The air suddenly became colder, but fortunately, before Leon came to the western front of the river, several armies had a lot of supplies, so although there were more than 100,000 Persian people, Leon still ensured their use, except for some who were not very accustomed to rice, these Persian people felt that life was only better than before, at least they were now arranged to do no heavier work every day than they had before, so they had recognized Leon as the master, for most people, all they wanted was a stable life, whoever could do it was the master.

"It's almost winter in half a month, right?" Li Ang looked back at the several Anxi Protector officers who had been stationed here and asked, these people are all from the Hezhong bloodline, and they can have today's status, all of which are paid for by loyalty and blood and sweat. Seeing Li Ang's inquiry, one of the highest-ranking commanders among the several people replied yes.

"Looks like it's time to prepare." After receiving an affirmative answer, Li Ang glanced at the Persian people who were still building the city, and muttered to himself, Murong Ke had already taken over the important place behind the Cambyses camp with 50,000 elites, and Pargodes had withdrawn his troops, but he still left 30,000 people stationed there, presumably for his own use, but it didn't matter, thinking of this, he suddenly looked at the officer behind him and asked, "Is there a lot of complaints in the army recently, thinking that this commander is too careful?" Faced with such a question, several officers from Hezhong denied it repeatedly, although the Great Qin soldiers in the past were warlike and crazy, but now is not the past, and the soldiers who grew up in the Chengping era are not so bloodthirsty.

"Go back and tell the soldiers, let them polish their armor, this war is almost over." Looking at several officers who were cautious. Leon smiled at them. So far, everything has been going well, but he is not entirely sure whether Cambyses will be able to surrender without a fight. You have to be prepared for both.

"Father-in-law, it's time to end it." After the officers were gone, Li Cunxiao asked beside Li Ang, to be honest, he couldn't understand that Li Ang and Wang Meng's battle strategy, coming to the river for so long, except after fighting with the two Persian armies that attacked at night. It was all skirmishes between scouts, and now that winter was approaching, he didn't know how to get the 230,000 Persian soldiers on the other side to surrender.

"Yes, the balance of the Persian land has been broken, and if it drags on, it will only be one monopoly." Leon glanced at Yizi and looked into the distance, "Pal Godes is now traveling lightly and hurrying in order to fight for merit. He will die to the death, and within ten days, the king of Upper Persia will surely fall, and when the news arrives. This is my chance to have a showdown with Cambyses. ”

"Cambyses would have surrendered if he had been a man of understanding." Just as Leon spoke. Wang Meng and Li Cunzhi approached from a distance, and after a little bowing, Wang Meng was already facing Li Ang, "My lord, the convoy of the Hedong Chamber of Commerce has arrived, I think we can start building the workshop this winter, and those Persian old and weak can let them go to the workshop to work." ”

"I'll leave this matter to you, but remember that those important things are still in the hands of our own people, and these Persians have not yet converted to our Han family religion." Li Ang nodded, Wang Meng's ability to govern the country was very clear, and now it was almost time to start establishing an advance base in this place connecting Central and Western Asia, and make some preparations in advance for the future great cause, "By the way, how are the tribes in the northwest and the grasslands willing to take refuge in me are arranged?" ”

"There are nearly 500,000 people in the northwest and the steppes who are willing to take refuge under the lord's command, but only 50,000 tribes who have been deeply naturalized will arrive before winter, and then they can live together with the Persians and slowly become sinicized." Wang Meng is extremely familiar with the internal affairs he is in charge of, "The rest of the people will come over one after another from next year to reduce the pressure on logistics." ”

"Also, a letter from Chang'an said that nearly 30,000 poor families who are willing to leave their hometowns and 50,000 Han people of foreign descent have been recruited at Xicheng Wharf, and I don't know how the lord plans to settle them?" Wang Meng said another important thing, Trist has completed the household registration of these people with the help of the family that is good friends with Li Ang in the court, and from now on they are all under the rule of Li Ang.

"Gather the people who know how to work and craft, and the rest teach them to read and write, and within three years, let them move over one after another." Li Ang pondered for a while, and then made a decision, "By the way, send those people under your command to preach among them, remember to say hello to the emperor first, so as not to misunderstand." Since Li Ang came up with the idea of using religion to convert the Hu people, Wang Meng and a group of staff he recruited spent a lot of effort to build a framework and set rules, which made Li Ang very satisfied, after all, now in the whole of Europe, Christianity is on the rise, although Rome has not yet made it the state religion, but sooner or later one day will meet the land.

