Timur talked with Yuxi Timur for a night, and originally Timur felt that Yuxi Timur had not carefully studied the new policy of ploughing and warfare before, and should not know the joints inside. Unexpectedly, when I talked about it, I realized that Yuxi Timur not only knew the key in the cultivation war, but also knew how to select talents to use. Timur's words deeply touched Timur.

"Prince, the prosperity of my Great Mongolia today depends on fighting everywhere. But back then, the Great Mongolia was all fighting on its own, and there were no officials. Anyone has to rely on themselves to gain fame and fortune. At present, there are tens of thousands of noble officials in Great Mongolia, and most of them are not engaged in production. Let them fight, and they will not feel that the war is dangerous, and they must be cautious. Instead, he thought of asking the Great Khan for a reward after winning the battle. Therefore, if you don't win a battle, you will say that you will win a battle, and a small victory will become a big victory. When they are really allowed to fight and fight ruthlessly, these people will show their true colors of greed for life and fear of death. I am a royal historian, and I have seen too many such people, and the crown prince must be cautious and cautious, and never be deceived by others. ”

Timur did not leave that night, and stayed overnight in the Yuxi Timur house. Lying on the bed, thinking back to the words of the imperial historian Yuxi Timur, the more Timur thought about it, the more it made sense. Unconsciously, the excitement of becoming the crown prince also dissipated a lot. What he wants to inherit is not the Great Mongol Empire, which seems to be the enemy that has collapsed. The current Great Mongolia looks at the scenery, but in fact, it is full of dangers.

Yuxi Timur did not sleep, and when he learned that the emperor's grandson Timur had fallen asleep, Yuxi Timur called his son Tokhtar to the front, and he said in a stern tone: "Tokhtar!" Are you going to be a courtier? ”

Tokhtar didn't expect his father to suddenly accuse himself so harshly, and he didn't know how to answer for a while. I heard Yuxi Timur continue: "If I am not mistaken, you must have told the crown prince the reason why the Great Khan was estranged from the Great Marshal Boyan, right?" ”

Tokhoff didn't dare to say anything, but he heard his father ask, "Did you say it or didn't say it." ”

Swallowing his saliva, he replied in a low voice: "Yes." ”

"Now that you know why the Great Khan alienated the Great Commander of Boyan, how is what you have done different from that of the Great Commander of Boyan?" Yuxi Timur asked. After saying that, Yuxi Timur himself corrected: "Well, there are differences. Your merits are far inferior to those of Boyan Dashuai, and you are far less noble and decent than Boyan Dashuai, this is the difference between you. ”

Toto's face turned red, even if he was scolded by his father, Totoku would not have such a strong feeling of being humiliated. He only felt that his whole body was rising, and his heart was uncomfortable.

As a royal envoy, Yuxi Timur had seen too many ministers look like this under his questioning, and he had no sympathy for this. But on the other side was his own son, Yuxi Timur still sighed, and said with the heartfelt concern of his father: "The lord is the one who is in charge, and they will forget their identity as the lord when they do things, and accept all the sayings." But when things are done, they are lords. When I think that you dare to be their master, it is a great dissatisfaction in my heart. The so-called cunning rabbit dead lackey cooking, that's it. Tokhtar, you are my son, and I would never want to see you fall to that point. And you don't talk about morality, you only talk about success or failure, and you force people to do it after they run out of you. You've been following me for so many years, have you seen few people like this? ”

"I'm not that kind of person." Tokhtar said loudly.

"That kind of person is still for yourself, you just want to show off your ability. I'm afraid that the end will not be as good as those people! Yuxi Timur said bitterly: "The horse runs on the ground, and the eagle flies in the sky." You're not a horse or an eagle, you just want to play with others with your cleverness. When the situation changes, you have nowhere to go. ”

“…… Dad, you guide the government and punish the lawless. It's not also a long-sleeved dance. ”

"I am the imperial envoy of the Great Mongolia, and it is my duty to guide the government and punish lawlessness. At the root, I am a servant of the Great Khan. But do you have a courtier in your heart? If you really make yourself a courtier, I will never accuse you of what you have done. I'm not saying that you are capable or incompetent, but that you decide what you think your courtiers are going to do. In doing so, where do you place your lord? ”

……

The next morning, Timur woke up, and because he was going to court, he hurriedly took his leave and went home to change his clothes. On the same day, Yuxi Timur also went to court, but he did not see Tokto. Timur didn't care, there was so much to do, he really didn't have time to take care of it. And today, it is a very important thing that Kublai Khan will officially confer the 'crown prince gift' on Timur, which is a very solemn ceremony, which means that Timur has really held great power since then.

