Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Life Experience of Being Rubbed
When he heard Zhang De say this, Aloben's face was extremely shocked, and his expression was extremely rich. He came to Zhenguan for nine years and entered Chang'an, and the Wude Dynasty dealt with the Han people, and knew that the authority of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty was the unity of man and god, and as long as the strength of the local princes was not enough, without exception, they did not dare to trespass.
As a Syrian clergyman, Aroben traveled over a vast area, and when he first encountered a caravan of Han Chinese in Damascus, he was not amazed by the silk, peppercorns, linen, and lacquerware produced by "Celis". No matter how beautiful the utensils are, they still need to be used.
He was amazed at the "wisdom" of the caravan merchants, and the unique way of thinking, from the mouths of the Han people, although they were all a few words, Aroben already knew in his youth that there was a land in the east, which was as vast as a desert, but it was all arable land.
The grain output of more than 300 catties per mu is an extremely terrifying comparison compared with the grain output of 100 catties per acre in Syria.
Auroben once traveled as a "scholar" to the homeland of Rome, the Frankish kingdom of D'Gobert at that time, and the blonde barbarians drove the old Roman tribe to the countryside and the Mediterranean peninsula.
But obviously, the status of a "scholar" does not allow him to come into contact with the nobility of the kingdom, let alone the palace minister, even the rural nobility has no pursuit of knowledge. The proceeds of the "fiefdoms" were enough to support the noble family, and the former Roman remnants and the new "blonde" slaves died tragically in ignorance under multiple exploitations.
Aloben didn't even have the heart to read the Frankish Codex more than once, and Rome in the East was too consumed in its entanglement with the Persians, and the entire Mediterranean Sea was devoid of the soil for which the Syrian "wise men" longed.
Until he made up his mind to go east, when the emperor of the Sui Dynasty was still in power, he saw a large number of "paper" for the first time in Khorasang, this expensive writing material named "Caihou paper", which made Aroben impatient to go to "Celis", and stayed in the river for five full years, because the Turks were in the civil war, and the exploitation of the Western Regions by the Western Turks Tutun made Aroben have no chance to go to "Celis".
What's more, the news from the Western Regions also made Aroben a little frightened.
A rebellion broke out in "Celis", and the emperor was killed.
This was different from the authority of the emperor that Aroben had heard from the Han Chinese, and he once wondered if the emperor's power was lower than that of the king of the Franks, and he needed to take land to buy others.
Soon, however, the situation changed again, and the Turks themselves began a battle for water and grass and tribes, and then Aroben followed the chaotic ranks into the Western Regions.
After staying for a few more years, I heard about the "change of dynasty", and a hero became the ruler of "Celis", and this ruler unified "Celis" in five years and eliminated most of the opponents.
It's just that the Silk Road was blocked, and Aroben couldn't find a chance to enter the customs for a long time, and he often walked around Shule, Jimo, and the river, because the situation was a little better at this time, and there were obviously fewer large-scale wars. A few years later, Aroben heard about a shocking incident in which the Turks were arguing over whether to pay tribute.
Soon, the news spread to the Western Regions, and it turned out that one of the most powerful tribes of the Turks, their Khan, had actually been captured alive in the capital of "Celis". And this khan, even within the Western Turks, was recognized by a large number of warlords. This made Aroben even more convinced that his chance had come.
With the Xianbei and Qiang people who continued to flow from the east, Aroben knew that this was a country called "Tuyuhun", which was completely destroyed. For the first time, he saw the Tang army, a cavalry with a size of twenty people, but it was chasing and killing more than ten times the Xianbei people.
The impressive picture shows that the Syrian "scholars" have worked hard to finally enter the place inhabited by the Han Chinese, starting from Dunhuang and going all the way to the east, any city, placed in Syria, is the scale that a warlord should have. And in every city, there will be officials and garrisons loyal to the emperor, and he once thought that this was "Chang'an".
Though ashamed of his ignorance, Aroben was more certain that he was on the right track, and more certain that the Emperor wielded as the caravan merchant had said he wielded impressive power.
Unlike the rule of the Franks, "Celis" did not have a large number of warlords and aristocrats in control of the "fiefdoms", and when he described the way the Franks ruled, the "scholars" in the counties of the northwest state lamented that "there is a kind of Yin Zhou".
The first time Aroben heard of "Yin Zhou", at this time he was already able to translate Sanskrit and Lulu fluently, and could also speak some tongue-twisting Guanzhong dialect, but he did not know much about "Yin Zhou".
After the discussion, he realized that this was an era more than a thousand years apart......
The power of the king lies not in his "conquest", but in his "rule", and Aroben's knowledge and knowledge made it clear to him that the only emperor who is truly like an "earthly god" is the emperor of "Celis". The extent of the extension of power, and the sheer number of people to whom it was accepted, made Aroben ecstatic.
For as long as it affects the king, it affects everything.
In the ninth year of Zhenguan in the western suburbs of Chang'an, he thought so, and the "prime minister" of the proud empire came to meet him, which is something that many sects can't do, but he Aroben did it.
Although the emperor only allowed the "Nestorians" to preach among the "Hu people" and only allowed the construction of one church, in Aroben's view, this was a good start.
After "Celis", or "Tang Dynasty" to be exact, the country changed so fast that Aroben didn't have time to record it. A large number of "prisoners of war" appeared in Chang'an, and one after another countries that Auroben once wanted to see perished.
However, all this happened in a stable and peaceful atmosphere in Chang'an City. Later, the Tang army entered the Western Regions, and Shule and Momo, where he had stayed, were attacked by the Tang army successively. He was worried about his old friend, and when he came to Chang'an, he was ecstatic...... Although only as a "remnant", he was confined to Chang'an.
When the emperor decided to move the capital, the Western Turks had also begun to move all the way west, and the emperor's authority began to extend, not only extended, but also deepened.
The whole empire seemed to be on the rise, and Aroben could not see any place to threaten the emperor, and in his opinion, everyone would submit to the emperor, even if they were dissatisfied, even if they were blocked by the power of nature as a fence, but they could only submit and disband or weaken the armed forces in their hands.
He did not believe that in such a powerful era, there would still be people who would "disobey" the emperor's will.
It wasn't until he came to Wuhan that he found that the invincible holy decree was actually used as toilet paper...... Speaking of toilet paper, Aroben loved it, after all, before there was toilet paper, Aroben did not want to recall the way in which he had been "wiping dirt" in the previous decades, whether it was Persia or Syria or Rome or Franks.
The "Three Views" that had been reorganized immediately became extremely complicated under the tone of a certain earth dog hanging and even quite frivolous, just like the "Wenwang Temple" that collapsed a few years after the "Confucian Manifestation", and there were countless kinds of shattered voices sounding in Aroben's mind.
What's wrong? What's going on?
Aroben's mind went blank, his decades of life experience were washed away again and again, and he should have been tenacious and indestructible, but what happened?
He got the holy decree, this is the holy decree, this is the holy decree that can summon tens of thousands of horses in Tianzhu and Fandi casually.
This is the emperor's will, as if the emperor was there in person. Why? Why would anyone babble like a madman, ignore it with frivolous pomp, and be fearless?
What's wrong? What's going on?
Aroben asked himself in his heart, and then his body shook suddenly, and with an "ah", he fell backwards in a daze......