"Governor Conrado del Otto, I'm back."

A voice sounded, and two Genoese servants pushed open the door, and a Genoese dressed in the latest Milanese plate armor walked in. As he walked, he said in Italian: "These locust-like Tatars! What a damn one! Their Great Khan in the west had just swept away Theodosius, and then a rebellion broke out! We're busy helping them quell the rebellion, and we're going to chase down Andrea Conte, who is offside! As a result, I accidentally threw away Kerch! Where hundreds of Tatars have already built a colonial city! Oh, my God! What an eventful time! ”

Cromodo Visby, the most trusted friend of Governor Conrado del Otto, commander of the Caffa City Regiment, with the rank of colonel.

Of course, the colonel was made because Cromorodo Visby did not yet have the merits of a nobleman. Therefore, in order to convince the public, Conrado del Otto gave Colonel Cromodo Visby the rank of colonel to command the militia regiment, modeled after the mercenary military system.

"So, how much new news did you get?" Conrado greeted his best friend with a smile. And Cromorodo Visby, of course, responded to his friend's enthusiasm with a bear hug.

Conrado del Otto was an upstart in the Republic of Genoa. His name Del Otto was newly acquired by himself. Because Conrado was the illegitimate son of a great nobleman in the city of Genoa. And luckily, Conrador is liked by his dad because he is clever and intelligent. So with the support of his father, Conrador made a name for himself in Sardinia at a young age.

However, just as Conrador was in the limelight, his father died.

Then, in order to protect himself, Conrado sold his assets in Sardinia and exchanged the Parliament of the Republic of Genoa for the governorship of Kaffa. There was no reason why his brothers didn't want the bastard to continue in Italy.

Cromodo Visby, he is not Italian. To be precise, this guy is a descendant of the Spanish Aragonese and Sicilians.

Commonly known as a hybrid.

After all, neither has a good reputation in prosperous northern Italy. And the head of the mercenary army that Conrador hired in Sardinia at the beginning was Cromodo. came and went, and the two of them really had to collide with their true feelings. So Cromorodo also threw down his net worth and followed Conrador to Kaffa to open up new markets.

As mentioned earlier, Kaffa was arguably the largest slave market in Eastern Europe and Asia Minor. Kaffa, along with Tana at the mouth of the Don River, a slave-economic region that relied on the blood of Slavic slaves from Eastern Europe. It can be said that without the needs of the vast number of Arab lords, there would be no huge slave catchers, there would be no Genoese and Crimean Tatars to wreak havoc on the steppes of Eastern Europe, and there would not be so many Slavs caught and sold in the Arab world.

However, these are only assumptions. It is as absurd as denying that the British in 1839 should not have arrested and refused to hand over opium.

For the Genoese who are now in the Mediterranean, although the rivers are declining, but still in the limelight, the economy of northern Italy, Liguria and Sicily is still the most important. Kaffa, as important as it was, was a very single link in the countless trades of the Genoese, so it gave Conrado a chance.

"It's hard to say. It is not known which part of the Tatars that occupied Kerch. It is not clear whether it was the people of King Khan Haji Gelai I, or the rebels, or the subordinates of the other four nobles! Hell yes! Now what? Cromodo sat down in his chair in frustration.

"What did the bandits say? Is there anything special about it? Conrador lay in his chair, his brow furrowed.

He was helpless now, after all. And in the first two months, he first hunted down Andrei Conte, who was trying to make trouble under his nose, and then helped the Crimean Great Khan Haji Grei to quell the rebellion, and finally found out that the backyard had actually caught fire?

"I don't know. But the Tatars seem to have been settling in Kerch for several months! According to the bandits, they even started building the walls! If it's a few months later, I'm afraid the walls will be built! "Cromorodo's mood is no better than that of Conrad. When Daddy Conrador dies and the tree he leans on falls, he can only rely on Conrado. If Conrador had fallen, he would have been finished. But in the first few months I had been here, I had a series of events that made him realize that the situation in Kaffa was not that simple.

"Build walls? Tatars? Is it true? Conrador was instantly alert!

"That's right...... Wrong! How could the Tatars build walls? Could it be that ...... "Cromodo also realized something!

........

"Venetian!"

The two of them shouted out a noun in unison. In an instant, the two of them affirmed the judgment in their minds even more.

The Venetians are back.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the feud between Genoese and Venetians as a blood feud. The three Rewei wars have left both sides scarred and dragged each other back. The market on the Black Sea was precisely what the Genoese snatched from the Venetians.

In 1204, the Venetians led the Fourth Crusade to sack Constantinople, bringing great catastrophe and disaster to this thousand-year-old city, the empress of ten thousand cities, and the Pearl of the Orient. and established decades of rule in the Romanian Empire on it.

Thus, the hundred-year-old feud between the Venetians and the Romans added another layer. Even to the point of a sea of blood feuds.

And it was the capital of Genoese merchants who helped the Palaiologos of the Nicaean Empire to restore the Eastern Roman Empire. It was they who helped the Valleolo family to regroup their horses and re-enter the castle.

The Venetians, who had controlled the trade between the Aegean Sea and Rome for hundreds of years, were thus robbed of the Black Sea trade by the Genoese.

This kind of behavior is like fucking your girlfriend of ten years to green a dozen times, and the Venetian certainly won't give up the chance for revenge.

And now, Conrado del Otto quickly decided that it was the Venetians who were behind the Tatars to capture Kerch!

"That's right! Kerch is right on the key road to Tana! If the Venetians take control of Kerch, it means that our business will be cut off by an arm! What a vicious Venetian! Conrado exclaimed!

"Praise God! Praise to the dead Andrea Conte! If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have known something had happened to Kerch! Cromodo looked happy.

"That's right! Andre Conte died a worthy death! Cromodo, get your army ready! We're running out of time! ”