Gao Shun led a raid on the city of Jerusalem, defeating the Roman legions stationed there, and the survivors fled to the area east of the Great Rift Valley.

However, Gao Shun did not continue the pursuit, but after taking the Golan Heights, he first controlled the city of Jerusalem and the fortress of Masada to improve the defense system.

The province of Palestine was changed to Haidong County, Taishou and Du Wei were appointed, and 3,000 senior infantry were stationed in the fortress of Masada, and Qin Guan was ordered to lead 20,000 senior cavalry and 10,000 senior infantry to garrison here.

Qin Guan was very careful, and the army was stationed in the city of Jerusalem west of the Rift Valley, but the scouts were sent to the east of the Abarim Mountains.

Gao Shun led his troops to Alexandria; Gao Wei handed over the fleet to a senior naval attaché, and he had left for Egypt to meet Gao Shun in Alexandria.

At this time, Ma Gui had already easily defeated the Roman legions in the Egyptian provinces, took the Roman provinces, and sent Cao Shan and Xiang Rong to lead 15,000 cavalry and 5,000 senior infantry to continue the westward expedition, and Zhao Xiong led 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry along the Nile River to the south, preparing to receive Upper Egypt and the castles along the way.

After Gao Shun arrived, he first divided the province of Ren Egypt into three counties, divided into Hedong County, Hexi County and Hezhong County; The county of Hexi was governed by Damanhur in later generations; The county of Hedong County was set up in Mansora in later generations; The county of the river was established in the later Tanta.

He also appointed the Taishou and the Commander, and sent the Commander-in-Chief to the neighboring provinces of Quereta and Cyrenaica to the west, each with 5,000 high-ranking infantry and 3,000 high-ranking cavalry.

Subsequently, Gao Shun spent a lot of money to build Alexandria and build a coastal military port, which would become the city directly under the emperor's direct administration and the temporary capital, and was renamed the old city.

Then, a huge fleet was formed.

First of all, ten 3,000-ton warships were purchased from the system, and Gao Shun named them Shenlong warships.

After the system was released, Gao Shun and others were shocked, the volume was too large, the ship had five layers, a high mast, a huge sail, a sharp ramming angle in front, six slapping rods in the front and left, and was equipped with a hundred crossbows.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh, it was really a weapon of war.

Gao Wei was very happy and liked such a large warship.

Secondly, fifty two-thousand-ton warships were released as the escort of the Shenlong warship.

Two hundred boats, four hundred red horse boats, and one hundred other auxiliary vessels of various sizes were released.

After the equipment was completed, Gao Da was overjoyed, and immediately consulted with the Simas on tactics, began to train sailors, mastered warships, and sent ships to patrol the surrounding seas, and all the merchant ships encountered were sunk or captured.

Not only that, but other pirates were also the target of the fleet, which could not only capture supplies, but also train the actual combat experience of sailors.

Gao Shun did not send merchant ships to the Mediterranean Sea at present, and all the merchant ships encountered were owned by the enemy, and striking or capturing the enemy's merchant ships would weaken the enemy's war potential.

After another half a year, Xiang Rong and others sent back the news that they had conquered all the Roman provinces on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

Gao Shun was overjoyed, and sent the Taishou and Du Lieutenants and other officials at all levels to the coastal counties, and arranged for a corresponding number of troops to defend the place.

After Xiang Rong and the others returned, Gao Shun held a grand enthronement ceremony for Ma Gui's second son, announcing the establishment of the Egyptian Empire.

During this time, Gao Shun established a huge new city as the capital in the position between Upper and Lower Egypt, but the royal palace had not yet been built, so the enthronement ceremony was held in the old city.

The location of the capital is on the site of what was later Cairo.

Gao Shun named it Guidu; The side of the city was seven miles long, and the height was five feet and five feet, and a wide moat was built.

The reason why the capital was built inland was mainly to facilitate defense and at the same time strengthen the influence of the inland areas. There are no counties in the area south of this place for the time being, but only county seats, all of which are under the direct jurisdiction of the noble capital Taishou.

During this period, the captured officers and soldiers of the Roman legions, as well as the officials of the provinces and the captured auxiliary legions, were reduced to slavery and were responsible for the construction of the galloping road from the south coast of the Mediterranean to the east coast, the construction of the road connecting the counties, the repair of rivers and irrigation systems, and other basic work.

At this time, the Roman Empire was in turmoil, and they had lost the granaries of Egypt, and their strength was even more damaged. There are also barbarian tribes in the north, the emperor is changing every year, the political situation is extremely unstable, and the senate is powerless about it.

In the surrounding provinces of Syria, there were still three Roman legions, but they had realized the strong strength of the Han army, and with the Qin Pass stationed there, they had already occupied the advantageous terrain, and they did not dare to attack at all.

Moreover, now that the Egyptian Empire had established a powerful navy, and the eastern Mediterranean Sea had become the domain of the Han Chinese, maritime trade and transportation had stopped, which dealt a greater blow to the Romans.

Now the Senate is very embarrassed, they did not expect the Han people's offensive to be so fierce, in just over half a year, they have lost nearly ten provinces, if they want to regain the lost territory, even if they pour the strength of the Roman Empire, they may not be able to defeat the powerful Han people, and there is also the Han people's establishment of the Sabbath Empire in the east, there is an attempt to attack the provinces of Asia and Syria at any time.

No province of the Roman Empire was more prosperous than Syria, with a population of 10 million in the time of Trajan (98-117) and 10.31 million in 1984.

At that time, there were 50 cities in Syria that enjoyed clean drinking water, public baths, underground drainage, clean markets, gymnasiums and stadiums, lectures and music, schools, and art museums.

Damascus, the capital of later Syria, was the oldest city in the region, and it was surrounded by a desert environment where many important trade routes converged. In the bazaars of Damascus, one can see a wide variety of goods from Asia, Africa and Europe, and it is through this thriving market that Chinese silk is sold to Europe

For the Roman Empire, the rich core agricultural areas of Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the provinces of North Africa, scattered throughout the Mediterranean, allowed the empire to gather the wealth and military power to fight back even in the most difficult moments.

Now that Egypt and the surrounding provinces have been lost, if a war were to be waged and the provinces of Syria and Asia were to be lost, the surrounding provinces and the barbarian peoples of the north would take advantage of the situation and quickly destroy the Roman Empire.

The Senate of the Roman Empire finally decided to negotiate with the Han Chinese, otherwise, the Han attack would continue, and it was necessary to use negotiations to stabilize the Han people first, and then have a final decisive battle with the Han after the Roman Empire stabilized the interior and repelled the barbarians.

After all, the Han people came from the far east, and only a few officers and soldiers were sent, and the climate, environment, customs and habits were different from the east, and it was difficult to guarantee the logistics baggage, and being far away from their homeland would also affect the combat effectiveness of the Han officers and soldiers, so the Romans estimated that as long as they gathered their forces, they would easily expel the Han Chinese.