"Regrets?" Boyan repeated Xie Song's words, and then a little expression appeared on his face.

Xie Song was unfamiliar with Boyan, and he didn't know what it meant by ridicule or anything else, but he felt that it was not a positive emotion. This made Xie Song even more interested, and he nodded in response: "The Mongolian army looked invincible before, and suddenly the situation reversed, don't you regret it?" ”

"It's not about looking invincible, it's really invincible. It wasn't a reversal of the game, it was a new opponent. Boyan replied slowly.

Xie Song wanted to ask sarcastically, what is the difference, but he was suddenly stunned. He suddenly remembered that he had argued with the teacher in logic class before, and the teacher couldn't help but sigh at the end, 'You think it's one thing, but in my opinion it's not one thing, so let's stop arguing, we won't get the result'. At that time, Xie Song felt that the teacher was quibbling, but now he somehow understood. The teacher was right. Xie Song deliberately mixed up some things in order to make up a conclusion that he thought he thought.

After a moment of silence, Xie Song said, "Your Excellency, although I still don't like you, I want to apologize for my rudeness. ”

Boyan said indifferently: "Listen to your apology, I would rather you let go of the past, after all, we are all living in the present." ”

"May I ask again, does Your Excellency Boyan regret the defeat in the previous war?" Xie Song didn't have any deliberate ridicule in his heart, he was really curious about it.

"Has Your Excellency Xie Song ever fought?"

"Hmm...... It's all petty fights. ”

"It's just a little fight, do you think you think you would have played better if you did it again?"

Xie Song really thought about this problem, he was silent for a moment and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "If I do it again, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to play well at that time." ”

"It's regrettable because I didn't do my best, or I didn't know how capable I was. I thought I was always going to do my best to know myself and my opponent. I think the same is true for Director Xie. As for winning or losing, that's providence, not something I can change. ”

Xie Song smiled, couldn't help but raise the glass in front of him, and then thought that the opposite was the great enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, the great enemy of the past. I felt like I was ......, but Xie Song hesitated and said, "Thank you, Your Excellency, for helping me solve my doubts." ”

Boyan smiled slightly and picked up the glass.

After taking a sip of juice, Xie Song asked himself, and found that if he was to kill Boyan as an executioner, he would still not hesitate. But the hatred in Xie Song's heart dissipated, and he felt that one day, he would cut off Boyan's head with some kind of respect. It is the enemy, and it is also an enemy who deserves a certain respect.

Boyan put down the glass and asked, "There are two things I want to talk to Director Xie about. The first is the export of Western Rome, and the second is the Yuan Kingdom and Eastern Rome. I don't know what Director Xie wants to talk about. ”

Xie Song pondered for a moment and replied, "Let's talk about the Western Roman exit first." Although Xie Song was eager to talk about Eastern Rome, he held back. Sesson now understood that his position was no longer suitable for the Eastern Romans.

Xie Song and Boyan met several times in the following days, and both sides talked about the Western Roman exit. Poverty is widespread in the Eastern Mediterranean, and only the people in the provinces of Europa barely have enough to eat. But without enough trade, you can't get the money to import important goods, and there is still a difference in the treatment of loans from the provinces of Europa to East and West Rome.

"Except for olive oil and other export content that has been developed, I don't see any new direction in the short term." Xie Song made a brief summary and decided to end the matter. The officials and cadres of Europa will not have money and will not make money, and it seems that the people before them are very attentive.

Boyan didn't look depressed, he said, "Director Xie has worked hard, so this matter will come here first." Director Xie wants to talk about Eastern Rome? ”

"No, you don't." Xie Song decisively refused. He still didn't want to cooperate with Boyan outside the scope of work, and Xie Song also wanted to understand that he really shouldn't do anything at this time.

"What Jerod did was not right. Even if Director Xie doesn't participate, I will find a way to stop it. ”

"Oh?" Xie Song was interested.

"I've heard some of Director Xie's previous approaches, and I agree with them. It is natural for people to be insufficient, but we have God-given reason, and we need to use reason to fight against nature. Arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust. And the envoy of Jerod was afraid that he had already taken up several of them. ”

"You can talk to the envoy of Jerod about this kind of thing." Xie Song got up and was about to leave.

"Then I'll tell Director Xie one thing, Sheila's side has caused quite a stir in Eastern Rome. Many people are against Miss Sheila. ”

Xie Song paused, sighed silently, and continued to walk out. Just listen to Boyan continue: "The crusaders have recaptured Warsaw. ”

Xie Song stopped, the news was too shocking. But he didn't look back and walked away quickly.

