From then on, the Tang King's personal divine kingdom finally evolved into today's Tang Dynasty - a dynasty.
However... one thing we all know is that most countries were founded without any political ideals, nor were they driven by anything special.
People in the savage era, or before the concept of human beings appeared, animals originally had the tendency to gather in groups. However... the country that was created because of the inherent need for gathering was often not a good thing for the people.
So as time went by, something called grand unification emerged, which managed what kind of life was good and what kind of life was bad in the form of etiquette. But...
It is not enough for a country, especially a unified country, to have etiquette and laws.
Etiquette is the key to expansion, but it cannot be used for survival-survival is always difficult, and it is impossible to leisurely travel, just like embroidering poems and entertaining guests for dinner. It is for this reason... Today's Tang Dynasty is
There is this thing called artillery, and it is not just because of Li Sheng's invention.
If Li Sheng hadn't come up with this thing, His Majesty Li Er would have invested a huge amount of resources to replace it, or increase the size of the army, or improve the conventional armaments of the Tang Dynasty, but what is certain is that something will be done, and it will be done
It will accomplish something and reach the level of a powerful deterrent force similar to today's artillery.
Rome is different from other countries. It is also a powerful entity, and more importantly, it is a "dynasty". All the tribes in the European countries are vassals. If this is not a dynasty, what is it?
As a day...
First of all, it is natural to master advanced ideologies. Today in Rome, the Hadith of Christ is being reinterpreted with more powerful advanced interpretations, and it is possible to complete the reproduction of religion at any time. On the other hand...
First of all, Rome must stand before it can make its voice heard. When Rome was first founded, it relied on restructuring. It had a military merit and nobility system that was the same as that of the Qin Dynasty. The results of robbery were used as the criterion for the title of nobility - so
This is how Rome became strong, or rather, the birth of every supreme hegemony on the supercontinent happened this way.
So, as Chai Shao, as a member of the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, he must also think about, do the Romans... have any special military technology?
It is clear from the above that there are no conditions required for the establishment of a country. When there are no heroes, some heroes will become famous, and if there are no righteous gods, the people will find evil gods to worship them. But the establishment of a dynasty requires two necessary conditions.
The most advanced and powerful military weapons, and the most advanced and powerful ideology.
Take the Zhou Dynasty as an example. Later generations highly criticized it because of its feudal system. But in fact, how did the Zhou Dynasty conquer the world?
"Heaven listens to the people, and God sees to the people."
"The opinions of the common people are equal to the opinions of God." This was the ideology of the Zhou Dynasty when it conquered the Shang Dynasty.
Various modern ideological innovations are much more beautiful than this in terms of appearance, but if you think about the advanced level of this ideology in the context of that era, it is easy to find that this ideology is highly advanced.
As a philosopher king, King Wen of Zhou was no joke. As for Rome...because under the surface of Christianity, he inherited the philosophical attainments of the Athenian city-state era, so his vitality was strong, and his efforts to win over the grassroots were very vigorous.
But in addition to this, Rome definitely needs some special power...especially power on the material level.
Without this power, any ideology will only be abandoned by ordinary Romans. After all, most people are not philosopher kings. Most people need to find a sense of security. The sense of security that the Zhou Dynasty gave to the people was comprehensive and systematic.
Farming craftsmanship, of course, is an economic thing in the eyes of later generations, but in that era, this unusual level of economic development, especially the development of agriculture, was itself a powerful military force!
Because of these two reasons, Zhou's conquest of Shang achieved invincible results. And now...
As the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, Chai Shao would certainly not care about such matters as ideology.
But in addition to another major issue of ideology, Chai Shao has never stopped thinking about it, that is, what is unique about the Romans' military force. If it is an ordinary small country, Chai Shao will also pay attention to what these small countries or tribes have.
What are the unique features? For example, the Xianbei people in Tuyuhun are good at riding and shooting, while Goguryeo is also good at building cities and fortresses.
But they certainly won’t spend a lot of time researching it, because they are not North Korea. They may have excellent military force, but without excellent ideology, a considerable number of people in the country will definitely be dissatisfied with that regime.
dissatisfied.
Such a regime has no long-term possibility and is not qualified to engage in strategic games with the Tang Dynasty. But Rome is different! This guy has Christianity as a powerful tool to win over people's hearts in the country. According to the investigation of the Tang Dynasty court, its power is
It can be said that it is completely comparable to the "Tian Khan" ideology of the Tang Dynasty and the philosophical system passed down through the ages.
With such ideological help, if Rome also masters powerful weapons, then the threat to the Tang Dynasty will truly rise to a higher level and cannot be underestimated.
Under such a sense of crisis, such a serious sense of crisis, Chai Shaocai has been thinking about it until now.
No other special force was found, but... Chai Shao actually investigated this thing called the "Bali Sitan Ballista", which is something that everyone in the Tang Dynasty knows about its existence.
This thing is very powerful because it is as powerful as a trebuchet, but it is much lighter and more flexible, so it is quite valued. However, the imperial court has recently been busy renovating its own research institute, and the research has been left to the later king Li of Yue.
Tai, and Li Ke, the king of Shu, in short, Li Er did not bother himself, because the Eight-Li Sitan was obviously not as good as the artillery - no matter how powerful this kind of crossbow was.
However, for a Duke-level general like Chai Shao, things are not that simple. He needs to analyze the problem of the eight-legged collapsing ballista as soon as possible and figure out the possibility of restraining or targeting this thing.
This is what responsible military personnel should do.
But after thinking about it for so long... Chai Shao secretly sighed, and he also got a sample of the Bali Sitan Ballista...
Although it was not easy, Chai Shao really did it.
