Since ancient times, in both China and the West, in order to be able to sit on the chair above ten thousand people, countless careerists have gone forward and succeeded, and they have only one goal, that is, to kill the person sitting on that chair.And the supreme rulers who sat in that chair were always on the lookout for themselves, and they always looked at everyone with suspicion, and in their eyes, anyone who was unreliable could pose a threat to them.Kavad II is an outstanding representative of this group of people, although this king revived Sassanid Persia, defeated the old enemy Eastern Romans many times, and even recaptured the fertile crescent and upper and lower Egypt, but his suspicion is also the largest in the history of Persian Shahan Shari, what is the extent of this master's suspicion, that is, the current Persian first general, the "sword of Ahula" reputation of Massoud, he is not at ease at all, if it were not for the military pressure of the Eastern Romans, he would have killed this Massoud, Even the most loyal generals were suspicious, not to mention the brothers his father had left behind.Some time ago, Khavard II drove his own expedition to the Carthage province of the Eastern Romans, in order not to be stolen by his adult brother Pardar, so he took his younger brother to North Africa, and then marched to Carthage, one day Khavard II had a strange dream, the dream showed that a man named Pardar would usurp his throne.Fearing that his younger brother Pardar would usurp his throne, he ordered his confidant Akbaye to assassinate Pardar.Because it was an assassination, the Persians thought that Prince Pardar, who had accompanied his brother on his expedition to Carthage, was still alive, but no one knew that the poor Prince Pardar had been killed by Akbaye, and even Rustam and Amr, the most trusted ministers of Kavard II, did not know about it.Although Khavad II had a strong control over Persia, he was not without enemies, the Persian Empire was a complex faction, and there were many forces secretly opposed to Khavad II, including some Zoroastrian high priests and some Persian nobles, all of whom expressed strong dissatisfaction with Khavad II's strengthening of centralized power, in addition to the Mazdaq sect that had always been difficult to get along with the upper echelons of Persia, in short, the situation in Persia was not as stable as it seemed.Aware of the danger, Kavard II repeatedly strengthened his power in an attempt to nip it in the bud.After he sent his cronies to kill his brother Pardar, the Persian army continued to march towards Carthage under his command, and Kavard II left his old nest of Ctesiphon, which gave some of the forces who hated him the opportunity to take revenge, and when Kavard II led his army to attack Carthage, a very hidden dead soldier wounded Kavad II with a poisoned arrow, although the Assassin was chopped into meat sauce on the spot, but Kavad II fell into a coma.If there is a problem with the commander of the Persian army, then this expedition can only end without a problem, if it is not for the famous Persian general Amr to stabilize the army's heart in time, I am afraid that the Persian army will not be able to pretend to be forced but will be forced by that.The royal physicians tried everything they could, but to no avail, and just when the people were in a hurry, Khavad II suddenly woke up and said to Amru and the others, "This is Ahura.
Mazda's punishment for killing my own brother ....."
He said this sentence directly, and hung up with his head crooked, pitiful for a generation of heroes, he didn't even leave a last word, and what was even more troublesome was that he didn't designate who would inherit his throne.Although Kavard II had sons, his sons were still very young, the eldest of whom was less than five years old, which provided an opportunity for some careerists to get their hands on it.A careerist named Partistus found his best friend, a Zoroastrian priest named Pardal, and after some deliberation, the two decided to gamble for the future glory and wealth, and although Pardal was four or five years older than the prince Pardal, but he was very similar in appearance, they decided to return to Ctesiphon and snatch the chair that symbolized the supreme power.The reason why the two careerists dared to be so unscrupulous was because the executioner Akbaye considered that although Kavard II confessed before his death that he had ordered Pardar to be killed, after the death of Kavard II, because Prince Pardar was a royal family after all, and if there was a change in the future, this stain would kill him, so he began to deny it.In addition, because Khavard II was not in his mind before his death, the words he said before his death were basically not credible.Coupled with the fact that the children of the Persian royal family were accustomed to hiding themselves within the high-walled compound of the palace of Ctesiphonna, the priest of the same name as Prince Pardar could easily pretend to be him when Khavard II's younger