Da Qin: Destroyed the Xiongnu at the beginning

Anxi County of Great Qin, Antioch City, Temple of Zeus.

As the former capital of the Seleucid dynasty, Antioch gathered the vast majority of nobles. The temples in the city were second only to Athens in prosperity, and most of the sect leaders lived here.

Since Seleucid I, who founded the Seleucid Crown Prince, was the former commander of Alexander’s bodyguards and inherited the largest portion of Alexander’s empire, the city of Antioch has always regarded itself as Macedonian orthodoxy, inheriting Macedonia to the north. The name of the kingdom was disdainful of the declining power, and kings of all generations vowed to unify the Kingdom of Macedonia and Ptolemaic Egypt and restore the grandeur of Alexander’s great empire in the past.

But no one expected that the Romans, who seemed to have declined back then, suddenly made a huge comeback in the war with Carthage, and made exaggerations all the way south and east, defeating the unprepared Seleucids and defeating them. A large area of territory was lost, and even the capital city of Antioch was almost in danger several times.

Later, although the crisis of the Romans was relieved due to the Great Qin Expeditionary Force, the Great Qin, which was more powerful than Rome, made Seleucus face a more difficult situation.

Most of the Seleucids could still accept Persia County being captured by the Qin Dynasty. After all, it was a spoil of war obtained by the Qin people from the Romans. According to the concept of winner being king, the Qin Dynasty should have the right to dominate.

What’s more, Persia is thousands of miles away from the Qin Dynasty and is a super enclave. In the eyes of everyone in the Seleucids, it is just a cannon fodder for the Seleucids to resist the Romans.

But no one expected that Great Qin’s development would actually reach a terrifying level.

First, a steady stream of unimaginably large sea trade fleets came directly across thousands of miles of sea territory, linking the Persian County enclave with the mainland of Daqin. While bringing many commodities, they also brought the culture of Daqin. spread.

For the first time, many Seleucids realized that there were civilizations in this world that were more advanced than those of Greece and Persia.

The instinct of those with strong faith led many people to begin to accept and study the culture of the Qin Dynasty, and the products of the Qin Dynasty became the best props for the Seleucid nobles to show off their financial resources.

However, the Maurya Dynasty was destroyed by the Qin Dynasty, and the Seleucids suddenly discovered that before they knew it, the only remaining territory of the Seleucids had been completely surrounded by the Qin Dynasty.

To the north and west is the Persian County of the Qin people, and to the south and east are the Peacock County and the prairie of the Qin Dynasty.

As for the sea, it is filled with the sails of Da Qin people.

The elite Qin regiments of more than 200,000 people and the countless Qin fleets frightened the formerly arrogant Romans so that they did not dare to look eastward and ceded territory to pay compensation. At the same time, they also had the ability to overthrow the Seleucids at any time.

After countless discussions between the Seleucid royal family and the nobles, they had to discover to their dismay that Seleucid had become the prey of the Qin people.

Resistance is simply impossible.

The Seleucids couldn’t even defeat the Romans, and the combat effectiveness of the Guards Corps was not as good as the Mauryan Dynasty’s War Elephant Corps. How could they easily destroy the 300,000 Roman main force and the last elite of the Mauryan Dynasty’s Qin rivals?

I’m afraid that before the Seleucids’ summoning order was completed, the Qin people’s iron hooves had already rushed into the city of Antioch.

At that time, he will be a prisoner of others, and maybe he will suffer the same tragic fate as the Xiongnu chanyutou Mangmaodun.

In desperation, the Seleucids could only resort to marriage, hoping to temporarily maintain peace with the Qin people through marriage.

Then they gave in step by step, and finally had to make Princess Theia, who was married to His Highness Prince Fusu of Great Qin, the heir of Seleucid, acquiescing to Great Qin’s annexation of Seleucid.

Although some nobles were still dissatisfied, they had no choice but to close their eyes wisely after a group of them fell under the swords and guns of the Qin garrison.

As for the common people, it doesn’t matter.

Anyway, this territory has always been a battleground for military strategists. In the past few hundred years alone, it has witnessed the rise and fall of several empires. Their identities have changed from Persians to Macedonians to Seleucids. , now they are just people from Da Qin.

Moreover, the people of Da Qin have been looking forward to many benevolent policies of Da Qin that have been circulated for a long time. Now they actually have the opportunity to enjoy them. The vast majority of the people welcome them.

At least after becoming a Daqin citizen, you no longer need to worry about being attacked by other countries. Instead, you can gossip about who the next target will be, which makes you feel extra safe.

Moreover, although the people of Daqin had to pay taxes, they received a lot of subsidies. After being merged into Daqin, life became much easier.

Especially those who study actively and can speak the Daqin language can get a job from the many workshops and projects opened by Qin merchants, and the wages are much higher than in the past.

Moreover, last year, when the Mediterranean countries suffered from the worst locust plague in a century and almost starved to death, it was the continuous flow of money and food from the Qin mainland that allowed the entire Seleucid region to survive the crisis.

The common people still miss this kindness very much. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Therefore, most Seleucid people supported the annexation to Da Qin.

The newly opened official schools in the city that use Qin language teaching and various Qin language crash courses were quickly surrounded by long queues of registrations.

But for the nobles, this is not so good.

After all, they didn’t need to pay taxes before.

Even better than the fact that the Seleucids inherited the Greek city-state system. The local nobles had great influence on the local area. Although they all nominally obeyed the Seleucid royal family, how much local taxes had to be paid could make a fuss.[]

((De Zhao) This allowed the major Seleucid nobles to just lie down and collect the money.

How could the nobles be willing to accept such a large sum of money now?

However, the nobles would not dare to openly oppose Da Qin, a method that would lead to death.

Everyone cherishes their lives.

So someone proposed using the sect to test the attitude of the Qin Dynasty in the name of the gods.

It just so happened that the Pope was also dissatisfied with the sect’s need to pay taxes, and hoped to use Daqin to increase the number of believers and better conduct missionary work, so he came up with the previous suggestions.

However, no one expected that the attitude of the Great Qin Court would be so rigid.

All the former Seleucid nobles and senior leaders of the sect were dumbfounded.

Now, not only have the benefits failed to come, but the roots of the sect have even been dug up.

What should I do?.