Xu Zhi said five days, that is, no more, no less.

On the fourth day, the cavalry unit that was planned to go west with the envoy corps arrived, and the commander of the army was Wei Han and the deputy general Zhou Wen, and they were led by Xu Zhi to meet with the chief and deputy envoys of the envoy corps.

Subsequently, Xu Zhi and a part of the Wehrmacht left Woye, they crossed the Yellow River, and turned east along the north bank of the Yellow River, presumably the main camp that was going to Shuofang.

Most of the 80,000 cavalry that will go west together will come from the Fifth Cavalry Legion, and 30,000 will come from the reorganized Second Cavalry Legion, but the actual number is more than 80,000, 80,000 refers to the soldiers, and nearly 50,000 auxiliaries will go west together. Together, the Wehrmacht dispatched 130,000 men.

The new Wehrmacht had spent a day preparing, and they did not camp with the legations, and in the middle of the night they could see the camp where they were stationed burning and the neighing of horses without stopping.

"There are so many cavalry in the Eastern Empire!"

"The number we see alone is already over four hundred thousand, and you should say that the Eastern Empire has a very large number of troops on their northern border."

Strangers from afar, who have never seen so many armies in their lives, do not seem to understand the difference between soldiers and auxiliaries, and treat all those in uniform equally.

The empire was preparing for a new round of grassland warfare, and the deployment of troops was very frequent, and various materials were also transported from the interior to the north, generally concentrated in Xianyang in Qin, and then took the straight road through Xianyang to Jiuyuan County.

The envoys encountered a lot of troops and convoys on the way, and the straight road ordered by the first emperor was not used by the Qin army to attack the Xiongnu in the north, but it was not in vain to establish the straight road, the Qin army could not use it, and the imperial army was not using it?

"Remember what we found along the way?"

"You're talking about a large army in every city, right?"

"Well, that's what I'm talking about."

"It's so impressive! Each of their adults needs to learn the art of grappling. The whole land looks more like a military camp than a country. ”

"What impressed me the most was that their children were also involved in training."

"Do you know Sparta?"

"You know, it's a kingdom where all people live by war, and it's one of the strongest fighting nations among the Greek kingdoms."

"The warriors of Sparta began to train the art of killing when they were children, and the warriors of Sparta were also the most warlike in the entire Greek League, but now Sparta has completely declined and is no longer an independent kingdom. There weren't even many Spartans anymore. ”

"Yes, all the children who were considered unhealthy were strangled in childhood, and the population of Sparta has always been small, which is one of the key reasons for their decline. In addition, the Spartans also told us with facts that a nation that focuses on killing skills does not create brilliance, and when it forgets how to produce, or after several fiascos, a nation that focuses on killing will eventually be eliminated. ”

"The terrible thing about the Eastern Empire is that. They have a large population and are extremely productive and creative. ”

"With a large population, no shortage of productivity, and a great effort to train warriors, it would be a nightmare for anyone to provoke such an enemy."

"The nomadic tribe called the Huns, they are in a nightmare. It is said that the Eastern Empire is gathering a large army to carry out a new round of war against the Huns. The army that went with us to the Western Regions. It is the first reinforcement to support the Wusun people, and there will be a second and third batches...... More reinforcements. The people of Wusun are really lucky. They formed an alliance with a mighty empire. ”

A group of strangers gathered together, they were watching the movement of the Wehrmacht camp from afar, and the faces of most foreigners were full of envy, envy that the Eastern Empire had a strong army. Many people's faces were thoughtful, and when they looked at the Wehrmacht camp, their eyes were full of worry.

The empire didn't show much to the crowd from Central Asia. But what they saw was enough to understand the strength of the empire, if the population is large, then the population of the Mauryan Empire is not small, but the vast majority of people do not think that the Mauryan Empire is very powerful.

