Chapter 851

The significance of Fu Wei's arrival at Constantinople with his fleet is far-reaching.

First of all, the Han country has found a route that can lead directly to Rome's current capital Constantinople from the sea.

Secondly, the fleet can reach Constantinople directly and attack all coastal cities in the Mediterranean wantonly.

From the moment the Han fleet appeared, there was no equality between Rome and the Han state. All because Rome was attacked, no fleet could go to retaliate.

The party who can only be beaten passively is naturally the inferior side.

In particular, the land of the two countries is far enough away, but both countries have long enough coastlines. One side has the ability to send fleets to the other side, but on the other hand, it can't even get out of its own foot washing basin.

The direct manifestation of the emergence of the Han fleet was that Constantius II expressed to Wang Meng that he would personally hold an unprecedented welcome ceremony.

Constantius II will also recall the governors of all provinces and invite dignified nobles from all over Rome. All he wants is to show everyone the huge fleet that sailed tens of thousands of miles and arrived at Constantinople.

Although the Roman authorities were enthusiastic about the purchase proposed by Wang Meng, they restricted the purchase of slaves in many aspects, especially in the purchase of food.

When the huge fleet of the Han army arrived, the Roman authorities did not understand that they proposed to lift the restrictions to Wang Meng, but in a short time, the number of people looking for the Han embassy to talk about business increased sharply.

"We've looked for these people before..." Cai Mian didn't feel too proud. Instead, he felt humiliated when the tiger didn't get angry and was regarded as a sick cat: "now the owner behind these people knows that as long as the big man is willing, he can attack and recognize his position."

"Your Majesty mentioned it a long time ago." Wang Meng fell into memory and said after a short meeting, "Whoever can control the sea is equal to controlling the world."

They didn't feel much about it before, but now they have experienced it personally from the change of Roman attitude.

The Han people are relaxed and happy, while the Roman high-level is very gloomy.

Ordinary Romans didn't think too much about the fleet of a distant country coming from the sea. They were surprised. At the same time, they thought that those foreigners who came from afar always wanted to eat and drink. They would certainly buy things wantonly, and then they could make money.

For the Roman high-level, it is a great good thing that their fleet can go to the Han country. If they can't go, the Han country's fleet has come. It's really a terrible sad reminder.

"I thought that even if the cyris could come from the sea, they would only go to the Red Sea to land in Egypt..." gallus's face was very white, and the rest of the people didn't look any better: "the environment in Egypt is extremely bad. Even if the cyris army landed in Egypt, as long as we didn't relax, they would never get close to Asia Minor, now..."

Whether in Egypt in Asia or in Africa, most of the land in the Red Sea region is desert. Even if it is not as bad as desert, a considerable number of areas are desert level barren.

Lack of plants is generally a lack of water. The more troops there are in such an environment, the more difficult it is to replenish water.

To put it bluntly, the defensive side can set up fortresses where there is water source. There are fewer enemy troops to attack and there is no threat. A large number of enemy troops to attack can not guarantee water source, which is too much advantage for the defensive side.

Rome under the rule of contemporary Augustus Constantius II is completely different from the previous Roman Dynasty, which focused on Europa and mainly operated on the territory of Europa.

Before Constantine became the ruling family of Rome, there were repeated wars caused by civil war and coups in Rome. In fact, Europa was destroyed and rebuilt many times.

Hundreds of years of civil strife in Rome gave the barbarians in Eastern Europe the opportunity to rise. Waiting for Constantius II to sit on the throne of Augustus, not to mention the rise of barbarians, some families that grew up in the civil war also controlled the place.

So I said that it was not Constantius II who fell in love with southern Europe. It was the deep-rooted local forces in Western Europe, Central Europe and Italy. Eastern Europe directly came to the rise of barbarians. If you want to be comfortable, you can only choose southern Europe.

