It's a magical feeling, the narrowest point of the Bosphorus Strait is only 750 meters, this side is Asia, and that side is Europe. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

The diffuse sea fog is endless, walking on the strait by boat, Hou Jie is not close to sighing about the magic of the region, and at the same time feeling Li Jie's appetite, starting from Fujian, he walked for a few months before he arrived here, but Li Jie, who is the size of the Tang Dynasty, has already put his ambitions here, and wants to open his huge mouth and swallow these tens of thousands of miles of land into his mouth.

A smile rose at the corners of Hou Jie's mouth under the cover of his beard, supporting the King of Min, the prince of the East, and becoming the Roman Emperor of the West, it seems to be a very interesting game.

In the sneer of Hou Jie hugging his shoulder, a small ferry boat carried all the members of his expedition team into Constantinople, which had been in business for so long, and it was not so capable of transporting thousands of troops and horses into the city, and it was still a trivial matter for Yang Xiong to let a few people enter the city.

Entering the port through the steep Golden Horn, Byzantium's unique defense system amazed these Fujian visitors, especially the old mercenary Berennis, whose old face was full of complexity, looking at the Galatai Fort looming in the sea fog on the opposite shore, and nodded emphatically Hou Jie led his team to turn around and enter the opposite direction, the main city of Constantinople.

The first thing he did when he entered the city, Hou Jie sent Paul, the unreliable Syrian priest whose money was more important than God in his eyes, to the Hagia Sophia, where the Orthodox Patriarch is located, to take the position of the Orthodox Bishopric.

Let this lord obtain the Greek Orthodox bishop, who has always been known for his orthodoxy and devout asceticism? Paul seemed to see a pig with angel wings flying in the sky, he didn't believe it himself, he stood at the mouth of the alley near Sophia Cathedral, this person said that he didn't want to move forward, and he pulled Hou Jie's sleeve with a sad face and shouted: "General Hou, they will definitely beat me out, don't lose this person." ”

"Don't worry, not only will they not, but they will also give you the courtesy of the Great Patriarch." Hou Jie patted Wu Yuanqing's fat chest on the side with a smile on his face, and the latter immediately showed an expression that was more ugly than crying, or crying at all.

A large sum of gold and I don't know whether it's true or not, but the Christian relics rescued from Jerusalem, in just two hours, Paul fled from Yeluzi Syria to the priest of Khorasan, and was gloriously promoted to the reserve member of the Bishops' Conference of Constantinople.

Although, this exacerbates the foreign debt of a certain big fat man.

Under the gaze of Wu Yuanqing singing love songs and tears, another small box of gold coins went to Paul's only surviving nursery apprentice Ma Barbisi, in his puzzled eyes, Hou Jie smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "What do you do outside the city of Xinhan Valley, what do you do here, try to make friends with those Christians, as long as you can mix up fame, how much money it costs, ask Brother Wu for it, anyway, he has money." ”

That other people's money is forced to do this, and it has not happened once in hundreds of years, and under Wu Yuanqing's even more crying face, this Tianzhu boy was also very happy to go out with his money bag.

"Okay, Brother Wu, don't have such an expression, now, brother will take you to earn money." Burying two chess pieces, hooking Wu Yuanqing's bitter gourd face, and leading Li Que who was smiling secretly, Hou Jie swaggered and ran to Constantinople's commercial street near the Golden Horn.

The Colosseum, the pride of the Roman Empire, is almost the symbol of the Roman city, where there are Romans, there is an Arena, whenever festivals and celebrations come, the Empire will hold grand gladiatorial battles, horse races, and here is also the place where the Romans display their spoils of glory, the three-headed serpent column, the Obeliska of Thutmose, the statue of Boferi, etc., etc., the strength and worship of the Romans, and the art are vividly displayed.

Even in the Age of Christ, the Romans' love of gladiatorial competition was not extinguished, but the Christians who fought in the arena disappeared and were replaced by ancient Roman polytheism and other pagans who shed blood on it.

The Arena was not only a place for entertainment and gambling, but also provided the people with a rare opportunity to get together with the emperor and senators for political discussions.

Although the arena is so important, but the pure competition is often mixed with dirty politics, each car is generally eight cars on the track, from the aristocratic senators to the commoners, Constantinople is also roughly divided into four parties, the green party blue party and the declining red party white party, in 530 AD, it was in the arena, the green party and the blue party set off a Nika riot that shocked Byzantium, once forced the best emperor of Byzantium, Justinian I almost left the throne and fled.

