Sweep the World

Going north from Yanmen Pass does not immediately enter the prairie landscape. On the contrary, the geographical environment is full of mountains and valleys formed by two peaks.

"Look at the top of the mountain." Julian raised his finger to the surrounding area: "You can see the old site of the beacon tower in more than one place."

The mountains on this side are high or low, and the average **** is very steep, no matter how you look at it, climbing with bare hands is not easy.

"Why didn't the Han people move the pass to the north, it was built at the southernmost end of the mountain?" Flaves remembered that Rome chose to build fortifications at the front and back ends of the Alps: "Is there still a pass in front?"

There are no barriers ahead, and even the small-scale Tibetan camps and small fortresses that can be seen everywhere in the belly of the mountain are not visible, just the remains of some beacon towers.

They are constantly moving in the mountains, most of the time they are walking in the valley environment, and they keep going around in a space similar to the environment. The sun cannot tell the direction when the sun is in the sky, and people who are not familiar with the roads here quickly lose their way.

"The environment is too complicated." Julian took a few sips of water and constantly scanned the surrounding environment: "Natural barrier!"

"Indeed!" Flavis just kept thinking about a question: "If you use environmental Tibetan soldiers, you can continue to ambush the invaders, compared to what the Han did when resisting grassland invaders."

However, Flaves guessed wrong. The environment here is very suitable for ambushes, but most of the invasion phases did not fight in this complex environment.

Facing the invasion of the nomads of the steppe, many times the Central Plains dynasty was too late to respond. The front was constantly falling, and the rear was not reported in time due to the time difference. Waiting for the army to mobilize and gather, there is not much time to plan mountain ambushes. There is only one wealthy person. Adventurous generals will lead their troops into the mountains in the fog of war, and more generals will choose to stay at Yanmen Pass and passive defenses around the Great Wall.

It took two days for them to get out of the mountains, and it was a glance to look forward. Although they couldn't see the end of the horizon at a glance, they had at least a broad view compared to the hills that could be seen everywhere.

If the field of vision is tight, staying in a space where the line of sight cannot be seen too far for a long time, and the environment is extremely complex, no matter how nervous people are, they will inevitably fall into an inexplicable state of anxiety.

In many cases, unless it is due to excessive emotional fluctuations, it is difficult for people to perceive their own state, and suddenly change from an uncomfortable environment to a new environment that is pleasing to the eye.

There are several counties besides the mountains of Yanmen County. At the most, there are as many as sixteen counties. However, every time the country experiences turbulence, the Hulu will take advantage of the situation to invade southward, often causing heavy losses in northern Xinjiang. Four counties were left, of which Mayi was the most famous.

"After passing Taiyuan County, we can see that the population is no longer densely populated." Flavis constantly scanned the surroundings and saw desolation: "The most densely populated place in the Han Empire is the Central Plains as the Han people call it?"

The Romans knew about the history of the Han people. There were frequent occurrences of the term "Central Plains", and it took them a lot of effort to know which territory the "Central Plains" covered.

The so-called Central Plains refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River from Luoyang to Daliang (Kaifeng) in terms of region. In other words, the Central Plains is generally regarded as Zhengshuo.

Regimes in the past dynasties have changed. Generally, which regime ruled the Central Plains was regarded as Zhengshuo. Later, it was Zhengshuo who inherited the Central Plains cultural and thoughts. So Mingming Zhao Song Mingming lost most of the Central Plains territory. The reason why it is still recognized as Zhengshuo is not because the Jurchen Kingdom, which rules most of the Central Plains, has the name of Zhengshuo.

"The area where the Han population is the most concentrated is crossing the national highway." Director Liu didn't think that was a secret: "You can see it clearly from Jiankang to Tongguan, and from Chang'an to Yanmen?"

Central Plains? Now there is no Han Chinese to emphasize what the Central Plains civilization is, and it is also a mindset of indifferent to which area the Central Plains refers to.

