The transition from rule to chaos, in various parts of the world, usually begins with political disagreements, then gradually moves into geographical and group divisions, and finally culminates in military struggles - who is right, who is wrong, who is more efficient
Powerful, all questions are answered by killing. In the current situation, there are no differences. The Tang Dynasty is basically politically connected and the people in Rome are basically compatible with each other. However, there are no verbal differences, and the military struggle continues as scheduled.
In fact, it is precisely because there are no verbal differences that this kind of struggle becomes more intense and dangerous.
A military struggle started between two groups of people who have had almost no friendship for thousands of years. If the world was a fairy tale, then this struggle would not have happened at all. But now that it has happened, precisely because there is no friendship, it will never happen in the future.
There is nothing to hold back - no one will dissuade the robes around him from slaughtering the enemy.
This is because there is no past friendship. Secondly, even if someone has good intentions, how can he ensure to his compatriots that the enemy also has good intentions? All one can do is to ensure that the other party does not
You can slaughter your own compatriots, so that you can guarantee to your compatriots that you will not be slaughtered.
Although on Qiongzhou Island, thousands of miles away from Chang'an, Li Sheng had other views on the aboriginal people of North America. For Li Sheng, his understanding of military and political affairs only came from public accounts.
If you put yourself in their shoes, the Spaniards who landed on the North American continent had to slaughter the aboriginal people in blood.
For things that are not understood, "human beings' natural fear and hatred" are never innate. If it is really innate, then there is only one answer. People who do not have this fear have long been annihilated in the long river of history along with all their women and children.
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This allusion to the North American aborigines is definitely unknown to Li Er, Wei Zheng and others, but after experiencing hundreds of years of melee between Hu and Han in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they know the truth very well. The war with the Romans in the northwest is natural.
Yes, very nervous.
But precisely because there are such huge forces competing, the ones who are nervous are of course not just Li Er, Wei Zheng, Fang Du, Duan Lun, and the Monarchs and Ministers Group of the Tang Dynasty. Because the matter is so important and a lot of resources are invested, naturally there are also people from all walks of life.
Involved in it.
Among them, there are naturally many people from all walks of life in China, led by merchants who have gradually emerged in recent years.
This group of people used to be a marginalized group in China in the past, such as Lu Su in the Eastern Han Dynasty. But now, these merchants can organize craftsmen to produce large quantities of materials, and these materials can also be converted into combat effectiveness. On the other hand, they can also solve problems.
This solves the income problem of the craftsmen who were forced to grow in size because the per capita land possession in China has been significantly reduced compared to the Western Zhou Dynasty when farming was just beginning.
Nowadays, naturally, he is basically regarded as the vassal king of King Qin. Anyway, there are already many such sayings among the people.
Compared with the real feudal kings, merchants were still different after all. They had a shallower relationship with the imperial court, so they naturally valued interests more. This trend has developed to the great cause of the Tang Dynasty's management of the world to the present stage. At such a point in time,
As a result, merchants began to adjust production according to the progress of the war, and the next day any material became scarce, they produced it until it was in surplus.
Such a situation would naturally be more than pleasant for Li Er's court, but of course this automatic push also comes with a price, that is, the price is often higher - but because China's agriculture is now developed and has a large industrial population,
Bidding appears at any time, so the price is actually pretty good.
And for this reason, although at first, when Li Er and his team considered using the hands of merchants to raise military supplies, they were very worried. After all, the reliability of merchants was still too questionable.
How could they be loyal to the imperial court? But as time went on, the merchants became entangled among themselves - so naturally the one who was worried was,
Of course, Li Er, Wei Zheng and others don't need to worry about what the merchants in China are thinking. On the contrary, as things develop, it will be Hangzhou, Lingzhou, Chang'an, and places such as Zhongzuo Saint Port.
The merchants became nervous about the war between Tang Dynasty and Rome.
China's merchants were quite hesitant about this fight between two huge empires that had never happened in human history for millions of years.
Of course, I hope that the imperial army of China can win. This is of course first of all because of the well-known simple rural family members. At the same time, more importantly, this is the early Tang Dynasty, not the late Tang Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty.
Even if the merchants no longer have any loyalty to Li Er, they still know that if China becomes the state of the Southern and Northern Dynasties again, then even if everyone gets rich, they will have no place to retire.
But on the other hand, as a merchant, you have to make a profit after all, and making a profit requires sales, which of course requires the Chinese Imperial Army to be beaten more. If you don't get beaten, who will sell our top-quality equipment to?
Such sentiments do not exist in the hearts of individual big businessmen who engage in weapons, but because the war and the strategic game are so grand, China and Rome are engaging in a comprehensive game, and because it is a comprehensive game, the demand for supplies is of course also all-round -
The army needs all kinds of supplies outside, so basically all merchants are keeping an eye on the war.
Such discussions spread widely, and eventually spread to sailors and craftsmen. The same sentiment that had appeared repeatedly in history books but had never been clearly recorded gradually spread and overflowed.
While merchants and craftsmen were struggling with the general trend of the world and their personal destiny, other situations gradually emerged among the people of China.
The first person to notice this situation was none other than Sun Simiao.
Accidental research out of interest actually led to the creation of a new type of wheat with twice the yield - this incident shocked the court at first, and Li Er couldn't help but want to personally inquire about it.
And then, the importance of this matter even made it a key step for the Tang Dynasty to deal with the Romans, and the Romans really took the bait because of their emphasis on this strange new wheat species.
However, when such useful wheat seeds were first introduced into China, new problems arose.
At first, Sun Simiao didn't come specifically to investigate, but after arriving in the countryside.
