At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 643: Ripples of the Global Datong Association

On July 47, the 7th year of the Han calendar, in Kuaiji County, the venue for the global Datong meeting.

After visiting Chenjun, when the Legalists also demonstrated their path to the world of Great Harmony, this global Great Harmony Conference came to an end. The next small sects were technical sects, and the number of people with technical radiation was relatively small. Take novelists as an example. The apprentices of this school are either reporters or editors, or they really make a living by writing novels. It is difficult for them to influence tens of millions of people like the Agriculturalists and Mohists, so they are the audience of this global Great Harmony Conference.

At the closing of this global rapprochement conference, everyone summarized several declarations.

The first is the theory of the great harmony family. The great harmony associations of other countries in the world recognize the status of the Han Dynasty as the elder brother. Of course, as the elder brother, the Han Dynasty also has the obligation to support the development of the great harmony associations of various countries.

The second is the friend-enemy theory, which determines that slavery is the biggest enemy of Datongism. The Han Dynasty will unite Datong members around the world to eliminate the evil slavery system.

Theory of Three International Division of Labor: The Emperor of the Han Dynasty proposed to carry out industrial division of labor in different countries, seek global balanced trade, establish a global unified market, and prepare for the construction of the entire world.

At this point, the Global Datong Association ended, and members of Datong Associations in various countries received more or less support from the Han Dynasty. For example, the Roman Datong Association received a huge order and Cornelius and others also bought a batch of second-hand machinery and arms from the Han Dynasty and returned to Rome.

The members of the Datong Society of the Seleucid Empire also received military assistance from the Han Dynasty. The Yanzhou Governor's Office would train a group of officers who knew firearms tactics and provide them with a batch of weapons that could arm thousands of people. Although it was a little different from what they expected, it was better than nothing.

The most disappointed were the members of the Tianzhu Datong Association. They had originally participated in this conference with great enthusiasm, thinking that Tianzhu was also a big country, at least bigger than those countries in Daqinzhou, but they did not expect that the Han Dynasty ignored them the whole time. They did not even get a chance to speak.

In fact, Xu Aimin did not want the members of the Datong Society in India to come to the Han Dynasty at all. The geographical conditions of India in the agricultural era were too good. After Xu Aijun became the king of India, he vigorously developed cotton planting, spice plantations and rubber plantations. The wealth of the entire Tianzu country increased rapidly. In addition, the Han Dynasty cleaned up the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and other upper classes in India and reduced the rentier class. India developed rapidly in the past decade.

But there is something that Xu Aijun did not expect. He cleared the Brahmans and Kshatriyas. But the Vaishya class in India naturally took over the power of the Brahmans and Kshatriyas. Now in India, the nobles of the Han Dynasty are the first class in India, and the Vaishyas have replaced some of the Kshatriyas. The Brahmans and the people of the Han Dynasty have become the second class in India. The Vaishyas were originally the third class.

Xu Aijun, the King of India, didn't know what to say. No one resisted this process, as if it happened so naturally. It seemed that all the Indians knew who should become the new Brahmins and Kshatriyas and who should remain in their original positions. They also recognized the rights of these new Brahmins and Kshatriyas. This was truly amazing.

This time, the members of the Tianzhu Datong Society came to the Han Dynasty and even brought a group of slaves to serve them. If these people were not his third brother's subordinates, Xu Aimin would have driven these garbage out of the Han Dynasty long ago.

November 47, 9th year of the Han calendar, Rome.

“Some people cheat, some people cheat.”

"Appius is a liar, Marcus is a liar, we didn't elect them."

"We want to re-elect the consuls. We want to re-elect the consuls."

Outside the Senate, thousands of Roman citizens marched and demonstrated, shouting angrily for the re-election of consuls.

The situation in Rome became increasingly divided. The conservative Roman senators would not allow the Pax Romana to replace their rights, nor would they allow the abolition of slavery, which would damage their wealth.

Although the Roman senators and members of the Roman Maison were already on the verge of a showdown, neither side fired the first shot, but instead engaged in a fierce propaganda war.

The Roman Maisons constantly propagated in newspapers that the senators were a group of insects who could not lead Rome to victory in external wars, stabilize the economy internally, and safeguard the interests of Roman citizens. Instead, they colluded with foreign forces and constantly persecuted Rome's noble citizens, bankrupting them and turning them into slaves.

The Roman Senate was even more deeply rooted. Public opinion said that they had been playing this game for hundreds of years and were more experienced. They focused their fire on Claudius, saying that he was greedy for power and wanted to be the dictator of Rome. He conquered the three northern provinces not for Rome, but to establish a king for himself. Claudius used the Roman army to build a kingdom for himself. The reason why he promoted the Gauls as the brothers of the Romans was because he wanted to build his own independent kingdom with these Gauls as citizens, so he made up a lie that the Romans and the Gauls were brothers. Claudius was not a hero of Rome, but the biggest betrayer of Rome.

All the members of the Roman Datong Society were overseas students from the Han Dynasty. Their ideas were learned from the Han Dynasty. These people were the real traitors to Rome. If Claudius was really a hero of Rome, why didn't he dare to give up his military power, return to Rome, and personally elect the position of consul? It was because he wanted to be a dictator that he didn't dare to return to Rome.

