Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said to Babra: "If the king accepts these things, I will agree to allow you to become vassal to me, and I will also promise to protect you.
However, I have two conditions that I hope you will agree to."
Babra quickly said: "Your Majesty, please speak."
"First, I need slaves, especially slaves in their prime.
If you capture prisoners when attacking other tribes or if someone among your tribe commits a crime, I hope you will hand these people over to me.
I can use food to , goods, and weapons are exchanged, but the price won’t be too high, but it’s still an income, what do you think?”
At this time, the Mordovan people did not use money at all, and all transactions were by barter.
This is why they had little contact with the outside world and did not know gold ore.
Babra immediately agreed: "Your Majesty, if we attack other tribes, all the prisoners we capture will be killed.
If someone in the tribe makes a mistake, he will be executed.
If your Majesty needs these people, of course we are willing to exchange them with you.
I don't know."
What is the king’s second condition?”
Zhao Ziliang took the piece of gold ore just now and said: "This is what I need, and I also want many, many more of them from you in vain.
I can also exchange them with you for food, other daily necessities, weapons and arrows, but you You can only exchange with me, not with other people.
If you let me know that you exchange this kind of thing with others, I will be angry.
If I am angry, many people will die.
Do you understand?"
Babra said: "Your Majesty, you are an honest man.
You promised to exchange goods with us, but the Slavs in the west and the Eastern Romans in the south often sneak into our territory to secretly dig this kind of stone.
They sometimes You also attack our territory and tribe just to get this kind of stone.
You and These bandits are completely different.
You are the first one to offer to exchange goods with us.
You are noble and great.
Babra and all Mordovans admire your character.
Babra represents me.
The king of the clan has promised you that we will only trade with you in the future and no longer trade with anyone else."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and felt a fever on his face, "Ahem, okay, since you Mordovans have surrendered to me and agreed to trade only with me, I will protect you and send a team of soldiers to enter.
Your territory helps you resist enemy invasion.
This army will not interfere with your lives.
If you are invaded by other foreigners, you can ask the general of this army for help."
Babra was overjoyed and saluted repeatedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Obtaining a gold mine is an unexpected surprise for Zhao Ziliang.
If the gold mine in the Mordovan territory is large enough and the reserves are rich enough, Western Qin will no longer be short of gold for a long time, and may even be We can continue to further reform the currency value and issue banknotes with the backing of large gold reserves, but with It is still difficult to issue banknotes with current paper technology.
On the one hand, the quality of the paper cannot bear the responsibility of currency.
On the other hand, the printing technology has not yet reached the level of later generations.
However, it is feasible to introduce gold tickets, that is, gold coins with large denominations.
Tickets, there are few such things, each ticket is recorded, and it is difficult to imitate it.
When the Mordovans left, Zhao Ziliang sent 3,000 troops to follow them and stationed in Mordovia for a long time, rotating every two years.
After sending away the Mordovans, Zhao Ziliang remembered that there were still two Eastern Romans who had not been dealt with, and more than 12,000 captives were still hungry.
He called Xuan Shiyi and asked: "Those two Eastern Romans?"
How are you doing after being hungry for several days with more than 12,000 captives?
Are there any noises and shouts?"
Xuan Shi said: "Your Majesty, they are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to speak.
How can they still shout and make noise?"
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"Look, this man still needs to be hungry.
Once he is hungry, he will be honest.
You go and bring those two Eastern Romans to see me.
In addition, starting from today, give the prisoners a daily Just eat one meal, two small steamed buns, as long as they don’t starve to death.”
"Yes, Your Majesty" When people are very hungry, all reason, dignity, face, integrity, etc. are thrown out of the sky.
When Hetius and Magath were brought into the tent, they saw two bowls of rancid food on the ground.
When the rice porridge was served, he rushed over desperately, picked up the bowl, and ate it with great gulps.
The appearance of grabbing food was no different from that of an animal.
After finishing the two bowls, he kept licking the mouth and inside of the bowl with his tongue, hoping to lick a little more porridge water.
He reluctantly put it down until he was sure that he could no longer lick anything.
Zhao Ziliang did not meet with Hetius and Magath directly.
He hid aside to watch their performance.
After the two of them finished eating, he told Wang Can: "From today on, only these two people will be given food every day."
Separate them with a bowl of rancid gruel like the one just now, and put them in separate cells.
They are subjected to cruel torture every day, such as soldering irons, whips, tiger benches, nail pulling, tickling, etc., just As long as they are not maimed or killed, you can use them, and give them something fresh every day.
When they completely lose their dignity and will, let them tell them everything they know about the situation in the Eastern Roman Empire, and then assign them to them.
