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The history of the Roman Empire was marked by the year 410 of the Han Dynasty.

In 410 of the Han Dynasty, Han Shengzu ended the possible Three Kingdoms era, reunified the Han Empire, and began the westward expedition. It was also at this time that the Romans began to embrace Han culture, and in the process continued to refine their political system, revitalizing an empire that had been completely defeated in a century.

The influence of the Greeks and Romans is evident in the language, thought, law, and way of thinking of contemporary Europeans. Ancient Greece was a collection of city-states from which early democracies developed. Athens was the most powerful and developed city and was the cradle of knowledge from the time of Perikles. The Citizens' Forum debated and legislated national policies, from which the most famous classical philosophers emerged, such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, the latter being the teacher of Alexander the Great.

As the de facto ruler of the Greek Macedonian Empire, Alexander once spread Greek culture and knowledge to the Indus River through his military achievements. But the Roman Republic, which had gained strength after defeating the Carthaginians in the Punic Wars, began to rise in the region. Greek civilization was passed on to Roman culture, and Athens itself was subsumed under the banner of the Senate and the Roman people. Rome expanded from Arabia to Britain. In less than fifty years, the Roman Republic reached its heyday. However, Leus Caesar, the first consul of the Roman Republic at the time (there was no title of Augustus or Emperor at that time), was assassinated on suspicion of sabotaging the republic and attempting to be a dictatorship. In the ensuing scuffle, Octavian usurped the supreme power of the Roman Republic and bought off the Senate. His appearance proclaimed the rebirth of the republic at the same time that he actually began the transformation of the Roman state from a republic to an empire.

And thus the Roman Empire was born!

It must be clearly seen that whether it is in the classical era of Europe or the era of the Greek Macedonian Empire, the European war model and the Han Dynasty are incomparable. The thinking patterns of the two are also completely different.

Alexander the Great's army reached as far as the Indus River, and at that time, the eastern lands were still in the midst of a confrontation between the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. But even during the Warring States War, the European armies would definitely not be the opponents of the Eastern armies. Because the Greek Macedonian Empire has exhausted its national army, and there are less than 60,000 troops! And as the backbone of the expeditionary force, there are only 20,000 people!

Although it must be admitted that these 60,000 people are definitely the elite of the elite, in the face of the Eastern Legion, which is often in the millions, 60,000 people cannot be a major threat under any circumstances. What's more, if the Greek Macedonian Empire planned to bypass the Indus River and enter the Central Plains eastward, then the first thing he had to face was the enemy, most likely the two --- Xiongchu or Baqin! Whether it is Xiongchu or Baqin, it is definitely not something that Macedonia, which has only 20,000 troops, can defeat! While we'd love to see this kind of showdown, history has sadly erased it......

In its original history, the Roman Empire eventually split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire (i.e., the Byzantine Empire). The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Mulus Augustus, finally surrendered to the Germanic leader Odoases, and the Western Roman Empire was declared to be over. Although the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) existed for another thousand years, it can no longer be called the original Roman Empire.

But in this history, because of the changes in the Han Empire, the Roman Empire also changed. The flapping wings of a butterfly can cause a tsunami, let alone a huge change in a country?!

The Han Empire, which was supposed to fall at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not only did not perish, but continued, and extended its declining influence during this period to the farther west! The cultural and military aggression of the Han people poured directly into Central Asia. The Han Shengzu's expedition to the west had already touched the periphery of the Roman Empire, which was at the height of its power.

It should be noted that at the time of the Holy Ancestor's expedition to the west, the Roman Empire was in the most rare golden period of development of the Roman Empire--- the period of the Five Sages. It's just under the rule of Marco Aurello, the last "virtuous emperor" in the later period of the Five Wise Emperors!

Marco Aurelius was a virtuous monarch. He was invaded three times during his reign, but eventually resisted and managed to expand his territory, establishing four provinces in Asia. However, because of these three invasions and the series of foreign wars launched afterwards, the contradictions within the Roman Empire continued to escalate, and there was already an irreconcilable tendency.

