Khorasan is one of the ancestral lands of the Persians, although a small number of Persian nobles are willing to open the city and surrender, but the vast majority of nobles and commoners reacted after a short period of panic, they are unwilling to accept Di Qing's ultimatum, and want to rely on the four fortified cities to resist to the end, so Di Qing encountered stubborn resistance after entering Khorasan, especially in Mulu City, the Persians killed the Jiankun people's persuasion messenger under the leadership of Ismayi, the city lord of Mulu City, and hung the head of the messenger on the city wall to show the Jiankun people, to show their determination to fight to the death, but they didn't want to greatly anger all the soldiers of the Jiankun Army from Di Qing down.Di Dashuai gave an order, and countless trebuchets and siege tools such as ladders were built in Northern Europe.Countless gunpowder packs, stone bullets, and even clay pots filled with fire oil were overwhelmingly smashed into the stone walls of Mulu City, although this caused heavy casualties to the defenders of Mulu City, but the stone walls were too thick, and the Persians hid behind the stone walls and repeatedly repelled the siege of the Jiankun people."
How many times have they been kicked down??"
Di Qing couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he looked at Mulu City, which had been attacked for a long time, "Dashuai, this can't work, I think we should send sappers to the city wall and blow up the city wall with a large amount ......of gunpowder" Xue Qinling personally led a wave of attacks just now, and finally climbed the city wall, but was driven down by the Persians."
Okay, Qinling, you take Ben Shuai's warrant, go to the trebuchet, take five hundred catties, no, take one thousand catties of gunpowder, and then use the shield cart to cover you to the city.......
Di Qing thought for a while and said, "In addition, tell the brothers that after the city is broken, the sword will not be sealed for three days!!
”The stubbornness of Mulu City annoyed Di Dashuai, didn't they believe in the dark god Anchliman, and he wanted to use the destruction of Mulu City to tell the Persians that the Jiankun army was more terrible and terrifying than Anchliman."
Marshal, our army has never broken the city without sealing the sword, if you do this, will it be detrimental to our future occupation of Persia?
So it's become a blood feud, huh?
”Xue Qinling thought about it, and was still ready to dissuade himself from being too handsome."
Qinling, it's not that the old man doesn't want to open the net, it's really that these Persians are too ignorant to elevate, don't you know how to make this international practice?
The people who killed us, if they didn't stand up, they would still think we were easy to bully!
”Di Qing said.At this moment, Cheng Chuhei came to Di Qing, "Dashuai, I caught a Persian spy ......."
Saying that, he brought in a Persian, "Aren't you looking for our handsome, he is our handsome!!
”"Your Excellency the Marshal, I am the messenger of Mazdak Fries, and I have come to pray for His Excellency the Marshal for the 100,000 ordinary people in the city, hoping that you and your army will spare the ordinary people of Mulu City....... who are all forced to fight against you and your army by Ismaili and the Zoroastrian priest Coliman......
For the sake of our Mazdak and your Jiankun's state religion, spare us poor people......."
The Persian spoke a broken Chinese, which made everyone stunned, when did the Persians also speak Chinese?"
What do you say, you are the messenger of Ma Shike??"
Di Qing was also stunned, after she was about to break the city, she slaughtered the city, but what kind of Mazdak messenger ran out, what kind of thing?"
Your Excellency Marshal, my name is Fries, and I am an envoy sent by the Mazdak Church to communicate with you......"
Fries saw that Di Qing couldn't understand his Chinese, so he was a little anxious, and after being anxious, he couldn't help but say his native language, "Fries, you said that you are the messenger of Mazdak, do you have any credentials?"
”Ye Muyi happened to come over at this time, he had been to Persia, and he had a relationship with a man named Zaladusti.
The leaders of the Mazdak of Adat had met, and they had discussed the origin of the world and other philosophical questions, so he was no stranger to Mazdak, who was considered a heretic by the Persians.Fries was stunned, he didn't expect that someone here in Jiankun knew about his sect, he was very happy, so he took out a red five-pointed star from his pocket and handed it to Ye Muyi, "This general, this is me, Fries's token in Mazdak, please check it......"
Ye Muyi took the red five-pointed star, and looked, ouch, this guy seems to be really from Mazdak, so he returned Fries, and asked, "Fries, you said that you are the messenger of Mazdak, then I ask you, do you know Zaladuste.
Who is Adat?
”"Your Excellency, you, you know our Mazdak?"
Fries became excited, Mazdak is a religion, and their successive leaders are named after the first chieftain Mazdak, which is similar to the previous leaders of the Mo family who are called Mozi."
What, what do you say, Adat is your leader?
My Sanqing Dao Venerable, the old guy hid it from me deep enough......"
Ye Muyi was also stunned, he didn't want to go back to the wise old man he met in Tessiphon at the beginning turned out to be the leader of Mazdak.Ye Muyi reacted immediately, no wonder this Fries said that they Mazdaq had some relationship with the grassland road of Jiankun, Ye Muyi was a devout Taoist, he went to Ctesiphon and talked to Zaladuster.
When Adat was talking about the Tao, he mentioned the Taoist theory of yin and yang and the five elements of Taoism, and also mentioned many practices of pursuing the grassland road to enter the WTO, what to help the poor, what to save the dead and help the wounded, what to educate the people, the old man of Adat thought that they were very compatible with the grassland road, and even he thought that the grassland road respected the Taishang Dao and the god of light Ahula.
Meerut, Mazda's messenger on earth, was the same person......
This Mazdaq sect is a branch of Zoroastrianism, and their theories are all based on the original Zoroastrianism, and they believe that there is a struggle between good (light) and evil (dark) in the world; Equality for all is preached and public ownership of land, water and other property is required.Throughout the ages, Mazdak preached among the lower classes of the people: the Supreme Being had prepared the means of subsistence for all people on earth, and distributed them equally among them.The material wealth of the rich and women must be distributed to the poor.They advocated abstinence and penance, abstaining from meat, and encouraging fraternity and mutual aid to prevent greed and strife.Like the Zoroastrians from which they came, the Mazdaq sect emphasized good deeds, the purpose of which was to make a good living, that is, to enrich one's life.And in order to live a prosperous life, one must work hard in farming, animal husbandry, and work, which are all noble occupations and supreme merits.The original Mazdak even proposed that the ideal life should be "to start a family, and to have a prosperous livestock, a wife, and children."
The cultivated dry land should be irrigated, and the depression should be drained; The workshop produces the goods that people need with a constant source of energy. ”They objected to fasting as some Zoroastrian sects did, on the grounds that "without enough food one cannot accomplish the difficult task assigned by Mazda; If you don't have enough to eat, you can't work hard..... universe lives by eating, and dies without food. ”They advocate good deeds and resist evil deeds, and fight against evil, which is the ethical guiding ideology of the religion.Its specific ethical and moral standards are devout belief in good gods, good deeds, non-fraud, and keeping promises, etc., and its good deeds also have the characteristics of this religion, and the main good deeds are farming and handicrafts, having children, and fighting against evil.Look, this Mazdak is advanced enough, in the century, the grassland road founded by Li Lu has absorbed a lot of Mazdak's theories, otherwise Adat would not have discussed the Tao with Ye Muyi, thinking that the two sides have a high degree of compatibility.More than a hundred years ago, Khavad I of Persia convened a theological council, and his son Kuslao I set up an ambush, and when the Mazdaq sect in attendance, including Mazdak himself, appeared, they were all captured and killed.After that, Kavard I declared the Mazdak sect an evil cult.
Religion, forbidden to spread, but the Mazdak sect still survived tenaciously, and the Fries in front of them were the chief priests of the Mazdak sect in Khorasan.Fries is a member of the Chara Duster.
Adat's cronies, he learned from Adat where he knew that in the Hezhong region, there is a country called Jiankun, where the people believe in a religion called Daomen that is very similar to their Mazdak, after coming to Khorasan, he learned about the real grassland road from some Persian merchants who had been to Broken Leaf and converted to the steppe road, just when he wanted to get in touch with the Daomen on the side of Broken Leaf and strive for the support of the Daomen, he didn't expect the Persian Empire to send troops to Jiankun first, and he was beaten instead of pretending to be forced.
Not only did the Jankun people who believed in the steppe road defeat Bayesset, but they also entered Khorasan, and these Mazdaks advocated peaceful coexistence with the Tenkun people, but because they were not tolerated by the Persian government, and the local Persian nobles surrounded them, no one cared about this opinion at all.When Di Qing and they attacked the city, those ordinary Persian people who believed in Mazdak, after learning that their city lord Ismayi had killed the messenger of the people, were deeply afraid that the Jiankun people outside the city would slaughter the city after the city was broken to vent their anger, their worries were not unreasonable, in ancient times, whether it was the East or the West, they did not kill the messenger, this is an international practice, but the fool Ismaili killed the messenger, and he was smug, but he didn't know that this was a monstrous disaster, and the people were not fools.
Those people who were forced to defend the city could see clearly that as long as the other party was ruthless and used a large number of weapons as terrible as thunder, even if the stone walls of Mulu City were strong, they would not be able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Jiankun people.The people don't want to die, and besides, the rule of Ismaili over the years is also very unpopular, they have long had enough of Ismaili's rule, they heard that the Taoism that the other party believes in is very similar to the Mazdaq they believe, plus the Persian merchants who have long converted to the steppe road have contributed to the trouble, the people of Mulu City publicly promoted the Khorasan chief priest of Mazdak as a representative, and quietly went out of the city to negotiate with the Jiankun people to find a way to live for the people of the city.