Chapter 980

Liu Shen thought of some things and clearly remembered that his father mentioned two ways of foreign conquest.

The first way of conquest is very rough, that is, the use of force. It is very difficult to make the other party completely yield and submit. What the Han Empire likes to do now is to destroy the body and spirit since it is impossible to conquer people from spirit to body.

From before the founding of the people's Republic in 340 ad to 354 ad, the tribes destroyed by Liu Yan after he took up the army were a little difficult to calculate.

After all, not all tribes are large groups. The reason why zahu is a zahu is that it can't be on the table, but don't take that tribe with hundreds or thousands of people as an ethnic group.

Among the large ethnic groups that were destroyed, the Jie nationality was the first to be swept into the garbage of history. The Capricorn people have no own culture, and they can basically be killed by the Han people. It won't take long. Now they have become some written records in the history of the Han people.

The Xianbei family has not disappeared yet. Although Tuoba Xianbei fully surrendered to accept sinicization and Murong Xianbei changed his name, the Xianbei group still exists, but those who still retain the name of Xianbei are unlikely to make any more noise.

The earliest Duan Xianbei went south. They were consumed a lot in the state of Zhao under the rule of the Jie people. Later, they migrated some tribes to the southwest, but these tribes were destroyed when Huanwen destroyed Li's Chenghan.

Yuwen Xianbei was destroyed in the civil war. The remaining Yuwen Xianbei either took refuge in the other Xianbei tribes or was incorporated by Murong Xianbei. Those Yuwen Xianbei who neither took refuge in other tribes nor were incorporated by Murong divided themselves into eight parts, one of which is called Khitan.

Later, the Khitan took a long time to subdue the tribes who were originally Yuwen Xianbei, united the Xi nationality by marriage, annexed and eliminated the other nomadic nationalities who refused to obey, replaced the Turks to dominate the desert south, and then simply entered the Central Plains.

Another Murong Xianbei, that is, the one hiding in the northwest of the plateau (Qaidam Basin), was completely defeated in the 13th year of Yuanshuo. They fled to the western regions and were intercepted by the western region's capital guard. People died and were captured. Basically, many people did not escape, which was tantamount to being destroyed in the form of a collective.

Seriously speaking, Xianbei is really a tribe with incomparably strong vitality. Their origin is in the northeast, but their footprints have covered almost half of East Asia. If the history has not been changed by Liu Yan, Xianbei not only established many tribes (royal families) successively, even controlled the Central Plains, but also went to the southwest and western regions to establish a country, and even one went to Central Asia to establish a country. It will disappear only after the complete rise of Turks.

Liu Shen was very impressed by the second way mentioned by Liu Yan.

The second way of conquest is to use force as the basis, but not to destroy the nations that want to be eliminated by violence, but to integrate culture.

The ancestors of Zhuxia had done so long ago, but the level of civilization was not high enough to crush. They usually broke through by force and took a long time to assimilate the defeated tribes.

[the origin of the Han people is due to the great achievements of the first Han Dynasty...] Liu Shen was taught this, or his father taught it himself, but some didn't understand why his father used the country name of 'Han': [or because the civilization of the first Han Dynasty was the undisputed overlord civilization on the continent.]

Liu Shen was very impressed by Liu Yan's words. Liu Yan once said that the reason why he used the country name of "Han" was to connect the past and the future. Otherwise, those Hu prisoners successively used "Han" as the country name and created what kind of "imperial Han". The country name of "Han" was almost corrupted.

Liu Shen, who is still young, doesn't really understand what "connecting the past and opening up the future". What he probably knows is that he can't forget his roots. He should remember and thank his ancestors for their contributions, and then urge future generations with his great achievements.

When Liu Shen said that he was willing to propose to the emperor of the Han Empire to open the study of the two countries, Julian and keseyashcher were completely excited.

