Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1033 Panic in the Senate

Chapter 1041 Panic in the Senate

"The Seres could easily defeat the Huns, and they killed the Huns to leave their homes and flee thousands of miles. It can be seen that those Seres are stronger than we imagined!" Jovian was worried.What if the Wei State defeated the Persian Empire and annexed the Roman Empire by the way?

At this time, Emperor Jovian of the Roman Empire also brought his opinion on whether to form an alliance with Wei or not to the Senate for discussion.The situation in the Roman Empire is actually worse than Ran Ming imagined. At this time in history, the emperor of the Roman Empire has been replaced by Valens. The first thing after Valens came to power was to reform the Roman Legion. The Roman Legion absorbed a large number of Goths, but it caused a huge national crisis, and Valens himself was defeated by the Gothic rebels and burned to death in a wooden house.

And in this time and space, because Jovian did not absorb the Goths into the Roman Legion like Valens did, the Roman Legion was completely passive in the face of the Persian cavalry of the Sasanian Dynasty. At this time, in the Roman Empire The descendants of the Huns and Alans in the northeast, and the Slavs in the northwest all continued to provoke the Roman Empire.At this time, if there is no foreign aid, it will be difficult to break this dilemma simply relying on the Roman Empire's own strength.

Moreover, the Roman Empire has now entered a vicious cycle. With the continuous loss of a large number of elite troops of the Roman Legion, Jovian had to carry out multiple conscriptions. As a result, a large number of civilians entered the army, which restricted economic development, not only the military production of the Roman Empire. Affected, even civilian supplies are in a plight of extreme scarcity.

Yollens said: "Here is a letter from General Bailey, which describes in detail the strength of the Serisian army. If their cavalry faces the Persian cavalry, they can at least fight five against one, but Wei has 100 troops. Thousands of elite troops. Compared with Wei, our Roman Empire is too weak now. Once the Seres people set their sights on the river area, I am afraid they will not leave easily. Our Roman Empire is still defeated by the Persian Empire. If It will be even more unfavorable if we fight against Wei Guo in the future!"

Senator Julius Sulla was embarrassed, and finally gritted his teeth: "Your Majesty, Wei is thousands of miles away from our Roman Empire. Even though the Seres have more than 100 million troops, they can send them to our Roman Empire." How many empires can there be? Moreover, they are so far away from the Roman Empire, and the transportation of luggage is inconvenient. Even if they intend to invade the Roman Empire, I am afraid they will be powerless. Moreover, the problem facing our Roman Empire is imminent. If we do not form an alliance with Wei , our Roman Empire will soon be in danger of falling apart."

The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body that played an extremely important role in the government of the Roman Republic and Empire.Although the Senate of the Roman Empire does not have the advice of later parliaments on legal proceedings, and is not law in essence, it can also check dictatorship to a certain extent.Constantine the Great of the Roman Empire had to move his capital to Byzantium because of his constant conflicts with the Senate of the Roman Empire.

With Patriarch Sulla agreeing to form an alliance, and Patriarch Cole Marius, a patriarch sent by merchants from the Roman Empire, proposed the establishment of limited diplomatic relations. "Since His Majesty the Emperor is worried about forming an alliance, and Mr. Sulla agrees, it is better for us to shelve the military affairs in advance, but two things are very important. The first is the continuous expansion of the army. Our Roman Empire's armor and weapons and other military There is a shortage of equipment, and the production capacity of our Roman Empire is far from meeting the demand, so it is better for us to purchase a large amount of equipment from Wei."

