sweeping the world

Chapter 977

At that moment, Julian and Xeas remembered many past events.

Many times in the past, as the two members of the Roman royal family and the Sassanid royal family, they had definitely ignored people from small states, and they had even done more arrogant and rude things.

Today, they themselves have become the objects of indifference in the eyes of others, and only then do they deeply understand what kind of mood it will be.

What kind of mood was that?Perhaps humiliation, but more helpless.

Under the premise of unequal strength, you should feel lucky if others are willing to give you a good look.

One side is absolutely powerful, and the other side can't stop it even after being beaten. You should really feel lucky that you didn't get beaten. How can you expect more!

"Xigaoche..." Julian was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "Isn't it bordering on the Sasanian border?"

Xigaoche is actually a name given by others. They are not so much a country as a tribal alliance formed by scattered tribes.

The alliance is dominated by Dingling people, and they do not have a fixed territory. The east is probably from Jinshan (Altai Mountains) to the Daegu River (Irtysh River) in the west; the north is to the permafrost area, In the south, it is adjacent to Yueban and Hunnit.

Xias only knew that there was no country called Xigaoche to the east of Sasanian.However, he was not sure if it was a translation problem. Maybe the Han people were called Xigaoche, but they were called by another name.

"The approximate geographic scope should be deducible, right?" Julian saw that Xeas was a little dazed, and frowned and said, "Have you not increased your exploration and investigation to the east?"

Xyas is now a little strange. Sassan wants to improve diplomatic relations with Rome, but the two sides are not allies. I don't understand where Julian is so confident in spying on intelligence.

What's more, even if Sasanian and Rome became allies, the basis of the alliance was only on the premise that the Han Empire went to war against one of the two countries. When the allies should report all information to each other.

"However..." Julian didn't seem to notice Xeas's strange face, and continued on his own: "The Han Empire only dispatched less than [-] people. It should be a sweep, not a large-scale westward move. You guys There's still plenty of time to learn enough about the east."

At present, Rome and Sasanian are building more mutual trust, and the two sides have begun to withdraw troops from their respective front lines.

Not to mention whether Sassan and Rome have established a sufficient basis for mutual trust after returning the front-line troops, those local Syrians and Arabs who seek independence are happy.

The Syrians have been colonized for a long time. They were first ruled by the Seleucid Empire and later replaced by the Parthian Empire.

Waiting for the Romans to march east to conquer Syria and establish a province, the Syrians were again ruled by the Romans.

The Syrians under the rule of the Romans were either captured by the Roman Legion as laborers or sold as slaves.

If the Jews in West Asia and the Europeans are a group of people who are good at calculating, then the Syrians also have the same reputation, and even other ethnic groups think that the Syrians are more cunning than the Jews.

The free people of Syria often acted as peddlers in Rome or the Parthian Empire. The Syrians who were sold to Rome were either sent to the arena or became accountants for some Romans.

For a long time to come, Syria became a war zone between the Parthians and the Romans.

The armies of the Parthian Empire and the Roman army have been fighting back and forth in Syria for nearly a hundred years. You can imagine what kind of life the Syrians have been living under the flames of war.

People who have experienced misery tend to yearn for the good life and try repeatedly to live the good life.The key is that there is no improvement after repeated efforts, and even people with perseverance will become depressed after repeated failures, and even despair of survival.

If there is any nation in the world that is the first to resort to suicide attacks in a desperate manner, there is no doubt that the Syrians did it first. They once organized more than [-] people, and each of them entered the arena with kerosene and blocked them to death. At various exits, they set fire to the arena again, playing an attack of burning jade and stone.It's just that there was no such thing as a "terrorist attack" at that time, but it was only recorded that a fire broke out in a certain arena on a certain day.

The name of the place is still called Syria. As for how many out-and-out Syrians there are, it is hard to say. The statistics of the Romans are about 160 million, and the statistics of the Persians are about 240 million. No one knows who has more statistics. close to the truth.

No matter how many tens of thousands of Syrians there are, they are not the main force in this wave of national independence, but Arabs are.

At present, the official name of the Arab people in various countries is not yet known. The Romans and Persians unanimously regarded them as Semites, and also called them Semites.

The name of Arabia is what some tribes of the Semites call themselves. The difference between the birth of any nation is that the claim will not be accepted by all countries. We need to wait for the day when they show enough force to force the big countries to recognize it. Their existence, the original self-proclaimed will become the official name.

The Semites are a huge ethnic group, the Assyrians, the Akkadians, the Kuti, the Amorites... and many other ethnic groups are all branches of the Semitic race.

According to relevant records, the history of the Semitic race can be traced back to 3000 BC, and their most glorious history is the establishment of the Babylonian Empire (Amorites).

Now there are many ethnic groups who claim to be Arabs, and their distribution is very scattered and widespread. There are tribes who call themselves Arabs in North Africa, East Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia.

The Arabs who are currently seeking independence or self-government are mainly tribes in West Asia and have begun to slowly spread to East Africa. This means that they are resisting the rule of the Persians and Romans at the same time.

The Arabs challenged the two empires at the same time. What is strange is that each tribe is doing its own thing and does not form a "united front." All the time, they can only make trouble. In fact, they are making trouble, which has caused harm to the two empires. Some little troubles.

The point is that there are too many Arabs who started to resist. Although there is no "united front", small troubles will become big troubles. The direct manifestation is that the Sasanian Empire belongs to the scope of the "hardest hit area". The logistics line of the front-line troops at war between the Shan Empire and Rome became extremely vulnerable.

Both the Sassanian Empire and Rome withdrew their troops, and the "blank area" formed by the withdrawal of the two armies almost instantly produced innumerable forces. Even in a small village, at least two or more forces declared ownership. As a result, those forces They fought each other, and the withdrawal of the two countries did not bring peace to those places, but on the contrary became more chaotic.

"We are putting all our energy into consolidating the sea frontier." Julian may know more about Syria than Xyas, all because his fiefs are in Egypt and Asia Minor: "The more chaotic there is, the more it is actually for us. It’s better for both sides.”

What Xeas knew was that the Romans really went crazy and seemed to be consolidating their sea frontiers. The straits of the Spanish province alone allocated 200 million gold coins to build fortifications. No matter how much it costs, it will build up.

The Romans were really frightened by the fleet of the Han Empire sailing directly to the coast of Constantinople. They absolutely did not want to see the Han Empire go to war with them one day, and then the fleet of the Han Empire directly approached Landing at Constantinople.

In addition to frantically building the strait fortification group, the Romans were still frantically researching warships. On the other hand, they also placed orders from the Han Empire to buy any ships that could be purchased. Obviously, they suffered from the "warship shortage syndrome" kind of disease.

"It's not just the Spanish province..." Julian said with a depressed face, "The Egyptian province is also building coastal fortifications."

"By the way!" Xias thought of something and asked, "I heard that the Han Empire proposed to work with Rome to re-dig the ancient Suez Canal?"

The ancient Suez Canal was first excavated around 2000 BC. At that time, the pharaoh Senusret III (whose name is the origin of the word "Suez") of Egypt's No. 12 Dynasty wanted to pass land-based flat-bottomed boats. For direct trade, he ordered the digging of an "east-west" canal linking the Red Sea with the Nile.

Some evidence suggests the canal existed at least until the time of Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, after which the canal was abandoned.

The ancient Suez Canal was regained by Ptolemy II around 1000 BC, and was continuously improved, destroyed and rebuilt in the following [-] years.

The current ancient Suez Canal is in the stage of being destroyed. Rome has fallen into civil strife in the past few decades, and it simply does not have the ability to repair it.

If history had not been changed, Augustus, who was waiting for Julian to become the new ruler of Rome, would have ordered reconstruction again.

Now?Augustus of Rome was still Constantius II. He couldn't even recover from the trauma of the civil war, so he didn't have time to take care of the ancient Suez Canal.

"Well, the Han Empire made a proposal to jointly repair the Suez Canal." Julian knew that he couldn't hide it at all, and said with a wry smile: "It's like we can't refuse the Han Empire's lease of ports and leases. For the joint repair of the Suez Canal I can only agree to the suggestion, but... we are still stalling for time."

In fact, whether it is the Romans or the Persians, they really wonder how the Han people (officially) know them so well, and they can't figure out how the Han people know everything they should know after only a short time of contact with each other.

The Suez Canal has proven its value a long time ago. With its existence, it can directly communicate with the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and the navigation between each other does not need to bypass such a big bend in Africa.

It is precisely the greatly shortened sea voyage time that the Romans are most worried about.

If one day Rome and the Han Empire became belligerent countries, they believed that the Han Empire would definitely not choose to fight from the land in the east to the west. Even if they think on their knees, they can understand that cross-sea invasion is the most convenient way.

The Han Empire has leased a considerable number of ports from Rome, and the restrictions are given according to the signed treaty, which includes that the Han Empire cannot berth in the form of an organized fleet.

The treaty is such a thing. Whether the Han Empire will abide by the Romans is not sure. The Romans will treat whether the Han Empire abides by the treaty as a "warning line". The number of warships in the Han Empire was a bit too much, and the Romans should have understood that a war was about to break out.

Similarly, the Persian Sasanian also had a similar treaty, that is, the Persians were relatively close to the Han Empire, and they tried their best to negotiate, but there was still a port that was defined as a military port.As for the military port, there is no limit on how many large-scale warships the Han Empire can dock. It is completely reasonable and legal for the Han Empire to dock as many warships as they want.

"Actually, they are all the same." Xeas could not see the difference, but there was no difference between knowing and not knowing: "Our Majesty has completely looked away. Maybe when the war breaks out, we will choose to become the Persian Empire of the Han Empire. The jurisdiction of the Protectorate?"

Julian was stunned, and then asked incredulously, "Is it fake?"

Of course it was false. Xeas said that on the one hand because he was really helpless, so why didn't he have the idea of ​​provoking Julian?

"If a war breaks out within two years, how long can we resist?" Kexias said seriously: "How long we can last depends entirely on how many firearms troops the Han Empire has dispatched."

"If Rome can help immediately..." Julian asked seriously: "Based on your estimation, how long can it last?"

"The Han Empire is not only powerful in firearms troops. You should know this." Xias thought for a while and gave the answer: "If our two countries cooperate sincerely, maybe we can establish a reliable line of defense in South Persia? How long it lasts depends on how determined 'they' are to invade."

Southern Persia is the parts of Charaseni, Elam, Media, Fars, and Sistan.The terrain on this side is quite complicated, with both a vast desert area and many mountain ranges.

A long time ago, as well as now, South Persia was a very rich place, and it was also the best line of defense against invaders from any side.

When the Parthian Empire was defeated again and again in the west, it relied on South Persia to survive for nearly 100 years, until the South Persian defense line was torn apart by the Roman Legion, and those Persians also took advantage of the situation to rise up. The establishment of the Sasanian Empire.

"Do you think..." Julian subconsciously glanced at the Han army marching in the distance: "If a war breaks out, when will it happen?"

"It's hard to guess!" Xyas said with a wry smile, "When we thought 'they' would enter a rest period after beating Ah San, the Battle of Xijiang broke out first. We thought there should be a period of time after the Battle of Xijiang Peace, and the Northern Xinjiang campaign started again."

Julian also showed a wry smile: "Indeed, we never guessed it right."

(End of this chapter)