At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 634: Bloody Massacre and Learning the Skills of Rebellion

October 46, 10th year of the Han Dynasty, Sais City.

All the citizens gathered outside the city by the Nile River, and Sobek's body was hung high up. This brought great pleasure to the local nobles. Since Sobek's uprising, his favorite thing to do was to hang the local nobles, priests, and tax farmers.

This has never happened in the Ptolemaic Empire in the past three thousand years. Those poor people have always been crawling under them, and daring to draw a knife on them is simply a heinous act. Although their Ptolemaic Empire was beaten badly by the Seleucid Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the Roman Empire, when will you, the lowly people, be able to ride on our heads?

At the beginning, some nobles formed private armies to challenge Sobek, hoping to establish their own military merits. However, they were defeated by Sobek and hanged instead, which was an act of asking for their own death.

Moreover, as Sobek's rebel army grew in size and defeated more and more local soldiers, the noble priests fled madly to Alexandria. At one point, Sobek's reputation among Ptolemy was so high that it could stop children's nighttime tears.

Now Sobek, their arch-enemy, finally tasted the pain of being hanged. What made them feel very sorry was that Sobek was already dead when he was hanged, and he did not feel the pain of suffocation.

The civilians of Sais looked at Sobek's body with mixed feelings. They knew exactly what Sobek had done. Killing nobles, priests, and tax farmers were all things they wanted to do but didn't dare to do. When their enemies died, they were extremely happy in their hearts, so they also regretted Sobek's death. No one would help them, the poor, anymore. But they didn't dare to show it and could only stand there expressionlessly.

Then he waved his hand and hundreds of prisoners were brought over.

"These criminals are guilty of unforgivable crimes and will all be executed according to the king's order."

Then the prisoners stood in a row of twenty, and behind them were 20 musketeers.

"Fire!"

"Bang, bang, bang!" Twenty prisoners fell to the ground, and blood flowed all over the ground.

"Bang, bang, bang!" After several rounds of shooting, hundreds of prisoners were executed. The scene was extremely tragic and the citizens around were so scared that they dared not watch.

The officer of the Ptolemy Kingdom laughed when he saw this scene. This was exactly the result he wanted. He said cheerfully: "This is the end of rebellion. The king is the incarnation of God and it is impossible to defeat him."

In a corner of the execution ground, Thor was watching the scene with red eyes, looking at the officers and soldiers of Ptolemy with hatred. The other companions who escaped with Thor were also watching this scene with tears of grief and anger in their eyes.

Tuo'er said, "Don't cry. Let's go to Yanzhou Governor's Mansion to find Big Brother's teacher, learn the skills well, and then come back to settle accounts with these dog nobles. We will get back every penny."

Such massacres were not limited to Sais. The Ptolemaic rebels were not limited to Sobek. Because of Sobek's victory, there was a trend of more and more rebels, but the scale of these rebels was not as large as Sobek. At the same time, they had no idea of ​​uniting, but fought on their own. When Sobek was wiped out, other small rebels could not support it. They were either wiped out or deceived by the nobles to surrender. Some simply fled the rebel team and disintegrated directly. They thought that this way they could escape the killing of the nobles.

But these rebel soldiers were too naive. After the lessons of this huge uprising, Ptolemy VI and the top leaders were extremely afraid of another uprising. With the mentality of not letting go even if they made a mistake, they massacred the rebels and innocent civilians on a large scale throughout the Ptolemaic Empire. As long as the Ptolemaic nobles thought that you were a rebel civilian, you would be within their range of killing. They could not tell the difference and did not care about killing the wrong person.

These soldiers who deserted the rebel army were brutally killed in isolation and without help, and the entire Ptolemaic Empire was littered with mass graves.

Instead, in Alexandria, Memphis and other cities of the Ptolemaic Empire, any civilians who had any connection with Sobek or returned from the Suez Canal would be arrested and killed. Even those who had any connection with the Han people would be killed, so that the comprador merchants were implicated.

Now Ptolemy VI has realized that these people who were educated by the Han Dynasty were not civilians, but potential rebels. As long as these rebels were there, his empire was like sitting on the crater of a volcano, and it would erupt sooner or later. So he began to slaughter the civilians of Ptolemy who had relations with the Han Dynasty, based on the principle of killing 1000 people by mistake rather than letting one go. The entire Ptolemy Kingdom had become a bloody slaughterhouse. Even the scholars of Alexandria were not spared.

Alexandria, headquarters of the Alexandria Weekly.

A group of soldiers rushed directly into the editorial office of Alexander Weekly. They pointed their muskets at the editors and workers one by one. Everyone was frightened by the dark muzzle of the gun and broke into cold sweats.

At this time, the editor-in-chief ran over and scolded: "Who let you in? Do you know what this place is? This is a place where barbarians like you can come in, and you came in with guns. If you break the machines here, even if I sell you as slaves, it won't be enough to pay you back."

The officer said expressionlessly, "I am here on the king's orders to check if there are any rebels or people spreading rebel ideas in your newspaper."

The editor laughed angrily, "Do you know that our newspaper was established under the order of the queen? How could there be any rebellious party or rebellious party ideas?" The editor was so arrogant because he had the confidence that the queen of Ptolemy was his backer. Moreover, Ptolemy always respected scholars, and he had a very good relationship with many noble ministers. So he was not afraid of these big-headed soldiers at all.

The officer picked up the new issue of the newspaper and sneered, "You still say you didn't promote the ideas of the rebel party. Here is the evidence."

The editor-in-chief looked at the newspaper and saw that it was an event organized by the Global Datong Association and some introductions to the Daqinzhou Datong Association school that was about to go there.

He was stunned and asked, "What kind of evidence is this?"

The officer sneered, "Datong is the ideology of the rebels. The reason why Ptolemy has been in such turmoil in the past two years is because the common people have been deceived by the ideology of Datong and want to divide the land. Only the king is qualified to divide the land, and only the nobles are qualified to receive the fiefdom, and they are also entitled to the land. Arrest all these rebels who spread the ideology of Datong."

"Let's see who dares!" the editor-in-chief roared, "If you dare to touch my people today, I will let the queen arrest you all tomorrow."

The soldiers around were really frightened. They looked at their companions hesitantly. Seeing that no one moved, they did not dare to move either.

The founding king of Ptolemy attached great importance to culture and established the largest library in the world. Scholars have a very high status here, which is equivalent to the status of aristocrats. In addition, these people can often see the king and queen. In the words of the Han people, there are great scholars talking and laughing, and there are no unlearned people in the exchanges. Under normal circumstances, such big soldiers like them really dare not touch the scholars of their own country.

The officer sneered, "How dare you be so arrogant? The closure of this place was jointly ordered by the king and the queen. You damned scholars! You spend the king and the queen's money, but you don't want to serve the king and the queen properly. Instead, you spread the ideas of the rebels here, causing riots in the country. Now the king and the queen have seen your true colors, and your good days are over."

"Catch them!" the officer yelled.

The soldiers wanted to arrest them immediately, and the editor-in-chief said in panic, "General! General! Why do you need to do this? We are the queen's people, we are our own people. Since the Datong ideology is not allowed to be spread, we will not write about it." "It's too late now, take them away!" The officer in charge was relentless and arrested all the people in the newspaper. In his opinion, these newspapers were the focus of spreading rebellious ideas.

From a cultural perspective, Alexandria has always been the center of Daqinzhou culture, thanks to the Library of Alexandria. The founders of the Ptolemaic dynasty were Greeks. In order to rule the ancient land of Egypt, their founding monarchs were committed to spreading Greek civilization.

Ptolemy I (c. 367-283 BC) established the famous Library of Alexandria, and later Ptolemy II and Ptolemy III continued to expand the library, making the Library of Alexandria one of the oldest libraries in the world.

Because of this huge library, Ptolemy State attracted scholars from all over the Great Qin Continent, which made Alexandria the academic center of the entire Great Qin Continent. Now the whole Great Qin Continent is spreading the Great Harmony World, and Alexandria is one of the sources of the spread.

When other countries in Daqinzhou had a large number of Holy Word Kings and the Great Harmony Society, the Ptolemaic Empire relied on two major dividends and internal stability. They were enthusiastic about accepting and even practicing the Great Harmony idea (the practice of the slave Great Harmony system is another story.), and some even gloated over the expansion of the Holy Word Army in other regions. When the entire Mediterranean was in chaos, especially their mortal enemy, the Seleucid Empire, which became fragmented and shaky, Ptolemy VI was beaming with joy during that time. He said many times: "The system of the Ptolemaic Empire is the most perfect." Then he was slapped in the face at the speed of light.

This time, the peasant uprising led by Sobek almost reached Alexandria, which shocked the entire Ptolemaic hierarchy. This was the first time that a rebel army could reach the capital. You should know that the Ptolemaic Empire was actually a country colonized by Greek civilization, and they had very deep internal defenses, so they formed an alliance with the local priests of the Ptolemaic Empire to jointly fool the people and weaken the will of the Egyptians to resist.

But after the Sobek Uprising, the Ptolemaic high-ranking officials were shocked to discover that the Great Harmony Idea actually had the effect of strengthening the Egyptian civilians' resistance to their rule. The high-ranking officials headed by Ptolemy VI acted decisively and decided to eradicate the Great Harmony Idea that was circulating in their country.

The Alexandria Weekly was completely unaware of this high-level move. They continued to promote the idea of ​​universal harmony as before. After all, this was already one of the most mainstream ideas in the Mediterranean region. If scholars did not discuss the idea of ​​universal harmony at a gathering, they would be considered backward and people would think you were a second-rate scholar.

But they didn't expect that this time the Ptolemaic Empire would directly use the Alexandria Weekly as a warning to others. With the example of Alexandria, other cities also knew what to do. In short, any book with the word "Datong" was a book that spread rebellion and was to be destroyed. The entire Ptolemaic Empire was hit by a large-scale literary inquisition, and even the Library of Alexandria was affected, and half of the librarians were arrested.

On November 46, the 11th year of the Han calendar, Yanzhou Governor's Office, Xiqin City.

Since the establishment of Yanzhou Governor's Office, the Han Dynasty has been transforming the desert peninsula. A large number of desert herders have joined the Han Dynasty, and then farmers have transformed the desert peninsula, reclaimed fields, planted alfalfa, and built grasslands. Then the area around Yanzhou Governor's Office became increasingly prosperous. In order to facilitate transactions, Yanzhou Governor's Office established a market to trade forage grass and cattle and horses. Over the past decade, this place has become the most important trading center in Daqinzhou. A large city with a population of more than 100,000 appeared with the market as the core, and this city was named Xiqin City.

Since the completion of the Suez Canal, goods from the East can be transported directly to countries along the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. The construction of this canal has directly opened up sea routes of tens of thousands of miles, reducing the price of Han goods entering the Mediterranean region by more than 3% and increasing the quantity by times. These massive amounts of goods have greatly impacted the fragile industries and handicrafts of the Mediterranean countries. The increasing number of uprisings in the Mediterranean region in the past two years has also originated from this.

The country most affected was the Ptolemaic Empire. Originally, when the Han Dynasty's goods reached the end of the Red Sea, they had to be transported through their country and the Seleucid Empire to other Mediterranean countries, and most of these goods still passed through the Ptolemaic Empire.

Therefore, Ptolemy State took most of the profits from Daqinzhou's maritime trade, and the Han Dynasty spent 1 billion yuan every year to build the Suez Canal, and most of these funds also flowed into Ptolemy State. The combination of the two led to the golden decade of development of Ptolemy State. The national income increased year by year, the grain production capacity continued to increase, and the employment rate of civilians was high.

It's a pity that the emperors, nobles and priests of the Ptolemaic Empire were extravagant and lustful. Faced with such a huge amount of wealth, they did not choose to use it to develop industrialization or the country's infrastructure. Instead, they used it to build their own palaces, temples for sacrifices, and consumed it all in the banquets of the nobles.

After the construction of the Suez Canal, the two major dividends disappeared, fiscal revenue dropped precipitously, and Ptolemy VI just issued an order to increase taxes, which caused a nationwide riot. Ptolemy VI was shocked to find that the Han Dynasty was the source of all the riots, and the relationship between the two countries began to deteriorate.

The Ptolemaic scholars came up with a slave system, which made the Han Dynasty disgusted with Ptolemy, a slave state, and increased their support for the Ptolemaic rebels. At the same time, they tried their best to rescue the scholars who were hunted by Ptolemy and the civilians who built the Suez Canal. At this time, Xiqin City had become the only safe place for the Ptolemaic rebels and scholars. A large number of rebels tried to escape to this safe place. It was in this atmosphere that Tuoer and others came to Xiqin City and found Liu Ruyi.

Liu Ruyi saw Tuo'er and asked, "Are you Sobek's brother?"

Thor nodded grimly.

Liu Ruyi also said with a gloomy face: "I let your brother stay in Xiqinzhou at the beginning, but unfortunately he couldn't bear to leave the land of your hometown."

He already knew about Sobek's incident. After all, Sobek was the largest rebel in Ptolemy. After his failure, other small rebels were wiped out. Zhang Pijiang concluded in a heavy tone that Ptolemy had at least bought 10-20 years for their brutal rule. Ptolemy's suppression of the rebels was very bloody and thorough. There were mass graves left by the massacre in various cities. In order to maintain their rule, the top leaders of Ptolemy did not hide their brutality.

Then Liu Ruyi asked: "What are your plans for the future? If you want to live a stable life, I can find a way to get you a piece of land."

Tuo'er said with red eyes: "I want to avenge my brother, father and mother."

Then he knelt down and said, "General, please teach me how to rebel."

Following Tuo'er, his companions also knelt down and said, "General, please teach us how to rebel."

Liu Ruyi said seriously: "Rebellion is not an easy thing. This is a riot that will kill many people. The dead will not only include your enemies, but also your relatives and even yourselves."

Tuo'er said with sadness: "My whole family died at the hands of the nobles. I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of not being able to take revenge."

Liu Ruyi nodded and said, "Okay, I will arrange for you to rest first, and then teach you how to rebel correctly."

In this way, Toer was taken away by the soldiers. Liu Ruyi felt sad when he thought that Sobek, who was full of vigor and vitality at the beginning, had sacrificed himself like this.

He found Zhang Pijiang and asked, "With the power of our Han Dynasty, we can solve all the problems in the world. Even if we want to annex a weak country like Ptolemy, our Yanzhou Governor's Office can do it. Why is the court indifferent to the killings in Daqinzhou? Ptolemy's nobles have massacred hundreds of thousands of people this year."

Zhang Pijiang shook his head and said, "When human power is limited, Your Majesty said that the natives of Nanyang have Han blood, and even found the Yin and Shang blood for the land of Yinzhou, but the emperor never said that Tianzhu has Han blood, nor did he say that the people of Daqinzhou have any relatives with the Han. Why do you think this is so?"

Liu Ruyi asked, "The emperor doesn't like these places?"

Zhang Pijiang shook his head and said, "These places already have the foundation of civilization and have local systems that suit them. Even if we, the Han Dynasty, want to assimilate them, it will be extremely difficult. With the current productivity level of the Han Dynasty, even if we unify the world, it won't be long before it will be divided. Therefore, the focus of the Han Dynasty in the next hundred years will still be on the New World and how to stabilize the vast territory of the Han Dynasty."

There is one more thing Zhang Pijiang did not say, which is that he thinks that the Han Dynasty is already full of food, and it is only relying on the prestige of the emperor and the unprecedented strength of the Han Dynasty to maintain the vast territory of the four continents. When the emperor dies and the strength of the continents increases to approach that of the Han Dynasty, will these princes still be able to submit to the Han Dynasty like they do now? Just look at the story of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to understand.

(End of this chapter)