Chapter 965: What will happen to the world after all these years?
After Luo Su left, rumors that he had appeared here gradually spread among the top leaders.
The last time we heard from Luo Su, he was in Yangzhou. Most people could guess that he was going to the Luo family in Jiangnan.
After arriving at Jiangnan Luoshi, it makes sense to head south.
The powerful people in Lingnan were very frightened.
Afraid that what I have done will be discovered.
In other words, they never thought about hiding it. Who could hide it in front of the national teacher?
Some people are waiting for the end like a bereaved family.
But in the end, nothing happened.
Luo Su's carriage has already headed for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. He wants to visit Tibet and India, where there is also a Chu State.
Tibet.
Since he first came to the plateau decades ago, Luo Su has regarded it as the biggest threat to the Central Plains, and now it seems to be true.
The severe altitude attack made it difficult for the Tang army to attack here. After failing to arrange for a number of small countries, they could only set up the Qinghai Protectorate in Qinghai to coordinate all parties and establish a country.
For Tubo.
Luo Su believed that he could only rely on internal sowing discord to cause chaos and weaken Tubo's potential. As for truly annexing Tubo, it would be difficult to do so in the current warm climate.
The rest of the places, whether it is the northern desert, Eastern Europe, overseas, or Central and South China, all have the same advantage, that is, Han people can migrate there in large numbers.
But on the plateau, large-scale migration of population is tantamount to sending people to their deaths.
Moreover, the indigenous population in those lands is small, so the population structure can be changed quickly. But for Tubo, which has a population of tens of millions, it is simply a dream to want to change the local population structure.
They could only wait for the hard-earned water and heat conditions to end. After losing a large amount of arable land, the population dropped sharply, and Tubo naturally lost its ability to dominate.
Luo Su did not pay much attention to Tubo. After all, Tubo was a regional empire and could not be compared with the Tang Dynasty. Without the natural barriers of the plateau, it would have been flattened long ago.
On the contrary, Luo Su was quite interested in India, because from what he had learned about its history, he found that it was really strange.
A large population, fertile land and a long history.
What does it remind people of when a country possesses these three qualities?
The glorious China!
The same is true in India. On the land of the Ganges Plain, there are many powerful empires, such as the Maurya Empire or the Kushan Empire, which is on par with the Han Empire.
But every empire built here can be said to have no resilience. Once destroyed, it will never be rebuilt.
Every nation that has ever conquered this place can be called brave and good at fighting, but once they arrive here, they will be assimilated, and when the next disaster comes, they will be reduced to the lower class.
Now that the Han people have also arrived there, Luo Su wants to see what the outcome will be.
He did not stay in Tibet for long, but quickly headed for India along the tortuous road of the snowy plateau.
hot.
When the familiar heat and then the humid moisture hit his face, Luo Su began to understand something.
Here he met the Chu nobles who came here to explore the land. These Chu nobles had already put on traditional Indian costumes and seemed to have become the high-ranking nobles here.
It's normal if you think about it carefully. King Song can expand smoothly because he has so many people supporting him. No matter how much debt he has, at least he has a lot of resources now.
The King of Chu does not have the conditions of the King of Song and can only rely on himself. Unless Tubo completely surrenders, it is impossible for the imperial court to send large amounts of supplies to India.
The only way to survive is to blend into the local ruling class. Luo Su has some understanding of the caste system, which is a system extended from religion.
Luo Su previously believed that this system would not be stable. Clear hierarchies would appear in any country, but rulers and ruling groups would change every once in a while.
It is impossible for the upper echelons to suppress the lower echelons simply by relying on a system.
Facts also prove Luo Su's view that the once prosperous Maurya Empire was established by the lower castes. In the confrontation between the high and low castes, the high castes do not always win.
But after a deeper understanding, Luo Su completely felt the horror of this system, which was a ruling method that had never appeared before.
During his stay in India, Luo Su once again deeply felt the huge impact of climate on a country's ethnic group.
