Seeing that Belsalica was skeptical of his words, Fernesk took out a worn-out parchment scroll and said earnestly to him:

"I once specially consulted the materials of the Augustan period, when the Saisi people (the Eastern Romans called the Chinese) dynasty, called the Han Empire, they had a powerful barbarian empire in the north called the Xiongnu, and later after the Han Empire became strong, His Majesty the Emperor sent troops to defeat the Xiongnu, and some of the Xiongnu migrated west!"

Belsalika listened to Ferneske's explanation, and was greatly surprised in his heart, he did not expect that these Sethrus in the east also had such a powerful enemy, and the enemy they faced was many times stronger than the Germanic barbarians, the powerful enemies of the Roman Empire, but when he heard Ferneske's last words, he jumped in surprise.

"What? You say that the Attila Huns are probably the descendants of the Huns who were expelled from the east by the Sethrus!? At this moment, Belsalika felt that he seemed to be a little insane, but he knew how powerful Attila really was, and at that time the Huns led by Attila were called 'God's whip' by Europeans.

They traveled all the way from the east to the west, first from the Danube south into the Eastern Roman Empire, once occupied Mercia, Thrace and other places for decades, during which they repeatedly sacked the Eastern Roman Empire, that is, during the reign of Marcian the Great, after a series of tragic wars to expel them from Eastern Rome.

However, then the Huns led by Attila continued to attack westward, successively attacking and sacking Gaul, Milan and other places, if it were not for the Roman Empire and the Visigoths and the Franks to jointly send troops, I am afraid that Attila would have led the Huns to settle down on the Rhine.

The Huns, a powerful tribe that once made all of Europe tremble, said that Fernetsk was only part of a nomadic tribe that had been expelled from the East by the Han Chinese, a claim that Belsalica could not accept.

Ferneske looked at Belsalica's excited expression, knowing that he would not be able to accept this statement for a while, if this statement was really true, wouldn't it mean that the whole of Europa combined was inferior to the Eastern Empire?

Thinking of this, Fernesk comforted: "Whether this thing is true or not, all this shows that the power of the Han people is really unprovoked, and this time we can rely on the convenience of these Han people to travel between things and things along the way!" So let those people be quiet for a while! ”

Although Belsalica could not accept for a moment the speculation that the Attila Huns, who had beaten all the countries of Europe, were descendants of the Huns, all this did not affect his decision to maintain friendly relations with the Han Chinese, which was more in the interests of the Roman Empire and of course the Egyptian governor he represented.

Although Belsalica and Fernesque are good friends, but as a maritime merchant, Fernesk is not a Christian, although there is a name of believer on the surface, but the root still admires the doctrine of the Athenian School, at this time the religious atmosphere in Egypt is more moderate than Byzantium, it is a very small number of Athenian scholars to retain the space for the survival of some Athenian scholars, and he does not want Egypt to suffer too much loss.

Fernesk was not optimistic about Justinian I's attempt to forcibly promote Christianity as a means of stabilizing the Roman Empire, and he especially hated Justinian I's 'Christian sexuality', and even more hated Justinian I's forcible closure of the Athens Academy and the burning of libraries in various places in order to promote Christianity.

Although Justinian I was a very powerful emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, he was extremely opposed to these methods in order to promote the idea of religious unity, and now because of the contradictions between Egypt, the Xu Liye Church and the Byzantine Church, there is a lot of disagreement between Egypt and the Roman Empire, if there is a war with the Xia Kingdom in the east because it does not see the form clearly, Egypt will be powerless to resist the Byzantine order.

In addition to the Egyptian governor Humouf, Belsalika also represents the background of the Egyptian and Syrian churches, because the churches in these two places adhere to the doctrine of Christ and the contradictions in the Byzantine church are extremely acute, so they hate Justinian I, who strongly supports the Byzantine Church, and the current Roman Emperor Justinian II.

Although both of them saw the long-term danger of the Orientals' control of the maritime trade routes between the East and the West to the Roman Empire, because all this was of great benefit to the Egyptian Governorate, neither of them cared about who was occupying the islands at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Thinking of this, both of them stopped talking, looking at the scenery in the distance thoughtfully.

Suddenly, Fernnesk spoke: "I heard that His Majesty the Kingdom of the Xia people attaches great importance to learning, and after arriving in their capital, I want to go to their higher academy to have a look, and I don't know if His Majesty will allow me to enter the study!" ”

Belsalika slapped his forehead, and then said helplessly: "My brother Fernesk, you still have a wife and daughter still in Cairo, if you want to enter their academy to study, I'm afraid it will be difficult to go back with us next year!" ”

For the importance of this Fernesk, Belsalica knows his importance very well, especially when he comes to Xia Country this time, he who knows more about the history of the East will add a lot of help to him, so he hopes that Fernesk will stay by his side.

