Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 498 Journey to the West ([-])
Seven years later

The summer of the fourth year of Duke Yan 270 (488)
Ctesiphon

If there is an emperor who wants to achieve equality for everyone, and calls on the nobles and rich to distribute their assets equally to the poor, and calls on the common people to revolt to overthrow their own dynasty, how will this emperor be evaluated?
Xu Xiake didn't believe that there would be such a ruler in the world before, but now he really met him.

After staying in Constantinople for several years, he first converted to the "Orthodox Church (Eastern Orthodox Church)", and later, he went west to the city of Rome. In order to do as the Romans did, he converted to the "Catholic Church (Catholic Church)". Both are Christians, but each thinks they are orthodox and the other is heresy.

It's a pity that the Roman Empire (Western Rome) was as decadent and incompetent as the former Jin Dynasty. The nobles were debauched all day long, the people were in dire straits, and the upper ruling class was either fighting or preparing for internal fighting.

The sinking of the empire is always very different. Everything in the city of Rome is not much different from the city of Luoyang at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty.

After he entered the city of Rome, he stayed for a few years when he heard that the barbarians were about to approach the city.

In order to protect his own safety, Xu Xiake chose to leave the city of Rome ahead of schedule. A few months later, he heard the news that the city of Rome had fallen.

The subsequent plot is very familiar, it is nothing more than burning, killing and looting, which is the case in all civilizations in the world.

On the return journey, he chose to take the southern Mediterranean coast, because he had never been here.

It was safe along the way. When passing through Egypt, I heard a local legend. It is said that hundreds of years ago, a messenger from the East had an affair with Cleopatra. Later, he was discovered by the Pharaoh and was finally executed and became a pyramid. A mummy inside.

Due to the long time gap, no one knows the name of this Eastern messenger.

Some people speculate that this Eastern messenger came from Parthia hundreds of years ago, and others speculate that this Eastern messenger came from the legendary Silk Kingdom.

Xu Xiake recorded all these legends and stories in his "Journey to the West", and visited those large-scale pyramids.

Finally, back to Sassan again, only to hear that Belus has passed away, and now the new ruler is "Kavad".

The first thing this new ruler did after he came to power was to issue something similar to the "Edict of Guilt", in order to dispel public grievances.

After that, they called on the nobles and wealthy businessmen to distribute their property to the poor who could not afford to eat, and asked those upper-class people who had many women to distribute some of their women to those low-level bachelors who did not have wives.

It seems to be a common problem of civilization all over the world that the upper class has too many women, so that the lower class can only cut off their children and grandchildren.

However, the nobles ignored the delusional new monarch.

Therefore, Kawad, the monarch of the Sasanian Dynasty, called on the people at the bottom to rebel, asking them to overthrow the Sasanian Dynasty and the greedy and shameless upper class.

Xu Xiake was very interested in this kind of thing, he thought it was very novel, so he planned to stay in Sassanid to see where the new monarch planned to lead the dynasty.

Three years later, the nobles of Sasanian launched a rebellion, wanting to abolish the monarch who tried to betray their own class, and the whole Sasanian fell into the shadow of civil war.

Xu Xiake had to embark on a journey again, leaving Sassanid, first passing through Guishuang, and then visiting the Zhang Zhung people again. They have changed their new co-lords, but some tribes do not obey the new co-lords.

Xu Xiake became the portraitist of the co-lord of Zhangxiong Kingdom, painted portraits for the young co-lord, and followed the co-lord on the expedition, seeing with his own eyes how the co-lord suffered a disastrous defeat in a situation of great advantage, and finally regained his strength and turned defeat into victory.

Xiangxiong, Xuanyuan Huangdi defeated Chiyou!
This is Xu Xiake's interesting description of this historical event.

Continue to walk east, and came to the Yalong Dynasty.

Zanpu of the Yalong Dynasty had come to an end, and the new Zanpu came to the throne, and wanted to ease the conflict with the priests, put more energy on suppressing the western princes, and married Jichang, the son of a big country.

Make peace with the Zhou State in the east, and attack the rebellious vassal states in the west.

Aunt and niece are married to the same man, but the man's heart is not on them.

The difference from the last time was that last time it was a marriage, Ji Chang took the initiative to ask for a marriage, so Yalong married one.

After decades of development, Yalong is weaker than before, but Zhou Guo is stronger than before, so this time, Yalong Zanpu took the initiative to marry Ji Chang, hoping to live in peace with Zhou Guo.

The centipede is dead but not stiff. Although the Yalong Dynasty is facing internal and external troubles, if it fights against the Yalong people now, it is not a big problem for the Yalong Dynasty to end up with the Zhou Kingdom before it dies. Therefore, Ji Chang agreed to the marriage and continued. Wretched development waits for an opportunity.

When Xu Xiake came to Jiqu City, the human sacrifice celebration was being held in the city. After asking, it turned out that a concubine of Zanpu gave birth to a baby boy last night, so early this morning, Zanpu arranged for a quick ceremony. Human sacrifice is celebrated to celebrate the birth of a son.

Xu Xiake still came to Yalong as the younger brother of Zhou Guodong Bo Hou Jichang, so he was not embarrassed.

With the current strength of the Yalong people, although they have declined, if they really fight to the death and take away Zhou Guolai before they die, there is no problem at all.

But it's not necessary, and no Yalong people want to fight to the death with Zhou Guo.

The marriage is only to temporarily let the east settle down, so that we can concentrate our forces to attack the enemies in the west first, which is called breaking down each.

The boss and the third child get married, not necessarily because they are afraid of the third child, but because they want the third child to settle down temporarily, and then concentrate on solving the second child who dances more happily, and finally go back to deal with the third child who is developing wretchedly.

When Xu Xiake continued eastward to Zhouyuan, Ji Chang went out of the city to meet him in person.

"Xu Zi, we haven't seen each other for 38 years. The fortune teller this morning said that a nobleman will come. I waited and waited, and I did wait for you."

Ji Chang's words were too polite. It was obvious that he knew in advance that Xu Xiake was coming to Zhouyuan, and then calculated that Xu Xiake would probably arrive today, so he intentionally predicted that a nobleman would arrive today, which was considered in Zhou people's mind. By the way, an all-knowing and all-powerful image was created.

There is also a happy event here in the Zhou Kingdom, that is, Ji Chang's wife is pregnant, and after divination by a [Confucian-Brahman] priest, he pointed to Ji Chang's wife's belly and said: "Madam is pregnant with the future Holy Lord."

This was actually just a priest's polite words, but he said so to all the children born to Ji Changzheng's wife, but Ji Chang was still very happy and rewarded the priest greatly.

"If a boy is born, name him Ji Fa, and use the name of the ancestor, so that he can build a great career like his ancestors!" Ji Chang is no longer a 15-year-old boy when he came to the throne. You can see some gray hairs and grow old, this is something that most men feel happy about.

Because the state of Zhou is powerful, and Yalong Zanpu has no time to take care of the East, Yalong's new Zanpu has no choice but to canonize Ji Chang as a "priest", that is, the head of the princes, with a higher status than the previous Dongbohou.

(End of this chapter)