The civil war of the House of Constantine brought the Roman Empire into a critical period, even if Constantius unified Rome again, even if the unification of Rome has always been a formality, but this time it is really quite different.
Before Rome, whether it was a republic or an empire, whether the ruler was called an archon or Augustus, Rome was never a centralized system, but a form of co-governance.
The political ecology of Rome was destined for one thing, the supreme ruler never had the space and opportunity to be autonomous, that is, the most powerful Octavian still could not control the local family, let alone the rest of the Roman rulers.
The situation of co-governance remained unchanged in Rome, but the local families continued to cooperate with Roman policy as much as possible, based on the righteousness of the current consuls of Augustus.
"It's probably like Zhou Tianzi's time."
When Wang Meng was in Constantinople, he borrowed a lot of books and studied the history of Rome: "It's just that Great Qin is not the only family to continue to rule, they just didn't change the name of the country. ” Cai You was a little curious: "Why didn't they change the name of the country" Wang Meng couldn't answer this question.
"They have gone through a variety of political systems, republics, senatories, patriarchal systems, kings, empires, almost all of them."
Wang Meng was already able to roughly understand the systems with different names, explaining: "In fact, the core has not changed, and the central government cannot fully lead the localities. ” "It's going to be messy."
Shay didn't have the time to get to know Rome for the time being, and guessed: "Every period of time will be chaotic."
Wang Meng nodded and said, "The cycle is about thirty to fifty years, and the family that rules Great Qin will change, and every time it is a dynasty change.
Sometimes there is co-governance, which is divided into peaceful co-governance and conflict co-governance, which is different from ours. ” In the earliest days, Rome had a period of co-rule of the four emperors, which was a period of civil war that could be described as a "catastrophe" for Rome, and if it were not for the "Five Wise Emperors" era in Rome, Rome would probably have died in the general outbreak of Germanic, Celtic and Slavic people.
Later, there was another "co-rule of the four emperors" stage in Rome, which was only clearly divided into two parts with the earlier "co-rule of the four emperors".
From around 270 A.D., at the end of the Illyrian Dynasty, until around 310 A.D., Rome was not quiet.
During the period from about 280 A.D. to about 305 A.D., there were four emperors in the east and west of Rome, which means that there were eight people who called themselves Augustus in the whole territory of Rome.
Constantine I put an end to the co-rule of Rome's four emperors, so that Rome once again ushered in glory, the key is that the good times did not last long, and there were families rising again and making Rome fall into division, waiting for him to solve those opponents again to become the only Augustus, but because of the hesitation of the heir, Rome ushered in a "family-style" civil war.
If we add to this the period of military rebellion and the Illyrian dynasty, which did little to do, Constantius has at least kept Rome relatively stable until the present day, which lasted for a full hundred and two years in constant scuffle and civil strife.
"For so long" Cai You was obviously shocked: "After a hundred years of civil war, there was no extinction of the country and the species" What Xie Ai was thinking about was how much the alien races around Rome should be rubbish, Zhuxia was only forty or fifty years of civil strife, waiting for the surrounding alien races to exert their strength and almost wipe out.
"It's weird."
Wang Meng did not forget to observe when he went to Rome, what he saw and heard was that the slaves in Rome were very peaceful, and he did not have a chance to observe what the surrounding areas of Rome were like: "The Germanic people have achieved some results, and the rest of the peoples do not seem to see the Great Qin people in trouble at all" Xie Ai concluded: "They are really lucky. ” Cai You was deeply convinced of Xie Ai's statement, if he replaced the alien races around Rome with those of Zhuxia, he could clearly affirm that the Romans would have been cold for a long time.
The Eastern Han Dynasty collapsed in 220 A.D., and the time of the princes' chaotic war and the coexistence of the Three Kingdoms lasted for 46 years before the Sima clan came to "Three Kingdoms to One".
In 46 years, the Han people went from 56 million at their peak to only 5.37 million when the Western Jin Dynasty was established and the census was conducted.
