'18th December, 11th year of the summer calendar

According to Rome, today is the first month of the new year, and His Majesty the great Justin II has succeeded to the throne, but for the Sethrus in the East, it is only their end of the year, and only after a dozen days of New Year's Day, it will be considered their new year. ’

The winter breeze in the South China Sea is blowing, the huge fleet is still firmly sailing on the sea, the sea breeze blows slightly, the sea is still sunny, and the seagulls can be heard from time to time, but Belsalika did not go out to chat with people today, but wrote a diary in his cabin.

He had been keeping a travel diary since he left Egypt, and he had always felt that there was nothing to write about except for the strong fighting power of the Xia people, but since he left Seoul in Luhan County ten days ago, Belsalika has been very serious about writing a diary.

After writing an introductory beginning, he continued, 'When I first met the Sethrus, they were only ten poor ships of maritime merchants who had come to Egypt, and though the silk they brought with them was so smooth, and the porcelain was so white and beautiful, like ivory, these Sethlus were not beautiful except for their taller stature.

His Holiness the Governor was so attached to these sudden arrival that he decided to send an envoy to contact the Sethrus in the East, and when I was ordered to accompany them on the envoy to the East, I was surprised to find that an island off the coast of Yemen had been taken over by them! ’

Yemen was an important gateway to Persia and the East, and its importance was important to the Roman Empire, Aksum, or the Persian Empire, because it was an important passage from the Western world to the Eastern world.

So I was very upset at the time, and one of the merchants in my company proposed that the Empire immediately send troops to retake and occupy this place, and anyway, the occupation of this place by the Sethrus was only a nominal possession, but Fernesk tried to dissuade me! ’

Although I was upset, and I don't think the reason for what Fernnesk had said was sufficient, but I respected the wisdom of my friends, but when we followed the fleet of the Sethrus to a place south of the Chola (the name given to Southern Tianzhu by Alexander's empire), which they called the Pearl Islands, I suddenly realized that Fernnesk was always so wise!

Who would have thought that the ten merchant ships that sailed with us before seemed to be just merchant ships, but they were also full of all kinds of sharp weapons, and a naval fleet composed of dozens of warships of the Chola Kingdom was completely wiped out by them in just an hour or so! ’

At this point, Belsalika seems to have returned to the battlefield of that day, and he ponders the scene and then goes on to write, 'At that time I thought that this naval battle could be compared to the battle of Delos between the Persian Empire and Athens, but then I realized that I was very wrong.

Not far from the previous battle, there were countless wrecks of warships and countless floating corpses of soldiers who had died in battle, and I even thought that this was the devil's hell at the time, but I knew that it was not, it was the manifestation of the strong fighting power of the Sethru, who completely wiped out more than 400 warships of the Chola Navy with only a quarter of their strength.

And the loss of the Seth Luns is only a few dozen warships, this number shocks us, and what shocks us even more is that they united with the subject countries of Chola to send troops together, and even occupied the capital of Chola State, this once extremely powerful maritime power has irreversibly declined, the cause is because they tried to rob the merchant ships of the Seth Lu! ’

When I saw the strong fighting power of the Sethrus, I already knew that no one could stop them from wanting to occupy something, their strong vindictiveness, the desire for revenge was terrifying, the only thing that made me feel a little comforting was that they had a natural affection for our Roman Empire, because their King often said that Great Qin was as great a civilization as the Eastern Empire! By the way, Daqin is what they call the Roman Empire!

From Egypt, it took us twenty days to reach Yemen, and after crossing the island they occupied, it took us another twenty days to reach the Pearl Islands, and then in a month in the Pearl Islands they destroyed the Chola, and then it took ten days to cross the small sea to an island called Haitou (Sabang).

This island is said to have been occupied by them this year by defeating a Nanyang country that covets their land, this is really a war-loving people, they launched two campaigns in succession this year to open up the entire sea route between the East and the West, it is said that the previous empires were not like this, and the Sethro Empire in the past was a very peace-loving country.

However, when we anchored later, we learned that the war between the Chola Kingdom and the Nanyang was only an insignificant war for the Xia people, and I heard that their great King Majesty was still in the further north, and he waged war against two powerful countries at the same time, probably because of the huge profits of the sea trade, so that their country did not go bankrupt. ’

Although Zhong Likai, Pu Hong and others have mentioned many times when they brag with Belsalika, there is a silver mountain in the East China Sea, and the ore on the mountain does not even need any refining methods, and any stone knocked down is silver in vain.

