In the study, Sun Xiurong met with Stey Ranmian.

As soon as Sun Xiurong met, he smiled and said, "It is a great gift for the prince to give me two thousand landless farmers. There are other gifts?"

Without waiting for Steynnumen to answer, Sun Xiurong continued to ask: "What is the situation in the Hezhong area?"

Upon hearing this, Steynmian's expression became dim.

"Not good. Most of the countries in Hezhong believe in Zoroastrianism, and only a few countries believe in Buddhism, Nestorians, and the cannibalism at the beginning only imposed additional taxes on non-Tianfang believers. Once the believers endure, they would pass, but the situation has changed dramatically in the past five years."

"oh?"

"The tax is not only increased by 10%, but also vaguely regarded all those who are not believers in Tianfang Cult as slaves. In the past, the tax was land tax, but now it has added heavy labor service. Anyone who is not a Tianfang Cult has to serve the great cannibal for three months to half a year every year. This is simply life-threatening, forcing some believers to convert to Tianfang Cult."

"Some believers naturally fled northward. In the past five years, there were at least 100,000 people in Shiguo. Shiguo and Shiguo were limited in arable land, especially Shiguo. There are no extra fields in the oasis. Shiguo is better, but the good ones are limited. However, Shiguo is rich in minerals, so they sent them to mine in mines. Naturally, there are also unwillingness. The originally calm mines are also undercurrents."

"When the king of Shi Kingdom saw it, he discussed with Shi Kingdom how to resettle these people. It happened that Geshu Minu arrived at that time. After the two discussed, they decided to let some farmers go to Talas. You lack Dingkou here, Shi Kingdom, and Shi Kingdom lack land, which is the best of both worlds."

Sun Xiurong nodded. After this wave of farmers moved here, plus the two thousand farmers who had been transformed from herders, they would be able to add 200,000 acres of land, plus 4,000 prisoners, 300,000 acres of 2,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty's government to be reclaimed, and 200,000 acres of 200,000 acres that Talasborne had, totaling 700,000 acres, almost equivalent to the entire Beiting Protectorate. If you can, you will have to compete for land with the herders.

If you can earn 500,000 s of grain in a net amount of 700,000 s, the tax will be 150,000 orders, plus the purchase of 200,000 s of stone per year, it will not be a problem.

Two hundred thousand stones are enough for more than two years of spending for ten thousand elite troops.

This is also the limit of Talas. If there were 10,000 standing troops, there would definitely be the same number of farmers and herdsmen behind him.

According to Sun Xiurong's training that was better than the Tang Dynasty, 20,000 people were just one legion, enough to overwhelm the tribes.

Of course, he now only has 6,000 standing troops, and all young soldiers, of which only 1,000 are elite, and the remaining 5,000 are still under training. However, according to his plan, by the end of the year or the beginning of next year, the combat power of these 5,000 people will reach the level of young soldiers in the Battle of Talas.

Six thousand people are enough.

During the training or organization of the Tang army, no matter which armies are organized, the outstanding ones will be picked out and formed into a separate army. For example, the outstanding ones in the cavalry are transferred into the "Knights", the outstanding ones in the infantry are transferred into the "Jump" (heavy infantry), and the best of the shooting soldiers are transferred into the "strong crossbows and strong bows". Once the war is unfavorable, these "sharp soldiers" will be vanguards and fight a way out, and then ordinary soldiers will follow up and harvest victory.

Such a tactic is enough to deal with the nomadic tribes at present. With powerful military equipment, as long as the general is not responsible for his death, there are fewer mistakes.

However, Sun Xiurong's training was very different from that of the Tang army. Even if there were outstanding soldiers, they would only be promoted to officers and would not be allowed to form an army alone. In a word, if these young soldiers really became adults, their combat power would probably be inferior to that of the Tang army's cavalry and jumping camps, but they were not far apart. If compared with all, the young soldiers would win a little.

So the arrival of the two thousand Sogdian farmers was crucial, and in any case, the gift was far above others.

Sun Xiurong solemnly saluted Stayran Myanmar, "Thank you, Prince."

After returning the gift, Steyranm continued, "Of course you want to thank me. I am the prince of Shiguo and the son-in-law of Shiguo. I am familiar with you. If I were not in Shiguo, I would not be able to let the two kings decide to move two thousand farmers to you."

Sun Xiurong said: "It is Zoroastrianism that works again?"

Stellenman nodded, "The two kings are the only remaining Zoroastrians who own the land, and they are naturally a great reliance on my religion. After learning that the leader regards you as one of the envoys of light in this religion..."

"one?"

"Haha, let's not hide it from Dalang. The churches of our religion are distributed from Damascus to Babylon to Tianzhu to the south to Datang to the east to Shiguo. Although most places are occupied by the great cannibals, the great cannibals are sparsely populated and it is impossible for them to take care of them all. Naturally, they have to convert to the Tianfang Sect through the local tribes to achieve rule."

"These people have been in this religion for thousands of years, how can they give up in one go..."

"So there are some local nobles who originally believed in Zoroastrianism and temporarily converted to the Tianfang Sect. But I have heard that Tianfang Sect has a set of strict rules and various taboos. If you don't say anything else, just say that there were several times a day when that week. Not to mention this set of indoctrination, not to mention too much. Ten years is enough to completely transform it."

"This is also something I'm worried about, but ordinary people do this, but nobles may not be the case."

"Okay, I don't care about the Tianfang Sect and the Zoroastrian Sect. Didn't you say there are gifts to give them, what is that?"

Steyranmian handed over a package, and Geng Si, who was beside him, quickly took it, but after opening it, he had a short knife.

The short knife is about one foot long, the scabbard is made of copper, and it is painted with two colors of paint, half black and half red. The black is painted with red gods and ghosts, and the red is painted with black gods and ghosts.

The handle is about four inches long, unlike the handle that is usually wrapped with cotton and linen ropes, with a large number of fire patterns carved on it.

Sun Xiurong pulled it out of the scabbard. As soon as it came out, the cold light emitted from the blade made people excited!

It is still obvious in the shape of the Uzi steel knife, with the black and white patterns inside very clear, but unlike the ordinary Uzi steel knife, there is a large ball of fire pattern on one side of the blade, and the other side sometimes appears invisible with an image of a human head.

“How is this done?”

He naturally didn't believe the ghost. "It is mostly before the steel knife is formed, and then forged it into shape. Even so, it can be so vivid and extremely exquisite in this era. If it were in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it would be like a Gan Jiang Moye."

But no matter what, this is a knife or a short knife. Apart from the special shape, it has no additional purpose.

"this….."

"Dalang is a little restless, let me tell you the truth. In the areas from Talas to Suye City, all Sogdian farmers and craftsmen believed in the teachings. Even Turks were the same when Turks ruled. They did not interfere too much in the beliefs of ordinary people."

"In the past, people above the envoy of this religion came here to supervise the church. In fact, there was nothing to supervise. It was just whether they were acting in accordance with the rules of this religion."

"To be honest, Geshu Minu is my disciple, and he is also the third generation disciple of the envoy who is second only to the leader and the messenger in this sect. He plays such a role now, but he is not qualified to order believers..."

"Is this knife possible?"

"Yes, this knife was originally one of the supreme tokens of this religion. Dalang may have heard that the leader of this religion has five envoys, and each envoy has one such knife. It was originally intended that each envoy lived in the east, south, west, north, and middle orders. I am the envoy of the Miaohuo, and was originally an envoy to command the believers in the north, but now those who believe in the power of this religion are divided into pieces, and the five directions have long been in name only."

"At present, all the core forces of this sect gather together with Shi Kingdom and Shi Kingdom, so naturally there is no need for five directions..."

"Do you have no hidden power when you wait?"

"Of course there is, but once it is activated, if you are not careful, you will be in danger of being doomed. You will not do it under a last resort."

"So you give me this knife so that I can have a chance to command the Zoroastrians?"

“About this”

Sun Xiurong thought to himself: "After all, he or they still have the intention of supporting me to deal with the cannibalism, but he still has the simple thoughts of ordinary people. A religion, unless it is penetrated into the bone marrow, is just a matter of using it in times of crisis. Most of the time, it is nothing more than a tool to relieve loneliness, sorrow and fear."

"What really affects them is food and clothing. If they are in a stable environment, without worry about food and clothing, and their children are prosperous, the purpose of religion is not very good. For example, in the Suyechuan Governor's Office, in another three to five years, these Sogdian farmers will naturally forget what Zoroastrianism, Tianfang Governor's Office, after experiencing the beauty of being farmers in the Governor's Office."

"But no matter what, it will be twice the result for me if he can offer this item."

"Thank you, Prince, by the way, there should be five such short swords, all of which have been sent out?"

"Yes"

"How do you usually contact the believers when you are waiting for the messengers?"

"Ahem, there are other ways besides the dark pattern knife"

This is the secret of the Zoroastrianism. Sun Xiurong asked again and was asking for trouble, and then smiled and said, "I'm a little strange. Why don't you prepare for your own battles..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought: "This is the wisest thing about them. In the past, with the support of the Persian king, it is impossible. Now a great cannibalism has appeared in vain. He believes in the Tianfang Sect, which is completely different from the Zoroastrianism. There are a large number of Persians in China who have converted to the Tianfang Sect."

"It's good to be able to survive alone in this situation, and there's no way to expand outward, so I can only rely on external forces. If I finally defeat the dark demon king in their minds, those external forces would probably be believed in if they were not time travelers like me. This is really a killing two birds with one stone."
Chapter completed!