Seeing this thing, Chen Xi inevitably needed to compare the impressions in his mind. To be honest, before civilization develops to a certain level, it does not have an absolute suppression effect on barbarism. But if you look at this report...
Since Rome has invented lathes and windmill transmissions, not to mention entering the industrial revolution, there should be no problem at least hanging around.
Even if these two things cannot make a civilization make great strides forward, the standardization and standardization of equipment they bring alone are enough for a civilization to crush surrounding countries.
I don't think the Qin Dynasty relied on these things to cut the Six Kingdoms into pieces. Of course, a large part of the reason why the Qin Dynasty could reach this point was the expansion brought by its system itself.
The military merit system established by Shang Yang's reforms has greatly improved its combat effectiveness in every aspect. These advantages in weapons and equipment are probably the icing on the cake.
Of course, if you think about Rome in reverse, in fact, as long as it has an advantage in weapons and equipment, it is enough. The quality of the Roman citizens themselves is not bad, and they have such an advantage in military equipment. If you really want to be reasonable, it should not be done at all.
How do you say that the boat will capsize if it capsizes?
Then Chen Xi thought about it and understood that Rome had killed itself, and all these things were meaningless. It was entirely Rome's own problem.
If you think about it carefully, how much does the reason for the capsizing of Rome have to do with the barbarians? In essence, it is just like throwing the blame for Wu Hu's southward movement to Cao Liu. It seems to be sound and logical, but in fact, what I really want to say is that it is only for future generations.
I feel embarrassed, and I don’t have the courage to bear the burden, so I can only throw it to the dead.
To the people of the late Han Dynasty, the Northern Wuhu was just like a child's toy, which could be easily killed. However, the descendants of the Western Jin Dynasty simply could not afford the toys of their predecessors, and due to a series of accidents, the later generations were directly killed.
The one was crushed.
Should the ancestors take the blame for this kind of thing? Maybe they should, but when it comes to taking the blame, if the ancestors can stand up, they must ask, everyone of your generation is dead!
Just like the Han Dynasty official and historical records directly recorded that one Han was the Five Hu, and the Hu people had no way to refute it. In that era, this was a final conclusion.
Don’t accept? If you don’t accept, you’ll be beaten to death. During the Three Kingdoms, the barbarians were summoned and sent away immediately by any of the princes. If they dared to talk nonsense, they were killed directly.
Counting from the time of Emperor Huan and Duan Jiong, people like Dong Zhuo were just about to change the color of Northern Xinjiang. In the early days, there were people like Gongsun Zan who were so promiscuous. By the time of Yuan Shao, he dared to force Hu Qi to be his subordinate with just one sentence.
When Cao Cao went north to slaughter Wuwan, the Hu people could not come to the fore at this time.
The barbarians who boasted the most powerfully could only support a few words of these late Han bosses, and then they were killed. Which one would get the upper hand?
Even Gongsun Yuan, the most unworthy prince in the entire Three Kingdoms, was able to grant titles to the Xianbei people and recruit barbarians to fight for him before being pinned down and rubbed in the dirt by Sima Yi.
Gongsun Yuan was considered a scumbag in the Three Kingdoms. He was not even considered a member of the national team. As a result, he still dominated the place where barbarians gathered in Liaodong.
Although he has the foundation of his grandfather Gongsun Du, the problem is that Gongsun Du of Liaodong was classified as a lower-ranking prince in the Han Dynasty. He didn't even have a state, just a county!
Gongsundu, who was not even considered a mere fish in the real battlefield of the late Han Dynasty, conquered Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan in the west, and Liaodong Peninsula in the south, beating all the barbarians around him to the point where they knelt down and called them daddy.
In this case, it would be strange if the Han Dynasty thought that the barbarians would become their formidable enemies. They were summoned by them every day, and they would go away as soon as possible. If only people like Cao Cao could foresee that these people could overwhelm their own family in the future.
Later generations are weird.
The princes of the Han Dynasty were not all weirdos like Gongsun Zan who hated the Hu people with sworn hatred. Most of the princes had a very petty view of the Hu people. As a result, who would have thought that future generations would be so unsatisfactory and treat them so unfairly?
, it means that future generations are not living up to expectations, it is not that the barbarians have become stronger, but that future generations have become weaker!
Before the Three Kingdoms, the Han Dynasty had not fought a few bad wars against the barbarians that could not be mentioned. But after the Three Kingdoms, forget it, let’s put it another way, there were a few bad wars that were not fought and were not fought.
"..." Chen Xi couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this, threw the official document aside, and then smoothed out what he was thinking about. History really doesn't make sense!
The four classical empires at the end of the second century, if based on the information collected by Chen Xi now, it is reasonable to think that they finally overthrew their enemies, except for Anxi's death in Rome.
The other three, regardless of whether the Han Dynasty came to an end, were stabbed in the back by the Wuhu at the end of the third century while taking advantage of the Eight Kings Rebellion, and then fell into decline for hundreds of years, and were reunified after the birth of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian.
