Chapter 23: Starting Again (1)

In late May, Italy, which is more than 1,000 miles south of the Yuan Kingdom, has entered a sunny summer. In the plains of this warm peninsula, spring ploughing has long since ended, and the summer harvest has begun. In the orchards of the mountains, grapes, olives, citrus and lemons are carefully cared for by the Italian people. Most of these crops used to be consumed locally, but now the situation has changed dramatically. When these fruits are ripe, a large part of them are made into wine, olive oil, and ripe citrus and lemons that are shipped to the seashore and sold overseas. Fruit growers can use the money they earn to buy local produce, as well as cheap flour and various metal products shipped from the Yuan Kingdom.

In addition to these, the people of the Italian peninsula were told that the new ruler, His Majesty Hojen, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, implemented a royal revival and re-established the Roman system. Later, after these civilians were registered with the civil affairs department of the Empire, they could participate in the elections of the Western Roman Empire and the Imperial Parliament.

The electoral system has been in effect in the Italian peninsula for more than 500 years, starting with the Roman monarchy. For the Italian peninsula in 1294, with the exception of the Republic of Venice, the election of this old yellow calendar was something that most of the Western Roman people had never touched.

Not to mention the feelings of the common people, the Western Roman Emperor Boyan is having a meeting with a group of black-bearded, white-bearded, and white-bearded guys. Judging from their clothing and speech, most of these people are scholars. Naturally, scholars had topics to be learned, and these pedants had to compile a modern Latin dictionary under the leadership of His Majesty the Western Roman Emperor.

His Majesty Boyan looked at the pedants one by one, either happy or frowning, and his heart was both uneasy and proud. If the compilation of a modern Latin dictionary can be accomplished, His Majesty's name will be famous for posterity. He will no longer be an admirer of Roman culture, but will become an innovator of Roman culture.

But His Majesty Boyan is still weak-hearted, and he knows that his views are not original, but plagiarized. The lord of the Yuan Kingdom in the north once presented Boyan with several sets of "The Theory of Social Contract" written by Zhao Jiaren, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and after careful study, Boyan felt that this set of books was simply an encyclopedia of human society. In the part about the text, Zhao Jiaren actually made a subtle description.

…… When the alphabet was introduced to the Europa region, the barbarians used alphabet sounds to create their own languages and scripts. These new languages were completely different from the previous scripts, and also showed a strong tendency towards barbarism. Each character of Chinese characters has its own meaning, and the combination of different Chinese characters, from single-word words to double-word or even multi-word words, can provide an almost infinite number of new words that can be used to accurately express meaning. And those barbarian alphabets, every new word has to be recreated, and if their civilization can develop, there will be a situation where they can master thousands of words and still can't effectively communicate with others about specific problems......

After reading the speech full of the superiority of the Han people, Boyan was very dissatisfied at first. Hao Ren's Yuan Kingdom took the road of comprehensive sinicization, and their "Xinyuan Dictionary" just changed the cover of the "Xinhua Dictionary". Of course, the Marshal Boyan, who took the romanization route, could not be imitated.

After being angry, Boyan once put this behind him. It wasn't until this national population registration that Boyan discovered the necessity and difficulty of writing. Not relying on text registration is a farce. However, when words are used, what words are used? The Italian peninsula is Italian, and some of Boyan's men speak Mongolian, some Arabic, and some Greek. There are even people who speak Hebrew.

After a long period of mental torture, Boyan had to find a way out of Zhao Jiaren's wisdom. After much contemplation, the Western Roman Emperor suddenly became enlightened. The reason why Latin can't keep up with the situation is because it's obscure, because it's ancient. The old words are no longer up to date, they can't describe the new. Naturally, it was abandoned by the times.

If you imitate the Great Song Dynasty, instead of creating new words, you can use old words together, and you can solve the problem. In Latin, many words are meant to describe a single object and have their own independent meanings.

His Majesty did not know 'Chinese-style English', but he summoned Latin experts from the Western Roman Empire to compile a new dictionary of modern Latin along these lines, which would serve as the cornerstone of the common Latin language in the Western Roman Empire. The pedants did not know that they were going to become 'give, you, some, color, to, see' order, and some of the old pedants were adamantly opposed to it, believing that it was a blasphemy against sacred culture. The younger the Latin expert, the better he understands His Majesty's views and sees in them an opportunity for himself to make a name for himself.

It was tiring to talk to the Chinese people, and Boyan was feeling that his patience was being quickly exhausted, so an attendant came to look for him. His Majesty the Emperor took the opportunity to the study next to him and took a small thick package. When you open it, it's full of letters. Each letter was unsigned, only marked. These marks represent Boyan's former friends in the Mongol court. In addition to Boyan's own intelligence network left in the territory of the Mongol Great Khan, these friends also provided a lot of information. In return, the lives of these people were funded by Boyan. Or the family members of these friends followed Boyan to build the Western Roman Empire.

The Mongol Empire's special decision did not mean anything to Boyan, and with what he knew about the Mongols, this people on horseback had probably reached its limits. Unless there are some unborn geniuses in the Mongol Empire, such as people like Boyan, it is possible to change the fate of the Mongol Empire. Otherwise, Boyan would never have to worry that the tentacles of the Mongol Empire would reach the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern Mediterranean, controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, was the natural divide of the Mongol Empire.

After flipping through a few letters, Boyan's hand stopped. An internal minister wrote an interesting message that the Kipchak Khan had complained to the Mongol Great Khan Timur about the Yuan invasion of the Kipchak Khanate. It can be seen that the Kipchak Khanate used all their forces in the court, so much so that the Mongol Khan Timur had to pretend to send his ministers to the Kipchak Khanate to watch. As a result, the Yuan cavalry was met in the Volga River valley. It was located very deep within the territory of the Kipchak Khanate, and the complaint of the Kipchak Khanate proved to be correct.

When the news reached the Yuan court, the royal delegates of the Kuritai Assembly in Baghdad condemned Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan state. However, the minister of the DPRK and China made a proposal with a balanced attitude and summoned Hao Ren to Baghdad to give an explanation.

Putting down the letter in his hand, Boyan was a little surprised. Hao Ren was very obsessed with breaking away from Mongol control, and he was very successful. Now this approach makes it impossible to understand Hao Ren's attitude. Hao Ren is Boyan's in-law and an ally of Boyan, and Boyan feels that he can't turn a blind eye.