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Chapter 965: After walking all the way, what will happen to the world?

After Luosu left, rumors that he had appeared here gradually spread among the senior officials.

The last time we heard about Luo Su, he was in Yangzhou. Most people could guess that he was going to Jiangnan Luo Family.

After arriving at Luoshi in Jiangnan, it makes sense to go all the way south.

The Lingnan dignitaries were afraid.

Afraid that what he has done will be discovered.

In other words, they never thought about hiding it. Who can hide it in front of the national master?

Some people wait for the end to come as if they were mourning for their heirs.

But in the end nothing happened.

Luo Su's carriage has already left for the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. He is going to Tubo and Tianzhu to see where there is also a Chu country.

Tibet.

From the first time he came to the plateau decades ago, Luo Su regarded this place as the biggest threat to the Central Plains, and now it seems that it is indeed the case.

The strong rebellion made it difficult for the Tang army to attack here. After the failure of arranging a number of small countries, they could only set up the Qinghai Protectorate in Qinghai to coordinate all parties and form a country.

For Tubo.

Luosu believed that the only way to do this was to rely on internal rebellion to cause it to become chaotic and weaken Tubo's potential. As for truly annexing Tibet, it would be difficult to do so in the current warm climate.

Other places, whether it is Mobei, Eastern Europe, overseas, or Central and South China, all these places have the same advantage, that is, Han people can migrate there in large numbers.

But on the plateau, large numbers of migratory people are sending people to their deaths.

Moreover, in those lands, the indigenous population is not large, so the population structure can be changed quickly. However, Tubo has a population of tens of millions, and it is simply a dream to change the local population structure.

We can only wait for the hard-won water and heat conditions to end. After losing a large amount of agricultural land, the population dropped significantly, and Tubo naturally lost this ability to dominate.

Luo Su did not pay much attention to Tubo. After all, Tubo was a regional empire and could not be compared with the Tang Dynasty. Without the natural danger of the plateau, it would have been conquered long ago.

On the contrary, Luo Su paid a lot of attention to Tianzhu, because after learning about the history of Tianzhu, it was really strange here.

Huge population, fertile land, and long history.

What do people think of when a country possesses these three qualities?
Brilliant Zhuxia!

The same is true for the land of Tianzhu. In the Ganges Plain, there are many powerful empires, such as the Mauryan Dynasty or the Kushan Empire, which was parallel to the Han Empire.

But every empire built here can be said to have no resilience. Once destroyed, it will never be rebuilt.

Every nation that has ever conquered this place can be said to be brave and good at fighting, but once they arrive here, they will be assimilated and will be classified as a lower class person when the next disaster strikes.

Now that the Han people have arrived there, Luo Su wants to see what the outcome will be.

He didn't stay in Tubo for long, and quickly followed the winding road on the snow-covered plateau to Tianzhu.

heat.

When this familiar hot air hit his face, and then when the moist water vapor hit his face, Luosu had some enlightenment.

Here he met the Chu nobles who came to open up the country. These Chu nobles had put on traditional Tianzhu costumes and seemed to be the high-ranking nobles here.

It's normal if you think about it carefully. King Song was able to develop smoothly because there were so many people supporting him. No matter how much debt he was carrying, at least he now had a lot of resources.

The King of Chu did not have the conditions of the King of Song and could only rely on himself. Tubo had not completely surrendered, and it was impossible for the court to send large amounts of supplies to Tianzhu.

The only way to survive is to sneak into the local ruling class. Luosu has some understanding of the caste system, which is a system extended from religion.

Luosu previously believed that this system would not be stable, and that hierarchies would appear in any country, but the rulers and ruling groups would change every once in a while.

It is impossible for the top to suppress the bottom with just one system.

Facts have also proved Losu's view that the Mauryan Dynasty, which was at its peak for a long time, was established by the lower castes. In the confrontation between high and low castes, the upper castes did not always win.

But after getting to know it more deeply, Luo Su completely felt the horror of this system. It was a kind of governance that had never appeared before.

