Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 507 I don’t want to be a Greek anymore, Jojo!

After a few conversations, the atmosphere between Theodora and Guo Ponu became increasingly subtle.

Qiao Feng seemed to sense something was wrong and found a reason to run away first. Even Tang Saier and others left quietly.

However, at this moment, the soldiers on guard outside suddenly came to report that another group of people had arrived. The two had no choice but to put aside their dispute for the time being and ask for news about the newcomers.

The sentry said that the leader called himself Joanna and was doing business in the city. Hearing that Mr. Guo was in trouble, he brought his servants to rescue him. Now he wants to see Mr. Guo.

Theodora didn't seem to welcome her very much, but she looked at Guo Ponu with some concern, as if she was assessing the current situation, so she did not immediately give orders to the soldiers outside. As a result, Joanna forced her way in while shouting, "I am the patron of the monastery, I want to see how Mr. Guo is doing."

As soon as she approached, she went to find Guo Kang without saying a word. Theodora had no choice but to shout out again: "Who are you? Don't approach the wounded casually!"

"I am his friend and sponsor. He is injured, don't I want to see more?" Joanna asked.

"You have done your best by coming to help." Next to him, Guo Ponu consoled him kindly: "But as you can see, the fighting here is over. Now we still need to wipe out the remaining enemies as soon as possible and restore order. There is a chance There are a lot of things to do. We are very grateful that you can come to help. Please take your soldiers to Captain Lucas and let him assign tasks to you. Our Guo family will specially arrange the reward afterwards. "

"My servants and mercenaries are at your disposal." Joanna said, patting the sword on her waist: "As for myself, I have also learned swordsmanship and know some martial arts. I came here in a hurry this time. , mainly to do my best to protect Mr. Guo. So, I just follow him. "

"No, I am in command here now." Theodora said decisively: "For military needs, please stay away from here for the time being. Miss Guo, you can also go and rest."

"Okay." Guo Ponu said, took Guo Kang's arm and was about to leave. He also reached out to hit Theodora's hand: "You should let go. Why, you won't let me leave?"

"Why are you taking him away? I said you can leave." Theodora said unhappily.

"This is my family, why can't I take him with me? I've been fighting with him until now, so of course we have to rest together." She said, pulling Guo Kang: "Okay, stop chatting with her. Let's go, Let’s go home first.”

"I still have to ask him about things." Theodora refused to give in: "He was the one who started the whole thing. Now I don't know the specific ins and outs. The situation is so complicated, and many things have to be asked directly. How can we let him go?"

"I know everyone is tired and reluctant to continue tossing him, but as a leader, you have to shoulder more responsibilities." She said, "You can take the soldiers to rest first. Just leave this to me. "

Of course Guo Ponu couldn't accept it, and Joanna also looked very dissatisfied.

"I'm afraid you are not doing it for official duties, but for selfish desires! Otherwise, why don't you let us follow you?" She questioned: "With all due respect, Your Highness, you are trying to serve your own interests. After explaining so much, you are just trying to exclude Others just have him all to themselves.”

"If you say that, I can't agree with it." Theodora did not feel guilty because of this, but shook her head confidently: "I monopolize him, and I need to use it for personal gain? We have always been deeply in love, and we should arrange a marriage soon. Everyone in the palace knows about it, it’s just that it hasn’t been announced yet.”

She ignored Guo Ponu, who looked shocked, and turned around and said: "Miss Joanna, you should have some basic common sense. There is no need to use the word 'exclusive' when it comes to your fiancé, because this is It’s a matter of course. If you don’t keep it to yourself, why should you share it with anyone?”

A few of her words were overtly and covertly mocking Joanna, saying that she was of low status and could not enter the court, and that she lacked a basic understanding of normal husband-wife relationships. However, the other information revealed in her words shocked Joanna so much that she was speechless for a moment.

"Don't be so harsh, I think..." Guo Kang was still trying to ease the atmosphere between them.

"What do you think? Do you also want to share with a few more women?" Theodora replied unhappily, choking back the second half of Guo Kang's sentence.

"Why is there a marriage now?" Guo Ponu was equally anxious.

Although she had already learned about what Theodora had done from her father and the servants, she should have been mentally prepared. But when someone said it himself, Guo Ponu was still a little anxious and said unwillingly: "Where does this all go? If there is no shadow, please don't talk nonsense."

