Chapter 687

The diplomatic relations of each country are basically just out of need. They can come together because of the same interests, or become belligerents because of the conflict of interests. One moment they are still fighting and killing, and the next moment they may become friendly again for some reasons. Therefore, the relationship depends on the actual needs.

The state of Han is far away in the east of the world. Under the repeated wars of the ancestors of Zhuxia, the surrounding countries either perished or became affiliated countries. The only long-term threat is the northern grassland. In fact, this environment makes the dynasties of Zhuxia have a arrogant psychology. If there were not the threat on the grassland, each dynasty would like to shout "I am invincible in the world".

The Persians have successively established many Empire level countries. Their geographical location determines that once the Persians stabilize internally, they will expand outward. The full desert in the East is not the first choice for Persian expansion, Although there is a sea (Mediterranean Sea) in the west, it does not seem dangerous. The West has become the expansion direction of Persians in previous dynasties, that is, it was blocked by the Greeks and met the more difficult Romans behind.

Rome rose from the Italian peninsula and expanded rapidly in the era of the big three. Until the first century A.D., it had turned the Mediterranean into an inland sea belonging to the Roman Empire. In addition to the east of modern Germany, the westward part of Europa had actually been ruled by the Romans.

In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty did not seek outward expansion.

Zhuxia conquered the grassland again and again, but because the grassland could not be cultivated and did not know how to manage it, they conquered and gave up again and again.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the Han people marched to the northeast and encountered an ice cold land. If they could not survive, it would be difficult to be included in the territory. To the greatest extent, they could only maintain the Yan land in the pre-Qin period and bring half of the peninsula into the territory.

During Liu Che's reign, he has been expanding southward to the coast. Facing the sea, he has no idea of exploring at sea.

In the Li and Tang Dynasties, the way to the West was first blocked by the plateau, and then to the West from the western regions was facing the Gobi and desert.

From the beginning, the emperor expanded to the southwest to a great extent, but for a long time, there was no way to deal with the primitive forest at all. What's more, the alien races in this area were relatively mild, so that the ruling power could be maintained and transferred to modern times.

If you look at the geographical distribution of Asia, you will definitely find that the areas that could be farmed in ancient times were almost occupied by the Han people, and did not continue to expand outward, first because they did not stick to it, and then explore a little further, and then because of the cost of occupation.

Zhuxia in the east of the world has only the rival of grassland nomads. In fact, there is no enemy of World War I. The Central Plains Dynasty only needs to be vigilant against the threat from grassland. As a result, except for the northern Xinjiang of the dynasty, other areas can be said to be very peaceful. Usually, except for the sense of crisis in the northern frontier, the rest of the region is always singing and dancing. As a result, the dynasty is either destroyed by the grassland nomads, or the internal contradictions always break out and perish after it develops to a certain extent.

In contrast, the Romans at the westernmost tip of the world island rarely have a peaceful life. They rule a huge and vast territory with a very small population. There are still rebellious barbarians in some conquered areas. In Eastern Europe, Germanic and Gothic people have been invading Western Europe in the Europa part of Rome, while in southern Europe, they are endlessly entangled and fighting with the Persians.

Of course, Rome has its own civil strife. Every time a nobleman grows to a certain extent and destroys the Roman ruling family of the previous generation. The change of the ruling family does not change the country name, but can inherit all the ruling power of Rome every time. This succession has been low, and the ruling family ruled Rome in name. In fact, the provinces and the local nobles has the final say. There are two "four emperors co governance", and the latter is simply split into two parts: West Rome and East Rome.

In fact, the Han state under Liu Yan's rule also faced the same problems in previous dynasties. For example, the plateau climate to be faced to the west, how to manage the grassland to the north is a big problem. To the southwest is to face the boundless primitive jungle, to the northeast is to face the cold that can not be ignored, and to the west is to face the desert.

