By the time of May, the whole of Asia was in an unprecedented state, the Arabs were unable to advance in front of the red fortresses, while the Roman navy was still holding back the Great Qin fleet and the army of the Dragon City, Asia Minor, Chen Qingzhi and Ran Min, mainly Spartans and Macedonians, swept through the small countries that nominally defected to Leon and truly incorporated them into the territory, and at the same time, the Greeks returned to the arms of the Romans. The civic representatives of the former parliament became hereditary nobles canonized by the Romans, while those who rebelled were killed under the suppression of the Romans, and many scholars began to flee to Asia Minor.

On the beach, Chen Qingzhi looked at the Roman fleet on the sea, with a helpless face, at present, in terms of military strength, they are only on par with the Romans, especially in the navy, they are not as good as many, the warships built in Daqin will not be launched until three years later, and they will not be able to have a fleet that surpasses the Roman navy until four years later.

"Yongzeng, it looks like we're going to have to stay here for four years." Chen Qingzhi sighed and looked at Ran Min beside him, they were at a disadvantage in the navy, it was difficult for them to attack the mainland of the Romans, and now after the Romans regained Greece, they could launch an attack on Asia Minor at any time.

"It's only four years, and it's gone by in the blink of an eye." Ran Min smiled, in the past two years, he has been revered by the Spartans like a god, and his temperament has become more and more calm, and his original hot temper has changed a lot.

In the city of Xijing, there are nobles, scholars, craftsmen and merchants of the original ethnic groups from all over Asia. They had all fled to the Tang Kingdom to escape the tyranny of the Romans, and Leon accepted them all, and in his opinion, national integration was limited to the elite of these foreign races, and he only needed to be kind to these few people. As for the others, he is not responsible for this.

Since April, there has been an endless stream of Han Chinese migrating from the Great Qin region, many of whom have been forced, but Li Ang can't control so much, he only knows that he needs more Han Chinese to occupy the land and intermarry those foreign women.

In the palace, Wang Meng reported to Li Ang about the tax situation in the past year. As a result of the mercantile policy, although the tax rate charged to the former Persian merchants was reduced, the tax payment was much higher, and the merchant tax alone still had a surplus of nearly 60 million gold baht after deducting various expenses. Note, the gold baht that Li Ang received from the Chang'an family was not included in the national treasury, and all of it was used as military expenses for the war with the Romans.

"It's not a good thing to keep too much money and not use it." After listening to Wang Meng's report, Li Ang said in a deep voice, "Leave 30 million gold baht for backup." The remaining 30 million gold baht was used as a bounty. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Meng's eyes were cold, he knew that Li Ang's plan had finally begun, the golden baht was replaced, and at present, Li Ang was selecting soldiers from the Han people who had migrated to replace the excessive number of Hu soldiers in the current army, of course, those Hu soldiers who had been eliminated had two choices. The first is to take not too many but not too few soldiers to return to the field, to be a good citizen, and the second is to go to the enemy country to hunt for human heads, ten gold baht for adult men, five gold baht for young women, and the other one, if it is a soldier of the regular army of the enemy country, the head price of an adult man is doubled.

"In the future, half of the surplus tax paid each year will be used to do this." When Wang Meng left. Leon also instructed that in the case of his current loss of sea dominance, it would be best to use gold baht to create a mercenary army to hunt for human heads.

For Li Ang's order of 'exchanging heads for gold baht', it was very popular with the soldiers of the Dihu people. The reason why they were eliminated was not because they were too useless, but because it was difficult for them to have the same steel-like discipline as the Han people, they were all used to being free, before joining the Tang ** team, many of them were also soldiers, but at that time they were closer to the robbers in Li Ang's eyes, and now Li Ang gave them a clear way to get rich and follow their own temperament, they naturally would not object. As a result, only a few of the 100,000 Hu soldiers who have been laid off in the past year have chosen to go home to live a peaceful life.

Because the navy is at a disadvantage compared with the Romans, so the last retired Hu soldiers can only cross the Persian Gulf by boat, enter the peninsula, and hunt the Arabs, but because of the previous Murong military land, the Arabs are very defensive, and it is very difficult to succeed, but despite this, nearly 100,000 Hu soldiers are divided into hundreds of groups of thieves to wreak havoc on the peninsula, which makes the Arabs also a big headache.