Looking at Xie Song's back, Boyan felt very regretful. It is enviable that such a person is only an official in the province of Europa. If the officials of the Western Roman Empire had such a realm, Boyan would have asked him to take on great responsibilities no matter what. But there are too few such people under Boyan, and Boyan sometimes considers that if a man can't do it, he will choose a woman like his wife to be an official. But Boyan also knows how difficult it is. At this time, the Eastern Rome actually had the opportunity to break through this status quo, and Boyan very much hoped that the Eastern Rome could successfully achieve such a transformation.

Thinking of this, Boyan returned to the inner palace to meet Princess Maria. After only a few words, Princess Mary shook her head and said, "I don't approve of it. My dear, nothing good came of the empresses of Eastern Rome. ”

Compared with Chinese history, Boyan is much more familiar with Roman history. Every female emperor of the Eastern Roman Dynasty is not a good stubble, and every one of them has done a lot of shocking things.

Empress Irina (r. 797-802): Empress Leo IV, Emperor of the Isurian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, biological mother of Constantine VI, the first empress of the Byzantine Empire, and the last empress of the Isurian Dynasty; After the death of Frio IV in 780, his son Constantine VI was appointed emperor and empress dowager, wielding de facto power; In 797, he deposed his son and established himself as empress; It was deposed in 802 and the Isurian dynasty came to an end.

Empress Zoe (reigned 1042-1050): also known as "Orthodox Zoe", the daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII and Empress Helena of the Macedonian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, Empress Romenas III, the second empress of the Byzantine Empire; After the death of her father, Flormenus III ascended the throne, and she conspired with her confidant John to kill her husband in 1034, and in the same year married Michael of Pavlegonia, who was of humble origin, and helped him ascend the throne as Michael IV; When Michael IV died in 1041, she made her nephew and adopted son Michael V emperor; Michael V tried to exclude her, but she was proclaimed by the citizens of Constantinople, the capital of Macedonia, who were loyal to the Macedonian dynasty, and deposed Michael V as the legitimate descendant of the Macedonian dynasty and his sister Theodora, who ascended the throne in 1042; In the same year, at the age of sixty, he married Constantine IX, and the three emperors ruled together.

When it comes to female emperors, what everyone thinks of is almost these stories of killing husbands, injuring sons, and seizing the throne. Although Boyan knew that male emperors were actually not much better than these women, and even inferior to female emperors in many places. But this is the tradition, and there is no way to solve it.

Boyan has read some newspapers, some of which implicitly mention that the female emperor of China, Wu Zetian, appointed female officials during her lifetime, which led to chaos such as Shangguan Wan'er. Boyan only thinks it's ridiculous from his experience. It is useless to blame a female official when a male official is overwhelmingly the majority. Or they just put the blame on the female officials and make up some OOXX-related claims to fool the public.

So Boyan persuaded, "Maria, I don't think there's anything wrong with this. If you are an official in the imperial court, you can at least be a very good minister. ”

Maria looked at her husband and finally turned her head a little disdainfully to look out the window. Although there is nothing to call the scenery outside the window at this time, Rome in winter is cold and damp and very boring.

"I think that the Song State was able to let women be officials, and there was no chaos, and our Western Roman Empire would not be worse than the Song Kingdom." Boyan persuaded.

"Is there no one to use?" Mary turned back to Beyan and questioned him.

"If you just ask for someone to use, how weak has the imperial court become? A powerful court must be a number of capable people vying for official positions that show their abilities. Speaking of this, Boyan couldn't help but think of Xie Song again. Although Xie Song temporarily had the upper hand in this struggle, if the Song State was still strong enough, it would definitely adjust it. Just as in Dadu, countless Han Chinese sought to make a fortune in Kublai Khan's court so that they could realize their political ambitions.

Hao Ren's teacher Hao Jing, who has returned to heaven, is just one of them, and too many Han people do their best to show their talents. The Mongolian nobles who were under pressure also had to do something serious. Kublai Khan was faced with a real happy trouble. Getting along with Xie Song in the past few days, Boyan also rarely recalled the past. He found that with the activity of the Great Yuan Dynasty back then, in fact, it should not collapse so quickly in the face of fierce blows.

However, Zhao Jiaren's strength lies in the fact that he can always respond according to the situation, and Song Jun did not do it himself, but prepared with all his might. The Song army planted the Red Turban Army in Hebei, allowing these locals to inflict brutal attacks on the local Han Chinese and Mongols. Those local Han people in Hebei were beaten to death or had no intention of paying attention to the government at all, and went all out to fight against the Red Turban Army with their own arms. The vitality within the Dayuan court also plummeted.

If you want a country to be active, you have to open your doors and recruit talents. This is something that Hao Ren's teacher, Hao Jing, repeatedly emphasized to Kublai Khan. Boyan didn't say it at the time, but he really thought it was true in his heart.

Seeing that Boyan was very firm, Maria finally gave in, and she said: "I can go to Constantinople once, but whether that girl can get my support or not, I can only wait and see." ”