Chapter 1004

"The Han Empire is too strong!"

"We are completely behind Cyrus."

"The Han Empire has just begun to use gunpowder. Now they have begun to train firearms. They may train three legions in five years."

"Yes. Cyris has conducted firearm application tests in the north. The type of weapon has been finalized and has entered the stage of mass production."

"With the same weapons, we may be able to compete with the Han people on the battlefield. Even if the quality of the army can't compare with the Han people, they send out an army corps, and we use three Army Corps to offset the disadvantage. Once the Han people are fully equipped with firearms, according to the information returned by our observers, the number of people can easily recover the disadvantage."

This is Syria. Two people in white robes talk face to face in a kneeling posture.

Observe the meeting place. The two people who don't know the place and don't look at the conversation only look at the layout, which is a very common Han courtyard, and the furniture styles are also the common types in the noble families of the Han Empire.

The sun is always hotter in summer than in other seasons. The weather in Syria belongs to an extremely hot environment in summer. If there is no rain and the pool is exposed to the bright sun, it will not be long before it will be evaporated.

"Have you mastered the construction of ocean going warships?"

"No."

"Then..."

"One step behind, unless we start a new era, we will always lag behind in how to catch up. If we learn how to make ocean going warships, we will certainly lag behind the Han Empire in terms of performance, or even more than one generation behind. Rome is not rich enough to spend a lot of money to build warships that can't compete with the Han Empire."

"I see. You started a big project on the other side of the Strait (Gibraltar) to block it."

"Yes. No matter how much you chase, you can't surpass the warships. Looking at the naval battle between the Gupta Empire and cyris, it's far more difficult to overwhelm the quality with quantity in marine warfare than on land."

"We also have relevant coastline defense plans."

"It's no use. In the war between the Han Empire and Gupta, a ship called gunboat was used. It can carry out coastal shelling on land near the coast. The deployment of coastline will only have one result."

"Your land-based defense chain?"

"It's just a necessary measure. The only effective defense is the depth of inland defense. We all know that the defense is too passive. We can only choose the invasion route that the enemy must pass."

The place of conversation is a villa on the coast. When the courtyard looks to the north, you can see the Mediterranean.

It's not a port. About a dozen large and small ships anchor and stop about 300 meters near the coastline. Their sails are not lowered, but they will move again at any time.

On the gray yellow beach wading line, nearly a hundred boats were on the beach, sailors in brown linen stayed near the boats, and Roman warriors with a bright red cloak gathered together.

Around this kind of villa, there are Roman warriors on alert in the north and Persian warriors on the south.

"Only by taking the initiative can we win this war."

"There is a buffer zone with a depth of more than 300 Li between Siris and hunit. There is a buffer zone with more than 500 Li between Siris and Gaoche. The eyes of Siris never stop looking west. Once there is a slight movement between hunit and Gaoche, they can't escape the monitoring of Siris."

"There will be no temptation this time. The hunites know very well that if they don't work hard, they will subjugate the country and destroy the species. Like the Ding people, they know the seriousness of the situation. They have the strongest determination, but they don't trust us. They also have the determination to win or die."

"I understand your concern. Rome is the farthest from Cyrus, and you will indeed worry about Rome's determination. We have assembled 30 legions in Asia Minor and can move eastward anytime, anywhere."

"This time we completely let go of the west, and hunit poured out like a tall car. We believe that Rome knows the strength of the Han Empire and that Rome's alliance is full of sincerity."

The conversation stopped again.

At present, there are 2000 to 5000 Roman legions, and 5000 first-class legions. However, there are only 18 first-class legions in Rome, so the maximum number of thirty legions is 100000.

Rome will not drive all the first-class legions out of the country. It must leave the necessary legions to defend the Germans in Europe. Being able to mobilize nine first-class legions has shown the greatest sincerity.

In addition, the Roman Legion is famous for its short legs. Even if they march with all their strength, it will take at least two months to enter the Persian border from Asia and at least half a year to reach hunit.

"The Han Empire wanted to castrate all slaves."

"Yes, the news is accurate."

"It's terrible."

"Before, we all agreed that the cyris wanted to plunder the world and knew that there was no bottom line for their desire to expand. Now we know that the cyris can't accommodate other ethnic groups."

This time, Roman Augustus Constantius personally came to Syria.

In order not to attract attention, Constantius did not make any big moves at all. He boarded the ship from Constantinople, only with 12 ships and 500 guards.

Since Constantius himself came, bossasan must have come to meet Shapur II himself.

Some time ago, Rome and sassanne have both withdrawn from Syria, and countless armed forces have emerged. Those armed forces continue to announce which place they own, so that Syria has been divided into countless control areas, large and small, and these control areas fight against each other.

This land did not give up peace because of Rome and sassanne. On the contrary, it fell into greater chaos.

When the Romans and Persians seized the rule of Syria, although they were not moderate, they rarely carried out mass killings.

Waiting for all kinds of messy armed forces to fight, it is clear that they all come from the same vein, but they have far more ferocious behavior than the Romans and Persians. In less than two years, I don't know how many villages have become ruins, and then I can find piles of dead bones left after slaughter near the villages.

By killing each other, there were more than two million people in Syria. Only two years later, I don't know if there are one million left.

In addition to the people who died in the scuffle, those armed forces continued to sell people to the outside world, and the most were young women. There is no doubt that most of the people behind them, whether Han or not, were sent to the mainland of the Han Empire.

"Every day ships leave port with slaves, and they sail to the East."

"It's the same on our side. What's good for Rome is that most of the people escorted on board are Germanic, Celtic and Saxon."

The Han Empire leased ports and concessions from various countries. Some ports and concessions have entered the opening stage, and those places have become one of the more lively areas.

Rome and sassanne, who also existed at the imperial level, were the first to face the act of ceding land without going through war. This alone was enough to make them hostile to the Han Empire.

It is not just hostile to leaders with a long-term vision. They also need to consider the future. There is not much difference in their conclusions. One day, the Han Empire will not be satisfied with renting land, and war is inevitable.

"The sea trade with cyris has only been going on for four years, our domestic gold coin holdings have declined unprecedentedly, and transactions between nobles have been bartered. This has never happened in Rome."

"Is it so exaggerated? Thousands of years of accumulation, only four years, just?"

"There is no exaggeration at all. Ships of silk, porcelain and tea were transported to Roman ports, and the ships were filled with gold coins to go to sea again. For the cyris, Rome had no goods they were interested in except slaves."

"Trade deficit. I learned this word by accident."

Shapur II said that "trade deficit" was pronounced in Chinese, and then explained it in Persian. It was not just a word, but a long string.

Of course, Rome also had its own goods, but as Constantius said, the Han people really didn't like any Roman goods.

Faced with the hard sales of Roman businessmen, the Han people looked at all kinds of pottery and looked at all kinds of sculptures, including figures and animals.

In the exchange between Rome and the Han Empire... Or commercial exchanges, the only thing that can earn a lot of gold coins is water conservancy technology.

In fact, the Han people are happy to hire relevant talents from Rome, but they are not so clear about which talents should be hired. It is said that the Romans are very good at water conservancy, so they hire a large number of water conservancy talents.

The Roman bathhouse culture is almost famous all over the world. At present, more than 1000 Romans of relevant majors run around the Han Empire. They design canals and irrigation systems for all parts of the Han Empire, and then design indoor bathhouses for people who can afford money.

Like Chang'an, the Han people had engaged in the park sprinkler system before, but it was obviously not as professional as the Romans. Later, it was redesigned and built.

"The trade deficit between Persia and the Han Empire is not much better than that of Rome. The only thing we can attract the Han people is carpet."

Shapur II and Constantius looked at each other, and their faces were helpless except embarrassment.

"The cyris are happy to harvest our gold coins, but they are only willing to sell luxury goods."

"Yes. We understand how important gunpowder and firearm technology is. It is normal that the Han people are unwilling to sell them, but they block us even with papermaking and printing technology."

In fact, different from the blockade of gunpowder technology, papermaking and printing are not only official. Rome and sassanne still obtained papermaking and printing.

Although the technology has been obtained, they found that there are so many different methods for papermaking and printing, and it still needs time to verify and select the most appropriate method for popularization.

"We have been patient. We stopped obtaining gunpowder through unofficial channels after only one trial."

"Isn't it because of our tolerance and compromise that the Han Empire turned its energy to China?"

"That's the only thing we did right."

"That's the only way. Once there is no end and no scale, the Han people have a 70% chance of choosing to start a war."

"It's really something that the cyris can do. When they face challenges, both their emperor and their civilians are too violent."

"In our records, the Han people are a very gracious nation. They pay attention to etiquette and politeness. We also have some records that you won't believe. Hundreds of years ago, when the Han people were offended, they felt offended because the offending people were not civilized enough. The Han people would send managers to teach the offending people into civilization."

"It's... Unimaginable. It surprises me."

Has there ever been such a thing? I don't know when the Persian records say, but in the previous dynasties to Zhuxia, whether it was the Western Han Dynasty or the Eastern Han Dynasty, or the stage of falling into civil war, and even the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it seems that the first choice to be offended is to hate?

"Without exception, the nations who were taught became members of what the Han people called 'Zhuxia'."

"It's terrible!"

"This war is actually saving Rome. Did all your Roman nobles begin to sinicize?"

"Learning from the advanced civilization is our strong point. We were fully Hellenized, but we are still Romans."

"It's different. Believe me, any nation learning Chinese culture will eventually become a part of the 'Zhuxia' in the Han population, and then become Han people."

The Japanese stood up and expressed their dissatisfaction with this.

Then, after waiting for a certain period of time, they are obviously Han people, but because of their political achievements, many people find that they have been expelled from the Han people and become a new nation they have never heard of.

"We have gone through darkness and know the value of light. Persia has been fully United. We want to fight a complete holy 1 war!"

"Holy war? Did you learn the word from the Arabs?"

"There's nothing funny. We're too close to the Han Empire to have any other choice."

"So... Have you contacted the princess you married?"

"No contact at all."

Constantius was surprised by sassanne's determination. He would ask, knowing that if he could contact, even if there was only one in ten thousand chance of success, he would try to let the son of cyris die in bed.

The Romans had the same consideration about this, especially that Helena had given birth to a baby boy with Chinese ancestry.

If the whole world could unite to attack the Han Empire this time, it would be almost impossible to completely destroy the Han Empire, but as long as it could gain an advantage, there were countless possibilities to operate.

"Despite my greatest determination, I'm still not sure what step I can take."

"The worst result will not be worse than the future result."