The first day of May, morning.
Zhao Ziliang had just finished reviewing the official documents and performed a few moves on the training ground in the palace, when Wang Can hurried over.
Zhao Ziliang put down the horse and let out a breath, picked up a towel and wiped his sweat and asked: "Wang Can, the big cannibals caught have confessed."
"Yes, I have never seen anyone who refused to confess under Dongchang's punishment," Wang Can said, and then hesitantly said: "But."
Zhao Ziliang threw the horse to his son Zhao Lei, picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip of tea before asking: "But when did you become hesitant to speak?
Is it because of the instigation of Mahdi, the prince of food?"
Wang Can said: "Yes, it was indeed the Mahdi who instigated it.
Now that these three big cannibals have testified against the Mahdi, we can tell the Eastern Roman Empire the truth about the matter.
If the Eastern Roman Empire has the guts, let the Eastern Roman Empire go."
We can stay out of trouble for the cannibals, but the general has just received news from the Bulgarian Khanate.
On April 10th, , the Bulgarian Khan King Winech died of illness, and his son Teletz succeeded as Khan King Teletz.
This man was more greedy, cruel and warlike than his father Vinech.
He had made it clear at the meeting of nobles within the Khanate that he wanted to Preparing to launch an attack on the Eastern Roman Empire, the nobles of the Bulgarian Khanate were very supportive of this, which further boosted Teletz's arrogance.
In addition, there were a large number of The Pechenegs and Magyars invaded the northern border of the Bulgarian Khanate southward, and a large number of northern Bulgarians had to migrate southward to the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire.
These people changed their minds after staying at the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire.
In the past, the Bulgarians had a habit of grabbing and leaving.
They not only robbed the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire, but also relied on Unable to leave, they occupied the local fertile fields and houses, as if they were the masters there.
They also instigated many Bulgarians and Serbs in the Eastern Roman Empire to revolt.
The northern region of the Eastern Roman Empire was in danger at this time.
If we pass on the contradiction now Between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Great Cannibal, I'm afraid the Eastern Roman Empire has no time to look eastward at this time."
After listening to Wang Can's words, Zhao Ziliang said: "I originally wanted Zhao Hu to send small groups of soldiers and horses from behind to drive away the Pechenegs and Magyars, forcing them to invade southward.
This would allow the Bulgarian Khanate to Concentrate troops in the north to resist the invasion of the Pechenegs and Maza The attack freed up the Eastern Roman Empire to fight against the cannibals, but they did not expect that the Bulgarians were so useless.
They did not dare to fight against the Pechenegs and Magyars, but they dared to go south to rob the Eastern Roman Empire.
Sure enough, a truth has been verified: civilized people are afraid of barbarians, and barbarians are afraid of those who risk their lives.
People, the Eastern Roman Empire is considered a civilized people, while the Bulgarians are barbarians.
If the Pechenegs and Magyars want to survive now, they have to fight against the Bulgarians.
The Bulgarians dare not fight with the Pechenegs and Magyars.
People are desperate and only dare to rob the Eastern Roman Empire.
This kind of relationship is really strange.
Weird, but what does this have to do with us?
Whether the Eastern Roman Empire is dead or alive is none of our business.
Leave the matter to the Eastern Roman Empire and let them worry about it themselves.
Whether they swallow their anger or go out to find the big cannibal.
No matter how hard we fight, it has nothing to do with us, we just sit back and watch the tiger fight."
"Yes, I will make arrangements later."
Wang Can agreed with clasped fists, and then asked: "However, what if the Eastern Romans ask us to hand over the Prince Mahdi of the Great Food King to their disposal?
How should we respond?"
Zhao Ziliang turned to look at Wang Can: "Are you asking us to hand over Prince Dashi to them to deal with?
Are there any brain problems among the Eastern Romans?
Not to mention that he is the prince of Dashi and was an envoy before, even if he is just an ordinary Dashi.
Man, since he is in our Western Qin territory, we cannot just hand him over to other countries for any matter.
Otherwise, outsiders will think that our Western Qin is afraid of him.
The Horse Empire said they want us to hand over people, and we will hand over people.
Where can we put the face of our Western Qin?
The Mahdi commanded his men within our sphere of influence in the Western Qin and hired mercenaries to kill the Eastern Roman envoy Julius.
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How to deal with him?
Of course, our West Qin official has the final say.
The crime he committed is not a small one.
I will let the Judicial Temple conduct a trial.
The verdict will naturally be decided by our West Qin Law."
Wang Can said: "Your Majesty, if the crime committed by Mahdi really needs to be judged according to the law, it should be executed immediately, but if we really want to kill him, if we really kill Mahdi, then our relationship with Western Qin and the Dashi Kingdom The relationship will probably turn bad.
Although Caliph Mansour of Great Eclipse will not go to war with us for such a son, the relationship between the two countries will definitely reach a stalemate earlier than we expected."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "What you said is not unreasonable.
Zhao Lei, what do you think we should do with this matter?"
Zhao Lei said: "Father, I think we can be a little more lenient in the sentence and imprison Mahdi for ten or fifteen years.
