As time entered May, the entire Asia region fell into unprecedented circumstances. The Arab army stopped in front of the Red Fortress without any progress. The Roman navy still restrained the Daqin fleet and the Longcheng Lun Guarding Legion, Asia Minor, Chen Qingzhi and Ran Min, mainly the Spartans and Macedonians, swept across all small countries that nominally surrendered to Li Ang, and truly included them in the territory. At the same time, the Greeks re-entered the Romans. The citizens representatives of the former parliament became hereditary nobles enthroned by the Romans in a blink of an eye. As for those rebels, they were killed under the suppression of the Romans, and many scholars began to flee to Asia Minor.

On the beach, Chen Qingzhi looked at the Roman fleet on the sea with helplessness. At present, in terms of military strength, they are only on par with the Romans, especially in the navy. The warships built on the Qin Dynasty will not be launched after three years, and they will have to wait four years before they can have a fleet that surpasses the Roman navy.

"Yongzeng, it seems we have to defend here for four years." Chen Qingzhi sighed and looked at Ran Min beside him. They were at a disadvantage and it was difficult for them to attack the Romans. Now, after the Romans returned to Greece, they could launch an attack on Asia Minor at any time.

"It's just four years, it's gone in the blink of an eye." Ran Min smiled. In the past two years, he has been respected by the Spartans as a god, and his temperament has become more and more steady, and his original hot temper has changed a lot.

In the city of Xijing, there are aristocrats, scholars, craftsmen and merchants of the original ethnic groups in the entire Asia region. They all fled to the Tang Kingdom to escape the tyranny of the Romans, and Li Ang also accepted them all. In his opinion, ethnic integration was limited to these elites in the foreign race, and he only needed to treat these small groups well. As for the others, he did not need to be responsible for this.

Starting from April, the Han people who migrated from the Qin Dynasty came in endlessly, and there were many forced people among them. However, Li Ang couldn't control so many. He only knew that he needed more Han people to occupy the land and intermarry with foreign women.

In the palace, Wang Meng reported to Li Ang about the tax situation in the past year. Due to the implementation of the commerce-intensive policy, although the tax rate collected from the former Persian merchants was reduced, the tax payment rate was much higher. In the tax alone, except for various expenses, the Ministry of Revenue still had a surplus of nearly 60 million gold baht. Note that the gold baht obtained by Li Ang from the Chang'an family was not included in the national treasury, and was used as military expenses for the war with the Romans.

"It is not a good thing to keep too much money and not use it." After listening to Wang Meng's report, Li Ang said in a deep voice, "Leave 30 million gold baht for spare. The remaining 30 million gold baht is used as a bounty."

"Yes, the king." Wang Ming's eyes turned cold. He knew that Li Ang's plan had finally begun. Jin Zhu replaced the heads. At present, Li Ang was selecting soldiers from the migrated Han people to replace the Hu soldiers in the army too many places. Of course, those Hu soldiers who were eliminated had two choices. One was to take out the army's salary, which was not too much but not too little, and to return to the land to be a submissive citizen. The second was to hunt heads from the enemy country. The adult man had ten gold baht, the young and strong woman had five gold baht, and the other one, if it was a regular soldier in the enemy country, the price of the adult man would double the heads.

"From now on half of the annual tax surplus to do this." When Wang Meng left, Li Ang ordered again. When he lost his control of the sea, it would be best to use gold baht to create a mercenary to hunt people's heads.

The Hu soldiers in the place where they were eliminated were very supportive of Li Ang's order to exchange for gold baht. The reason why they were eliminated was not because they were too useless, but because they found it difficult to have steel-like discipline like Han people. They were used to being free. Before joining the Tang army, many of them were also soldiers. However, at that time they were closer to Li Ang's eyes, and now Li Ang gave them a clear path that could not only make money but also follow their own temperament, so they naturally would not object. Therefore, among the 100,000 Hu soldiers who were eliminated in the past year, only a few chose to go home to live a peaceful life.

Because the navy was at a disadvantage compared with the Romans, the retired Hu soldiers had to travel across the Persian Gulf by boat, enter the peninsula, and hunt the Arabs. However, due to the fact that there were old stories about the Murong army and local areas before, the Arabs were very prepared and it was very difficult to succeed. However, despite this, nearly 100,000 Hu soldiers were divided into hundreds of groups of thieves and rampant on the peninsula, which also caused great headaches for the Arabs.

