Outside the gate of Balasagon Forbidden Palace, what can be regarded as the second wave of persuasion to enter has ended. Zhang Zhao did not show up, but asked Zhang Zhong to come forward to persuade everyone to disperse.
Why do these people insist on Zhang Zhao being Balasagon’s Juerhan? And no matter whether Saktu tried to persuade him with good words or led troops to threaten him, in the end, they refused to go to war directly?
Regarding this issue, Little Doll Cat Guo Waner felt that she had the right to speak, and handed a glass of sweet and sour grape juice to Zhang Zhao. Guo Waner stroked her hair with a smile.
"If they try to persuade you again, Erlang will definitely be ready to agree, right?"
Zhang Zhao nodded incomprehensibly, he really thought so in his heart, even though Balasagon was a piece of worthless meat to him.
But this was a useless thing that he had defeated himself, and he also had the intention of using Nestorianism to stop the Tianfang Sect from advancing westward.
Although these two are not fuel-efficient lamps, they are monotheistic religions! The missionary attribute is very strong.
But whichever is the lesser of two evils, Nestorianism is still easier for Zhang Zhao to accept than Tianfangjiao.
Because after hundreds of years of development, especially during the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, Nestorianism made a lot of changes in order to enter the Tang Dynasty and preach according to the customs and characteristics of the Chinese people. Nestorian scriptures also incorporated a lot of Buddhism and Taoism Two thoughts.
Moreover, the descendants of the Guo family actually penetrated into Nestorianism and further Chineseized Nestorian classics on the basis of their predecessors, which surprised Zhang Zhao even more.
After this operation, Nestorianism is undoubtedly more reassuring than Tianfangjiao. In the future, it can be regarded as a representative of the perfect combination of Eastern and Western cultures, and it can even influence the orthodox religion of Rome.
And can Jing resist the eastward expansion of Tianfang Sect? Zhang Zhao thought about it carefully, and it should be possible.
Because Balasagon actually plays an extremely important role in Nestorianism, which can be seen from the Nestorian temples scattered throughout Balasagon. Balasagon is to Nestorianism what Guangmingding is to Mingjiao.
Historically, Nestorianism was still the first religion in Balashagon until around 1300, which was already the period of the Chagatai Khanate.
Nestorianism here resisted the Kara Khanate and the Western Kara Khanate, which were dominated by Tianfang religion, and also resisted the Western Liao Dynasty, which was dominated by Buddhism, which fully proved that Balashagon had a profound foundation of Nestorianism.
Controlling Balasagon, Sinicizing Nestorianism, supporting Nestorianism, inhibiting Tianfang Religion from advancing eastward, and then exporting it to Europe in the opposite direction, this is what Zhang Zhao needs to use Balasagon to do.
As for whether it is necessary to strictly rule this land, he doesn't think it is that important. The worst thing is to rebuild a Broken Leaf Town in the future.
"But I want to say, Erlang, you can agree to them, but you should give your conditions before agreeing to them!" While Zhang Zhao was meditating, Guo Waner continued to say softly, a bit like Zhuge among women.
"My conditions?" Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment. The conditions must be mentioned, but there shouldn't be such a rush, right?
"It's your conditions. Don't Erlang think it's a little unusual for them to be so anxious to persuade you to come in? Think about why you came to Balasagon?" Guo Waner continued to remind.
"You mean, they are so anxious to persuade me to join because they want to default on the debt, and they want to lift me up and use it to deal with my uncle, the Great Sage, the Emperor?"
Zhang Zhao suddenly realized something. He felt that there was something he hadn't thought through this time to persuade him to enter. It turned out that the key point was here.
The reason why he came to Balashagon was because Master Titusi sent people all the way to meet with Li Shengtian. Li Shengtian agreed to prepare supplies, dispatch troops, and let Zhang Zhao rush to help.
This mobilization, not to mention casualties and the risk of possible failure, cost Khotan a lot of money just to transport more than 2,000 people to more than 2,000 miles away.
