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Khosro the Magnificent reacts
Posted on: January 16, 2021
Wild Goose Chase (fiction, chapter 31)
Posted on November 29, 2008
The Persian Empire was pleased that Artax took to business and exported products at reasonable prices. Trade and traffic to and from Afghanistan were heavy and very lucrative.
The fat Persian merchants, at the sold of their respective High Priests, nobles, governors, and warlords were getting fatter in return for small favors to Artax.
The festivities having taken their regular course according to customs of the inauguration, Khosro the Magnificent had to act and show the illusion of serious activities beside perpetual fun loving behaviors.
The Magnificent Khosro wanted to play the warrior and marched to the southern desert, just the ideal place to relax and be far away from the boring multitudes.
As “Khosro the Magnificent” proceeded leisurely toward the Southern Desert his army intelligence service killed his appetite: there was confirmed news that renegade soldiers of the defunct Emperor Artax were infesting the desert and that ambushes are to be expected along the way.
No problems. The Magnificent ordered his naval forces stationed in Basra (current Iraq) and Bahrain to get moving.
The Magnificent decided to have a view of the battles from a comfortable seat on a comfortable and luxury ship. What was simply a desert diversion for the Magnificent turned a serious hardship for the Southern Army of Artax that never contemplated any frontal assault.
Worse, the navy of the Magnificent had pirate blood and they were excited for real actions. The pirates never wasted an occasion to land and sack and loot.
Wild Goose Chase
Conclusion
The presumed impotent Artax the Monarch, who had gotten the throne by usurpation long before the usurping “Khosro the Magnificent” reigned, suddenly contracted malaria and regained partial consciousness six days later.
Artax tried to walk and visit his favorite garden in order to recover from his ill health but was carried back to bed after each outing. His close assistants were worried to death about his health status and many army officers hurried to his side expecting some rewards in his death testament.
Artax was in no shape to think clearly about the future of his kingdom or his successors.
He stated on many previous circumstances to his close friends that succession should be for the most deserving leader who invested time, effort and good will to better his intellectual potentials, his moral values and learn to be tolerant of diversity in religion and customs.
He used to insist that the best leader of people is the one who listened carefully to the news of change and worked on finding consensus before any decision, that war was the last recourse for intelligent leaders who should reach his objectives through all diplomatic and political channels before committing to the path of destructive wars.
Artax died within nine days without designating a successor.
Note: This end the draft of the general structure of the fiction story. If you appreciated the story, please contribute your opinions, ideas, additions, and possible alterations to the sequence and cohesion of the novel that I would like to publish with your generous aid. Surely, any publishing houses that are interested in finishing the novel are welcomed to come forward and contact me.
Wild Goose Chase: The Uprising
Posted on: November 30, 2008
The peripheral uprising catching fire
In the Wild Goose Chase: Uprising
(fiction, continue 34)
For two years since the disaster of the Southern Army, the bases of Artax authority in the North and East of the Kingdom were flourishing and disseminating the new spirit.
The authority of “Khosro the Magnificent” was shrinking around his two Capitals. The Persian people were not excited of joining the army of the Eldest-Son of God. The economy inside Persia was in trouble because the trade routes were becoming dangerous.
As the usurping King was entrenching himself in his two Capitals of Souze and Persepolis, the two main cities close to the Persian Gulf, Artax armies were gaining grounds in their advances from the North and East of the Kingdom.
