Save the Bachelor of Heaven

 Chapter 33543356【Mixed with sand】

After the capture of the Ottoman Empire, from a global perspective, the only major country that can be counted is the Persian Empire.

As for the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Madagascar in East Africa, Dahomey in West Africa, the Kazembe Empire in Central Africa, and the Karonga Malawi Empire in South Africa, they are all just small countries and are not worth mentioning.

And Tianzhu is not a unified country now, but is divided into countless states. It was not until after World War II that Tianzhu was unified.

 As for Australia, North America, and South America, they are still colonies and have not established their own countries. Therefore, it can be said that, except for the Persian Empire, Xiang Nan has basically unified the world.

So he then waved his hand and the army continued to march eastward.

The Persian Empire was once prominent. In the sixth century BC, Darius I conquered Tianzhu in the east, Danube in the west, and Egypt in the south. He established a super empire that spanned Asia, Africa, and Europe, and it flourished for a while.

However, in the second century BC, the Persian Empire was overthrown by the Macedonian Empire. After the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Empire split, and his subordinate Seleucids established the Seleucid dynasty in Persia.

 After that, many forces such as the Parthian Empire, the Sassanid Dynasty, the Abbasid Dynasty, Khorezm, the Mongol Empire, and the Timurid Khanate once ruled Persia.

 The reason why so many forces are so interested in Persia is mainly because it is located in a strategic location in the Middle East, connecting Central Asia, East Asia, and West Asia. Whether the European forces are fighting eastward or the eastern forces are fighting westward, Persia will always be unavoidable.

 But in fact, there are many mountains and plateaus in Persia, and the area of ​​deserts and wastelands accounts for two-thirds of the country's land area. This geographical environment is even inferior to that of the Tianfang Peninsula.

Therefore, although its strategic location is important, this area is actually not rich and its national strength is not strong.

 The simplest example is that just a few decades ago, a chief in Central Asia rebelled because of missionary matters, invaded Persia, and overthrew the Safavid dynasty at that time.

 A kingdom that can be overthrown by the tribal chiefs under its rule shows its strength. Therefore, facing Xiang Nan's army, the Persian Empire had no ability to resist and simply surrendered.

Later, Xiang Nan conquered the Durrani dynasty that ruled Central Asia, basically opening up the southern route from the Western Regions to Europe.

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 After opening up the roads to the Western Regions and Europe, Xiang Nan then ordered people to build railways from Europe through Ottoman, Tianfang, Persia, and Central Asia.

 In this way, the Western Regions can be connected with Central Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Southern Europe, etc. to form a connected whole.

 In this way, the rule of the empire will become much more convenient. It will also strengthen exchanges of materials, personnel and culture.

 As for Tianzhu in South Asia, Xiang Nan didn’t put much effort into it. Because the Mughal Empire, the largest empire in Tianzhu now, is on the verge of disintegration.

The Mughal Empire was established by his descendant Babur after the fall of Timur Khan and invaded Tianzhu. It once unified the entire Tianzhu.

But in the seventeenth century, due to the king's poor management and unscrupulous corruption, which oppressed the people, uprisings continued in various places and the Mughal Empire was in turmoil.

By the 18th century, various states in Tianzhu became independent, which also caused the Mughal Empire to fall apart.

Although it has not yet been destroyed, it is already at the end of its strength. Even the chiefs of the Central Asian tribes dare to invade the borders from time to time and cause trouble for the Mughal Empire. Therefore, in the 18th century, England, France, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries successively colonized Tianzhu. Facing the foreign powers with advanced firearms, the small kingdoms of Tianzhu were unable to resist, so they had to constantly cede territory and pay indemnities, allowing the foreign powers to slaughter them.

 Hence, Xiang Nan conquered Tianzhu without much effort.

His army, jointly ruling the Jiaozhi Xuanfu Division of Annan, Chenla, and Laos, destroyed Tianzhu in a few months.

 The population of Tianzhu at that time was 280 million people, which was even much larger than the population of the Qing Dynasty. These populations just become the best human resources for building the Eurasian railway.

 Subsequently, Xiang Nan mobilized tens of millions of people to build the Asia-Europe Railway, and immigrated nearly 100 million of them to Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and other places.

 This is what Xiang Nan learned from the English.

The English liked to add sand to the colonies. For example, during their rule in Bagan, a large number of Tianzhu people immigrated. Because the two sides have different cultures, customs, and beliefs, they are simply incompatible.

Another example is that they moved the Hebrews into the Middle East after World War II, which caused tensions between the two sides for decades, and there is still no sign of letting up.

People in Tianzhu believe in Brahmanism, Europeans believe in Christianity, and people in the Middle East believe in Tianfang religion…

 Nationalism is established based on the same ethnic group, the same culture, the same customs, the same beliefs, and the same country. Once it is formed, it will have a strong centripetal force.

For example, Italy, starting from the twelfth century, was divided into many kingdoms, principalities, autonomous cities and small feudal territories for hundreds of years. It was precisely because of the awakening of national consciousness in the eighteenth century that the Italian unification movement flourished.

The same is true for Germany. It was originally divided into large and small states. Later, with the rise of national consciousness, the people were eager for a unified country.

 So at the end of the 19th century, after more than 20 years of hard work, a unified Germany was finally born.

 After their unification, the power they unleashed was truly astonishing, and they quickly transformed from a piece of loose sand into a top power. This shows the power of nationalism.

Xiang Nan also knew about this, so he immigrated to foreign countries in large numbers.

There are now more than 20 million immigrants from the Central Plains in Europe, and they came with the China-Europe special train immigrants. They came over one after another because they heard that Europe was a vast land with few people and they could farm whatever they wanted.

In addition, there are more than 10 million Rakshasa immigrants in Europe, plus more than 30 million Tianzhu people, as well as millions of Middle Easterners and millions of Africans. Then they are scattered and distributed throughout Europe. That would be really exciting.

˜When people of different nationalities, different skin colors, different languages, different cultures, different beliefs, and different customs come together to form a consensus, it will be even more difficult than climbing to the sky.

In this way, Xiang Nan is no longer afraid of them making trouble.

 This is what the United States often does. It deliberately divides its people into many categories.

For example, whites, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, indigenous people, etc., and we will continue to classify them in detail. For example, white people include Americans, Irish, Italians, Germans, and Russians, and they can be further divided into red necks, WASPs, and so on.

 In addition, there are classifications based on culture, beliefs, and ideological concepts. For example, the "political correctness" that is so popular today has caused great quarrels among the citizens.

 (End of this chapter)