Sun Xiaojin said: "Although Brans has a bad relationship with the Roman Empire, it does not prevent the Adam family from having contact with Constantinople. Among them, Solomon, who had studied there, was favored by the middle and upper classes of Constantinople."

"Solomon and Constantine V's son-in-law, the army commander of the Armenian Military Region, who had just been removed from his position as the commander of the Armenian Military Region, only retained the position of Naval Commander Trabzon, and had a good relationship. Solomon's suggestion Adam would probably adopt it, and Brans would most likely agree with Adam's suggestion."

"So, the child judged that he didn't have to pay attention to the news of Baicheng's return. Solomon of Taman City should have gone south while sending the messenger. For such a major thing, he must have dispatched himself."

"He knew a lot of people from Constantinople, but the one who could enter and exit the palace at will was Tariscott Tarriscott, the governor of Trabzon. It is said that since he was removed from the army commander, Tariscott..."

Sun Xiurong waved his hand, "This name is too long, just call him Taris in the future."

"Yes! Taris simply moved back to Constantinople in anger. Because the current queen, Turandot's sister, loved her daughter very much, naturally loved the house and U.S. The Roman emperor had no choice but to acquiesce to this point, but recently moved back. If Solomon wanted to go to Constantinople, he would definitely go to Trabzon first."

Sun Xiurong's eyes lit up, "Now, Su Ken is there, I guess they have grasped some situations."

......

Trabzon.

Compared with Batumi Port, Trabzon Port, which has been built for more than a thousand years, is much bigger.

The same semicircular harbor is about ten miles long. The center of the semicircular is a small mountain facing the sea, with an altitude of about two hundred meters. After a thousand years, the top of the mountain has long been flattened, and a circular castle of about four miles stands above.

At present, this castle is the capital of the Armenian Military Region of the Eastern Roman Empire. It originally had the land fortress Erzinjan. After the fortress was occupied by the cannibals, it became the only stronghold.

It is quite similar to the Batumi Port planned by the Suiye Army. The center point of the semicircle is roughly in the southwest of the bay. There is also a circular castle on the coast in the northwest, and there is also one in the northeast. Of course, the size of these two castles is only about half that of the mountaintop castle.

This is the Port of Trabzon, one of the earliest settlements of the Greeks on the southern coast of the Black Sea, and the largest advance base for the Eastern Roman Empire to guide the Transcaucasus.

In the middle of the three circular castles is a large monastery.

It is now the end of the year and the beginning of the year. According to the Christian tradition, these days should be the most lively days of Trabzon, but the current situation is very strange. In the past, the noble Christians of the Three Castles would come to worship and confess in the monastery in these days, and offer a lot of gifts to the monastery, but these days the monastery has been peaceful.

At this time, the monastery was the place where Christians practiced, worshiped and taught, and was actually the predecessor of later universities. While teaching theology, the priests of the monastery would also criticize the religions and academics that were popular in China and foreign countries. Of course, they would also absorb the useful parts and transform them into Christian languages ​​and then teach them.

Therefore, at this time, whether it was the Eastern Roman Empire in the east, the Frankish Kingdom in the west, or the Papal Kingdom in the middle, the monastery was actually the most lively place, and it was also the place where aristocrats carried out cultural exchanges, and then evolved into salons, secret policy meetings and agreements on secret covenants.

At this time, in the place where the monastery is often used to receive distinguished guests, several young people met rarely:

The person sitting in the head was Taris, the highest commander of the Armenian Military Region, the emperor's son-in-law. Taris was about twenty years old, with a red robe, a brown hair, a black and curly hair, and a very handsome face.

At the bottom left was a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, with golden hair, pale face and tall figure. His eyes were not looking at Taris who was talking, but staring at the man opposite him.

But that person was the highest censor in the Caspian Sea, located in the Caspian Sea, and had just been in the Black Sea area for a year under the guise of Kutba's business translation!

Bai Jieyou inherited his father Bai Xiaode's strong body, black hair, high nose and deep eyes, short beards, and very handsome, but more of a fierce look, which was very inconsistent with his "common translation" identity, and obviously was related to his long-term intercourse in the Ye Jun and the Censorate.

He was fortunate to participate in the meeting in front of him, not because his identity was exposed, but because the Bai family in Kucha itself was the only one in the four towns of Anxi who believed in the Nestorians (there was no name for Nestorians at this time). Although the Nestorians were regarded as heresy by the current Eastern Roman Empire, they were naturally favored by Taris for such a person who suddenly rose and defeated the Kingdom of the Great Food Empire many times.

What's more, Bai Jieyou started school at Talas School since childhood, and after graduation he served as Sun Xiurong's personal bodyguard. Although he joined the Tiandao Sect early in the morning, he was influenced by Sun Xiurong for a long time, and his special temperament that was very different from ordinary people could not be concealed.

Such temperament is very rare from the eyes of Taris, a man who lived in the aristocratic family of the Eastern Roman Empire since childhood. A merchant, unless he is the son of a few merchants with a deep background and has been indoctrinated with various academics in the monastery for a long time. However, according to Bai Jieyou's introduction, he is just an ordinary translator.

This temperament is not just the confidence and calmness brought by a good education from nobles. These people are naturally very different from ordinary people, but most of them have a condescending expression, but there is obviously no such thing as Wu Jieyou. He is mixed with a strong peace in that nobleness (Taris believes).

If an ordinary person sees anyone except Bai Jieyou, he will kneel down on one knee in shock and even crawl on the ground, because except Taris, the other two are not inferior to each other.

