The reason why Liu Yan went to northern Xinjiang to watch the actual combat of firearms troops was not because he was suddenly brainless, let alone because he was forced to make a decision under diplomatic pressure.
The Han Empire does not need to submit to anyone now, on the contrary, what does the Han Empire demand, as long as it is not too excessive, any country, including Rome and Sasansani, will be judged by their own strength, and the strong country will rebound, but the so-called rebound is more of a struggle within the ability.
"The gunpowder of the Han Empire is a divine weapon given by the gods to revitalize the country, and I am afraid that it is impossible for us to obtain it through normal diplomatic relations."
Cicero was so sure of this that he advised: "Whatever the difficulties, no matter how much time it takes, Rome needs to master the knowledge of gunpowder." ” The surrounding environment was full of the sound of wheels rolling over, and the carriage was full of Romans, and Cicero kept his voice low, making it difficult for the Han coachman to hear the driver.
They have done their best to obtain gunpowder from all sides, but they have faced failure after failure, but they will never give up because of repeated failures, and will work hard until one day they will reap the results.
"If we can't get gunpowder," said Flavies, in the dimly lit carriage, "the Persians must not be allowed to take the lead." ” A similar conversation would take place on the Persian side, who were eager to go to the north to see the Han army's firearms units in action, not only to see what the firearms units were like, but also to find ways to obtain gunpowder on the battlefield.
If possible, not only do they want to get some gunpowder, but it is best to be able to buy or kidnap Han people who know how to configure gunpowder, but everyone knows that it is not easy, even if they really succeed, how to deal with the follow-up reaction of the Han Empire will also be a big problem.
"We've all seen the power of gunpowder with our own eyes."
Ksiaias was deeply shocked every time he remembered the scene he saw on the Asan Plain: "I know why Your Majesty has repeatedly yielded to the demands of the Han Empire. ” It was also a dimly lit carriage, and I could still vaguely see the gloom on the faces of several people.
Unlike Rome, the Persians and the Han are now left with only one Hungite as a buffer on land, and the Hungites have recently been heavily damaged by the Han army, and it is uncertain when the Han Empire will destroy the Hungites and rush into Sasanian territory.
"Gunpowder, gunpowder, gunpowder" Ksieias repeated three times in a low voice: "We must get it" Without gunpowder, the Persians, although they were at war with the Han Empire, believed that even if they paid a big price, the final result of fighting a war to defend their homeland would be their own victory.
It was a kind of attack and defense, one side of the local defense and the other side of the long journey gave the Persians confidence, and the cold weapons of the Persians also believed that even if they were not as strong as the Han army, as long as they were not afraid of sacrifice, they would definitely be able to offset the gap in armament and even training.
If the Han army uses firearms, it is not a question of whether they are afraid of sacrifice or not, no matter how they are not afraid of death, they must die worthwhile, and they will die without bones before they are "banged" and do nothing, what is the value of talking In different places, at about the same time, Julian and Xeias deserved to be good friends, and they said the same thing tacitly: "The compromise we have now is because we really can't afford to provoke the Han Empire."
And this situation urgently needs to change" The Han Empire is bullying the whole world As long as the royal family of a weak country is not replaced and the country is destroyed, or the small country does not have the courage to refuse the request from the Han Empire, such as those countries in the Asan Continent, the country with excellent ports, the Han Empire asks for a lease, even if they are unwilling, they can only agree.
At present, there are too many countries leased by the Han Empire, including Rome and Sasanian, and the difference is only in the size of the concession and the length of the lease.
The original names of Calabagas, Calabaras, Lambajiana, Babava, Ravindrakuta, Trakutaka, Satrap and Frank were all leased by the Han Empire, and the minimum period of lease in Satrap reached 300 years, and the highest in those countries was 3,000 years.
In these countries, the rent of the port is only a pitiful gold coin, and in other concessions, it is also only a gold coin.
They saw the lease of ports and inland concessions as an act of paying protection money.
