Belsalika was an envoy to the governor of Egypt, Humouf, but he also had another identity, that is, he was also the nephew of Belisarius, who had recovered North Africa under the reign of Justinian I with more than 10,000 troops.

In addition, Italy and Dalmatia, the traditional core areas of the Western Roman Empire, were also recovered under the leadership of Belisarius, so Belisarius had a very high status in the entire Roman Empire, and even Belsalica was also valued by Humuv.

Because Belisarius was suspicious of Justinian I the Great at the beginning, Belisarius was deprived of his military power in the later period, and the differences between the Egyptian and Syrian sects and the Byzantine church led to the relationship between Belsalica and the Byzantine royal family.

Before leaving Egypt this time, Belsalika not only represented the Egyptian governor to the Eastern Empire, but also played the role of some local spokesmen for the Egyptian Church.

After departing from Egypt, Belsalika was stunned by a fierce battle as soon as he arrived in the Pearl Islands, and after the violent thunder, the Nantianzhu warship, which looked no worse than his own ship, was destroyed in large areas, and the Nantianzhu naval army on the sea fell into the sea like dumplings, becoming the food of the ferocious sharks in the sea.

When he followed the fleet to Pearl Harbor, he found that the battle just now was just a small end, a large number of captured warships in Pearl Harbor, the debris of ships scattered all over the sea for more than ten miles nearby, and the floating corpses of the Nantianzhu people on the sea surface were dense, all of which showed how fierce the sea battle that had just ended.

Then Belsalica was surprised to learn that there were more than 10,000 people in the Southern Tianzhu Navy who came to attack the Pearl Islands, which was about the same as the number of the Roman Empire's own navy.

Later, because Sun Xing and He Liang were going to launch an attack on Nantianzhu, Belsalika temporarily stayed in the Pearl Islands for a month, and he saw the decline of a traditional Western power in a month, and the origin of their decline was because of unfriendly thoughts towards the Xia people in the West.

When Sun Xing, who had made miraculous achievements, left Qu Xu to stay in the Pearl Islands, and he took the injured Du Sheng and Yizhou garrisons to return all the way back on his own warship, Belsalika actually saw the unfinished meaning on Sun Xing's face, which made Belsalika feel a little palpitating.

He knew how strong the battle intensity of the fleet led by Sun Xing was before, and he had also heard how many Nantianzhu people had been killed by the army led by this general, but he couldn't imagine that such a fierce battle would not satisfy this general, and the Xia people's will to fight was too strong.

"This is a fighting people!" After listening to the history of the Xia Kingdom from the establishment to the present from Zhong Likai, Belsalika made such a comment.

Fernesk agreed with this comment, and he frowned worriedly: "The navy of the Xia people is too powerful, they have defeated the overlord of the South Seas over the years, expanded their territory in the South Seas, and then controlled the most important communication artery on the east-west sea route - Temasek by defeating the dead country of Sri Buddha!" ”

Fernnesk said with a solemn face: "This year, they took advantage of the momentum of defeating the death of Sri Buddha, and defeated the most powerful maritime empire in the South Seas in one fell swoop, the Chola State (Nantianzhu is also called the Zhu Yuan State, and during the Alexander Empire, it was called the Chola State), and they controlled the sea passage in the Western Ocean, so that even if we take away the island at the Red Sea of Yemen in the form of war, it will completely offend the Orientals, and they can completely blockade Temasek and make it impossible for our merchant ships to pass through!" ”

Hearing Fernesk's analysis, Belsalika smiled bitterly: "Through Temasek, they control the Pearl Islands and Dingrong City, and they can completely control and block the Western Sea Route, and then we can safely reach Tianzhu countries to do business, which is good!" As long as they control these two places, even the Persians will no longer have any small ideas against them! ”

Fernesque nodded in agreement: "Yes, in fact, I am more worried about the strong revenge psychology of the Xia people, they are largely different from the Han people in the Central Plains in the past, before leaving, I have studied the records of some predecessors when they came to the East in the past hundreds of years, and the Han people who occupied the Central Plains at that time did not attach much importance to the interests of overseas, but they attached great importance to the status of the envoys of the predecessors from Taixi!" ”

Saying that, Fernesk smiled: "It's funny to say, the predecessors at that time only took some glass products, as well as strange animals such as lions, giraffes, and cheetahs obtained from Carthage, and they were received by the Han emperor, and they exchanged these not very valuable things for silk and porcelain for more than a dozen sea ships!" ”

"Yes, it was an enviable time," Belsalika said, "and what a wonderful thing it would be if we could have such an experience!" ”

"Don't be delusional," Fernesk glared at him, "Didn't you see that these Xia people were not at all different from the Han people our predecessors met along the way?" ”

Belsalika suddenly sobered up, and he was a little depressed: "Yes, it's completely different, doesn't it mean that Han people don't value interests and pay the most attention to face?" But along the way, I saw these people, and I couldn't wait for all the good things I saw to move to my own home! "Okay

What Belsalika said is that Zhong Likai accompanied them along the way, and constantly sent a fleet to survey around, and once he found something good, he immediately took it away, and on the way, he even encountered more than a dozen Nantianzhu sea ships that did not know the situation in the West because they had been doing business in Zhenla for a long time, and they were all captured by Zhong Likai and became the trophies of the Xia Kingdom.

Fernesque looked around and whispered to Belsalika in Latin: "I have heard them say that their great general king started from bandits, so even if they later developed a powerful country, they still retain their original habits, and they do not have the broad-mindedness of the Han people in the Central Plains to repay grievances with virtue!" If any country offends them, they will take revenge as they die! ”

"Shhh Belsalika took a long breath and said, "It seems that we must also dissuade our fellow men who are using their brains, or they will get into a super big problem!" ”

For the Xia merchant ships that came to the Egyptian Viceroyalty this time, the merchants from Humouv to the bottom were extremely important, and the trade between the Roman Empire and the Persians was in the hands of the Syrians in the past, and the merchants in Egypt did not have much benefit.

If trade links with the East could be reached this time, it would be extremely beneficial for the development of the Egyptian region, so in any case Belsalika would not allow the situation to be ruined by a group of short-sighted merchants.

Belsalika thought so in his heart, but his eyes looked at the dragon bay in the distance, under the blue sky, the whole sea was also a pure blue, with the green port of the dragon bay in the distance, it looked very clean and beautiful, and the few small islands near the coast added a lot of beautiful scenery to this scenery.

From the boat, Belsalika can clearly see the city of Jilong Bay in the distance by using the telescope, the scale of the city is not small but not too big, it can accommodate 10,000 people, the size is two miles by three miles long and wide, and the city wall is also more than one and a half feet high.

When Belsalika saw this scene, he knew that the bottom of the city looked far different, and he said to Fernesque: "Do you know how long they have only been building this city? I heard Lieutenant Zhongli say that they have occupied Nanyang for no more than ten years, and the time to establish this city is only about two years! ”

In fact, how could Fernetsk not know these things, he sighed: "Yes, this city has only been established for so long, and it is already not inferior to some small cities in the Peloponnese, I heard that they have just migrated more than 100,000 people this year to enrich the entire South Seas, and it seems that this rich land can no longer escape from their control!" ”

Belsalica was jealous and said: "These Orientals are so lucky, God has given them a rich land, and kept them away from powerful enemies, so that they can easily develop their own country, compared to them our Roman Empire is really unfortunate!" ”

Belsalica thought that the Roman Empire was too wronged, although his own country was also great, but there was a powerful Persian Empire in the east, and there were constant wars with the Roman Empire, and the Vandals and Berbers of Africa in the south were also constantly rioting.

On the long border in the north, there are countless barbarian tribes constantly invading, Germanic, Frankish, Ostrogoth, Visigoth, Huns, etc., as well as all kinds of indescribable barbarians, these years from the death of Justinian I the Great, and the Slavs from the north continue to cross the Danube, slowly but firmly take away the Thrace region that originally belonged to the Roman Empire.

As he was thinking about this, Belsalica noticed that Fernnesk was looking at him with a strange look, which he was not used to, so he asked strangely: "My brother Fernetsk, why do you look at me with such eyes, am I wrong?" ”

Fernesk asked rhetorically: "Don't you know, when our predecessors came to the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains in the past, they were being invaded by the powerful nomadic barbarian empire in the north, and those nomadic barbarian empires had hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of powerful cavalry!" ”

"Oh my God, there are millions of cavalry?" Beersalika said disbelievingly, "My brother Fernetsk, I don't believe that there is such a powerful barbarian state in the East, you must know that when His Majesty Justinian I was in power, our powerful Roman Empire only had 200,000 troops!" Even our great enemy, the Persians, at their strongest, had only about 300,000 troops! ”

Speaking of this, Belsalika said in a firm voice: "Therefore, I absolutely do not believe that there will be such a powerful barbarian empire in the East!" ”

At this time in Europe, the average Germanic barbarian was already an extremely powerful force with tens of thousands of people, and the Vandals, who were the strong enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire, only had an army of 30,000 or 40,000 people when they occupied Carthage.

Therefore, Salbelica did not believe that there would be such a powerful empire in the East, but he did not completely reject Ferneske's words in his heart, because although Fernesque was only a local Greek merchant in Egypt, he was influenced by his father, who worshiped the Athens Academy, and had a strong interest in these humanities.

Before this departure from Egypt, it is said that Fernesk spent several days at home checking any books and materials on the Orient, and could not ascertain whether what he had just said was true.