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At the end of the sky, a round red sun is about to set, rising on the other side of the earth. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The golden red glow of the ten thousand rays was imprinted on the large clouds, forming a large fiery red and blood-like fiery cloud on the western horizon.

The sun was setting, the light was converging, and the darkness was beginning to swallow the earth.

"Childe is a good person."

Hu Hai, who was standing on the highest building of Lekang Palace with his back hand, looked at the red light that was swallowed by darkness, and the words of the woman who had come to her senses and had to use her body to protect the little girl of the slave kneeling in front of Hu Hai still echoed in her ears.

Are you a good person?

She could tell that these seven resting women should all be well-educated, and it was very likely that they were resting nobles who had just been raided.

After nearly 20 years of rule, the six counties of Western Xinjiang are generally very peaceful. But this tranquility is only a façade. Due to the powerful cultural invasion and bloody purge methods carried out by the Great Qin on the occupied territories, the lower classes of the people have gradually accepted the rule of the Great Qin by now, after all, although the taxes of the six counties in the vast territory of Western Xinjiang are a little higher than those in the interior of the Great Qin, they are still a few points less when the Rest Empire is there.

All the books and classics of the Sabbatical Empire and the Seleucid Empire were partially destroyed in the war, and the rest were packed and shipped to Xianyang to become the collection of the Great Qin Imperial Library.

Hu Hai issued the strictest orders from the beginning of the occupation to the dozens of languages that originally filled the rest of the Seleucid Empire, with Daqin as the Chinese language, and all other non-Qin languages could only exist as dialects at most. All the people of all ethnic groups who originally belonged to the six counties of Western Xinjiang and Seleucid must and can only learn the Qin language.

In order to accomplish this, the schools at all levels in the six counties of Western Xinjiang are also the densest in the territory of Great Qin. After all, Qin is actually the prototype of Chinese, and it is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn.

The tranquility at the bottom does not mean that the resting nobles and Seleucid nobles who had attached themselves to Great Qin during the war willingly lost their power and interests.

Therefore, the center of gravity of the Black Ice Platform in the inland of Daqin has basically shifted to the six counties of Western Xinjiang, and every once in a while, under the strict monitoring of the Black Ice Platform, as long as some resting nobles who are dissatisfied with Daqin are found, usually these people will face an ending, that is, they will be exterminated.

West of the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The emerging Roman Empire already dominated essentially all the landmass along the Mediterranean coast. It has even extended its tentacles into the territory of Africa.

And the emerging Roman Empire, which has expanded to the limit, if it wants to continue to expand its territory, then he will only have one goal left, that is, the Great Qin Empire.

The Sabbath and Seleucid nobles in the counties of Western Xinjiang. Naturally, they don't give up the slightest bit of a possible hookup. After all. The reason why the Roman Empire has not had any major wars with Great Qin until now. Mainly because they were afraid, they were afraid of Great Qin's military might. Of course, if you can plant some nails in the counties of Western Xinjiang. Even if you can't make too big a wave, as long as you can disgust Daqin or even stab Daqin at a critical time, why not?

Therefore, the counties in western Xinjiang, which are peaceful on the surface, actually hide too much unrest inside.

Hu Hai has long understood this. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the new counties, Hu Hai stationed the five major legions of the Royal White Tiger Army, the Royal Blue Dragon Army, the Royal Xuanwu Army, the Royal Vermilion Bird Army and the Royal Jiuyuan Army in the six counties. On the one hand, it was to deter the newly occupied vast land, and on the other hand, it was actually to prepare in advance for a possible collision with the Roman Empire in the future.

After all, even in later generations, there were too many things that were undeclared war. And the pressure on Rome from Great Qin was obviously not ordinary, if they really made up their minds to start a war with Great Qin, then the only possible choice was to rely on undeclared war to win the advantage in the early stage of the war.

As long as they were able to defeat the Qin army even once on a frontal battlefield, the encouragement to the resting and the remaining nobles in the Seleucid Empire who wanted to restore their former glory would be immense.

Because, whether it was a war with the Seleucid Empire or a war with the Sask Empire and the Mauryan Empire, although it was one enemy and three enemies, Great Qin was on the defensive in order to deploy troops at the beginning of the war, but it did not taste defeat.

Of course, Hu Hai didn't know, in fact, whether it was the Roman Empire, or the seemingly respectful rest and the remnants of the Seleucid aristocracy, what they feared most was actually him.

Legend has it that the Holy Son of Great Qin, who has never aged down from the gods, has long been spread all over the land of hundreds of millions of miles with the rolling soldiers of Great Qin. Even though he has abdicated and no longer cares about any political affairs, no one and no empire dares to ignore his existence because of this.

If she knew that she had made them slaves and lived such an inhuman life, I am afraid that she would never have said such a sentence.

Thinking of this, Hu Hai smiled self-deprecatingly.

What he saw today made Hu Hai's heart more and more worried.

Today, the nobles of Great Qin are really like the Roman Empire in its heyday, with countless slaves and vast land. Relying on slaves and enjoying the life of Jiuchi Meat Forest, I am afraid that in less than a hundred years, at most decades, the nobles of the various families of Great Qin will be like the declining Roman Empire, consume all their fighting spirit, decay and decay, and finally collapse.

With such a prosperous slave trade, how long can the iron-blooded, martial, and simple style in the people of Great Qin be maintained?

When the Qin people lose the iron-blooded martial arts, loyalty and simplicity imprinted in their blood, how long can Great Qin exist?

Hu Hai didn't know.

What worries him even more is the contempt and even contempt of the various alien races who have been substantiated by the Qin people, who have created self-confidence by themselves. Although those people also have the household registration of Daqin.

Look at the insults of the rich sons who have some perverted habits to the resting nobles, look at the applause of the Qin people around them, and look at the indifference and obviously biased treatment of the street patrol officials, which shows that such an atmosphere or trend of thought is not just an accidental event, let alone an isolated event.

Long Xuan was indifferent to the rich son's insult to the rest of the nobles. It also shows that not only the people and officials at the bottom, but also the high-level leaders of Daqin have also begun to breed arrogance and contempt in their hearts.

The Qin people, who have become self-confident, are gradually becoming arrogant and even a little arrogant in the past few decades.

This is even more dangerous than the fact that slaves erode the blood of the Qin people.

Something is still inevitable and unavoidable, and it is sliding into the abyss that can be seen.

Today's Great Qin seems to be powerful in the world, but in fact, internal and external troubles coexist.

"Your Majesty!"

Long Hong's voice sounded low behind him, interrupting Hu Hai's thoughts.

"What?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Marquis Zhou Yafu, the county guard of the Northwest County, is outside the palace gate, asking to meet Your Majesty."

Zhou Yafu, the son of Zhou Bo. In the seventy-third year of the Great Qin calendar, he graduated from the Great Qin Royal Academy with full honors. and ranked third in the imperial examination that year. Later, he was sent to Jiujiang County to serve as the commander of Anfeng County.

Seventy-eight years of the Great Qin calendar. Zhou Yafu was promoted to Heilongjiang Governor for his outstanding political achievements. In the eighty-second year, he was promoted to the county guard of Dongying by order of Hu Hai.

In Dongying County, Zhou Yafu served as the county guard for five years. In the 87th year of the Great Qin calendar, he was transferred to the household department by the third emperor Ying Jingxi and promoted to Zuo Shilang. Ninety-two years of the Great Qin calendar. Lu Jia, the first county warden of Northwest County and the first county warden of the former Great Qin Western Regions County, was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Immediately, Zhou Yafu was relocated to the position of county guard of the Northwest County, one of the nine major counties of Great Qin, until now.

