Chapter 3 Conditions
The vultures flew in the battlefield of the past, making clear and sharp eagle songs. They fell from time to time and flew up from time to time to avoid the people on the ground. A few days passed, there were still corpses on the battlefield. The soldiers who died in battle and the soldiers who died in battle fell on the snow layer by layer. The cold had frozen them with the earth, and only the armor and robes of different colors were dotted with the white snow, mottled.
The road was unpassable, and the carriage could only follow the river to reach the sand sea. Pomirka, who opened the window, looked at the mottled spots in the distance. It was not until the carriage drove up the river bank and walked on the edge of the battlefield that he discovered that it was the bodies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
"God of Harmon!" Pomirka sighed heavily in amazement.
"More than the whole city of Carthage combined." Selinus was a bachelor's scholar, and with his knowledge he knew very well how many soldiers were on the snow. He didn't know what words to describe this battlefield full of corpses, and he could only say incoherently: "A cruel and great war!"
"The Chuni failed." Pomirka said. At this time, the driver of the car did not go directly to the Shahai Camp for some reason. After going up the embankment, the carriage turned to the west. He soon saw the Chu soldiers wearing red war suits, and their bodies were frozen into a low wall.
"Yes. They failed." Selinus retracted his gaze. "They shouldn't go back to our sea."
"But the Chuni people have always wanted to go to Rome." Pomirka knew very well about the causes of the two countries' grudges. It was because the Chuni people always wanted to go to Rome to trade with the Romans, and ignored the hatred between the Carthaginians and the Romans that things had developed to this point. "It is difficult for a nation with a ship to perish. As far as I know, the Chuni nobles have sent all their children to an island."
"Island?" Selinus showed an inexplicable smile on his face. He was only familiar with the geography of the West and the west of the Middle, and knew nothing about the geography of the east of the Middle. But there was no doubt that this was a vast and fertile continent. The land under his feet in Guanzhong of Qin gave him this impression. "They cannot return to our sea for at least ten years."
The Baccar family has been preparing for war, and the Romans are actually preparing for war, and even Carthage - politics is always complicated. Although the Baccar family is Carthaginian, they do not represent the interests of the Carthaginian nobles. Carthagin under the aristocratic system cannot accept a Baccar family that occupys the Iberian Peninsula, has silver mines, and has its own private army. This will inevitably break the political balance and form a dictatorship.
Therefore, for most conservative Carthaginian nobles, the Baka family is the enemy of Carthaginians rather than the compatriots of the Carthaginians. But for more politicians who have become the elders of the Carthaginian Senate by talking, the Baka family is their Harmon god. Without silver from the silver mine of the Baka family, they would not be able to sit in the Senate and become the elders of the Carthaginians.
Selinus is a bachelor, and the bachelor is always wiser than ordinary people. In his opinion, ten years is enough. If everything goes well, the upcoming war will include two parts: partly the Baccarat family leverages the Carthage war against Rome, and the other partly the end of the war against Rome, the Baccarat family quells the Carthage civil war that broke out due to the purge of the Senate to establish the Baccarat dynasty.
"Ten years?" Pomirka couldn't help but shook her head when she thought of the last war lasted for more than 20 years. "Ten years are not enough, we need at least twenty years."
"Twenty years unless we help the Qinni find that island, we will truly destroy Chuni." Selinus smiled, and after speaking, he shook his head again. "This is impossible. We do not understand the oceans of this continent, and we cannot do this."
"It must be done!" Pomirka thought deeper. "Imagine! The Chuni warships filled with thunder weapons entered our sea from the Dahraclis stone pillars. They could easily occupy Carthage and the New City. Or we had defeated Rome, but as long as the Romans got the Chuni thunder weapons, they would immediately resist Carthage's rule..."
As a branch of the Phoenicians, Carthage knew very well the huge impact of the spread of military technology caused by trade. Military technology determines the outcome of war, and the outcome of war determines the fate of countries.
More than a thousand years ago, the technological centers of the known world were obviously in West Asia and Egypt, and the recent thousand years have been transferred to Greece and Persia. The emergence of Chunitel, Chuni sea boat, and the thunder weapons made Pomirka keenly feel that the center suddenly moved to this land without warning. If this technological center can last forever, then the East and the West will completely reverse the existing order.
This is extremely unfavorable for Carthage, which is located in the westernmost. Under normal circumstances, the closer we get to the technical center, the more advanced the weapons and the corresponding tactics it is; the further away from this center, the more behind the weapons and the corresponding tactics it is.