brother Pardar mysteriously disappeared.Because Sassanid Persia did not have a strict inheritance system like the Central Plains, and the death of Khavad II was very sudden, and he did not have a prince, and the Persian political support for this Pardar was not small, so when Patiztus and the fake Pardar returned to Ctesiphon, the Persian nobles and Zoroastrian priests immediately imprisoned the sons of Khavad II, and the fake Pardar was embraced by this group of Persian nobles and Zoroastrian priests and sat on the chair of the Persian Shahanshah, He picked up the scepter, a symbol of Persian power.After the fake Pardar ascended the throne, he immediately announced that Kavard II was killed by the assassination of Mazdak, and the reason why he wanted to splash dirty water on Mazdak was because this fake Pardar turned out to be a high priest of Zoroastrianism, and he had an unforgettable hatred for the Mazdaq movement, which is why he knew that the assassination was actually done by the Persian upper group, but he slandered Mazdak, and with his order, the Persian Empire was in a storm for a while, and the entire empire fell into the White Terror.After their successful usurpation, Pardar, who was originally a Zoroastrian priest, continued to live in the palace and tried not to appear in public.In this way, everything that Kavard II did to prevent his own brother from usurping the throne paved the way for the usurpation of this false Pardar.If Kavard II had known that everything he had done had finally pushed him step by step into the abyss of destruction, perhaps he would have lamented that he could not live for his own sin.Because of Kavad II's previous actions, the Persian populace and the army that had retreated to Egypt were more willing to believe the official news of Ctesi's lockdown.That is, Pardar, the son of Kuth Lao II, not only lived, but also returned to Ctesiphon to inherit the throne and ascend to the Persian throne.So, in this way, the whole country of the Persian Empire calmly accepted the new Shahan Shapardar, and they all considered Pardar's succession to the throne legitimate.In fact, after the usurpation, Pardar also had a certain danger.Because the Persian Shahansha had to be present in some public places, and he had to deal with a lot of government affairs.However, at the beginning of the usurpation, Pardar and his accomplice and mastermind Patiztes had already planned how to share the fruits of victory.Their specific arrangements were as follows: if the usurpation was successful, then Pardar would enjoy the life of Shahansha, and Patiztus would exercise Shahansha's power.This arrangement is a good solution to the problem mentioned above, Pardar is deep in the royal palace, enjoying himself while avoiding the public eye as much as possible.His accomplice, Patiztes, became the new Imperial Chancellor at the behest of the false Pardar, who wielded the power of the Persian Shahanshah, issuing orders, inspecting the army, and selecting emissaries.In fact, Patiztes was the central figure in the entire usurpation plan.Patiztes was ambitious and ambitious, but he had a fatal flaw, that is, he was not from any noble family, nor was he a Zoroastrian priest, he was a Persian-Greek mixture, and he was a commoner, and he climbed to his present position by military exploits, but he wanted to climb to that ahula.
It is almost impossible to have a seat below Mazda and above ten thousand people.The murder of his own brother by the Assassins and the almost unknown news of Prince Pardar's murder gave the careerist Patiztes a golden opportunity.The reason why he helped the second priest named Pardald usurp the throne was that he was going to wait for him to ascend the throne, and he would monopolize Persia in preparation for his future sitting on the chair that symbolized this supreme power, and now the first step of the plan was completed, and Patiztus succeeded in effectively ruling the Persian Empire in the name of Pardar.After Patiztus got the real power of the Persian Empire, he began to promote those Persian nobles and Zoroastrian priests who were close to him on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wantonly excluded dissidents and suppressed those political enemies who were not on his way.Partiztus was also a thoughtful man, and after he and his accomplices stole the supreme power in Persia, he knew that the truth of Pardar was at stake in his own life, "Who will be the executioner who killed Prince Pardar?"
Amre.
Karaniga?
No way, although he is Kavad's henchman, but this is the old fox, he will not make this mistake.Valleset?
It can't be, the old man was on the Carthaginian front at the time, well, Akbaye, that's him, as the captain of the guard of Kavad, the commander of the Holy Fall Cavalry, he has the best chance of this..... he must find a chance to keep his mouth shut forever....."
Although Akbaye did not divulge to anyone that he had killed the real Prince Pardar, the sinister and vicious Patiztes were ready to silence the absolute confidant of Kavard II for good.