If it were not for the threat of the Han Empire, according to the normal historical trajectory, Commodus, who succeeded Marco Aurello, would have completely destroyed the entire Roman Empire. However, because of the external threat of the Han Empire's power, the Roman Empire, which had tended to be infighting, began to unite internally. Marco Aurello was succeeded not by Commodus, but by his other adopted son--- Stu de Cullas. Under the leadership of Draculas the Great, the Roman Empire underwent a new metamorphosis and became what it is today.

It should be said that with the geographical, transportation, climatic and other conditions at that time, it was impossible for the Han Empire and the Roman Empire to have a military conflict in the true sense of the word. Although the Han Empire ended its civil strife earlier than in history, it was impossible to send a large army directly to Central Asia or even Eastern Europe because of the distance and the desert and high mountains in the west.

The Roman Empire, on the other hand, was too busy to intervene in Central Asia because it was too busy settling internal instability (a huge subject that anyone who liked it could look up information on the Internet on their own) and defending against the Germanic barbarians from the north. Therefore, the use of small-scale military power to support the regimes and kingdoms that favor them has become a common way for the two empires to compete.

Under this premise, cultural aggression became the first choice of the far-sighted Emperor Shengzu. He sent countless Confucian scholars to "conquer" the Western world, which had not yet been brainwashed by Christianity, with the idea of great unification and various cultural classics.

At that time, Christianity had already appeared, but it was not designated as the state religion of the Roman Empire, so it was not very widespread. Because the doctrine of Christianity is very xenophobic, its spirituality cannot be borrowed by the Roman rulers who span three continents, so it has not been able to develop on a large scale, and only slowly penetrates at the bottom. However, the idea of great unification of Han Confucianism was exactly in line with the needs of the Roman emperor who was eager to re-establish imperial power, and the Roman aristocracy also absorbed content from Confucian culture that was conducive to maintaining their own status, so the Romans also regarded the Analects as a classic!

(Don't say that there is no such content in the Analects.) In fact, Confucius was a staunch supporter of Zhou etiquette, and most of his ideas were to uphold the rule of the aristocracy. In the author's opinion, it is another Confucian sage, --- Yasheng Mencius, who really values the people. See, if you disagree, don't dig deeper, thank you! ）

Thus, a new, strange, and unharmonious model of government appeared in our opinion, but in the eyes of the Romans it was incomparably advanced.

The supreme leader of the Roman Empire was the Emperor. At the same time, the emperor had titles and titles such as "Augustus", "First Consul", "First Tribune" and so on.

The supreme authority of the Roman Empire was the Senate. The Senate is divided into three levels: chief, middle, and lower. It was the sole legislature of the Roman Empire. To a certain extent, the absolute power of the emperor was checked, and in some major state affairs, the Senate was even able to veto the emperor's decisions.

The chief senator was fixed at only sixty-three seats, held by sixty-three rulers of the Roman tradition of more than 400 years, wearing the Roman eagle emblem.

There are 87 seats for the middle seat and 120 seats for the lower seats. The seats of the middle and lower elders are not fixed and are elected by citizens with assets of more than 1 million eagle coins. Wear a four-leaf clover badge.

The people of the Roman Empire were divided into five classes, with the highest being the royal family, and below them were the traditional nobility, the emerging aristocracy, the citizens, and the commoners. At the bottom were the slaves.

Of course, the Romans did not classify slaves into a hierarchy, because in the eyes of the Romans, slaves were just talking animals that walked on two legs.

Commoners and citizens alike had the opportunity to enter the aristocracy through their own struggles. There are two ways, one is to do business, as long as the assets exceed one million Roman eagle coins, you can apply to become a new noble. The second is to join the army, as long as you make military achievements, you can get the corresponding title and reward, and become a nobleman. When they became nobles, they were able to enjoy many treatments that citizens and commoners could not enjoy, such as servants and servants, and even land and estates.

Of course, the nobility had to bear more things, such as the military expenses and taxes of the empire, and the nobles had to pay more than the citizens and commoners.

In the aristocratic class, the emerging aristocracy is oppressed by the traditional aristocracy, and the traditional aristocracy is oppressed by the royal family, which is already an unspoken rule. Eventually, the new aristocracy would transfer the oppression from the new to the citizens and commoners, as well as to the slaves......

Emperor-Senate-Traditional Aristocrats-New Aristocrats-Citizens-Commoners-Slaves, these seven classes were the most basic political structure of Rome.