A few days later, Liu Che received Liu Yan’s memorial from Guangling.◎
"India?" Liu Che's eyebrows wrinkled.
He had some doubts as to whether the businessman Liu Yan found was really from India.
Although the Maritime Silk Road had intermittently brought many creations from South Asia, West Asia and even Europe to the coastal areas of China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Many archaeological discoveries of later generations also proved that many noble tombs in the Qilu and Wuyue areas contained funerary objects that clearly came from outside the region, such as the two so-called "cracked silver boxes" that arrived in front of Liu Che along with Liu Yan's memorial.
In later generations, more than one or two were displayed in museums.
As early as the tombs of the Warring States Period, this kind of artwork from the Persian Empire had already appeared.
But the problem is...
"Whether it is the past, present, or future..." Liu Che lowered his head and muttered: "India is just a geographical term, not a national term..."
India, or the South Asian subcontinent where Sange and Xiaoba are located in later generations, has never been unified in the history of mankind.
The reason why the country of India can exist in the history of mankind in later generations should be thanked by the British. Without the arrival of the British, they would never have been able to form a unified country in ten thousand years!
But now...
Liu Che leaned on the couch and shook his head.
Not to mention him, even another expert who specializes in Indian history would not be able to explain the current situation in India at all.
Liu Che only relied on vague memories to guess that Buddhism had already appeared in India at about this time.
In addition, the Yuezhi people who were driven to Central Asia by the Huns should have now begun their era of colonizing India and establishing the Kushan Dynasty.
Speaking of which, it is also funny. The Yuezhi people, a bereaved tribe who fled in embarrassment after being killed by the Huns' boss, the Chanyu, moved westward to the Amu Darya River in Central Asia for only thirty years, but they already had the strength to colonize India.
It's really dumbfounding.
At this time, the Indian subcontinent was basically a piece of loose sand.
As for how far they had dispersed, Liu Che had no way of knowing.
Historians of later generations also recognized that the history of India before the Sui and Tang Dynasties was basically based on guesswork. It was not until Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty returned from traveling in India that he left a first-hand written history to India.
Before that, India's history was basically the same as myths and legends.
So much so that some people in later generations said: Without the works of Xuanzang, Faxian, and others, it would be completely impossible to reconstruct (Indian history).
Therefore, Liu Che knew very well that the so-called ancient Indian names such as "Shendu" and "Tianzhu" were actually names imposed on the Indians themselves by ancient China and surrounding areas. As for the Indians themselves?
It's like Africa in later generations. There are countless political powers, large and small. If you run over and ask Uncle Hei which country he is from, he will tell you that he is from Africa.
joke!
Chances are, that businessman should have drifted from places near India, such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
The so-called "toxic" identity that was created to boost one's self-worth.
After all, in the eyes of monkeys, they are big enough. And the 'body poison' that is spread by word of mouth should be a powerful country.
Of course, this is just a guess.
And it's not important either.
Compared to the so-called "intoxication news" spouted by this unidentified businessman, Liu Che was more willing to believe the merchants Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun of Linqiong sent to the Dian Kingdom to open up news channels in India.
only……
Liu Che thought for a while and then took up his pen and wrote the word "ke" on Liu Lang's memorial, approving Liu Lang's request for an audience.
"This 'Indian', whether real or fake, is of some use to me..." Liu Che pondered and thought.
What's the use?
Of course, this is exaggerating the wealth of India!
Regardless of whether this person is real or fake, Liu Che will definitely let him brag about the richness and wealth of India in front of the senior officials of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Che had already found the template for him, which was the "Marco Polo's Travels" that inspired Europeans to risk their lives to cross the ocean and open up a new world.
India must be a land flowing with gold and honey.
Rice ripens four times a year, the floors of temples are paved with gold, the king bathes in milk, and everything can be blown, and there is no need to pay taxes anyway.
Then through the high-level influence on all classes of the entire Han Dynasty, and through public opinion propaganda, it left in the minds of all the people that India was the concentration of wealth in the world, and that people living there never had to worry about life as a paradise.
In this way, Liu Che dared to bet that all classes in the Han Dynasty would go westward and support his colonial policy without him making any noise!
In the history of China, the territory has not been able to expand since the Han Dynasty like it was during the Yin, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties. It is not that the Chinese people suddenly became peace-loving, but that all the land around China that is suitable for Chinese people to live and survive has
It has been included in China's territory.
Even the grassland Gobi was not suitable for farming. During the reign of Xiaozhu, he gritted his teeth and tried it. He built Luntai City and started the road of reclamation and immigration, paying a huge price.
But the final result proved that the vast prairie is indeed not suitable for farming civilization!
Even so, the Han Dynasty did not give up the bridgehead of Luntai.
Under such circumstances, there is no land around suitable for Chinese people to survive and reproduce.
Who the hell is so stupid and has the courage to expand?
Spend countless manpower and material resources to occupy those barren lands that are completely unsuitable for Han people's life and production?
The emperor who did this was either himself stupid or his ministers were stupid.
In this world, no one is willing to do business at a loss!
And with the idea of India, there is the existence of an utopia like India.
The grassland is no longer an unprofitable place.
As long as we can defeat the Huns quickly, we can solve the threat of the Huns within ten years, either defeating them, forcing them to move westward, or dismembering them into several or a dozen chanyuting.
Then, the Han Dynasty, with its self-confidence at its peak, would inevitably embark on the road of colonizing India.
As long as they arrived in India, Liu Che believed that no one would be willing to give up the opportunity to colonize that heaven-given holy land flowing with milk and honey.
"Historically, the Aryans, Yuezhi people, Lulu, British, and even Tibetan lamas once colonized India..." Liu Che thought in his heart: "If this monk can touch it, the poor Taoist can also touch it.
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What's even more wonderful is that India's native religion, whether it is Hinduism or Buddhism, is an excellent religion suitable for foreign colonists to colonize, and it is a first-class religion that fools the people.
Buddhism is better, at least it has a certain degree of advancement.
And Hinduism…
Liu Che swallowed his saliva.
The entire Hindu religion is essentially a religion tailored for colonists!
Historically, Wang Xuance of the Tang Dynasty worked alone, but borrowed 3,000 soldiers and horses from the Tubo people, and almost swept across the entire India, destroying countless countries... (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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