Isn't it just a dead man, not only the two Ibns feel nothing, even any Arab as a leader does not have too special feelings, they think that there are dead people all the time in the world, either at the hands of the Persians or at the hands of their own people, and that they can do something meaningful, and the sacrifice is completely worth it.
There is another reason why the two Ibn don't care about it, they sent out to send out to death are either miscellaneous soldiers or mercenaries, and the miscellaneous soldiers pull a large string casually, and the mercenaries only give a deposit of thirty percent, not a dead henchman, and their subordinates are not distressed at all.
The Middle East is a chaotic part of the Middle East, or it should be said to have always been, a battlefield between the Persians and the Greeks or Romans for hundreds of years, and one or more major wars have been fought almost every year.
There has always been a war, and the people in this place have long been accustomed to not having a peaceful life, many people have not even lived a peaceful life from birth to old age, and the people they know have a good chat one moment, but the next moment they are pulled to the battlefield by someone to be cannon fodder.
It is not against the slightest point that the average life expectancy of men in this part of the Middle East is really not more than 30 years old, but the average life expectancy of women is more.
It is not entirely a matter of diet to live, but more of a death from various wars or turmoil, and only some tribal leaders or clan leaders can live to the point of gray hair and beard.
"Erben" "Hardy" Two young people who haven't seen each other for an unknown amount of time hugged each other excitedly as soon as they met, bouncing to celebrate seeing each other.
Erben was a skinny lad, dressed in the national costume of a certain tribe, and holding a short spear in his hand.
Hadi is dressed as a local peasant, but with a wooden stick pinned to his waist and a straw in his hand.
"The elder said you would come back, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."
Hardy and Erben are young and haven't seen each other for more than two years: "By the way, I forgot to tell you."
I married your sister and am now your brother-in-law. ” "We almost didn't come back."
Erben didn't care about Fa Xiao marrying his sister at all, and didn't even ask, but he was happy to have a relationship with his Fa Xiao: "You are going to grass" "No, I'm going to pick up sheep dung."
Hadi knew why Erben didn't ask, women in their place had no social status at all, and the more traditional the Arab tribe, the lower the status of women: "Come to my house for dinner in the evening."
"I'm afraid not."
Erben pointed to the side, where there were many armed men: "The Persians are chasing closely, we will continue to set off after replenishing supplies." ” As soon as Hardy heard that there were pursuers behind him, he immediately changed his face: "You guys are crazy to know that there are pursuers and are still running towards the village."
"It's not for me to call the shots."
Erben showed a displeased expression, and he still had to say what he had to say: "I was looking for you in the first place, and I want to tell you to run away." ” In fact, the Persians either caught the Arabs or killed them, but they were not polite to the rebels.
To some extent, the Persians were far more rational than the Arabs, and at least they were willing to take prisoners, and even if the Arabs went to war with their compatriots, they would kill them all and leave no one behind.
Of course, the situation has changed recently, especially since Wang Meng visits the local governors everywhere he goes to talk about some promising slave trade, and the result is that the governors have become more and more ruthless, and they used to investigate whether a certain place was really involved with the rebels, but now they can do something to the village even for a spurious reason.
Wang Meng has always been engaged in the great cause of sprinkling gold in Persian Sassanid, and the necessary gift is a small box of gold bars, which can be treated with extraordinary courtesy anywhere.
After he consulted with a certain governor, he would leave a few people as liaisons, waiting for the governor to arrest them, and they would be responsible for the acquisition.
Hardy didn't want to delay anything, and when he got home, he shouted to his family to pack up quickly, and his wives knew that his brother wanted to ask something when he returned to the village, but he stared at him and held back everything.
"The two of us went to the mountains together."
Hadi warned his wife very seriously: "You can't tell anyone, I mean anyone but our two families, is that clear?"
