Chapter 0541. Windfall, gentleman...
"Alright! The best Uzi Ganggu was all left behind, and handed over to Master Feng to create a peerless famous sword, and then Luo'er and Man'er, Xinyi and they shared it by themselves, okay? ”
Out of the blacksmith workshop with the smell of urine and fish, seeing that his wife and the chief blacksmith were all sullen, Li Jie had to turn his head with a wry smile and said, which made the two of them relieved, and the careful Li Jie also turned around and patted the sullen silver mask fish scale armor general who had been guarding behind him and said: "Yu'er, don't feel distressed, I'll give you a better one when I go back." {This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]"
"Li Que thanked His Highness for the reward."
Although it was obviously a joy, the silver mask boy still bowed respectfully, looking at her like this, Li Jie finally shook his head helplessly.
Hundreds of guards drove, the new forbidden army Zhonglang will be Dugu and the rigorous platoon will be Li Jie to guard it, this time the counterinsurgency war Guanzhong immigrant family showed great bravery, so Li Jiete promoted the children of the Dugu family as a pro-honor, in order to show praise and trust, with the iron-blooded tradition of the Guanlong military group, Dugu and indeed the forbidden army was well governed.
Such a neat escort team finally walked out of the blacksmith workshop area in the smoke, and at this time, suddenly a dozen or so faces were also smoked in the thick smoke, and the black knight galloped wildly, and even dismounted and climbed in front of the king's car.
"Who?"
After all, he was young, and he stood up with a sudden situation, and he shouted loudly when he drew his sword, and the main general was nervous, so frightened that the rest of the forbidden army also drew their swords, and the cold light reflected in the sound of the knight's face turned white with fright.
"My own people, the last general Fengche General Li Rong, and the guerrilla general Zhang Ergou visited His Highness."
Listening to this crying, Li Jie almost stopped laughing, it turned out to be Li Fatzi.
There are more than 1,000 rangers who followed Li Jie out of Guanzhong, and there are very few left, Li Jie is one of them, he is successful in being timid and thoughtful, never going beyond anything, unlike some rangers who have a little power and know the law and commit many crimes, and some even Li Jie has to take action to get rid of them himself.
For the old hero, Li Jie also showed a different kind of tolerance and closeness, and hurriedly retreated from the guards to meet him.
"I don't have the eyesight to see it, this is General Li, your senior, you still pee and play with mud when he is working hard for this king."
The guards put away their knives with tears and laughter, and looked at Li Rong who was lying on the ground like a big cake, Li Jie asked with a smile again: "What's wrong Li Qing, could it be that you are continuing the strings again, and you want to go alone to drink the wedding wine?" ”
A joke made Li Rong's old face flush with shame, after making meritorious contributions, it is true that many generals in Fujian have married wives and concubines, but there are really not many people like him marrying like this, Li Jie did not fight a place, he married a beauty of the local race, and now in the backyard of General Fengche, the concubine of the Japanese people, the concubine of the She people, the concubines of the slang people, the concubines of the Lou people, and the concubines of the Lou Qi people, many mahjong games can be drawn into a casino.
"Returning to the King of Fujian, it's not the last general to get married, it's the Fengtai Order, Princess Wu found something in the tribute of the Khorasan Persians to meet the nobles, and I want to ask His Highness to take a look."
Now Li Jie understood, no wonder this fat man was in such a hurry, his subordinate Zuo Jin Wuwei was in charge of the security of the Beijing Division, and it was normal for Wu Meiniang to send him if he had something, and he was suddenly interested, Li Jie couldn't help but smile and nodded: "Then drive and go back to the palace." ”
The four-wheeled canopy carriage of the Black Dragon Banner representing the majesty of the Fujian Kingdom swaggered through the city under the escort of the knights of the forbidden army along the way, although there was no order from Jingjie, the people of Beijing along the way consciously retreated to the side, and their eyes showed reverence.
Returning from the south of the city to the north of the city, it really took more than an hour to get to the Min Palace, most of the functions of the Beijing Division, the residential area was almost built, Li Jie finally let go of the palace for himself, the original bare harem is now full of foundation scaffolding, just in the newly repaired side hall near the Min King's dormitory, densely packed with boxes.
These were all objects brought in by foreign envoys, 400,000 gold coins from the Arab Empire filled more than 30 boxes, and the pearls and gems paid tribute by the nobles of Khorasan were piled up, but these things were all placed outside.
Suspiciously, he walked down the narrow aisle of the courtyard to the side hall house, but before he could walk in, Li Jie couldn't help frowning, and a strong smell like a gas station in his previous life came out......
At noon in Fujian, Byzantium was already approaching evening in the afternoon.
During the month's trip, Anna really knew what had happened to her country during her absence, a series of battles were lost, a million square kilometers of Asian territory from the two river basins were now almost lost, the Arab army broke through two-thirds of Asia Minor, and the outposts even extended to the Bosphorus Strait, from here, you can see the Byzantine city walls on the opposite bank of Europe.
The Asia Minor Military Region is gone, the Armenian Military Region is ruined, Syria, a heavy tax country, has been lost, and even the Nile Valley in Egypt, the grain producing area on which Byzantium depends, has changed color with the rolling iron hooves of the Arab army, not to mention the important grain producing area, and even the navy that guards the pride of the grain ship empire is gone.
