Since the death of Justinian II, the Iraklius dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire has fallen into a state of virtual anarchy, because the small Eastern Roman Empire, including Tiberius of Constantinople, has six self-proclaimed emperors, and they are soon in the middle of a civil war.The civil war in the Eastern Roman Empire surprised Li Lu, who was watching from the sidelines, and he was keenly aware that this was a good opportunity to actually control the Eastern Roman Empire, so when Justinian II died, Li Lu let his intelligence department fan the flames in the Eastern Roman Empire, in short, to sow discord and use all means to mess up this country inherited from Rome, so that his son Richard could successfully stay in Constantinople."
Father, my mother, told me that I have the blood of the British and Roman empires......
I recently read the history books of Rome and noticed a strange phenomenon....."
Richard looked at his father and said, "That is, whether it is in Rome or in Constantinople, which is known as the new Rome, the Roman Empire is always in the midst of civil strife, why is this?"
”Why is that?
Richard's question stumped Li Lu for a moment, yes, if you look at the history of the Eastern Roman Empire, you find a very interesting place, that is, the people of this empire are always busy with civil wars.Except for the brief period of comfort in the 5th and 6th centuries, civil wars were the main theme of the development of Eastern Roman history for nearly a thousand years.More interestingly, the frequency of civil wars in the Eastern Roman world tended to increase with the advent of foreign wars.That is, the more severe the internal trouble, the more frequent the infighting.How did such a strange thing come about?
Li Lu looked at his son and nodded with satisfaction, this kid knows that he has thought about the problem, yes, worthy of praise, his problem is still quite deep, well, as the future king of Constantinople, he knows that he can learn from the history books, and it seems that his fifth son is not a fuel-efficient lamp......
Why did the Eastern Roman Empire love civil war so much?
After Li Lu crossed over, after dealing with the Eastern Roman Empire a lot, he learned some first-hand information, and he still knew some about the Eastern Romans' tradition of favoring civil war.In Li Lu's view, the tradition of civil strife in the Eastern Roman Empire was inherited from the political genes left over from the ancient Roman era, and from the middle of the ancient Roman Empire, the political balance between the original emperor and the senate was gradually broken.As the emperor's power grew, he began to control military power more and more strictly, and the senators of the Senate could no longer even serve as commanders of the army in the later period.The empire gradually moved from the remnants of the original republic to the absolute monarchy.In particular, in the crucial fourth century, after the Christianity was supported as an orthodox faith by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, the process of centralization gradually strengthened and accelerated.The personal authority of the emperor has been inflated since the late Roman Empire, but on the other hand, many of the old political patterns that have existed since the time of the Roman Republic still exist.For example, the control of local commanders over the local army has not weakened.Nor was this situation fundamentally resolved by the gradual dismantling of the size of the army by the Roman emperors.On the contrary, because of the increase in the power of the emperor, the contradiction was intensified.On the surface, the central bureaucracy of the later Roman Empire became larger and larger, and their control over the localities became more and more detailed.However, due to the destruction of the original senate system, the old ecology of political game balance has become ineffective.The new bureaucracy of the empire is still developing, so the consequences are obvious: everyone no longer hopes to participate in power-sharing, but only to take the supreme power itself.As a result, it is natural that the powerful in various places began to fight the idea of the central imperial power.Because the mechanism that used to appeal for compromise is gone.Not increasing one's absolute authority often means a dead end.Latecomers will inevitably learn from their own successes and continue to suppress local power.On the other hand, the central imperial power, which was constantly strengthened, forced the local forces to continue to find ways to take control of the central government.Therefore, in the Eastern Roman era, once the central power was not strong enough, infighting would break out at any time.The Eastern Romans even tried for a period of time to defend the embattled borders of the empire with appropriate gradual decentralization.This is the famous reform of the Heraclius military system in the history of Eastern Rome.However, this kind of half-baked reform is only a stopgap measure in itself.Incomplete decentralization will worsen the original structural deficiencies.The final result was that the senior officers of the military region began to fight more frequently with the ideas of the central government.The reform of the Eastern Roman military district system created a group of local tycoons who aspired to enter the capital, and in some areas, the descendants of the originally overthrown imperial families could gain the support of local powers and become independent imperial states with the title of independent emperor.They have no sense of identity with the central government since then.All kinds of infighting, assassinations, and civil wars, one after another.No matter how broken the empire is, it will not stop.They also do not hesitate to take advantage of the support of external forces.Therefore, it is always easier to get the opportunity to enter the central government when the external situation is serious.Until the late Eastern Roman period, the spheres of influence of the various families were dismembered and fragmented by the chaotic external forces.When everyone had only one acre and three points of land, and they were separated from each other, this civil war came to an end.But the Eastern Roman Empire itself was coming to an end.Today's Eastern Roman Empire is caught in such a civil war, Leontius, Tiberius, Philippius and other big warlords have called emperors, they are fighting each other with the support of their respective family forces, just for the throne in the Sun Palace in Constantinople, in order to be able to enter Constantinople, they even to the Eastern Roman Empire's mortal enemy Li Lu of the British Empire to pay tribute, and even do not hesitate to cede land and promise all kinds of benefits, for that chair, these guys, it can be said that they don't even want face......
The strange thing is that even if the Eastern Roman Empire has been fighting to the death in the civil war, the whole country has been torn apart, and there is the tiger and wolf country Britain watching from the side, but the Eastern Romans are in such an internal and external trouble, stormy situation, they ignore the civil war has almost exhausted the vitality of the empire, and social and religious differences are still disputed, so the strength of the empire is naturally getting weaker and weaker.The British Empire, a superpower founded by Li Lu, played a more important and far-reaching role than the previous Roman enemies such as the Persian Huns, who were experiencing a serious social and political crisis in the internal struggle of the Eastern Romans as social and religious divisions led to intensifying internal struggles.Li Lu is waiting for this social and political crisis, if it weren't for this crisis, it would be really difficult for Li Lu to eat Constantinople, although his British Dynasty far surpassed the Eastern Roman Empire in both military and political economy, but after all, the Eastern Roman Empire is a thousand-year-old empire inherited from Rome, and the hundred-legged insect is not stiff, this Eastern Roman Empire is still very substantial, and it is basically impossible to take the Eastern Roman Empire as easily as the conquest of Britain or Theo to reach Wakan, after all, the Eastern Roman Empire is not a small country.Li Lu told Richard everything he knew about Eastern Rome without reservation, and then asked Richard, "Richard, if your father sends you to the throne of Eastern Rome in the future, and your father asks you, what do you think is the most important thing?"
”"Daddy, the child thinks the most important thing is for the Romans to learn Chinese characters, know Chinese, Chinese characters and Chinese are much more advanced than Latin and Greek, such a fairy language, how can they not learn it?"
Richard and Li Lu are the same strong sinicization elements,In his opinion,In this world,Only Chinese characters are words,Only Chinese is a language,Other languages and scripts are in front of Chinese characters and Chinese,All are younger brothers,So it's not surprising that Richard this kid has such an idea....... hearing his son's sentence The most important thing is sinicization,Li Lu nodded with satisfaction,Richard's answer,Naturally, it's the answer he likes and wants to hear the most,"Well,That's good,It's not rough."
That's what a father thinks....."