After the name Justinia was spoken, Ding Yi's attitude towards him was obviously much kinder. Because the last commander of Constantinople, Ding Yi remembers that he was also called by such a name. There is no doubt that it was Justinia's command that allowed the Roman Empire to survive in its final years, and after the death of Justinia in battle, Constantine soon fell.

"What kind of conditions can you offer?" Ding Yi inquired about the position that the other party held in Junding Dantinburg before coming to the east, and determined that it was very likely that the commander in front of him was the commander in history, and his attitude was much better, but he did not express more, because he had seen too many celebrities, even Yu Qian had seen them, what about Justinia? In terms of the continuation of the ancient empire, Yu Qian was undoubtedly much stronger than Justinia, even in the case of the fall of the emperor, he still kept the Ming Dynasty, but Justinia could not keep the Roman Empire.

Justinia is not a naïve boy, he came east with the mission of asking for help, and naturally knows that reinforcements will not be obtained for no reason. But what else could Constantine or the Eastern Roman Empire take out in exchange? If I thought that maybe the level of metal smelting in the Roman Empire could have exchange value, after watching the drills of the soldiers left behind in Xiangshan County, Justinia shut up very familiarly.

Because in the kingdom of Arakan, he happened to see the hook and sickle in the hands of the guards around Gong Ju, the sharp blade in the hands of the strong soldiers, after several powerful stabs, combined with modern or at least modern steelmaking, heat treatment process of carbon steel, pierced through the Western-style armor he brought from Constantinople.

Originally, he still had a little expectation for thermal weapons. However, the garrison battalion in Xiangshan County, the reloading unit in the third order, has also been reequipped with the imitation 98K rear-loading rifled rifle driven by the granular black fire * powder of the dragoon battalion. In fact, the entire first division of the Ming Dynasty. Basically, all the Suifa muskets have been eliminated, although the Wuzhou factory did not make a phased leap in the manufacture of cannons or steelmaking as Ding Yi hoped, but Li Jiangtou and the head of the factory, that is, Ling Dumu of Cangwu County, did not mess around, and did not mess around, in the time of Ding Yi's conquest of Yunyuan, going north to Beijing, conquering Pingguanwai, and seizing the door for restoration. They also completed the refitting of more than 20,000 regular troops of the entire Ming First Division. As for the eliminated Suifa guns, they are on their way to the Beijing Division, and they are ready to be loaded into the Second Ming Division and the Second Ming Division outside the Guan.

After watching a shooting training at the Xiangshan County Garrison Battalion. Justinia no longer dared to expect anything from the firearms technology that Constantine had mastered. Of course, he still has Constantaville, at least to be able to build such a huge castle. Even if you maintain it. It also requires a lot of builders, but in Temasek he happened to see Uncle Chung's men building the forts, and although he only stayed in Temasek for two days, he bet that the small forts would be built in half a month according to the progress he had seen, and he had visited the built bamboo and cement forts, even the artillery that Constantine now had. It is impossible to destroy it in a single salvo, it is as hard as a rock. Like a rock-generated fortress!

So, he realized that he really had nothing to come up with.

"You still have Constantine." Ding Yi looked at him, shook his head, and said, "But if I'm not mistaken, you only have Constantine, and apart from it, the Roman Empire no longer has anything or territory. Don't try to deceive me, or you won't be able to get what you promised at Constantine, and I don't mind joining the side of the Ottoman Empire, working with them to quickly settle the Roman Empire, and then divide the spoils together. ”

Ding Yi's words made Justinia's face even more bitter, although these words were very hurtful, but what Ding Yi said was the truth, it was no longer the Rome of Caesar's time, Western Rome had fallen, and the Byzantine Empire, that is, Eastern Rome, did have nothing except the city of Constantine.

Of course, he could boast of saying something about the Eastern Roman Territory and so on, but what Ding Yi was doing made him wisely dismiss this idea, because Ding Yi took a charcoal pen and a blank piece of paper, and sketched the perimeter of the Mediterranean Sea in a few strokes, and put a circle on the lower left of it, and said to Justinia: "This is the Aegean Sea." "This is the Black Sea." Say, what else do you have besides Constantine? And war is about profit, I don't think you can expect me to send troops to fight the Ottoman army just for the sake of pity or favor, right? ”

Without waiting for him to answer, Ding Yi drew a few lines under the Aegean Sea, and this time without waiting for Ding to speak, Justinia said helplessly: "This is the Red Sea, yes, we sailed east from the Red Sea to the ...... of the Arakanese Kingdom after the landing of Egypt" In this era, there is no Suez River Canal, and it is unlikely that it will enter the Aegean Sea directly from the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea, and then enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Turkish Strait.