Calculating his age, Zhou Yafu, who is only thirty-nine years old this year, should be the leader of the Great Qin Shaozhuang faction. With Li Tu, the son of Prime Minister Li You, who has passed away, Feng Feng, the son of Feng Zheng, who has passed away, Fan Jian's grandson Fan Ming, Su Mo's grandson Su Wuxi, Fang Youcong's grandson Fang Tang, Wang Qian's son Wang Hao, Meng Li's son Meng Wuxing, and Meng Kuo's son Meng Cheng, these seven almost like young people. and known as the Nine Great Young Heroes of Great Qin.

Zhou Yafu, Li Tu, Fan Ming, Su Wuxi, and Fang Tang are engaged in politics, and now they have all become a feudal official, each leading a county; And Wang Hao, Meng Wuxing, Meng Cheng, and Feng Feng are all the main generals of the four major armies of the Longxi Army, the Guilin Army, the Imperial Forest Army, and the Qinglong Army.

Of course, the nine of them can become the well-known nine heroes, except for Zhou Yafu, the family background of the other eight can be said to account for a large part.

Outside of the nine of them, such as Weng Zhong's son Weng Jaw, Yu Qing, the son of Yu Ziqi, Du Hu, the son of Du Teng, Xu Feng, the son of Xu Chuang, etc., are actually not much worse than the nine of them. It's just that these young people are three or four years younger, seven or eight years younger than Zhou Yafu and others, so they are not so eye-catching.

It was not surprising that Zhou Yafu knew that he had come to this Lekang City, after all, he lived in Lekang Palace with Long Jiao, Long Mei and others. On weekdays, the cleaning of the Lekang Palace is also done by the people of the county guard.

"It's enough for him to do his own thing, not to see me. Tell him not to stay in the county guard every day, and go down to see how the Northwest County is doing. ”

Hu Hai groaned for a while, looking at the sun that had completely fallen below the horizon and said lightly.

He wasn't worried that Zhou Yafu would make a big splash when he went down to see it. For decades, everything in Daqin has inevitably been branded by him, although it is not excluded that the low-level officials have a score, but when it comes to officials at the level of Zhou Yafu, they basically know their preferences. I especially don't like those officials who go around putting on official authority.

"Whoa!"

……

In front of Lekang Palace, Zhou Yafu stood respectfully. He didn't know if the Holy Son of Heaven would summon him. Although the Son of Heaven has long been out of political affairs and really does it, Zhou Yafu knows better than anyone else that as long as the Son of Heaven is still in one day, this Daqin can really settle this situation with one sentence, and he is the only old man.

Today's third emperor can be regarded as a virtuous monarch. But this kind of wisdom is a little mediocre under the light of the Holy Son of Heaven.

What the Holy Son of Heaven meant to Daqin, the more he went up, the clearer it became. For example, the younger generation of them, although they are either feudal officials or the masters of an army, holding heavy power or heavy soldiers, it is precisely because they stand high enough that they know better what kind of existence the Holy Son of Heaven has in the army among the people of Great Qin.

Everything is just a façade. Only one word from the Son of Heaven is needed, don't say it's them, even the current emperor, the abolition is just a sentence.

Hearing Long Hong's words, Zhou Yafu even lost his mind for a moment.

Is the Son of Heaven dissatisfied with the Northwest County under his rule?

watched the depressed Zhou Yafu leave. Long Hong shook his head and turned back to the Lekang Palace.

……

In the depths of the prairie at the junction of Pingyi and Inner Mongolia counties, the dense green and tender grass almost a foot deep blows through with a gust of wind with the fragrance of grass and trees, rolling up the sound of boundless noise.

This is a grassland, but there are no cattle, sheep and horses in this vast grassland, not even hares, wolves and deer, which are the most common in the grassland.

Except for the occasional butterflies flying out of the grass to show that there is still life here, the vast grassland with no edge in sight seems to be a no-man's land.

A gray leaf warbler suddenly rushed into this quiet and somewhat excessive grassland, flapping its wings and flying quickly across the grassland. Then there were a few panicked birdsong sounds.

