Constantinople, once the Roman Emperor and now the Roman Khan Michael VIII, lived in a beautiful court. It is a remnant of the empire's heyday. In front of the door, there is a large relief statue in the ancient Greek style, a fountain composed of a human sculpture and a water spray mechanism, and clear water gushes out of the jug above the head of a naked female stone statue.

"It's really immoral!" Liu Bingzhong got off the carriage and couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at the stone statue in front of him. How could the Romans make such immorality? Ming Jing (Liu Xiaoyuan) is also yes, why don't people smash such sculptures?

Several men wearing golden crowns in the shape of olive leaves, red velvet robes, and golden scepters were huddled around Liu Xiaoyuan, who was dressed in Han-style official clothes. Liu Bingzhong's eyes turned over, and he suddenly saw a somewhat dazzling scene. A woman flashed behind Liu Xiaoyuan, a young, blonde woman with straight breasts! And she seems to be dressed a little cool, with a red velvet sleeveless Roman dress, two snow-white arms exposed, one of which is still hooking Liu Xiaoyuan's arm!

Hooking the man's arm like this in public, is this a dusty woman?

Just when Liu Bingzhong was confused, Liu Xiaoyuan greeted the beauty next to him with a spring breeze on his face, which is stunning in terms of Western aesthetics.

"Uncle, you're finally here." Liu Xiaoyuan arched his hand with a smile, and then pointed to the Western woman beside him, "This is Anna. Paleolina, daughter of Roman Khan. ”

Daughter of Roman Khan!? It is...... Is that the woman Liu Xiaoyuan said he wanted to marry in his letter to the Great Khan? Liu Bingzhong was stunned for a moment, and then looked at this Anna carefully. Valleo Lina. It's a bit of a posture, and the skin is very white. Like milk, the eyes are big. It's pretty with a high nose bridge. Looks very energetic. But the hair is too yellow, the whole thing is a yellow hairy girl, and I don't know what Liu Xiaoyuan likes about others?

"Anna, this is my uncle." Liu Xiaoyuan slowed down his speech so that his fiancée could barely understand.

"Hello uncle." Anna. Valleorina winked playfully, then lifted the hem of her skirt and bowed.

"Good ......" Liu Bingzhong nodded reluctantly, looking at his new niece and daughter-in-law and just smiling bitterly.

Liu Xiaoyuan's wife, Fubo, has followed him all the way in the past few years. He didn't enjoy any blessings, and died of illness last spring. And Liu Xiaoyuan did not take a concubine, and a single person must be lonely in Constantinople. Then somehow, he hooked up with a little Roman girl who couldn't even speak Chinese, and this little girl was also the daughter of the Roman Khan - Michael VIII of the Roman Khan already had two daughters married to the Mongols, and the Golden Horde Nahai and the Ilkhan Abha were both his sons-in-law, and it was nothing to send a girl to seduce Liu Xiaoyuan, the Taishang Khan of Rome.

Who made the decline of the Eastern Rome of today unseemly? Just look at Constantinople, which is almost empty. The former capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, a famous city founded by Constantine the Great, now has less than 70,000 inhabitants (not counting the 20,000 Mongol Eight Banner soldiers brought by Liu Xiaoyuan). This was only after Michael VIII spared no effort to bring the Romans (of Greek origin) from Asia Minor into Constantine.

The empty Constantinople naturally couldn't support too many troops, and the army owned by Roman Khan Michael VIII was certainly not as many as the 20,000 Red Banner soldiers brought by Liu Xiaoyuan, and the weaponry and training were even worse. How dare you not try your best to please this "Taishang Khan"?

If you don't serve Liu Xiaoyuan, it's good. Not to mention the restoration of the Great Rome of the past, even the current Eastern Rome, it will not be able to sustain it! When Roman Khan did this. It is self-deprived from the people of the West. If Michael VIII had a choice, he would not have been willing to do so.

But he couldn't help it! Liu Xiaoyuan came with an army of 20,000. I really want to keep them out. That is the declaration of war on Mongolia. Is it possible to use the broken Eastern Rome to defend the damned Latins against the million-strong army of the Mongols?

If Michael VIII had done this, he wouldn't have been an almighty spider!

However, the sacrifice of a daughter was not enough to save the Eastern Roman Empire from the catastrophe that was in sight. He became a Roman Khan who submitted to the Mongols. You have to help the Mongols charge into battle to attack the Christian countries of the West!

As the weather warmed up, the Mongol Khanate moved from Kuyu to the lower reaches of the Dnieper, and the beginning of the large-scale Mongol westward expedition was getting closer. Michael VIII, on the other hand, was ill at this time. Even when the Mongolian envoy arrived today, he couldn't get up to greet him.

……

"How? Did Roman Khan's illness get better? If it doesn't work out, I'll bring a few Mongolian doctors this time and ask them to take a look? ”

"Mongolian doctor? Forget it, don't be cured...... Uncle and nephew have actually crossed the pulse for Roman Khan. ”

On the way to the palace of Michael VIII of Roman Khan, the uncle and nephew talked about Roman Khan's illness.

