Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1034 The sincerity of peace

Chapter 1042 The sincerity of peace
Elder Cole Mario continued: "Not only the armor, but their horizontal blades are also much more powerful than our Roman swords!"

Looking at the horizontal knife glowing with azure blue light, Jovian stepped forward to hold the horizontal knife in his hand unconsciously, and made a random trick with the knife, then suddenly slashed at the table in front of him, only to hear a puff. With a muffled sound, a corner of the three-inch-thick chopping board was cut off in response.Immediately afterwards, Jovian asked a Guardsman to put a heavy Roman shield on the ground, and then chopped it down with all his might. The iron-breaded heavy shield also cracked, leaving only a thin hole on the horizontal knife. dent.

"Sure enough, it is a magic weapon."

Elder Cole Mario saw that Jovian also fell in love with this horizontal knife and said with a smile: "There is no doubt that the weapons and armor made by the State of Wei are the best in the world, so we can completely use our The gold in the treasury is exchanged with the Seres people for weapons and equipment. Although the Roman Empire has accumulated a large amount of gold for hundreds of thousands of years, although gold is precious, it cannot be transformed into real strength. If we exchange gold for equipment, although there is no The Seres directly participated in our war with the Persian Empire, I think our Roman Legion will not let us down again!"

Jovian nodded and said, "Yes, this is also a very good way!"

Elder Cole Mario said: "The second is the positioning of the two countries. We can form a commercial alliance with them like Jin, the original country of the Seres people. We can send representatives to each other, open border trading ports, and Merchant ships from the Roman Empire and the Great Wei Empire are allowed to do business!"

Julius Sulla suddenly asked: "Your Majesty the Emperor, what if the Serese want to form a military ally with our Roman Empire?"

Jovian mused, "Then just prevaricate, and don't agree or refuse for now."

The mission of the Wei State Mission did not actually have the intention of forming an alliance with the Roman Empire. For Ran Ming, the Roman Empire was already the meat in his bowl. It is very harmful, so Ran Ming will never use the covenant to bind his hands.

But buying Rome, this is what Ran Ming is most willing to do.The former emperor of the Roman Empire, Julian, was the last multi-faith emperor of the Roman Empire. During his reign, he encouraged multiple beliefs and worked hard to promote various academic developments. However, in the eyes of Christianity, he was an apostate.Therefore, after Julian's death and Jovian's accession to the throne, the Christianity has frantically suppressed schools other than Christianity, which has also caused a large number of scholars to be brutally killed or imprisoned. concentration camp.In particular, the neo-Platonic school of philosophy that Julian admired very much during his lifetime. As a result, more than [-] people in this school were imprisoned, and thousands of people were executed secretly or publicly. In Ran Ming’s view, the Roman Empire was simply raging things.

So this mission is making Chang Wei have a secret mission in addition to business cooperation with the Roman Empire, which is to attract political criminals from the Roman Empire and extradite them to the State of Wei.However, Ran Ming is not familiar with the history of the ancient Roman Empire, and he does not know how many elites in the Roman Empire died in this catastrophe, so he sent Chang Wei as the envoy and Severus as the deputy envoy. , also secretly dispatched Cicero, who was very knowledgeable about the academic Luo of the Roman Empire.

Cicero is the face of Europeans. He came to the Roman Empire like a fish in water. The scholar he most wanted to find was Theon, the current leader of the Neo-Platonic philosophy school. Theon was a Greek scientist, mathematician and philosopher in the Roman Empire. , he once commented on Euclid's "Elements of Geometry" and Ptolemy's "Great Synthesis".

This is a scientific talent that will definitely make Wei Emperor Ran Ming salivate. If Tai Ang is introduced to Wei, he may be promoted from Earl to Marquis by Cicero.At this time, the Roman Empire's suppression of the Neo-Platonic school of philosophy has reached a frenzied level. At this time, Taion was not spared. heavy manual labor punishment.

Cicero took a few Roman servants and pulled a whole cart of silk to meet a Christian steward who was in charge of managing the farm.After passing such a carload of bribes that could be equivalent to gold in the Roman Empire, Cicero successfully entered this so-called farm, which was actually a concentration camp hell.

Cicero did not directly ask for Taion to be taken away, but said to the steward: "He is a businessman who works for the Serese people. Now the Serese people like noble Roman beauties, and Roman beauties with noble blood will definitely not be willing." Going to Wei Guo, thousands of miles away, so he wants to buy some female slaves here!"

In fact, it is not uncommon for farm stewards to see this kind of thing. Whether it is the Wei State or the Roman Empire, culture is in the hands of the nobles. Whether it is the Neo-Platonic Philosophy School or the Christian Conservatives, they are the Roman nobles who can get access to knowledge.Aristocratic status is a value in itself.After all, not everyone likes a woman who doesn't understand etiquette.

"Yes, of course!" The steward said, shaking his head and saying, "However, here are all political prisoners. If there are fewer people, it will be hard to explain to the higher authorities!"

Cicero laughed: "A piece of silk, a beauty!"

The steward shook his head and said, "No, I'm not good at explaining."

"Oh!" Cicero said: "That's a pity. I heard that there are many good things in Cyril's place. Maybe I can return there satisfied!"

Hearing this, the steward immediately became anxious: "It's not impossible here, it's just the price!"

"How many?"

"Ten horses for every virgin, five horses for women, three horses for each man, whether you want it or not!"

"Three bolts of silk for a virgin, one for a man and one for a woman. You must know that the political prisoners here are all weak and sick. You don't know how many will survive in the end. If you buy such a person, our master will definitely do it." Prepare to lose money!"

"Five horses for virgins, three horses for women and men, no less!"

"Okay, deal!" Cicero said: "Okay, I don't even look at the goods, we will buy as many people as you have here!"

"Buy them all, this won't work!" The manager shouted, "The higher-ups will find out!"

Cicero gently pulled the steward and said, "Why are you so stupid, you can't think of a way?"

"To find ways to?"

"That's right!" Cicero said: "How many people are here, how many corpses do you go outside to find, and then set on fire, then even if the above finds out, you have so much silk, I'm afraid you won't have a good life ?"

"That's not okay, I will be found, and they will kill me then!"

"Forget it if you can't, you won't be able to earn this wealth in ten or even a hundred lifetimes!" Cicero said, "Cyril probably wants to do it!"

"Done!" The steward said ruthlessly, "But if I want to add more money, at least I have to pay me an extra 1 gold coins!"

"Are you crazy, or am I a fool?" Cicero said: "Roman beauties, especially virgins, may be able to sell some money when they are transported to Wei, but men and women are simply losers, or else I will only buy virgins? "

The manager is willing to agree. You must know that there are not many beauties here who can maintain their perfect bodies. If he only sells virgins, he will die at a loss.After bargaining in this way, he bought 650 seven political prisoners here with [-] bolts of silk and [-] gold coins. Cicero didn't dare to stay at all, and sent them directly to the residence of the Wei State Mission. "Count Cicero, if you bribe the guards like this, I'm afraid it will not be easy to extradite the talents of the Roman Empire to the state of Wei?" Chang Wei said with a smile: "Although most of the religious guards in the Roman Empire are very greedy, you will inevitably encounter them." People with high moral character may be people who cannot be moved by money!"

"That's right, this is also a temporary solution!" Cicero said, "Your Excellency Special Envoy, do you have any good solutions?"

"Yes, it's actually very simple!" Chang Wei said, "This envoy can temporarily add a clause in the process of negotiating with the Roman Empire to extradite all the political prisoners of the Roman Empire to the State of Wei!"

"How is this possible? The Pope will never agree to do this!" Cicero said: "The emperor of Rome is not like the emperor of Wei. Once Jovian dares to conflict with the Pope, His Majesty Julian will be his fate! Besides, we Wei Guo has no reason to interfere in the internal affairs of the Roman Empire."

"Why is there no reason? Now Helena is the imperial concubine of our Great Wei Empire, and the political prisoners of the neo-Platonic philosophy school in the Roman Empire were all old acquaintances of the imperial concubine Helena of the Wei State. The imperial concubine Helena does not want to see her Isn't that reason enough for the old people to suffer in the Roman Empire?"

