PS: I'm sorry to say a lot, but I have to say it this time. As soon as I got my job, I was arranged to go on a business trip for a total of 15 days and only came back yesterday. Time is tight, the task is urgent, so there is no time to code words. I took a break today and hurried up to this chapter. I'll do my best to update and fix recent bugs in the coming time! Thank you!

The city of the Sun, a famous city in the Balkans.

It is said that Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire conquered this place, and when he saw the sun rising, he galloped and chased the sun until the horsepower was at the end of his horsepower, and when the sun was at the top, Alexander the Great was so tired that he threw his horsewhip to the ground and said hatefully: "I attack here in the name of the sun, why don't you let me decide day by day?" Build a city here to defend it, and wait for me to succeed day by day! ”

So the city of the sun was built in the land of Alexander's whip, and after a thousand years, it became a great city.

Of course, this legend comes from the records of the Han Empire in the East, and is full of oriental fantasies and language styles. In fact, the construction of the city did not originate from the Macedonian Empire, but from the earlier Persian Empire, King Darius. Around the time of the famous Battle of the Trojan Horse Massacre, King Darius discovered the value of the Balkan Peninsula and built more than a dozen fortresses here. Sunchase City is one of them.

The Balkan Peninsula, bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the east, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Danube-Sava River, the two most important rivers in Southeast Europe, to the north, is an important location that no promising emperor can ignore!

The emperors of the Roman Empire could not be ignored, and so did the emperors of the Han Empire. Such a position of controlling two continents has become the best chessboard for the emperors of the two great empires of the East and the West.

Prior to the Han Dynasty's expedition to the west, the jurisdiction of the city of Zhuri stretched thousands of miles east and west of the Balkan Peninsula, and the Roman Empire appointed senators to administer it. The city was located in the central Balkan Peninsula on the Eight Thousand Mountains of the Kerr, the migration place of the Huns.

Han Shengzu marched westward, and a decade-long world war broke out between the Han and Rome near the Caspian Sea! The combat power of the Han army was obviously slightly higher. Jin Gongma Chao was an outstanding military strategist, allowing the Han Dynasty's troops to sweep across the Balkans, including the city of the sun.

However, in this world war, the Romans were not finally defeated, and although their rule over the city had essentially disappeared under the attack of the Han army, in order to continue to resist the Han army, the Roman Senate moved the city to the foothills of the Dinara Mountains in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.

After the Battle of the Caspian Sea, the Han and Rome reached an agreement to use the Caspian Sea as their boundary, and retained small states such as Cai Xian and Tushi as buffer zones. But this does not mean that the Great Han has abandoned the Balkans. On the protocol. The Han forced Rome to promise not to move the city eastward again, and to maintain the status quo in the Balkans. This undoubtedly made the Romans extremely dissatisfied, and even almost broke out into war again.

Under these circumstances, the Huns suddenly "colluded" with the Germanic barbarians and raised an army to attack the Caucasus Mountains -- it is difficult to say whether there was a Han Chinese behind this -- of course. The Romans must have thought that the Han Chinese were behind it, after all, at the time. The Romans could not carefully distinguish between the Huns and the Han Chinese. In their opinion, both categories of people are Orientals! That alone is enough to support their judgment!

There is no evidence to support this view in any official account of the Han Empire. In fact, even if this matter was instigated by the Han Empire, the Han Empire would never admit it, let alone leave any evidence, after all, the Xiongnu were the sworn enemies of the Han Dynasty!

Of course. For Han Shengzu, a traverser, there is nothing that cannot be let go in the face of national interests, and mortal enemies can also become temporary friends when they have use value. If someone can break through the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty. If you rush into the mansion of the Yulin Secret Guard to control the dragon slayer, you will find a secret decree issued by the Holy Ancestor Emperor himself in the secret room: the imperial decree Zhonglang will have a secret conversation with the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and must order him to attack the Balkans.

That's the truth of the matter!

Well, let's get down to business.

It was in this situation that the city was actually fixed in the foothills of the Dinara Mountains in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, and was moved to the Adriatic coast in 640 A.D., near the city of Durrës in later Albania.

Strictly speaking, the city is a Roman city, but because it is close to the Xiongnu and Cai Xian, it is a dangerous location, so there are all kinds of people here. The Kunlun Nu on the African continent, the Huns with their hair disheveled, the well-dressed Han Chinese, the blonde and blue-eyed Western Europeans, the Caliphs with white scarves on their heads...... The whole nine yards. With 500 years of peace, although the city was still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Roman Empire, its management tended to be cosmopolitan - for 500 years, four of the city's first tribunes were black people from Egypt, six were Western Europeans from the Roman province of Tunisia, and two were of Han Chinese descent who lived there.

It is the different races that serve as the tribunes of the city of the sun, which makes it more of a cosmopolitan metropolis, with unparalleled commercial prosperity, and even surpasses Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire to some extent!

