Crete, Castle of the Counts of Phenetia.

"The earth formed by the excavation on both sides of it was like a high mountain, and more than half a million slave laborers worked day and night to dig the river, and its entire length could be as long as it stretched from Rome to Genoa......"

Alessandro stretched out his arms desperately and gestured to Count Phineas. He dared to think God and swear, he was absolutely not exaggerating.

"That means it's longer than our Bosphorus."

Count Phineas gets a message from Alessandro's analogy.

"No, no, it's much longer than the Bosphorus." Alessandro had been to Constantinople and knew that the Bosphorus next to Constantinople "had five of it, no, maybe six as long." ”

I have to say that at this time, it is definitely a very difficult task when determining the distance.

Count Fenesia could sense the urgency in Alessandro's attitude, and he knew how much he and the Medici family behind him were afraid of the approaching Eastern Empire.

But isn't his Crete afraid? Or is it not only Crete, but also those in Constantinople that they are not afraid?

This time, the Byzantines did get a piece of the Ilkhanate destruction, but unfortunately, after conquering Asia Minor, they also managed to border the terrible Eastern Empire. Now they are facing the most ferocious and terrible Marquis of Celestial Peninsula, the conqueror of the Celestial Peninsula and Egypt!

In the past, there was a sea between them, but now they are facing each other.

To the northeast were the enemy Persian governorates, and to the southeast were the regions of Syria and Babylon, which were already in the middle of Asia Minor.

And in the Mediterranean, a short distance away, it also confronted the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, where the enemy was heavily armed.

Byzantium was almost independent in the face of enormous pressure from the vast Eastern Empire.

Aren't they Byzantine afraid?

Now the point is here, the more so, the more the Byzantines do not want to go to war so soon, they have just occupied Asia Minor, and it will take longer to repair and build up the potential, but the Medici family, the merchants of Venice and Genoa, who are hiding behind them, cannot wait, and are anxious to destroy the canal that is under construction.

There was a huge divergence in the cooperation between the two sides.

Byzantium did not want to be led into war again by these insidious Italians, who only knew how to provoke war, while the other side patted their butts again and walked away.

Before the war, these guys spoke well, but when the war actually started, no one could help them, and Byzantium suffered too much in this regard.

This time I will not be able to do it again

"Dear Count Phineas," perhaps sensing the hesitation in the count's heart, Alessandro spoke again in a low voice, "You have to think that it is not only us who are afraid of this canal, but you are the ones who should be most afraid of the completion of this canal compared to us. ”

"Once the canal is completed, the Orientals will be able to mobilize more troops through the canal and push into the Aegean Sea. They can land on Crete from any coastline, or Greece. Just as thousands of years ago the million-strong army of Persia landed on the shores of your Greece. ”

"When the time comes, no one will come to help you resist you, and you will be the closest to the Orientals after all!"

Alessandro's threat finally moved Count Phineas, and he had to admit that Alessandro was right. Although it was the other side that suggested it first, it was the Byzantines themselves who really faced the war.

This may be another terrifying crisis that Byzantium is facing after the heavens and the Mongols, which can almost make Byzantium perish, great Rome, why are you so troubled!

"Alright! I will allow my soldiers to join you, and I will allow them to participate in your operation in Egypt, but of course this must be after I have the permission of His Majesty the Emperor from Constantinople. ”

"Well, of course, these will only take place after we have negotiated, and if the negotiation can get the other side to give up, it will be great."

Alejandro said with a smile and a nod. Although he himself has no hope for this at all.

Count Phineas relented under Alessandro's persuasion.

No way, this war, Byzantium once again had no choice.

……………………………………

Egypt, Port Said, Qin Jian, the head of the Qin family here, suddenly received news that a ship came from the direction of the Mediterranean, and the people on board claimed to be the joint envoy of Europa, and they wanted to meet the Marquis of Heaven.

"Europa United Envoy, want to see the old marquis?"

Qin Jian was a little puzzled.

As an important figure in the Qin family's business, Qin Jian was not completely ignorant of Europe.

The powerful powers in Europe today are not like the Great Song Dynasty, they do not belong to each other, and they fight each other very happily, and there is no such thing as a joint envoy.

And where did this so-called joint emissary come from? What are the countries that are united by the so-called alliance? In the end, what do you have to meet the old marquis?

In short, before these things were figured out, it was impossible for him to let these Yangyi go to see the old marquis.

These guys think too much of themselves!

casually claim to be the Hou Ye who wants to see me Tianzhu, who do they think they are?

If Qin Jian was so easily bluffed by them, maybe some jokes would be provoked at that time?

He wouldn't be that stupid.

As a typical businessman, although he would not think that Europeans were savages like the Tianzhu people next to him, he would not be deceived by these foreigners.

He ordered his subordinates to call all these messengers to the hall and inquire in person.

After a while, several strange-looking Yangyi really came to the front, and they didn't seem to have the right expressions.

"Protest, protest, you can't do this."

The Yangyi are still pushing and shoving with their subordinates.

It seems that these Yangyi and their subordinates still have some contradictions?

"Your Excellency! I hope you will face up to the voices of the West! Otherwise, you'll see hordes of cannons and giant ships! That would be something that neither of us would want to see. ”

Qin Jian sat in the hall and looked down, and saw that the guy who was talking was very embarrassed, and even his head seemed to have a big bag.