"The Roman Empire will agree!" Cicero no longer regarded himself as a Roman, and even the Roman Empire was their Roman Empire in his mouth.

"This is mainly because we don't give enough benefits. As long as we place enough chips, the Romans will definitely agree!" Chang Wei said: "The current situation in Rome is not optimistic. If they dare not agree with the Roman Empire, they will form an alliance with Rome is not the only choice for our country Wei, maybe we can form an alliance with the Persian Empire, and then carve up the Roman Empire with the Persian Empire, in the face of life and death, the Roman Empire will make a rational choice, they have no choice but to compromise."

A weak country has no diplomacy. This has been an unchanging truth since ancient times.

However, Cicero looked at the confident Chang Wei suspiciously. Obviously he did not believe what Chang Wei said. Even Emperor Constantine couldn't compete head-on with the Holy See, let alone a Jovian whose prestige was far inferior to Constantine's Great Empire.

When the official diplomatic note was issued with the Roman Empire, Wei’s foreign minister’s mission was envoy Chang Wei to put forward four propositions to the Senate of the Roman Empire, including “peace and mutual assistance, free trade, friendly exchanges, and open borders and interoperability”.The so-called friendly exchanges actually mean that the citizens of the Roman Empire and the citizens of the State of Wei can communicate without hindrance between the two countries, so that "the people of the Roman Empire entering the State of Wei are like the people of the State of Wei, and the people of the State of Wei entering the Roman Empire are like the people of the Roman Empire." People of the Empire."

While the Roman Empire Congress was carefully considering the foreign policy of the Wei State Mission, the members of the Wei State Mission's entourage were released in batches into Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire.

However, when the members of the entourage of the Wei State Mission entered the largest and most prosperous city in the Roman Empire, their first impression was very disappointing.Although the city of Constantinople was built very spectacularly and the scale of the city was very large, the air inside was very dirty and the sanitation was very poor.In Ye City of Wei State, whether it is the army or civilians, all mules, horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock entering the city must have a dung bag hanging behind their buttocks, and there is a garbage bin every fifty steps on the main street, and there are sanitation workers every day Clean up the trash.Therefore, the sanitation of Yecheng in Wei State is very good.

But the Roman Empire did not have this phenomenon. Although the Roman Empire also cleaned Constantinople in order to welcome the arrival of the Wei State Mission, but these cleanings were only for the main streets, and because people did not have hygiene awareness, this laborious The results of the cleaning will soon be wiped out.

In order to show the goodwill of the Roman Empire to the Wei State, Jovian, especially the merchants of the mission, can go to the market in Constantinople to buy and sell freely, and it is tax-free.However, among the more than 5000 merchant delegations, in addition to regular merchants, there were also some Royal Secret Service spies.

These royal secret agents carried Ran Ming's secret mission, which was to use all means to promote the Wei State, build momentum for the Wei State, and win the people of the Roman Empire to have a good impression of the Wei State.In fact, this is not espionage, at best it is the export of cultural values.Later generations of the United States usually adopt three methods, Coca-Cola, Hollywood blockbusters, McDonald's and KFC.Even if the United States is domineering all over the world, the export of American cultural values ​​has captured the hearts of most people in the world.

As the political center of the Roman Empire, Constantinople is also one of the most cultural cities in the world today, but the European Renaissance in the Middle Ages will take hundreds of years, so at this time, the amateur culture of the people of the Roman Empire Life is very scarce, but the output of literature and art from Wei State, like nectar in the desert, comes in time.

Due to the language barrier between the Wei State and the Roman Empire, the Wei State Mission specially brought more than 100 translators and used these translations to promote the culture of the Wei State.After applying, members of the Wei State Mission got the opportunity to perform in the Roman Empire Theater.At this time, the stage play "Legend on Fire" influenced by Ran Ming was officially staged at the Roman Empire Theater.

At this time, the cultural industry of Wei State was quite prosperous. After many revisions and artistic processing by people in Wei State's literary and art circles, the large-scale stage play "Legend of Bathing Fire" has been very perfect. This story is based on the struggle history of Ran Ming and Ran Min. , the story twists and turns.There is sensationalism in the sensational place, and passion in the passionate place.

