Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said to Babula: "This king has accepted these things!" The king will promise to allow you to be vassal to the king, and the king will promise to bless you. However, there are two conditions that I want you to accept! ”

Babura hurriedly said, "The king, please speak!" ”

"First, this king needs slaves, especially slaves in the prime of life, if you take prisoners when you attack other tribes, or if one of your people commits a crime, this king wants you to give these people to this king, and this king can exchange food, goods, and weapons, but the price will not be too high, but this is also an income, you say?"

At this time, the Mordovans did not use money at all, and all transactions were bartered, which is why they had little contact with the outside world and did not know about gold ore. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Babra immediately agreed: "King, if we attack other tribes, all the captives we capture will be killed, and if anyone in the tribe makes a mistake, they will also be put to death, if the king needs these people, of course we are willing to exchange with the king!" I wonder what the king's second condition is? ”

Zhao Ziliang took the piece of gold ore just now and said: "It's this thing, this king needs it, a lot!" This king does not want you in vain, this king can also exchange with you with food, other daily necessities, weapons and arrows, but you can only exchange with this king, not with other people, if you let this king know that you exchange this kind of thing for other people, this king will be angry, and this king will die a lot of people when he is angry, understand? ”

"O king, you are an honest man, and you have promised to exchange goods with us, while the Slavs to the west and the Eastern Romans to the south have often sneaked into our territory to dig up this stone, and they sometimes attack our lands and tribes to get it!" You are very different from these robbers, you are the first to offer to exchange goods with us, you are noble and great, and Babula and all Mordovans admire your virtues! On behalf of the king of my people, Babra has promised you that we will only trade with you and no one else! ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled, feeling a fever on his face, "Ahem・・・・・・ okay!" Since you Mordovans submit to the king and promise to trade only with the king, the king will protect you, and the king will send a troop of soldiers and horses into your territory to help you resist the invasion of the enemy, this army will not interfere with your life, and if you are invaded by other foreign tribes, you can ask the general of this army for help! ”

Babula was overjoyed and saluted again and again: "Thank you, King!" ”

Obtaining a gold mine is a surprise for Zhao Ziliang, if the gold mines in the territory of the Mordovans are large enough and the reserves are rich enough, the Western Qin Dynasty will no longer lack gold for a long time after that, and even continue to further reform the currency value, and issue paper money with a large number of gold reserves as the backing, but it is still a little difficult to issue paper money with the current paper technology, on the one hand, the quality of the paper is difficult to assume the responsibility of currency, and on the other hand, the printing technology has not yet reached the level of later generations. However, it is feasible to launch a golden ticket, that is, a large denomination of golden tickets, there are few such things, each one is recorded, and it is very difficult to imitate it.

When the Mordovans left, Zhao Ziliang sent 3,000 soldiers and horses to follow him, and they were stationed in Mordovia for a long time, rotating every two years.

After sending away the Mordovans, Zhao Ziliang remembered that there were still two Eastern Romans who had not yet been dealt with, and more than 12,000 captives were still hungry, so he called Xuan Shiyi and asked, "How are the two Eastern Romans and more than 12,000 captives hungry for a few days?" Is there any noise and shouting? ”

Xuan Shiyi said: "King, they are so hungry that they don't even have the strength to speak, how can they still call and make noise?" ”

"Look at this man, he still has to starve him, and when he is hungry to a certain extent, he will be honest! Go and bring those two Eastern Romans to me, and from today onwards, the captives will only be given one meal a day, two small steamed buns, as long as they don't starve to death!" ”

"Yes, King!"

When people are very hungry, what reason, dignity, face, integrity, and so on are thrown out of the clouds, when Hetius and Magath were brought into the big tent and saw two bowls of rancid gruel on the ground, they immediately rushed over desperately, picked up the bowls and began to eat them heavily, and the appearance of snatching food was the same as that of an animal.

After eating the two bowls, he kept licking the mouth of the bowl and the inside of the bowl with his tongue, hoping to lick a little more porridge water, until he was sure that he could no longer lick anything.

Zhao Ziliang did not meet directly with Hetius and Magat, he hid aside to watch the performance of the two, and waited for the two to finish eating before he instructed Wang Can: "From today on, only give these two people a bowl of rancid gruel like just now every day, separate them, separate them, and give them a cruel torture every day, what kind of soldering iron, leather whip, tiger chair, nail pulling, tickling, etc., as long as it is not crippled and killed, you can use it for them, and change it every day with something fresh!" When they completely lose their dignity and will, let them tell them everything they know about the situation of the Eastern Roman Empire, and then assign them a task, send them back to Constantinople, send someone to keep an eye on them, and someone must contact them and report all the relevant information they have collected about the Eastern Roman Empire! ”

Wang Can hugged his fists and said: "The last general understands!" ”

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Zhao Ziliang led his army south to advance towards Samandar. On the tenth day of the first month, the army arrived at Samandar, just as Zhao Hu was leading the army to attack Samandar.

