I weave fate in parallel time and space

"The things in the underworld are beyond the child's control." Alicia couldn't help but said, "He will open a Pandora's box! What is the purpose of this child?"

"Although it's hidden very deeply, even Ibus has been fooled, but he can't fool me." Shaar murmured softly.

"There's a lot of hatred in this kid's heart.

This hatred has not disappeared with the passing of the head and main pusher of the religion that persecuted his mother. "

"What does he hate?" Alicia asked, frowning.

"Remember the small village we arrived at when we first went to the south?" Char said.

Alicia nodded.

"As the priest beat us up as evil wizards, the people in the whole village raised their pitchforks and hoes, clamoring to send us to the stake.

Gayward's mother had exactly the same experience. "

Shaar murmured softly.

"A whole block of people were shouting for the witch to be executed.

No one spoke up for her, pleaded for her.

Even before the trial results came out, everyone already identified her as a witch in their hearts.

Compared with the strong us, the despair suffered by a weak woman and an underage boy is unimaginable.

The whole world is against them.

Just imagine, when your mother was sent to the stake, screaming in pain and dying in the sea of ​​fire.

What came from your ears was not any unbearable exclamation, but only excited shouts and happy cheers. How would you feel? "

Alicia took a deep breath and said, "So... he hates Britannia?"

Xia didn't answer, but continued, "Aibus will handle it well, trust his ability."

"Tomorrow is New Year's Day, there seems to be a lantern festival in Beichen, let's go and see it together, and we can also drop by the new school.

The construction team has already told me that the general construction and soft decoration are almost complete. "

In this world now, there is only Hogwarts, a school of wizardry.

All wizards come from Hogwarts.

If this situation continues for a few more years, the status of Hogwarts will even surpass the Magic Association.

With the retirement of Ibus, this school will almost be visible to the naked eye to a wrong path that Char doesn't want to see.

In a sense, the reason why Gayward's witch party can be established is that he was a tutor at Hogwarts in the past.

The wizarding world also needs checks and balances, so the establishment of other schools is necessary.

Alicia nodded
A day is almost fleeting for Xiaya.

Shaar and Alicia came to a city in the south of Beichen hand in hand.

The night covered the night sky, and the sky was full of stars. It was already late at night, but the city did not mean to rest at all. The lanterns hanging in front of the buildings and shops on the street illuminated the city brightly.

There are no shortage of people on the street, people come and go, chattering is very lively.

Xia Ya was in the center of the street, quietly looking at the city, watching the crowds of people coming and going.

Although the people in this land have the same origin as the people in the country where Char used to be.

But the architectural style in Li is very different from the previous life.

The country in Char, because of the century-old history of humiliation, the influence of foreign colonizer culture, as well as the influence of building materials and huge population, has lost a lot of traditional styles in architecture.

Most of the houses are square concrete coffin houses, even if there are some other styles, they are mostly European style.

But the architecture of this country in this world is more traditional.

Whether it is palaces, temples, residences, etc., regardless of their size, the appearance and shape are composed of three parts: platform foundation, house body and roof, and the integration of single buildings has been implemented.

Of course, with the improvement of materials and the growth of population, it is obviously impractical to use firewood as in the past.

People have developed new Shenzhou-style buildings from traditional buildings.

While retaining the traditional style, newer and cheaper materials are used, but wood is still used in some places, and if not, it is imitated from other materials.

Ridge kisses and tiles, as small as doors and windows, door knockers, and corner leaves, all have very distinctive decorative shapes or patterns. Most of these decorative components are exquisitely carved woodcuts.

The far protruding eaves, the elastic eaves curve, the slightly recurved roof formed by the lifting frame, the slightly raised corners, and the hard hills, hanging hills, resting hills, verandas, cusps, crosses, etc. Many changes in roof forms such as ridges, crests, and double eaves, together with dazzling glazed tiles, give the building a unique and strong visual effect and artistic appeal.

But these traditional buildings do not bring any sense of antiquity, but instead have an indescribable grandeur and shock.

Because of the use of new materials, there is naturally no single two- or three-story architectural limitation like the past buildings.

Xia even saw a 99-meter-high antique glazed tile building built against the mountain not far away. This building is backed by the mountain and faces the river. It is almost as high as the mountain behind it.

Not to mention during the day, especially when the retro lanterns are lit at the same time at night, the whole city becomes a city that never sleeps.

People walk, play, get drunk, and talk in this city, and the clothes they wear also belong to the style of this country.

Of course, it's not ancient clothes, but modern clothes with obvious traditional style. You can see history and a nation in these clothes.

Everyone's face is filled with happiness and confidence.

Sheng.

This is Shaar's first image when he saw this city. It is not rich, not strong, and even has a feeling of being extravagant. It will collapse with a bang.

Shaar seems to be able to see through this era, the prosperous Tang Dynasty scene thousands of years ago when all nations came to court.

Xiaya stared at all this in a daze. Over the years, due to various reasons such as the castle being too eye-catching, he has been playing in the natural scenery, but this is the first time he has come to a major city like today.

For a while, some memories of the past and various complicated emotions surged in his heart.

Alicia on the side obviously noticed Shaar's strangeness, she turned her head and asked in a low voice.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing." Shaar wiped the corners of his eyes lightly, "It's just a little emotional."

Alicia nodded, and she also looked at all this in a daze, "It's really a beautiful city, it's hard to imagine, it's not even the capital."

"Accompanying capital." Xia Ya said, "Beichen is a multi-capital system, and there are multiple accompanying capitals."

The multi-capital system is actually very common in history. Although the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty was not large, in addition to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, there were four capitals in total: Xijinghenanfu, Nanjingyingtianfu, and BJ Damingfu.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, in addition to the well-known Chang'an City, there were a total of four accompanying capitals, a total of five capitals.

And the five capitals are not the highest record yet, the Jin Dynasty stood side by side with the Song Dynasty.In the era of Jin Xizong, there were six capital cities.

Almost all dynasties in history had more than one capital city. In addition to the capital city that was the political center at that time, the rulers would also set up other accompanying capitals for various purposes, which had a relatively important impact on the dynasty. .

Some dynasties established an economic center capital in a place with a relatively developed economy, which could promote the economic development at that time.

Some dynasties established an accompanying capital in the place where their ancestors were born or where they traditionally worshiped their ancestors, which could have an important influence on the thinking of the people at that time and consolidate the basis of cultural rule.

In addition, some dynasties will establish a defense-needed companion capital in a corresponding military center when facing the eyes of other regimes.

Therefore, along with the constant changes in the political environment, the system of setting up the capital of the dynasty has been constantly changing in the two capitals and other multi-capital systems.

The territory of Beichen is huge, but the transportation capacity is far from reaching the level that a single capital can communicate with the whole country, so the existence of the multi-capital system is very necessary.

For example, the capital established in the west can communicate with Central Asia. After Beichen shifted its strategic center to the south, in order to control the islands in the south, a southern capital will also be established in the south.

Beichen captured Kyushu Island more than 100 years ago. The East China Sea and the Yellow Sea are basically inland seas, so the safety of coastal cities has been guaranteed.

The next few hundred years will be dominated by sea power, and it is very important to have a Kyoto on the coast.

However, apart from Kyushu Island, that country is still preserved. For Beichen's strategy, the country's land is useless except to withstand some typhoons and tsunamis, and there are many earthquakes.

As long as Beichen firmly controls Southeast Asia, this country can only follow closely behind Beichen.

Of course, there is only one capital, and it is still in the north.

At present, the enemy in the north still needs to be guarded against, not only Russia, but also Britannia.

In case of war, it is more convenient to set up the capital in the north and continue to retreat to the south. Moreover, after having a mechanized force, you can also go straight to Moscow from a direct point. The road is almost all plains. The deterrent force of the two bordering powers is five Five open, can maintain a good balance.

The country is too big, the ambition is too big, the choice of the capital is indeed a bit of a headache, Kyoto in the north is too far away, it is difficult to control Southeast Asia, Yingtianfu is too weak, the dynasty that chose this place as the capital basically has no good results, Guangfu is a bit of a waste of money , and it is possible to lose the north side.

The north is not a traditional Han land. If you don't choose a place in the north as the capital, there will be worries about the alienation of the northerners.

Generally speaking, Beichen's strategic layout over the years has been far-sighted.

In Shaar’s world, a man named Mackinder once proposed a concept called World Island. The World Island composed of Europe, Asia, and Africa is the largest, most populous, and richest combination of land in the world.

In the center of the World Island, from the Volga River to the Yangtze River, from the Himalayas to the North Pole, this is the heart of the World Island and the region with the largest resources in the world.

He believed that when Eurasia was covered by a dense network of railways, a powerful continental state would dominate the vast land that started at the gateway to Eastern Europe.

And this will be the prelude to this country's domination of Eurasia, and then the world: "Whoever controls Eastern Europe controls the heartland; whoever controls the heartland controls the world island; whoever controls the world island controls the world."

Therefore, the core of Beichen's strategy for hundreds of years has always been Central Asia. In the era of agricultural land rights, it seized a large amount of plain land, cultivated farmland to develop population, and managed Central Asia. However, because of the barriers between deserts and mountains, it wanted to completely control it. is impractical.

If you are too eager for success, you will even lose the basic foundation of the land of China, and let the internal disintegration, then the gain outweighs the loss.

So Beichen settled for the next best thing, and started the Sinicization of Central Asia to prepare for the future.

In fact, their strategy is very successful. Although Beichen has disintegrated, the countries in Central Asia are still Han dynasty.

Before the disintegration, the population of Beichen Han people had reached more than one billion.

Of course, the central dynasty does not have so many people, and there are about [-] million people in the dynasty.

Not a lot, and the population of the Qing Dynasty during this time period was about the same.

However, the current population of Southeast Asia is only about tens of millions, and there are even many Han Chinese in it. With the current industrial output value of Beichen and the land production capacity of Southeast Asia, it is still possible to support these people.

For the next few hundred years, it was the world of sea power countries, so their strategic center was shifted to sea power, operating to the south.

The resources in the south are actually not inferior to those in the north.

For example, it was under the hands of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and then belonged to the Natuna Islands in Indonesia.

With 4% of the world's proven reserves of oil and [-]% of natural gas, it is richer than the oil reserves in the Persian Gulf, but it is more difficult to exploit.

But these will not be a problem in the future.

Shaar thinks that the ruling class of this country handles national affairs very much like a certain country, and its policies are consistent, unlike other countries that stop or even reverse a certain policy after a new political team comes to power.

Instead, there are several years, even decades, and hundreds of years of national plans, and they are steadily advancing.

Of course, these are only good aspects.

The national conditions of this country are very similar to those of Britannia, and the oppression of the lower-level people by certain powerful classes represented by the monarch still exists.

They still lack a real revolution, otherwise, it may be the end of Britain.

No country can prosper forever.

Southeast Asia is very close to Beichen, and has national and cultural advantages, so it is not necessary to worry about the weakening of local politics, economy, culture, military and other aspects of management due to the export of domestic elites.

However, the huge land requires sufficient military force to protect, and the military expenditure will be huge, and the unfair distribution of capital will also make the people of the country even more conflicted.

However, Xiaya can help. After all, if Beichen is weak, Britannia's family will dominate, which is not a good thing. (end of this chapter)