However, this time he was able to arrive smoothly, thanks to the two people behind him.

One is called Kraft and the other is Olgano.

The two men were not Romans, Kraft was Bulgarian and Olgano was an Ornogul, both chieftains of their respective tribes, who had visited Constantinople together a few years earlier, where they were baptized, and Emperor Heraclius became their godfather.

The Bulgarians actually came from the Turkic race, and later moved westward, they were originally a branch of the Turkic branch of Onogul, and later they moved all the way to the Sea of Azov in Eastern Europe, and the name of the Volga River is derived from their habitat.

Due to the invasion of the Avars, they had to move to the middle and lower reaches of the Danube, and even attached themselves to the Avars to attack Eastern Rome for a time.

The Bulgarians and Onogurs, caught between the Avars and the Romans, were wounded and eventually annexed to Rome and got rid of the Avars.

After annexing Rome, they began to marry the Romans, and had close contacts, and a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and various religious ceremonies flowed into their hands, which changed their lives from then on, and they even became mercenaries for the Romans, receiving gold and gold rewards from Rome, and uniting the Western Turkic Khazars to fight against the Avars and Persians in Rome.

A few years ago, Emperor Heraclius had been ambushed and attacked by the Avars in the war against the Avars, and was even almost captured.

Subsequently, Heraclius conferred the title of 'nobles of the Roman Empire' on the two men, and even married the daughter of the Heraclius family to the two, and the brothers united with their tribes to form the Great Bulgarian Tribe, and under their loyal protection, there were no further large-scale invasions in the north of Eastern Rome, which freed the emperor to deal with Persia in an all-round way.

This time, the emperor specially chose these two loyal godsons to escort the crown prince to come to Great Qin, hoping to form an alliance with Great Qin.

In the past, Rome resisted Persia, mainly with the help of the Western Turks, but now although the Western Turks are there, they have gone away to the Volga River under the blow of Great Qin, and although there are still 100,000 troops after uniting with the Khazar Ministry, there is no place for the Western Regions.

Ye Hu, the new khan of the Western Turks, was bent on guarding against the Great Qin's Western Expedition, and how could he dare to lead his troops to fight Persia for Rome. Without this strong ally, Rome could not continue its offensive in the direction of Gaucia.

"Two hundred thousand gold coins." Luo Cheng smiled.

Cui Junsu was also laughing.

200,000 gold coins looks like a lot, but if you calculate it carefully, it's not much. A Roman gold coin is just over a penny, two are only three coins, and twenty are only three taels.

This sounds like a lot of 200,000 gold coins, which are only 30,000 taels, and the most when converted into Great Qin copper coins is 300,000 yuan.

You must know that Li Shimin raided and captured the Lion City in Linyi before, but he gave hundreds of thousands of catties of gold to the imperial court, not counting silver, copper, other spices, cloth and other property.

The young Roman crown prince heard that the Great Qin Emperor was too little, and hurriedly said to the translator, "200,000 gold coins is a lot!" ”

Luo Cheng laughed.

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Constantine, do you know that Rome still has a nickname in my Central Plains?"

"Isn't it Daqin?"

"Daqin refers to the Roman Empire before it was divided, and for the Eastern Rome that was divided, we have a nickname in the Central Plains, which is called the Defeat Court!"

"Byzantium is just the original name of Constantinople, not the name of our empire, the empire has only one name, and it is called Rome." The prince listened to the translator's words and said.

"I'm not talking about this Byzantium, but the court of defeat, the court of defeat."

The translator was a little hesitant, this name is a bit insulting, in case the prince is annoyed, isn't it also a diplomatic incident.

"It doesn't matter, you have translated my words literally."

Sure enough, after listening to the translation, the prince's face turned red, but he didn't dare to scold the Great Qin Emperor.

"Rome is a great empire, when the east and the west were divided, although Western Rome was deposed by the barbarian general Odoasai and destroyed Western Rome, but we have always inherited the great Rome, and in the most dangerous era of barbarian migration, we have also defeated the barbarian invasion again and again."

Although the Eastern Romans were closer to the Greeks in culture, customs, and even blood, they always called themselves Romans, and their emperors considered themselves Roman monarchs, successors and successors of the ancient Roman Caesar.

They don't even recognize the Byzantine Empire, how can they admit defeat in the war court.

"You were defeated by the Franks, the Vandals, the Burgundians, the Visigoths, the Alemannes, the Lombards, the Angles, the Saxons, and later the Huns, and so on, and you were also defeated by the Avars, the Persians, etc., and paid tribute to many of the enemies who defeated you."

"The less is two or three hundred thousand gold, and the more is four or five hundred thousand gold."

"Prince, are you right?"

The prince argued, "Although the barbarians invaded, we also defeated them one after another. Justinian I and his famous general Belisarius resisted the onslaught of the Sassanid Persian Empire and destroyed the kingdom established by the Vandals across North Africa. ”

"Our heavy cavalry was even more famous for its defeat of the Ostrogoths on the Danube and Thracian lines, as well as the Huns and Alans who followed. We successfully defended against the Persian attack in the Nisibis region in Syria, another important line of defense."

"My father, the great Emperor Heraclius, defeated the kingkillers and personally established the military district system, personally commanding the army, and was invincible."

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "But the Slavs and the Avars have united, and with the support of Persia, they have built a fleet and are ready to attack Constantinople directly, and the Persian Emperor Kuslao II is also recruiting soldiers and preparing to lead the fleet to meet under the city of Constantinople." ”

"The hoplites of Rome were very powerful, yes, but the armored cavalry of the Persians was as elite as the armored cavalry."

"We are not afraid of their fleet, we have Greek fire!" The crown prince said proudly. "The Persians, together with the Slavs and the Avars, want to attack our capital Constantinople directly from the sea, and my father is preparing to attack the Persian capital Ctesiphon from two fronts!"

"But without the support of Great Qin, you will not be able to win this battle, or in other words, as long as I, Great Qin, support Persia, you Rome will definitely lose!" Luo Cheng said this with a smile.

Now it was not only the Roman crown prince who changed color, but also Kraft and Olgano changed color, because they knew that the emperor was right.

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