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Quite why he ordered his great wall to be built on England's border with Scotland is uncertain, but Mr Opper's gut feeling is that it was to divide and rule the revolting northern tribes.

哈德良在英格兰与苏格兰的边境下令修筑长城，其原因还仍不清楚，但奥珀先生想法是，哈德良这样做是为了对北方的各个起义部族分而治之。

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And its southern border areas and the construction of a military town, cut off from the Liu Song, Southern Qi Dynasty to incite the people of these areas, making the consolidation of the rule in this region.

并且在其南部边界地区又修建了大量的军镇，隔绝了刘宋、南齐等王朝对这些地区人民的煽动，使其在这一地区的统治得到巩固。

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