"I initially estimate that if the Romans counterattacked, the enemy should come from two directions. Diocletian's jurisdiction is not likely to be. Persia is adjacent to the eastern border of the Roman Empire. For the Romans, we Jin people were indeed a big trouble, but before things were unclear, they were more like a disturber. Persia was a life-and-death enemy. The two were as deep as the sea. Even Diocletian would not dare to draw the legions from the East, regardless of Persia's threat to go to war with us."

Sima Ji was almost at the same time, analyzing the possible counterattack of the Roman Empire. Of course, everything was inferred from common sense. If Sima Ji was next to Persia, he would not dare to do this. If he was next to Xianbei, he would dare to. The difference was huge. Even if the Persian empire was in a time of disagreement, the threat was much greater than that of the nomadic tribes.

The geographical environment of the Roman Empire was much worse than that of the Great Jin Empire, just like Persia, because Rome and Persia were the biggest threat to each other, as for the Great Jin Empire, I don’t have to think about it, the north of thousands of years.

Because of the existence of the Persian Empire, the possibility of the legions in eastern Rome was very low, so the main possible counterattack directions were two. The northern legions transferred from the northern territory, the Western Roman legions in Afriga in the west of Egypt, Gaul and Dacia's garrisons may be transferred, but the possible directions were still two.

Understand the other three control areas of the four emperors' co-governance, Sima Ji felt that the probability of the enemy appearing should be Augustus and Caesar in the West. Because the distance is appropriate, and the threat to the other side will be smaller.

It seems that Augustus Maximian and Caesar Constantius, the Roman legion under his command, is less likely to become an enemy than Dioclitian and Galerius. But considering that Galerius, as Dioclitian's successor, may also use this war to make the successor more justified.

Galerius was the commander who defeated the Persian Empire last time and conquered the capital of the Persian Empire, causing the emperor to be pissed to death and his successor to be assassinated by the Arabs. With such a battle example, Sima Ji could naturally look up to it, but what is more impressive is Galerius' attitude towards Christians. Therefore, when Galerius died, Christians in the Roman Empire were ecstatic and believed that his death was God's will, and did not hesitate to carry out vicious curses in various records.

Sima Ji didn't know the attitude of the West. If there was a sect in the East cursing the emperor to die early and expressing a happy expression, no matter who the emperor's successor was, this sect would not have any good results. Not to mention a priest, the entire religion would be uprooted.

However, in this case, the attitude of the Roman upper class towards Christianity should be a foregone conclusion, and there will definitely be no good face, because the Christians in Egypt play with their backs with beautiful hands. No matter what injustice they encounter or how sympathetic it was before, Christians now open the door to meet the enemy under the predicament, and sold all the underwear of ordinary residents of the Roman Empire, and could not be washed clean no matter how they were.

In view of this, Sima Ji asked Christians to select the most sincere congregations to garrison on the Alexandria Lighthouse to guard against the possible Roman navy. Sima Ji came from afar and would never intervene in the strange water war. Even if he knew that the sea conditions in the Mediterranean were stable, that would not work. The risky thing was not to do.

The arrangement made was still mainly on land, allowing the Eight Jurchen Banners to deal with Afrika in the west of Egypt, to warn of the Roman legions that might appear in the west, and to lead their own troops to deal with enemies that might appear at sea.

After all the preparations for the war were ready, Sima Ji secretly released the Egyptian Governor Marcus and finally expressed his kindness to the Roman Empire. "I want you to return to Rome and tell your emperor that I did not want to occupy Egypt, but was just provoked by the Persian Empire, and this misunderstanding arises. I am not afraid of you. Since joining the army, I have never lost a big battle. I can win in a war, because I have always won, only whether it is worth it or not. In the last battle, I have restrained it as much as possible. Otherwise, it would not be a problem of 20,000 Roman prisoners of war, but annihilation of the entire army."

"But when I fight for the first time, I will show mercy. If I do it again, I will not let you go." Sima Ji rolled his eyes and said coldly, "I will leave after I finish my own affairs. How to make a decision depends on your Romans' choice."

Hearing Sima Ji's words and words, Marcus didn't care whether the other party's words would be uncomfortable. When he could restore freedom, he comforted his real man and could bend and stretch, and said, "It was the Persian who transferred the relationship between us. As you said, it was meaningless to start a war again. I am willing to return to Rome to persuade Augustus."

"To put it most practically, when I lead my army to leave, Egypt will be a province of Rome. You are Augustus, Caesar, the administrator, and the governor of Rome. How can you explain to the citizens? Who knows the inside story?" Sima Ji said sarcastically, "I am on the same position as you in this trick, and I know very well."

When Marcus and dozens of Roman officers were released, Sima Ji also took out two hundred silk pieces as gifts and asked them to give them to the Roman seniors who were preparing to mobilize the troops. This was not another reason, but just to express his kindness in the end. And he did not lose because these silks were snatched from places passing along the way.

It cannot be said that it is a robbery. These silks themselves are things from the Central Plains, but they are just things that return to the original owner.

When the matter was a foregone conclusion, Tang Qiangcai said worriedly, "Silk made the Romans love it so much, will they think we are afraid of them?"

"Maybe!" Sima Ji put on a devilish smile and said in a sinister way, "I didn't ask the Romans not to come, but just left some time to build a prisoner of war camp. After Marcus returned, he might really persuade the Romans to think carefully, or maybe not. Regardless of whether it would be possible, the Romans would come in the end. But I believe that the Romans who learned about the battle that day should think carefully and take good care of their actions. I just want them to hesitate for a while. It would be no harm to have more staff."

"The translator needs time. Even if we copy it according to the meaning, it will take time to copy it directly no matter what it originally means!" Sima Ji said yawning, "First copy all the mathematical classics, and you can do other classics at will."
Chapter completed!