"Alexios Comnenus, son of John II of Basileus, Roman Empire, is willing to serve His Majesty the Great Emperor. Long live His Majesty the Great Emperor..."
"Archbishop Peter Bagration of the Christian Orthodox Church of Georgia, kneels before His Majesty the Great Emperor. May God bless His Majesty the Great Emperor long live..."
Jinling Palace, inside Chongzheng Hall. The two foreign devils finally knelt on one knee in front of the throne of Zhao Kai, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, the Lord of the World, and paid their respects to the supreme ruler of the world in Latin.
After the two foreigners paid their respects, they did not stand up. They still knelt on one knee because the aloof Emperor Song did not let them stand up.
Zhao Daguan glanced at the two people kneeling below him, and then turned his attention to Natalie, the beloved concubine of Ocean Horse, who was sitting next to him. Today, because the King of Western Roman Kingdom came to visit, he asked her to come. Cameo translated.
This woman who was sent to Linhuang Mansion as a slave girl and sat on the bench for a few times in the harem of Wanyan Liang who did not understand the appreciation of Yangma turned out to be an educated Rakshasa noble lady. When captured by Wanyan Xiebao's people, she could speak Rakshasa, Greek and Latin, and later learned Turkic, Chinese and Khitan. This is a female academic master who is proficient in six languages!
After arriving in Zhao Kai's palace, he served as an unknown Master Attendant. Within a few years, he was promoted to Beauty (the fifth level in the harem of the Song Dynasty) with his real talents, and was granted the title of Beauties.
Seeing Zhao Kai's eyes, the Pomeranian Natalie smiled and said: "For officials, the one wearing purple is King Alexius Komnenos of Rome. The one wearing black and white hat is the King of Georgia. Peter Bagration, Archmagister of the Church.”
Zhao Kai nodded and said with a smile: "If you are flat, give me a seat... let them all sit."
Natalie smiled and said to the King of Rome and the Archmage: "Bachelus, Bishop, His Majesty the Emperor asked you to stand up, and also asked you to sit down."
There are also seats...the treatment is good!
Four chairs were quickly moved to Zhao Kai's throne and lined up in a row - why four? Because there are still two seats for Li Chongwen and Mari Hasiya. The two of them had bowed to Zhao Kai before. When Acresius and Bagration knelt down, they were standing on one side, and now they could finally sit for a while.
After the four people sat down, none of them dared to speak, and they were not qualified to speak on their own initiative. They had to wait for Zhao Kai to ask questions.
At this time, in the Chongzheng Hall, in addition to the four of them, Zhao Kai, Natalie, and Hu Yin, there were also left minister Chen Ji, right minister Yu Yunwen, left privy envoy Yue Fei, right privy envoy Li Xiaozhong, and Hanlin Academy Du Chengzhi Lu Baoshan, the emperor's eldest son, Zhao Lun, the prince of Lingwu County, and others also all have high positions.
Seeing that the four guests had already sat down, Zhao Kai smiled and said to them: "I have read the memorial of the King of Tang... I know that Wanyan Zonghan, the remnant of the golden thieves, and Wanyan Xiebao escaped to Rome and killed John II, King of Rome!
This thief, Wanyan Xiebao, even robbed the throne of the Roman King. This is really intolerable! "
He spoke slowly, pausing for a moment so Natalie could translate it into Latin. In addition to translating, Natalie is also responsible for recording... Zhao Kai's Hanlin bachelors do not understand Latin. Translating and recording at the same time, you have to use both Chinese and Latin to memorize, which is of course a bit slow.
Seeing that Natalie had finished recording, Zhao Kai continued: "King side by side, I ask you, when you come to Jinling, do you want me to send troops to help you regain your position as the king of heaven?"
His words were translated into Latin by Natalie, "Basselus, the great emperor asks you, do you want to ask the Song Dynasty to send troops to help you retake Constantinople?"
Zhao Kai's words were very clear, he just wanted to help! As long as the King of Rome kneels down and calls daddy, he will be ready to launch an "eldest son's expedition to the west"... His own eldest son is here!
So after Natalie finished translating, Zhao Kai smiled and waited for the King of Rome to kneel down and call daddy... But after waiting for a long time, he didn't see Alexius kneeling down, and this guy Not even saying anything, just sitting there motionless!
what 's wrong? Zhao Kaixin said: Could it be that Natalie doesn't speak Latin well? I have a Rakshasa accent, but people can’t understand me?
"Bome people," Zhao Kai asked, "have you made it clear to King Yizi Side by Side?"
"I told you..." Seeing that Alexios didn't respond, Natalie added, "How about I say it in Greek again?"
"Say, say," Zhao Kai said, "make it clear to him!"
Natalie then spoke Greek again, with the same intention, telling Alexios to stop being dazed and call for help quickly - isn't this why you came all the way to Aurous Hill? Why don't you speak up now?
