Chapter 1199: Establishing himself as King of Persia
"King of Persia?"
Abbas gasped violently, his eyes widened in disbelief at the Courier!
This was the news that his nephew had returned from northern Tochar, and that Iprasin had met all the previous resistance to Tocharian in the river, but had managed to use his troops steadily, and there was no defeat as he feared.
Before appointing Iprasin to lead a division to attack the rebels in the river, the aged governor of Khorasan feared that his fledgling nephew would lose the battle.
Now that I saw my nephew steadily compressing the rebels from the river to the area of Nadta, in the north of Tocharo, my heart was finally not so much in my heart.
It's a pity that his stability has not been stable for a few days, and his nephew's military report has completely angered him.
"Zamas, this old and stupid donkey, should have listened to Yusuf's advice and uprooted his family from Dudta, and now he is ......"
Abbas had heard rumors that one of the leading merchants in Tocharia was a descendant of the Sassanid Persian Empire, but he didn't believe it at the time, but now it seems that it had been premeditated.
It turned out that a few days earlier, Zamas had officially proclaimed the re-establishment of the Persian kingdom at the time of the Hinda, and at the same time he himself had proclaimed himself king of Persia, and had made his youngest son, Kusilao, the crown prince.
Then, the anger in the old folds of Abbas's face turned into a sneer.
"Kusi Lao, does he still want his son to be the real Kusi Lao?"
The Sassanid Dynasty had two kings named Quslao, and both of them were prowess in martial arts, which was also recognized within the Great Food.
Zamas named his son Kuslao, which is really a good idea.
In the past, he only regarded these rumors as jokes, and did not take the content of those complaints seriously, because the Abbasid Dynasty, which had just been established for less than ten years, was too powerful, thousands of miles from the east to the west, and even the powerful Roman Empire and the Tang Empire were defeated by the elite soldiers of the Great Eclipse.
As long as these people dare to rebel and start a rebellion, Abbas believes that the Great Food Army can crush them in an instant.
However, the original joke is now true, Zamas really declared a rebellion, and he was helpless in a short time.
At present, there are only about 30,000 large * soldiers available for deployment, including 5,000 elite cavalry taken away by my nephew, and there are more than 10,000 miscellaneous tribal troops.
The elite soldiers of Mulu City, the capital of Khorasan, only have 20,000 infantry that have just been dispatched from the west, and they are naturally overstretched when mobilized.
In the past few days, merchants who have fled back from Anzai have arrived in Mulu City, and they have also brought back a lot of the latest news about Yusuf.
Abbas personally asked a few, but all of them said that Yusuf had been defeated miserably, and that the head of the rat who was chased by the Tang army was not at all like the proud and victorious Yusuf in his memory.
Therefore, Abbas only regarded these rumors as rumors, and would not believe them until Yusuf had definite news.
In fact, this is a belief that Abbas does not want to believe, and although his internal struggle with Abbas has never stopped, he still does not want his rival to lose so badly.
In addition to Abbas, who took more than half of Khorasan's elite soldiers, if the defeat was really so bad, the prestige that the Abbasids had just established in the middle of the river would be completely destroyed, and those rebellious steppe barbarians would also betray Dashi one by one and fall to another rising powerhouse.
Thinking of this, Abbas couldn't help but cover his chest, and the expression on his face began to distort, and it took a while to return to normal.
Recently, he often has this kind of heartache, and every time he hurts, it is unbearable, but fortunately, the pain process is not long, and it only takes a while to pass.
In order not to expose himself in front of his servants in such a miserable situation, he has been driving his servants far away in the past few days when he was dealing with huge official duties.
In the empty room, only Abbas's aged body shivered slightly.
Now, Zamas has established himself as king of Persia in Vedata, which also proves the crushing defeat of Yusuf.
If Yusuf hadn't suffered a fiasco, how could Zamas, a cunning donkey, do a stupid thing to stand on his own feet? If he dared to do it, the big * soldiers who set out from Mulu City would tear him to pieces.
None of this could have happened, however, because Abbasid was well aware that there was not much he could do about the old and stupid donkey at this moment.
What does Zamas mean that he was king in the midst of the Iprasim army? Either the old donkey is crazy, or the army that he has decided to eat cannot do anything about him.
Abbas prefers the latter.
It is almost certain that Zamas must have colluded with the Tang people, and the Tang army from the hinterland is now stationed in Anxi, and it is only necessary to cross a green ridge to reach Tocharian from Anxi.
Tang Bing, who had never been considered before, made Abbas feel uncomfortable for the first time.
Soon, Abbas sat up, walking restlessly around the room with his hands behind his back, thinking about what to do.
It is foreseeable that Zamas, under the guise of being a descendant of the Sassanid royal family, will set himself up as king of Persia, which will definitely cause a lot of shock in the Persian homeland.
During the 100 years of the destruction of Sassanid Persia, although the Umayyad caliphs did not prohibit the religion of the pagans, these people had to pay several times more taxes than the followers of the Great Food Sect.
Therefore, there are many opponents of the Great Food among the Persians, especially among the people.
Once the news of Zamas's establishment as the king of Persia spreads, it will inevitably roll up the dust in the sky like a sandstorm, and those who are dissatisfied with the Great Food, for whatever reason, will most likely be on Zamas's side.
After thinking for a long time, Abbas finally stomped his foot, and he asked himself that with Khorasan's own strength, there was no way to face the potential huge crisis.
If you want to eradicate the crisis, you can only leave an old face and ask for help from the court of Ctesiphon and the wise and great caliph al-Mansur.
Khorasan was the equivalent of a vassal in the Abbasid ruling system, with considerable autonomy from finance to military power, and the governor of Khorasan was equivalent to a vassal. No prince was willing to voluntarily give up this great power, except that it could not be hereditary.
However, Abbas did not want to go to hell to meet the devil with this power.
"Governor, there's a merchant named Said outside asking for a visit, claiming to have just returned from Anthy!"
"Said?"
Abbas narrowed his eyes, searching through the vast array of memories for memories of this man, but there were too many people named Said among the Great Cannibals, and no one could match the merchant who had returned from Anthy for half a day.