Chapter 490 [How many steps do you need to take to move the 100,000 army to Persia?] Next] the third update
In 356 B.C., someone is destined to become the darling of the times, and someone is destined to become a loser; And their fate will be closely linked to a person named Bai Dong, because this person is happy, because this person is sad, and they are happy or regret their original choice.
There was a man named Abu Hasan Xerxes, who was waiting anxiously at the moment in the Jade Dragon Jie Chicheng, who was in the flower thorn Zimo; Compared to his cousin Kodoman, Abu Hassan, who also had noble blood, had higher ideals, a more intelligent mind and a more 'benevolent' heart.
Kodoman was a tyrant, and his favorite thing to do was to kill the rebels and hang them from a tree, and after the 'Rebellion of Substitution' more than 30 years ago, it was he who uprooted the Empire's Bagoas, and the corpses hanging from the trees were drained from Susa for dozens of miles, so that the farmers in the countryside knew that a brutal massacre had just taken place in the imperial capital. Abhassan, on the other hand, was much more merciful, he did not like to kill, and his only hobby was to whip those beautiful slave girls, because his methods were so ingenious that the beaten slave girls not only did not hate him, but often fell madly in love with him.
Abu Hassan's bad luck was not chosen by Bagoas, but his reputation was too good, compared to the brutal Kodoman, he was simply the 'Eight Wise Kings' of the Persian Empire.
For a man like him, Kodoman was not prepared to let him go, and on several occasions he had already been taken into the palace, but under the pressure of several provincial governors, he had to release him; In one of the most dangerous secret arrests, Kodoman wanted to quietly execute Abhassan while the governors of the provinces did not find out, but he forgot that his cousin was still a very attractive man, and that his closest female ruler actually fell in love with Abu Hassan, and covered Abu Hassan's escape with his life.
After escaping to Huathornzim and meeting his old friend Alibaba, Abu Hassan wanted to persuade Alibaba to fight steadily, first completely stabilize the situation in Huathornzim, and then encroach on the nearby small and medium-sized tribes little by little, and wait until he was 100% sure to plunder the rich Western Regions, but Alibaba was too arrogant to occupy the Western Regions and invade China in one fell swoop. As a result, his army of 80,000 was finished, and even his head was cut off by the Qin people, by the way, it was not a Qin person who cut off his head, but a Yiqu exiled nobleman who had not been in the arms of the Qin people for a long time, and he was a foreign friend of Alibaba.
Now anyone who mentions Muxijing Abu Hasan will be red-eyed, and he also had a relationship with Muxijing, who had studied in Persia, for a period of time when he was Susa, but he never thought that it would be this kid who betrayed Ali Baba at a critical moment, and at the same time took away his chance to take revenge!
"Damn Qin Ren, damn Mu Xijing, and that Xijun Baizi, what's the difference between him and Kodoman? All of them are my worst enemies! ”
In the luxurious courtyard given to him by Ali Baba, Abu Hassan drank too much wheat wine and began to whip his slave girls; The female slave has a good figure, her skin is the same color as his favorite wheat wine, and every time the whip falls, she will let out a low and seductive moan~ moan, which makes any man can't help but listen to it. Abu Hassan, too, threw away the leather whip and took off his pants, and pressed the female slave's buttocks with both hands ~ and began to push happiness, as if only by doing so could he temporarily hope for those unpleasant things.
Soon after Alibaba's death, the city was soon torn apart, and now the city is full of thieves, robbers, exiles, slave traders, and even Rong and Chinese merchants from the East, calculating, attacking, creating chaos and trying to fish in troubled waters in this chaotic city full of danger but opportunity; In this city, people die inexplicably every day, but every day more people pour in to continue this dance of death. Don't count on the soldiers of the thorn zim at all, they are now more terrible than the robbers.
Abu Hassan felt that his ideals were shattered, which was completely different from what he had envisioned. His good friend Ali Baba was a man of great talent, and with his help, Khedazm would have had the power to rival Susa in a few years, and if his noble Xerxes lineage were added, perhaps Kodoman's Immortal Legion would not have been able to prevent him from landing on the throne of the Persian king.
Persia is old, and Abu Hassan saw the crisis of the Persian Empire ten years ago, with its overly brutal central government and unruly governors? If the major provinces that are half restless like the slave girls are allowed to develop like this, one day this huge empire will completely collapse, and the only way to save the Persian Empire is for him to become the king of Persia! In his opinion, no one would be more qualified than himself except Xerxes III, who had been imprisoned for decades.
After Ali Baba's death and annihilation, Abu Hassan tried to gather the governors who supported him, but he soon found out that the Immortal Legion had raised the butcher's knife, and the small provinces that supported him had already fallen into chaos for years or even more than ten years. Often, the governors' replies were still halfway through before they had their heads cut off by Kodoman's Immortal Legion. Because the most powerful province in the East, Flower Thorn Zim, lost its master, and the unscrupulous Immortal Legion plunged Persia into the Dark Ages at least ten years early.
Wheezing like a cow, the slave girl under him was already a little overwhelmed, but Abu Hasan seemed to have no intention of stopping, as if to vent all his frustration, until his butler held the letter from Lydia, and he reluctantly let the poor slave girl go.
"The Cambyses family of Lydia is a bunch of cowards! They had the richest land and cities, so why couldn't they build up a large army to resist Susa? Have you really forgotten the hatred of your family? They just don't understand that working with me will be an opportunity, and only this bunch of fools will see the opportunity as a disaster! ”
After opening the letter and reading it a few times, despair filled Abhassan's heart, and the last hope was dashed, will he, the ambitious descendant of the Ferxes, continue to wander and then dream of a day when he will rise? This idea is a bit unrealistic and too slim to look at.
"Master, there is another gentleman who wants to see you, and he seems to be very sincere, carrying a dozen fine war horses, as well as gorgeous silk from the East."
"A guest from the East? Why did he say it now, did he say who he was? Abhassan was slightly stunned, he had many friends in the Persian Empire, and even Greece had his old friends, but he didn't have friends in the East, the East was either the Western Regions or China, this person brought more than a dozen war horses, could it be that the Western Regions Zhurong sent him?
"This man said his name was Sun Bin, and said that the owner must have heard his name"
"Sun Bin!"
Abhassan actually doesn't know much about the East, and even if he has some knowledge, he heard it indirectly from Mu Xijing, but the name Sun Bin is like thunder. R1152