While Liu Yan was on vacation in the South China Sea, Wang Meng was riding a camel and walking in the Gobi with a group of people. \ As an envoy, there will definitely not be only Wang Meng as a chief envoy, the deputy envoy is Cai You's eldest son Cai Mian, and there are a total of 1,200 accompanying guards and entourage.
They traveled through the Gobi in the northern part of the Persian Sassanid territory, probably in Sanandaj in later Iran, and were going to Iraq.
The territory of Persian Sassanid is very large, most of the area belongs to the plateau state, due to the special geographical location, the climate belongs to the hot day and cold night, some mountainous areas will still snow in winter, but the snow is limited to a certain altitude, not more than that altitude is actually not snowing.
In addition, some of the peaks that are too high are covered in snow and ice all year round, which is similar to the situation of Mt.
Fuji in the Wajijima.
Wang Meng's team was 1,500 people when they set out, and the reason why only 1,200 people remained on the way was partly because they were sick and unable to accompany them, and some were assigned to other tasks, such as escorting purchased slaves to a certain port, preparing to send them to the Pingban Captain's Headquarters before transporting them back to the mainland.
There were not only horses but also camels, and the Persian Sassanids assigned 2,000 men as escorts, as well as guides who were familiar with geography.
"There are no villages in this Gobi, and there is no place to rest at all."
Wang Meng saw at a glance that there were layers of sand dunes everywhere, yellow sand reflected by the sun, and there was a kind of air wave ripples on the surface that evaporated because it was too hot: "The guide said that you can go out after walking for half a day." ” Cai Mian was almost completely spread on the camel, and his lips were still chapped after drinking water.
He was seriously ill a few days ago, and even if he was cured, his body was very weak, and he should have stayed in the town, but he insisted on following him.
They landed at Gzalosia and traveled through the southeastern part of Persian Sassanid to Ctesiphon, where they were warmly welcomed by Shapur II, the current king of Persian Sasanar.
Wang Meng's letter to the Persian Sassanid is nothing new, it is nothing more than Liu Yan's greetings to Shapur II from a distant place, talking about the ancient friendship between the two peoples, and looking forward to the friendly development of the two countries in the future.
The Han state and the Persian Sassanid are now a partial alliance, not a comprehensive alliance between the two countries, although they are both allies, but the meaning is still different.
To put it simply, the Han and Persian Sassanids would only work together against the Gupta dynasty, and the rest of the country should be as it should be, and even if there was a conflict elsewhere, it should not affect the common will of the two countries to deal with the Gupta dynasty.
"The unrest in their country is too frequent and severe."
Cai Mian was deeply impressed by what he saw and heard along the way, and his reluctance to stay in the town was also due to a lack of security: "It's like a dynasty that is about to fall." ” may disappoint Cai Mian, the current domestic turmoil in the Persian Sassanid is indeed frequent and serious, but the Arabs and Yueshi who are doing things will lick the mess for the Persians.
The Arabs have not yet achieved great unity, they have their own clans and tribes, and no one intends to listen to anyone.
Although the unanimous edict to the Sassanids of Persia was unpleasant, the Arabs, who were themselves vulnerable, were fighting with each other, and it was only when the Prophet Muhammad appeared that the majority of the Arabs were united.
Not to mention the Yueshi people, it should be considered a miracle that they have survived until now, and the continuation of the two regimes of the Jidora Dynasty and the Kushan Later Kingdom is a miracle among miracles.
With the collapse of the Kushan Empire of the Yue Clan, and looking at their population, they can really only give the Persian Sassanids an itch.
"If the Great Qin people themselves didn't have civil strife, maybe so."
Wang Meng's vision was also improved when he went abroad, and he said: "The Sassanid nobility is still under the leadership of Shapur II. ” In fact, as long as the aristocracy does not follow the chaos, then no matter how much the commoners make trouble, the situation will be broken again, and the dynasty will basically not fall.
It's quite a simple reason, civilians have few resources at their disposal, second, it is difficult to appear with strong appeal, and finally, civilians have no relevant military knowledge.