Elder Cole Mario was clearly well-prepared. He ordered someone to bring a set of Mingguang armor made in the Wei state, as well as a horse crossbow and a horizontal knife. I bought it from a merchant in the Kingdom of Kang. This is a set of Wei State-made armor. They are called Mingguang Armor. I have tried it myself. It is almost impossible for the Persian riding bow to match fifty yards (one yard is about 0.914 meters). Cause fatal damage, if our Roman army is equipped with this kind of armor, it can greatly enhance the ability to survive in the arrow rain of the Persian cavalry. This kind of armor can not only defend against the shooting of bows and arrows, but also against weapons such as swords, defense The strength is amazing. As for this crossbow, I don’t know what method was used to make it. It is very precise. I have sent skilled craftsmen to dismantle it to find a way to imitate it. If you take the correct disassembly method, the mechanism inside will be damaged. However, this crossbow is very powerful. Its range can reach 150 yards, and it can break the light armor of our Roman Empire at a distance of [-] yards, and at a distance of [-] yards. It can break through heavy armor, and at a distance of fifty yards, it can ignore the defense of Roman armor."

Speaking of this, both Jovian and the hundred-member Roman Empire exclaimed.

The rebellions and civil uprisings in Shangdang County of Bingzhou Governor's Department of Wei State, Wenchuan County of Yizhou Governor's Department, and Sha County of Xiangzhou Governor's Department did not actually cause a chain reaction. to a minimum.However, because of these three incidents, it caused a huge reaction in the government and the public of Wei State.

The Wei State Cabinet immediately introduced tough measures. First, it increased the number of armed forces in the Wei State Security Corps, increasing the number from the original 180 to 20, so that the Wei State Security Army had [-] troops, which was enough to suppress local forces. rebellion.At the same time, Cabinet Wei ordered local governments to include assimilation performance in the evaluation of officials.

The difficulty for slaves to obtain Wei nationality has also been greatly reduced. First of all, the original ten-year examination period is shortened to three years. On the other hand, one can apply for the Wei Guoyi nationality, and at the same time have a major meritorious service, he can be promoted to a naturalized nationality.The barbarians in the Wei state are free themselves, and can engage in various occupations such as farming, animal husbandry, fishing, hunting, and engineering, and can have full legal income from various occupations.The barbarian nationality of the Wei state is equivalent to the naturalized nationality and the Han nationality, except that they cannot have the opportunity to be an official or join the army.

With the promulgation and implementation of the Nationality Amendment Act of the Cabinet, slaves everywhere set off a new round of enthusiasm for learning Chinese.Although Chinese is difficult to learn, the requirements for the Chinese language proficiency of foreign nationals are actually not high. As long as they can communicate in Chinese in daily life, it is considered a pass, except that there is a rigid rule when they are promoted to naturalized nationality, that is, they must know at least a thousand foreign nationals. Chinese character.

In a government-run saltworks in Beihai County of the State of Wei, the steward of the saltworks read out the Nationality Amendment Act, and then ordered a translator (translator) to translate it for the slave craftsmen.All the slaves were very excited when they heard that they also had the opportunity to escape from slavery and become commoners of the Wei state.Many of the courageous slaves asked the manager in broken Chinese: "How can we become the people of the Great Wei!"

The person in charge said: "There are three conditions for a slave to be released from citizenship. First, he must have sufficient seniority and have not made any mistakes within three years before he is eligible; second, he must learn Chinese; third, he must make meritorious service. These three conditions are all met. , will naturally be freed from slavery, and if the conditions are not met, there is nothing I can do about it.”

The slave said: "You can learn Chinese after a long time, but it is too difficult not to make mistakes for three years. It can be tolerated for ten days and a half months. If it takes a year and a half, most of them will not be able to bear it. Something went wrong."

The steward said: "Then find a way to make meritorious service."

"For meritorious service, you have to have a chance." The slave said.

The manager said: "What kind of opportunity do you want? In fact, the opportunity is right in front of you. For example, the slaves in Xiangyuan rebelled. If those slaves did not follow the rebellion, but helped the officers and soldiers suppress the rebellion, it would be meritorious service. There is also the Qiang rebellion in Wenchuan County. At that time, as long as those slaves did not participate in the rebellion, reporting and reporting the bandits who conspired to rebel was considered meritorious service. As long as they made meritorious deeds and learned Chinese, they did not need to worry about the time limit for leaving the country. Even if there is no such opportunity, it does not matter. To do things, to find simple and effective working methods, or to make major innovations in mechanical equipment is also meritorious service, and you can also obtain Wei Guoyi nationality or even naturalization. You don’t know, there is a slave named Bender Assam in Yecheng , he improved the piston structure of the steam engine, not only immediately obtained Wei nationality, but also became a Viscount of Wei."

