Persia and Rome, Great Qin were not offended on either side, but they were allied with both sides.

It's not just a matter of putting the interests first. If the Persian prince wanted Great Qin to send troops to attack Rome, he should at least send troops to attack the Western Turks on the shores of the Caspian Sea, because the Western Turks were allies of Rome and would attack Persia from the Caucasus. But in the end, Luo Cheng only formed an alliance with Rome and demanded that the Western Turks be included in Great Qin and that they accept canonization as vassals.

"The Western Turks have fled too far, and our westernmost point is now only in the Aral Sea, where the Yaozhishui and Wuhu waters converge." The Emperor explained.

But even the Aral Sea, the westernmost point of the empire, is actually only a nominal western border. In fact, the actual control of the imperial court did not extend that far at all, and to the north of the Tianshan Mountains, that is, an Yili County was a Zheng County.

Even the broken leaves are still the territory of the Western Turkic tribes, but they are only attached to the Great Qin for the time being.

"Where the Western Turks are staying now, it will take thousands of miles to continue west after crossing the Aral Sea. In fact, there is a fertile oasis basin in Dawan, and three thousand miles to the west, there is a desert, only some small oases on both sides of the Wuhu River, this desert is a big trouble. ”

After passing the mountains, basins, and oases of the Dawan line, to the west is the endless Hanhai Desert, three or four thousand miles from north to south are desert Gobi, to the north can reach the Yibo Sea, to the south to reach the territory of Persia, to the west to the coast, except for some oases by rivers and lakes, all are deserts.

This is also the biggest barrier between East and West in the past, the natural dividing line.

Therefore, in the past, most of the merchants went to the Western Regions, advanced to Persia, and then transferred to the Mediterranean Sea through Persia, and rarely went all the way to the west, the road was too difficult.

The Western Turks also sent the Khazar tribe to pursue the Rouran Hata to the banks of the Volga River in the early years, where they had already established a habitat, otherwise it would be impossible for the Tongye Hu and the Shekui Khan to retreat with so many tribesmen.

With the strength of 100,000 horsemen, and the ally of Rome behind him, it is impossible for Great Qin to cross thousands of miles to the west now. It is 3,000 miles from Yili to Dawan, and from Dawan to Khazar, the north and south lines are more than 5,000 miles away.

Even if he is as strong as Great Qin, he doesn't dare to say that he can cross thousands of miles to destroy the Western Turks.

Besides, what's the point of running that far to destroy the Western Turks? Even these territories in the Western Regions haven't been completed yet, isn't it a disease to run so far?

The so-called Naxi Turks as vassals are actually just to put an end to the war between Qin and the Western Turks and summarize the relations between the two countries.

Continuing to maintain hostile relations may eventually affect Daqin's Silk Road trade, after all, although the northern Silk Road is difficult to walk, as long as there are no robbers or anything, it can still be passed, and when Persia controls the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, maintaining this Silk Road can allow Daqin to occupy a lot of initiative.

Even the canonization of the Western Turks as vassals and vassals now provides a legal basis for the imperial court to have the strength to reach the west in the future.

This can be regarded as a foreshadowing.

"Daqin is not a war maniac, although my Daqin's soldiers are elite, but the lives of the soldiers are more precious, there is no reason to waste them in that distant place that can't be named. As long as the Western Turks are willing to bow their heads and submit, everything is easy to say, and he can stay on the shores of the Caspian Sea with peace of mind in the future, and it doesn't matter if he calls himself the Great Khan or the king, as long as he doesn't sabotage and doesn't come to the Western Regions to plunder, so what's the matter. ”

Luo Cheng waved his hand a little boringly.

He, the Great Qin Emperor, may know more about Rome and Persia, but the vast majority of Qin people, they don't know where these Yi countries are.

After a few sips of tea, the emperor looked at the territory in front of him, which was actually drawn by himself, and was drawn according to his impression, and it was a map of the river.

There are lakes and seas such as the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, the Yibo Sea, and the Daqing Pond in the surrounding area, as well as the Yaozhi Water, the Wuhu Water, the Zhenzhu River, the Nami Water, the Shaye River, and the Yili River. There are also Green Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Dawan Basin, Kunlun Mountains and Hindu Kush Mountains.