Even if they can sweep the whole country, they will definitely not do it under the leadership of one person, but each region has its own leader, and even multiple leaders in one region, and there is no coordination and they will compete with a unified regime, and the other most important thing is that they will only see the present, and they will not think about it at all, and it will become the same nature as locusts transiting, and they will destroy wherever they want, and they have not thought about construction.
"I heard a story from Your Majesty.
In that story, a huge empire was plagued by internal disasters and turmoil in half of the country, and a rebel army was the most powerful, and they successfully entered the empire's capital and occupied it.
Wang Meng turned his head to look at Cai Mian, who was listening attentively, and asked, "Do you think that here is a successful change of dynasty?"
Cai Mian will focus because the story is told by Liu Yan, and he knows that there must be a follow-up.
"It's true that the dynasty has changed, but it's not the chaotic army that sits firmly in the country."
Wang Meng was stunned when he heard Liu Yan tell this story: "The rebel army occupied the capital of the empire, and the first thing that came to mind was to loot and destroy as usual.
At this time, a general guarding the pass heard that the imperial capital had been captured, and opened the fortress to let the foreign army enter. ” Cai Mian immediately showed an expression of disgust and said, "That general should be killed" Wang Meng also thought that the general should be killed, and continued: "That alien army entered the customs under the banner of avenging the imperial family, and defeated one resistance after another along the way, and finally collided with the main force of the rebellious army.
The rebel army collapsed in just one battle, and they still have a large number of control areas, but because they were destroyed too completely by themselves before, they have no chance to make a comeback. ” Cai Mian understood, the rebel army did not break away from the nature of the bandit army from beginning to end, even if it was a large territory, but there would be no output without governance, if it was always victorious, it would only be a robbery that had been happening, and if they really succeeded in changing the dynasty, they also received a country that was destroyed by themselves.
Cai Mian thought about what the rebellious army had always looked like, there may not be anyone who knows how to build at all, obviously they have conquered the capital of the empire and have not yet changed from bandits to the role of governors, and feel that if they really let them sit in the country, they are waiting for the people to make a living.
"Whether it's the Arabs or the Yueshi people, they have been destroying and not building, and they are even scattered."
Wang Meng came all the way and saw it clearly: "Even they themselves killed the same people who opposed Sassanid even more ruthlessly." ” When the Persian Sassanids suppressed the riots, at least not everyone was killed, some leaders were killed, and the rest were beaten into slavery.
Those who felt that they were in revolt, they were killing indiscriminately, except that they would leave young women as sex slaves, and often even spared babies from top to bottom, far more ferocious than the Sassanid army that suppressed them.
Speaking of which, Wang Meng had to thank those people, otherwise how could he have arrived in Persian Sassanid, and in less than two months he had purchased more than 50,000 slaves, including 40,000 female slaves.
"Your Majesty has come here on purpose."
Cai Mian recalled what was written and said, "We didn't find anyone who believed in that religion. ” Liu Yan regarded that sect as a beast, and he didn't want the person who taught him to go to the Han Kingdom.
He couldn't remember when that sect appeared, but it didn't prevent him from giving instructions to Wang Meng when he remembered.
Now there are a lot of religions in the world, because most of the nations are still in the Stone Age, the worship of primitive totems is more prevalent, the base 1 religion has just been legalized and promoted in Rome not long ago, Taoism is just a sprout, Buddhism is a comprehensive weakening, and the most popular beliefs are the Indian 1 degree 1 religion and Zoroastrianism.
Wang Meng was extremely impressed by the Zoroastrian religion, and it was definitely not a saint who enjoyed the Zoroastrian religion, but this religion had a very formal system and order, and the mythological background stories were also quite rich, and then those rioters actually believed in this religion.
When they went abroad, they found out that Crooked Guoren was so serious about his belief in the religion, and after thinking about it, he and others were also very serious about their faith, and they were willing to work hard at least to defend the honor of their ancestors.
The difference between the two is that crooked nuts believe in imaginary gods, while they believe in real ancestors.
