It is no secret that the Frankish king wanted to be emperor and to turn the Frankish kingdom into the Frankish Empire.
In fact, before leaving for China, Clovis had already tried to communicate with the Dahua ambassador to Frank on this matter many times.
It was with some good responses from the ambassador that Clovis came to Dahua in person.
A king who came to Dahua to meet the emperor of the East is also very special.
However, with Roman Augustus Herac in front, he was not the first.
It was precisely when he saw that Herac came to the Central Plains several times and saw that Herac had achieved good results that he would strengthen his plan to come to China.
In Rome, Emperor Heraclius had died.
On his deathbed, he finally decided to divide Rome in two and give it to his two sons.
The eldest son succeeded Constantinople and other places on the western shores of the Mediterranean, while the second son, Herac, was responsible for Roman territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, including the precarious peninsula of Asia Minor and Armenia, as well as Egypt, as well as Syria, which had been occupied by the Arabs.
The two emperors divided and ruled.
Herac became Emperor of the East.
This result can be described as what Herac dreamed of.
After all, although he was given the title of Augustus and the title of emperor, according to the existing system, he, the emperor, was actually the deputy head of state at most, and the real emperor was his brother.
After the partition of East and West, Rome was still nominally a whole empire, but he became the emperor of Eastern Rome.
He and his brother are truly equal.
Seeing Herac's success, Clovis, who also knew Dahua very well, thought of seeking Dahua's help.
Today's Frankish kingdom, although still relatively strong, has always been unstable.
They were feudal kingdoms founded by the Franks, a Germanic tribe that had migrated south into northeastern Gaul and settled in the lower Rhine hundreds of years ago.
When Western Rome began to disintegrate, the Franks took the opportunity to expand their territory.
More than 100 years ago, Clovis's ancestor, Clovis succeeded the tribal chieftains, began to expand with all their might, they defeated the Huns, defeated the Rourans, and defeated other powers such as the Germans and the Franks, and finally defeated the remnants of Western Rome in Gaul, occupied the entire Gaul region, and established the Merovingian dynasty.
However, due to some of the traditional Frankish institutions, such as the succession system in which the sons divided the territory equally after the death of the king, the kingdom was often divided.
The scuffle and reunification went back and forth, and in the process, greatly weakened the strength of the Franks.
Although in the past hundred years, they have been expanding externally while internal strife, they have still been greatly affected.
In the earliest days, the Franks settled as commoners in northeastern Gaul in the Roman Empire.
At that time, the Roman Empire was a vast territory, but there were many barbarians around it, and their military strength could not protect all of its borders, so the Romans allowed some friendly peoples known as the Federalists to be stationed on its borders to help Rome maintain its borders.
In fact, this is the same as the Central Plains Dynasty carried out internal relocation of some surrounding tribes, the Han Dynasty resettled some defeated and subjugated Xiongnu people to Hetao or Yunzhong, the Western Jin Dynasty moved many Hu people to the north, and the Sui and Tang dynasties, also resettled the Turkic tribes to the north of Hetao.
When the empire was strong, this system was certainly effective.
Those tribes on the border did not dare to mess around, and faithfully acted as a guard dog.
But once the empire weakens, then these former gatekeepers will inevitably eat the lord in turn.
When Western Rome began to disintegrate, the Franks on the frontier began to expand their territory, and the Visigoths to the south were also rapidly expanding their territory.
Initially, there was an enclave in northern Gaul near Soissons that was isolated from the rest of the empire but remained loyal to Rome, but Clovis I led the Franks to victory over Siglius, the last ruler of Gaul in the north of the empire, and the Franks expanded their rule north of the Loire and established the Frankish Empire.
Clovis I named the kingdom Merovingian after his grandfather.
At the time, the Merovingian dynasty was actually just one of many small Frankish states, and while he accepted the Roman administration, he destroyed the other small Frankish kingdoms and established a Germanic Roman state.
After that, Clovis conquered the east and west, and expanded his kingdom greatly, conquering Thuringia, conquering the Alamani, conquering Dijon, and later the Visigoths.
During his expansion, Clovis confiscated the lands of the slain or fugitive landlords and took them into royal possession, which he used to consolidate his royal power and continue to expand, becoming the largest landowner.
He bought hearts and minds by giving away land to other nobles, and eventually established the Frankish system of fiefdoms.
Clovis later converted to Christianity, was baptized, and received support from the Catholic Church, which brought the Franks under the support of the local Gauls and Romans.
After the death of Clovis I, his kingdom was divided among his four sons, although it was later unified from time to time, but according to the Frankish system, after the death of each king, his sons divided the land equally, this system made the Frankish kingdom constantly warlike.
