Carthage.
The pier was crowded with people everywhere.
The reason was that the pier, which was originally busy with shipping, was suddenly put under martial law by the army.
All the idle people in the pier were cleared and driven out of the cordon by the soldiers.
All the ships on the sea were blocked by the navy.
The fleet patrol ships rushed to the open sea, and a large number of merchant ships that were about to enter the port were notified by the patrol ships that they were temporarily prohibited from entering the port.
The people in Carthage learned that the army had put the port under martial law and the ships on the sea were driven far away.
People guessed that there must be important figures from the Western Qin Kingdom coming, otherwise the military would not be able to make such a big move.
You must know that Carthage is now guarded.
The base was Zhao Bei, the general of the Western Qin Dynasty.
This person was from the royal family of the Western Qin Dynasty and could be personally greeted at the port.
His identity was probably unusual in the Western Qin Kingdom, so people rushed to the dock to watch.
Carthage is a city that was founded earlier than Rome.
In addition to the local indigenous people, the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Alans, Vandals, and Saracens successively invaded here and transformed it.
Colonization and immigration as a colony, so living at this time The residents of Carthage have become mixed descendants of these people.
The largest number of them are Saracens, followed by Byzantines, and the others are all mixed races.
However, since the Western Qin army occupied this place, there have been many Many people from the Western Qin Dynasty came here to settle and engage in trade.
"Quiet, quiet, the general has arrived."
A gong-beating team officer held a gong and a mallet and led a few soldiers to open the way in front, while singing loudly like a gong.
Not far behind them, there were a dozen soldiers holding spears walking in neat steps.
Zhao Bei, wearing heavy armor and riding a horse, was surrounded by two groups of soldiers and walked to the road with three steps, one post, five steps and one post.
The densely packed residents on both sides of the road were kept out of the cordon by soldiers standing guard.
When he arrived at the dock, Zhao Bei jumped off his horse, held his sword and walked to the shore of the dock.
He looked at the sea and asked the civil servant next to him: "When will His Majesty's ship arrive?"
The official looked at the sea, his eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his hand and pointed into the distance: "General, look, the two patrol boats are approaching the pier, and His Majesty should be on one of them."
Zhao Bei nodded, suppressing his nervousness and excitement and ordered: "Let the ceremony band get ready immediately.
The music will be played when His Majesty appears, but one thing must be paid attention to.
The person who came back to report said that His Majesty He has spoken, and his identity cannot be revealed, so after His Majesty disembarks from the ship, we do not need to salute.
The civil servants raise their hands in salute, and the military officers salute military officers.
We must also pay attention to the title.
We must not address him as your majesty, just call him son."
"I'll wait for you to understand."
Gongzi is the most common title.
Whether it is a male from a commoner family, a young master from an official family, or a member of the royal family, everyone can be called Gongzi, making people confused about their specific identity.
Zhao Ziliang and his party were standing on the bow of the patrol ship on the left.
The ship they were on met the Western Qin Navy patrol ship in the eastern waters of Sardinia.
Sardinia and Sicily were both territories of the Eastern Roman Empire.
It stands to reason that the sea area between the two islands is under the control of the Eastern Roman Empire, but the Western Qin Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet will not care about this.
The entire North African coast is Under the control of the Western Qin State, the naval fleet often penetrated into the patrol range of the Eastern Roman Empire's naval fleet.
Patrol ships from both sides often collided and rubbed, and there were also direct fights.
However, currently the Eastern Roman Empire's naval fleet was It has always been patient, but the Western Qin Navy's Mediterranean Fleet continued to touch the bottom line of the Eastern Roman Empire within a certain range of control.
The crowds of people on the pier gradually came into the sight of everyone on the bow.
Princess Herodrut was quite surprised.
She looked at Zhao Ziliang and said: "I didn't expect that the officials of the Western Qin Dynasty in Carthage wanted to welcome you, the eldest son of the king.
It’s such a big pomp, even if my father goes on inspection tours, there has never been such a big pomp anywhere.”
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"Your Highness, in terms of land area, the Western Qin Kingdom is not under our Frankish Kingdom, and its population is much larger than ours.
Therefore, it is not surprising that His Royal Highness Prince Yunge has such a large queue when traveling."
Standing in front of Herodru Einhard behind her whispered to her, He was sent out by Charlie along with Oliver.
After Oliver returned to Aachen, he stayed with Princess Herodrut.
