"The shape of these buildings is very similar to that of the Great Han."
Ran Min walked inside the temple of the goddess of smallpox, and he had already looked around the periphery, and was currently looking at the internal pattern.
It has only been thirteen days since they arrived at the Tianzhu Protectorate, and the time they spent on the shore before was spent on the road, and they just took a look at the way along the way, and when they arrived in Hua's City, they could be regarded as having the intention to understand Ah San's culture.
Fahrenheit City is Ah San's own name, and if it is transliterated, it should actually be called Patna.
However, the Han people still prefer the name Fahrenheit to the strange name of Patna.
According to rumors, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty was built more than 500 years ago, and was used as the capital of the country at first, and later became a gathering place for the first religion, and slowly became a holy place for the first religion.
"In the legend of Ah San, a considerable number of people became saints here."
Of course, Qian Jiantong wanted to entertain Ran Min and others, and it happened that he was not busy with official business, so he personally acted as a tour guide: "They also call this place the capital of saints." ” "Ridiculous" Ran Min not only refuted when he heard this, but also sneered and said: "Just them, there are saints" As long as it is a nation with a long enough history, in fact, it will have its own saints, but other nations will not accept it.
"Who knows."
Qian Jiantong will not scold Ran Min, and there is no need: "Ah San was once brilliant, but it is really true." ” The so-called glory is not fake, it is that they once had a great unification, and once became the largest country in the world in terms of territory.
The Mauryan Empire conquered almost all of the Indian mainland, leaving only a small tail in the south.
It is that the time from the founding of the Mauryan Empire to its demise was shorter, only one hundred and thirty-six years.
The real unification took less than 50 years, and then it was divided into nearly 100 countries and city-states, large and small.
"The family of the founder of the Peacock Dynasty is also surnamed Gupta " Zhang Shi was one of the three marquis who came to Tianzhu Capital to protect the mansion this time.
He asked curiously, "Does it have anything to do with the Gupta Empire that we just destroyed?"
This is what Qian Jiantong asked.
The first king who established the Mauryan Dynasty was called Chandragupta because they were a family of peacocks, and the dynasty they established was also called the Mauryan Dynasty.
Chandragupta's historical title in Asan is Ashoka, and if translated in Chinese, it is called Moon Protector.
The process of his rise is full of all kinds of magic, and it should be said that it is an example of the times creating heroes.
At that time, it happened that a Macedonian named Alexander unified Greece and led his army to the east, first defeating the Persian Empire, and after conquering all of Persia, he was not satisfied, and marched east again.
Alexander invaded North India relatively smoothly at first, and captured most of North India in a very short time.
Ah San's historical record of Alexander's disastrous defeat in India is not the same thing.
According to the records of the Greeks, the soldiers who followed Alexander's crusade at that time were already full of war money, and then they were physically and mentally exhausted, and they really didn't want to continue the crusade in the face of India, which was not only mountains and forests.
The soldiers were reluctant to fight again, and Alexander had no choice but to retreat west.
Ah San did have a frontal battle with Alexander, but looking at the complete fall of North India, what words are used to describe how powerful Ah San is.
Chandragupta rose to prominence when he saw the Greeks weakening in northern India, seizing the opportunity to raise an army and convince a considerable number of native nobles.
They drove out the remnants of the Greeks in the Punjab, gained great fame, and then marched on the road to the unification of India by defeating the Greeks.
"Ah San's account of this person is very mysterious."
Qian Jiantong just told the truth: "It is indeed very mysterious, he relied on the record of driving out the Greeks, and scared most Ah San not to fight at all, so that it was said that he used force to unify the credibility, but it was better to rely on intimidation to obtain the power to rule." ” "So" Ran Min had been listening quietly just now, and commented: "Most of the Ah San have not really succumbed to Chandragupta at all, and the Mauryan Dynasty, which seems to be in a unified state, actually has its own evil intentions in the central and local governments."
"That's exactly what it looks like."
Qian Jiantong said funny: "If you have to make a comparison, that Peacock Dynasty is probably about the same as our Zhou royal family in the middle of the period.