Rome and sassanne began to make requests in the 12th year of Yuanshuo. At the beginning, they actually had the idea of understanding the Han civilization. They didn't really pay attention to it until they saw the use of firearms by the Han Army in mainland A.3.

No new things will come out of thin air, especially science and technology are based on a certain accumulation, and the so-called foundation is knowledge.

"Thank you so much!" Julian was so excited that he almost trembled. His right hand knocked heavily on his left chest and said gratefully, "Rome will be an eternal friend of the Han Empire."

Liu Shen smiled and scoffed at the "forever friend".

Although Liu Shen is young, let alone him, no one in any country, even the royal family of a small country, is so naive.

Although Liu Yan did not teach Liu Shen too much, he must instill the truth that "countries have only interests but no friendship", and Liu Shen must remember.

If Liu Shen only knew this truth before, he would have an intuitive impression when he came to northern Xinjiang in person.

Very early, very early, Liu Yan was just the patriarch of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han Dynasty not only made friends with Tuoba Dai state, but also expressed goodwill to Murong Yan state to the greatest extent.

At that time, Tuoba Dai state and Murong Yan state were friendly to the Han Dynasty. They didn't really have any friendship, but they took what they needed.

The Han Dynasty turned its face with Murong Yan state because of its expansion to Liaodong Peninsula, and turned its face with Tuoba Dai state after gaining the rule of most parts of the Central Plains.

In recent examples, before Liu Yan became emperor, the Han state expanded to Monan. Because of the threats of donggaoche and xigaoche, Tuoba Xianbei and Murong Xianbei, he chose to make friends with the Rouran tribal alliance.

Who would have thought that the two countries that have always shown friendship would become hostile just because of a fire on the grassland?

[Rouran, Ding Ling and Xianbei fought and killed before...] Liu Shen expressed his gratitude to keshias, but in his mind he thought: [waiting to become an enemy with the big man, didn't he immediately become an ally of Ding Ling and Xianbei?]

Some things can be understood more intuitively only through personal experience. For example, Liu Shen believed that "countries have only interests but no friendship" before. When he went to northern Xinjiang, he fully understood what the so-called friendship between countries is all about.

The reason why Liu Shen has always resisted the enthusiasm shown by Julian and keshias is not that he is the prince of the Han Empire, which is the most powerful country in the known world. In fact, he heard some words spoken by Liu Yan with his own ears.

Liu Yan mentioned to Liu Shen that if the current conditions were not allowed, he might make friends with the Romans, but he definitely sent troops to attack Persian sassanne immediately and waited for sassanne to be defeated. The next target is Rome.

That is, Liu Shen was still young and immature, so he showed such obvious resistance to the enthusiasm of Julian and keshias.

Fortunately, Julian and keshias noticed Liu Shen's resistance, but their understanding was that Liu Shen was reserved.

Julian still understands Liu Shen's reserve very well. Take himself as an example. He is a member of the royal family in Rome and the heir to the throne of the top five. He has such an identity and despises some people who want to make friends with him. There is no reason at all.

The strong are proud. The heir to the throne of a powerful country especially needs to be proud. If he can "be good with anyone", he will lose his share.

According to Julian's understanding, he knew that Liu Shen was the eldest son of the royal family of the Han Empire... Of course, there was no eldest son in Rome. In other words, Liu Shen was the first heir to the throne of the Han Empire.

The Han Empire is a powerful and frightening overlord. It is natural to be arrogant as the first heir to the throne of the Han Empire. Let alone that Julian is only the fifth heir to the throne of Rome, even if the first heir to the throne of Rome communicates with Liu Shen, it will not be equal.

This is a gap in national strength. As a political figure, only people with mental problems will ignore this gap. Their own strength is weak and needs to be treated with the same respect as the strong. However, it is a matter of minutes for the strong country to destroy the weak country and the small country.

Liu Shen was summoned by Li Tan and left.

Julian and keshias didn't have Liu Shen's company. They couldn't walk around the camp at will. They had to go back to their own camp.

"That's great!" Keshias's excitement and excitement could not be controlled at all, and his face was full of joy: "if we can send someone to study in the Han Empire, we must choose the best people!"

Gambisis didn't know what kexiyas was excited and excited just now. After knowing the reason, he was stunned at first, and then became excited and excited.

"Your Highness, it's the ritual Department of the Han Empire. Have you responded?" Gambisis burst out laughing after asking himself where they are now. Even if the ritual Department of the Han Empire agreed, it would not send someone to inform them. He probably guessed something, but he still asked, "Your Highness was with his highness of the Han Empire just now. Did your highness of the Han Empire promise?"

When keshias was asked, he came back to his senses. He has the intention to follow Liu Shen's path. He knows that his friendship is still very shallow and has not opened his mouth. He needs to be friends with Liu Shen before opening his mouth.

"Yes..." keshias said to himself in confusion, "how could your highness take the initiative to promise?"

Gambisis: "

On the other side, the Romans were having the same conversation.

"Keshias and I just showed our yearning. The royal highness of the Han Empire was thoughtful first..." Julian was trying to recall the process just now: "he took the initiative to put forward suggestions to the emperor of Han."

Flavis's thinking face. He knew that his highness in the Han Empire had always rejected Julian's deliberate friendship, or his attitude had changed recently. How could he become so enthusiastic in an instant.

Rome has not only been collecting food seeds from the Han people, but also books that can be bought and then quietly sent back to Rome.

"When we returned the books for the first time, all the customs officials of the Han Empire withheld them. This can show that the Han Empire did not want us to learn from them." Flavis said that all Romans showed an impressive appearance. He went on to say: "in the back, we hid secretly. Many books were found, and even Roman citizens were detained because of their collection."

This situation occurred before the 13th year of Yuanshuo, and the most serious one was that the whole Roman team was detained. It was not eased until the 13th year of Yuanshuo, but the Romans needed the permission of the Han Empire to bring books home, and the punishment for hiding books became more severe.

"The Han people are so strict about what books we want to bring home..." flavis said dully, "I heard that your highness is very, very young. Maybe... He just mentioned it casually."

"Your Highness is the first heir to the Han Empire." Julian knew that flavis was just a noble. He explained: "even if the highness mentioned it casually, whether the emperor of Han finally accepted the proposal or not, the official of the Han Empire must go through a process."

They were talking, but they were told to pack up and leave in half an hour.

"We all know that before we made a request, the Han Empire simply refused. It can be imagined that there was no negotiation." Julian naturally did not need to clean up himself, and flavis had his own entourage. He stepped outside the tent and said, "it is also a success to allow officials of the Han Empire to negotiate."

"We allow barbarians to become Roman citizens. The first generation of barbarians who become citizens can't get real power." Flavis walked side by side with Julian: "to become a barbarian descendant of the Romans, it takes the third generation to take power. Similarly, we only allow the third generation of barbarian descendant to become an officer in the army."

Of course, Julian understood what fravis wanted to express. It was nothing more than that even if the Han Empire accepted the Romans to study, it would definitely treat the Romans differently. The Han people could not treat the Romans equally.

"Of course." Julian is not a fool or an idiot. He can't be naive enough to learn how to make gunpowder in this way: "this is just a beginning. We also need such a beginning!"

"Well, Rome was not built in a day." Flavis also understood what Julian wanted to express: "the cultural similarity between us and the Han people is too low, not as high as that between the Persians and the Han people. If you want to make progress, you really need to take it step by step, so start from the step of cultivating an understanding of the Han culture."

Not to mention whether they thought about the assimilation of Chinese culture, even if they thought about it, they wouldn't think it was a big thing.

The culture of Rome itself has changed again and again in the expansion. It can even be said that the core culture of Rome is plundered from the Greeks. They can accept complete Hellenization, and the level of civilization of the Han people is obviously higher. What about complete Hellenization again!?