People basically need a spiritual sustenance, which can be a loved one or a pet, but in general, religion is chosen as spiritual sustenance.
In modern times, it is clear that various legends have long been shattered, such as the palace of the gods above the clouds, or the moon as a shrine, but the planes are flying back and forth every day, no one has seen any palaces of the gods, and there are only dust and rocks above the moon, but religion has not died out because of this.
Even people with superb scientific knowledge will believe in a certain god, but for them, they do not believe in a god, but a sustenance in their hearts, longing for comfort.
For a long time, there were too many things that people didn't understand, and it was because they didn't understand that they thought in the direction of Shinto, and the religious atmosphere was naturally strong.
The people of more than one country believe in the existence of gods, and even if no one has actually seen them, they still believe in the great existence of the world, and because of this, they fear and revere them, which gives some of those in power a great opportunity to use the gods to deter the ignorant, so as to make their rule more secure.
Athens is indeed a big city, and there is no shortage of scenic places, especially some naturally formed sandy beaches.
The city has gorgeous manors, wide and clean gravel roads, beautiful and charming fountains, but more often than not, there are chaotic and feces-filled alleys.
"The rule of the Great Qin people over the conquered land is very general, such as this big city of 100,000 people, they appointed the city lord, built the council, and formed a garrison, but" Cai Mian looked left and right, there were no Romans around: "The city lord is a local tyrant, the councillor is also a rich man in the city, and even most of the army are local residents."
It only controls the positions of the protector and the treasurer. ” If there is any position that the Romans value the most, it is not the lord of a city, but the protector who controls the army and the treasurer who controls the finances.
"What I inquired about is that the Great Qin people have contracted out the tax collection."
Dou'a never understood what was going on: "Setting a share of taxes for this city, and some wealthy people are able to collect taxes from the citizens."
Wang Meng knew better, for example, Constantinople asked Athens to pay a tribute of 50,000 gold coins every year, and Rome asked Athens to pay a tribute of 40,000 gold coins, and he didn't care about anything else.
On the contrary, once Athens was attacked, Constantinople and Rome were obliged to send troops to support, so those tributes were equivalent to a kind of protection money, and the result was that Athens was only nominally owned by Constantinople and Rome, but Athens was actually autonomous.
"There are a lot of cities like Daqin."
Wang Meng's understanding is: "The Great Qin people broke out in a civil war for the throne, which made them lose control over the conquest of foreign races.
If the three parties do not distinguish the winner for a long time, it can be predicted that those aliens will definitely gain real independence, and the Great Qin people will also lose a large part of their territory. ” Wang Meng was not wrong, it was this civil war that made Rome form a real split, Europa partly became Western Rome, but this Western Rome actually only has a Roman signboard, although the ruling class still has Romans, but the Germans and Franks are the real masters, and then they simply threw away the name of Rome and directly established the country in the name of the Franks.
The Romans in the true sense of the word were driven to Eastern Rome, and then they simply lost Eastern Rome and were rebuilt into the Byzantine Empire.
Western history is only recorded by Byzantium, not by the name of Eastern Rome They visited Athens for two days and re-embarked the ship early in the morning of the third day.
The trip to Athens made the Han people gain a lot, and saw a lot of strange things on the one hand, and the purchase of goods that they had never seen was mainly plant seeds and slaves, but the most important thing was to further understand the actual situation of Rome.
After leaving the Greek peninsula, the fleet will no longer rely on the coastline, and will pass directly through the central Aegean Sea.
The Aegean Sea is very famous in Europa, and many stories revolve around it, one of the more famous stories is the Trojan War.
"It was along this route that the Greeks once gathered, and they gathered more than 20,000 people to cross the sea, in order to get back the stunning woman named Helen."
