"The city of Rome and the Castel are like two sponges that are never saturated. They can absorb as much water as they want. Cross Christians from all over the world will go to these two places every minute, either for pilgrimage, residence, or Worship. Here you can get closer to God. Who is closer to God, the Apostolic See of Rome or the Patriarch of the Castle? The common people and the nobles don’t understand. They only know that they must come here once in their lives. If they have more time, they can still You can look further east to Jerusalem. But that area has been occupied by pagans and foreigners. It is very dangerous, so asking people to go on pilgrimage has become a popular profession. Accept the commission of wealthy businessmen or nobles and pretend to be the crescent moon. Christians mingled among them. Some were entrusted by military nobles or churches to send people to the Holy City to check the local situation. Each had their own agenda. In the summer of 869 AD, a merchant ship team from North Ansa carried paper, wool, and wood. After entering Paris in the northeast of France, the team then walked through the Alps to Italy. They were full of confidence, sleeping in the open air along the way, and half of the escorting knights fell. After arriving in Rome, they stayed for another month to pray to the Mistress of the North. Half of the profits earned from previous trade were spent now, except for expenses along the way. A Roman monk said to a man named
The northern woman from "Malm" began to pray. This is just a relay station for the caravan's journey, and the next step is King's Castle.
But when the ship went down the Gulf of Venice and entered the Aegean Sea, they were forced to turn due to a storm and encountered pirates from the Eastern Mediterranean.
Pirates are pirates, and there is no mercy in Vikings or anywhere else. In the ocean, the chance of surviving danger is only 5%.
After a fierce fight, almost everyone in the caravan died, except for a young man who was the leader. Because he looks pretty good.
Among the foreign nobles, some are like this kind of foreign slaves. The end point of the vast ocean will be in Damascus.
Perhaps the prayers in Rome made God take notice. This bandit fleet also ran aground due to heavy rain, with water entering the bottom of the boat, and many unnecessary livestock and goods were thrown overboard.
The caravan master was thrown into the sea and became food in the mouth of the sea monster. But the driftwood drifting over from an unknown merchant ship happened to hit him.
Unintentionally, I was caught by him. In this way, one person and one tree may be swallowed up by the big waves at any time, but they survive tenaciously.
Human life is as humble as grass, but it never falls. He encountered another merchant ship. The caravan owner didn't understand the people, flags, and language at all.
When he woke up, the ship had docked and he was lying on the bed. The captain who was treating the owner of the caravan had a goatee and a shrewd look on his face. His fingers were calloused from holding a pen for a long time.
Wearing a turban worn only by pagans. The owner of the caravan didn't understand anything he said, but he understood one sentence. He learned it when he went to the Aegean Sea to avoid the swords of the Crescent Cultists.
“There is no god but Allah.” Frankish, Latin, Slavic... This foreign aristocratic captain, after several experiments with sailors and what he had learned, confirmed that he could communicate in Frankish, he finally understood the identity of the victim.
The captain asked people to get down, quietly looked at the owner of the caravan, and introduced himself. The names of foreigners are very convoluted. Even if they are translated into Frankish, they are still a long string of syllables.
So the owner of the caravan gave the captain a syllable and secretly called him
"Yi Han" was helped by the other party's life-saving grace and the desire to continue living. The owner of the caravan introduced himself and called himself "Yi Han".
"Regiice". Then tell me all your experiences along the way. It's said to come from Northumbria in the north, a place I've rarely heard of.
Invaded by the Vikings, it has recently become even more famous for its paper production. If this wonderful and easy-to-sell product could be sold in the Mediterranean, you could buy a castle in a few years.
In order to trade and survive, Yihan learned the language of the Cross Christians and traveled between Venice and the Aegean Sea.
He likes to explore the unknown and has been to many places. He had never been to the land of England. After meeting Regius, he spent three whole days looking for him when he had time, asking about everything in the north.
It was thus learned that the master of Regius asked him to make a pilgrimage to the south to treat his wife's illness.
"Although you can't go to King's Castle, you have already arrived around the Holy City." Hearing this, Regice was shocked to realize that he could reach the Holy City in three days' walk inland!
If you can bring back some souvenirs from the Holy City to show that you have been there, and then return to England, you might be able to be knighted by your Excellency!
Regius is the younger brother of Bishop Ulf's lover. He relied on this relationship and previous achievements to successfully get this job.
Since Your Highness's health deteriorated after giving birth, Your Excellency sent people to various places to pray for blessings. For Olan, he doesn't believe this, but his wife does. Since you believe it, I will send people to various holy places.
Hope your health improves. At the same time, these envoys were also allowed to record what they learned along the way and develop contacts.
Regius didn't know that the Yihan clan was originally a believer in Christ. When the holy city fell, they did not move out. Although they pretended to convert, they secretly retained their faith.
That’s why they are willing to secretly treat Christians. Regius was ordered to wear pagan clothing and study the scriptures in order not to be caught.
In order to increase the other party's attention to him, Regius deceived them that he was a relative of an important minister in the country.
Yi Han wanted to use Regis to connect with England in the future and obtain the exclusive rights to paper. Two months later, they traveled to the Holy City, prepared to worship, and then turned back to the Mediterranean.
But the God of Misery took care of Regice again. Internal fighting broke out in the holy city, and the Yihan clan was also discovered because a relative was praying and still believed in the Cross God.
This triggered a manhunt, and upon investigation, more were implicated. In the end, the Yihan clan was cut away like grass.
In the chaos of the Holy City, Regius bravely took up arms and saved a young nobleman, thus gaining protection without losing his life.
He is a person with language talent. In two months, he learned a lot of short sentences and was able to communicate. His skin color is not white, and his eyebrows are closer to those of Mediterranean or even West Asian race.
Maybe his ancestor came from around here. In short, he went from being a bishop's bookkeeper, a caravan envoy, a pilgrim, to a warrior!
He has a new name
"Bro". What is a man's dream? For some, it is to ride the fastest war horse, sleep with the enemy's wives and daughters, destroy the homes of heretics, and listen to the cries of slaves.
Bro was transferred again and became a member of a larger foreign mercenary army. When he was in the north, he also fought in the Battle of Repton. Earlier, he practiced throwing every day and wanted to kill countless Vikings.
Because twenty male elders in their family died at the hands of the Ragnar clan. Violence is a gene buried in his blood.
If you are forced to convert and become a pagan, that's just right. Those who are killed are also foreigners. The evil devils will not show mercy.
He didn't know if he could go back alive, so he could only hold the sword all the time and become an ox or a sheep, being driven by others. Gradually, he learned the dialect of Mesopotamia.
He knew that the world was very big, dozens of times bigger than he originally thought. In the East there were various archbishops.
On the grassland, there are shamans who can make wind and rain, in the mountains, there are murderous priests, in the plains, there are Brahmins covered in gold and silver, Immortals, Shiva, Hubal... foreigners of all colors.
Bro began to record these experiences. He thought that if he could go back to see you one day, he would give him this book.
In the Battle of Repton, Bro should have died because he was seriously injured, but Your Excellency said,
"As long as there is still hope, then no one of them will be missing!" So he is willing to take on the important task of making a pilgrimage to help the hostess.
You also trust yourself and reward your fiancée and relatives with many gifts.
"Regiice, your fiancée will be waiting for you until the day you come back. Anyone who dares to insult you will die!" This is what you said, which means that you will take good care of your wife.
But if she doesn’t go back, she will remain a widow for the rest of her life! The first year has passed, and the second year has also passed. Bro followed the army farther and farther. The officer who led them said that they would establish a business in the Mesopotamia.
"regime". But he was defeated and ran like a dog. When entering Beitianzhu, they were intimidated by a group of white elephants.
Bro has never seen one so big in his life.
The "thing" looked like a moving hull, so scary. The two river basins cannot stand, the people of Tianzhu are extremely vicious, and the climate there is too hot!
Many people died from the disease. The remaining defeated generals became local warlords in Central Asia. The army was divided, and several small leaders each led a team and occupied the top of the mountain as king.
During this period, Bro met Khotanese, Uyghurs, Tubos... and people from the far east who had been exiled to the northwest.
"Tangren". There is a Tang man who is of mixed race and has dark and yellow skin. He can speak the Uighur dialect, and there happens to be a fugitive slave of Uighur origin in his team.
Many stories were asked from it. He said that he was from a military family, and his ancestors were caught by food merchants in the Central Plains, and became
"Kunlun slave" is a thing for the nobles to make fun of. Her mother was a runaway prostitute and was of Hunv ancestry. She later became a slave girl of a wealthy family in order to earn a living.