Her face was covered with a black cloth, her body was also black, and her whole body only showed a pair of brown eyes and surrounding skin, and her height was about one meter five, she hesitated and said in a panic: "Don't you tell other relatives?"
"Idiot" Hardy burst into a rage, lowered his voice and roared: "If you tell one person, you will tell ten of them, and ten of them will tell a hundred, and even we won't be able to leave when the time comes." ” Hadi is an Arab, or an Arab living in a war-torn area, he doesn't remember the people who found out that something was wrong and secretly ran away, who was kind and seemed to have been kind a few times, but even his own life was involved.
In such an area, countless facts have long proved the same thing, no one except for their closest relatives should not care about anyone when disaster comes, and it is right to save their own lives and the lives of their loved ones first.
Soon Hardy didn't have to worry, he hadn't packed up the belongings he wanted to take away, but his brother-in-law came with someone.
"Hardy, you're in luck."
Erben did not have any envy or congratulations on his face, but his face was extremely ugly: "You have been recruited to become a warrior who fights for the leader." ” Hardy was stunned for a moment, but then immediately shouted, "Of course I am willing to fight for the leader." ” Can you do not look at those guys who are eyeing them, and answer that if you are unwilling, you will be beaten and kicked, and you don't even think about running away or anything, because you refuse to be taught a lesson, and you will be subjected to all kinds of harassment or abuse later, and if you don't hurry up to express your willingness to shed the last drop of blood for the leader, at least life will be relatively better.
"No" Nina was just rolling the package when she found out that something was going on and ran out of the house: "Brother, you can't do this" Erben actually didn't recognize the person as his sister at all, who made her so wrapped that there was only a pair of eyes left, and then she hadn't seen each other for too long.
He looked at the person who suddenly ran out and hugged his thigh, he shook his thigh and pushed with his hand very directly, glanced at the person who came with him, and yelled with a very ugly face: "This is our fate, don't make trouble" A few more people came out of the room, and the younger one was pulled out, and the crying woman was rudely driven away.
Not only Hadi's family, the two Ibn came to the village with a team, met the village elders, and exchanged a few gold bars and a few conditions for the consent of the elders, and the young men in the village could basically be recruited at will except for the village chief and the sons of several elders.
By the way, if there are people in the village who can contribute enough money or materials, they are also the kind that can be opened.
The two Ibns did not rest in the village that night, but they left as soon as they had enough people and things.
They just went to a certain village one after another, and the same process was repeated, and then they simply took people to hang around some enemy tribes.
The villages they passed through were followed by Persian troops.
The people who remained in the village, including but not limited to Arabs, Serbs, Yue, Gypsies, and so on, thought that if they were more submissive and extorted some money or supplies, the matter would be over.
But this time they were wrong.
"One counts as one, and all of them are captured."
Labadi was the captain of the team, and his eyes were shining as he looked at the crowd of women in the square: "Han people are not picky eaters at all, as long as they are willing to buy." ” Well, not everyone in Han China wants to buy it, anyway, the elderly who have passed the age do not want it regardless of gender, and they don't want babies who are too young.
This is a necessary thing, the old man has no ability to work, and the woman is unable to give birth, so what is the use of not having a baby, or is it to buy it back and feed the milk powder Then the matter is very simple, not to mention that the young Zhuang in the village were almost taken away by two Ibns, even if the young Zhuang were not taken away, they could only admit cowardice in the face of thousands of Persian soldiers, and real resistance was also a one-sided massacre, and some people who saved their lives first were almost any ethnic group in this land, and they could not resist the premise of the first choice.
"Old, separate it."
Labadi looked at the people who kept trying to squeeze over, and seeing their age and appearance, they were at least an elder, so he asked them to come over: "Old rule, hand over enough property." ” Come on, the knives are all on the neck, nothing is more important than saving their lives, the benefits they received from the two Ibns quickly changed hands, and even their own savings were taken out a lot.
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"Very well, you can go."