But this prosperity was still turbulent after all, and the location here was too sensitive, and the Huns could reach the city of Zeri in seven days on horseback over Mount Dinara, while Rome wanted to send troops over and had to cross the Adriatic Sea, almost the same time as the Huns. In this case, the city becomes somewhat unstable. Under the prosperity of commerce, there are all kinds of turbulent social security problems. When night falls, the city is in a state of disorder, with murder, rape, and robbery. On a few occasions, there were even riots that attacked the official residence of the Protector!

Of course, none of these upheavals could change the fact that this was Roman territory. The Redcoat Legion stationed outside the city day by day will be a nightmare for all the rebels! Under the deterrence of the Red Coats, there was still order on the ground in the city of the Sun, and at least when the sun rose, anyone would follow the rules set by Rome. Even if the sun goes down, certain untouchable boundaries will still make the people here silently abide by them - the butcher's knife of the Red Coats has already told the people here that those who do not follow the bottom line will face death!

In this half-harbor and half-land city, where there is great rule during the day and chaos at night, there are about 400,000 people of all kinds who live. The majority of them were Romans, about 100,000 - of course, by Roman citizens. And not slaves at the bottom. In addition, there were about 20,000 Huns, more than 30,000 caliphs, about 20,000 Han Chinese, and nearly 50,000 blacks.

Complex places are always full of deformed exuberance. And behind prosperity there will always be traces of filth.

The Roman citizen is dominant here - again, the Roman citizen here does not just refer to the Romans in the modern sense, you must know that the Roman Empire at this time included almost all the territory of later Europe, and the definition of the Roman included all Europeans - this tribune was called Elmont. Let. Green. He also has a Han Chinese name - Li Rang!

In fact. El Monte, who is 41 years old this year, is a Roman with Han Chinese ancestry. His great-grandmother was a Han Chinese!

Of course, it must be understood that there are generally only three ways for Han people to come to live in Zhuri City - one is a merchant, such as the Yan family trading house also has branches in Zhuri City; The second is the officials, and there is a branch of the embassy of the Han Empire in Rome. This was stipulated in the agreement between the Han and Rome, and was an important city in the respective empires. Officials may appoint personnel to administer and educate their own people. Of course, the number of people is strictly controlled; The last way is the exiled prisoners! Of course, the exiled prisoners were generally in Xihai Prefecture of the Han Dynasty, while the Han criminals who appeared in the city were generally exiled when the date of exile arrived, but they were unwilling to return to their homeland, so they followed caravans or other means to the west to seek a living.

Elmont's great-grandmother was a criminal exiled by the Han Empire. But she's a bit of a criminal. She was not guilty of a felony such as murder herself, as other criminals did, but because her father, an official of the Han Empire, had committed a crime, and she was implicated!

The word Zhulian is also one of the words that became well-known to Westerners after the Han culture spread to the West.

In the original thinking of Westerners, there was no such thing as a strain. Sometimes Elmont would thank the Great Empire of the East for having this habit. Because without Zhulian, her great-grandmother would not have been exiled so far away, and she would not have been able to marry his great-grandfather in the end. If her great-grandmother hadn't married into the Grimm family, maybe the Grimm family would have been a shabby settlement in the harbor area forever! And even if he, Elmont, can obtain the qualifications of a Roman citizen, he will never be able to sit in the position of the tribune of the city of the sun!

For the Han Chinese, Elmont has a good impression. For he remembers very well what his grandfather said to him when he died: "Aemon, you must be grateful to the Han people. Your great-grandfather was just a coolie in the harbor district, and if it weren't for marrying your great-grandmother and under her wise guidance, we would not have been able to accumulate enough wealth so quickly to reach the status we are today. ”

Elmont agrees. His great-grandmother was a kind and kind man, with a maturity and wisdom that was different from that of other Roman women who only knew how to show off. As an adult, Elmont wanted to marry the daughter of a Han merchant, but was refused.

Even if this Han man had only just finished his exile period and had only been in the city for a year, and his life was extremely poor, even if Elmont had graduated from the University of Rome at that time and was a handsome and mature man, even if at that time even the consuls of the city of the sun were very kind to him and wanted to marry his daughter to him, even if it was ......

No matter how much it is, it can't make that Han man succumb. Even secretly El Monte instructed the ruffians to do some dirty things, but in any case, this Han man did not give in, and even moved his family to the poorer harbor area.

At that moment, Elmont knew deeply that in his great-grandfather's time, it was such an honor to be able to marry a Han woman?! What's more, this Han woman is also the daughter of a criminal official in the Han Dynasty, and she has received a higher education in the Han Dynasty since she was a child! Great-grandmother was like Gaia (the goddess of the earth in Roman mythology)!

El Monte never dared to ask about his great-grandmother's past. But from the great-grandmother named him Li Rang, it can be guessed that the great-grandmother's Han surname should be Li.

But there are thousands of people with the surname Li in Dahan, and Elmont has no way to find it. And his great-grandmother never had the intention of looking for family.