So starting from June, the Arabs fell into unprecedented difficulties. In addition to the deported Hu soldiers, some poor Persians also had the idea of ​​hunting heads in Tang. Since the heads of Li Ang have not been limited to the number of people, some men from some tough Persian areas in Persia have voluntarily gone to recruitment centers in coastal areas in groups and volunteered to become mercenaries to make a fortune on the peninsula. Usually, three hundred people are the smallest team, and Han officers will follow the team.

If the number of firsts is killed in battle, the bounty he received will be transferred to his family.

In less than half a year, in addition to the 100,000 Hu soldiers who were eliminated, 150,000 Persians also entered the peninsula and started to hunt heads. As a result, the entire peninsula was completely in blood. In order to cope with this situation, the Arabs also learned from Li Ang. The Caliph and the nobles took out a large amount of gold baht as bounty to encourage all Arabs to resist and take revenge in the Tang State. As a result, the coastal areas of the Tang State near the Persian Gulf were subjected to bloody revenge by the Arabs. In this situation of mutual hunting, the Persians and the Arabs formed a deadly enemy.

Due to the attack on the land, the Arab army retreated from the border before winter. Murong Ke should have taken advantage of the situation to hunt down, but due to Li Ang's order, he and Helian Bobo remained in the fortress and were responsible for defending the Arabs for the Jews. Of course, although the Jews were famous for their commercial abilities, they were indeed not very good in war. However, the exchange of Li Ang's head for gold baht made them realize how powerful the weapons they had were in their hands.

So in order to completely solve the Arabs, a neighboring country that threatened them, the Jews conveyed such news to the conquered Egyptians that they paid for the Arab heads, a thirty gold baht, which was higher than that of Li Ang, but they were not too disadvantageous. After all, the elite Arab troops suppressed the Egyptians.

Money can make the devil push the mill, so those who were brave and cruel and disobeyed the Arab rule of the Egyptians all rose up to resist. The Egyptians who had originally fled to Asia also began to return to their country and killed them with the Jews' borrowed arms. In this way, the Arabs who stayed in Egypt soon became difficult. They were always attacked by locals. Some troops leaving the city and the places where the soldiers stationed were small were even wiped out, and all the heads were cut off. Here, it has to be mentioned that the Jewish merchants are worthy of being called blood-sucking villains. After the Jewish merchants paid to buy Arab heads from the Egyptians for rewards, these heads were useless. They were then resold to the nobles and generals of their country to facilitate them to be heroes who returned triumphantly from Egypt.

The practice of Jewish merchants soon spread to the Tang Dynasty, so the equally savvy Persian merchants also began the same thing, and they also began to buy Arab heads to facilitate those who want to become heroes in China to enjoy their appetite. Li Ang closed his eyes and turned a blind eye, but he still collected taxes from the second transaction of the head, and all the gold baht he earned was used to pay survivors in coastal areas after being retaliated by Arabs.

The cruel practice that Li Ang came up with was soon used on the Romans. Through Asia Minor, Cui Hao personally led his people into the eastern part of the sea and announced this headhunting order to the German barbarians. As an old rival to the Romans, the German barbarians happily accepted it. Although they accepted the Roman rule only two years ago, signed a treaty, and even became mercenaries of the Romans, under the Li Ang's clear and affordable headhunting order, they rebelled against the Romans without hesitation, because Li Ang's headhunting order was civilians, soldiers, men, women, and young, as long as they were Romans, this was really wonderful for the German barbarians. The wealth given to them far exceeded the money the Romans hired them.

So when the Romans took it back to Greece in order not to move, the Germanic barbarians on their western border rebelled again. Just like in the past, these barbarians tore up the treaty that had been signed without any faith, and they were more cruel than in the past, leaving no living wherever they passed.

"Damn." In the Roman palace, Constantine was furious. He didn't expect that Li Ang made a mess with his side just after spending some money. "It's all waste, what's the use of raising you!" Constantine looked at the confidants of the two-headed Eagle troops responsible for intelligence and cursed. He was angry that this time, the barbarians rebelled on the western border, which was agreed to launch at the same time, but he did not get any news here, resulting in the crackdown of several important towns on the border, with extremely serious casualties.

After cursing, Constantine finally became less angry, but she spoke harshly to her confidant, "If there is another next time, you don't have to come to see me."

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