I am the king of the dead

Chen Yi suddenly shook his head, and continued to work on his own business, thinking about so many metaphysical things, what faction should he divide himself into?

Doing things seriously is the right way.

The mission of the Great Qin Kingdom traveled to Guazhou at the beginning of October. From Suiye City to Guazhou, the mission of 300 people did not travel very fast. It was only fifty miles a day, nearly four thousand miles. For nearly eighty days, they were completely exhausted.

Guazhou was established as the last gathering place outside Jiayuguan.

Nikolaoz looked at the Guazhou City under construction, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. This time, the messenger was not killed like the last time.

They walked along the way, everywhere was full of dangers, whether they were horse bandits or robbers, there was also bad natural weather, there was dust everywhere, and the dust in the sky seemed to engulf everyone.

If it weren't for the help of Wang Fu and others in Samarkand, 300 of them would not have been able to reach Guazhou.

"Zoe, don't be sad anymore. In such a storm, only thirteen people died. It is already the Lord's favor." Nikolaos was over 50 years old, but he was as old as seventy .

The situation in Constantinople is critical, as long as there is an attack, countless people will leave.

From a prosperous city with 50 households and more than 15 people living in it, it has gradually become less than [-] households and less than [-] people, and the number is still decreasing.

Nikolaos has been helping Constantine XI, sorting out the city.

However, the Ottoman Kingdom's irregular attacks caused Constantinople to have no chance to breathe.

Perhaps, after their mission left, Constantinople should have fallen.

It should be.

The Eastern Roman Empire was weakening, and even the succession of Constantine XI was appointed by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II.

After Constantine XI was appointed, he rushed from the Principality of Morea to Constantinople to become emperor.

Constantine XI has been trying to restore the glory of the Roman Empire, but dilapidation, decline and endless despair have accompanied the Roman Empire for more than three hundred years.

With the departure of the last Holy Lord, Michael VIII, the situation of the Roman Empire declined day by day.

The royal family of Rome fought to the death for the throne of Constantinople.The result is naturally insufficient troops, and it is necessary to continuously borrow troops from external forces.

Under such circumstances, the Ottomans gained a firm foothold in Bursa on the Asia Minor peninsula, which was the main granary and source of troops for the Eastern Roman Empire.

Then the Ottomans' sphere of influence grew larger and larger. After occupying all the land east of Constantinople, the Ottomans were not satisfied, and they finally set foot on the land west of Constantinople.

In the end, the Roman Empire was besieged in an isolated city.

Once you have a piece of land west of Constantinople (Europe), it is easy to forget the base camp east of Constantinople (Asia).

This is the pit that the Roman Empire has stepped on over and over again over the years.

But it was too late to say anything, even if the monarchs asked for help from the barbarians they looked down upon, they still couldn't save Constantinople from the decline.

The complete decline of the Roman Empire has become a foregone conclusion.

"Governor, have we arrived in the Silk Land of Qin?" Elena, whose nickname is Zoe, asked suspiciously.

Roman China and the East are all derived from the pronunciation of Qin, sino, which also means silk.

Nikolaoz is the chief official of the extraterritorial administrative agency of the Roman Empire, also known as the governor, responsible for all external affairs. The journey of this mission is extremely long.

His father was an outstanding diplomat. He had been in Yongle for 19 years and came to Daming to participate in the Grand Parade called Hunting. Nikolaoz also accompanied him.

This ancient oriental country is so powerful.

Nikolaoz nodded and said, "That's right."

Elena said quite solemnly: "I heard from my father that the Mongols wiped out Qin, but in less than a hundred years, the emperor of Qin drove the Mongols away."

"And a commoner became the emperor, which sounds incredible."

Zhu Yuanzhang once sent a special envoy to the Roman Empire to inform the Roman Empire of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. This was a declaration, declaring the lightning return of the Ming Dynasty.

If a commoner can recover the territories of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Shannan Gaul, Spain, Africa, Illyria, Macedonia and Asia 100 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, and within 30 years Steady rule.

How should such a person be evaluated?Zhu Yuanzhang of Europe.

Although Elena, Nicolaus and Constantine XI did not want to admit it, the Roman Empire was really about to perish, and how to restore the country became their goal.

They wanted to know what kind of power it was that made this land usher in their original masters again.

When they came to Guazhou, they were quite disappointed. Is this Daming?

I still think so.

Of course, they are also very clear that Guazhou is obviously a new city.

