The Persian Empire authorized the negotiation of Psidor and quickly moved eastward under the escort of a group of guards, and behind him, the entire Persian Empire was mobilized, and tens of thousands of troops were withdrawn from the borders of Asia Minor and other places, and the Saracen cavalry, which had been urgently recruited, was continuously mobilized eastward.

In front of Pusedor, dozens of envoys, carrying a secret letter from His Majesty the Persian Emperor Shapur II, were hurrying eastward, day and night, in order to deliver Shapur II's letter to the various destinations. In order to ensure that these letters would eventually reach certain people, Shapur II even sent three or four emissaries to each of his targets, carrying the same secret letters.

Because these secret letters are very important, these disguised messengers have been given a very strict order, if they encounter interception by people from Beifu or others, they will eat the letter immediately, and never let the third person see this secret letter.

The road ahead was relatively easy to walk, because they all carried the customs clearance documents issued by Khazarpat (the prime minister, the supreme head of the central administration of the Sassanid Dynasty) Angsali, and no one dared to stop the garrisons and checkpoints along the way, but had to send troops to protect them secretly. But in the eastern part of the province of Khorasan, the envoys found the road difficult. It has almost become a vacuum for the Persian Empire, and from time to time you will encounter groups of black-armored cavalry from Beifu, who are scattered like a crowd, often appearing in front of secret envoys and others at unexpected times.

For the sake of safety, the envoys had to disguise themselves and blend in with the caravan. Fortunately, although the people of Beifu are "strong and cruel", they take great care of business travel, and generally let them continue to rush after an investigation and do not find anything suspicious. However, there were still more than a dozen secret envoys who showed their feet in panic, or were secretly betrayed by their fellow merchants and fell into the hands of the people of Beifu. Most of the secret envoys faithfully fulfilled their oath and mission, swallowing the secret letter and crushing it in their mouths before the people of Beifu could find out.

However, three secret envoys were shot by the fast-eyed black-armored cavalry of Beifu without having time to make these actions, and the secret letter was also searched by the cavalry from the body of the secret envoy, and then quickly forwarded to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army of Beifu - Xiwanjin City. was finally presented to Zeng Hua's hands.

Zeng Hua stationed 60,000 Xiang troops and 60,000 auxiliary soldiers in the middle of the river with Xiwanjin City as the center, as far as Huathornzimo in Huoxun City in the north, and as far as the Daxue Mountain (Hindu Kush Mountains) in the south, all under his control. There are also 60,000 auxiliary soldiers stationed in the north of Yaozhishui, the north of Wancheng and the east of the Hezhong area, Geluoling and Lingling, to keep the roads with Xizhou and Shazhou unblocked, and to protect the continuous transfer of ordnance and materials from Liangzhou.

These hundreds of thousands of troops are in addition to guarding the new low and guarding the main roads. As early as the beginning of the war, the army began to carry out agricultural reclamation. Juntun is the glorious tradition of the Beifu army, they brought cattle and sheep from Shazhou and Liangzhou, together with a large number of cattle and sheep plundered in the local area, began to graze in the fertile and rich Hezhong area, and took over a lot of fertile land. Winter wheat was planted in early winter, and a very systematic restoration and improvement of the historic irrigation project in the Hezhong area was also carried out. How do you look like you're going to make a home here?

And South River Road, North River Road. People from all walks of life in the river and west roads did not stop. After replenishing the tens of thousands of government soldiers who had been reinforced from Banzhou, Qiangzhou, Hezhou, and Xizhou. The total number of troops has reached as many as 120,000, and it has crossed the Wuhu water. Diverge west, east, and south.

When he received the information from the Persian envoy, Zeng Hua was planning and preparing an important ceremony in Siwanjin City. He received a secret letter from Shapur II, which was said to have been written by Shapur II, and gave it to Valerian and Ho Vantiyan (to borrow the name of a famous Sogdian merchant in the Tang Dynasty). Needless to say, Valerian was a genuine Roman scholar, who had studied in Milan, Athens and Egypt, the three major academic centers of the West at that time, and could be said to be full of Western knowledge, and was also proficient in Latin, Greek, Persian, Hebrew, and Tocharian languages.

He Fu Diyan is a native of Hecheng in Suoyan State, he has been smart and studious since he was a child, proficient in Sogdian, Tocharian, Sanskrit, Persian and more than a dozen languages such as Kushan and Brahmi, and has traveled to Qiuzi, Barihe, Herat, Luolan (now Bamiyan, Afghanistan), Jiandaluo, and Qunucheng, and can be said to be familiar with Sogdian, Tocharo, Kushan, and Tianzhu civilizations. What is even more rare is that although He Fudiyan is a Manichaean, he does not reject Buddhism, Buddhism, Brahmanism and even Nestorianism, and has a deep study. At that time, he and dozens of other prominent Manichaean scholars were imprisoned by the Persian army in the prison of Sivanjin, speculating about their fate with anxiety. The people of Beifu defeated the Persian army, occupied the city of Siwanjin, and began to clean up the local order.

At that time, Guo Huai did not have much interest in the pagan scholars such as He Fu Diyan, and waved his hand to send them as prisoners to build roads. Unexpectedly, He Fu Diyan jumped out and said that he was a descendant of the surname Zhaowu Jiu, and his ancestral home was at the foot of Qilian Mountain in Liangzhou.

These words frightened Guo Huai, and he couldn't help but ask carefully. He Fu Diyan did not commit any crimes, and talked eloquently in Chinese with a strange tone, saying that he was a branch of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and the nine surnames of Zhaowu were originally Yue's people, and the former residence of Zhaowu City in the north of Qilian Mountain (now Linze, Gansu), because it was broken by the Huns, the west exceeded the green ridge, and the branches were divided into kings, with Zhaowu as the surname, including Kang, An, Cao, Mi, Wang, He, Mu, Bi, Na and other nine surnames, all of which were Zhaowu, so they were called Zhaowu nine surnames, and they were the surname He, and the rest of the scholars had the surname Kang, the surname Cao, the surname An, the surname Mu and so on.

Hearing this, Guo Huai didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly reported to Zeng Hua, and brought He Fu Diyan and others to the middle tent.

When Zeng Hua heard this, he was also stupid at that time. Zhaowu Jiu's surname, he used to spit on the Internet when he was in the "other world", and it seems to have been mentioned in the history books of the Sui and Tang dynasties, but Zeng Hua has always thought that this is suspected of being whitewashed by the "Heavenly Empire". Today, I suddenly heard a Sogdian running to say such a thing to himself, and I really couldn't react for a while. Could it have been for a long time

Legal? Zeng Hua looked at the confession of He Fu Diyan again, but suddenly asked, how could the surname Shi not be found among the nine surnames. In Zeng Huadi's memory, the nine surnames of Zhaowu should have the surname Shi, has history been changed.

Zeng Hua raised his head and saw that in addition to intelligence in He Fu Diyan's eyes, there was also a trace of cunning, and he suddenly understood in his heart. It seems that the incident he did in Kangju Stone City has spread all over the Hezhong region, causing a great shock to these people. In the Central Plains, your surname is Shi. It doesn't matter, but among the Sogdians, if you have the surname Shi, it's dangerous, even if you translate it. No wonder I have rarely found the surname Shi, even the surname Shi, who called these two sounds to translate similarly. It seems that the Sogdians in the river have seen it.

Zeng Hua thought about it for a while and felt that this was an opportunity he wanted. He Fu Diyan and dozens of Sogdian scholars were immediately helped, and they comforted him, saying that the surname Zhaowu Jiu had moved out of Liangzhou, and naturally they were somewhat related by blood. It should be regarded as a distant branch of Huaxia, since everyone is a family, and they can't talk about two families.

After. Zeng Hua left these dozens of Sogdian scholars in Siwanjin City to raise them well. And asked them to come forward and invite the famous scholars of the Transoxiana region and even the Tocharian region one by one. But just let them write letters. Make a list, and the errand work is still done by the Beifu cavalry. And He Fu Diyan adheres to Zeng Hua's hints. The matter of the nine surnames of Zhaowu was written in a big book, and the scriptures were examined and discussed very completely, as if He Fu Diyan had personally experienced this migration.

