"Why are the houses floating on the water? And it's so cramped and crowded...... The housing prices here are several times more expensive than Kaifeng Mansion, right? ”

It was the notorious colonizer and warmonger who rode Anna. The emotion of Comunina's yacht as it sails into the Venetian lagoon.

Venice is a city-state built in the middle of a huge coastal lagoon on a hundred small islands or sandbars deposited over time by the various materials brought by the many rivers that flow into the lagoon. Most of the islands and sandbars are small and only slightly above the sea.

From afar, you can see that there are countless houses floating above the water – and some of them are actually built directly on the water. The Venetians laid large wooden stakes under the water as foundations, and then laid wooden planks to build their houses. It took them nearly 300 years to drive millions of hardwood stakes from the mountains and forests into the sea one by one, and finally built Venice, which is now a prosperous and powerful water city.

As for the house prices in Venice...... Expensive, of course! Although it can't be compared with Kaifeng Mansion, compared to the dark and bleak real estate market in medieval Europe, real estate in Venice is definitely worth owning.

However, Venice was able to prosper not because the pillar industry of real estate has developed well, nor because the Venetians are particularly good at maritime trade, nor because of Venetian glass, and certainly not because Venice has a unique geographical location.

In fact, there are countless ports in the Mediterranean region with good ports that are better than Venice, so the geography is not in the advantage of Venice, which is cowered in the depths of the Adriatic Sea.

And the real advantage of Venice is actually its military power!

Venice rose because this small coastal state defeated Charlemagne's army between 809 and 810 years after the birth of Jesus, with its complex hydrology of the Venetian lagoon and the small islands in the lagoon! In the end, the Great, who lost his son Prince Pepin in the siege of Venice, had to give up his claim to Venice and exchange the free trade rights within the empire for Venice coins.

Nearly two hundred years later, at the end of the 10th century, the merchants of Venice began to use the conquest of the seas as a means of making a fortune. They first swept away the adriatic pirates with their improvised fleets, and then acquired Dalmatia, Venice's first overseas colony, by transporting equipment and food for the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire. And by holding the Sea Wedding Festival, all the citizens of Venice will know that the future of the country lies at sea!

After the Battle of Manzict in 1071, the Eastern Roman Empire's fortunes took a turn for the worse, and it became more dependent on the sea power provided by Venice, a titular vassal state. The Republic of Venice took the opportunity to form its own standing fleet, and from then on had a navy that was second to none in the Mediterranean. And also took advantage of the opportunity of establishing a standing fleet to organize the Venetian mainland and overseas colonies into dozens of conscription areas, and established a strict conscription system. This has fully guaranteed the supply of troops for the navy.

Later in the Crusades, the Venetian navy easily defeated the Fatimid Celestial Sect fleet, providing a guarantee for the emergence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Otherwise, Baldwin I would have been wiped out long ago because he could not receive reinforcements from the West from the sea.

By 1102, the current Doge of Venice, Audavor Venetian. Under the impetus of Filiello, the Republic of Venice promulgated the "Shipbuilding Law", and at the same time, the large-scale Arsenal National Construction Shipyard was established to carry out unified registration and standardized management of the specifications, dimensions, and prices of ships. As a result, the fleet of the Republic of Venice received a sufficient supply of ships of sufficient and quality quality.

"Welcome, ambassador of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone Country! I, the most honorable Viceroy of the Republic of Venice, Odravo. On behalf of the people and parliament of Venice, Fillello welcomes you and Anna. The arrival of Princess Komnina! ”

On the pier in front of St. Mark's Square, the Doge of the Republic of Venice, Audavior. Filello finally meets the legendary ambassador of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone Country. The Venetian, who was about forty years old, with slightly gray hair, and a very tall but thin figure, did not dare to underestimate the envoy from the Upper Peach Blossom Stone from thousands of miles away.

As the leader of a merchant nation, his eyes and ears spread throughout the Mediterranean. When Ji Yi arrived in Jerusalem, there were Venetian spies who conducted a full investigation into the background of Ji Yi's mission.

And the results of the investigation made Odravor. Filello was shocked! While the Venetians were still complacent about their navy's domination of the small pool of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Peachstone navy had already occupied an entire ocean (the South Sea) and had also entered the Indian Ocean......

As for Ji Yi's idea of opening up the Sinai Peninsula in Constantinople, it made the Governor of Venice and the oligarchs of the small committee (similar to the existence of the Standing Committee) breathe rapidly.

Open up the sea communication line with the Peach Blossom Stone Country!

If the canal of the Isthmus of Suez can be opened again, the Venetian merchant ships will be able to sail directly to the port of Upper Peachstone!

Even if the canal could not be opened, the Republic of Venice could find a suitable place to build a port and a shipyard in the south of the United States of Sinai, and in the future it would be able to do business in the Indian and South Seas!

