The Persians originally planned to stay until the New Year before leaving, but now they can no longer stay.
After returning to the hotel, everyone packed their luggage with a heavy heart and prepared to embark on the journey home.
The post general, on the orders of Honglu Temple, gave them a hundred bolts of silk to cover their return journey expenses.
Mahamu did not refuse and accepted it happily.
They really need money. They have been on mission for more than a year, and no matter how much money they have, they will almost spend it. Before the mission, everyone brought a lot of goods, thinking that they could sell them in Xia Kingdom and make a small profit. This batch of goods is indeed
They sold it for a good price, but it was just for their expenses along the way, barely enough to sustain them.
If I stay for a few more months and have no money to spend, how can I go out on the streets and perform tricks?
Before leaving, Mahamu carefully read the multiple reports prepared for him by Tam, and his heart became increasingly sad.
He now really doubts that the Xia Kingdom is actually capable of destroying Persia, but it just doesn't want to cause domestic turmoil and has no way to rule, so he simply doesn't bother with this and concentrates on running the east of Congling.
If the business east of Congling is perfected, will they have any thoughts about Persia a few decades later? No one can guarantee.
Because the life and death of the country was involved, Mahamu felt that a fundamental strategy should be formulated, that is, with the ultimate goal of preserving the existence of Samantha and Persia, and carefully handling the relationship between the two countries.
On November 12, the day before the Persians set off, Shao Shude paraded the army in Bashang and invited the Persians to watch it together.
The five armies of Tielin, Wuwei, Yicong, Tianxiong and Tujiang each have one infantry command, totaling 10,000 people; each have four cavalry command, totaling 10,000 people.
The three armies of Feilong, Jindao and Heiyi have two commanders each, totaling twelve thousand people.
The Flying Bear Army has a thousand riders and a total of 3,000 people.
The total number of troops in each branch is 35,000, which is a full 7,000 less than the previous second batch of rotation troops.
The concentrated drill of more than 30,000 soldiers was awe-inspiring.
Shao Shude rode his horse in the military parade, with thunderous cheers.
In fact, compared to seventeen years ago, the faces of the Forbidden Army soldiers have changed a lot.
Taking this year as an example, he selected 2,000 elite soldiers from various miscellaneous troops, and selected more than 10,000 recruits from the five courtyards of Shaanxi, Ling, Wei, Yun, and Shen, and then selected from the palace slaves and grassland tribes.
Three thousand warriors were selected from among them and added to various departments of the Forbidden Army to fully establish them to make up for the shortfall caused by war losses and retirement.
To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army may not be as good as it was seventeen years ago, but it is not much worse.
Because there have been a lot of wars in these seventeen years.
What brought the greatest training to the troops was the war against Hebei and Khitan.
The battles to wipe out the south, conquer Bohai, Changhe, Gaochang and other forces were less intense and larger in scale, but they were still rewarding.
Nowadays, the large-scale war with the Persian army has trained the various departments of the Forbidden Army in batches - even only part of them - providing valuable battlefield experience to the new recruits. In addition, the military atmosphere is still good, and the veterans have not faded away all of a sudden.
, led them for five or six years, and fought for three years, the recruits have improved greatly, and their overall combat effectiveness can still be described as "strong".
After dealing with the Golden Spear Army, there are still seven real miscellaneous troops: Pinglu, Hengye, Luoyan, Guangjie, Tianwei, Fengguo, and Shengjie, with a total of more than 100,000 troops - Ningyuan and Qinghai 2nd Army, 40,000
People, there were rumors of incorporating them into the Forbidden Army many years ago. Although the procedures have not been implemented, they are really not a miscellaneous army.
The miscellaneous army will also recruit new soldiers, train, garrison and fight normally, just like a normal army operating.
The imperial court's restrictive measures against them were mainly to reduce the number of troops step by step, slowly reduce the scale, and handle the final step in place.
These more than 100,000 miscellaneous troops actually had many combat missions after the founding of Daxia. They were even more difficult and tiring than the Forbidden Army. The battles they fought were also very dangerous, and their combat effectiveness was not weak.
In particular, the Guangjie Army, which accounts for the majority of Jin soldiers and still has more than 20,000 soldiers, ranks first among all other forces in terms of combat effectiveness. The recruits it recruits daily are mainly from Huainan, Cai Di and Hedong. The overall quality is good and they have their own
Using a set of training methods, the trained soldiers dared to fight and fight hard. Shao Shude planned to put them into Beiting this year and march westward with the Dingnan Army to replace the local garrison.
Mahamu looked melancholy, while Tam couldn't take his eyes away.
Of course, Persia also has such powerful troops, such as the Gulams that were trained in slave schools for seven years. The Gulams trained by governors and nobles in various places are also good, and their combat effectiveness is reasonable. Even the private armies of some nobles have experienced
Local troops from provinces with more wars can also go into battle to fight against these Xia soldiers.
But what about the number of people? Far less.
This is the gap in national strength. According to the Xia people, in the battle of Alai Mountain, the thousands of gulams behind the army were wiped out. The loss was too great. It often takes several years to recover, and the new army
It is difficult to say whether the trained Gulam can still fight the original ones and whether they have rich battlefield experience.
