Crossover in the Anime World

War is also a way for resources to flow, which can be accepted by everyone. Resources can flow from military nobles to citizens and free people. To mobilize more soldiers, resources need to be transferred downward.

But if resources sink, they must be replenished, otherwise the game cannot be played.

Bread, baths, and gladiatorial contests were the envy of the freemen, but also the cause of the citizens’ corruption. In the end, the citizens’ fighting power became weaker and weaker, while the freemen became stronger and stronger. The freemen who had obtained resources would not listen to the orders of the Senate, but only to the orders of the generals who led them to victory. Thus, Rome entered an era of co-rule by four emperors.

Both Rome and Qin faced problems after their expansion to the extreme, but Rome was divided, while Qin became the Han Dynasty. Eastern Rome chose monotheism, while the Han Dynasty chose to continue the county system.

War is not necessarily beneficial to the nobility. If the nobility can win by relying on their equipment advantages, then it is fine. For example, before World War I, the first World Expo was held. The culture of military nobility swept the world, and the gentleman culture was desirable. But with the start of World War I, European countries began to recruit citizen soldiers, and the scale of the war became larger and larger. Then the United States mobilized free citizens, and its war potential reached a new level.

When the advantage in weapons and equipment disappeared, they would call on the citizens. If the citizens could not win, they would mobilize the free people. This was what the old Romans did.

The Central Plains also transitioned and developed from military aristocrats, Wei Wuzu, and Qin army, and the army also underwent many changes, but it was usually farming and fighting. Farmers with land were the main source of the army. Whether it was military farming, the fubing system, military households, or the Eight Banners, they all farmed or hunted in peacetime and were responsible for fighting when wars broke out.

However, as time went on, the living conditions of these land-owning military families would become worse and worse. They would not be happy to serve in the army even though they could not earn money, and eventually they would lose their fighting power. This was the case with the military households and the Eight Banners. They were restricted from doing business or taking the imperial examinations, so their children could only serve in the army. However, serving in the army not only brought no income, but also required paying money, so no one served in the army.

It can be said that profitable business is done by people, while losing business is ignored. If being a soldier can make money, the military farming, the military household system, the military households, and the Eight Banners will not collapse.

But the problem is that it is impossible to make money from war all the time. If it were possible, it would be great to keep fighting and making money. Even the great powers after the Industrial Revolution declined because of war, let alone agricultural countries.

Since war cannot make money, the people who are restricted to serving in the army naturally cannot stand it.

Of course, there is also a strange Song Dynasty, where millions of soldiers were trained by the people themselves. The Song Dynasty army went to fight the rebels, and they were recruited if they won, and recruited if they lost. The Song Dynasty did not train the army, but was just a porter for the army. The rebels from all over the country trained themselves. People who could fight from all over the country gathered together to revolt. Isn't that a good army?

Roman citizens had the obligation to fight in wars and the benefits of being a citizen: bread, baths, and gladiatorial fights. Military households and the Eight Banners also had their own obligations and benefits, but they were not citizens, but military families.

If the military households and the Eight Banners cannot win, the dynasty will have to change. Because if the people from all over the country are mobilized, the court does not have enough money, and the Hunan Army and Sichuan Army trained in various places will become warlords and will also split.

Because the people live in their hometowns and have little communication with people outside, they will definitely trust their fellow villagers rather than despicable outsiders.

However, the infighting among warlords in the East also requires the construction of a system of public rule. No one will accept a system in which the Hunan Army or the Sichuan Army is supreme.

In the Roman citizen system, citizens from all places had to be the boss and have absolute dominance, just like in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. I am a free citizen of Qi. I became a citizen of Qi after fighting. I hope to protect the interests of Qi people. People from Zheng protect the interests of Zheng people...

The Aryans protected the interests of the Aryans, and the Anglos protected the interests of the Anglos... They all wanted themselves to be citizens and others to be freemen.

