Chapter 1410: Preparations for the ceremony
"Your Highness, don't get me wrong, the Shenwu Army and I will spare no effort to ensure your safety, but the fight for the caliphate is your country's internal affair after all, I want to know if Your Highness already has a strategy that can be used?"
The words are more euphemistic, but the meaning has been clearly expressed, the Tang Dynasty's support for Khazar is limited, and priority is given to ensuring his safety, but if you want to attack Ctesiphon and Mansur to compete for the throne, you have to rely on your own strength.
"What the prime minister said is that the villain often thinks about how to oust the tyrant Mansur from power and let him be punished as he deserves. The current strength of Ctesiphon is still strong, if you want to be an enemy of him, you must first use Elam as the foundation, and gradually annex the surrounding areas, until you have enough strength, you can be like the water of a canal, down the river, and take Ctesiphon in one fell swoop. ”
No matter how embarrassed Khazar was before, he is not a fool who only knows pleasure after all, and he still has his own thoughts about the future.
Qin Jin thought so secretly in his heart, and he was not in a hurry to express his position, waiting to hear him say more ideas.
"When the villain escaped from Ctesiphon, Mansur was planning to move the capital, and many people had already been moved first, and it is believed that in the next one to two years, most of them will be moved to Baghdad. In this way, the villain will have at least two or three years to develop in Ilam, and I hope that the prime minister can help the villain train the new army......"
Finally, Khazar said what he wanted most, and that was the weapon that the Shenwu Army had made famous for fighting by the Shari River.
There are no technical barriers to such things as artillery, as well as all kinds of new weapons derived from *, so Qin Jin does not intend to hide them, in order to support the infighting between Khazar and Mansur, it is not impossible to help him to a certain extent in terms of weapon technology and tactics.
When Qin Jin nodded and agreed, Khazar was a little incredulous for a while, after all, this kind of Zhenguo weapon is not something that can be given to outsiders casually, he originally thought that Qin Jin would refuse for various reasons, but now after getting the promise, he couldn't sit still with excitement.
"I heard that most of His Highness's relatives have died in the war disaster in Elamand City?"
Qin Jin mentioned the last thing Qajar wanted to mention, as long as he thought that his wife and children were brutally killed by Muhammad's betrayer, he gritted his teeth and swore that he would take revenge.
Khazar is a person who is not good at hiding his emotions, and his eyes were red for a while, and he couldn't help but shed tears.
"Fortunately, His Highness has sent his two minor sons to study in Boslis, and I have sent someone to fetch them back, and I believe that today or tomorrow, you will soon be able to see them!"
Wiping away tears from his face, Khazar was thankful that he had indeed been worried about the two children who had been unwelcome.
In the past, there were many children, but Khazar didn't care, especially the sons born to dead concubines, who were mostly poor or slaves, and these children did not have the support of their mother's family, so they were naturally not as favored as children born to wives with strong mothers.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Khazar said in a loud voice:
"The villain has always admired the Tang culture, so it's better to let them follow the prime minister to Chang'an to study, and wait until they have learned in the future, and then return to China......"
At this time, Khazar swept away the image of greed and stupidity in the past, and every word seemed to be drilled into Qin Jin's stomach, and he said it just right.
The so-called sending the only two sons to Chang'an to study is just a superficial statement, and its real intention is to deliberately use them as hostages, so that the Tang Dynasty can rest assured that he will not go back on his word and betray his word.
In this regard, Qin Jin readily agreed that if the nobles of the big food were interested in going to Chang'an to study, he would bring them with them, and he could even subsidize the food and clothing of these people.
Immediately returned to Chang'an with him, along with the former governor of Khorasan Abbas, the prince of the Great Food Mahdi and other heavyweights.
The prisoners of war were treated as trophies of the Sokai sacrifice, but they were not mistreated for it. Qin Jin will take good care of them and let them live in Chang'an until they die of old age.
These are all things to come by, and it is imperative that the statutes for the succession ceremony of Qajar be finalized.
If according to the specifications of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty ascending the throne, it would be absolutely too late to prepare without three or two months, but now they only have three days, so they can only keep everything simple.
Qin Jin consulted about the various customs and processes of the change of thrones in the country of the Great Cannibal of Khazar, only to find that most of the Great Cannibals learned in these aspects were Persians, and they were learning from the extinct Persian Empire almost from head to toe.
In the end, Qin Jin proposed a compromise solution, selecting the stonemasons in the army to carve a seal from jade as quickly as possible, and gave it to Qajar in the name of the Tang Emperor, as a symbol of Kazar's power after succeeding to the throne, and also to symbolize his own submission to the Tang Empire.
Susa had come from a dozen of the surrounding tribal chieftains, and they all knew that the owner of the land had changed, and Mansur, who was far away in Ctesiphon, could no longer punish them for their betrayal.
Hundreds of people, large and small, came to attend the ceremony, and to the surprise of Qajar, who had thought he was destined to ascend to the position he had once dreamed of in the desert, now it did not seem shabby.
On the second day of Susa's reign, Qajar unexpectedly gathered thousands of refugees who had escaped from Ilam, and because of Muhammad's iron-fisted purge, many families were implicated, and most of the people who were able to persist in escaping here were strong adults, just in time to gather and reorganize and train into an army, and when they returned to Elamite in the future, they could serve as the first guards of the caliphate.
Most of the fleeing were Qajar supporters, and they were glad to see that their tribal chieftain had not been killed by al-Mansur, as Muhammad had claimed, but they were so hungry and embarrassed that they had no decent clothes on them, and they were only thousands of beggars gathered in heaps.
It's a bit unreasonable to let them participate in the succession ceremony in this state.
However, at this time, Khazar had already lost all his possessions, and he could not afford to give his subordinates some clothes. For this reason, he had no choice but to ask Qin Jin again, hoping that Qin Jin could provide them with clothes and food.
Those who followed Qin Jin to Susa, in addition to the guards, also had some heavy men and horses, naturally with clothes and food.
Qin Jin did not hesitate, and immediately ordered them to allocate 5,000 sets of single clothes and 100 stones of grain, and ordered Khazar to be responsible for tidying up the troops within one day, otherwise they would not be allowed to participate in the ceremony tomorrow.
Of course, the so-called prohibition of attending the ceremony and the like are all jokes, and he is too short of time, not enough people, and not big enough.