The envoys of so many countries came, so it is not too much to say that all countries are coming Then, in order to maintain the basic political task of all countries coming to the DPRK, there should have been a very grand welcome ceremony, but the key is that the ranks of various countries are too swollen The Romans alone came more than 16,000 people, or more than 2,000 people died during the voyage, or more than 18,000 remained.
Rome came to this man, and the nobles accounted for about 10 percent of them, and the rest were either all kinds of people who accompanied the service, or they were escorts with them.
There are so many people in a single envoy corps, and the guards are counted at about 6,000, which is like an army with three Roman legions If it weren't for the fact that those soldiers were guards and came from the Roman legions, the Han army would not have been able to let them ashore, or even let them cross Malacca safely.
The Persian legation was also quite numerous, including a miscellaneous number of personnel, and the total number reached 5,600 men.
The Persians came with more nobles than the Romans, but they were noticeably more sensible than the Romans, and brought only five hundred escorts.
Among the other small states, the second in the order of numbers are some regional powers, such as the Vagathaga, the two Satraps and the successors of the Jidora Kushan, with more than 1,000 people.
The final echelon is the individual small countries, with numbers ranging from tens to hundreds.
The number of all the envoys combined, the number of international friends who arrived in Chang'an reached 47,000, which is really a rather exaggerated number.
The number of people is so large, the welcome ceremony is not impossible to do, the problem is that there are too many people coming, giving people a feeling of bullying the host, and the Han people who can't stand the grievances are very rational if they don't handle the knife, and arrange the welcome ceremony according to the normal procedures "Welcome ceremony" Wang Meng smiled instantly, and smiled heartily: "Did you see the Central Gymnasium on the way when you came?"
Of course, there was no such thing as a gymnasium before, and it was a product of Liu Yan's interference in history.
Such a huge building is simply impossible to ignore, and international friends naturally saw the Central Gymnasium.
"The Han Dynasty is a country of etiquette" Wang Meng naturally has the confidence to say this, and it is known that there is no other country and nation in the world that cares more about interests than the Han people: "How could you forget to arrange a welcome ceremony?"
International friends think that they understand, Chang'an City has no city wall, there is no city gate, and the welcome ceremony will naturally not be arranged at the city gate, that is, it will be arranged in the Central Gymnasium They looked at the empty streets, and then at the empty spaces on both sides of the streets, and saw that the soil on the ground was still very strong, and it was obvious that the long-term activity of people here would make the soil on the ground so solid and smooth.
"We are walking through the entrance and exit of the army, and it is normal that there are no onlookers."
Wang Meng didn't tell a lie, he said with a nostalgic expression: "When the envoy was on the mission, he was sent off here, and he came back after nearly two years, and I felt a lot. ” Of course, the military-only passage is not only for the military, and some ceremonies will also be held in the military-only passage.
The dirt on the open space on both sides of the road would look so solid and smooth, because the people of Hongrokan had been here to practice the welcome ceremony before, and it was only when the foreign envoys came ashore that they decided not to hold the welcome ceremony outdoors and moved to the Central Gymnasium.
There were no buildings on both sides of the military-only passageway, and even as we went deep into the city, we were able to see the buildings when we were deep enough to see them, but they were not houses.
"The place we are passing through is a barracks" Julian saw the familiar building, which was a kind of townhouse called a barn by the Han Chinese, and could also see other novelties, such as some fitness equipment placed in the open space: "The road is empty on both sides, is it sometimes that the road surface is not enough?"
Wang Meng didn't want to explain at all.
Both sides of the military passage are naturally as empty as possible, and there can be no buildings that can block the view, in order to prevent being ambushed, and then there is an emergency, who will line up only to walk the passage, and can rush to the position that needs to be reached as quickly as possible is the best way to climb and avoid.
"Look at the size of the barracks," Cambyses lowered his voice: "The soldiers stationed in this barracks should be about 10,000 people. ” The correct number of soldiers stationed in this camp is 15,000, which happens to be an army.
There are quite a lot of military camps in Chang'an City, and the personnel stationed in each military camp are the number of an army, if you can have an overview of the area where the barracks are located, you will find that the layout is very exquisite, and it will not take more than ten minutes for the army to arrive in any area.
As the team walked on, they suddenly noticed a crowd of people standing in front of them, and it was right to see that the crowd was dressed as civilians.
Today was a slightly unusual day for the residents of Chang'an, who had been informed earlier that an alien delegation would arrive and that the city's Central Stadium would open for the first time.
The occasion of welcoming foreign envoys is placed in the central gymnasium, most people do not know what the purpose of the center is, and most people only know that they need to buy tickets when they want to participate, and what is more depressing is that buying tickets requires the basis of a knighthood, and there is no qualification to buy tickets without a knighthood.
"This is the Gentiles."
"They're all dressed in our costumes."
"Watching these guys wear our clothes reminds me of the idiom of Mu Monkey and Crown."
"Those foreigners who are about the same as us are dressed well, and those with dark and white skin are indeed crowned by monkeys."
There are no walls of public officials on either side of the street, and there are no guardrails or anything, but onlookers are consciously standing outside the road.
Quality is not naturally cultivated, it is the result of repeated education.
As long as the adult Han people have no physical defects, they need to undergo military training in summer and winter, and there is no shortage of basic discipline.
The vast majority of crooked nuts do not understand Chinese, and it is because they do not understand the character of the onlookers that they have the impression that the Han people are very enthusiastic.
Crooked nuts who could understand Chinese, such as Julian, felt the closeness of the Han people to the Romans, and knew that it was the reason for the similarity of the two peoples.
"It's our fault that the appearance is too different from the Han Chinese," Ksieias felt malice: "We are obviously allies, how can we be like this?"
Julian had a heart for it, but he finally endured it, and said fairly: "Only those who can support each other are allies, and one side is completely dependent on the other side called vassal." ” Ksiaias was silent.
"In this war against the Gupta dynasty, the Sassanids only proposed an alliance at the beginning to draw the other nations into the alliance."
Julian really felt that the Persians were either stupid or inauthentic: "But you only did those things, and the actions that followed were not at all like allies." ” Kesias was weak-hearted, and not only did they not look like allies of the Han State in the back, but they also made stumbling blocks for the Han State openly and secretly
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