In this way, we can not only maintain the prestige of our Western Qin in front of the Eastern Roman Empire, but also give a little food.
It saved some face, and also showed the world that anyone who commits crimes in Western Qin will be punished, even a prince.
If we kill Mahdi, we will not please the Eastern Roman Empire. , and they are at odds with the country of Dashi.
This is what a wise man would not do.
The child thinks that this matter may be able to turn bad things into good things.
The people of Dashi want to provoke disputes between Western Qin and Eastern Rome.
Why don’t we turn Dashi into a conflict?
The human conspiracy revealed to the Eastern Romans, let the Eastern Romans find the bad luck of cannibalism.
We have so much evidence and witnesses in our hands.
Even if the Eastern Romans did not catch the cannibalism, they still would to a large extent.
Believe these witnesses and evidence.”
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang was quite satisfied and said to Wang Can: "Zhao Lei's suggestion is good and I won my heart.
I'll just do it this way.
Tomorrow I will send someone to find Zonaras, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Tell him about Julius.
Come over and tell him the specific situation.
Show him the transcript of the interrogation.
Then take him to see the three big cannibals who have confessed.
Let those three people Tell Zonalas personally about the great cannibal conspiracy."
"Yes, Your Majesty" After Wang Can left, Zhao Ziliang said to Zhao Lei: "Lei'er, do you know why my father asked someone to find you today?"
Zhao Lei said: "Father, I don't know how to ask my father to make it clear."
Zhao Ziliang said: "You are twenty-three this year and have three children.
You fought a few battles with your father last year, but your military experience is not enough.
You are not yet capable of leading an army on your own.
In this regard, you It's a lot worse than you in the three places, but don't be discouraged.
You just haven't had the opportunity to be trained and used.
You are here.
Your military potential is actually no worse than your third brother's, or even better, but you haven't discovered it yet.
My father called you here this time just to give you a chance to fully exercise and develop your military talents.
Now Huo Kan is Leading the Fifth Army to fight against the Bulgarians in the northwest, my father wants you to serve as a general under him, what do you think?"
Zhao Lei quickly said: "My dear, thank you father for giving me this opportunity.
I will definitely live up to my father's expectations."
"The opportunity has been given to you.
It depends on you whether you can seize it, whether you can hone yourself in this war and put what you have learned into practice, and whether you can integrate what you have learned into practice.
As a father, I want to remind you that things in books may not necessarily be suitable for use in practice, which requires you to be flexible."
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Zhao Lei saluted and said: "Yes, my child has remembered it."
"This is the first time that my father, Hao Wei, has used his privilege to promote you to the first level of military rank, to senior colonel.
However, there is a hurdle to be promoted from senior colonel to major general.
Whether you can overcome this hurdle and squeeze into the ranks of generals depends on your own performance and When I'm able, I'll go to the Military Academy tomorrow to handle the transfer."
"Yes, Father" The second day of May, morning.
Zonaras, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, arrived at the Palace of the Western Qin Palace after being notified.
The officials of the Secretary Supervisor received him and took him to see Zhao Ziliang.
"Your Majesty, His Excellency Zonaras, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, has arrived."
Zhao Ziliang put down the brush in his hand and said to Zonaras: "Your Excellency, Deputy Envoy, I sent someone to find you today because there is something that I need to tell you in person.
I hope you will be mentally prepared.
Ten days ago, Yuri Lord Us met with an accident on his way back to his country, and he was killed."
"Why, Lord Julius is dead?"
Zonaras' face paled when he heard this, he staggered and almost fell to the ground.
"Your Excellency Zonaras, are you okay?
Come and bring a chair for Lord Zonaras to sit down."
Immediately, an attendant brought a chair.
Zonaras sat on the chair with the support of the attendant.
He finally calmed down and asked immediately: "Your Majesty, have you found out who did it?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "It has been found out that it was the cannibals who did it.
They launched an operation in the territory of Khwarizm.
Seven of the eight agents we sent to escort Lord Julius back to the country were killed, and the remaining one was seriously injured.
He fell into a coma and was lucky enough to survive.
Lord Julius and his followers were all beheaded by the cannibal."
"Oh, God, those people are so cruel, they all deserve to go to hell."
Zonaras closed his eyes in pain and made the sign of the cross on his chest.
Zhao Ziliang continued: "There were thirteen perpetrators of the Big Eater.
They also hired thirty mercenaries.
After they killed Lord Julius, internal strife broke out.
The Big Eater was silenced in order to prevent the news from leaking out. , they poisoned other mercenaries.
During our pursuit and capture of the perpetrators, ten of the predators were killed or committed suicide.
Only three of them were captured alive by us.
After interrogation, these three were handed over.
It was the Prince of Great Food, Mahdi, who instigated and arranged it.
The person who came forward to contact him was the deputy envoy Aziz.
The reason why Mahdi did this was for two reasons: First, he hated Julius for always being in Hengluosi.
They opposed him and sent people to kill him in order to retaliate; secondly, taking action within the sphere of influence of our Western Qin could put the blame on our Western Qin.
It was the relationship between our country and the Eastern Roman Empire that became so bad that it even provoked a conflict between our two countries. of war: