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Nisa (present-day village of Bajir 18 km northwest of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan) was the capital of Parthia and a large city of about 110,000 people, mostly Persian, with a small number of Greeks and other ethnic groups.

Today Nissa welcomed a new guest, a group of nearly 100 Romans from afar, the most honorable of whom was a councillor who had come to form an alliance.

Arshak II personally received Roman guests from afar, all because he knew that the Roman Republic was not a small country. On the contrary, he was well aware that the Roman Republic was a powerful state, which had more than once defeated the equally powerful Carthage, and had a deep influence on the Balkan Peninsula.

The Roman Republic had just ended the Second Punic War with the Carthaginians, which was temporarily halted by the defeat of both sides. The Roman Republic, which had reached an armistice with Carthage, needed to recover its losses elsewhere, and they set their sights on the Balkans.

According to Arshak II, it seems that the Roman Republic had just ended a war with the Illyrians in the Balkans, and there is no doubt that the war ended in a victory for the Romans, after all, the Illyrians were honestly still living in the Stone Age, how could they be opponents of the Romans?

Having conquered the Roman Republic on the western coast of the Balkan Peninsula, they set their sights further south in the Balkans, believing that wealthy Macedonia would be a "good" opponent.

The so-called "good" of the Romans is that the Macedonians began to expand around the world very early, and Macedonia's most glorious period was the establishment of a huge empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa, so that it was difficult for Macedonia not to become rich. Now that Macedonia was weakened, it was a good target for conquest, and by defeating Macedonia and bringing it to its knees, Rome would be able to draw enough wealth from the declining country.

Macedonia is indeed in decline, no longer the domineering empire, they are now unable to even deter the surrounding countries, especially the war with Thrace has been defeated again and again, the face of the former overlord has long been lost, if there is still enough wealth to win over the Greek city-states, it is estimated that it will not be able to stop the invasion of the Thracians.

The Romans came to Parthia not to seek an alliance against Macedonia, but for something else, such as Atropane, who was on the side of the Seleucid Empire and was constantly troubled by the Roman allies.

Yes, yes, the Roman Republic knew one thing deeply, they believed that even the strong needed allies, and the stronger they were, the more allies they needed, because the presence of allies could make them not lonely, and they could also borrow the power of allies to reduce more losses when they wanted to gain something.

Now the Roman Republic has not fewer allies, but there are also many enemies. Most of Rome's allies were weaker, and they believed that they would be better able to gain dominance by allying with the weaker side, so that they could do what they were supposed to do in the covenant.

The Roman Republic, which had just finished the war with Carthage, lost a lot of young people, and the Second Punic War caused Rome to lose nearly 230,000 people forever, which is equivalent to the disappearance of nearly one-third of Rome in its prime.

The Roman Republic's armies had not been replenished in the Second Punic War, but they needed to acquire wealth and slaves, so it was feasible to intimidate the small nations into an alliance with them, and then have the armies of the smaller nations fight for their wealth.

At present, the Roman Republic is attacking Macedonia, and according to their expectations, Macedonia will soon succumb to the offensive of the Roman Republic and its allies, so the Roman Republic needs a new goal of conquest, and they have set their sights on the Ptolemaic dynasty.

During the Second Punic War, the Ptolemaic dynasty openly sided with the Carthaginians, providing wealth and mineral resources to support the Carthaginians in their war against Rome. At that time, the Romans had long hated the Ptolemaic dynasty, but for some reason they did not retaliate.

This time the Roman House sent a member of the House of Rome to Parthia, and the alliance with Parthia was only a temptation. If the Roman Republic was able to form an alliance with Parthia, the Romans hoped that the Parthians would temporarily cease their disputes with the Seleucid Empire, i.e., form a temporary truce.

For the truce with the Seleucid Empire, Parthia naturally felt extremely willing, because Antiochus III had already gone berserk, and sent nearly 400,000 infantry to the east, for which Parthia and its ally Bactria concentrated nearly 250,000 infantry cavalry, waiting to resist desperately.

It was incomprehensible to Arshak II that the Roman councillors suggested that after helping Parthia deal with the threat from the Seleucid Empire, Parthia should reciprocate Rome by forming an alliance between the Roman Republic and Parthia after the Parthia kicked Bactria away, and then the Parthia needed to cross the Black Sea to attack Atropne.

Kick away Bactria, a traditional ally? Arshak II had heard that he wanted to pull out the guy who had been showing the elegance of the Roman aristocracy! Isn't the reason why Parthia still exists now is that it has always been friendly and helpful with Bactria that it was able to resist the suppression and counterattack of the Seleucid Empire? Parthia did not have the slightest reason to dissolve the alliance with Bactria, and even because the expansion plan in the East went bankrupt, a "kingdom of God on earth" appeared in the East, and the two sides should be more closely united.

"Look at what this 11-year-old country has done."

"Before the establishment of the state, the emperor rose from a local county and swept through a region called the Yangtze River Valley, and quadrupled his territory in just four years."

"With the basic strength, they wisely did not get involved in the war of the stronger parties, but chose a weaker opponent, a tribe called Baiyue."

"Eleven years later, that emperor defeated countless tribes and races, and he built a vast and populous empire."

Anton Luo. Yapadis felt that he had heard a very absurd story, and that the story was told by the monarch of a powerful country, and the monarch had a palpable look of fear when he told about the Eastern Empire.

A powerful state would always make people who are not part of it feel deeply afraid, and the strength of the empire naturally made Arshak II fearful.

Because Arshak II was afraid, he fought with Eutidemus I. Dios agreed that friendship with the Empire was necessary, but not at all.

The empire was expanding westward, as can be seen from the entry of the empire's armies into the Western Regions. The banner of the empire's entry into the Western Regions was to pursue the Xiongnu prince Maodun, and later said that it was invited by the Wusun people, but after all, it could not change the fact that the empire controlled the southern part of the Western Regions, and according to the empire's consistent temperament, the land occupied could not be given up again.

Arshak II and Ethydemus I. Dios knew that the empire was far away from them now, but it would never be so far away from them forever, and they were willing to work hard to make it even a day late for the territory to be connected.

"Is there really such a country?" Anton Luo. Yapadis's face was full of incredulity: "The territory is the size of fifteen Parthias, and the population of this tribe is nearly forty-five million??? ”

Arshak II smiled wryly and said: "This is no longer the case, it was intelligence from three years ago. According to the latest information, the territory of the Han Empire in the east is already nearly 20 Parthias, and its own population is close to 60 million. ”

"......" Anton Lo. Yapadis was a little confused, he said: "No, no, no, no, there is no such country in the world, and there should never be such a country!" ”

"But there is such a country!" Shocked, Arshak II said: "I have sent four missions to the East, and each one of them has brought me a new and frightening change. ”

Anton Luo. Yapadis, knowing that Arshak II was not joking, his expression was a little glazed. He couldn't imagine what kind of country it should be.

According to calculations, the territory of the Roman Republic should be two and a half times the size of Parthia, and the population is not too different from Parthia, the population of the Roman Republic is more than 700,000 without slaves, and the population of Parthia without slaves is nearly one million.

Oh, my God! The Han Empire of the East? Or what empire? Is it really twenty times the size of Parthia? Then the population is more than 60 million??? This kind of joke doesn't sound funny at all, and it even makes goosebumps pop up all over your body!

The Roman Republic did not have a large population, but they had nearly three million slaves. The large number of slaves was captured or purchased by the Roman Republic during its long exploration, and the number of slaves continued to increase as Rome conquered the Balkans and the Greek peninsula. But......

"Zeus is above! Was it the Han Empire? "Anton Luo. Yapadis finally came back to his senses, and he didn't hide the horror on his face at all: "They wiped out a large race with a population of nearly three million (Baiyue) in nearly fifteen years? And then they waged war against a nomadic people with a population of more than a million people, and now they are about to take over the land that belongs to that nomad? ”

Arshak II wasn't quite sure if the news was accurate, but he was right about Anton Lo. Yapadis nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes, that's right. The reason why I call them the Han Empire is because that emperor first established a kingdom called 'Han' before becoming emperor, and then established an empire. They were indeed at war with a nomadic people called the Xiongnu, and the war seemed to have been going on for almost a decade. ”

Anton Luo. For the first time, Yapadis knew that the Far East was not the end of the world, and that there were peoples and nations large and small. He had not imagined it, but no amount of imagination would have made people imagine that there would be such a country in the world.

The Romans conquered many cities and destroyed many countries, and the countries and nations they destroyed were definitely not enough to count on the fingers of one hand. They loved to expand, to make other nations and peoples wail and despair under the attack of Rome, but even a few hundred years of expansion did not wipe out a million people.

"How much? Fifteen years, a genre with three million will be exterminated??!!! "Anton Luo. Yapadis suddenly forgot that he had come to Parthia in search of an alliance...... The mistake is to take Parthia as cannon fodder and send him to death for the good of Rome. He got up from his seat and shouted, "Three million, that's three million, even if it's three million pigs, it can't be killed in fifteen years, right?" ”

"At first, I didn't believe it." Arshak II continued to smile bitterly and said very seriously: "But that is the truth, not only the people of the Han Empire themselves admit it, but also any ethnic group in the East knows that it is true. Therefore, no one dared to provoke the Han Empire, even the Xiongnu, who were already on the verge of being attacked and lost all their habitats, they were all seeking forgiveness from the Han Empire, begging the Emperor of the Han Empire to release their Shan Yu, and the Xiongnu were willing to be a sword in the hands of the Emperor of the Han Empire to destroy another large tribal alliance that threatened the northeast of the Han Empire for the Emperor of the Han Empire. ”

"A threat to the Han Empire?" Anton Luo. Yapadis grabbed a key word, and he asked, "How to say?" Is it a large tribal alliance similar to the Han Empire in strength? ”

"No, no, no, it's a little frustrating, but the fact is that there is no country in the known world that can match the Han Empire in terms of strength." Arshak II thought for a moment and said: "Donghu, the big tribal alliance called Donghu by the Han Empire, they are a combination of nomadic tribes and mountain tribes, and they can pose a threat to the Han Empire instead of taking a frontal battlefield but attacking. ”

"I'm starting to understand." Anton Luo. Yapadis is worthy of being a mixed politician, even if he is a person who plays politics in 205 BC, the circuit of thought is a bit special. He said: "The Xiongnu wanted to pay the price of blood for the right to survive, and they thought it was far wiser to go to war with the great tribal alliance of Donghu as 'a sword' than to continue to be enemies of the Han Empire." I can even guess that they went to war with Donghu in exchange for permission to migrate without being attacked by the Han Empire. The nomads called the Huns, they were scared, they were indeed scared! ”

Arshak II just thought it was terrible! It is not difficult to defeat a nation, but it is extremely difficult to completely make a nation lose the idea of being an enemy of it, and that should be the crushing of all aspects, with the most powerful strength, not to talk about conspiracies and tricks, and to use upright strength to make that nation feel the despair of the depths of the soul.

"So......" Anton Lo. Yapadis really forgot the plan of coming to Parthia in the first place, and he asked, "How long will it be before the Han Empire will appear?" ”

Arshak II was silent for a long time, a full ten minutes or so, before replying: "I don't know ......" (to be continued. )