I am the king of the dead

Chapter 515 The Fall of Western Rome
"It's settled." Xing'an hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Elena's etiquette is almost learned, and she is tentatively scheduled to enter the palace in October."

Elena, the eldest princess of the Great Qin Kingdom, is studying etiquette in the Ministry of Rites, which involves some disputes over etiquette, and finally proceeds according to the Ming system.

Pastors, altars, bridesmaids, flower boys, callings, prayers, vows, etc., were all denied by Hu Wei and Yang Shan.

You asked the emperor of Ming Dynasty to accept the blessings of gods and ghosts. The rituals of this wedding, not to mention whether His Majesty agrees or not, first of all, the Ministry of Rites does not agree.

If the Ministry of Rites does such a thing, then Hu Wei, Yang Shan and others will all be dismissed, or they should just hang themselves with a rope?
Since she is marrying into Daming and has come from afar, it is natural to follow the etiquette of Daming.

This round of communication is not difficult. The main reason that hinders Elena from entering Tai'an Palace is that Elena herself wants to learn oriental culture.

You can't... let His Majesty learn a foreign language!

"Okay." Zhu Qiyu nodded, indicating that he knew it, and then opened the case file. He will return to Tai'an Palace at dusk to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with his wife and son.

Hu Wei is very free now, and the affairs of the household department are handed over to the servants of the household department Xiao Yu, Shi Hao and others to take charge. He spends most of his time reading in the ancient and modern Tongji library in the imperial city and his own small study.

The second major job is to teach the heirs of Tai'an Palace, and the third thing is to discuss Roman law with the envoy of the Great Qin Kingdom, Nikolaos.

Wearing a swing patch, he wandered around the capital with two attendants and four guards and came to the Huitong Hall. He wanted to see Nikolaoz.

For Hu Wei, the communication with the envoys of the Great Qin Kingdom is a part of the Great Ming Dynasty's great speculation.

Openness and tolerance are not the core of Confucian culture, but the core of the Central Plains Dynasty, one of the etiquette laws of "what's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine."

Ma Huan was waiting outside the huitong hall with more than ten people at the same time. When he saw Hu Wei, he hurriedly led his people to bow their heads and said, "I have met Hu Shangshu."

He was surprised that Hu Yan didn't drive in a sedan, but walked on the street.

Hu Wei has a way of keeping in good health. He walks a hundred steps after a meal and lives to 99. He often takes a walk on the streets of Daming after a meal.

He helped Ma Huan up, and smiled and asked the others to stand up.

He walked around and told Ma Huan again and again: "The translation of the documents of the Great Qin Kingdom should focus on those practical contents. As for religious books, don't translate them for the time being. Your Majesty doesn't like to read them."

The Nestorian classics of the Great Qin State actually had a large number of translations during the Tang and Song Dynasties, so there is no need to translate them twice.

But some books needed for degree bypass, and some philosophy books are necessary.

With Shi Mingjian, we can know the ups and downs.

Hu Wei walked into the Huitong Hall and saw Nikolaoz who was writing at his desk.

The same old people, with a difference of more than [-] years, every time Nikolaoz sees Hu Wei, he has to admire him. Hu Ming is really good at keeping in good health.

There were also many people in the Ming Dynasty who were gnashing their teeth with hatred. This Hu Wei is so old, and he is still so energetic.

Nikolaoz first talked about the big things. He leaned forward and said, "Zoe will enter the palace in October. This matter has already been decided, and there are no omissions in etiquette."

Hu Wei thought for a while and said, "Well, when the son of His Majesty and the Princess is born, he has all the claims of King of Kings and Rome."

Whether Rome can return in a flash in West Asia and Taixi, Hu Wei can't decide, it depends on the development of Ming Dynasty.

It's hard for Hu Wei to see such a day in his lifetime.

This is the bait, so that Nicolaus can easily translate Thai and Western documents. At present, the Latin language masters cultivated by Ming Dynasty are not enough.

Nikolaoz's face was a bit bitter. This Hu Shangshu is an old cunning man. He seemed to say something, but he didn't say anything. He seemed to promise, but in fact he didn't promise anything.

As far as Nikolaoz knew, there was no communication between the envoys of Great Ming and Great Qin, but they also had close contacts with Kang Chengzhi, the envoy of the Ottoman Empire.

Whether it's Roman wisdom or technology, Roma delivers.

This kind of mellow foreign policy made Nicolaus always unable to use his strength when facing Hu Wei, and retreated steadily.

"Let's talk about a sad topic today, the demise of Rome." Hu Wei sat up straight, drank a cup of tea, and said calmly.

