Chapter 45 The Kingdom of God
As the saying goes, time is like water and life is like song!
Liu Xuan didn't feel much about the last sentence, but the first half of the sentence really felt it very personally.
After returning to Dahan, I lived a very monotonous and ordinary life every day, because there was not much difference in what I did every day, so the passage of time left almost no feeling.
In addition, Liu Xuan himself does not age, and he cannot feel the passage of time from himself. Therefore, when he came to his senses, the past few decades had passed in the blink of an eye.
For such a long time, the entire Han Dynasty has been in a prosperous situation. Not only the Han people themselves know about the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, but also the distant countries such as Anxi, Kushan and the tyrannical Roman Empire.
Well, there is another point. The Parthian Dynasty, which was extremely powerful back then, has now fallen into the garbage heap of history. It was replaced by the powerful Sasanian Dynasty of Persia and... Zhang Lu's Celestial Master Taoist forces.
Within a few decades, although the distance between Asia and Europe was very far, they also attracted envoys from the Roman Empire.
The two sides have contacted several times in the past few decades, but those times were sent by the Roman Empire, while the Han Dynasty never sent an envoy.
Logically speaking, such a situation would cause strong dissatisfaction from the powerful Roman Empire, but in fact it was not like that.
The Roman Empire had begun to decline. Even if no one told Liu Xuan, Liu Xuan still vaguely remembered it.
Although the Roman Empire at this time had not really been divided into two parts, the internal chaos was actually getting more and more serious. In addition, the west and east were facing powerful enemies at the same time. The Roman Empire had to divide its most elite soldiers into two parts.
In part, one rushed to the northern front to deal with the Germans, and all the way to the eastern front to deal with the Persians and Zhang Lu's forces.
In fact, even without Zhang Lu, this move was an introduction to the subsequent division into the east and west parts. In addition, the central government gradually lost its binding force on the lower parts. Therefore, the Roman Empire was in chaos for the next time, and was finally divided into the west and the west.
Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire.
In recent years, the Roman Empire has faced more enemies. The Gauls and Goths have successively raised armies, and the Roman Empire can be said to be completely in chaos.
In other words, the Roman Empire was not having an easy life now, and after their envoys came to the east, they were shocked by the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the magical tools that seemed to exist only in legends.
When the first group of merchants returned to Rome and told about the prosperity of the Han Dynasty in the streets, alleys, taverns, squares and other places, many people thought they were making things up. Many disputes arose.
Logically speaking, because the content they told was too magical, the Roman Empire would not take these "rumors" to heart. But Zhang Lu's appearance became an opportunity.
Zhang Lu's forces did not have many troops, but the generals who led them knew how to cast magical spells, which made the Roman army complain incessantly. Even the Persians, who gave the Romans a huge headache, faced the forces of Tianshi Tao.
Sometimes I was a little overwhelmed. So even though Zhang Lu’s power was not that big, at the beginning he lived in the cracks between the Roman Empire, the Persian Sasanian Dynasty, and the Parthian Empire.
However, when the Persian Sasanian Dynasty launched an all-out attack on the Parthian Empire, which was also the Parthian Empire, Zhang Lu took advantage of the situation and rose up, expanding his power a lot and truly establishing a foothold in the east of the Mediterranean.
Now Zhang Lu is still desperately expanding his power, hoping to push his power to the east coast of the Mediterranean. In that case, he will conquer a seaport city. Although Zhang Lu does not know much about the role of seaports, if he can conquer it, at least he will
No longer need to be surrounded by enemies like now.
The Tianshi Dao army attacking with all its strength was very terrifying, which caused the Roman Empire's army to retreat steadily, and was about to give up its territory on the east coast of the Mediterranean - in this case, the power of the Roman Empire would also be cut off.
In the future, the territories on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and the northern coast of Africa would become enclaves, which could only be connected by relying on the immature navigation technology of this era. This would undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the Roman Empire.
What's more, the Sassanid Dynasty of Persia was eyeing these places with eager eyes. How could the Roman Empire not be anxious? It happened to be at this time that the rulers of Rome noticed the rumors about the Han Dynasty.
The man named Zhang Lu was a rebel of the Han Dynasty. He fled here after being defeated by the rulers of the Han Empire!
The Han Empire was extremely powerful. The people there wore gorgeous clothes, there were endless amounts of novel and delicious food, and there were endless drinks that were unimaginably delicious. It had an extremely vast territory that was no worse than the Roman Empire, and had various
All kinds of amazing tools.
Finally, under the pressure of Zhang Lu, the Romans began to accept these rumors and organized a large envoy to lead the caravan to the distant east.
This was the beginning of the connection between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty - in fact, the Romans had communicated with the Han Dynasty for a long time, but at that time there was only a slight contact, and there was no communication at all.
Unlike this time, the communication really started.
However, Liu Xuan was not very interested in in-depth exchanges with the Roman Empire. Even when the Roman Empire suggested that the two sides could deepen their friendship through marriage, Liu Xuan said: The Han Dynasty only has one princess, and she has already been married off! She blocked her and sent her back.
This made the envoy of the Roman Empire very discouraged, but he couldn't get angry.
He only had to live in the Han Dynasty for the first half of a year, and he fully felt the huge gap between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire - this gap was all-round, and he even believed that the Roman Empire was like a defenseless baby in front of the Han Empire.
, as long as the other party is willing, he can kill himself at any time.
"terrible!"
Unlike merchants who can only see some ordinary things, these envoys representing the Roman Empire can see more things, especially when all the cavalry are riding winged Pegasus and can fly into the sky to attack.
Afterwards, they even suspected that they had arrived in the legendary world, where the people living here were not humans, but gods!
In fact, when they saw the Yulin Cavalry all rising into the sky and collectively using their sunset bows to cover the ground with shooting, the terrifying explosions and the cloud of smoke that covered the sky did make many Romans kneel on the ground.
Praying...they thought it was the wrath of the gods.
As for the Roman who was the envoy, although his performance was a little better, it was limited. He just didn't kneel down!
Under this situation, the Romans really couldn't stand up, so in the subsequent exchanges, the Romans came to 'pilgrimage', but Liu Xuan simply didn't even bother to meet him, and sent officials from the Ministry of Etiquette to deal with it.
that is.
But the more he behaved like this, the more attentive the Romans became. Even when their country was in chaos, the number of envoys coming to the Han Dynasty continued - there were even high-level Roman officials coming to 'pilgrimage', and these people came to visit
After going back for a while, they started to publicize again, which resulted in a situation that made Liu Xuan dumbfounded.
The Han Empire... became a place where all the gods lived in the minds of the Romans. The Han people almost became the people of the gods, and the emperor of the Han Empire was the spokesperson of the gods in the world, the incarnation of Jupiter in the world (this
The name was originally the self-proclaimed name of the Roman ruler Diocletian, but now it has been directly assigned to Liu Xuan) etc...
If this were to happen in later generations, Liu Xuan would never believe that such a thing would happen. Even if someone said that a certain Asian was the incarnation of God, he would probably be hunted down by the Holy See immediately - between cultures and races
The contradictions are almost irreconcilable.
On the contrary, in this era, the concept of race is much weaker!
Liu Xuan, who only showed up occasionally and never showed his immortal skills in front of the Romans, should not be regarded as the incarnation of a god. But who asked a certain nobleman from the Roman Empire to come to the Han Dynasty not long ago?
It's been a hundred years since Liu Xuan ascended the throne.
This person thought he heard it wrong at first, but after questioning carefully, it turned out that he had heard it correctly for a hundred years.
"Rule an empire for a hundred years?"
In the eyes of this Roman, this was simply impossible. Not to mention his age when he ascended the throne of God, even this hundred years of life was not something ordinary people could have.
What's more, he had met the Emperor of the Han Empire once, and his face was even much younger than his, as if he was in his early twenties.
"That Emperor is over a hundred years old this year?"
There happened to be an official from the Ministry of Rites nearby. Hearing this, he smiled and replied: "Your Majesty is already one hundred and twenty years old this year!"
The Roman opened his mouth and was so shocked that he didn't know what to say! The next day, the man set out to return to the Roman Empire, and finally succeeded in telling this 'important' news to the then ruler of the Roman Empire.
Diocletian.
Until this time, someone suddenly realized that Zhang Lu, who had been threatening the eastern part of the Roman Empire, seemed to be no longer young...
At this point, the Han Empire was no longer a country in the eyes of the Romans, it was a place where the gods lived.
Diocletian even prepared to go to the Han Empire in person. For this reason, he even reduced his troops and stopped military operations against the Sasanian Dynasty of Persia. The entire Roman Empire strangely began to shrink its defenses.
Then Diocletian formed a huge pilgrim team and prepared to go to the Han Empire by sea - and interestingly, all the ships used by the Roman Empire were bought from the civilian shipyards of the Han Dynasty over the years.
Because of these ships, the contact between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty could be so frequent.
It can be said that although Liu Xuan did not take the initiative to influence, the world has completely deflected from its original trajectory, and it is no longer possible for him to control it even if he wants to.
"The era of global village...may come earlier than I expected!"
At this time, new news came from the north: the Tuoba family, the most powerful family in the Dai Kingdom, seized the throne and became the new emperor of the Xianbei country, and changed the name of the country to Wei!
The news reached the Han Dynasty, and the Han people called it the Northern Wei Dynasty according to the custom of earlier years. At this time, it happened to be the 100th year of the Han calendar, which was the 300th year of AD.
Chapter completed!