This means that Qinni will become the overlord of the two known and unknown worlds in the future. Baktria and India can obtain (mostly theft) the advanced military technology of the Qinni people, and their army can sweep the army of Seleuc II. Seleuc II's army relies on the occasionally captured Bactrica and India's sporadic weapons, which will undoubtedly defeat Egypt, regain the Eastern Mediterranean coast, and occupy Greece and Macedonia.
Because it was difficult for Carthage and Rome to maintain close ties with Chinny, in time, their weapons and tactics were not much better than those of the Celtics on the British Islands. At least in the eyes of the Chinny, there was no difference between them and the Celtic tribe. As a Carthage, Pomirka didn't like this transformation, but he was unable to change this fact. The only thing he could do was to block the military technology born in this land for as long as possible, and the tactics spread to Rome.
The emperor kept in mind the warning of the Master Dian Kecheng, drove his carriage through the battlefield covered with corpses to show the military power of the Qin Dynasty to these barbarians. After a whole circle, he came to the camp of the Shahai. Of course, the status of the Carthage envoy was not as good as that of the Egyptian envoy who had helped the Qin State. After waiting for about two hours, the generals and strategists of the shogunate government met them and asked them coldly what they were doing? - Like the large group of flying vultures in the sky, these white di people also came to steal the bones and flesh of the Jing people.
"We ask to see His Highness, Prince Fusu..." Pomirka bowed to Tongcai, with a smile on his face, although the other party could only understand the word Fusu. His servant cleverly handed a box, which was a ritual.
"What is this?" The box is neither gold nor jade, but a large piece of amber. It is not very rare for generals to recognize it.
"This is..." Pomirka looked at his servant again, and the servant took out another gift, which was a gem.
The generals didn't like two gifts. The common rituals in the world were gold and jade, and there was no gold and jade, and silver. Seeing that the person who asked for advice was not the general but the eldest son, he called someone from the tent and led them to the tent where Fusu was.
It was almost ten days since the final battle ended. Fusu, like Zhao Zheng, was depressed and silent. Pomirka did not see his abnormality. He spoke according to his own ideas: "Dear Prince, after the last conversation, I have told the Senate of Carthage and asked them to send craftsmen who know how to make witch medicine to the East. I think they have already set off."
"Witch and Medicine Craftsman?" Fusu, who was depressed, was shocked when he heard the news, but after a while he restrained the surprise on his face and asked, "What do Carthage need?"
A twelve-year-old child shouldn't have such political wisdom. Fusu's question surprised Pomirka. He said: "Carthage will also send generals and sailors familiar with the ocean to help the Qinni fleet find the Chuni people." After saying this, Bomirka answered Fusu's question and put forward his own conditions: "We need the craftsmen who know how to build Chuni ships, and also the sailors who know how to drive such a sea ship."
"No!" Haizhou was not the focus of Qin's attention, and Fusu agreed without hesitation.
"We also want to get craftsmen who can make Thunder weapons." Pomirka made this request cautiously. "The Baka family can pay three thousand tarantulas of silver for this."
"Three thousand taranto silver?" Fusu knew about the value of three thousand taranto silver, which was 312,000 kilograms of silver. "Since the witchcraft comes from Carthage, why..."
"The witch medicine comes from Carthage, but the Thunder weapons of the Chuni people are better than Carthage because they use Chuni iron." Using Fusu's inherent understanding of the world order, Pomirka lied unchangedly. "We hope to get craftsmen who know how to use Chuni iron to make Thunder weapons are willing to pay 3,000 taranto silver for this."
Fusu squeezed out some smile and replied disappointedly: "There is no such craftsman in Qin State yet."
"No..." Pomirka was instantly disappointed. At this time, Selinus bowed to Fusu, "Your Highness, I heard of Egypt..."
"If you need that kind of craftsman," Fusu knew what kind of craftsman the Egyptians were asking for, and he was hard to say it out loud, and his tone turned here, "I think the Father should agree. But your witchcraftsmen really set out from Carthage?"
"Of course." Pimirka replied repeatedly. The Egyptians cracked the secret of witch medicine, and the Baka family also learned about this secret with thunder weapons in exchange. The only reliance on his coming to the East was this secret.
He didn't need any craftsman, he had a detailed method of making witch medicine. But before he got the Chuni Sea Boat and the sailor driving the Chuni Sea Boat back to Carthage, he didn't want to reveal this secret so quickly. Now the craftsmen who made thunder weapons can choose first, then stay, pay three thousand taranto silver before bringing it back to Carthage.
Chapter completed!