Chapter 422: The Most Expensive Fig Leaf
After that, it was the most important dynasty.
Zhou Dynasty.
The story of Daji and the King of Zhou is the alternation of Shang and Zhou.
By the Zhou Dynasty, China's feudal system had undergone a full 1,000 years of development.
It has developed into a very stable hierarchical system, bureaucratic system, and etiquette system, and has accumulated a complete set of dynastic management experience, such as the three palaces and six courts, the princes and grandsons of the princes, the princes of heaven, the prime ministers, the generals, the earls, the marquises, the feudal territories, the princess and the prince, the poetry and the book etiquette, the priest and the priest, and a series of complete civil and military officials.
It also developed the largest army in the world.
Zhou Li has had a profound impact on Chinese culture.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, what is the advantage of China? No matter how the dynasties change, including the several dynasties established by the nomads, they are all completely copied from the Zhou ritual system, so this situation in the Warring States Period appeared.
Professional politicians appeared.
No matter how many countries appear on the territory of China, such as the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, Qi Chuyan, Han, Zhao, Wei Qin, these 7 countries, at most hundreds of countries, his meow system is exactly the same, all inherited from the Zhou Dynasty's concept of vassal states, called the king and hegemon, prime minister, Shangshu, general, county order, inspection, so there are outstanding people who study military and politics, such as Su Qin, Zhang Yi, etc., who are vertical and horizontal, wearing the existence of the seal of the six countries.
Even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms competed for hegemony, and the civil and military systems were exactly the same.
Therefore, once a new unified regime is established, it will soon be able to regain its strength.
On the other hand, the European continent, because there is no complete management experience and dynastic system like Zhou Li, it is difficult to compare with China in the feudal period.
Like during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, China's armies fought wars, often in the millions.
And what about Europe?
It was also large-scale in the city-state period, the castle period, and the military and political systems were scattered and chaotic.
In the feudal society of Europe, the king, nobles and knights and other large and small feudal lords constitute a pyramid-like hierarchy, but their rights and obligations are limited, up and down are vassal relations, fighting wars are regardless of the life and death of others, selfishness, this complex hierarchical relationship and the so-called chivalry, so that the European feudal countries have been in a state of separation for a long time, and the whole world of Eastern China, is not the king's land, the coast of the land is not the king's minister, the centralization of power, very different.
Even empires as powerful as Eastern Rome and Byzantium never really ruled the continent.
At this time, China, no matter which dynasty, as long as it hits Europe, it will be a completely crushing situation.
Including medieval Europe, the military was also dominated by knights, who owned fiefs and trained peasant soldiers on their own, and could not be condensed at all.
When Genghis Khan of the Yuan Dynasty went west, it was completely a situation of chopping melons and vegetables.
The two sides are completely at the same level in terms of strength and organizational ability.
Therefore, the reason why ancient China was able to dominate the world was largely due to the establishment of the Zhou rites, and once it was unified after the split, it was a strong and prosperous dynasty.
Returning to Eros, in the 15th century AD, the most powerful empires on the European continent were the Eastern Romans, the Byzantine Empire, and later Italy.
The territory of Eros was full of large and small principalities, and the king was called the Grand Duke.
It's all a vassal relationship.
The Byzantine Empire, that is, the Eastern Rome, lasted for thousands of years, had strong national fortunes, promoted Orthodox Christianity on the European continent, believed in God, and the Pope of Rome was invincible, and won the support of the entire European continent.
At that time, the principalities of the territory of Erros, such as Ukraine, and the current Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and other countries, all believed in Orthodox Christianity, believed in God, and worshiped the Byzantine king fiercely, calling the Byzantine monarch Tsar.
As for the Middle East, another force has developed, the Ottoman Turkish Empire from the Islamic world, the Middle East, the Saudi region, including Iran, etc., has developed and is the only country that can confront Byzantium head-on.
The two countries have been fighting for a hundred years, and they have a feud.
In the late Middle Ages, in 1453, the Ottoman Empire, which later became Turkey, these Saudis, under the leadership of Mehmed II, destroyed Byzantium and established a new round of order, weakening their dominance, and the principalities of the Eastern European continent became independent.
Vowed to seek justice for the Byzantine Empire.
In 1547, Ivan the Terrible, Grand Duke of Muscovy, felt that the time was ripe and declared himself Tsar, the heir to the Byzantine Empire, leading the principalities of Eastern Europe, large and small, the prototype of the later former Sulian, against the Ottoman Empire of Turkey.
After hundreds of years of confrontation, all kinds of fights and fights, involving the whole of Europe.
And these hundreds of years are the most critical years of the Industrial Revolution and the Great Voyage.
From the feudal era, it officially entered the industrial age.
called back and forth, and destroyed the Qing Dynasty by the way.
Eventually, in 1914, the First World War was triggered.
Germany, Austria-Hungary (a combination of Austria and Hungary), the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, were on one side, 4 countries, forming the camp of the Central Powers.
Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and of course, the previous Byzantium, that is, Italy, these 5 countries united to form the Entente camp.
The First World War began, killing more than 10 million people, 65 million people participated in the war, and finally became involved in more than 30 countries, affecting 1.5 billion people.
During this period, all kinds of aircraft, tanks, artillery, developed during this period.
How strong was Germany then?
Appalling.
Germany has always been the attacker, while the British, French, and American forces have been on the defensive.
In the end, Russia, Britain, the United States, France, and Italy paid a heavy price and barely won the war.
So you can see why World War II happened.
The hatred is too deep.
Germany was bent on revenge, and because Germany was the attacker, the German mainland at that time did not hurt its vitality, and under the auspices of Setler, the whole country mobilized the strength of the whole country and desperately produced weapons.
Although the Anglo-French forces won the war, they were in danger due to the severe setbacks on their homeland.
At that time, Britain and France were completely frightened, in order to prevent the German army from coming back and invading again, it cost 5 billion francs to build a Macedonian defense line on the French border, (France and Germany are border countries), which is a 390-kilometer-long permanent fortification, the depth of strategic defense reached 6-14 kilometers, Britain and France spent a huge amount of money, it took 24 years to build, costing 5 billion francs, equivalent to 35 billion yuan in 1940.
At today's productivity and purchasing power, that's a tenfold increase.
The actual construction value should be more than 500 billion yuan.
A Maginot Line was built, which resembled a structure like the Great Wall, but it was much larger than the Great Wall, 390 kilometers long, with several railroad tracks, and there were deep structures like the Great Wall where trains could be run and the subway.
At that time, Britain and France were full of self-confidence, and it was impossible for the German army to fight.
Unexpectedly, Germany actually abandoned the border between the two countries, launched a blitzkrieg, did not pass through the Maginot Line at all, first blitzed Poland, went around a big circle, captured 7 small countries along the way, traveled thousands of kilometers for a long distance, and finally landed in France from Belgium.
The Anglo-French forces were completely confused.
The hundreds of thousands of Anglo-French troops hoarded on the Maginot Line were caught off guard and simply could not resist.
And the Maginot Line has been completely reduced to the most expensive fig leaf in the world.
This eventually led to the retreat of Dunkel, and hundreds of thousands of Anglo-French troops lost their armor and ran away.
Germany completely occupied France and drove the British army out of Europe, only to turn around and fight the Soviet Union.
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