At this time, a considerable number of slaves owned by the State of Wei were Hu prisoners of war with a high degree of Sinicization. Among them, the prisoners of war of the Northern Han Dynasty in the original state, the prisoners of the Yan State in Xianbei, the Qiang prisoners of war in Di Qin and Liang States, and those who had more contact with Han civilization Although the Liaoren prisoners of war are not ethnic groups in the Han civilization system, they have been greatly affected because they came into contact with the Han civilization earlier.In fact, although there are Caucasians in the Wuhu, they are not the main ethnic group, and most of them are yellow races.

Especially the small ethnic groups in the Western Regions, these have been the vassal states of the Han Dynasty since the Han Dynasty. When the Han Dynasty was strong, they were all Han people. .When the various policies of the Wei state were tilted towards the main ethnic group of the Han nationality, they consciously changed their surnames to Han, wore Han clothes, and spoke Han.

For example, the Hu people who took Wensu as their surname in Wensu country in the western region immediately changed their Han surname to Wen, and pretended to be a branch of the Wen clan in Taiyuan, while the Xi clan in Liaodong changed their Han surname to Xi.As for the Dudelat tribe, the family name was changed to the Du family.Usually these Hu people change their surnames to Han, and they all use the first character of the tribe name. If the first character does not have the surname of the Han people, they will be changed to a homonymous surname.

Wei Guo doesn't care whether these Hu people are real Han or fake Han, as long as they change their Han surnames, wear Han clothes, speak Chinese, and abide by Wei's laws.regarded as Han Chinese.

In the era that Ran Ming traveled through, the Celestial Dynasty adopted a very ridiculous ethnic policy of turning Han into Hu. Since all aspects were tilted towards ethnic minorities, such as education, work, college entrance examination, family planning, taxation, etc., ethnic minorities enjoyed The treatment is superior to the nationals, and many Han families take advantage of the policy loopholes or use the back door. Therefore, many people change their races and ancestors one after another when they see the benefits. At the beginning, they just want to gain immediate benefits, and they have no sense of being a minority in their hearts. But after two or three generations, the long falsehood became real, and the national concept was formed naturally.

Contrary to the ridiculous "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, the policy of Wei State at this time was to work hard to turn Hu into Han. Perhaps those Hu people were greedy for immediate interests at the beginning. It is also fake, but since most people have yellow skin and black hair, and many of them are of mixed ethnicity, it is extremely easy to "pretend" to be Han people, changing the style of clothes and hairstyle One change, one change of language.

Originally, the Han nationality is not a nation composed of blood ties, and a unified nation has unified national beliefs and values, but it is very ridiculous that the policy of later generations just brandished a sword from the palace. As a result, the Han people were basically offended. But the Hu people rebelled in different ways.

As soon as Wei State's revised Nationality Act was promulgated, Wei State's slave atmosphere and work efficiency suddenly increased. They hardly needed to be whipped, and they would consciously work hard.At this time, Wei Guo's nationality is much more valuable than the green card of the United States in later generations.Ran Ming believes that killing alone cannot solve the problem of ethnic conflicts, and the racial discrimination in the United States in later generations actually affects social harmony.

"Your Majesty, I have already learned the whole story of the Hengshan County Incident in Changsha!" Li Ye, the captain of the Royal Guard, said, "In fact, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the cabinet secretly led the matter, and the purpose was to move the stubborn people from their original places to the Western Regions or Southeast Asia. !"