Li Ang knew quite well what his future foundation would be, and in addition to the support of the Great Qin Empire, the people under him would be unprecedentedly mixed, of which the Han people were only a small minority, and he had to promote their integration, or he would be counted

Family, I'm afraid it won't take a few decades to fall apart, and if you want to get the people together in a short period of time, he can't think of a better way except religion, most of the Han people who are willing to follow him are from a bitter background, and they don't have much to do with culture, but this also has an advantage, they don't have the strong sense of superiority of those wealthy Han people, and they can get along well with those Hu people and outsiders, which can save him a lot of worry, and then rely on them to promote the Han civilization of the entire group.

"Yes, my lord." Wang Meng nodded, "As long as the lord defeats Persia again this time, presumably the emperor will definitely knight you, and then we will be legally justified here." "Wang Meng had a headache dealing with the officials in Hezhong and Wanzhou during this time, and the officials of the Legalist family acted very efficiently, but they were also very stubborn, and the immigration of 50,000 people was finally done by him.

"It's coming!" Li Ang smiled at Wang Meng, and then looked at Li Cunzhi, "What's wrong?" Seeing Li Cunzhi's grim face, Li Ang knew that something was definitely wrong, otherwise, with Li Cunzhi's personality, he would never look so tight on his face.

"Father-in-law, I have been told that the Zoroastrians are planning to send assassins to assassinate you." Li Cunzhi was asked by Li Ang, and said, "The person who told him claimed to be a follower of Zoroastrianism, and he was from Han nationality in Chang'an. ”

"Got it." Li Ang's eyes tightened, it didn't matter if he was assassinated or not, but this Han Zoroastrian believer made him very concerned, because of the strength of Daqin, any foreign religion was regarded as a cult in Daqin, during the founding period, Buddhism from the Han Dynasty suffered a devastating blow, and it was completely eradicated before it could arise, a few temples were demolished, and the monks were ordered to return to the laity, as for those who were stubborn, they were directly regarded as demagoguery and ordered to be beheaded, it can be said that it is almost impossible for foreign religions to preach in Daqin, Especially in Chang'an, there are Jinyiwei and Dongchang, which is even more difficult, but now Zoroastrianism has developed believers in Chang'an, which is really surprising.

"Father-in-law, do you want to..." Li Cunzhi's slender eyes showed a little coldness, Li Ang knew that this righteous son was planning to purge all the Persians to avoid future troubles, but now he had decided to appease those Persians who were abandoned by his own country, and he would not let him do this.

"There's no need, it's just that the Zoroastrian cultist is watching well, don't let him have an accident." Li Ang waved his hand and made a decision. Originally, things should have been decided like this, but the arrival of Huang Yuan, who served as the Judge Advocate General's Office, made things tricky again.

"What?" Hearing that an armory had been attacked, two soldiers had been killed, and five heavy infantry crossbows had been missing, even Leon was furious, "You must find out who did this for me!" Li Ang's voice was cold, there are few people in this world who can assassinate him in person, but the heavy infantry crossbow is different, if all five of them are aimed at him within a hundred steps, even if he is hardly able to protect himself.

In his opinion, those assassins not only wanted to assassinate him, but also wanted to use this incident to make him angry with the Persian people and provoke a popular uprising, which can be described as a wishful thinking, but unfortunately Li Ang was not fooled, after instructing Li Cunzhi to investigate strictly, Li Ang asked Li Cunxiao to strengthen the protection of generals at all levels in the army.

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At night, Li Ang summoned the Zoroastrian believer who reported to Li Cunzhi, it was a middle-aged man of some age, who looked ordinary, but as soon as he entered the account, Li Ang felt the flash of essence in his eyes, and when he looked closely, what stood in front of him was just a somewhat thin man, nothing special, but Li Ang was already alert in his heart.

When Li Ang asked, most of the middle-aged man answered very neatly, but the more so, the more suspicious Li Ang became, this middle-aged man looked ordinary, ordinary to the point of being a little weird, he could be developed into a believer by Zoroastrianism, no matter how he said it, he should be a fanatic, even if this man rebelled at the last moment because he was afraid of death, but the long-formed religious beliefs would not change too much for a while, but in Li Ang's several untraceable temptations, it was proved that this man was not a devout believer.

Li Ang could almost conclude that this man was one of the assassins, and he didn't ask any more questions, but just looked at Li Cunzhi behind the man, almost in an instant, the man launched, as an assassin he saw the killing in Li Ang's eyes, but unfortunately he met Li Ang, and the assassination launched in the front was equivalent to him being sent to death. In a flash of lightning, Leon dodged the man's lunge, and a sharp whip kicked him to the ground, and then he was pointed at by the soldiers in the tent with a knife, and before he had a chance to get up.