If southern Europe had been hundreds of years earlier, it would have been a complete wilderness in the eyes of the Romans, not to mention that half of Asia Minor, which Constantius II controlled most effectively, belonged to Asia. Just because Constantius II's most tightly controlled territory did not belong to the territory of "old Rome", we can imagine how the nobles treated Constantius II.

The situation of the Constantine family is that it has the name of the Roman ruling family. In fact, it orders Constantinople to go north. Europa is good to listen to, but not good... Who cares if you are Augustus!

"Well..." gallus had a question for a long time: "what is the cause of cyris's attack on credibility?"

The people looked at each other. When they learned that the state of Han and Gupta had entered the state of war, the war there had been fighting for nearly a year. Why did they fight without exploring, but there was no formal answer all the time.

The Han state claimed that the Gupta Dynasty had invaded its territory.

The so-called invasion is that when the Han people went to Nanyang and found that there were black skinned, thin and small sub blacks in this place, they immediately went into a state of unbearable. When they saw one catch another and go back to be a slave.

Later, the Han Navy entered the a'sanyang and magically found that there were many alien ships here. The first time the Han warships and Gupta merchant ships met was to enter the role of robbery and being robbed.

The Han Army didn't know it. When they robbed, they found that ah San was really rich. They robbed and robbed again decisively. Ah San must fight back and gradually evolved into a battle at sea.

"Both sides have their own statements. One side thinks the other party is an unreasonable robber, while the other side declares that the other party has harmed their own interests." Julian has done profound research and understood that those words are not credible at all. The truth is only based on whether he can fight: "the cyris have landed on the mainland. Obviously, the truth is controlled by the cyris."

They are the rulers of the country. Who doesn't know who is what kind of virtue? The country never needs any justice to start a war, just whether it can bring benefits. The winner enjoys the privilege of writing history, and the loser will be buried in the grave. The so-called justice is to become the ultimate winner.

Rome has been paying close attention to the war trend on the side of a San. The latest news they have received is that the kingdom of Dera (called gitanada in Han Dynasty) next to the Gupta Dynasty has been completely occupied, and the Han people are using the kingdom of Dera as a springboard to attack the South and West of the Gupta Dynasty.

After the Han people took control of the kingdom of Dera, they not only attacked the Gupta Dynasty, but also the neighboring countries. In a short time, they destroyed more than a dozen small states such as yega, Thorpe, Kaga, etc. without much effort, they conquered half of the territory of Xiaoba naluo, forcing naluo to become a servant state of the Han state.

"Within half a year, the Han people laid a territory equivalent to our two Macedonian provinces, and destroyed about 50000 troops of Gupta." Julian said solemnly, "Gupta's army has long resisted the joint attack of vargatha and several neighboring countries. It can't be done without sufficient combat power."

Rome has a long history of trade relations with the Gupta Dynasty. We know much more about the Gupta Dynasty than the Han Dynasty. Their impression of the Gupta Dynasty is not weak, especially quite rich.

"It is such a country that they have repeatedly failed in the contest with cyris's army." Julian was well prepared. He took out several parchments, which were Cicero's records of ocean wars and several land wars: "if Cicero's words are true, the cyris have never really regarded Gupta as an equal opponent."

That's what Julian understood.

Needless to say, in the early maritime confrontation between the two sides, it doesn't matter how the Chinese Navy fought in front. Nearly 3000 ships of all kinds were pulled out at one time and directly connected to the door of the Gupta Dynasty. Isn't it easy to show a balance of power?

In the land confrontation, Cicero recorded that the regular army of the Han Dynasty played a supervisory role most of the time. It was mainly the servant army of the Han Dynasty who went to fight with the Gupta army, among which the servant army from the countries of the Japanese Islands sent out the most times.

"The place called the Japanese islands is described by Cicero as a group of islands in the semi stone age. The countries above are trying to join the country of cyris, and have not been allowed by the emperor of cyris." Julian didn't feel much about this. Rome has been brilliant for so long. In history, a considerable number of countries and nationalities want to integrate, and only a few succeed: "it's incredible that they are willing to die for the son of cyris. It's crazy to go to the battlefield."