The walls were not very tall, and there were some large buildings in the Byzantine style, which were clearly built by the Byzantines with the help of the Khazars!

Tens of thousands of troops surrounded Samandar, a siege ladder was erected on the city wall, siege catapults and ballistae kept firing stone bullets and fire oil bombs, countless Thorn Zimo soldiers, Oghuz soldiers climbed up along the ladder, there were arrows and stones smashed down, the siege of the city Thorn Zimo soldiers and Oghuz soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they were obviously not good at siege warfare, but Zhao Hu didn't care, he only cared about whether he could break through Samandar.

After five days of resistance, the walls were crumbling, several catapults and ballistas smashed large gaps, and the army of Huathornzimo and Oghuz rushed into the city fiercely, and Zhao Hu did not give the order to stop them from slaughtering the Khazars and other people in the city.

The Khazar nobles were almost all concentrated in Samandar, and the Khaezars and Oghuz rushed in and carried out a mass massacre of them, and these Khazar nobles and royal families were slaughtered, and many foreigners were also killed.

On July 11, Zhao Ziliang found Zhao Hu and instructed: "It's almost, kill and kill dogs, and rob enough." Ordered the Flower Thorn Zimo soldiers and Oghuz soldiers to collect their troops and return to the camp, and the city was taken over by the Western Qin army, from now on, it was ordered that the soldiers should not kill people at will, and everything should be done in accordance with the laws of the Western Qin! ”

Zhao Hu clenched his fists and agreed: "Yes, king!" ”

Zhao Hu said to Zhao Lei beside him: "Remember, in order to completely occupy a country and race, you must first carry out a barbaric conquest, completely destroy their resistance forces, and scatter their last trace of courage!" And then the rule of civilization will be implemented! To make a simple generalization, it is to barbaric conquest, the domination of civilization! ”

Zhao Lei saluted: "Yes, the child remembers!" ”

With the fall of Samandar, marking the destruction of the Khazar Khanate, the Western Qin army completely occupied the territory of the Khazar Khanate, but this also caused the vigilance of the Great Food State and the tension of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine V was worried that the Crimean Peninsula on the northern shore of the Black Sea was attacked by the Western Qin army, so he quickly sent a legion to Crimea by boat to increase the defense force there, but Zhao Ziliang had no intention of starting a war with the Eastern Roman Empire at this time, which was not beneficial to both sides.

In August, after more than a month of starvation, more than 12,000 Khazar captives were starved to the bone, and more than 1,000 died of weakness.

Zhao Ziliang instructed Xuan Shiyi: "It's time, get ready, this king will go to meet these captives tomorrow!" ”

"Yes, King!"

On the fifth day of August, Zhao Ziliang came to the prisoner camp set up in Samandar outside the city, and 11,000 Khazar prisoners were hit.

Zhao Ziliang stood on a high place and spoke loudly to all the captives, and a Khazar man translated beside him.

"There is good news to tell you, this king is going to form a slave army, the slave army is composed of slaves and prisoners of war, you were once the enemy of this king and Western Qin, you should all be executed, but God has the virtue of a good life, this king gives you a chance to survive, whether you can catch it, it depends on your own ability! Those who are willing to be loyal to the king and fight for this king will stand still, and those who are not loyal can stand still and stand on the right side, and you will be sent to work as coolies, without food and clothing, but you can live in peace, and those who are willing to be loyal to this king, you will be organized into the army of slaves, and you will exchange your loyalty and military exploits for food, money, women, and even freedom and power! After killing an enemy, you can eat enough every day; Kill two or more enemies, and you can exchange the enemy's head for money; Kill more than five enemies, you can exchange human heads for women, and you have the right to have children! Kill more than ten enemies, you can be free, become a free man or choose to join our Western Qin Army, become one of us, and enjoy all the benefits and rights that other soldiers of the Western Qin Army can enjoy; Kill more than fifteen enemies, you can become an official, the more enemies you kill, the greater the credit, the more you will get, the higher your status will be! ”

After more than a month of starvation, the will of these Khazars has long been exhausted, and they themselves have no integrity to speak of, but there are actually 10,000 people who are willing to pledge their allegiance to Zhao Ziliang and join the slave army.