"Fortunately, the king advocated the development of navigation." LV Yi has reason to say this, or he, a Dianke, will be in an awkward situation of doing nothing for a long time: "as the king said, the sea is a treasure house!"

The Han state did not operate the ocean for a long time, but its benefits were unlimited. The continuous acquisition of marine products was only on the one hand. It had produced benefits for the discovery and occupation of marine islands, not to mention the real "world" because of navigation, and knew how big the world was.

LV Yi is responsible for receiving and guiding the Persian Sassanian mission to the palace city today. He does not need to accompany the Persian Sassanian mission all the time. After entering the palace city, he sits in the side hall with Liu Yan and drinks tea. Naturally, someone will teach and remind the Persian audience process.

At this moment, kianush Alta The Persians such as aldasher are in the front section of the palace city, and the person who teaches them the process of audience is Cui Zong.

In Zhuxia, there is a very rigorous process for audience with the emperor, especially for foreign envoys.

It must be said that the ministers of the son of heaven do not need to be kowtows all the time. They only need to kneel down on some special occasions, and bow down on other occasions.

"No, no, no, I'm a member of the royal family. It's absolutely impossible to kneel down to your emperor." Kianush Alta Aldasher's reaction was a little big. He refused and said, "you can't have such a rude request!"

After hearing the translation, Cui Zong stared at kianush strangely Alta Aldasher kept looking and saw kianush Alta Aldasher himself showed an inexplicable expression and said, "your emperor is the emperor, and our emperor is not the emperor?"

Kianush Alta Aldasher was stunned after listening to those Rao translators. He really didn't know which emperor was the greatest. According to the world's popular custom, it's not a shame to yield to the emperor. On the contrary, showing respect for the emperors of other countries is tantamount to respecting their own emperors.

So far, any alien needs to kneel before the rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty, which is a pride brought by the long-term absolute hegemony of the Miao people of Zhuxia. It shows that the white point is that alien people are naturally inferior to themselves. Until the Wuhu chaotic China, the Miao people of Zhuxia were indeed qualified to be proud, and the subsequent Yang Sui and Li Tang were also qualified, and then the successive dynasties were only the Zhu Ming generation.

"We came with friendship..." kianush Alta In fact, aldasher has hesitated: "before there is no formal alliance, I only bow down to my own emperor."

Cui asked strangely, "do you really want to form an alliance?"

Kianush Alta Of course, aldasher hopes to make a successful alliance with the Han country. After hearing Cui Zong's inductive words, he hesitated repeatedly and tangled up to spit out the word "OK".

In fact, LV Yi told Cui Zong that it must be done. It was really out of the audience process, not out of arrogance and complacency. It is essentially different from the later wild boar skin who must require foreigners to kneel down when meeting the emperor. One is to continue the "Rites" of Zhuxia, and the other is to recover some faces after being taught again and again.

Yiying's audience process has been taught before, and Cui Zong is only making the final confirmation, not only the Persians, but also any diplomatic mission including Rome.

When the Persians were ready, Cui Zong led them out of the side room. They walked around the complex indoor corridor for a while, but when they came out of the door, it was empty.

The open space is a square. The ground that should have been built of bricks has long been damaged and not maintained. It is filled with soil for leveling. It can see that there are repair pits outside the bricks and stones, which is not as magnificent as that of the Chinese Empire.

There are guards standing on the square. On both sides of the middle corridor, there is a guard standing every three meters. It extends to the front of the palace que group, and there are guard sergeants standing everywhere.

Kianush Alta Aldasher can see the palace pavilions in the distance ahead. At first glance, he is actually a little silly, just because many of those palace pavilions are damaged and collapsed in pieces. The lack of tiles on most of the roofs that have not collapsed is somewhat serious, and only a few look like they have been repaired.

"If we hadn't seen the prosperity of Jiankang, I really doubt what kind of country we came to." Ugutai Bahram kept his voice very low: "the emperor of the Han people is willing to live in such a dilapidated palace, which is enough to prove that he is a great man."

