Chapter 46: Diocletian

"The Tuoba clan took power, changed the name of the country to Wei, and began to take the initiative to learn the culture of the Han Dynasty, maybe it won't be long before there will be no more pure nomads in the north......"

After the news reached the court, some optimists thought that it was a good thing that the Tuoba clan was in power, because the Tuoba clan was not resistant to Sinology, and even studied hard, and they felt that the Northern Wei Dynasty would be the same as several countries in the Northern Zhao Dynasty, and eventually become a vassal state of the Han Dynasty - kbook update

But not everyone is so optimistic, for example, Liu Ye, the secretary of the Ministry of War, does not agree with these people's statements.

According to some news, the Tuoba clan recruited famous scholars among the Xianbei people, intending to create a culture belonging to the Xianbei people, in order to replace the Han culture that currently plays a key role in some industries in the Northern Wei Dynasty!"

Including weights and measures, currency, etc., the Tuoba clan wanted to completely ban them, and then use a set of standards set by the Xianbei people themselves to do these things.

In fact, Beiyan and other three countries also did similar things, but unfortunately they did not succeed in the end.

After all, the territory of the Three Kingdoms of Northern Yan is small, and many key materials are controlled by the Han Dynasty, and if they want to promote their own set, as long as the Han people don't accept it, they will completely wandan!

But the Northern Wei Dynasty was different, the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty was vast, and to a certain extent, they did not need blood transfusions from the Han Dynasty to maintain the operation of the entire country.

Therefore, they have more room for maneuver, as long as they are forcibly promoted, after a period of time, a new system will slowly be formed.

"So what to do?"

Everyone didn't want the Northern Wei Xianbei to establish a set of their own culture, which would not only affect the strategy of the Han Dynasty against the Northern Wei Dynasty in the future, but even affect the three countries of the Northern Yan.

After decades of cultural invasion, the Three Kingdoms of Northern Yan are now not much different from the Han people's country, but the royal family of the Three Kingdoms still keeps in mind their identity as Xianbei people, and has always maintained considerable ties with the predecessor of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the past few decades, and no one can say when these three families will fall to the opposite side.

Everyone quarreled for a while, and finally looked at the Son of Heaven sitting on the dragon chair, Liu Xuan leaned on the wide armrest of the dragon chair with his elbow at this time, put his fist on his cheek, and tilted his body to look at everyone without saying a word.

The ministers of the DPRK and China are used to the appearance of the Son of Heaven, anyway, the Son of Heaven is not ambiguous at all when there are major events, so it doesn't matter how he sits. At this time, everyone couldn't get a result from the discussion, so they turned their attention to the emperor, wanting to see what the emperor's attitude was on this issue?

Should he start fighting directly? Or should he use other means to clean up the Northern Wei Dynasty? Liu Xuan also knew that he had to make a statement at this time, otherwise the ministers would not know what to say even if they had a plan in mind.

"Do you have any suggestions?"

As soon as they spoke, everyone immediately had a general direction.

The first sentence asked Ma Teng instead of Xun Yu, and the Son of Heaven was obviously more inclined to solve it by force!

But in fact, this is not the case, Ma Teng has been a lieutenant for so many years, and he is no longer a reckless man who only knows how to lead troops to rush hard, he already knows how to look at problems from a broader perspective.

"Xianbei is not monolithic now, in fact, when the country was established, some Xianbei people were already dissatisfied, otherwise there would be no appearance of the Three Kingdoms of Northern Yan. Now the Tuoba clan is plotting against the usurpation of the country and studying Sinology, which has also caused quite a storm in the Northern Wei Dynasty!"

Liu Xuan nodded, in fact, he also favored to directly cause trouble within the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"I heard that there is a tribe in the north of the Dai Kingdom, called Rouran, which is a tribe that firmly retains the customs of the nomads, and I believe that they are very dissatisfied with the various measures of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so they ......"

At this point, the ministers understood what to do, and the next thing didn't need Liu Xuan to bother, he just sat on the side and waited for everyone to discuss a result. ...,

With the ability of this group of civil and military forces under Liu Xuan's account, it didn't take long, and a detailed plan was set almost in a few words.

Let the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty come forward, support the independence of the Rouran Department, and create war pressure on the Northern Wei Dynasty on the back!

The Northern Zhou Yuwen clan was chosen because in the past few decades, compared with the Northern Yan, who has been entangled with the Dai Kingdom, and the Northern Zhao, who has been vacillating from side to side, the Northern Zhou has always stood firmly on the side of the Han Dynasty.

Although it can be investigated from time to time that there is something involved with Daiguo's side, it is not deeply involved.

At the same time, the Yuwen clan has not resisted the sinicization, it can be said that among the three Xianbei subject countries, the sinicization of the Yuwen clan is carried out most thoroughly, and the Yuwen clan will also send outstanding young children to Luoyang for further study, learning the top knowledge of the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that even if the Han Dynasty now says that it will annex the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Yuwen family will not have much resistance, and even the Yuwen family will immediately become a prestigious and powerful clan of the Han Dynasty.