After the ceremony, Timur was exhausted. Kublai Khan announced that he would establish the 'Inner History Office' and assign subordinates to Timur. Timur did not dare to go to Timur's house again, so he could only wait in his own house. A few days later, the list of the Inner History Mansion was announced, and Yuxi Timur and other old ministers arranged several errands in the Inner History Mansion, but they did not see the name of Tokhtar.

Timur went to see Kublai Khan and asked his grandfather to give him Tokhtar. Kublai Khan replied, "The imperial envoy cannot be left alone, and I will let Tokhtar take this position." ”

Seeing that his grandfather didn't give it to him, Timur didn't dare to entangle at this time. I can only go back to the Inner History Mansion to start working. The first order was naturally to order Marshal Boyan to make an expedition to Italy, and the post of governor of Egypt was temporarily replaced by the Interior History Office.

Soon, the envoy of the Marshal Boyan came to meet the emperor's grandson Timur. After the official meeting, the envoy came to see Timur in person in the evening and sent Timur a personal letter from Marshal Boyan. When I opened it, Marshal Boyan was allegiance to Timur and said that he would definitely support Timur.

In the eyes of the imperial grandson, this is what should have happened. At this time, he also told the messenger that he wished the commander of Boyan a victorious and successful victory. The envoy hurried back to Cairo with Timur's answer, and saw that the docks in Cairo were bustling with activity. A large number of people were boarding the ship, presumably to take a boat to Sicily, which was controlled by Marshal Boyan.

In addition to the waterway, there are also people and horses heading west, and they should go overland to Tunis, which was conquered by the Marshal Boyan, and board the ship in the city of Tunis. After all, Tunisia is very close to Sicily, so it is much easier to transport to and from Sicily.

Marshal Boyan has been directing the crowd to set off, and after defeating the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar's navy, the Great Song Navy's navy did not ask for those broken ships. Instead, according to the agreement, the ships were handed over to Marshal Boyan. Even so, Marshal Boyan's navy could only transport 20,000 or 30,000 people to a long voyage at a time. His roughly subordinate population plus the population amounted to about 400,000 men, and God knows how long it would take to transport them by ship. In addition, Marshal Boyan has already prepared the food he needs, and if these grains are transported thousands of miles away and reach the destination, there will be nothing left to eat. Precious shipping must be spent on food.

Fortunately, he persuaded the Great Song fleet through Hao Ren to transfer four 4,000-ton ships for transportation, and finally set off a month later. Boarding the ship with his wife and children, Boyan looked at Cairo City on the shore and felt some emotion in his heart. Princess Maria couldn't help but reddened her eyes at this time, and she also knew that she would probably not be able to return here in this life after leaving this time. Not only here, but also the manor in Jerusalem where she was married to the Marshal of Boyan no longer belonged to her.

Marshal Boyan took Princess Maria's hand and said softly, "Let's go." ”

Princess Mary was silent, and the boatman lifted anchor and hoisted the sails. The boats followed the current and began to sail towards the lower reaches of the Nile, towards the Mediterranean.

Don't! Jerusalem! Don't! Cairo! Princess Mary said in her heart.

On March 11, 322, the fleet of Marshal Boyan left Cairo and arrived in Palermo, Sicily, on March 19. When Princess Maria stepped here, she felt a slump under her feet. had already gotten off the boat, and Dashuai Boyan, who was used to being dizzy on the land, immediately supported his wife and helped her stabilize her figure.

Sicily is surrounded by mountains and orchards as far as the eye can see. Olive trees, orange trees, fig trees, grow lushly. The Eastern Roman Princess, Maria, leaned against her husband and looked out at Sicily, where she had first arrived, and thought it was beautiful.

