232. Ten years on the run
"These murals, I can't see any information in them," Zhang Jingyang shook his head and said, these murals are all self-portraits of a single person or legendary characters in mythological figures, and I can't see any important information in them.
"Let's take a look further" Li Zimu said lightly, why the people of the Spartan country appeared in Huaxia, this matter is a little strange, so far they only know one information, that is, it is Sparta, as for why they came, they really don't know.
This hall is used for gathering and eating, there are many tables, gorgeous candles and chandeliers are hung overhead, and many musical instruments are placed in the corners, not only Chinese musical instruments such as chimes, pipa, gonghou hanging drums, etc., but also ancient Greek lyre, avros pipes and other most common musical instruments in ancient Greece at that time, which can prove that this group of Spartans lived here for a period of time.
Passing through the basilica are some high corridors, and this time the frescoes and reliefs in the corridors are no longer about ancient Greek mythology, but about the Spartans.
"What is this, are these people kneeling on the ground pulling weeds?" asked the Worm Spirit, looking at the first mural, the Spartan standing and the two kneeling on the ground, holding plants in their hands.
"Those are the Hilo people, the slaves of Sparta, who are responsible for the production activities," Li Zimu said lightly.
The first fresco is supposed to be in the 8th century BC, when Sparta conquered the Greek tribes of Laconia and Messenia, turning these aborigines into their slaves and renamed them the Heloids.
In order to prevent internal disparity between the rich and the poor, the Spartans never engaged in non-productive activities, did not use gold and silver currency, and did not do anything other than military affairs, and these other things, of course, were done by these slaves, and this painting should be about this. This was the glory days of Sparta.
Only the glory of Sparta is depicted here, but not their cruelty, presumably because the people who painted these paintings were Spartans.
In order to prevent these natives from rebelling in much larger numbers than they revolted, Sparta would kill young men of the Hilo every year, which should only appear in the murals of the Hilo, because history is written by the victors.
It's a pity that after all, it is a foreign hukou, no matter how much they oppress these indigenous peoples, they will not be able to achieve victory in the end, the War of Resistance and Japan is a good example, the efforts of more than 300 years, the Xiluo people finally gained freedom, and it also marked the decline of the era that belonged to Sparta, and this second mural painting is this turning point.
The second painting depicts a city wall, on which are the Spartans, and there are only a few, while under the city wall are the Heluo people, which are roughly more than 30 paintings, which clearly highlights the numerical advantage of the Hilodians.
How to look at this kind of mural about records requires relevant historical knowledge as a reference to understand, so among these three people, only Li Zimu knows what is painted in this painting.
The third painting depicts a narrow junction with several Spartans standing with shields in hand, and a crowd of people outside it.
"One husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open. This should be the content of the 300 Spartan Warriors, right?" Zhang Jingyang looked up at the mural and said, he is okay with his understanding of China, but when it comes to his understanding of the West, all his knowledge comes from movies, and as for his impression of Sparta, he only has a movie called "Spartan Warriors 300" that he saw a few years ago......
This is indeed the history of the Spartan resistance to the invasion of the Persian Empire at the Hot Spring Pass, Li Zimu looked at a painting and thought to himself, it was 480 BC, the second invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire, and the Spartans relied on 300 warriors to defend the Hot Spring Pass, which provided enough time for Greece to retreat, preserved all its strength, and laid the foundation for the defeat of the Persian Navy in the naval battle of Shalamis and the destruction of its 600 ships.
This should be the greatest contribution that the Spartans have made to Greece, right? Li Zimu thought to himself, the Spartans stopped the Persian army with 300 warriors, although they had their strong combat strength in it, but they also had the credit of the narrow terrain of Hot Springs, and they also created a history that can be sung and cried under the favorable time, place and people.
"At this point, that's all the content of the official history, and I don't know anything from now on" Li Zimu shook his head and looked at the fourth painting and said, although he hadn't seen the painting in the back, he already knew that the back was the point, because this painting was about the last story of the Spartans.
In this painting, in the center is a city wall, outside which are several Spartans kneeling in front of several men on horseback, while behind the wall are several Spartans packing up their things and preparing to flee.
This was in 222 B.C., and the Spartans, who had always been proud of the war, finally lost. Defeated by the combined forces of the Achaean League and King Antigonus III of Macedon, Cleonmini III was forced into flight. This is the last record of Sparta, for shortly thereafter Sparta was annexed without a king.
What is the painting behind this? Li Zimu thought to himself, speeding up his pace and walking to the back, and then there was something that had not even been recorded in the official history and wild history, and he was still very interested in these things.
"Where is Longxi?" Zhang Jingyang looked at the fifth mural and said suspiciously, this painting is also a city wall, several Spartans are standing outside the city wall, and three seal characters are written on the city wall, Longxi Pass.
"Longxi, the border of the Qin Dynasty" Li Zimu said lightly, but he didn't expect that as he imagined, this group of Spartans actually fled to the southeasternmost tip of the Eurasian continent, the border of the territory of the Qin Dynasty at that time, and the time next to it was the thirty-fifth year of the First Emperor, that is, in 212 BC, this group of Spartans under the leadership of Cleonmini III spent a full ten years to cross the mountains and mountains to the border of the Qin Dynasty!
Longxi, that is, the current Gansu, the territory border of the Qin Dynasty, and beyond is the territory of the Qiang clan, in fact, the territory of the Qin Dynasty at that time was not half of the land area of China today.
This is not at all different from the official history, can it be said that the Cleonmini III who fled to Egypt is fake? Li Zimu looked at the painting in front of him and wondered in his heart, about the record of the last Spartan king, it is written in the history books that he fled to Egypt and was placed under house arrest, and finally committed suicide himself.
And now the official history of Cleonmini III, who was supposed to commit suicide in Egypt, has appeared in China! Which of these two kings is true and which is false?