Chapter 1351: One Man Destroys One Country
Next, Li Yi pondered the collapse of the Roman economy every day.
Soon there was news from the West that Datang still maintained a huge import to Rome, and a large amount of real money and silver flowed into Datang. Caracalla was helpless, but fortunately he had a bank and could print paper money in large quantities.
The Roman court continued to print paper money, procure military supplies from the private sector on a large scale, and raise wages to attract people to join the army. Prices began to skyrocket, inflation began.
In the imperial study, a group of important ministers of the Tang Dynasty came here.
"Your Majesty, Rome has really started to inflate, but it looks like it can still withstand it." Xu Shu said bluntly. His meaning is very clear, although the emperor guessed inflation, but Rome did not finish the game, it seems that the emperor lost the bet.
Li Yi laughed, and said in his heart that he would never lose in this life. He said: "It will take a primer for Rome's economy to collapse and taste the bitter fruit of uncontrolled money printing." We're ...... this, this, this."
The important ministers of the Tang Dynasty were shocked when they heard this, and Zhou Lusu looked like he had been taught by a saint.
Lao Jia said in his heart, people say that I, Jia, am a poisoner, but how can Jia's poison be compared to the emperor! The knife behind the emperor's back, this is the rhythm of stabbing Caracalla to death.
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Rome was inflationary, but without external intervention, inflation in a slave country like ancient Rome could not really bring down its economy. Therefore, Li Yi personally made a plan and prepared to stab Rome in the back. A truly fatal stab.
"Believe that a huge Rome has fallen...... How do you say that? Li Yi scratched his chin, "Yes, Rome fell, and Datang was full." ”
The matter of stabbing a knife in the back, not only Emperor Wude is willing to do it, everyone is willing to do it.
Soon, Wang Xuance, the head of the Tang Shadow Group, took a mission and selected a group of blonde and blue-eyed Tang elite soldiers born in the Western Regions, and went to Rome with a large amount of gold.
Wang Xuance is a character summoned by Li Yi during the last martial arts, and now he has replaced Concubine Jing Li Ying and become the head of the Tang Shadow Group.
In ancient China, there was a legendary story of one person destroying a country, and the creator of this legend was called Wang Xuance. He served as the Tang Dynasty's ambassador to India for three times, and was later dismissed as a doctor for his outstanding performance.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Central India, the most powerful in the Indian Peninsula, unified the Indian Peninsula and established the Magadha Empire, which soon established friendly relations with the Tang Dynasty.
In 647 AD, Tang Taizong ordered Wang Xuance as the chief envoy and Jiang Shiren as the deputy envoy and a group of 30 people to the Western Regions. The purpose is threefold: First, to send an envoy to India. The second is to pay a visit to Songtsen Gampo, the king of Tibet, and be good-neighborly and friendly. The third is to look at Princess Wencheng.
But at this time, there was a coup d'état in India, don't forget, there were no satellites, no mobile phones, no means of communication at that time, and Li Shimin couldn't be counted as a cow, so Wang Xuance went on the road as usual.
When the new king of the throne, Aloshuna, heard that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty had entered, he sent 2,000 men and horses to ambush them halfway, except for Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren, all the horsemen were killed, and Wang Xuance was captured and detained.
Later, Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren found an opportunity to escape and vowed to exterminate India, with the shame of the Snow Messenger being killed!
The two then rode north, crossing the Gandes River and the Sindustan Plains, targeting the Himalayas all the way to Nepal.
In Nepal, Wang Xuance negotiated with the king of Nepal, and in the name of Songtsen Gampo, the king of Tibet, borrowed 7,000 cavalry from Nepal, and at the same time called for the major Tang vassal states in the vicinity, plus Songtsen Gampo sent 1,200 elite cavalry, with a total of nearly 10,000 men and horses. He appointed himself as the governor and ordered Jiang Shiren to be the vanguard, and went straight to India.
Outside the North Indian Chabo and Luo cities, Wang Xuance used the "Fire Bull Array" to defeat tens of thousands of Indian troops. A Luo Shun was shocked, he couldn't defend the city, Xuan Ce was bent on revenge, and took out various means of the Tang army to attack the city - ladders, stone throwers, fire attacks, and attacked Yueyu.
In 648 A.D., Cha Bo and Luo Cheng soldiers broke the city, Xuan Ce chased all the way, killed 3,000 Indian soldiers, more than 10,000 Indian soldiers drowned, 11,000 captured, and Aroshuna fled back to Central India.
Wang Xuance took advantage of the situation to invade Central India and vowed to destroy India. As soon as the Indian generals came into contact with the Tang army (regarded as the Foreign Legion), they collapsed, and Aroshuna abandoned the country and defected to the East Indies to seek reinforcements from the East Indian king, and then recruited scattered generals to prepare for a counterattack on the Tang army.
Xuan Ce and Shi Ren set up a division of troops to lure Aroshuna to the bait, and in one fell swoop, they completely annihilated the remnants of Aroshuna, captured Aroshuna alive, and killed the rest of the people. In the end, the Acropolis of Chaoqiantuo, which was guarded by tens of thousands of troops by Aroshunna's wife, was also breached by Jiang Shiren, and the cities near and far fell to the wind, and Central India perished!