They were discussing the fall of Western Rome.

The Sultanate of Roma and Ottoman both intended to replace Rome, but that was the monotheistic Eastern Rome, and what they wanted to talk about was the demise of Western Rome.

Nikolaoz said with emotion: "The respected Emperor of Ming Dynasty and Yu Shaobao are the great heroes of Ming Dynasty. There is no doubt about that."

"Then His Majesty Majorian is the last Roman emperor of the Western Roman Empire."

"His Majesty Majorian is a great hero who appears by accident in a period of imperial decline, hoping to revive Rome in all its glory."

"Although His Majesty Majorian has only served as the Consul of Western Rome for four years, all the words of praise are not enough to describe the greatness of this period of time."

"He has a mind like the sea and an ambition as high as the sky. His eyes can break through the constraints of space and time."

"He tried to save the empire from its long-term decline, but he also tried to save an empire that was as loose as sand."

"His military and diplomatic campaigns against the barbarian separatist regimes in southern Gaul, Spain and North Africa recovered almost all the lands of the Roman Empire in Tessia."

"His series of economic, political, and legal reforms, those policy reforms, are long-term."

Nikolaos had a complete fanatical admiration for Majorian, and he gave all his words of praise to the last Roman emperor, Majorian.

Nicolaus said excitedly: "He initially realized the bureaucratic and bureaucratic rule of the Western Roman Empire, but he also offended countless huge family heads under the family system."

"He advocated cleanliness and efficiency, and made the government orders of the entire Roman Empire roar in the ditch like a rushing river! But he also offended all the bureaucrats of the Western Roman Empire."

"He carried out tax reforms on the Western Roman Empire, hoping to calm down the troublesome barbarians and pay taxes. He almost succeeded. Those barbarians did pay taxes, but they also offended the rampant barbarians."

"In the end, after His Majesty Majorian returned to Rome, the ambitious Senator Libius Severus launched a mutiny and brutally killed His Majesty Majorian."

"The decline of the Roman Empire is like a rolling stone falling from a cliff, and there is no possibility of restoring the decline."

After quietly listening to Nikolaoz's praise of Majorian, Hu Wei said, "In order to defeat the Vandal Kingdom, Majorian set up a navy in the port of Spain, but was surprised by the Vandal Kingdom." At the port, the entire navy was wiped out."

"Majorian's attack on the Vandal Kingdom was a military adventure. He just finished fighting the barbarians in Gaul and conquered Spain. He should make some adjustments instead of continuing to expand the territory."

"The failure of a military adventure is costly. His death was indeed the mutiny that killed him, but politically, he killed himself."

Hu Mei has translated some Roman historical materials. This Majorian was indeed ambitious, but the attack on the Vandal Kingdom and his defeat caused Majorian's prestige to plummet.

The barbarians were against him, the bureaucracy was against him, the nobles were against him, the Senate was against him, and most importantly, even the Romans were against him.

It would be unwise for him to launch a military adventure when almost everyone is against him.

Nikolaoz has an almost fanatical admiration for Majorian, which affects his objective view of this period of history.

Of course, Hu Wei is just a bystander.

If you think about it differently, this happened in Daming, he doesn't think his mentality will be stable.The master of ZTE was killed suddenly, and he would regret it.

Hu Wei didn't know that on the original historical line, the master of ZTE in his eyes was engaged in a mutiny by speculators. After the mutiny, the historical Ming Dynasty Zong, Yu Shaobao and others may have been killed in the In the Yeting, or be beheaded and abandoned the market.

At that time, Hu Wei would only be more pathetic than Nikolaoz at this time.

Hu Wei continued to speak: "In the "Majorian Law" you translated, it is stipulated that the elders of the Senate are not allowed to move without reason, which shows that some members of the Senate are secretly leaving."

"Those barbarians who were conquered were already resistant to taxes, and in the army, barbarians accounted for more than [-]% of the number, and the mutiny was completely expected."

"There are also the heads of those families who have been tortured by the bureaucratic bureaucracy. They brought the barbarians to mutiny, and they ordered their slaves to open the city gates to facilitate the barbarian mutiny."

"At that point, it's time for Majorian to wake up."

The corner of Nikolaoz's mouth twitched, and then he said helplessly, "You're right."

Hu Wei asked with a strange expression: "I'm curious about a question, what makes your Roman emperor indifferent to the Germans and Goths who have [-]% of the army?"

"It's just crazy."

Hu Yi couldn't imagine what it would be like if the number of Tatar officials and Tatar troops accounted for more than [-]% of the Beijing army, let alone [-]%, even [-]% would be too much for Hu Yi.

