Including Wang Meng and Cai Mian and others were not disarmed, the swords were still hanging from their waists, and the soldiers were still holding what kind of weapons they were holding. \ Dou'a stayed in Xicheng District, and although the fighting there had stopped, the Han army still controlled the West City Gate, and even completed control of the docks.
It was not a good thing that the Han people had been controlling the city gates, and Dou'a received a signal from Wang Meng to transfer control of the city gates to the Romans, and at the same time the docks were to be handed back over to the Romans.
The Han army returned control of the west gate and the dock to the Romans, but did not give up control of the ships.
They also set up their own warning area in the area of the wharf, and the Han troops who had retreated from the city returned to the ship, and another group of Han troops who did not enter the city were on guard in the territory that had been carved out.
After all, Wang Meng really didn't come to declare war on Rome, the fight was really an accident, the Romans maintained restraint, and the Han people were a bit out of the question when they firmly controlled the city gates.
The reason is that this is Constantinople, tens of thousands of miles away from the Han country, and the Han people only came about 3,000, although men and women can take up arms, but the real soldiers are only less than 1,700, plus about 2,000 Persians, the total combat strength is about 5,000.
Constantinople has 30,000 garrisons, or the elite guards of the Romans, and there are still 60,000 or 70,000 Romans in the city, and even more slaves, etc., it is guessed that it can arm 50,000 or 60,000 people, which is more than ten times that of the Han and Persians, not to mention that the surrounding area is full of Roman territory, and the Romans can send a steady stream of reinforcements as long as they want.
If the Romans really made up their minds, no matter what the cost, they could annihilate the Han Chinese, including those Persian soldiers, in Constantinople, and continue to control the city gates, it would only make sense for the Romans to make a move, make the Romans shed more blood, and also express the timidity of the Han people.
Wang Meng was sure that the Romans would continue to fight, but it was not a large-scale battle of the army, but should have invited the Han side to select warriors to participate in the gladiatorial battles in the arena, so as to win back face and suppress the arrogance of the Han people.
As long as the Romans mentioned it, the Han people would never refuse to participate in the arena gladiatorial fights, and any Han Chinese knew very well that they would behave cowardly in a foreign land, or they would be left to the mercy of others.
The Han people are not willing to be arrogant for no reason, nor will they be bullied arbitrarily.
If when they are treated unfairly, with the history of foreign races entering the Central Plains in front of them, even if it is a blood spattere, they must show the spirit of the Han people, because they already know that the weak nation will inevitably suffer misfortune, but they should also raise their own cry and use blood to tell the Han people of different races that it is definitely not easy to mess with.
"The angel is determined what the top leaders of the Great Qin people will do next, and we are also making a statement by continuing to control the ship."
Dou A didn't get on the boat, he stayed in the control area of the dock: "What we need to be wary of are ordinary Great Qin people. ” Huang Zhan respectfully replied "No", they had just expelled several groups of Romans, and behind them were Roman soldiers who came to form a cordon to prevent other Romans from continuing to approach, everything showed that at least the Roman top brass did not have the will to let the situation get out of control.
Wang Meng and others have entered the inner city of Constantinople.
The so-called inner city is actually the palace city, and there are also inner walls and multiple gates.
The size of the inner city wall is not as high and thick as the outer wall, but from the outside, it is much newer than the outer wall, and when you enter the inner city, you will see an empty square, and you can only see the buildings in the distance.
The whole square is paved with bricks and stones, and there are some sculptures of different appearances, most of them are human busts, the number of animal sculptures is smaller, and there are even statues made of boulders or something with people and horses, which are placed in a scattered place.
From the city gate, Roman soldiers stand on either side, presumably every two meters, leading to a staircase at the far end.
Their team walked through the passage separated by the Roman soldiers' standing quarters, and the sound of the soles of their boots clashing with the masonry echoed through the square with each step.
At the end of the passage there is a staircase, which looks like it is paved with marble from a distance, and above it is a large building, which looks very strong in the color of a Greek palace.
