The eyes of the Roman aristocratic merchant Pubsta flickered, and he suddenly said: "I still have some things, so I won't give them away......." By the way, as a friend, I would like to remind Your Excellency that the despicable Sabbath has begun to exploit the merchants of Rome and Great Qin at home, and it is better for you to take the route near the sea and return home. ”

The translator built a bridge of communication between the two.

Chen Wu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he quickly became relieved, because Great Qin had already ruled the southern part of Guishan. The route of the Silk Road in the rest of the country is irrelevant, he can take a boat and return to the southern part of the Great Qin Guishan Prefecture in a faster time, this is the country.

So, Chen Wu happily calculated how much profit he had gained from this trade, and got off the ship with his men, having already forgotten about the four strange slaves just now.

With Chen Wu's departure, Pubsta no longer had the kindness of the Roman aristocracy.

At this time, a servant came over and saluted: "Master, these four people are very good, if it weren't for their very weak bodies, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to catch ......them at all." ”

"Let's go, take me to see it!" Pubsta became excited, as he was an avid gladiator fan and co-founded a gladiator training camp in his hometown. And these capable slaves, with a little training, were able to become good gladiators and bring him high profits.

Pubsta made his way to the lower deck, which was filled with the stench of corruption and darkness, and was specially designed for slaves. I saw the four people just now, lined up, their hands fixed on the corner frame. Feet are fastened to the deck. If there is another plank behind the back, it will be crucified.

Pubsta was excited. Came to the first person on the left. He was excited because he noticed that this man's arms were very long. So long that he had never seen it before. Only by such a distinctive gladiator can more people be able to attract more people to watch the game.

He pulled back his hood, became even more excited, and said to Hu Cong: "Okay, very good, this person is very distinctive. The arms are long, the ears are also long, and it is still one ear. Not bad...... but it's just ...... I don't have any muscles! ”

One ear with panicked eyes. Adjusting to his surroundings, he was filled with fear. He had been lost for a long time, and finally he was caught and came here. His heart sank to the bottom, and he began to scream.

Pubsta, on the other hand, laughed, he was accustomed to seeing people who had just become slaves yelling and yelling, and after some training, he would become very docile. He was a little embarrassed. said: "It sounds like it should be Chinese, it seems that I am going to configure a Chinese translation." ”

Hu Cong just went down with a whip, and one ear stopped screaming wildly. said: "Master, this person is not very strong, but the two people next to him are very strong. One can fight ten elite escort ....... ”

Pubsta was immediately interested, and he pulled back the hood next to one ear. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "This big red face has a distinctive ......." He tugged at the five strands of long red hair again. smiled: "I have never seen such a long beard." Coupled with these strong muscles, if they can be trained to become victorious gladiators, they will definitely make those hungry noblewomen spend a lot of money overnight. ”

"Big brother!" Big Red Face was surprised by his situation, and he was about to say something. Hu Cong skillfully sealed his mouth with a strip of cloth, as well as an ear on the side, so that they would not shout and disturb their master.

One ear and a big red face were full of fear, and they looked at each other with a whining voice that was indistinct.

Pubsta pulled the third man's hood again, laughed and said, "Look at this black face, it's really the same as the Egyptian." He pulled back the hood of the fourth man, and exclaimed, "There should be such a quiet man, those noble ladies must be crazy." ”

Ignoring the four people who were gagged and whining, Pubsta said to Hu Cong very happily: "These four people have their own characteristics, and they are the Oriental gladiators who have never been. If you use it well, you will definitely be able to get a huge profit from them. You have done a great job, this month's salary has been doubled, and when you go back, I will give you half a month's vacation, enjoy it! ”

The guards were also very happy, and it was not uncommon for them to capture a few Gentiles as slaves. So, they embraced the master and left the place.

As the torches were taken away, only four pairs of frightened eyes remained in the dim bottom, flickering continuously.

A month later, with four distinctive slaves, Pubsta arrived at the gladiator training camp on the mountains outside Capua, where he found his partner, Batitas.

After the popularity of gladiators became popular in Rome, Batitas had been training gladiators for generations. Batitas often took his gladiators to gladiatorial tournaments in the arena of Capua, in the province of Campania, and his life's ambition was to restore the glory of the Batitas family and lead them to defeat the gladiator champions of other provinces in the Colosseum.

The four people brought by Pubsta have their own characteristics. Even Batitas, who had seen dozens of national gladiators, had never seen it. So, he was just as happy as Pubsta. He believes that the family's opportunity has come. By training these four men to become great gladiators, they will be able to restore the glory of the Batitas family in the gladiatorial world, accumulate enough wealth, and be able to enter politics.

However, what he needs to do now is to train these four very distinctive men to become real gladiators. In later days, although the four men were very rebellious, the Batitas family, which had been passed down for centuries, had a thousand ways to tame these wild gladiators.

So, screams, screams, scolding, whips, and other sounds began to echo in the training camp. Until one day, these four men became obedient and .......

For some reason, the four men formed the Gladiator Quartet, and Batista promised that they would not arrange for them to compete with each other, and that each of these four men had their own characteristics, and he was really reluctant to sacrifice any of them. So he always trains and arranges his games carefully.

At the beginning of the first gladiator match, Bartitas said with bewilderment: "When you stand in the Colosseum and defeat all your opponents. When you become the king of gladiators, you can be free. You need freedom. And I need wealth, and we should cooperate ....... ”

Thereupon. For the sake of freedom, the four men resolutely obeyed Batitas's arrangement and embarked on the path ...... gladiators.

On the other hand, Fu Lou Sha.

Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu had no idea that there were four gladiators from the East in the gladiatorial arena in Rome, and he opened the road of gladiators who would not lose to "Spartacus".

He was very busy, and served in the former Kushan Prime Minister Ali Laka, and the Minister of War De Fiteses. With the help of Interior Minister Shapursa, he soon consolidated his rule in southern Kushan. And the state of Guishan was established, and the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng ruled the entire subcontinent.

To the north of Kushan, with the Sabbatical Empire on the Pamel Plateau in the Kopet Mountains and the Parotmiz Mountains, Great Qin is in the south, and the rest is in the north. Divide Central Asia in two.

At this time, there was news that Xu Huang had occupied the Southeast Asian continent. Xu Huang's ability to occupy the vast Southeast Asian continent came from the backwardness of the natives. Primitive clan communes, savages with bone sticks. It is impossible to resist the pace of civilization!

In this way, the Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng essentially mastered the Southeast Asian continent, the South Asian subcontinent, and the southern part of Central Asia. Qin Feng thought about it. Very satisfied with the current territory.

What Qin Feng didn't know was that his territory had reached its current state, which could already surprise future historians. Therefore, at the moment the territory of Emperor Hongwu area. It has approached 30 million square kilometers. Two-thirds of the whole of Asia has been pocketed by the Hongwu Emperor.

The other third is divided into three parts. The Sabbatical Empire occupies a large territory, the second of which is the Western Regions. The third is the islands in the sea.

Later historians agree that after defeating the Kushan Empire at that time, the influence of Emperor Hongwu had surpassed that of the later Genghis Khan, ranking fourth in the world's 10,000-year imperial history at that time, and only Alexander the Great in the third place was left in front, the first emperor in the East Yingzheng in the second place, and Constantine the Great (Roman Emperor) in the first place

However, Emperor Hongwu at that time had not yet reached his highest glory.

The rapid expansion of Qin Feng's territory has also brought certain problems.

The first problem was the establishment of local government, which was relatively easy to solve, and Emperor Hongwu issued an edict to select capable officials from the thirteen old states to administer the new state. Lu Su was appointed as the governor of Guishan Prefecture, and Zhuge Jin was appointed as the governor of Yinzhou. Jiaozhi was incorporated into Nanban Prefecture, but Xinjiaozhou was established, which included mainland Southeast Asia, and Fa Zheng was appointed as the governor of Jiaozhou.

Dispatched, General Siping, Zang Ba, Ji Ling, Ma Dai, and Zhou Cang guarded all parts of Xinzhou.

Emperor Hongwu once again announced the state of Great Qin in the world: the earliest thirteen states, Northeast Prefecture, Di Prefecture, Qiang Prefecture, Nanban Prefecture, and Grassland Prefecture, these eighteen states were privately called Lao Prefecture, for the Lao Qin people. There are also Jiaozhou, Yinzhou, Guishan Prefecture, Chenzhou, these four states are Xinzhou.

At this point, the Great Qin Empire had twenty-two states. However, Soochow still occupies half of Yangzhou and half of Jingzhou.

The second problem is that Anxi began to be hostile to Daqin, who was friendly with Rome, and this country has a strong sectarian color, is not open-minded, and is easy to drill into the horns, if you don't like it, it will be difficult to communicate. After cooperating with Daqin to destroy Guishuang, although Anxi did not tear his face openly, he began to exploit the Daqin people on the Silk Road in private.

And Qin Feng's land had doubled and needed to be consolidated, and he didn't have the energy to devote himself to fighting with another empire for the time being.

Therefore, Emperor Hongwu issued an edict, abandoning the long and difficult route, passing through the Western Regions into the northern part of the former Kushan, and now resting in the territory of the Northern Silk Road. At the same time, it changed the southern Silk Road for Shu to enter the Dizhou Plateau (Tibetan Plateau). Instead, it started from Shuzhong, passed through Nanban Prefecture, passed through Yinzhou, went to the southwest port of Kushan Prefecture, and took a boat to reach the Persian Gulf and enter the new route of Rome.

This route is much closer than the original, and all of it is in China. Merchants were more than willing to take this route, which was safe, shortened, and did not have to be exploited by foreigners.

For this reason, Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu dispatched an offshore fleet consisting of five ships, mainly three Chaos-class battleships, named the Great Qin Whip Fleet, to be stationed in the port of Minagara, in the southwest corner of Kushan Prefecture, to control the entrance to the Persian Gulf. It is only a thousand kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz, which enters the Persian Gulf, and the foreign trade of the Silk Road will be diverted, and ninety percent of the routes will be completed domestically.

The merchants were pleased with the change of route, after all, if the route of thousands of miles was all abroad, the cost would be huge, not to mention, but also worried. After the diversion, merchants in long-distance trade could purchase materials from the prosperous Shu region, and go to the port of Minaggara to take a boat to trade in the port of Rome in the southwest of the Persian Gulf.

Not to mention the shortened distance and reduced costs, the country could seek refuge from the Great Qin army, while in Rome, with a status comparable to that of a Roman citizen, if necessary, it could ask for official protection from Rome.

Therefore, although the original Silk Road was blocked, the caravans on the New Silk Road of Daqin became more prosperous. Because of the increased security, many merchants who had previously been reluctant to take risks joined the new Silk Road trade. For a time, Daqin's foreign trade increased several times. Foreign wealth continued to run trade deficits and flowed into Daqin's domestic borders.

As a result, Xichuan Shuzhong has become a distribution center for foreign trade and has become more prosperous. It has become a bright pearl in the old state of the Great Qin Empire.

And the third question, and the last, is more troublesome. (To be continued......)