Chapter 988 Extra Earth Orthodox Theory

Under the careful and conservative administration of the monarch and ministers, the court did not make any new moves in the last third of the 210 years, and even in the early 211 years.

It can be seen that everyone is still a little afraid of the disaster of "Yinghuo Shuxin". If you can do it, you won't make trouble.

This also led to the fact that government affairs during this period were really boring and there was nothing worth writing about. Liu Bei, who had finally become enterprising, temporarily returned to a state of tolerance and cowardice.

Seeing that the first month of 211 was over in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere, Liu Bei also made up for the frustration that he did not dare to play freely on his fiftieth birthday, so he completely breathed a sigh of relief.

Those conspiracy theorists who do deserve the crime have been killed or executed, but not as many sentences as they were at the beginning, and they are still open to some first-time offenders.

In the summer of 211, the project progress of the canal project was accelerated again, and all the progress that was lost was to be made up for last winter because of stability and many emergencies were not afraid to add additional resources to solve.

The year of the catastrophe has passed, and Liu Bei is no longer afraid!

For this reason, during the slack season in April of that year, Liu Bei personally went to Yecheng to inspect various administrative work in Jizhou, and called the Prime Minister to accompany him to patrol the hunting ceremony. Any government affairs in the court could be handled by mobile office.

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One day in Yecheng, Liu Bei was tired of inspecting the city and then held a private banquet.

After drinking too much, I remembered to brag about Li Su. Zhuge Liang: "I know that Kong Ming's virtuous nephew is right! There is no nonsense in this world that corresponds to the disasters and disasters of the people and the kings!

Now, five months have passed since the year of Ying Huo's heart! Everything is fine! I feel that I feel comfortable this year and healthier than last year! Brother Boya and Nephew Kong Ming, then you will also pay attention to physical fitness and health while working hard!"

Li Su was also a little funny: Liu Bei still has the face to persuade him to maintain health? Although Liu Bei practices martial arts and exercises more than him, Liu Bei's lustful problem is much more serious than him. Well! So many concubines and concubines often change their styles. They are still like this when they are fifty-one years old, and their lifespan will definitely not be as long as him!

However, it was not easy to disappoint the emperor, and Li Su, Zhuge Liang accepted the suggestion on the surface.

However, at the nonsense table of the king and his ministers, officials from Luoyang suddenly reported some strange news, which changed Liu Bei's face and felt a little depressed.

As the prime minister, Li Su had nothing to avoid, so he asked the "intelligence official" who was summoning him very openly what happened.

The official's name is Ma Liang, who was next to Guan Yu in history. He is now nearly thirty years old. Their family defected to Liu Bei in Jingzhou eighteen years ago, but Ma Liang was still a little kid at that time, and only his elder brother became an official.

Ma Liang himself only became an official when the world was reunified, so even if his family had some accumulation, he could only pass the imperial examination. After serving as an official in the past ten years, he had not yet reached the "department level".

He is now in charge of the Lantai Library in Luoyang and other foreign exchange affairs. This official position was originally not in the Han Dynasty, or it was originally only under the jurisdiction of a certain order/doctor under the Great Honglu who was in charge of barbarian affairs.

Now, because Li Su was engaged in the translation movement in Luoyang many years ago and expanded trade and cultural exchanges in the Western Regions a large number of times, he divided some of his powers from the order of the subordinates of the Ministry and merged with this new official position to manage overseas intelligence and overseas cultural and scientific exchanges.

The work Ma Liang is now in charge is to report directly to Yang Xiu, the second-in-commander of the Ministry of Envoys. This time, because of a sudden incident, Yang Xiu signaled him to come to Yecheng to report directly to the Lord and face him.

Facing Li Su's inquiry, Ma Liang just glanced at Liu Bei. Seeing that the emperor had no intention of objection, he told all the foreign information he had found:

"A group of rest caravans who just came from the Western Regions in early summer this year brought a lot of ancient books, historical materials, and technical documents from the Western Regions, dedicated to General Ma Chao, who is still in the Western Regions, and also intends to settle in the Western Regions to avoid war.

Seeing that the caravan was doing extraordinary things, General Ma Chao specially sent troops to escort the tribute to Beijing so that the envoys could receive it. As a result, during the contact, his subordinates discovered a lot of useful information.

In the caravan, there were some Roman upper class nobles who were said to be down and out. In order to avoid civil strife, they lost their power and fled to the enemy country in the east. The situation was even more advanced than the Sicilian nobles who escaped during the civil war between the Commod pseudo-Emperor."

Speaking of this, Ma Liang paused for a moment, giving Li Suhao time to react.

After all, more than ten years ago, the famous Roman craftsman Titus was brought to the Central Plains by his lord Valerieus, and was earned by Li Su from a large sum of money. Later, he also helped survey, plan and design many canal projects and water conservancy projects.

So far, in the history of the Han Dynasty, the introduction of Roman technical talents has always been the most important and worth recording. When it comes to this matter, we can compare the case to explain the situation, so that the case has become a unit of measurement.

In addition, because of the orthodoxy and translation, even if the Roman emperors claim to be emperors in China, the Han people must not be considered emperors when referring to them.

In common ways, they are called "Roman King" or "Roman pseudo-emperor".

Those who have some knowledge and culture know that "there are many lords under Rome who can also be called kings, so the monarchs in Rome are one level higher than the kings." Then, by transliteration, they are directly called "Roman Augustus".

After Li Su understood these memories, Ma Liang continued to say:

"The Roman nobles who fled this time actually claimed to be the Armenian royal family. According to their statement, Armenia was originally the most remote buffer zone in Rome and was at the forefront of the war between Rome and Ali, so they always ruled by throne. Rome allowed its monarch to be king, as long as they surrender to the pseudo-emperor Severu.

But at the end of last year, the beginning of this winter, the Romans suddenly changed their orders, demanding that Armenia be transformed from a vassal kingdom to a direct provincial, and deprived of the Armenian king of hereditary powers. A small-scale civil war broke out.

Of course, the Armenians were unable to resist, so they were officially transformed into provinces, and their royal families also fled eastward to the territory of Anxue, seeking asylum.

However, the Amenians are now weak. The king and his brothers are at odds with each other and have internal troubles and have no time to be tough on Rome. Under the negotiations between Rome, some Armenian royals were betrayed by the Amenians and handed over to Rome.

The remaining Armenian royals were frightened and felt that they could not receive shelter in the territory of Anxue, so they inquired about it with Anxue. They learned that there were even more great men in the east of Anxue, who were recruiting scholars from all over the world, eager to seek talents, and were very kind to the Gentiles who offered books and skills, and they would never be threatened by Rome.

These people then took out the royal family's remaining property, bought Anxi caravans with a lot of money to lead the way, and purchased trade tributes. After half a year of travel, they came to the Central Plains to seek settlement."

After hearing this, Li Su didn't see any problems here, and there was anything to worry about. These should be good things!

In addition, Li Su certainly didn't understand the history of the Roman province in Armenia, such as the corners and corners, so he didn't think there was anything worth using that kind of broken place.

That is the barbaric land on the edge of the Romans! What other mathematicians and physicists can you get us? Even if you are a down-and-out royal family, it has a lot of value to use!

The great man can still use a puppet like a waste to make a claim, is it possible to go to the Transcaucasus to be a hero? It is too far away and has no economic value.

Even though Ma Chao is doing well in protecting the Western Regions now, the Western Regions have developed greatly in the past decade, and many small tribes in the small kingdoms are attached to each other, and the trade and cotton textile industry are also thriving with each passing day...

But even so, Li Su felt that the future development of the Han Dynasty to Central Asia would be as far as the Wakhan Corridor or even Samarkand, and to control the commercial roads of the Pamir Mountains and collect tariffs.

Except for some fertile valleys in the Hindu Kush Mountains that play a transportation hub, all other wastelands are worthless! No matter how far away they are, they are even less valuable!

From north to the Aral Sea and west to Samarkand, this is Li Su's farthest imagination limit for the Han Dynasty to expand northwest by land.

It is far from meeting the technical conditions and transportation costs of the times. If you really think that the land is not enough, you would rather spend your extra energy southward to the ocean to develop, occupy a little more in Southeast Asia and maintain it by navigation and transportation, and it is also more reliable than the northwest grassland and desert.

Before the emergence of the railway, the Silk Road must not be able to resist the cost advantage of the Maritime Silk Road, and we must respect the laws of nature.

Just as Li Su thought about what these messy things were worthy of Yang Xiu asked Ma Liang to come to Yecheng to report, and the answer was finally revealed.

Ma Liang continued: "...The reason why the composition of this tribute caravan had to come to report is because they also brought important information.

The reason why the Roman puppet emperor suddenly changed his temperament and wanted to demote Armenia from a vassal kingdom to a province directly under the jurisdiction of the province, and even went to war was that the puppet emperor Severu, who had ruled Rome for 16 years, suddenly died suddenly in the twelfth lunar month last year.

The one who ascended the throne now is his eldest son Caracala. This man is said to be violent by nature and cannot tolerate others. He is also extremely extravagant. Once he ascended the throne, he made a vow in the city of Rome to build the largest bathing place in ancient times, saying that he could take a bath with all the nobles in Rome. Such wine pools, meat forests, and so on.

He used military forces to Armenia and harmed the vassal royal family, and was mostly willful..."

When Li Su heard this, he finally became a little interested, but he felt more curious and funny. He was not very familiar with Caracala's deeds. After all, he could not know the bunch of incompetent tyrants in the "Three Century Crisis" of Rome.

At most, I vaguely knew that during this period of Roman history, the trick of "universal citizenship" was used, and was written into "History of the Decline of the Roman Empire" by later historians. I basically didn't care about other details.

The reason why Li Su finds it funny is just because he snatched the wonder of Karakara's world's largest bathroom.

The size and grade of the bathing grounds in Luoyang Gongyuan are definitely a combination of Chinese and Western styles, absorbing the design of the famous Roman craftsman Titus and the ingenuity of Ma Jun, a famous worker in the Central Plains.

