Chapter 1292: The Gift of Distinguishing Huayi
Leaving Abbas's military tent, Qin Jin instructed his attendants to summon a few Great Eaters to his side.
At this time, there were many people around Qin Jin who had played for Abbas, such as Abu and Hassim, who were more important among the generals. Although they are all Persians, they have long served the Great Cannibal, who has been in power for hundreds of years, and the children of the family have long become the loyal eagle dogs of the Great Cannibal, and the choices they often make at critical moments are also in line with the interests of the family.
For example, he defected from the Umayyad dynasty to the Abbasid dynasty. It was precisely because of the influence of these Persian nobles in Khorasan that Abbas accepted them all.
At the same time, these Persians ruled Khorasan for Abbas, and they also served before and after the saddle.
However, everything changed too quickly, but in just ten years, the Abbasids lost in Khorasan.
When Hasim and Abu became prisoners in Zhangye, they never imagined that they would be able to return to Khorasan in their lifetime, and that they would return to their homeland as conquerors.
At the beginning of their capture and surrender to the enemy, the family regarded them as a disgrace and even suffered a lot of involvement. It was only because Abbas directed his main revenge at Yusuf that their family was spared a complete liquidation.
When the Shenwu army captured Mulu City, many of the families of Hasim and Abu completed the transformation in a very short period of time and became the most active standard-bearers of the Tang Dynasty in Khorasan.
This is the realistic and cruel side, whether it is Chinese or foreign, it is general, often the whole of the local family will not have absolute loyalty to any central power, of course, it will not exclude the exception of individual individuals, but in general, the most primitive driving force for them to make various choices will only be the word profit.
Qin Jin is a person who is good at taking advantage of the situation and borrowing strength, he will not refuse their overtures and surrenders because of the potential instability of these local wealthy families, on the contrary, as long as they are used well, it will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
At this moment, Hasim and Abu have become the leaders of their respective families, and from this aspect, Qin Jin naturally attaches more importance to them.
"Why did the Prime Minister let us go to see Abbas's stupid donkey?"
In the face of Qin Jin's unbelievable request, they all subconsciously drew a line with this former desert lion.
Qin Jin smiled and waved his hand.
"You don't have to be so quick to refuse, Abbas has ruled in Khorasan for ten years after all, and he also has a lot of influence among the great cannibals in this area, wouldn't it be beautiful if you could convince him to let him serve the Son of Heaven?"
Qin Jin persuaded Abbas to surrender several times, and this surrender was mostly nominal, and he did not need to do much substantive things.
But how could Abbas give in so easily?
After a few coercions and temptations, the matter was over. It was after meeting him today that Qin Jin rekindled this idea in his heart, if he could call on the old troops who were still in Khorasan to join the Shenwu Army in the name of Abbas, even if his old troops refused to betray the Abbasid Dynasty, the blow to the morale of the Great Cannibal Army was considerable, and it was the kind that could not be ignored.
Both Hasim and Abu were wise men, and they immediately understood Qin Jin's intentions from his words, readily agreed, and immediately went to Abbas's military tent.
Qin Jin carried Abbas with the army for security reasons, because there were a large number of cannibals and Persians in Mulu City, and if they tried to recapture Abbas and set off a military campaign against the Tang Dynasty, whether they succeeded or not, it would be extremely unfavorable to the Shenwu army.
Therefore, instead of leaving an unstable factor in Mulu City, it is better to take him away, and also stop the thoughts of those unstable elements.
Abbas did not refuse Hassim and Abu's request to meet, in fact he did not have the right to refuse, even if he never wanted to see the betrayer of the past, he still had to pinch his nose and do things contrary to his heart.
Even when he saw the two betrayers, Abbas showed a rare smile.
After revealing Abbas's article, Qin Jin's attention returned to the battlefield, the imminent war failed to break out, and the two armies were still cut off from each other, but the state between the two armies had become more and more tense.
The large amount of smoke released by Qing Xuzi with the air cannon had a sufficient deterrent effect, and it actually frightened Mahdi a little bit of retreat. But this young prince was worthy of being the chosen heir of Caliph al-Mansur, and he actually made the right choice in the shortest possible time.
This made Qin Jin a little impressed by him, but it was nothing more. When the western expedition reached this point, he naturally hoped to hit Ctesiphon in one go, and completely uproot the foundation of the Great Cannibal's rule on the land of Asia.
Moreover, his goal is not only the conquest of the land, all rule maintained by violence will not last, and only the culture that is deeply rooted in life will be passed on from generation to generation.
Although it was extremely difficult to introduce the Han people into the Western Regions, Qin Jin still tried to try.
In fact, the culture represented by the Han people's clothes has a strong regional dependence, and the Yi Di is divided.
Qin Jin once discussed this issue with Miao Jinqing, and Miao Jinqing said: If you use Yi Li, you will raze it, and if you use Yi to enter China, you will be in China.
And the Chinese gift is like the orange born in Huainan and Huaibei, planted in different regions will bear completely different fruits, so that the Chinese gift planted in Yidi will bear the original fruit, it is probably no less difficult than opening the world.
Discussion is discussion, practice is another matter, whether it is successful or not, you always have to take the first step to know.
This first step should be two-pronged, with immigrants from the Han Chinese being sent as officials and cultural disseminators, and then selected from among the local nobility to be the best of the "Chinese Rites".
Of course, this process cannot be achieved overnight, and it may take three generations or even more generations of subtle development, but as long as the army of the Tang Dynasty exists in the west of the Western Regions for a day, this kind of effort cannot be abandoned.
It is precisely with such a grand plan that in the process of the westward advance of the Shenwu army, more of a Huairou policy was adopted, and it was not because of the war that caused irreparable damage and hatred to the natives in various places.
Enemy royal families like Abbas, as long as he is willing to serve, will come out as an example to the world.
Contrary to Qin Jin's expectations, the Great Food Army, perhaps for the purpose of revenge, actually set up obstacles on Zheng Xianli's return journey, so that when they returned along the Ji River with the rescued steppe barbarians, they had to take a long detour in order to avoid falling into a large-scale battle.
Along the way, Gu Lulu was like a defeated rooster, completely lost his spirit, and seemed to be still immersed in the moment before the end of the tribe fell apart......