After the battle of the two river basins, the Persian Empire suffered at least more than 300,000 casualties, and the Eastern Roman Empire also suffered casualties of about 200,000 men and horses, both sides suffered heavy losses, but both sides did not want to stop the war, the Roman Emperor personally arrived in Syria to recruit troops to prepare for war, and the Persian Emperor also arrived in Mesopotamia's Persian occupation to recruit troops and prepare for war, both sides are preparing for the final decisive battle.

However, at this time, they did not pay attention to the changes that were taking place in their country, they were not like the Tang Dynasty, in order to ensure that the impact of the war on the country was reduced to a minimum, Suning put several bumpers on the Tang Dynasty, labor reform, high-yield crops, money brought by commercial actions, the emperor's preferential policies, the requisition of the standing army, the strengthening of weapons, etc., so that the Tang army would not have a strict impact on economic construction and daily life in wartime or peacetime.

The expedition of the Datang Expeditionary Force is also like this, more than 100,000 troops, more than 200,000 large-scale expeditionary activities, not to mention the series of major battles that began in the ninth year of Zhenguan, did not have a severe impact on the economy and civilian life of the Tang Dynasty, the state-funded complete army standing army began to become the mainstream of the war, and the military nature of the standing army ensured that the army would not cause civilian trouble, and would not bring much loss to normal production activities.

Therefore, the continuous war of two or three years did not bring the painful memories to the people of Datang, and Datang's treasury was not empty as soon as the war was fought before, on the contrary, the strong financial resources gave Datang a very solid foundation, and Datang could insist on not using civilian property and not levying people to serve the army.

War can also bring a lot of direct and indirect benefits to the people of the Tang Dynasty, so there is no strict anti-war situation in the Tang Dynasty at present, but Rome is different from Persia, they still maintain the nature of a centralized state. The war depends on logistics and the state treasury, and logistics depends on the people, and when the state treasury is exhausted, it also depends on the people, and the people are tortured to the bitterness.

In particular, Syria, a beautiful and fertile land that has been ravaged by years of war, has left no one in ten people. But even this remaining population was tormented alternately by the Persians and the Romans, the Roman emperors came, and almost all the men and even the stronger women of Syria were conscripted into the army.

The suffering of Syria can be imagined, and the Persians are the same, tossed by the war between Persia and Arabia and now with Rome, they have not really recuperated for more than ten years, there is not a year without war, the Persian treasury is empty, and the private property of the emperor and ministers is so much. The people's money has been looted over and over again, almost all of them have to be seen, and more than half of the grain harvest every year has to be paid as taxes to support the war and support the glory of the country.

I can't eat, what glory do I need?

This is the truest human nature.

Instead of sitting still, stand up and resist!

At this time, people did not know what it meant to oppose war, they only knew what it meant to resist tyranny. So the Romans rose up and rebelled. Some nobles and officials who were dissatisfied with the emperor's military policy took the lead, some merchants and the middle class whose interests had been damaged were the backbone, and the bankrupt peasants and vagrants who could not bear the oppressive policies of the empire were the lowest revolt soldiers, and revolts against the emperor were widespread in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

In contrast to the resolute resistance of the Romans and the push of careerists, the Persians, who had already suffered great damage, also appeared in revolt ranks, but there were not many such revolts. The number is not large, and the resistance is not strong, because the Persians are close to the Tang Dynasty, so they have another choice - to flee from Persia en masse and flee to the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions. Ask for the protection of the Tang Empire.

As early as a few years ago, the Persians were already very familiar with the Tang Empire, a strong army, mighty generals, strong combat effectiveness that won many battles, and those who were very gentle and elegant readers, all made the Persians full of good feelings and yearning for the Tang Dynasty, and in the following years, the merchants and all kinds of people of the Tang Dynasty appeared widely in the land of Persia, doing business with the Persians, making friends, bringing a lot of exquisite objects that have never been seen, as well as delicious food, as well as elegant culture and powerful martial arts.

The Persians were impressed by the enlightened culture of the Tang Dynasty.

After the war between Persia and Rome began, there was a famine in Persia at the same time, and under the premise that there was no food everywhere, the Persians had no choice but to ask for help from the Tang border army in the Western Regions, hoping that the Tang army could give them a little food to eat, so that they would not starve to death.

The matter of the Tang army setting up a porridge field made more hungry Persians feel that this was an opportunity to save their lives, and more Persians went to the border between Persia and Datang, hoping to eat a bite of food, and the Persians who ate the food were grateful to Datang, and all kinds of gratitude were overflowing.

Later, there was an incident in which Persian officials forcibly took away the Persians here, on the grounds that these Persians were beggars, and they had lost the face of the country, and those Persian officials and soldiers also beat these hungry people in front of the Tang army, saying to them "Is food more important than the country?"

The Tang army was very angry at the time, most of the generals of the border guards were students from military schools, either the second or third students, they were entrusted with important tasks and strengthened their experience, from the military academy they not only learned military knowledge, but also learned the responsibility of being a soldier, and learned the integrity and benevolence that a soldier should have. Zhou Qi, who was born in a poor family, couldn't hold back his anger, drew his sword out of its sheath, and led the Tang army to stop the atrocities.

"I don't even let the people have enough to eat, and I still have the face to mention the country, shameless! Don't want such a country! ”

"You've never felt hunger, you've got food, that's why you say that!"

The Tang army immediately lined up to protect these Persians, and the Persian officials and soldiers fled in a hurry. The Persian refugees who were crying and crying were miserable, and Zhou Qi felt strange, so he found a translator who could speak Chinese and Persian to translate, and only after this question did he know that he had made a mistake, and now he could protect them, but after they returned home. You will definitely be harmed by those despicable officials, and what should you do at that time? Do you want to lead an army into their village?

In desperation, Zhou Qi had to let some hungry people settle here for a night, he sent people overnight to the nearest military camp to ask for the help of senior officers, it took more than two days for the Anxi Protectorate to arrive, and it was too late to come, after Zhou Qi expressed this meaning, the hungry people in Persia were willing to stay. But there are still some family members who remain in Persia, and they miss their families and insist on leaving, not afraid of hardships and dangers.

Zhou Qi couldn't stop them, even if he knew that they would fall into the net when they went back, but there was nothing he could do; It was not until the next morning when Jiao Changhe, the chief general of the border guards and a student of the first phase of the military academy, arrived with the army that Zhou Qi handed over the control of the matter, and Jiao Changhe agreed with Zhou Qi's approach. He said that although these people are not the people of the Tang Dynasty, their importance is the same. We can't afford to watch so many people die.

As the chief general of the 30,000 people in the border army, Jiao Changhe decided to stick to his bottom line, and never allowed those Persian officials and evil pawns to infringe on these hungry people, they just wanted to live, they did nothing wrong, and when the Persian officials appeared with the will of the Persian emperor and the relatives of the hungry people of that group of nearly 1,000 people. The whole scene was boiling.

Those who have not personally experienced and witnessed that incident can't imagine how shocking that scene was, Jiao Changhe almost wanted to order the army to kill all the shameless officials who threatened the lives of their relatives and demanded that the hungry people of Persia leave here, and the little emperor who was so mediocre that he only knew how to fight and did not know the suffering of the people. He certainly knows what hungry people do.

The result of this matter was that this group of Persian hungry people of about three or four thousand people dragged all their families into the territory of Datang to become the subjects of Datang, and as a price, Datang exempted Persia from paying for three months of arrears, and these people were bought by Datang and had nothing to do with Persia from then on.

After the end of the Great War in the Two Rivers Valley, the Persian army was reduced by more than 40 percent, and the little emperor of the Persian Empire once again issued a national mobilization order, requiring all men over the age of fifteen to join the army to support the country to win the war, and then the empire would get fertile land, and they would have something to eat.

But this kind of thing was said as early as the first time when all men over the age of twenty-five and under the age of fifty joined the army, but after so many battles, have they succeeded?

Who would believe that?

No one believed it.

Before the Tang Dynasty bought those Persian hungry people to become the Tang people's strategy, in fact, it was Suning Jin dedicated to Li Er's majesty, at that time the court debate was very fierce, many ministers thought that this had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty did not need to affect the relationship between the two countries, we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, otherwise the reputation of our country is not very good.

However, Suning had already seen through it.

This is a signal, a signal before the collapse of the Persian Empire, he told him that the Persian Empire has reached the last moment, they are already about to collapse, and when their people leave them, their collapse is inevitable, originally Suning thought that Persia still had ten years or more to live, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

Where will the millions of Persian refugees go in the time of collapse? If the Tang Dynasty refuses them at this time, they will go to other places, such as Rome, Rome has gained so many people and so many territories, it will become stronger, and the Tang Dynasty will be more troublesome, if the Tang Dynasty protects them at any cost, the Tang Dynasty will become a paradise in the hearts of all Persians who know about it, once Persia collapses or the next great famine or conscription, the Persians will definitely flee to the Tang Dynasty!

That's how many people is that? Datang can also send troops in time, under the banner of protecting these refugees and protecting their homes for these refugees, the Arab Special Administrative Region has been favored by us many times before, and when the Tang army advances, we will definitely have contradictions with the Romans, at that time, we no longer need to be with them, the Arab Special Administrative Region will definitely stand on our side, and Senasi will definitely cooperate with the Tang Dynasty to directly expel the Romans.

At that time, we will be able to annex the Persian homeland and population, as well as the Arab region, without much effort, and then go further to Rome! (To be continued......)