"Oh, the number has passed? What do you think? Liu Bingzhong asked with interest, he knew that Liu Xiaoyuan's medical skills were good.

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled faintly and shook his head, "I don't know, nothing has come out, but I have already prescribed Chinese medicine to him." ”

"Prescribe medicine without coming out of anything? Mingjing, is there such a doctor as you? ”

Liu Xiaoyuan smiled, "It's okay, it's just some warm medicine, and you can't eat it." ”

"But he's sick." Liu Bingzhong looked at his nephew.

"The Sickness of Roman Khan...... It's better to rely on Chongxi! As Liu Xiaoyuan spoke, he glanced at the Roman beauty beside him.

Roman Khan really found a good son-in-law!

Liu Bingzhong followed Liu Xiaoyuan and Anna. When Paleorina and a group of elders of the Roman Khanate approached the room where the Roman Khan was recuperating, they smelled a foul, very strong smell of medicine. All the Romans frowned, as if imagining how bitter the medicine was.

The door opened, in the dim light. Roman Khan Michael VIII was lying on a large wooden bed with a large glass jar on top of the bedside table, full of black Chinese medicine! It's bitter to watch, and there are so many, I don't know who Liu Xiaoyuan's medical skills learned from?

A blonde woman in her thirties, with a bit of charm between her eyebrows, had already stood up, nodding and smiling at the visitor.

"This is Queen Theodora. Ducasse. Batazena. Liu Xiaoyuan raised his hand and pointed at the woman, and then said to his uncle, "Both the Khan and the queen speak Mongolian. ”

"King Khan, this is my uncle, he is the messenger of the Great Khan, and he has come to visit you on behalf of the Great Khan."

Liu Xiaoyuan spoke Mongolian, very slowly, so that Roman Khan could understand it.

"The Great Khan himself has reached the lower reaches of the Dnieper River under the escort of the cowardly Xue army of the Zhengbai Banner!" Liu Bingzhong took Liu Xiaoyuan's words and also said them word by word in Mongolian. "This fall, the Great Khan will attack Poland! The Great Khan ordered the Roman army to march west in the summer! ”

Hearing this, Roman Khan on the bed snorted a few times, looking like he was out of breath and less in breath.

"Uncle," Liu Xiaoyuan changed to Chinese again, "it is not easy to go west, although Constantinople is known as the gateway to Europa, it is not easy to go west. The Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Hungary are not weak countries, and the terrain there is complex and mountainous areas. To add insult to injury, the three great maritime powers of the Mediterranean, Venice, Genoa, and Pisa, have joined forces, and they have hundreds of galleys and control many islands in the Aegean Sea, ready to threaten Constantinople at any time. ”

He paused and added: "The cause of Roman Khan is here, and no medicine will work. ”

Only then did Liu Bingzhong realize that Roman Khan's illness turned out to be fake.

"But the Great Khan received news from the Mamluks that the Ming forces had infiltrated Europa, allied themselves with the Holy See and the Holy Roman Khan, and were now helping them form a crusade. It is said that 100,000 troops have been trained, all of which are trained according to the methods of the Ming army, as well as cannons, arquebuses and steel provided by the Ming Dynasty. If this crusader army is not led to Italy, I am afraid that they will go to reinforce Poland and the Teutonic Knights, and the territory of Poland and the Teutonic Knights will have to be taken by the Great Khan. It would be better if we could attack Germany in one go......"

Kublai Khan, of course, would not have believed that with less than 40,000 men of Roman Khan and the Mongol Red Banner, he could enter Italy. Kublai Khan also had a map of Europa in his hand, and knew that the southern part of Europa was mountainous and conducive to defense, and he also knew the reality of the countries of Europa. Poland and Bulgaria in Eastern Europe are weak countries, and their countries are in chaos, and they can't stop the iron hooves of the Mongolian army at all! Further west, the Holy Roman Empire was not bad, although the Great Khan had already been elected. However, the country was not unified, there were many princes, each doing his own thing, and there was no decent army, all of them were chaotic knights. However, there are several powerful countries on the Italian Peninsula in the south of Europa, although they are all small countries with a big palm, but they can't stand people who have money, and if they have money, they can hire soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of mercenaries is much more reliable than those knights!

Moreover, the naval forces of these small countries are very powerful, they are invincible in the Mediterranean, and now they may also be supported by the Daming Atlantic Fleet, which can attack from the sea. It's a thorn that is hard to deal with.

Therefore, the Mongol Great Khan decided to avoid the real and make Eastern and Central Europe the main targets of attack. After turning the knights of Eastern and Central Europe into fourth-class Europe, they were driven to attack the mountains of southern Europe and slowly consume Italy's strength.

However, in order to facilitate the attack on Eastern and Central Europe, Kublai Khan still ordered Roman Khan and Liu Xiaoyuan to send troops westward. Needless to say, Kublai Khan wanted to make Roman Khan's generals cannon fodder. (To be continued......)