The ideas are different, the concepts are different, and it cannot be said that Mahdi's approach is outrageously wrong, and Qin Jin also does not dare to pack a ticket for the policies he has formulated. After all, the Shenwu army is not a barbarian, and history has long proved that killing cannot solve the problem, so how did the Mongols who later dominated the Asian continent conquer almost the entire Asian continent and appear in every corner of the continent as conquerors, but in just thirty or fifty years, many Mongols have become slaves of the locals.

Although force can accelerate the pace of conquest, it is not omnipotent, and the black-clothed food is superstitious about force, and the national fortune is only more than a hundred years. It won't be long before the caliph will be killed by the slaves. The new caliphate became a puppet of the local aristocracy, no longer able to call the wind and rain, and the conquered lands became a paradise for the warlords.

Of course, Qin Jin couldn't say these words to Mahdi, and even if he did, Mahdi would only laugh at them as a joke.

Moreover, the dialogue between Qin Jin and Mahdi was not intended to convince the other party, but only to understand the inherent thinking of the ruling class in black clothes.

It turns out that both the Great Cannibals and the Persians, the perception of the most self-conquerors is skewed to varying degrees, and they all wishfully think that all problems can be solved once and for all.

This is simply impossible, even the central dynasty is not permanently wrong, and it is very common for conquered lands on the fringes of the empire to be conquered by new conquerors or to establish new states before they are integrated into the mainstream culture of the empire.

Moreover, if there is a strong force, there will be a weakness, and even the core lands of the empire, when the force is weak, will also be forcibly occupied by foreign enemies. For example, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in later generations were lost for hundreds of years before they returned to the hands of the Central Dynasty.

"Prime Minister, according to the plan, it's time to cross the river. ”

Before dark, they had to rush to the camp on the north bank of the Wuhu River.

Qin Jin looked up at the position of the sun and knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he went on the pontoon bridge with Mahdi, surrounded by his entourage.

The pontoon bridge is very stable, and the ability of the Shenwu army to open roads and build bridges in the mountains and rivers is very strong, even Mahdi secretly admires it, and asks himself that he can't do this with the ability of the Great Food Praetorian Guard.

After a long circle from Sylvan to here, Mahdi witnessed a series of military moves of the Shenwu Army as a prisoner of the army, and the conclusions drawn in his heart were also very frustrating.

Even if Caliph al-Mansur personally commanded the battle of Syrvan, I am afraid that he would not necessarily win.

At the beginning of Sylvan's defeat, he naively thought that Mansur would definitely gather a large army to retaliate against the Shenwu army.

But who would have thought that in just a few months, the Shenwu Army would support Mansour's half-brother and half-mother, and Qajar would set up a separate court to fight against him.

This seemingly harmless prince revealed his true colors in a very short period of time, and as the ambitions of the rebels surfaced, the empire quickly fell into disintegration.

The opposition within Ctesiphon's court was ready to move, and the move of the capital to Baghdad was at an impasse, and the combination of unfavorable circumstances made the caliph unable to get out of the predicament quickly.

During his time as a prisoner, Mahdi had imagined countless times that if he were in the caliphate, how would he deal with it in order to break the deadlock?

With rebels inside and strong enemies outside, it is very rare for the two to be able to barely hold the caliphate's position at the same time.

Presumably, the caliph who was far away in Ctesiphon was already anxious at this moment, where could he still bother to report the defeat of Sylvan?

To the north of the Wuhu River, the roads cleared by the Shenwu army are crisscrossed, and there are a lot of swamps on the banks of the river, which is rare in the vast Gobi steppe.

The waste prince stationed the camp here, naturally hoping to use the power of nature.

However, an internal strife brought the last of the deposed prince's armed forces to pieces, bringing everything to zero.

"Prime Minister, Zhou Wenyu is waiting to be seen, when will he be met, please instruct. ”

Upon arrival at the camp, the officers rushed to report.

Zhou Wenyu played a very important role in this operation, far exceeding Qin Jin's expectations.

Originally, he just planned to let Zhou Wenyu be a pioneer to find out the specific whereabouts and strength of the abolished prince, but later, Zhou Wenyu decisively seized the opportunity of Dugu Liangzuo's internal strife to rebel against Guo Youming and a large part of the old department of the abolished prince.

These people counterattacked after Dugu Liangzuo's death and took the camp in one fell swoop.

The deposed crown prince Li Yu fled in a hurry under the support of a small number of cronies, and was finally captured alive dozens of miles north of the Wuhu River.

At the end of his rope, there were only a few eunuchs left by his side to this proud son of heaven who was born with a golden key.

When Qin Jin learned of this situation, he couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the Tang Dynasty emperor appointed a large number of eunuchs to power after the Anshi rebellion.

Often at critical moments, it is these unconcerned eunuchs who are more reliable.

But reliability is only relative, they also have ambitions, so unrestrained empowerment of the eunuchs, which eventually led to the expansion of the eunuch group, and even in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the anti-slave lord could arbitrarily depose the emperor.

Of course, this is contrary to the original intention of the Tang emperor, but if you think about it carefully, the reasons for this are all due to problems with the balance of power.

The system is the most effective premise to ensure imbalance.

Of course, Qin Jin, who was familiar with the time, knew that since the end of the Zhao and Song dynasties in the era of feudal separatism, there was no more power to usurp the throne, and the warlords were divided.

The fundamental reason for this is that the rulers have fully learned the lessons of their predecessors and established a complete set of relatively complete systems to restrain all parties.

While decentralization creates a certain amount of wasted efficiency, it makes great strides in stability.

This alone is worth learning from Qin Jin.

Therefore, the Qin and Jin dynasties not only retained the configuration of the capital protectorate and the jiedu envoys in various places far from the central government, but also sent governors and governors in the name of the Son of Heaven.

The governor and governor, who were the envoys of the Son of Heaven, had the right to exercise control and supervision over the envoys who became magistrates, and the magistrates could no longer use the local taxes as they pleased, and the right to appoint officials was also divided between these new generation of envoys of the Son of Heaven.

The governor and the governor are not superiors and subordinates in the traditional sense, except for the rank and rank, the governor does not have absolute command over the governor, so as to ensure that there is no rebellion on one side because of the long-term power.