Constantius II raised his hand to stop Julian from telling, and said expressionless, "the process of competition can be accelerated as soon as it can be accelerated. Next, you have new responsibilities."

Julian was a little stunned. He was the organizer. He held such a grand event mainly to sell gifts from Han people at a good price.

"Don't let Cyrus's fleet stay too long." How could Constantius II agree to let the Han fleet moor at the throat of the Strait? Since the Han fleet is lined up in the Strait and the impact on the channel is minimized, maintain the status quo: "be ready to go to cyris with them at any time."

There were no ocean going ships in Rome. The last time Cicero was sent to the Han state, the ships were still purchased and hired from some countries on the mainland, including the Gupta Dynasty. As a result, they did not only support the pingman captain department, but the Han people arranged ships to return to the Han state.

Constantius II then entered a state of thinking, taking a look at Helena and Helena from time to time.

Helena has participated in high-level meetings, and her appearance in such a merger is not abrupt.

Helena was invited to attend the high-level meeting for the first time. She tensed her face and stopped talking. She couldn't control her hands. She had been playing with her clothes, and her position that had been twisted for a long time was wrinkled.

"We all received gifts from Wang Meng." Constantius II tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table: "when you go back, be sure to return more valuable gifts."

Some of them didn't give back gifts before they received gifts. Others thought it was nothing to receive gifts in their own territory without giving back gifts. Now, with the arrival of the Han fleet, everything is different. At least we can't be at ease.

Helena showed an instant expression of wanting to cry. She was a marginal figure. She had always been very poor. She received a very precious gift. If she really wanted to give a return gift, it seemed that she sold herself and couldn't afford to buy a return gift of the same value.

"I'll arrange your share." Constantius II looked at Helena with a kind expression, smiled and said, "in addition, I will arrange a etiquette teacher. You need to become an orthodox Roman lady in the shortest time."

Helena had all kinds of teachers before, even those who were not famous at all. She is serious in learning, but the teacher behind her is gone, and she doesn't arrange the teacher to come over.

"Let me teach." Helena said aloud, "the etiquette of Rome is up to me. It happens that we can also learn the etiquette of cyris together."

Constantius II thought and nodded in agreement.

Not only Helena and Helena need to learn the etiquette of the Han country, but also those noble ladies who are going to the Han country. Of course, it was not the Romans and Europa who taught them etiquette. It was the teacher arranged by Wang Meng, and the teacher was a female official from Miyagi.

Roman women want to learn etiquette, and Roman men who are going to the Han country also want to learn etiquette, but the teacher changed the candidate.

For many Romans, they not only have to learn etiquette, but also try their best to learn Chinese. In order to communicate better, on the one hand, understanding Chinese (characters) is bound to know more when they arrive in the Han country, and even understand Chinese characters on the premise of spying on secrets.

As an old saying goes, time flies

The competition ended with cheers. The last winning team in the group war was the Han people from the Far East. However, people with sharp eyes can see that the Han people can really fight, but there must be an inside story behind the victory of the Han team. For example, the Roman masters told the gladiators that they must lose.

As he wished, Julian sold the things put up for auction at a sky high price and gave back a gift that Wang Meng thought was appropriate.

Wang Meng has recently received gifts. He knows and doesn't know. He came in person and sent people. Many people just want to leave a parchment with their own name on the gift list, that is, they are familiar.

"There are too many envoys in Daqin?" Fu Wei looked at the list listed in Rome and saw that it was really dense: "the Lord, plus servants and so on, there were more than 20000 people. Why didn't they swim to the big man!"

Next to doua lengbuding came a sentence: "more than 4000 people are the noble daughters of the Daqin people."

Fu Wei subconsciously licked his lips