My XX deal with Sister Nero

If that's the case, then...it doesn't matter if we give it a try!

"I... understand." General Wuda held the map in both hands and nodded to Shannua.

After returning to his home, Wu Da took a deep breath, quickly put on an angry expression, and then called one of his subordinates and said, "Go to the guest room and invite our guest to my study."

The so-called guest actually refers to the Parthian spy who had contact with Uda. This Parthian spy had been in contact with Uda for several months. Uda had ignored him at the beginning and treated him as a guest now. It has to be said that this spy trusted his own abilities too much, so he never doubted whether Uda's surrender was real or just a disguise.

PS: Goodbye, let’s go to the movies~

Chapter 435 Sister Martha, did I do something wrong?

"General Wuda." Led by his attendant, the spy came to the door of the study. However, before he walked in, he heard a suppressed roar from inside the study: "This damn bastard, actually, actually..."

"General, the person you want is here." Pushing open the door, the servant spoke at an inopportune moment.

"Ok?"

Hearing the servant's voice, Wu Da's originally somewhat angry expression instantly subsided, and he said to the servant: "You go down first, there is nothing for you to do here."

"Yes, General."

Seeing Wu Dana's anger quickly subsided, the spy subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this time the anger was not directed at him.

"What happened, General Wuda? Why did you seem so angry when I came in?" The spy named Sabis took a deep breath, quickly put on a kind smile on his face, and asked Wuda.

"What is it? It's still that..." Turning his head to look at Sabis, Wuda stopped talking midway through his words: "...Ah, it's still that trivial matter."

"Yes... Your Majesty?" As a qualified spy, Sabis certainly knew what the mess Wuda was talking about.

A few days ago, a Roman came to the palace. No one knew what this Roman talked about with King Shanuya. Anyway, not long after, Uda was summoned to the palace. Then, a general who was supposed to resist the attack of the Parthian Empire head-on was thrown into a remote place.

For modern people, this may be a little difficult to understand. Wouldn't it be better not to have to fight the enemy head-on? Why did this general get so angry?

In fact, the reason is very simple. For a general, fighting on the battlefield is an opportunity for them to make achievements. Being thrown into a remote place where the enemy is unlikely to appear deprives the enemy of the opportunity to make achievements.

Moreover, changing generals before a battle is a taboo in military strategy. If a main general is suddenly sent to a remote place when the war is approaching, it means that the people above him want to protect him, or they are suspicious of him and suspect that he is colluding with foreign enemies and planning to commit treason.

I swear to God! These spies did come to Wuda, but Wuda did not give in. Then what? What did I get in return for my efforts towards the kingdom? It was your suspicion!

So, General Wuda decided to go all out and surrender.

Anyway, if you continue to be suspicious like this, once the war with Parthia is lost, Your Majesty will definitely use General Uda's head as a sacrifice. Instead of waiting to be killed, it is better to be direct and surrender first. Maybe you can save your life by surrendering to the enemy when the war comes.

It was because of this that the spy eventually captured General Wuda and became a guest of honor in his home.

Well, at least that's how it seemed to him.

"This... His Majesty the King of your country may have his considerations. Although I am not a Parthian,... it is not easy for me to make too many comments." The spy coughed lightly and said vaguely.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. I came to you today because I want to give you something." Wu Da shook his head and muttered, "Since His Majesty the King is so ruthless to me, don't blame me for being disloyal."

As he spoke, Wuda took a map from the bookshelf next to him, threw it to the spy and said, "This is the defense map of the Sassanid Kingdom. Take it back and give it to your King of Kings."

Sassanid Kingdom's defense map? !

Hearing this word, the spy was stunned at first, then delighted. He subconsciously unfolded the map in his hand and took a quick glance at it.

Well, it is consistent with some of the information I learned from previous investigations, which means that this military map is very likely to be true!

"Huh... I will hand in this map in time." Looking at Wu Da's playful expression, the spy smiled awkwardly and nodded at Wu Da.

"No problem." Wu Da didn't say much, but simply said: "You should know that my wife and children have long been dead due to the oppression of the court. Now I am alone. If, if necessary, I may flee to the Parthian Empire. At that time, I hope you can introduce me to it."

