"Father-in-law Si, the little nephew has something very important to meet His Majesty King Min, please let me in!"

didn't look like he was flying outside at all, bending over and shaking, Li Chou was extremely respectful with a smiling face.

Now that his intestines are blue, why did he run back in a hurry? I haven't seen the King of Min for a few days, and the Hezhong Protectorate behind him is coming one after another, so many credits, all of which have nothing to do with him, and I originally wanted to use this expedition to pull my official position up, and the governor of the Metropolitan Protector Mansion who has not been decided may be his own, this is good, the chicken and the egg are empty.

Thinking of this, Li Chou's face couldn't help but cry even more, but unfortunately, the sweet smile on the face of Sporatita who was in front of him was extremely difficult and always stood in front of him.

"Hey, little grandfather, it's not that the old slave doesn't give the little grandfather face, it's really that the prince of Min has a strict order, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to disturb him, and those who violate it will be killed with a cane!"

"Little grandfather, you, be patient, when Your Majesty finishes dealing with important matters, the old slave will be the first to pass it on, do you think?"

The beardless old face of Sporatita smiled as ugly as crying, and Li Chou's face was also long, I can't afford to wait, wait two more days, most of the army in the river will come back, and it will be too late for anything.

In the dormitory, Li Jie was really busy, a large map hung in front of the desk, not only including the territory that the Fujian Kingdom has now walked to and ruled over, but also the entire outline of the European continent in later generations is also revealed in detail, a pencil wrote and painted on it for a long time, Li Jie returned to the desk excitedly alone, and took out a letter, a letter written in a parchment scroll, and read the letter several times.

The trusted source, Rome, was written by Li Jie's lover, Zhong Huang, the chief treasurer of the She Chamber of Commerce.

The first sentence of the letter is that as His Majesty wishes, the concubine body has arrived at the "death for you" in His Majesty's mouth!

It sounded like this name was quite infamous and unlucky, but Li Jie was still very excited when he saw it, because he knew that this place would have a well-known title in later generations.

Venice, the city on the water!

Rome split into a small city republic, dominated the Mediterranean trade for almost a thousand years, the Fourth Crusade by the Venetians conspiracy to the Franks and other countries of the Crusader warriors to Byzantium, the first contribution to the Byzantine capital Constantinople, almost led to the fall of the glorious Eastern Roman Empire, directly rose to the hegemony of Mediterranean trade.

At that time, the Mediterranean trade circle, for the West, was the whole world.

But now, in the seventh century, Venice, like ******, is still sleeping in the harbor like an unawakened Western dragon until the footsteps of the Min people wake it up.

For more than a year, Li Jie was engaged in a large-scale conquest in the river to establish power, and the silent Fujian expeditionary force also shined on the Apennine Peninsula.

After defeating the "crab" from the outskirts of ****** city, leading more than 200 knight lords and more than 10,000 "troops", and understanding the reality of the enemy facing the West, both Chen Zhangming, the commander of the expeditionary force, and Shi Yangxiong, the commander of the marching army, suddenly became bolder.

Changing the original plan to move towards Rome and merging the militia forces of the Holy See to resist the attack of the Lombards, the two led the remnants of the thousands of Fujian expeditionary forces and went directly to Liguria, an important city in northern Italy, to kill, but in the process of marching, countless Lombards who had conquered near the port of ****** were sent to scatter with small bags of pepper like dandelions.

The impact of pepper is simply unexpected.

During this period, the history of Western Europe had changed from the strict ancient order brought by the Romans to the Germanic world after the barbarian invasion, which was expelled from the Germans by the Huns, and the Gothic tribes dominated European history.

The Visigoths invaded Spain all the way west and established the Visigothic kingdom, and in the north, a Germanic Frank moved all the way west, occupied the Roman Empire Gaul Province, and established the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty, and the Anglo-Saxons in Northern Europe took advantage of the withdrawal of the Roman legions to cross the sea and occupy Britain, which was later England.

The Lombards, who attacked Rome, were also a Germanic group.

Although the barbarian invasion completely overturned the rule of the Roman Empire, the tribal life in the Germanic forest did not bring more advanced civilization, but because of looting and destruction, the originally advanced and developed urban civilization of the Roman Empire was destroyed by war.

This can be seen from the accumulation of ****** port over the years, and even the large dung heaps that have flooded the city.

Originally, the Roman Empire's extensive trade network was also completely cut off by tribes plundering each other, and the consequence was that there was a frequent shortage of goods in various places.

Don't imagine how beautiful the ancient European aristocratic ladies are, including the French in Paris, the romantic capital of later generations, the aristocrats of this era are also wearing coarse cloth clothes similar to commoners, eating dry and hard black bread full of impurities, the dresses on the aristocratic ladies are torn into a hole and a hole, and they can only be worn after repairing, and their hair is messy and yellow, and what is worse is that the Germans in this era have not had the habit of brushing their teeth with willow branches like the Chinese people, and the aristocratic cemeteries unearthed in later generations, Even the noble lady has accumulated a thick layer of tartar on her teeth, which has become a fossil.

Fortunately, because of the lack of sugar, Western Europeans in this era have not yet received the trouble of tooth decay and caries.

Imagine a noble lady dressed in tattered homespun clothes, exuding the primitive smell of human beings, with a freckled face, smiling at you with a mouth full of big yellow teeth, and by the way, a strong smell of garlic.

In such a situation of material scarcity, the impact is that when they saw the high-quality black pepper brought by Fujian, they gnawed on a large steamed bun from ****** Port, and politically dispersed into one tribe after another to rule a small area, and many tribes of the Lumba Land took refuge under the command of the expeditionary force.

What's even more outrageous is that after receiving various spices and silks from the expeditionary force, the Visigothic kingdom and the Frankish Merovingian dynasty on the far side of the Alps also sent mercenaries to fight, and Chen Zhangming's more than 6,000 Fujian expeditionary force has snowballed to about 40,000 people before the second batch of mainland aid arrives.

Under the command of the veterans of the Fujian State, Chen Zhangming easily conquered Liguria, the kingdom of Lombard.

The land that was finally snatched from the Romans in a bloody battle was lost, and a fire broke out in the back, and the feudal lords of the Lombard Kingdom, who were following the Lombard king Clive to attack the Byzantine Governor of Ravenna, had to retreat in embarrassment, and the preparations and the invading Fujian expeditionary force had to fight the victory.

It was at this time that Zhong Huang led a large number of merchant ships, almost 20,000 expeditionary mercenaries hired from all over Fujian, and I don't know how much material wealth they had, but they also arrived at the port of ******......