Chapter 45: The Kingdom of God

The so-called time is like water, life is like a song!

Liu Xuan didn't feel anything in the back sentence, but the first half of the sentence was really very personal.

After returning to Dahan, every day is a very monotonous and ordinary life, because there is not much difference in what is done every day, so the passage of time almost does not leave any feeling.

In addition, Liu Xuan himself does not age, and he can't feel the passage of time from himself, so when he comes back to his senses, these decades have passed in a blink of an eye.

For such a long time, the entire Han Dynasty has been in a thriving state, and the prosperity and power of the Han Dynasty is not only known to the Han themselves, but also to the distant countries such as the Sabbath, Kushan, and the once-powerful Roman Empire - well, there is another point, the once powerful Sabbath Dynasty has now fallen into the dustbin of history, replaced by the powerful Persian Sassanid Dynasty and ...... Zhang Lu's Heavenly Master Dao forces.

In the course of several decades, although the distance between Asia and Europe was very far, it also attracted emissaries from the Roman Empire.

The two sides also contacted each other several times over the course of several decades, but those times were sent by the Roman Empire, and the Han Dynasty never sent a single envoy.

It stands to reason that such a situation would cause strong resentment in the mighty Roman Empire, but in reality it was not.

The Roman Empire has begun to decline, even if no one tells Liu Xuan, Liu Xuan still vaguely remembers this.

At this time, although the Roman Empire had not really been divided into two parts, in fact, the internal chaos had become more and more serious, and the west and east were facing strong enemies at the same time, so the Roman Empire had to divide the most elite soldiers and horses into two parts, one rushed to the north to deal with the Germans, and all the way to the east to deal with the Persians and Zhang Lu's forces.

As a matter of fact. Even without Zhang Lu, this move was an introduction to the later division into two parts. In addition, the central government gradually became less binding on the bottom. So for the rest of the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire was in chaos, and finally it was completely divided into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.

In recent years, the Roman Empire has faced more enemies, and the Gauls and Goths have raised troops one after another, and the Roman Empire can be said to be completely chaotic.

Other words. The Roman Empire is not having a good time now, and their emissaries after coming to the East. I was shocked by the prosperity of the Great Han and the miraculous tools that almost existed as if they were legends.

When the first merchants returned to Rome and told about the power of the Han Dynasty in the streets, taverns and squares, many people thought they were making things up. There were a lot of disputes.

It stands to reason. Because what they tell is so amazing that the Roman Empire will not take these 'rumors' to heart. But the appearance of Zhang Lu became an opportunity.

The number of troops of Zhang Lu's forces is not large, but the main generals who lead the troops know how to cast magical spells, and the Roman army is bitter, and even the Persians, who give the Romans a headache, are a little overwhelmed in the face of the forces of the Heavenly Master Dao. So don't look at Zhang Lu's power is not large, at the beginning he survived in the gap between the Roman Empire, the Persian Sassanid Empire, and the Sabbatical Empire.

But when the Sassanid Empire of Persia attacked the Sabbatarian Empire, that is, the Parthian Empire. Zhang Lu took advantage of the situation to rise, expanded his power a lot, and truly gained a foothold in the eastern Mediterranean.

Now Zhang Lu is still desperately expanding his power, wanting to advance his power to the east coast of the Mediterranean, in that case he will hit a harbor city, although Zhang Lu does not know much about the role of the harbor, but if he can fight down, at least he will no longer have to be besieged by the enemy like now. ...,

The all-out attack of the Heavenly Master Dao army was terrifying, which caused the Roman Empire's army to retreat one after another, and it was about to cede the territory on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean - in this case, the power of the Roman Empire would also be cut off, and the territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and the northern coast of Africa would become enclaves, which could only be connected by the immature seafaring technology of this era, which was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the Roman Empire.

Moreover, the Sassanid Empire of Persia was staring at these places, how could the Roman Empire not be in a hurry? It was at this time that the rulers of Rome noticed the rumors about the Han Dynasty.

That man named Zhang Lu was a rebel of the Han Dynasty, who fled here after being defeated by the rulers of the Han Empire!

The Han Empire was extremely powerful, and the people there were all dressed in beautiful clothes, had endless new and delicious food, drank endless delicious wine, had an incomparably vast territory that was no worse than the Roman Empire, and had all kinds of magical tools.

Eventually, the Romans, under pressure from Zhang Lu, accepted these rumors and organized a large mission to lead the caravan to the far east.

This was the beginning of the connection between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty - in fact, the Romans had communicated with the Han Dynasty for a long time, but at that time it was only a little contact, and there was no communication at all.

Unlike this time, it was the real beginning of the exchange.

