Chapter 960

When it comes to scientific and technological products, no matter how high the price may appear, especially the science and technology that others have but they don't have. It's a lucky thing that the seller is willing to sell.

At present, there is no saying that "first-class powers sell standards, second-class powers sell brands, and third-class countries sell products". In fact, if the Han Empire did not appear in their field of vision, the Han army could threaten their security anytime and anywhere, and it would be the 18th century to make the international arms market prosperous.

"They don't sell ship blueprints in batches." In order to make Julian have enough psychological preparation, flavis first talked about the basis of trading. As expected, he saw Julian's surprised but depressed expression, and said with a bitter smile: "it can't be all the sets, but only those styles that the Han Empire was willing to sell. The price is not exaggerated, they are worth that price."

Julian took a deep breath and repeated, "how much?"

"It's not just a money offer." Flavis felt that those ancillary conditions were the most important: "political conditions were involved."

The reply of the Ministry of rites to flavis was a series of requirements, including the full conversion of Roman ocean ships to the standards of the Han Empire.

In addition to the standard setting of marine ships, even the Roman shipyards were required to have Han officials to supervise the shipbuilding process. The reason given was that although the Han Empire sold blueprints, it was absolutely unwilling to see defective products.

It was a good thing for the Romans that there were officials of the Han Empire who knew the technology to "guard the pass". Although they thought the condition was strange, they were also willing to accept it.

For families like valentinianus, where more than 60% of industries are shipbuilding, the Han Empire also proposed the condition of opening a shipyard in Rome.

Once there is a shipyard of the Han Empire in Rome, the Roman family who did not wait to buy the blueprint will have a thorough understanding of the technology, and it is estimated that there will not be much market share left.

"Yes, indeed." Julian said with his own understanding: "we buy ships from the Han Empire. One of the reasons why they raise the price is that the delivery journey is long."

Flavis believes that Julian did not grasp the key point. It is because these local shipbuilding families are facing the renewal of shipbuilding technology. When they stop production, the Han people insert into the market. Usually, they can use various methods to stop it. If the Han people have a shipyard in Rome, there is no feasible means to stop it.

"If the shipyards opened by the Han Empire were willing to recruit Roman workers, it would not be unacceptable." Julian is thinking from the overall situation: "we desperately need their help to keep up with the pace of the times. Compared with catching up, the economy can make temporary sacrifices."

From the overall point of view, flavis knows that Julian is absolutely right, but Julian is a royal family, they are just aristocrats.

Roman nobles do not need to fully cooperate with the royal family. Nobles who do not quarrel with the royal family are not even qualified nobles in Rome.

The royal family ruling Rome can be changed again and again, but the interests of the nobility cannot be damaged. This idea has existed in Rome for thousands of years and will continue to exist.

At present, there is an idea of market share. In the thousands of years of development history, the Romans fought purely for the land at the beginning. Later, they gradually understand that even if they do not occupy the land, it is a victory as long as they occupy the market.

"Our technology is completely behind the Han Empire, so we have no competitiveness." Flavis must be more clear: "if we can afford the money, Constantinople is willing to accept the ancillary conditions of the Han Empire. It will take us at least three to five years to understand those technologies, and there will be a gap in three to five years."

Julian understood something, but he didn't understand why flavis reacted so much.

"During the gap period, including our Valentinian anus family, we will buy ships from the Han Empire. But your highness should understand the difference between buying all the way and buying in his own home." Flavis felt that he had made it very clear. He stopped to let Julian digest it a little before he said, "when we buy goods, there will be a stickiness. That is, if we buy goods from a certain merchant, as long as the goods are not too inferior, we will still go to that store the next time we want to buy similar goods."

Julian listened to such a straightforward description. The first thing he thought of was that he felt good after buying a certain commodity. He really formed an inertia. The next time he wanted to buy similar commodities, he thought of that one. At the same time, he also understood that not everyone has the ability to travel all the way to the Han Empire to buy, but it is a most convenient thing to go to the door of his home.

"For some reasons, we have accepted the offer of renting ports from the Han Empire." Flavis is actually one of the people who shut up against port leasing. He knows that Julian is the same. He sighed: "for thousands of years, Rome has never been so..., the word shame has not been said, and it has been slightly modified:" it is so rational. It is the reality that forces us to be rational. Once we are not rational, there may be a raging war on any coastline. "

Julian deeply knew that compared with other countries, the port years leased by Rome to the Han Empire looked low, and the rent was even considerable, but it was just a fig leaf.

The Chinese Imperial Navy entered the Mediterranean and swaggered, and the huge fleet reached Constantinople, which was a shock to the Romans that was difficult to describe in words.

What barbarians burned Rome or the rebellious slave army threatened Rome is nothing compared with the fleet of the Han Empire directly under its capital city.

"If it were only the threat from the fleet, we could not make that concession." Flavis is not the ruling core class of Rome, but he has a brain: "what really makes Augustus bite his teeth and nod is gunpowder weapons."

There were more than 10000 Romans, who saw with their own eyes the power of the Han Army's gunpowder weapons in the A3 battlefield.

The tragic situation in the Gupta empire was written back by the Romans who watched the war in person. Anyone who saw it felt that the writer must be out of his mind at the beginning. How could there be such a weapon that explodes like a volcanic eruption in the world.

If one or two people's descriptions can be regarded as spreading rumors, then thousands of people who have written the same distant stories must be the truth, and people can't believe it.

The Han Empire has the most powerful navy known in the world today. Julian and others also reported to Constantius II that the navy of the Han Empire also contains weapons called artillery, and even described the scene of artillery warships shelling coastal cities.