The debate between Hua and Barbarians in Ming Dynasty was better than that in Tang and Song Dynasties, because the slogan of Ming Dynasty for a long time was to drive out the Tartars.

Under the great defense of the Hua and Barbarians, Daming was extremely afraid of the Tartar officials and the Tartar army.

Now in the Beijing army, there are almost no Tatars and Uryanhas, except for a few horsemen.

Nikolaoz said helplessly: "If there is a way, we will not choose to let the barbarians fill the entire barracks."

"Isn't it impossible?"

"If there is a way, the emperor of Rome is not willing to have any barbarians in the military camp."

Hu Wei's complexion became even weirder, and he asked suspiciously, "Why? Could it be that there is no one in Rome?"

"That's impossible. As far as I know about Rome, the Romans are citizens and civilians in the Roman Empire, while the barbarians are just slaves."

Nikolaos nodded heavily and said: "Yes, the Romans had young men and late marriages, and finally the emperor of Rome had to let the barbarians fill the barracks."

"No one? Don't want to give birth?" Hu Yan asked with a heavy face after drinking a glass of water.

Nicolaus thought for a long time and said: "Yes, there are many reasons. The Roman emperor tried almost every means to encourage the Romans to have children. Those almost absurd policies could not restore the Romans' respect for childbearing. interest."

"In the end, the Roman Empire was transformed."

Rather than saying that the Western Roman Empire was subjugated by the barbarians, it is better to say that it was replaced by the huge population of the barbarians.

No one is also a serious problem facing East Rome.

"What's the reason? They enjoy the treatment of citizens and civilians, so why don't they want to have children?" Hu Wei asked.

This is a phenomenon that has never appeared in the Central Plains Dynasty.This strange phenomenon is a logic that the Central Plains Dynasty cannot understand.

Every time the dynasty of the Central Plains changes, the contradiction between people and land intensifies, and the population is too large, which makes the land unable to support. A little bit of natural disasters and man-made disasters will arouse the landless people in several provinces and rise up.

Not wanting to have children, having a small population, and being replaced by barbarians are completely incomprehensible ways of perishing for Hu Yan.

So weird.

Nikolaoz fell into deep thought, it was too complicated, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

Hu Wei waited quietly, and after a cup of tea, Nicolaus finally said: "The Romans have to bear almost all the taxes, and every child born means paying a heavy tax, and the Romans can't afford it. gift, so I would rather not give birth, even if I give birth to a child, I will drown."

"And the barbarians don't need to pay taxes, saying that they have no burden to give birth."

Hu Wei thought for a long time, and finally understood the strange situation in Rome, where the Romans needed to pay but the barbarians did not.

Rome did not have a mature bureaucracy. After the barbarians were conquered, they could not even implement the tax system. They could only acquiesce that the barbarians did not collect taxes and maintained their rule.

Daming doesn't collect taxes from the Tatars right now, but Daming has created horrific inflation in the grasslands. With the cooperation of Tatar ghosts, countless Tatars have been running to the interior to seek Daming's asylum.

Daming does not collect taxes, but collects people.

Looking at Hu Wei's face, Nikolaoz knew that this Hu Shangshu had enlightenment again, but Hu Shangshu was always so tactful, if he had enlightenment, he always kept it in his heart.

Nicolaus continued to speak: "Secondly, the Romans undertake the military service of the army. Every time they go to war, a large number of young and middle-aged people die, but these people cannot be replenished."

"Under the patriarchal system, the bureaucracy has not yet matured, which has led to the patriarchs of each family opposing the conquest, which has exacerbated the growth of the barbarians."

Hu Wei can understand that this is considered to be the prosperity of Rome's culture and military affairs. The parents of various families have many reasons for opposing the war, including the reason for the population.

This is not a problem that bureaucracy can solve.

But what Nikolaoz didn't say, Hu Wei can also imagine that the heads of these families probably have a lot of interests in the barbarians, and Hu Wei can even assert that the existence of these barbarians is the power to protect the status of the parents one.

The trick of raising bandits to respect oneself is not a unique cultural phenomenon of Ming Dynasty.

Nicolaus said painfully: "The third is the influence of religion. In the struggle for political power and theocracy, the Roman Empire finally compromised, but this compromise did not bring about a prosperous population."

"In order to restore the population, Hu Shangshu, all the emperors of Rome have thought of everything you can think of."

"For example, women under the age of 40 are not allowed to enter the monastery to be a show girl. For example, unsuitable young and old couples will be separated by the emperor. For example, every child will be rewarded with three silver coins, etc. It cannot be said that it is useless."

"It has only a small effect."

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(End of this chapter)