"Bah, this sand, eldest lady, we don't operate in rich and prosperous Rome, why are we running in this poor place?"

chewed a mouthful of dried scallops, but choked on half a mouthful of sand, nostalgic for the sweet and crisp baked steamed buns baked by the best bakers in Rome, and then looked at the locals sitting in the small boat in the distance wearing short clothes and crooked bowler hats looking at themselves and others hostilely, even if the fierce general was like Anda, he couldn't help but turn around and complain.

"Isn't that tantamount to exile? Ran to this place where the poor mountains and bad waters came out of the people to find guilt, King Min wouldn't be disgusted with you, the eldest lady, and deliberately sent you to this place, right? It's not that I'm complaining, here, I really don't see any value, and people are still so bad. ”

"The stakes that were smashed into the sea yesterday and the stone slabs that were paved were damaged a lot by these bastards! Damn, sooner or later, I'm going to screw off these bastard heads one by one, and use them all as a night pot! ”

Depressed and bored, Anda, a simple man, was choked into chatter, and Zhong Huang, who was sitting in the cabin with a big sand boat behind him and writing letters hard, couldn't help but put down the brush helplessly, and glanced at the laborers who were still flooding the condyles and constantly driving wooden stakes into the mud, but Zhong Huang shook his head with a smile.

"How much can they destroy, aren't there many more? This speed of destruction can't stop us at all, or it won't be long before the livelihood of these people will be pinched in our hands as long as it is paved, and then how to knead it round and flatten depends on Miss Ben's mood. ”

When he was young, he grew up as a hostage in the disdainful and cold eyes of the Chen family, experienced war, and later ran the She Chamber of Commerce as Li Jie's mistress, Zhong Huang was obviously much more mature than several concubines in the palace, but he was also much more ruthless, looking at the locals who were looking timidly like a hairpin dog on the edge of the construction site, and wanted to come over to destroy but did not dare to come over because of the swords of those heavily armed infantry of the Ravenna Governor's District Military Region on the sand boats on the side, Zhong Huang's exquisite face with a hint of wildness and pungency couldn't help but show a little disdain.

But in an instant, looking at the stone slab land the size of half the palace of the Min King that had begun to be paved on the edge island, the corners of Zhong Huang's mouth rose up again, and even the beauty mole that was born on the right corner of his mouth also rippled with a little joy.

"And it's not that King Min is tired of me, I'm afraid this is the most precious gift that King Min gave Miss Ben."

Precious?

Except for Guianda, I really didn't see that there were no cutting machines in these days, and pieces of uniformly sized, flat paving boulders were mined from the Alps and transported to the sea by a long distance through the ancient Roman roads, and they were all hand-polished by the Roman stonemasons' union.

There are also wooden stakes in the silt, which are specially treated with high-grade anti-corrosion treatment to make the wood of the ship's plank, which can be sunk in the water for hundreds of years without rotting, and the cost is no less than these ashlars.

Because of this, watching his wise eldest lady throw these things on the seaside tidal flats that seemed useless to her, Anda's distressed face twitched.

Especially looking at the wooden stakes pulled out by the locals and breaking the stones thrown into the sea, Anda became more and more distressed, anyway, he couldn't understand where Zhong Huang was looking at this place, Anda simply spit out the remaining half of the dried scallop meat full of sand in his mouth, and said to Zhong Huang again: "Miss, the little one will go to the edge and inspect it again, teach these local people a lesson, and let them dare not make trouble again." ”

"Brother Anda, go ahead."

The barbarian jumped off the boat with a body of a few pounds, and the sand boat similar to the black canopy of later generations shook twice, shook his head with a wry smile, and retracted his thoughts, Zhong Huang once again picked up the pen and wrote the letterhead in his hand.

Laying day and night, for more than a month, the She Chamber of Commerce has used this expensive way to connect more than 20 small islands on the edge of this offshore island reef that are uninhabited, although the top is still bare, Anda stepped on it and did not feel anything special, but he did not know that the place where he was located was the famous water city of Venice in later generations.

Controlled the hegemony of Mediterranean trade for hundreds of years, conspiracy to defeat the Byzantine Empire, once held the most powerful manpower, material resources and power in all of Europe, first accepted the Renaissance, and influenced the political landscape of the Mediterranean until the port republic of Venice in the Napoleonic era.

After all, Rome is thousands of miles away from the Fujian mainland, and in order to develop here, the power of the Roman Expeditionary Force's Governor's Office must be enlarged, otherwise everything needs to be returned to Beijing for instructions, and there is no need to open up colonization.

Therefore, the purpose of Li Jie's sending Zhong Huang was to promote the authority of the Fujian court and suppress the authority of Chen Zhangming's two governors.

And the second mission, the port of Venice!

From later generations, Li Jieke knew too much about the importance of this place, the trade between the East and the West, and it was better to travel thousands of miles from here to Europe directly by taking the Adriatic Sea than by detouring through North Africa and arriving at ****** Sardinia via Sardinia.

