Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1097 Seeking the Princess
Chapter 1107 Seeking the Princess

As the saying goes, the older you are, the less courageous you are.Because Chu Suanzi has experienced too many ups and downs and changes in his political career, he has many instinctive scruples.

But Sima Dan is different. Although he has been the emperor for 16 years, he has always been under Chu Suanzi's wings, like a flower in a greenhouse, and has never seen real wind, rain and storms.Chu Suanzi, who has experienced a lot of waves, knows very well that trust is difficult to establish, but it is very easy to break. Once established, it must be carefully maintained. As long as there is one betrayal, no matter how small the betrayal, trust will be gone.Although Chu Suanzi and Sima Dan had a good personal relationship with Ran Ming, but that was only in the past. As an emperor, there was absolutely no personal relationship and friendship in his eyes, only interests and standing in line.

Chu Suanzi said earnestly: "My son, you should learn from An Le Gong. The past is all the past. Don't mention it again, otherwise you will be called to death. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to do it for yourself." Yun'er thinks about it, he is still young and ignorant of human affairs, once disaster befalls him, how innocent is Yun'er?"

Sima Dan seemed to understand but said: "Probably not!"

Hearing Sima Dan say this, Chu Suanzi wanted to cry, she felt that Sima Dan had lived like a dog all these years, but she still said very patiently: "Rebellion requires several very objective reasons. Otherwise, even if they gain power for a while, it is absolutely impossible to escape the fate of defeat. My son can see that the powerful and powerful in the Great Wei are now running amok and oppressing the good? Man-made disasters, the people are in dire straits? Is there any foolish relatives, distant sages, who persecute the loyal and virtuous and cruel?"

Although Sima Dan had a monstrous hatred for Ran Ming, he had to admit that at least the emperor Ran Ming had done a good job. The officials were in awe, the soldiers supported him, and the common people loved him.Sima Dan said: "No!"

Chu Suanzi said: "Since this is the case, the military rewards and punishments are fair, the officials' rewards are fair, the people live in peace and contentment, and the rulers and ministers are wise. There is neither external humiliation nor internal worries. This is a rare phenomenon in a century. Is there any reason for success?"

Sima Dan's expression changed drastically, he stared blankly at Chu Suanzi, unable to speak for a moment.

Chu Suanzi stared at Sima Dan's face, and slowly said: "If the prosperous age fell to the ground with a bang, the emperor is in a daze, and the people are in dire straits. You are as good as a dog, and even if you are a mother, you will fight for this old bone. Earn such a great wealth. However, in the end, he is just a traitor and traitor described by the historian, who has been reviled by future generations. Sima Dan asked himself, is it really worthwhile to rebel?"

Sima Dan's complexion gradually turned pale, cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

"Do you know how to be afraid now?" Chu Suanzi said coldly: "Before it's too late, my son will come to the palace to plead guilty for my mother. I hope that His Majesty will see Wei Niang's old face and not be as knowledgeable as you!"

As an emperor, in fact, you must have the mind and bearing of an emperor.Suspicious like Cao Cao, but Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, and found many secret letters between his subordinates and Yuan Shao from the letters seized from Yuan Shao's mansion.Cao Cao could kill these collaborators, but he said that when Yuan was strong and I was weak, and the victory was not decided, even he didn't know if he could save his life, let alone them?The letters were ordered to be burned.

As a matter of fact, Ran Ming did not ask them to fully monitor the civil and military officials in the use of the royal guards, because there are indeed a lot of officials in the state of Wei, and the state of Wei now has 10 to [-] officials of all sizes. Monitoring these officials in all directions requires at least tens of thousands of people, and Ran Ming does not want to waste financial and material resources.Ran Ming has always believed in one sentence, forging iron requires hard work. If the army supports it and the people want it, even if some people want to rebel, it will only be a flash in the pan.

Everyone's destiny is always changing according to chance. If it wasn't for Ran Ming, who had saved the Roman emperor Helena and Valens by coincidence, at least after Emperor Jovian, Valens would have With the support of the Roman Empire military and the Council of Elders, he will become the emperor of the Roman Empire until he is defeated by the Persians and killed in the army.But because of Ran Ming, not only Helena's fate changed, but even Valens' fate also changed.And it's not just the two of them who are affected. As the last pillar of the Roman Empire's military, Severus is now an official of the Great Wei State, and naturally he will no longer turn the tide for the Roman Empire.But likewise, Theodosius' fate changed accordingly.

If it weren't for the influence of Ran Ming, a butterfly from another world, Theodosius should be the governor of Mocia at this time, leading two Roman legions to fight against the Sarmatians.However, as the situation in the Eastern Roman Empire deteriorated, Theodosius was sent by the Western Roman Emperor Gergetian to support the Eastern Roman Empire.However, because of the influence of Ran Ming, a butterfly from another world, the Sasanian Empire, which lost the suppression of the Heda Empire, almost made the Eastern Roman Empire helpless.As a last resort, the Eastern Roman Empire had no choice but to send a mission headed by Theodosius to rescue the distant Seris Empire.

