Sweep the World

A nation that recognizes the weak and accepts the strong can make progress. A nation that does not understand this truth will never escape the fate of being eliminated.

When accepting the culture of the powerful, if the values ​​of the nation are not maintained, even though the "body" of the nation is still alive, without the "spirit" and "innerness" it is dead.

The culture of the Romans is Hellenized, but their "spiritual" and "inner" are still authentic Rome, even because they have accepted the Greek culture, some good aspects of the Greek culture have been amplified and the Romans have gained gains. It's not as simple as one plus one equals two.

For a long period of time, the Romans conquered a lot of ethnic groups. Every time they conquered a ethnic group, they would absorb it. At the beginning, it was the religion. For example, they continued to worship the gods of the conquered ethnic group. Slow Link culture and values ​​are still assimilated.

The Romans never refused to learn good things. After they discovered the strength of the Han people, the more powerful aristocrats were the first to learn from the Han culture.

If the Han Empire sent people to Rome now, they would find that the closer Rome was to the eastern provinces, a large number of nobles would no longer wear traditional robes and instead wore gorgeous Han-style crowns.

The imitation of dress styles is only one aspect, being able to be invited to participate in the banquet of the nobles, but also to find that the banquet is not the same as before.

In the past, Roman banquets were nothing more than putting up a wealth of food for self-satisfaction. The food was generally cold dishes and the like. If you wanted to eat hot food, you would either barbecue on the spot or make soup.

Now, the small and medium aristocrats still do that, but the big aristocrats are basically not doing that.

The big aristocrats don’t look like they don’t manage to learn, just to learn the way that the Han people hold banquets. Some are decent and decent, while others have not even learned the form, but they are always changing.

Those decent Roman nobles who had learned from their families went to the Han Empire, and those family children were invited to participate in banquets organized by the Han people.

Depending on who the children of the nobles were invited to participate in the banquet, the Romans who participated in the banquets of the Han aristocrats many times, and the Romans who only participated in the banquets held by the Han aristocrats, learned completely different banquet styles.

They will keep some cold dishes in the form of a buffet, but basically to take care of those ignorant customers.

The newly learned way of holding a banquet is to arrange a table and futon in one place, and one dish after another will be served in order.

Many Roman aristocrats have also learned a form. Most of them have never eaten Han food at all. Even if the food is mainly hot meals, only a few aristocrats can taste Han cuisine.

The Romans are very curious about any new things. They are even interested in some of the arts of the weak and small peoples, and will imitate when they encounter interesting things.

It’s just fun to learn something from the weak and small nations, but to learn from the strong is to become strong.

The Romans deeply knew that they could never make progress. They never rejected learning. That was the vital factor that made Rome the hegemon of Europa, and none of them!

For the Romans to learn from the Han Empire in an all-round way, the Persians were surprised when they knew it, and then the Persians came back to their senses.

Although the Romans in the eyes of the Persians are strong, the Persians always have a hint of arrogance. They admit that the Romans are a little bit stronger than themselves, but the Persian culture is more diverse and better than the Romans.

In fact, the Romans have some culture and living habits that they learned from the Persians. This is also a place where the Persians can despise the Romans while they can't beat the Romans.

The Persians did not approach the Han in everything like the Romans. For example, the Persians did not learn how to dress the Han.

In terms of food, the Persians are very similar to the Han people. The only difference is the color of the dishes. The cooking is actually almost the same, only the taste is different.

The history of the Persians is much longer than that of the Romans. Although the Persians have had periods of downfall, haven't the Persians stood up again?

A nation with a long history inevitably has something to be proud of. The Persians are willing to learn from the Han, but they are not autonomously Sinicized like the Romans. They will not change their own clothing characteristics, and they are more reluctant to abandon their own traditions, and even deliberately keep their own traditions.

"Actually..." Xias was talking about related matters just now, and asked Julian wonderingly, "After you fully study the Han, are the Romans still Romans?"