It saw black in the depths of this steppe. That's right, it's black. With its small head, it seems that it is impossible to figure out how there can be such a black and palpitating black existence in this green grassland.

Its instincts told it that the black seemed to be able to threaten its life at any time, flapping its wings. Suddenly rushed towards the sky dome. This time it saw clearly.

The concave grassland was not black. Rather, it was a continuous black that seemed to cover the whole grassland. It's as if a black hole suddenly appeared on the grassland.

That's, people!

The ground trembled slightly, and after a few moments the rumbling of horses' hooves swept through the sky. Rapidly approaching the black hole region.

At the end of the grassland, a line of the same black suddenly covered the emerald green color. Sweeping in like a tidal wave.

The black line is getting closer. It was a cavalry of more than a thousand men.

A ride suddenly rushed out of the black hole. He met the cavalry who were rushing towards him.

"Your Majesty, see Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! ”

There were at least fifty steps between the more than 1,000 horses, and the knight on the single ride suddenly turned over and landed. He prostrate on the ground and shouted in a trill.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

The black hole, which had no life, suddenly made a loud noise, and they all knelt on one knee, and the shouts of the mountains and tsunamis suddenly soared into the sky. The sound of the sky soaring into the sky shook the wings of the Ye Ying who was still hovering in the sky and stiffened suddenly, and fell straight for a few feet, and the Ye Ying seemed to wake up, and desperately flapped its wings and left quickly.

Hu Hai looked at Long Tian, who was gray-haired and covered in armor prostrate on the ground, and suddenly said in a loud voice: "You are with me, you don't have to be like this. Get up. ”

Quietly stationed in Lekang City, and quietly left Lekang City again, Hu Hai had already quietly rushed to the grassland bordering Inner Mongolia County and Pingyi County without alarming anyone.

As the commander of the first army, he was still wearing armor, and at most he only dismounted and saluted on one knee. Long Tian is like this, obviously to express his loyalty to Hu Hai.

Of course, Hu Hai is worthy of his loyalty.

Long Tian, the chief general of the Tiger Army. He is also the only corps general among the more than ten legions of Great Qin who has been serving as the chief general of the army from the formation of the army to the present. The remaining more than ten legions, each commander of the army is rotated every five years, and the soldiers of the 100,000 Tiger Ben Army have also been changed for five generations in succession, only the main general of the Tiger Ben Army has always been Long Tian.

The Tiger Ben Army is the most mysterious legion of Great Qin in the past few decades. Even when he was fighting against the three empires of Seleucus, Anxi, and Peacock, Hu Hai would rather than transfer the Xuanwu army from Surabaya County for thousands of miles, and did not directly use the Tiger Ben army, which had been in the depths of this grassland only more than a thousand miles away from the battlefield, to rush to the battlefield.

Of course, this is also because the railway from Xianyang to Jiuyuan has been completed and opened to traffic at that time. 100,000 Xuanwu troops plus grain and grass baggage, hundreds of times can all be sent to the front line.

In the past forty years, the Tiger Ben Army has never appeared in front of people in the depths of this grassland. Even some officials of Great Qin even sometimes wondered if the Tiger Ben Army had been secretly dismissed by the Son of Heaven.

Only a few people know that not only did the Tiger Ben Army not be abolished, but it was also the most secretive of the dozens of legions in Great Qin. So much so that the vast grassland bordering Pingyi County and Inner Mongolia County is already forbidden land, and there are no herders.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Long Tian's voice still had a slight tremble.

Ten years ago, he could see Hu Hai once in a few years, and in the ten years since Hu Hai's abdication, this is the first time he has seen Hu Hai. No wonder he's so excited.

"How's the preparation?" Hu Hai glanced at the dense countless armored soldiers kneeling on one knee, "My warriors. Flat. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The shouts of the mountains and the tsunami resounded throughout the grassland again.

In the midst of the sour sound, more than a hundred black steel objects with wheels similar to box wheels and metallic luster were pushed out of the military formation by hundreds of soldiers.

At this time, Long Hong and the others saw clearly that none of the countless White Tiger Army standing on the grassland was wearing armor. All of them wore bizarre but heroic uniforms, if they were military uniforms.

Around the waist of the soldiers was what appeared to be a leather belt, covered with all sorts of things. However, with Long Hong's eyesight, he could only recognize the dagger. In addition, these soldiers all carried something like a burning stick behind their backs, and they didn't even have a Qin crossbow of the Great Qin system.

Seeing the more than 100 hideous steel monsters emitting a fierce light, Hu Hai's face was finally slightly moved. After forty years, is the King of War finally officially forming an army today?

"Long Hong, go, in Wuli. Six miles. Within seven miles and eight miles, more than 100 targets were immediately marked. Hu Hai glanced at Long Tian and said lightly.

"Whoa!"

Half an hour later!

"Boom, boom!"

Clusters of firelight filled the grassland with a deafening roar. One by one, the targets marked by the guards of the Dragon Guard Mansion disappeared one by one with the roar.

In July of the ninety-fifth year of the Great Qin calendar, on the grassland of Inner Mongolia. The first artillery of Daqin. The Tiger Ben Army was officially formed.

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August of the ninety-fifth year of the Great Qin calendar. The situation in the western frontier of Great Qin changed abruptly.

Eleven Jews were killed in the city of Zhixizhou, including an elder of Judaism in Xizhou. This incident caused a large number of Jews to gather.

The county guard of Xizhou County is Li Tu, the son of Li You, the prime minister of the Cabinet Office, who has passed away. Li Tu found that the matter was urgent, and while urgently reporting the incident to the imperial court, he asked for help from the White Tiger Army stationed in Xizhou County, and at the same time mobilized an army of guards in Xizhou County to maintain order and prepare to arrest the murderer.

In the process of maintaining order, as many as 30 more Jews were assassinated. And the weapon used by the murderer to assassinate was the strong crossbow of the Great Qin army.

The tens of thousands of Jews who had gathered began to storm the county governors of the western states. In desperation, Li You began to order 10,000 guards stationed in Xizhou City to suppress the Jewish rebellion.

In the face of 10,000 heavily armed guards, more than 30,000 Jews began to frantically attack the Great Qin guard army. By nightfall, the city of Xizhou was already full of blood and turned into a hell on earth.

While the Jews were fighting with an army of 10,000 guards, some ill-intentioned people began to loot and burn in the city. Countless civilians were slaughtered and countless shops looted.

That night, the commander of the White Tiger Army, Meng Wudren, led 50,000 foot soldiers to Xizhou City. In the face of 10,000 guards, maybe the more than 30,000 crazy followers still had a chance to stalemate, but in the face of the White Tiger Army foot soldiers who were almost armed to the teeth, it took just over an hour for more than 30,000 Jews to be killed.

After quelling the rebellion of more than 30,000 Jews, Meng Wudaunt accepted Li Tu's suggestion and ordered the White Tiger Army to start martial law throughout Xizhou County, arrest the thugs who took advantage of the fire and loot, and reported to Xianyang on a flying horse, asking the imperial court for countermeasures.

In the face of the thunderous methods of the White Tiger Army, Xizhou County, which was about to enter a state of disorder, returned to calm again. Ten days later, in the six counties of the western Xinjiang of Great Qin, hundreds of thousands of Jews and Buddhists composed of monks and soldiers launched a riot at the same time, these coalition forces composed of Jews and Buddhists, out of nowhere, suddenly got out of nowhere a large number of ordnance and even armor and strong bows, they captured the counties and counties, and wantonly slaughtered the Qin people.

All kinds of hidden anti-Qin forces that had been hiding in the shadows raised the anti-Qin banner in the six counties of Western Xinjiang, and for a while, the six counties of Western Xinjiang were full of blood.

