Sassanid Dynasty, Ctesiphon's Palace.

Emperor Shapur II, who was already in his sixties, was practicing his sword in the square.

Don't look at Shapur II, who is already old, but his spirit is not bad at all.

He wielded a sharp sword, slashing, slashing, slashing, stabbing and stabbing ...... Every action is fluid. After practicing the sword, Shapur II singled out ten powerful Persian warriors, and with his bare hands, he beat these spear-wielding warriors to the ground, and there was no power to fight back!

At this time, the minister Anushirwang hurried to meet him.

"Anushlwang, what's wrong? Did the Romans call, or did the Wei people call? ”

Shapur II took the silk handkerchief handed by a court maid, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and asked Anushlwan with a smile on his face.

Shapur II really seems to have the qualifications to underestimate the Wei and Romans.

He reinvigorated Persia's national power and military prestige, and adopted a series of active domestic and foreign policies, making Persia one of the most authoritarian states in the world.

During the reign of Shapur II, he used troops against the Kushan and other Central and South Asian countries in the east, and its northeastern border line advanced to the southern edge of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, and Kashgar in modern Xinjiang became the northeasternmost city in the territory of the Persian Sassanid Empire during his reign. Shapur II made peace with Rome again as the victor, and by this time he had established the hegemony of the Sassanid dynasty in Asia!

Anushalwan saluted Shapur II and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has just received the news. The Wei Empire's three-way army attacked the Kushan Empire, and Jidora seemed to be afraid of the might of the Wei army and surrendered without a fight! Now the emperor of the Wei Empire, Ran Min, has entered Fulousha, the capital of the Kushan people. ”

"What should come will come."

Shapur II smiled faintly: "Anushrwang, you don't have to worry. It's just a deception. He had already contacted me before, and he wanted to kill Ran Min and annihilate his army! It's just that he may not be able to do it by relying on the Kushan's own strength, and he will suffer retaliation from the Wei people, so he sent Doro to ask my Sassanid Empire to send troops to help him. I've ordered Phildusi to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to support the Kushans! If nothing else, in a few days we will hear the news that Ran Min was defeated and died in Fulousha. ”

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Wei Empire is a very powerful country, with a territory more than three times larger than my Sassanid Empire, a population of hundreds of millions, and an army of more than two million. If Ran Min really died in Fulousha, I am afraid that the Wei people will not give up! ”

Hearing this, Shapur II sneered and said, "What are you afraid of? Anushlwang, when did you become less daring than a mouse? It is impossible for the Wei Empire to have such a large territory, such a population, and so many troops, even if it really exists, why should we be afraid? ”

"Ran Min is a conqueror like Alexander, his empire will be the same as Alexander's empire, with the death of the conqueror, the people of the land he conquered, the people of those lands will stand up and resist, and those unruly generals will also divide one side and fight endlessly. When the time comes, hum, our great Sassanid dynasty will be able to continue to expand eastward, and the Kushans, the poisoners, the Wei people, etc., these countries will all submit to my feet! ”

Shapur II seems to be a little arrogant, but what he said, in fact, is not unreasonable.

As soon as the 20-year-old Alexander succeeded to the throne, he launched a rumbling chariot, and with his great skill, he successively unified the whole territory of Greece, and then swept through Central Asia, leveled the Persian Empire, and drove the army to the Indus Valley, and occupied the whole territory of Egypt without a single soldier. The world's four major ancient civilizations occupy three of them.

He conquered about 5 million square kilometers of land in the whole territory, and Alexander's empire stretched from ancient Greece and Macedonia in the west, to the Ganges Valley in India in the east, to the first waterfall of the Nile River in the south, and to the medicine and water in the north.

Alexander's empire in 323 BC was the largest country in the world in terms of territory at that time, more than the territory of the seven eastern kingdoms combined. Alexander the Great achieved unprecedented feats in a short period of thirteen years.

Alexander's death was too sudden, and Alexander's failure to identify his successor led to a fierce struggle for royal power. During the struggle, his mother, wife and children were killed by the opposition.

The kingdom of Macedonia, which spanned Europe, Asia and Africa, was divided into four Hellenistic states: Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor, Egypt, and Syria.

Shapur II has reason to believe that Ran Min, the conqueror, will be like Alexander, as long as Ran Min dies, the land he conquered, and even the entire system of the Great Wei Empire will collapse!

Anusherwang continued: "Your Majesty, I have heard that Ran Min has sent an embassy to Khorezm, and it seems that he wants to persuade King Khorezm to submit to the Wei Empire. ”

"Hmph, Ran Min is really whimsical. Khorezm pays tribute to my Sassanid Dynasty every year and expresses his submission, how can he change his course and surrender to such an outsider as the Wei Empire? ”

Hearing this, Anushilwang couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Your Majesty, the Khorezm people are capricious, maybe he sees that the Wei Empire is so strong, the Wei army is so powerful, and the Kushan people have surrendered to the Wei Empire, maybe the King of Khorezm may also follow the example of the Kushan people and submit to the feet of Ran Min?" ”

"Hmm. Anusherwang, your worries are not unfounded. Then I will also send an embassy, a mission of three hundred men, to Urtench to force Khorezm not to dare to fall to the side of the Wei people. ”

And while Shapur II was discussing with Anushrwan how to deal with the Wei army, Ran Min was singing in the palace in Fulousha.

It is worth mentioning that the old thing Jidoro seems to know Ran Min's "special hobbies", and dedicated his two married daughters, one daughter in the boudoir to Ran Min, not to mention, even his second young and beautiful queen was dedicated to him.

Ran Min felt very confused, there must be a demon when things go wrong!

So Ran Min brought Qin Mu and Xun Ji over to discuss this matter.

Qin Mu pondered for a while, then said, "Your Majesty, Jidoluo may be trying to stabilize you by doing this. ”

"Hold me steady?"

"Yes." Qin Mu bowed his head and said: "It is reasonable to be reasonable, there is no need to put your posture so low, and you don't have to dedicate your daughter, granddaughter, and even the queen to Your Majesty in order to please Your Majesty." There must be something greasy about this! ”

"You're saying that Totara might be working against me?"

"That's how it should be."

But what would he do? Now that the entire Kushan Empire is roughly occupied by our Wei army, although I did not order Ji Duoluo to dismiss the redundant army, but the soldiers and horses of the Kushan people are already under the surveillance of our Wei army, how dare he act rashly? ”

Qin Mu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, this is the problem. The territory of the Kushan people is not small, and they are stationed in various places, and our Wei army is basically stationed on the line of Fulousha and Peshawar, and the Kushan people in other places are still waiting and watching, and Jiduoluo may not dare to attack His Majesty. ”

Hearing this, Ran Min snorted coldly and said, "I'm still afraid that he won't succeed?" Our army has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, even if the Kushan people really rebel, I can destroy him logically! ”

"Your Majesty, you can't say that. What if the target of the Guishan people is Fulousha, is Your Majesty? The Kushan people are in chaos internally, and Jidora can't integrate the princely forces within the Kushan, but he may not be able to rely on external forces. ”

"You're talking about the Sassanids?"

"Not bad. The minister heard that the Sassanid Dynasty was a powerful country, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, a million armor, and a population of about 15 million! This is the first major country we have encountered since our westward expedition. Before the power of the empire penetrated into Central Asia, this Sassanid dynasty was a major hegemonic power in Central Asia! ”

When Xun Ji heard this, he also said, "Yes." Your Majesty, it is possible that Totara is in collusion with the Persians. The Sassanid Empire of the Persians was one of the great powers of the world, even more powerful than the original Sabbatical Empire! Your Majesty, our army marched westward, and the first fierce enemy was this Sassanid Dynasty. So your Majesty, don't take it lightly! ”

"I can't take it lightly."

How powerful the Sassanid Dynasty was, Ran Min still knew a little bit about it.

The Parthian Empire, that is, the Resting Empire, is powerful, right?

It's just a pity that this was a classical slave empire, which was replaced by Sassanid Persia as early as 226 AD.

In its heyday, the territory of the Rest Empire stretched from the Euphrates River in the southeast of Asia Minor in the west to the Amu Darya River in the east. Located on the Silk Road between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire, the Anxi Empire became a commercial center, and was ranked as one of the four great powers of Asia and Europe at that time, along with the Han Dynasty, Rome, and the Kushan Empire.

Strictly speaking, there is no comparison between the Sabbatical Empire and the Sassanid Empire.

Parthia was the fifth dynasty in Persian history after Elam, the Kingdom of Media, the First Persian Empire, and the Seleucid Empire, while Sassanid Persia was built directly on the ruins of the Parthian (Sabbatarian) Empire, and it was not so much Sassanid Persia that destroyed the Parthian Empire, but rather a dynastic change in Persia.

Both Parthia and Sassanid Persia were Zoroastrianism as the orthodox faith, and the Persians were the main ethnic groups of the Western Asian power. The Anxi Empire was destroyed by Sassanid Persia, just as the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need to compare.