In the battle of the ship's mast, more than 500 Byzantine sea ships and nearly 100,000 people besieged more than 200 Arab sea ships and 30,000 people, but the Arabs used the tactics of connecting the city to connect the tall and heavy Arab warships into a sea giant city with iron chains and entangled in the imperial naval array, turning the angle battle and the broadside battle into hand-to-hand combat.
It is really ironic that hundreds of years ago, in the Punic Wars, the Roman army mounted the Crow Bridge on the Mediterranean ship to nail the Carthaginian warship, and defeated the former maritime empire by hand-to-hand combat, but now it has been re-knocked to the bottom of the sea by hand-to-hand combat.
After all, he also knew that his life was in danger, and after sending Anna to the beach, Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites of the State of Fujian was making Yang Xiong take a thousand guards, so the mission stopped, and only allowed Anna to cross the sea with the edict of the King of Min and part of the gift money of the State of Fujian to enter the city first.
Along the way, Anna's original playful mood was really gone, Khalid triumphantly showed off and did not lie, and most of Byzantium's defenses were destroyed by the Black Eater.
Even the princess who crossed the sea to greet her was not the mighty and tall Mediterranean warship, but was replaced by a narrow and low ship, leading her panicked uncle and trembling little maid Ruth to board the ship, and Anna looked at the city wall of Theodosius, which was still majestic and dazzling under the slanting sun.
"Is the Empire left with no warships?"
Turning her head, Anna suddenly asked curiously about the infantry centurion who greeted her, but she didn't expect the stout Roman centurion who was over forty years old to spit disdainfully into the sea.
"Traitorous bitch!"
"Hey, it's the Roman princess standing in front of you, why are you so rude?" Ruth immediately scolded angrily, but the centurion turned his head to the side with disdain, leaving Ruth a metal helmet with colored horsehair armor on the back of her head.
"Forget it, Ruth."
"But, miss......"
In Anna's admonishing eyes, Ruth finally reluctantly retreated, but still muttered unhappily: "It's better to stay in Fujian, at least the Tang officers are not so rude." ”
Anna could only smile wryly and shake her head.
Boarding the boat and crossing the strait, and stopping at the coast of the Golden Horn, the hundred-man infantry led Anna off the ship, but it was not the Golden Gate that the royal family always walked, but the Takabi City Gate, which the merchants usually walked, and this unusual path immediately cast a layer of gloom on Anna's heart.
Fortunately, after entering the city gate, a familiar young man stood behind the city gate and led a horse to greet her quietly, wearing a Roman cavalry helmet and a heavy military coat, revealing a sturdy body and a gorgeous Byzantine general armor of appropriate size, the young man was about twenty years old, but he had the maturity and stability of a man in his forties.
"Brother!"
Like all pampered little sisters, Anna threw herself over with a smile and gave the young man a big hug. A wry smile appeared on Lao Cheng's cheeks, and Constantine, who had served as a co-emperor and governor of Syria since he was more than ten years old, couldn't help but show a bitter smile.
Abandoning his horse, Constantine and his sister Anna got into the carriage he had brought, and the orthodox Western carriage galloped through Constantinople, where church bells could be heard everywhere, especially the solemn Hagia Sophia.
The basilica was built by Emperor Justinian I, the emperor who brought the end of the Roman era and the beginning of the Byzantine Empire to great power* and performance*, and there was no such majestic domed cathedral in all of Europe, but the Byzantine inhabitants under the protection of the cross did not seem to enjoy the peace and tranquility they deserved.
On the contrary, Anna always felt the panic on the faces of the residents who came and went.
"How many troops do we have? How many fleets? Anna raised this question for the second time and sighed, but Constantine did not answer, but turned his head and asked: "You really promised that what kind of Fujian barbarian Roman will pay tribute to him?" ”
"It's just an expedient measure, the Arab caliph wants to form an alliance with the Min State, I was above the Min court at the time, I have to find a way to break their contract, and make the cunning Min King tempted, and this is the only one, by the way, how do you know?." After explaining, Anna turned her head in confusion, and Constantine shrugged helplessly.
"In order to hit the morale of the Roman army, the entire Arab Empire spread, and under the flood of rumors, many barbarian mercenaries collapsed and defected, fortunately, it didn't matter much......"
This is the role of the human heart, invisible and intangible, but priceless, the name of the empire in the center of Byzantine civilization has been dimmed, and people of foreign races and even their own countries have begun to be unwilling to shed blood and fight for him.
Obviously still unsatisfied with swallowing the flower back, Constantine took the trouble to start teaching his sister a lesson: "Anna, you have indeed handled this matter too inappropriately, but a small Tianzhu land barbarian, even if he allied with the Arabs, and I don't know how many small tribes have defected to the past, anyway, sooner or later they will regret it, and the Arabs will not let him go......"
"Brother, it's not a small barbarian state, it's a big country that rules the entire Tianzhu, and Fujian is still a branch of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, grandfather Heraclius never forgot to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty before his death, their land area spans the whole of Asia, until I have never been to the far away Oriental Sea, the strong and rich Fujian produces enough grain every year to feed hundreds of millions of people, the industry is flourishing, and weapons and armor are piled up."
Taking a deep breath, Anna screamed again: "And King Min is willing to continue to sell to the Arabs Uzi Steel, you don't know how terrible the weapon made by that thing is!" ”
Obviously, Constantine, who was a martial artist, also gasped, but after a while, he shook his head with a wry smile.
"My father wants to give up Constantinople and move the capital back to Rome!"
"What?"
It was like being struck by lightning, and Anna's beautiful brown eyes widened for a moment, and she screamed in disbelief.