There are Zoroastrian clergy from the Zoroastrian Sect in the ranks of the Legation, and they are trying to develop believers in the Legation, it must be said that many Han Chinese do not reject the belief in Zoroastrianism, and some of them join the Church, but those clergy are excited and happy.
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Soon, however, the Zoroastrian clergy were not happy, and on the one hand, they found that the Han Chinese were very casual about their beliefs, and on the other hand, they immediately stopped doing it when they talked about renunciating their original beliefs.
For any sect and religion, the existence of such a Han people is a black hole in propaganda and faith, and it is completely impossible for the Han people to give up their respect for their ancestors and believe in a fictitious god.
"We're going to be in Iraq soon."
Mawson Hadidan was wrapped all over his body, including his head, revealing only a pair of eyes, which was actually a serious desert outfit.
He said to Wang Meng, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, "On the other side, we have arranged five thousand people, and they will ensure your safety anytime and anywhere."
If necessary, contact the surrounding garrisons. ” Today's Iraq, like the rest of the world, is a place of no order, with attacks and deaths happening all the time.
Iraq in the future will be like that, and the credit is, of course, the work of the white-skinned race.
This is the case in Iraq today, where Rome and the Persian Sassanids fought a few big battles and then the two countries chose to withdraw, but the locals did not think about a peaceful life at all, and they fought each other again.
It's not that Wang Meng has to take the route of Iraq, it's that they all came to the northern frontier of Persian Sasani, and then they will go by boat, the distance is too far, and they will have to pass through several areas where the war is going on again, so it is better to simply take the route through Iraq.
I thought that after the Gobi, I could see a piece of green, but that was not a thing.
The reason why it is said that passing through the Gobi is to encounter an oasis, but the scope of the oasis is pitiful, and the surrounding area is actually still an environment filled with yellow sand.
There were people in the oasis before, but it was the Persian Sassanid army that came first, driving away the travelers who had been resting here, and facilitating the entry of the Han envoys.
Seeing a small lake in a world full of yellow sand, and seeing a scarce number of plants and trees, the people who had seen enough of the yellow sand and suffering from heat and thirst cheered, and some people who could not bear it simply rushed to the water source.
"No rush in" Mosen Hadidan is not restraining the Han people, and he does not have the qualifications to restrain them, but seeing that the Han people are still in the queue, his own people are rushing and feeling a little embarrassed at the same time, he is annoyed and angry: "Whoever dares to step his boots into the lake will be hanged immediately" Of course, there are Han Chinese who do not feel hungry and thirsty, but they must know how to restrain themselves when they can be selected as a member of the mission, and they are more aware of the importance of unity and order in other places.
The oasis was already under the control of Sassanid soldiers, who formed an irregular circle to enclose the oasis, set up tents, even prepared food and wine, and arranged for women to serve them.
There were not many people on the periphery, and the result was that there were quite a lot of tents in that handful, and they found that there was a new team coming, and the number was quite large, and they all walked out of the tents and watched.
"The rumored Han Empire envoys are this team" Ibn Abdul has the delicate facial features of an Arab, and in modern aesthetics, he may be a beautiful man who has been restricted from entering the country, but unfortunately his face is covered by a cloth: "Are you sure they are going to enter Iraq?"
Ibn Rahman, who was also masked next to him, nodded with certainty and said, "As with the news that has been delivered, there will be no mistakes." ” People who don't live in the Gobi environment for a long time don't wrap themselves up because of the characteristics of national costumes, but to prevent sunburn.
Of course, many Han people actually use cloth to cover more skin, that is, some people such as Wang Meng and Cai Mian don't need to do that if they have parasols.
"The puppet emperor sent 2,000 men to follow him for a long time, and the Iraqi side arranged another 5,000 men, and the Han Chinese themselves have their own soldiers," Ibn Rahman continued, frowning, "It is almost impossible for us to capture them alive." ” "Then kill."
Mosen Hadidan chuckled a few times: "Even if you can't kill him, as long as he poses a substantial threat, the Han Empire will definitely blame that puppet emperor." ” Yes, Shapur II is known as the Great Emperor, but the Han Kingdom corresponds to the king
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