Only by admitting the weak and accepting the strong can progress be made, and a nation that does not understand this truth will absolutely not escape the fate of being eliminated.
If you do not maintain the values of your own people when you accept the culture of the powerful, then even if your "body" is still alive, the absence of "spirit" and "inner being" is equivalent to death.
The culture of the Romans was Hellenistic, but their "spiritual" and "internal" were still authentic Romans, and even because they accepted the culture of the Greeks, they magnified some good aspects of the Greek culture, so that the gains of the Romans were not as simple as one plus one equals two.
Over a long period of time, the Romans conquered many peoples, and each time they conquered a nation, they always assimilated it, at first in terms of religion, such as continuing to worship the gods of the conquered people, and then slowly absorbing culture and values.
The Romans never refused to learn good things, and after they discovered the power of the Han Chinese, the more powerful the nobles, the first people to take the lead in learning Han culture.
If the Han Empire sends envoys to Rome now, it will be found that the closer Rome is to the eastern provinces, a large number of nobles have stopped wearing traditional robes, and have instead worn gorgeous Han family clothes.
The imitation of clothing styles is only one aspect, being able to be invited to the banquet of the great nobles, and you can also find that the banquet is not what it used to be.
In the past, the Romans feasted on a variety of food for themselves, usually cold cuts and the like, and if they wanted to eat hot food, they either barbecued it on the spot or brought it to make soup.
Now, the small and medium-sized nobles are still the same, but the big nobles are basically not doing so.
The great nobles don't care about learning the likeness, that is, learning the way the Han people hold banquets, some of them learn to be decent, and some of them don't even learn the form, but they have always been changing.
Those who learned decently Roman nobles, they had children of their families who went to the Han Empire, and those children of those families were invited to participate in banquets held by the Han people.
Depending on who invited the children of the nobles to participate in the banquet, the Romans who participated in the banquets of the Han nobles many times, and the Romans who only participated in the banquets held by the Han nobles, learned a completely different form of banquet.
They will keep some cold cuts in buffet style, but basically to take care of the uninformed.
The newly learned way of holding banquets is to arrange a place to put a table and futon, and serve one dish after another in order.
Many Roman aristocrats also learned a form, and most of them had never eaten Han food at all, even if they changed to hot food, but only a very small number of nobles could provide Han dishes.
The Romans were very curious about anything new, and they were even interested in some of the art of the weaker peoples, and they would imitate interesting things.
It's just fun to learn something from a weak people, but learning from the strong is to become stronger.
The Romans knew deep down that they could never afford to make progress, and they never shy away from learning, and that was one of the most important factors that Rome could become the overlord of Europa The Persians were first surprised when they learned that the Romans had learned from the Han Empire, and then the Persians came to their senses.
Although the Romans are powerful in the eyes of the Persians, the Persians will always have a trace of arrogance.
They admit that the Romans are a little bit better than themselves, but the Persians are more diverse and better in culture than the Romans.
In fact, the Romans learned some of their culture and habits from the Persians, and this is also the place where the Persians can despise the Romans even though they can't beat the Romans.
The Persians did not move closer to the Han like the Romans, for example, the Persians did not learn the dress of the Han Chinese.
In terms of food, the Persians are very similar to the Han people, and the difference is only in the dishes, and the cooking is actually almost the same, but the taste is not the same.
The history of the Persians is much longer than that of the Romans, and although the Persians had periods of decline, did the Persians not get back on their feet?
A nation with a long history must have something to be proud of, and the Persians are willing to learn from the Han Chinese, but they are not like the Romans who are independently sinicizing.
They will not change the characteristics of their clothing, and they are not willing to discard their traditions, and they will even deliberately keep their traditions.
"Actually," Cxieias was talking about the relevant matter just now, and asked Julian in wonder, "After you have studied the Han people in an all-round way, are the Romans still Romans?"
Julian was puzzled by this point of view of Ksiaias, and asked rhetorically, "What do you mean?"
"It's that you've completely changed your clothing and habits," said Chuias, before finally asking, "Is Rome still Rome?"
"Of course Rome will be Rome."
Julian came back to his senses and smiled and said, "It's as if we had embraced Greek culture in its entirety, aren't we Romans?"
Xeias was stunned and thought: it is true that the Romans are all Hellenistic, but they are still Romans.
They were following the Han army to the southeast, and they were placed in the middle of the whole team.
The snow and ice on this area had begun to melt, and the ground was quite wet with mud that became muddy after repeated trampling.
Fortunately, the Han army was not short of animal power, with a large number of carriages and horses, people finally did not have to get stuck in the mud step by step.
However, there are many troubles, such as when the soil becomes muddy, the wheels often get trapped, and it must require animal power and human processing to get rid of it.
Later, Li Tan changed the way of marching, and the whole team was distributed to the greatest extent, becoming a team that moved south in a fan way, not the very common way of marching with a snake all the time.
With minimal repetitive stampede, the muddy difficulties were greatly solved, and the march speed was eighty miles a day at the slowest and nearly one hundred and twenty miles at a fast rate.
Because of the huge animal power in the team, they need to stop for repairs every 500 miles or so, and a repair usually takes two to three days, but they still have more than 400 miles away from Junji Mountain after walking for seven days.
It's not that the more animal power, the faster the march.
Like cavalry troops, they can march within a range of 500 miles on horseback, but they are not infinitely marching, and if they don't want the war horses to be scrapped, maintaining the war horses is a must do.
Cavalry troops are only very mobile for short distances, and the pure infantry walks slower than them every day, but the foot troops marching on foot will actually be much faster than them in terms of long-distance marches.
Infantry troops would be faster than cavalry on long marches, because infantry did not need to stop at a distance of several days to allow their horses to recover.
