The young nobleman was Aladdin Arslan, the son of the Governor of Khamizm/King Ajith.

This is a son who is very popular with Ajisi. If the 'kingdom' of the Thorn Zim can be passed on safely, Arslan is the last person who may inherit the throne of Ajith.

The reason for Arslan's trip to the Central Plains is simple: to see China with his own eyes.

Jerodashi had already entered the Ghaznavid dynasty, who sent a signal for help to the Seljuk Empire, and Sultan Sanjar gave the task to the Khaezimi, much to the delight of Ajith.

It's chilling.

The Ghaznavid dynasty responded to the Seljuk call to participate in the holy war, and now the Seljuks have abandoned it.

Isn't it just abandonment? In Ajisi's mind, Sanjar ruthlessly abandoned the Ghaznavids in times of crisis. He didn't want to get into trouble for himself, or even set himself on fire.

But he couldn't turn a blind eye to Sanjar's orders.

Then, it is necessary to seriously understand China, rather than just from the mouths of businessmen.

As for the cashmere coat beside Arslan, this is a celestial merchant from Bukhara. After the defeat in the Battle of Talas, the entire territory of the Western Qarakhanid was in chaos, and a large number of Western Qarakhans fled into the Seljuks. Among them is the man in front of him.

The Flowery Zm had no idea that he had secret ties to China, but he was not an agent of the Espionage Division. The relationship between the two is only that of business partners. He can get some security in terms of life and wealth, as long as he can quietly exert a 'positive' influence on Arslan.

The stubbornness of faith Emperor Lu was deeply understood.

Conquest by force is easy to achieve, but conquest of the soul is very difficult.

When the Celestial Empire conquered Sassanid Persia, its sphere of influence and the influence of its beliefs were rapidly expanding, and when it came to conquering and ruling the conquered lands, the Celestial rulers had a very clear belief that the source of their strength lay in the Celestial Religion, and that the conquered peoples would not oppose the rule of the Celestial Religion if they believed in the Celestial Religion. As a result, the conquerors of the Celestial Empire forced the peoples of Central Asia under their occupation to change their original beliefs, forced the local population to accept the new faith, and destroyed the culture and customs of the peoples they conquered, in order to consolidate their rule in this way.

As the Bukhara historian Narshahi put it: "The inhabitants of Bukhara converted to the Celestial Religion every time the Celestial army came, but as soon as they left, they betrayed the faith." Kutaibal converted them to Celestial Religion three times, and when he left, they became pagans three times. "At that time, many indigenous peoples of Central Asia converted to religion in order to evade taxes. The indigenous nobles who surrendered also formally converted to the Celestial Sect. Although the results were not great at the time, these measures of Kutaiba laid the foundation for the long-term rule of the Heavenly Sect in Central Asia in the future.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the Heavenly Sect has long ruled the souls of all ethnic groups in Central Asia, and Buddhism, Manichaeism, etc., can only survive and breathe.

Akbar didn't see anything wrong with this deal, and compared to the betrayal of faith, he just made a good deal with the Chinese.

Young Arslan's fear of China is growing. From Gaochang to the Hexi Corridor, these places were brought under the rule of Lu Qi for a longer period of time, a large number of Han people were moved here, patches of farmland were opened up, roads and water conservancy projects were everywhere, and the Hexi Corridor, which had been desolate in the hands of the party members, was revitalized.

The dense population and the endless stream of caravans made Arslan think that he had come to the southern shore of the Khazar Sea [Caspian Sea]. It's just that here are mountains on both sides, not like the Khazar Sea, where there are mountains on one side and water on the other.

Entering the Hetao area along the Hexi Corridor, which is the key business place of Lu Qi, inheriting the 'mantle' of the party people, the prosperity of the entire Hetao is obviously better than that of the Hexi Corridor.

And when they entered the Guanzhong area, this is the traditional sense of the Middle Earth Han land.

Prosperous cities, prosperous towns, densely populated villages. Entering here, Arslan felt as if he could redefine what it meant to be densely populated.

In the Flower Thorn and Seljuk, those who can't see the endless farmland in front of them at all, and those who have not seen this scene in front of them do not understand how powerful the endless green is to give people.

Don't look at the Persian region, which has nurtured a splendid civilization since ancient times, but the daimyo of the Persian plateau in later generations is also very loud. The vast majority of the area there has a subtropical continental steppe and desert climate, with large temperature differences, little rainfall, and most of the water comes from alpine precipitation. Agriculture, settlements, and communication routes are limited by terrain and water sources, and most of them are concentrated in the foothills and valleys.

How did Arslan and his retinue see such an endless plain? Although the 800-mile Qinchuan River has now entered the stage of fertility degradation, it still shocks Arslan.

As a people who are both agrarian and nomadic, Arslan is well aware of the power of the endless farmland in front of him.

This is enough to support a professional army of hundreds of thousands of people, and if you look at the previous Qi army, it seems to be a powerful force that can destroy the entire Heavenly World.

Villagers carrying knives and guns, bows and arrows. They have seen so much all the way from the Hexi Corridor.

Merchants drove cattle and horses, and drove heavy wagons to transport large quantities of supplies to distant places.

A lot of people have weapons on them! From the common swords, guns, bows and arrows, to the very well-made armor and cloth armor, and even some of the banner village soldiers have terrible guns. It's just that if these people are concentrated, they will be a powerful army. But in China, they are just ordinary people. Those knives, guns, armor and guns are 'folk weapons' that are recognized by the Chinese government as being owned by the so-called common people and civil society groups.

Arslan thought it was incredible, even if swords, guns, bows and arrows were enough, could armor and guns also be held by the people?

Armor and cloth armor, this is the armor that only the elite cavalry of the Celestial World can equip. Such an elite, the flower thorn model was only more than 10,000 steps in its heyday. And raising the gun played an unparalleled deterrent effect in the Battle of Talas......

Now what appeared in front of him was such a result - civil weapons?

This powerful empire has to be restrained and managed even when it is convenient for people to pee, and it is obviously not powerless to restrain the civil forces. And since they have the ability to restrain the civilian force, they allow the civilian forces to possess such heavy weapons as armor and guns, which means that these civilian forces do not pose any threat to the rule of the empire at all.

Arlans thought of the Eight Banners who were rampant in the Ghaznavid Dynasty, and the force of those Eight Banners did not seem to be much stronger than these civilian forces.

In this way, he thought of a conclusion that had plunged him into deep fear.

- Does that mean that just now these Chinese civil forces can defeat the jihadist army organized by the heavenly countries with their elite forces?

Arlans's whole body was trembling and trembling. What made him especially sad was that he learned from Akber that the Guanzhong Province in front of him was only the most barren province in China's Middle Han Dynasty......

The devastating blow to his soul made his whole person lose his will, as if he was autistic.

The entire caravan, and many of the thorn people in it also became more and more frightened. Many people have been silent for a long time.

This strange country is too big and too strong!