If these elite troops continue to be depleted, it will definitely not be a good thing for Persia.
Unknowingly, Mahamu had been seriously shaken in his heart. Once his knowledge and ideas were combined with those nobles and generals in Persia who advocated that peace must be settled before foreign aggression, even if the Grand Vizier
No matter how virtuous and respected Jia Yinhani was, he had to compromise.
Of course, this does not mean agreeing to Xia Ren's conditions.
The asking price is high, and you have to pay it back when you get it. How can these things be finally settled without bargaining?
However, in this bargaining process, the warriors and people on both sides will definitely suffer again, but there is nothing that can be done about it.
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After the court meeting, Shao Shude came to Jixian Hall Academy of Zhongshu Province.
This is the country's book collection institution. When it comes to unique or rare books, it will make a copy, and it even takes on the responsibility of correcting and proofreading. This is an old craft from the pre-Tang Dynasty.
The workload of the staff inside is very heavy, and they are busy almost every day. For this reason, there are special craftsmen who make rubbings, bind books, revise, and make pens, which can be seen.
Sometimes, the bachelors there have to give lectures to the emperor, princes and princesses, which is actually a good job - for the bachelors.
After Shao Shude came here, the officials saluted one after another. He waved his hand and asked everyone to perform their duties. He found a place to sit down and reviewed the books that had just been translated, proofread, and copied in the academy.
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The first one is about medicine.
In the field of medicine, Arabs are relatively unrestrained, because they openly dissect human bodies and obtain knowledge, which is quite unremarkable.
In ancient China, there may have been people doing this kind of thing. However, social pressure was often great, and they had to be secretive, and there was no systematic knowledge. Even in the Qing Dynasty, doctors still felt that the knowledge of anatomy was scarce.
Shao Shude didn't know how tolerant Arab society was to this kind of thing, but it was probably relatively tolerant. Because a hundred years later, a Bukhara man named Ibn Sina or Avicenna sorted out his predecessors.
He used the old materials and brought forth new ones, and wrote a "Medical Codex", which covers anatomy, surgery, pharmacy and other aspects, which is very bold.
In fact, during this period, Arab and Persian medicine was quite impressive. They proposed many concepts that were cited by later generations. For example, words such as syrup and soda water originated from Arabia.
language.
Like traditional Chinese medicine, they like to use ointments and liniments very much. The two countries' medicines are quite similar.
In the second year of Yonghui reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (651), Qin Minghe used Nestorian pricking and bloodletting to treat dizziness caused by wind and dizziness.
Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi and others used Brahman monks who were good at this treatment to treat cataracts.
Avicenna's "Medical Classic" also includes 17 kinds of Chinese medicines.
If you work behind closed doors, your standards will get worse and worse, but you still need to communicate.
The second book is about musical instrument scores.
Shao Shude was timid and couldn't understand. His musical attainments were really poor, but it didn't matter, just leave it to professionals.
The third one is about astronomy.
He looked at it and found that it was a bit outrageous. It was actually geocentric.
This book was probably not written by the Arabs, but a book written by them after translating the relevant ancient Greek doctrines and then interpreting them themselves.
Of course the geocentric theory is wrong. But based on the principle of seeking truth from facts, how can you prove that it is wrong? Do you need an astronomical telescope?
He could only sigh when he thought of the rudimentary glasses industry in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Up to now, natural crystals are still used to grind lenses, which is extremely expensive and the output is very low, which is a bit outrageous.
But astronomy and navigation are inseparable, and it is a very important subject. The difficulty of offshore navigation is very low because there are land reference objects, but if you want to go farther away from the coast and go deep into the ocean, then how to position it is very important.
Faxian, a monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once wrote when he visited India and returned to China by boat: "The sea is so vast that I don't know east and west. I can only look at the sun, moon and stars."
Yes, it is possible to rely on stars for positioning on the sea, but the technology at this time is still very backward and the error is very large. This can be seen from the fact that more than 99% of the ships still approach the sea, and some sail into the deep sea occasionally.
Yaw. For example, ships departing from Mingzhou for Japan often go to North Korea. This is yaw on the sea.
Thinking of this, he suddenly woke up and shouted: "Han Quanjie."
"Your Majesty." Han Quanjie came over and bowed in salute.
"Has the Persian envoy left?" he asked.
"It's been more than ten days," Han Quanjie replied.
"Send someone to catch up with them, and say that if we can get from the Baghdad library -" Shao Shude said halfway, then shook his head and said: "Forget it, this is too worrying. Let Li Shouxin come and see me."
Li Shouxin was the young minister of Honglu Temple. He accompanied him on the Western Expedition in the 14th year of Jianji and returned in the first year of Tongguang.
On the way back to Chang'an after the Western Expedition, Shao Shude came up with the idea of sending envoys to Western countries.
After returning to Chang'an, Shao Shude was embarrassed to send Li Shouxin as an envoy immediately because he had been accompanying him on the expedition for a long time, so he let him rest at home for a year.