So from June, the Arabs fell into an unprecedented predicament, in addition to those Hu soldiers who were laid off, in the territory of the Tang State, some poor Persians also started the idea of hunting for human heads, because there is no limit to the number of people in the exchange of gold and baht for the head of Leondi, so the men in some of the popular areas of Persia are in groups and voluntarily go to the recruitment centers in the coastal areas, and voluntarily become mercenaries to go to the peninsula to make a fortune, usually with 300 people as the smallest team, and there will be Han officers to follow the team, to

If the head is killed in battle, the bounty will be transferred to the family.

In less than half a year, in addition to the 100,000 Hu soldiers who were laid off, 150,000 Persians also entered the peninsula one after another and engaged in headhunting. In this way, the whole peninsula was completely plunged into blood, and the Arabs in order to cope with this situation, they also learned from Leon, and the caliphs and nobles took out a large amount of gold baht as a bounty to encourage all the Arabs to resist and go to the Tang State to take revenge, so the coastal areas near the Persian Gulf of the Tang Kingdom were subjected to the bloody revenge of the Arabs, and in this situation of mutual headhunting, the Persians and the Arabs formed a mortal enemy.

Due to the attack on the homeland, the Arab army withdrew from the border before winter, and Murong Ke should have taken advantage of the situation to pursue and kill, but due to Leon's orders, he and Helian Bobo remained in the fortress, responsible for defending the Arabs for the Jews. Of course, the Jews, though known for their commercial prowess, were not very good at war, but Leon's exchange of heads for gold baht made them realize how powerful the weapons and money they had.

So in order to settle the Arabs, a neighboring country that posed a threat to them, the Jews sent the news to the conquered Egyptians, and they paid for the heads of the Arabs, thirty gold baht each, which was higher than that of Leon, but they did not suffer too much, after all, it was the elite troops of the Arabs who suppressed the Egyptians.

Money can make the devil grind, so the Egyptians who were suppressed by the Arabs were brave and ruthless and did not submit to the rule of the Arabs rose up to resist, and the Egyptians who had fled to Asia Minor also began to return to the country, with the weapons borrowed by the Jews and killed, so that the Arabs who remained in Egypt soon had a hard time, they would always be attacked by the locals, and some of the troops and garrisons out of the city were even wiped out in places with a small number of soldiers, and all the heads were cut off. It must be mentioned here that the Jewish merchants are known as blood-sucking scoundrels, and after the Jewish merchants paid for the purchase of Arab heads from the Egyptians as a reward, these heads were useless. , and then resold to the nobles and generals of their own country, so that they could be used as heroes on their triumphant return from Egypt.

The practice of Jewish merchants soon spread to the Tang state, and the same shrewd Persian merchants began to do the same, and they began to buy Arab heads for the convenience of those who wanted to be heroes in the country. Leon turned a blind eye to this, but he still took taxes from the second sale of the man's head, and all the gold baht was used to pay for the survivors of the Arab reprisals in the coastal areas.

This cruel method that Li Ang came up with was quickly used on the Romans, through Asia Minor, Cui Hao personally led people into the eastern part of the Hercynian Sea, and announced this headhunting order to those Germanic barbarians, as the old opponents of the Romans, the Germanic barbarians gladly accepted it, although they only accepted the rule of the Romans the year before last, and signed a treaty, and even became mercenaries of the Romans, but under the headhunting order of Li Ang, they rebelled against the Romans without any scruples, Because Leon's headhunting orders included civilians and soldiers, men, women, and children, as long as they were Romans, which was a wonderful thing for the Germanic barbarians, and Leon gave them far more wealth than the Romans paid for their hiring.

So not long after the Romans had celebrated their return to Greece without a single sword or shot, the Germanic barbarians on their western frontier rebelled again, and as in the past, these barbarians had broken the treaty that had not been signed for a long time without faith, and they were more ferocious than ever, leaving nothing alive wherever they passed.

"Damn." In the royal palace in Rome, Constantine was furious, he didn't expect Leon to make a mess on his side just by spending a little money, "It's all waste, what's the use of raising you!" Constantine looked at several henchmen of the double-headed eagle unit in charge of intelligence, and scolded with a face, he was angry that this time on the western border, those barbarian rebellions were simply launched at the same time as a discussion, but he didn't get any news here, resulting in several important towns on the border being breached, and the casualties were extremely serious.

After scolding, Constantine's anger finally became a little less, but he released cruel words to his henchmen, "If there is a next time, you don't have to come to see me." ”

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Looking at those retreating henchmen, Constantine looked to the east with hatred, his enemy made a surprise move, so that his most worthy general Julius had to go to the west to clean up those Germanic barbarians, in this way, the original attack plan was all nullified, and within two years, he could not make a move against the Tang State, this frustration made him very angry.