Chapter 2749 The rise of Darius, the collapse of the rest empire
Chapter 2746: The rise of Darius, the collapse of the rest empire
After Master Xuanzang and his disciples left, Spartacus was also given away by gifts.
It’s impossible to give it to others without any politeness. If Tang Seng and his disciples don’t kill him, they can’t deal with Spartacus by relying on their own people in this country.
Spartacus took the map left to him by Xuanzang, preparing to walk Xuanzang''s westward route backwards and go to the Great Qin Empire in the far east to take a look, but unexpectedly, something happened shortly after arriving in Persia.
The Persian Empire today is not the same as the Persian Empire in history.
The Persian Empire in history was established by the first emperor Cyrus II in 550 BC, and reached its peak in the hands of the three emperors Darius I, becoming the first empire in world history to span the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.
The inheritance was 220 years, that is, at 330 BC, Persia failed repeatedly in the war with Macedonia and eventually perished during the III of Darius.
The Persian Empire in history has been around for a long time, and the founder of the Persian Empire is Darius I, the strongest third-generation emperor of the Persian Empire.
Darius I was not only a great monarch of Persia, but also one of the famous politicians in world history. He took power when Gambiss II died and ascended the throne at the age of 28, but he took over a mess.
Less than a year after he ascended the throne, Darius I launched eighteen major battles with the strategy of defeating one by one, eradicating the leaders of the eight major separatist forces, reunifying the huge Persian Empire and developing Persia into a major power spanning Asia, Africa and Europe.
After Darius was born, like Alexander and Spartacus, he was also implanted into his own offspring by the system.
But his luck was much better than Spartacus. Not only did he not reveal his identity, he mingled in the political circle of Rome and strengthened himself by sucking the blood of Rome in order to seek an opportunity to restore the country.
There are not only Darius who sucked Roman blood but wanted to smash the Roman pot, but also Alexander and Napoleon.
Darius was once called the "Four Great Masters of the Empire" with Alexander, Napoleon, and Caesar, but he was much more low-key and tolerant than Alexander, knowing what should be revealed and what should not be revealed.
Condmau, Petinac, and Julianus, these three Roman emperors died one after another. Rome quickly split and almost fell apart. Later, it was suppressed by the newly succeeded Severus and forcibly maintained the superficial peace and unity.
At that time, Alexander chose to rebel as soon as possible, while Darius, who was also ambitious, chose to take the lead in Severus.
The reason for making such a choice was that Darius knew from the very beginning that with Alexander''s temperament, it would never be possible to watch Severu gradually integrate the major internal strengths of Rome through political means, so he would be unable to resist the rebellion of Rome before him.
The purpose of Alexander''s early rebellion was to intensify the contradictions within Rome and to make the Roman provinces, which had already had dissenting intentions, independent of the situation of separatist forces.
Rome had a total of 52 provinces, and after Alexander, the boss, took the lead in announcing independence and founding the country, ten provinces immediately declared independence.
The Macedonian War of Independence ended with Alexander''s victory and Rome''s defeat, and more than half of the provinces declared independence were declared.
Alexander''s goal was also achieved. He successfully broke Rome with his own strength.
Darius''s purpose was also achieved. Alexander, as the number one general in Rome and controls the largest province in Rome, would attract all his energy once he rebelled.
With Alexander standing in front and fighting with Rome, Darius naturally hid behind and picked up the bargain.
Darius, under the banner of a loyal Roman minister, led his army to attack the three Eastern European provinces that declared independence, and wiped out and occupied them with lightning speed.
After occupying the three eastern European provinces, Darius had already gained a lot of strength. He wanted to continue to fight for Europe and completely occupy Eastern Europe, but Severu no longer trusted him, and the other separatist forces also took precautions against him.
In addition, the situation in Europe at that time was too chaotic and there were too many strong people. Neither Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and Darius were sure to win.
In order not to let the capital he had saved up to waste, Darius decided to let the major European forces consume each other first, while he led his army to attack the weaker West Asia region and waited for the power to be strong enough before counterattacking back to Europe.
Darius''s decision was naturally extremely correct. Although the intensity of the Western princes'' melee was not as fierce as the East, it was not much worse.
The three eastern European provinces are barren lands again. It is indeed a bit too difficult to dominate Europe by relying on these three provinces.
It just so happened that the Western Asian overlord, the Aisi Empire, was in civil strife. For only four years after Vologassis VI succeeded to the throne, his brother Aldaban IV immediately launched a rebellion and fought against it, and became the lord of one side in the empire. The fight between the two sides was like a life-and-death battle.
The four strongest countries in this era are the Han Dynasty, Rome, Abdul-Sakura and Kushan, but coincidentally, the four countries have declined from prosperity.
The Han Dynasty and Rome collapsed due to internal contradictions, while Anxi declined due to the rise of the Kushans.
In this brotherly civil war in the Rest Empire, the younger brother eventually gained the upper hand, but the older brother was unwilling to be thrown away from the throne. He was stunned and wanted to attract external forces to check and balance his younger brother. Darius, a Roman warlord who separatisted the three eastern European provinces, was naturally the first choice.
Seeing that Vologas VI was so bad, as the orthodox emperor of Rest, he had no shortage of military power and political justice, but he was even more than his younger brother. Darius naturally felt a happy flower in his heart. After all, if Vologas VI was really a wise ruler, there would be no place for him to use it.
At the cost of cede half of the province, Darius agreed to the employment of Vologassis VI and led 80,000 elite troops into the Abdul-Sakura and Ardaban IV to fight.
But just like Dong Zhuo came to Luoyang, it was easy to invite him, but it would be difficult to send him off.
