Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1325 Caesar’s Belongs to Caesar, Luocheng’s Belongs to Luocheng

Rome is great. Although it is also known as the Great Qin, the Eastern Great Qin does not necessarily have to help the Western Great Qin. Even if there is a Luo character in the Roman Empire, so what.

"We can add money!"

Although the crown prince was young, he performed well at critical moments. He immediately took out the old method he used to deal with the Roman enemies.Eastern Rome was jokingly called the defeated court by later generations, and it is true that they were defeated by countless enemies in more than 1000 years, and they had to offer tribute as a last resort.

Not to mention the Persians and the Avars, who beat Persia again and again and were forced to donate money and even cede land.

At the beginning, they agreed to pay 20 coins to the Avars every year to reach an armistice agreement.But later the Avars were dissatisfied and continued to plunder and harass, so Rome had to keep increasing the price, 30, 50, and finally [-] gold coins a year.

Rome is now at a time of life and death. Egypt, the traditional granary of Rome, has been taken away by Persia. The natural barrier defense line in Syria is now also taken away by Persia. This has caused the empire to almost lose most of its east coast. The site is gone.

And the trade line between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf was cut off by the Persians, making the Romans really like ants on a hot pot. The granaries and granaries could not be kept, and the trade routes could not be kept.

Money bags and granaries are stuck, which is fatal.

If you fight, you get money, and if you don't have money, you don't fight.

The longer the throat is choked, the harder it is for Rome to hold on.

So now I can only ask Daqin for help.

Even as long as Daqin maintains the Silk Road on the northern front, Rome can hang its life. If Daqin can mediate in Rome and promise a truce with the East Turks, and stop attacking them from the west, then the West Turks can also help them recover. The Caucasus region sent troops and became an important partial division to contain the Persian forces.

What's more, facing the combined fleet of the Persians, Slavs and Avars, as well as the armored cavalry of the Persians, the barbarian infantry of the Slavs, and the light cavalry of the Avars, Rome urgently needs more equipment.

"Crown prince, 50 gold coins is really not attractive. You know, last time a small county magistrate under Zhenguang South Road brought two thousand people to attack Linyi Kingdom, which dared to fight against our Great Qin. Breaking through the opponent's capital in the first battle, directly seized 10,000+ catties of gold."

How much can a catty of gold be converted into Roman gold coins?

Six Roman gold coins are only about one tael, but one catty is 16 taels, which can be exchanged for nearly a hundred. 10,000+ catties, that is more than 1000 million Roman gold coins.

The Roman prince was speechless, but he had heard this matter many times after he arrived in Daqin, even the specific details, so there is no exaggeration in this matter.

But if you add more, Rome will not be able to spend that much money.

The eight-year bloody civil war triggered by Scafford's regicide, and then almost every year since his father ascended the throne, has been fighting for more than ten years.The Roman Empire has not stopped for more than 20 years, and it is almost empty.

But now it's time for life and death.

Kraft stepped forward.

"Excuse me, my respected Son of Heaven, what kind of conditions does Daqin want to help Rome?"

"It's not impossible to help Rome. After all, you can't write two Luo characters in one stroke. You Rome was also called Great Qin by us before. Therefore, our two countries are still very destined." Luo Cheng first fooled around. After a few sentences, he slowly threw out his own conditions.

"In order to establish friendship between the two countries, we can form an alliance."

At this time, Cui Junsu came to negotiate terms with Kraft on behalf of the emperor.

The two countries have become allies and are friendly to each other. Rome pays an annual tribute of 66 gold coins and 88 silver coins to Great Qin every year.The Roman Emperor Heraclius sent the princess to the Great Qin Dynasty in the Central Plains to enter the Qin Palace and give it to the Great Qin Emperor as his concubine, and the two countries made peace.

The two countries agreed that the Western Turks and the Khazars would be the vassals of the Great Qin. The Great Qin and Rome were bounded by the Caucasus Mountains to the south, the Qin border to the north, and the Roman border to the south.The east and west are bounded by the Black Sea, and the east coast of the Black Sea belongs to Qin.

The east, west and north are bounded by the Volga River and the Don River.