Pointing to the ocean, the waves are bigger today than in the past, and the shape of the ship dictates that a slightly larger wave will make the ship bumpy: "In fact, there was a gap of ten years between Helen's elopement and the Greeks' invasion, and Helen was already a woman in her forties. ” A war for the sake of profit just wanted to find an excuse to recapture the woman, the result is that Helen is famous, it no longer matters whether she is a stunning beauty or not, how many people died in the two countries is only a number, a Trojan horse slaughter of the city has been passed down through the ages, and it has also buried a very famous warrior.
The waves were getting stronger, and the low level of the deck allowed the sea to rush through the railings of the tower shields, and the Roman-style deck left a passage in the middle to the first level of the cabin, so that even staying on the first floor of the cabin would be wet.
"We might have to turn around."
Marcus Marca looked ahead and felt the wind blowing: "Return to Rak Island for the time being, and then go to Asia Minor when the wind and waves subside." ” Asia Minor is what will become Turkey, where Rome has established several provinces, Asia Minor is the continental plate closest to Europa, and Troy is in the southwest of Asia Minor near the strait.
The Han people said that they were very helpless, if the Han ship drove in, in the face of such a wind and waves, let alone return, even the turbulence of the ship would not be so exaggerated, the problem is that they are now on the Roman ship.
Lak Island is one of the islands in the northern Aegean Sea, and there are several other large and small islands around it, there are several small villages on the island, looking at the boats and boats tethered to the coast, and then looking at the fishing nets that are propped up to dry, and the yards of each family are also drying fish, there is no doubt that they are fishing villages.
Seriously speaking, the various inhabited islands in this sea area are really mostly fishermen.
There is too little arable land on the islands, or no arable land at all, and it is natural to rely on the sea for survival.
"This is where most of our sailors come from."
Mulus Utansis took off the helmet with a broom on his head and reached out to stroke his long golden hair: "Most of the Greeks have been to sea, and their fishermen will be experienced sailors. ” The Han Chinese have seen the Greek sailors along the way, and they must admit that the Greek sailors do look good.
Those who paddle at the bottom will be mixed, and there will be no shortage of blonde and blue-eyed white-skinned people, more just dark-skinned and dark-skinned fine races, and even Romans can be seen, but they all have a common identity, that is, slaves, not sailors.
Don't think that an island should have a white sand beach, and don't think that the scenery of the island should be very beautiful, most of the beautiful islands are artificially modified, or even if there is a beach on the shore, in fact, in addition to the sand of different colors and mostly yellow, there are more rocks that are smooth by the waves.
There is obviously no artificial modification of Lak Island, there are no beautiful beaches, no rows of coconut trees or any greenery, but instead all kinds of debris on the beach, such as broken fishing nets, rotten logs floating from nowhere, and even the wreckage of a broken boat that has obviously been pushed up after a wreck.
This fleet is either docked at a port or wharf, but actually docks directly at the beach.
This also made the Han people understand that the Romans' boats were mostly flat-bottomed boats, so they could sail into the shallow waters, and they were especially brave enough to drive the boat directly into the beach.
"It's no wonder that the hull of the ship is so jolted by so much wind and waves."
Dou Ah sneered and said, "With a flat-bottomed boat on the ocean, their hearts are really big. ” That was something that the Romans had determined by their sphere of influence, and that had long been sailing around the Mediterranean, so it was not surprising that they did not understand the difference between a flat-bottomed ship and a pointed-bottomed boat.
For Rome, the Mediterranean coast, which is full of shallow waters, is worse to have ships with a draft of six or seven meters at every turn, and the water depth of the docks and ports in most areas is really not that deep, and it will be difficult for ships to dock.
"I got a message from Marus's Uthansis."
Cai Mian squatted down and took a map, and no one could see clearly the terrain of the known area.
He gestured and said: "This is their Gallic region, and on the other side of this strait there is a super big island, called Saxon or something."
In fact, it is the island of Britain, but when the Romans fought in the past, most of the local people were Anglo-Saxons, and according to the habit of the Romans, after beating Gaul and occupying territory, they called the name of the nation as a place name.
