sweeping the world

Chapter 786 Is there such a good thing?
The Zhu Xia dynasty has been pursuing centralization of power since the Qin Empire, and has emphasized strong branches and weak branches since the early Han Dynasty, ensuring the absolute advantage of the central power at all times.

Facts have also proved that as long as the central government has an absolute advantage in strength, the country can always maintain absolute stability. Under this phenomenon many times, the country has basically entered a prosperous age.

However, once the strength of the central government weakens, tyrannical figures appear in the local area, and the central government cannot deal with unstable factors in time, the country will enter a period of turmoil.

Of course, Huan Wen or Yuan Qiao would not introduce those to Chianush Arta Ardashir.

"What I have learned... Jin Dynasty? Is that what you called the last dynasty?" Chianoush Alta Ardashir monologued for a while, seeing Huan Wenwen and Yuan Qiao's face softening, He was relieved and at the same time had the desire to learn: "Although the Jin Dynasty was also centralized, but because of this, the various princes competed for the position of emperor, which caused the country's vitality to be greatly damaged?"

The emperor of Zhuxia is supreme, precisely because of the supremacy of the emperor, but whoever has the strength and the opportunity, anyone will attack that throne.

"According to what you say, our monarch is the 'co-lord'. Everyone is loyal to the monarch, but no matter in terms of jurisprudence or other aspects, we don't have to obey them completely." Kianoush Alta Ardashir said It made Huan Wenwen and Yuan Qiao think of the Zhou royal family.Seeing the two people nodding their heads, he continued, "That's why, although the throne is noble, it's not as attractive as the emperor's throne."

Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao could understand that if they became king and still did not have the power of life and death, the attractiveness of such a throne would really be reduced a lot.

"Our war with Rome is mostly in a weak position, and only the great lords can unite to contend with Rome." Chianush Arta Ardasil smiled bitterly, and said: "But usually It’s so hard to be united.”

Huan Wen was very interested in the expedition to Persia, and for a while he learned about it from the few materials and intelligence.What he knows is that the Persians have competed with the Daqin people for thousands of years, and the Persians are really at a disadvantage most of the time, so it is not difficult to understand how Kianoush Arta Ardashir The reason for learning the Han family system arose.

Zhu Xia has become accustomed to a centralized system. Contrary to Zhu Xia, the rest of the civilization is still in the system of enfeoffment.

In fact, it is really difficult to judge which system is better. No matter how good the system is, it cannot withstand enough stupid people to screw it up. No matter how bad the system is, it can play tricks in the hands of wise people.

If the people of Zhuxia think that because they have the history of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods as a reference, they subconsciously feel that enfeoffment is the source of all chaos, but is that really the case?

Like Persian Sasanian and Roman enfeoffments, they had to have strong local lords before the country entered a period of expansion and maintained domestic prosperity from external plunder.

On the contrary, once the center of the Romans and Persians becomes stronger, the ruler will inevitably enter a period of contest with the local lords, and the result will be a period of internal friction, or a civil war, or a relatively peaceful stalemate, anyway. plunged into depression.

"I can't refute this at all." What did Kianush Alta Aldashir hear just now?It was Huan Wen who talked about the past of the Three Giants in Rome.He touched his chin and lost in thought: "Indeed. In order to please the Romans (citizens with votes in the Roman city), the three of them repeatedly launched wars. Caesar mainly conquered Gaul, Crassus conquered North Africa and Greece, Pompeii and the Germans The Gauls went to war, their starting point was to be elected as magistrates, but they really expanded the territory of Rome.”

There is also the following thing, that is, Caesar won that competition, but because Caesar's strength is really too strong, not only those who failed in the competition came together, but even those who did not help each other before or originally helped Caesar Some of these people became opponents of Caesar.It may be related to some of Caesar's policies. For example, barbarians can become Roman citizens. The fundamental reason is that Caesar is so strong that he can deal with anyone at will, which makes everyone feel jealous.

Regardless of whether it is the Romans or the Persians, they don’t have the saying that "the ruler must die". Direct action sends the ruler to his death.

I don’t know if it’s correct, but Zhuxia is indeed one step ahead in terms of centralization, and all subsequent civilizations have gradually moved on to the road of centralization. It is because of historical factors that other civilizations except Zhuxia’s civilization, Even if there were brief periods of centralization, they were usually short-lived.

It was a different direct reaction produced by different civilizations. In fact, Zhu Xia also had the same situation in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Spring and Autumn Period was also a period of rapid expansion of Zhu Xia. However, it was not the credit of the central government, but the voluntary initiative of the vassals. Behavior.

The so-called lords are vassals, and vassals can have their own vassals, maintaining the country's hierarchy layer by layer. They reach a loyalty relationship under the constraints of a vow, and there will be internal consumption, but absolutely Most of the power is used for external development.

It is said that the Western Han Dynasty established the initial territory of Zhuxia, but those areas expanded by the Western Han Dynasty were included in the civilization system in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After Zhuxia had a centralized system of power, the expansion of its territory was extremely slow, and many times it even retracted after it was typed out. It was a place where the central government felt that it could not control too far, and was unwilling to control it in a vassal mode.

The world is so big that there are many things. There are certain exceptions, but most of them are commonplace. Since centralization has become a rule, Zhuxia is a relatively special one, with almost no similarity to other countries and nations. .

"The expansion of Rome was driven by the various families?" It was the first time Huan Wen knew this statement, and after thinking about it, he had to admit: "According to your statement, it is indeed the case!"

"Our territory is also based on the expansion of each family." Kianoush Alta Ardashir was talking about the expansion of those families in the Parthian period. The territory has not yet been fully recovered."It's a shame that we've stopped recovering for years, and we've even been losing land," he said.

What Kianoush Arta Ardashir did not mention is that the Persian Sassanian system is very unstable, and changes may occur due to different rulers coming to power. For example, the previous ruler respected the power of local lords The territory of the country is generally in a period of expansion, and the next ruler suppresses and even eliminates the local lords, causing the territory to shrink again.

The Persians lived in Central Asia and West Asia, and they had access to many civilizations, including Europa, which they had feuded with for thousands of years, North Africa, which they could rule from time to time, and then their neighbors to the south, the Asans.

There are really too many civilizations in contact with, and it has also given the Persians a variety of cultural elements. The system has never been the same, but it is generally kept in sync with Europa, which has the meaning of falling in love and killing each other.

"We (the royal family of Ardashir) are going back to the old way now." Chianoush Alta Ardashir refers to the decline of the royal family's strength, and he doesn't care about the powerful lords: "Rome is now Being divided may be our best chance."

In recent years, Persian Sasanian has fought with Rome, but the scale of the war is not large. The royal family of Ardashir, who ruled Persian Sasanian, has the opportunity to transfer troops from the front line with Rome. Take action against some disobedient leaders.

"We need reform." Chianoush Arta Ardashir became extremely firm when he said this: "In the known world, only the system of the big man is the most suitable."

The Persians had contact with Zhu Xia, the earliest time should be in the Western Han Dynasty, but it was completely difficult for the two sides to communicate in depth. The reason is naturally that there are some countries in the middle, and the road is far away. Communication creates enough barriers.

Peeping the leopard happens all the time in all aspects, like Chianush Arta Ardashir is currently the case.He has been to the Han Kingdom in person, and he can communicate face-to-face with some central officials of the Han Kingdom, but how could he have enough understanding of the Zhuxia civilization in such a short time.

Let alone Kianush Arta Aldashir, in fact even the people of Zhuxia cannot fully understand their own civilization. Just living in such an environment, everything seems to go with the flow, but It's really hard to describe it in words.

When Kianush Arta Aldashir said he wanted to learn the Han system, he did not mention it casually. It was the Han system that he had seen and understood that was most beneficial to the family of the ruler.

As a royal family, it is still a royal family with real power. More importantly, the heirs of the family are not without the right to inherit the throne. Chianoush Alta Ardashir is supreme to the Han Kingdom that guarantees the ruler's power to the greatest extent How can you not be moved?

"We can provide necessary help." Yuan Qiao tried his best to endure the excitement in his heart: "No matter where it comes from."

After all, Yuan Qiao was still a Confucian student, and Confucian students were very interested in enlightenment, and they always thought of "world harmony", so they started by teaching the barbarians Zhu Xia characters, and then assimilated the barbarian thoughts, and turned the barbarians into Zhu Xia.

Chianush Arta Ardashir immediately felt that something was wrong, and Yuan Qiao's enthusiasm came too suddenly.

Huan Wen noticed the strangeness of Chianush Arta Ardashir, and calmly reminded Yuan Qiao.

Yuan Qiao didn't care much about it. To educate the barbarians is what Confucian scholars love to do most, and they still do things with great sentiments. They didn't have any malice when they did such a thing, they just wanted to spread the word. As for culture, as for the effect of spreading culture, I basically didn't think much about it.

If Huan Wen hadn't had a dialogue with Liu Yan about enlightening the barbarians, he would probably be similar to Yuan Qiao.

That's really the case. Confucian scholars want to let barbarians feel the greatness of saints, and other aspects are secondary.This kind of thinking originally existed only in the Chu Poetry School and the Han Poetry School of Confucianism, and later spread to other Confucian schools, especially the Guyang School, which was most affected.

Chianoush Arta Ardashir didn't know what a cultural invasion was, but he felt something was wrong from Yuan Qiao's excessive enthusiasm, and he was relieved after many trials later.

"Really? Saint." Kianush Arta Aldashir asked with some confusion: "All knowledge was created by your saint?"

Yuan Qiao didn't have the face to say "yes". He suddenly thought of something, and his original high spirits gradually faded away.

It must be when Confucianism fully dominates, and saints are saints, and the family in Shandong can not only enjoy various privileges, but also receive unconditional respect from cultural people.

Nowadays, after the raging barbarians, Confucianism has naturally been hit by the general situation. Then during the Jin and Jin Dynasties, Confucianism itself went astray. As long as a great Confucian is not ignorant of metaphysics, the Yin and Yang school has become very popular.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin Empire, Confucianism talked about "benevolence" and "propriety"; in the Western Han Dynasty, Confucianism focused on "Spring and Autumn righteousness" and "revengeism", and then changed to "self-denial and restoration of propriety"; in the Eastern Han Confucianism There has been a new change in the core, and it has become "harmony".

It can be said that the core of Confucianism in any period has been changing.

Liu Yan is not interested in Confucianism at all, and there is no sign of exclusive respect for Confucianism, which can be seen from the fact that he doesn't talk to the Shandong family at all.That is because he has no trust in the integrity of that family in Shandong. That family has done too many dirty things in the name of a saint. They don’t mention how they usually bully the people, but any intruder can be recognized. It can be disgusting to death, what is there to respect about such a family?
As long as a family in Shandong can express resistance when foreign enemies invade, instead of kneeling and licking them repeatedly, Liu Yan will sacrifice that family even if he doesn't like it. Unfortunately, that family has not resisted once, but has become an intruder again and again. How many times has it been their appeal not to rebel against the invaders.

Huan Wen's attitude also changed after Kianoush Arta Ardahir invited Yuan Qiao to introduce Daru to Persia.

"Yes." Huan Wen began to look cheerful: "If you are willing and willing to take action, perhaps the sale of arms is not non-negotiable."

If Yuan Qiao thought of enlightenment, what Huan Wen thought of was to fully Sinicize Persia.

(End of this chapter)