Chapter 834

Rome is in the West and Han is in the East. The distance between the two countries is too far. There are several countries in the middle of the land, including Persian sassanne, an imperial country in Central Asia, West Asia and the Middle East.

In the current situation, neither Han nor Rome will choose to start a national war with the other. Even if there is a conflict, it will be restrained locally, and more will be small-scale competition.

According to the wishes of the Romans, they are more willing to repair with the Han country, especially the Han country has mastered the sea route from the Far East to the Far West, so they should try their best to make friends. For nothing else, maritime trade alone will produce countless benefits for the two countries, which can make a lot of people eat oil.

However, the Romans wanted to make friends with the Han people, but it did not mean that they would be tolerant without limits. For example, the fight in Constantinople would not end because Wang Meng promised Julian to see Constantius together. They could continue to fight in the streets or in other forms.

"The Persians must pay a price." Julian had a strong hatred for Persian sassanne, which was the first thing decided by his fief position: "please understand."

"The Persians are not under the jurisdiction of the envoy." Wang Meng was foolish before he made up his mind for the Persians. He had to say, "they came to protect Ben and participated in the battle to protect Ben. Ben has the responsibility to give shelter."

Julian frowned at Wang Meng's statement that he threw the pot first and then insisted on Protection: "this is Constantinople, our capital."

"The people of the great Qin Dynasty have been protected in the Great Han Dynasty. As long as they do not violate the laws of the Great Han Dynasty, no one will discriminate against them. Your mission to the Great Han Dynasty received a grand reception. No one shouted and beat, and no one announced the death penalty of the emperor of the great Qin Dynasty." Wang Meng stopped his legs and looked at Julian and asked, "it's said that ji1 Du1 religion is the national religion of Daqin. They can represent Daqin to some extent. Is Archbishop Peter's attitude the attitude of Daqin?"

"Just as you are not cyris, but Han, we are Romans, not Daqin." Julian hated Archbishop Peter very much at this moment. The question is whether to maintain the Christian Church based on his relationship as a believer: "to some extent, the Christian Church can indeed represent Rome, but Archbishop Peter can't represent Rome. Only Augustus can represent the will of Rome. Archbishop Peter can't represent the whole Christian Church, he can only represent himself."

Wang Meng was noncommittal about Julian's diplomatic rhetoric. After a fight, the will of the Han country has been shown. At the same time, it also let the Romans know that the Han people are not easy to provoke. Unless they really want to start a war, they are still pressing step by step, just to get more political chips.

The whole city is still in a state of chaos. The Constantinople garrison, which has not seen the shadow, has actually been dispatched, but instead of going to the main street of Xicheng District, it is going to the rest of the region to suppress the chaos. From this point, we can see that Constantius maintained the greatest restraint, otherwise a large number of Constantinople garrison joined the fight with the Han Army, and it is estimated that both sides will not step down.

"I tried my best to learn your language. Many Roman nobles worked as hard as I did." Julian saw that Wang Meng's facial expression became soft and said sincerely: "Archbishop Peter's mistake made both of us pay the price of bloodshed, and he will be punished. A wrong misunderstanding will not turn Rome and the great man into enemies of life and death. On the contrary, our relationship will become closer because of this bloodshed, because we have the same interests."

Wang Meng asked directly, "what kind of punishment will Archbishop Peter, who threatened to kill the son of heaven?"

"I'm sorry I can't give you the final answer." Julian really can't decide on this matter. He said: "Augustus will communicate with the archbishop. What conclusions will be reached? The Archbishop needs to meet with the archbishops to make a decision."

"Really? The Theocracy of the Qin Dynasty has reached such a point that even your emperor can't interfere?" Wang Meng didn't think he was stirring up discord: "it's hard to imagine such a phenomenon of a country within a country."

Julian has never heard of some words, but he can roughly understand the meaning. He could not refute. At present, there are too many states in Rome, the fiefdoms of the major nobles, the autonomy of quite many ethnic groups, and although the sphere of influence of ji1 Du1 religion is scattered, it is the largest force.

They walked in front, followed by Han soldiers and Roman soldiers.

The Han army consists of light armour infantry and heavy infantry in two rows. They walk on the left.

Roman soldiers looked dressed up as heavy armored soldiers. They also became two columns and walked on the right.

This team is going to the inner city. All they see along the way is chaos and chaos. There are dead bodies and wounded lying on the streets. The doors of many houses have been damaged, and the houses are very messy.

There are troops stationed in Constantinople to open the way for them. When they encounter armed people, the Romans will expel them. If not, they will kill or capture them.

Julian's face was very ugly. He looked at the king many times and wanted to stop talking.

This battle, which should not have happened, revealed the fragility of Constantinople. The capital of a country would be in chaos because of local fighting. Does it mean that at least Constantius's rule is not as stable as it seems. At the same time, the Roman image is full of insecurity and shows the weakness of Rome as a whole.

"Cicero has written a lot of letters from Cyrus, which makes us know what kind of country Cyrus is from the description." Julian saw that Wang Meng continued to call Rome Daqin, so he continued to call the Han state cyris: "cyris drove out Hu man, exterminated the cruel hu man, and restored the rule of the orthodox cyris over that continent."

Wang Meng didn't say anything, just nodded and motioned Julian to continue.

"There is no doubt that it is also the cyris, but your emperor and the army composed of the northern cyris easily destroyed the country established by the usurper of the southern cyris." Julian asked with a very incomprehensible expression: "Cyrus has just restored reunification. Cicero said that the people's livelihood in Cyrus has withered, but Cyrus has expanded not only to the south, but also to the north and northwest, and even sent troops. How do you maintain the logistics of a huge army?"

