After sealing the Zen, the emperor crossed Mount Tai and came to Zhangqiu, the hometown of Chengtianfu.

At the foot of Changbai Mountain, the world has changed dramatically, the poor countryside has now become a prosperous city, Zhangqiu City changed its name to Chengtianfu, and built a new and brilliant city.

Luo Cheng returned to his hometown, which can be regarded as a return to his hometown.

However, he can no longer find the shadow of his past hometown, looking at these buildings that are the same as Chang'an in Luoyang, he actually has a sense of strangeness in his heart.

He remembered that after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he built a palace in his hometown of Fengyang, but in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang did not move the capital to his hometown, and Fengyang Mansion was actually a waste.

In the Changbai Palace, Luo Cheng looked at the gold in front of him.

Boxes and boxes of gold, glittering, all gold coins with a bearded head on them. However, these gold coins are far worse than the golden dragon of Daqin, very irregular, rough manufacturing, although there are human heads and reliefs on the front and back to prevent scraping, but they are still too rough, the side is not round, and even uneven thickness.

Grabbing a handful of gold coins, it was still very heavy.

Although the condition is not very good, but the gold content is not bad, about a penny more, the front is a bust of the king, crosses on both sides, the crown is in the middle of the five-pointed star, there are Latin inscription letters on the left, the back is in the middle of the statue of the goddess of victory with wings, and there are Latin inscription letters on the edge.

"Dear Son of Heaven, this is 200,000 Roman gold coins, which represents the friendship of our Roman Emperor Emperor Heraclius, and hopes to conclude a friendly alliance with Great Qin."

Cui Junsu, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, looked at a gold coin carefully, "Is the king on this gold coin Emperor Heraclius?" ”

"It is none other than our great Emperor Flavis Heraclius."

The Central Plains called the Eastern Romans Whisking, and later generations called it Byzantium, but the Eastern Romans themselves never had such a name as Byzantium, and in their early exchanges with the Central Plains, they were called Great Qin by the Orientals.

Eastern Rome, which called itself the Romans, was actually split from the east and west of the Roman Empire in the early years, but the originally more powerful Western Rome was quickly destroyed by the barbarians, but the Eastern Rome survived tenaciously.

However, although Eastern Rome has always regarded itself as Roman orthodoxy, it has actually changed several dynasties, and the current emperor Heraclius is actually the founder of the Heraclius dynasty.

If Emperor Faucas, who only served as emperor for less than ten years after the death of Emperor Maurice, is also considered a dynasty, then the Heraclius dynasty is already the fifth dynasty of Eastern Rome, if not counting Phocas, then it is the fourth dynasty.

This kind of dynasty is actually similar to the Central Plains.

The Central Plains Dynasty also pays attention to the same lineage, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and then to Sui and Qin, even from the Qin who dominated the world, it has experienced more than a dozen dynasties now. Later generations always said that the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire had a history of more than 1,000 years, but in fact, China has a history of 3,000 years even since the Zhou Dynasty.

The Third Eastern Roman Dynasty began to decline after the death of Justinian the Great, and after that, none of the three emperors was inferior to one, and none of them ruled for more than twenty years. Heraclius' emperor, Heraclius the Elder, was a confidant of Maurice, the last emperor of the Third Dynasty, and served as governor of Africa.

After Phocas usurped the throne, because he was only a small centurion before, he did not have the support of the Senate, the great nobles and the governors of various places.

Thus began the eight-year bloody civil war in Rome, and at that time, the elder Heraclius, as a feudal minister and a confidant of the former emperor, of course refused to be loyal to the new emperor.

At that time, the son-in-law of the old emperor, the Persian emperor, Kuslao II, also led an army to counterattack Rome with a puppet claiming to be the son of Emperor Maurice, taking the opportunity to seize a large area of Persian land that Rome had taken away.

With internal and external troubles, Phocas was overwhelmed, and could only implement a politics of terror, constantly arresting and killing the noble officials who resisted, and as a result, the more people who resisted.

Heraclius's family rose up at this time, and the elder Heraclius sent his nephew to lead a series of troops and horses to attack Egypt, and asked his son to lead a large army from Sicily to the east.

At this time, Phocas was already rejected by everyone, and the army of the Heraclius family raised their arms, and the followers gathered, and they were supported by many senators and nobles.

Although the elder Heraclius died suddenly, Heraclius had won many battles, had already established his prestige, took over his father's banner, and all forces were vying for support, and finally he arrived at the city of Constantinople, and without even storming, Phoccas's son-in-law surrendered to Heraclius with many nobles from the city.

Heraclius killed Phocas and even castrated him during his lifetime for raping the wives of the city's nobles.

In the autumn of the same year, Heraclius ascended the throne as emperor and established the Heraclius dynasty.

So far, it has been 14 years.

After ascending the throne, Heraclius quickly quelled the civil strife, and then began to resist the Persian invasion with all his might, and the peace between the two countries reached during the time of Emperor Maurice, but after more than ten years, the war was rekindled, and the fight was fought for more than ten years, and the more they fought, they began to pull their allies to find help, and the entire Caspian Sea and coast were in a mess.

Taking advantage of the turmoil in Rome's eight years of civil strife and turmoil, he sent troops to Rome under the banner of supporting his father-in-law, Emperor Maurice, and seized a lot of territory, and its territory reached the highest in Persia in a century.

However, Luo Cheng knows the history, and the Persian Sassanid Dynasty in history was about to fall in a few years, because there was a more powerful Arab empire that rose on the corpse of the Persian Sasanid.

The Eastern Romans, on the other hand, continued for hundreds of years until they were finally destroyed by the rising Turkic Ottoman Empire.

But that was 800 years later.

The emperor looked at the three people standing in front of him, and at the front was a young man, tall and handsome. This is Constantine, the crown prince of Emperor Heraclius, who is only thirteen years old this year.

The year after Heraclius' coronation, he married Fabia in St. Stephen's Cathedral and named her Eudosia. Eudosia gave birth to Constantine the following year, and died in childbirth.

Shortly after her death, Heraclius married her niece Maltina despite the opposition of her ministers and nobles, and this second marriage was considered promiscuous and very unpopular. After giving birth to her son, Martina was very dissatisfied with the emperor's eldest son.

Letting the crown prince envoy to Daqin this time was actually a manifestation of her dissatisfaction with him, and she wished that the arduous journey thousands of miles away could make the young crown prince die on the road, so that his son Hector Lonath could become the crown prince.

Emperor Luo Cheng held a gold coin in his hand, this gold coin was different from the gold coins in the box, this gold coin was more exquisite and heavier, and the avatar on this gold coin was not a person, but a portrait of Emperor Heraclius and the crown prince Constantine.

The craftsman's technique is good, and the relief head is very similar to the real person.

The crown prince came all the way east, and suffered a lot on the way, but he was very lucky, and he was not intercepted by any thieves on the road, especially after crossing the Caspian Sea and entering the river, it was the Silk Road controlled by Daqin, and it was very safe all the way, escorted by Daqin's patrol horses, and arrived safely all the way to the Central Plains, and was well received.

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