The chaos in Rome lasted for more than a hundred years, although there was a respite for the Illyrian Dynasty in the middle, but the Illyrian Dynasty did not end the chaos, and the dog brain was played later, and it is difficult to calculate how many people died, and now there are many people in Rome in fact, the Constantine family does not know.
Guessing from some vague historical sources, the population of Rome at the beginning of Constantius' reign should have been less than 12 million "You mentioned it before," Cai You thought carefully before continuing: "The population under the Great Qin Territory will not be less than sixty million. ” "Fierce is to include peoples other than the Romans."
Wang Meng's guess is that there will be no less than 10,000 people under Roman rule, and 60 million is still less.
He cites several locations, notably: "Egypt alone has a population of nearly 30 million, and the Europa part will not be less than 20 million." ” Xie Ai seemed to understand something, and blurted out: "No wonder" "Last time some Germans came to Dahan."
Cai You really didn't remember the name of the country very clearly, and repeatedly determined it several times: "Franks, Burgundy, Alemanni" Wang Meng said that Cai You's memory is very good, and the name of the country is not wrong.
For the Han people, it is really quite bad for crooked nuts to like to take stinky and long names, and it is necessary to reverse this.
"After the Yongjia Rebellion, we experienced a large number of northerners moving south, and there was also a migration of people from the Great Qin side."
Wang Meng glanced out the window and retracted his gaze before continuing: "The political center of gravity of the Great Qin people shifted eastward during the reign of Constantine I, and a large number of Great Qin people also moved eastward from Spain, Gaul, Saxony and the Celtic region, resulting in the population of Great Qin in the European part of the country falling again and again. ” Cai You and Xie Ai glanced at each other, and they suddenly felt very strange, obviously Rome and Zhuxia were so far away, how could some things happen so similarly, and even the time nodes were about the same If there is no one left in that land when the national strength declines, and other ethnic groups migrate in large numbers, and the state does not take back the land by force, there will be disputes over that piece of land after a long time.
A large number of Romans migrated away, and a large number of Germanic people filled the gap, and Belgium, Luxembourg and eastern Gaul, which originally belonged to Rome, were established one after another, and the three states of Franks, Burgundy and Alemanni were established one after another.
"The three Germanic states were not established during the reign of Constantius, but in fact the majority of Magnentius's forces were at war with Constantius, resulting in a military vacuum in that region."
Wang Meng looked out the window again, and his actions were seen by Cai You and Xie Ai: "Only then did Franks, Burgundy, and Alemanni be established." ” As the current Augustus of Rome, Constantius did not think about solving the problem, but when he learned the actual situation, he fell into a hesitant mentality, because there were too many families in Europe who did not submit to his rule at all, and he originally wanted to use the name of righteousness to let those families in Europe destroy the Franks, Burgundy and Alemanny, but it caused the opposite, but it ended the friction between those families and the Franks, Burgundy and Alemanni, and entered the allies who did not publicize the covenant.
The last time the Franks, Burgundy and Alemanni were able to envoy to the Han Empire was because of the contribution of a considerable number of families.
The combined power of these families made Constantius extremely jealous, unless Constantius wanted to come to a war in Asia Minor against the European part, or he had to choose to endure.
The location of the three of them is a side hall tea room, and the outside is naturally the atrium square.
It is rare for them to get together for tea, and to have this opportunity is that Liu Yan recruited several important ministers, especially called Helena to explain the history of Rome.
Liu Yan has multiple intentions in this view, to broaden the horizons of several ministers, and let them really understand what Rome is like, don't be naïve to think that Rome is a family of all generations, there is also a change of dynasty, the difference is that the Romans have always used the name "Rome".
"I heard that Shang Shuling wants to learn from Great Qin to deal with internal affairs" Xie Ai pointed out one of the reasons why Liu Yan wanted several important ministers to understand Rome: "If you don't really understand Great Qin", the latter words were not said, because I felt that Sang Yu would be ashamed.
Let Helena talk about the history of Rome, this matter Liu Yan did not do properly, but except for Helena, Liu Yan really has no suitable candidate, it can't be Julian or anyone, right "Ai thinks that person is a little overactive."
