Alexander the Great built an empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa, but this empire was ruled by less than half a million Macedonians and Greeks, ruling over about 16 million ethnic groups.

Many historians have studied countless times that even if Alexander the Great had an heir, once Alexander the Great, the founding king, died, it would have been impossible for his heirs to maintain the unity of the vast empire. The more plausible explanation for such an assertion is that there has never been a country that has been stable by ruling the majority with minorities. (Obviously, my Daqing affairs were ignored)

The two monarchs of Parthia and Bactria, both of whom split from the Seleucid Empire, were able to split successfully because of ethnic contradictions. It is precisely because both of them depend on ******** to divide and build a state, that they are all too aware of how sensitive and important a country's population distribution is.

Only a fool in the world would oppress the rights and interests of his own population, and for some reason pay attention to the minority people and disappoint the main nation.

What is the stability of a country? It is the stability of the Juche nation, and as long as the Juche nation can stabilize the country, even if there will be chaos, it is not enough to be fatal. Once the dissatisfaction of the Juche nation with its rulers is accumulated, there may be nothing to see in peacetime, but whenever war breaks out, policy mistakes will inevitably bear witness to the seeds that have already been planted by their own hands and blossom into flowers called "evil fruits."

What kind of seeds are planted, what kind of flowers will inevitably bloom, that is not a cycle of cause and effect, but the most direct manifestation of domination......

"It was a terrifying country, and their emperor was carrying out a policy of entrapment of the Juche nation, which was a very clever policy!" Arshak II was eager to emphasize his understanding with numerous exclamation points, saying: "Forty percent of all the plunder that has been exploited by foreign wars is used as the dividends of civil war." It does not mean that their soldiers are free to share forty percent of the spoils, nor does it mean that their emperor divides the loot equally. ”

Anton Luo. Yapadis waited for the next step with a gesture of not understanding but willing to listen.

"You know what? They believe in 'there is no giving without giving'. This is the greatest truth in the world! With an unusually serious expression, Arshak II raised his hand and waved it vigorously to increase the importance of his words, and said: "In that country, their national ideology is not to give without reason, but only to work hard to get their due." The reason why I say they are terrible is that I am referring to this national character. Such traits may have lazy and lazy people, but they will definitely be a minority of the minority. ”

Anton Luo. Yapadis nodded heavily: "Indeed, such a national character is very terrifying. ”

What kind of country is Rome? Their national character was diametrically opposed to that of the Empire, and any benefits derived from the outward expansion were to be distributed equally among any Roman citizen, even if that citizen did not contribute the slightest to the expansion.

The House of Rome formulated a policy of equal distribution, and the starting point was to cultivate the Romans' pioneering spirit, and to use the wealth distributed to tell the Romans: Come! By participating in wars of plunder, you can get the wealth you want, and you can gain honors that are respected!

Some people with lofty ideals found a little after the policy was implemented, that Rome was showing an outward pioneering spirit, but there began to be a large number of people in society, who did not produce, received bread and allowances from the House every day, and would cheer for the victory of the country in the outside war, but would never participate in any war.

Those who discovered this social phenomenon said, as if prophesied, that Rome would grow for the welfare of its citizens, but it would also be weakened by the welfare of its citizens, and that it would eventually perish with no possibility of rising again.

If it weren't for the ugliness of the family, Anton. Yapadis wanted to tell Arshak II with a wry smile that Rome was now very strange, for example, that the candidacy of parliamentarians was no longer seen as a contribution to the country, but by competing for financial resources, and using financial resources to buy off citizens who had the right to vote and let them vote for themselves.

Rome had fewer and fewer soldiers, because there was free bread to be taken regardless of whether they participated in foreign wars, the army was increasingly filled with thieves and rapists, and the number of people who valued honor was decreasing every day.

Anton Luo. Knowing that some people were increasingly concerned about the social phenomena in Rome, Payadis decided to listen to Arshak II about the state policy of the Far Eastern Empire, hoping to learn something from it.