"So, I'll have to land from Iraq or Oman, and maybe I'll have to fight the Timurid Empire, and then I'll have to fight to the sea, from here, into the Mediterranean, right?" Ding Yi looked up at Justinia, threw down his charcoal, and asked him, "Or is there any other way you can get my army into the Mediterranean Sea more quickly and reach Constantine?" ”

Justinia reluctantly pointed to the map drawn by Ding Yi and said: "You are extremely right, you can only enter the Mediterranean Sea from Hellespont, of course, you can also advance by land, but ......" It will take a lot of time, and what Constantine lacks most now is time, if you advance by land, even if Ding Yi's army can defeat the Ottoman troops, when they go to Constantine, I am afraid that the Roman Empire will completely become a noun."

Ding Yi picked up the charcoal again, sketched the coastline according to his memory on the east side of the Aegean Sea, and then on the land between the Red Sea and the Aegean Sea, he made a cross and said to He Tiedan beside him in Chinese: "You haven't seen the pyramids?" Maybe we should build a base in this place and open up the Suez Canal? "The place where he crossed is Egypt.

He Tiedan didn't know what a pyramid was, but there was a bloodthirsty light in his eyes, and he subconsciously licked his tongue and asked Ding Yi: "Sir, after you get to that place, don't you want to abide by the discipline of the army anymore?" No, no! The villain naturally knows that the army has to prohibit it, but when he gets there, it is just like what the adoptive brother said, he can let go of his hands and feet, grab money, grab food, and grab women! After all, he was born as a pirate, and what he never forgot was that in the legend, Ding Yiying inherited his subordinates, and after leaving Huaxia, in addition to acting and obeying the command, he no longer had to abide by the mass policy.

Ding Yi smiled, glanced at He Tiedan, and said, "You can't read and write, this memory is not bad?" Yes, if we really go there, before we establish an effective system of government, it is true that the mass policy can be relaxed, but it is not unlimited, and the reason for liberalizing the mass policy is because it is necessary to establish a deterrent force in the initial stage, so as to ensure the authority of the laws we have formulated. ”

He Tiedan seems to be very perceptive in this regard: "The little one knows that the first group of people, if they go there to fight for their lives, they can naturally ignore it, and then talk about not killing people, and point to Liwei; The second group of people has gone, and my land has been settled, so it is not good to go too far; The third group of people will go again, of course, it will not be easy to do it again, that is, the tenant farmers who rent the landlord's land for three generations, and the general year is not good, and the main family will not force it too much. ”

Ding Yi nodded when he heard it and said: "The words are not rough, there is a little truth, but as far as the first batch of people you said, it is very risky, whether it is the landing operation, or the wind and waves of the sea route......" He didn't know, He Tiedan didn't listen to a word about the back.

He Tiedan has his own understanding: the first batch of people to follow Ding Yi to work hard, the risk is high, so naturally they can rob the girls, kill people or something; The second batch, the risk is small, of course, it must be constrained; In the third batch, the whole world has been defeated, even if you want to bully men and women, you must have a fig leaf!

At this time, Justinia gritted her teeth, but finally raised her head and said to Ding Yi in French: "Perhaps, the bargaining chips that please send troops to help us are only the titles of Emperor and Caesar." Looking at Ding Yi a little puzzled, Justinia continued, "Our monarch now only uses the title of king, and no longer uses the title of Roman emperor. When he said this, he also appropriately revealed a trace of sadness about the imminent demise of a great country.

For since the division of Eastern and Western Rome, there has been one emperor for each, and the emperors of Eastern and Western Rome have each appointed their deputy Caesar, that is, there are actually four emperors. There is no need to say that Western Rome has fallen, and Eastern Rome, that is, the emperor of Byzantium at this time, has only called himself Βασιλε??,Βασιλε?? _των_Ελλ?δα, that is, the king of Greece.

Instead of using αυτοκρ?τορα?, it is imperator, that is, the title of emperor.

Of course, as for those masters of the universe, Supreme Majesty, eternal masters, etc., they are probably even more useless, because the entire Eastern Rome is left with the city of Constantine and a few ports! Except for the shameless island country in the east of China, where the place with a big nose calls itself the emperor, normally speaking, an ancient country like Rome is still somewhat self-aware.

Ding Yi laughed when he heard this, stood up, patted Justinia on the shoulder, and said to him: "Indeed, this is the only thing you can come up with now, let me think about it, maybe, I will accept your conditions." Then Ding Yi asked the guards to take the other party down to rest.

"Having accepted the title of αυτοκρ?τορα?, can we justifiably put forward in the West in the future: This is the inherent territory of China!" Ding Yi said this to He Tiedan with a smile, but he restrained the smile on his face and commanded in a low voice: "Monitor this guy named Justinia, this guy is wrong, I doubt that he was sent by Constantinople to ask for help!" (To be continued......)