"It took a great deal of money for them to conquer the southern part of the big island, and the central and northern parts of the island could not be conquered for a long time."
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Cai Mian is not talking about the war between the Romans and the tribes on the island: "They call that strait the Devil's Strait, do you know why it is called?"
Isn't it that the weather in the English Channel is too bad, the last moment the wind is beautiful, the next moment is stormy, when the Romans conquered the British Island, it was because of the climate of the Channel, the ships were not less fed fish, and the army often suffered heavy losses in the Channel.
The climate of the Strait was uncertain, and there were not enough means to predict it, and every time the Romans transported supplies, there was a huge risk, and as a result, the Romans were constantly limited in their garrison in Britain, not to mention continuing to march to the center, and it was difficult to maintain the garrison later, so they had to work on the Great Wall there.
"The biggest reason is that the Great Qin people didn't engage in sharp-bottomed boats."
Cai Mian didn't know whether to laugh or despise: "The people of Great Qin are either stubborn, or the people in power have bad brains."
They had been fighting with the Persians for so long, and had frequent trade with the Gupta dynasty, it was impossible that they were unaware of the existence of the pointed ships, and that they had not yet figured out that they were more advantageous to sail at sea. ” Who knows what happened, anyway, the Romans just didn't like the pointed ships, they soon had to be unable to maintain supplies to Britain, and then the Roman garrison over there was constantly harassed, waiting for the death of a few commanders and even took the initiative to retreat, and the southern part of the island was no longer owned by Rome.
"Maybe it's not stubbornness or anything else" Wang Meng knows that any reform is not easy, reform will always affect interests, and only greater and more interests will be driven by the impetus for reform: "It should be that there are no materials that the Great Qin people have to get on that island." ” The Han State set its sights on the Japanese Islands, and at first the courtiers couldn't resist Liu Yan, wanting to satisfy Liu Yan's desire to open up territory.
Later, the whole country found that the Japanese archipelago not only had sufficient human resources, but also had so many gold and silver reserves, and there was nothing to say, even if Liu Yan wanted to stop it, one would shout that he had to march into the Japanese archipelago.
In terms of exploring the sea, the Han people also discovered the benefits of the sea, seafood is only a small part of it, and the discovery of precious resources on various islands is the driving force, and there is no doubt that the discovery of spices is one of them, not to mention the discovery of copper ore with amazing reserves, as well as those fragrant wood, gemstones, jadeite and other luxury goods.
"If there are gold mines or gems, spices and other resources on that island, believe it or not, the people of Daqin will swim over even if they swim" Dou A is not joking, there are people in the Han Kingdom who run to the peninsula now, and then tie a gourd to their bodies and dare to swim to the Japanese Islands: "People die for money, birds die for food, it is reasonable" They were not wrong at all, the Romans really did not find any precious resources in Britain, and the barbarians above were very arrogant and not afraid of death, and the benefits obtained were less than expected, but the cost was beyond expectations, so it is not surprising that the Romans did not pay attention to the island of Britain.
"In fact, there is a resource on it, and it is abundant."
Cai Mian didn't ask less, he subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I heard that black stones can be found everywhere on it, you know what it is." ” Black stone, what else can it be except coal, but at present, coal is not used for most countries, and the Han side still improved smelting, so a large amount of coal is needed.
Coal burns at a much higher temperature than wood, which is conducive to removing more impurities during smelting, and as long as more material formulations are discovered, coal is an indispensable strategic material.
"There is a lot of coal in Dahan, but it is never too much."
Wang Meng laughed a little, touched the beard on his chin: "That island is too far away from the Great Han", stopped halfway through speaking, pondered for a while, and asked tentatively: "Maybe you can buy a large amount from the Great Qin people to give them the motivation to continue conquering that island." ” Hundreds of thousands of miles of sailing, if you don't buy anything else, you just buy a boatload of coal back to the Han Kingdom and it doesn't sound reliable, but if you want the Romans to continue to bleed, that's another matter
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