The territory of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt was actually very large for a time, spanning Africa and Asia, which is equivalent to having territory on both continents.

The current Ptolemaic pharaohs are Ptolemy IV and Arsinoui III. It's strange to have two pharaohs? No, no, no, this is the characteristic of Egypt, they have always had the tradition of two pharaohs, and occasionally there is a single pharaoh system, otherwise the practice of two pharaohs has been maintained for a long time.

The Ptolemaic dynasty had a period of success, expanding not only to the borders with Carthage in Africa, but also to Syria and Lebanon in Asia. Around 221 B.C., Ptolemy III died and passed the throne to Ptolemy IV, a mediocre and pleasure-addicted monarch, and the kingdom began to weaken.

Ptolemy IV killed his mother and other members of the royal family at the beginning of his reign, and he easily took the words of those he favored, and let them control the government. During his reign, the kingdom was weakened by political decay that led to rebellions by the Egyptians.

The consequences of Ptolemy IV's stupidity and credulity were very serious, with constant rebellions in the country, Carthaginians and Romans in Africa, and only a few Libyans (not Libya today) occasionally invaded the territory of Ptolemaic Africa, but the Ptolemaic dynasty was not so wonderful in Asia.

At this time, it was the time for Seleucus to take great steps to clean up the domestic maladministration, Seleucus III cleaned up the domestic maladministration, and then began to use troops against Syria, which can be said to have defeated the army of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty in Syria relatively easily, and the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty was unable to increase its troops in Syria due to the continuous domestic turmoil, and as a result, Syria naturally returned to the rule of the Seleucid Empire.

Almost recently, the Carthaginians had conquered Europa by water, and Hannibal had inflicted heavy losses on the Roman army in Spain, and the situation seemed to have shifted from a stalemate between Carthage and the Roman Republic in Carthage's favor.

At this time, Ptolemy IV did something that seemed right, but it was extremely stupid. He heeded his beloved and sent messengers to the king of Carthage.

The actions of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt were learned by the Roman Republic, and at this time, the Roman Republic was already a little unable to withstand the war, and planned to take a temporary truce with Carthage to take a breath. Ptolemy IV's aid to Carthage provided an excuse for a group of parliamentarians of the Roman Republic to advocate a temporary truce with Carthage, even at a small cost. Large-scale fighting should be stopped, as a retaliation for the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, but the Roman Republic could contact the Seleucid Empire, and whatever it said, the Seleucid Empire urgently needed to attack the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, preferably Lebanon.

The Seleucid Empire would have continued to attack Lebanon after conquering Syria, but the goodwill of the Roman Republic was accepted by Seleucus IV, and the army of the Seleucid Empire followed suit.

Because of the successive defeats of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, their territory in Asia was constantly lost, and it was always accumulated in the Israeli region to be considered stable.

The Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt was constantly defeated. Not to mention the military captured, some Egyptians living in Syria, Lebanon, and even Israel were also captured by the Seleucid Empire.

In such an era, those who became captives of the army were usually enslaved, and the slavery business in Africa, Central Asia, and Europa was in full swing, and a large part of the financial revenue of each country depended on the slave trade, and the big slave owners were usually warmongers.

If Central Asia had not come into contact with the Central Plains Dynasty, the slaves produced during the wars in various places would have been transferred locally or in Europe and Rome. Usually most of it will be sold to Europa. But didn't Parthia, Bactria, Araksia and other countries know about the existence of the Eastern Empire? Then Seleucus also knew about the existence of the Eastern Empire.

Parthia and Bactria were independent from the Seleucid Empire~, and the Seleucid Empire and Parthia and Bactria were always at war. But in many cases, the state of war at the national level did not affect the trade of the people, especially as the dirtiest slave owners of our time, and some of the Egyptian slaves were transferred to Parthia and Bactria, and then some were sent to the Eastern Empire through these two countries.

Maurius. Yadi is not alone in the Empire now, she has seen many of her comrades in the market of Nanling, whether it is for rescue or because she wants to have companions from the same place. She will pay for it.

Curiously, Egyptian slave women were the majority of the Egyptian slaves who were escorted to the empire, with only a few men who appeared to be very strong. Maurius. Yadi bought a lot of money, even if her salary was relatively rich, but she didn't have an industry in Nanling. Even if she lives in Miyagi, her many companions have become a drag on her.

In the end, it was Lu Yi and Lu Qi who jointly contributed some money to help, so that Molius. Yadi had the money to buy a piece of land on the outskirts of Nanling to build a house to house her poor comrades, but the actual situation was not too ideal.

Egypt has a very long history and was once at the forefront of the world in some areas, including knowledge about architecture.

Lu Qi has been researching some strange things, and he actually learned that Maureus. Some of Yadea's fellow associates include architects and astromagicians, so they step in to help.

In fact, architecture contains quite a few aspects, including engineering technology and humanities and arts, and even a considerable understanding of mechanics. Yadea's consent was followed by employment.

With the help of some Egyptian scholars, Lü Qi made some progress in the study of machinery, and took a big step forward in the cause of building a national highway that belongs to the orbit of the contemporary empire.

Lu Yi knew what Lu Qi was doing, and he was happy to see that the empire had greater development in transportation construction, but unfortunately his knowledge was really limited and inappropriate, and he was never stingy with things that could help Lu Qi. In fact, it can even be said that Lu Yi very much agrees that Lu Qi can devote himself to the field of science, after all, he is also worried that his brothers will be in power when they grow up.

Morlius is not the only emperor in the current line. Yadi is an Egyptian, and in addition to her, there are three female comrades, and two other male comrades who have knowledge in some fields.

The whole world needs labor. Powerful nations or ethnic groups will always take advantage of weak objects, and obtain slaves from them to become labor, which can be used in the construction of their own country or sold as wealth.

Because the empire is newly built, and it has not been too long since it came out of the war, there are too many places that need to use labor, so it must be admitted that one thing must be acknowledged. Even in the empire, the trade in slaves has always shown a rising posture, that is, the emperor took the lead, and then the military responded in a full way, and the result was out of control.

The patrol team passed through Guangyang County to Julu County, and almost just stepped into the territory of Julu County, they could see a group of people digging water canals.

"There are several counties in northern Xinjiang, and some counties along the way are connected from the imperial capital, because they need to support the grassland campaign, and the above counties have the highest priority in transportation." Wang Ben thought about it for a while. After waiting for the decision, he continued: "For example, Julu County is not a priority, so we will wait for the transportation of those counties to be completed before mobilizing manpower for construction.

Those who are busy digging the canal look more complicated. It's not that it's complicated...... Doesn't seem right? It always seemed that it was not all subjects of the Empire, and there were some obvious aliens.

The reality is also relatively simple, isn't the empire constantly hunting slaves in the south (including the ocean islands)? At the same time, the Imperial army never stopped combing the steppes, because the number of slaves was increasing all the time.

Most of the slaves captured in the south were put into mining on the Japanese Islands, but most of the grassland Hu people captured in the north were left in the counties of northern Xinjiang because of the cost, and occasionally they would be used in a centralized manner when there was a special need, as the current situation of the members of the emperor's line is currently seeing.

It looks like the huge team isn't just digging the canal. If you continue to walk, you will be able to see people digging the mountains with tools all over the mountains after about ten miles.

Julu County is not the latest county to be built. There are counties with lower priority than Julu County, such as Minnan County and Nanhai County, which are concentrated in the southeast, but Hainan County, which seems to be a lonely county, has the lowest priority. But let's be honest...... The current population of Hainan County is simply negligible, and it is also because the Nanyang Fleet has a base over there, and in addition to the garrison, it is the family members of the army, and the construction is also for them. Where's the priority?

The emperor's requirement for each county was that each county must have a national highway that connected the imperial capital. Then, each county should have at least one road connecting to the county capital to achieve the capital-to-local monitoring.

Since there is a national level highway. So it's actually easier to call it down, and you don't need to make any more effort, the county level is called the county road, and the county level is called the county road.

Of course, Lu Zhe's attention to traffic is justified, he knows better than any what it means to have smooth and convenient traffic, that is the foundation of a thousand-year-old empire, after all, many times the central ~ central government loses control over the local area is limited by traffic, what happens in the local area can be reported in a timely and rapid manner, not to mention, it is relatively easy and fast to send troops.

In addition to political and military considerations, Lu Zhe also wanted to stimulate the economy.

Road construction is very expensive, the center can throw money at the local government, and the road can play an unimaginable role in the movement of goods after the road is clear, and the benefits are simply too much to say.

"Of the more than 70,000 people, less than 10,000 are local civilians, and the rest are all slaves from the steppe." Huang Jie, the county guard of Julu County, was born in the Huang family of Changsha County, and I heard that it was a lineage of the Huang family of the descendants of Huang Xie, Shenjun of Chu Guochun, and they returned to Shun after Lu Zhe sent troops. He is only about 1.6 meters tall, and his skin is relatively dark, and he looks more like an old farmer than a county guard.

The infiltration and encroachment of the Baiyue people into the south was more serious at the beginning, and even encroached on the southern county when it was the strongest, not to mention the territory of Changsha County in the south.

The Yong clan, which is the same as the Huang clan in Changsha County, is a family that has almost been assimilated by the Baiyue people, and it is precisely because of this that after they were included in the empire, under the reality that the empire completely wiped out the Baiyue ethnic group, the Yong clan was actually more embarrassed, and the development was far inferior to the Huang family and the Yang clan, and even the Lian clan was somewhat incomparable.

Lu Zhe remembered that after a series of military operations in the empire, there should have been more than 500,000 Hu slaves on the roster? Later, the military tried to establish a servant army, and about 100,000 of them were withdrawn, and some of them were lost when they were used, and the current registered Hu slaves seem to be only about 300,000?

"Your Majesty is right." Huang Jian said: "It is precisely because of some shortcomings that there are only about 60,000 slaves who have been transferred to Julu County, most of whom are old and weak women and children, and their work is not so ideal. ”

Huang Jie actually has some things that he doesn't understand, the imperial military is so good at fighting, does it make sense to form that servant army? He and many other civil officials agreed that it would be better to waste labor than to participate in the construction of the empire as labor force.

Of course, the matter that has been approved by the emperor and stamped with a seal has not changed, and Huang Zhu will not be stupid enough to mention it again. He followed the emperor and answered some of the emperor's questions from time to time.

"Huh? Naturally, they were well fed, and they were heaven and earth than they were before the empire brought them under its rule. Huang Zhu said with a satisfied smile on the improvement of life in Julu County, and he said: "Because the roads are gradually convenient, many specialties in the county used to be blocked in the ground, but now they can be shipped out for some money, and some goods can even be sold at a good price. ”

Lu Zhe is naturally extremely happy to thank the people under his rule, but many times it is not so reliable to just listen to the officials, so he will gather the three elders everywhere he goes, and after meeting the three elders, he will randomly go to some families to see for himself.

Huang Jian also knows that the emperor does this everywhere, because it is a random selection, and there is no way to fake, in fact, even if he can do it, he doesn't dare, God knows if the guys from the prosecutor's office have come to know about it a long time ago.

The work of digging the mountain is very huge, Lu Zhe specially went to take a look, and the labor force he saw was really as Huang Jian said, the old and weak women and children accounted for the majority of the slaves, so he asked: "The number of slaves brought to the empire from Central Asia has been increasing recently?" (To be continued.) )