"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Wu, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, has come to visit, and now the fleet is almost at the mouth of the river outside the city!" In the main hall, an Eastern Roman naval officer stepped forward to report.

"What?" Hearing this, Constans II, who was dressed in a purple robe, suddenly stood up from his chair with an incredible expression on his face. And the queen Irina and his good friend Forris, who were next to him, also looked incredulous.

"How is this possible, Datang is extremely far away from us, and the status of the prince of Datang is extremely noble, even if he wants to come, he will definitely notify us in advance, but now we have not received any news, the other party should be pretending, right?" Forris reacted quickly and spoke first.

However, as soon as Forris's words fell, the officer who came to report the news immediately spoke: "Your Excellency Archon Qiqi, we were also suspicious at the beginning, but the other party showed the letters of state written by the two popes of the Tianzhu Empire, and there are four main warships accompanying them to protect it, it definitely does not look like a fake. ”

"Warship?" Constans II's eyes lit up after hearing this, he had long heard that the shipbuilding skills of the Han people were superb, and the performance of those Han merchant ships was better than that of Roman warships, which made Constans II very curious about the warships of the Han people, and he always wanted to see what the other party's warships looked like, but he didn't expect it to be realized so quickly.

"Your Majesty, are we going to change our costumes and inform the ministers at the same time to prepare to welcome this Tang prince who has come from afar?" At this moment, Irina, who had not spoken next to her, suddenly said. The two emperors of Tianzhu, Their Majestic, are also the sons of the Tang Emperor, since they have their national letters, plus there are warships from the Tang Dynasty. This will naturally prove the identity of the other party, so the next thing they need to prepare for is what they need to be ready for.

"That's right. Inform the ministers to go to the port to greet them, and the queen and I will also change our clothes! Constans II said excitedly. In the past, he had always sent envoys to Datang for exchanges, hoping to bring the relationship between the two countries closer. The arrival of Li Ke was the first time that the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to send an envoy to contact Rome, and the other party was also a noble prince, which was of great political significance.

With the order of Constans II, the news of Li Ke's arrival also spread quickly, and as a result, the whole of Constantinople was a sensation, all the nobles changed into formal clothes in the shortest possible time, and the noblewomen also wore their most beautiful clothes. Then he rushed to the harbor in a horse-drawn carriage.

Constantinople is surrounded by the sea on three sides, so strictly speaking, the whole city is built on a prominent trapezoidal peninsula, of which the east of the peninsula is the exit of the Bosphorus, and the southern side of the peninsula is dangerous, and the palace is located here, but although this palace is built by the sea, but behind it is a cliff, which cannot be climbed at all. In addition, on the sea on the south side of the palace, there are also two sea walls, which are also guarded by soldiers, so the safety of the palace cannot be questioned.

To the north of the city is the famous Golden Horn. It is a narrow bay about seven kilometers long, and at the same time one of the world's premier natural fine ports, most of Constantinople's naval and maritime transport activities. Most of them are concentrated here, and the people in the city call the port. Generally this refers to this.

When Li Ke and his fleet headed for the Golden Horn, they were just passing through the eastern end of Constantinople. The imperial palace also happened to be located on the south side of this end, so when the fleet passed here, Li Ke and his team held binoculars in their hands and observed the situation of this palace from a distance.

The emperor of Eastern Rome also set political and religious power in one, so the palace was called the holy palace by the Romans, and it was also because of this that the building of the holy palace had an obvious religious style, and Li Ke saw that all of them were buildings with spires, which looked not much different from the churches of the Romans, but the buildings were larger and more majestic.

Li Ke looked at the majestic holy palace in front of him, and couldn't help but compare it with the Taiji Palace in Chang'an, and found that the holy palace still can't be compared with the Taiji Palace in terms of scale, at least the area of the Taiji Palace is much larger than the Holy Palace, as for the architectural style, it can't be said who is good and who is not good, but the Holy Palace is stronger than the Taiji Palace, that is, the Holy Palace is mostly made of marble as building materials, and the Taiji Palace is mainly made of wood, so this Holy Palace must be stronger than the Taiji Palace in terms of solidity and fire resistance.

"Your Highness, His Majesty the Emperor of Rome has sent an envoy to meet you!" While Li Ke was enjoying the scenery of the Holy Palace, a very crisp voice suddenly said next to him. Li Ke put down the binoculars and turned back, just to see Coris in a palace costume standing beside him, although Coris is a Persian woman, but the appearance of blonde hair and blue eyes in palace clothes is also unique.

"Well, yes, come with me to meet the Roman emissary!" Li Ke nodded and said, I don't know if he said it was good or dressed well? And Coris naturally followed Li Ke's side with an excited face.