Historically, the Hanaka region was originally a key point of contention between the East and the West.

The Caucasus, Afghanistan, and even later the daimyo of the Graveyard of Empires.

It's too far away.

For the Central Plains Empire in the east, it is impossible to give up in the Western Regions, but it can only hold on to the Tianshan Mountains and the Green Mountains, relying on the Tianshan Mountains and the Green Mountains, and then relying on the rich lands of the Yili River Valley, the Broken Leaf River Valley, and the Dawan Basin, with the Afghan Plateau and the River Desert as the block, you can firmly guard the western gate of the Central Plains Empire.

Whether it was an alliance with Persia to demarcate the borders of Bactria (Afghanistan) or an agreement with Rome to push the borders to the Caspian coast, in fact, those places were just to draw a circle and then use them as buffer zones.

Daqin wants to digest the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and he doesn't know how many years it will take, as for the farther places, he can only say that he will draw in first.

Now south of the Tianshan Mountains, there are still two largest forces that have not been controlled by the imperial court, namely Khotan on the southern line and Shule on the central line, not to mention the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and the land west of the Green Mountains is basically still a place that is not controlled by the imperial court.

Luo Cheng plans to find a way to change the land of Khotan, Shule and Bolu south of Kunlun in the next ten years, and set it up as a Zheng County, so that although Great Qin has not been completely stable in the Western Regions, it has at least relied on the Tianshan Mountains, Green Mountains, and Kunlun to build a complete western gate defense line, and the middle of the Daxia River outside the line can slowly advance and encroach.

"Then Rome and Persia are poor ghosts, pretending to be big dogs, and they went to visit the arsenal of our ordnance supervisor and Weiwei Temple, and they also had to buy this and that, and they shouted a lot, but they really had to talk about paying, and they couldn't pay for it."

Cui Junsu said with a look of disdain.

"It's normal to have no money, Persia and Rome are also ruthless, the two countries have been coexisting for more than 400 years, and they have been fighting for more than 400 years, no matter how strong you say, the foundation is almost the same."

"I don't have any money, and I still want to buy my Daqin's ordnance." Cui Junsu originally thought that these two were big countries and must be relatively rich, and the treasury could negotiate a few big orders this time, and make a big profit. In the end, both countries have no money.

"They don't have money and want to buy something, so we can borrow from them."

Cui Junsu almost jumped up when he heard this, "I don't have money to sell them, and I still lend them money?" Aren't we upside down? ”

"Of course, it's impossible to reverse the discount, there is interest on borrowing money, our court didn't pay interest on bonds last time, what was our interest last time."

"Three centiths for a one-year period and five centiths for a five-year term."

"We can also lend money to Persia and Rome, but the borrowed money can only be used to buy my Daqin's ordnance merchants, and the interest can be charged a little more, the annual interest rate can be eight percent or one cent, or one or five or two cents, and the specific can be agreed upon."

As soon as he heard that the annual interest rate was two cents, Cui Junsu was not angry.

"But what if they don't have any money?"

"You can ask them to mortgage it."

"But what kind of mortgage did Persia and Rome take, so far away, and so poor, it was impossible for them to cut a piece of land as a mortgage, right?"

Luo Cheng smiled and told Cui Xiangguo, "Let's say this Persia, he has the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, which is a necessary trade route, and there are many lively port cities along the coast." ”

"Do you want Persia to take the commercial port as a mortgage?"

"No, they will not want to ask for the port city directly, we can ask the Persians to take the right to tax the port, and we will send merchants to be responsible for collecting taxes, and the taxes received will be repaid first, or most of the loans will be repaid, and the rest will be given to the Persians."

Cui Junsu was dumbfounded, can he still operate like this, thousands of miles away, and go to other countries to collect taxes?

"But what if the locals refuse to pay the taxes?"

"Refusing to pay taxes, this is not a big deal, as long as the Persian emperor is willing to admit it, who dares not to pay? Don't pay? Arrest, receive, and tax deduction for goods auctions. Dare to resist and directly transport everyone back to Daqin to be slaves! The emperor said very domineeringly.

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