Warlords fought each other, and in the end, they had to choose an organization that could represent all regions. Even the Eight Banners could not only represent the Manchus, there had to be an Eight Banners of Han people, and there had to be a Lifanyuan. If they only wanted to be citizens, others would not agree, and the Eight Banners would not be able to gain power over the world.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, the eastern powers had a county system. Everyone wanted to take power, so they had to use representatives from all regions so that everyone would protect the emperor. Although warlords from different regions were not familiar with each other and would still fight, their goal was to choose a wise ruler.

The goal of a war in the West is to make everyone recognize that they are the boss and they are not responsible for solving problems. The purpose of a war in the East is to choose a system that everyone can accept. It is okay not to be the boss, but the boss you recognize must be able to solve problems.

Bad luck only picks on the unfortunate. Bad luck should be the enemy, not the unfortunate. Whoever is the boss must fight against bad luck. If others can fight against it, then you can be a younger brother.

If you can't fight against bad luck and still want to be the boss, then don't blame me for being rude. I can do it too.

So the East and the West have similarities, such as the rules of war. When the free people are used to win the war, the division is not far away. But there are also differences. The main force in the West is citizens; the main force in the East is military households and the Eight Banners. The ultimate goal of the West's war is to make its citizens the boss, while the ultimate goal of the East's war is to solve problems. If someone fights for the sake of being the boss, he will not get everyone's support and will eventually fail.

Solving problems is good for everyone, while being the boss is only good for yourself. For a unified civilization, the former is definitely the choice.

In the cyberpunk era, the advantages of weapons and equipment reappeared. Those who can master weapons will become military aristocrats. Powerful weapons can make ordinary people despair. Military aristocrats who master military technology are everything.

Battles between military nobles are the mainstream, but as civilization develops, it still needs to mobilize citizens and free people. This is the process of development.

This is how Greece developed, how Rome developed, how the Anglo-Saxons developed, and how any civilization develops from small to large. Just like how a family business grows into a listed company, there are rules for that.

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At the beginning, they had some advantages and used them to kill everyone. But advantages cannot always be advantages, so they began to win over their teammates to form a force.

With the support of teammates, they continued to expand outward. Then, when they expanded to the extreme, they encountered various attacks and counterattacks, so they began to mobilize the free people.

As the free people rose up, the regional forces of various parties grew bigger and stronger and rebelled against the imperial court.

The same is true for religion. When religion is weak at the beginning, it emphasizes that it is the chosen one and that only it is chosen by God. When it cannot defeat others, it emphasizes that God loves the world. As the scope becomes larger and larger, each place interprets the doctrine in its own way, and monotheism splits into different factions.

"To put it simply, it's a problem of control. In the beginning, one discovers the advantage, grasps it, and kills everyone. But soon the territory that one can control reaches its limit, and one needs help. So the policy of citizen supremacy is introduced, and everyone comes to help me, and I will give you bread, baths, and gladiatorial contests. Then the territory continues to expand, the challenges from the barbarians become more and more intense, and there are not enough citizens. So the free people are allowed to join and become citizens. But when there are too many free people, the power is in the hands of local warlords, and the advantage is transferred to them, so there is a split." Togusa has been studying history and is now a history professor. He knows that this is the law of development from small to large.

"War is just a manifestation of going from small to large, and it is the most intuitive. After mobilizing the free people, it is very difficult to prevent them from thinking that citizens are supreme and to maintain non-division." Togusa knew that Night City was now citizen-first, and it was not time to mobilize the free people yet: "Because the weapon advantage is still there, and the company still has the technology, there is no need to consider mobilizing more people to win. Rome and Qin both reached a stage where they could not win without mobilizing the free people, and finally had to mobilize the free people. Rome was originally just a small city-state built on a hillside, and Qin was also a poor country sandwiched between the barbarians and the six countries. They both reached the point where they could not gain an advantage without the free people, so they used the last resort."