Zhao Gou had already forgotten Wang Shiyong, the 'golden grandfather' in the official history.

I didn't know that there was such a clansman who was taken down by him silently and the former important ministers of the imperial court were so miserable.

He handed over all the aftermath to the Imperial City Division. He believed that the Imperial City Division would make everything perfect.

A shameless literati whose reputation is ruined and his officials are also lost, that can't stop the means of the Imperial City Division.

And even if he knew about the tragic plight of the people of Wang Shiyong, he would only praise the Imperial City Division. Who told Wang Shiyong to make him disgusting.

In the official history, this important minister of the Zhao and Song dynasties, after the defeat of the Song army, in order to earn performance and save his life and wealth, took the orders of the Jin people as a holy decree, and wantonly collected and scraped beauties in Bianliang City, and then obediently sent them to the Jin people to enjoy.

It's shameless.

Zhao Gou's crossing saved the Zhao royal family and the entire Tokyo people from a catastrophe, but he didn't think that Wang Shiyong was a competent and usable official just because he hadn't done some bad things.

In fact, not only Wang Shiyong, but also Xu Bingzhe, Wu Kai, Mo Yan, and Fan Qiong, these clowns who appeared in the shame of Jingkang, Zhao Gou did not let go.

All of them have been quietly disposed of by overt or covert means.

As for Wang Shiyong people like Wang Dechang, they also deserve his family's bad luck. After all, when Wang Shiyong was in the scenery, he also enjoyed the scenery, didn't he?

Moreover, these people also have a certain level of education, which is just used to fill the literary atmosphere of the feudal state.

Even the Imperial City Division didn't take these people seriously. Can something that can be crushed to death like a bed bug with a hand can still be treated as a great enemy?

In the end, what happened to people like Wang Dechang could only be an ordinary document, recorded, archived, and then sealed. Maybe the light of day will not be seen for decades or hundreds of years.

Unless one day the Great Song Dynasty loses the country, and then the archives of the Imperial City Division are completely taken by the new dynasty.

Just when batches of silvermen in the port of Guangzhou were constantly being sent out, Oviteus stood in the building of the post house, showing a happy smile in the face of the gentle warm sun.

He had only been in Guangzhou for a few days, but Oviteus felt that he had fallen in love with the country.

This is not just because of the empire's indisputable strength and incredible vastness, but also because of the dynamism that all classes of the country exhibit in their daily lives.

For Oviteus, who came from Byzantium, this vitality really intoxicated him, because he had never felt this living force in his own homeland.

The Komnonians, who now ruled Constantinople, no longer had the capacity to launch large-scale military offensives in Asia and Europe at the same time during the Macedonian era. At this time, the feudal lord system of the Byzantine Empire had formed a certain scale, and the military aristocracy supervised the vast territory for life, and undertook the obligation to pay taxes and provide troops to the state.

This is similar to the situation in Japan, two different countries separated by tens of thousands of miles, but at the same time facing the problem of a sharp decline in the number of free peasants and the depletion of the standing army. So much so that one country has to rely heavily on foreign mercenaries, and the force of another country is controlled by local lords.

The reigning Byzantine Emperor today is John II, the second emperor of the Komnenian dynasty, a man of great political skill and wisdom.

The weakened Byzantine Empire made great gains under his rule.

Of course, no one can deny that there is a great deal of credit to the Crusaders.

Had it not been for them who had taken on the heavy responsibility of fighting the Seljuk Turks on the eastern front of the empire, the Byzantine Empire would never have had such an easy time as it is now. It is only necessary to face Hungary and Serbia to the northwest.

However, the Byzantine Empire also had a very serious conflict with the Crusader states, because the Crusaders initially cried out for the reconquest and recognized the Byzantine rule over Antioch.

However, after de facto occupying Antioch and other places, Bohemond, who proclaimed himself Prince of Antioch, refused to submit to the Byzantine Empire.

It's just that the contradiction between the two has never been intensified.

The battle between them is still resolved with wisdom under the premise of not using swords.

Well, skipping this topic, the dispute between the Byzantines and the Crusader kingdom has nothing to do with the current Great Song Dynasty.

But when the Song army moved into the Transoxiana region, when they occupied the Eastern Qarakhanid and showed a momentum to continue their eastward advance, the Byzantines became excited.

They saw an opportunity.

Even if John II once allied with the Seljuks, he agreed to attack the Danishmander dynasty from the east and west.

It was a branch kingdom of the Seljuks that ruled the northeastern part of the Anatolian Peninsula, that is, the northeastern part of the later Tuji, bordering the Caucasus. It was one of the main celestial forces against the Crusaders.

Like the Nestorian Christians, Sanjar saw the Danishmander dynasty as a thorn in the side and even allied himself with John II, but in the end, the Seljuk army did not really attack the Danishmande, but left when the appointed time came.

It can be seen that the Tianfang world is still very 'united'.

When the Danishmander dynasty and other forces were weakened, they turned to Sanjar for help, and the latter must have had a hard time watching their 'brother' unlucky.

This was determined by Sanjar's position and influence, as he was the emperor of the Great Seljuk Empire and the co-lord of all the Turkicized Seljuks.

As many believe, the Byzantine Empire was also a backing force for the Crusader states. When the Crusader states were in crisis, the Byzantine Empire would certainly lend a helping hand.

But the facts show that this is nonsense.

John II was not willing to spend a single gold coin for the Crusader states.

He felt that it was necessary for him to contact the Chinese thousands of miles away, because the Song Empire's offensive in the Hezhong region could obviously contain a lot of energy from the Seljuks.

So Oviteus came.

With John II's letters and gifts, he entered the Tianfang Peninsula incognito, and through some ancient friendships, he crossed the ocean and entered the Malacca region on a spinnaker.

I didn't go through Temasek, but had a little contact with the Song office in the old port, and then I went straight to Guangzhou.

Here, in the first Chinese city he set foot in his life, Oviteus could not believe what he was witnessing with his eyes.

Compared to the Byzantine cities, or every city on the entire Mediterranean coast, Guangzhou, which is also a port city, gave him a very different feeling.

In his homeland, even in Constantinople or in the affluence of Venice, you will never see such peace and tranquility.

There are no beggars, no poor ghosts in rags, and you don't see the dishes on everyone's faces.

Even the so-called poor people who were forcibly relocated by the Song Empire were neatly dressed, even if they were not gorgeous and colorful, but at least they were clean and tidy, and the gap with his hometown was too great.

And in the streets and alleys here, you can see a lot of ruddy-faced white-haired old people, laughing and chatting, or watching the children playing on the side of the road, or doing what they can.

Everything is so serene and beautiful.

"My lord, this is not heaven, but what is the difference between this place and heaven compared to Byzantium......

"Bless those who have been relocated, you are so pitiful." Oviteus drew a cross on his chest.

It's true that the more you know about this country, the more pathetic you feel for those people on the docks.

They are really too innocent, where are they poor?