It turned out that as the territory of Wei State became bigger and bigger, and people's lives were getting better and better, so at this time, immigration work became more and more difficult to do. Ran Ming's policy was to immigrate to the border, but the people were unwilling to emigrate, even if But now the immigration working group has relaxed the immigration conditions to free housing, and ten times the compensation for cultivated land per person. If you have ten acres of land in your original place, you can get [-] acres of land for immigration. The land obtained is [-] mu.Moreover, all the costs of farming tools, seeds, and the immigration road are borne by the government, but those people are not willing to emigrate.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Metropolitan Procuratorate began to mislead the people to oppose the government, and then took coercive measures to move the people from their original places to border areas.However, in Hengshan County, due to the civil uprising in Hengshan and the severe punishment imposed by the cabinet, the scope of the attack was very wide. Whether it was officials who supported the Li family in Hengshan or relatives of the Li family in Hengshan, a total of more than [-] people were distributed to them. Gancheng and Gumo and other places.

Ran Ming was also very angry when he heard about it at the beginning, but now it seems that the Hengshan incident was simply a combination of the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate using Xiao Lezi to set up a situation.In fact, this situation is exactly the same as Ran Ming's driving wolf and tiger back then.At the beginning, in order to gain control of Qin Liang, Ran Ming drove Yuwen to open the way in front, while Ran Ming led the army to clean up the mess behind.The same is true of Anxi Army's actions in the Western Regions.From a legal point of view, it is illegal for the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to do so, but without doing so, the immigration work cannot be completed at all.

Ran Ming said: "How many people died in Hengshan's transformation?"

Li Yedao: "The cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not dare to disregard human lives. In fact, including Hengshan County Magistrate Zhang Chun, all the dead were not dead. They were just injured and declared dead. His three sons committed suicide in fear of crime!"

"Is the news accurate?" Ran Ming asked again.

Li Yedao: "Absolutely accurate, the source of the news was sent by the dark pile and dark seven of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."

"Closely monitor the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. If they don't go out of line and everything is for the public, then just let it go, ignore it, don't interfere, and don't help!" Ran Ming gave instructions: "One more time to hit Xiao Lezi. Although I don't want to kill Sima Dan, but I don't have any psychological pressure to kill Xiao Lezi."

"I feel that it's better to keep this matter secret!" Li Ye said cautiously.

"Why?" Ran Ming asked curiously.

"Because the cabinet has long known about the existence of the Royal Guards, once Xiao Lezi is beaten, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Secretary of the Integrity will be alerted, and they will definitely not guide such actions again, and it will be too difficult for His Majesty to immigrate! "Li Ye said: "Besides, what the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate did is actually irrelevant to the overall situation. Your Majesty has long been out of the matter. No matter how much they toss, it will not affect the development plan of Wei State!"

Ran Ming hesitated and said: "But, if I know the news but turn a blind eye, do I deliberately let them trample on the laws of the Great Wei?"

"I don't mean that!" Li Ye said: "Actually, it is better for your Majesty to set up a military mansion to strengthen the frontiers. It is better to use a two-pronged approach, to form a military mansion with Wei State retired sergeants who are over 40 years old, and then reward the fields around the military mansion. Meritorious soldiers, this way you can not only gain the loyal support of the soldiers, but also achieve practical results on the border. Your Majesty will then order the families of the soldiers in the military government to accompany the army, so that the border can be guaranteed to be worry-free."

Under the influence of Ran Ming, soldiers in Wei State at this time are a very noble profession. Soldiers have high political status and good income, so the common people are proud to join the army. Regardless of the field army, the common people will be encouraged to join the army.In the name of preparing to build a military government, it is actually an immigration policy, so that the policy will not be resisted by the people.

After hearing what Li Ye said, Ran Ming thought about it. In history, the Tang Dynasty set up the Anxi Protectorate in the Western Regions, with 29 Zhechong mansions under its jurisdiction, with a total of about 5 soldiers.At this time, Ran Ming could also follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and set up 29 Zhechong Mansions. Each military mansion has three to four mansion barracks under its jurisdiction. In this way, including the family members accompanying the army, it is enough to immigrate at least 30 people to the border.As these 30 immigrants immigrated to the Western Regions, the proportion of Han and Hu ethnic groups in the Western Regions could be immediately diluted.

Ran Ming is a person who thinks about it and does it. He brought the plan of establishing 29 Zhechong mansions in Tingzhou and Chuzhou to the cabinet for deliberation.

(End of this chapter)