At least now there are many young people from the Yuwen family who can directly enter the forbidden army to serve, especially considering the Yuwen family's familiarity with the north, once the Han Dynasty launches a war against the north, these people of the Yuwen family will be immediately reused.

This time, it can be regarded as a test of the Yuwen family, as long as the Yuwen family does what the Han is satisfied, then they will really become 'Han people' in the future, and they are definitely the elite class.

And with the Yuwen family as a cover in the middle, the support of the Han Dynasty to Rouran can be successfully completed, and when the Rouran tribe is in trouble, the Northern Wei Dynasty must be attracted most of the attention by the war in the north, and in order to ensure the smooth progress of the war, it will definitely not be able to do any 'academic research' at this time, including the transportation of war materials in order to ensure efficiency, and will also use these units that have been accustomed to.

In other words, as long as Rouran is not eliminated for a day, the Northern Wei Dynasty will not be able to smoothly implement their new standards!

Of course, this is also relative, if the Northern Wei Tuoba clan can really be ruthless, the war is the best opportunity to implement the new standard - provided that they have already formulated detailed standards, but this is obviously unrealistic, so Liu Xuan is not worried about this happening.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Northern Wei Dynasty was mired in war and could not extricate itself, Liu Xuan also sent Sun Ce to the north of the Northern Wei Dynasty to carry out some activities.

I believe that Sun Ce's trip will definitely bring considerable panic to the Northern Wei Dynasty!

At this point, the situation on the Northern Wei side was resolved, and new information was learned from the Ministry of Rites.

"Oh, you're saying that Diocletian, who is currently in charge of the Roman Empire, has already set out for the Great Han?"

At the speed of the ships purchased by the Roman Empire, the voyage time was at least more than a year, but even then it was the fastest ship today...... They didn't know what the speed of the warships of the Han Empire was, but they had vaguely seen the warships of the Han Empire.

The all-metal hull gave them a great shock, but after these words were heard, none of the Romans wanted to believe that a ship made entirely of metal could float on the water, so most people thought that the warships of the Great Han were only covered with a layer of iron on the outside of the wooden hull.

In addition, they did not have any chance to board the battleship, not even the envoys of the Roman Empire, so they did not know the true strength of the Han navy until now - as for the naval guns, they did see it, but they did not know what those thick pipes were for.

Chen Lin nodded: "It seems to be ...... The Romans regarded the Han as a country where the gods lived, and it is said that the Romans considered the Han to come to the Han as a pilgrimage......"

Speaking of this, Chen Lin thought it was interesting, but he didn't expect that he would be regarded as a god one day.

But if you think about it carefully, what is the difference between him and the immortals now? Isn't the legendary immortal just a long lifespan, possessing supreme power, and being able to perform many magical methods?..., and he can be regarded as capable of doing all of this. As for His Majesty the Emperor in front of him, it is no different from a real immortal.

Who has ever seen a person in his 100s who is still in his twenties? Not only His Majesty the Emperor, but even several of His Majesty's ladies are young and beautiful, not only have they not grown old, but have become more and more beautiful over the decades. Only true immortals can do this, right?

Looking at the strongest people in the imperial court, they are all in a similar situation, Lu Bu, the number one fierce general in the world, has obviously been sitting for more than a hundred years, even if he has not left Luoyang in recent decades, and has not made another move, no one dares to say that Lu Bu's title should be given up.

Because...... As the daughter of Lu Bu, Lu Lingqi is still active, although Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong, who were named General Yulin after Ma Chao left Yulin Cavalry, the most well-known person in Yulin Riding is still Lu Lingqi.

It is not that Lu Lingqi frequently participates in wars, but because of Lu Lingqi's identity, many people have challenged her, and these people have all been easily defeated without exception.

Even the Romans were included, and the result was that Lu Lingqi's name spread directly to Europe, and the Roman Empire knew that there was a powerful and beautiful woman in the Han Dynasty - many Romans who came with the mission for the first time would run to see Lu Lingqi, which almost became a must-do.

This time it also involved Lu Lingqi.

It is said that Diocletian came this time to see with his own eyes the excesses of the so-called gods and the incarnation of the gods in the world, and also wanted to see if he could marry Lu Lingqi back.

For this reason, Diocletian first prepared a large number of rare treasures as a dowry, and after these news were finally sent to Chen Lin through various channels, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites was also speechless for a while.

And when Liu Xuan heard it, he felt even more funny.

"This Diocletian ...... That's a good idea...... But if he is far away from his own country, he is not afraid of problems within the country?"

For this, Chen Lin needs to know more.

"Your Majesty, even if Diocletian continues to stay in the Roman Empire, he will have to abdicate in a few years!"

This was Diocletian's own rule, and perhaps it was with this in mind that he left the Roman Empire for the Han without any scruples, perhaps wanting to get something from the Han, so that even if he abdicated, he could still ensure his prestige in the Roman Empire.

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