But what Aroisia didn't expect was that the big rear in his heart, Palmyra, known as the bride of the desert, was a new city founded on the ruins of Palmyra, which was burned down by Aurelian, and most of the residents of the city came from Damascus, Aleppo and other cities, and they had little affection for this geographically important city.This also directly led to the sudden appearance of the Palmela city after they suddenly appeared, the Persian puppet government led by Shapur III was in a mess, and when they called on the people in the city to resist the British army, the people in the city did not contribute to the work, especially after the British army blew down the wall of Palmyra with a gunpowder bag, the earth-shattering loud noise made the people of Palmyra think that the British army had attracted a thunderstorm, which frightened them.Especially the archbishop Gregory of the Christianity in the city, after convincing the Zoroastrian priest Salman, decided to surrender to the British troops who had poured into the city, he came to the side of the British army with a white flag, and said loudly, "Your Excellency the General, we are willing to surrender......"
Guan Sai looked at the cross around the archbishop's neck, and knew that the person who came was the high-ranking of the Christianity, so he said, "What we want is unconditional surrender......"
"This, as long as you can allow us, the Lord's people, to continue to live here....."
Grigory cautiously said, "We are willing to surrender to you.....""
Hehehe, you have thought about it..... in our England, there is no religion reported to His Majesty, and we all regard it as evil.
As far as I know, we do not approve of your religion, and if you insist on keeping your faith, your taxes will be ten times that of others....."
Guan Sai said with a smile, as a Taoist believer, he looked down on these nonsense."
Huh??"
Gregory was stunned for a moment, "You, you are like this, are you not afraid that God will sin on you?"
”He tried to scare the plug with God."
Hahahaha, your gods can't control us, we are not the people of the Lord, we are Han, we are the descendants of the Fuxi Nuwa Yan Huang Emperor......
Guan Sai grinned and said, "We also have gods above us, so we are not afraid of any of your gods...""
Huh?
But, Your Excellency, you can tolerate even the Zoroastrian heretical Mazdak, so why can't you tolerate us?
”Grigory did not give up, he wanted to make a final effort."
Prady, come here, tell him what's going on with you Mazdak....."
Pipe plug put Saman.
Prady called."
Archbishop Gregory, is that you??"
As soon as I saw this Gregory, Saman.
Prady smiled, and he turned to the plug and said, "Master, Gregory knows what is going on with us Mazdak, I told him about it before.....""
It turns out that you know .....
Prady, tell him that if he can't accept it, roll up the covers and roll them back to Constantinople..... there can be no sects on our territory that do not respect His Majesty and do not use Chinese characters and Chinese....."
Guan Sai said coldly, "Tell him that this is our Majesty's will, and there is no need to discuss!"
”Sam.
Prady briefly said to Grigory, who understood that these pagans from the east were not as enlightened as Persia, and they could not tolerate a Christian, but he did not want to accept his fate, he planned to go to Broken Leaf to meet the legendary emperor, he did not expect the emperor to convert to the religion, as long as he could persuade him to give the religion a chance to live.The reason why Gregory thinks this way is because he has been in Persia for a long time, knows the strength of Persia, an empire that can easily swallow Persia, Kenben is not a downhill Eastern Roman Empire can compete with, he is a pragmatic person, not a diehards in Constantinople and Rome, so he has such an idea.Thinking of this, he looked at Guan Sai, "Your Excellency General, the home of our fellow believers is in Syria..... we are duckweed without roots...please open a way for me, I will go to Broken Leaf to meet Your Majesty..... maybe he can let us stay in Syria......."
Guan Sai was just about to answer, when suddenly the Taoist chief De'an, who followed them through the desert, came over, he waved the dust whisk in his hand, and said with a smile, "If you want to stay in Syria, it's actually very simple, That is, if you accept the supervision of our Majesty, use Chinese and Chinese characters like Mazdak, and accept the leadership of the Daomen, there will be no problem.....""
This, if you do this, then the Friendship Sect is still the Friendship Sect?"
Grigory grew his mouth."
Gregory, this is a good opportunity....As far as Poor Dao knows, Your Majesty still left a gap for your Friendship Sect, you have to take advantage of this opportunity...."
Daoist Dean Dean began to agitate Gregory, "Look, you are now just a bishop of a province, and you are still far from the position of the Patriarch, if you take the initiative to cooperate with us and submit to Your Majesty, maybe Your Majesty will make you the Patriarch of the Friendship Sect....."
Gregory began to fight in his heart, yes, he has worked hard for thirty years, but he is only a bishop of a province, not even a cardinal, and now he is a lot old, and he is still nested in a small place like Syria, he thinks that he is not better than the patriarch Peter of Constantinople and the Vitali of Rome, but everyone has reached the top, and he will be a prisoner of the pagans."
Gregory, it's not the poor way to scare you, the Romans are not our opponents at all, if it weren't for the sake of Princess Irina, we would have been polite to your majesty for what he did....."
Seeing the struggle in Gregory's heart, he continued to say in a seductive tone, "Besides, you don't want to be the patriarch, you don't want to ......
We Han people have a saying that it is better to be the head of a chicken than a phoenix tail......
"God, you are just like the snake in the Garden of Eden......"
Gregory did not dare to look at this Taoist priest, in his eyes, this pagan priest (he thought that the Taoist chief was a priest) was like the snake in the Garden of Eden, tempting him to make mistakes, but the fruit of this mistake was really tempting, he really wanted to pick it and taste it.Seeing the appearance of the Gregorian celestial battle, Daoist De'an immediately increased his output, he fully mobilized his three-inch incorruptible tongue, and finally said that Grigory nodded again and again, this leader of the Gregorian Sect in Syria was willing to obey Li Lu's orders.The reason for this situation is that on the one hand, this Gregory is selfish, and on the other hand, because Gregory and his followers in Syria have separated from Constantinople and have a strong tendency towards independence.And the reason why Daoist De'an intends to persuade Gregory is because the Kiyo religion is deeply rooted here, and if violent means are rashly used, the cost is a little too high, and in addition to these Kiyo believers, in Persia, especially in the Lianghe region, there are many Assyrian church members, and now Li Lu has taken the whole of Persia It is already a matter of obvious, how to deal with these Assyrian church members, it is also mentioned on the agenda, before De'an came to Lianghe, Li Lu gave him a task to find a suitable candidate, Help yourself to take these Assyrian church members into your own hands."
Gregory, if you are willing to help us integrate the Christians of the Two Rivers and the Assyrian Church, which is regarded as heretical, Your Majesty can give you a position as the Patriarch of Nestorianism......"
Daoist De'an said with a smile, "You must know that there are only two such positions now, they are Percival of Brahmin and Zaradust of Mazdak, they are both religious advisors of His Majesty, and they are ..... of high status.""
I am willing to clean up the mess of the two rivers for His Majesty the Emperor of Ten Thousand Rivers,....."
Gregory is not stupid, he knows that this is a good opportunity for himself, if he does it well, he will definitely go down in history, and I have to say that this thing's sycophant kung fu is really good, "As for the Assyrian church you said, hehehe, I won't tell you, I am actually a follower of the Nestorian sect, but later by mistake, I joined the Damascus sect......"
It turns out that this Gregory is actually a deeply hidden Assyrian churchmember, in other words, he is the secret son of the Assyrian church to penetrate into the Christianity.When he heard the news, he was overjoyed, and he immediately began to negotiate with Gregory, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and they had the intention of meeting each other late.Under the manipulation of the two gods, Palmyra surrendered to the British army, and as a vote, the Palmyra surrendered Shapur III and a group of Persian nobles and the Romans who came with them.When Palmyra stabilized the situation, the report of the Sukhnay front also returned to Palmyra, and when the Palmyrians learned of the defeat of the Roman legions in Aloisia, they were all grateful to the Archbishop of Gregory who had led them to surrender, and without this Gregory they would have been miserable.And this Gregory is even more glad that he made the right choice and hugged the right thigh.......