The smile on Labadi's face was weird: "You can also take your family with you." ” A few of the people who thought they had lost their fortunes were so happy that they didn't bother to pay attention to the pleadings and wailings of the villagers, and went home with great joy, but they soon welcomed the Persians again, and then they were killed by the result, and the young family was still captured.
When the Persian army withdrew, they threw some torches casually, and one house after another quickly burst into flames, and soon the whole village was in flames.
It was not the first time they had done such a thing, and they had been chasing all the way, and the order was from above, on the grounds that in view of the fierce resistance of the rebels and the frequent help of the locals, they were given the necessary lessons, even if it reached the ears of Shapur II.
Probably when the Han envoys were about to enter the borders of Iraq, Wang Meng was retained by the Persian governor Kianush Jalali, saying that there was a batch of high-quality goods.
If you enter Iraq, you are entering an anarchic region, where the distribution is very chaotic, the Persian Sassanid controls some areas, the Romans also control some areas, and there are many places where the local people are self-governing, which means that there is no real power that can have the final say.
At such a point, the Han envoys had to face the joint protection of the two states, that is, Persian Sassanid and Rome sent troops to ensure security.
This is a rare consensus between the Persian Sassanids and Rome in recent years, and it is not that the armies of the two countries will draw their knives directly when they meet.
Wang Meng knows that the so-called high-quality goods are high-quality women, generally the Persians have destroyed which Arab or ethnic tribe, caught a woman who thinks it is very beautiful, and directly traded with Wang Meng.
Coincidentally, Erben's sister is also Erben's wife Nina, she turned out to be in the list of transactions, but it was not a direct transaction list, but was treated as an accessory as a maid of a certain beauty.
In terms of the aesthetics of the Han people, in fact, whether they are Arab women or Persian women, as long as they are not too ugly, they are generally above the aesthetic level of the Han people.
More importantly, the Han people like that the female doublets here are big enough, and the buttocks and crotch are also upturned to give birth.
Therefore, this is also the best place for Han to obtain female resources, anyway, it is countless times better than the female resources on the Asan Continent.
After receiving a group of female slaves, Wang Meng said that he was very happy, and the money that should be paid was enough, and once again gave some personal gifts to Governor Kianush Jalali, and the two sides were very reluctant to separate.
After officially entering the territory of Iraq, it did not go far before encountering the Roman army, which had been waiting for him.
"We are made up of selected warriors of Constantius and Julian."
Marcus Marca is no stranger to the Han Chinese, but he has been in Pingban for nearly half a year, learned some Chinese, and also knows Dou A: "Our two monarchs attach great importance to your envoys. ” Another Roman captain representing Julian was named Valolius Stans, and Wang Meng was a little dizzy when he heard the name.
In Rome, it was not too much to call Gaius or Julius, and then there were many surnames with the word Us, and the more prominent the name, including the first name and the middle name, the length was simply frightening.
Valolius, who had blonde hair, saw that Wang Meng felt strange and apologized: "Please don't think my monarch is rude. ” Orthodox Romans did not have blond hair, and in the Roman period before Caesar's acceptance of Gaul, those with blonde hair would be considered barbarians, and even if they could obtain Roman citizenship, it would be difficult for them to climb to high positions.
However, the current Rome has undergone repeated reforms, and the naturalized barbarians have slowly entered the upper echelons of Rome, that is, the long-preserved habits have not been completely discarded, and blonde hair will still be despised.
Valolius Stats explained that it was very necessary, he didn't want Han Guozheng to feel that he was being slighted, that is, the feeling in his heart was not much better, and to put it bluntly, he was inferior.
The Roman army came with 5,000 men, Julian in Egypt sent 3,000 men, and Constantius came from 2,000.
It can be said that the Romans still showed considerable courtesy, that is, compared with the Persian Sassanids, the Persians have thousands of envoys who have been defending the Han State on a regular basis, and not long ago they sent 80,000, which is really incomparable
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