Therefore, just an expression of surrender is definitely not enough. Master Titsigu must have other agreements with Li Shengtian.
For example, some of the wealthy land in Balasagon was paid as tribute to the Khotan royal family, and a large amount of annuities had to be paid every year, etc.
As a sect leader, especially one who helped Balashagon escape the fate of destruction, this is a reasonable reward.
But what if the general who was sent by the sect leader to help him became independent on the spot? So, is this money saved?
Although a part of the profits must be allocated to Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao has to work hard in Balasagon. Like Li Shengtian, who is more than two thousand miles away, he doesn't know when he will lose Balasagon and make a lot of money. Special fishing?
Even if it were to be fished out, he, Zhang Zhao, was alone and had only a thousand people, except for the palace guards in Khotan. How could he be fished out?
Zhang Zhao also understood why these people refused to recommend Saktu to succeed Arslen Khan.
Apart from the reasons of faith, as the great khan of the Kara Khanate, if Saktu really controlled Balashagon, how could he still trust people who were not his direct descendants?
I don’t know how many people will be transferred from various places and how much benefits will be taken away from Balasagon.
On the other hand, Zhang Zhao firstly had no conflict of faith with them, and secondly, his subordinates had few confidants, so he could make arrangements without giving up too many benefits.
And because we don’t have many confidants, we don’t have to rely heavily on local snakes like them to govern Balashagon?
And more importantly, Zhang Zhao also showed extremely high military command capabilities. His soldiers could defeat one against a hundred, and he could fully serve as the protector of Balasagon.
I have to say that if Zhang Zhao hadn't planned to return eastward, he and Balasagon would have been a match made in heaven!
His mother, these old foxes, just want to put him on the throne as a young tiger, and then rely on the cub's divine power to fake the tiger's power.
"Guo Waner, go find your third uncle, I have something to discuss with him!"
Zhang Zhao thought for a while with his eyes closed, and quickly made a decision. These nobles and religious leaders in Balashagon wanted to save some money, and he could accept it, because Zhang Zhao was originally going to return east.
And there are more than 200,000 people in Balasagun, even if you add the population of Talos and other places, it is only close to 400,000. Add in the continuous war, you can't squeeze out too much oil and water with a hydraulic hammer.
However, how to save money must be based on Zhang Zhao's ideas, and we cannot just follow what they say.
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Talos City, more than a hundred years ago in the 10th year of Tianbao (751), Gao Xianzhi, the governor of Anxi, led his army near here and started an encounter with the black-clad Abbasid dynasty.
The 20,000 Tang troops were betrayed by the servants of the Geluolu people and were defeated by the Dashi coalition army of about 80,000 to 100,000 people. Only a few thousand people returned to Anxi in the end.
If Zhang Zhao were here, he would probably have to pay tribute to the commander-in-chief and sigh, because this incident would be of great concern to both Chinese and Arabs in later generations.
But Yin Yaozi did not, because at this time, or one hundred and eighty years ago, the Battle of Talas could not be said to be insignificant, but at least it did not have much influence.
In this battle, excluding the servants, the real Anxi army of the Tang army was only six to seven thousand people at most. It is said that there were still three to four thousand who returned to Anxi after the war.
A total of 2,000 people were lost. Including the recruited craftsmen, technicians and other Han people, 3,100 or 200 people were lost and they died.
Compared to the conflict between Tang Dynasty and Tibet in Dafeichuan, this was nothing compared to the frequent losses of tens of thousands of troops.
It can be seen from the fact that Feng Changqing regained his strength after only one year and was able to severely defeat Tubo and Dabolu. The Tang army in Anxi was defeated, but it was far from being damaged.
On the other hand, the black-clad Abbasid Dynasty, although they won the victory, the battle losses were not low. At the same time, the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Army's mounted heavy infantry also made the Great Eaters realize a problem.
