Chapter 367: The Roman Envoys
Seeing that the time has entered the middle of November of the summer calendar, at this time all the counties in the East China Sea have entered winter, especially the counties of Taizhou, Whale Island, and Sakhalin Island north of Pingyang County have been covered with heavy snow.
It is said that this year, the heavy snow in Weihai County, Donglai County, and Changguang County in the eastern part of Sanqi is even as thick as five feet, and the counties of Zhenhai, Sanjiang, and Jiangkou in the land of Beji have a thick snow of up to one zhang.
Compared with the north of the ice and snow, Nanyang, which is located near the tropical equator, is already scorching sun, since Wang Ze felt that all the more than 100,000 Han people absorbed from Nanchen were settled in Nanyang in the summer, Xia Guo's control over the entire Nanyang has been stabilized.
In addition to the more than 100,000 Han people who migrated from Nanchen and most of them chose to continue farming, there were also some fishermen who took a fancy to the fertile fishing grounds in the waters near the islands of the Nanyang.
After this year's expansion, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, is already a small city, and after the addition of a large number of immigrants, the number of Han people here has increased from thousands to more than 20,000, and there are 6,000 or 7,000 people living in the city alone.
The people of Gritlong Bay were lucky, at the beginning of this year, when the Sulliputan Kingdom sent a large army to attack Borneo, because there was Surabaya City in front of it in the southwest, on the one hand, it contained a large number of troops of the Silviva Lost Kingdom for the Capture of Dragon, and on the other hand, it gave the Siege Bay sufficient warning time, so the Capture Dragon Bay suffered very little losses in this attack.
Then, without waiting for Sri Buddha to break through Surabaya City and come to Capture Dragon Bay, he was strongly retaliated by the army led by Sun Xing and Zhou Qiang, and he was lucky not to be destroyed by Wang Ze, so their threat to Borneo has completely disappeared.
At this time, the Zhenla Kingdom, which had just eliminated the Funan Kingdom and became the new generation of Nanyang overlords, was afraid of the retaliation of the Xia Kingdom and wanted to continue to stabilize the balance of new and old forces in the country, so it did not have the courage to covet Borneo again.
In fact, when Sri Buddha attacked Surabaya City, the Kingdom of Charentra on the island of Java in the south had already sent part of its army to the south of Borneo, and no one occupied it here because of the desolation, but after seeing the fate of Sri Buddha's death, the Kingdom of Charentra withdrew all its troops as soon as possible.
In this way, the whole of Borneo has actually become the territory of the Xia Kingdom, and the fate of Sri Buddha's death has made it impossible for any country to dare to covet these fertile lands.
Originally, there were some countries that were unwilling to let the strength of Xia in Nanyang continue to increase, and after seeing Wang Ze's continuous migration of people to Nanyang, they began to secretly support some pirates to raid the settlements of Han people.
Soon after, a Nanyang pirate plundered some of the money of several Han families in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, and was exterminated by Zhu Liao, who was temporarily stationed in Nanyang, and led his naval army to exterminate all of them, even the old and weak women and children in the pirate's lair, so that even the pirates of Nanyang did not dare to attack and disturb the Han people in Nanyang.
After having a stable living environment, the Han people who migrated to Nanyang Baolong Bay were allocated a large amount of land according to the standard of at least 100 mu per person, and all of them were real small landlords, and when the letters of these people were delivered to their relatives and friends who were still in their hometown, the Han people of Nanchen who smuggled to Yizhou caused a lot of commotion.
With no foreign enemies, the bay has become a paradise, with plenty of fertile land and the convenience of maritime trade.
After Wang Ze and Chen Ji completely turned their faces, the merchant ships in the East China Sea completely abolished the route from Guangzhou and Beihai to the south through Rinan County of Jiaozhou, and now all the merchant ships in the East China Sea are from the East China Sea along the Ryukyu Islands, and then go south directly in Yizhou, along Luhan and Nanchang Island (Palawan), and then go west through Lulong Bay and Surabaya City on Borneo to the west through Temasek.
The frequent passage of merchant ships not only led to the development of these cities along the way, but also gave the Han people here a lot of sources of income, and they were already accustomed to merchant ships passing by, but today they were surprised by the fleets that suddenly passed nearby.
Since the signing of the "Treaty of Bolimbang" with the deceased country of Sri Buddha, the people of Capture Dragon Bay have not seen a large-scale fleet for more than half a year, and at first the merchant ships and people in the port were a little frightened, but then there were patrol sailors returning from the open sea to explain that this was the fleet of Sun Xingsuo's division of the First Fleet returning from the Western conquest.
After hearing the news, the people of Zhulong Bay immediately cheered, Sun Xing, as the main force to defeat the naval army of Sri Buddha, and after the victory, he went to the West Ocean and defeated the local power Nan Tianzhu, which can be described as a hero in the East China Sea.