In fact, it is indeed a palace, and you can see the thick columns that stand from afar, and it is difficult to say how many floors there are, and the large load-bearing columns leading to the roof from the outside, make people feel the grandeur and height of the building deeply, and produce a sense of their own very smallness.
It took about ten minutes for everyone to reach the stairs at their normal pace, and Julian motioned for everyone to wait, but he walked up the stairs into the palace.
"It's not magnificent, and that's true."
Cai Mian said a famous sentence that Xiao He once said to Liu Bang, and the whole sentence is undecided in the world, so he can go to the palace because of this.
And the husband and son of heaven are all over the world, and they are not magnificent and powerful, and they have no future generations.
It means that the royal family should have the majesty of the royal family, and there is nothing more awe-inspiring than building a gorgeous and majestic building, so no matter how you build a palace, the building must look tall anyway, so tall that people feel unusually small when they stand next to it.
When the Han Kingdom was building a new Chang'an City, because it was built from nothing, the planning not only demarcated reasonable streets in the city, but also had rigid requirements for official and private buildings.
The requirement of private houses is to be neat, but not to be random one by one, so that it looks chaotic and chaotic.
The official building is required to be majestic and magnificent, so that people can know at a glance that it is a government institution.
"Any palace in the new Chang'an is more majestic than the current palace, even the load-bearing pillars are thicker than them."
Wang Meng was very attentive to the fundamental question: "Constantinople has a population of 100,000, and the population of the new Chang'an will exceed one million." ” So far, the permanent population of the new Chang'an is actually only 270,000, and most of them are rich households in various counties and counties, and the noble class of the entire Han State is concentrated.
Those wealthy families were not forcibly moved to New Chang'an, but they thought that there would be more opportunities to live in the imperial capital, whether it was the opportunity to make a fortune or become an official.
It is inevitable that the nobles will live in the imperial capital, so that they will not stay away from the political center of the country, otherwise they will not know what will happen one day, and knowing the news will also be delayed information, and many times the delay of information will be very fatal to the nobles.
According to Liu Yan's instructions, those who participated in the construction of the new Chang'an were eligible to buy real estate, and if the money was not enough, they could apply for an interest-free loan from the government, and then pay it off in as many years, but a household could only apply once, and it was only used to buy a house.
With the convenience of interest-free loans, the number of people willing to become residents of the new Chang'an has surged, and once the loan is really launched, the permanent population of the new Chang'an will soon exceed 500,000, but this is only to fill the huge Chang'an City three or four tenths, and it can accommodate at least one million more people.
In Zhuxia, the population of a city exceeding one million is not a big deal, in fact, the population of Linzi in the early Han Dynasty has already exceeded one million, and Chang'an, as the administrative center of the Western Han Dynasty, is about 500,000 at most.
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang's population exceeded one million, and Linzi, a city with a population of one million, was also Linzi.
During the two Jin Dynasty, the population of more than one million was Jiankang, and the largest population of Jiankang was more than 2.3 million.
Linzi is the legacy of Guan Zhong, and some idioms such as curtains, curtains, sweat like rain and other idioms have been used to describe the grand occasion of Linzi for a long time, but all the glory is with the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty and become history, if history has not been changed by Liu Yan, Linzi has only exceeded one million people in modern times.
The population of Constantinople under Roman rule was close to one million at its peak, but it quickly decreased from 850,000 to 150,000 at the Battle of Constantinople.
If history had not deviated, Constantinople would have increased to 250,000 within 20 years, and remained until Baghdad became a city of nearly 1 million people, and the population of Constantinople slowly increased again, that is, the permanent population of Constantinople was capped at 250,000 for a long time.
Julian, who had entered the palace, reappeared, and when he saw Wang Meng, he showed a stiff smile and said, "Angel, please come with me." ” Wang Meng could already sense from Julian's smile that there would be a moth next, and it seemed that it was more serious than the small situation that Julian said.