Xie Ai is a waiter, and he did not overstep this at all: "It is that Helena is too silent." ” Shizhong is not only a state official but also a close minister of the emperor, and can meddle in government affairs while also being involved in the emperor's family affairs, but the smart servant will not easily meddle in the emperor's family affairs.
"It's just a woman."
Cai You was higher in status and older than Xie Ai and Wang Meng in any aspect before, although they are now both servants, they still have a high and low difference: "A woman of the Han Dynasty is an official, but she is not a Han woman." ” As long as Helena didn't suddenly become a minister of the Han Empire, even if she became one of the harem concubines, unless Liu Yan was bewitched, she wouldn't be able to interfere in state affairs at all.
They have some understanding of Liu Yan, thinking that Liu Yan is not something that a woman can control at all, and guessing that Liu Yan must have done so for a reason, and it is very likely that he is targeting Rome.
"Compared to the Great Qin people," Cai You dragged out an end before continuing: "The Persians are closer to us. ” "So now the most populous country is Sasanian," said Shay, putting down the tea in his hand, "the population under Shapur II will not be less than eighty million" That is from a series of relevant statistics, 80 million does not refer to all Persians, Persians should only account for about 38 million, the rest are Arabs, Egyptians, Syria, Iraq, and so on no less than 20 ethnic groups, and the number of Arabs is the largest.
Xie Ai has always been very concerned about the western side of the Han Dynasty, which has a lot to do with the fact that he was born in the northwest.
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Now there is a large influx of people from the northwest into the Western Regions, and it is also necessary to immigrate to the Western Regions for a long time in the future, and those who have long been pouring into the Western Regions will definitely be guided to settle down.
The Western Regions are still very chaotic now, the Hunnites have already intervened, Xie An did not come back to fight with them a few times, and cut off the Hunite's outstretched hand, but because of the change of national policy, it was only to kill and warn, and it did not break out into a national war.
"There are also obvious internal contradictions within Sasani."
Wang Meng said something he had seen with his own eyes, and later summarized: "Although some Great Qin people provoked trouble from it, it can be imagined that the contradiction only broke out when it was at a sharp moment. ” Wang Meng went to Persian Sassanid not only for tourism.
He didn't have much chance before, but later, in the spirit of being more prepared, he accidentally lost a few chests of gold, as if he had been picked up by an Arab leader named Ibn or something In fact, Wang Meng remembered the name very clearly, it was not wrong to call it Ibn Ibn, there were two people, one was called Ibn Abdul, and the other was Ibn Rahman.
He also knew that not long after he left, the Arabs over there became very active.
"There is no shortage of gold in the Great Han."
Cai You knew what Wang Meng had done before, and he was extremely appreciative of Wang Meng's behavior: "I have been continuing Jingluo's approach." ” Wang Meng smiled implicitly, but said: "Your Majesty seems to have a bad impression of the Arabs" If you want to make the Persian Sassanid more chaotic, supporting the Arabs looks like it's the right thing to do.
The Romans had been supporting the Arabs before, but the Romans were more mouthful and couldn't come up with anything too practical.
Now the Han Empire has put too much pressure on Rome and Sasanian, and the relationship between the two countries has been eased repeatedly, and the Romans have simply stopped talking about the Arabs, and there is a trend that two thousand years of enemies want to move towards brothers.
"Their fear is inevitable."
Cai Youle said hehehe: "It's just that more than a thousand years of hatred can be easily eliminated." ” Xie Ai continued: "Unless the Great Han invades immediately." ” Cai You said, "Yes." ” Wang Meng felt that it was the same, Rome and Sassanid were the most nervous now, that was because the Han Empire appeared too abruptly, as long as there was a buffer for a while, and the Han Empire did not show an obvious desire to attack, the two countries would definitely fall in love and kill each other again.
The Han people's financial support for the Arabs, the 1 tribe, the 1 resistance, the 1 movement, did make Liu Yan hesitate for a while, but he knew that the Arabs did replace the Persians.
In addition, how to say that Ameriken's support for the Arabs is a "lesson from the past" for Liu Yan: