sweeping the world

Chapter 661 Hearing the Name of "Han"

Perhaps out of reluctance, or perhaps because his confidence was strengthened after a small victory, Fu Wei chose to hang far behind the remaining formations of the Gupta dynasty that failed and left.

Two battle formations from different civilizations fought all day in the later Bay of Bengal area, from the east of the island close to Sri Lanka in later generations to the northerly area at the end of the battle.

After nightfall, Fu Wei originally thought that the enemy would conduct light control, but to his surprise, the enemy did not do that.

"It's still a trap." Chen Tan didn't think there was anything complicated: "This area should not be far from their homeland. The lights left behind let us continue to follow, hoping that we will continue to follow."

Fu Wei walked to the table where the charts were placed, marked the charts with his own hands, and ordered: "Give up following and correct the course according to the original plan!"

During the battle during the day, their three warships did not suffer damage... If being shot by an arrow does not count as damage, there is actually no need to return to the stronghold.

A hasty encounter, almost a whole day of confrontation, the formation in the combat state did not even have time to eat. After the combat state was lifted and changed to a patrol patrol, fatigue hit the whole body immediately. Many people did not even have time to eat. Did not go to sleep directly.

On the side of the remaining three fleets of the Gupta Dynasty, Picard Malik really wanted to attract the Han fleet to follow. Since the Han fleet was under blackout, none of them could be sure whether the other party followed or not.

"It's just a small attempt, and it has nothing to do with it." Picard Marik shrugged his shoulders in the face of Dijan Makour's doubts: "The loss of four ships is nothing to us. Fortunately it only took the loss of four ships to make us aware of the new threat."

Whether it was during the Kushan Empire or the establishment of the Gupta Dynasty, the Asan Ocean has always been Asan's ocean, and no one has ever been able to take control of this ocean away from Asan.

Picard Malik really didn't take the loss to heart. After they entered the port, he even went to drink a little wine in a very good mood, and reunited with Dijan Makour the next day before going to see him own boss.

"You mean, yesterday they encountered a fleet that they had never seen before, and they launched an attack immediately without any intention of communicating?"

Katruk Karp is a Brahmin, so of course he is also a nobleman.He is not a fat and hideous appearance, on the contrary, he looks like a middle-aged uncle who is very aristocratic and full of prestige.

In fact, most Brahmins were very self-disciplined during the Guishuang Empire and the Gupta Dynasty. They believed that they were the chosen people, and they were more noble than countless people from the moment they were born. They would receive systematic education since childhood, including literature. Knowledge and martial arts for fighting, more emphasis is on management.

On Asan's side, Brahmins are only divided into nobles and monks. Nobles are not all equal. It is necessary to distinguish the ancestors of the bloodline (surname) to distinguish who is higher.Ah San has recognized the existence of "states" since the Maurya Dynasty, and every high-ranking Brahmin is actually the heir of the "king of the state", and gradually evolved into a social manager.

Ah San's clothes look very colorful. As long as it is allowed, she will never wear only one color of cloth, and she will never lose fashion if she can wear more gold utensils. Full of precious stones, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a local tyrant.

Katruk Karp looked exactly like the above. Under the sunlight, his body was shining with gold and precious stones, and he stared at the two people who came to report in confusion: "They are at the place where our ships have clearly stopped to express their surrender. At that time, the other party still carried out an unhonorable massacre?"

Maybe it's nonsense, but it's definitely true. Europe under Roman rule, the countries on Asan's side, including the Sasanian Dynasty, are far more strict about the rules of engagement than the Central Plains Dynasty at this time.That is to say, under the premise of being noble enough, one feels that there is no possibility of winning a battle, and there is no hope of escaping. Surrendering is not a shameful thing.Naturally, those who accept the protection of the rules are limited to being noble enough and able to pay the ransom, and the rest deserve to die or die, usually as slaves.

"Yes, I swear to Lord Shiva." Pikar Malik is only a Kshatriya who is qualified to swear to Lord Shiva, one of Asan's supreme gods. Castes below Kshatriya do not yet have this qualification.He vowed: "They are definitely a group of highly civilized countries, but their behavior is extremely barbaric."

When Pikar Malik took the oath, he tapped the red mole on his forehead with his right hand, but it was not a mole, it was a kind of decoration that Kshatriya was qualified to put on.After clicking with his right hand, he raised his hands high and then spread them out downwards, and his legs would cross and bend slightly, which is a very religious etiquette.

"I will pay attention to it." Katruk Karp didn't even think about asking how much Kapil Malik's formation lost. He just nodded repeatedly, and said like alms: "Once the information is useful, you will get it." deserved reward."

Ah San's social system is not simple. They accept hereditary official positions, but the central government has never had too much control over the local area. There is also a king who is the supreme ruler, but there will be countless kings below. .Under their social system, as long as they have sufficient status, they can organize their own armed forces, but everything from the personnel's military salary to the equipment installed is privately funded.If there is a loss in the implementation of national missions, it is generally up to the conscience to report how much. Whether you will be compensated later is another matter.

So, Picard Malik only needs to report how many high-caste people were lost, and he needs to pay the compensation for those who sacrificed high-caste people.For those of the lower castes, including the lost warships, it is only natural that he does not pay pensions.If the country does not replenish warships, he will at most lose the command of a few ships, and whether to replenish them later will depend on his financial resources.

During the whole process of the report, Dijan Makur was the background wall. Although he was also a Kshatriya, he did not have his own armed forces after the family was ruined. This was because the Makur family and the Malik family had Only by making good friends could he get a position in Pikar's battle formation, and he did not have the right to speak directly to the Brahmin Kartruk Karp.

The two of them were led out of the magnificent mansion by a large group of servants, and they stopped on the street.

Dirang Macul had wanted to ask for a long time, but he knew how to look at the situation: "Why not tell another layer of speculation?"

"You mean, do they come from the Far East?" Picard Marik shrugged his shoulders with an expression of 'you're funny' instead: "We have no evidence, and Garp won't believe that conservative The country will come here from far away. Even if it is really from the country in the Far East, don’t you think it would be better not to say it?”

Dijean Macul was stunned and confused. He didn't understand what Picard Malik meant at all.

"My brother, our ancestors have long said that the country belongs to the country, and the family belongs to the family." Picard Malik looked like a teacher: "The Malik family has fulfilled its obligations for the country in that fight, I have also reported what I know. Now I have to consider what benefits the Malik family will gain in this unprecedented event."

It is not only the aristocratic families in the Central Plains who put the interests of the family before the country. It is the family of any country in the world. They will first consider the interests of the family, and then the interests of the country.

The Malik family has developed in Cuttack for hundreds of years, and the longer the time, the more intertwined the relationship with the local families.Picard had already told Dijon Makour before that there were some merchants from the East in Cuttack. He believed that there must be some connection there, and it might be an opportunity for the Malik family to regain the silk from the East. Opportunity.

The overland Silk Road had been broken since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Sasanian and Gupta dynasties could still get a little goods from the Maritime Silk Road, but there was nothing west of the territory where the Sasanian Dynasty was located.

The Maritime Silk Road was not prosperous, and it can even be said that only a very small number of Gupta merchants would go to the territory of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty by sea, which allowed the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to often receive some countries that did not exist at all.

The number of tribute tributes recorded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is not small. Under the premise that the north of the Yangtze River was almost completely occupied, those who came to pay tribute basically took the sea route. The names of the countries reported were all kinds of strange, but they were not serious foreign missions. It was some businessmen posing as missions.

The face of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has long been thrown on the ground and trampled on. They will not investigate whether there is such a country at all. In Shangguo, there are still a group of younger brothers who are willing to come to greet them.

"Isn't that country oppressed to the south by the nomads in the north?" Dijon Makour knew some information, but it was definitely outdated.He guessed: "Could it be that they have resolved the external crisis and returned to their previous strength?"

It seems that this is the only way to explain it?Otherwise, a country facing an external crisis would not have enough power to protect itself, so how could it have the power to expand to the outside world.

The Gupta Dynasty still knew that there was once a powerful empire in the east, and that that powerful empire fell into civil strife and was eventually overthrown. They seldom paid attention to what happened after that, because the two sides were too far apart after all.

"No matter what happens in the east, except for them, I really can't think of anyone who can extend their tentacles to our ocean." Picard Macri stopped on the street and said with a smile: "But that It is the business of the big men, what we need to do now is to find those Eastern businessmen."

Cuttack was more or less a good city during the Gupta Dynasty. No one knows how big the population was. It was just because the Gupta Dynasty, like the previous Kushan Empire, did not treat untouchables as human beings and would only record people above Sudra. Household registration.

Cuttack is just on the coast, and there are several foreign trade ports. The foreign population basically lands here. Some foreign businessmen will go to Fahrenheit City (the capital of the Gupta Dynasty), and some will sell their goods locally. Procurement went to sea again.

Asan still produces a lot of goods, but the largest share of exports is pigments and metals. The export of high-quality steel makes the most profits.Of course, they don't sell steel directly, they make it into weapons, not standard weapons, they sell it as luxury goods.

As a coward, Picard Malik still spent nearly half a month collecting information on Eastern businessmen, which is enough to show that the Han people who came to the Gupta Dynasty were very careful.

"They're not in Cuttack. The last one to leave was seven days ago." Dijon Makour accepted Picard Malik's employment not only for military affairs, but more like an assistant at ordinary times.He had to doubt: "They must have known that someone was probing their information before they left."

In the past half month, the news of more unknown fleets found on Asanyang has increased, and Katruk Karp has asked Pikar Malik many times to inquire, because the losses on the side of the Gupta Dynasty have continued to increase.

As the local top manager, Katruk Karp paid attention to it. The first thing he did was to check the ships in the port. He really detained a ship from Han and detained some crew members. The rest of the Han ships were Depart early.

Picard Malik has been to the prison to see the detained crew members, and he also specially brought a translator. Like Katruk Karp, the information he got is very limited.

"I have spread the news about the detention of the ship, and I believe someone will come to contact me soon."

Pikar Malik at least knew that a unified country had emerged in the East, and its name was still the prestigious 'Han'. He couldn't tell the difference between the current 'Han' and the 'Han' during the Kushan Empire. But he knew that Katruk Karp decided to take the detainees to Fahrenheit City just because he heard the country name 'Han'.

Of course Ah San knew about the Xian Han. After all, the powerful Guishuang had suffered losses from the Xian Han many times in a row. The nobles of the Dayue Clan were even humiliated because they asked to marry the princess of the Han Dynasty, although it had nothing to do with the South What's the matter with Ah San, even making a joke of it, but at least he knows who is not to be messed with.

"The city lord invited me to go to the capital together." Pikar Malik pointed to the steward who was standing quietly next to him, and then said to Dijan Macul: "I have decided to go to see the king with the city lord. If there is really someone Come and get in touch, I need you to make contact."

Dirang Makur agreed, but then he said in great confusion: "Why does the city lord pay so much attention to the other party's country name just after hearing it?"

At this moment, Pikar Malik had a sense of superiority to some extent, all because he knew a lot of information. He said with emotion: "Because 'Han' represents strength and the destruction of countries, and the annihilation of countless tribes, not only The city lord will take it seriously, and I believe the king will not dare to be careless at all."

(End of this chapter)