The emperor of Ming Dynasty seemed to be opening up to the outside world. More and more caravans were walking on the Tianshan Ancient Road, and it became inevitable to establish an outpost.

Elena felt Daming's overbearing first.

When Daming built a new city in Guazhou, he did not greet King Hami at all. The army stationed there, and the peasants began to build the city. King Hami seemed to be used to it, and did not oppose or interfere too much, and was even happy to see the success.

Because ten years ago, there seemed to be Ming's garrison here.

All caravans before entering the customs must be checked here.

Elena and the other missions were not spared either. They were thrown into a hot pool to take a bath, and they had to use sulfur soap. Even the clothes they wore had to be soaked in sulfur soap before being put into the pass.

Overbearing was Elena's first feeling.

After five days, the caravan finally entered Jiayuguan, which made Elena feel suffocated.

"How long is this?" Elena asked dully, looking at the endless city gate.

The magnificent Jiayuguan deeply shocked Elena.

Nikolaoz said with a smile: "Of course it was the first time I saw this grand pass, about 30 years ago, when I first saw this pass, I was just as surprised as you. "

Nikolaos was only 20 years old at that time, and he followed his father to Daming. When he saw this magnificent pass for the first time, he was also so surprised.

Jiayuguan, the inner city, outer city, Luocheng, Wengcheng, moats and the Great Wall on the north and south wings, have a total circumference of more than [-] miles, with towers, piers and castles dotted all over the place.

The three defense lines of the inner city, the outer city, and the moat formed a trend of overlapping and defending, forming a castle with a flint for five miles, a pier for ten miles, a fort for thirty miles, and a city for a hundred miles.

Beiya is only 72 miles away.

And it's still under construction.

The wind from the Western Regions, carrying countless wind and sand, blew on the city pass, and it seemed that it was also blocked by this grand pass, unable to advance an inch.

Jiayuguan is an important military town, and it is also one of the farthest places where Ming troops stationed troops. Although this place is desolate, Elena felt order when she entered the pass.

There are many rules here, such as not to approach the city wall casually, to live in the post station for envoys, not to leave the post station casually, and not to confuse the people.

Everything is so orderly, everything is so natural.

Since the chaotic world of the Western Regions entered Jiayuguan, this kind of orderliness made Elena feel like a spring breeze, and this feeling made Elena so stable.

She didn't have to worry about a sudden coup d'etat rushing into her room, and she didn't have to worry about the sound of gunfire and shouts that sounded out of nowhere, and she didn't have to worry about horse bandits who were elusive, and she didn't have to worry about those people with ulterior motives.

Here, so reassuring.

Domineering and orderly are Elena's first feelings after entering Jiayuguan. In the early morning of the next day, after washing, she listened to the yelling outside the window, although she couldn't understand what it was.

But she knew that those years, Constantinople, the most scarce thing in the Roman Empire - survival.

To live, to live well, this is a question that Elena has never thought about.

For the first time, she felt that she didn't need to have so many worries, and lived so simply and well.

Although winter was approaching, Elena still felt a surge of vitality spreading in this pass.

Li Binyan has a discussion on the sequence of the four seasons, in addition to the overall sequence of the four seasons, there are also partial sequences of the four seasons.

Daming has a vast territory, not every place is in the same time sequence.

Undoubtedly, after the Tianshan Ancient Road became unimpeded again, the city of Jiayuguan is ushering in its spring prelude, and everything is slowly developing.

People in Jiayuguan are gathering, merchants are doing business, and people are looking for their own livelihoods. There are newly leveled roads, newly built restaurants, newly built houses, and children running around.

There is the sound of horseshoes passing by, the laughter of children like silver bells, and countless shouts mixed with bargaining.

This is the largest distribution center in Ming Dynasty, with rows of shops and a wide variety of goods. Many Hu merchants will stop when they come to Jiayuguan.

There are countless commodities here, such as silk, cotton cloth, tea, pen, ink, paper, salt, iron pot, etc. from the south, as well as jade, gemstones, carpets, livestock, fur, etc. from the Western Regions.

These pictures in the wind and sand constitute a prosperous frontier town.

Development is Elena's fourth impression after arriving in Daming. Daming is developing, especially this kind of development is visible to the naked eye.

This made Elena's breathing a little short, her already fair cheeks were full of rosy.

She is here for marriage, she likes this country very much, the monarch who manages this country so well must be a very good person.