It's just that Liu Xuan is not interested in in-depth exchanges with the Roman Empire, and even when the Roman Empire may deepen the friendship between the two sides through marriage, Liu Xuan used a sentence: There is only one princess in the Han Dynasty, and she has already been married!

This made the envoys of the Roman Empire very discouraged, but they couldn't get up.

He only had to live in the Han Dynasty for half a year, and he fully felt the huge gap between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire - this gap was all-round, and he even thought that in front of the Han Empire, the Roman Empire was like a defenseless baby, who could kill him at any time as long as the other party wanted to.

"It's horrible!"

Unlike the merchants, who could only see some ordinary things, these emissaries representing the Roman Empire were able to see more things, especially when all the cavalry riding winged pegasus and could fly into the sky to attack, they even suspected that they had come to the world of legends, where it was not a human being, but a god!

In fact, when they saw all the Feather Forest Riders rise into the air and collectively cast sunset bows to cover the ground, the terrifying explosion and the smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun did make many Romans kneel on the ground and pray...... They thought it was the wrath of the gods.

And the Roman, who was the messenger, although he behaved a little better, was limited, he just didn't kneel!

In this case, the Romans were really not angry, so the next few exchanges, the Romans came to 'pilgrimage', and Liu Xuan simply didn't bother to meet with him, and sent the officials of the Ministry of Rites to deal with it.

But the more he did this, the more attentive the Romans became, and even when their country was in chaos, the envoys who came to the Han Dynasty never stopped—and even the high-ranking people of Rome came to 'pilgrimage', and these people came around and went back and then preached, which resulted in a situation that made Liu Xuan cry and laugh.

Han Empire...... It became the place where the gods of all walks of life lived in the minds of the Romans. The Han people have almost become the people of the gods, and the emperor of the Han Empire is the spokesman of the gods in the world, and Jupiter is the incarnation of Jupiter in the world (this name was originally the self-name of the Roman ruler Diocletian, but now it is directly sent to Liu Xuan's head) and .........so on,

If this was in the future life, Liu Xuan would never believe that such a thing would happen. Even if someone says that an Asian is the embodiment of God and His old man, it is estimated that he will be hunted down by the Holy See at once - the contradictions between cultures and races are almost irreconcilable.

On the contrary, in this era, the concept of human race is much weaker!

Liu Xuan, who originally only showed up occasionally and did not show his immortal methods in front of the Romans, should not be regarded as the incarnation of a god, but who let a certain nobleman of the Roman Empire come to the Han Dynasty not long ago, just in time for Liu Xuan to ascend the throne for a hundred years.

At first, this person thought he had heard it wrong, but when he asked carefully, it was indeed a hundred years.

"A hundred years at the helm of an empire?"

In the eyes of this Roman, this is simply impossible, not to mention the age when he ascended the throne, even this hundred years of life is not something that ordinary people can have.

What's more, he had met the emperor of the Han Empire once, and that face was even much younger than him, as if he was in his early twenties.

"That His Majesty the Emperor is over a hundred years old this year?"

There happened to be an official from the Ministry of Rites beside him, and when he heard this, he replied with a smile: "Your Majesty is one hundred and twenty years old this year!"

The Roman opened his mouth, stunned to say anything, and the next day he set out for the Roman Empire, and finally succeeded in telling the 'important' news to Diocletian, the ruler of the Roman Empire at the time.

Until this time, someone suddenly reacted, and Zhang Lu, who had been threatening the eastern part of the Roman Empire, seemed to be not young......

In this way, the Han Empire ceased to be a country in the eyes of the Romans, that is, a place where the gods lived.

Diocletian was even ready to go to the Han Empire in person, for which he even reduced his forces and stopped his military campaign against the Sassanid Empire of Persia, and the entire Roman Empire began to shrink and defend itself.

Then Diocletian first assembled a large pilgrimage team to prepare to travel by sea to the Han Empire - and interestingly, all the ships used by the Roman Empire were bought from the civilian shipyards of the Han Dynasty in recent years, and it was with these ships that the Roman Empire had such frequent contact with the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that although Liu Xuan did not take the initiative to influence, the world has completely deflected its original track, and even if he wants to control it, it is no longer possible.

"The Age of the Global Village...... Probably sooner than I expected!"

And at this time, a new news came from the north: the most powerful Tuoba family in the Dai country seized the throne and became the new emperor of this Xianbei country, and changed the name of the country to Wei!

When the news reached the Han Dynasty, the Han people called it the Northern Wei Dynasty according to the custom of the early years. At this time, it happened to be the 100th year of the Han calendar, that is, the 300th year of AD.