Chapter 956

Liu Yanzhi's reason for the Romans, Persians... And even some people from small countries to go to northern Xinjiang to watch the actual combat of the firearm forces was not that he was suddenly mentally disabled, nor was he forced to make a decision under any diplomatic pressure.

The Han Empire does not need to give in to anyone now. On the contrary, it is what the Han Empire requires. As long as it is not too excessive, any country, including Rome and sassanne, will rebound only if it makes a conclusion according to their own strength, but the so-called rebound is more a struggle within their ability.

"The gunpowder of the Han Empire is a Zhenguo artifact given by the gods. I'm afraid we can't get it through normal diplomatic relations." Cicero was very sure of this. He advised: "no matter what difficulties and how much time it takes, Rome needs to master the knowledge of gunpowder."

The surrounding environment was full of the sound of wheels rolling. The carriage was full of Romans. Cicero lowered his voice, which was difficult to be heard by the Han driver.

They have tried their best to obtain gunpowder from all aspects, but they have faced failures again and again, but they will never give up because of repeated failures, and will work hard to harvest results one day.

"If we can't get gunpowder..." flavis said in a gloomy voice in the dark carriage: "we can't let the Persians take the lead."

Similar dialogues will also be held on the side of the Persians. This time, they urgently want to go to northern Xinjiang to watch the actual combat of the Han Army's firearms troops. In addition to seeing what the firearms troops are like, they also want to find ways to obtain gunpowder on the battlefield.

If possible, they not only want to get some gunpowder, but also buy or kidnap the Han people who know how to configure gunpowder, but everyone knows that it is not easy. Even if they really succeed, how to deal with the follow-up reaction of the Han Empire will be a big problem.

"We have all witnessed the power of gunpowder." Kexiyas is always deeply shocked when he thinks of the scenes he saw in the A3 plain: "we all know why your majesty has repeatedly succumbed to the demands of the Han Empire."

In the same dark carriage, I can still vaguely see the gloom on several faces.

Sassanne is different from Rome. The Persians and Han people now only have a hunit as a buffer on the land. The hunit people have been seriously damaged by the Han army recently. It is uncertain when the Han Empire will destroy the hunit and rush into sassanne.

"Gunpowder, gunpowder, gunpowder!" Keshias repeated three times in a low voice: "we must get it!"

Without gunpowder, although the Persians were afraid of fighting with the Han Empire, they believed that even if they paid a high price, the final result of the battle of defending their homeland would be their own victory.

It was a kind of attack and defense. One side's local defense and the other's long journey gave the Persians confidence. In addition, the Persians believed that even if it was not as powerful as the Han Army, as long as they were not afraid of sacrifice, they would be able to offset the gap in armaments and even training.

If the Han Army used firearms, it would not be afraid of sacrifice. If it was not afraid of death, it would have to die valuable. Before it did nothing, it would die without bones. What's the value?

In different places and at almost the same time, Julian and keshias were worthy of being good friends and said the same words tacitly: "our compromise now is because we really can't provoke the Han Empire. This situation urgently needs to be changed!"

The Han Empire is dominating the world!

As long as the royal family is not replaced and subjugated in weak and small countries, or small countries simply do not have the courage to refuse the requirements from the Han Empire. For example, those countries in the A3 continent, countries with excellent ports, and the Han Empire ask for leasing. Even if they are unwilling, they can only agree.

At present, there are too many countries leased ports by the Han Empire, even including Rome and sassanne. The only difference lies in the size of the concession and the length of the lease time.

Karabagas (formerly known as karabalas), rambajianna, bharapa, rawindorogata, trakutaka, two satraps and Frank have all been leased ports by the Han Empire, of which the minimum term of lease in two satraps has reached 300 years, and the maximum term of lease in other countries is 3000 years.

In the above-mentioned countries, the port rent is only a pitiful gold coin, and some concessions are also only a gold coin. They regard renting ports and inland concessions as an act of paying protection fees.

Whether it was a coastal port or an inland concession, the Han Empire would send troops of different sizes to be stationed depending on the importance.

In fact, whether it is three hundred years or three thousand years, it is about leasing, but what is the difference between directly ceding the territory and becoming a part of the territory of the Han Empire?

Unless those countries are strong enough to subdue the Han Empire one day, the leased ports or concessions will never want to go back.

There is another possibility, for example, the Han Empire's own civil strife, which can be forcibly recovered by those countries through the civil strife of the Han Empire, or the Han Empire voluntarily gives up, and those territories will be returned to other countries.

Rome and sassanne also had ports leased to the Han Empire. Rome was at least one port in Egypt, Mauritania, talago (i.e. Spain), Gaul, Italy, the Balkans (i.e. Greece) and Asia Minor, with more than six ports.

That is, except for Carthage, Syria (only occupying part) and Dacia, all other provinces have ports leased by the Han Empire.

Because the coastline of sassanne is much shorter, only three ports were leased by the Han Empire, two in gedelosia and one in babisania.

Unlike other small countries, the Han Empire leased ports from Rome and sassanne for a maximum of 99 years and a minimum of 15 years. Depending on the geographical location, the rent is based on the style of gold coins of the Han Empire, and the price ranges from 200 gold coins to 3000 gold coins.

At the same time, Rome and sassanne refused to lease inland concessions to the Han Empire because they did not want to have Han troops stationed in the inland.

Those big and small countries, in fact, do not understand why the Han Empire leased ports or inland concessions.

Small countries simply think that the Han Empire is to ensure the supply safety of their military or civilian ships, and the direction of malicious thinking is that the Han Empire is swaggering.

Because of their horizons, big countries will think more about the direction. It is certain that the Han Empire is showing off its strength. In addition, they can roughly understand that trade is involved.

In today's era, if Liu Yan had not indicated that he would come up with such a tax as tariff, there would be no such saying in countries all over the world.

As long as ships from other countries go to the Han Empire, they not only need to pay tolls at various checkpoints, but also charge for goods, which is still a kind of charging behavior more than once. For example, when you cross Malacca, you have to pay it again at which port you want to dock in Zhanghai (South 1 sea), which means that you have to pay twice every time you ship goods and park at the port.

Don't think that paying the fee when landing is finished. Crooked nuts transport the goods to the market of a city. The inspection of entering the market is another payment. If they put them on the shelf and sell them, they have to pay the fee. If they change the site again and again, achieving "10000 tax" is not a dream, but a real thing.

Rome and sassanne drew lessons from the customs duties of the Han Empire and also formulated their own customs laws. They originally wanted to collect customs duties from Han merchant ships, but they came out of the drama of renting ports by the Han Empire.

According to the negotiation (bullying) between the Han Empire and various countries, since all the powers of the port no longer belong to various countries before the lease term expires, all countries naturally have no right to collect taxes, which means that as long as the Han ships choose the port leased by the state to berth, all countries will not receive tariffs at all.

Let alone whether they have found the difference, there will still be no change between countries that have found it and those that have not found it. Small countries dare not talk more. Large countries are afraid to choose patience, and can only accept the fact that the Han Empire enjoyed trade privileges.

At another time, in different places, a group of crooked nuts looked at the long city wall and looked at a majestic pass. They were shocked by the scenery in front of them and didn't know what to feel for a time.

They have reached Yanmen pass. It looks like the wall extending to the end of the world. Naturally, it is the Great Wall (Han Dynasty) and the magnificent pass is Yanmen pass.

"It is said that the Han people completed the construction of those walls four or five hundred years ago?" Keshias asked Cicero: "the Egyptians built pyramids to bury pharaohs, and the Han people built them at the same level of epic architecture to resist the invasion of grassland people."

"So the Egyptians were completely conquered by the Romans." Cicero really had a special understanding of the history of the Han people and told kesias about the history of the Great Wall, In particular, the Great Wall we see now is not the most primitive one: "the history of the earliest construction of the great wall can be traced back to the Warring States period of the Han people, and then their first emperor ordered to connect all sections of the Great Wall. The Great Wall we see now is built during their first and second empires."

The so-called first empire is the Western Han Dynasty, and the Second Empire is the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to distinguish the Western Han Dynasty from the Eastern Han Dynasty, countries call the current Han Empire the third empire stage of the Han people. Otherwise, the country name is the Han Dynasty, but there have been several turbulence and dynasty changes. It's really hard to distinguish between the current Han Empire and the former Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, which all take "Han" as the country name. What's the difference.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty paid less and less attention to the Great Wall. In the back, only individual sections of the great wall were maintained and repaired in a planned way, and most of the other sections of the great wall were left to live and die. Because of the lack of maintenance and repair, many sections of the great wall collapsed or were damaged by rammed earth, which became a large or small gap in the long wall.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was a court discussion on the repair of the Great Wall. The key problem was that Sima's Treasury had no money. At the same time, because of the long civil war and the sharp reduction of population, there was not enough labor. The issue was passed, but it was not paid for practical action.

Now they see the Great Wall, except that the wall section around Yanmenguan looks perfect. In fact, there are many collapsed gaps in the far wall section.

After discussion on whether to repair or maintain the Great Wall, it was decided to let the Great Wall evolve.

There will be such a resolution. There are no complicated places. The border lines in the north have been pushed to the depths of the grassland, and the value of the Great Wall has been infinitely reduced. The repair needs astronomical national money and labor without knowing the figures. Is it just to waste money in order to become a scenic spot?

"Although unwilling to admit it, our great wall is a small shrimp compared with it." Flavis has seen several great walls of his own with his own eyes: "we are trying our best to maintain the perfection of the Great Wall. The great wall of the Han people looks very old and open everywhere."

The Romans also had their own great wall, which was built in different geographical locations at each stage, such as the "Germanic line" along the Black Sea, the Danube basin and the "Hadrian Great Wall" on the island of Great Britain.

Although their great wall and the great wall of Zhuxia have the same name and use, their construction methods are two different things.

The thickness of the Great Wall built by the Romans is no more than six meters, and the maximum is no more than ten meters. The foundation is very particular, but the key is that the wall is not so particular. Even in some sections, rammed earth or masonry is less than two meters thick. Such a creation does not need to be destroyed for a long time. It will fall down at a time when less than 100 people are destroyed.

Their section of the Great Wall is basically in plain areas, especially in urban areas. It is not difficult to imagine the result, but they have contributed a lot of bricks and stones to build houses for the surrounding residents, leaving only a bare base to witness that it was once a section of the Great Wall.

Flavis didn't say it so obviously, but everyone who should understand understood it.

The Romans are still trying their best to ensure the perfection of the sections of the Great Wall. Isn't it because they are facing the "rise of barbarians"?

The reason why the Han people don't manage the Great Wall is that the Han people have no threat in the north. Naturally, they don't need to spend state money and labor.

"We set out from Chang'an..." Julian was silently calculating how far he had gone: "the total distance to this place called Yanmen pass is close to one thousand Han Li?"

People who know geography give a positive answer.

"After landing in Jingkou, the total distance from Jiankang to Chang'an exceeded 2500 Han Li." Julian took a deep breath and was shocked by his calculation: "Yanmen pass is not a frontier yet. It is only two thousand miles to the north. The vast territory of the Han Empire is far beyond imagination!"

Although the territory of Rome is large, it actually does not have enough depth. Most of its territory is on the coastline. If it is fighting with the same maritime power, there are defense loopholes everywhere, which can be used as a breakthrough for the enemy.

Keshias just heard a tail, and he calculated it silently. The conclusion is that from the south coast to the North grassland, and from the east coast to the western regions, the Han Empire has a deep enough hinterland to frighten people. It is a nightmare for any intruder!