He found one of the reasons why this land had been constantly invaded for thousands of years and the character of the ethnic group.
That is the continuous rainy season.
There has never been a shortage of heroes who want to unify this land, but they have basically all failed. Even if the unification is very short-lived, it will basically collapse in a short period of time.
If it is because of consciousness, then a large group of people of the same religion can actually shoulder this responsibility.
Luo Su stayed here for a long time.
This is the birthplace of Buddhism. In today's Central Plains and Western Regions, Buddhism has been integrated into the pantheon and is no longer worshipped as a separate religion.
Here, Luo Su learned the history of this gradually disappearing sect, and from these fragments, he painted a picture of the past.
Monks all have temples where they chant scriptures and perform rituals, but in fact the earliest Buddha required monks to travel around and not settle down permanently, but eventually this rule was abandoned by the Buddha himself.
The Buddha said that during the rainy season in the summer, people did not need to travel around, but could find a place to hide from the rain for three months. Even a figure like Confucius, a powerful figure who was determined to change Buddhism, was helpless against the rainy season and ultimately compromised.
What is so scary about this rainy season?
When the rainy season comes, roads will be washed away, bridges will break, water will overflow everywhere, even flooding, and insects, snakes, ants and rats will appear in endlessly.
If we make an analogy to the Central Plains, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and their tributaries will flood countless cities and lands for three months every summer. The straight roads repaired by the court will be washed away, the bridges built on the rivers will disappear, and the people living on the land will lose the land they depend on for survival.
Everything will be started over again.
In the downstream Bangladesh region, more than 80 percent of the land will be flooded during the rainy season, and people need to survive on boats.
In this case, what role do accumulation and diligence play?
The rule of the empire depended on the extensive roads that could convey the imperial edicts, control and command the officials, and allow the army to successfully suppress rebellions when the situation changed.
You can't go out during the rainy season.
This means that for three months every year, the empire is left to its own devices and the imperial court has no idea what is happening in the local areas.
It is unknown when tax revenue will be restored after the three-month rainy season.
It is also unknown how much land available for tax collection was lost during the rainy season during the tax collection process.
During the long rainy season, how many people died and whether their bodies were washed away by floods. In other words, after the rainy season, the household register created by the empire had to be revised again.
Which empire has such abundant human and material resources to do such a thing?
Naturally, it can only be estimated locally.
This estimate will inevitably result in a 90% error and a 13% error.
In India, the political logic is too different from that in the Central Plains.
In the Central Plains, a change of regime usually dates back more than ten years, after all, political struggle is a long-term process.
But in India, the power of the rulers would fluctuate, and during the rainy season, it was difficult for government orders to come out of the capital. This situation in the Central Plains was probably similar to that of Liu Xie in the late Later Han Dynasty.
This sounds incredible, that a monarch of a country with no signs of collapse would be merely the lord of the imperial capital for three months every year.
After the rainy season ends, a large number of officials will travel between the imperial capital and the local areas to re-establish a powerful rule.
This is a naturally divided land.
No one can change it.
Those powerful dynasties were established quickly because they had a unified consciousness, and they collapsed quickly because consciousness alone is not enough without reality.
Maurya dynasty monuments were established in Central Asia, but their influence was only reached during the dry season.
How much value those so-called powerful empires in history actually have is still a question worth discussing.
Luo Su finally came to a conclusion about this land: it was impossible to establish a centralized empire here.
It can only continue to cycle through sudden prosperity and extreme decline.
Even if the Han people ruled here, it would not change this fact, because there is no foundation for counties here.
Among the six kingdoms, Luosu completely excluded Chu from the ranks of those that might successfully compete for the dragon in the future.
Currently, Yan is still ranked first among the six kingdoms. If Yan can annex Liaodong, it will still have a chance to compete with the Central Plains.
After sentencing the future of the State of Chu and the land of Tianzhu to death, Luo Su prepared to leave.
Starting from the northwest of India, you can reach the land of Bactria, which is Central Asia. Basically, any regime that entered India passed through there or directly established a northern regime there.
