"The Road of the Monarchy" is a work that explains how to view the dignity and inferiority of the monarch and the minister, and in order to clearly understand the difference between the dignity and inferiority of the monarch and the subject, the allusions that occurred in the historical dynasties are counted in detail.

According to the contents, it can probably be seen that the background of the current era is the situation in which the princes divided themselves after the former "Liang Dynasty" was divided.

Before the Liang Dynasty, there are records that can be checked and the Hao Dynasty, the Chen Dynasty, the Hai Dynasty, the earliest record, the well-documented is the Hai Dynasty, which lasted 635 years, after the Hai Dynasty, there was a battle between Chen and Hai, the Chen Dynasty lasted a total of 321 years, and then the Hao Dynasty, which lasted 868 years.

At present, it is the Liang Dynasty, and today it is 615 Shengyuan, and "Shengyuan" is the name of the dynasty, which is not the same as ancient China. In ancient China, an emperor used multiple era names or one era name, and the current dynasty used only one era name. This means that the Liang Dynasty has gone through 615 years to get to this day.

After 615 years of separation, annexation and erosion, the current frontier of the Liang Dynasty shrank in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the coast of the North Sea, is a relatively small country among the countries, although the country is small, but no one dares to destroy the Liang State first, because it lives between the east and west of the Central Plains, sits on the sea communication artery, the economy is very developed, and the constraints on the princes are quite large.

This principle is the same as the Spring and Autumn Period, although the etiquette collapsed, the monarch was not a monarch and a minister, but no country dared to destroy the Zhou and Hou lords first, until entering the Warring States, the countries changed the law and became the king, and the existence of Zhou Tianzi became a political stumbling block for the vassal states to unify the world, and finally Zhou died in Qin.

At present, although the etiquette is broken, the existence of the Liang Dynasty or the Liang State still has the value of a political and moral tool in name, and whoever destroys the Kingdom of the Son of Heaven will give the other countries an excuse to unite against you. Coupled with the huge economic influence of the Liang State, no prince dared to move the suzerainty in a short period of time.

Seeing this, Bailiyan secretly sighed:

"According to this algorithm, how can there be 2,4500 years of civilization here, if it is divided in half according to the history of China's 5,000-year civilization, it is basically at the watershed of the Bronze and Iron Ages, and some technologies have been advanced."

When I was secretly thinking in my heart, there was a point that made Bailiyan puzzled, China went through the Xia, Shang, and Wednesday dynasties into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and after Qin unified the Central Plains, the sub-feudal system was abolished and entered the era of centralization, basically it took nearly 3,000 years.

While Bailiyan was thinking, He Kuan quietly entered with a kettle and tea bowl:

"Shizi, your water is ready."

"Well, let's put it on the case first, there is something I want to ask Uncle He."

He Kuan cast a different gaze, and was terrified in his heart:

"The son of the world, please say, as long as the old man knows, he will know everything."

Putting down the tea set, He Kuan stepped forward, Bai Liyan looked up and down carefully, and then said:

"Uncle He, there has been news of the war in the Central Plains recently."

"Why did the prince suddenly care about the Central Plains hegemony."

"Uncle Ho just said that Hugh asked too much."

"The old man obeys."

The gap between the times has led to information blockage, and the constraints of communication technology have made the transmission of information very slow, and if you want to know about things outside, you can only learn from official channels.

During this period, the elite class held the sole right to interpret information and public opinion, and although Qi was a small country, the Proton Mansion was still the official portal, and external news was always better than the small people.

According to He Kuan's words, at present, all countries have stopped fighting and there are no major wars, and since the Mayuanling Alliance three years ago, the war has subsided slightly.

The so-called alliance is similar to the Central Plains alliance of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, several major powers led their armies to the designated place, and everyone set up a position, but it was not a battle, but a bluff, and it was more courageous than strategic. During the alliance, the two sides launched a fierce diplomatic offensive and defensive campaign, and if someone dared to challenge the defending hegemon, if they disagreed, they might raise troops to fight after the alliance ended. If you give in, then everyone is good to talk about and disperse.

The last time the alliance was proposed by the overlord Zhiguo, that is, the neighbor to the west of the Jin State, Zhiguo successfully defended the hegemon, and the countries had no suggestions, so the alliance naturally became a one-man show for Zhiguo, and the countries echoed it.

After the end of the alliance, Zhiguo became everyone's "recognized" overlord, in fact, everyone wanted to pull Zhiguo off the horse, but they didn't have that strength.

The land border of the western border of the Jin State is only three out of five and is adjacent to the Zhi State, the northwest is bordered by the Xian State, the southern border is bordered by the Song State, the east and north are the sea, the Jin State is not weaker than the Zhi State in terms of strength, but since 36 years ago, the Zhi and Jin countries fought around the Chengmeng Pass for three years, the Jin State was defeated, and after more than 300,000 casualties, the Jin State died down, and the national strength collapsed.

At this point, Zhiguo dominated the Central Plains, and the Jin State entered the defensive stage of Taoguang and obscurity, enduring revenge.

In recent decades, after three generations of monarchs, the national strength of the Jin State has greatly improved, and it is very likely to compete with the Zhiguo again, especially the strong enemies of the Zhiguo, adjacent to Sun and Xian in the north, although the western border is a weak country, but the problem is that there are several big countries around the Zhiguo, everyone is eyeing the tiger, and it is not ruled out that in the future, the multinational coalition forces will attack the Zhiguo, and the Jin State will be stabbed in the back.

