Chapter 683: It's been different for a long time
Jiang Ning was in a side hall, seriously looking at the development and progress of the Tang people in the past hundred years, and his heart was naturally extremely satisfied. Being able to accommodate nearly 10 million people in a corner of the country is naturally worthy of recognition. This is not a modern society, but a dark and ignorant European Middle Ages. It was an era of a small fight in three days, a big fight in five days, and wars broke out at every turn. Although few wars will spread to the Tang people, they are constantly fighting in Europe and near the Mediterranean. Every time, the Tang people are not allowed to relax, because if one is not good, the war will involve them.
In addition, because of the Mediterranean trade centered around the Tang people, the Tang Dynasty was a well-deserved center in the Middle Ages at this time. And Constantinople gradually fell behind the Dons. Whether it is the trade of Europe or the silk trade from afar, every day, all kinds of merchant ships come and go, piled up with goods, gathered in all the good ports of the Tang people. Merchants traded here, peddling goods from afar, sourcing local goods, and marketing them everywhere.
Throughout the day, foreign merchants of various languages and appearances flock to port cities as well as inland cities. Fruit wine, olive oil, amber, minerals, medicines and other products from Europe are sold all over the world. War horses, camels, characteristic seeds, Persian carpets, gold and silver ornaments, books and even stone honey from Central Asia also gathered in the ports of the Tang people. And in the following time, it was sold all over the country, some of which were sold internally by the Tang people, and more were sold to Europe and North Africa. 、
Frequent trade activities led to a more active cultural exchange movement between the East and the West. The trade that revolves around this vigorous 'Mediterranean Trade Circle', which has been highly praised by later generations, brings together the cultures, technologies, and goods of various countries. The circulation of commodities not only revitalized the increasingly prosperous economy, but also began to circulate various ideas and writings throughout the region. The different ideas and artistic achievements of Eastern and Western cultures collided in the Tang Dynasty, bursting out with the essence of the two after the fusion and sublimation. The Chinese nation has always been an inclusive, tolerant and broad-minded nation.
They take pride in their culture and like to spread their advanced culture and ideas to the surrounding areas. However, they do not abandon the advanced culture of foreign countries, and they are also able to accept, absorb and integrate into their own culture. Subsequently, a wave of cultural export work began to be carried out to the outside world. Increase the achievements of sinicization around the country, and now, if you say which country is the most deeply influenced by the Tang people, it is the Italian state, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Greece, and Hungary that only have half of the land left.
This nomadic people from the East, called the Magyars, initially operated between the Don and Dnieper rivers before being driven out of Levidia and into Arterkuzu by the Pecheneg Turks. They reached the Danube Delta around 880 AD and completely occupied the territory of the Avars, known as Pannonia, by the end of the ninth century. And the Tang people also came to Europe in a short period of time. However, unlike the Magyars, who chose the land in the center of the European continent, the Tang chose the islands and annexed the Italian lands in the following decades. However, in those days, the Tang people were completely influential in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Maybe it's because it also comes from the East, or maybe it's because of the remnants of the Anxi Army in the Tang Dynasty. In short, the Hungarians have a slight affection for the Tang people. They were also the only countries in the early days that were willing to take the initiative to communicate with the Tang people and were not very wary of them. After the full prosperity and revival of the Tang people, especially in the two dynasties of the Mediterranean and the Great Eclipse, the combined navy of the Fatimid and Abbasid dynasties fought a battle. In World War I, the main naval forces of the two countries were completely annihilated, and then they advanced by land and water, completely attacking Fatimid Egypt proper. Breaking more than 20 cities in a row and looting countless supplies not only shocked the world, but also for the Hungarians, it was worth celebrating.
Although at that time, the European continent had already begun to form a coalition army, intending to intervene and help the Tang. Hungary was also an extremely active country in it, although in the end the war was completely over before the combined army reached the battlefield, and the situation was reversed. However, the Tang people's intentions towards the countries of the European continent were also rewarded afterwards.
