"What? to restore the Persian state?"

Fazler could not contain the anger in his heart, he finally understood the sinister intentions of the Tang people, but at the moment, it seemed that it was in the best interests of the empire.

As soon as Persia is restored, the possibility of the Tang people advancing westward will be greatly reduced, and countless Persian remnants will flock to the western part of the Khorasan Plateau, where they will relive the glory of their ancestors.

If the Tang people choose to break the covenant at this time, the Persians in this land will be the first to stand up against it.

So, despite the displeasure in Fazler's heart, he patiently watched Zheng Xianli compare and contrast in front of a strange map.

Compared with the map of the Great Cannibal, the map of the Tang Dynasty has more complex lines, and Fazler does not understand it very clearly, but he still understands the approximate location of each town, and guesses Zheng Xianli's intentions.

All in all, the Tang people planned to divide the whole of Khorasan into two with the Silvan line as the boundary, with Mulu City as the center in the east, and assign it to the Persian capital of the Tang Dynasty.

A new city was then built on the ruins of Persepolis in the southwest to serve as the new capital of the empire.

Persepolis was once glorious, as the capital of the Persian Empire, gathering a large number of priests, so it also has the nickname of the spiritual capital.

Unfortunately, this spirit gradually died out in the successive dynastic changes, so that it was abandoned, and now only a few Persians live here, except for the strange architectural remains on the ground.

Persepolis was located, of course, not under the jurisdiction of the governor of Khorasan, but in the jurisdiction of the governor of Fars.

The satrapy of Fars was once the birthplace of the Sassanid Empire, so although the Sassanid capital was in Ctesiphon in the Two Rivers region, it was still considered the heart of the empire.

As a result, the nostalgia for the Sassanid dynasty in Persia is also the strongest in the Fars region.

Fazler secretly thought that the Tang people's assignment of Persepolis, which did not belong to Khorasan, to the so-called Persian state would undoubtedly be a real step in taking another bite of meat from the empire.

But the empire's biggest problem now is no longer in the east, but in the west, if it can be exchanged for ten years of stability at the cost of Khorasan and part of Fars, as long as the Tang people do not move, the empire will have enough time to sweep away the threat of the Romans and the Khazars from the Caucasus, and drive the Khazars back to the steppe in the river.

Therefore, the compromises and concessions were temporary, and these were all for the sake of the empire's future revival.

Immediately afterwards, Fazler felt an inexplicable sense of shame, he was surprised that he had the idea of reviving the empire, could it be that the current empire had declined?

Most of the heroes of the empire, like Fazle, lived through the era pioneered by the Abeth dynasty, and it was a blood-boiling decade just to think about, the empire's army defeated all its enemies, and all of them were crawling and trembling at the feet of the empire.

The civil officials and generals of the empire all developed an innate psychological advantage, and this advantage disappeared abruptly after the emergence of the Tang people.

It disappeared so suddenly that none of them could be fully mentally prepared.

Fazler is one of those who can be extremely distressed by the psychological gap.

Reason is like a monster, gnawing at Fazler's increasingly fragile heart all the time.

He is trying to restrain himself, he can't let anger occupy all his thinking, the empire doesn't need anger now, and in the situation of internal and external difficulties, he must get the most suitable negotiation result for the caliphate.

Given that Mansour had already taken the abandonment of Khorasan as the final bottom line, now he is only cutting out half of Fars, which does not seem to be much worse.

In fact, Fars has always been the most troublesome place in the empire, where a large number of priests and clergy once lived, and it can be said that half of the noble castes of the Sassanid dynasty lived there, but after the Umayyad dynasty wiped out the Sassanid dynasty of the Persians, the rulers of the noble caste instantly became infidels and slaves under foreign rule, and became the most humble pariahs in the new empire.

Many people could not accept this reality, so for more than a hundred years, Fars's rebellions have been a headache for the Empire.

Of course, many people fled Fars and settled in the east, where imperial power was not yet reached, such as Tocharian and even further east as Anxi.

Now, the Tang people plan to rebuild a small country of Persians in Khorasan, although the scale cannot be compared with the Sassanid Dynasty of the past, but those century-old remnants who have always held on to their faith have finally turned over.

The Persians are not obedient little sheep!

Fazler sneered secretly, before the Great Eclipse occupied this land, the Persians were worthy conquerors, they were like the fiercest lions, attacking all the tribes that were unwilling to submit.

Even the Romans in the West were defeated by the Persians more than once, and even the Roman emperor became a prisoner.

It is said that after the Umayyad army captured Persepolis, the human skin of the Roman Emperor Valerian was found in the temple of the Persians.

When Valerian attacked Ctesiphon, his entire army was destroyed, and the entire Senate became a prisoner of the Sassanid Empire.

The miserable Roman emperor was used as a horse by the Persians, and whenever the Persian king traveled, he would force the emperor to kneel on the ground, and then step on his back and step on the horse.

Think about it, how could the greatest conqueror of the past be willing to be left behind forever?

Fazler envisioned that the Persians would cause endless trouble for the Tang. There is an old proverb in Da Shi that whoever raises lions will be eaten by lions sooner or later.

So, if you don't want to be eaten by a lion, don't get close to a lion.

If the Tang people dare to do this, sooner or later they will fulfill the old proverb.

After some weighing and arguing, Fazler reluctantly agreed to the terms of the Tang people, but put forward two additional conditions.

One was that they were not allowed to form alliances with the Khazars, and they were not allowed to help the Khazars in their attack on the Great Eclipse.

Zheng Xianli agreed without thinking about it, which made Fazler a little strange, he originally thought that the Tang people would not agree easily, and would definitely find various reasons to oppose it.

Now, the other party easily agreed, which made Fazler a little strange.

The second is that Persepolis is not a place in Khorasan, and if you want to allocate this land to Khorasan as the new capital of the new country, then it is better to pay the ransom by way of ransom, so that he will be like a caliph, and the caliph will be easier to account to the subjects of the empire.