More than 140 miles north of Mayi, you enter the grassland ecological environment. You can see a little yellow grass everywhere. When the wind is strong, there are always countless grass scraps flying with the wind.
The grassland is not completely flat terrain, but compared with mountainous areas, the slope of the grassland is not steep. Many peaks are even an inclined plane of no more than 10 degrees, from the bottom to the top of the mountain, so people can't tell whether they are walking a mountain road or not.
At the same time, there were not many forests on the grassland in the northern Xinjiang of the Han Empire, even if there were forests, it was only a small one.
"What a shock!" Flavis looked at the endless grassland. The ground was only a line away from the sky. He couldn't help but exclaim because he hadn't seen similar scenery. He said in a speculative tone, "what a rich grain producing area it would be if it were reclaimed in this place!"
In the territory of the Romans, only Egypt has an endless great plain. It has been reclaimed by the Egyptians as a grain producing area since 5000 BC. With repeated reclamation, it has become increasingly rich. Up to now, it is one of the largest grain producing areas known to the Romans, and there are few grain producing areas comparable to it.
What flavis doesn't know is that the plain he saw can indeed be reclaimed into farmland, but in terms of soil quality, it is not a high-quality agricultural area. Once it is reclaimed on a large scale and there is no "rest field" planning, the soil will soon become regional yarn quality, and more seriously, it will slowly become Gobi.
There are few places in Zhuxia that belong to high-quality agricultural areas. The Yellow River Basin is also in the middle and lower reaches. Because the river has brought fertile soil from the upper reaches for a long time, the river course of the Yellow River has been changed again and again after I don't know how long, so as to form soil conducive to agriculture, making the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River a slightly commendable agricultural area.
In other places, the Yangtze River Delta has become a high-quality agricultural area because of the continuous diversion of riverbed and the fertile soil brought by rivers. What is more favorable than the lower reaches of the Yellow River is that the local soil is good.
With limited high-quality farming areas, a strong civilization has been bred, which is extremely rare at any point in the world. Zhuxia has developed and expanded in such an environment. It has been in the first sequence of the world's national forest for a long time, and sometimes even at the peak of the world's National Forest.
In addition to the Zhuxia civilization, many civilizations that can develop and survive have great advantages in their geographical environment. Individual geographical environments are suitable for reproduction and survival, and the nation itself is good enough. They are in the strongest sequence in the world without any twists and turns, However, it is more because the environment is good and there is no threat around, and the level of civilization has stagnated.
If we observe the development history of various civilizations, we can find that the habitat environment is not very good, but the nation itself is good enough. As long as it can survive the first level of civilization development, such as defeating the surrounding strong enemies or developing advanced science and technology, it will inevitably leave a lot of marks in the development history of the earth.
"When we observe the geographical environment of the Han Empire, we really don't have too unique advantages." Julian understood that the Romans robbed enough documents from the Greeks. Some Roman scholars studied and interpreted the relevant knowledge. It took a long time to come to a set of theories belonging to the Romans: "they are on a mountainous continental shelf and can hardly see a large-scale plain. The only commendable place is that they have two rivers long enough."
"Ah San and Persians have developed by relying on rivers with habitats." Vlavis also knows some geography: "the same is true of the Han Empire. Their civilization development has a high similarity, and the slight difference is the ideological difference after the initial stage."
A San civilization is not a low-level civilization. On the contrary, it should be evaluated as a high-end civilization, but their geographical environment is more complex than that of Zhuxia. Except for the Ganges River Basin and the Indus River Basin, it is surrounded by mountains and vast forests that are difficult to climb, which is far more difficult to expand outward than the ancestors of Zhuxia.
The peak of the expansion of Zhuxia civilization is either facing the vast Gobi and desert, or facing the insurmountable mountains and seemingly endless grasslands and swamps, and even the surrounding primitive forests and sea. The only place slightly better than the Arab three civilizations is the larger area of the "basic plate".
Due to the civilization that cannot expand outward due to the surrounding geographical environment, they have conquered the challenges of the known world. The lack of contact with the outside world is bound to make it difficult to collide with other civilizations. It is natural that the level of civilization is stagnant and complacent.
Zhuxia civilization and a San civilization are similar. They are also complacent in their glory. There was a civil war in the period of self pride, and then they were bullied by foreign civilizations, so that they can stand at the peak of the world's National Forest in some periods of time. However, due to foreign invasion, civilizations have been faulted again and again and gradually surpassed by other civilizations.
The tragedy of a San civilization is that when they found that they had nothing to do, they showed great interest in religion 1 and created religion 1 that was beneficial to the rulers. After conquering them, foreign invaders continued the "religion 1, yoke 1 and chain rule", making a San one of the best conquered nations in the world.
"What's strange to me is the Han people's attitude towards religion." Flavis didn't know how to describe it, and said in slightly confused words: "they are naturally devout towards religious 1 religion, but they are also easy to abandon their faith. They are more inclined to worship true gods (ancestors). Many fairy tales tell that man will conquer heaven, not just pray for the protection of gods after a disaster."
The Romans once only believed in true gods (ancestors), but after conquering the Greeks, they changed their belief system and replaced the belief pattern of ancestors with "virtual gods".
Looking at those nations who believe in "virtual gods", no matter what gods they believe, once they encounter a disaster, the first choice is to kneel down and pray for their gods to rescue, completely forget that they have hands, feet and ideas (wisdom). If they can't do it, all people will unite to tide over the difficulties.
