"Seymour, to tell you the truth, I am not short of money, food, or people." Qingji glanced at Seymour, and said surgingly: "You should have heard a sentence in my Dawu - no merit is not punished." ”

"How can I repay you for giving me so much money now?" Obviously, Qingji knows that there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world.

It's not that pie in the sky is nothing, but it may not be lucky to hit Qingji. Now, how could the Hebrews give Wu Jun such great help without conditions?

I don't know if the conditions of the Hebrews can be accepted by the state of Wu? Seymour smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, don't misunderstand. ”

"The despicable are the messengers of Israel, and they represent the interests of the Israelites. However, we Israelis will in no way harm the interests of Your Majesty, the interests of the Empire! ”

"I want to hear about it." Qingji wanted to hear what Seymour had to say.

"Your Majesty, we Israelis have a small request, and I ask Your Majesty to fulfill it. If Your Majesty is successful, not only will you have money, food, and soldiers, but you will also have a way to help Your Majesty capture this impregnable city of Babylon. ”

"Tell me about it...... Your conditions. ”

"Your Majesty, do you know the history of our Israelites?"

"I know a little bit about it." Seymour looked sad and sighed: "About two thousand years ago, our ancestors of the Israelites took a fancy to a particularly rich land. ”

"It is shaped like a crescent moon and is called 'crescent-shaped fertile soil.'"

"Whenever our ancestors came here with their cattle and sheep, the locals drove them away."

"However, our ancestors of the Israelites saw this as a paradise and especially wanted to live here as herdsmen."

"They launched numerous attacks on the locals, and after many failures, finally, they finally took the area."

"It's just that the Canaanites came to rob again, and after many years of war, our ancestors were defeated and in a difficult situation."

"At that time, an old man said that in a distant place, there was a good place where the sheep were everywhere and the grain was abundant every year. Whoever has been there calls it 'Paradise', and it is Egypt. After a pause, Seymour added, "So the whole people moved together to Egypt." ”

"After many hardships, they came to the grasslands of the eastern Nile Delta, where they settled."

"Egypt is a wonderful place, where the Israelites lived in peace for hundreds of years. It's just a pity that the pharaoh Ramses II of Egypt was going to build two huge palaces. ”

"He turned the Hebrews into slaves, made them dig rocks, and subjected them to all kinds of hard labor."

"After a few decades, Ramses II died, and Egypt was invaded by barbarian peoples and pirates from all sides."

"Moses, the leader of our Israelites, took the opportunity to lead his people across the Red Sea and escaped from Egypt...... Seymour was very sad to say this.

Qingji still knows about this story. The Israelites lived in Egypt for more than 300 years, and their numbers grew from 75 to more than 2 million in Jacob's house, and they had become a nation from one family.

At that time, the pharaoh was uneasy about the growing prosperity of the foreigners, so he thought of two ways to control them, and put them into hard labor to consume their physical strength.

He ordered the killing of all male babies born to the Israelite women in order to curb population growth. However, the midwives secretly disobeyed the command out of the fear of God, and the population of Israel increased instead of decreasing.

So Pharaoh devised another plan: he ordered the Israelites to throw the baby boy they had born into the river and drown. It is said that one day, while Moses was shepherding sheep at Mount Horeb, the angel of Jehovah called him by a sign of unburned bushes to return to Egypt and bring out the Israelites who had been in hard labor for many years.

All the Israelites left Egypt under the leadership of Moses. Pharaoh repented, and sent great horses after him, and forced him to the shore of the Red Sea, and it was God who showed his power and made a way out of the sea...... This is the story recorded in the Bible.

Seriously, Israel has a population of several million, which makes Qingji very suspicious.

"And then you went back to Palestine?"

"Yes." Seymour said indignantly: "Your Majesty, your so-called Palestine is the land of Canaan, the homeland of our Israelites. ”

"Later, we recaptured that place, but unfortunately the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians all seized our homeland one after another!"

"If Your Majesty allows us to establish a nation of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, the contemptible people, and all the Israelites, will be grateful!"

"Your Majesty, it is your glory that shines in all directions, and you give glory to the Israelites, and you are the great savior of our Israelites!"

"......" Qingji was speechless. Just as he had guessed. The Israelis wanted to help them restore their country.

The land of Canaan is, in fact, Palestine. The indigenous inhabitants of Canaan were called Canaanite, and the ancestors of the Jews, the Hebrews, called it Canaan when they entered here.

The Philistines entered the Mediterranean coast and controlled the coastline from Gaza to Jaffa, calling the places they occupied

"Palestine", means:

"Land of the Felix Men". Palestine is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is the transportation artery of Asia, Africa and Europe, and the land is still very fertile.

No wonder the Israelites have always coveted this place.

"Restoration?" Qing Ji smiled and said, "Seymour, if I remember correctly, you Israelites have been destroyed for hundreds of years, right?" ”

"So far, more than 400 years."

"It's rare that you still have your homeland in your heart." After Solomon's death, his son Rehoboam succeeded to the throne, which was finally captured by the Babylonian Empire, and the Israelites were taken into slavery in Babylon.

After the Persian Empire destroyed Babylon, the Israelites were allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.

It stands to reason that the Persians treated them well.

"What can you do to help me conquer the city of Babylon?"

"Your Majesty, to tell you the truth, we Israelis have dug a number of tunnels in the city of Babylon, leading to the inside and outside of the city, which were originally intended to be used for escape." Seymour said, "If your army can enter the city of Babylon through the tunnels and want to capture the city, it should be no problem!" ”

"......" This is really a cunning rabbit. For Qingji, it is an unexpected joy!

"Seymour, I will consider the matter of helping you Israelites to establish a state. But you must first help me take the city of Babylon. ”

"Your Majesty, I ......"

"No more talk." Qingji looked at Seymour in a condescending posture and said, "You are not qualified to bargain with me!" ”

"Yes." Seymour reluctantly agreed.