In fact, as a governor-level consul (equivalent to a provincial cadre in later generations) as a senior official of the Roman Empire, Theodosius had a good sense.Otherwise, he would not have become the Eastern Emperor of the Roman Empire in later generations.

The distant Seris Empire was a familiar yet unfamiliar place to the Roman Empire. Except for the occasional business exchanges between the two countries, there was not much intersection between the two countries.But as the Roman mission entered the Kingdom of Puli, Theodosius knew that they had entered the territory of the Seris Empire.Then, under the escort of a convoy fleet of the Wei State Navy, they marched all the way to Yecheng.It took more than five months on this road before arriving at the core continent of the Seris Empire.At this time, Theodosius finally felt the terror. The Seris Empire was too huge, beyond Theodosius' imagination. The ports and cities on which to rely, without exception, are beyond the reach of all the cities of the Roman Empire except Constantinople.

Regardless of its population, size, or degree of prosperity, the Roman Empire has been left far behind.The most frightening thing is the army of the Seres, even though what he sees most is the servant army of the Seres, but in Theodosius' view, this servant is actually equivalent to the foreign legion auxiliary army of the Roman Empire.The Roman Empire did not have foreign legion auxiliaries. In the west of the Roman Empire, Ravenna, Gaul (now France) and the northern Caucasus were stationed with four foreign auxiliaries of the Roman legion.But the Roman Empire Auxiliary Legion numbered less than 10.However, the Seris Empire has more than one million foreign auxiliary troops.The ratio of the Roman Empire's auxiliary army is 400 to [-], so it can be calculated that the Seris Empire has at least [-] million troops.

"This... this... what kind of monster!"

When the Roman Empire mission was sent on the steam engine train to Yecheng, Theodosius was startled by the sound of the siren.

When the interpreter told him that it was a train, Theodosius felt incredible.This is simply a manifestation of God.Soon Theodosius and others gradually got used to this kind of train. Relatively speaking, Wei’s transportation infrastructure was much better than that of the Roman Empire. Very well, the jolt of the train, for him, was almost nothing.Sitting on the train, you can watch the scenery of Wei State along the way.

Every time the train passed a station, the servants would add water and fuel, which also allowed Theodosius to appreciate the customs and customs of various places. Through his careful observation, it turned out that he is now the most powerful Wei in the world. The country, whether it is a village or a city, is a thriving scene everywhere, and some buildings that he can't understand are being built everywhere. As for the roads, they are very wide, and they also use a special material to make them The road surface is hardened, no matter what the weather will not affect travel.

This kind of thing called cement by the state of Wei, in fact, Theodosius knew something about it. When ancient Rome built the Colosseum, it used volcanic ash to make the earliest primitive cement in the world, but that kind of primitive cement, It is very easy to weather, so it is not as clean and strong as Wei Guo's cement.

As the train traveled towards Yecheng, the closer it was to Yecheng, the bigger the city of Wei State, and the more people it had.More than ten hours later, Yecheng was in the distance, and the majestic Yecheng finally appeared in Theodosius' eyes. When he got off the train and entered the real Yecheng, he was shocked by this huge city Nothing can be added.

As he was shocked by Wei Guo more and more times, Theodosius gradually became numb.The majestic and tall city, the majestic and mighty army, and the spotless cleanliness made Theodosius feel that he had entered the legendary kingdom of heaven.

After staying in Yecheng for three days, the Wei Guoguo Hotel served good wine and good food every day, and had no intention of starting negotiations at all.Gradually, Theodosius became a little impatient. Letting Theodosius as a soldier act as the diplomatic ambassador of the Roman Empire was a failure of the Roman Council of Elders.

"What's going on, why hasn't His Majesty the Emperor of your country received me yet?" Theodosius walked around the room a little anxiously. Originally, according to the agreement, the Emperor Wei should have received them the day before yesterday, and then held a bilateral meeting.However, Wei Guo excused that His Majesty was busy, and he didn't care, but it seemed that three days would pass, which finally gave Theodosius a bad feeling.

"I'm really sorry, Your Majesty has a lot of time to deal with. Originally, the arrival of the Roman Empire mission was not in His Majesty's schedule, so His Majesty couldn't spare time to summon you!"

Theodosius was a little depressed. What the Roman Empire lacks most now is time, and the most unbearable delay is time. Without the intervention and assistance of the State of Wei, the Roman Empire would not be able to last long, and he vaguely heard some According to the rumors, it seemed that their arch-enemy of the Roman Empire, the Persian Sasanian Empire's mission had also entered Yecheng.

