Click, click.

The shovel continued to 'insert' into the solid soil, a big pit was dug in a blink of an eye, and the little boy who almost asked for Li Jie's name was pushed with fear and despair, not only him, but also eleven 'Bo' nobles who followed him, more than 300 men and 'women' old and young, and the neighborhood of Basra was distributed according to clans and tribes, and one piece was just a big family, and none of them ran away.

"Antigonus, you bastard, you should let you die with your bastard father!"

"Spare my life, I, Usti, support the Celestial Empire, who doesn't know this Basra City!"

But not everyone is willing to die, and there is infighting among the death row inmates, insulting and scolding each other, begging for mercy, if they are not tied together, maybe they all fight, but unfortunately, the Praetorian Guards in charge of the execution have no pity at all.

These 'bastards' almost murdered the heavens of the Min Kingdom, and anyone with this bloodline deserves to die!

This assassination made Li Jie understand two important things, the first is that he is here to conquer, so don't expect the locals in the conquered area to be like the Chinese people who are obedient and supportive to themselves, and they must not be soft when they should be suppressed with iron and blood.

The pit was dug and the death row prisoners were pushed, and the Praetorian Guard violently kicked them all in, and the little boy was directly crushed to the lowest level, and he covered it with a spade of soil, and all the angry scolding turned into a pleading......

The soil filled the pit, and a little wriggling could be seen, and the guards of the Fujian Kingdom took out the cement and smoothed the top, this terrifying and desperate way of dying, not only the nearby neighborhood of the 'Bo' Si clan 'Mao' was terrifying, but also frightened a large group of fat people nearby who were sweaty, two trembling, and a few 'desires' to go first.

It's really like things to gather people in groups, many of the relatives of the assassin boy are handsome men, and they are all male god standards in later generations, and the 'Bo' merchant who surrendered in Kaesong, his relatives and friends are all fat, fat and oily, seeing that the road surface was blocked by cement, a group of fat people sadly grabbed the fat man who surrendered in Kaesong, and roared with desperate blood red eyes: "Chen Guanxi, what did you do to anger the Celestial Empire?" Let the Supreme King capture us all! ”

"We are willing to give all our possessions and beg the King of Min to spare my life!" Some fat businessmen have not recovered from the terrifying 'yin' shadow until now, and simply knelt on the ground and begged for mercy with weak legs.

The first time he went to Chang'an, he lived in a merchant surnamed Chen, and the hat he wore was still Western-style, so he was called Chen Guanxi, but at this time, this Chen Laoshi did not have the domineering four 'shots' with a "camera" in his hand, and he was also full of sorrow and wept with a sad face and arched his hand: "The king of Min ordered us to get together, so that we can form a new guild, and I will be the president and take charge of the Basra."Chinese

"Is this a good thing?"

About 20 or so businessmen, Chen Guanxi's relatives and friends are staring at this time, don't look at them rich, there is no chance to be an official under the rule of the Arabs, originally came with an attitude of sending them to death, but it is such good news, no wonder these businessmen grew their mouths in surprise.

"Good news?"

Chen Guanxi almost didn't cry when he heard these words, and he held his head sadly and shouted: "Every month, the King of Min asks Basra City to pay 10,000 dinars in taxes, and every year a lot of various grain and grass specialties are tributed, and if there is one less, he will bury us at another crossroads, which is called a good thing?"

Once again, a group of big businessmen were dumbfounded......

In fact, Basra has a population of 200,000, and there is 'fertile' land near the Euphrates River, rich in products, and well-developed handicraft workshops, and a convenient environment as above, and if it is well managed, it is not a problem to have 50,000 or 60,000 dinars a month, and the only test is whether a group of merchants can coordinate the forces of various tribes in the city.

Within five or six days, in order not to be buried in the cross street, a group of merchants finally became ruthless, with the support of the Fujian State, all the captured 'Bos' soldiers were released into Basra police, and the huge city of Basra was divided into pieces by them, and each family tribe was responsible for what to produce, how much money was 'paid' a month, and what tribute was paid. The door grabbed a dozen and buried them in the intersection, and suddenly, the whole city became obedient.

The most important thing is that the Basra people hated this group of merchants, and naturally skipped the Fujian country.

Within a few days, Basra had returned to its former calm, and several merchants had turned the city into a guild enterprise, and the daily farming of the fields, the production of raw materials and the development of handicrafts, had been busy, and the efficiency had been invisibly improved.

In this way, although it was not the Min State that ruled Basra directly, it also mentioned that the Min State saved a lot of administrative and garrison costs, and the latter point was especially important at this time.

This is also the second point that Li Jie discovered.

Although the vast Arab empire was built, the Arabs, in essence, were still a nomadic people! The essence of nomadism is to run if you can't beat it!

From the strategic deployment, it can be seen that although Muawiyah and other nobles occupied large areas of land and settled in agriculture, the vast majority of Arabs still followed the laws laid down by the second caliph Abel, the Bedouins were not allowed to occupy land, farm or do business, they built military camps on the edge of agricultural areas and deserts, and were nomadic herders, which on the one hand ensured the isolation of Arabs from the locals, and on the other hand, maintained the mobility of the Arabs. Sex and combat effectiveness, this is the eighty-seven years after the defeat of the great empire, and the combat effectiveness of the Arab army is still sharp.