But hearing this, Bai Liyan didn't understand. When the Jin Kingdom and the Zhiguo fought for three years, it was more than 300,000 casualties, considering the poor medical conditions, the casualties were bound to account for more than half, and it was a unilateral casualty, which was not a small number in the Bronze Age. Because labor force and productivity determine the number of troops, more than 300,000 casualties in three years, and the number of people on the front line participating in the campaign will not be less than one million.

Taking the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping in the Warring States period as an example, the Zhao army was killed 450,000 people, and the population of Zhao was conservatively estimated to be 3.5 million, almost the entire Zhao State was over 16 years old, under 45 years old, and most of the adult males. This means that Zhao State will definitely not slow down within 30 years, because the fertility and reproduction of the population cannot match the death rate, so the national strength has been seriously damaged.

And now that 300,000 people have died in the Jin Kingdom, they can actually recover in more than 30 years, which means that the population of the Jin Kingdom is at least more than 20 million people. With the current labor productivity, how much land area is needed to feed so many people!

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan asked:

"Uncle He, what is the current population of the Jin Kingdom?"

"Hui Shizi, the population of the Jin State is more than 33 million, which is 11 times that of the Qi State. The territory of the country is eighteen times the size of the country. ”

Bai Liyan was startled by the inquiry, and asked again in a hurry:

"How much?"

"More than 33 million!"

He Kuan said it truthfully, and Bailiyan was really startled.

In a large country with a population of more than 30 million people, with the current production labor force, it should be at the same level as the situation in the middle and late period of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Qin Dynasty, and with such a population base, the land area will not be less than 4 million square kilometers, or even 5 million square kilometers.

What should be thought, it is not much less than the land area of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to the land area after Qin swept through the Lingnan after unifying China.

That is to say, the Jin State is not the biggest overlord, the population has reached more than 33 million, more than 4 million square kilometers of land, and 300,000 people were killed in a battle, which is equivalent to 10% of the population base, even if this proportion is placed on the earth, it is a very staggering number, let alone the Bronze Farming Age.

However, compared with the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, both the population base and the land area of the current Jin State are much larger, and it is not difficult to wonder that more than 30 years later, the Jin State can still plan to fight again, because of the population base and land resources.

Thinking of this, we have to consider another question, that is, how big is the boundary of the administrative scope of this early Liang Dynasty, from east to west, from south to north, and how big the latitude and longitude span is, just according to the ratio of the Jin Kingdom, it is really not easy to fight a war.

"Uncle He, how long does it take to travel from the Jin Kingdom to the Qi Kingdom?"

"If a person runs alone and walks on a straight road, it only takes more than three or four months. The cavalry of the brigade marched for more than five months, or even half a year. If the infantry marches, it will take two or three months of the year, and the nations will be willing to take advantage of it. ”

“……”

Bailiyan was silent for a long time, not because she didn't want to say it, but because she couldn't say it.

What is the concept of cavalry often marching for half a year, and in this era there are already highways such as "straight roads and galloping roads", which are to facilitate the march of cavalry and infantry.

Regardless of the breed of horse, converted at the regular speed of the cavalry, a normal march of 60 kilometers a day, and a forced march can reach 80 kilometers or even 100 kilometers, but the horse will be injured and lose fat, and the continuous forced march will even run to death, so it is impossible for the horse to run all the time, and the regular march of 50 or 60 kilometers a day is considered a normal amount.

This means that the cavalry often march on a straight road, from the capital of the Jin State to the capital of the Qi State, it takes half a year by land, and the distance is basically about 12,000 kilometers, and I don't know how to convert the current mile road to the metric system of the earth, even if it is 500 meters, this is an incredible distance, equivalent to the distance from the Chukotsia Peninsula in the easternmost part of Russia to the western border of Russia. China has never had such a large span of land area in the east and west, never.

And it is not the distance from the coast of the West Sea to the coast of the East China Sea, but the distance from the western border of the Jin Kingdom to the border of the Qi Kingdom.

With such a large span and land area, based on the population base and land area ratio of the Jin Kingdom, with the current productivity, the territory of the Liang Dynasty is enough to accommodate more than three or four billion people.

This is still one of them, and the second is that the current communication technology is seriously backward, and it is obviously a helpless move to adopt the sub-sealing system.

Because of the vast territory of the land, even if the fastest stagecoach relay is used, it will take two or three months to reach the other end, and if there is any popular unrest and turmoil, when the centralized power gets the news, it will be too late to dispatch troops, and the transportation of grain is also an important obstacle to restricting the movement of troops and operations.

If the system of partitioning is adopted, the land area of a big country will be basically limited to seven or eight million square kilometers, or even only four or five million square kilometers, and basically the current telecommunications technology can ensure that administrative orders can be transmitted to various localities within 20 days, and in the event of any war at the same time, the entire army can be mobilized in half a month.

However, it is difficult to effectively unify the national decree without separation, which makes it difficult for centralized power to replace separation.

"I say, how can you advocate the sub-feudal system."

Secretly said in their hearts, Bai Liyan and He Kuan said:

"Uncle He, where can I get a map of the topography and mountains of the world."

"Mountains and rivers!"

He Kuan was surprised when he heard the news, and Bailiyan hurriedly said:

"Exactly, the heyday of the Liang Dynasty."

"This ...... Topographic maps are a top secret of the nations and are difficult for non-courtiers to know. ”

"I see!"

Come to think of it, the map is a treasure that knows oneself and the other in these years, and whoever has the map can win the battle must be confidential. However, Bailiyan is not optimistic about the map of this year, there is no surveying and mapping technology, and the map is just a rough drawing.