However, to Theodosius' comfort, the Sassanian mission was also not summoned by the Emperor of Wei. If the Sassanian mission were summoned alone, it would mean that Wei would abandon the Roman Empire and fight with Sasanian. The empires have joined forces.

Theodosius suddenly said: "Since His Majesty the Emperor of your country has no time to summon me, can I ask to see His Royal Highness Princess Helena, the concubine of your country!
Although Theodosius was a military governor, it didn't mean he didn't know anything about politics.On the contrary, Theodosius was very smart, otherwise he could not have become the emperor of the Roman Empire, and he was the first Roman emperor to make Christianity his capital.

Whether it is the alliance between the Roman Empire and the Seris Empire, or whether the Roman Empire asks the Serris Empire for help, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and he must come up with something that can impress the Serris Empire.However, both the Roman Empire and Theodosius were very poor. Even if they managed to scrape together a little money, they might not be able to impress His Majesty the Emperor of the Seris Empire.Therefore, Theodosius decided to impress the Seris Empire emotionally.

Even though the Seris Empire is tens of thousands of miles away from the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire has done some homework, and it is not entirely because of black eyes that they came to Wei.At least the core officials of the Roman Empire knew that Concubine Shu, one of the four imperial concubines of the Seris Empire, was Princess Helena Constantine of the Roman Empire.Although Helena Constantine's escape from the Roman Empire was the result of political struggles, but with Jovian, who had fought against Emperor Julian at the beginning, Archbishop George of the Holy See died. West can get Helena's understanding, and thus get the assistance of the Seris Empire, and the Roman Empire can survive this crisis of collapse.

Although Helena has a very strong resentment towards some officials of the Roman Empire, the Constantine dynasty of the Roman Empire was established by Helena's biological father, Constantine I, and Helena would never sit back and watch the Roman Empire fall .After all, people are not grass and trees, and they are ruthless if they are familiar with it.

Theodosius suddenly said to the translator: "I want to ask some questions, I wonder if you can answer my questions!" Then, Theodosius asked someone to bring a large box of Roman gold coins.Roman gold coins are round, unlike the coins of the Wei state, which have holes in the middle. On the front is a statue of Constantine in uniform, with crosses on the left and right sides, and a statue of the Goddess of Victory on the back.Such a gold coin is actually slightly lighter than the gold coins of Wei State, but it seems that this box can hold at least more than 1000 gold coins.

The translator quietly opened the box, swept the gold coins into his chain quietly, and said, "I don't know what the envoy wants to know?"

Theodosius said: "I don't know about Her Royal Highness Princess Helena, do you know anything about it? Will she be restricted from entering and leaving the palace?"

Although the Roman Empire knew that Helena was one of the wives of Ran Ming, Emperor of the Seris Empire, her status did not seem to be low.However, Theodosius resolved to test it out.Whether a princess from a foreign country has power in the palace depends on whether she can freely enter and leave the palace.If you can't even get in and out of the palace, then no matter how much you are favored, you are still a canary in a cage.

The translator thought for a while and said: "In our Great Wei Dynasty, the master of the harem is the Empress Empress. Any concubine in the harem must obtain the consent of the Empress Empress to enter or leave the palace. It seems that Princess Helena has an unusual status in the imperial palace. During that time, His Majesty had fun with the people, and Princess Helena performed a whirling dance on Zhuque Street, and last month represented the royal family to visit the orphans in the sales home!"

Hearing this, Theodosius was relieved. At least for now, Princess Helena did not seem to be a bird in the cage of the Emperor Seris.

After Helena received the servant's report, she was also very conflicted.On the one hand, she is full of hatred for many people in the Roman Empire, especially Archbishop George who hated her ex-husband Julian the most.Julian was exiled to Macellum in Cappadocia, where he met the Christian bishop George.And forged a deep friendship with George there.However, after Julian became emperor, he also promoted George, making George a pivotal figure in the Holy See.However, because Julian was dissatisfied with the Holy See's interference in government affairs, he adopted a policy of coexistence of multiple religious beliefs, which turned out to be evil for the Holy See.They were fighting Julian secretly and secretly.

If it was only because of Julian, maybe Helena wasn't too sad.After all, with the passage of time, Helena has almost forgotten about Julian.But the Roman Empire was too cruel to the Constantine family. After the death of his father Constantine, the royal family wanted to become the only leader of the empire under the instigation of careerists and nobles, so the country fell into constant battles and conspiracies .As a result, Julian was (the son of Julius Constantius. Helena's cousin actually. There is no tradition in Rome of the same surname) Julian's father was the same as Emperor Constantine I. half brother.Julian's grandfather was Constantius Clorus of the Western Roman Empire.However, the Roman Empire slaughtered all the offshoots of the grandfather's half-branch.Today in this world, there is only one person with the surname Constantine.That was her son, Valens.

Helena also wanted to return the Roman Empire to her son,
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