Such propaganda really deceived many Roman citizens. Claudius would not go back to Rome to run for consul. But for many orthodox Roman citizens, Claudius did a bad job. If he wanted to become the consul of Rome, he should have returned to Rome to run for the election himself.

Comparing the relationship between the two sides, the members of the Roman Pax Romana were actually closer to the Han Dynasty than the senators of the Senate. Not to mention that under the propaganda of the Roman senators, they also knew that the members of the Roman Pax Romana had participated in the Global Pax Romana held by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The Roman senators didn't even know where they found the data from, but they publicized it throughout the city of Rome, saying that last year the Roman Pax Romana had ordered 1000 talents of gold worth of goods from the Han Dynasty. Our Senate's purchases of goods from the Han Dynasty were not even one-third of those of the Roman Pax Romana. If there was really anyone who was selling out the country, it was the members of the Roman Pax Romana who were selling out the country.

In this way, the public opinion war between the two sides was fierce, and for a time neither side could suppress the other.

But after the Global Unity Society ended, the Senate began to worry. The Han Dynasty, the world's hegemon, had announced that it would eliminate slavery worldwide, and most of these senators had made their fortunes from slavery. The Han Dynasty would support the members of the Roman Unity Society to eliminate itself.

Originally, the members of the Roman Pax Romana already had the upper hand in military terms. If they still had the support of the Han people, their nursing home might really be replaced by the Pax Romana.

The Roman senators discussed urgently for several days and decided to strike first. They held this year's consul selection in advance, and then took the initiative to recruit troops. Before the Han Dynasty supported Claudius and his men, they first destroyed the three northern provinces.

This led to an extremely urgent selection of Roman consuls this year. Just after August, the selection propaganda began throughout Rome. The Roman Senate focused on nominating Consul Appius. They wanted to integrate their internal forces as soon as possible and then deal with the members of the Roman Maison.

At this time, there were many nobles and citizens in Rome who still had illusions about peaceful survival. Some of them went to the three northern provinces, trying to persuade Claudius to return to Rome and become consul through formal procedures rather than through war, so as to protect the Roman republican system.

But Claudius had firmly rejected this proposal, and the Roman elders had reached their limit. It was impossible for him to return alive after going to Rome.

However, even though Claudius did not return to Rome, some people still nominated Claudius as a candidate for consul, and even most of the citizens of Rome chose him as consul.

Unfortunately, the Roman elders had already made up their minds to go to war. They would not let the citizens of Rome influence their decision-making. They directly operated in secret and promoted the consuls of their own choice. When the Roman citizens found out that the consuls they elected were not elected by their votes, they began to march and protest and besieged the Senate, believing that the Roman elders had cheated and interfered in the election.

At this time, the demonstrations of the citizens of Rome were no longer a big deal. After the new Roman consul took the throne, he was very tough on the current separatist situation of the three northern provinces. He demanded that Claudius and others give up their military power and return to Rome. Otherwise, Rome would end the current division through war.

This declaration almost announced that civil war in Rome had been ignited.

April 47, 8th year of the Han calendar, Yanzhou Governor's Office.

Khnum and his followers walked into the meeting room of the Governor's Mansion with excitement. The Declaration of the Global United Society had also spread to the Ptolemaic State. They knew that the Holy Emperor of the Han Dynasty had officially declared war on the global slavery system and said that all slave states would be eliminated. The Ptolemaic State was an actual slave state. They finally had support and could continue their revolutionary cause.

Since his awakening, Khnum has used the slogan of expelling the Greeks and restoring Egypt. He has countless supporters throughout the Ptolemaic Empire. Even the local priest groups in the Ptolemaic Empire are secretly supporting Khnum because of the suppression by the Ptolemaic high-level officials. After all, power is something that no one thinks is too little. The local Egyptian nobles and priests are willing to expel the king and become king themselves.

Especially since the benefits were huge, half of the wealth of the Ptolemaic Empire was in Alexandria. For hundreds of years, the Ptolemies had been using the wealth of Egypt to support Alexandria alone. Especially after the Age of Navigation began, Alexandria became the richest city in the entire Mediterranean, with a population of one million and many merchant ships. It could be said to be the Bianliang of the West.

But for such a rich city, the native Egyptian nobles and priests could only look on with envy but could not enter it, because the owners of this city were Greeks. From the king, queen to ministers in various positions were all Greeks. Even Romans and Seleucids could obtain high positions in Alexandria, but they, the Egyptians, could not become the masters of this city.

The noble priests in Egypt had long been resentful in their hearts, but they had become accustomed to the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

When Knum proposed the slogan of expelling the Greeks and restoring Egypt, it hit the mark in the hearts of the local Egyptian nobles and priests. With this excuse, they could occupy the treasure trove of Alexandria.

Not only did these nobles and priests secretly support Khnum's revolutionary army, but Khnum's propaganda newspapers were also flooding throughout Lower Egypt. When Egyptian scholars and priests saw these propaganda articles, they were all deafened as if they were hearing the sound of a huge bell.

Although the Ptolemaic Empire is considered to be a country that has been positively affected by industrialization and globalization because of its location on a major transportation route, this positive impact is only relative.

For example, Alexandria was the city that was most positively affected. It originally had a population of only a few hundred thousand. Although it was already a large city in the Mediterranean, there were many cities that could rival it, such as Antioch of the Seleucid Empire, Damascus, Rome, Carthage, and so on.

But in the decades since the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants arrived in Alexandria, the population of Alexandria doubled, officially exceeding one million, becoming the largest city in the entire Mediterranean. Its fiscal revenue increased by 4 times. The fiscal revenue of this city accounted for more than % of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. In the past ten years, Alexandria has left other big cities behind and become the capital of the entire Mediterranean.

But in contrast, the wealth of other cities in the Ptolemaic Empire quickly concentrated in Alexandria, and the feudal system in Thebes, Memphis, Abydos, Ceene and other places quickly collapsed.

Under the serfdom system, an acre of land only produced a few dozen kilograms of grain. It was difficult for the nobles of Ptolemy to collect 20 kilograms of grain for the serfs' food. But the luxury goods from the Han Dynasty were so numerous and expensive. A piece of high-grade silk cost tens of thousands of yuan, which was equivalent to the income from thousands of acres of grain. A kilogram of rock sugar cost thousands of coins, which was the price of hundreds of acres of grain.

The current contradiction facing the Ptolemaic nobles is the contradiction between their increasingly abundant material needs and the Ptolemaic state's backward production that is unable to meet their needs.

These nobles did not dare to collect more, after all, they did not want another serf uprising as large as Sobek's.

What makes these nobles and priests even more frustrated is that over the years, their income has not only not increased, but has shown an unstoppable slow decrease.

The local population quickly concentrated in Alexandria, and the wealth of the nobles' sacrifices inevitably decreased. The entire urban agglomeration in the upper reaches of the Nile began to become increasingly unstable, with various serf uprisings continuing.

The old system of the Ptolemaic Empire was disintegrating, but a new system had not been built, and the entire country became turbulent. The knowledgeable people of the Ptolemaic Empire were worried about the situation in their country. For the nobles, social stability was their greatest wealth. The time when the most nobles died in sacrifices in the past few decades was the time of the Sobek serf uprising.

The entire Ptolemaic Empire was already on the verge of collapse under the impact of fierce social contradictions. The noble priests of Ptolemy needed a reformer to improve their situation, or at least point them in a direction to move forward.

This role was originally played by Ptolemy VI. After all, when national conflicts need reform to be eased, the king at the top has the most power and motivation to promote it.

But the Ptolemaic Empire was a colonial country, and the top leaders of this country were all Greeks, Seleucids, and Romans, who controlled Alexandria, the pearl of the Mediterranean. Alexandria did benefit from this wave of global navigation, and they did not have a very deep feeling about the collapse of the feudal system of the local government of the Ptolemaic Empire.

Or maybe they felt it, but they didn't care, because the Ptolemaic Empire was not a centralized country like the Han Dynasty, but a feudal country, and the whole country was built on the basis of aristocratic alliances. Ptolemy VI was like the leader of the martial arts world. The area under his direct jurisdiction was mainly Alexandria, which was hundreds of miles in radius. The nobles and priests in other cities were like allies in a struggle and compromise relationship. When dealing with foreign enemies, they could fight together, but when dealing with internal enemies, their internal struggles were also very fierce.

Serf uprisings were breaking out in cities like Memphis, and as long as it did not affect Alexandria, Ptolemy VI would even watch the fun with gloating.

At a time when the entire country was in turmoil and confusion, and all classes could not find the country's future path, Khnum's articles were circulated secretly and crazily throughout the Ptolemaic Empire.

He attributed all the problems now faced by the Ptolemaic State to the greed and corruption of high-ranking nobles such as Ptolemy VI, which resulted in the country having neither the money to carry out industrial development nor the ability to solve the problem of low production efficiency caused by slavery, let alone the problem of social unrest.

Khnum proposed a solution to the current problems faced by the Ptolemaic State. Although it is not known whether it is feasible, at least a light is on. The local Egyptians know that there is a revolutionary army that wants to restore the Egyptian state. People who defect to Khnum are endless. The Great Unity Theology Society expands rapidly, and the number of members quickly exceeds a thousand. They practice their oath to expel the Greeks and restore Egypt.

In July, Knum and the Pax Romana Theological Society gathered a group of manpower, material resources and arms to plan an uprising in the city of Tanis, attempting to completely overthrow the rule of the Ptolemaic Empire by force.

At that time, Knum and his men thought that there were only thousands of defenders in Tanis and its defense was relatively weak, but at the same time, the city was close to Alexandria. Occupying Tanis would cause a sensation in Alexandria and the whole of Egypt. If it could set off a chain reaction and allow the local Egyptian nobles to expel the Greek nobles headed by Ptolemy VI, their revolution would be considered a success.

After discussing the uprising plan, part of the Datong Theological Society recruited soldiers, part raised arms, and another part began to lurk secretly in the city of Tanis, waiting for the time of the uprising to come.

(End of this chapter)