Chapter 1126. Let the tiger return to the mountain
This idea sounds ridiculous enough, the war to suppress the rebellion of the Arab tribes in East Mesopotamia has just ended, and the tenacious Arabs in the desert have left too deep an impression on the civil and military officials, such a large force is absolutely like a powder keg, but now, Li Jie wants to return this powder keg to the Arabs?
With a solemn face, he stood up again after kneeling, and Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, said with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty thinks twice, there are no less than 200,000 Arab prisoners outside the city, and no less than 50,000 capable soldiers, these mobs are ill-intentioned and hostile to our DPRK, if they are exiled, they will definitely add a strong force to Hussein in Damascus, like a tiger with wings!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the ancient Son of Heaven ruled the people with the royal way and drove the alien race with domineering, Your Majesty's move is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain!" The veteran Xi Junmai couldn't help but stand up. Le-Wen
It is rare for civil and military to have one heart, follow those who kowtow and admonish, and the entire court is in a mess.
I had expected this scene for a long time, sitting on the dragon chair, Li Jie didn't make a sound, waited with a wry smile, it was almost more than twenty minutes, and a large group of people said that they were tired, Li Jie stood up, waved his wide sleeves forward and asked: "Since you can't let it go, what else can you do to deal with these alien prisoners of war?"
He was dumbfounded.
If it is placed in the Tang Dynasty, things will be much simpler, 200,000 captives, casually to various states and counties, the two of them will not be bothered, all of them will be submerged and annexed by the vast China, but this is West Asia, the Tang people are a minority, even if you add the Tianzhu people and Persians of the Tang Dynasty, it is still less than half of the Central Plains, and these unruly Arabs are a scourge wherever they are placed.
In order to shirk their responsibilities, the officials who had just unanimously opposed it were dumbfounded for a while, and they actually fought again, this one shirked to that defense area, and that county that was to be stuffed into this, and they didn't care about the etiquette of the court, and they were very happy to tear their faces and clothes one by one.
The angry imperial historian Li Gang roared, and he couldn't suppress the scene again and again.
The chaos lasted for a while, and Li Jie himself knocked on the dragon chair impatiently, and then the golden gourd warrior in the hall neatly knocked the ground with the handle of the golden gourd hammer and shouted in a low voice: "Silence!!"
The sound of sanitizing can be regarded as restoring order in the court, one by one hundreds of officials are embarrassed to carry their robes and retract their crowns back to their seats, watching this scene of wolves running and chasing tigers, Li Jie himself is also dumbfounded, and the well-dressed doctor has such an embarrassing scene on weekdays, which is too ridiculous.
Finally suppressed the smile, Li Jie just held the dragon chair guard in a serious manner and said loudly.
"Zhu Qing is worried about the society, and the widow is very relieved in his heart, but Zhu Qing just thought that these Arab rebel tribes would become a big help to Hussein, but he didn't think that they would also become a big burden for Hussein's traitors, right?"
"With a population of more than 200,000 people, we are struggling to raise in Damin, how long can Hussein be a poor and barbaric country?"
"Besides, in such a rich place as my country, these Arabs have brazenly rebelled, and if they are driven to Syria to the Hejaz, they will really be able to pacify them?"
Li Jie asked rhetorically, and the ministers who asked were also bright.
If that part of the Arabian Peninsula was enough to feed all the Arabs, there would be no vigorous Islamic expansion, how good is it to live at home, why go out and work hard?
And at this time, Hussein was not as beautiful as when Hou Jie was at the beginning, Egypt became independent, and there was still civil strife recently, it is said that a Shiite named Fatima overthrew the Egyptian caliphate, which was originally close to Hussein, and he could not count on Egypt's grain.
On the other hand, in order to agitate the Byzantine Empire, rich areas such as Antioch were ceded to Constantine IV, and with the chaos of Syria and the vast but barren Hejaz, Hussein had difficulty supporting an army loyal to him, let alone 150,000 old and weak women and children.
However, Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, saluted Li Jie as worriedly as ever and continued to persuade.
"But Your Majesty, what if Hussein jumped over the wall in a hurry and sent troops to rob my Damin?"
Li Ji's worries soon gathered a group of ministers to nod their heads again and again, this is not speculation, the nomads have always used the means, every time they encounter famine and hunger, they will start a war, and transfer the disaster to the farming people, 50,000 Arab light horsemen and locusts are killed, which is a big burden to Damin.
But when it came to this, Li Jie had an unfathomable smile on his face.
"At this point, rest assured, it won't be long before the returning Arab captives will definitely be chaotic!"