"Why is there no shadow?" Theodora sneered and turned to ask Guo Kang: "Then tell me, how do you settle this matter? Do you think you don't recognize it?" With that, he reached out and pulled Guo Kang towards him. Grab it here.

"I didn't say I didn't admit it? Hey, don't pull me -" Guo Kang quickly replied: "I didn't say anything."

After hearing this, Theodora did not embarrass him any more and let go of his still painful arm, allowing him to step aside and take a breath.

"The official matters I mentioned need to be done seriously." She also explained specifically: "As for the private matters, I have my own arrangements, so you don't need to ask about them."

"Miss Guo, you can go back." She emphasized to Guo Ponu again, then turned her head and assumed a tolerant posture: "As for Miss Joanna, you can also leave. If you leave now, I will too Your recklessness and abruptness will not be held accountable."

Guo Ponu didn't react for a while. He looked left and right, as if he was trying to think of a way. When Joanna heard this, she lowered her head and remained silent for a moment, then raised her head.

"You have no right to make decisions for Mr. Guo, nor can you interfere with who I go to, because I am not your vassal, and neither is he. Therefore, even if you are a princess, you do not have this power." Joanna said firmly. : "It is my choice to support and protect him."

"Today, I came late. This was my mistake. Of course I will bear the consequences of my ignorance and hesitation myself. However, I must follow my own heart in the future. Only in this way can I I won’t continue to regret it.”

With that said, she stood up straight and strode over.

"Ha... came towards me, right... didn't run away but approached this princess." Theodora smiled arrogantly and glanced at her: "Let me tell you, why did your brother keep mentioning you just now? It’s rare that he has tried all kinds of words like a woodpecker tapping on a tree trunk..."

"If I don't get closer, how can I defeat such an arrogant person like you!" Joanna simply stopped pretending and spoke out her purpose loudly as she walked away.

"Hoho, then let's get closer!" Theodora was not afraid at all and let her walk over and stand in front of her.

For a moment, the atmosphere here became very heated. Guo Kang himself hurriedly hid aside, while Guo Ponu was at a loss and didn't know what to do now. The others were surprised and curiously poked their heads here, wanting to see how they would fight in the end.

The two approached each other, and Joanna was about to say something else, but Theodora suddenly spoke first.

"Qiaoqiao." She casually called the other party's nickname: "Did you know? In a Greek court, a noblewoman's abilities actually have limits."

Joanna looked a little surprised and continued to stare at her.

"I have learned one thing from my short life so far." Theodora said thoughtfully: "The more you play with tricks, the more you will find that there are limits to the abilities of Greek noblewomen. .Unless...beyond the Greeks..."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Joanna instinctively felt the danger, frowned, and said warily. "I won't be a Greek anymore, Jojo!" Theodora laughed and drew her sword.

Joanna was startled and quickly drew her sword to fight. The two sides went back and forth and tried a few moves.

"Slow, too slow!" Theodora still had time to laugh at her: "Roman swordsmanship is the strongest practical combat technology. Even if you haven't mastered it yet, the speed and power are obviously superior to your Italian swordsmanship!"

"It seems that you and I use different types of martial arts." Joanna also worked hard to fight, and praised the other party: "Although you can't flexibly use geometric skills, you have strong strength and can make accurate movements. action……"

"Want to test how much better my swordsmanship is than yours? Forget it, there's no need to test it..." Theodora tried two more moves and slashed her sword towards Joanna's side. Although it didn't hit her body, it still tore her skirt.

"Is the test you're talking about the attack that could kill someone just now?!" Joanna was shocked to see that she was serious.

However, she immediately calmed down her mood, showed a nonchalant expression, and said with a smile: "It actually tore the skirt I bought from the Yuan Dynasty Chamber of Commerce worth a thousand gold coins!"

"You profiteer..." Theodora muttered, shook her head, sneered, and replied: "Ha, then I will accept your boring provocation and give it a little test!"

"Do you want to compete with me on how fast you draw your sword?" Joanna was also aroused by the competitive spirit of martial arts practitioners, and she also increased her speed. In the shadow of swords, the two fought faster.

"Swish, brush, brush, brush, brush -"

"Sususususususususususu——"

Not only Guo Kang, but also Guo Ponu was dumbfounded. The two wanted to stop them, but at this moment, they heard a crash, and Theodora used her strength to knock the sword from Joanna's hand straight away with one blow.

