I don't know if it's a coincidence or fate, the two great powers of the East and the West have suffered the fate of prosperity and decline at the same time, needless to say in the East, and the Roman Empire in the West has already passed at this time, taking advantage of the brilliant and brilliant era of the Five Sages and Emperors!

At this time, the Roman Empire, not only was there frequent civil strife, power struggles were stimulated, but at the same time, the prosperity within the territory gradually disappeared, signs of slavery crisis appeared everywhere, the border began to be troublesome, the powerful Parthians repeatedly invaded the eastern frontier, and when the Roman army was tired of resisting, the Germanic people in the north took advantage of the situation, and the Roman Empire had already fallen into the dilemma of internal and external addition.

The decline of the Roman Empire reassured Cao Cao a lot, at this time, time can resist the Great Wei, only the Roman Empire, which has brought the entire Mediterranean into environmental protection, and the weakening of such an empire is a great good thing for the new empire of the Great Wei.

After learning some news about the Roman Empire, Cao Cao then focused on some countries in Western and Central Asia, as for the Germanic people, the ancestors of the later generations of Central European, Western Europe and Northern Europeans, compared to the Xiongnu, Xianbei These nomads were not advanced or threatening, so Cao Cao did not spend much time to understand them.

Later generations have the title of the four great empires of ancient times, namely the Han Dynasty, Rome, Kushan and the Four Great Empires, Rome, the empire is no better than the Han Dynasty, so needless to say, the only thing left is Guishan and Rest.

Let's talk about the Kushan Empire first, this Kushan Empire is still an acquaintance of the Han people, and they were established by the Wuxi Marquis Guishan Marquis tribe of the Dayue clan.

In the fifth century B.C. ~ the beginning of the second century B.C., the Yueshi people were nomadic in the area from Zhangye to Dunhuang in the west of the Hexi Corridor. The power is strong, and it is a fierce enemy of the Huns.

About in the first year of Emperor Wu Yuanshuo (128 BC), the Han envoy Zhang Qian came to his country. Since then, the correspondence has become more and more intense. The country is divided into five parts: Xiumi, Shuangmi, Guishuang, Fatton, and Dumi.

Shortly before 177 BC, the Yueshi defeated another small nomadic tribe near Dunhuang, Wusun. It is difficult to kill its king, to seize its land, it is difficult to hunt arrogant and newborn, and its tribe fled to the Xiongnu.

Around 170 BC, it was defeated by the Xiongnu and moved west to the Amu Darya River valley in Central Asia. In 125 B.C., he conquered Bactria, a country established by the ancient Greeks in Central Asia, and ruled the entire Amu Darya and Syr Darya Valleys. Guishan is one of them.

In the middle of the 1st century A.D., the Kushan tribe of Xihou Qiu unified the five tribes and established the Kushan Empire, but Qiu went south to attack the Kabul River valley and the present-day Kashmir region, and later set the capital as Gaofu, that is, Kabul in later Afghanistan, which initially laid the foundation of the empire.

Of course, after the establishment of the Kushan Empire, there was no contact with the Han Dynasty, and when Ban Chao was an envoy, the army of Guishan and the Han Dynasty fought, but it was not soft. Just like the Tang Dynasty and the heyday of the Battle of the Black Clothes and Great Food, although the military strength of the Kushan had the upper hand, it was ultimately defeated, and the Emperor of the Kushan Empire sued for peace. Without the slightest arrogance, even if he was called the king of the Yue clan by Ban Chao, he didn't dare to say anything.

Although in the midst of the battle with the big man. The Kushan Empire was devastated, but it still had its glory days. At the height of the Kushan Empire, its territory stretched east from Patna. West to Herat, south to the Nabada River, north to the Aral Sea, the capital moved to Peshawar.

It's just that with Rome and the Han Dynasty, according to Arsrf, during the reign of the Kushan Empire's emperor Hubisega II at this time, his control over Central Asia weakened, Kangju and Dawan got rid of their fetters, and Khorasan and Khorezm also broke away from Kushan rule, and signs of decay have been revealed.

If Arsrev doesn't know the empire of Kushan in Central Asia very well, then the Sabbath Empire in West Asia, Arsrev may know more about it than the Roman Empire, after all, when he had not migrated to the desert steppe of East Asia, Arsrf's tribe was above West Asia, in the Russian region of later generations.

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Parthian Empire, which invaded the Roman Empire, was a slave kingdom in the classical period in the Iranian plateau region of western Asia, founded in 247 BC and founded by Arsace.

In its heyday, the territory of the Anxi Empire stretched from the Euphrates River in the southeast of Asia Minor in the north to the Amu Darya River in the east, and the Anxi Empire was located on the Silk Road, a trade route between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire in the Mediterranean, making the empire a commercial center.

Unlike the other three empires, the Empire of Sabbath was not ruled by a single main nation, but was a state composed of different cultures and peoples, which largely absorbed the art, architecture, religious beliefs, and royal symbols of Persian, Greek, and regional cultures.

At the same time, the supreme rulers of the other three empires were emperors, and the supreme ruler of the Sabbath Empire was titled King of Kings, and because of the proximity to the Roman Empire, there were also some governors among the political bureaucrats of the Sabbath Empire.

That's all Arself knows about Sabbath, after all, compared to the other two countries, Sabbath can be said to be very peaceful, nothing major happened, except for its king Logacis V, who rebelled to the throne, and at the same time instigated the rebellion of the Roman vassal states Osroina and Aditya Bena, there really was no major event in the Sabbath Empire.

Therefore, Cao Cao didn't ask any more, after all, in Cao Cao's opinion, the other three empires have all prospered and declined, and this resting empire can't be not.

It's just that Cao Cao, who was careless at this time, didn't know that this Rest Empire, which he also thought was the same as Rome and Guishan, and was also in a state of weakness, could be said to have become one of the fierce opponents of his army westward in the future!

Compared with the other three empires, the Rest Empire is not only not weakened but much stronger to a certain extent.

At this time, the ruler of the Sabbatical Empire, Vologasis V, the king of kings, although he rebelled to the throne, but during his reign, he not only instigated the rebellion of the Roman vassal states Osroina and Aditya Bena, but also swept Mesopotamia again in 195 and restored his suzerainty over Aditya Bena. (To be continued......)