But Zhao Kai and Natalie could not have imagined that this Alexius had changed his mind... The Song Dynasty was too terrible. If they were allowed to attack Europe, then God's land would become the whole world. He, Alexios, believed in God, so how could he do such a thing and go to hell?
So he had no intention of telling Zhao Kai about this matter, but he didn't expect Zhao Kai to take the initiative... What should he do?
"Your Majesty the Emperor..." After holding back for a long time, Alexios finally spoke, "Rome is really far away from the Song Dynasty! And it's also very poor... It's really not worth the Song Dynasty's initiative. Expedition!"
After hearing what he said, Natalie frowned slightly and turned back to Zhao Kai and said: "The official, the king said that Rome is too far away and too poor to be worthy of the Song Dynasty's expedition."
Zhao Kai laughed and thought: This one-word king is quite self-aware... He knows that the economies of Turkey and Greece are not doing well.
But it doesn’t matter, there are still rich countries in Europe, such as Germany, which is now called the Holy Roman Empire. There is also the British Empire, the financial center, and England, as well as France and Italy, which specialize in the production of luxury goods... Oh, there is also Switzerland, and there are Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. I heard that they are all very rich. !
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai smiled and said: "I know that Constantinople and Greece are poor and barren, but there are many rich places in Europe, which are far more than Constantinople and Greece."
This time it was Natalie's turn to be stunned.
The "poverty" of Constantinople and Greece depends on who you compare it with. Comparing it with the Song Dynasty is not enough, but in Europe... it is probably the profiteer countries like Venice and Genoa that are richer than there.
However, these Italian profiteer countries are small countries with few people. Their per capita is good, but their overall financial resources are still not as good as Eastern Rome, which has a population of 10 million.
By the way, maybe the officials regard Egypt and Syria as European lands.
So Natalie said to Zhao Kai: "The rich places mentioned by the officials must be Syria and Egypt, right? They are indeed richer than Rome."
What? Are Syria and Egypt richer than Türkiye and Greece? Zhao Kaixin said: Is what this Pomeranian said true? Were Syria and Egypt really rich in the 12th century?
No matter how rich you are, you can't be richer than Britain, France and Germany, right?
Zhao Kai said with a smile: "Then you tell Acresius, I don't think Rome is poor... Wanyan Xiebao is the mortal enemy of the Song Dynasty. No matter how far he runs, I will catch him !Even if he runs to England, I won’t let him go!”
In fact, Zhao Kai doesn't care about Wanyan Xiebao at all...it's England he doesn't want to let go! Even if Wanyan Xiebao did not seek refuge in England, Zhao Kai would still send troops to invade England!
We must not give the British Empire a chance to rise!
Even if you can't get any money from England, even if you have to give money, you can't let go of the British Empire!
"Basileus," Natalie said to Acresius at this time, "the emperor has agreed to help you retake Eastern Rome... You should kneel down quickly to thank me!"
What? Do you agree?
Acresius was stunned again and again, "But, madam, I don't want to take back Rome!"
"What did you say?" Natalie was stunned, "Basileus, you don't want Rome anymore?"
"No more..." Acresius said with a blushing face, "I think Nanjing should be here. I don't want to go back to Constantinople!"
"Barcelus, do you really no longer want Rome?"
"No more..."
The two of them were talking in Greek, but Zhao Kai didn't understand a word, so he coughed and asked, "Pome, what is this King of Rome saying?"
Natalie turned back to Zhao Kai and said: "In the official family, the king said, 'I am happy here, but I don't think of Luo'... He doesn't want Rome anymore, he just wants to be a rich man in Nanjing."
What? Are you happy here and not thinking about it? Zhao Kai thought, how can you, the king of Rome, have the same virtue as Liu Adou? You are just a Komnenos Adou! How angry would your late Emperor John II be if he knew this?
"Bome," how could Zhao Kai let Yingjili go? His face was stern, "Tell him, I won't tolerate him being a koadou, and there are no rich men in Nanjing who can do it for him! If he doesn't want to go back to Rome to be king, then please leave my land immediately!"
Natalie turned back to look at Acresius and her face became stern, "Basselus, the emperor said, if you don't want to go back to Rome and become Impalado, then you can go to hell!"
Not being a Roman emperor is not enough! Will you die if you don't become emperor? Are you, the Great Emperor, unreasonable?
When Acresius heard this, he really didn't know what to say?
Although he doesn't think he will go to hell... he believes in God so devoutly that he will definitely go to heaven after death.
But he was unwilling to report to heaven immediately.
Natalie said in a calm voice, "Kneel down quickly!"
Then kneel down!
Acresius had no choice but to kneel down on one knee and said to Zhao Kai, who was above him: "Your Majesty, the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, on behalf of the Roman Senate and the people, I would like to ask for your help to expel the enemies who have occupied Rome. To restore order there..."
Seeing Acresius kneeling, Zhao Kai knew that sending troops to Rome, no, sending troops to England was probably done!
There will never be a British Empire again!