The news of the rebellion of the Great Han Yue clan reached the city of the sun a few days ago and became a sensational topic. Whether it is at a high-end banquet or a party at a bar on the ground floor, there are endless discussions of Yue's rebellion. However, most people are not optimistic about the Yueshi - jokes. Who are the Yueshi people? The people of Sunrise City don't know at all. They only know that the Han people are extremely powerful, just look at those Han people in the city of the sun, even the lowest level of the Han people, their clothes are always clean, and their manners are also polite, and then look at the Han officers and soldiers stationed in the city of the sun, although there are only fifteen people, but they are all fierce and abnormal, compared to the elite of the red-clothed army outside the city, not to mention the Yueshi people who have never heard of it.

In the office of the official residence of the protector of the city of the day. Elmont was dealing with the reconciliation of the accounts of the month's taxes - for the tribunes, taxes were always the most important thing for the Roman aristocracy. Even if these things have been checked by a special Venetian, Elmont still has to see it personally, and if something goes wrong, those nobles from Rome will tear him alive!

Then. There was a knock on the door, and Elmont looked up from the mountain of cases. A group of nobles dressed in Roman robes walked in.

Elmont hurried to his feet. Greeting a white-haired old man walking in front, he respectfully stroked his chest and saluted: "Your Excellency, Honorable Consul, I am glad to see your healthier complexion, I wonder if you are here, what is the matter?" ”

The group that came in was all dressed in Roman robes. The robes on the shoulders are pinned with various insignia, which is a symbol of nobility. However, among the many coats of arms, only the four-leaf clover badge of the old man in front of him is the most noble, because it represents the oldest family in Rome, the Gipulus family.

"Aemon. We have just finished a meeting of the senators, and we have already made a resolution. The old man casually sat down in El Monte's place, waving his hand and motioning for the others to sit down at will.

Only then did Elmont notice that the people who had come to his office were members of the Senate of Sunrise City.

The highest decision-making body in the Roman Empire was the Senate, and in the provinces and cities, the Senate, which was a branch of the Senate, was also the highest decision-making body in the region.

There are now one hundred and seventy-four members of the Senate in the city of the Sun, and they are also divided into three levels, and the upper senators are all assigned here by the old nobles of Rome, and some of them are even nobles who have lived here for generations. And the middle and lower levels of the patriarchs are measured by the amount of wealth. For example, the Green family in El Monte is also one of the members of the lower Senate because their wealth has reached 10 million Roman eagle coins.

The white-haired old man in front of him was a member of the Gipulus family, named The Hague. Gipurus. Rovinis, the hereditary patriarch of Sunchase City. And the others, who are also members of the upper Senate, are gathered here, and why?

Elmont's black hair and black eyes stood out among these Roman nobles. One of them, a blonde senator sitting not far from The Hague, looked at Elmont with unkind eyes.

Elmont also noticed the unkind gaze, but ignored it. This man's name is Chilles. Gipurus. Rovinis, also Gipurus. A member of the Rovinis family, he is an uncle and nephew with The Hague. This is a guy who is extremely hateful to the Han people, and has always been hostile to Elmont, who has Han Chinese blood. However, The Hague values El Mont's abilities very much, so he always defends him.

But today, in addition to being unkind, why is there a hint of pride in the eyes of this Calles?

After taking his seat, Elmont said with doubts: "Your Excellency, what is the resolution of the Senate this time?" ”

The Hague hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "In view of the current consideration of the commercial share of the city, our senators have decided to increase the commercial tax, road tax, food tax, and urban construction tax by 50% for the Han Chinese, caliphs, and Huns in the city from today. This resolution is sent today to the Roman Senate and cannot be changed! ”

"What?!" Elmont stood up and exclaimed, "Fifty percent? Your Excellency, this ......"

Hague waved his hand and said, "Ammon, don't be so surprised, sit down and listen to me explain to you slowly." ”

"Your Excellency, no matter what the interpretation, this rash increase of fifty percent of the tax is unlikely to be acceptable to the people of all races in the city of the day. With the exception of the Romans and the Negroes, the interests of the others were greatly harmed, which would make them dissatisfied, and once they were dissatisfied, ......"

As soon as Elmont said this, a gloomy voice sounded: "If you are not satisfied with them, you dare to start a riot again, right?" ”

Elmont turned around, and it was Chilles who spoke.

With a false smile on his face, Cales said to Elmont: "Don't forget, Eamon, that you are a Roman!" I know you care what the Han people think, but you may not have paid attention to what Your Excellency Archon just said, we are not only raising taxes on Han Chinese, but also on other people. If they don't agree, leave the city of the sun, and we have no objection. ”

Elmont looked at Chilles for a long time, then looked back at The Hague, with anger in his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency, I need an explanation. Not an official explanation, but a real reason. Is it because of the rebellion of the Yueshi people? Did Rome decide to intervene in the war? ”

The Hague was silent for a moment, and then finally said slowly: "Emon, you are a Roman, remember this!" ”

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PS: I'm sorry to say a lot, but I still have to say it this time. As soon as I got my job, I was arranged to go on a business trip for a total of 15 days and only came back yesterday. Time is tight, the task is urgent, so there is no time to code words. I took a break today and hurried up to this chapter. I'll do my best to update and fix recent bugs in the coming time! Thank you! (To be continued......)