The young man was named Charles, the eldest son of Pippin III, the king of the Frank Kingdom.

At this time, under the management of Pepin III, the Frank Kingdom had already reached the Ode River Basin in the east, the Pyrenees in the south, the entire Netherlands, Belgium, and the north of Italy in the east. Because Pepin III was personally crowned by Pope Stephen II, the then Pope Stephen II braved the wind and snow to cross the Alps, he defeated the Lombards and also allocated the vast area of ​​Governor Ravenna, which originally belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire, to the Pope to the Pope, and actually established the Pope.

Charlie is Charlemagne in later generations. "Mann" means the Great Emperor. Now he obviously cannot get this title, but he still has a title - Grand Duke Saxony. But now Saxony, that is, the Saxony in later generations, has just accepted Christianity not long ago and is still in the transitional stage between polytheism and monotheism, and is not interested in the Frankish Kingdom.

(Saxon, with the Saxons of the British Isles)

In addition, his Viking tradition was born and his rebellious spirit was very strong. It was the most difficult area under the Frankish Kingdom to conquer. It was precisely because of the attack on "frontier regions" like Saxony and setting up border generals of different levels that the official dukes, marquis, and earls (similar to the governors of the Central Plains dynasty, etc.), which had not appeared yet, and it would not be possible until Charlemagne ascended the throne.

Therefore, as the Grand Duke of Saxony, he lived in Aachen at the junction of the Netherlands, Germany and Bubelgium for many years. Later, this place became his long-term capital.

At this time, although the Frank Kingdom actually replaced the former Western Roman Empire, was recognized by the Pope, and gave the land in the jurisdiction of the Governor General of the Eastern Roman Empire, Ravenna, to the Pope, this did not affect the exchanges between the children of European nobles at this time.

For the Frank kingdom, they had transformed from being a "barbarian" (a branch of the Germanic tribe) to a noble who occupied an orthodox position, and naturally had to communicate with the original Eastern Roman nobles. At present, Pippin III was fighting in the east and west, and the main targets were the Germans, Slavs (Czech Republic), Hun barbarians (Avars who occupied Hungary and Romania), and to the south, they naturally occupied the Spanish food and food.

It was in this situation that Charlie set out from Ravenna on a sea boat, sailed all the way to Constantinople, and then arrived at Trabzon.

When Ravenna was still in the Eastern Roman Empire, the route from Ravenna to Constantinople via sea was already very mature.

And the reason he came to Trabzon was that the monastery here was famous for its rebelliousness and boldness, where things from Persia and food came together with things from Constantinople and even further away from the Frankish kingdom.

Such intersections would naturally be impossible if they occurred in Constantinople, but in the remote Trabzon, it is very likely. It is not the dark medieval period, but the medieval period. The so-called "the legacy of the Roman Empire" was not as powerful as it was later.

Charlie followed Taris to Trabzon.

The man sitting next to Charlie was about thirty years old, with a face between the Europeans and the cannibals at this time. He was of medium figure, wearing a white silk robe, an equally white turban on his head, brown hair, long beard, and a soft face. However, from the perspective of Bai Jieyou, this person was the most difficult of the three.

His eyes were deep and clear, and when he stared at the other person, he did not feel rude, but the light that happened to him when he withdrew his gaze exposed his background.

He is the top five figure in the Khanate of Xhosa, the eldest son of Prime Minister Adam, Solomon.

Solomon obviously came to Trabzon to contact Constantine V, but he simply picked up a person suspected of the Great Qin Kingdom. What is this called?

But this was arranged by former Caesar Taris, so Solomon had to obey.

In this famous monastery, the Great Qin Kingdom, the Xhosa Khanate, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Frank Kingdom, the only representative figures of the great forces in this world except for the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food, actually gathered here. If Sun Xiurong learned about it, he would definitely smile knowingly.

Taris naturally wanted to let representatives from various forces debate religiously on this special festival. Everyone made a speech just now. In addition to explaining the spread of the Nie Cult in the Peach Blossom Stone Empire (general reference in China) and his own understanding of Christianity, he also explained Sun Xiurong's newly created Tiantaoism. This explanation made Solomon, who was about to attack, suddenly silent.

Not only Solomon, but even Charlie from Aachen, who was far away, was very interested. Judging from his attitude, he had the intention of tangling with me and asking about the truth.

At this time, iron kits, paper and other items from the Great Qin Kingdom were also transmitted to the Frank Kingdom through merchants from the Eastern Roman Empire. As the leading nobleman in China, Charlie naturally had them. He especially liked those iron kits and paper. This was the reason why he risked the ship capsized in the Mediterranean (the rate of crashes was as high as 50%), and went to the "East" without reporting his father.

Although the teachings of the Heavenly Taoism are appalling, Charlie sounds like relish:

"This world was indeed created by God. In the Heavenly Daoism, God is called God."

"God created all things in the universe, including the sun, the moon and the earth where humans live. Tiandaoism believes that humans live in a big ball. Most of the big balls are oceans, and a few places are land. The big balls rotate around the sun. It takes one year to rotate for one week, and it takes twelve hours to rotate for one week."

"The moon rotates around the earth, while the sun rotates around larger stars."

"All things on the earth, such as animals, plants, humans, minerals, and water, are created by gods, and have their own laws. Humans are at the highest level, but all things, including humans, have their own laws of development recognized by God, and any behavior that violates their laws will be punished."
Chapter completed!