Due to the aid of the East Indies to Aroshuna, Wang Xuance was ready to take advantage of the situation to destroy the East Indies again. The corpse was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and he hurriedly sent ten thousand cattle and horses, a number of treasures with bows and knives, apologized to Tang Shi, and expressed his surrender to the Tang Empire.
Emperor Taizong was overjoyed, and issued an edict to reward Xuan Ce and confer the dispersal of the court's doctors.
Killed tens of thousands of Indian soldiers, captured tens of thousands, and pacified India with thousands of borrowed miscellaneous troops, this hero is Wang Xuance, an envoy with a non-military professional background, and a diplomat with no roots abroad, who can accomplish such a feat. It is indeed a miracle in the world's military history.
As a man who created the miracle of destroying a country by one person, Wang Xuance's ability is extremely outstanding, with 97 commanders, 90 military forces, 97 cunning, 90 politics, and 98 charisma. In the martial arts at that time, Wang Xuance ranked among the top ten.
After Li Yi summoned Wang Xuance last time, he placed him in the Shadow Group of the Tang Dynasty and cultivated him as Li Ying's successor. Now, more than ten years have passed, and he has finally succeeded Li Ying and mastered the Shadow Group.
Li Yi's plan was to destroy Rome's banking sector and collapse the Roman economy. And this plan cannot act alone, but needs to fully blossom at the same time in order to form a fatal strike.
And Wang Xuance, who once achieved the miracle of one person destroying a country, will reproduce his miracle in this time and space, but what he will destroy this time is the powerful Roman Empire with a history of thousands of years.
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In November 219, hundreds of Datang spy ships entered the Mediterranean Sea in batches.
Due to the frequent trade between the Tang Dynasty and Rome, these agent ships, disguised as merchant ships, did not arouse anyone's suspicion.
The Roman Empire, to put it bluntly, is the Circum-Mediterranean Empire, so the spy ships landed smoothly from various ports and went to the prosperous central cities of Rome's major provinces to carry out operations.
Of course, these actions are precisely calculated and highly uniform in time. lest there be a place to launch in advance, so that the Romans are alert.
Wang Xuance and others docked at the port outside the city of Rome, and he ordered soldiers and horses disguised as civilians to guard the merchant ships carefully, and then personally led a group of people into the city.
The city of Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, is located on the Latin Plain of the Apennine Peninsula in the central Mediterranean.
Originally, Rome was just a small city-state with a Roman city.
However, this great city-state, by the 3rd century BC, had already unified all of Italy. Later, it conquered vast areas of the western and eastern Mediterranean, including present-day Spain, France, Greece, Syria, Egypt and all parts of North Africa, and built the largest slave empire in ancient times. It was not until 476 A.D. that the Roman Empire came to an end, in this millennial world. The Roman Empire has always been the most powerful empire in the world.
Its capital, the city of Rome, has always been the largest city in the world, with a population of more than one million at its peak, making it the largest capital city in the ancient world.
However, today, this great city with a population of one million and an area of 30 square kilometers can only be relegated to second place. The Tang Empire covers an area of more than 50 square kilometers and has a population of more than 2 million, which is the real largest city in the ancient world. Its standardization and rationalization have been imitated by later generations, but it has never been truly surpassed.
The city of Rome has seven hills, namely Palatino, Capitoli, Esquilino, Viminale, Quirinale, Sirio, and Aventino, called the city of seven hills. The city wall is undulating across the river and mountains, and the whole is irregular, like a crouching lion.
The Roman Forum, the Colosseum, and the Pantheon are all evidence of the splendor of the Roman Empire, which encompassed three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe.
The square is surrounded by temples, synagogues, Senate halls, triumphal arches, memorial columns, etc.
A bustling neighborhood with bars, public baths, bakeries, inns, etc.
Wang Xuance entered the city of Rome, just like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. It's not that he doesn't have knowledge, but this country thousands of miles away has many surprises.
The real ancient Roman style, if Li Yi can see it, must also be shocked.
Regardless, the country has created a civilization that is thousands of years ahead. The buildings in the city are Roman "synthetic", which is concentrated in the arches, domes, and coupon arch structures. The simple geometric shapes, the huge scale and the heavy stone materials give people a powerful shock.
Temples, arenas, palaces, luxurious, magnificent. The ancient Romans created a magnificent coupon column shape, that is, between the two huge columns is a coupon hole, forming a kind of coupon and column bold combination of very interesting decorative columns, the ancient Roman style column style was once all the rage, and now it is often used in home decoration.
However, before Wang Xuance was shocked by the Roman architecture, he was shocked by the clothing of the Romans. I saw countless women on the bustling streets, wearing shoes with high heels, black or other colored socks, and handbags. The Roman men were clearly not yet able to adapt to this emotional attire, and still saluted as they had when they first appeared. If you find it too beautiful, you will chase after it.
And the Roman woman is much more generous, and she can have such a high return rate, and her heart is also satisfied.
As a result, there is always a scene of chasing women on the streets of Rome. The man's eyes are satisfied, and the woman's heart is satisfied, a win-win situation.
After Wang Xuance saw some exotic customs, he began to study strategies to deal with Rome.
In fact, it would be accurate to say that Li Yi had already formulated the policy, because before Wang Xuance set out, Li Yi had already written his plan into a rough plan, so that after Wang Xuance arrived in Rome, he would carry out feasible transformation of the plan according to the actual situation and implement it in Rome.