One hundred and forty miles north of Mayi is to enter the grassland ecological environment. You can see the grass that has been slightly yellowed everywhere. When the wind is strong, there are always countless grass clippings flying in the wind.

Grassland is not completely flat terrain, but compared to mountainous areas, the slopes of the grassland are not steep. Many peaks are even a **** of no more than ten degrees from the bottom to the top of the mountain, making people look at it. Going simply can't tell if you are walking on a mountain road.

At the same time, there were not many forests on the grasslands of the northern frontiers of the Han Empire, even if there were trees, it was only a small area.

"It's shocking!" Flavis looked at the endless grassland. The ground and the sky were only separated by a thin line. Since he hadn't seen a similar scene before, he couldn't help but exclaimed. He said in a guessing tone: "If you were to cultivate in this place, what a rich grain-producing area would it be!"

Among the Romans’ borders, only Egypt had an endless great plain. It was cultivated as a grain-producing area since 5000 BC, and it became richer and richer with repeated reclamation. It is still the largest known to the Romans. One of the grain-producing areas, there are few grain-producing areas comparable to it.

What Flaves didn’t know was that the plain he saw could indeed be cultivated into farmland, but it was not a high-quality farming area in terms of soil quality. Soon the soil quality will become regional yarn quality, and if it is serious, it will slowly become the Gobi state.

There are not many places in Zhuxia that belong to high-quality farming areas. The middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin have long brought fertile soil from the upper reaches of the river. After an unknown amount of time, the river course of the Yellow River has been diverted again and again to form soil that is conducive to farming. , Making the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River become a slightly commendable farming area.

In other places, the Yangtze River Delta is also due to the continuous diversion of the river bed and the excellent soil brought by the river. What is more advantageous than the lower Yellow River is that the local soil quality is also good, and it has become a high-quality farming area.

With a limited and high-quality farming area, a strong civilization has flourished, which is extremely rare at any point in the world. Zhu Xia has developed and grown in such an environment and has been in the first sequence of the world's national forests for a long time. , In many cases even at the pinnacle of the forest of nations in the world.

In addition to the Zhu Xia civilization, many civilizations that can develop and exist, all have huge advantages in their geographical environment. Individual geographical environments are suitable for the multiplication of the nation and are themselves excellent enough. They hardly encounter any twists and turns. The strongest sequence in the world, but more because of the excellent environment and the lack of threats around it, the level of civilization has stagnated.

If you observe the development history of various civilizations, you can find that the habitat environment is not so good, but the nation itself is good enough, as long as it can survive the first stage of civilization development, such as defeating powerful enemies around it, or researching the advanced era. Science and technology will inevitably leave a fortune in the history of the earth's development.

"We observe the geographical environment of the Han Empire. In fact, there is really no unique place." Julian understood that this was the Romans who had snatched enough documents from the Greeks. Some Roman scholars studied and interpreted relevant knowledge. It took a long time to come up with a set of theories that belonged to the Romans: "They are on a mountainous continental shelf, with almost no plains of scale. The only thing that is commendable is that they have two rivers that are long enough."

"Asan and the Persians developed by relying on the rivers of their habitat." Flaves also knew some geography: "The same is true of the Han Empire. Their civilization development has a high degree of similarity, with slight differences. What is the difference in thinking after the initial stage."

The Asan civilization cannot be said to be a low-level civilization. On the contrary, it should be evaluated as a high-end civilization. It is just that their geographic environment is more complicated than that of Zhuxia. Except for the Ganges and Indus river basins, the surrounding areas are all difficult to cross. Surrounded by mountains and vast forests, it is far more difficult to expand outward than the ancestors of Zhu Xia.

The peak of the expansion of the civilization of Zhu Xia is not to encounter the vast Gobi and desert, or encounter the difficult-to-read mountains and seemingly endless grasslands, swamps, and even the surrounding primitive forests and the sea that are also bottomless. The slightly better place than the Asan civilization is that the area of ​​the "basic disk" is larger.

Due to civilizations whose surrounding geographic environment cannot expand outward, they have conquered the challenges of the known world. The lack of contact with the outside world is bound to be difficult to collide with other civilizations. The level of civilization has stagnated, and it has become natural to stand still.

Both the Zhuxia civilization and the Asan civilization are in a similar situation. They are also standing still in their glory, and they have a civil war during the time of self-arrogance, and then they are bullied by foreign civilizations, so that they can stand among the nations of the world for certain periods of time. Lin's pinnacle, but because of the invasion of foreign races, civilization has repeatedly appeared faults, and it has been gradually surpassed by other civilizations.

The Asan civilization is worse than the Zhu Xia civilization. When they found that they had nothing to do, they showed great interest in the religion. They created the religion that was beneficial to the rulers. The foreign invaders continued after conquering them. "Religion, 1 religion, 1 shackle, 1 lock rule" made Asan one of the most conquered nations in the world.

"What is strange is the attitude of the Han people towards the 1st religion." Flavis didn't know how to describe it, and said in slightly confused terms: "They are naturally pious towards the 1st religion, but they are easy to abandon. Belief. They are more inclined to worship true gods (ancestors). Many myths say that man will conquer the sky, not just praying for the blessing of gods after encountering disasters."

The Romans once believed only in true gods (ancestors), but after they conquered the Greeks, they changed their belief system and replaced the belief structure of their ancestors with "virtual gods".

Throughout those peoples who believe in "virtual gods", no matter what kind of **** they believe in, once they encounter a disaster, the first choice is to kneel on their knees and pray to their gods for relief, completely forgetting that they have hands, feet and thoughts (wisdom) , If one fails, everyone will unite to tide over the difficulties.

"Because their gods really exist!" Julian was very surprised by the attitude of the Han people to the emperor: "The Han emperor is not only the **** of all Han people, but also their patriarch."

Flavis was speechless for a moment.

In the history of Rome, the ruler was a god, but it was not a tradition like Zhu Xia, and no one was even qualified enough to be the patriarch of all Roman sentient beings.

It took them a long time to understand a truth. A long time ago, the rulers of the Han people took into account the two highest identities, first the patriarch (the emperor) and then the manager (the king, the emperor).

According to the understanding of the Romans, the identity of the emperor is far more important than the identity of the emperor. The simple reason is that the clansmen need to unconditionally obey the instructions of the patriarch, which is a constraint of morality, ethnicity, social relations, and so on. The emperor used a kind of regulation to restrain the citizens, which can usually be classified as a legal aspect, which basically amounts to a kind of power restriction.

In most other countries, the supreme ruler only mastered the "law", because the relationship between the patriarchs and the lack of "reason" is tantamount to a state of lack of legal principles, and naturally does not have the "reasonableness" of the world.

So you can find that the ruling family in Rome is being challenged all the time. That kind of challenge is still an established rule, unlike in Zhu Xia, it is a violation of morality and abandonment. Loyalty, things that trigger the anger of the gods.

In Zhuxia, if you want to challenge the supreme ruler, the prerequisite required is that the emperor first played off by himself, causing the people to be disappointed in the ruler's family.

If you use the terms of data flow, the people's opinion of the Tianjia is reduced to 30% or less, and it is possible to succeed when someone challenges the Tianjia. If the people of the Heavenly Family are at least 50% or more, there is no chance that anyone will succeed in challenging the imperial power.

In many countries, there is not much difference between the ruler’s failure to win the popular support. The reason they can sit on the throne under their **** is only that they have strong enough force, and they are playing with the competition between the great nobles. It is difficult for civilians to participate even if they want to become a soldier.

To put it in a more popular way, in most countries, the stratum is solidified. It has always been a pattern of dragons and phoenixes. If you want to participate in the game of power, one of your family's ancestors must be a nobleman who has gotten lucky.

"It took thousands of years for the Han people to form the current social structure." Julian is not so sure whether this civilization of the Han people is good or not, let alone whether Rome can learn: "Even if we want to learn, we will never learn. It's hard to do."

The 1 governor and 1 religion was supported by the Constantine family, and it became a behemoth in just a few decades. With the private army and the entanglement with many nobles, Augustus wanted both theocracy and the imperial power. First go through a **** difficult competition.

Flavis can't talk to each other. Their Valentinianus family is one of the families that has a deep connection with the 1st Dove and 1 Church. It is not that they can not cut off the interest entanglement with the 1st Dove and 1 Church, but it will definitely hurt the bones.

There are so many situations similar to the Valentinianus family, it is hard to imagine how the Christian 1 Governor and 1 Church can achieve this step only after decades of development. Not no one among them thought that once the 1st Governor and 1st Church continued to grow, Rome would fall into a state of imbalance between imperial power and divine power, but the Constantine family was the current ruling family in Rome, and they believed that it was Constantine who had to worry about it. The Ding family has no choice but to worry about it.

"We can't do it, and the Persians can't do it either." Julian himself actually had a lot of entanglement with the 1st Dodger 1 Church. He was able to return to the core of power in Rome, and the 1st Dodger 1 Church did not contribute less: "They are more fortunate than we should be that Zoroastrianism is a relatively moderate religion."

Zoroastrianism is a religion attached to the ruler in Sassanids. They seem to be satisfied with the current state. When they encounter differences with the ruler’s ruling philosophy, most of the time it is Zoroastrianism. The church chooses to retreat, unlike the already-grown Christianity, the 1 governor and the 1 church dare to challenge the Constantine family in all aspects.

If Julian has discovered that Christianity 1 Governor and 1 Religion has a tendency to catch up, then he must not believe that one day, Christianity 1 Governor and 1 Church will be so strong that it can control the imperial power anytime and anywhere, even waiting for Christianity 1 Governor and 1 Religion to have it. With its own pope, countries including Rome need to be crowned by the pope to have the legitimacy to rule the country.

“The Persians’ military expenditures have risen every year in recent years, and we have to follow up.” Julian looked at Flaves, then looked at Bishop Childe in another carriage: “Ours The increase in military expenditure is not as large as that of the Persians, but it is far more difficult to increase taxes than the Persians. In this matter, the 1 governor and 1 religion have helped a lot."

It’s not wrong that the Constantine family is now the ruling family of Rome. The key is that a considerable number of Roman nobles resent the Constantine family for historical reasons. It is not easy to maintain the unity of the country and want a national character. It is impossible to follow the policy formulated by Constantinople.

"Our military expenditure has tripled, reaching as much as 40 million gold coins each year from this year." Julian knew clearly that it was because Rome was too far away from the Han Empire, and most of the military expenditure was not spent on the formation of the Land Corps. , Was used in the construction of the navy: "In addition to buying directly from the Han Empire. Like your Valentinianus, you have received a lot of orders, right?"

"It only accounts for a small share." Flavis said frankly: "The share left in China is research funds ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ used to purchase from the Han Empire and accounted for 70% of the military expenditure. "

Rome urgently needs maritime power to ensure the safety of its sphere of influence. Under the premise that it cannot build ocean-going ships by itself, the warships that need finished products in a short time are purchased from the Han Empire.

As an empire that has been handed down for thousands of years, the Romans also knew that arms could not be bought alone. No matter how difficult they were, they had to figure out how to make them. They knew how to make them and then study how to renew them, or else they would always be behind others.

"Actually, I have communicated with the courtesy department of the Han Empire." Flavis didn't hide it. "Buy drawings from the Han Empire, or pay the total cost in one lump sum, or pay separately based on the production output."

Julian really didn't know such a thing, and asked hopefully: "How do they reply?"

"The Han Empire didn't refuse, just..." Flavis smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I can't pay the price they open."

"How many?"

Julian is not familiar with that aspect, thinking that a family can't afford it, can't it be joint purchases?