It's just that the first king of the Mauryan Dynasty is still alive, and there are constant wars of division, and in addition to the lack of a new country name in the south, it is actually in a state of division. ” It may not sound so good, but that's the status quo of the Mauryan Empire, and it was like that when Chandragupta was still alive.
From this, we can also see how unstable Chandragupta's rule was, otherwise he would be alive and could not have fallen apart at any time, and he would not have been able to see what a unified country should be.
"Ah San, the Yue clan and the Sai people generally have a relatively high evaluation of Chandragupta."
What Qian Jiantong said is well-founded: "Although the country was unstable during the reign of Chandragupta, he fought and won the war with the world's largest power at that time, an empire called Seleucus, and at one time invaded Central Asia and occupied part of Afghanistan in Central Asia. ” Ran Min knew about the Seleucid empire.
What he knew was that the empire called Seleucus was once the largest in the world, and it was once glorious.
"Look at the buildings here, you can't see any traces of the Greeks."
Zhang Shi touched the carving on the wall: "This is very similar to our Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers." ” In fact, it is a carving of the Heavenly Demon Flurry, which tells the background story of the Heavenly Demon bewitching a goddess who is about to become enlightened.
Out of the temple of the goddess of smallpox, everyone looked down from a high place and could see the Ganges River in the distance.
Fahrenheit itself is located on the south bank of the Ganges, on high ground with a long view of the river and a view of the north bank.
"What are they doing" Ran Min pointed to the bank of the river: "What a bonfire everywhere" There are a lot of people on the riverbank, some are bored for a walk, some are bathing, and some are freshening up all kinds of things.
The above are normal, but the corpses that are burned on the bonfire and thrown in and wrapped in white cloth are not so normal to look at.
Not only were cremations carried out on the banks of the river, but there were even people who put the bodies wrapped in white cloth on rafts and then pushed them out to go with the flow.
After Ran Min looked at it with a telescope, his cheeks twitched a few times: "This river" "Ah San calls it the Holy River."
Qian Jiantong never ate the water of the Ganges: "They thought that the water there was so sacred that all sins could be carried away by the water of the Ganges. ” "Bathing and grooming can make the water dirty, and ignorant quotes are nothing."
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Zhang Shi is also watching with a telescope: "People are constantly cremating on the shore, and even putting bodies into the river.
How could they still be" If you stand high enough, and at the same time hope that the telescope can see farther, you will really find that there are enough things floating on the river, and the corpses of people are because Ah San has the custom of burial in the Ganges River, and the problem is that there are still a large number of cow corpses.
"There is no prohibition in the Imperial Palace" Ran Min does not feel uncomfortable watching the dead: "This way there will be no plague" "Before the last general took office, Huan Shangshu was forbidden, but" Qian Jiantong didn't know what kind of expression to use, so he simply used a crying and laughing expression: "We know that it is very dirty, and it is extremely easy to break out of the plague, but Ah San resisted very resolutely, even more resolutely than the resistance of the war of annihilation." ” Ran Min's cheeks twitched, and he scolded in a low voice: "Strange Ah San."
"Ah San attaches great importance to the afterlife."
Qian Jiantong wants to be appointed as the protector of the Tianzhu Metropolitan Protectorate, and no matter how unwilling he is, he must understand all aspects of Ah San: "They think that they are practicing for the suffering of this life, or for the sake of accumulating blessings in the next life.
The Ganges is their holy river, and they believe that this river can wash away their sins and allow them to be reborn in a good family in the next life.
At the same time, they also have the legend of relying on this Ganges River to reach the kingdom of God. ” Ran Min is more concerned about the Ganges River, which was casually thrown into the corpse, and the rotting corpses can be seen everywhere, whether it has caused a plague.
"That's a strange thing to say."
Qian Jiantong's face was full of incredulity: "The temperature here in Tianzhu is generally relatively high, but there has been no large-scale plague outbreak.
According to the writings of Ah San, there was no plague caused by the Ganges. ” "Is it because the river is a living water?"
Zhang Shi touched his chin: "Probably this is the only explanation." ” Qian Jiantong is more inclined to Ah San's accustomation to such an environment, and in scientific terms, he has stronger antibodies than others.