Looking at Li Jie's meaningful smile, and hearing about the actions of King Min in the prisoner camp these days, he was stunned, Li Ji finally chose to believe in King Min and retreated silently.
The rest of the ministers were also entangled, but their attitudes must have been loosened, and the debate about whether to stay or let go lasted for almost a day, until the evening, when they were bittersweet, and they were difficult to get through.
These days, the Great Min did have a deep hatred for these Arab rebels who just ate and did not work, and almost the day after the passage of the Great Dynasty, the household department and the military department joined forces and began to expel these Arab rebel tribes.
A family of five was given a camel, only five days' rations, and under the custody of Zuo Xiaowei, more than 200,000 Arab rebel tribes were escorted to the west in turn.
Carrying the last of their pitiful possessions on camels, the men of the Arab tribes walked forward with their annoyed and resolute heads, while the women looked back from time to time in sorrow, the ancestors of these tribes who had entered this rich land decades ago and had now bred two generations, many of whom were born in Mesopotamia, which has replaced the memories of their homeland in the vast desert.
With the ancestral habitat and the holy city in front and their hometown behind them, sorrow and complexity filled the hearts of these Arabs.
However, compared to the complicated feelings of these Arabs, Ctesiphon was empty of thousands of people, and even the former powerful palaces of the former Sassanid Dynasty came from Beijing to watch this scene.
A few decades ago, the rolling iron cavalry killed in the desert shook the Persian Empire's rule for 400 years, and destroyed the Persian Empire in less than seven years.
The grievances and grievances between the two nationalities were vividly expressed in the past ten days of repatriation.
Historically, the Arabs who came out of the desert assimilated most of the ethnic groups in West Asia, so that the main ethnic groups in the Middle East in later generations were Arabs, and the descendants of the Egyptians, Persians, Assyrians, and Sumerians in Mesopotamia who had shed a lot of money in history disappeared completely, and the once splendid and colorful Roman buildings, Persian temples and some relics of ancient Buddhism were also replaced by mosques.
What makes Li Jie even more memorable is the Bamiyan Buddha, so that the vicissitudes of life that have gone through thousands of years of wind and rain cannot escape the fate of becoming victims, and in Li Jie's era, there is no annihilation of mortar annihilation.
But now, with the vast majority of Arabs being deported from Mesopotamia, the process of Arabization has also been inadvertently interrupted by Li Jie.
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A few hundred miles away, Mount Lebanon.
As Li Jie expected, 200,000 Arab relatives in Mesopotamia were also a big burden to Syrian Arabs, and in a few days, countless Arab tribes poured into Syria in vain, forcing the Damascus caliphate court to even set up barriers on the border line to intercept refugees.
At the mouth of the valley, wooden barricades creaked and creaked, crowds of Arab refugees desperately crowded inside, and countless men and women shouted angrily.
"We're also Arabs, so why don't you let us in?"
"The Prophet has given every believer the right to make a pilgrimage to the Holy City, and we will go to the city of Mecca, and you cannot stop us!"
"Get out of the way!"
In the chaotic roar, the sky full of stones and clods was smashed by the angry crowd, but behind the barricades, the same Arab army in Damascus did not give in, one by one Arab soldiers in leather armor pushed the barricades with all their might, and some soldiers drew their bows and drew their swords in their hands, carefully defending.
A round Arab official was still carrying a loudspeaker and screaming desperately at the crowd.
"You are all spies sent by the Min people, don't think that our great caliph doesn't know, you all go back, everyone is safe, otherwise you will be killed!"
In the midst of this shouting, the Damascus soldiers also fiercely drew their swords and roared.
But at this moment, a rush of horses' hooves came from behind, and hundreds of fierce caliphs galloped wildly, and at the forefront of everyone was Hussein, a caliph in a black robe and a silver mask on his face.
Few of the Sultan Caliphs of the chaotic Arab Empire were as simple as Hussein's, and the clothes woven from local homespun cloth were not at all luxurious, even the smallest warlords in the territory were better dressed than him.
However, there are few caliphs as popular as him, Hussein still retains the purity and simplicity of the caliphate during the great expansion, lives in the mosque, eats exactly the same as ordinary Arabs, does everything himself, and relies on leading by example, Hussein has united the fragmented sects around him again.
"Meet the Caliph!"
As soon as they saw the figure of the caliph's forbidden army, even the nervous border guards immediately dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground, and when they saw the sudden scene, they were stunned for a moment, and the Arab tribes in Mesopotamia also knelt on the ground one after another, wailing with a cry.
"Meet the Caliph !!"
Despite the silver mask on his face, Hussein's anger could still be heard in the hasty dismount and the stern tone of his voice.
"Who told you to put up a card to stop our Arab brothers?"