Holy Mountain Castle.
This castle is located on Mount Hermon and was built against the mountain.
It was completed three years ago.
The main stone and wood used to build the castle are basically from this material.
It took 30,000 slaves five years to build.
It occupies an area of The area, materials consumed, manpower and material resources used, the time taken, and the level of sturdiness and danger are all unparalleled in the world.
There is a tall spire at the highest point of the castle.
Near the top of the spire is a platform where Zhao Ziliang usually meditates and practices.
Sometimes there is no wind here, and at these times everything is completely silent, which is a good time to practice.
But sometimes the wind is raging and howling, but this is the time to meditate.
No matter how the wind is raging outside, my heart Always motionless.
In February 788 AD, Zhao Ziliang came to the Holy Mountain Castle from Alexandria.
For more than three months since then, he has been handling military and political affairs in the Middle East in the Holy Mountain Castle, and practicing here.
Now most of the military affairs of Western Qin have been handed over to King Zhao Lei.
Zhao Ziliang is still in charge of only the military and political affairs in the Middle East.
Compared with the military and political affairs of the entire Western Qin and the Tang Dynasty, these military and political affairs are undoubtedly It was much less and much easier to deal with, so he spent a lot of free time practicing, reading, and playing.
Yang Yuhuan also came here from Xinjing to accompany him in March.
She is one of the only two women left by Zhao Ziliang back then.
The remaining one, Nie Sanniang, is still in Chang'an.
There is a larger training ground in the northwest corner of the castle near the mountain.
This training ground is Zhao Ziliang's private training ground.
No one else can come in.
The soldiers guarding the castle have another large training ground in the northeast corner.
This small martial arts training ground also functions as a horse farm and a shooting range.
It is surrounded by a five-hundred-meter-long oval track, stables, swimming pools, heavy equipment venues for strength training, and eighteen kinds of weapons.
After finishing the last set of 300 bench presses while lying down, Zhao Ziliang placed the 3,000-kilogram barbell on the steel frame, stood up, picked it up, and let out a long breath.
Although with his current strength and physical strength, Zhao Ziliang He no longer needs to carry out such intense strength training every day, but he still He insists on it every day as long as he has time.
He never uses his inner strength to do this kind of strength training and relies entirely on physical strength.
Although his maximum strength has stayed at more than 3,600 kilograms for a long time, and his progress is extremely slow, but every day His persistence has allowed his physical endurance to grow steadily.
His daily heavy exercise keeps his food intake high.
His food intake alone is nearly 20 times that of ordinary people, and ordinary food cannot satisfy the body's needs.
Only high-calorie foods such as beef and mutton can achieve this.
Require.
However, if he no longer insists on such a large amount of exercise every day, his food intake will also decrease, but his demand will still be much higher than that of the average person.
This is because he needs to maintain the best condition and function of his body.
Although many of the various cultivation techniques he knew could be used to obtain power through other methods, he did not bother to do it because they were not the right way.
For example, he obtained power from a technique captured from the Persians.
To the point where you can use tyrannical methods to seize the life force of others to expand your own strength and realm.
However, this method has great disadvantages and can easily cause confusion in thinking and consciousness and lead to obsession.
This method is similar to the ring on his finger that absorbs the life force of those who have just died in battle and converts it into his own life force.
However, the ring on his finger does not have the disadvantages of the technique.
After absorbing the life force of the soldiers who died in battle, it can automatically It filters out negative factors that affect the host, but it cannot freely supply life energy to the host.
It can only supply life energy for treatment and strengthening when the host is injured, and it is usually stored.
"It seems that just practicing is not enough.
You still have to fight and get injured.
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The ring finger can supply life energy for treatment and strengthening, so that the physical strength and skill can continue to grow."
Zhao Ziliang took a towel and wiped the sweat and muttered silently, then thought again Said: "But with my current status personally participating in the battle, those civil and military ministers will probably die to remonstrate with me."
After moving on the spot for a moment to calm down the surging Qi and blood, Zhao Ziliang put down the towel, sat cross-legged on the grass, closed his eyes and breathed.
An hour later, Zhao Ziliang got up and went to the bathhouse next to the martial arts training ground to take a shower, put on clean clothes and left the martial arts training ground.
Wan Qingming, the deputy governor of Dongchang, was walking back and forth outside the gate of the martial arts training ground.
When he saw Zhao Ziliang coming out, he immediately stepped forward and clasped his fists, saying: "Your Majesty" "Well, something's wrong," Zhao Ziliang asked.
Wan Qingming said: "There is news from Constantinople" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand, "Let's go, talk while walking."
"yes" Wan Qingming agreed to follow and said: "According to the news from our Dongchang's internal line in Constantinople, there was a fierce internal fight among the top leaders of the Eastern Roman Empire.
When our army attacked Egypt's cannibal last year, we were in Alexandria at the time.
Nicephorus, the uncle of Constantine VI in Hong Kong, secretly contacted the Western Armenian military general Alexios without telling Constantinople.
Sri Lanka asked him to send troops to the border in the name of military exercises in an attempt to stop our attack on Egypt.