During his stay in Tianzhu, Luosu once again deeply felt the huge impact of climate on a country's ethnic groups.

He found one of the reasons why this land has been invaded continuously for thousands of years and the ethnic character.

That is the continuous rainy season.

In this land, there has never been a shortage of heroes who want to unify, but they have basically failed. Even if the unification is short-lived, it will basically collapse in a short period of time.

If it is because of consciousness, then the huge group of people of the same religion can actually shoulder this important task.

Luosu stayed here for a long time.

This is the birthplace of Buddha. In what is now the Central Plains and the Western Regions, Buddha has been integrated into the pantheon and is not a separate religious offering.

Here, Losu learned about the history of this gradually disappearing sect. From these few words, he sketched a picture of the past.

Monks all have temples and chant sutras and practice rituals in the temples. However, in fact, the first Buddhist monks required monks to travel around the world and not settle down often. However, this rule was eventually abandoned by Buddha himself.

Shizu said that during the summer rainy season, one could not wander around and find a place to hide for three months during the rainy season. Even a figure like Shizu, who was similar to Confucius and a powerful man who was determined to change Po's religion, had no choice but to deal with the rainy season and finally compromised.

What is so scary about this rainy season?

When the rainy season comes, roads will be washed away, bridges will be broken, water will overflow everywhere, and even floods, and insects, snakes, ants, and rats will emerge in endlessly.

If we compare it to the Central Plains, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and their tributaries will flood countless cities and land for three months every summer. The straight roads built by the court will be washed away, and the roads built on the rivers will be washed away. When the bridge disappears, the people living on the land and the land they depend on for survival will be submerged.

Everything will be overturned.

In the downstream Bangladesh region, more than 80% of the land will be flooded during the rainy season, and people need to survive on boats.

In this case, what is the role of accumulation and diligence?

The rule of the empire relied on roads extending in all directions, which could convey the imperial edicts, control and direct the officials, and at the same time allow the army to successfully quell the rebellion when the situation changed.

You cannot go out during the rainy season.

This means that an empire will have three months every year to do its own business, and the court does not know what is happening locally.

I don’t know when tax revenue will be restored after the three-month rainy season.

It is not known how much land that could be used for tax collection is lost during the rainy season.

During the long rainy season, how many people died and whether their bodies were washed away by floods? In other words, after the rainy season ends, the household register created by the empire will have to be revised.

Which empire can have such abundant manpower and material resources to do such a thing?
Naturally, it can only be estimated locally. According to this estimate, nine out of nine and thirteen out will come back.

In Tianzhu, the political logic is too different from that in the Central Plains.

In the Central Plains, a change in political power usually dates back to more than ten years. After all, political struggles are long-term.

But in Tianzhu, the ruler's power would fluctuate. During the rainy season, it was difficult for government orders to leave the capital. This situation in the Central Plains was probably similar to that of Liu Xie in the late Han Dynasty.

This sounds so unbelievable that a monarch whose country shows no signs of collapse spends three months every year just as the lord of the imperial capital.

After the rainy season ends, a large number of officials will travel between the imperial capital and local areas to once again establish a strong rule.

This is a naturally divided land.

No one can change it.

Those powerful dynasties were quickly established because of a unified consciousness, but they collapsed quickly because only consciousness without reality would not work.

Mauryan monuments were built in Central Asia, but their influence was only achieved during the dry season.

How valuable those so-called powerful empires in history are is still a question worth debating.

Losu finally came to a conclusion about this land: it was impossible to establish a centralized empire here.

It can only reincarnate in sudden prosperity and extreme decline.

Even if the people who rule here are Han people, it can't change this. There is no basis for counties and counties here.

Among the six kingdoms, Luo Su completely eliminated Chu from the ranks of those who might successfully compete for the dragon in the future.

Currently, the top of the six kingdoms is the Yan Kingdom. If the Yan Kingdom can annex Liaodong, it will still have a chance to compete with the Central Plains.

After condemning the future of Chu State and the land of Tianzhu, Luo Su was ready to leave.

Starting from the northwest of Tianzhu, you can reach the land of Daxia, which is Central Asia. Basically, the political power that enters Tianzhu passes through there, or the northern political power is established directly there.

Luosu was no exception. After a new rainy season passed, everything in this land began to restart again. The kings and lords began to send officials to collect taxes and at the same time check whether their own land had changed and how much the land had been submerged.

During the hot dry season, Luosu passed through the dangerous mountains that countless invaders invaded but never built fortresses, heading all the way to Central Asia.

He once traveled from Central Asia to the far west, but now he no longer goes there. The Tang Dynasty has now surpassed the peak of all dynasties in the past.

There is quite a feeling that I am invincible in the world.

Luo Su believes that the only person who can destroy Datang now is Datang himself. Perhaps that should not be called destruction, but a new round of reincarnation.

What can solve the problem of reincarnation?

Even if you ask Ji Zhao, who came from modern times, he doesn't know.

After all, even in Ji Zhao's era, none of the most prosperous and developed countries in the world had solved the problem of reincarnation.

There seems to be no other way except for Luo Shi to come to power and use surreal things to solve real problems.

Because human life is so short.

I can only see the decades in front of me.

History is an upward spiral. The so-called upward spiral means that there will be times of retreat.

Such as the destruction of the Roman Empire.

This is the low point of the West.

On the scale of thousands of years of history, a brief low point of one or two hundred years is nothing. It is like a spring that is pressed down, accumulating strength and then erupting with even more powerful power.

Use violent revolution to completely destroy the factors that lead to regression.

But for ordinary people, this low point of two hundred years is their whole life.

Darkness enveloped them.

I can’t finish the twists and turns of the road, and I can’t see the bright future.

A grain of ashes from time falls on a person, and it becomes a mountain.

If this is the reality, how should we harshly criticize those who are pessimistic?
So Luo Su never blames people outside the Luo family for having some selfish thoughts. A person can make contributions, but he should not be asked to make contributions.

There are some things that Luo can do.

Luo Shi is different. Luo Shi can always see the bright future in his heart, and he can always see the end of the tortuous road.

Since Luo Shi has such ability, it is naturally appropriate for Luo Shi to take on heavier responsibilities.

Luo Su is not very unfamiliar with Central Asia, because he has traveled through Central Asia before, so he pays more attention to this place than other directions.

Moreover, there is the sea to the east and there is not enough land, but the land to the west is almost endless.

He was a person who came out of the Bangzhou period, and he was the person who presided over the second great enfeoffment and development.

That obsession with the land was deep in his heart.

During these years, he sometimes corresponded with the master of Xuanmen and asked about changes in Central Asia and other places.

In Xuanmen's letters, Central Asia has undergone drastic changes in recent years, not only dynastic changes, but also religious changes.

The intricate relationship between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, as well as the internal integration, took a lot of time and energy.

At present, in the broad territory of the Tang Dynasty, the territory actually ruled by Xuanmen in the Western Regions crosses the Congling plateau and reaches the hinterland of Central Asia in the west.

That city was called Broken Leaf City because its shape resembled Broken Leaf.

The troops stationed here include 300 Xuanmen Temple Army and 3,000 allied troops from the Western Regions. The deputy commander of the Xuanmen Temple Army is stationed here. If anything goes wrong, he will call upon Zhaowu Nine Surname Kingdoms and those in the Seven Rivers Basin. , armies of various countries that believe in Xuanmen.

These armies came here to defend the faith, because the Crescent Faith came here from distant West Asia with the Great Conquest.

Although only some of the border princes came here, the Sultan's goal was still Dongluo, Dongzheng and the Catholic world, but if there were major problems in the war here, New Moon's goal might change.

Heretics are more hateful than heretics. This does not mean that heretics are not hateful. After heretics are eliminated, heretics will also be eliminated.

Although basically every emperor or sultan in the West will promulgate a policy of religious tolerance, that is, freedom of religion, in practice this is not the case.

Even in the Central Plains, major events occurred to respect the emperor and destroy all the sacrifices, let alone the land of Huawai?

Luo Su looked out the car window.

(End of this chapter)