Julian was very puzzled by this point of Xias, and asked "What do you mean?"

"It's that you completely changed your dress style and living habits..." Xias said a lot, and finally asked "Is Rome still Rome?"

"Rome will of course be Rome." Julian came over with some aftertaste, and said with a smile, "It's as if we once accepted the Greek culture in its entirety. Are we not Romans anymore?"

Xiasi was said to be stunned, thinking about it! The Romans were completely Hellenistic, but they were still Romans.

They followed the Han army to the southeast, and their position was in the middle of the entire team.

The snow and ice on this piece of land has begun to melt, and the soil on the ground is quite moist, and it becomes muddy after repeated trampling.

Fortunately, the Han army on the expedition did not lack animal power. With a large number of frames and horses for transportation, people finally did not need to get stuck in the mud step by step.

But there are not many troubles. For example, when the soil becomes muddy, the wheels often get stuck, and it must be done by animal power and humans to get rid of it.

Later, Li Tan changed the way of marching. The whole team was distributed to the greatest extent and became a team that moved southward in a fan pattern, not the very common way of marching with a long snake.

After the repeated trampling was reduced to the greatest extent, the muddy difficulty was greatly resolved. The marching speed was the slowest 80 li per day, and it could be close to 120 li when it was fast.

Because of the huge animal power in the team, they need to stop for repairs every five hundred miles or so. A repair usually takes two to three days. After seven days, they are still more than four hundred miles away from the Junji Mountain.

It is not that the more animal power, the faster the march.

Like a cavalry unit, they can indeed march on horseback within five hundred miles, but they are not marching indefinitely. If you don’t want the horse to be scrapped, maintaining the horse is a must. .

Cavalry troops are only short-distance mobile and strong, regardless of the distance traveled by pure infantry is slower than theirs every day, but infantry marching on foot is actually much faster than them in long-distance marching.

Infantry will be faster than cavalry in long-distance marching because the infantry does not need to stop after a few days to allow the horse to enter the recovery period. In this way, although the infantry walks seventy miles every day and the cavalry walks one hundred twenty thirty miles every day, but the infantry walks seventy miles every day, the cavalry marches for two or three days and needs to be repaired for two or three days. In many cases, the cavalry will arrive behind the **** after the infantry has traveled more than a thousand miles for three or four days.

Therefore, the so-called fast of the cavalry force is on the premise that the distance does not exceed five hundred miles, and the distance exceeds the range of five hundred miles. The price for the cavalry to stay fast is to let the horses go to waste.

The Han army withdrew from the border of Xigaoche.

Xigao Che didn't seem to know that, and it didn't send a large-scale troop to chase after it.

During the retreat of the Han army, they encountered sporadic attacks. When they caught alive, they were some people who had been hiding. They did not attack after receiving orders, but were purely self-acting.

After withdrawing from the border of Xigaoche, even sporadic attacks did not happen again. The scouts who stayed behind to spy reportedly found no sign of Xigaoche sending troops.

"Perhaps..." Dou A said hesitantly, "The Dingling people don't even know about our invasion?"

"Who knows." Li Tan said gloomily. "Maybe our invasion is in the wrong direction."

They more or less understood one thing. The selected invasion location would be icy and snowy when it snowed, and it would not be conducive to marching after the snow melted, and once it entered the rainy season, it would become a land of Zee. No matter how you look at it, such an environment is not suitable for habitation. No wonder there are no signs of habitation in large areas.

"We just left, and it was raining in the area." Li Tan has more information than Dou'a. "It was only two days of heavy rain. The area where we were originally stationed was not far away, and it was in a low-lying location directly. It has become large and small pools. If the rain continues, it is not impossible to form a lake."

The Han people can already tell that that place is simply a basin. The amount of melted ice and snow, coupled with the amount of rain in the rainy season, makes it inevitable that low-lying areas will form lakes. The areas that do not form lakes will be full of streams, with only a few. Where the terrain is relatively high, the humidity will be lower, but it is not much better.

"I tortured some prisoners." Li Tan said with a wry smile. "In summer, there will be swamps over there."

The subtext is that their withdrawal behavior is completely correct, or they should withdraw at the right point in time, if it is a few days later, they should face the rainy season, if they continue to drag on, they will have to face the swamps all over.

"It's a pity..." Dou A said with great regret. "The big man has occupied that piece of land, and he won't get much."

This statement is completely correct, that is, after modern times, whether it was the Soviet Union or Russia, it was treated as if that piece of land did not exist, and there was no intention to develop it, so that it just kept the original style.

That piece of land is not without resources. Compared with other places, the cost of developing that piece of land is higher. Then, given the choice, who will develop?

"It's not without gain." Zhang Hao said cheerfully. "Estimated, fur and medicinal materials are valuable."

Now it’s the Dingling people. I didn’t know how many nomadic troops there were before. Looking at the small number of Dingling people in that area, considering the local appearance and climate, there are not many people who will not consume the gifts of nature and stay. The natural resources are definitely a lot.

The Han army pays attention to gains. They didn’t kill many Dingling people when they went to Xigaoche. They didn’t take the initiative to hunt and collect resources at the beginning. After that, they couldn’t find the enemy, so they wouldn’t be foolish to stay in the camp and do nothing. , Is definitely to create revenue.

Under continuous hunting and exploration, large numbers of animals were killed and their furs were collected.

The harvest of plants is more than that of fur. There are a lot of medicinal materials that are hard to find in the Central Plains, and some plants that have never been seen before. Anyway, if you can find them, you will never turn a blind eye.

"Plus the gains from the Northern Expedition..." Zhang Hao said happily, "Great profit!"

The elimination of Rouran and Donggaoche yielded more than one million livestock, with sheep having the largest number, followed by cattle, and horses.

It's a pity that because of the military affairs that invaded the West High Car, those prisoners of war can only be dealt with, otherwise it can increase the income.

If the spoils are distributed, it is a small soldier who goes out with the army, and it is estimated that he can get at least five baht worth more than one thousand.

Wealth is of secondary importance. Soldiers value credit most.

According to the rules of the Han army, those who have made merits on the battlefield are also counted. Those who are unlucky enough that they have not made military merits are determined by their original official rank and title.

This is part of the "district guarantee" for participating in the war. The rules were formed from the pre-Qin period and continued in both the Western and Eastern Han dynasties. The Han Empire has also chosen to retain it.

There are gains in more or less, and the casualties on this side are not serious, and the troops have always maintained a high morale.

The Han army seems to have high morale all the time, but it is really stunned by the crooked nuts. The crooked nuts of some small countries and the people have limited experience. The stronger the country, the more understood what it means.

"They were morale high when they marched north~www.wuxiamtl.com~ they are also morale high in the ice and snow. Now they are still high morale on the way home." Flavis said in confusion, "Is the Han people always like this?"

"What you should ask is, is every army of the Han Empire like this?" Julian didn't believe that any army of the Han Empire was like this. They wiped out two countries and obtained amazing seizures. I must be happy."

Flavis thought for a while, and thought so.

If the Roman Legion had gone through such a conquest, I am afraid it would show greater excitement than the Han Chinese. After all, there were not many deaths or injuries, but so many materials were seized. How can the living people share the spoils, it is strange to be unhappy.

"I know a military officer of the Han army. He said he can get at least five hundred gold coins." Flavis is not a poor man, even a rich man, but still feels jealous. "He doesn't seem to be very keen on wealth. , I am pleased to be able to raise the title to the first level."

Julian is very clear about what knighthood represents in the Han Empire, and raised a topic that he wanted to discuss for a long time: "Rome did not establish knighthood, should we also establish knighthood?"