Our troops stationed in Armenia and Khazaria responded immediately, and the two sides faced off at the border for two months.
After this happened, Irina was extremely angry that Nicephorus and others acted secretly without telling her, and she began to arrange an operation to eradicate the opposition."
"However, before she had time to make arrangements, Nicephorus and others took the lead in taking action in an attempt to overthrow the rule of Constantine VI and Empress Dowager Irina.
However, Irina was extremely skillful.
On the one hand, she bribed the generals and ministers around Nicephorus and others, and on the other hand, she organized troops to suppress them.
In her military and political Under the two-pronged approach, the rebellion of Nicephorus and others failed.
Irina did not go too far.
She did not kill Constantine VI's uncles, but only forced them to retreat to the monastery and continue.
She also used force to force the original patriarch of the Diocese of Constantinople to abdicate, and asked each diocese to elect her designated confidant Tarasius."
"Irina finally realized the strength of the opposition after she recovered.
These people were old ministers and nobles who followed Constantine V and Leo IV.
They were all extremely enthusiastic about the movement of destroying icons.
They were She decided to eliminate the staunch supporters of this political movement, those who were the most vocal opponents of her rule.
By forcing the emperor's uncles to retire from monasteries and replacing the patriarchs, she eliminated the leaders of the opposition. , leaving the opposition in a state of confusion, she won the opportunity to deploy calmly."
"However, Empress Dowager Irina still underestimated the strength of the opposition.
A month ago, she convened a church meeting of all dioceses of the Eastern Roman Empire in the cathedral and decided to resume the worship of icons.
The meeting was held in the presence of Archbishop Tarasius While the church was under the auspices, a group of heavily armed soldiers suddenly arrived, killed the royal guards guarding the church and rushed into the church.
Empress Dowager Irina evacuated hastily from the secret passage of the church under the protection of the guards.
The frightened Irina was furious.
After she returned to the palace, she immediately ordered the troops to be transferred from Thrace to Constantinople and ordered.
Transferring Constantinople's garrison to Anatonia's border with us, Irina used a series of methods to completely eradicate the opposition, but She transferred 30,000 elite troops from Constantinople to Cilicia, which put a lot of military pressure on us in the Antioch region and northern Syria.
The 30,000 Eastern Roman troops were transferred to Cilicia.
Asia is full of anger, but they vent this anger on our country.
In the past ten days, they have often sent small groups to attack our villages and cities in Antioch and northern Syria. town, they robbed and left without stopping for a moment, because the scale of their attack was not large and their number was not large.
Our garrison could not catch them for a while.
At first, they thought it was bandits who did it, but later they only learned from the survivors.
I learned from my mouth that it was the Eastern Roman border army that did it.
Now the border garrison has stepped up patrols, and the relevant military reports and memorials should be sent over soon."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Wan Qingming: "Dongchang continues to keep an eye on the changes in the situation in Constantinople and report immediately as soon as there is news.
As for the Eastern Roman Army's sneak attack on my presence and town on the border, etc.
We'll talk about it later after sending the memorial and the war report."
"Yes, Wei Chen resigns."
Two days later, a memorial from the Governor of Syria was delivered.
This incident was specifically written in the memorial.
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After seeing the memorial, Zhao Ziliang, who was handling military and political affairs in the imperial study, told Cao Yingxiang, the eunuch next to him: "Go and call all the generals and ministers.
"Meeting Hall" "Yes, Your Majesty"
Ministers and generals came to the meeting hall one after another.
Zhao Ziliang came over quickly after processing the memorial.
After the monarch and his ministers greeted each other, Zhao Ziliang was about to speak when a soldier ran in holding a battle report and shouted: "Your Majesty, Zhao Bei The general sent someone to send eight hundred miles of urgent battle reports.
In the past few months, the Western Expeditionary Army has captured Salum, Tobruk, Benghazi, Tripoli, Gabes and Carthage."
"Bring it over" Cao Yingxiang immediately walked over and took the battle report, turned back and put it on the imperial case.
Zhao Ziliang took the special barrel, opened the seal, opened the lid, took out the battle report, opened it and read it.
After reading it, he said to the ministers: "Zhao Bei's military losses in this western expedition were not large.
The main casualties were borne by the black slaves, and the attack went smoothly.
Hadi, the former Prime Minister of the Food Kingdom Yahya and other ministers They were all captured.
Zhao Bei has ordered people to escort these people to Jerusalem.
Next, do you have any opinions on whether Zhao Bei's western expedition army should stay where it is or continue to advance westward?"
Dugu Wensu stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that we rest in Carthage for the time being and stabilize the local rule before making any plans."
But Dugujun stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Lao Chen suggested that General Zhao Bei be ordered to continue marching westward, take over Mauritania in one fell swoop, and end the rule of the cannibals.
If they are allowed to collude with the white-coated cannibals of the Iberian Peninsula, things will be very complicated.
It has become complicated and troublesome.
Now our naval fleet is not enough to roam the Mediterranean coast.
I am afraid that the expedition to the Iberian Peninsula will not be accomplished in a short time."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said: "The decree orders Zhao Bei to continue the Western Expedition":