Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 347 New Roman Style

Thinking about these things is a great warning to Guo Kang.

Because as mentioned earlier, the Purple Horde Khanate itself is actually a way of ruling from a small clan to a big country.

In comparison, their advantage is probably that Europeans don't care about this issue.

In ancient Rome itself, a small number of citizens ruled the entire Mediterranean in the early years, and then gradually liberalized citizenship.And the European countries of later generations didn't care about these at all.Even the most "localized" French royal family, their ancestors actually came from East Francia.

On the other hand, Europeans don't seem to have much concept of "legal order".Their country does not correspond one-to-one with a certain civilization, and the legality narrative used is not a set of logic with the Central Plains.What these people are pursuing now is, at most, simply "following the heat of Rome".

In comparison, the cultural level of the Qing Dynasty was very high, and the level of brutality here was nothing at all.If it were placed in this place, it would definitely be a dynasty with high legitimacy.

As for religion, it's not a problem. Just learn from the French pen pals and catch the Pope once.It may even be stipulated that future pope elections must be drawn by lot.Now it's not only legal, but also democratic...

The really tangled part is that the Purple Horde wants to learn from the Central Plains model and establish a strong and stable foundation.But Khan Ting was afraid of his hands and feet.On the one hand, it is because some cultural concepts of the Central Plains are not acclimatized here, and there is no corresponding thing; on the other hand, it is also my own problem.

Qianlong's argument back then actually exploited a loophole in the definition: in the late Ming Dynasty, Liaodong was also called Sanhan.

For this situation, you can refer to the records of Gu Yanwu back then.According to him, since the loss of Liaoyang during the Tianqi period, there have been documents such as memorials in the court calling the Liao people "Three Hans" for the purpose of "outside"—that is, the traditional expulsion of Chinese books.

By demonstrating that the local area is Han, not Han, it can be proved that the imperial court did not lose important areas, the previous defeats were minor problems, and the situation is still under control.

After that, the Liao people also began to call themselves Sanhan, so as to "self-exist".Even local officials call it that.In Mao Wenlong's letter, he directly stated that it would take two years to "destroy the slaves in Pingliao and restore the old career of the Three Hans", which shows that this has become a common name.

However, Qianlong forcibly linked this extended "Three Hans" with the Three Hans in the history books.He found that among the various ministries of ancient Ma and Han, there was a man named "Aixiangguo", which is homonymous with "Aixin", so he thought this was the origin of his family.In addition, he also believes that "Sanhan" is actually "Three Khans", meaning the various ministries under the rule of the three Khan kings, which shows that there was such a title at that time.

Qianlong completed a series of arguments by using homophonic stalks twice.

But the Purple Horde Khanate is much simpler. They are really outsiders, and they don't feel guilty about beating up the local nobles.Of course, this also caused them to be out of tune with the local forces. People basically regarded them as natural disasters...

Guo Kang told Tuo Huan, Li Xuanying and others about the concept of "yellow peril" in later generations, saying how much Europeans reject the East.However, those few people not only didn't think it was a slander, but were also very happy. They thought the word was very handsome, and they were very domineering when they heard it.

Tuo Huan told Guo Kang that the characteristic of the barbarians is that they are afraid of power and not virtuous.The only way to keep them calm and in awe is to beat him, just scare him.To put it bluntly, people eat this set.

However, Guo Kang is still not satisfied with this.

He felt that it was not enough to just conquer and defeat the barbarians, and he had to consider future strategies.Wu Qi said: "Victory is easy, but it is difficult to defend victory." How to use the momentum to expand one's power is the most important thing.

The previous operation of the Purple Horde was actually pretty good, but to a large extent it was not a conscious behavior, but a series of passive responses, purely forced out by the harsh environment and military pressure.

The princes in the early years, in fact, also had the attitude of "Xiajun Yimin". For the people under their rule, they also felt that they were barbarians who had begun to accept enlightenment. Even though they were very united with each other, this attitude has always existed.As for the small Byzantine country in the south that is fighting a civil war, everyone doesn't take it seriously, and few people even care about it.

As a rare cultural person in the Khan court at that time, Guo Gai was very interested in finding orthodoxy and succession, and he was also one of the rare people who began to look for suitable claims since then.The future direction of development is not so much a national policy as Guo Gai's personal "spiritual" behavior.Until now, Guo Kang suspects that this is the result of Guo Gai insisting on finding a substitute because he is far away from his homeland.

In fact, according to the family, Boyan Timur and others proposed that Guo Gai find a son to marry a Greek, but Guo Gai was unwilling, so Boyan Timur arranged for his own son. top.Thinking about it carefully, this is actually quite interesting.

By the time of the Civil War, the country was getting bigger and bigger, and finally became a thorn in the side worthy of the first attention of the surrounding powers.At the same time, the contradictions within the Khanate became more and more intensified, and the pressing step by step of the steppe nobles brought greater pressure.In the end, these two contradictions broke out in the most intense form of military confrontation, bringing about the most dangerous, but also possibly the most influential war in the history of the Purple Horde.

Before the war, the core area of ​​the Purple Horde was not like Rome in this era, nor was it like the Golden Tent next to it, but a bit like the Yuan Dynasty.They are also a great Khan and a group of Han military leaders who monopolize the force, ruling all kinds of people.What the rulers agree with is the Han culture with a layer of khanate skin.

Of course, if you have to say that it is like ancient Rome, anyway, ancient Rome is indeed this kind of Western Zhou style country, which is quite different from today's Rome.

After the war, the Purple Horde Khanate as a whole became less and less like a khanate.By the time of Basil III, a translation agency was set up in the court, which was responsible for translating documents between the Khanates in the East—in the entire Khan court, those who could speak Turkic were already professional diplomats, and Mongolian even Rare than that.

The overall identity of the country has also completely become "Rome".The nobles at the top no longer regard themselves as gentlemen and educators, nor insist that they and the local people are two different civilizations.They began to identify themselves as Rome, and repeatedly claimed that all citizens belonged to Roman civilization.As for the customs and habits that were still insisted on, which were originally considered to be Han culture, they also argued that they were part of Roman civilization.

Of course, on the other hand, anyone with a little bit of knowledge knows that this "Roman" cultural style is not the same as ancient Rome.Neutral scholars generally call it "New Roman Style", while those who are hostile to the Purple Horde call it "Oriental Roman Style".

Thanks to the help of the Purple Horde, the Eastern Roman Empire, which had always been regarded as an "eastern country", is now regarded by them as a western country.

To be honest, Guo Kang himself didn't know what this was.

Just like in the culture of the "Hellenistic Age", how much is Greek and how much is Persian, and everyone can't tell clearly, how much of this "Neo-Roman style" is Roman, how much is Han, and how many others are, in fact, the same I can't tell...

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