[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

From 587 BC to 585 BC, the Queen of Babylon quelled several rebellions against her, and brought the princes and generals who launched the rebellion to justice. Township, farm honestly.

In 580 BC, the Queen of Babylon eradicated the group of monks headed by the high priest Spart, and returned most of the benefits that this group had seized from the Babylonians to the people.

Since then, the Kingdom of Babylon has no internal worries, the people are rich, and the country is strong.Coupled with its outstanding trading capabilities, it seems to be the most powerful country in the world and the center of the world.

The city of Babylon is the most populous and prosperous city in the world.

The queen of the Babylonians does not live in the palace most of the time.She prefers to live in the Summer Palace outside the city, in that beautiful palace known as the "Sky Garden".

In fact, as time went on, the queen's grip on the country became more and more stable, and she gradually became less and less visible.Except for a few important ministers such as Gurwin who would meet regularly, the daily government affairs of Babylon were handled by the officials in accordance with the decisions of the "elders".

The only person who can see the queen every day is her trusted female officer, Dori from Media.

Dolly held a wooden comb and gently combed Yinan's hair.The black and shiny hair passed between the comb teeth, and Dolly couldn't help being envious——

It had been 17 years since she led people to bring this girl back from the crowd of Judaean slaves.

Dolly was 30 years old at the time, and now she is nearly half a century old, which can be regarded as a "longevity" in this era.Dolly's dark brown hair had already lightened to various shades of mottled white.

However, Yi Nan's appearance has never changed. It will always be the same as when Dolly saw Yi Nan for the first time. She has the youth and beauty that everyone envies.

She doesn't seem to age at all.

To tell the truth, when Dolly first met Yinan, she treated her as a little sister in her private heart; now she regards her as a daughter.

After finishing dressing Yi Nan, Dori accompanied her to get up and went to the summer palace's top garden full of exotic flowers and plants.

Yinan asked Doli softly: "I see that you often frown and worry recently, what's the matter, what's on your mind?"

Dolly was probably one of the few people in Babylon who dared to speak out in front of the queen.She nodded and said to Yinan: "When you get old, you get homesick. For some reason, I really want to go back to my hometown in Mi Di in recent years."

Yi Nan nodded, and then asked, "If I send you back to Midi, will you come back after visiting your hometown?"

Dolly hesitated immediately: she originally wanted to resign from the queen and return to Midi, where the fallen leaves returned to their roots.

Based on her trust in Yinan, Dori chose to be honest about her heart without pretentiousness.

Therefore, Yinan ordered to send her personal female officer, Dolly, back to the neighboring country of Midi, and presented a considerable amount of wealth, enough for Dolly to enjoy a prosperous life for the rest of her life.

The young ladies who took over from Dolly were terrified. They never imagined that they would have the honor of serving the Queen with their own hands.Under tension, various mistakes were made frequently: cold water was taken as hot water, jewelry was taken by mistake, Yi Nan's hair was combed into a strange pattern...

Looking at his funny appearance in the mirror, Yinan couldn't help laughing out loud, very heartily.

The ladies were surprised and delighted, they had never known that the queen had such a self-deprecating temper.

But the surprise is the surprise, this group of young women under the age of 20 are still trembling, for fear that something might go wrong.

Yi Nan comforted them: "It's okay, just wait for Doli to come back."

The female officers were all stunned: ...Senior Dolly, haven't you already returned to Midi?

Yinan sighed softly: In fact, she also hopes that Dori can return to her roots and find spiritual comfort in her hometown.But time can change a lot. The current Midi is probably no longer the Midi that Dolly is familiar with.

Sure enough, two months later, Dolly came back in a hurry, and brought a lot of local products from Midi with her, and distributed them to everyone in the summer palace with joy.The female officials were all stunned by Yinan's "God's Prophecy".

When Dori had time to spend alone with Yinan, she sat cross-legged on the carpet at the Queen's feet, sighed and said, "I haven't been back to Midi for so many years, and my hometown is no longer what I remembered."

A beautiful hometown usually only exists in memory.

In addition, what Dolly misses is not only the local scenery, but also her relatives and friends from the past.Once these people are gone, or are no longer what they used to be, Dolly will find that her hometown is no longer what she imagined "should be".

"Just come back!" Yi Nan welcomed Dolly's return on behalf of everyone.

"Tell me, what does Midi look like now?"

Dory knew that what Yi Nan wanted to ask was the situation inside the Kingdom of Medes.She has followed Yinan for many years, and she is already very sensitive to the politics of the kingdom. She observes it meticulously, and immediately described everything she saw in Median.

It turned out that the king of Medes, Inan's nominal elder brother, Astyages, had reconciled with his grandson, the little prince of Anshan Kingdom, Kurosh.