Especially when Wei State was invaded by 20 cavalry from Xianbei Yan State, all the territories and cities were lost except for Yecheng, all the soldiers of Wei State were killed in battle, and the people were all reduced to slaves. The Romans in the play suddenly thought of themselves again. Now they have lost five cities in the eastern provinces, and nearly a million people have been reduced to slaves of the Persian Empire, so most of the audience couldn't help crying.

At this point in the story, there was a sudden turning point. Ran Ming appeared in front of the fleeing people and shouted: "Although we can still run, we only have two legs. No matter how we run, we cannot outrun those four-legged beasts. Therefore, King Gu is not going to run away. Behind us is Yecheng and the Yellow River. There is no way to retreat. Gentlemen, even if the enemy is strong and we are weak, or the enemy is numerous and we are few, Gu can lead you to die and fight to the end! "

Since the stage plays are expressed in Latin and Greek, the most common language in the Roman Empire, at this time, it unexpectedly resonated with the audience. Countless audiences suddenly stood up and shouted along with the lines: "Go to fight to the death, fight to the end!" !"

In fact, the story only stopped at the bloody battle at the Lishui River, but soon the most classic line in the story: "Behind us is Yecheng and the Yellow River. We can retreat. Even if the enemy is strong and we are weak, the enemy is many and we are weak." Widows, but orphans can lead you to die, to fight to the end!"

There are also Roman patriotic youths who have begun to cry out in various places in Constantinople. Behind our Eastern Region is Constantinople, and the Roman Empire cannot retreat. We must fight to the end! "

The unprecedented success of Wei State's stage play made countless spectators waiting to watch the story of "Legend on Fire" in front of the Grand Theater of the Roman Empire, and as the influence intensified, various small theaters of the Roman Empire began to imitate Wei Wei. The "Legend of Bathing Fire" by the Chinese mission not only caused an upsurge in the stage play of the State of Wei, but even the emperor and deacon of the Roman Empire learned from "Legend of Bathing Fire" that Wei State used horse traps and flat carbine-repelling guns to fight against cavalry. tactics.

The deacon chief of the Roman Empire is actually equivalent to the prime minister of the Wei State. His duties include commanding the imperial army, patrolling the troops, supervising officials at all levels, issuing official documents, presiding over diplomatic activities, concluding treaties, participating in the trial of major cases, and taking charge of internal and external affairs of the palace, etc. important responsibilities.At this time, Augustus, the deacon of the Roman Empire, was considered the elder of the three dynasties of the Roman Empire. Even after the death of Julian, the rest of the party was liquidated on a large scale, but Augustus was still as stable as Mount Tai, because when the Roman Empire was in decline, Rome The empire is indeed inseparable from this great steward.

Augustus nicknamed "Old Fox" In fact, without the support of Augustus, Jovian would not be able to become the emperor of the Roman Empire.

Just as Jovian was anxiously waiting for the Roman Empire's army to verify the feasibility of the horse trap and the flat carbine refusal, Augustus walked into the Roman palace with an apologetic face. "My Emperor, I have kept you waiting for a long time!"

"What was the result?" Jovian, as a military emperor, had actually suffered enough from the Persian cavalry.The Roman legion was actually a comprehensive infantry legion. Originally, each legion had only [-] cavalry. Although it was increased to [-] cavalry later, it actually had little effect on the outcome of the battle.When the Roman legion faced the Persian cavalry, it was like the helplessness of the Song Dynasty, Liao army and Xixia army.If there is a way to restrain the Persian cavalry, Jovian doesn't have to be so angry.

In fact, when Ran Ming planned to perform this stage play in the Roman Empire, he actually dug a hole and brought the reform of the Roman Legion into the hole.Using infantry to defeat cavalry is actually the most helpless way. The best way to deal with cavalry is to use cavalry to control cavalry.Unlike the embarrassing situation in the Song Dynasty, the Roman Empire actually had enough horse sources and good horse farms, but it didn't pay attention to the construction of cavalry troops.If you pay attention to cavalry, the Roman Empire can definitely achieve achievements in cavalry building.

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