It's like eating too much gutter oil, and slowly the body's cells have the corresponding ability to adapt.
Then there is eating too many genetically modified things, and the human body will slowly adapt.
If you haven't eaten gutter oil and genetically modified foods in your growing environment, there will definitely be a problem when you eat it, and the difference is how big the problem is.
"The first religion has completely abolished this nation."
Qian Jiantong is talking about the afterlife, and he doesn't know whether to be happy or depressed: "The group called the untouchables, except for not touching their fanaticism for the first religion, everything is submissive.
We know that a nation has always been inseparable from the grassroots that can grow, and once the grassroots collapse, the nation will also lose its future. ” To put it another way, the people are the grassroots, and the key is that the people have no pursuit, and all they want is the afterlife, and they live in all kinds of muddy nightmares in this life.
People's desire is the source of progress, because with the desire for something, they will work very hard to make money, and they will create at the same time as they make money.
People should also have ideals and be willing to struggle for that ideal, so in the process of struggle, a spark of wisdom will be generated and contribute to the overall progress.
"This is a nation that has become a solidified class.
We all know that.
Ran Min didn't say that Zhuxia was once like that in the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he affirmed Qian Jiantong's statement and said: "The grassroots are completely abolished, and if the group of people who are the elite are drunk and dreaming of death again, it will be hehe." ” "That's right."
Qian Jiantong thought of something and said funny: "Something has happened recently. ” There were slave revolts within the Han Empire, and in some parts Han Chinese were involved.
Something happened in the newly occupied territories outside the mainland, such as the Indochina Peninsula and the islands of the South Seas.
The Tianzhu Protectorate of the Asan Continent has been generally stable so far.
Qian Jiantong is talking about a considerable number of Brahmins, who denounce each other, and their statements are surprisingly consistent, either Romans or Persians are bewitched or bribed by a certain Brahmin in the land of Persia.
"The Han did not revoke their privileges, and even strengthened them to some extent."
Qian Jiantong was referring to the Han Empire's policy towards the Asan high caste: "The Han would also provide convenient channels for them to buy luxury goods that were difficult for the Great Qin and Persians to obtain." ” Ran Min knew this, and knew even more that it was the policy of the Son of Heaven himself.
"Of course, not every Brahmin is treated equally, but will be treated differently, so that they can understand that only by obeying the great Han and being loyal to the Son of Heaven can they ensure the present luxurious life and even live a more nourishing life."
Qian Jiantong now understands the power of that policy: "Not only did they denounce each other, but they also arrested the Great Qin and Persians who went to bewitch and buy. ” The Brahmins on Ah San's side, they never think that they are the same people as the rest of Ah San, and it doesn't matter how miserable the bottom is, as long as they can live a nourishing life, it is true.
At the same time, on this side of the Asan, as long as the Brahmins do not want to mess up, they will suppress the Kshatriyas, and as the largest number of untouchables, they will choose to endure no matter how miserable they suffer.
"They donated a lot of money, and shouted the slogan that as long as there is a Ah San, the Han will never give in."
The expression on Qian Jiantong's face was very painful: "Contribute money, and be willing to be a pioneer to crusade against Buchen." ” Ran Min had an expression like he had eaten.
More people thought it was funny, and wondered what was going on with Ah San's brain circuit.
"Your Majesty Shengming" Zhang Shi said about Liu Yan's policy towards Ah San: "It's just to arm Ah San, it's not necessary."
Qian Jiantong has a different opinion, after he came to Tianzhu Protectorate, he carefully observed the Kshatriya class of Ah San, and must admit that as a warrior who has been transferred to the armed forces for generations, Kshatriya is still quite qualified, especially their obedience to Brahmins is almost unconditional.
It would be a good idea to keep a Kshatriya group and to arm them and send them to fight the Romans, Persians, or any other enemy of the Han Empire.
"Great Qin and Persians" Ran Min thinks about the overall situation: "Finally, I can't bear it anymore?"
I have to say that the blood in Ran Min's whole body is about to boil, and the original purpose of coming to the Asan Continent is to inspect his own feudal country, but now he can't wait to fly back to Chang'an: