Soon, Saeed followed Mahdi to Rai.

It used to be a painstakingly managed city by the Persians, until the rise of the Great Cannibals, after several abandonments, and most of what they could see was the ruins of the collapsed walls.

Because after the defeat of the last Sassanid royal family from Ctesiphon, Rai was used as a stronghold of resistance, and the supporters of the Sassanid dynasty also gathered here one after another, and continued to resist for fifty years after the death of the last Sassanid king.

The ruler of the Great Food was so troubled by this that he decided to abandon the once thriving city.

At the end of the Umayyad Dynasty, the Caliph decided to restore this place, because Persia had been destroyed for a hundred years, and most of those who could resist had fled to the Tocharian area, which was far from the core of the Persian homeland, and it was difficult to cause any big waves.

However, as if it was difficult to recover, although many people had gathered in the vicinity of Rai, once the fighting broke out, they all fled back to their hometowns.

Not long after, the Abbasids replaced the Umayyad dynasty during the Great Eclipse Civil War, and the two caliphs took war as their primary goal, the Abbasids wanted to eliminate all resistance in their territory, and by the time of al-Mansur their main goal was Constantinople in the west.

Without the caliph's attention, Rai continued to decay at a rate that could be seen by the eye.

With the exodus of the nobles and commoners, it was abandoned again.

As if by the curse of the devil, the forcibly relocated people, rich and poor, fled as if it were an ominous place.

As a result, the newly revived city is even more dilapidated than ever.

The army finally camped outside the city, standing on an unnamed high ground, and Saeed could see most of the ruins of the city, and his heart inevitably rose with sighs and sighs.

The city seems to have been made for those Persians, and no one knows why, as if only the Persians can run it.

There were more than one rebellion in the early days of the Umayyad, where both rich and poor tried to overthrow the rule of the Great Eaters.

However, all resistance was in vain, and they were rewarded with slaughter after slaughter.

So much so that in later legends, every inch of Rai's land was filled with the restless ghosts of wanderers.

Perhaps this is another reason why people who have been forcibly displaced do not stay for long.

"The caliph decided to immigrate here three years later to restore his former prosperity. ”

Mahdi's voice rang out behind Said, and this time he collected his thoughts, turning his gaze from the bizarre ruins to the hill where he was now.

"The Umayyads have not been able to restore the prosperity of the place for decades, so why should the caliph waste his limited energy? instead of restoring an old city, it is better to rebuild a new city!"

Although Said's words were casual, they were not unreasonable, and Rai left too many memories for the Persians, including the Great Eclipse, and also many bad memories.

The Great Cannibal did not want to live and reproduce in a city full of Persian ghosts.

The outgoing caliph's recovery of Rai was based on the migration of large numbers of cannibals.

During the Umayyad period, many nobles complained a lot about this, and even broke out a large-scale rebellion.

At the time of dinner, smoke began to rise from the ruins of the city in the distance, indicating that the place was not completely abandoned, and that there were still residents living tenaciously.

Mahdi pointed to the smoke in the distance.

"Those places were the remnants of Persia, and as they gathered more and more, they would grow into unstable factors, and several Rai rebellions were the result of this, and from the time of the Umayyad dynasty, the outgoing caliph chose to eliminate this source at all, and chose the means of revival based on the mass migration of cannibalism. ”

Said thought about it and felt that Mahdi's statement was not unreasonable, and that the policy of desolation that had been insisted on for more than 50 years had failed to destroy this seemingly magical city, and in the end he had to choose to fill and replace the Persians with big cannibals.

It's a pity that the Great Cannibal doesn't seem to be suitable for settling here, and every migration is difficult to last.

Now, al-Mansur has also decided to emigrate to Rai, and it seems that the caliph also has a lot of fear of the Persians who live here.

"It's a disappointment to bypass Rai early tomorrow morning and stay away from those Persians!"

Within the rulers of the Great Eclipse, there was a natural rejection and aversion to the Persians, and it was clear that Mahdi was no exception, and he no longer tried to hide his true emotions in front of Said.

It was a sign of trust, and Saeed never imagined that he would be so comfortable in the nascent Abbasid dynasty that he would become the hottest figure in the ruling elite as a businessman.

It is a miracle that Prince Mahdi was known for his arrogance, but he also trusted him very much, and he always hated merchants.

Suddenly, a dragon of smoke rose from the ruins of Rai and slowly approached the place where the army was stationed.

Both men noticed the suddenness.

"Not good, there is an enemy attack!"

Mahdi had experienced a hundred battles and immediately judged that the so-called "smoke dragon" was the dust stirred up by the advance of the troops.

Saeed was not worried, knowing that Mahdi was leading the most elite army of the Great Eaters, and any Persian rebellion would hardly pose a threat to him.

In fact, as it was, the rebel army was vulnerable to the Mahdi's army, and it only took a moment for it to be defeated.

The defeat was so fast that even Saeed was surprised.

During his time in Tocharian and Khorasan, he met the Persians who were resilient, and even if they were defeated, they were a group of rebels who were a headache for the local rulers.

The rebels near Rai do not seem to have such qualities, and appear to be useless except for habitual resistance.

Mahdi raised the corners of his mouth contemptuously.

"The caliph was disturbed by these locusts, and was ready to purge Rai, it was I, who interceded in front of the caliph, so that this place was not completely destroyed, and now it seems that it is better to let it be completely destroyed......"

From Mahdi's words, Saeed realized two messages, one was that al-Mansur should have originally intended to raze Rai to the ground, and the other was that Mahdi had advised al-Mansour.

It seems that the young prince had no small ambition to win over the support of the Persians, who had already been thoroughly submissive, but he did not propose a complete solution, which meant that while the Rai could be preserved, he would have to face the resistance of the restless Persians from time to time.