At that moment, Julian and Xeias remembered a lot of the past.

Many times, as the two members of the Roman royal family and the Sassanid royal family, they definitely ignored the people from the small state, and even did more arrogant and rude things.

Today, they themselves have become the object of neglect in the eyes of others, and they have a deep understanding of what kind of mood it will be.

What kind of mood is that? Maybe it's humiliation, but it's more helplessness.

Under the premise of unequal strength, others should be glad if they are willing to give a good face.

One side is absolutely powerful, and the other side can't help it if it's beaten, and you should really feel lucky if you haven't been beaten, how can you hope for more!

"Western High Carriage ......" Julian was silent for a long time, and asked in a low voice, "It doesn't border with the Sassanid border, does it?" ”

Xigaoche is actually a name given by others, who say that it is a country, rather than a tribal alliance formed by scattered tribes.

The alliance was dominated by the Ding Ling people, who did not have a fixed territory, starting from the Geumsan (Altai Mountains) in the east and ending at the Daegu River (Irtysh River) in the west; To the north is the tundra, and to the south is the immediate vicinity of Joy and Hunit.

Xeias only knew that there was no country called the Western Gauche to the east of Sasani. He couldn't be sure if it was a translation problem, maybe the Han people called Xigaoche, but they called it a different name.

"The approximate geographical range should be inferred, right?" Julian saw that Ksiaias was a little dazed, frowned and said, "You haven't increased your exploration and reconnaissance of the east? ”

Xeias was now wondering, Sassanid was right to improve diplomatic relations with Rome, but the two sides were not allies, and they didn't understand where Julian got the confidence to spy on information so clearly.

Besides, even if the Sassanids and Rome had become allies, the basis of the alliance would only have been if the Han Empire had gone to war against one of the two countries, and when the allies would have to share all the information with each other.

"But......" Julian didn't seem to notice the strange face of Ksiaias, and said to himself, "The Han Empire has only dispatched less than 30,000 troops, and it should be a sweep, not a large-scale westward advance." You still have enough time to know enough about the east side. ”

More mutual trust is being built between Rome and Sasanid, and both sides have begun to repatriate forces from their respective fronts.

Regardless of whether the Sassanid and Rome had built a sufficient foundation of mutual trust after the repatriation of troops from the front, the local Syrians and Arabs who sought independence were rejoicing.

The Syrians were colonized for a long time, first by the Seleucid Empire and later by the Parthian Empire.

Wait for the Romans to march to the east to conquer Syria and establish provinces, and the Syrians will be ruled by the Romans.

The Syrians under Roman rule were either captured by the Roman legions as laborers or sold into slavery.

If the Jews in West Asia and Europa were a calculating people, the Syrians also had the same reputation, and even the rest of the ethnic group considered the Syrians to be more cunning than the Jews.

The freedmen of Syria, who often played the role of peddlers in Rome or the Parthian Empire, were either sent to the arena or became accountants for some of the Romans when they were sold into Roman territory.

For a long time afterward, Syria was a war zone between the Parthians and the Romans.

The armies of the Parthian Empire and the armies of Rome have been going back and forth in Syria for nearly a hundred years, and the Syrians who have been under the shadow of war can imagine what kind of life they lived.

People who experience misery tend to yearn for a good life and repeatedly strive to live a good life. The point is that there is no improvement after repeated efforts, and no matter how persevering a person is, he will become depressed and even despair of survival when he repeats failure.

If there is a people in the world who were the first to resort to a desperate suicide attack, it is undoubtedly the Syrians, who once organized about 30 people, each carrying fire oil into the arena, then blocking the exits, and then setting fire to the arena, playing a jade burning attack. It's just that there was no such thing as a "terrorist attack" at that time, but it was recorded that a fire broke out in an arena on a certain day.

The name of the place is still called Syria, as for how many authentic Syrians there are, it is difficult to say, the statistics of the Romans are about 1.6 million, and the statistics of the Persians are about 2.4 million, and no one knows whose statistics are closer to the truth.

No matter how many Syrians there are, they are not the main force in this wave of people, one ethnicity, one independence, and one independence, but the Arabs are.

At present, there is no official name for the Arab nation, and the Romans and Persians unanimously consider them to be Semites, also known as Semitics.

The Arab name is the name of some tribes of the Semitic people, and unlike the birth of any people, the self-title will not be accepted by the nations, and it will have to wait for the day when they will show enough force to force the great powers to recognize their existence before the original self-name will become the official name.

The Semites were a large ethnic group, the Assyrians and the Akkadians, Kuti and Amorytes...... And many other ethnic groups, all of which belong to the Semitic race.

It is recorded that the history of the Semitic race can be traced back to the third millennium BC, and their most glorious history was the establishment of the Babylonian Empire (Amorites).

At present, there are many ethnic groups that claim to be Arabs, and their distribution is very scattered and extensive, and there are tribes that call themselves Arabs in North Africa, East Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia.

The Arabs, who were now seeking independence or self-rule, were mainly tribes from Western Asia, and began to slowly spread into East Africa, where they were rebelling against both Persian and Roman rule.

The Arabs challenged the two empires at the same time, but the strange thing is that the various tribes did their own thing, and did not form a "united front", so they could only make trouble, in fact, they caused some minor troubles to the two empires.

The key is that there are too many Arabs who have begun to resist, although there is no "united front", and more small troubles will become big troubles, which is directly reflected in the fact that the Sassanid Empire belongs to the scope of the "hard-hit area", and the logistics line of the front-line troops of the Sassanid Empire and Rome has become extremely fragile.

Both the Sassanid Empire and Rome withdrew, and the "blank space" created by the withdrawal of the two armies was almost instantaneous with innumerable forces, and even a small village had at least two or more forces claiming ownership, and as a result, those forces fought each other, so that the withdrawal of the two countries did not bring peace to those places, but on the contrary, became more chaotic.