Because of the butterfly effect, Karakara lost a designer who originally designed the bath. No matter how arrogant he is, he will definitely not be as good as Luoyang's in the end!

Of course, Li Su, the strongest bathing prince on Earth, can’t rob him!

However, after laughing, Li Su still didn't think that there was anything politically a big deal about Karaka**ki.

Finally, Liu Bei, who still had a bit of superstition in his heart, called out and reminded him depressedly: "My brother has always been anxious and wise, why are he stupid now? Could it be that he is afraid that I am unhappy, so he deliberately sees through it and does not point it out? That's not necessary!

The key is not this Karaka**ki, but the death of the fake Emperor Seviru! Why did he die at this time? He died in the twelfth month of last year! Now in Luoyang City, officials who are slightly in the same barbarian affairs and wealthy people who trade with Hu merchants may have been immersed in this foreign land!

Even though they haven't thought much yet, they just laughed. But after a long time, after recalling the taste, whenever someone thinks about it, saying that last year, Ying Huo guards his heart, and there is no disaster or change in the Central Plains, but the Roman pseudo-emperor in the land of Taixi died, then they wouldn't be..."

Liu Bei was also angry and stopped the car at the end. The main reason was that he was the emperor. He didn't have to care about taboos when speaking, and no one caught him, so he used rude words. If he were a minister, he would definitely not have such a tendency to say the wrong words.

Li Su suddenly realized: Isn’t this the situation in history when the 226th year of Ying Huo Shuxin was the situation?

Originally, after Ying Huo Shuanxin, Cao Pi died. Huang Quan also comforted Cao Rui, saying that this was the representative of the orthodox Three Kingdoms, which showed that the Emperor of Wei was qualified to die because Ying Huo Shuanxin. This was a happy event. Ji Han and the people of Wu were not worthy.

There is no record of this 210 years in history. It is said that "it should have happened in astronomy, but the historian and the astronomical officer did not remember it." Perhaps because there was no bad thing that happened and had no warning and educational significance, the historian deliberately hid.

Now, Roman emperor Severu died on February 4, 211 AD - but this day was calculated according to the Gregorian calendar and according to the Han lunar calendar, did he die only at the end of the twelfth lunar month of the 210th year.

In addition, although Severu ascended the throne in April 193, Rome was still in a civil war with several emperors coexisting. Severu killed another warlord Nigor, who was the only one who became the emperor in Rome, which was completed in 194.

It was equivalent to the last time that Ying Huo Shouxin, Liu Bei killed Li Jue and Guo Si on the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xie lost Chang'an. On Rome, Severu's previous ex was over and he had just taken office. As the only emperor in Rome, Severu's term of office was exactly the window between the two times.

Moreover, in history, Severu's death was a relatively sudden death. Although he was 66 years old, he was still strong before his death and could lead troops on an expedition.

This time, during the expedition to Britain, because of infection with local infectious diseases in the British Isles, the Romans from the mainland should have lacked immunity to this infectious disease, so they suddenly died.

He also found out that he died at the end of the twelfth lunar month of the year when Ying Huo Shuo was in his heart, which was like catching the last bus. If these details were found out by those who were interested, they would definitely cause some confusion in the hearts.

Li Su is not sensitive because she is not superstitious in her heart, while Liu Bei is obviously superstitious and has not completely eradicated, so she reacts quickly and is in a bad mood.

Fortunately, Li Su and Zhuge Liang reacted quickly, and they immediately came up with a response plan:

"Please don't worry, your Majesty, the celestial phenomena have nothing to do with the lord, and they are all regular. At least the trajectory of the stars must be like this, and other floods, droughts, winds and disasters are not within this scientific system..."

Liu Bei said angrily: "Of course I believe it, but we must prevent anyone from using this matter to sow people's hearts!"

The monarch is scientific, and if the people still believe it, this kind of thing will still be harmful.

Of course, Li Su knew this and immediately continued to add: "Then prepare both ways. On the one hand, the senior officials should firmly believe in it. This time, we can just screen who can trust the ministers and who have no faith.

On the other hand, when it is absolutely necessary, it is a secretly revealed to the outside world: In all nations, there are always people who die in the year of Ying Huo Shuxin, so you can always find coincidences. Even if the civil servants and military generals are few of them, they will die in this year? There are always so many people who die every year, and if there are too many, they will naturally happen.

Moreover, maybe someone loses his virtue. Even if he is a minister or a king of barbarians and foreign countries, he will easily die in such a year. What is the relationship with orthodoxy? This is just an over-interpretation of this matter since ancient times."

Li Su didn't want to say that, because this method is urgent and in a hurry, it is still not good for breaking superstition in the long run.

But when Liu Bei heard this, he felt a little relieved: "Yes, yes, let's say that! The Roman tyrant is unethical, although he is a hypocrite, will die in this year! Whoever loses his virtue will die! Of course, the orthodox earth is always my great man!"

Liu Bei has also known the concept of "earth" in recent years and has gradually accepted some of Li Su, Zhuge Liang's views on geographical and astronomical phenomena, but he does not mention this word when he speaks.
Chapter completed!