Looking at Belsalika's nervous face, Fernetsk smiled: "Now according to the calendar of the Xia people, it is already November, and when we arrive at the capital of the Xia country, I am afraid it will already be their New Year, so after we have dealt with everything, it is already the spring and summer period, and it is definitely not suitable for sailing at this time, so I still have half a year to study!" "Seven

Hearing Fernetsk's plan, Belsalika finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to say something when he heard a trombone suddenly blow on the top deck overhead, it turned out that the fleet had been briefly replenished and was already preparing to set off.

At this time, the two of them strode towards Belsalica, their legs slightly apart, so that they could better adapt to the swaying of the ship when sailing on the sea.

"Two gentlemen, it's lunch time now, please come with me!"

After Zhong Likai said this, Belsalika realized that it was already noon, and he was busy talking to Fernetsk just now and didn't notice this, and now Zhong Likai reminded him that Belsalika and Fernetsk finally felt a burst of hunger in their stomachs.

Since the two of them got on Sun Xing's ship, although they have only eaten with Sun Xing a few times, they are accompanied by senior officials such as Zhong Likai and Pu Hong every time, although the food they eat is the same as that of the soldiers on the ship, but it is not shabby.

I have to say that the food on the ship of the Xia Navy is very rich, and when the two Great Qin people followed Zhong Likai to the small restaurant on the top deck, he was surprised to find that Sun Xing was also there this time, and the food on the ship was obviously much better than the previous ten days.

Sun Xing was just wearing a casual dress at this time, he stroked the beard on his chin slightly and said with a smile: "The two envoys have not been entertained for so long, and today they finally came to the door of the house, and the local villagers love them and sent a lot of seafood, so let's eat together!" ”

Belsalika looked over and found that most of the things on the boat were fresh vegetables, local fruits from the South Seas, and a large number of fish and shrimp caught by local fishermen.

In the past ten days, although Belsalika and the two have never lacked vegetables and fruits on the Sun Xingza ship, it is the first time they have seen such fresh vegetables and fruits, so they have to make Belsalika and the others extremely happy.

During the Age of Discovery, due to the lack of vegetables and fruits on board, scurvy often caused a large number of deaths among the crew, and sometimes even most of the crew on a ship died of such diseases, until the Europeans discovered the usefulness of lemons to solve the problem.

However, for the Chinese who sailed the sea for a long time in ancient times, they had never heard of what was called scurvy, because of the Chinese eating habits and the superiority of the performance of the ship, so there was never a shortage of vegetables on the ship.

Many ocean-going ships will carry some vegetables to plant on board when sailing, even if there is no place to plant, they can also solve the problem of lack of vegetables by carrying a large number of beans and using rainwater to send bean sprouts to eat, and the tea that Chinese like to drink can also solve part of the problem.

Although the Romans did not have these things of the Chinese, because of the abundant lemons on the Mediterranean coast, the Romans did not encounter this problem, and at this time, because most of the ships sailed along the coastline, it was easy to obtain supplies on the shore, so there would be no scurvy.

It's just that it's good to have vegetables to eat on the sea, where there is too much attention, so after eating bean sprouts for more than ten days in a row, Belsalica feels that he is full of bean sprouts, and now there are other fresh vegetables and fruits, how can he not eat a good meal?

It's just that when Belsalika and Fernesque were gobbling up vegetables and fruits, they suddenly found that Sun Xing, Zhong Likai and others just stopped after eating a little politely, and the fish, shrimp and meat on the table didn't even move!

Just when the two of them were strange, they suddenly found that after the hatch was opened, more than a dozen soldiers came in from outside, each holding a huge plate in his hand, and inside was a huge sea crab, with a red and bright shell, and a delicate green leaf that looked particularly attractive.

It turned out that Sun Xing and the others didn't move much just now, and they were actually waiting for these things, but when Belsalika and the two saw it clearly, they were immediately surprised, and he pointed to the crab on the plate and said loudly: "This is the devil's food, how can you eat it?" ”

The others didn't care about Belsalika's surprise, only Zhong Likai explained to him: "Mr. Belsalika, this sea crab is a rare kind of seafood, like the big sea crab we eat, I heard that it can be sold for three yuan when it is shipped to Zhenhai Castle in Kyoto, that is, three thousand yuan!" It's hard to eat. ”

Because crabs are cold food, they need to be neutralized by hot foods such as green onions, ginger, garlic, or rice wine when eating, but there are no such things in Europe, so Europeans who do not have onions, ginger and garlic at all are easy to die of diseases caused by diarrhea after eating crabs, and the appearance of crabs is relatively ugly, so it has always been called "devil's food".

At first, Belsalica didn't dare to eat these foods at all, he saw that generals like Sun Xing began to feast, so he was suspicious, and then saw that even Fernesk began to learn the movements of Sun Xing and others and began to pick up a fat crab leg, so he put a piece of crab paste into his mouth with some trepidation.