The Three Kingdoms

But the laughter of children is the most sincere. Their laughter represents that the people of the Great Wu Dynasty are getting better and better. There is still money in the family to buy new clothes and new toys throughout the year, which makes them bright and bright. Laughter, that's the good side of life.

Of course, at this time, in the Imperial Study Room deep in the Forbidden Palace, Sun Quan's laughter was louder than that of all the people in this city.

"Hahaha!"

In the imperial study room, Sun Quan was sitting on the chair of the imperial case, holding in his hand the peace agreement document sent back by the expedited thousands of miles from the west. Admit defeat once, come here!"

"exist!"

"Give this good news to the cabinet immediately, and tell them to let the publicity department do its best to exaggerate it. The great news must make our people in Dawu excited. This year we will have a good year!" Sun Quan said excitedly .

"No!" A clerical staff took the good news and headed towards the cabinet hall non-stop.

"Feng Xiao, why did the Roman Empire admit defeat so readily this time?" After Sun Quan was happy, he calmed down and thought for a while, and said, "We won the battle, but they may not necessarily lose!"

This battle was a tragic victory.

The Wu army won fiercely, and the Roman army lost barely.

If the fight continues, the Wu army may not be able to drive straight in, and it may even be directly dragged down by the Roman army using its local advantages.

But the Roman army surrendered cleanly.

They took the lead in proposing a peace negotiation. During the peace negotiation, Zhuge Liang's lion opened his mouth, which caused the Roman Empire to suffer a lot.

There are hundreds of articles in this negotiation.

There are three things that can make Sun Quan laugh.

First, the Roman Empire will compensate the Wu court with 800 million gold coins.

Second, the Roman Empire divided the provinces of Syria and Antioch, and twelve city-states were handed over to the court of Wu.

Third, the Roman Empire and the Great Wu court will open trade exchanges on the Syrian border to communicate with each other, and the two overlords have formalized the East-West exchange mode.

Reparations, ceding land.

These two items are enough to explain one thing. After the defeat of the Roman Empire, the domestic situation has reached the point of exhaustion. They have no choice but to admit defeat.

But was the situation in the Roman Empire really that bad?

Not necessarily!

This huge empire has a population of at least 7000 to [-] million, and the war potential has not yet been activated. Once the war potential is activated, it is enough for them to recruit millions of soldiers to fight the Wu army.

"Your Majesty, this battle has now come to this point. The Roman Empire invested five legions and nearly a million soldiers, but we were defeated steadily and lost this important position in Mesopotamia. Can they not admit defeat?"

Guo Jia stood by, heard Sun Quan's question, and said with a smile: "If the fight continues, our army will enter Syria, and even enter Antioch. The Roman Empire has lost consecutive battles, and they have to ask And, of course, I don't think they are very sincere, at most they just want to delay time and let them recuperate!"

"More than that!"

Zhuge Jin added, saying: "I suspect that the Flame Legion played a lot of roles. I can't understand He Qi's battle report. He said that he encountered the Roman army, but he left the eastern sea region and the western region. The battlefield is two different lines of defense!"

The Flame Legion came back with a battle report more than a month ago.

According to the battle report, the Flame Legion landed on a group of islands and met the Roman army. They fought for a while, and each had success or failure. Now they have gained a firm foothold and are continuing to confront the Roman army.

What both Zhuge Jin and Guo Jia couldn't figure out was why the Flame Legion could attack the Roman Empire from the east.

The Roman Empire is clearly to the west.

"As I said a long time ago, east and west are not necessarily just the directions of the two poles. The world is round, and they will meet sooner or later!" Sun Quan was not surprised, he said lightly: "Look, one day in the future Maybe He Qi and Pan Feng will join forces on the Roman border!"

Guo Jia and Zhuge Jin couldn't help but look at each other when they heard the words. They still doubted Sun Quan's guess.

Can the two directions of east and west finally meet?

Then the world...

It seems that something is beyond the scope of their knowledge.

"Your Majesty, I have a rather strange point. Why did the Roman Empire propose to establish a trade market with us to exchange needs?" Zhuge Jin said in a deep voice, putting aside some years.

"What do you think?"

"I think they have ulterior motives!" Zhuge Jin said after thinking about it.

"Don't underestimate the Romans!"

Sun Quan said indifferently: "There are wise men in every place, and the Roman Empire also has wise men in the Roman Empire. They think about the long-term and communicate with each other. They are not for economic trade, but for a little purpose!"

"What purpose?" Guo Jia asked.

"Know yourself and know your enemy!"

Sun Quan spit out a word.

"They want to understand us?" The two suddenly understood.

"If it was you, facing an opponent who has repeatedly defeated you, would you understand him?"

"meeting!"

The two nodded in unison.

Zhuge Jin said: "Then we shouldn't agree to one!"

"Ziyu, I originally wanted you to go there personally to negotiate a peace, but do you know why I finally handed over the full power of the peace negotiation to Zhuge Kongming?"

"It's the humble minister who is stupid!"

"You are indeed dull, at least you are not as clear as Zhuge Kongming!"

Sun Quan said: "This market is a battlefield, a battlefield that cannot be avoided. They want to understand us, so don't we need to understand them? As for being spies, I'm afraid Li Ru will let them understand the word "Jinyiwei" fear!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Zhuge Jin suddenly realized.

Compared to this point, the Roman Empire is cunning, and it can still be cunning than that peerless old man of Duke Nie.

"Your Majesty, although the results of this battle are impressive, the damage is probably also terrible!"

Guo Jia thought for a while, and said, "We must take a good rest!"

"Well, the first theater in the west should be withdrawn!"

Sun Quan nodded, narrowed his eyes, and said: "However, Pan Wushuang suffered a big loss this time. His main force in the first battle in the west resisted the main force of the Roman army. He suffered heavy casualties and narrowly escaped death before successfully capturing Mesopotamia." The province of Mia, but let Lu Bu take the lead in this battle, I guess he has some complaints in his heart!"

"Complaints are not enough, but there must be some resentment!"