That is, it is impossible to defeat such a large empire across thousands of miles with the power of a cannibal. Moreover, the Anxi Army is only a part of the entire Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, after the Battle of Talas, not only did the Great Cannibals not move eastward, but instead sent envoys to Chang'an one after another after 752 years.
In 753 alone, four groups of envoys were sent in one year. Considering the distance between the two sides, it is likely that the last group of envoys had not returned before this group set off again.
Unlike our imagination, the Tianfang Sect continued to move eastward after the Talos War and then spread throughout the north and south of the sky. The Tianfang Sect spread throughout Hezhong and Anxi, and it really has little to do with the Great Cannibalism.
The Tianfang Sect spread first after the Tang Dynasty lost Anxi due to Anshi, and then the Persians spread it eastward to a small extent.
The real 'hero' later was Bugra Khan Saktu, who was defeated by Zhang Zhao in Polu Prefecture. His mazar (grave) is still in Kashgar.
What completely cut off the Buddhist kingdom and Nestorianism in the Western Regions was actually the greening of the Mongolian Chagatai Khanate.
Under the strong promotion of the Mongols, temples were destroyed and monks were killed in Balashagon, Qiuci, Gaochang and other places where Buddhism was prosperous.
Unexpectedly! The people who finally completed the greening of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were not Arabs or Persians, but the Mongolians who believed in the Buddha and Khumai in our impression. This world is so wonderful!
As the noisy rebels passed by, with fireworks symbolizing looting and massacre floating around, Dihkan, who was as big as Talas City, knelt on the ground and cried without tears.
Because those who plundered them were not the believers of the three religions from Balashagon, but the divine warriors who believed in the Tianfang Sect.
This is really unreasonable. When Ali Duraf led his army to march eastward, he looted them all. When the defeated soldiers came back, they looted them again.
The flame of anger was ignited in everyone's heart. It had only been a few to ten years since they converted. Their faith was not very stable to begin with. It was robbed twice in a row. The spark of faith was immediately washed away by reality. Everything is broken.
Yin Yaozi is so busy that he can only eat big cakes when eating. There are too many things to do.
First, we need to appease the believers of the three religions who have not converted. The last time Titsigu brought his people to fight against Talos, they made great efforts and suffered the heaviest losses. They escaped by running into the mountains.
Now that Balasagon is fighting again, there will really be revenge and grievance. If the yin kite is not appeased, a more intense religious vendetta will be in front of us.
The second one is to transport the large amount of loot "captured" back to Balasagon. Gold and silver, mules and horses, cattle and sheep, donkeys, cloth, cattle and sheep skins, and tendons for making bows and arrows, etc., these are all treasures.
Finally, in addition to Talas, seven or eight other cities, including Baishuihu City, which is more than 200 miles east of Talas, have to be managed.
At the same time, it is not an easy task to release the Persian God Warriors, and they are required to bring back the prestige of Juer Khan and scare the Persian Saman Kingdom to continue hoarding supplies in Tashkent. This requirement is even higher.
After five days, nothing happened to the others, and Yin Yaozi lost a lot of weight.
Zhang Zhao had few civil servants, and the only one who could handle internal affairs was to ask Zhu Qingquan to recruit those literate Tang children from the capital of Khotan. He led this group of crooked melons and cracked jujubes, but he almost worried Yin Yao Zi to death.
"Captain Yan, take this letter back to the Duke and tell him that he needs to stay in Talos for at least half a month to settle down here.
Moreover, the county magistrate must be told that a candidate to be in charge of Talas must be selected from Balasagun as soon as possible, otherwise the place will still be in danger. "
Yin Yaozi handed the letter to Zhang Zhao to Yan Jin. He was not going to return with Yan Jin and the others. If he left now, his work these days would be in vain.
Yan Jin glanced at Yin Yaozi sympathetically. If the Duke was really willing to be a Juerhan here, it would be easy to just seal off all the brothers, and things would naturally be stable. However, if he is not prepared to rule here for a long time, it will be difficult. That's big.
