After Guo Kang and Zhu Wenkui finished their discussion, they discovered that Theodora had gone somewhere.
"Where are the people?" Guo Kang was a little confused.
"Maybe it's too boring to understand." Zhu Wenkui looked at the circles on the floor and the dense numbers in the notes in his hand, and he was quite self-aware.
"Forget it, let's go back and find her slowly." Thinking of Theodora's previous "interview", Guo Kang felt a little scared: "I feel like I need a headband too."
"What are you talking about!" Zhu Wenkui immediately shook his head and consoled: "It's just daily trivial matters, no big deal, why bother so much? Princess, she also cares about you. If we communicate, misunderstandings can be resolved. What do you need? Wherever you are, I can also help.”
Guo Kang was about to express his gratitude, but Jeanne next to him was unhappy.
"Then what did you tell me just now?" She glared at Zhu Wenkui and complained repeatedly: "Oh, if your good brother is unhappy, just comfort him quickly; if your sister is unhappy, just put an iron hoop on her, right? Yes? Are you treating your relatives like this? You like iron hoops so much, why don’t you get one for yourself?"
"I didn't mean to do it. I just said whatever I thought of." Zhu Wenkui was also unhappy: "I didn't give in when someone asked me to hit him."
"Okay, okay, your brother also cares about you and thinks you really want it." Guo Kang also helped to persuade: "Why don't we go back and let the three of us forget it, and no one should be more special than the other, okay..."
"?" Jeanne had a question mark on her face.
"Well, let's discuss it later..." Guo Kang could only forcefully fool him: "I still have to find a way to deal with Theodora. I can only let other things go."
"I think this is very strange about you." Jeanne said unforgivingly: "You complain about the troubles of Greek women every day, but you have never thought that you are also responsible for this matter?"
"What's wrong?" Zhu Wenkui asked.
"Knowing that the Greeks have problems, you still continue to intermarry with them and let them control the power of the harem." Jeanne pointed out: "Look, whether it is the Queen Mother who has the exclusive power or that Shi Zetian who is causing trouble, it is not all your own Is it allowed by the system and acquiesced by officials and generals? You can only blame yourselves for this."
"We have no choice." Guo Kang began to express his bitterness: "It's okay in other places, and the resistance from the locals has not been great. But in Greece, we relied on marriage and adoption relationships to gain a foothold from the beginning."
"You also know the geopolitical situation here. The exits of the Black Sea and several important areas entering the Mediterranean route are all inhabited by Greeks. Therefore, if you want to enter the Mediterranean, open up trade routes, and make the country rich, just We must stabilize and control the Greek region."
"This place is different from the Central Plains today. The locals like to recognize religion and blood. Although the Greeks themselves have developed an official selection system, even the locals, in order to consolidate their status, like to recognize a foster father or a foster father. Just pretend to be an ancestor."
He gave an example: "Look, in our court, there are a lot of Greeks named Ducas and Comnenus, but few of them are real. Many of them suddenly appeared from nowhere, and then they disappeared. He began to claim that he was the lost relative of Basileus back then."
"I heard that it was the same in the Frankish countries. Is that so?"
"That's true." Jeanne was stared at by him and had no choice but to nod and join his conversation: "Many people are pretending to be descendants of old nobles from Charlemagne's time. Even if the royal family can find out the records, in order to appoint talents, they can only Turn a blind eye."
"Everyone cares about bloodline, but bloodline does not guarantee talent. As a result, we have to acquiesce in allowing capable people to fake bloodlines to open up a channel for selecting talents." She sighed: "It sounds quite ironic, doesn't it? ?”
"As for Shinra..." She thought for a while: "I doubt that after the Great Interregnum, Shinra still has the ability to check the whereabouts of every noble. Even if there is a stray branch, it is probably impossible to find it. Let’s prove it.”
"That's right. This is the same all over the world." Guo Kang said: "Back then, Queen Mother Helena told the officials that she didn't know that the Komnenos family was so prosperous until she married into the purple tent. . Less than half of the Greek officials promoted every year are her long-lost relatives."
"Even when we entered Dadu for the first time, we relied on this habit. Do you remember the Cao Jian who sent you documents before?" he asked.
"I remember it," Zhu Wenkui said.
"The ancestor of his family, Cao Meng, served as an envoy to negotiate with the Greeks. During this period, he established cooperation with Michael, the eunuch leader at the time. Michael valued him very much and even adopted him as his adopted son as his heir. Also in With their help, we entered the city and quelled the chaos," Guo Kang said.
"Our right to rule Rome was also obtained through marriage. According to Roman tradition, the Purple Horde does have the right to inherit the empire, and the Greeks have to recognize it."
"Even so, after entering the city for the first time, we all faced huge challenges. Two Greek officials who were in the middle of a civil war actually joined forces to deal with us."
"This incident is so abnormal and does not conform to the logic of Greek behavior." He shook his head repeatedly: "Look, has this kind of thing ever happened in Greek history? They shouldn't be vying to bribe us to take him. Is it more consistent with historical norms to become a co-emperor and eliminate the other party?"
"What did you do then?" Jeanne felt strange.
"My ancestor Guo Gai recorded this incident." Guo Kang said: "At that time, everyone felt that we needed to promote that we were serious Romans, different from the two Greek officials who were messing with the government."
"As the saying goes, 'The three things a new official needs to do when taking office' is that when he first arrives, he must show a new attitude in order to convince everyone. So, they took out a lot of the crosses and Brother Tian from the Empress Temple and made new ones. Put a statue of Romulus in it and call everyone to perform sacrifices. This shows that we are orthodox Romans and have never forgotten the orthodoxy of Rome."
"ah……"
"The Greeks at that time were different from now. They were very extreme. At that time, some people couldn't bear it and wanted to make trouble." Guo Kang shook his head repeatedly: "We mobilized the legionnaires and suppressed them several times. As a result, Li Xuanying and his ancestors went to the theater and made trouble. , it was still blasted out."
"How did you solve it later?" Jeanna was very curious about the Greek's transformation.
"Later, didn't the Ottoman army camp outside the city?" Guo Kang said: "After the Serbian army failed, the Ottomans demolished all the nearby churches, leaving only one and converted it into Tianfang Temple for temporary use."
"The Greeks were very scared. The Patriarch at that time urgently recognized our ancestors from Romulus on down as saints in batches, and declared that worshiping them was in compliance. After that, things got much better. "
(End of chapter)