In this way, although the infantry army walks seventy miles a day, and the cavalry army walks one hundred and twenty or thirty miles a day, but the infantry army walks seventy miles a day, the cavalry marches for two or three days and needs to be repaired for two or three days, and many times the distance of more than a thousand miles is completed by the infantry army for three or four days before the cavalry arrives behind the buttocks.
Therefore, the so-called speed of the cavalry unit is under the premise that the distance does not exceed 500 miles, and the distance exceeds the range of 500 miles, and the price of the cavalry to keep it fast is to let the war horses be abolished.
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The Han army withdrew from the border of Xigaoche.
As if he didn't know that, he didn't send a large force to chase after him.
During the retreat of the Han army, they encountered sporadic attacks, and when they caught them, they were some people who were originally hiding, and they did not come to attack after receiving orders, but purely self-acting.
After withdrawing from the border of Xigaoche, there were no more sporadic attacks, and the scouts who stayed in the rear to spy did not find any signs of sending troops to Xigaoche.
"Perhaps," Dou A said hesitantly, "Ding Ling didn't even know about our invasion."
"Who knows."
Li Tan said depressedly: "Maybe our invasion is in the wrong direction. ” They have more or less figured out one thing, the chosen invasion location will be icy and snowy when it snows, and after the ice and snow melt, it will not be conducive to marching, and once it enters the rainy season, it will become a flooded country.
Such an environment is not suitable for habitation no matter how you look at it, and it is no wonder that there are no signs of habitation in large areas.
"We had just walked away when it was raining."
Li Tan will have more information than Dou A: "It has only rained heavily for two days, and the low-lying location of the area where we were originally stationed is not far away, and the low-lying location has directly become a large and small pool.
If the rain continues to fall, it is not impossible for lakes to form. ” The Han people can already tell that that place is a basin at all, the amount of water melted by the ice and snow, coupled with the rainfall in the rainy season, it is inevitable that low-lying areas will form lakes, and areas without lakes will be full of streams, and only some relatively high places will have less humidity, but it is not much better.
"Tortured some of the captives."
Li Tan smiled bitterly and said, "In the summer, there will be swamps all over there. ” The subtext is that they are doing the right thing to withdraw, or to withdraw at the right time, and if it is a few days late, it will be the rainy season, and if it drags on, it will be full of swamps.
"It's a pity," Dou'a said very regretfully, "Even if the big man occupies that land, he won't get much." ” This statement is completely correct, that is, after modern times, both the Soviet Union and Russia have not even thought about developing that piece of land, so that they have maintained their original style.
It's not that there are no resources, it's that it's more expensive to develop than other places.
So there is a choice of who will develop on the premise "It's not without gains."
Zhang Haole said: "It is estimated that furs and medicinal herbs are worth a lot of money. ” Now it is Ding Ling people, I don't know how many nomadic troops there are before, seeing that the number of Ding Ling people in that place is not much, and considering the local appearance and climate, there are not many people who will not consume the gifts of nature, and there must be many natural resources left.
The Han army went out to pay attention to profits, they went to Xigaoche and did not kill many Ding Ling people, and they did not take the initiative to hunt and collect resources at the beginning, and they really couldn't find the enemy in the back, so they would not be stupid to stay in the camp and do nothing, it must be to create income.
As a result of the hunting and exploration, large numbers of animals were killed and their furs were collected.
The harvest of plants is more than fur, a large number of medicinal materials that are difficult to find in the Central Plains, and some plants that have never been seen before, anyway, if they can be found, they will definitely not turn a blind eye.
"Plus the harvest of the Northern Expedition" Zhang Hao said with a smile: "Make a lot of money" The harvest of the extermination of Rouran and Donggaoche was more than a million herds, with sheep being the most numerous, followed by cattle and horses.
It's a pity that because of the invasion of the West High Car, those prisoners of war can only be solved, or they can increase their income.
If you share the spoils of war, it is a small soldier who goes out with the army, and it is estimated that you can get at least 1,000 or more five baht.
Wealth is still secondary, and the most important thing for soldiers is merit.
According to the rules of the Han army, those who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield are counted separately, and those who are unlucky enough to have no military merits will be judged by their original official titles and titles, such as those who are not even dukes, will inevitably get the title of dukes after they go back.
This is part of the "subsistence allowance" for participating in the war, and the rules have been formed since the pre-Qin Dynasty, and the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty have been continued, and the current Han Empire has also chosen to keep it.
More or less there were gains, and then the casualties on our side were not serious, and the morale of the troops was always high.
The Han army seems to have high morale all the time, and it really stunned the crooked nuts, and the crooked nuts of some small countries and widows can experience the limitations, and the stronger the country, the more they can understand what it represents.
"Their morale was high when they marched north, and they were also high in the ice and snow.
Morale is still high on the way home.
Flavies was puzzled and said, "Are the Han people like this forever?"
"What you should be asking is, is it like this for every army of the Han Empire?"
Julian didn't believe that any of the Han Empire's troops were like this: "The army of the Han Empire's northern expedition must be elite, and they must be happy that they destroyed two countries at a slight cost and obtained amazing captures." ” Flavis thought about it for a moment and thought so.
If the Roman legions had gone through such a conquest, they would have shown greater excitement than the Han Chinese.
After all, there were not many dead and injured people, but there were so many materials seized, how could the living people share the spoils, and it was no wonder that they could not be happy.
"I know a marquis of the Han Army.
He said he was able to get at least 500 gold coins.
Flavies was not poor, or even rich, and felt jealous: "He doesn't seem to be very keen on wealth, and is glad to be able to raise the ranks." ” Julian was very aware of what the title represented in the Han Empire, and raised a topic that he wanted to discuss for a long time: "Rome did not establish a title, should we also establish a title":