The journey of a thousand miles is not just as simple as a detour, the sea is fickle, anything can happen to the fleet sailing on it, and the North African coast has to resist the attacks of those Muslim tribes hostile to Fujian, which adds a bit of danger, and once the military falls out with the Byzantine North African Governorate, this route will not work.

More importantly, opposite Venice is Achaia in the Balkans, the core and final refuge of the Byzantine Empire, from which fleets can reach the city of Athens on the Greek Peninsula, the rear of the Byzantine Empire.

Li Jieke has never forgotten the hatred of Byzantine betrayal, and his plan is still far from being specified on the banner of the world.

Even if he doesn't have the far-reaching vision of Li Jie in later generations, as a businessman, Zhong Huang is also very satisfied here.

Venice periphery has a large area of islands and reefs to form a buffer, the more than 100 small islands wrapped in a circle, the edge of the islands and reefs constitute a rare era of excellent deep-water port, the lagoon can also accommodate tens of thousands of slightly smaller merchant ships, the whole port * convenient access, but also easy to defend and difficult to attack, once the foreign invasion, blockade of the lake, even thousands of troops can not climb up from the sea.

Zhong Huang could even imagine what kind of bustling the place would be when merchant ships from the East crowded the port once it was built.

Looking at the island, the workers who were still sweating like rain on the island, Zhong Huang's smile couldn't help but be more intense, but when she looked back and fell on the letterhead, this Li Jie's "name" Venice couldn't help but make her frown, tilted her head and thought for a moment, the beauty mentioned it with her hands, and after a few strokes of the name, and a few strokes of the iron and silver hooks, looking at her new name, a more brilliant smile bloomed on Zhong Huang's face.

As the last few strokes fell, the white rice paper was carefully wrapped in a parchment scroll by Zhong Huang, placed in a thick bamboo tube, and finally handed over to the messenger.

From here, back to the port of Genoa, the letter immediately embarked on the greatest voyage of the era, and after two months, it returned to the port of Suez, where it departed, and after a long month of water transfer, it finally appeared on Li Jie's table.

Zhong Huang's letter is very long, tens of thousands of words almost tell the Fujian Expeditionary Force in Rome for more than a year, although he has read it several times, every time he plans back from the map, Li Jie always wants to read it again, and a faint sense of pride lingers in his heart, and he always lingers.

The wind from the East China is blowing so briskly in the heart of Western civilization, and now the descendants of China are standing on that land with their waists straight, not like thousands of years later, as if a supplicant is doing the hard work that foreigners are unwilling to do in the arrogant and contemptuous eyes of those Westerners.

"The concubine body has already set up in Huanggang, looking forward to the day His Majesty is fortunate to be here, Huang is waiting for the big ride, as for His Majesty to choose a heroic commit, in the West, Huang has not seen a hero like His Majesty, I am afraid that he will have to rely on His Majesty for more time......"

"In June of the sixth year of Longshuo, Zhong Huang wrote a book."

Withdrawing his eyes from the plan map on the wall and reading it again, Li Jie couldn't help but lean on the back of the chair made of Bengal tiger skin with a smile, Nan Nan shook his head with a smile.

"Venice, Phoenix Harbor."

"Your Majesty!"

Just when Li Jie was thinking about it, a sharp voice interrupted his thoughts again, and when he looked back, Sbrathantita trembled and felt in from outside, bending down and whispering.

Seeing Li Jie's sight, the body of this Tianzhu eunuch pressed lower, and he told more carefully: "The army of the king of Hezhong County has arrived on the outskirts of Hengros, and he can return in triumph this evening, Xiao Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, wrote to invite His Majesty to come to the celebration banquet in person, and also, the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate has joined the army, and Li Chou, the Duke of Hengshui, has asked to see him many times, Your Majesty ......"

Before Sbratito's words were finished, Li Jie, who was in a good mood, had already stood up from his chair and interrupted him with a happy wave of his hand.

"Okay, Lone's Duhu'er has won a big victory, Lone also goes to prepare, let the Ministry of Rites prepare."

"That, Hengshui Gong ......"

"Li Chou, that kid? Anyway, come to the dinner alone, let him have something to say at the banquet. ”

Seeing that Li Jie stretched his waist and went out to prepare, Sporatita had to leave Li Chou's heavy trust behind him in a cold sweat, and bent down and quickly followed.

In the middle of the night, the city of Hengros was brightly lit, in order to reward the first battle to quell the rebellion of a country, the army of the capital protectorate who returned from the battle of the enemy, even the ordinary merchants were happy to take out a large number of materials to labor the army, in the palace of the king of Fujian, the banquet of celebration was half of the palace.

Seeing the important captives riding on a tall horse, followed by the side of the horse, the great slaughter of the Khanate of the Turbulent Horse, the swarthy face of the marching Sima Guo Beifeng, and the corridor by the corridor, Li Chou's fists clenched and gurgle, and his teeth grinded out......