The street was not very wide, and there were not many pedestrians. They did not pay special attention to Liu Chan and others who were wearing strange clothes, and were busy minding their own business.

Everywhere, there are people at the bottom.

There is one in Rome too.

Liu Chan instinctively held Zhang Yuan tightly. He regretted taking her with him, but Zhang Yuan didn't seem to care. Instead, he gave a kind smile to some Roman civilians he met on the street.

Different races and different languages.

But the smile is the same.

From time to time, some Romans responded to them in the same way.

"Husband!" Zhang Yang whispered: "Their life is a bit hard."

"Yeah!" Liu Chan hummed.

He also saw that after entering this area, he believed what Liu Tiezhu said. The gap between the rich and the poor in the Roman Empire was very large. The lives of the nobles were very prosperous. For example, the Machius family, because they were a merchant family, so they

There is no shortage of money.

The Machius family owns a huge mansion.

Liu Chan doesn't know exactly how big Machius's house is. Anyway, they have been living in the front yard of his house. The front yard is a three-story building with several courtyards behind it.

The interior of the house was luxuriously decorated. If he hadn't known in advance that Machius was a businessman, Liu Chan would have thought he had entered the palace of the Roman Empire.

But now in this neighborhood, all the houses are very low and dilapidated.

Although the clothes of the people I met along the way were not in tatters, it was obvious that they were all of very low quality. Occasionally, I could see people eating food from Heihuhu. I heard Deng You introduce it, and the name of the food was

It’s called black bread.

I walked around the street for about half an hour.

Liu Chan chose to leave.

Because he has probably understood some of the current situation of the Roman Empire. It is glorious on the outside but full of problems internally.

This is not much different from some ancient Roman stories I heard in my previous life.

At this time, ancient Rome was in decline.

Originally, the emperors of the Roman Empire were to rule the empire according to the will of the Senate. However, in the later period, in order to control the power alone, the emperors randomly appointed citizens to the Senate, which destroyed the independence of the Senate.
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The power of the Senate was destroyed, and of course they could not let it go, so they began to use various conspiracies to assassinate the emperor in revenge for the emperor's dictatorship.

Within eighteen months, the Senate assassinated four emperors of the Roman Empire.

Soon the emperor began to take revenge on the Senate.

After such repeated twists and turns, no matter how powerful the empire is, it will eventually suffer a heavy blow.

Later, some tyrants appeared in the Roman Empire, which led to moral decay, social corruption, internal and external ravages such as the invasion of surrounding aliens, as well as some natural and man-made disasters.

In recent years, famines, epidemics, turmoils, and riots have occurred frequently, which has created the Roman Empire like this.

Of course——

Liu Chan is a time traveler. Although the Roman Empire in history experienced these disasters or tribulations, it did not die quickly.

Because according to the development of history, the Roman Empire will usher in an opportunity for change in at most a dozen years. For example, in the thirty years after 268 AD, some Roman emperors who were born in humble families saved the Roman Empire from the brink of destruction.

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They defeated enemies at home and abroad, restored the empire's border defense forces with enforced strict military discipline, and were honored by later generations as the "revivers of the Roman Empire."

Then, the Roman Empire was divided into Eastern Rome (Byzantine Empire) and Western Rome. Western Rome was destroyed in 476 AD, and Eastern Rome was not destroyed by the Ottoman Empire until 1453 AD.

This is some of the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire that Liu Chan learned about in his previous life.

The Roman Empire in front of us is similar to what is recorded in the history books. It is in a critical period of internal and external difficulties.

For the big man, this is an opportunity.

Of course, this was a disaster for the Roman Empire.

Because——

He has been targeted.

Liu Chan was the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Byzantium, a city on the eastern border of the Roman Empire, happened to border the Ming Kingdom. If history continues to develop, Byzantium will become the capital of Eastern Rome in more than a hundred years at most.

As the saying goes, there is no room for others to sleep on the side of the couch.

Although Liu Chan cannot guarantee that the Han, Tang, and Ming Dynasties will last forever, as a time traveler, he still hopes to do his best to eliminate some potential threats for future generations.

The Roman Empire was now in a state of illness.

If he is given enough time, he will recover, and by then he may be a potential danger to the Ming Kingdom.

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Liu Chan and his party did not stay in Rome for too long. They only stayed for two or three months. They visited several cities around Rome and finally headed east, returning to the Ming Kingdom from Byzantium.

By the time Liu Chan and his party returned to Taixifeng, the capital of the Ming Kingdom, it was already March 257 AD.

One evening.

Inside the study room of the Kingdom of Ctesiphon.

Liu Chan looked at Liu Tiezhu and asked indifferently: "If I send troops to Rome, do you think it is feasible?"

Liu Tiezhu was stunned for a moment. After more than a year of studying with Deng You, he was able to communicate with people in Chinese. Later, when he learned that Liu Chan was the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Tiezhu felt as if he had had a dream.

He was just a humble slave in the Roman Empire.

However, after Liu Chan bought him, he did not regard him as a slave. When he could simply communicate in Chinese, Liu Chan would often chat with him alone, without the airs of an emperor at all.

"Your Majesty!" Liu Tiezhu said: "If Your Majesty really plans to send troops to capture Rome, you can first send someone to contact the Christians in the Roman Empire."

"Why?" Liu Chan asked.

"In these years -" Liu Tiezhu said: "In these years, the rulers of the Roman Empire have tried their best to persecute Christians. If your Majesty can get the support of Christians, it will be easier to quickly stabilize the situation after attacking Rome."

Liu Chan paused.

After more than a year of getting along with each other, Liu Chan felt that Liu Tiezhu was different. He was no ordinary slave, and he also had his own unique perspective on things.

"Are you a Christian?" Liu Chan asked deliberately.

"Back to Your Majesty!" Liu Tiezhu did not hide anything and nodded: "Yes, I am indeed a Christian. It is also because I am a Christian that I was arrested and became a slave during an arrest by the Imperial Guard."<

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Ha——

That’s right.

Naturally, Liu Chan had some knowledge of Christianity in his previous life. He remembered that when he was a boy, his parents separated and he had to live temporarily with his uncle and aunt.

At that time, my uncle didn’t know what he was thinking, but he actually believed in ‘Christianity’.

You have to pray every day when you eat and sleep, and you also have to pray when you plant crops.

Of course, it later turned out that what my uncle and aunt believed in was not true Christianity, but a crooked cult.

Liu Chan still remembers that during the high school entrance examination that year, his uncle reminded him before going out to pray before the exam. As long as you pray, you will get a good score.

However, Liu Chan was a bit rebellious at that time. Not only did he not pray before the exam, he didn't even eat or sleep at ordinary times. He just pretended to be in front of his uncle and aunt.

Because he simply doesn't believe that if you leave a little rice in the rice vat and pray every day, the rice in the vat will be filled by itself; if you don't study hard at all, if you pray before the exam, you can get good grades.
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Isn’t this nonsense?

Facts have proved that this is also true. Before my uncle's family embraced Christianity, their family situation was pretty good. My uncle was a country doctor and opened a clinic in Murakami. My two cousins ​​also studied medicine with my uncle and lived a very good life.

However, my uncle began to preach as if he was possessed by a demon, which made it difficult for the family to boil the pot. Of course, my uncle's family no longer believed in this.

Therefore, when Liu Tiezhu said that he was a Christian, he couldn't help but think of some events from his previous life.

Of course——

Liu Chan also knows that many Westerners embrace Christianity.

As for what my uncle’s family believes in, it is definitely not the Christianity that Westerners believe in.

When Liu Chan heard this, he nodded slightly and then looked at Liu Tiezhu: "Your suggestion is very good. I respect the beliefs of every place." He paused and said, "For example, in the Ming Dynasty, people believe in Zoroastrianism.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it never interfered with people's beliefs."

This is true.

The Persian region believed in Zoroastrianism in ancient times, and later spread to China. However, it was not called Zoroastrianism in China, but was called Mingjiao in the Central Plains.

It was also for this reason that Liu Chan named Liu Yan's kingdom the Ming Kingdom. Of course, there was also a Ming Dynasty in China in history.

I heard that the establishment of the Ming Dynasty had something to do with Mingjiao.

"If I, the Han Dynasty, captured the Roman Empire;" Liu Chan said with a smile: "I will treat everyone equally and respect the people's beliefs!"
To be continued...