Whether it was a coastal port or an inland concession, depending on the importance of the assessment, the Han Empire would send troops of different sizes to be stationed.
In fact, whether it is 300 years or 3,000 years, it is talking about lend-lease, but what is the difference between directly ceding territory and becoming part of the territory of the Han Empire Unless those countries are strong enough to bring the Han Empire to its knees, those leased ports or concessions will never want to go back.
There is another possibility, such as the Han Empire's own civil strife, which can be forcibly reclaimed by those countries through the civil strife of the Han Empire, or it can be abandoned by the Han Empire on its own initiative, and those territories will be returned to the countries.
Rome and Sassanid also had ports leased to the Han Empire, with Rome having at least one port in Egypt, Mauritania, Tarago and Spain, Gaul, Italy, the Balkans and the Greek Peninsula and Asia Minor, up to six ports.
That is, except for the provinces of Carthage, Syria, and Dacia, which were not leased by the Han Empire, the rest of the provinces were leased by the Han Empire.
Because of its much shorter coastline, Sassanid was leased by the Han Empire with only three ports, two in Gederosia and one in Babesania.
Unlike other smaller states, the Han Empire leased ports from Rome and Sassanid for a maximum of ninety-nine years and a minimum of fifteen years, depending on the location, with rents based on Han Empire-style gold coins, ranging in price from 200 to 3,000 gold coins.
At the same time, Rome and Sassanid refused to lease inland leases to the Han Empire because they did not want Han troops to be stationed in the interior.
Those big and small countries, they actually didn't understand so much why the Han Empire wanted to lease ports or inland concessions.
Small states simply thought that the Han Empire was there to ensure the supply of their own military or civilian ships, and the more malicious direction of thinking was that the Han Empire was showing off its might.
The big countries will think more about the direction because of their vision, and they feel that the Han Empire is showing off its strength, and it is certain that it can roughly understand that it involves commerce and trade.
In today's era, if Liu Yan hadn't signaled that there would be such a tax as tariffs, there would be no such thing as tariffs in the world.
If ships from other countries want to go to the Han Empire, not only do they need to pay tolls at various checkpoints, but in fact, goods are also charged for customs clearance, which is still the kind of charging behavior more than once.
For example, when you pass through Malacca, you have to pay again when you want to dock at a port in Hainan 1, which is equivalent to paying again every time you dock at a port with goods.
Don't think that the payment when you land is over, the crooked nuts will transport the goods to the market in a certain city, and the inspection of entering the market is another payment, and the payment will be made when you put it on the shelf and sell it.
Rome and Sassanid also drew on the tariffs of the Han Empire to formulate their own tariff laws, and they originally wanted to collect tariffs from Han merchant ships, but they came to a drama of the Han Empire leasing ports.
According to the negotiation and oppression between the Han Empire and other countries, since all the power of the port no longer belongs to the countries before the lease period expires, then the countries naturally have no right to collect taxes, which means that as long as the Han ships choose the ports leased by the state to berth, the countries will not receive customs duties at all.
Regardless of whether the difference is discovered, there will still be no change between what countries find and what they don't, small countries dare not talk too much, and large countries are afraid to choose patience and can only accept the fact that the Han Empire enjoys privileges in trade.
At a different time, in a different place, a group of crooked nuts looked at the long city wall, looked at a majestic pass, and were shocked by the scenery in front of them and didn't know what to feel for a while.
They have arrived at Yanmen Pass, and the city wall that looks like it extends to the end of the world is naturally the Great Wall and the Han Dynasty, and the majestic pass is Yanmen Pass.
"I heard that the Han people completed the construction of those walls four or five hundred years ago," Ciceas asked Cicero: "The Egyptians built the pyramids to bury the pharaohs, and the Han people built the same epic construction to defend against the invasion of the steppe peoples." ” "So the Egyptians were completely subjugated by the Romans."
