Chapter 680

For a long time, the education received by the intellectual class of the Central Plains Dynasty has a characteristic, that is, it believes that the Central Plains is "the world", and any enemy other than the Central Plains belongs to barbarism, not only looking down on the places of Zhuxia outside the Central Plains, that is, those areas south of the Yangtze River, Bashu, Liaodong, northwest, etc, Those areas outside the land of Zhuxia are even more invisible.

The elites in the Central Plains despise not only the regional differences, but also the cultures of all ethnic groups. In fact, East Asia has really taken the lead in the Central Plains culture for a long time. The Miao people of Zhuxia have spread their branches and leaves to bring the Central Plains culture everywhere. They don't pay attention to the extended cultures of the Miao people of the same ethnic group, and even less to the cultures of other ethnic groups.

Before "crossing south in clothes", the aristocratic families in the central plains were looking at the wild savages in the rest of the region. Everyone thought they were drinking blood. Even under the premise that Chu itself is not inferior to the culture of the Central Plains, the aristocratic families in the Central Plains still despise the cultural inheritance of the southern aristocratic families. They fled from the north to the south. Obviously, their strength is inferior to the south, but they can easily subdue the south. It is conceivable that they will have a stronger sense of psychological superiority.

Some people who are qualified for biography basically have a point of view in their books, that is, ignoring the fact that they fled to the South after being caught and killed by the Hu people, beautifying the escape as bringing culture to the south, a barren land of knowledge. There is a saying in history books that "crossing south in clothes" brings advanced civilization to the south.

How can we expect those elites to look at the civilization of other countries (nations) in the eyes of those compatriots who are descended from Zhuxia? Then, it comes from ignorance. For example, we don't know that there are more ancient civilizations besides Zhuxia civilization, and we don't know what glory other nations have had. That arrogance always exists.

The civilization of the Central Plains is indeed something to be proud of. Even after "the land of China", the Hu people who occupied the Central Plains also copied the political system of the Central Plains. I don't know how many people are comforting themselves. They think that no matter how strong the force of the Hu people is, they don't want to learn the advanced Central Plains culture.

The enigmatic self-confidence was broken with the development of science and technology in modern times, and then entered the stage of comprehensively denying their own civilization. Those so-called elites began to think that they are backward in everything, and the shit pulled out by foreigners is fragrant.

When did the Miao people of Zhuxia start to be complacent? Specifically, after the comprehensive rise of Confucianism, any scientific and technological development is regarded as strange and skillful. Only the words of ancient sages are the truth and turn a blind eye to the progress of the times. Then, the sea ban completely cut off the communication with the outside world, and did not see those originally backward nations catch up with and surpass, or even surpass further and further.

Many people don't believe that it's right to say that Zhuxia civilization has been at the forefront of the world for a long time, but to say that it is completely ahead of others is to deceive itself and others. It can't compare with ah San in smelting technology, Egypt in agriculture, and Rome in conquering more countries and nationalities. It seems that it can stand side by side with Greece in those mysterious philosophies, But at least there are many scientific theories of modern research value in Greek civilization. It seems that only vitality can be compared?

In fact, survival (inheritance) is the victory. Many nations that can lead Zhuxia civilization in history have made ancient history, and even those that have not completely disappeared can not extricate themselves from the decline.

There are not many people who fall and get up again. Zhuxia civilization has been reincarnating in this process, and the other is the Persians who have just got up again.

"This city..." kianush Alta Aldasher looked at the traffic and looked at some buildings that couldn't see the end, and expressed his heartfelt emotion: "it's so big!"

Ugutai Bahram fully agrees with kianush Alta According to Al Dahir, their capital is taixifeng (32 kilometers southeast of modern Baghdad). It is also very large, with a population of nearly 500000. It can be regarded as one of the best cities in Central Asia or Europa.

At present, there are few cities with a population of more than 500000, and there is only one with a population of more than one million. The remaining one with a population of more than 100000 can be called a big city. Aldasher had some understanding when he came to the state of Han. He didn't believe that there was a big city with a population of more than one million in the state of Han. He understood what he said with his own eyes.

"It is said that the city had a population of more than two million." Ugutai Bahram sighed: "the whole world is just such a city."

At present, Jiankang has no 2 million people, and nearly 700000 people have been moved out successively. Even if it has become a storage place for sea trade goods due to its geographical location, it has increased a lot of floating population, but it really has not exceeded 2 million people.

New Chang'an is still under preliminary construction. Jiankang is still the most populous city in the Han Dynasty and the most populous city in the world.

The small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty surrendered soon after the Han army came to the city. Jiankang city actually did not suffer the devastation of the war and retained the original dense buildings. When envoys from various countries came to Jiankang, they were surprised that there was such a big city in the east of the world and climbed the mountain to watch it.

A group of people from bossashan are located in Shitou mountain. They can see most of the city and the ships on the Yangtze River. They have visited the market before. No one denies the huge of Jiankang city and sees the vitality of the city.

"On our way here, we saw the construction of the Strait by the Han Empire. They obviously made a great determination to step on it." This is what aldasher cares about most. Persian Sasan has reopened the war against Rome. The Gupta Dynasty has frequent trade with Rome: "it is very beneficial for us to have the Han Empire invade Rome."

The Gupta Dynasty failed once, but did not admit the overall failure. There were still voices calling for peace waiting for katluk The troops led by Karp were completely annihilated. It turned out that the voice of war subdued the voice of peace.

The expeditionary forces of the Han Dynasty have been carrying out raids all the time. They are cautious about landing in the Gupta Dynasty. The two sides have been engaged in sea battles on the other side of the a San Yang, and large-scale fleet battles have never appeared again.

In a word, the Persian sassanne was rebuilt on the ruins of the Parthian Empire. During the period when Parthia was destroyed by Rome, most of the territory of Parthia was looted. Tession, the current capital of the Persian sassanne, was looted by the Romans and burned to ruins.

The Parthian Empire died in A.D. 224. In the same year, altazersis, the Parthian general, established the Sassanian Dynasty. At the beginning, his opponent was not the Romans, but Artaban V, the last monarch of the Parthian Empire.

After altazersis won and established the Sassanian Dynasty, he actually did not seek revenge from the Romans. On the contrary, he waved his weapons to the six nobles of the original Parthian Empire, and successively destroyed and annexed the six nobles into the incubation period.

In the following years, there were still sporadic resistance movements in various parts of the former Sabbath Empire, but al Dahir I continued to expand his forces to the East and northwest, conquering Sistan, Gorgan, horasan Some Sassanian inscriptions show that the kings of the kusana Empire, Turan and mocran were subordinate to aldasher, but from the textual research on the coins, it is more likely that they were subordinate to Shapur I, the son of aldasher.

The Sassanian Dynasty had little effect on the westward crusade against Hatra, Armenia and adiabona.

In 2300, the Sassanids attacked the territory of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire fought back two years later, although the Roman Emperor Alexander Severu celebrated his triumph in Rome, but the war ended without a final conclusion.

Since then, the second round of great expansion of the Sassanian dynasty did not start again until 293. The object of the war was the Roman Empire in decline. The war in the first three years was basically deadlocked. In 296, the Roman Emperor Galerius was defeated near calinigum on the Euphrates River.

In the spring of 298, Galerius received the support of a reinforcement force convened on the Danube River. NARS could not make any further progress in Armenia and Mesopotamia. Galerius launched an offensive against northern Mesopotamia through Armenia in 298. NARS withdrew to Armenia to meet the Romans. The rugged Armenia was good for the Roman infantry, but bad for the Sassanian cavalry. With the help of the local people, Galerius defeated NARS in two consecutive battles.

The Sassanian Dynasty started peace talks with the Roman Empire in 1999. This time, the war initiated by the Persians ended with the Sassanian Dynasty admitting defeat and ceding land. Shortly afterwards, Sistan and kusana successively broke out rebellion, and the contemporary Sassanian king was also attacked and killed by Arabs in a hunting.

Today's Sassanian monarch Shapur II was crowned before he was born, and the crown was placed on his mother's belly. In his childhood, the Sassanian Dynasty was controlled by his mother and nobles. As an adult, Shapur II came to power immediately and proved that he was an active and influential king.

After Shapur II came to power, he led a small and elite army to resist the Arabs in the South and ensure the security of the Sassanian Dynasty in the south. He also launched an offensive against the Romans on the western line. Although the Persians won a series of battles, they were unable to capture the territory of the Roman Empire because they failed to capture Nisibis and the Romans recaptured Singra and Amida.

The Sassanian Dynasty was also restrained by the nomads on the eastern front, who threatened the Central Asian River region, a strategic area of the silk road. Shapur II then personally led the troops to the East and asked his officers to continue to launch harassing attacks on the Romans. Shapur II subdued the peoples of Central Asia, incorporated their territory into the Sassanid Dynasty, and conquered the area now known as Afghanistan.

At this stage, the war between the Sassanian Dynasty and Rome is just the stage of reopening. Before the battle broke out, they mainly attacked and destroyed each other. The problem is that the Arabs within the Sassanian Dynasty broke out an uprising again. The middle river area of Central Asia is a trend of erosion, which greatly controlled the war process of the Sassanian Dynasty against Rome.

"We really need a powerful ally." Aldasher had a clear goal before he came to the Han country, that is, to establish an alliance with the Han country: "the Han Empire not only appeared in Xinyi, but also marched towards the western regions. It can completely block Xinyi's trade with Rome on the sea, and join the wars of Arabs, hunnit and other barbarians on the land."

The Sassanian Dynasty has seen the maritime strength of the Han state through the last war in the third ocean. With a consistent impression, it also firmly believes that the land war strength of the Han people will not be worse. History repeats again, but this time the Han people don't need Persia, Persia needs the Han people to join their war, and the sea continues to be hard with the Gupta Dynasty, On the land, they helped them suppress various disaffected nationalities.

The Sassanian Dynasty sent envoys this time only to ask. As an envoy, aldasher should first understand what the Han people need and impress the Han king with the greatest sincerity.

"Dividing up the world is a great sincerity." Aldasher is not joking. He said seriously: "we need to defeat the Romans. We can recognize the Han Empire's invasion and occupation of the Gupta Dynasty and the Han Empire's regaining control of the western regions. We can become allies with the Han Empire on sea and land."

Ugutai Bahram is different from aldasher, a royal family member who has lived in fine clothes and food since childhood. He doesn't take things for granted, He said, "I'm afraid things won't go as smoothly as we thought. The Han Empire is in the dominant stage in Xinyang. We don't make any difference to the Han Empire. The western regions called by the Han Empire were originally their control area, just to recognize that the re control of the Western Regions by the Han Empire is not a chip."

"We need a country as a buffer zone between the two countries, which can weaken hunit to the greatest extent, and destruction is not allowed." Aldasher smiled and said, "hunit cannot perish. Presumably the Han Empire will be interested in Kangju, Yueban and Wusun?"

"..." ugutai Bahram wanted to say that even without them, the Han Empire could destroy the above-mentioned countries. He thought so, but he couldn't say it bluntly. He could only say euphemistically: "it's said that the Han Empire attacked the inland Peninsula (Indochina Peninsula) and Xinli in order to obtain food."

Aldasher also knew this and immediately smiled and said, "although I don't understand why the Han Empire went thousands of miles away to seek food, how much should be lost in transportation even if it was so far. If the Han Empire wanted to get food, we didn't lack food. This is also one of our chips."

Ugutai Bahram felt that this time the two sides discussed the alliance, they had more or less what the Han Empire wanted.