Luosu was no exception. After a new rainy season passed, everything in this land began to restart again. The kings and lords began to send officials to collect taxes and check whether there were any changes in their territories and how much land had been flooded.
During the hot dry season, Losu passed through that dangerous mountain range, that mountain range that had been invaded by countless invaders but had never had a fortress built, all the way to Central Asia.
He once traveled from Central Asia to the Far West, but now he no longer goes there. The Tang Dynasty has now surpassed the peak of all past dynasties.
I have a feeling that I am invincible in the world.
Luo Su believes that the only one who can destroy the Tang Dynasty now is the Tang Dynasty itself. Perhaps it should not be called destruction, but a new round of reincarnation.
What can solve reincarnation?
Even if we ask Ji Zhao who came from modern times, he doesn't know.
After all, even in Ji Zhao's time, none of the most prosperous and developed countries in the world had solved the problem of reincarnation.
There seems to be no other way except for Luo to take power and use super-realistic things to solve real problems.
Because human life is so short.
You can only see the decades ahead.
History is an upward spiral, and the so-called upward spiral means that there will be times when it will retreat.
For example, the fall of the Roman Empire.
It was the low point in the West.
On the scale of thousands of years of history, a brief low point of only one or two hundred years is nothing. It is like a compressed spring, accumulating strength and then bursting out with even more powerful force.
The factors that will lead to regression will be completely destroyed through violent revolution.
But for ordinary people, this low point of one or two hundred years is their entire life.
Darkness enveloped them.
I can’t finish walking the winding road, and I can’t see the bright future.
A speck of dust from the times falling on a person is like a mountain.
Given this reality, how can we blame those who are pessimistic?
So Luo Su never blames people outside the Luo family for having some selfish thoughts. A person can make contributions, but he should not be asked to make contributions.
Some things can be done by Luo Shi alone.
Luo is different. He can always see the bright future in his heart and the end of the tortuous road.
Since Luo Shi has such capabilities, it is natural for Luo Shi to take on heavier responsibilities.
Luo Su was not unfamiliar with Central Asia, as he had traveled through it before, so he paid more attention to it than to other places.
Moreover, there is the sea to the east and there is not enough land, while to the west, the land is almost endless.
He came from the Bang Zhou period and was the one who presided over the second great feudal enfeoffment and development.
That obsession with the land is deeply engraved in his heart.
During these years, he sometimes corresponded with the Lord of Xuanmen, asking about changes in Central Asia and other places.
According to Xuanmen’s letters, the changes in Central Asia in recent years have been very drastic, not only changes in dynasties, but also changes in religion.
The complicated relationship between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, as well as internal integration, consumed a lot of time and energy.
Currently, in the broad territory of the Tang Dynasty, the territory actually ruled by the Xuanmen in the Western Regions crosses the Pamir Plateau and reaches the heart of Central Asia in the west.
The city was called Suiye City because its shape was similar to Suiye.
The troops stationed here include three hundred Xuanmen Temple soldiers and three thousand coalition forces from the Western Regions. The deputy commander of the Xuanmen Temple Army is stationed here. If anything goes wrong, he will mobilize the troops of the Zhaowu Nine Surnames and the various countries in the Seven Rivers Basin that believe in Xuanmen.
These troops came here to defend the faith, because the Crescent Faith came here from faraway West Asia along with the great conquest.
Although only some of the border princes came here, the Sultan's target is still the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern Orthodox Empire and the Catholic world. However, if major problems arise in the war here, Xinyue's target may change.
Heretics are more hateful than pagans. This does not mean that pagans are not hateful. After heretics are eliminated, pagans will also be eliminated.
Although basically every emperor or sultan in the West would enact a policy of religious tolerance, that is, freedom of religious belief, this was not the case in practice.
Even in the Central Plains, great events such as honoring the Emperor of Heaven and abolishing all sacrifices took place, let alone the barbaric areas?
Luo Su looked out of the car window.
(End of this chapter)
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