Chapter 957

Leaving Yanmen pass to the north does not immediately enter the grassland. On the contrary, the geographical environment is full of mountains, and everywhere you can see the Valley Road formed by the sandwiching of two peaks.

"Look at the top of the mountain." Julian raised his finger to the periphery: "more than one can see the old site of the beacon tower."

The mountains on this side are high and low, and the average slope is very steep. No matter how you look at it, it is not easy to climb by hand.

"Why didn't the Han people move the pass north and build it at the southernmost end of the mountain?" Flavis remembers that Rome chose to build fortifications at both ends of the Alps: "is there a pass ahead?"

There are no passes in front, and even small-scale Tibetan camps and small fortresses can be seen everywhere in the belly of the mountain. There are only some ruins of the beacon towers.

They are constantly moving in the mountains. Most of the time, they walk in the valley environment, and constantly go around in the space similar to the environment. When the sun shines in the sky, they can't distinguish the direction. People who are not familiar with the road here soon lose their way.

"The environment is too complicated." Julian poured a few salivas and constantly scanned the surrounding environment: "natural barrier!"

"Indeed!" Vlavis just kept thinking about a problem: "if we use the environmental Tibetan soldiers, we can ambush the invaders constantly. Presumably, the Han people did this when they resisted the grassland invaders."

However, vlavis guessed wrong that the environment was very suitable for ambush, but most of the invasion stages did not fight in this complex environment.

In the face of the invasion of grassland nomads, most of the time, the Central Plains Dynasty has no time to respond. The front is constantly occupied. Due to the time difference, the rear has not been reported in time. Waiting for the army to mobilize and assemble, there is not much time to plan the mountain ambush. Only a few adventurous generals will lead the army into the mountain in the fog of war, More generals choose to stay at Yanmen pass and the Great Wall for passive defense.

It took them two days to get out of the mountains. Looking forward can be regarded as a glance. Although they can't see the end of the horizon at a glance, their vision is at least broad compared with the mountains everywhere.

If the field of vision is compact, you can't see too far from the line of sight for a long time, and the environment is abnormally complex, people with large nerves will inevitably fall into an inexplicable state of anxiety.

Many times, unless the mood fluctuates too much, it is difficult for people to perceive their state. Suddenly, they change from an uncomfortable environment to a new environment that is pleasant at first sight, and they will wonder how they have put down any burden.

There are several counties outside the mountains of Yanmen county. At most, there are as many as 16 counties. However, every time the country experiences turbulence, Hu Lu will take advantage of the situation to invade the south, often causing heavy losses to northern Xinjiang. Now only four counties are left, of which the most famous is Mayi.

"After Taiyuan County, you can see that the population is no longer dense." Flavis constantly glanced around and saw desolation: "the most densely populated place in the Han Empire is the Central Plains called by the Han people?"

The Romans understood the history of the Han people. The word "Central Plains" appeared very frequently. It took them a lot of effort to know what territories the "Central Plains" covered.

The so-called central plains, in terms of region, refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River centered from Luoyang to Daliang (Kaifeng), which is the habitat formed by the Zhou Dynasty after the Xia and Shang Dynasties; in a broad sense, the Central Plains is generally regarded as the new moon.

The regime change of the past dynasties, generally, which regime ruled the Central Plains is regarded as zhengshuo. Later, it appears that who inherited the culture and thought of the Central Plains is zhengshuo. In other words, the reason why Zhao, song and Ming lost most of the Central Plains is still recognized as zhengshuo is not that the Nuzhen Jin State, which ruled most of the Central Plains, has the name of zhengshuo.

"The area where the Han population is most concentrated is in the cross national highway." Liu Dao didn't think it was a secret: "don't you see very clearly from Jiankang to Tongguan and from Chang'an to Yanmen?"

central plains? Now there are no Han people to emphasize the civilization of the Central Plains, and they don't care what areas the Central Plains refers to.

The thought of Han people changed with the central division of local and non local. Influenced by the official guidance, it was regarded as local from the sea in the south to Mobei in the north, from the ice field in the east to the plateau in the West; Non local is the enclave of Indochina Peninsula, A-San continent, islands and so on.

The map can not be bought casually like later generations. It can even be said that the identity can not be seen at all without a certain height. Most Han people have no concept of the size of the country they live in. The crooked nuts they want to study do not have much reference, and they only have vague concepts.

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

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

Sassanian's land territory is the smallest of the three empires. When the land territory was the largest, it could reach 5 million square kilometers. At the present stage of Shapur II's administration, it was 4.6 million square kilometers.

The land territory of the Han Empire would be so large. In addition to the expansion around the mainland and the inclusion of islands on the sea, the destruction of the Gupta Dynasty increased by 3.2 million square kilometers.

If you count the sea under the rule, the Han Empire still controls the largest sea territory, followed by Rome and sassanne.

"How much?" Julian looked unbelievable: "37.46 million square Han Li?"

If director Liu didn't get a hint, he didn't have the courage to disclose the national territory. He just said the answer. One of the crooked nuts was stunned.

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

Rome has begun to learn the length and weight units of the Han Empire. Sassanne's arrogance is also a comprehensive follow-up, not to mention other countries. Although they have not abandoned some of their counting unit names, they will subconsciously think that the counting unit names of Han people are more professional, but they will add a special prefix, such as adding a "Han" before "Li", and the full name is the word "Hanli".

If history had not been changed by Liu Yan, such a thing would have happened, but the protagonist had become an Englishman.

Without enough knowledge, even if you know some data, you will be ignorant, and even your head is full of paste.

Julian dared not claim to be a knowledgeable man, but he didn't think he was ignorant. He figured out what the concept of 37.46 million square Han Li was. Compared with the territory known by Rome, the shock on his face was more obvious.

"Even if we march eastward to the Slavic territory, as long as we do not cross Kazan, it is estimated that we are only much worse than the Han Empire." Vlavis has traveled far and wide: "expansion in Africa is meaningless. We just want to catch up with or exceed the territory of the Han Empire. We need to expand at least 5000 Han Li to the south."

In Africa, especially in North Africa, there are not many sites of occupation value in this era. If more sites are occupied, is it selling sand?

Julian imagined a little, and there was no difference with flavis's point of view.

Even if the Romans have the ability to expand, they will use their main power in Africa when they have problems. Their eyes will only focus on the continent of Europe, and the direction of expansion will also be to the East. The first thing to defeat is the Germanic people. If the Germanic people are solved, they will face the Goths and finally the Slavs.

The rise of barbarians is not general. Although the Romans themselves killed the civil war, the Germanic people are no longer the ethnic group in the stone age.

"If we want to deal with the Germans, we can only really get friendly with the Persians." Flavis can't help looking at the Persians on the frame of another car: "there is a total truce with the Persians, and the general team is transferred to Europa!"

Flavis himself has a lot of communication with the Germanic people. He knows that although frank, Burgundy and Alemanni are the size of nose excrement, the three countries are the Lighthouses of Germanic tribes. In particular, Frank has attracted the attention of more than half of the Germanic people.

"Comprehensive and complete peace..." Julian had to smile bitterly: "we just want to do that, and the Persians have the same idea. But everyone knows that there can only be limited peace. It is impossible to achieve real mutual trust and coexistence, and friction can not be completely avoided. The number of troops stationed at the border is only limited."

Flavis also began to smile bitterly. Due to the strength of the Han Empire, the two countries are trying to move towards understanding. How can the hatred of thousands of years be resolved? He even knows that even if there is no Millennium hatred, the conflict of interests is enough for the two countries.

The territory called the Oriental territory by Rome covers Syria, Palestine, Iraq and other places. It is independent. The area controlled by Rome and sassanne is a quagmire over there.

Sassanne and Rome want to be friendly with each other. How to solve the ownership of the Middle East is a big problem.

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

However, whether Rome or sassanne, who dares to give up the Middle East easily?

Rome's abandonment of the Middle East is tantamount to opening the eastern portal of the Mediterranean. They dare not place the security of the Mediterranean on the conscience of the Persians, so it is impossible to give up control over Syria and Palestine.

Similarly, the Persians do not want the Romans to control Syria, Palestine and Iraq. Just because the Romans do not leave the above three areas, there will never be any security in the west of sassanne.

"Therefore, we are always entangled with the Romans." Keshias glanced at the vehicles full of Romans in front and said sternly, "no matter how well the Romans speak, they will never believe us. We will not really believe the Romans either."

I have long known the strength of the Han Empire. Just now I know the territory and area of the Han Empire. If other small countries have any ideas, big countries won't care at all.

Similarly, for countries nominally at the imperial level, it is equally unimportant what ideas or intentions the Han Empire has, just because even if they know, all they can do is to estimate the appetite of the Han Empire and the extent to which they can resist.

"The territory of the Han Empire is so large that it is not difficult to guess that the Han people have actually reached the bottleneck of expansion." Gambisis seriously reasoned: "how much territory a country can rule does not entirely depend on force, but on whether it has the ability to rule. Obviously, the territory of the Han Empire is too large. If the news of the border can be transmitted to the center for more than half a year, how fragile such rule is."

It will take only half a year for the news to be transmitted, so the mobilization of the army needs more. If a place needs to wait for reinforcements for up to a year, it means that the place has no so-called security at all. Once it needs repeated competition, it can ensure that the territory remains in the territory. Unless it is the country's inexhaustible national money, otherwise it can only reluctantly give up in the end.

"The news we got is that the Han Army has withdrawn from hunit." Keshias clearly understood what gambisis wanted to express and agreed: "the Han Empire was able to capture the territory of hunit, but they didn't do that, which proves your guess."

"This time, the Han Empire wanted to deal with the enemies in the north. It was those tribes who united to threaten the Han Empire." Gambisis doesn't know much. What he wants to say is: "we can wait for the result of the war and see how the Han Empire handled the war in Northern Xinjiang. Once the Han army is finished, it will withdraw to the mainland, which proves our guess."

If the Han Empire had no need for expansion, it would be great good news for sassanne. There was no need to worry about the expansion of the Han Army to the west every day. The Han army was forced to tilt the economy to the military regardless of the consequences.

In the 11th year of Yuanshuo, SA Shan adjusted his national policy, mainly because he was frightened by the Han Empire. Subconsciously, he began to prepare for war. The Oriental deployment, which had not been paid attention to, suddenly became extremely important. On the premise that it was impossible to transfer troops from other regions, they began to form a new Corps.

Until the 12th year of Yuanshuo, because sassanne eased the relationship with Rome, it was possible to transfer some troops from the west to fill the gap in the East. The key was that there was still no sense of security. Instead of slowing down, the formation of a new Legion was frightened and accelerated by a series of military movements of the Han Empire in Northern Xinjiang.

"In less than four years, our military spending has increased from 13 million (gold coins) to 60 million (gold coins) every year." Keshias took a deep breath and could fully imagine that all classes in the country had increased their taxes by several percent: "if this goes on, we don't have to wait for the Han people or the Romans to kill us. We will repeat the old story of vologassis v."