The west belongs to Rome, and the east belongs to Daqin.

This condition, apart from increasing the annuity and requiring Rome to be close to Daqin, the most unexpected point is that Daqin wants to bring the Western Turks who retreated to the Khazar territory along the Volga River into the name of Daqin, and want their tribe and the territory they currently occupy , All accepted as the feudal land of the vassal princes of Daqin.

This was originally a matter between Daqin and the Western Turks, but now it has to be written in the covenant between the two countries, which undoubtedly requires Rome to express its position.

The Khazars in the past and the Western Turks in the present are all allies of the Romans. Even after retreating to the Volga River, they need the support of this ally of Rome even more. Tong Yehu Khan of the Western Turks will meet.

Tong Yehu Khan also married his daughter to the second son of Emperor Heraclius.

The Western Turks lost to the Volga River from the Western Regions, which can be described as a lot of desperation, but after uniting with the Khazars, they still have [-] cavalry, which is not a small force.They are not willing to be Daqin's vassals, and now Daqin has made this request.

Some make it hard for them.

Kraft did not immediately refuse, but asked, "If an alliance is formed, what can Daqin do for Rome?"

"If the two countries form an alliance, Daqin will strengthen the northern route of the Silk Road. From Yili, Suiye, Dawan, Kangju, and Mulu, five major cities in the northern part of the Western Regions, five routes will be opened directly to Rome. Great Qin, then there will be no more obstacles in the distance from the Western Regions to Rome, and there will be a steady stream of oriental merchants, silk, tea, porcelain, paper, and armor, swords, bows and crossbows that you want. In particular, as long as our goods reach the Caspian Sea, they can be transported by ship, and travel between the Caspian Sea, the Volga River, the Don River, and the Black Sea, and we no longer have to fear the harassment and robbery of those nomadic barbarians in the Western Regions, in the middle of the river, and to the west. You no longer have to worry about being controlled by the Persians on the Red River and the Persian Gulf, and you don’t have to worry about Arab merchants on the Arabian Peninsula intercepting overland trade routes.”

"What else?" Crawford was not satisfied with these. "What benefits can the Western Turks get? If there is no benefit, even if Rome agrees to this covenant, they will not agree."

"What benefits can the Tong Yehu of the Western Turks get? I can allow them to settle in the west and northwest of the Caspian Sea as nomads. As long as they accept the canonization of the imperial court and stop harassing eastward and blocking commercial routes, then the imperial court will not If we continue to conquer and destroy them, they can live freely on the banks of the Volga River and in the north of the Caucasus, this is my promise and benefit to the Western Turks."

"The benefits to Rome are not enough!"

Kraft was shrewd.

What Rome needs is not only smooth trade routes, not just some verbal help, but also real help.

"Rome needs Qin to send troops to Persia from Daxia and Hezhong!"

The emperor shook his head.

"Impossible! It is impossible for Daqin to send troops to Persia. Daqin can sell weapons, armor and even ships to the Romans. It can also increase the trade volume on the northern line of the Silk Road. It can also promise the Western Turks so that they can send troops without worry. Help you, but Daqin will not send a single soldier to Persia to set foot on their territory."

Kraft was silent.

Luo Cheng also smiled and said no more.

Sure enough, after a long time, Kraft and the others finally bowed their heads first. Rome needs Qin even more, but Qin does not necessarily need Rome.

"Rome donates 20 gold and 30 silver to the Great Qin Year Coin every year! Others remain unchanged!" Kraft said.

"The annual tribute is 30 gold coins and 50 silver coins! I can send a batch of ordnance to you to take back, and pay after the goods arrive. Even to show Daqin's sincerity, I won't charge you any interest this time."

"make a deal!"

Kraft finally nodded in agreement.

Although Rome eventually betrayed the Western Turks, the help that the Great Qin gave to Rome is also obvious, and these are what Rome needs most now.Not to mention this condition, in fact, even if the conditions of Daqin were harsher, Rome could only agree, and they had reached the end of their rope.

Now both sides have exerted their full strength and are evenly matched. At this time, any external force can break the current balance of power and bring devastating consequences.

(End of this chapter)