This situation continued until the middle of the Umayyad Dynasty, when the Arabs would be corrupted by the huge empire, and the people were boiling with resentment and rebellion in order to compete for power, and the failure of several expeditions to Byzantium greatly damaged the empire, when it was the best time to attack the Arabs.

It's a pity that Li Jie can't afford to wait for decades.

Now the strategy of the Arabs is to retreat, on the one hand, to gather the military forces scattered in Mesopotamia, and on the other hand, to throw the cities to the Fujian State as a burden, constantly weakening the power of Fujian, attracting the Fujian State to continue to advance on the huge Arab territory, and then seize the opportunity to defeat the weakened Fujian State to the limit in one fell swoop.

The Arabs also have a natural advantage over other nomadic peoples, that is, the Islamic faith, during the reign of the "Bos" once divided people into five classes like the Tianzhu caste, and in the long-term struggle between the "Bos" and the Byzantine Empire, the heavy taxes were all pressed on the heads of the Mesopotamians, and the residents who belonged to Islam here naturally had a sense of closeness to the Arabs, and if they maintained a vast rear, they would definitely involve more troops in Fujian.

This ploy was used by the Arabs to defeat the Byzantine army in Syria, abandoning all the cities they occupied, including Damascus, attracting the Byzantine army deep into the desert, and finally fighting on the banks of the Muyak River near Lake Tiberias, crushing twice the Byzantine army in one fell swoop.

It was the indifferent and hostile city of Basra that made Li Jie see this clearly, and resolutely ordered the entire line to shrink and give up the land he once occupied, which also required great courage for the farming people.

Within five days, in addition to Xi Junmai's troops in the Hindu Kush Mountains, the left, center, and right armies and the rear army of the Chinese army all rushed to the foot of Basra, and as many as 250,000 people were "dang" and "dang" in the vast number of people, and even the barracks of the army camps were trembling in fear.

Of course, the big tent of the Chinese army will also be turned upside down.

"Your Highness, why did you tell me to wait until I came back? I almost took off the head of that fat Arab man with a mouth full of feces! "The biggest voice is the 'medicine' Geluo, who has been let go of the fight under the Fujian flag for many years, and he has also become 'sexual' as fierce as fire.

"Yes, Your Highness, it's all high-grade fertile land! It is more 'fertile' than the land in Guanzhong, how can it be said that if you give up, you will give up? In contrast, Xue Li was distressed, like Scrooge Grande, crying and saying with a sad face.

The two groups of people almost represent the two attitudes under Li Jie's command, the generals from Heluo in Guanzhong are distressed to death, and a group of Turkic, Khitan, and Jin Ya 'female' real generals are shouting that they are not happy enough, and it is also not easy to encounter such an easy siege like now.

The big tent of the Chinese army arguing on both sides shook straight, and Li Jie's brain, who was listening, jumped on the 'door', and finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped it on the table: "Shut up Lao Tzu!"

King Min was furious, and the arrogant soldiers in the tent were immediately silent, and they didn't dare to put another fart, pointing to the most noisy 'medicine' Geluo, Li Jie just roared angrily.

"Lone decided to go to Kufa and go straight to Ctesiphon, the capital of Mesopotamia, if you haven't met the main force of the Arab Empire there, go to Seleucia, go to Antioch to block Muawiya's back road, and then the Arabs will be overwhelming, I'm afraid that you will be soft!"

A group of grassland generals showed their obedience with their tails between their tails like frosted eggplants, and leveled them, looking back at the still distressed 'girl' who was led away by other men as a general of the farming nation, Li Jie also twitched a few times at the corner of his mouth, and then said helplessly: "As for the 'fertile' land here, as long as the Arabs are defeated, this place will belong to our Fujian country, so there is no need to feel distressed."

With this explanation, Dugu Loss, Xue Li and other generals looked a little better, and around the map, a group of generals also had the heart to discuss how to enter the army next, and they were very happy to compete for the position of vanguard.

However, looking at the map, Wang Wei, the prime minister of Fujian on the side, couldn't help frowning.

"Your Highness, what will happen to our rear if our army chooses not to occupy any more places and 'penetrates' directly across the plains of Mesopotamia? The supply line is too long! ”

On the map, Li Jie's planned march route was almost a straight line, two or three thousand miles long, and directly below was the vast Arabian Desert, and the Bedouin camel cavalry could cut off the supply line of the Fujian State from the rear at any time.

This is not a joke, the Battle of Changping, 450,000 Zhao troops were trapped for 43 days after being cut off by 5,000 Qin troops after cutting off the supply line, and finally ended up with a whole army, all of them were killed.

Now it is entangled, if you blindly occupy it, the next vast rear, the sufficient forces of Fujian will be divided and weakened, and there is a danger of failure, if you don't occupy it, the supply line is too long and it is also a dangerous thing, looking at the map of West Asia, Li Jie couldn't help frowning......