"Sure enough, my swordsmanship, strength and accuracy are all better than yours." Theodora said proudly: "What did you just say? I have practiced swordsmanship and have martial arts. Do you want to protect him? Take a good look, you are like this Son, who can you protect?"

Joanna was still a little unwilling, but Theodora also dropped his sword, stepped forward, and used a wrestling trick to lift Joanna up.

"Goodbye, Qiaoqiao." She threw Joanna far away.

Joanna was knocked unconscious and couldn't get up again!

Theodora seemed very happy, ordered everyone to take good care of her, took Guo Kang and left first.

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Thick smoke was already rising from the main building of the Italian Chamber of Commerce. Sun Shiwan stood outside, looking at the flames in the yard with an unhappy expression.

"Why are you so stunned? Hurry and put out the fire!" He scolded: "Get all their account books, cargo lists, contracts and contracts for me. Don't waste any of them! Go quickly!"

All the servants were busy running to put out the fire before they had time to spare.

"Who is so wicked as to set fire to a place like this?" Sun Shiwan took a long breath and said displeasedly.

"It's not those mercenaries." Next to him, a close confidant shook his head: "We shouldn't listen to them."

In the yard, Italian corpses lay scattered on the ground, and almost all of them were stripped naked. Most of the mercenaries have dispersed, but a few are still digging around, looking for the remaining loot.

When Sun Shiwan and others came over, the two sides fought for a while at first. But after discovering his identity, the soldiers hired by the Italian Chamber of Commerce became more active.

The mercenary leader secretly sent someone out and told them that there were still many people on his side. Although they are currently suppressed by the armed forces of the Java Chamber of Commerce, they are quite passive and may not win in the end. However, if they resist desperately, the other party will surely suffer a lot of losses. This is something no one wants to see.

Now that the Java Chamber of Commerce is out, the enemy must be the Chamber of Commerce here, so they won't come here specifically to make life difficult for poor mercenaries like them. In this case, there is actually no fundamental contradiction between the two parties. All misunderstandings now can be discussed.

They promised that as long as the Java Chamber of Commerce allowed them to leave with part of the loot, they could fight back, open the door to welcome the Java Chamber of Commerce, and work together to eliminate those stingy Italians. Although he had only been here a few days, the whole city was already aware of "Sun Shiwan's" reputation for being bold and generous, and he probably wouldn't care about the money with them.

Sun Shiwan quickly agreed to this condition. He found that the mercenaries were indeed familiar with the situation and quickly eliminated the Italians in the chamber of commerce. It's just that these people's hands and feet are not clean, and they are as if they are mentally ill. They insist on setting fires randomly when they have nothing to do, which makes it very troublesome for him to come and put an end to it.

Thinking of this, Sun Shiwan pointed at the mercenaries, turned around and ordered: "Those Rong people, why don't you get out? I'm afraid they have been abandoned by their leader. In this case, it is useless, go and kill them Kill them. Go back to the government and ask who set the fire, and hand over the head."

The men immediately took the order and left. More than a dozen Javanese soldiers quietly approached and killed all of them with one blow.

"Okay, I'm done for today." Sun Shiwan clapped his hands and looked at the fire and smoke in the distance: "This movement is really quite big. It can be seen in more than one place... What exactly is going on?"

"What we know so far is limited." A person dressed as an aide reported: "Now we can confirm that it was only Mr. Guo who led the troops to arrest people and captured two mansions in a row, which resulted in chaos."

"That being said, I do have a feeling. This person is probably more powerful than we thought, and he is a person worth investing in." Sun Shiwan commented: "Oh, by the way, I remember that I was in the Empress Temple before. Over there, he also wanted me to invest in some institution of his...Did the matter of his investment finally come to fruition?"

"We're not sure if there were any new investors afterwards. But after your order, I did investigate." The staff said: "He had already raised a round of funds before. At that time, it was mainly a few Italian and local businessmen. money."

"Who paid the most?" Sun Shiwan asked.

"A businesswoman named Joanna Medici." the staff member replied.

"How much did she put in?"

"Six thousand Roman gold coins. This is not small. It should represent their family's investment."

"It's not too much..." Sun Shiwan muttered: "-Let's see how much all previous investors invested in total. We don't need to exaggerate for the first time, just invest their total amount. Since then, we, Dayuan, have become his biggest investors—let’s just start building a relationship with him.”

"Yes, sir!" The staff member cupped his hands and agreed.

(End of this chapter)