Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

The reason why it was so late was mainly because Zhao Kuo was tired.

When people are tired, they are too lazy to hurry.

You know, from Imperial City to Antioch City, it is a real distance of thousands of miles. If it is by plane or train, it doesn’t matter. It is a huge journey for anyone to go through this journey of thousands of miles on horseback. It is a challenge, especially for an emperor who manages everything day by day.

So at the moment when he saw the city wall of Antioch, Zhao Kuo had already made two determinations.

One, stay here at least until next spring before going back.

Second, if there is a railway in the future, priority must be given to the construction of territories to the west. Otherwise, if such a long distance is only transmitted by horses, the ruling order will be too difficult to maintain.

As for the gold and silver jewels from Antioch City that Wang Jian presented, Zhao Kuo was indeed very happy, but not too happy.

After all, Zhao Kuo is a rich man, the kind worth billions of dollars.

When the net worth reaches a certain scale, money is just a number.

In the city of Antioch, there are a large number of Seleucid nobles captured.

These captives were supposed to be taken away by the Ptolemys, but they were forcibly detained by Wang Jian.

Zhao Kuo summoned the top group of these captives, who were in the palace of the Seleucid Empire.

It is conceivable that these upper-class nobles of the Seleucid Empire were extremely trembling when they saw Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo sat calmly on the throne that originally belonged to Antiochus I, II and III, and asked a question: "Who wants to surrender, who wants to die?"

All were on their knees, so the answer seemed obvious already.

Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "You all know that I want to conquer this world.

So whoever can become a Chinese in the future will be able to gain my trust. "

For Zhao Kuo's words, everyone nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Kuo continued: "I know that all your wealth has been robbed by the Ptolemys. Now these wealth are in my hands, but I can't give them to you, because I need these wealth to reward the soldiers and enrich the big man." The treasury of the country, do you have any opinions?"

No one dares to have an opinion.

An old Seleucid minister said tremblingly: "Your Majesty, we don't expect to get back the wealth that no longer belongs to us. We only hope to regain our mansion. I don't know if it is possible?"

Zhao Kuo smiled: "Of course there is no problem.

Since you are willing to do things for our Great Han Kingdom, the Great Han Kingdom will naturally give you a home.

After you leave here, someone will naturally return your house to you. "

After getting the news, all the Seleucids were overjoyed and praised Zhao Kuo's kindness again and again.

Everyone is not a fool, and the victor should of course get something. As a conqueror, Zhao Kuo did not take everything away, which is already kind enough.

Zhao Kuo said indifferently: "Next, your mission is to assist the officials of our Han Dynasty to maintain order in this city and even the entire homeland of the Seleucid Empire.

Whoever performs well will be accepted into the system of our Great Han Kingdom and become my servant.

If someone dares to perfunctory me, or even secretly collude with those traitors, I hope you can think about the battle on the Caspian Sea, maybe you will have a clearer understanding of death. "

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, everyone knelt down again.

Now that he has chosen to surrender, there will naturally be countless times to kneel down for the first time.

Zhao Kuo was very satisfied and let these Seleucid ministers leave.

As soon as the ministers left, Li Jian appeared.

"Your Majesty, most of these people actually surrendered to the Ptolemys, but the Ptolemys didn't take them seriously, and even killed some of them."

Zhao Kuo smiled and said unhurriedly: "What does this mean?

It shows that the Ptolemys have done a screening for us and killed the real diehards among them, and the rest are basically surrenderers. "

Zhao Kuo likes the capitulation faction very much, because Zhao Kuo is a conqueror.

If the population of the Han Kingdom is now 14 billion, then Zhao Kuo would kill all the Seleucids without hesitation, and then immigrate a large number of Han people to fill every corner of the new conquest.

But it is a pity that there are only 5000 million people in the Great Han Kingdom, of which less than 4000 million are from the Huaxia circle, and these 4000 million people have to first develop the Northeast, North Korea, Jiangnan, Lingnan, Southwest, Qinghai-Tibet, and Western Regions And so on where the priority is higher.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo must accept the surrender of the Seleucids, and then establish an order so that the Seleucids can have a longing for the Huaxia of the Han Dynasty, and start to find ways to integrate into the Huaxia.

After receiving these descendants, Zhao Kuo received the remaining royal family of the Seleucid Empire.

The Ptolemys and the Seleucids have been deadly enemies for many years, so after conquering this city, all the adult men in the royal family were killed, and all the women were insulted, only the infants able to survive.

Zhao Kuo looked at this group of old and weak women and children, and sighed.

"You have two choices, the first one is to go to the Imperial City, you can still have a decent enough life, but you will always be under my gaze.

The second is to leave the territory of the Seleucid Empire. As for where to go, you decide for yourself. "

The choice of the royal family was somewhat unexpected to Zhao Kuo.

The girl Luliu, who had met Zhao Kuo several times in the imperial capital, knelt down in front of Zhao Kuo with a swaddle in her arms: "Everyone in the Seleucid royal family is willing to go to the imperial capital, as long as your majesty can keep us safe.”

Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "No problem, I can give you this guarantee.

When my squadron returns to the court, you will return to the imperial capital with me. "

The royal family left with a thousand thanks.

After dealing with the surrender and the royal family, the last thing Zhao Kuo has to deal with, which is the most important thing, is most of the people in this city.

On the first day in the city, Zhao Kuo announced an extremely simple regulation.

"The murderer dies, the wounding and theft are punished."

This regulation comes from the three chapters of Liu Bang's contract, but considering that Liu Bang is only a 13-year-old boy now, Zhao Kuo naturally does not have any psychological pressure.

Liu Bang is actually only three years younger than Qin Shihuang in history, which is a cold knowledge.

Why did Zhao Kuo ask for three chapters of the contract?

Because of the poisoning of the Ptolemys and the fact that everyone knew that the Seleucid Empire had perished, there was no order in the city of Antioch.

Zhao Kuo decided to help the people in this city to restore order.

On the night of the third chapter of the agreement, Zhao Kuo sent 5 people to patrol around the city of Antioch.

The next day, more than 500 people were dragged to the gate of the market, charged with various crimes such as murder, robbery, and rape, and sentenced to death, demoted to slavery, and other punishments.

On the third day, 300 people were pulled to the gate of the market.

On the fourth day, there were less than 50 people.

On the fifth day, a city of Antioch with good law and order came back.

Everyone sighed: "This is simply a miracle. The emperor of the Han Kingdom really deserves to be a great conqueror, a man who can perform miracles."

In this regard, Zhao Kuo somewhat disapproved.

In a city with a population of only 50, there are [-] temporary policemen patrolling day and night. If there are still problems with public security, it will be called a hell.

In any case, after experiencing this incident, the security in Antioch City has indeed improved greatly, and as the imperial capital of the Seleucid Empire, this situation is undoubtedly of great reference value.

As a model, something like this would have happened in other Seleucid cities.

The nightingales of the intelligence department will lurk in all the cities with various secret identities. If it is found that any city does not have the situation that Zhao Kuo hoped for, then the officials of the Han Dynasty in this city will be arrested. If they were dismissed, the local Seleucids would be directly exterminated if they were demoted.

"Don't forget that we are conquerors, we should come with a long sword, and choose mercy after shedding enough blood."

What if, after mercy, the ruled do not accept it?

In fact, Zhao Kuo has already given the answer with actions, that is, continue to draw out the long sword, and continue to let this place shed more blood.

This may sound contradictory to Zhao Kuo's previous benevolent policy, but in fact human beings are creatures that remember to eat but not fight, so the very beginning of the rule must be the most severe stage.

Under such a policy, the conquered lands of the entire Seleucid Empire were fully restored to law and order within six months.

Zhao Kuo divided all the Seleucid conquered lands into thirteen counties and 61 counties. These counties will be dominated by officials of the Han Dynasty, assisted by local surrendered nobles, and it will take a period of time to rebuild a new order, and become more prosperous.

Nor were all Seleucids willing to surrender.

Some people fled south into the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, and some people fled north to the Caucasus Mountains, but these remnants of the defeated army were nothing but ridiculous mayflies in front of the 20 gunmen of the Han Dynasty.

Summer passed like this, and when the first autumn leaves fell, Zhao Kuo took up a pen and wrote a letter home to Prince Zhao Qian in the imperial capital.

"This is my ruling policy and experience in the Seleucid region in the past few months. If you don't understand anything, you can ask the two prime ministers, Xu Li and Pang Nuan.

You are an adult and can reserve your own opinions, but also remember that it never hurts to listen to others. "

After writing this sentence, Zhao Kuo also took a long breath and walked to the window.

The city of Antioch is actually very close to the Mediterranean Sea.

If it follows the normal historical laws, this city will usher in an extremely powerful and world-famous conqueror Roman Republic in a few decades.

After conquering this place, the Romans will continue to conquer Egypt southward, creating a powerful empire with the Mediterranean Sea as its inner lake.

It's a pity that all this was over when Zhao Kuo set foot here.

Antioch City has become the territory of the Han Kingdom, and will continue to do so for a long time.

As for Rome, according to the current intelligence, it is still relatively weak at this time. Rome, which has just unified the Apennine Peninsula, should be engaged in the first life-and-death Punic War with the deadly enemy Carthage in North Africa.

As for the famous Hannibal who caused countless troubles for the Romans, he should be just a five or six-year-old kid now.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing.

"It turns out that I am such an old man."

Amidst the laughter, Zhao Kuo looked at the west with boundless pride in his heart.

What is the West?

The West in the traditional sense actually refers to Western Europe, Germany, France, Britain and other countries.

Today, Zhao Kuo is already standing on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, only a stone's throw away from the so-called Westerners.

In history, Westerners knocked on the gate of the Qing Dynasty with strong ships and guns. This made Zhao Kuo feel a little upset and a little irritable whenever he thought about it.

Now, it is also time for Zhao Kuo to lead the musketeers from the East to knock on the door of the Westerners and teach the Westerners some lessons.

Zhao Kuo's goal is also very simple, that is, to make the world no longer have Eastern civilization and Western civilization. If there are too many civilizations, it will be easy to fight and a bit annoying.

It is enough to let only one Huaxia Ming remain in this world.

Chapter 1232 Forget about calming West Asia and Eastern Europe in one go

Under Zhao Kuo's personal command, the order in the Seleucid area was restored quite quickly.

After all, the muskets of the 20 army are more convincing than anything else, not to mention that Zhao Kuo has implemented many very effective policies that can appease the hearts of the people.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Kuo ushered in his first autumn in West Asia.

Autumn in the Mediterranean is not the same as autumn in East Asia. The autumn here is relatively warmer.

The Mediterranean climate is a very magical climate, with hot and dry summers and mild and rainy winters. It is the only climate type among the 13 climate types in which the rain and heat are not in the same period.

In addition, the lowest temperature in the Mediterranean climate is generally around 4 degrees above zero, which means that snow is an extremely rare phenomenon in the Mediterranean climate zone.

One must know that in the imperial city of the same dimension, it actually snows for three months every year.

From this point of view, considering the traffic problem, the current Antioch City may be the best winter vacation place for the Han people. As for Hainan Island, which modern people like to go to later generations, it is still a barbaric era of savages at this time. Let's talk about ten years of development.

Zhao Kuo stood on top of the original palace hall of the Seleucid Empire, staring at the far west with a dazed expression.

After a few months, Zhao Kuo's idea of ​​the West did not subside in any way, but gradually rose up.

In fact, most of the current Western European continent is just some barbarians like Germans, Celts, and Gauls. Only Rome, Greece, and Carthage in North Africa can be regarded as Ming kingdoms.

In other words, it would be relatively simple for Zhao Kuo to conquer them at this time. As long as these three countries are destroyed, Europe will belong to Zhao Kuo.

Moreover, the Greeks are now fighting against Antigonus and Seleucus in order to compete for the former territory of the Alexander Empire. The Romans and Carthage are engaged in the first Infantry War, and they are all consuming their own strength.

This is actually a good opportunity, and Zhao Kuo doesn't want to let it go.

Zhao Kuo pondered for a while, wrote a letter, and then found Li Jian.

"Can you write a letter?

Greek word for letter. "

Li Jian smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Whatever your majesty wants to write, I will leave it to me."

Zhao Kuo smiled: "Very well, then you can translate and write these two letters for me."

The first of Zhao Kuo's two letters was sent to Carthage.