Three years earlier, after the death of Dagbel I, Clovin was able to inherit a unified kingdom that was not divided.
But he was known as Cloven II, but he did not immediately seize real power.
The real power of the country is in the hands of the palace minister and the queen mother.
After three years as king, it was still difficult for him to really grasp the real power, and Cloven II was dissatisfied.
He didn't want to be king, but they wanted him.
But when he became king, he couldn't hold real power.
Originally, he hoped that the Roman Empire would help him to take power, but the Romans only hoped that the Franks would help them deal with the Arabs, and they were not very interested in changing the status quo of the Franks.
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He put his hopes in the church.
But the church let him down.
Clovis II wanted the Franks to change, he wanted the king to regain real power, and he wanted the king to not divide the land equally among his sons, but to appoint a crown prince as the heir to the unified state.
He even hoped to be able to learn from the advanced Dahua Empire in the East.
Since the Romans did not support him, then he came to the Dahua Emperor, and even the Roman emperor came to the Dahua Emperor for help, so why did he bother to ask the Roman Emperor.
North Garden.
Spring flowers are blooming, peach blossoms are blooming, and ducks are swimming in the water.
Emperor Zhang Chao sat under the peach tree drinking tea, and a group of small paparazzi were rolling and playing.
These dogs are chubby, the size of ordinary earth dogs, but they are clearly cubs.
Their fur is very long, it feels like a wolf or a bear, their heads are very broad, their ears are triangular, their beaks are neither long nor stubby, and their colors range from gray to black and white to red and brown.
"These puppies don't look like Erha, right?"
Prime Minister Ma Zhou, who was not lightly tossed by Erha, said with some surprise while drinking tea and looking at those very stupid and cute pups.
"Well, this kind of dog is called Alaskan Malamute, it is a dog breed in the ice field opposite the Drift Ghost Country, with great strength, a lot of hair, hardiness and strength, and it is the most suitable for sledding."
"This breed of dog has strong limbs and muscular, and the best thing about it is their stamina rather than speed.
This kind of dog is the cutest when it is young, and although it is not so cute when it grows up, it is still much better than Erha.
At least he wouldn't be that stupid. ” Ma Zhou has a shadow in his heart about these dogs, although these little Alaska are indeed very cute now, but he is still a little vigilant.
"The name of this dog in Alaska is not very good when you hear it, tearing up the family, this Erha is almost a virtue Bar Erha is from the country of ghosts, this family is from the opposite side of the country of ghosts, and it is wild and untamable at first glance."
"Send you two back to raise and you'll know if it's good or bad."
Zhang Chao said with a smile.
"Don't."
Ma Zhou hurriedly waved his hand, there is a second ha at home, which can make him want to eat dog meat hot pot every day, this will have to come two more to tear up the family, and he must not be angry.
He hurriedly changed the subject.
"Your Majesty, this Frankish king has come to China and wants to be the emperor, what does Your Majesty think about this matter?"
Zhang Chao smiled.
"Old horse, what do you think will be the attitude of Europe if the Frankish king is emperor?"
Ma Zhou thought for a moment, "Rome will definitely not agree." ” There was now only one empire in all of Europe, and that was the Roman Empire.
The Visigoths and the Franks and other Germanic barbarians had conquered Western Rome, but they also recognized the suzerainty of the Roman Empire afterwards.
In fact, all the barbarian states were just vassals of the Roman emperor.
"The Roman emperors would be unhappy, but there was nothing they could do, maybe they would have imposed some sanctions on the Franks or something, but in the current situation, there was only a limit to what they could actually do, and they even acquiesced in order to get the Franks to support them against the Arabs."
Zhang Chao analyzed, "Actually, the fact that the Franks want to be emperors has nothing to do with us.
But in the big picture, it's not impossible.
Although we decided to adopt a neutral strategy in the west, it is not to say that we will do nothing. ” "Then Your Majesty means to support the King of the Franks to become emperor" Zhang Chao is still smiling at this.
"When the Frankish king came to China to ask me to crown him, not only the Romans would be annoyed, but the church would also be annoyed, but they were annoyed, and there was not much they could do, they couldn't even control the Franks, and they couldn't have any impact on my Dahua."
"On the contrary, if I am crowned the king of the Franks, then the relations between the Franks and the Church and Rome will deteriorate in the future, and they will be even more inseparable from the support of our Dahua.
It will be beneficial for us to trade more directly with the Franks or to use the Franks to influence the situation around the Mediterranean. ” In the game of great powers, small countries are just pawns.
For large countries, the interests of small countries are not taken into account, as long as they can benefit themselves. t1706231537: