Chapter 977

At that moment, Julian and keshias thought of many past events.

Many times, as two members of the Roman royal family and the Sassanian royal family, they were absolutely indifferent to people from small countries, and even did more arrogant things.

Up to now, they have become the object of indifference in the eyes of others, and they have a deep understanding of what kind of mood it will be.

What kind of mood is that? Perhaps humiliation, but more helpless.

On the premise of unequal strength, others should feel lucky if they are willing to give a good face.

One side is absolutely powerful, and the other side can't return the hand after being beaten. If you haven't been beaten, you should really feel lucky. How can you expect more!

"Xigaoche..." Julian was silent for a long time and asked in a low voice, "don't you border with Sasan?"

Xigaoche is actually a name given by others. They are not so much a country as a tribal alliance formed by a scattered tribe.

The alliance is mainly composed of Dingling people, who have no fixed territory. In the East, it probably starts from Jinshan (Altai Mountains) to Daqiu River (irtsis River) in the West; in the north, it reaches the permafrost area, and in the south, it is close to Yueban and hunit.

Keshias only knew that there was no country called xigaoche to the east of Sasan. He was not sure whether it was a translation problem. Maybe the Han people called xigaoche, but they called it another name.

"The approximate geographical range should be inferred?" Julian saw that keshias was a little confused, frowned and said, "you haven't increased your exploration and investigation in the east?"

Keshias is strange now. It's true that Sasan wants to improve diplomatic relations with Rome, but the two sides are not allies. They don't understand Julian's confidence to spy intelligence so clearly.

Moreover, even if sassanne and Rome become allies, the basis of the alliance is only on the premise that the Han Empire fought against one of the two countries. When should the Allies inform each other of all information.

"But..." Julian didn't seem to notice keshias's strange face and said to himself: "the Han Empire just sent out less than 30000. It should be a sweep, not a large-scale westward advance. You still have enough time to know enough about the East."

At present, Rome and sassanne are building more mutual trust, and the two sides have begun to redeploy troops from their respective front lines.

Not to mention whether sassanne and Rome have established enough mutual trust after returning the front-line troops, the local Syrians and Arabs who seek independence are happy.

The Syrians have been colonized for a long time. They were first ruled by the Seleucid Empire and later replaced by the Parthian Empire.

Waiting for the Romans to march to the East, conquer Syria and establish provinces, the Syrians were ruled by the Romans.

The young Syrians under the Roman rule were either captured by the Roman Legion as labor or sold into slaves.

If the Jews are a group of people skilled in calculation in West Asia and Europe, the Syrians also have the same reputation. Even other ethnic groups think that Syrians are more cunning than Jews.

The free people of Syria often played the role of hawkers in Rome or the Parthian Empire. The Syrians sold to Rome were either sent to the arena or became some Roman accountants.

For a long time to come, Syria became a war zone between the Parthians and the Romans.

The army of the Parthian Empire and the army of Rome have been sawing back and forth in Syria for nearly a hundred years. It can be imagined what kind of life the Syrians have been living under the shadow of war.

People who experience tragedy often yearn for a better life and try again and again to live a better life. The key is that there is no improvement after repeated efforts. People with perseverance will become depressed and even despair of survival after repeated failures.

If any nation in the world took the first desperate suicide attack, there is no doubt that the Syrians were the first. Once they organized more than 30 people, each of whom carried kerosene into the arena, blocked all exits, set fire in the arena, and played an attack of burning jade and stone. But there was no "terrorist attack" at that time. It was only recorded that a fire broke out in an arena one day.

The place name is still called Syria. It is hard to say how many genuine Syrians there are. The statistics of the Romans are 1.6 million and the statistics of the Persians are 2.4 million. No one knows whose statistics are closer to the facts.

No matter how many tens of thousands of Syrians, they are not the main force in this wave of national independence, and Arab talents are.

At present, there is no official title of the Arab nation. The Romans and Persians unanimously regard them as Semites and also call them Semites.

The Arab name is claimed by some tribes of the Semitic people. It is no different from the birth of any nation. It will not be accepted by all countries. It needs to wait for them to show strong enough force to force all major powers to recognize their existence. The original claim will become an official name.

The Semitic people are a huge ethnic group. Many ethnic groups, such as Assyrians, akkads, Kuti, Amorites, etc., belong to the branch of the Semitic race.

It is recorded that the history of the Semitic race can be traced back to 3000 BC. Their most glorious history is the establishment of the Babylonian Empire (Amorites).

Now there are many ethnic groups claiming to be Arabs, which are scattered and widely distributed. Tribes claiming to be Arabs exist in North Africa, East Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.

At present, Arabs who are seeking independence or self-government are mainly tribes in West Asia, and began to spread slowly to East Africa, which is tantamount to their resistance to the rule of Persians and Romans at the same time.

Arabs challenge the two empires at the same time, but it is strange that each tribe does its own work and does not form a "United Front". All along, they can only make trouble. In fact, they make trouble, causing some small trouble to the two empires.

The key is that there are too many Arabs who began to resist. Although there is no "United Front", a lot of small troubles will become big troubles. The direct embodiment is that the Sassanian Empire belongs to the "hardest hit area", and the logistics line of the front-line forces fighting between the Sassanian Empire and Rome has become extremely fragile.

Both the Sassanian Empire and Rome withdrew their troops. The "blank area" formed by the withdrawal of the two countries' troops almost emerged countless forces for a time. Even a small village has at least two or more forces declaring ownership. As a result, those forces fought each other. As a result, the withdrawal of the two countries did not bring peace to those places, but became more chaotic.

"We are focusing all our energy on consolidating the coastal areas." Julian may know more about Syria than kjayas, all because his fief is in Egypt and Asia Minor: "the more chaos there is, it is actually more beneficial to both of us."

What quesias knew was that the Romans were really crazy and seemed to be consolidating the sea territory. Only the Strait of the Spanish province allocated 2 million gold coins to build fortifications. If there was no technology to build a gate to block the Strait, it would be built no matter how much it cost.

The Romans were really frightened by the fact that the fleet of the Han Empire drove directly to the sea near Constantinople. They absolutely didn't want to see the Han Empire go to war with themselves one day, and then the fleet of the Han Empire came directly to Constantinople for landing.

In addition to being crazy about building a strait fortification group, the Romans were still crazy about studying warships. On the other hand, they also placed orders to buy any ships that could be purchased from the Han Empire to the greatest extent. It was obvious that they had the disease of "insufficient warships".

"It's not just the Spanish provinces..." Julian said with a depressed face, "the Egyptian provinces are also building coastal fortifications."

"Yes!" Keshias thought of one thing and asked, "I heard that the Han Empire proposed to jointly excavate the ancient Suez Canal with Rome?"

The ancient Suez Canal was excavated for the first time around 2000 BC. At that time, senusret III of the twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (its name is the source of the word "Suez") ordered the excavation of an "East-West" canal to connect the Red Sea and the Nile River in order to carry out direct trade through land flat bottomed ships.

There is some evidence that the canal existed at least until Ramesses II in the 13th century BC, and then the canal was abandoned.

The ancient Suez Canal was regained by Ptolemy II around 250 BC and continuously improved, destroyed and rebuilt in the following millennium.

The current ancient Suez Canal is in the stage of being destroyed. Rome has fallen into civil strife in the past few decades and has no ability to repair it at all.

If history had not been changed, Augustus, waiting for Julian to become the New Roman, would order reconstruction again.

Now? Augustus of Rome was Constantius II. He could hardly recover from the trauma of the civil war. He had no spare time to care about the ancient Suez Canal.

"Well, the Han Empire put forward a proposal to jointly repair the Suez Canal." Julian knew he couldn't hide it at all, and said with a bitter smile: "just as we can't refuse the Han Empire's port lease and lease, we can only agree to the proposal to jointly repair the Suez Canal, but... We're still procrastinating."

In fact, no matter the Romans or Persians, they really wonder how the Han people (official) know so much about them. They can't guess how the Han people know everything they should know after only a little contact with each other.

The Suez Canal has proved its value for a long time. Its existence can directly connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The navigation between each other does not need to bypass a big bend in Africa.

It was precisely the great shortening of the time of sea voyage that the Romans were most worried about.

If one day Rome and the Han Empire become belligerents, they believe that the Han Empire will not choose to fight from the land in the east to the West. They can understand that cross sea invasion is the most convenient way by thinking with their knees.

The Han Empire had leased a considerable number of ports from Rome, and restrictions were given according to the treaties signed, including that the Han Empire could not berth in the form of a fleet.

The Romans are not sure whether the Han Empire will abide by the treaty. The Romans will treat whether the Han Empire will abide by the treaty as a "cordon". If there are too many Han Empire warships berthing in the leased ports one day, the Romans should understand that the war is about to break out.

Similarly, the Persian Sassanian also had a similar treaty, that is, the Persians were close to the Han Empire and did their best to negotiate. There was still a port, which was defined as a military port. The military port does not limit the number of large-scale warships that the Han Empire can dock. It is entirely reasonable and legal to say how many warships the Han Empire wants to dock.

"It's all the same." Keshias is not open-minded, but knows and doesn't know: "our majesty has completely opened his eyes. Maybe when the war breaks out, we will choose to become the jurisdiction of the Persian capital protectorate of the Han Empire?"

Julian was stunned directly, and then asked with an incredible face, "isn't it fake?"

Of course, it's false. On the one hand, kesias said that he was really helpless. Why didn't he stimulate Julian?

"If there is a war in two years, how long can we resist?" Keshias said seriously, "how long it can last depends entirely on how many firearm troops the Han Empire sent out."

"If Rome can help at the first time..." Julian asked seriously, "how long can it last in your estimation?"

"The Han Empire is more than a powerful firearm force. You should know that." Keshias thought for a moment and gave the answer: "if our two countries cooperate sincerely, we may be able to establish a reliable defense line in South Persia. How long we stick to it depends on their determination to invade."

South Persia is chalaseni, Elam, MIDI, Fars and Sistan. The terrain on this side is quite complex. There are not only vast desert areas, but also many mountains.

Once upon a time, and now, South Persia is a very rich place, and it is also the best line of defense against any invader.

When the Parthian Empire was defeated again and again in the west, it relied on South Persia to survive for nearly a hundred years. Until the defense line of South Persia was torn open by the Roman Legion and the Persians took advantage of the situation, the current Sassanian empire was established.

"Do you think..." Julian subconsciously looked at the Han army marching in the distance: "when will war break out?"

"It's hard to guess!" Keshias said with a wry smile: "when we thought that 'they' would enter the rest period after fighting ah San, the western Xinjiang campaign broke out first. We thought that there should be a period of peace after the western Xinjiang campaign, and the northern Xinjiang campaign began again."

Julian also smiled bitterly: "indeed, we didn't guess right."