Charlie sent him to follow Herodrut to West Qin and had another plan.
Just let him get a feel for the specific situation of Western Qin.
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said to Herodrut: "It is common for local officials to put up some grand arrogance to welcome Shangguan in order to flatter them.
In fact, their purpose is only two points: first, to make themselves look fat. , to show in front of the Shangguan that the local area is prosperous and stable under his governance; the second is to curry favor with the Shangguan.
Once the Shangguan is happy, he may not pull their pigtails, and may even promote them."
Herodrut was just a princess who grew up in a deep palace and was not very clear about the routines in officialdom.
After hearing Zhao Ziliang's words, she felt very strange, "Oh, do officials actually have such thoughts and purposes?
Then It’s really irresponsible to the local residents, and it’s also a deception to the king.”
"Who says it's not?"
Zhao Ziliang said with a smile.
Liang Zhenwu couldn't help but said: "Your Royal Highness, in fact, the officials arrange some ostentation not just to cope with and curry favor with the superiors.
The size of the ostentation is linked to the status of the person who appears.
The higher the status of the person, the more ostentation will be."
The bigger you are, the only way you can show your majesty.”
Zhao Ziliang glared at Liang Zhenwu and smiled at Herodrut: "Princess, don't listen to his nonsense.
Majesty is not shown by the size of the ostentation.
Only those without talent need ostentation to embolden their courage."
The ship finally docked, and a solemn and grand long horn sounded.
This kind of long horn dragged on the ground is generally used on battlefields and in large-scale court ceremonies.
The sound of dozens of long horns is quite solemn, solemn, grand, and desolate. ,majesty.
Zhao Ziliang led everyone off the ship and stepped onto the dock.
Zhao Bei immediately led relevant officials and generals to greet them, clasping their fists and cupping their hands.
"Zhao Bei led a group of Carthage officials and soldiers to greet the young master respectfully."
Zhao Ziliang stopped, raised his hand and said: "Without courtesy, I have worked hard to keep you all waiting for so long."
"I can't wait hard" Zhao Bei stood up and said: "We have prepared a mansion in the city.
Please come and stay here."
"Okay, let's stay here first and take a hot bath before talking."
Zhao Ziliang nodded.
Zhao Bei waved his hand, and a coachman drove a large carriage over.
Zhao Ziliang extended his hand to Herodrut and said: "Princess, please" "Thank you."
Herodrut got into the carriage with the help of Zhao Ziliang.
After Zhao Ziliang also got in, the waiter closed the door.
Zhao Bei gave an order, and the army defender's carriage left for the city.
Only the carriages that were talking about them got off.
In the palace of the city lord of Carthage, Zhao Ziliang introduced Herodrut to the generals and officials of Carthage: "This is Herodrut, the eldest princess of the Frankish kingdom.
The princess is my guest and also a Westerner."
Guests of the State of Qin, during our stay in Carthage, if the princess has any needs or requirements, you must try your best to satisfy them and protect the safety of the princess.
If anything goes wrong with the princess, I ask only you, do you understand?"
Everyone answered together: "Yes" During the long journey, no one had a good rest.
Zhao Ziliang and others rested for two days.
Two days later, he called Zhao Bei and asked: "Tell me about the situation since our army occupied this place."
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Bar" "Yes."
Zhao Bei agreed, and then said: "Since our army fully occupied the coastal areas of North Africa, there are still many cannibals in various places who resist our rule.
We have carried out severe attacks in this regard, and the gains are still huge. , but this resistance may not be completely contained in a short period of time.
Many of their people have been severely affected by the food.
Brainwashed by a sect, most of these people have become dead soldiers hiding among other big food sects.
There are also many people from other ethnic groups who have been bewitched by the big food sect.
It is impossible to use the army to find these people.
The army We can only fight, arrest, kill and maintain law and order.
Tracking down these rebels hidden among residents requires specialized people and institutions."
"In other aspects, most of the local people are still stable and have obeyed and recognized our rule.
Taxation has also begun to be collected.
Local governments in various places are being formed and improved.
Weichen believes that it will only take half a year for all parts of North Africa to secede.
Military control, with local officials taking over civil affairs.”
After introducing these, Zhao Bei took out a large stack of documents and said: "These are the records of the resistance to our rule suppressed by our army in the past two years, tax records in various places, the establishment and night situation of administrative and judicial yamen, the population of residents in various places and Race registration status” Zhao Ziliang took it and looked at it in detail.
