In the eleventh year of the Xia calendar, the war in the West and the South Seas suddenly reduced the number of merchant ships between the east and the west, in addition to the impact of the army led by Zhou Qiang and Sun Xing on the war of Sri Buddha's death, there are also Du Sheng and He Liang's attack on Nantianzhu.

At the same time, piracy in the South and Western Seas also suddenly became rampant, and many merchant ships stayed in relatively safe ports for their own safety, waiting for the situation to calm down.

At this time, it is already close to dusk, and the summer days are always extraordinarily long, and even at this time, the sun in the west is still hanging in the sky and refuses to set.

The scorching heat emitted by the afterglow of the setting sun made the sailors on the ship feel extremely hot, and at the same time, they felt even more hot, as well as the burning city of Inpo next to the harbor in the distance, and the dozens of Nantianzhu sea ships that were burned in the harbor outside the city.

Inpo City is an important port on the western coast of Nantianzhu, after being captured by Du Sheng and He Liang led thousands of soldiers and horses, after a three-foot scraping, Du Sheng simply set a fire, leaving only the Nantianzhu reinforcements who had just arrived from 200 miles away jumped and scolded angrily on the shore.

At this time, it was the height of summer, and the weather in Nantianzhu was very hot, even if the warm and humid air flow rolling in the Western Ocean continued to enter the inland under the influence of the southwest monsoon, but under such a high temperature, the fire of Du Sheng still burned quickly, and in less than an hour, the whole city fell into a sea of fire.

The raging fire burned everything that could be burned in the city, and even some of the adobes of ordinary houses were burned red, and the remaining residents outside the city had to give up their plans to fight the fire, and even the army of Nan Tianzhu, who originally planned to help fight the fire, had to stay away.

"Phew, phew!" Du Sheng stood on the side of the boat and looked at the fire that was still burning in the distance, and after inhaling through his nose, he spit out a mouthful of phlegm on the sea surface more than a foot away from the side of the ship, and immediately attracted a group of sea fish to chase him, and he couldn't see that there were so many fish hidden under the sparkling water.

"Damn, this Nantianzhu is also a big power in the West, his mother doesn't even have a toilet, shit and pee all over the street, I'm really angry!" Du Sheng stared at the fiery red city in the distance and said with an indignant expression.

At first, Du Sheng took the lead in attacking the city, but when he took the lead in entering the city to loot, he accidentally stepped on a puddle of, and then found that this seemingly prosperous city outside was covered with feces and urine, and many soldiers were accidentally hit, and this was the fundamental reason why Du Sheng finally set fire to the city.

Generally speaking, any civilized country will pay great attention to the health and safety of its living environment after its civilization has risen to a certain level, especially in large and medium-sized cities with large populations.

This is not only a matter of cleanliness and hygiene, but also in tropical areas like Nantianzhu, where the climate is hot all year round, with high temperature and humidity, if a large amount of garbage and feces are scattered in a city where a large number of people live, it is very easy to cause a large-scale plague.

Tianzhu in July was the hottest time, Du Sheng pulled his sweat-soaked clothes, and then picked up a bowl of chilled sour plum soup and drank it all, but the sweat was still flowing, he sighed to He Liang: "He Dalang, it's really thanks to you for running this sea route all these years, I really don't know how you can bear it!" ”

Du Sheng felt that it was enough for him to come here once, and he didn't want to come a second time, and then he thought about the feces that could be seen everywhere when he entered the city before, it was really too spectacular, and now Du Sheng will feel that he is going to be disgusted to death when he thinks about it.

Looking at Du Sheng's disgusting appearance when he thought of the city, He Liang couldn't help but smile: "Actually, I wasn't used to it at first, but it's good to get used to it after a long time, Du Dalang, you don't know how rich these Western countries are, especially this Southern Tianzhu, also known as the Zhuyuan Kingdom, but also because it is located between the east and west sea routes, it is extremely rich!"

If you can make one more trip, you can earn a lot of money, and the sea ships we build in the East China Sea are much better than the sea ships built by other countries, and we can make more trips! ”

Looking at He Liang's appearance of being a fan of money, Du Sheng wiped the sweat on his forehead, then pointed at him and laughed, "He Dalang, you are not as good as the one we did today to make money, if you want me to say that you have to rob to get rich, look at what happened this time, this time our harvest is not small!" ”

For Du Sheng's gangsterism, He Liang also shook his head helplessly, where is the long-term plan just to rob this year? Now that he has robbed the city of Nantianzhu, I am afraid that he will not be able to run the Western trade route in a short time.

Before Du Sheng came to rescue him regardless of the danger, He Liang was very moved, who knew that after defeating the pirates of the Nantianzhu Navy and the merchant makeup, Du Sheng simply came to pursue without stopping.

After pursuing most of the Nantianzhu naval army all the way and eliminating most of it, Du Sheng simply directly captured this large port city in the southwesternmost part of Nantianzhu, where not only a large number of merchant ships from various countries are berthed in the port outside the city, but also the city is also exceptionally rich after hundreds of years of maritime trade accumulation.

After seizing the port, although there are many merchant ships in the port, He Liang still let go of all the ships of other countries in the long-term consideration, after all, he will have to run the trade routes in the Western Ocean in the future, in case he offends all the merchant ships of these countries, so who is willing to do business with you in the future?

