The black flag, a symbol of the supremacy of the caliphate, swept through the streets and squares of Ctesiphon, and the rebellious slaves began to flee like frightened sheep. When Prince Qajar learned that the Caliph's counterinsurgency army had entered the city, he despaired and suddenly felt sorry for his inadequacy.

The sun rises, and Ctesiphon finally reappears in the sunlight, but it is as terrible as hell for Khazar.

The fire was eventually extinguished, and even though Khazar did not do his best to put out the fire after deciding to rebel, the fire gradually went out because of the slow spread of the fire. Is this why the caliph was still protected by the Prophet?

Realizing that his situation was gone, Khazar fled Ctesi Lockdown with only a few of his cronies through the outer gate northwest of the palace. The caliphate's counterinsurgency army did not seal off all the gates, which gave him the opportunity to flee for his life.

But Khazar's family was not so lucky, they were abandoned and soon arrested and imprisoned by the Praetorian Guards who came to their door.

Instead of being angry at his brother's betrayal, Mansour was satisfied.

It was because of Qajar's rebellion that he had the opportunity to legitimately purge dissidents.

It's as if a person is dozing off, but someone has a pillow at the right time. Although it was the enemy who sent the pillow, Mansur didn't care about it, as long as he could achieve his goal, he would not hesitate to use any means and sacrifice anyone.

An unusually bloody storm swept through the entire city of Tessie Lockdown after the fire.

Many did not die in the fire, but ended up under the butcher's knife of their own people.

Those who had historically opposed the caliphate openly and covertly were arrested, and the prisons were overcrowded, whether they were part of the Qajar rebellion or not, but as long as al-Mansur wanted a single death, the interrogators had 10,000 ways to get them to confess.

While the whole city was shrouded in the horror of death, Salah, the general of the palace guard, was in constant fear.

In terms of his attitude towards the caliph, he had a ghost in his heart, and he always felt that the caliph would execute himself as soon as he put down the rebellion.

However, instead of punishing her, Mansour praised her for his devotion to the palace.

Apparently grateful, Qajar broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't know how much of Mansour's reward was sincere. He had followed al-Mansur for many years, and he could tell himself all about the caliph's attitude, but now he could not figure it out in any way.

In order to protect himself, Salah had no choice but to give up all his political opinions, completely stand on Mansour's side, and unconditionally obey Mansour's orders.

Salah was one of the hardest working in the operation to capture the rebels, and he included almost all the ministers and generals who had opposed the caliphate into a list and presented it to al-Mansur.

Mansour crossed the names of many people, and the crosses indicated that those people had to be cut off.

Salah mercilessly arrested and threw these colleagues who had been chatting and laughing together or having fun with them a few days ago and threw them into prison, whether they pleaded guilty and tortured them brutally, for nothing other than to torture them, to achieve the purpose of warning the ill-intentioned.

A sudden fire completely changed the political climate of Ctesiphon, and the relatively relaxed atmosphere had long since been burned to ashes, replaced by nothing but terror.

The first to be slaughtered to the point of extermination was Prince Qajar.

Prince Qajar's sons and grandsons were strung together by long ropes and driven like brutes to the square, and the subjects of the city were summoned to the square and the streets to watch the misery of the rebels.

In the past, prisoners who were openly executed were either hanged or stoned, and it was relatively rare to see much blood.

This time, however, al-Mansur opted for a cruel punishment, cutting off the flesh of the victim piece by piece with a sharp dagger until he was finally tortured to death.

With a terrible howl, bursts of laughter erupted in the crowd.

People don't have the so-called feeling of the rabbit dying and the fox being sad, and the citizens at the bottom don't care about the life and death of the nobles, such a rare situation really satisfies the curiosity of too many people.

In the past, the wives and daughters of criminals were usually sent to the slave market to be sold, but the women of the Qajar family were notably an exception, and they were stripped of all their clothes and left to be cut by knives, just like Qajar's sons and grandchildren.

The tragic execution lasted for three days and nights in a row, and the people watching the excitement slowly turned from the initial excitement to numbness and even nausea.

For the citizens at the bottom, the execution was as lively as a festival, but for the nobles inside and outside the court, it was not so wonderful.

Watching the dagger cut on the prisoner's body, many felt as if it had been cut on their own body, and those who had opposed the caliphate and were lucky enough not to be on the arrest list were tortured to sleep, not knowing when the guillotine hanging over their heads would fall.

Sure enough, al-Mansur did not give up and continued to purge dissidents, and after the first wave of captures, the second wave soon swept through the city. At the same time, the monks and priests who received the order to move the capital did not need to be urged, and they set foot on the road to the new capital, fleeing the horror of death far away.

This was an unexpected bonus.

The empire was theocratic, and the priests were often filled by nobles, and many of them were naturally afraid of being implicated, so it was better to leave early to avoid being implicated by the rebels.

The nobles who once did not agree to live or die, and were unwilling to leave Ctesiphon, actually broke their heads at this time, just to be able to join the team of moving the capital one step ahead.

But this required the caliph to give a will, and the nobles who did not receive the decree did not even have the right to leave Ctesiphon without permission.

On a day's journey south of the Tigris, Qajar and his retinue were in an oasis where they had a short break before fleeing southeast again to escape capture by the Janissaries.

However, Khazar always had the illusion that the Praetorian Guards following behind were not in a hurry to catch them, but were merely following or expelling.

He couldn't figure out why the Praetorian Guards were doing this.

The exhaustion of the body has made Khazar care about it a lot, as long as he can survive, what is the reason behind it?

To the southeast is the province of Ilam, where his tribe is divided by the empire, and as long as he can return to the tribe, with the strength of his people and the strength of a battle, he will be safe for the time being. The caliph's attention was more focused on the court of Ctesiphon, so how could he devote his energy to the remote Elam region?