In addition, there are many large-scale gold mines in the East China Sea, and these rich gold and silver minerals, as well as the East China Sea's own superb industrial and agricultural production technology, are the fundamental reasons why the East China Sea is getting richer and richer, but Belsalika only thinks that Zhong Likai is bragging, where in the world are there any ready-made gold and silver mountains. Peerless Tang Gate fo

Thinking to himself, Belsalika shook his head and continued, 'It was three months after we had left Egypt by the time we crossed the most choke point of the east-west sea route, Sin Continent, and it was because we were on the ships of the Sethru, but to their dismay they said that they were still nearly two months away from returning to their capital.

The sea routes controlled by the Sethrus were astonishing, and the routes from Yemen to the East were now in their own hands, and the sea routes were so lucrative, not only for the taxes to be paid for each passing ship, but also for the rich returns of the maritime merchants for supplies.

And from this place they call Sin Chew, or Temasek, to Yemen, the sea route between them, except for the Pearl Islands, most of them have only occupied this year, but in just over half a year, they have built quite a lot of buildings and ports. ’

'The national strength of the Sethlu people is undoubtedly surprisingly heavy, without a strong national strength, it is impossible to support such a long-distance occupation, originally I thought that their occupation of this place was short, it could not be too stable, but when I passed by Surabaya City and Capture Dragon Bay, I finally found out that I was wrong!

And then when passing through Yecheng on Nanchang Island, especially when I arrived at the place they called Luhan, I finally knew that Nanyang was already their backyard, and we must rely closely on the Seth passers in the future East-West sea trade, otherwise we don't know what will be the tragic fate waiting for us! ’

At this point, Belsalika seemed to be recalling what he had seen and heard in Luhan, and after a short rest, he picked up his quill pen and began to write hard.

Lühan is the name they gave to the earliest colony they occupied in Nanyang, because they said that it had always been a wild land in the past, and it was developed by Han merchants living abroad during the Han Empire hundreds of years ago, so the name Lühan was to commemorate these Han maritime merchants who developed this fertile land.

Nowadays it has been set up as a viceroyalty, but they are called Luhan County, it is a prosperous place, there are 30,000 people living in the city, the city is so clean and beautiful, two or three stories of brick and wood buildings, lush trees and flowers, it is almost a return to Pompeii at the height of the Roman Empire.

In addition to the 30,000 inhabitants living in the city, there were also 50,000 or 60,000 people living in the farms outside the city, and it is said that these people were also responsible for warning the wild people in the rainforest outside the city while clearing the land, and they basically cleansed the nearby barbarians every three months. ’

'During the few days of the temporary anchorage of Luhan, the warden of Luhan received us from what they called the Far West, and he asked us a lot about the Roman Empire, and it seemed that he was interested in a country from another civilization.

Later, we learned that this viceroy, who seemed to have a scholarly demeanor, was once the second consul of another Han empire, because of the coup d'état of the first consul, which caused His Majesty the emperor of this empire, along with the general and the second consul, to come to the Xia people for political refuge.

But obviously, the Xia Kingdom was more attractive to him, the former second consul abandoned his original identity and became a local governor of the Xia Kingdom, oh, they called themselves the county guards, it seems that the Xia Kingdom should soon become the Xia Empire in the future. ’

For the military service system of the Xia Kingdom, I think it is worth learning from the Roman Empire, the officials and people of the Xia Kingdom have always believed that foreigners are unreliable as soldiers, and the treatment of joining the army is very generous, and the people are also very enthusiastic about joining the army.

Because in their history, the Han Empire used a large number of foreign races as mercenaries, just like the Roman Empire, which reused Germanic barbarian mercenaries.

But it is a pity that these alien races into the territory of the Han Empire caused the most tragic history in the history of the Han Empire, for this history of the record and its vagueness, although many alien races tortured and killed the Han people, and the amazing incident of feeding on the Han people was accused by some Taoists and scholars of fabrication, but after this turmoil, the northern Han people, who originally occupied the vast majority of the population of the empire, were almost extinct!

If it weren't for a heroic Jedi counterattack, killing most of the alien races, so that they had to be afraid of the power of the Han people, I am afraid that this nation would have perished, but it is a pity that because of the final defeat of this hero, he was accused of being a murderous butcher and executioner by the scholars of his own nation!

The Sethrus are really a strange people, maybe only they are the only people who would accuse their heroes like this, they can't see that it is because of such a hero's struggle that they have a living space, they only see the hundreds of thousands of aliens who were killed, but they can't see their own compatriots who once shed blood all over the ground!

However, I heard that the ancestors of His Majesty, the king of the Xia Kingdom, used to be officers under this hero, so he respected this hero very much, which can be regarded as a comfort to the hero, although this hero has killed many people, but this does not affect his merits in the slightest! ’