At the same time that the five Great Qin legions stationed in the western frontier were preparing to send troops to suppress them, the five routes were to the Roman Empire and Macedonia. The coalition of Greek kingdoms, Ptolemaic kingdoms and other countries landed from the East European Plain in the west, the Asian Peninsula in the south, and the Syrian plain near the Mediterranean Sea, and at the same time launched the so-called holy war against Great Qin.

At the same time, the Mauryan Dynasty of the Indian Peninsula, which had been carefully surviving under the Great Qin Army, also began to move.

When the news reached Xianyang City, the whole country was shocked.

When Hu Hai received the news, he was still in the Tiger Army, guiding the first Tiger Army in Great Qin to study the tactics of infantry and artillery joint combat, and he received the news earlier than Ying Jingxi and the Cabinet Office.

After thinking about it for a long time, although he was anxious, Hu Hai finally did not cross Ying Jingxi to directly issue combat orders to each legion. He wanted to see how Ying Jingxi, who had taken over the throne from the state of Chengping, would deal with this crisis that was much more serious for Great Qin than facing Seleucus and the Rest Empire at the same time twenty years ago.

For this reason, he even ordered Hei Bingtai not to receive any other letters except for sending military intelligence reports from various places to his desk. This also includes the official documents of the imperial court and the report of the third emperor Ying Jingxi.

In today's world, Jesus, who founded Christianity, is still a genetic body, and Islam will not appear until a thousand years later. The only two religions that exist are Judaism in West Asia and Buddhism in the Indian Peninsula.

Compared with the Qin people's belief in the Holy Son of Heaven, Hu Hai did not believe that these two sects from tens of thousands of miles away could influence the Qin people's beliefs, especially Judaism.

Originally, Hu Hai thought that he had not taken any measures to resist these two religions or even given them the freedom to preach, and there should be no problems, but he did not expect that the first thing that went wrong was the religion that thought it would be stable.

After waiting for three days, Ying Jingxi never received any edict from Hu Hai, and finally understood that her father would not come forward to help her solve this problem.

Ying Jingxi, who has been shrouded in the light of Hu Hai, knows that this should be a test given to her by her most respected father. If he can handle this crisis and get through it safely, then it is conceivable that the throne of Great Qin will truly belong to him in the future. And once he doesn't handle it well, then he knows very well what awaits him.

The loss of the throne and the loss of the throne are not important to Ying Jingxi, what he values is whether his father will be disappointed in him. Because he has been trying to catch up with the pace of Hu Hai.

On August 20, the 95th year of the Great Qin calendar, the third emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, Ying Jingxi, issued an edict to the world, announcing that the Great Qin had entered a state of war, and on the same day, the Ministry of Military Affairs issued an edict to recruit retired soldiers to form ten corps to prepare for the battlefield.

After the fall of the Seleucid and Sabbatical empires in 78 years, Hu Hai began to implement a reserve military system in Great Qin. In fact, the guard system that Great Qin had been practicing before this can also be regarded as a simplified version of the reserve system. The guards of each county are rotated every three years, and the best ones are selected to enter the standing corps of each main battle, what is it if it is not a reserve?

At the same time that Ying Jingxi ordered the conscription of veterans to form ten corps, Han Xin, the Zuo Cheng of the Great Qin General Staff, left Xianyang on the same day to command the Imperial Forbidden Army Corps, which had been expanded to 100,000 men, and rushed to the counties of Western Xinjiang.

Han Xin will serve as the emperor's special envoy and set up the Western Xinjiang Theater to command this war of extraordinary significance for Great Qin. Prior to this, the commanders of the five major armies stationed in the six counties of Western Xinjiang were under tremendous pressure, because they not only had to suppress the rebellion of the increasingly chaotic and increasing number of Seleucid and Anxiguan nobles in Western Xinjiang, but also had to deal with the alliance of several countries with a total of more than one million people in the five routes. (To be continued.) )