At this time, the Roman Empire was also in its prime. Under the rule of the Five Wise Emperors, the Roman Empire conquered all countries and civilizations within its known range.
But in the prosperous age, hidden worries have appeared, especially in the world that Xu Weimo has reformed, there are even more worries.
For the Roman Emperor La Calaca at this time, the Seris people had re-opened the Silk Road, and buying silk, white sugar, tea, porcelain and other goods to Rome was the biggest worry.
Ordinary Roman nobles were crazy about these goods, but he could only watch in horror as the real gold and silver of the Roman Empire flowed to the sky like water, and finally flowed into the hands of the legendary Seris.
In the past, the Silk Road was on land. No matter how expensive a few pieces of silk were, to the Roman Empire, they were nothing more than mosquitoes sucking blood.
But now a Tianfang people ship can transport thousands of pieces of silk. This is not a mosquito sucking blood, but a knife cutting the flesh of the Roman Empire.
This behavior made the Emperor Caraca of the Roman Empire miserable, because the loss of a large amount of real gold and silver had begun to cause extremely serious deflation within the Roman Empire.
He summoned the most cutting-edge scholars in the entire empire and wanted them to discuss a good plan to solve this problem, but they had been discussing for several years and could not find a good way to solve this problem at all.
The only thing he could do was to restrict the Tianfang people's fleet from reaching Rome, using this method to reduce the rate of loss of gold and silver from the empire.
But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause. It is difficult for modern countries to completely control smuggling, let alone Rome, which was still in the feudal empire.
Because of the emergence of the sea ban, merchants from Tianfang quickly colluded with merchants from the Roman Empire, and dozens of smuggling networks were formed within the entire Roman Empire. They used this method to bypass the ban of the Roman Empire. The emperor of the Roman Empire
Thousands of years in advance, I experienced the treatment of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. This Roman emperor was troubled by these smugglers.
The sudden appearance of Zhen Xing and the others made the emperor of the Roman Empire a bit overjoyed. If they could directly open up trade routes with the Seris people, they, the Romans, could bypass the vampires in the sky and directly trade silk with the Seris people. The goods between the two parties would be communicated.
Once the connection is opened, Rome will not have to worry about continuing to lose blood like this.
Therefore, after Zhen Xing and others came to Rome, they were treated extremely well. The emperor's envoy personally welcomed them to the city of Rome in Gaul. This prevented Zhen Xing from being sold as gladiators.
Zhen Xing and the others traveled across most of the Roman Empire and saw that Roman avenues were not inferior to Daqian's cement roads. Daqian's unique irrigation technology, elevated aqueducts, also appeared in Rome, which shocked them even more.
They sailed for tens of thousands of miles, all the way was a wilderness, there was no so-called country at all, and the current level of civilization of the Roman Empire was only slightly worse than theirs, and it was a completely different world from the savage countries along the coast.
What excited them most was that there was also a large bath in Rome. When they discovered this, they spent a whole day soaking in the bath.
Finally, when they arrived in the city of Rome, they were warmly received by the Roman Emperor. During these three months, Zhen Xing also learned the Roman language and could communicate with these high-level officials of the Roman Empire without any obstacles.
Of course, in order to make the other party take him seriously and to ensure his own survival, Zhen Xing highlighted that he was a student of the emperor of the Daqian Empire.
Sure enough, this status greatly improved his salary and made the top management of Rome take Zhen Xing seriously.
Then the Roman emperor and scholars communicated with Zhen Xing, and they were eager to know the situation in the Lys Empire.
After the dialogue with Zhen Xing, the Seris Empire has completed the transition of dynasties. Now the Seris country is called Daqian, and the ruler of the country is an emperor named Wei.
Under the leadership of this great emperor, the country of the Seris people was fully revived and established an extremely large empire. If Zhen Xing and the others were not lying, this empire was actually two or three times larger than their Roman Empire, with 70 million people. The population is twice that of their empire.
Roman scholars simply couldn't believe this. In their view, the Roman Empire was the most powerful place in the world, but they did not expect that in the easternmost part of the continent, there would actually be a country even more powerful than the Roman Empire. A powerful empire.
Of course, the thing that shocked these scholars the most was that the country of the Seris people was clearly to the east of the Roman Empire. According to their speculation, it would take tens of thousands of miles to travel, and Zhen Xing and his group traveled all the way from the country of the Seris people to the east of the Roman Empire. Going east, we actually reached the west of the Roman Empire.
According to them, the earth is a sphere, so they have almost circled the earth.
This statement shocked scholars throughout the Roman Empire. It was also a truth recognized by Roman scholars that the sky was round and the earth was round. From this point of view, they were not as good as Zhang Heng, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He once guessed that the earth was round by observing the stars. Ball, it just hasn't been confirmed yet.
Of course, Zhen Xing’s theory was quickly accepted by scholars in the Roman Empire. If this was not true, there would be no way to explain why Zhen Xing and the others appeared in Gaul. Of course, the fact that the earth was a sphere would at best cause a stir among scholars. At this time, The influence of Rome was not great, and no one said that Zhen Xing would be burned to death.
Afterwards, the two sides also exchanged economic, political and cultural exchanges. Roman scholars were shocked to discover that this emperor named Wei had ever been to Rome?
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Because they discovered that the country of the Seris people did not have the concept of governance, but it was Emperor Wei who first proposed it. They even established a Senate. From the exchange, they learned that this Senate was also established in the past ten years. There are also Roman avenues, elevated aqueducts, and large bathhouses. It would be too much of a coincidence if all these facilities were coincidence.
Of course, there is a bit of irony. The Roman republican system has ended for hundreds of years, and now their ruler has been called the Roman emperor. Instead, the emperor of the Serians has become the ruler.
Of course, after in-depth exchanges, they had no choice but to admit that the empire of the Seris people might really be stronger than theirs. The artillery that appeared in Tianfang in recent years was actually made by the Seris people, and Zhen Xing also had these artillery pieces on his ship.
The emperor of the Roman Empire immediately used gold to purchase all the cannons on Zhen Xing's ship.
Because artillery was only available these days, it caused huge pressure on the borders of the Roman Empire, but their trebuchets and Greek fire were difficult to counterattack.