Cicero really had a special knowledge of the history of the Han people, and told Ciceas about the history of the Great Wall, especially explaining that the Great Wall as we see it now is not the most primitive Great Wall: "The earliest history of the construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Warring States period of the Han people, and then their first emperor ordered the sections of the Great Wall to be connected.
The Great Wall we see today was built during their First and Second Empires. ” The so-called first empire is the Western Han Dynasty, and the second empire is the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to distinguish the Western Han Dynasty from the Eastern Han Dynasty, various countries call the current Han Empire the third imperial stage of the Han people.
Otherwise, the country is called Han, but there have been several turmoil and dynasty changes, and it is really difficult to distinguish between the current Han Empire and the former Eastern Han and Western Han Dynasty, what is the difference between the same "Han" as the country name.
After arriving in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty's attention to the Great Wall was repeatedly reduced, and only individual sections of the Great Wall were maintained and repaired in a planned manner, and most of the remaining sections of the Great Wall were left to fend for themselves.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a court discussion to repair the Great Wall, but the key problem was that the Sima clan had no money in the treasury, and at the same time, because of the long civil war, the population was sharply reduced, and the issue was passed but not put into practical action.
The Great Wall they see now, except for the section of the city wall around Yanmen Pass, looks perfect, and the farther section of the city wall is actually more of a collapsed gap.
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There was also a discussion about whether or not to repair or maintain the Great Wall, followed by a decision to allow the Great Wall to evolve itself.
There is nothing complicated about such a resolution, the northern borders are pushed deep into the grasslands, the value of the Great Wall is infinitely reduced, and the repair requires astronomical national funds and unknown labor, is it just to become a scenic spot "Although I don't want to admit it, our Great Wall is a small shrimp compared to it."
Flavis has seen several parts of the Great Wall with his own eyes: "We are trying our best to maintain the perfection of the Great Wall, and the Great Wall of the Han people looks very old and full of gaps. ” The Romans also had their own Great Wall, which was built in different geographical locations at each stage, such as the Black Sea coast, the "Germanic Line" in the Danube Valley, and the "Hadrian's Wall" on the island of Great Britain.
Although their Great Wall and the Great Wall of Zhuxia have the same name and the same purpose, the construction method is two different things.
The Great Wall built by the Romans is not more than six meters thick at most, and the highest is not higher than ten meters, and the base is very particular, but the key is that the city wall is not so exquisite, and even some sections are only less than two meters thick with rammed earth or masonry.
Such a creation does not need to be destroyed for a long time, and the destruction of less than 100 people will fall at a time.
The results of their Great Wall are not difficult to imagine, but they contributed a lot of brick and stone to the surrounding residents, leaving only a bare pedestal to bear witness to the fact that it was once a section of the Great Wall.
Flavis didn't say it so obviously, but everyone who should have understood understood it.
The Romans were still trying their best to ensure the perfection of the various sections of the Great Wall, because they were facing the "rise of the barbarians".
The Han people do not care about the Great Wall because the Han people are no longer a threat in the north, so naturally they do not need to spend national funds and labor.
"We set out from Chang'an," Julian was silently calculating how far he had traveled: "Arriving at this place called Yanmen Pass, the total distance is close to 1,000 Han Li."
Those who know geography gave a positive answer.
"After landing in Jingkou, the total distance from Jiankang to Chang'an exceeded 2,500 miles."
Julian took a deep breath and was shocked by his calculations: "Yanmen Pass is not a frontier yet, and it is necessary to continue to move north for two thousand miles."
The Han Empire was far more vast than you can imagine."
Although Rome's territory was large, it was not really deep enough, and most of its territory was on the coastline, which was equivalent to fighting the same maritime power, and there were defensive holes everywhere, which could be used as a breakthrough for the enemy's army.
Ksiaias happened to hear a tail, and he silently calculated it, and came to the conclusion that from the southern coast to the northern grassland, and from the eastern coastal to the western regions, the Han Empire had enough depth of the hinterland to frighten people to death, and it would be a nightmare for any invader: