Because the Sasanians blocked Liu Chan's way of contacting the Central Plains, this also allowed Liu Chan to speed up the pace of unifying the Sasanians.
In the past three years, the three cities of Assyria, Media and Ctesiphon have developed rapidly.
The abolition of slavery allowed the people to finally feel like they were the masters of their own country. This feeling was perfect.
They were slaves in the past, with humble status and humble status.
Life or death depends entirely on the mood of the slave owners and nobles, but it is different now. As long as the people do not violate national laws and are loyal to the Han Dynasty, the imperial court will become their protective umbrella.
At the beginning, the people of the three cities,
Although on the surface, he surrendered to the rule of the Han Dynasty, he was still a little worried in his heart.
After all, the Han people are a foreign race.
But as time went by, the Han people taught them food cultivation and handicraft production, which they had never encountered before.
The eyes of the people are sharp and their hearts are fleshy.
After three years of development, the vast majority of the people in the three cities have recognized the rule of the Han Dynasty, because under the rule of the Han Dynasty, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. They have their own land and
own dignity.
Because the Han people are sincerely doing practical things for the people.
After gaining the approval of the people, some policies and decrees of the imperial court can be fully implemented soon. The first is the promotion of Chinese. People in every city, town, and village are very enthusiastic about participating in Chinese learning.
Today, the vast majority of people in the three cities,
They can communicate normally with Han officials and sergeants in the three cities; similarly, in order to respect the local culture,
While promoting the Chinese language, Liu Chan also asked the Han people in the three cities to learn the local Sasanian language.
Including Liu Chan, officials of the Han Dynasty could basically use Sasanian to communicate with the local Sasanian people.
Perhaps it was because the lives of the people in the three cities were getting better and better, and the people's motivation was getting stronger and stronger. Soon the deeds of the three cities began to spread to the surrounding areas.
The surrounding city-states, large and small, have different opinions on this. First of all, the slave owners and nobles in each city are on pins and needles because they are worried that the Han people in the three cities of Ctesiphon will continue to win over the hearts and minds of slaves in other city-states.
, saw the hope of living a good life.
Therefore, these slave owners and nobles naturally hate the Han people to their core.
The opposite was naturally the slaves. They began to look forward to the early liberation of them by the Han people, because no one was born to be a slave. They also hoped to have their own land and their own dignity like the people in the three cities of Ctesiphon.
But before that,
They are lowly slaves,
They can only be oppressed and exploited by slave owners and nobles.
Now that the Han people have come, these foreigners not only did not exploit and oppress them, but actually led them to live a good life. How could they not welcome them?
Of course, this was something Liu Chan did intentionally. He initially occupied three cities and did not continue to expand to the surrounding areas. First, because the Han army traveled thousands of miles to Sasan, the reserve force could not be replenished. If one person dies, one will be missing.
However, the Sassanid Dynasty had hundreds of large and small city-states. If they conquered each city one by one, the Han army might have been exhausted before the whole territory was liberated.
Stop——
Stop and work sincerely for the people, let the slaves in other surrounding city-states see that the city-states under the rule of the Han are very different from their own city-state, and let them yearn to be ruled by the Han from the bottom of their hearts.
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Facts have proved that Liu Chan did it.
After three years of development, Liu Chan sealed three cities in Taixi and quickly formed an army composed entirely of Sasanians, with a total of 80,000 people.
With 80,000 Sasanian troops and 112,000 Han troops, Liu Chan now had an army of 200,000 men.
In fact, in the past three years, in addition to vigorously developing agricultural production in the three cities to enhance the overall strength of the three cities and steadily promoting Han culture, Liu Chan ostensibly fell in love with Wang Yuan and had children in the palace.
In fact, secretly, Liu Chan was never idle for a moment. He was making preparations to unify Sassanid.
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February 13th, the eighth year of the Han Dynasty (AD 247).
It’s just dawn.
The sleeping people are still sleeping.
Boom——
Suddenly a loud noise woke up the people in Persepolis.