"I want to eat this." Elena was a little greedy. She saw that the rice cake with Le date paste was bought by many people, and it didn't look very expensive.

Nikolaoz smiled and said: "This looks delicious, but we don't have the money to buy it. We have to listen to these soldiers, and we will eat and wear it in the post."

Elena was a little bit reluctant, but she really had no money, and the last few Roman gold coins were blackmailed away by Wang Fu, a greedy senior official of the State of Kang.

That person is a traitor to Ming Dynasty!

Wang Fu had no intention of revealing his identity in front of the Romans, so Wang Fu really asked for bribes and robbed them of their only gold coins.

Nikolaoz spread his hands and looked around, and said helplessly: "I think, if we rob, these soldiers will take us down without hesitation, and then hand them over to the guerrilla general's mansion."

"Their envoys warned us, saying that an envoy from a country just violated Ming's laws, and they were sent to...hell."

The Japanese envoys were lawless, and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty sent all the envoys of the Japanese country to the Jieyuan Court. The emperor of Ming Dynasty was a cheapskate, this is a consensus.

Whoever bullies his subjects has to weigh whether he can bear the emperor's wrath.

"Hell?" Elena's big eyes were full of doubts, she didn't know what Jieyaoyuan was.

The corner of Nikolaoz's mouth twitched easily, and he said helplessly, "Yes, it's hell."

"If you lie, your tongue will be pulled out; if you steal, you will lose ten fingers; if you incite others to break the law, you will be hanged on the mountain of knives."

"That's really terrible. Listen to them, this hell doesn't go to you after you die, but when you're alive, because hell is in the world."

Elena's eyes widened, and she said dully: "What is that? Why does the emperor have the power of Death God?"

The corner of Nikolaoz's mouth twitched and said, "I don't know, it seems that the hell was established by the emperor."

Elena was a little dazed, she couldn't imagine what that place was.

The monarch of this country seems to be a very complicated person.

Nikolaoz looked at the car and said helplessly, "Princess Zoe, we can't go shopping anymore, it's time to go."

The sound of camel bells sounded crisply in the wind and sand, and the delegation followed the official road and post road, heading for the Hexi Corridor.

4 Fifty Chapters of Prosperity and Liberty

The mission from the Great Qin State walked out of Jiayuguan, which is a long and narrow passage.

The south side is Qilian Mountain, the north side is Heli Mountain and Longshou Mountain, here is the Hexi Corridor.

The Qilian Mountains on the south side are covered with snow. Sitting in the car and looking over, you can see the strange peaks piercing into the sky. The melting glaciers have merged into dozens of rivers, large and small. From west to east, several large rivers have been formed.

Rivers collect rainfall, cut canyons, deposit plains, carve Danxia colorful hills, and nourish forests, grasslands, land and people.

Looking at the continuous mountain peaks outside the window, Nikolaoz said with a smile on his face: "Timerer once led an army of 30 people, said to be 100 million people, and planned to enter Hami from the Tianshan Ancient Road, and then divide into two groups to attack Daming. "

"All the way is to go directly east from Hami to Hetao, and all the way is to rush from Hami to Jiayuguan, which is the pass before us, and attack the corridor under our feet."

"Zoe, do you think this is possible?"

Elena was admiring the beautiful scenery. He pointed to the grand pass behind him and said in surprise, "Are you going to hit that pass that can't be seen at a glance? How long will it take? Ten years, or 20 years?"

"And the road under our feet, with so many cities along the way, how to attack? This seems like a really stupid decision."

Prosperity is Elena's fifth impression. There is only one city within a hundred miles here, and each of them is built in a dangerous place.

She couldn't figure out how the pass was conquered. You must know that Constantinople had been besieged for more than ten years, and the Ottomans couldn't wait to enter, but they still couldn't take it.

How long does it take to get to Jiayuguan?

Nikolaoz nodded and said, "Later, Gaisuyeddin, he was a diplomat of the Kingdom of Timur."

"He told me: I have to admit that it was a lucky thing for the Great Emperor (Timerer) to die on the way to the Eastern Expedition, which allowed him to preserve his fame all his life."

The Eastern Expedition was Timur's last stubbornness, but this stubbornness lasted for three days.

After two court coups, Shah Ruth became king of Timur, and sent envoys to Daming many times to resume paying tribute.

"Do you think it's prosperous here?" Nikolaoz asked with a smile.

Elena nodded and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, it is much more prosperous than the provinces of our Roman Empire."