Chapter 350
Li Wenyuan has been busy with his feet in the back of his head for a while, where does he have any leisure to play with the diplomats sent by the Sassanid Empire? Li Wenyuan took the precious time out of his busy schedule to meet in order to show respect, and even dispensed with polite diplomatic words, and sent the diplomats of the Sassanid Empire directly after expressing his thoughts and handling the matter directly.
In fact, Li Wenyuan has neither any idea nor any way to deal with this matter, and all he thinks about is one word: procrastination. dragged on to the end, and the matter was turned into a big deal and could not be solved directly, which was also the result that Li Wenyuan wanted the most. What's more, since Li Wenyuan has already decided to start expanding abroad, whether he fights Xue Ju first or continues to advance westward first, it doesn't matter to the well-armed and well-trained Western Regions Army, and it is okay to go east or west.
After all, now the Sassanid Empire is powerless to confront Li Wenyuan, so he has no choice but to return to China with hatred, and return to the royal capital of the Sassanid Empire day and night, and report the situation of the negotiations to the ruler of the Sassanid Empire. Hearing Li Wenyuan's reply brought back by the diplomat, the court of the Sassanid Empire instantly turned into a noisy vegetable market. The courtiers were all angry with red faces and thick necks, and they all threatened to enter Dunhuang County to give Li Wenyuan some colors to see, and they could not withdraw until he came up with a satisfactory answer from the Sassanid Empire.
The ruler of the Sassanid Empire was originally angry when he heard Li Wenyuan's reply, but after listening to the words of the courtiers, his face turned from blue to white, and he sat down in a chair. When the courtiers had vented enough and calmed down, he got up and scolded the courtiers: "You can only talk about your majesty one by one, and when it comes to fighting, one runs faster than the other." We are now suffering from internal and external troubles, not to mention the threat of other forces, and the rebellion of the Roman rebels in our country alone has exhausted us. What should we do to argue with Li Wenyuan? Come, you say. Didn't you just swear that you wanted Li Wenyuan to come up with a satisfactory answer? ”
As he spoke, he pointed to one of the most cheerful ministers in the lower hall. When the minister saw that the lord of the country had pointed at him, he couldn't help but tremble, and lowered his head like a quail, and he didn't dare to look up at the faces of the people in the hall.
Seeing that the minister who had arrived did not respond for a long time, the ruler of the Sashen Empire snorted coldly and pointed to another minister: "Come, he won't say what you say." ”
The entire court suddenly became silent, no matter which minister the lord called, no one answered, and the ruler of the Sassanid Empire sighed heavily when he saw that the ministers under the hall were silent. In the end, the people of the Sassanid Empire relented first and accepted Li Wenyuan's reply. After all, something is better than nothing, and Li Wenyuan is willing to give himself an answer, at least it shows that Li Wenyuan still has the idea of being able to live in peace with the Sassanid Empire. What's more, with their previous experience, they also know that when the Central Plains region falls into civil strife, there will always be a large number of Han people who migrate from the Central Plains to survive just to avoid the war, and these things are also common in history, so the answer given by Li Wenyuan may not be true.
After thinking about this again, these Sassanid monarchs and courtiers also gave up the idea of letting Li Wenyuan intervene to deal with these Han Chinese, and began to continuously draw heavy troops in the territory to encircle and suppress the Roman rebels.
Of the various Roman rebels in the Sassanid Empire, the largest was the Roman rebel army led by Heras Curt. This rebel army numbered about 10,000 people, and the encirclement and suppression army sent by the government could no longer pose a threat to them. The soldiers trained according to the standards of Heras Curt can be said to be no weaker than the regular divisions under Li Wenyuan in terms of willingness to fight.
Not all members of this Roman rebel army were Romans. After all, there were only so many Romans who were unfortunate enough to fall into the Sassanid Empire. What's more, after so many years, the Romans came to the Sassanid Empire as slaves, and many were tortured to death. In recent years, with birth, old age, sickness and death, although the number of Romans has increased slightly, after all, the population base is low, even if the increase is high, the overall number has not changed much.
Therefore, in order to ensure that each Roman rebel army was capable of fighting enough to compete with the regular army of the Sassanid Empire, these Roman legions spent more than a month before the uprising to launch the remaining slaves in the area where the revolt was prepared. Not all the other slaves chose to join the Romans in the uprising, and some slaves forgot what it was like to be a normal person after doing it for a long time. On the contrary, I am very satisfied with the current life of having three meals a day, a stool to sit and rest, and a bed to lie down and sleep, and I dare not go back to the normal life of ordinary people. On the contrary, these people feel that their lives are already very good now, and there is no need to ask for trouble and risk being beheaded to rebel, and even if they succeed in the end, it is unknown whether they will lose their lives halfway.
There are also people who feel that their current life is too hard, and they can't point to the government to come forward to solve this problem. Therefore, these slaves resolutely abandoned the rotten life they were facing now, which was so rotten that it was difficult to attach, and threw away all kinds of shackles that usually bound their hands and feet, and joined the Roman rebel army in broken jars. They were not very demanding, and only hoped that after the victory in the war, they could fight for the status of a free people. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your children and grandchildren, who wants their children and grandchildren to be born slaves?
Therefore, the slaves of other nationalities who were forced to abandon their families and careers to join the rebel army became the backbone of the Roman revolt. When Heras Curt returned to the country to deal with this matter, he naturally took into account the fact that the Romans were now in decline. If this continues, I am afraid that there will be no pure-blooded Romans in a few generations, and how can the Romans, who are already small, charge into battle and be cannon fodder for those who have no return. Therefore, nine out of ten Romans in the rebel army became officers, and the remaining twelve were transferred to the rear by Heras Curt to carry out the transportation of grain and grass and the pacification of the local people.
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