They already knew that the empire had a very large population, and what they saw along the way was the importance that the empire attached to infrastructure. This has been less than three or four years since the war subsided in most places. However, it is no longer possible to see the traces of the war, but to see the construction on the road and the prosperity and prosperity of the people, and it is difficult to imagine how it took only three years to come out of the wounds of the war and then enthusiastically devote itself to new construction.

"I've been to the Mauryan Empire, it's full of dense forests, and it's not easy to find a path that is easier to follow."

"Yes, I have also been to the Mauryan Dynasty, and even stayed in Fahrenheit City for more than five years, they are a people who are content with the status quo and do not have much enthusiasm for construction. Their aristocracy preferred to enjoy the good food and wine created by slaves rather than the construction of the slaves. Their warriors train their fighting skills, not in the hope of stepping on the battlefield to gain glory, but in the hope of applause and the favor of beautiful women in the fight against beasts. ”

Taprati and Angelel weren't with the others, they were the two of them moving away from the crowd.

"Seleucid warriors, don't they also like applause in the Colosseum more than glory in the battlefield?"

"In every declining country, there are always some clues in some details. When warriors no longer aspire to glory on the battlefield and prefer to be watched to kill beasts or people, the country's military has gone into decay. Isn't it because Seleucus began to decay that we have our independence~? ”

This was true of Seleucus, it was true of Egypt, and it was true of Greece, which was once incomparably powerful. I've heard from some merchants that a republic called Rome is rising to the west of the end of the world, and that the Romans captured Gauls from the highlands to train them to become gladiators, and for slaves to fight in the arena for entertainment. ”

"The Roman Republic? Is it the country that is at war with Carthage? ”

"Not only were they fighting against the Carthaginians, but they were also sending troops to the east, and I heard that they had already invaded the Black Mountain region, and some of them even invaded Macedonia. The Macedonians were lobbying the Greek city-states to form alliances to fight the Romans, but most of the Greek city-states were dying. Only Thrace, east of Macedonia, responded. ”

"Greece? Hmph, Greece! They have been abandoned by the gods. Their parliamentary system also proved to lag behind the king's system, a group of people who had to discuss for half a day to make a decision, and a matter usually had to be debated for a long time, waiting for a decision, and most of the time it was not the village that had been sacked by enemy troops. That is, the enemy army has already approached the city. The country still needs a king, everything is ordered by the king, and then the nobles rise up in response. ”

"There is no absolutely good form of government, and the parliamentary system makes Greece strong, and Greece is weakened by the decay of the parliamentary system. Seleucus was a kingship, and she was also in decline. So there are only the irresponsible people. ”

"You're right, but the strongman is the hope of the country and the nation, like the Eastern Empire, where the people of the country are led by an iron-fisted king. They are treading on the march of world conquest. ”

He studied the recent history of the Eastern Empire and found that in less than fifteen years, from the rise of Lü Zhe to the current vast territory, except for the Central Plains and the southern part of the country, it is the inherent territory of the Chinese ethnic group, such as the territory to the south of Lingnan, or the peninsula north of Liaodong. Even most of the areas in the grasslands, there are many islands in the sea. All were incorporated into the empire within fifteen years.

"In fifteen years, they expanded almost twice as much territory. Their south used to be inhabited by millions of Baiyue people, but now there is no 'Baiyue' ethnic group, and the Eastern Empire has nearly 800,000 Baiyue people as slaves, and only a few of those slaves can do light work, and most of them are responsible for mining. Mining, you know how dangerous that is. ”

"You don't count the nomadic tribes of the steppe. The Eastern Empire expanded into the steppes, and only the first expansion occupied all the lands of the steppe people close to the south. According to their official statistics, in the battle after leaving the fortress, at least 200,000 steppe people were killed and nearly 450,000 were captured. The grasslands are vast and sparsely populated. With a population of more than 650,000 lost at once, one can imagine how many tribes on the grassland have been wiped out and how many tribes have suffered serious losses. ”

Ta Plati subconsciously remembered the Linrong he passed by when he came over, where there were only a thousand imperial troops stationed, but there were nearly 30,000 steppe people, but the grassland people who accounted for the majority seemed very docile.

There was slavery in Central Asia, there was slavery in the city-states of the Mediterranean, and even the Roman Republic at the end of the world practiced slavery, and every known country in the world had such a group of slaves.

"Our slaves are not all foreigners."

"Yes, we are in a country where anyone can become a slave in the next moment. The Eastern Empire was a strange country, their slaves were all foreigners, and their own people were killed, imprisoned, and exiled even if they were heinous, and their laws stated that their own people could not be slaves. What a ......."

"Weird, right? It can also be seen from here what kind of person their emperor was. To the people of the Eastern Empire, their emperor was a benevolent king, but to any alien race, their emperor was an executioner, a murderer, and the greatest slave trader. ”

"I have read a term in their textbook, called 'people~clan~lord~righteousness', which not only teaches people what a nation is, what should be done by the same nation, and when should they not do anything to treat their people."

"Is the people ~ clan ~ lord ~ righteous? What an apt word! ”

"I don't believe in a country where their education is destined for one thing, anyone who is not of this nationality is an outsider. This is also fully confirmed by a series of encounters in the Eastern Empire, although they try their best to cover it up, but this Eastern Empire, from the emperor to the people, they look down on us and consider us barbarians. ”

Ta Pratates was silent, of course he felt the same way, what impressed him the most was that once there was a conflict, as long as it was a non-Imperial, they would always be besieged, and those people in the Empire didn't care about the right or wrong of things at all, and their first thought and action was to help the Imperials attack outsiders.

What makes Ta Plati even more impressive is that the law enforcement agencies of the empire are always on the side of their own people, for example, there are people in Parthia who clash with merchants on the other side of the empire, and the official agencies are too partial when enforcing the law, and the people on the imperial side are always innocent, and the non-imperial people are guilty even if they are innocent.

"We came more than 30,000 people, nearly 400 of whom were buried forever in the East, some of them died in the conflict, and many of them had their heads cut off after unjust trials. To be honest, I don't like this Eastern Empire, they are too arrogant, but I dare not offend this Eastern Empire......"

"As long as people come to the East, no one will want to offend the empire, even if they are really very arrogant."

"Maybe we can change that?"

"Have you signed a contract with the Eastern Empire?"

"Yes, they value the law, and we want to respect their laws, and they should respect us."

"I think it's difficult, at least if they think we're weak and won't respect us."

"If you don't take action, how do you know it's impossible?"

Ta Plati sneered, there has never been any respect between countries, there are only two kinds of contempt and equal treatment, weak countries will be despised, and only strong countries have dignity. If you want to be treated equally, then equality will only occur if both countries are strong, and one country cannot destroy the other.

"The Wusun people are respected on the side of the Eastern Empire."

"That's because their emperor needs the Wusun people, and it doesn't mean that the Wusun people have equal strength with the Eastern Empire. In addition, the king of the Wusun people, their Kunmo has been offering gifts and sending tens of thousands of war horses. ”

"In exchange for the Eastern Empire's military assistance, isn't it?"

"The Eastern Empire needs the Wusun people to hold back the Xiongnu and other steppe people, which does not mean that the Eastern Empire will still treat the Wusun people friendly after the defeat of the steppe people."

"Do you prefer that the Eastern Empire will attack and destroy Wusun after the threat on the steppe is lifted?"

"Their emperor would do that. Really, this can be guessed from the resistance of the emperor of the Eastern Empire to marry the Wusun people. Actually, even if the Wusun people really marry a princess, I don't think the two countries can be peaceful. Don't forget that the emperor of the Eastern Empire married many princesses of the royal family, but he still destroyed the fathers of his wives, so many countries, and did not have the slightest mercy. ”

"Anyway, we're very far from the Eastern Empire, aren't we?"

"Huh...... Yes now, ...... in the future"

"In the future? Who can say for sure what will happen now? (To be continued.) )