"Come here!"
"Come here!"
The city lord Aslid screamed in panic. He was a little flustered and didn't know where the loud noise came from.
After a while, a servant came in from outside.
"City Lord!"
"What happened?" Aslid asked hurriedly.
The servant's face turned pale and he looked a little panicked. He shook his head in fear. He was also awakened by the explosion.
Astrid was about to get angry, but at this moment, there was a rush of footsteps coming from outside, as if coming towards his room.
Not long after, someone came into the house.
"City Lord!"
"City Lord!"
The person who came was a guard. He looked even more flustered than the servant. He seemed to have lost his ability to speak. This made Aslid a little frightened. He was afraid that something serious had happened. He hurriedly asked: "
Tell me, what happened?"
"Back to the city lord!" The guard calmed down and said, "The Han army is coming!"
"What?" Aslid snapped.
He jumped off the bed and quickly looked outside the house. After confirming that everything was normal outside, he asked in horror: "How did the Han people come in? How did the Han people come in?"
Aslid was a little confused. The city of Persepolis had high walls and was heavily guarded. How could the Han people break in so easily?
Of course he knows about the Han people.
Three years ago, the Han people suddenly invaded Sassanid from the northern Gobi. It took only a few months to capture the Sasanian capital, and also defeated the Sasanian war god Shapur in the Assyrian city.
King Shapur and the Sassanid royal family were executed. The Sasanian dynasty was actually officially destroyed. However, the Sasanians were unwilling to be ruled by foreigners, so in addition to Assyria, Media, and Ctesiphon, three other cities were occupied by the Han army.
In addition, the remaining hundreds of city-states, large and small, did not surrender to the Han people.
Of course, this also includes Persepolis, the place where the Sasanian dynasty rose.
As the lord of Persepolis, Aslid had long made up his mind and would never surrender to the Han people even to the death. Persepolis had a population of more than 400,000 and more than 60,000 Persian infantry and cavalry, and they were still far away.
Ctesiphon, the capital of the Sasanian kingdom.
In fact, among the hundreds of Sasanian city-states, there are many city lords who have the same idea as Aslid. The demise of the Sassanid Dynasty did not have much impact on them. In the past, they were forced by Ardashir and Shapur.
It was so powerful that it had to surrender to Sassanid and became city-states of the Sasanian dynasty.
Now the Sasanian dynasty has perished, and the capital is ruled by Han people from the distant east.
What is even more important is that the Han people actually sealed three cities in Taixi and abolished the slavery system. This made the city-states that originally wanted to rely on the Han people give up the idea.
Slaves, this is the wealth of the nobles and slave owners of various city-states.
The Han people want to deprive them of their wealth. How can they rely on such Han people?
No, absolutely not.
However, no one was willing to take the lead in driving away these Han people. From then on, the city lords of various large and small city-states began to divide themselves among themselves. They began to conquer neighboring weak city-states to strengthen themselves.
This is also the opportunity given to them by the Han people.
After the Han people occupied Ctesiphon three years ago, they stayed put and did not continue to attack other city-states. They maintained a relatively peaceful state with each city-state.
It's just that this peace didn't last long.
Three months ago, the Han people, who had been stable for three years, suddenly started to take action. They divided their troops into two groups to attack the Babylonian region southward, while the other group headed east to attack Ecbatana. Moreover, the two groups advanced rapidly. Originally,
These two areas are also relatively powerful forces in Sasanian territory. However, in just two or three months, the Babylonian area was captured by the Han army, and Ecbatana was massacred by the Han army.
Hiss——
Astrid can't figure it out.
Even though the Han army is extremely powerful, Persepolis is still a big city, and since the Han army launched a two-pronged attack, Persepolis has begun to strictly control and strengthen the city's defense.
Aslid thought that Persepolis was located in a mountainous area, and the Han people would not consider attacking it in the short term. The Han people should develop further east, because the east is the hometown of these Han people.
Just——
The Han army came in.
How did they do it?
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This chapter has been completed!