Since Meltem remained unresponsive, Guo Kang had to climb into the room and try to wake her up.
However, the morning sun was warm and the air was quite fresh today. Meltem obviously enjoyed the environment here, he just moved slightly and then became quiet again.
"Wake up, stop sleeping!" Guo Kang poked her.
"Hmm...?" Meltem lazily opened his eyes and yawned lightly: "Brother?"
"Why are you sleeping on the roof of my house again?" Guo Kang asked.
"It's warmer here." Meltem looked at him innocently.
"...Aren't you an assassin? Are assassins so vigilant?" Guo Kang was helpless by her and had no choice but to remind her.
"You can't be vigilant all the time. Only when you relax when necessary can you be vigilant at critical moments." Meltem said matter-of-factly: "My brother's home is safe, so there is no need to be so vigilant."
"..."
Guo Kang had already lost his temper by her, so he had to ask her to go down again. Meltem blinked, nodded, and jumped down from the roof, landing right opposite Theodora.
She wore a white long-sleeved top and a close-fitting black dress, showing off her sculpted figure. The cloth used by the assassins to cover their faces was hung loosely around their necks, like a scarf. The black veil was messily draped behind her head, obviously she hadn't tidied it up after waking up.
"Who are you?" Theodora took a step back, held down the short knife at her waist, and asked in shock and anger.
"I am Meltem of the Assassin sect. May peace be with you." Meltem didn't care about her threat. He bowed to her and began to arrange his hair.
"Assassin?" Theodora looked her up and down, not believing it at all: "Where did you come from as a dancer? Can an assassin dress like this?"
"This will make my brother happy." Meltem looked at her strangely and asked: "If my brother is happy, wouldn't he be willing to leave with Meltem? If we leave together, won't the mission be successful? What?"
"You are, no, shameless!" Theodora didn't expect that she would actually say that. She couldn't react for a moment and blurted out the accusation.
"Assassins must complete their mission by any means necessary." Meltem proudly held up his chest, still looking as if he was taking it for granted: "Meltem can't defeat his brother, so he can only seduce him and leave!"
"What did you say?" Theodora was dumbfounded.
"What's wrong?" Guo Kang was not very good at Qinggong and his movements were not as skilled as Meltem's. He had just climbed down. He turned around and saw the two people confronting each other, so he had to quickly ask what was going on.
"Where did this strange woman come from!" Theodora ordered angrily: "Guo Kang, throw her out quickly!"
"But I'm not surprised, am I?" Meltem protested.
"...I..." Theodora decided not to talk nonsense to her: "Go outside and find a man to seduce. Don't pester him here. Get out!"
"But mother said that the most important goal of my life is to 'catch that man from the Guo family.'" Meltem corrected the problem in her words: "The men outside have nothing to do with me."
"What kind of nonsense request is this?" Theodora's head was pounding.
"Hehe, I also think a lot of her demands are unreasonable." Meltem smiled sheepishly: "But I like my brother, so I will listen to her this time."
"??" Theodora was speechless.
"Okay, okay, let's go in and talk." Guo Kang quickly grabbed Meltem's cloak, pulled her into the room, and then called Theodora back to come in with him.
Because Guo Daxia's husband is weak, his guards are already very skilled in Bagua skills. Don't let them upgrade.
When they came to the house, Theodora was obviously still not satisfied and asked Guo Kang for an explanation. Guo Kang looked at a few uneaten fruits on the table, quickly grabbed one, stuffed it into Meltem's mouth, and asked her to eat it slowly, and then called Theodora aside.
"Have you never heard of my adoptive father's experience in the Ottoman court before?" he asked.
"So..." Theodora calmed down a little after being asked like this. After thinking for a moment, she realized that she did have an impression: "I seem to have heard her mother say it. There are also rumors that he has a lover there, but My mother didn’t allow me to talk about these topics, so I don’t know more about them.”
"Is your mother really the same as my adoptive mother?" Guo Kang was a little confused.
"Ah? What did you say?" Theodora was also a little confused.
"Nothing. Uh... I guess it involves the military part. The Queen and the others don't know much about it." Guo Kang thought for a while and found another possible reason: "If you care about war history, the situation during that period should It will be very familiar."
"At the beginning, before Emperor Timur launched a holy war against Asia Minor, the Ottoman Sultanate was the most powerful military force in western Asia Minor and Greece." He introduced it to Theodora.
"Our ability to control the Greek area at that time was very weak. On the contrary, the Ottomans could not only recruit the 'Gazi' jihadists from the east, but also drive the Turks in Asia Minor, and recruit Greeks and Serbs here from the Greek-controlled areas. .Although we occupy the majority, their power is the most powerful outside."
"Wait a minute, the Ottomans also control the Greek area? Don't they only have a few bridgeheads?" Theodora asked.
"Indirect control is also control. The Greek local snakes like the Ottomans very much, but they don't like us. Their power is all on the Ottoman side." Guo Kang disagreed: "Fortunately, these Greeks are good at fighting, and it doesn't matter which side they take. .The Serbs and Armenians on the Ottoman side are more difficult to deal with..."
"Oh, I understand it this way." Theodora thought quickly and understood immediately: "We implement the legion system on the plains of Northern Thrace. They will definitely not like it."
"Yes, the local nobles have no psychological pressure to convert - and in order to collect more taxes, Osman does not require everyone to convert." Guo Kang said: "The people who asked us to go south to deal with the Ottomans were also the church and ordinary residents. The nobles probably don't care. These."
"With the support of these people, the Ottomans can also be regarded as a 'local force'. Their hometown is just across the sea. Later, in order to facilitate their confrontation with us, they also established two permanent towers on both sides of the Bosporus, Hainan and Haibei. Camp, forming a pincer attack."
"At that time, our military pressure was very huge, because Rome's geographical location was actually not very good." He gestured in the general direction and said: "In the northwest and north, there are the Alemannic, Polish, Magyar and other barbarian tribes; In the southeast, there are the Ottoman Tatars. In addition, the Rus chiefdom in the northeast and the Greek chieftains in the southwest are threats to our Rome."
(End of chapter)