Or was it the end of the Roman Empire by Alexander Severus, and the beginning of the crisis in the third century? In less than fifty years, twenty-six emperors knelt down in succession, until Justinian I fought hard for decades and was only one step away from regaining the entire Mediterranean, but he failed.
Or the Kushan Empire. Vesutiva I turned the tide and integrated the northern and southern Kushans to rebuild the empire. Until the second emperor ascended the throne, the northern nobles switched to Ardashir, and the empire collapsed in the blink of an eye.
If we really talk about it logically, all three of these things are unreasonable!
If you think about it carefully, are these so-called opponents who ended these empires really opponents in this era of the end of empires? Not at all!
It’s not that the Wuhu in the north of the Western Jin Dynasty didn’t exist before, but it has always existed. It was just that it was rubbed in the soil by the Han Dynasty.
It’s not that the barbarians in the north of Rome didn’t exist before. They also always existed. They were just rubbed into the soil by Rome.
Even the hidden dangers in the north of the Kushan Empire did not exist. They have always existed. However, no matter how strong the religious forces in the north and south were, they could not stop the wheels of the empire from crushing them.
"This is really..." Chen Xi reached out and picked up the official document again, and couldn't help but sigh. The higher he stood, the further he could see, especially when he could compare it with history. Many histories were very interesting to Chen Xi.
It is a necessity.
"The empire has never fallen at the hands of opponents, it has always fallen at the hands of one's own, and this is almost inevitable in the historical spiral..." Chen Xi sighed softly, and the feeling like reincarnation clearly appeared in Chen Xi's heart
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The Roman crisis in Europe, the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Central Plains, and the civilizations on both sides that had a long history and had never experienced a true catastrophe collapsed, and the country also fell apart. In that kind of mutual conquest and mutual fighting, Rome
Falling, the Central Plains sank.
The two empires, known as the lights of world civilization, instantly fell into the darkest era. In that era of constant fighting and endless fighting, neither the Central Plains nor Europe saw the slightest possibility of recovery.
However, in just two hundred years, before the death of European Justinian I, the only gap in the recovery of Rome's homeland was Spain. If Justinian's adopted son was able to recover this last gap, the Roman Empire would be completely restored.
Already.
What's more important is that after the Mediterranean Bath is completely restored, the difficulty of ruling the Roman Empire will plummet, and it will be almost a matter of time before the glory of the Roman Empire is restored again.
However, Justinian I is known as the last great Roman emperor, which means that his adopted son failed.
If his adopted son succeeded, then the time would be just right for Yang Jian to unify the Central Plains. However, it failed, and Rome completely lost the possibility of recovery. It was even because of this that they lost everything they were once proud of.
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The central principle is to rise successfully, go with the flow, ups and downs, and still be sitting at the mahjong table playing mahjong with other civilizations a thousand years later.
Sometimes, it is really a step or a world of difference. The last few years of Justinian I and the ten years after his death were almost the last chance for Rome to completely restore its glory. However, Rome did not seize it.
There has been no glory since.
"There is really a feeling of reincarnation, even a kind of horror that even the law of dynastic cycles cannot describe." Chen Xi couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the world history in the next three hundred years. There are too many coincidences, but
Fortunately there is no coincidence.
"Forget it, there's no point in thinking too much. At least this time it is indeed possible to transcend the dynastic cycle and the Roman citizen system. Our Han Dynasty will support 100 million nobles this time!" Chen Xi sighed and whispered to himself,
All empires died due to their own actions, and only a few died from foreign enemies.
Just like the future that Diocles once thought about but had no choice but to give up on, Chen Xi really intends to take this untrodden path.
Those who live in warehouses will know etiquette, and those who have enough food and clothing will know honor and disgrace. Chen Xi believes in this sentence. If the tens of millions of people now and the hundreds of millions in the future are all raised as Roman citizens, they will be almost small landowners.
As long as one guides this group of people, they can burst out and advance the wisdom of the entire era. Chen Xi believes in genius, but Chen Xi believes in the wisdom of the people.
Looking at the mediocre people, when their next generation has the opportunity to receive a complete education, and is no longer trapped by food and is no longer bound by survival, then these hundreds of millions of population resources will
Chen Xi couldn't even imagine what kind of wisdom he would burst out from.
It is true that the average starting point is relatively low compared to the aristocratic families, but the huge base is enough to create miracles. After all, the ratio of aristocratic families is too low. Even if a generation can cultivate dozens of children, facing a scale of hundreds of millions,
, the proportion that this class can occupy will also decrease day by day.
The future is, after all, the future of the people. If we don’t want to return to the spiraling mistakes of history, then this is the only path we can choose.
"In this case, no one can see clearly, but it's okay, it gives them a future and also gives the people a future," Chen Xi signed the official document with a smile, which is probably fair.