Zeng Hua couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately published it in several languages such as Sogdian and Tocharian, and even in other places such as Tocharian and other places. And He Fu Diyan was also reused by Zeng Hualiu's side, and Valerian became the most eye-catching "foreign" consultant. Zeng Hua also deliberately founded a "Zhaowu Circular" in Xiwanjin City, with He Fu Diyan and Valerian as the "main writers", specifically to publicize the idea of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, expose Persian crimes, advocate Chinese civilization, introduce the customs and customs of various parts of China, and so on. It actually became popular in the Hezhong area, and even spread to Tocharo, Kushan and other places.

After receiving the secret letter handed over by Zeng Hua, He Vantiyan and Valerian, who were proficient in Persian, immediately saw that one or two were coming, and it turned out to be a secret letter written by Shapur II to the Kushan king Kapnanda, "encouraging" him to continue to persist in the struggle against the people of Beifu, and made a heavy promise that if the people of Beifu were defeated, the Persian Empire would help the Kushan Empire recover. Shapur II swore an oath that all areas of the Transoxiana, Tocharistan and the middle and lower reaches of the Xintou River basin would be assigned to the Kushan Empire.

The other letter was written by Shapur II to King Shamodhara of the Tenjuta Dynasty. In the letter, Shapur II humbly asked him to march west and join the Persians in the crusade against the greedy people of Beifu, and promised that if Beifu was defeated, the Persian Empire would help the Gupta dynasty to occupy the Kushan Kingdom and the entire Sintou River region, and was even willing to cede the Tocharian region to His Majesty the wise and powerful King Shamodhara Gentus. In the letter, Shapur II even mentioned that he had contacted a dozen powerful kings and princes of Tocharian and Sistan, secretly reorganized his troops and horses, and would immediately raise his flag in response when Shamodhara Qianduo marched westward.

He Fudiyan and Valerian couldn't help but be shocked after reading it, and even stammered a little when they were interpreting, and the generals who were listening quietly next to them were also in an uproar.

After hearing this, Zeng Hua waved his hand and said, "This letter gives us a message, that is, Shapur II of the Persian Empire has little confidence in a decisive battle with us, otherwise he would not have colluded with Shamdala Gupta and Kapnanda in this way. ”

After finishing speaking, Zeng Hua saw that the two of them didn't understand, so he couldn't help but smile and continued to explain: "If Shapur II really wants to fight a decisive battle with us, then he will quietly send a reliable person to personally collude with Shamodhara Qianduo and others to join forces, how can he rashly use such a stupid method as a messenger?" This secret letter is on the way, who dares to guarantee that it will not fall into our hands. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua couldn't help but knock on the gauntlet of the seat and said: "Shapur II is really calculating, the letter has been delivered to the destination, which can encourage Shamodhara Qianduo and others to raise troops and harass the flanks of our army, and if the letter is obtained by us, it will also direct our attention to Tianzhu and Guishan, so that we are unable to launch a new offensive against the east, so that Shapur II can keep his Khorasan." ”

"General, your wisdom can be compared to that of Caesar and Hannibal." Valerian stammered in unskilled Chinese.

Both of them were known and known, and one was one of the greatest figures in the history of the Roman Empire, and the other was one of the most formidable enemies in the history of the Roman Empire. immediately smiled and accepted this Roman style of sycophancy.

"General, what are we going to do then?" Guo Huai asked on the side.

"What to do? We sit here and wait for Shapur II's negotiating envoy, and since he does not want to fight us, he must negotiate with us. Zeng Hua replied with a smile.

"Great general, what about the Kushan Kingdom and the Qiduo Dynasty? I think that since Shapur II did this, there must have been more than one secret letter sent to him, and there would have been a letter to his destination. What if they stupidly responded to Shapur II's request to send troops? He Fudiyan bent down and asked.

Zeng Hua glanced at He Fu Diyan, thought for a moment and replied: "Tianzhu, Guishuang, and Tocharo, even if they don't send troops, we will find trouble for them." We wait for Shapur II to negotiate, we can not fight Persia, but the soldiers and horses cannot be idle. Shamodhara Gupta and Kapnanda want to respond to Shapur II and send troops against us? ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua snorted coldly and said: "One is already a dried vegetable, so thin that it doesn't have a few taels of oil, and the other looks very big, but it is a piece of tofu, which will break when you touch it." If you want to beat us, take care of your own nest first. ”