Chrissy didn't know Li Ke's true identity at first, and only thought that he was an important person in the fleet, but she soon found that even the captain Lu Wan respected Li Ke very much, and even at any time, Li Ke would have several guards by her side to protect her, which made her a little curious about Li Ke's identity.

It wasn't until they entered the Aegean Sea that Wang Fangyi in the rear joined them with four warships, and then Li Ke finally revealed his true identity, which made Chris, a little slave girl, shocked beyond measure, and even didn't dare to look up at Li Ke for several days, until she entered the Black Sea Strait, she slowly recovered a little.

Now Coris serves as Li Ke's translator, and at the same time his maid, and she is also the kind that can warm the bed. It's just that poor little Coris has just adapted to Li Ke's identity, and now she wants to go with him to meet the Roman emperor, which makes the little slave girl look very nervous.

Li Ke walked to the side of the warship, and just saw a Roman warship close to their ship below, just because their warship was too tall, so several officials wearing Roman official uniforms on the other ship had to look up, and when one of the officials saw Li Ke above, he immediately exclaimed: "His Royal Highness King Wu, it is really His Royal Highness King Wu!" ”

"Huh~" Li Ke followed the voice and found that this Roman official also made him feel a little familiar, but for a while, he couldn't remember where he had seen it?

At this moment, the guards on the warship lowered the rope ladder, and then several officials below climbed up the ladder, and after the official who spoke just now came up, he immediately walked a few steps to Li Ke and saluted: "See His Royal Highness King Wu, don't you remember me?" ”

Although Li Su felt that the other party was a little familiar, he really couldn't remember where he had seen it, but he quickly remembered another thing, that is, Rome sent an envoy to Chang'an, and the other party's name was Xiluo, who had participated in the first Winter Games, and that sports meeting happened to be organized by him and Li Su together.

Thinking of this, Li Ke pointed at the other party and laughed: "The old man at the sports meeting of the year naturally remembers, but the world is wonderful, I didn't expect that more than ten years later, we would meet again in Rome, thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty." ”

The reason why Constans II sent him to greet him was because he knew Chinese, and secondly, Siro mentioned Li Ke in the book he wrote, and also used a considerable amount of space to describe Li Ke's reputation in the Tang Dynasty, so Constans II sent Siluo to identify whether Li Ke was really His Royal Highness King Wu of the Tang Dynasty?

Hearing Li Su's words, Xi Luo also seemed very excited, and stepped forward again and said gratefully: "I haven't seen you for many years, His Royal Highness King Wu's demeanor is still the same, and for so many years, I haven't come to thank the two highnesses, if it weren't for that sports meeting, I might still be a warrior in Tibet, and I will never have the opportunity to return to Rome." ”

The reason why Xiluo said this is mainly because after the Games, he won a gold medal for Tubo, which ended up getting the attention of Songtsen Gampo, and later he was promoted, and he was also much freer, which gave him the opportunity to jump out of Tibet, and then enter the Tang Dynasty to live for two years, and finally returned to the Eastern Roman Empire from the sea, so he said that the Games changed his destiny.

However, Li Ke was a little surprised after hearing this, he didn't know what Xiluo meant? Originally, after Ciro came to Datang as an envoy, because of his legendary experience, it aroused the interest of many newspapers, and many newspapers interviewed him, and also introduced Ciro's experience in the newspaper, which also caused a sensation, and also made the Games a bit legendary. However, Li Ke was worried about overseas development at that time, and later went to Li Su, so he didn't see it at all, and of course he didn't know what Xiluo had at the beginning.

However, although Li Ke didn't understand the meaning of Xiluo's words, he could also see that the Roman envoy not only knew himself, but also expressed gratitude to himself, which made Li Ke also very happy, and he also chatted with the other party about the changes in the Tang Dynasty over the years, as well as Li Ke's situation over the years, which made Xiluo's good impression of Li Ke double.

After they got on Li Ke's warship, the Roman warship that had sent them led the way, and after crossing Constantinople, the Golden Horn as a port finally appeared in front of them.

I saw that the entrance to this narrow bay is not very wide, and at the entrance, the Romans also built a water village, the water village has four huge entrances and exits, a large number of ships enter and exit the bay from here, it looks very prosperous.

And when Li Ke and his fleet passed through the entrance to the Golden Horn, what greeted them was a very busy port scene, and on the wharf on the south side of the port, it was a crowded scene, and almost all the residents of Constantinople who got the news gathered on the wharf, ready to enjoy the demeanor of the Tang prince who came from thousands of miles. (To be continued......)