In addition to the beautiful scenery, what moved the Eastern Roman princess who had read a lot of books was the history of the place. On January 17, 395, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I died. On his deathbed, he inherited the eastern and western parts of the empire with his two sons.

The Eastern Roman Empire was founded on the ancient Greek city of Byzantium, where Constantine the Great built Constantinople. Initially, its territory included the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and part of Transcaucasia.

On September 4, 476, the Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus was forced to abdicate by Odoac, and in 480 AD, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, Nepos, was assassinated. The fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Eastern Roman Empire continued to hold on to its glory at this time, and during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, under the leadership of the Emperor and his illustrious general Belisarius, the Eastern Empire regained some of the western provinces lost to the Roman Empire: most of Italy, North Africa, and Spain.

In 532, construction began on Hagia Sophia (whose original name, Hagia Sophia, meaning divine truth) began. The church later became the center of Byzantine religious life and Orthodoxy.

Justinian I left his heir with an empty treasury, and his heir could not deal with the new enemies that suddenly appeared on all the borders.

In the second half of the sixth century, the Lombards occupied northern Italy, the Slavs occupied most of the Balkan Peninsula, and the Persians invaded and occupied the eastern provinces.

The Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (i.e., Heraclius) recaptured these eastern provinces, but his enemies were no longer the Persians, but the Arabs, who had just been united under the Christianity. Their sudden appearance was unforeseen by Heraclius, and the Arabs occupied almost all the southern provinces.

In the 7th century, Syria and Egypt became part of the Arab Empire.

After that, there was the Crusades, where the armies from the western barbarians plundered and sacked the Eastern Roman Empire, causing the Eastern Roman Empire to fall for a time. Princess Maria's father, Michael VIII, defeated the Latin Empire established by the Western barbarians and rebuilt the Eastern Roman Empire. At that time, in order to form an alliance with the newly emerged Mongols, Michael VIII made an agreement with Hulegu, the Khan of the Ilkhanate, to marry his daughter Princess Maria to Hulegu.

When Princess Mary arrived in the Ilkhanate, Hulegü had already died, and she married the new Khan of the Ilkhanate, Hulegu's son Abha. After the death of Abha, Princess Maria's lover Boyan arrived in the Ilkhanate as a retainer of the Mongol Great Khan Kublai Khan and thwarted a coup d'état by pro-Shin Cult forces.

The princess first returned to the Eastern Roman Empire, and then secretly returned to Beyan, who had become governor of Jerusalem. The two were secretly married in Jerusalem. Later, the Eastern Roman princess, as the wife of the marshal Boyan, followed her husband to defeat the Mamluk dynasty and recapture Egypt.

For the first time in seven hundred years, the Roman Empire, its daughter, the Eastern Roman princess and her children, set foot on Italian territory as conquerors. The distance between them was almost as long as the Han lost the land north of Yinshan.

In the future, the bloodline of the Roman Empire, represented by Princess Maria, will once again become the master of Italy. Faced with such a moment, Princess Maria only felt excitement and glory. Italy, I'm back!

The children are more adaptable than the adults, and the black friar, Kim King, who wears a well-fitting robe, has also disembarked. He was the one who had been asked from Baghdad by Marshal Boyan. Compared to when he left Italy, Kim Kim is two years older. No longer a child, but a handsome teenager.

At this time, he also knew his origin, the old man who was the owner of Jin Jin, the previous pope, was Jin Jin's biological father. European face, tanned to a dark healthy complexion. This handsome young friar attracted a lot of attention. Jin Jin also knew what his master, the handsome Boyan, the future Italian master expected of him. As a key training object in the organization, Jin Jin is very likely to become the next Italian archbishop, or even the Pope of Rome.

At this time, the banner of Marshal Boyan, known as the Maltese Cross in another time and space, was raised. On the snow-white flag, four red arrows are pointed to each other in the shape of a cross. Brother Kim drew a cross on his chest in salute to the flag. Then the Lord Prayer was recited in pure Latin.

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors. He will not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For all is thine, and the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!

As if waiting for the prayer to end, or just a coincidence. After the golden prayer, the flag was waving in the wind. Men and women, warriors and their families, people of the Immortals, Crucifixists, brothers of the True God, they followed behind Marshal Boyan and Princess Maria and set out for their camp in Italy.