Fortunately, he has a Wu Zetian-style empress Theodora, and a famous general Belisarius who is like a sick person like Wei Qinghuo, the empress stabilized the emperor, sent eunuchs to make peace with the leader of the blue party of the rebellion to buy time, so that Belisarius, who led the army in Persia, led the army back from Persia in time, thousands of archers ambushed in the stands, 3,000 heavy infantry from the two entrances, and the bloody suppression slaughtered 35,000 people, which suppressed the rebellion.

Since then, the Colosseum has been much less interested in discussing politics, but the enthusiasm of the rich and noble people for racing has not diminished, and the political fiasco has allowed the Byzantine rich to focus more on entertainment, especially this time, the Arab Empire's pressure has not only not stopped the arena, but has become more noisy.

The emperor can run, and the royal ministers can also run, anyway, they are all from North Africa, the Heraclius dynasty has only been operating here for decades, in North Africa, Italy still has a large number of land, but what about these people? Since Emperor Constantine moved the capital here, it has multiplied for more than 400 years, and it has already been deeply rooted here.

So, with the last crazy idea, a large number of old nobles who couldn't run indulged in lust in the arena during the day, and drunk and dreamed in the large bath at night.

"Idiot, bastard, run, I'm putting a lot of money on you!"

On the field, eight ancient Roman chariots were galloping rapidly, and the eight royal hands tried their best to maintain their balance, but today it was really evil, and the green and blue chariots, which had always maintained their superiority, swayed and fell behind as if they had diarrhea, and the four carriages of the white team and the red team, which were usually at the bottom, were speeding in front of them.

At the top of the Blue Party seats, the fat ball of the Blue Party veteran Leonti roared angrily, I really couldn't imagine that the fat hand could be stretched out so far, and the spit stars sprayed on the back of the head of the big bald man in the first row.

These days are really hell, politically the main battle faction has lost, the green party and the blue party in the east of the empire have lost a mess, it can be expected that in the end the Arabs will come in, they will still have to abandon everything and run away with the emperor, and when the time comes, they will lose all their industries, honor guards, it can be expected, the status of the poor white party and the red party that has been suppressed will be replaced by them.

If you lose politically, you will lose, that is not something that can be recovered by manpower, and you can still lose so badly in competition.

"Acrius, hurry up and run for Lao Tzu! If you can't win, Lao Tzu will send you to fight the lion! Leonti's eyes were almost as red as a rabbit, and he couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.

"Don't bother Lao Tzu, uh ......"

Leonti, who had just shaken off his hand impatiently and turned back half of his head, immediately straightened his eyes and shouted in dismay: "Brother Wu, why did you come to Constantinople?" ”

Behind him, Wu Yuanqing's fat face opened into a haunted smile, revealing a mouth full of big yellow teeth.

The Roman baths have been criticized by later generations as degenerate and dirty, and some historians even listed it as a major reason for the decline of the Roman Empire, but it has to be said that the Roman bathing in this era is really one of the most luxurious enjoyments in the world.

The luxury of Roman bathing was completely recorded by the Ottoman Empire, which later took over the place, and the famous Turkish bath was born from Roman bathing.

The most famous baths of Zeus in Byzantium, where groups of naked maids and prostitutes came and went, constantly bringing seasonal fruits, sweet grapes, and fatty barbecues, where well-dressed aristocratic senators completely tore off the skin of hypocrites and turned into beasts called men.

Blatant stick hole sports are everywhere, men on women, women on men and men are all trivial, one to one, one to two, one p is also commonplace, here are not only inferior women, men and women mixed bathing rich bathrooms, even many noble ladies are as pale as usual, comfortable bathers under the service of slaves.

But the only thing that Wu Yuanqing is not comfortable with is that there are more than women here, seeing a handsome and handsome big boy drop a piece of soap at his feet, he just bent down to pick it up......

Hey, it's miserable. As soon as the chrysanthemum was cool, Wu Yuanqing wrapped the bath towel tightly, and Hou Jie, who followed in, simply threw the soap far away, and inadvertently, it caused a tragedy of chrysanthemum remnants.

Putting these dangers aside, the Roman bath already had most of the things of later generations, such as steam baths, hot air saunas, gyms, hot pools, cold plunge pools, and steaming in the hot air room like a fiery roast suckling pig, and then going to the cold plunge pool into the water, the refreshed, cool people are relaxed from the tips of the hair to the heels.

Another effect of the Roman bath is to give the crowd an excellent place to talk about politics and business, after a few people happily washed around, while lying on the chaise longue enjoying the massage of the slave girl, the lust fan stared at Hou Jie's small chest muscles that shrank back, Leonti asked very casually.

"Brother Wu, what are you doing when you don't enjoy the blessings of the capital of your Fujian Kingdom, and you have traveled thousands of miles to Constantinople?"