At this point, not only did Constantius II nod in the face of the port lease of the Han Empire, but even if he did not nod, he would be forced to agree by many Roman nobles. No one wanted to see the gunships of the Han Empire sail to his own city one day.

That's because only thousands of Han people dared to burst up in Constantinople. When the Han people were unhappy, the probability of artillery ships shelling coastal cities was almost as high as 99%.

"So we can't refuse at all." Julian knew what kind of embarrassment Augustus was in, and wanted to share the pressure and obtain the understanding of the domestic aristocrats: "you came to the Han Empire in person to understand the actual situation. Maybe you can write to your friends and tell them what happened."

Flavis nodded and agreed. As for whether he would do it with his heart, even he was not sure.

"We followed the Han people all the way north and entered the grassland..." Julian looked around and said not so sure: "after entering the grassland, we continued to walk north for more than 200 miles. We saw traces of postwar loss all the way, but we didn't see the war. Do you think they don't want us to see it?"

From entering the grassland to moving on for more than 200 miles, it is not deep at all for the vast grassland. It can only be said to nod a little.

Their current position should be the border between the original Han Empire and the Rouran tribal alliance. Those places that left traces of war should have a small-scale contact war. Judging by the traces left, they quickly divided the victory and defeat, and did not run and pursue.

"From the fact that we have been marching, we can see that the Han Army did not find the opportunity to put the firearm troops into battle." Vlavis looked thoughtful: "the fact that the firearms troops of the Han Empire took carriages and horses during their march does not seem to mean that they can carry out short-range mobile operations?"

The Romans were imperial countries, but they were not so familiar with the vast range of land operations.

This is related to the fact that the Romans have mainly relied on the sea transportation and troop delivery of the Mediterranean for thousands of years. Most of the time, their troops do not have to carry out a long march on land. They only sail in the Mediterranean by boat, transport their troops to the coast close to the battlefield, and then land.

In contrast to the Han Empire or sassanne, the animal power of the Roman army was very scarce, not to mention the large-scale cavalry.

Once the Roman Legion needs to march on land for a long time, the troops basically rely on the two legs born by their parents. The turtle speed of their marching speed is also world-famous. At the beginning, it was because of this defect that they were seized by the Parthian Empire, which also achieved the reputation of the Parthian Empire's bow cavalry and equipped cavalry.

At the present stage... Or should be said to be the stage of fighting sassanne, the land marching speed of the Roman Legion has not improved, but they have adopted a cautious attitude step by step. At the same time, they have also organized their own cavalry. Every time they start a war, they must recruit cavalry from vassal races to help them.

Something special happened that day. When the sun was still in the middle of the sky, the team stopped.

Julian invited keshias to look for director Liu and got the answer.

"Our troops surrounded part of the enemy at a river beach about thirty miles ahead." Liu Dao only knew this: "the general of the Northern Expedition thought that the battlefield could be handed over to the firearm forces."

The two crooked nuts who got the reply returned to their team.

"You may have guessed that the firearms troops of the Han Empire can only fight positional warfare." Julian thought this was good news: "it seems that this new type of arms has some big defects?"

Vlavis shook his head and said, "only positional warfare is not a defect."

Julian was stunned and smiled bitterly, "indeed."

Isn't it true that the final outcome of any war is determined by multiple positional battles?

For example, nomads like to fight assault and guerrilla warfare. If they win again and again, they only achieve the effect of destruction. If they do not defeat the main force of the enemy in the front battlefield, tickling is tickling. It is only uncomfortable but not fatal.

It has never been heard that harassing war and guerrilla war can determine the success or failure of national war.

The best way is to have troops that can withstand the front battlefield, plus friendly forces attacking and harassing behind the enemy. The combination of the two has the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

In fact, if the frontal battlefield cannot withstand it, it is only a matter of time before we lose.

"Battlefield conditions change rapidly." Liu Dao saw that there were too many crooked fruits to go to the battlefield: "each country can only go to up to five people."

The only people who followed the north were the Romans and Persians. In the back, the Ministry of rites felt that one country went to see it, and there was no difference between multiple countries. To show it, people from more countries simply saw it and organized envoys from various countries in Chang'an to go north. They met east of Yinshan and north of Shengle.

When the firearm force was launched, multinational observers moved forward together in the force.

The closer we get to the battlefield, the more and obvious traces of war can be seen, and even the scene that the Han army is cleaning the battlefield can be seen.

It was not until a river blocked the way that the firearm troops got off the van and abandoned their horses.

The river blocking the road is not deep, and the deepest wading is only to the waist, and the river does not appear fast.

"Ahead is the besieged grassland army?" Julian landed again and pointed to the front: "look, the scale will not be less than 40000?"

When the firearm troops came to the north of the river, one urgent military order after another began to be shouted out, and they began to queue according to the organizational system.

If you look down from a high altitude, the battlefield is a land sandwiched between two rivers, with a space of about 30 miles.

"The enemy was forced to squeeze into the half bend of the river." Director Liu can reveal more information: "they were completely desperate and rushed into a turbulent area."

The firearm troops marched in a queue, with firemen in front and horses behind.

The left and right wings of the battlefield were other Han troops who had been in operation for a long time. They formed a pincer like encirclement situation and gave way to the space in the south.

The surrounded grassland coalition army seemed to have lost its effective chain of command. As soon as it saw a gap in the south, a group of people rushed out. Li Tan's attitude towards this was to choose laissez faire.

It was not easy for Li Tan to encircle the enemy in this place. He thought that if the firearm army could defeat even a small group of enemy's charge, there was no need for the big man to engage in any firearm army, or the officers of that firearm army should die!