Although there were many aspects that were not done carefully enough and were a little rough, the work was still very good to this extent under military control.
He affirmed Zhao Bei's work: "It's done well."
That’s right.
Since you think that military control can be lifted in half a year and the government can take over the administration, if there are no other surprises, this matter will be settled for the time being."
"Yes."
Zhao Bei agreed with clasped fists, and then said: "A group of envoys came from the Caliphate on the Iliban Peninsula in half a month.
They were not large in size, with only a dozen people.
They wanted the two sides to eliminate hostility and sign a peace agreement.
Agreement, and said that he can surrender to our country.
Your Majesty knows that I can't make the decision in this matter, so I can only send people to escort them to Jerusalem.
Maybe they have arrived in Alexandria now."
The post-Umayyad dynasty of the Iberian Peninsula was already the last paradise for the cannibals.
Shortly after Egypt was conquered by the Western Qin army, a large number of cannibals along the coast of North Africa took boats and crossed the sea to the Iberian Peninsula.
After joining the Umayyad dynasty, the number of cannibals there more than doubled than before.
If you want to cut off the last thoughts of the cannibals, you must invade the Iberian Peninsula and destroy the post-Umayyads.
Asian dynasty.
As the saying goes, if you kill a snake, you will be harmed by it.
Zhao Ziliang does not want the cannibal to come back in a few years.
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and told Zhao Bei: "I will write a decree later.
You can send a horse to Jerusalem to tell Dugu Wensu and Chu Ge.
You can discuss it with Da Shiren first.
How to decide in detail?
Wait until I get back.
Say it again" "Yes, Your Majesty" Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment and said to Zhao Bei: "Send someone else to announce the decree to Wu Lingzi, who is responsible for building the mausoleum, and ask him to come to Carthage to see me as soon as possible.
Remember, the construction of the mausoleum is top secret, and a reliable method must be used. people" Zhao Beidao: "Wei Chen understands, but Wei Chen doesn't know where Wu Lingzi is."
"You send someone to Cairo first, and you don't have to worry about the rest of the work.
Someone will naturally notify him to do it as soon as possible."
"yes" In the next more than half a month, Zhao Ziliang conducted incognito inspections in the areas around Carthage.
The overall situation was quite satisfactory to him.
On the eighth night of October, Zhao Ziliang had just sent Herodrut back to his room to rest.
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After returning to his room, Wu Lingzi appeared in the room out of thin air.
"Wu Lingzi pays homage to Your Majesty."
Wu Lingzi bowed his head.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Wu Lingzi, it has been more than two years, how is the construction of Gu's mausoleum going?"
Wu Lingzi replied: "Your Majesty, we have the past, all we owe is the east wind."
"What's the meaning" Wu Lingzi said: "Your Majesty, the main building, carvings, decorations, and formations of the mausoleum will be completed within a month.
By then, all the slaves and supervisors who participated in the construction of the entire mausoleum project must be executed, even the All troops must also stay in the mausoleum to guard the mausoleum for His Majesty. .
The only thing left is the Turing pattern and related runes.
This is all a matter for Pindao.
It will take about half a year to carve the Turing pattern and runes.
When the Turing pattern and runes are completed, it only needs Your Majesty places the treasure that activates the formation in the center of the formation, and the formation of the entire mausoleum can be activated."
Although Zhao Ziliang doesn't know much about formations, he also knows that the formation patterns and runes are equivalent to the circuit lines and capacitors and resistors in a circuit diagram.
Without these things, no matter how good the foundation of the formation diagram is, it will be in vain.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Are there enough materials?"
Wu Lingzi said: "That's enough.
Pindao has made an estimate before and has prepared all the required materials.
Only if there are more or less Pindao is not worried that the formation will not be completed.
What Pindao is worried about is the fifty thousand The army will not be willing to turn into corpse soldiers and corpse generals to protect His Majesty's mausoleum.
You must know that they are elite soldiers and generals, warriors who have fought hundreds of battles.
Poor Taoists can only deal with some demons and monsters."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "What do you want to do?"
Wu Lingzi said: "Either use a more powerful army to destroy them, or after Pindao completes the formation diagram, the superior will give an order to let them enter the tomb, and then seal the tomb door from the outside."
Zhao Ziliang said expressionlessly: "They are soldiers, let them die a worthy death, there will be others to guard the mausoleum
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