lcionline Chapter 490 Shooting yourself in the foot
Chapter 490 Shooting yourself in the foot
Daqin Anxi County, Antioch City, Temple of Zeus.
As the capital of the Seleucid Dynasty in the past, Antioch gathered the vast majority of nobles. The temples in the city are second only to Athens in prosperity, and most of the sect leaders live here.
Since Seleucus I, who founded the Seleucid crown prince, was the commander of the personal guards of Alexander the Great in the past, and inherited the most territories of the Alexander Great Empire, Antioch City has always regarded itself as the Macedonian orthodoxy.
Disdainful of the declining forces in the north that inherited the name of the Macedonian Kingdom, the kings of all dynasties vowed to unify the Macedonian Kingdom and Ptolemaic Egypt, and restore the grandeur of the Puri Alexander Empire.
It's just that no one expected that the Romans, who seemed to have declined back then, suddenly made a big comeback in the war with Carthage, and expanded all the way south and east, defeating the unprepared Seleucids. A large area of the territory was devastated, and even the capital Antioch City was almost in danger several times.
Later, although the crisis of the Romans was lifted due to the Great Qin Expeditionary Army, the Great Qin, which was stronger than Rome, made Seleucus face a more difficult situation.
Most of the Seleucids could accept that Persian County was acquired by Daqin. After all, it was the spoils that Daqin got from the Romans. According to the concept that the winner is king, Daqin should have the right to dominate.
What's more, Persia is thousands of miles away from Great Qin, and it belongs to the super wasteland. In the eyes of everyone in Seleucid, it is just a land of cannon fodder for Seleucus to resist the Romans.
But no one thought that Da Qin's strength would be so strong that they needed to look up to them.
First of all, there is a continuous stream of huge sea trade fleets beyond imagination, which directly cross thousands of miles of sea and border, linking the enclave of Persian County with the mainland of Daqin, and bringing many commodities while also bringing the culture of Daqin spread out.
Many Seleucids realized for the first time that there were civilizations more advanced than Greece and Persia in this world.
Belief in the instinct of the strong has led many people to accept and study the culture of the Great Qin, and the products of the Great Qin have become the best props for the Seleucid nobles to show off their financial power.
When the Maurya Dynasty was almost destroyed by the Great Qin, the high-level Seleucids suddenly woke up and realized something was wrong.
Unknowingly, the only remaining territory of Seleucus has been completely surrounded by Great Qin.
To the north and west is the Persian County of the Daqin people, and to the south and east is the Tianzhu County and the prairie belonging to the Daqin.
As for the sea, it was full of Daqin warships.
As many as more than 20 elite corps of the Great Qin and countless Great Qin fleets, while scaring the once invincible Romans from looking eastward and cede land for compensation, they also have the ability to destroy Seleucus at any time.
After countless discussions, the Seleucid royal family and nobles finally realized the reality that their Seleucids had become the possession of the Great Qin.
Facing the powerful Daqin, they were like babies, unable to resist at all.
After all, their Seleucids couldn't even beat Rome. The so-called Guards Corps was not as powerful as the Mauryan War Elephant Legion. How could it be possible to easily destroy the 30 Roman main force and the last elite Qin army opponent of the Mauryan Dynasty?
As for the resistance, I am afraid that the iron hooves of the Daqin people have already rushed into the city of Antioch before the summoning order of the Seleucids was completed.
At that time, it will be someone else's captive, maybe it will be another Hun Shanyutou Manmodu's tragic experience.
In desperation, the high-level Seleucids could only resort to the means of making peace, hoping to temporarily maintain peace with Daqin by way of in-laws.
Then he backed down step by step, and finally had to designate Princess Diya, who had married His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, as the heir of Seleucid, acquiescing to Daqin's annexation of Seleucus.
Although some nobles were still dissatisfied, they had no choice but to shut their mouths wisely after the bloodbath of the Daqin garrison's swords and swords. As for the common people, it didn't matter.
Anyway, this territory has always been a battleground for military strategists. In the past few hundred years alone, it has witnessed the rise and fall of several empires. Their identities have changed from Persians to Macedonians to Seleucids. , and now it's just people from Daqin.
Moreover, the many benevolent policies of the Great Qin that have been circulated in the market have been expected by the people for a long time, and now they have the opportunity to enjoy them. Most of the common people are very popular.
At least after becoming a Daqin native, they no longer need to worry about being attacked by other countries. Instead, they can gossip about who their next target will be. This gives the local people a sense of security.
Moreover, although Daqin has to pay taxes, it has a lot of subsidies. After being merged into Daqin, life is much easier.
Especially those who are actively studying and can speak Da Qin dialect can even get a job from the many workshops and projects opened by Qin businessmen, and the wages are much higher than in the past.
Last year, when the countries in the Mediterranean were hit by a plague of locusts that had not happened in a hundred years, and almost starved to death, it was also the money and food that came from the mainland of Daqin, which helped the entire Seleucid region survive the crisis.
People, I still miss this kindness very much.
Therefore, most of the Seleucid people are supportive of the merger into the Great Qin.
The newly opened government schools and various Qin language crash courses in the city were soon surrounded by long queues of applicants.
But for the nobles, this is not so good.
After all, they did not need to pay taxes before.
Even because Seleucid inherited the Greek city-state system, the local nobles had great influence on the local area. Although they all obeyed the Seleucid royal family in name, they could make a fuss about how much local taxes should be paid.
In the past, the major nobles of Seleucid just had to lie down and collect money.
But now they need to pay a large amount of tax every year, how could the nobles be willing to accept it?
But the nobles would not dare to fight Daqin openly, this way of taking death.
After all, these nobles cherish their lives very much.
So someone proposed to use sects, in the name of gods, to test the attitude of the Great Qin Dynasty Hall.
It just so happened that the Pope was also dissatisfied with the sect's need to pay taxes, and hoped to increase the number of congregants through the Great Qin Dynasty, so as to better preach, so there was the previous proposal system.
However, no one expected that Da Qin Chaotang's attitude would be so tough.
All the former Seleucid nobles and sect leaders were dumbfounded.
The benefits are not only missed, even the roots of the sect will be dug out.
At this moment, all the nobles and sects in the Seleucid area were dumbfounded. This is simply shooting themselves in the foot.