"That's no problem." After taking a deep breath and calming himself down, the spy nodded to Wu Da and said, "Well, I'll hand over this map first, and then I'll discuss the details of your surrender with you, okay?"

"Of course there is no problem." Wu Da also knew that this spy could not make the decision on his own regarding such a big matter. The so-called handing in of the map was just an excuse. This spy was planning to report everything that was happening here and see how the people above would deal with it.

Let’s not talk about the Sassanid Kingdom for now, and talk about the other side.

In a villa on the outskirts of Rome, Tony looked calmly at the girl sitting in front of him.

What is coming will eventually come.

Tony had promised Martha before that he would try his best not to vent his anger on ordinary Christians, but... Tony went back on his word, or it could be said that there was no way to avoid venting his anger on others.

Christians themselves do not have a very good status in the religious world. Coupled with this arson incident, it can be said that the entire Christianity in Rome is in a state of being condemned by everyone. Against such a big background, it is easy for Tony to suppress Christianity.

Tony had only two reasons for suppressing Christianity. The first was that Nero had already attacked the Christian Church, and the only thing Tony could do to protect Nero was to divert the attention of Christianity and make Christians hate him. As for the second... it was because of the Great Fire of Rome.

The Great Fire of Rome caused public opinion to completely turn to the side of the Empire. The Imperial government could no longer allow the existence of Christianity. Since it was going to suppress Christianity, it would do it thoroughly. While arresting and suppressing Christians on a large scale, Tony also began to secretly support the Dimen, hoping to establish a new universal religion to compete with Christianity.

But no matter what, Tony had promised Martha not to harm innocent people, but now, under Tony's butcher knife...it was inevitable that innocent people would fall in a pool of blood.

"Brother, I... need an explanation." Standing in front of Tony, Martha looked at him with some grief and anger, gritting her teeth.

I was sad because my brother broke his promise and because my fellow enthusiasts were slaughtered. I was angry because... my brother broke his promise.

"Sister Martha... I don't want to make excuses. Yes, it was the guards I commanded who massacred Christians. I even ordered the destruction of dozens of Christian churches in the empire. But sister, do you think I did anything wrong?"

PS: Ah, why is there no mana replenishment!

Chapter 436: Why does everyone think I’m not a good kid?

There is no absolute justice or evil in this world, only different standpoints.

Was Tony wrong to massacre Christians?

If we look at it from the perspective of future generations, Tony was wrong. Even if Christianity set fire to the city of Rome, the arsonists or those who were related to it were only a small number of people, not all of them. However, Tony's actions were clearly an indiscriminate massacre. Whether you participated or not, you would die.

In Tony's eyes, there are only two outcomes for all Christians: either you become more self-aware and say you have nothing to do with Christianity, or... you just wait to die.

In later generations, Tony's behavior was called massacre, which was an inhumane act. Even from Martha's perspective now, Tony's behavior was inhumane.

But from Tony's perspective, only one of him and Christianity can survive.

After the Great Fire of Rome, the relationship between Christianity and the Roman Empire became completely antagonistic. In the city of Rome, or in the entire Apennine Peninsula, Christianity lost its place of survival, and the Roman Empire government had to do something against Christianity because of the fire.

Otherwise, if you, Christianity, can set fire to the city of Rome today, then will another new religion be able to burn down the city of Byzantium tomorrow?

Therefore, in this matter, the Roman Empire not only could not make concessions, but had to strike back hard, to cripple and scare Christianity, and to let other forces that were ready to make moves know that the Roman Empire was not to be trifled with.

And Tony is the executor.

Therefore, Christianity hated Tony and hated him for suppressing Christianity. It was precisely because of their hatred for him that Christianity openly assassinated Tony at the engagement ceremony of Tony and Nero.

If Rosa had not brought his own psychics to rescue Tony in time, Tony, who faced the magician for the first time, would probably have been one of the few heroes in the world to be killed by the magician.

To put it bluntly, Tony has now formed a situation where he is at loggerheads with Christianity. How can you expect Tony to make peace with others?

Martha looked at Tony's sincere eyes, and finally just opened her mouth but said nothing.