"The big man has nearly five million slaves and no less than 1.4 million slave labor." Wang Meng smiled. He knew that the Romans had many more slaves than the Han people, but the way the Romans used slaves was not correct: "the Han people have always maintained an army of no less than one million, but not every army is a field army, with a considerable number of corvee soldiers."

Of the one million troops compiled by the state of Han, less than 200000 are standing troops, and the rest are corvee soldiers, such as county soldiers in charge of garrison and field soldiers in charge of production. Corvee soldiers are actually conscripts. Different from modern Chinese men, they need to serve for at least three months every year. Everyone is inconsistent when to serve and end their service, which makes the number of troops in the army look so huge.

"How many?! a million troops?" Julian looked frightened. He couldn't help but stop and stared at Wang Meng. His face was incredible: "Cyrus maintains an army of one million people and continues to use troops. Is it false that Cicero said that Cyrus's people's livelihood withered?"

There are generally two thousand legions in Rome. The largest number of legions was in the period when Severus was Augustus, that is, when Severus was Augustus, Rome completely solved the old enemy Parthian Empire, but when Severus wanted to make persistent efforts to solve the enemy of germania, it was killed because of rebellion, and then Rome itself continued to rebel, The reign of the officer emperor began.

During SEVIS's administration, there were 48 Roman legions, but at that time, the minimum establishment of each Roman Legion was 6000, the larger Roman Legion was between 8500 and 10000, and the minimum number of personnel in each Roman Legion was nearly 300000. This is already the largest army in the Roman dynasties, and does not count the cannon fodder of those vassal races.

Although Julian was exiled, he quickly entered the national decision-making level after returning to Constantinople. It is clear that there are 67 legions in Rome under Constantinople, not counting the noble private army, but each Roman Legion is 2000 to 2500, that is, there are about 150000 soldiers under the national establishment.

Citizens are one of the foundations of soldiers in Rome, but they are not citizens after they become soldiers. In fact, as long as their parents are citizens, their children are also citizens. At the same time, civilians can join the army as long as they are recommended or assessed. Civilians will become citizens after they have served in the army for many years or made any contributions.

Julian privately calculated that if citizens were recruited to the greatest extent, Rome could form about 160 legions, but this is about 320000 troops. With the cannon fodder troops of some vassal races, Rome could control 500000 troops. He also knew more clearly that even if the private army of the nobility was included, it would increase the number of 500000 troops to about 700000. Anyway, it was still far from the number of one million soldiers.

"Take the liberty to ask..." Julian was not sure that Wang Meng would answer. Even if Wang Meng was willing to answer, the answer could only be used as a reference: "if the emperor of your country thinks it is necessary to expand the army, how many troops can cyris arm at most?"

"Two million, three million, four million..." Wang Meng smiled and kept reading out the number, but then asked, "is it meaningful?"

Julian understood that as long as the emperor of Han was willing, any Han people would respond to the call. It was Wang Meng's expression that the emperor of Han won the popularity of the people. He also knew why Wang Meng asked if it was meaningful. How many soldiers he could arm depended on national strength, and the logistics provision after being armed was the limit.

They chatted all the way. Both sides got enough information from each other, but no one guaranteed the authenticity of the information, but this conversation was also quite meaningful.

At the gate of the inner city, Wang Meng was told that he could only choose ten soldiers to follow, the rest of the soldiers needed to stay on this side, and the attendants could only carry twenty at most.

"Does the envoy need to untie his sword?" As Wang Meng asked, he untied a box carried by the soldiers and took out a talisman, a scepter that can represent the son of heaven. He also took out a cloth bag and picked out a cloak from the cloth bag: "if I could see Augustus of your country for the first time, I would need some time to make necessary preparations."

Wang Meng would ask. Even if there were envoys from the state of Han, they would never get an audience from the emperor at the first time. Those envoys need to go to Honglu hall to learn etiquette first. Even if the envoys have learned it, it is unknown when they will be able to see the emperor.

"Yes, Augustus is already waiting." Julian tried to learn Chinese, but he was still very strange about the Han country: "what's the problem?"

"No." Wang mengcai will not show his inner accident on his face: "then I will be ready as soon as possible."

In fact, Wang Meng was already doubting the strength of Rome. It was a battle that made Constantinople, the capital of Rome, chaotic. It was also the judgment given by Augustus immediately after he came. He went to sassanne, Persia. After arriving at texiphon, he did not see Shapur II at the first time. He was first arranged to live and have a good rest for five days. He also received the instruction of Persian etiquette teachers, and even learned about the history of Persians. He waited for another ten days to receive Shapur II.

The head of a country, especially the stronger the country, is not so easy to see. Only the leaders of some small countries are not reserved, and they can't be reserved if they want to be reserved. Let alone diplomats of a powerful country, even the rich of other countries can see them every minute.

Wang Meng has put on what he should wear. A little different from before is that he has an additional cloak embroidered with royal totem, some cloth bags on his chest, and also holds the emperor's day.

Those cloth bags are not just cloth bags. They actually contain some things of special significance, such as Fu cards, military Fu cards, herbs and some flowers and plants of the Han Dynasty (dried up), each of which has a special meaning.

The so-called emperor's Day is a scepter with a trident at the top, fur, tails and feathers of some animals, and bells.

"Augustus attaches great importance to his friendship with Cyrus." Julian noticed something wrong, but he didn't touch the key and covered up his confusion: "of course, there was an unpleasant misunderstanding. There may be some small situations later."