"In the West, there was a city-state of Sparta that briefly occupied the whole of Greece.
The Spartans were known for their strict discipline, and the children of the Spartans began their rigorous military training from an early age.
Do you know how they train their own children?"
Under the willow tree by the river, a blanket was spread, and the emperor and the important ministers of the empire sat and chatted.
As the prime minister of the empire, Ma Zhou was a little worried about the rebellion in Fuso. is mainly worried about the crown prince, after all, the crown prince is the heir of the empire, and the so-called daughter can't sit down, and now the crown prince is facing a fuso like a volcano spitting fire.
The crown prince did not have many soldiers and horses, except for 40,000 Japanese soldiers, the crown prince could only use 20,000 imperial armies and 10,000 Korean fleets, as well as a 20,000-strong Liaodong Tibetan militia.
Ma Zhou believed that some additional soldiers and horses should be sent to Fusang, mainly to guard against the Nabo militia, especially the 40,000 Japanese soldiers, for fear that they would be unreliable and would threaten the prince's safety.
Zhang Chao is not worried, there are no towering trees in the greenhouse.
Let the prince go to Fusang, it was to give him a world to exercise, if you worry about him everywhere and don't let him get involved in the slightest risk, then why bother to give him a piece of the prince's caiyi.
"I heard that Sparta was a plain of Laconia in the southern part of the Greek peninsula, and that Laconia was surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a small plain in the middle, which guarded the Tygetus Mountains.
Sparta originally meant a cultivable plain, that is, in the era when the Western Zhou Dynasty of the Central Plains was established, a group of Greek tribes called the Dorians invaded Laconia in the south, and they destroyed the original city-state to live here.
This is the city of Sparta of the Dorians, but it has neither walls nor decent streets.
"The noble dean Wei Zheng knew a lot about Sparta.
Thanks to the cultural exchanges between the East and the West promoted by Zhang Chao, the Dahua government also introduced a lot of Western historical materials while compiling and sorting out the history books of the Central Plains, and even compiled Western history, world history, world geography and other books.
This opened the eyes of many people in the Central Plains, knowing the world outside the Central Plains, and learning that in addition to the early civilizations of the Chinese Yin Shang Dynasty such as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Central Plains, there were also the ancient civilizations of Xindu, the ancient civilizations of Egypt and even the ancient Mayan civilizations of the Americas, and even the Greek city-state civilizations in Europe.
A minister like Wei Zheng, who likes to study Western history, can even tell the history of the Spartans when the emperor talks about the Spartans.
Zhang Chao nodded.
"Speaker Wei is right, the Spartans are actually a Dorian who invaded Laconia.
This was a naturally warlike tribe who, in the process of conquering Gorania, turned the original inhabitants into slaves, called the Helots, and later, the Spartans waged a decade-long war against the neighboring nation of Messenia, and finally conquered it, and they also turned the Messenians into slaves, and together they became the Helots. ” "The Hilo were fixed to the land, engaged in hard agricultural labor, paid more than half of the harvest to the slave owners each year, and lived a life of half-starvation and half-hunger for cattle and horses.
The Spartans often fought wars and invaded foreign countries, so they often conscripted these Helots as vanguards, allowing them to take the lead and find out the truth of the enemy. ” "The Helots are the common property of all Spartans, and individual Spartans have no right to buy or sell the Helots at will, but they can harm the Helots at will.
Because of these brutal oppression and exploitation, the Helo people revolted and rebelled.
In order to suppress the revolt of the Helots and ensure that the Spartans were conquest of the outside world, the entire Spartan society lived a militarized life, and the children began to receive military training from an early age. ” Zhang Chao felt that the Spartans were a very peculiar tribe, and they were all soldiers and full of aggression.
They seem to be born warriors.
These Spartans, in order to prevent internal disparities between the rich and the poor, did not allow the Spartans to engage in industry and commerce, and did not use gold and silver as currency, but with low-value iron coins.
All Spartans were not allowed to engage in any other livelihood except the military.
The Spartans admired the spirit of force, and the whole society was equivalent to a large military camp with strict management, which was very extreme and undesirable in Zhang Chao's view.
But in some ways, the Spartans still have something to learn.
For example, the Spartans were quite strict in the education of their children.
For example, when their baby falls to the ground, they must be carried to the elders for examination, and if the elders think it is unhealthy, the child is thrown into an abandoned baby farm in the wilderness.
The mother bathed the baby with strong wine, and if he had convulsions or lost consciousness, it proved that he was not in good health, and let him die, because such a child could not grow into a good warrior.
Boys are raised by their parents until they are seven years old.
From an early age, parents pay attention to cultivating their habits of not crying, not picky eaters, not noisy, not afraid of darkness, and not afraid of loneliness.
After the age of seven, boys are integrated into the team to lead a collective military life.
They were required to be in absolute obedience to their chief, and were required to increase their courage, physical strength, and cruelty.
They practice running, throwing discus, boxing, fencing, brawls, etc., and in order to train their children's obedience and patience, they are whipped once a year during their festive worship.
They knelt before the temple, their fiery whips raining down, but they were not allowed to beg for mercy, to shout, or even to make a sound.
At the same time as military training, the Spartans also instilled in the children the idea that the Spartans were noble and the Shilots were inferior, and the instructors even insulted and whipped the Shilots in front of the children, and even led them to slaughter the Shilots directly.
And these were before they were twelve years old.
When the boys reached the age of twelve, they were to be incorporated into the cadet corps, and their life was even harsher, they were not allowed to wear shoes, wore only one coat in winter and summer, and slept on straw, which they plucked by hand and woven with their own hands, not with knives.
Usually they don't even have much food, but they are encouraged to go outside and steal food to eat.
But if they are discovered, they will be beaten again, because it shows that they are not very skilled in stealing.
It is said that a teenager once stole a fox and hid it in his chest, and the fox bit him under his clothes, and in order not to be discovered, he remained silent until he was bitten to death by the fox.
At the age of twenty, the young Spartans officially became soldiers, and they had to wait until they were thirty years old to get married, and they still had to participate in military training every day, and they did not leave the army until they were sixty years old, but they were still reservists.
Even the girls of Sparta were different.
Although they remain at home after the age of seven, they do not do housework all day, but engage in physical exercise, learning to run, race walk, throw discus, fight, etc.
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They believed that only a strong mother could give birth to a strong warrior.
These Spartan women were not afraid to see their sons wounded or killed on the battlefield, and when each Spartan mother sent her son to the battlefield, she did not wish him a safe return, but gave him a shield and said, either hold it or lie on it.
Either he will return with glory and victory, or he will die with honor and be carried back with a shield by others.
It is this characteristic that all the people are soldiers, and the whole society is like a large military camp, that makes the bravery of the Spartans famous all over the world.
A thousand years ago, the Persians invaded Greece, the king of Sparta, Leonidas, led three hundred Spartan soldiers to the fortress of Thermolaves, and fought a bloody battle with a hundred times the enemy for three days and nights, and finally killed and wounded countless enemy soldiers, successfully slowing down the invasion of the Persian army.
A small city-state that eventually became the overlord of Greece, although it was short-lived, it was still quite remarkable.
Zhang Chao didn't want to be as perverted as a Spartan, but he recognized that children had to exercise.
Even the crown prince of the empire needs to exercise even more.
Fuso was just a small training ground, and the Japanese were like the Helots that the Spartan children had to deal with when they exercised their courage.
When Zhang Chao was training the shadows, the training camp he established had a bit of the shadow of the Spartan training.
Those orphans grew up in the training camp with Spartan training.
"If there is anything that needs to be explained to the prince, I only have one sentence, don't look ahead.
Do things decisively, make full plans and preparations in advance, and then open the bow without turning back, just go all out.
For those Japanese people, there is no need to be worried. ” "I really want to slaughter those old nobles and powerful people in blood" Fang Xuanling said on the side, "You don't have to kill them all, it's a waste to kill them."
I think we can take those people prisoner and reduce them to slavery and transport them back to the Central Plains.
Nowadays, there is a shortage of labor everywhere, and people are needed to build cities, roads, canals, mines, work, and even cultivate and plant. ” In recent years, the price of slaves has become more and more expensive.
Not to mention the shortage of people among the princes in various places, the court itself is also seriously short of people.
"There are so many Japanese people, this time they will all be wiped out, and at least one million slaves will be obtained.
If this is transported back to the Central Plains, young and strong people go to mine and build roads, and women work, it can greatly alleviate our current labor pressure. ” In a word, it will decide the fate of millions of Japanese nobles and powerful lords.
But Fang Xuanling didn't feel any pressure when he said this, there are so many people, if you don't get rid of these people, it will be a problem sooner or later.
Only by eliminating these people can we better control Fusang and assimilate those Fusang people.
"Fang Gong is right, don't waste it.
Killing people is too wasteful, so we must kill less and transport all people back to the Central Plains, which can solve a lot of labor shortages.
Moreover, these millions of slaves are a huge wealth in themselves.
Nowadays, the slaves that we Dahua officials and citizens bring back from overseas every year are a big expense.
Fuso can get back so many slaves, it can't be wasted. ” "Just send a letter to the prince and let him do it" t1706231537: