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Chapter 136: Xhosa Raiders (15) Baicheng (2)

In the fourth year of Zhaoxiang (762), autumn was strong.

On the northern foot of the Caucasus Mountains and on the vast grassland south of the Terec River, golden, emerald green, white, blue, and black green are mercilessly intertwined.

This is a unique prairie, and Baicheng is located in the heart of the east of her. For people at this time, they are backed by mountains, prairie and facing the sea. They are unique. The Persians in the past thought so, and the Xhosa people later thought so.

But Sun Xiurong, who was walking on this prairie at this time, didn't think so.

"A Khanate actually built the capital on the beach without any depth. Who will destroy him if he doesn't destroy him?"

When Sassanthesian Persia occupied this place, it built a road connecting the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea on the northern foot of the Caucasus Mountains. For the first time in his life, Sun Xiurong got on a convertible carriage and was lying on the carriage to enjoy the surrounding scenery.

This is a carriage that integrates all the high-end technologies of the Daqin Kingdom today.

Wheels are rough rubber made of mixed things extracted from natural asphalt and gum and fish glue. It is something that is extremely close to later rubber products. It is naturally the greatest black technology to replace wooden wheels that are now passed through the whole world.

There are four wheels, two fronts can be turned, and two pack horses can easily and happily pull up a ton of things to walk fifty miles in a row before taking a break.

If it is a manned person, it can be divided into three rows, each row can have four people, plus a driver, and a total of ten people are riding.

This is quite amazing. The price is just that you need to build a road with drainage ditches, trees on both sides to cover the soil, and gravel is mixed in the soil. Then you must build a station every fifty miles according to the average endurance of the pack horse.

Ports, stations, roads, these are the things that are on par with the army and workshop. In Sun Xiurong's mind, the former's status is no less than that of the latter.

This carriage was obviously specially made for their king. Most of the materials required for the entire carriage were mixed with wood and iron. The seats also used the concept of "sofa" in later generations. They were covered with linen and silk, embroidered with a dragon and phoenix pattern. After taking off the cover from the carriage that followed, they could not only sit, lie down and rest, but also hold a small meeting.

In later Russia, there were two large granaries, one of which was naturally Ukraine, and the other was the North Caucasus. There was no way, who said that the latitude here was the lowest?

In the cold Siberia, even if it is all black soil, it will cost a huge amount of food to produce large amounts of food.

When Sun Xiurong thought of this, he couldn't help but smile.

"With Ukraine and the North Caucasus in hand, we can focus on the rainy season and supplement irrigation to promote agriculture, rather than just a large amount of irrigation like Persia and Egypt."

In the north of the North Caucasus, between the Manech Lowlands and the Volga River, the Kalmyk Republic, which raised 200,000 Turkut herders in later generations, naturally could raise a large number of livestock.

Going further north, if you want to manage it well, you need more population.

"Population, the Million Dingkou from Mulu City should be on the way."

"They are all Persians, great cannibals, but they are just loyalists of the Umayyad family..."

He suddenly thought of something and shouted to the left: "Wei Yingwu!"

The twenty-three-year-old Wei Yingwu, like Sun Xiurong, was riding on a tall horse and enjoying the beautiful scenery of the North Caucasus prairie. A masterpiece he thought could be the best in the past and the present was also brewing in his belly. After hearing the king's voice, he quickly rode his horse and approached the carriage.

He is now one of the two marching Simas of Sun Xiurong, and he is still the rotating military officer today, which is later known as the chief secretary.

"Get on the car"

Wei Yingwu knew that there was a new order to be issued, so he got off the car and sat down diagonally opposite Sun Xiurong. There was a small square table among them, with all the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

"Immediately send out the flying cavalry and notify the prince of Xianyang, saying that I agreed to his combat plan, immediately launch an attack on the former Xiangxiong Kingdom of Tubo, and then plunder all of its people into our country. At present, the herdsmen occupying the former Xiangxiong land are mainly Tuyuhun people and Supi people, so there should be no big problem."

"Where is our country moving to our country?" Wei Yingwu asked carefully.

"Where else? Of course it is Shule Town, and then follow Shule Town to Shini Town's inn to Shini Town to Shini Town to Shini Port by Wuhu Water, and transport it to the North Caucasus by a large ship!"

Wei Yingwu felt a little nervous, but he immediately understood what he was thinking.

"Although our country has great martial arts, most of the land occupied by Hu people. The Tubo people, whether they are Tubo people, Tuyuhun people, Qiang people, and Supi people, are also among the Hu people, but at least they are similar to the Tang people in terms of appearance. Now they have brought another 200,000 Persians from Mulu City. Although my country has some means to completely convert to the Tiandaoism, it will take time to do so."

"The Tubo people are different. If they successfully defeat the Tubo army in Xiangxiong's old place, they can greatly weaken the strength of the Tubo country, and they can also greatly increase that. Ahem, the 'Eastern Confucius' that the king has been saying."

"However, the Tubo people only have 20,000 to 30,000 households in the former place of Xiangxiong, and there are not many people who have all been brought over. If you want a large number of Dingkou, you still need to get it from the Tang Dynasty, but..."

He secretly looked at Sun Xiurong and thought to himself: "The king has always been far-sighted and completely calculated. He obviously considered this. However, the rebels of Shi Siming still occupy Luoyang and the entire Hebei Road and are still attacking Chang'an. Our country wants to get Dingkou from there. First, the journey is too far, and second, there is not much Dingkou when approaching Chang'an."

Sure enough, Sun Xiurong said: "Since our country has agreed to Brans take some Jews to Shiraz and agreed with King Pushan to lease Bushere Port, we must make great use of this port. I heard that the former cannibals, Jews, and Persians took many boats to Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty."

"In this way, it is said that because the rebels ravaged most of the places south of the Yellow River, a large number of residents in the Central Plains fled to the Lingnan area. Lingnan was originally a place dominated by mountains. How could there be enough arable land for them to cultivate? Let Li Simu go there to form a special fleet to recruit sailors who are familiar with the sea conditions along the way. Starting from Guangzhou, we can recruit households in our country along the way."

There is a reason why Sun Xiurong said this. At this time, in addition to land passages, there are also sea passages that can directly reach Persia. Many Buddhists went to India to make pilgrimage and seek scriptures. In history, some captured Tang soldiers returned to their country after the Battle of Talas. At this time, there were only Dashi, and Persian merchants took this route.

"King"

Wei Yingwu couldn't help but hesitated for a long time and said it.

"explain"

"Yes, the king and the ministry thought that for the Tang people, we naturally had to recruit the people, but for Zhenla, Piao Kingdom, Luo Yue Kingdom, Foshi Kingdom, Tianzhu Kingdom, Lion Kingdom and other places, there was no need to do this. Every time we arrived at a place, we just robbed and captured it."

(Zhen La, a country that occupies Thailand, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam at this time; Piao Kingdom, a country that occupies Myanmar at this time; Luo Yue Kingdom, a country that occupies Malaysia at this time; Foshi Kingdom, a country that occupies Sumatra at this time; Lion Kingdom, namely Sri Lanka)

Sun Xiurong glanced at him sideways and thought to himself: "This person is a literati who has been influenced by Confucianism. Do you have no idea that 'All the kings under the world are kings, and no kings are kings and ministers in the shores of the earth are kings'? Why don't you have a kindness and forgiveness?"

But when I think of him as a guard by Li Longji, I understand.

"This is a scholar from the Tang Dynasty, which is different from the Song and Ming dynasties in the later generations."

"Well, just follow yours, let Li Simu take a look. Build a stronghold in the main places, just like a sea station."

"Yes, king"

......

As he got closer to Baicheng, Sun Xiurong's mood became more and more desolate.

I planned for a long time, worked hard, and worked hard for decades to make it today. I originally thought it would take a few years to work hard, but I didn't expect it to be completed in just over a year.

"Invincible means loneliness"

After seeing the gray-white wall of Baicheng appearing in his sight, he stretched his waist and sighed with melancholy.

......

A few days later, Brans and sons, Adam and sons (the Great Qin State released Solomon) and all the Jews who were willing to go to Persia, about 30,000 households and more than 100,000 people, plus the 20,000 soldiers who were originally in Baicheng, began to walk along the land road towards Persia under the escort of Naren Xiaofeng's five thousand cavalrymen.

Of course, it is impossible for them to carry weapons. According to Sun Xiurong, "When they arrive at Shiraz, they will return the horses and weapons to them."

It was also appropriate to let the 20,000 elite troops of Baicheng follow the south. He agreed with Adam's proposal to allow the Jews to establish a small country affiliated to the Persian Kingdom near the Great Food Kingdom, so that the Persian Kingdom could gain a foothold under the invasion of the Great Food Empire, rather than to allow it to compete with the Persians for hegemony.

With the Jewish shrewdness and ability, coupled with the Xhosa's riding and shooting skills, it is much better than a simple Persian kingdom.

......

This winter, news came from all over the place.

At this time, Sun Xiurong was still lingering in Baicheng.

"The king, the prince, Li Fei Shouyu gathered 20,000 elite troops, crossed Kunlun Mountain, and defeated the Wanhu Mansion, a Tubo man in the former land of Xiangxiong. According to your wishes, all the Tubo nobles were killed, and all the slaves were removed, and about 20,000 Tuyuhun, Supi herdsmen and a large number of Tubo slaves were moved to Shule Town."

"The king said it is right. Who else can walk in the winter who can endure the extreme cold? They are walking on the post road between Shule Town and Shiniu Town. The prince stored food and grass at the post station along the way early in the morning and let them have a meal a day. Even so, they can walk at least fifty miles, which is amazing."

"In the east of the Tubo Kingdom, they originally accepted the invitation from the Tang Dynasty to allow them to attack the rebels with the Tang army. However, after the end of the Battle of Xiangxiong, Li Fei Shouyu actually went south for thousands of miles along the western foothills of Qilian Mountains, and cut off the Tubo army that had retreated in panic near Qinghai Lake after hearing about the war in Xiangxiong's hometown."

"At that time, the governor of Longyou of the Tang Dynasty was Li Sheng. He cooperated with Li Fei Shouyu and completely defeated the Tubo people and captured tens of thousands of people. These people became Li Fei Shouyu's spoils. Now the Tang Dynasty has taken back Dunhuang County, and our country has harvested tens of thousands of people."

"After Li Fei Shouyu arrived in Dunhuang County, he moved all the Han people, Tubo people and Qiang people there, leaving only an empty city for the Tang Dynasty. The eldest prince sent someone to ask how these prisoners would deal with it."

"Is this a question? All moved to the North Caucasus and the Dnieper River Basin!"

"yes!"
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