In the following decades, the great prosperity and development of the Tang people made the Tang people completely become the center of the three regions of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. It is not only a center of trade, but also a center for the convergence and exchange of Eastern and Western cultures. And these more than 100 years of foreign cultural export have caused a large number of chain reactions.
The most obvious is that the various skills and cultures of the European continent have been greatly improved and developed after the cultural export of the Tang people. The most obvious point is that the agriculture of their countries is not as in the past, turning the soil and sowing seeds. Instead, under the influence of the Tang people, they began to learn from the Tang people for further cultivation. Moreover, they also learned from the Tang people to tame and use ploughing oxen. And when you see a small nose ring, it makes an extremely untamable cow honestly follow behind the person's buttocks. This kind of picture is incredible for Europe.
Although the arrival of nomads also spread many advanced skills. However, nomads, unlike agrarians, do not need to dig food from the ground, and naturally do not pay attention to related things. Although they depend on cattle, sheep and horses for everything, except for the upper rulers who can eat cattle and sheep every day, the untouched people at the bottom and the herdsmen do not have the qualifications and financial resources at all.
Therefore, when the nomads entered Europe, they did not bring the technology of how to tame the cattle to Europe. And after the magic reform, because of the arrival and foothold of the Tang people, although the Tang people lost a lot of things and skills during this period. However, most of these things have been gradually completed after they have been stabilized. And how to cultivate grain is simply deeply rooted in the blood of the Tang people. Because, after the stability of the Tang people, they began to revive and prosper rapidly. Naturally, under the connection of trade, different cultural exchanges between each other came into being, and the Central Plains Dynasty liked to spread its advanced culture to the surrounding areas. Even if the Tang people are not located in the Central Plains, this hobby has not changed. The cultural export carried out by them not only spread the ideas of the Tang people, but also spread many advanced technologies.
Although compared to the Tang people's internal technology, these are outdated and insignificant technologies. But compared to Europe, these technologies that have spread out are undoubtedly very advanced. And the heritage of a country and a civilization gradually flourishes from the accumulation of little by little. Under the movement of cultural and religious export of the Tang people, the influence on the neighboring countries is extremely profound. Today, in Iberia, Gaul, North Africa, and the distant British Isles, and even in Western Europe and parts of Central Europe, Shinrikyo is gradually replacing Catholicism. It has become a powerful and emerging religion, and as the birthplace of Shinrikyo, the land of the Tang people has naturally taken on a sacred color. To become another religious shrine not inferior to Jerusalem, Mecca.
During this period, as the Magyars, who also came from the East, they had a deep influence under the export of the Tang people. Although they voluntarily assimilated with the whites, the Magyars had a deep influence in the face of the strong cultural export of the Tang people. Many traditional customs and habits are gradually biased towards the Tang people. Subsequently, it was changed according to their internal characteristics. However, the Tang language and Tang dialect read and written by the Tang people became the mainstream learning languages of various countries, just like French and English in the future.
And Jiang Ning is naturally happy to see such a situation. When he appeared in this world, the whole world changed because of him. After the Tang people settled down and established the country, this change became more profound and profound. At the very least, he wouldn't measure this new world by the history of another time and space. Because everything has long been different, not only the Tang people, Europe, North Africa, the Great Food Countries, and even the Great Song Dynasty in East Asia, which is thousands of miles away, have also undergone earth-shaking changes because of his arrival.
I am afraid that it will be difficult to reproduce the shame of Jingkang in history. Because of the Great Song Dynasty, the moment of getting rid of the lack of horses against the nomads is about to begin. After the arrival of the 60,000 war horses in the early stage, the Song court was at least able to raise at least 30,000 cavalry. According to the standard of one person and two horses, although the cavalry of 30,000 people could not take care of the vast north, it could effectively threaten some cavalry from the north in the pursuit of local areas. As long as it has been a difficult twenty years, then whether it is the opening of the Suez Canal or the Song Dynasty's own training of war horses, it will receive rich rewards by then.
At this time, a message suddenly came to Jiang Ning's mind, he got up suddenly, looked at the sky with his eyes, and came to the vast universe in an instant. There, there is a world that radiates endless light, quietly coming.