The news that Alessandro brought to Crete worried Count Phineas.

No one in all of Europe was as wary of the Orientals as the Constantines. They had endured for hundreds of years in front of the Celestial People, then the Mongols, and now the Song people who had carved all the way from the farther east.

Compared to the Mongols, the Song people were even more terrifying.

The Constantines didn't know anything else, but they knew absolutely that the Mongols had only defeated the Celestials and had not really destroyed this great civilization.

This civilization perished at the hands of the seemingly more civilized Song people.

Although the Mongols were able to defeat the enemy in war, it was difficult for them to truly conquer a nation with an ancient and long history, although the local tribes from several khanates in western Asia were defeated by the Mongols and had to accept the rule of the Mongols, but the final result after a few hundred years, not only did the truly resilient local civilization not die, but the Mongols themselves were gradually transformed, and the customs and religions of the local people were constantly changed.

The three khanates of the Ilkhanate, the Kipchak Khanate, and the Chagatai Khanate all had similar phenomena.

Many of the current Mongols are no longer Mongols, and more Mongols may be called Asiatic Minor, Caucasians, and Volga.

Therefore, it is impossible for such a Mongol to really destroy such a brilliant civilization as Tianfang.

It was the Song people who really crushed the Heavenly Civilization. The expedition a few decades ago shocked even the Constantines in Europe.

In order to defeat the Ilkhanate, the Song people brazenly sent troops across the sea to eradicate the nest of the Celestial Civilization, the Celestial Peninsula.

This blow can be said to have completely destroyed the civilization that was already surviving, and the rule established by the Song people on the peninsula after that snuffed out the last bit of vitality left by a civilization.

This can only be done by the Song people, and without their strong civilization, if the Mongols are allowed to come, they will not be able to do this in any way.

The Constantines understood it perfectly.

Therefore, since the establishment of real contact with the Song people, the Constantines can be said to have gone to great lengths and resorted to all means to understand this civilization, and in their eyes the Song people seem to be kind and docile on the surface, but on the inside they are equally arrogant and domineering.

The Constantines had always been on guard against the Song people, and the existence of the Ilkhanate blocked the two countries, preventing the Song people from posing a frontal threat to Constantine's Byzantine Empire. But now that the Song people have suddenly appeared on the shores of the Mediterranean, how can this not worry Count Phineas.

The Count reacted quickly and immediately sent the news back to Constantinople. Then he immediately sent his best men to Alexandria to investigate.

The message was quickly fed back,

"Oh God, they were trying to dig that famous canal!"

The Suez Canal is not unknown to anyone, in fact, many people in Greece know that Egypt and Greece have fallen in love and killed each other in history, and Egypt is part of the former Roman Empire in the eyes of the Greeks, and there is no difference between it and Europe.

The Suez Canal has been excavated and abandoned several times in Egypt's history, but Egypt at that time was the most powerful period, representing the glory of the Egyptian empire at its most powerful. At that time, the main purpose of the canal excavation was only to connect the Nile River with the Red Sea. I didn't expect to be connected to the Mediterranean. With the manpower and material resources of ancient times, it was impossible to expect to build such a magnificent project.

But now that this canal has fallen into the hands of the Song people, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and opening up the most direct waterways between Europe and Asia and Africa, I am afraid that it is the only choice of the Song people.

The Song people were crazier than the craziest maritime merchants in Europe, and the opening of this canal would probably drive the merchants of the whole world crazy, including Europe's own merchants.

"No, dear Count Phineas! It may be true that the canal will be dug in the interest of commerce, but that is the opinion of the lower merchants, and once business has reached our level, Monsieur Count, with all due respect, we of the Medici family and yours have the same interests. ”

"The excavation of the Songren Canal will definitely bring practical benefits to the businesses of various countries, but in the case of economic interests, we pay more attention to politics. The power of the Song people is too great for us in the Mediterranean, no one can refuse it, and if it really comes, it will definitely be a disaster for the countries of the Mediterranean, and even for the whole of Europe. ”

"Genghis Khan has not been able to conquer us, but when the Song people come, it will be difficult to say, you can imagine the situation when the time comes, the merchants of the Song people will flock in, bribe and corrupt the monarchs of the Mediterranean countries, suck blood from our bodies to feed them, and in the end, maybe the Song army will arrive, and with a light push, Europe will fall. The Song people are behemoths, and we are just a plate of loose sand! ”

Alessandro said these words with great calmness, as if the frightening inferences just now had not affected his judgment in the slightest.

Count Phineas was now certain that Alessandro had come to deliver the news to him, in order to convince Constantinople to side with the Medici family in his capacity. Otherwise, how could the principal of the dignified Medici Bank, such a busy person, condescend to stay in this small island of Crete for so long.

"No, it won't! It's not that serious! ”

Count Phineas pondered the words and said in his heart.

It seems that this time the Song people really frightened the Medici family.

Indeed, how could the Medici not be afraid.

You must know that once the Suez Canal is successfully built, the Medici family's investment in the countries bordering West Africa may be in vain. Once the Mediterranean shipping lanes became popular, the Medici family invested in the Berbers of Northwest Africa, Morocco, Dakar, Gambia, Guinea...... The entire Medici family-run system was challenged.

And once the tentacles of the Song people reach in, it will affect not only the commercial routes, but also the financial system that the Song people will establish on the routes.

This is probably what the Medici family fears the most!

The Song people's commercial system posed a serious threat not only to merchants such as the Medici family, but also to the rule of the nations. The competition of countries is the competition of national strength, and the economy is absolutely the most important thing in it.

This truth was clearly seen by everyone in the war between England and Spain that year.

It seems that the situation is really serious!

He just thought about it simply, and in this way, this is not only the competition between the two commercial systems of the East and the West, but even the competition between two civilizations.