The reason for the reconciliation was also privately instructed by the "brains" around Kurosh: they let Kurosh and his little friends play the war game that children often play together.Kurosh "conquered" the Kingdom of Media once in the game.

The people of Anshan Kingdom bribed the priests of Medes with a lot of money, and asked them to speak well for the little Kurosh in front of the King of Medes, saying that this child had already fulfilled the "prophecy" once in the game, and would not fulfill it a second time. .

King Astyages of Medes really believed the priest's words, and he let go of his wariness about his grandson.

After ruling out the danger of destroying the country, Astyages immediately showed his kindness to his grandson, promoted the young Kurosh into the army for training, and changed his name to Cyrus.

Yi Nan finally heard the familiar name "Cyrus" from Dolly's mouth, and couldn't help but sighed softly.

What should come, will still come.

"Then how do you see the situation in the Kingdom of Medes?" Yinan asked Dolly.

Dolly shook her head, and said with great regret: "The king has resorted to military force and forced military rations, and there are many complaints from the people. This kingdom...doesn't know how many years it can last."

Yinan said: "The king of Media must continue to launch aggressive wars, otherwise he will not be able to stay on the throne."

This is the fact that the nobles whom the King of Medes relied on constantly demanded fiefdoms and spoils from the king.In order to maintain their support for themselves, even if the King of Medes was unwilling, he had to continue his campaign against neighboring countries.

Promoting Cyrus to the army for training gave Cyrus the opportunity to exercise, allowing him to quickly grow into a talented military strategist and to have close contact with military forces.

One day, Cyrus will hold high the banner of rebellion and lead an army against Medes.

This day came in 563 BC when the young Cyrus called on all Persians (the Anshanites were a branch of Persia) to join him in rebelling against the rule of the Medes king.

As the monarch of a neighboring country, Yinan was not in the mood to intervene in the wars of the neighboring country.This is because: Dolly, the female officer who has been by her side and silently accompanied her, passed away this year.

And it has been more than twenty years since Sal left her this year.

This was also the first time Yinan cried since Saar left.

Her dearest relatives and loved ones had already left, Yi Nan suddenly felt that she was the only one left in this world.

After bidding farewell to Dori, Yi Nan returned to her palace.She called all the female officers to her side, and found that she had already changed several rounds of people around her, and now the people around her were completely different from the lineup that Dolly had when she first came back from Midi.

No one knew the details of the past between her and Saar, and it was even exaggerated and became a "legend" passed down by word of mouth.

It is also difficult for her to become friends with these female officials, on the one hand because of her detached status, and on the other hand because she and these young people sometimes cannot talk together and have no common language-although she seems to be with The girls around me are just as young and beautiful.

Yi Nan had to face it, she had a heart that was getting old.

Loneliness, the loneliness penetrating into her bones, made her have to admit that an endless life was a curse for an ordinary person like her.

People around me came in batches and left in batches.No one can make her open her heart again, even if one or two young people who are particularly smart and willing to understand her appear by chance, Yi Nan rarely chooses to talk to her.

Because she knew they would leave eventually.

In the modern time and space, Yinan has complained countless times about the lack of time, but at this moment, she even wants to refuse the coming of the long night——every lonely long night seems to be a task that needs to be completed for her...

Why can't time go by 1.5 times, or even 2 times faster?Like in the time of Gilgamesh?

Suddenly, Yinan remembered.She turned on her watch.

A light screen appeared above the watch, showing several simple functions of the watch.One of them she touched by mistake and never used it again.

"Sleep mode", or "sleep mode" - as long as she taps lightly, she can easily span 100 years, but the body feels only a short nap.

In this way she can jump forward quickly in the long and boring life.

If she is really tired of life, she can even "take a nap" twenty times, and she can come before her "birth" and wait for the moment of disappearing in this world.

Yi Nan's fingers had almost touched the light screen, she suddenly withdrew her hand, twisted her wrist lightly, and the light screen disappeared immediately.

To do so is an irresponsible surrender.

—Surrender and escape are not in her dictionary.

In the 5th and 6th centuries BC, it was an era of frequent wars. The Lianghe civilization gradually fell silent, and new forces rose up. At the same time, there were also new lights of civilization, which gradually lit up all over the world.

It is precisely because she is obsessed with the development of human civilization that she bravely came to this time and space.

In this age, she should witness, guide, inspire, encourage, protect... There is so much she can do, how can she continue to trap herself in this small cage, waiting to die?

Besides... the soul she loved deeply, she believed, would reappear somewhere in this world.

She will definitely complete the observation mission of the "Project Retracing Civilization", and she will definitely be able to return to her own time smoothly-and before that, she will definitely meet the soul she loves again.

Early the next morning, Privy Councilor Gurwin received a letter from Her Majesty the Queen.There are only a few big characters flying like dragons and phoenixes on it: Wang, go and have a look around.It wasn't until Guerwen arrived at the Summer Palace that he learned that Her Majesty had left Babylon in modest clothes with a few guards and female officers to travel around.

Gu Erwen Fu forehead: Why is the queen who has been in power for so many years still acting like a little girl?

Of course, in Gurwin's heart, the queen will always be the little girl who likes to wander around the city of Babylon.

In 560 BC, Cyrus conquered the capital of Medes and established the Persian Empire.King Astyages of the Medes feared all his life and was faithful to the fulfillment of the prophecy: his grandson, the son of the Princess Medes, in turn conquered his grandfather's kingdom.

After Cyrus got Medes, he did not stop. He began to fight against Lydia in Asia Minor in 557 BC, and conquered Lydia within a year, extending his power to the Black Sea coast.

Medes, Lydia and Babylon, these three countries have always been called "the center of the world" by the contemporaries.Now Cyrus has received two countries in his pocket.

At that time, everyone thought that his next target was Babylon.Unexpectedly, Cyrus sent his troops to the east, continued to conquer the Iranian plateau in the east, and pointed the spearhead of the army at the Indus River Basin.

Cyrus' advisers once asked him why he had given up attacking Babylon.Cyrus replied: "When I was a child, my aunt and grandmother once extended a helping hand and saved the king's life. Babylon, let it go for a while."

Just when Cyrus "put Babylon aside for a while", Yinan returned to the royal city of Babylon and began to preside over government affairs in person, strengthen the kingdom's armaments, and train generals.

She knew very well that the Kingdom of Babylon was a must for Cyrus.Don't look at him leaving Babylon alone now, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that it will be a matter of time before Cyrus goes south.Now bypassing Babylon to fight east and west is to cut off Babylon's connection with the outside world, so that this huge and rich country will suffer from insufficient blood supply and slowly decline.

Then Cyrus gave the thunderbolt another blow, which was sure to hit.

Many of Cyrus' army came from the mountains of Asia Minor and the hinterland of Central Asia, and they were brave and skilled archers and cavalry.In addition, Cyrus controlled a large number of camels and peasants, which could ensure that the army could get all kinds of supplies in time during the battle.

After seven years of careful preparation by Cyrus, the Persian Empire finally overwhelmed its borders with Babylon.

In fact, the Babylonians have been seriously preparing for seven years, and now they are gearing up and preparing to face it head-on.

But Cyrus stopped suddenly and stood still.

The Babylonian army got the judgment from the queen: the Persian army did not want to attack the front of the Great Wall of Medes.

The Great Wall of Medes, built against the grandfather in the past, is now just in the way of the grandson's attack on Babylon.

This was an era when there was no means of siege, no guns, no trebuchets... It was difficult to shake the solid Great Wall of Medes with infantry, giant logs, battering hammers and battering carts alone.

The Queen's instructions were simple: "Keep an eye on the flanks of the Wall."

The Babylonian generals immediately set about arming the flanks.

But the queen gave another order: "If you really can't defend yourself, don't carry it hard, and the army will retreat. Enter the nearest city and stand firm."

Generals: How can this work?

The Kingdom of Babylon is located in the plain of two rivers. Once the Persian army crosses the Tigris River and breaks through the two wings of the Great Wall of Medes, the cities behind the Great Wall will be unobstructed and there will be no natural dangers to stick to.

At that time, the Persian army can drive straight into the city of Babylon-this will become a "beheading action" against the kingdom, thus ending the national destiny of the Babylonian kingdom.

The generals thought to themselves: Who dares to obey such an order?

Unexpectedly, the third order came right after, with only the queen's own flamboyant handwriting on it: "Don't be stubborn!"

The generals of Babylon looked at each other in blank dismay: it seemed that any of their little thoughts were under the control of the Queen.

In desperation, the generals swore a heavy oath in front of the queen's messenger, saying that they would definitely follow the queen's order.

It didn't take long for the bad news to come: Cyrus actually ordered people to build a large number of trenches on an important tributary of the upper reaches of the Tigris River, which slowed down the flow of the Tigris River and made the river shallower.Cyrus' army quietly crossed the Tigris River on a dark and stormy night, so that they were able to bypass the Great Wall of Media and directly attack the flank of the Great Wall.

At the same time, Cyrus also resorted to the tactics of attacking east and west.He always sent a flamboyant Persian army to confront the Babylonians head-on along the Great Wall of Media, attracting the attention of the Babylonians.

Cyrus had hoped that the Babylonians would relax their defenses on the flanks of the Wall, but after crossing the river he realized that this wishful thinking seemed to be wrong.

Although the Babylonians were surprised by the Persian army appearing on the flank, they were very calm.They confronted the Persian army once or twice on the field battlefield, and found that they were not the opponents of the brave Persian cavalry, and they were disadvantaged in numbers. Immediately, the whole army retreated and retreated into a small city on the banks of the Tigris River. out.

Cyrus did not expect the Babylonians to be so "cowardly", but it was meaningless for him to spend a lot of energy and supplies to conquer such a small city.

So Cyrus ordered to wipe out the few defenders staying in front of the Great Wall of Medes first, and then open the gate on the Great Wall to let the rest of the Persian army enter the Great Wall.He left one-fifth of his troops to stay behind to receive supplies, and at the same time he led the army around a detour, bypassing all the defense lines that the Babylonians had built in a hurry, and went straight to the city of Babylon.

After seeing the city of Babylon with his own eyes, Cyrus lamented that he used to "watch the sky from a well".

He called himself "The Lord Who Commands the World", but this was the first time he had seen such a great city as Babylon.

The city of Babylon is now a huge city across the Euphrates River.Its walls are broad and surrounded by a moat.With all his current forces, Cyrus could not even form a siege to Babylon.

In the city of Babylon, a tower rises from the ground and reaches into the sky.With that high tower, the Persians are like thorns on their backs, as if their every move is under the gaze of the other party.

This splendid capital city was like a hard bone lying in front of the Persians, and it seemed that it was about to reach its mouth, but it seemed that it could not be chewed off.

At this time, some subordinates reported to Cyrus: They took down the famous summer palace in the outskirts of Babylon without a single soldier.

In recent years, the reputation of the Summer Palace has not only spread throughout the Mesopotamia, but also in neighboring countries: the Summer Palace, the place where the king spends his summer, must have been built in a very luxurious and extravagant way.

Cyrus immediately went down to the summer palace.

To his surprise, the decoration of this summer palace is not so extravagant, but fresh and elegant, full of unique ingenuity everywhere.

"What happened when you took this palace?" Cyrus asked his men casually.

"No...nothing happened," Cyrus' subordinates were also very puzzled, stretched out their hands and scratched their heads, and said, "When we arrived, the people in the summer palace had already been removed. But, we found this—— "

A Persian soldier holds up a parchment.

This kind of sheepskin has undergone a special process during tanning, so it shows a light rose red color and has a soft fragrance of powder.The handwriting on the sheepskin is beautiful.

All kinds of signs indicate that the person who left the book is a woman.

Cyrus took the piece of parchment, glanced at it hastily, and saw that it was written in two languages: cuneiform and Persian, but the written content was very trivial, explaining how the "comer" should use the whole The irrigation system in the summer palace.

"The waterwheel scoops water into the high water pipe three times a day, which can be used by the flowers and plants on the high level of the Summer Palace for a full day."

Cyrus came to a flowerbed in disbelief, and suddenly stretched out his hand and flipped over the large leaves planted on the ground: a pottery dropper that was dripping water slowly appeared in front of Cyrus immediately.

"here has!"

"It's here too!"

Cyrus' subordinates reported to their king one after another that the entire summer palace was covered with dense irrigation systems. No wonder only a few people were needed to maintain such a lush and secluded garden.

Cyrus realized something: he has fought abroad for many years and expanded countless territories, but it seems that he has never cultivated as intensively as the Babylonians—no wonder Babylon is such a rich country.

"Your Majesty, do you want to set the Summer Palace on fire? So that the arrogance of the Babylonians in the city will be thwarted?"

When they arrived at the city of Babylon, the Persian army looked at the defenders in Babylon all day long.Babylon's defense system is too strong, too complete, too tight, and there are no loopholes at all.

The defenders of Babylon also laughed at the Persians who came from afar many times: "Do you think you are attacking the city?"

The Persians looked at the several-storey city wall and jumped. They are not helpless, they have no way to attack the city!

At this time, a very small number of Persian soldiers were resentful. Seeing the Babylonians staying in the Summer Palace outside the city, they immediately had the idea of ​​​​burning it down with a fire-always try to kill the Babylonians with arrogance!

Unexpectedly, Cyrus shook his head and ordered decisively: "Follow the instructions above, find a special person to irrigate the summer palace. Go and ask if there are any gardeners in the military camp who have worked as gardeners and gardeners, recruit them, and take care of them." This Summer Palace."

The accompanying Persian soldiers were very puzzled, and someone asked aggrievedly, "Your Majesty..."

"The garden of my aunt and grandmother should not be easily damaged." Cyrus said softly, his face was tender, as if he was remembering something from his childhood.

On the Tower of Babel, Yi Nan was setting up a binoculars, looking at the summer palace in the distance.

It has been a few days since the Persians captured the summer palace, and it is still in good condition, without any signs of destruction—this is very consistent with the rumored Cyrus.

Yi Nan put away the binoculars in satisfaction, nodded, thinking: It's time to meet that one, the Great Emperor of Persia.