Mission, send them back to Constantinople, send someone to keep an eye on them secretly, and someone must contact them and report all the relevant intelligence they have collected about Eastern Rome."
Wang Can cupped his fists and said, "I will finally understand."
On the fifth day of July, Zhao Ziliang led his army southward towards Samandal.
On the tenth day of the lunar month, the army arrived at Samandal, just as Zhao Hu was leading the army to attack Samandal.
The city wall is not very tall, and there are some large buildings in the city that are quite Byzantine in style.
These buildings were obviously built by the Byzantines with the help of the Khazars.
Tens of thousands of troops surrounded Samandal, with siege ladders erected on the city walls, siege catapults and ballistae firing stone bombs and kerosene bombs, and countless Khwarizim soldiers and Oghuz soldiers opening their mouths.
Hold a machete and go up the ladder As he climbed up, arrows and stones continued to hit him.
The Huazizim soldiers and Ogus soldiers who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties.
They were obviously not good at attacking the city, but Zhao Hu didn't care.
He only cared about whether he could break through the city.
Mandal.
After resisting for five days, the city wall was in dilapidated condition, with large gaps smashed by catapults and ballistae in several places.
The Khwarizim army and the Oghuz army, which suffered heavy losses, fiercely rushed into the city.
Zhao Hu did not give any order to stop them from massacre.
Khazars and other people from all over the city.
Almost all the Khazar nobles were concentrated in Samandar.
The Khwarizm and Oghuz people rushed in and carried out a large-scale massacre of them.
These Khazar nobles and royal families were slaughtered, and many foreigners were also killed. seedling.
On July 11, Zhao Ziliang came to Zhao Hu and said: "It's almost done.
We have killed dogs and looted enough.
He ordered the Khwarizimo soldiers and Ogus soldiers to withdraw their troops and return to the camp, and the Western Qin army took over the city. , from now on, I order the soldiers not to kill people at will, and to act in accordance with the laws of the Western Qin Dynasty."
Zhao Hu clasped his fists and agreed, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhao Hu said to Zhao Lei beside him: "Remember, to completely occupy a country and race, you must first carry out barbaric conquest, completely eliminate their resistance, break up their last vestige of courage, and then implement simple civilized rule.
To sum up, it means barbaric conquest and civilized rule.”
Zhao Lei saluted and said: "Yes, my child has remembered it."
With the fall of Samandar, it marked the destruction of the Khazar Khanate.
The Western Qin army completely occupied the territory of the Khazar Khanate.
However, this also aroused the vigilance of the Great Food Kingdom and the tension of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Constantine V was worried that the Crimean Peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea would be attacked by the Western Qin army, so he quickly sent a legion to Crimea by ship to increase the defense there.
However, Zhao Ziliang had no intention of going there at this time.
The Eastern Roman Empire went to war, which was not beneficial to both sides.
In August, after more than a month of starvation, more than 12,000 Khazar prisoners were all reduced to skin and bones, and more than 1,000 died of physical weakness.
Zhao Ziliang told Xuan Shiyi: "It's time.
Get ready.
I'm going to meet these prisoners tomorrow."
"Yes, Your Majesty" On the fifth day of August, Zhao Ziliang came to Samandar's prisoner camp outside the city, and 11,000 Khazar prisoners were shot.
Zhao Ziliang stood on a high place and spoke loudly to all the prisoners, while a Khazar man translated beside him.
"I have good news to tell you.
I am going to form a slave army.
The slave army is composed of slaves and prisoners of war.
You were once enemies of me and the Western Qin Dynasty.
You should have all been executed, but God has the virtue of good life.
I, the king I'll give you a chance to survive.
Whether you can seize it or not depends on your own abilities.
For those who are willing to be loyal to me and fight for me, please stay where you are.
For those who are unwilling to be loyal, you can stand on the right side.
You will be sent to do hard labor without enough food and clothing, but you will not be able to do so.
For those of you who can live comfortably and are willing to be loyal to the king, you will be incorporated into the slave army and use your loyalty and military exploits to In exchange for food, money, women, and even freedom and rights, after killing one enemy, you can eat enough every day; after killing two or more enemies, you can exchange the enemy's heads for money; after killing more than five enemies, You can exchange heads for women and have the right to have children and kill more than ten enemies. people, you can gain freedom and become a free man or choose to join our Western Qin Army, become one of us, and enjoy all the benefits and rights that other officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army can enjoy; kill more than fifteen enemies, and you can As an official, the more enemies you kill and the greater your credit, the more you will gain and the higher your status will be."
After starving for more than a month, the will of these Khazars had long been worn away, and they themselves had no integrity to speak of.
There were actually 10,000 people willing to be loyal to Zhao Ziliang and join the slave army
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