The merchant ships of other countries learned that He Liang was attacked by pirates made up by the Nantianzhu Navy, and saw that He Liang also had captured the generals of the Nantianzhu Navy, so the merchant ships of those countries also went to help the Nantianzhu people, after all, no one wanted to encounter pirates disguised as the navy of other countries. Fun read

After letting go of the merchant ships of other countries, the merchant ships of the Nantianzhu people were all poured for eight lifetimes, and all of them were taken by Du Sheng, because Nantianzhu is a big country in the east-west sea trade, and a small half of the port is Nantianzhu's merchant ships, and the rich harvest afterwards also made Du Shengle bloom, but He Liang has been frowning about the future!

Seeing He Liang shaking his head and frowning silently, Du Sheng asked He Liang a little strangely: "Didn't a group of Persians say that they were willing to partner with us to attack other ports in Nantianzhu before?" Why wouldn't you want to partner with someone? If we join forces with them, we will be able to recover at least two more cities, and Your Majesty will definitely be very happy at that time!" ”

He Liang, who was dressed in a summer silk robe, looked at Du Sheng, who was sweating profusely, with a wry smile, and he took a sip of the iced sour plum soup in his hand before explaining, "Du Dalang, you really don't know where you learned from Your Majesty before!" These Persians are not at ease! ”

Du Sheng was strange at this time, he was puzzled: "Didn't you say that the Persians made a big deal with you before?" Why are they still uneasy and kind to you? Aren't they afraid that we won't sell them the goods? ”

He Liang shook his head and said, "Do you think that in the past, the Persians had no place to get goods?" The Persians, like other Western merchants, used to go directly to Nanchen, and generally purchased goods in Guangzhou, Jian'an, and Jiankang, and then sold them to the West and Taixi countries.

The silk, porcelain, and tea of the Central Plains were all resold by them to Great Qin (Eastern Roman Empire) and even more western countries, and the price difference between the transit alone was very rich, but it was more than the trip to the West that we risked our lives! ”

Du Sheng was stunned now, he knew how much profit He Liang could make by going to the West, and now he learned that the Persians could earn more profits just by acting as a middleman, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

He Liang looked at Du Sheng and said: "Now you know, in fact, the Persians don't want us to come to the West at all, as long as we come here, sooner or later, we will learn the true price of silk fabrics and porcelain from the merchants of the Taixi countries, in case we get in touch with the Great Qin people, how can the Persians control the trade between the East and the West?" ”

Du Sheng scratched his head, he really didn't know that there was such a thing, if this thing was still busy, it seemed that the attention of this group of Persians was to let their side completely offend the people of Nantianzhu, and they would not want to run the Western trade route in the future.

Thinking of this, Du Sheng suddenly exclaimed: "These Persians are so scheming, I am afraid that they also have the idea of using our banner to seize the wealth of the Nantianzhu people, and when the time comes, the Nantianzhu people hate us, but they can be good people."

And if the Persians see that we are unwilling to join forces with them to continue to attack the Nantianzhu people, wouldn't it be worse if they pretend to be good people and help Nantianzhu attack us? ”

Regarding Du Sheng's concern, He Liang said with a smile: "It's not in the way, although the Persians don't want us to come to the West, but they definitely don't dare to attack us without permission, after all, our strength is not small now, in case we go to the ship to report the news, they don't want to go to the East to buy goods!" ”

Du Sheng thought for a while and nodded: "That's what I said, but it's best to be fully prepared, in case the Persians really want to intervene in the war between us and the Nantianzhu people, it's good to be prepared after all!" But this time, we have completely fallen out with the Nantianzhu people, can your fleet continue to do this business? ”

He Liang looked at the red sun that was slowly sinking under the sea, and turned his back to Du Sheng and said: "When I returned from Persia before, I sent a fleet to find the Red Sea in His Majesty's mouth, and I heard that from there to the northwest is an extremely narrow waterway, from where you can go straight to the land of Great Qin!" Let's hope it's a back road! ”

He Liang said that the land of Great Qin was Egypt, which was still the last glorious period of the Eastern Roman Empire, and Murean Khan in the east had not yet formed Islam, and many lands in North Africa, including Egypt, were still the land of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In addition, Syria, Lebanon and other places on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea are also strong supporters of the Eastern Roman royal family, and Persia, the original enemy of the Roman Empire, was suppressed by the Huns a few years ago, and also temporarily reconciled with the Roman Empire and stopped the war, so that the eastern part of the Eastern Roman Empire was safe and sound.

Although the western territory faced the threat of Germanic states such as Burgundy and the Franks, Charlemagne had not yet been born at this time, and the Frankish kingdom, which had joined forces with the Roman Empire and the Gauls to expel Attila the Huns, was in civil strife at this time.

During this period, many Western Roman territories, including the Italian peninsula, had also been restored by the Eastern Roman Empire, and for a time the Eastern Roman Empire seemed to have the momentum to restore the glory of the Roman Empire.

However, this was only the last glory of Eastern Rome, and in the following decades, the **** regime established by the rapidly rising Murray Khan in the east quickly seized almost all of the land of Eastern Rome in North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, and the land in the west was deprived by the rising Frankish Empire during Charlemagne's time.

However, when the fleet sent by He Liang at this time did not affect their interaction with the Eastern Romans, He Liang certainly didn't know if they could really find this place.

Just when He Liang was talking to Du Sheng, suddenly a soldier under his command came to report: "General, there is a group of Nantianzhu people who ask to see them, but these people say that they are not Nantianzhu people, but Pandia people!" ”

He Liang was slightly stunned, "Oh? Pandians? If it is really the Pandia, you can see it, although these people are the subject countries of the Nantianzhu Zhuyuan Kingdom, but they have been at odds with the Nantianzhu people all these years, it is estimated that these people know that we are doing something to Nantianzhu and want to take advantage of it! ”