"We're putting all our energy on strengthening the sea." Julian probably knew more about Syria than Ksiaias, just because his fiefdoms were in Egypt and Asia Minor: "The more chaos there is, the better it is for both of us." ”

What Chuias knew was that the Romans had really gone mad and seemed to be consolidating their maritime frontiers, and that the straits of the Spanish province alone had allocated two million gold coins to build fortifications, which would have been built either without the technology to build a gate to block the strait, or at a great cost.

The Romans were really frightened by the Han Empire's fleet sailing directly to the sea of Constantinople, and they absolutely did not want to see the Han Empire go to war with them one day, and then the Han Empire's fleet went directly to Constantinople to land.

In addition to building strait fortifications like crazy, the Romans were also frantically researching warships, and on the other hand, they also placed orders for the Han Empire to buy any ships they could, apparently suffering from the disease of "lack of warships".

"It's not just the Spanish provinces...... Julian said with a depressed face, "the Egyptian provinces are also building coastal fortifications. ”

"That's right!" Kesias thought of something and asked, "I heard that the Han Empire proposed to re-excavate the ancient Suez Canal together with Rome?" ”

The ancient Suez Canal was first excavated around the 2nd millennium BC, when the 12th Dynasty of Egypt, Pharaoh Senusret III (from which the name "Suez" comes from), ordered the excavation of an "east-west" canal connecting the Red Sea with the Nile in order to conduct direct trade by overland punts.

Some evidence suggests that the canal continued to exist at least until the time of Ramses II in the 13th century BC, after which it was abandoned.

The ancient Suez Canal was regained by Ptolemy II around 250 BC and was continuously improved, destroyed and rebuilt in the following millennium.

The current Suez Canal is in the stage of destruction, and Rome has been mired in civil strife for the past few decades, and it is simply not capable of rebuilding it.

If history had not been changed, Augustus, who was waiting for Julian to become the new ruler of Rome, would have ordered it to be rebuilt again.

Now? Augustus of Rome was still Constantius II, and he could not even recover from the wounds of civil war, so he had no spare time to take care of the ancient Suez Canal.

"Well, the Han Empire made a proposal to jointly repair the Suez Canal." Julian knew that he couldn't hide it at all, and said with a wry smile: "Just as we can't refuse the Han Empire's lease of the port and the lease, we can only agree to the proposal to jointly repair the Suez Canal, but...... We're still dragging our feet. ”

In fact, whether it is the Romans or the Persians, they really wonder how the Han people (officially) know so much about them, and they can't guess how the Han people should know everything after only being in contact with each other for so long.

The Suez Canal has proven its worth in the early days, and its existence can directly connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, and navigation between each other does not need to bypass such a big bend in Africa.

It was precisely the drastic reduction in the time of sea voyages that the Romans were most worried.

If one day Rome and the Han Empire became belligerents, they decided that the Han Empire would definitely not choose to fight from the land in the east to the west, even if they thought on their knees, they could understand that the most convenient way was to invade across the sea.

The Han Empire had leased a considerable number of ports from Rome, and the treaty was signed, which included the prohibition of the Han Empire from berthing in the form of a fleet.

The Romans will treat whether the Han Empire will abide by the treaty as a "warning line", and if one day the number of Han Empire warships berthed in those leased ports is a little too much, the Romans should understand that war is about to break out.

Similarly, the Persian Sassanids had a similar treaty, that is, the Persians were relatively close to the Han Empire, and despite their best efforts to negotiate, there was still a port that was by definition a military port. And the military port did not limit how many large-scale warships the Han Empire could dock, so it was completely reasonable and legal for the Han Empire to berth as many warships.

"Actually, it's all the same." Kesias didn't see it, but he knew it and didn't know it: "Our Majesty has completely seen it, maybe when the war breaks out, we will choose to become the Persian protectorate of the Han Empire?" ”

Julian was directly stunned, and then asked with an incredulous expression: "Fake, right?" ”

Of course it's fake, on the one hand, Ksiaias said that he was really helpless, and he didn't stimulate Julian's thoughts?

"If there is a war in two years, how long will we be able to resist?" Ksiaias said seriously: "How long it can hold out depends entirely on how many firearms troops the Han Empire has dispatched. ”

"If Rome can help in the first place...... Julian asked seriously, "in your estimation, how long will it last?" ”

"The Han Empire was not only powerful in firearms. You should be clear about that. Ksiaias thought for a moment and gave the answer: "If our two countries cooperate sincerely, maybe we can establish a reliable line of defense in South Persia?" How long they hold out depends on how determined 'they' are to invade. ”

Southern Persia is the parts of Zaracenis, Elam, Medes, Fars, and Sistan. The terrain on this side is quite complex, with vast desert terrain and several mountain ranges.

Once upon a time, and now it is now, Southern Persia was a very rich place, and the best line of defense against any invaders.

When the Parthian Empire was defeated again and again in the west, it relied on South Persia to survive and held out for nearly a hundred years, until the South Persian defense line was torn apart by the Roman legions, and those Persians also took advantage of the situation, so that the current Sassanid Empire was established.

"What do you think......" Julian subconsciously glanced at the Han army on the march in the distance: "If war breaks out, when will it happen?" ”

"It's hard to guess!" Ksiaias smiled bitterly: "When we thought that 'they'd enter a period of recuperation' after beating Ah San, the Battle of Western Xinjiang broke out first. We thought that there should be a period of peace after the Western Xinjiang Campaign, and as a result, the Northern Xinjiang Campaign began again. ”

Julian also smiled wryly: "Indeed, we didn't guess correctly. ”

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