Even though she was just a country girl, even though she had long been outside the core circle of Christianity, even though she didn't understand politics and didn't know that Tony and Christianity were already at war to the death, she knew one thing: her brother...there was no need to lie to herself.

A child who is very familiar with Christian stories ultimately chooses to stand against Christianity. This... must have his reasons, right?

But no matter what Tony's reasons were, Martha... could not agree with it. She could not agree with Tony's act of slaughtering Christians.

"Brother...can you just stop now? You've killed enough people. Be good and promise your sister that you won't attack Christians again, okay?" Looking at Tony's sincere expression, Martha felt her heart bleeding.

On the one hand, there is his belief that he is willing to give up everything for, and on the other hand, there is his younger brother whom he recognizes.

My brother...

"I... can promise it." Looking at the painful expression on Martha's face, Tony pursed his lips and said slowly.

Tony can guarantee that he will no longer raise the butcher knife against Christians. After all, according to Tony's plan, he will not massacre Christians on a large scale at this moment.

After all, it is impossible to kill all Christians by just killing them, so Tony has no plans to kill anymore.

What? Why can Tony, a modern man, give such an order without even frowning? It's very simple. In his previous life, Tony was just a wise Paradox player. To him, killing people is just a number on paper as long as the people don't die in front of him.

Maybe... this guy is actually a bit anti-human deep down in his heart?

Well, anyway, Tony doesn't plan to continue slaughtering Christians, because the next thing to do is the ground gate.

Come, join me in following the great wisdom and compassion to save the world!

After getting Tony's promise, Martha's face looked a little better. It was only at this time that she suddenly remembered that her brother seemed to be engaged.

"Brother, you... are engaged, right?" Looking at Tony's little face, Martha sighed. Her brother was a prince of the Roman Empire, and she was a Christian. Talking to him about Christianity... the topic was always a bit heavy. Since this topic was heavy, it would be better to discuss some lighter topics, such as... her brother's engagement ceremony.

Martha had already known that Tony's fiancée was his own sister. Like most people of this era, Martha did not think that this was a bad thing. In her opinion, it was normal for the nobility, especially the royal family, to pay attention to bloodline.

"Yes, I am indeed engaged to my elder sister." Tony got really angry when he talked about engagement. He had thought that this was an engagement ceremony with his elder sister and it should be lively, but... this group of damn guys, who I don't know who instigated them, actually wanted to assassinate him at this time!

Seeing Tony's slightly gloomy face, Martha knew that her casual remark reminded Tony of the assassination attempt on her at the engagement ceremony.

"Ahem, well, what I want to say is that for my brother's engagement, I should at least give him a gift to show my appreciation, so..." Martha fumbled around for a long time while speaking, and finally took off an iron bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Tony: "I don't have anything to give you, so just consider this bracelet as your engagement gift~"

"Emmmm...Okay, thank you sister." Tony suddenly smiled and reached out to take the iron bracelet.

Martha was not a rich person. Before she became a saint, she was just an ordinary village girl. After she became a saint, she... was still a village girl.

Well, even though she was so... rude in front of outsiders, in front of Tony, the brother she recognized, Martha more or less controlled her temper. At least Tony had never seen Martha look impatient.

As for this bracelet...it's not a valuable gift anyway, since Sister Martha gave it to me, I'll just accept it~

"Ah." Seeing Tony taking her bracelet, Martha gently stroked Tony's head: "Actually, as long as my brother behaves well, I will be very satisfied."

???

Tsk! Who is this the first person who has told me to behave in the past few days? Oh my god, am I really such a bad boy in your eyes? !

Taking a deep breath, Tony first forcibly suppressed the desire to complain deep in his heart, and then quickly put on an innocent smile on his face and said, "My brother has always been very well behaved~ Why does my sister think that my brother is not well behaved~"

PS: Although I mentioned in the group before that we would crowdfund movie tickets, and if it succeeds, I will update three more chapters, but... well, let's just assume that your crowdfunding was successful~

Chapter 437: The war begins!

In fact, Martha couldn't say that Tony was naughty.

For Martha, asking her brother to behave is like saying "Have you eaten?" It's just a simple greeting. If the other person insists on saying "Yes, I ate. Today I had sirloin steak, pasta, carrot soup, braised lion's head, and a cup of sea grape and red bean paste coffee", how would you respond?

What else can you say except "hmm" and "ahh"? The food is really good.

Martha is like this now, she doesn't know what to say.

Fortunately, Tony didn't want to make things difficult for Martha. After inviting Martha to have a simple dinner, Tony said goodbye to Martha. Before leaving, Tony also told her that although the Empire will gradually reduce the arrests against Christians in the near future, Christianity had gone too far before. Therefore, in the next few months, it is best for Christians not to do anything and not to put all activities on the table. Otherwise, even if the Empire officials will not punish you, the people below will spit on you.

Martha also knew that the Christians had indeed gone too far this time, daring to set fire to the city of Rome, so if the people really wanted to spit on them... isn't this normal?

After seeing Martha off, Tony looked up at the sky and found that it was getting late, so he led his men and walked towards the city of Rome.

Let’s not talk about Tony’s side for now, and talk about the other side.

About three days later, the central government of the Parthian Empire received a report from spies on the front line saying that General Uda of the Sassanid Empire intended to surrender. At the same time, in order to prove his attitude, General Uda presented a military map with the specific defense situation of the Sassanid Kingdom, as a gift to the Parthian Empire and a token of his surrender.

The Parthian side naturally would not trust General Uda easily, so the Parthian Empire took the map provided by General Uda and compared it one by one with the defense situation discovered by the spies previously sent by the Parthian Empire to the Sassanid Kingdom. They found that the situations discovered by the spies were completely consistent with this military map. It can even be said that what they discovered was not as detailed as what was marked on this map!

In other words, the map presented by General Wuda is authentic and reliable!

What does this mean? This means that General Wuda really intends to betray the Sasanian Kingdom!

Uda was the most outstanding general in the Sassanid Empire. If he really betrayed the Sassanid Empire, not to mention that he could provide the Parthian Empire with a large amount of military intelligence of the Sassanid Empire, at the very least, the betrayal of a general of the Sassanid Empire would inevitably cause a certain degree of damage to the morale of the Sassanid Empire.

Now that Wu Da's betrayal has been confirmed, the next thing will be much simpler.

In early July 55 AD, the Parthian Empire sent troops to attack the Sassanid Empire by sea!

Parthia finally sent troops!

In Rome, Tony sat on Nero's lap, quietly reviewing the brief in his hand, and suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong, brother?" Hearing Tony's sigh, Nero subconsciously touched Tony's little face, then picked up the briefing on the table and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Parthia has sent troops? Isn't this just right? The Parthian warships plan to go out to sea while the wind is calm, and you, brother, also plan to take the opportunity to burn their warships and burn their soldiers to death. Isn't this... all within your expectations?"

"Man proposes, God disposes. Every move of Parthia was within my expectations. However, that east wind... was not within my expectations..." Tony stretched out his hand and tapped lightly on the table in front of him, muttering with a wry smile.

That’s right. The most crucial reason why Huang Gai was able to burn down Cao’s camp was because of the help of the east wind. Without the east wind, Cao’s linked battleships would not have been able to burn.

The same is true for Tony. He also needs such an east wind, otherwise the Parthian warships cannot be burned.

Fortunately, the priests of various religions in this world not only have some necessary skills as charlatans, but they also have other skills, such as observing the night sky.

In addition, there are Roman merchants near the Arabian Sea all year round, so Tony roughly knows that southwest winds generally prevail in the Arabian Sea in summer.

Well, no matter which direction, as long as the wind blows, everything will be fine.

What Tony is most worried about now is that there will be no wind in this sea area during the days when Parthia invades the Sassanid Empire.

"Huh... Five days later, I will ask your Majesty for a vanguard position. In the name of the Sassanid Kingdom, I will first persuade you to withdraw your troops. Then I will take the opportunity to get close to you. You must remember to pull me on board, is that ok?" In the study, Wuda stood beside the spy who contacted him and said in a low voice.

"Of course there is no problem with this." The spy nodded. The higher-ups had already decided to accept Wuda as a surrendered general, so the spy did not say anything about his proposal.