The thinking of the Han people changed with the division of local and non-native in the center, and was repeatedly edified by the official guidance. From the south to the sea, north to Mobei, from the ice field in the east, and reaching the plateau in the west, they are all regarded as native; the non-native is the Indochina Peninsula. Enclaves with the Asam Continent, various islands, etc., which are not directly connected to the mainland by land.

Maps are now not readily available for later generations. It can even be said that they cannot be seen at a certain level of identity. Most Han people have no idea about the size of the country in which they live. There are not too many references and only vague concepts.

According to official statistics, the total land area of ​​the Han Empire is now 37.46 million square miles, which is 18.73 million square kilometers.

When Rome's land area was the largest, it once reached 5.9 million square kilometers. Now, because of the rise of the barbarians, there are only less than 5 million square kilometers left.

The Sassanian land area is the smallest of the three empires. When the land area was the largest, it could reach 5 million square kilometers, and at the current stage when Shapur II was in power, it was 4.6 million square kilometers.

The land area of ​​the Han Empire would be so large, in addition to the expansion of the mainland and the inclusion of islands on the sea, the elimination of the Gupta Dynasty increased 3.2 million square kilometers.

If it is considered the rule of the sea, the Han Empire still holds the largest sea frontier, followed by Rome, and Sassan is still ranked last.

"How much?" Julian looked incredulous: "Thirty-seven thousand six hundred thousand square hanli?"

If Director Liu didn't get a signal, he didn't have the courage to reveal the area of ​​the country. He had just given the answer, and even one of the crooked nuts was shocked and stunned.

The Han Empire is the current overlord, and force can threaten any country, so the mainstream of the Han people will inevitably become the mainstream of the world, and it is the inevitable trend to replace all countries from fashion to some academic terms.

Rome has already begun to learn the length and weight unit of the Han Empire. Sassanid will follow up after a while, not to mention other countries. Although they have not abandoned some of their technical unit names, they will subconsciously think that the Han technical unit names are more professional, but will add a special prefix, such as adding a "Han" before "li", the full name is Words like "Han Li".

If history has not been changed by Liu Yan, this kind of thing will happen, but the protagonist becomes a British.

If you don't have enough knowledge, even if you know some data, you will be ignorant, and even your head will be full of paste.

Julian did not dare to claim to be a knowledgeable person, but he did not think that he was ignorant, so he clarified a little bit about the concept of 37.46 million square hanli, and compared it with the territory that Rome knew. The shock on his face was even more obvious.

"Even if we marched east to the Slavs' territory, as long as we did not cross Kazan, it is estimated that we are only far behind the Han Empire." Flavis went north and south, it can be said to be well-informed: "There is no expansion in Africa. The significance is that we simply want to catch up with or exceed the territory of the Han Empire, and we need to expand southward by at least 5,000 Hanli."

In Africa, especially North Africa, there are not many sites worth occupying in this era. If more sites are occupied, is it to sell sand?

Julian imagined it for a moment, and there was no disagreement with Flavis.

Even if the Romans are able to expand now, they will use their main power in Africa if they are ill. Their gaze will only be on the Europa continent, and the direction of expansion will also be east. The Germans are the first to be defeated. If the Germans are resolved, they will face the Goths, and finally they will face the Slavs.

The rise of the barbarians is not a general discussion, although the Romans themselves are responsible for the civil war, but the Germans are no longer the tribe in the Stone Age.

"We want to deal with the Germans only if we truly have friendship with the Persians." Flavis would inevitably look at the Persians on the frame of another car: "A complete truce with the Persians and transfer the army to Europa!"

Flavis himself had a lot of exchanges with the Germans, and he knew that Frank, Burgundy, and Alemanni on the bright side were the size of a nose, but the three countries belonged to the German tribes. The lighthouse, especially Frank, has attracted more than half of the Germanic population.

"Comprehensive peace..." Julian had to smile bitterly: "We are thinking of doing that, and the Persians have the same idea. But everyone knows that there can only be limited peace. There is no possibility of real mutual trust and coexistence. To avoid friction, the number of troops stationed at the border is only a limited number."

Flavis also began to laugh bitterly. Due to the strength of the Han Empire, the two countries are trying to understand each other. How can the hatred for thousands of years be resolved by resolution? He even knew that even without a thousand-year hatred, a conflict of interests alone would be enough for the two countries.

The territory called the Eastern Territory by Rome covers Syria, Palestine, Iraq and other places. Independent and independent areas controlled by Rome and Sassan respectively, there is a quagmire over there.

Sassan and Rome want to be friendly to each other, and how to solve the Middle East affiliation is a big problem.

Unless one of Rome or Sassan is willing to withdraw completely, the dispute will never disappear.

But whether it is Rome or Sassanid, who dare to give up the Middle East easily?

Rome's abandonment of the Middle East is tantamount to letting go of the eastern gateway to the Mediterranean. They dare not pin the security of the Mediterranean on the conscience of the Persians, so it is impossible to give up control of Syria and Palestine.

In the same way, the Persians did not want the Romans to control Syria, Palestine, and Iraq. Just because the Romans did not leave the above three areas, there would never be any security in the Sassanid West.

"Therefore, we and the Romans will always be in a state of entanglement." Xias glanced at the car full of Romans in front of him, and said grimly: "No matter how good the Romans are, they will never believe us. We also don’t really believe the Romans."

I have long known that the Han Empire is strong and powerful, and just now I know the area of ​​the Han Empire, what other small countries think, the big countries will not care at all.

For the same nominally empire-level country, what thoughts or intentions the Han empire has is also not important, because even if they know it, all they can do is to estimate how big the Han empire’s appetite is and how much they can resist.

"The territory of the Han Empire is already so big. It is not difficult to guess that the Han people have actually reached the bottleneck of expansion." Gambisis is very serious: "How much territory a country can rule does not entirely depend on force, but also depends on force. Do you have the ability to rule? Obviously the Han Empire’s territory is already too big. If it takes more than half a year for the news of the border to reach the center, how fragile such a rule is."

It will only take half a year for the message to be delivered, so the mobilization of the army will need more. It takes up to a year for a place to wait for reinforcements, which means that there is no such thing as security at all. Once it needs repeated competition to ensure that the site remains in the territory, unless it is the country’s endless national money, otherwise it can only end up It is reluctant to give up.

"The news we got is that the Han army has withdrawn from Hunite." Xias clearly understood what Cambyses wanted to express, and agreed: "The Han Empire is clearly able to capture the territory of Hunite, but They didn't do that, which proved your guess."

"This time the Han Empire is going to deal with the enemy in the north. It is the tribes that unite and threaten the Han Empire. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com" Cambyses doesn’t know much. What he wants to say is: "We can wait for the war." As a result, let’s take a look at how the Han Empire handled the war in northern Xinjiang. Once the Han army had finished fighting, it would withdraw to the homeland, which proved our guess."

If the Han Empire had no need for expansion, it would be great news for Sassan. There is no need to worry about the Han army expanding westward every day, and the behavior of being forced to tilt the economy to the military regardless of the consequences can also be stopped.

Sassan adjusted his national policy in the eleventh year of Yuanshuo. The main reason was that he was frightened by the Han Empire. He subconsciously began to prepare for war. The deployment of the East, which was not regarded as important, suddenly became extremely important. Under the premise of drawing troops from the region, they began to form a new army.

Until the twelfth year of Yuanshuo, as Sasanian eased relations with Rome, it was possible to draw some troops from the west to fill the gaps in the east. The key was that there was still no sense of security. The formation of a new army did not slow down, but was The series of military maneuvers of the Han Empire in northern Xinjiang were frightened and speeded up.

"In less than four years, our military expenditure has increased from 13 million (gold coins) every year to 60 million (gold coins) now." Xias took a deep breath, completely imagining that all classes in the country have increased. A few percent tax: "If this continues, we don't have to wait for the Hans or Romans to kill them. We have to repeat the old story of Aldaban IV."