He Hu smiled and patted the girl's head like a cat with a tantrum.

"Speaking of which, what's the difference between what you do when you're strong? When you attacked the Western Regions, didn't you also destroy the Buddha statues and turn the Buddhist temples into Zoroastrian temples? ”

"When you robbed the people of the Western Regions and sold them into slavery, did you hear the screams of the women of the Western Regions? Now it's your turn, won't you just have to endure it? If you want to take revenge, when you become strong and we become weak, you will naturally come back with no mercy, hoping to frighten us with Hell of Fire? ”

"Hehe, tell you, we've even played with the priestess of your temple, and you think we'll care about the weak curse of your god?"

Although he is already a civilian, Hehu is a Tartar after all, and all he can understand is force.

The strong are respected, which is the only and highest criterion for struggling to survive in the deep mountains and old forests of the ice and snow.

Therefore, Hehu and his fellow Waibo never felt the slightest guilt for their father and brother who had plundered the Han land, even if they were forced to apologize with knives and guns, they longed for the days when they could be unscrupulous against the Han people at that time.

But this does not prevent them from honestly treating the Han people as dogs now, and they will not have any complaints when an order is issued from above to let them migrate from their hometown in Liaodong to the Western Regions.

They also don't feel any shame when they fight for the Han people who robbed their wives and daughters of their property—when they were in their hometown, the Mouke in their village also killed the ordinary villagers below, and now the people who are pressed on their heads are not much different from the Han people.

What's more, Hehu has now come out of the mix.

As long as he doesn't say it himself, no one will specifically check whether an imperial civilian was a Tartar before.

'I'm Niu Colu Ahudie......

'No, I'm not, I'm Hehu. Surname and first name Tiger! ’

……

From February to November 1789, the Qin army launched a large-scale attack on the Plain of the Two Rivers in the core territory of Pars.

Although Pars, who had suffered heavy losses in the battles with the Qin army in the previous years, was able to raise a large field force with its strong national strength, there were very few veterans with combat effectiveness among them—many Pars nobles had even become extinct, so that there were cases of female nobles leading troops to battle.

Therefore, this time, the Qin army still naturally achieved a number of field victories, and the field group that the Pars people had managed to gather was destroyed again, and the Qin army surrounded its royal capital Ctesiphon for half a year, during which time it wiped out all the Pars troops who tried to come to the rescue.

However, the Qin army did not conquer the largest city in the Lianghe Plain - the Qin army did not have siege artillery, the field artillery was not enough to destroy the city walls, and the tunnel blasting tactics also failed.

Due to the atrocities of the Qin army in other cities and villages, the defenders of Ctesiphon and the inhabitants of the city knew that they would not survive if they fell, so everyone resisted bravely, and the Qin army, which lacked the core of troops and firepower, could win every field victory but was never able to enter the city.

By October of this year, Xu Daixuan felt that the possibility of continuing to fight and conquering Tai Xifeng was also very low, and if it dragged on, the profits they could obtain would quickly dissipate.

Therefore, the Qin army ordered the retreat.

When retreating, the Qin army took everything they could take along the way, and then burned everything that could not be taken.

According to the assessment of the Qin army's general staff, it would take about twenty to thirty years for the Pars to return to their pre-war level, and they could not suffer any more defeats during this period.

Of course, this is impossible, and the Qin army will maintain pressure on Pars after that, attacking and looting several times a year in small scales, and continuing to bleed Pars.

Three or four years later, when the Qin army had digested the fruits of this victory, and then requested the support of siege artillery from China, it would be the day of Pars's complete destruction.

……

Although the attack did not finally solve Pars, it was a rewarding one.

At least the domestic banks that had lent money to the Qin kings were making a lot of money, and the caravans they sent with them went on the front lines to buy all kinds of booty at low prices: gold and silver artifacts, coins and precious stones, slaves and livestock.

Among them, the most valuable ones are actually slaves, and strong male slaves will be sent to the border areas to reclaim and fight for the food security of the empire for a lifetime.

Young female slaves will be sold to Han people who are poorer and cannot afford to marry a Han woman - according to statistics, there are three million Han Chinese in the empire, although they can also take out a loan to build a house and marry a wife, but it is impossible to expect Han women to be willing to endure poverty and bear the loan to repay the interest with them, so it is most appropriate to buy a low-class woman directly.

In the previous domestic market, the most popular women were Fusang women, because they dressed up a little, they were no different from Han women in appearance, their aesthetics were similar to those of Han people, their personalities were more gentle, and they were slaves and cheap.

In contrast, the Goryeo women are a little worse, because they are commoners, the price is high, and the requirements are high, and they are not the kind of female slaves who can be bought out directly with money.

The women of Cochins and the Champa women who began to flood the market were even worse, mainly because they were not well adapted to the climate in the north, but they were more popular in the south.

This time, the Pars women who came from the West were the lowest price, except for some blonde and blue-eyed beauties who looked really amorous and would be sold to high-ranking families as Persian cats to play, it was difficult for ordinary women to sell for a price.

But no matter how you say it, these are all women who can give birth to them, and there will still be some poor families who don't care and are willing to spend money to buy one.

Besides, wouldn't it be possible to directly distribute benefits to border migrants?

The Qin army plundered the Lianghe Plain and brought back more than 200,000 captives, all of which were sold at a discount to major domestic trading houses except for a part of their own, so as to repay the loans and various debt interest with the recovered funds.

In addition to the booty, the Qin also relied on this victory to control a vast area east of the Plain of the Two Rivers, including half of the Media Province, all of the Elam Province, and all the territory of Pars east of the vertical line from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf was occupied by the Qin army.

The Qin advance was stationed in Ecbatana, the old capital of Pars, and could threaten the Plain of the Two Rivers at any time.

This newly added territory of more than one million square kilometers contains such rich mineral resources and a vast area of arable land, which is a considerable trophy for both the Qin State and China.

However, it was not easy to digest the spoils, after all, there were too few Han Chinese, and there were small but relatively populous peoples in the area, who had previously been vassals of Pars, who had turned to Qin after Pars was weakened.

Xu Daixuan did not have the strength to strictly control them, so he could only re-divide these small ethnic groups as subject states, such as the Tiele people near Broken Leaf City; the Gil people near Ha Chung Province; The people of Khorezm near Yulong Jiechi; There are also many nomadic or agricultural peoples such as the Sai and Patila peoples.

The empire estimated that in order to truly control these lands, it would require close cooperation between the empire and the Qin state, and with the support of the tilt policy, to carry out decades, if not hundreds of years, of immigration and oppression of the locals.

There may be some back-and-forth, and even direct uprisings by the locals, but it is worth it, because the resources of these lands can satisfy the growing appetite of the country, and can also be used to alleviate internal conflicts when necessary.