He smiled and bowed his head, turned his head to Cai Mian and said, "Wait a minute, no matter what movement you hear, don't come in."
If the Romans do anything unfavorable, please die in this square. ” Cai Mian subconsciously took a deep breath, solemnly saluted Wang Meng, and then replied with his firm eyes, without saying a word from beginning to end.
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Julian heard it all without saying a word, and as a result, the expression on his face became stiffer, and he didn't say anything when he wanted to say something.
Wang Meng slowly but steadily stepped up the stairs, stepping on the frosted marble step by step, and when he reached the top, he glanced back at all the Han people, including Cai Mian, who maintained a saluting posture.
"This is our house."
Julian lowered his voice: "Augustus and the councillors are already inside.
Wait a minute, some councillors may speak very unpleasantly, please angels to exercise restraint. ” "No, I'm not going to refrain from it."
Wang Meng said strongly: "This envoy represents the Son of Heaven, the Eight Desolations and the Six Combinations, Heaven and Earth, the Universe is desolate, no one can be disrespectful to the Son of Heaven."
Julian smiled bitterly, and he would still say, "Then please wait here for a moment, I", followed by a series of wry smiles.
Wang Meng was still willing to wait, and this time Julian didn't let him wait long.
Julian came out of it and silently gestured to Wang Meng in a gesture of invitation.
They had to walk some distance up the steps to the palace gates, flanked by Roman soldiers with short spears, who opened and closed the doors.
The door was opened, and when you looked in from the outside of the door, you could see that it was a rather deep passage, and there was not enough light to make the passage a little dim, and there was a "buzzing" sound coming from inside, not that there were bees inside, but that there were too many people talking.
Wang Meng walked in the dim passage and could faintly see the Roman soldiers standing guard on both sides, and when he walked out of the passage, he saw a dense crowd of people, each sitting in a semi-circular staircase, full of people from top to bottom.
In addition to the semi-circular stepped seats, you can also see the second to fourth floors, where there are also stepped seats, and they are also full of people.
The Roman parliamentarians remained unchanged for many years, wearing long white gowns with either red or purple ribbons draped over their shoulders.
In fact, the ribbon is purple to appear noble, and red is ordinary, and even yellow and other colors of ribbons have evolved to this day.
Wang Meng's appearance made the scene suddenly quiet, and then there was a loud noise like an explosion, and the people who were the ambassador of the volume had tinnitus, and even wondered if the roof would be overturned.
Directly opposite the semi-circular seat is a high platform, where the most conspicuous thing is a slightly larger throne, or a throne with a golden cross on the top of the backrest, and the deputies on both sides are made to look like eagles with wings outstretched, and the back is also carved with eagle heads, but the cross is too abrupt, resulting in a very similar eagle suppressed by the cross.
In addition to that one throne, there are four smaller seats.
There is nothing special about these four seats, to say that there are just some animal furs, and nothing else.
Julian stopped at the exit of the passage, and he watched Wang Meng not stop, his body was steady and sonorous, and he did not stop until he reached the center.
At this time, a "doodoo" trumpet sound was blown, and the noise slowly stopped, leaving only the sound of the trumpet blowing.
After the trumpet stopped, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and there was another passageway, and out of the way came a middle-aged man in a white silk robe, with his empty hands, no ribbon on his shoulders, but a crown on his head, he was the current Augustus Constantius II of Rome.
Followed by Constantius, there were three women, one of whom was supposed to be his wife, and the other two women looked younger, and the three Roman women were all wearing long, well-fitting silk dresses, showing off their beautiful figures.
In addition to the women, there were two other young men who looked very young, and it is not known whether they were the heirs of Constantius or the blood relatives of the next line.
Others, who looked like personal guards or something.
It was customary for the rulers of Rome to carry their guards to the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar on any occasion, and no one wanted to be the second person in the palm of the supreme power, but the unlucky babe who was pierced into a sieve with a dagger
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