Although his younger brother Aldaban IV, although he is better than his elder brother, how could he be Darius''s opponent? In the duel with Darius, Aldaban IV was defeated repeatedly and a large amount of territory was occupied by Darius.
My brother didn''t expect Darius to be so powerful, and his younger brother was powerless to deal with him, so he felt fear in his heart and planned to join his younger brother to deal with Darius.
But at this time, Darius''s slutty operation came. He actually accepted the canonization of his younger brother after the defeat, and openly announced his withdrawal from Rome and joined the Rest Empire.
This scared my brother, and I could only win over Darius to prevent Darius from falling completely towards his younger brother.
In this way, Darius changed from a Roman to a Sakura, and the conflict between him and the two brothers became political struggles within the Sakura Empire.
Darius got the script of Zhu Yuanzhang''s "storing grain to become king" in the early days, but in the middle, it turned out that Liu Bei entered Shu. He relied on getting along with his brothers and constantly accumulating political capital, but in the end he embarked on Dong Zhuo''s path.
Dong Zhuo’s path is not easy to walk, but Darius’s political methods are much stronger than Dong Zhuo, so he really made this path through.
Darius relied on the coup to kill his brother first, but he turned the blame on his brother, and killed his brother openly, and then first made his brother''s son the emperor, and then deposed his brother''s son the emperor, in order to seize the military and political power of the Absolute Empire and finally usurp the throne.
The rest that was already declining, and how could Darius survive such troubles, it soon split and soon entered the era of separatist rule of heroes, and eventually formed the political structure of the five empires, nine kingdoms, and thirteen small countries.
If it weren''t for Anxi''s existence, if there was a ''Uncle Liu'', who led the remaining forces loyal to Anxi and saved their territory in West Asia, the Anxi Empire would have been completely destroyed.
The resting "Uncle Liu" is the founding emperor Alshak, naturally his ability and wrists are extremely strong.
From such a fragile and complex situation, even the founding emperor was unable to make up for the situation. He could only lead the remaining forces to retreat to West Asia, survive, wait for the opportunity, and intend to make a comeback.
After Darius became emperor, he led his army to expand eastward and attacked West Asia, establishing the Persian Empire, which spans three major regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and West Asia, with a total population of 15 million. It is a well-deserved overlord force among the countries in Central Asia.
On the contrary, Alexander, who was the first to anti-Roman, expanded his territory after the Macedonian War of Independence, soon became weak and fell into the quagmire of the European War. He had not further expanded his sphere of influence for a long time.
Of course, although Alexander Sui was overtaken by Darius, who came from behind, the establishment process of Macedonia was very stable and there were no big hidden dangers.
Unlike Darius, although his territory is large and his population is large, he has great internal risks due to the coup seizing power and usurping the throne and gaining power, which is not upright.
However, Darius was very good at political means. If he gave him enough time, he would naturally be able to eliminate these hidden dangers. However, his strength and domineeringness also aroused the fear of other forces.
The other four empires in West Asia, Kushan, Timur, Saman and Seljuk, although they are also full of contradictions with each other, they have reached a consensus on suppressing Persia.
Although Persia is strong, its establishment is still short and its foundation is insufficient. In addition, it is not small internal hidden dangers, so it is naturally impossible to be the opponent of the four empires. If you are not careful, you may face the danger of destruction of the country.
In order to differentiate the four empires, Darius chose to actively cede land to make good friends with Timur and Saman, and Kushan, ranked second in isolation.
Under the uneven distribution of interests, conflicts arose between the four countries, which also allowed Darius to stabilize the good situation and gain a valuable respite.
Darius now needs time to sort out the internal structure to digest the huge territory he swallowed, so he naturally does not want to go to war with Kushan and other forces.
Kushan wanted to go to war with Persia, but he did not dare to go to war with Persia alone, but he was worried about winning over the other three major powers. After all, except for Seljuk, Timur and Saman were too close to Persia. If they really united, they were worried that they would be cheated, but if they didn''t unite, they might not win.
In this way, under the checks and balances between the five major countries in West Asia, they have entered a strange peace.
Originally, all this had nothing to do with Spartacus. After all, he was just a passerby. He was neither prepared nor able to participate in the affairs of the five major countries. He didn''t want to cause trouble, but he took the initiative to come to him.
Spartacus accidentally encountered his old subordinates of the Unified Uprising in the slave market in Persia, and learned that after the uprising was suppressed by Caesar, many people were sold to Persia as slaves, including his second wife Mira.
Naturally, Spartacus could not ignore his old subordinates. After trying his best to rescue his old subordinates, he realized that Mira had been sold to a Kushan merchant.
After the mother, his wife and daughter were humiliated to death, Spartacus was not driven crazy in large part because of Mira''s comfort. After escaping and avenging revenge, the two naturally became husband and wife, but the happy days were so short.
After the rebel army was suppressed by Caesar and Hercules, Spartacus thought Mira had died in the chaos, but he did not expect Mira to escape for the disaster, but unfortunately he fell into the hands of slave traders again.
Mira is Spartacus'' last relative in this world, so he naturally has to save him.
Spartacus intercepted and killed more than a dozen Kushan slave traders and rescued nearly a thousand slaves, but not only did he not find Mira, he also alarmed the top leaders of the Persian Empire.
After all, in addition to thousands of Kushan slaves who escaped, many Kushan merchants died in Persia, and some of them were Kushan nobles.
If this matter is not handled well, it may intensify the conflict between the two countries and then detonate the war between the five Central Asian countries.
Now that the whole country of Persia does not want to fight, it can only capture the escaped slaves and hand over the troublemakers to the Kushan Empire to calm the diplomatic storm.
?The branch lines about the West and Journey to the West end, and then return to the main war
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(This chapter ends)