Ji Yi, dressed in a crimson silk official uniform and wearing a long head on his head, glanced at the Venetians in gorgeous costumes crowded in St. Mark's Square, they should have come to welcome the mission! I took another look at the dazzlingly carved and decorated façade of St. Mark's Basilica with several huge swastika flags hanging from the façade. I knew I would get a lot out of Venice.

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Ji Yi's diplomatic activities in Eastern Rome and Italy, of course, could not hide the master of Baghdad and Isfahan - the profession of espionage is not unique to Venice. The Saracens (Arabs) are also masters of this. Saracen agents, disguised as Eastern Christians, followed Ji Yi's mission almost all the way, inquiring about the content of diplomatic negotiations between Upper Peach Blossom Stone and Eastern Rome and the Holy See through various channels.

Bad news and the cold winds of winter, as well as the Seljuk Turkic Sultan Mehmed I, and the Emir Jaber, who returned from the battlefields of Afghanistan, arrived in Baghdad almost simultaneously.

"Your Majesty, the question now is not whether the Lower Peach Blossom Stone and the Upper Peach Blossom Stone are the same country, but the Upper Peach Blossom Stone people want to seize the trade routes mastered by the Heavenly Fang Sect! Once the Fatimid dynasty in Egypt loses Sinai, then the streets of Baghdad and Basra will be empty, and we will lose the financial resources to sustain the empire......"

In the palace of the regimental city in Baghdad, caliph al-Mustazir sat on the throne, his chubby face was already wrinkled, looking at the emir Jaber who was talking nonsense, and he didn't know how entangled he was.

The envoys of Peach Blossom made a promise and did not collude with the Eastern Roman Empire against the caliphate of Baghdad and the sultan of Isfahan.

But they set their sights on the Fatimid dynasty in Egypt! This would have been a pleasure for the caliph, and if the Fatimid dynasty had fallen, he would have been the only caliph.

But the problem is that the Upper Peach Blossom Stone people and the Romans want to open up a trade route that can avoid the "Tianfang Sect Toll Gate"! Isn't this asking for the big guy's own life?

Without the tens of millions of dinars a year in trade-related income, the caliphs of Baghdad and the Seljuk Turks who supported him would have had to drink the Northwest Wind.

No, not to drink the northwest wind, but not even to drink the northwest wind! Because the head of the Northwest Wind will probably be cut off by their many enemies.

The Saracens and Seljuks were used to a good life, and they were no longer able to fight in their own hands, so they had to spend money on the little slaves of the steppe to train the boy scouts.

Once there is no money to buy slaves, and there is no need for the army of the Peach Blossom Stone to crusade, even the poor egg tribes in the mountains of Persia-Afghanistan, as well as in the steppe deserts of Central Asia, can also ask for the Saracens and Seljuks.

"But the emir," the caliph asked, "shall we declare a holy war against the Upper Peach Stone?" In addition, I also heard that the peach blossom stone was also involved in the war against the peach blossom stone under the Qarakhanid! It was a Khitan army that captured Barasagon! Could there be some kind of alliance between the Upper Peach Stone and the Middle Peach Stone? Are we going to fight the Franks in Upper Mahogany, Middle Mahogany, Rome and Jerusalem at the same time? ”

Can the current Seljuk Turks go to war with the Khitan, the Great Song Dynasty, the Eastern Roman Empire, and all the countries of Western Europe at the same time?

As soon as the caliph's words came out, Jaber, who had a fierce face and a big black beard, bit his back molars. There seem to be a little more enemies! A peach blossom stone is enough, and if it is said to be more powerful than the peach blossom stone, his own Gulam warriors will not be sure of victory.

"You don't have to expand the war to this extent, do you?" Sultan Mehmed I interjected in a whisper, and in front of his third brother, his little brother had no right to speak.

"And what are you going to do?" Jaber asked.

"Why are we going to war with Peach Blossom and Rome?" Muhammad I asked, "Isn't it the Upper Peach Blossom Kingdom that seized the trade routes between the Indian and South Seas?" The gains and losses of Barasagon are not so important, and they can be sold to Zhonghua Stone, as long as they can remain neutral. And the Sinai Peninsula is the territory of the Egyptians, so let Cairo have a headache. We could have made peace treaties with Alexios I of Constantine and Baldwin I of Jerusalem. ”

"What about the Peach Blossom Stone Country? Need to declare war right away? The caliph asked.

"Not at the moment." Muhammad I said, "We don't have the strength to go to war at sea with the Upper Peach Blossom Kingdom until we have our fleet ready, do we?" I think we should try to paralyze them first, and at the same time contact the cultists in the Indian Ocean and organize a fleet. ”

"But I must march into Kashgar!" Jaber said, "Otherwise, Aslan Khan would lead his army into the lands of the Chalvands and even India!" ”

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