Kianush Alta Aldasher has nothing to refute. The ruler of any country will never wrong himself. Which ruler, as long as he has a little condition, does not try his best to build his residence magnificent? Anyone who is willing to wrong his ruler will subconsciously think that he is a person with extraordinary ambition.

The palace city looks very dilapidated, but the sergeant on guard shows another side. Any sergeant is gorgeous and practical.

"At least it proves that the emperor of the Han people is very frugal in treating himself." Kianush Alta Aldasher said that Liu Yan was willing to live in the dilapidated Palace City, but tried to be kind to his army: "they don't seem to care that we see the dilapidated side?"

They came by sea and saw Malacca under vigorous development and construction. After landing, they first entered the prosperous city, but they could see the post-war scene with their own eyes on the way to Chang'an.

"If we receive envoys..." ogutai Bahram shook his head and said with a wry smile, "it must be the most prosperous route. Even if it is installed, it will show the best side."

Therefore, it is not only Zhuxia that has good face. Any civilization will have good face.

"Did you find it?" Kianush Alta Alda hilt motioned to ergutai with his eyes Bahram looked at the sergeants: "the Han soldiers must have been strictly selected."

They have seen the field corps of the Han state in the pingman Colonel's headquarters. The height of Han soldiers is generally more than 1.6 meters, and there is no shortage of soldiers more than 1.8 meters. They thought that the Han people were all tall people, but after landing, they found that it was not like that. Yu Jiankang saw people less than one meter six tall.

In fact, the height of Zhuxia Miao people depends on the region. Northerners will be taller, while southerners will be relatively short. To put it bluntly, it is not only the genetic difference, but also the difference brought by eating habits.

The territory is similar to that of Zhuxia. Divided by the water system, there are obvious differences in the eating habits between the north and the south. There are not many countries with vast territory because there are obvious differences in the physical quality of their nationals in different regions, but there are really few countries with such great differences as Zhuxia, all because the eating habits of other countries are basically the same.

When they walked through the square, they saw yuan Qiao who had been waiting for them for a long time. The two sides did not talk. Yuan Qiao led them through the palace gate to a corridor surrounded by two walls.

Kianush Alta Aldasher walked into the corridor surrounded by the tall city wall. In fact, it was a little cool. The terrain like this was designed for killing. If there were an enemy attack, there was no need to shoot arrows on the city wall, and the enemy could be wiped out by constantly dropping stones.

After crossing the corridor, they need to pass through a palace gate, go up the stairs and see another square with many guard sergeants.

[the defense construction of the Han Empire is too fastidious.] kyanush ARTA aldasher has been looking around and found that there are not only guard sergeants in the bright place, but also a lot of long-range equipment in some buildings: [maybe we should learn the model of the Han Empire and rebuild the King City?]

When they reached the other end of the square, they needed to cross the 9981 stairs to really come to the Palace door. They were full of curiosity about the sculptures placed on both sides. They were some broken dragon sculptures that they had never seen before.

Yuan Qiao stopped and said, "please put the weapon on the weapon rack."

Kianush Alta Aldasher said very simply, "we don't carry weapons."

That's what I said, but I still have to go through a rigorous search. The Persians don't think there's anything wrong. They would do the same.

Truly enter the temple, kianush Alta Aldasher found that the internal space was really large. He wanted to take a good look at the environment, but he saw officials kneeling on both sides of the front end of the interior. On a high platform, because it was dark, he could only see the human outline.

The hall seemed very quiet. They only heard the sound of footsteps when they were led forward. They came to a platform on the pool. Suddenly someone sang the same and said a bunch of words. They immediately knelt down in accordance with the etiquette taught in advance.

The high platform is not a high platform, but because the "Rites" of Zhuxia need to leave the steps of the "Ninth Five Year Plan supreme". Naturally, the person sitting down is Liu Yan. When he sees someone kneeling down, he is expressionless.