The people in the port cheered, hoping to see General Sun Xing, but unfortunately to their disappointment, the soldiers who had just returned from the inspection army told them that the fleet led by Sun Xing had stopped in Surabaya City yesterday, so they did not anchor in Luolong Bay today, but only stopped in the open sea to replenish some fresh water. Nine cakes in Chinese
Although this news disappointed the people of Luolong Bay, their enthusiasm did not diminish at all, and they still cheered, and the merchants who had just learned that Sun Xing had won a great victory in the West simply set off firecrackers to celebrate another victory of the Xia Kingdom.
Many of these merchants have received education in the East China Sea, and they know very well that only when the sea route between the east and the west is smooth, especially when the sea route is in the hands of their own side, will the maritime trade of the Xia Kingdom gain more benefits, and their lives as merchants will be richer.
The people on the shore of Baolong Bay beat gongs and drums to celebrate another victory of the Xia Kingdom in the Western Ocean, and the sailors and soldiers on the fleet on the sea in the distance were also beaming with joy, but among the people full of black hair and yellow skin, there were two white-skinned Westerners.
Although these two aliens are both Caucasians, their hair is black or brown-black wavy curls, the color is almost the same as the hair of the Han soldiers on the ship, only slightly sunken eye sockets, different shades of eyes with one color, and fair skin, all indicating that these people are envoys to Daqin.
After these two Great Qin people set off from the Pearl Islands, they did not take their own ships, but directly boarded the Sun Xingza ship, these newly made large sea ships in the East China Sea were very shocking to the two Great Qin envoys, especially the large sea ship of nearly 10,000 stones that Sun Xing was riding, which was extremely stable.
"Lieutenant Zhongli, your people are really so enthusiastic!" The one who spoke was a Daqin man about thirty years old, with dark brown hair and light gray eyes, but his fair face set off his heroic spirit.
It's just that he is wearing a Hanfu regular dress of the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea, although it looks a little weird, but it matches his temperament very well, and with the temperament of this man, it is somewhat similar to some scholars in the Xia Kingdom.
Listening to the compliments of the Great Qin man, Zhong Likai, who was accompanying him, smiled and said, "That's natural, Mr. Belsalika, what country doesn't want their army to win a big victory!" Our army loves the people, and of course it will be embraced by them! ”
At this time, another Daqin man was holding a pair of monoculars in his hand and looked at the Dragon Bay in the distance, and kept admiring Zhong Likai, who was accompanying him: "This is really a beautiful place!" I felt like I saw the sea in Theros' hometown! ”
Looking at the shouting of this Great Qin man, Zhong Likai smiled and said: "Yes, Mr. Ferneske, the scenery here is still very beautiful, you look at it first, I will deal with it in advance, and I will accompany you later!" ”
After leaving the two Great Qin people, Zhong Likai was still muttering in his heart, "This damn Great Qin person is too fast to learn our words, he didn't know much Chinese when he got on the boat before, and he can brag with us for just over a month!" ’
Thinking in his heart, Zhong Likai also heard the conversation between the two Great Qin people behind him, "Nanyang is worthy of being called the country of sunshine, and the scenery here is really beautiful!" ”
"Yes, if we are old in the future, we may beg their great and honorable King His Majesty to grant us permission to come to this prosperous and prosperous Oriental life!"
However, when Zhong Likai left here, the two Great Qin people immediately stopped pretending to speak those Chinese, but spoke words that no one could understand, even the maritime merchants of the Egyptian Governorate who came with these two people could never understand the conversation between the two.
Because the current Roman Empire rose on the basis of the Eastern Roman Empire, and then unified all the Roman Empire lands except Gaul, the Roman Empire today is no longer dominated by Latin, as in the past, but mainly based on the Greek language.
In particular, ten years ago, due to the invasion of the Germanic Lombards, they fought fiercely with the Roman Empire in a large area between Milan and Rome, during which both sides used extremely cruel methods, which led to the extinction of the senate aristocracy, which had been an important position in the Roman Empire since a few hundred years BC, which was also an important reason for the decline of the status of Latin in the Roman Empire.
At this time, the two Great Qin men actually spoke Latin, and the man in his thirties who was called 'Salbelica' by Zhong Likai just now said to another Great Qin man: "Fernesk, you have also seen the strength of the Xia people along the way!" ”
The man known as Fernesk smiled bitterly: "It seems that those people's minds have been cut off earlier, I know that these people are unwilling to let the island in Honghaikou be occupied by the Xia people, but even if they use tricks to snatch this island back, what's the use?" ”
Salbellica nodded expressionlessly and said, "Yes, these people are still immersed in the glory of the restoration of the Roman Empire during the reign of His Majesty Justinian I, but they don't know that the Roman Empire today is no longer the Roman Empire of ten years ago, let alone the Roman Empire of hundreds of years ago!" ”