"Because their God is real!" Julian was very surprised at the Han people's attitude towards the Emperor: "the emperor of Han is not only the God of all Han people, but also their patriarch."
Flavis was speechless for a moment.
In the history of Rome, there was also the thing that the ruler was a God, but it did not become a tradition like Zhuxia. Even no one was qualified to become the patriarch of all Roman beings.
It took them a long time to understand a truth. Long ago, the rulers of the Han people took into account two highest identities, first the patriarch (son of heaven) and then the manager (King and emperor).
According to the understanding of the Romans, the identity of the son of heaven is far more important than that of the emperor. The simple reason is that the people need to obey the instructions of the patriarch unconditionally, which is a constraint from the aspects of morality, clan, social relations and so on. The emperor used a law to restrict the people, which can usually be classified into the law, which is basically a kind of power restriction.
In most other countries, the supreme ruler only mastered the "law", because it is not the lack of "reason" in the relationship between patriarchs, which is equal to being in a state of lack of legal principle, and naturally does not have the "rationality" of the family and the world.
Therefore, we can find that the ruling family in Rome is challenged all the time. That challenge is still an established rule. Unlike challenging the "heavenly family" in Zhuxia, it is a violation of ethics, betrays loyalty and will trigger the anger of the gods.
In Zhuxia, if you want to challenge the supreme ruler, the precondition is that the emperor plays off first, which leads to people's disappointment with the ruler's family.
In terms of data flow, the people's experience of Tianjia is reduced to 30% or less, and it is possible to succeed only when someone challenges Tianjia. If the popularity of Tianjia is at least more than 50%, no one is likely to succeed in challenging the imperial power.
In many countries, there is no big difference between the rulers and the people. The reason why they can sit on the throne under their hips is only that their armed forces are strong enough to play with the competition among the major nobles. It is difficult for civilians to participate even if they want to be a soldier.
In a popular way, the stratum in most countries is solidified. It has always been the pattern of dragon born dragon and phoenix born phoenix. If you want to get involved in the game of power, you have to be an ancestor of your family who took the shit and became an aristocrat.
"It took the Han people thousands of years to form the current social structure." Julian was not so sure whether the civilization of the Han people was good or not, and he couldn't estimate whether Rome could learn: "even if we want to learn, we can't do it."
Ji1 Du1 religion was supported by the Constantine family and became a giant in only a few decades. With the private army and entangled with many nobles, Augustus would have to go through a difficult competition in hell if he wanted to have divine power and imperial power.
Flavis can't talk. Their Valentinian anus family is one of the families deeply related to the ji1 Du1 religion. It is not that they can't cut off the entanglement with the interests of the ji1 Du1 religion, but it must hurt their muscles and bones.
There are so many cases similar to Valentinian anus family. It is hard to imagine how ji1 Du1 religion can do this after decades of development. None of them thought that once the Christian Church continued to grow, Rome would fall into a state of imbalance between imperial power and divine power. However, the Constantine family is the current ruling family in Rome. They think it is also the Constantine family to worry about, and it is not their turn to worry.
"We can't do it, nor can the Persians." Julian himself actually had a lot of trouble with ji1 Du1 religion. He was able to return to the core of Roman power. Ji1 Du1 religion did not contribute less: "they are more fortunate than we should be that Zoroastrianism is a relatively mild religion."
Zoroastrianism is a religious religion attached to the ruler in Sassanian. They seem to be satisfied with the current state. When they encounter differences with the ruling concept of the ruler, Zoroastrianism mostly chooses to give way, unlike the already growing Jidu 1 religion, which dares to challenge the Constantine family in all aspects.
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"In recent years, the Persian military spending has increased every year, and we have to follow up." Julian looked at flavis and looked at bishop childe in another carriage: "our military spending has not increased as much as that of the Persians, but it is far more difficult to increase taxes than that of the Persians. In this matter, the first governor and the first church have helped a lot."
It is not wrong that the Constantine family is now the ruling family of Rome. The key is that a considerable number of Roman nobles are disgusted with the Constantine family because of historical reasons. It is not easy to maintain national unity. It is impossible to follow the policies formulated by Constantinople.
"Our military spending has tripled, reaching 40 million gold coins a year from this year." Julian clearly knew that it was because Rome was too far away from the Han Empire. Most of the military spending was not used to form a land legion, but was used for the construction of the Navy: "in addition to directly buying from the Han Empire. For example, you valentinianus received a lot of orders?"
"It just accounts for a small share." Vlavis said frankly: "the share left in China is research funds, which account for 70% of military spending from the Han Empire."
Rome urgently needed maritime power to ensure the safety of its sphere of influence. On the premise that it could not build ocean going ships, the warships that needed finished products in a short time had to be purchased from the Han Empire.
As an empire that has been handed down for thousands of years, the Romans also knew that armaments could not be bought alone. No matter how many difficulties there were, they had to understand how to build them and how to study how to update them. Otherwise, they would always lag behind others.
"In fact, I communicated with the ritual Department of the Han Empire." Flavis did not hide: "buy drawings from the Han Empire, or pay the total cost at one time, or pay separately based on the production."
Julian really didn't know that. He asked eagerly, "how do they reply?"
"The Han Empire didn't refuse, just..." fravis shook his head with a bitter smile. "I can't afford the price they offered."
"How much?"
Julian is not familiar with that aspect. He thinks that a family can't afford it. Can't he purchase jointly?