To Four Thousand Years Later

By the time Mori left the basement with the oracle of Kawad VI, it was already sunset.

He looked up. I saw the golden sun descending to the west, and the sky was bordered by a circle of pale gold, just like the holy wheel of light behind Ahura Mazda. After climbing to the top of the spiral staircase, High Priest Mori heaved a sigh of relief. It took him almost half a day to convince Kawad VI to send troops to Gothic. But the price is that the time to attack must be advanced—not after he ascended the throne, but now and immediately. It seems that this old man still doesn't want to abdicate.

Morrie glanced back silently, and closed the door of the room smoothly. If he sends troops now, he will take the big head of Kawad VI who was originally alone in his military exploits. This had a great impact on his prestige after he got the throne.

Priests serve his father out of fear, greed, or loyalty. But when Kawad VI dies, even if those priests temporarily obey his orders, they will soon have some special ideas. After all, Morrie had a fatal political weakness—his mother was from the military class.

According to the Sasanian tradition, he should not have been the high priest at all in the first place. So once his authority can't suppress those priests, they will immediately launch a rebellion... and have natural excuses. The high priests can convene a council to excommunicate Mori. Once he leaves the religion, it means that he has fallen from the "clergy" class to the lower class of "soldiers" or even "literati". Then he became the tyrant of Persia and immediately lost the divine right to rule Persia.

Although he has no evidence to show that the high priests have such hostility towards him... But Mori does not want to base the cornerstone of his rule on complete trust in his subjects. He wants to launch a war against Goth, although part of the reason is that he wants to take advantage of it. If Brother Ruo is like this, when he attacks Goth again in the future, the difficulty will suddenly drop sharply. Goth's lifeblood is his. strategic depth. The loss of the area adjacent to Sasanian Persia on the east side of the Mediterranean Sea has the same significance as their loss of the territory adjacent to Fark on the north side, both of which are fatal crises.

But the other... is that Murray wants to take this big victory to stand out.

Don't even think about it, he will win this match. Goth doesn't even have a king, and the country is in chaos. If he chooses King Solomon to go south to start a war, Goth may not even dare to deploy troops—if he personally leads the army to win the western battlefield, plus his His background, military power and some priests will be directly attached to him, and he will gain the loyalty of the common people. Then he took the opportunity to provoke a war with Frank, and no one dared to pull him down at this time. Because no one can afford this responsibility—no one can directly pass him to command the army after he has just won a big victory.

In peacetime, controlling the army is not a great power...but it is different in times of war. Contrary to what the priests believed, Li was not a fanatical war lover. He's actually very calm. He just knows that only in war can he use the army to gradually learn to control the power of the country's upper echelons. Only then can he gradually transform the military power he has learned to control into actual political power and secure his position.

"But it's okay..."

Morrie sighed.

His eyes were unexpectedly calm and indifferent.

Letting Kawad VI start a war during his reign has both disadvantages and advantages. He did lose a chance to win over the military class and win the hearts and minds of the people, but this made it reasonable for him to go to the front without worrying about rebellion in the rear. This is the most important. In his plan, there is an unstable factor, that is, whether the Nass will launch a violent coup and remove his royal power without participating in the meeting, then he has no choice.

You can only take the army back and penetrate them directly.

But even if he succeeds in regaining the throne, his kingship will surely become less sacred. He will become the tyrant who seized power violently, not the saint who inherited power under Ahura's watchful eye. In fact, x has little influence on the political situation. Kawad VI sits in town every day. The high priests dared not rebel day by day.

He won't be gone for long either. Because the main purpose of this war is not to directly defeat the Goths, or to get as much land as possible...but to let the people know that they have won, and at the same time destroy the Franks. So his visit won't be too long, as long as he leads his army to successively take down several cities with only defenders, and sends troops to garrison him, he can return. It will take less than two or three weeks to come and go. If he has such military exploits sooner, his position can be secured. As the situation becomes tense, the importance of the military class will also increase. As a class, his political status will also rise. Although the order is reversed, this aspect does not have a great impact on him. Although the benefits are reduced, the risk of failure is also reduced.

Among them, he couldn't help secretly admiring Kawad VI in his heart.

"Then the next step is to deploy troops

he whispered, and left the palace.

Today, the troops from all over the country will be summoned, and Mabi will set off at night.

Two days later, they will regroup in the border town. They will break through Goth within seven days and return within ten days.

It's not difficult at all. Because the northern army was disintegrated and the main force of the eastern army was also transferred northward, the western and southern armies could not be transferred without the king's order. In other words, what they want to attack is the Eastern Army, which has only one-third of its strength, accounting for only about one-tenth of Gothic's total strength. This number of people is distributed to each town, and it can basically be regarded as powerless to fight back. Moreover, there was no order from above to fight, maybe halfway through the fight, the rest would flee south or west across the sea. If Morrie leaves one day earlier, he can come back one day earlier. As long as Kawad VI comes back before he dies, he will take the absolute initiative." That's it.

The young high priest made up his mind and went straight to the barracks with the troop transfer order signed by King Kavad VI. There is only one thing that he doesn't know. On the top floor of the palace, in the king's bedroom—the room where Kawad VI's double took a nap.

The substitute of King Kawad VI was smothered to death by someone with a pillow... just passed away.