is not good at.
"What impressed me the most was silk, the kind of silk that only you can make."
Kapil Malik clapped his palms, and Ah San, who had been standing next to him, lifted the cover of the plate in his hand, revealing a transparent cloth: "We can spin, but we can't make silk."
We need silk, the Persians need silk, and there is no one in the Romans, Egyptians, Greeks who doesn't like silk. ” It is true that only the Chinese civilization has mastered raw silk, and the rest of the Ming Wen have always wanted to explore this secret, and Ah San has even studied the use of spider silk to make silk.
"Do you know what I mean?"
Kapil Marik visibly puzzled, "Perhaps you Han Chinese have defeated the nomads and re-emerged, but there is no reason to travel all the way to wage a war over the ownership of the land."
So we must have what you want.
If you don't want land and water, you can get everything you can exchange for silk if you provide it. ”: