Thinking about these things is a great warning for Guo Kang.

Because, as mentioned earlier, the Purple Horde itself is actually the way in which a small clan is ruled by a large country.

In contrast, their advantage is probably that the Europeans don't care about this problem.

Ancient Rome itself, in its early years, ruled the entire Mediterranean with a small number of citizens, and later gradually liberalized citizenship. And later generations of European countries did not care about these at all. Even the most "indigenous" French royal family, whose ancestors actually came from East Francia.

On the other hand, Europeans do not seem to have much of a "legal" idea. Their country does not correspond to a certain civilization one-to-one, and the legitimacy narrative used is not a set of logic with the Central Plains. Now what these people are pursuing is, at most, a simple "rubbing the heat of Rome".

In comparison, the Qing Dynasty had a very high level of culture, and the level of brutality was not a big deal at all. If you put this place, it is a high-legitimacy dynasty.

As for religion, it is not a problem, just learn the pen pal French and arrest the Pope once. It could even be stipulated that in future pope elections would have to be drawn by lots. Now it's not only legal, it's also very democratic......

The real confusion was that the Purple Horde wanted to learn from the Central Plains model and build a strong and solid foundation. But the Khan's court was also timid. On the one hand, it is because some cultural concepts of the Central Plains are not adapted to the soil and water, and they cannot find corresponding things; On the other hand, it's also your own problem.

Qianlong's argument back then was actually a loophole in the definition: at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong was also known as Sanhan.

For this situation, you can refer to Gu Yanwu's record back then. According to him, since the loss of Liaoyang during the Apocalypse, there were documents such as the Song of the Imperial Court that called the Liao people "Three Hans" in order to "Waizhi" - that is, the traditional expulsion of Han Chinese.

By arguing that the local area is Han, not Han, it can be proved that the imperial court has not lost important areas, and the previous defeats are all minor problems, and the situation is still under control.

After that, the Liao people also began to call themselves Sanhan as a way to "come from the outside". Even local officials call it that. Mao Wenlong's book directly said that it would take two years to "destroy the slaves in Pingliao and restore the old industry of Sanhan", which shows that this has become a common synonym.

And Qianlong forcibly linked the "three Koreas" that were extended to the three Koreas in the history books. He found that in the ancient Ma and Han tribes, there was a name called "Ai Xiangguo", which is homophonic to "Ai Xin", so he thought that this was the origin of his family. In addition, he also believes that "Samhan" is actually "Three Khans", which means the ministries under the rule of the three khans, indicating that there was such a title at that time.

Through the use of homophonic stems twice, Qianlong completed a series of arguments.

On the Purple Horde side, it is much simpler, they are really outsiders, and they have no guilt in beating the local nobles. Of course, this also makes them incompatible with the local forces, and people basically look at them as natural disasters......

Guo Kang told Tuhuan, Li Xuanying and others about the concept of "Yellow Peril" in later generations, and how much Europeans rejected the East. However, those people not only didn't think it was slander, but they were also very happy, thinking that the word was very handsome, and they were very domineering when they heard it.

Tuhuan told Guo Kang that the characteristic of the barbarians is that they are afraid of power but not virtuous. The only way to keep them calm and in awe is to beat him up and give him a scared beating. To put it bluntly, people eat this set.

However, Guo Kang is still not satisfied with this.

He felt that it was not enough to conquer and defeat the barbarians, but also to consider the strategy later. Wu Qi said: "It is easy to win, but it is difficult to win." "How to use the grand occasion to expand your own power is the most important thing.

The previous business of the Purple Horde was actually quite good, but it was largely not a conscious act, but a series of passive responses, forced purely by the harsh environment and military pressure.

In the early years, the princes were actually also the attitude of "Xia Jun Yimin", and for the people under their rule, they also felt that this was the barbarian who began to accept the indoctrination, even if they were very united with each other, this attitude has always existed. As for the small Byzantine state in the south, which was fighting a civil war, everyone didn't take it very seriously, and few people even cared about it.

As one of the few cultural people in the Khan's court at that time, Guo Gai had a great interest in finding orthodoxy and rising and falling, and he was also one of the few people who began to look for suitable claims from that time. The direction of development after that is not so much a national policy as Guo Gai's personal "Jingluo" behavior. Until now, Guo Kang suspected that this was the result of Guo Gai being far away from his homeland and having to find a replacement.

In fact, according to the family, Boyan Timur and others proposed to let Guo Gai find a son to marry the Greeks, but Guo Gai was unwilling, so Boyan Timur arranged for his son to be on top. When you think about it, it's actually quite interesting.

By the time of the Civil War, the country was getting bigger and bigger, and it finally became a thorn in the side of the surrounding powers. At the same time, the contradictions within the Khanate also intensified, and the steppe nobles pressed forward to bring greater pressure. Eventually, these two contradictions erupted in the form of the most intense military confrontation, bringing about the most dangerous, but probably the most impactful war in the history of the Purple Horde.

Before the war, the core area of the Purple Horde was actually not like Rome in this era, nor like the Golden Horde next to it, but a bit like the Yuan Dynasty. They were also the Great Khan and a group of Han Chinese military leaders who monopolized force and ruled over all kinds of people. What the rulers identified with was the Han culture with a layer of khanate skin.

Of course, it has to be said that it is like ancient Rome, anyway, ancient Rome is indeed this kind of Western Zhou style state, which is quite different from today's Rome.

After the war, the Purple Horde as a whole became less and less like a khanate. By the time of Basil III, a translation agency had been set up in the court to translate documents to and from the various khanates of the East—throughout the Khanate, Turkic-speaking people were already professional diplomats, and the Mongolian language was even rarer.

The general identity of the country has also become completely "Rome". The princes of the upper echelons no longer regarded themselves as gentlemen and indoctrinators, nor did they insist that they and the natives were two civilizations. They began to call themselves Rome and repeatedly declared that all citizens belonged to Roman civilization. As for the customs and habits that are still insisting on and were originally considered Han culture, they have also been argued by them as part of Roman civilization.

Of course, on the other hand, people with a little knowledge know that the cultural style of this "Rome" is not the same thing as ancient Rome. Scholars with a neutral position generally refer to it as the "Neo-Roman style", while those hostile to the Purple Horde refer to it as the "Eastern Roman style".

Thanks to the help of the Purple Horde, the Eastern Roman Empire, which had always been regarded as an "Eastern country", was now also regarded by them as a Western country.

To be honest, Guo Kang himself doesn't know what this is.

Just as in the culture of the "Hellenistic era", how much is Greek and how much is Persian, and everyone can't tell, how much of this "neo-Roman style" is Roman, how much is Han, and how many others are actually unclear......

(End of chapter)