Next, Qin Dong asked Gebuus a lot of questions, Gebuus went to the Xiongnu Empire to do business, of course, he had to inquire about the things along the way, especially about the horse bandits in this area, from Gebuus's mouth, he learned that the relationship between the largest of the ten horse bandits here, the 'Hurricane Bandits', and the other nine horse bandits was very bad, and there were several reasons for this, the first of course was ' The Hurricane Bandits' strength is the strongest, and the combat effectiveness of the horse bandits is also the strongest, the Hurricane Bandits have attracted the other twenty-six pony bandits, with a total number of about 1,000 people, and the other nine horse bandits have only more than 100 people each, but the total number of people together is also more than 1,000 people, and they have to huddle together in order to protect themselves, but these nine horse bandits are not really monolithic, but each has its own small abacus.

Another reason is that most of the bandits in the 'Hurricane Bandits' are Arabs and all believe in Muslim Islam, unlike the other bandits, who mostly believe in Christianity and call each other infidels.

After listening to Gebuus's simple narration, Qin Dong was very shocked in his heart, it turned out that the influence of Christianity in this era had spread to the horse bandits, and the horse bandits were actually hostile to each other because of their different beliefs. That's, isn't it? You must know that they are horse bandits, they are all unable to survive and have to become horse bandits, do these people have time for other beliefs besides food and goods?

It's terrifying, it's shocking, Qin Dong finally has some understanding of the influence of Christianity in all of Europe, North Africa, and West Asia, no wonder when history entered the Middle Ages. The Dark Ages will come, and when the whole people worship and believe in a certain sect to the extreme, will the regime's rule over the people still be strong? No wonder there was a time in the Middle Ages. The king of every country in Europe needs to obtain the consent of the pope before being crowned, if the pope does not agree, the whole people do not agree, the whole people do not agree, can you still be the king? Even the army and generals are Christians and listen to the pope, and the rights of the emperors of various countries are basically about to be hollowed out by the pope. However, the secular rulers realized this danger and began to impose the consent of the emperor on the priesthood and the pope elected by the people. In this way, the power of the church and the secular government diminishes according to the power of those in power.

In fact, as early as after the Roman Empire entered the monarchy of the four emperors, Emperor Diocletian realized the danger of the church to secular rights, because the church owned a large amount of private property and land. And there are a lot of them. These men did not produce or pay taxes, and they used the influence of their followers in secular power to influence the political situation, which was intolerable to any wise and sober-minded secular emperor, so Emperor Diocletian issued a decree that Christian soldiers should first be allowed to leave the army, and then the private property of the Christian church was confiscated. And Christian books were burned. After Diocletian's palace was set on fire twice, he took tougher measures against Christians: Christians either renounced their faith. or be put to death.

The decree lasted only ten years, ending in 313 AD with the pardon decree issued by Emperor Constantine I in Milan. Since then, the spread of the church has become more and more rapid, the spread of the territory has become wider and wider, and it has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

It's terrible, it's terrifying, Qin Dong imagined in his mind that one day, when he issued a decree that needed the consent of the church, this feeling of powerlessness instantly came to his heart, but then his eyes became cold and terrifying.

Now is not the time to think about what will happen in a few years, Qin Dong's mind is instantly thinking about how to deal with the current crisis, now the shape is still unclear, and there is too little information to make the right decision, rashly entering the territory of the hurricane thieves is likely to be swallowed to the point that there are no bones left.

At this time, Su He came in and reported: "My lord, according to the reconnaissance, we suspect that one of the small teams of detectives who are peeping on us should be the Hurricane Thieves, this detective post is much bolder than the others, and they are very close to our camp!" ”

The three of them in the tent glanced at each other, and Peteus said: "It seems that the hurricane thieves are also eyeing our piece of fat, in my opinion, we will not leave tomorrow for the time being, and take a day off here to see the situation before making a decision, Lord Gebuus, what is your opinion?" ”

"This, okay, then take a day off for a while and see the situation before making a decision!" When encountering this kind of thing, an old businessman like Gebuus, who has been running for decades, has no idea, so he can only follow Peteaus step by step, after all, although money is good, life is more important.

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Mount Catani, the lair of the hurricane thieves, is located in the middle of the three areas, the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The mountain is covered with lush vegetation and thorns, and it is difficult for outsiders to find their way up the mountain from other places except for the frontal mountain path.

In a huge cave on the mountain, a group of people were gathering to discuss something, and an Arab soldier with a scimitar on his waist and a white cloth wrapped in white cloth ran into the mouth of the cave and saluted before the people, and then reported: "Chief, the sentry has received general information, among the two caravans, the smaller one has only eight carts of caravan, and the number of guards is only twenty, and the larger caravan has a full fifty carts of cargo, and the guards have a hundred people, and there are more than a dozen mercenaries, half of the goods are furs and other goods, It's all tanned and ready-to-wear leather garments, and the other half seems to be oak barrel wine and some dry goods! ”

The horse bandits sitting there immediately became excited when they heard the news, if it is a kind of goods are some raw materials, the value of fur will be greatly discounted, but the finished fur coat is quite valuable, and those wine in oak barrels, it must be wine, these dozens of carts, this amount is too big, it is definitely worth a lot of money, if it is a high-end wine, the value will definitely be higher, if you can grab all this batch of goods, the people and horses of Katani Mountain, it is estimated that they will not have to work within a year, As for how to exchange these things for daily necessities such as money and food, there is no need to worry at all, the horse bandits have to have special channels for selling stolen goods, and naturally some people will collect these stolen goods.

Sitting in the first place, on a wide stone chair was a tall, thin Arab with a slightly curved high nose, sunken eyes, high eyebrow bones, a full beard, and dark skin, who could be seen as he sat down, and was in his thirties at this time, and his eyes always showed a fierce light.

This is the leader of the hurricane pirates - Faisal, Arabs in Thrace are not uncommon, this is mainly because it was also the territory of the Macedonian Empire, which is also a large empire across Asia, Africa and Europe, and the Asian part still accounts for the vast majority of the area, many Arabs migrated to the Thrace region, and their descendants remained.

Faisal wore a large white robe with a patterned cloak of gold thread and a white turban wrapped around his head, fastened to his head with a ring wrapped in camel hair, typical of an Arab man, and wore a golden chain on the left wing of his nose attached to a large gold ring hanging from his left ear.

Faisal didn't speak, he stood up and saluted alone: "Chief, this is consistent with the news from our spies in Plov, it should be them, it seems that this batch of things is worth a lot, but until now, we don't know the details of this caravan!" ”

Faisal picked up a glass of wine on the table in front of him and drank it all and got up and said: "No matter what the details of this caravan are, what background it is, even if they are Hun officials or Roman officials, we can't let it go, the value of their goods is too great, if we let it go, I'm afraid we will never encounter such a large caravan again in a few years, pass the order, let the sentry keep a close watch, and let everyone rest well tonight, and when they enter our territory tomorrow, we will kill them all, and not a single one will be left!" ”

All the bandit leaders stood up and saluted: "Yes, Chief!" (To be continued......)