"Engineering, every year the old project is finished and the new project is started." Arshak II looked envious and said: "It can be seen that the Han Empire is rich, very, very rich. My Chancellor of the Exchequer has estimated that according to the annual amount of work done by the Han Empire, they will need to spend at least 10 million to 15 million gold drachmas a year! ”

Two to seven gold drachmas is about the value of one Imperial Gold Coin, and then one Imperial Gold Coin is equal to ten Imperial Silver Coins, and two Imperial Silver Coin is equal to a consistent copper coin.

Arshak II's statement is wrong, the empire spends more than 5.5 million imperial gold coins on the project every year, which should be ten times this amount to be correct. But even 10 million golden drachmas were an astronomical amount for Parthia, and they couldn't imagine what it would be like to pile up more than 10 million golden drachmas, so they could only cautiously and cautiously lower their counts.

"Every year new projects are being started, mostly road construction and water conservancy construction. They have a very clear plan for what should be accomplished each quarter, what needs to be done each year, everything has a plan. Arshak II paused at this point, as if thinking about something, and asked Anton Lo. Yapadis: "I heard that Rome has such a plan? ”

"Huh? Yes, it is. "Anton Luo. Yapadis was obviously stunned for a moment, but after reacting, he raised his head slightly and said, "It turns out that any country that wants to be strong always needs to plan, and we have discovered similar secrets to the Han Empire. ”

Is it a secret? It is indeed a secret that the planning of nation-building and then the formulation of a practical plan are recognized by very few countries in 205 B.C. The Western world is the Roman Republic, and even if the Eastern world does not have Lu Zhe to establish an empire, the Great Qin Empire or the Han Empire have similar plans, so the Eastern world definitely does not have a "few years plan" because of the appearance of Lu Zhe, but the Great Qin or the Han Dynasty does not have the title of "how many years plan".

History has proven time and again the importance of planning, but many countries do not pay attention to it even when they know it...... Perhaps it cannot be said that they do not pay attention to it, but their limited financial resources are always difficult to support the formulation of development plans.

Arshak II heard Anton Lo. Yapadis said that Rome also knew how to formulate the country's development plan, which made Rome stronger, and his mind immediately became active.

Parthia also needed a plan for the development of the country, and if Arshak II had only a vague idea before, he was now thinking about it with great seriousness. In a flash of inspiration, he seemed to have found a direction for the development of Parthia, which was to use trade!

"Deal?" Anton Luo. "Of course, of course, we should trade, it's just ......," and he began to remember what he was doing in Parthia, and said hurriedly, "We don't have borders, and we don't even have safe trade routes." If we want to trade, we need a safe and secure trade route. ”

Arshak II began to trance, and Anton Lo. Wasn't what Yapadis said to the Emperor of the Han Empire in the East? In his latest letter to the Han Empire in the East, he mentions that, in view of the unquiet journey from the East to Far Central Asia, the alliance between Parthia and Bactria should cooperate in the control or sweep away any countries or powers deemed a threat on the basis of joining the Han Empire.

In that letter, Arshak II argued that Parthia and Bactria were in charge of the area west of the Western Regions, that they would no longer interfere in the Western Regions, and that the Western Regions would be recognized as the sphere of influence of the Han Empire. Similarly, Arshak II argued that the Han emperors should also recognize the legitimacy of Parthia and Bactria's spheres of influence west of the Western Regions.

Previously, Parthia and Bactria had asked for an equal division of the Western Regions with the Empire, and the dividing line was set at the seemingly reasonable dividing line in the middle of the Western Regions, which was repeatedly rejected by the Emperor.

Later, Arshak II and Eutidemus I. Dios recognized the fact that it was impossible for the two countries to invade the Western Regions if the Empire was wary, and that if they invaded the Western Regions, it could trigger a war between the two countries and the Empire. Aware that it was impossible to occupy the Western Regions without the permission of the Empire, they turned sensibly to seek to draw new lines of demarcation of power, believing that it was an important way to test the Empire.

The Empire does not plan to invade the Western Regions in a big way in the next ten years, at least not to swallow the entire Western Regions. In the next decade, the empire's main focus will be on the grasslands, and then it will turn to Donghu north of Liaodong, and the strategy adopted against the Western Regions will be to attack or encroach on them year by year.

To be honest, it would not be good for the empire to expand prematurely into the Western Regions, which did not have any precious resources, but seemed to be of very little value because of the desert and the Gobi Desert everywhere. However, the early occupation of the Western Regions was not due to value considerations, but after detailed discussion, it was believed that before the intention of attacking the west, for example, there was no intention to fight Parthia, Bactria, Kashmir, and Palegases...... and so on, then such signs should not be shown prematurely.

According to the plan, the empire needed to improve the infrastructure of the country, especially the construction of transportation, and then it would be the beginning of a new round of rapid expansion. Before that, the empire only needed to concentrate on dealing with northern Xinjiang and Liaodong and better exploit the sea, and there was no need to expand to the west.

Indeed, the empire has discovered that the ocean is not as empty as it seems. On the contrary, the sea has everything, especially since the discovery of the Japanese Islands, the unimaginable amount of gold and silver obtained from the Japanese Islands, and the confirmation from the Luzon Islands of copper enough for the entire empire for a thousand years, not to mention the renewable resources of fragrant wood, spices, etc. If you don't know the richness of the ocean, you're definitely having something wrong with your brain.

Recently, the Emperor once again issued a new order, requiring the Nanyang Fleet to explore the southwestern seas and find a real continent. At the same time, the Emperor also issued a reward to the people, stating that those who discovered the continent (Australia) would be rewarded with a knighthood.

God knows how the emperor would have known that there was a continent in the southwestern part of the South Seas, and that the world's largest iron ore mine was buried deep underneath that continent. However, in view of the emperor's repeated miraculous side, even if he couldn't figure it out, a series of people have begun to work hard, such as the HNA personnel eager for the reward of knighthood, and the government eager to obtain the emperor's eventual world's largest iron mine.

No, the steam engine will be applied to HNA, taking it from the sea is the most benign development path of a country, and the development of HNA is also the most important part of the empire, but it will definitely not be taken seriously under the premise of no interests, and the emperor has to add another dose of fierce medicine.

Otidemus I. The result of the temptation of Dios and Arshak II appeared, and the emperor of the Han Empire in the East did not seem to have any desire to continue to expand westward, at least not for the time being, so that they slowly put the hanging heart back in its rightful place.

Later the Emperor came a letter of state, re-entrusting Euthydemus I. Dios and Arshak II raised their hearts, and the letter of state sternly warned that the empire had found that some countries in the Western Regions, including the Maudun Xiongnu, which the empire wanted to exterminate, had received support from the western states. It is written very clearly in the letter that the empire does not want to see a similar situation in the future, whether it is supported by Parthia and Bactria.

There is no doubt that it was Parthia and Bactria who supported the Wan and Maudun Xiongnu through Kangju and other countries, and they did so because they feared that the empire would conquer the entire Western Regions prematurely.

"So...... The emperor of the Eastern Han Empire was definitely not an easy person to get along with. Arshak II frowned, he had just listened to Anton Luo. Yapadis had the intention of going to the Eastern Empire, and advised: "The road is extremely long, and there is always war there, and it is not safe. ”

"No, no, no, it's not me going." Anton Luo. Yapadis smiled and said, "There will be other people going." ”

Rome is full of curiosity about any country in the world, in fact, it is this curiosity that causes Rome to continue to expand outward, any country's external expansion begins with curiosity, isn't the same with the empire?

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Heavy rain and power outage, what else can you say, embarrassment! (To be continued.) )