Because his father was born with great strength, he was rewarded by his mother after he became a nurse. With the chaos in the Central Plains, each festival took turns to go into battle.
besides
"Nan Shao" collusion
"Tubo" launched the third rebellion in the Jiannan Road area. His father became a low-level officer, and he embarked on the road to military success... Nanshao was in chaos, Jiedu was domineering, these words Bo Luo couldn't understand.
The Central Plains include Chang'an, Luoyang and Guangzhou. I have heard businessmen mention these places. Everyone has a story, which can be long and endless.
Bro didn't ask him why he was here, he was already here anyway. If you want to live, you can only fight hard. This new member with dark and yellow skin is very strong and dares to kill people.
Bro asked him to come up with a name. He thought for a long time and said
"Aku". Life was too bitter. He once had a sweetheart, but he was played by a scholar who had passed the Jinshi examination, and finally committed suicide.
Aku once wanted to be
"Jie Shuai", take revenge. But later, the scholar offended the eunuch and was punished
The "Shen Ce Army" was chopped into pieces... The hatred was avenged before it was avenged... Bo Luo is now a small leader with more than 20 people. The overall leader who leads Bo Luo is a nomadic man in Central Asia. A martial artist by birth.
He believed in immortality, and he also believed in worshiping the fire gods, even the three-phase gods of Tianzhu, the East Prince and the West Queen of the Tang Dynasty... Anyway, he would worship whatever incense was beneficial to him!
Their remnant army, relying on a little desire to survive, is always dying. Gradually he gained a foothold and became a remnant soldier that could be used by the Uighur leaders.
Agree that they occupy a small base area. They are active in the area from the western part of the Pamirs to the Chu River. The leader of this area is the Congling Uighur, and further east is the Ganzhou Uighur and the Tang Empire.
One day, they were ordered by the Uighurs to attack a defeated army entering the territory as cannon fodder, and encountered a bitter battle.
More than 400 people were killed or injured! All they got was a few mouthfuls of food from the Uighurs out of kindness. But they can still protect their own people, so they have already calculated it.
The old, weak, women and children in this war-torn area are even worse off, and are sometimes cooked as food. If you are still alive after the war, you have a chance to get ahead.
Both Bo Luo and Aku were promoted, and then the leaders asked them to recruit people. Now, Bro has become a real
"Knight" noble. Over the past year, he has fought on horseback and on foot, and escaped death three times, turning him into a merciless warrior.
Akuze still hasn't changed much. He participated in the battle against Nanshao. He had seen people starve to death and eat people. All his family members died. He didn’t know what he was living for until one day, Congling Uighur merchants came from the east. Capture a group of animals.
There are more than a dozen Tubo and Tang people. When they saw Aku approaching Tang Ren's face, there was a skinny girl shouting, "Big brother, save me."
Aku bought her and gave her a bowl of rice soup. Life is too bitter, just a little sweetness can warm her up. She finally had her fill for once.
Looking at the little girl who eventually died. Ah Ku was angry, calm, and irritable... and finally buried the person and set up an inscription.
He can write Chinese calligraphy. He pointed the grave in the direction of the border of Tang Dynasty.
"Falled leaves must return to their roots..." Aku said this. Bo Luo couldn't understand it, but he was used to it. Then he carved the wooden inscription with a wooden knife.
"If it weren't for my background, I would have taken the economics exam... or even become a Jinshi!" If he had not joined the army and taken her with him, the story might have been different. He also engraved many wooden tablets, facing in different directions.
Most of them are the bones of fellow soldiers. Based on what they said in the past, we can determine where their hometown is and then choose the location.
"The poor bones by the Wuding River are like those in a spring boudoir dream." Aku said to himself, but no one understood. But he and Bro, both of whom were separated, had difficulty communicating with each other, but they became close friends who could rely on each other.
Bro heard it for the first time
"Poetry" also refers to the west
"God's Story" tells Aku. No one is nobler than anyone else, just sharing everything they know in a friendly way. However, often when the sun is setting, the two of them look at different positions.
"Brands of clothing must return to their hometown, and fallen leaves must return to their roots." It took Bo Luo a long time to finally learn to write these two sentences in Chinese with very satisfying meanings.
He wants to go back!
