Sheila reported to Shezon what she had heard at the meeting of the nobles, and then went straight home to her father. After talking to her father, she ran to her mother. Seeing the uncontrollable anger on Sheila's face, her mother took out a few pumpkin pies and made Sheila another cup of iced tea.

While eating, Sheila's mood improved a little. When she accidentally choked a little bit on the iced tea, Sheila finally broke out, "This is a group of useless men!" Here, there, there, here, all of them are useless men! ”

The mother wanted to comfort Sheila a few words, but the words came to her lips but could not speak, and the mother simply laughed out loud. Seeing the old lady laughing happily, Sheila only felt that she had been insulted, and coughed twice vigorously to dispel the last uncomfortable feeling in her trachea, Sheila wanted to complain, but she also laughed with her mother. Laughing and laughing, Sheila cried.

After crying for a while, Sheila saw a hot towel handed to her. She picked up a towel and wiped her face, feeling much more comfortable. Grabbing her mother's arm, Sheila rubbed beside her mother and hummed.

"Sheila, come up." A father's voice came from the second floor.

Sheila stood up and followed her father to the study on the second floor, and the two sat down, and listened to her father say, "Sheila, what you said were carefully considered by you?" ”

"Yes." Sheila had regained her spirits, and she replied decisively: "The problem is not what system to create, the problem is that those people are useless." If Greece was rich enough to export a lot of grain, it wouldn't have been seen for more than a thousand years? Now Greece can provide so much grain and so much chicken, which shows that the Song State has the ability to transform Greece, and the Roman rulers do not have this ability. ”

Not only did the province of Europa supply East Rome with large quantities of pumpkins and potatoes, but it also brought thousands of tons of chicken in one go when it was cold. The chickens were marinated and bought by the Eastern Roman court for twice the price of grain at the beginning of the year and distributed to the inhabitants of Constantinople and surrounding cities for free. After eating chicken for a few days in a row, the mood of the people has improved. However, Sheila's view of this matter was not the benevolence of the Eastern Roman court, but the huge gap between Eastern Rome and the provinces of Europa.

These days, she has been thinking about the question that His Excellency Tiberius said, perhaps because His Excellency Tiberius had little contact with the Song people, and was particularly moved by the Song people's loyalty and sense of belonging to the country. Sheila and Song people are together all day, and the feeling is very different.

"Daughter, I don't think you support His Excellency Tiberius so much, why is that?" Father asked.

Sheila had already slandered His Excellency Tiberius dozens of times in her heart, and she really said it to her lips, but she couldn't say anything, until she beat her chest, and then she said what was in her heart, "I don't think he saw the strength of the Song people, and the Song people are patriotic because the country can provide help to the Song people." ”

Finally speaking, Sheila suddenly felt a sense of relief, since she had already said the first sentence of criticism of His Excellency Tiberius who looked up to the high mountains, and then the words poured out smoothly, "Father, the Song people can ask Da Song for help when they encounter problems, and Da Song can also help." Just like agricultural technology, the Song people in Europa Province relied on the technology provided by the Song State, and the Song State was afraid that they would not understand, so they specially sent technicians from thousands of miles away. The technicians I met at the office in Europa Province were all sent from the Great Song Dynasty. I also asked them why they were willing to go so far, and they said that because of the high salary, the promotion is fast. Father, can you imagine that those technicians in the Great Song Dynasty are all ordinary farmers, ordinary farmers! As long as they were willing to learn, Song Guo gave them the opportunity to go to school. I heard that they have no tuition fees and no living expenses, and they can apply to the school. The school gives them money. These students can pay it off within five years of graduation without interest."

The more Sheila spoke, the more excited she became, the distant Great Song Dynasty was not like a country, but like a fairy tale. A fairy tale where everyone can get a happy ending. Sheila had long been full of doubts about this, but she couldn't help believing it. As long as you look at the globe, you can understand that these Song people arrived in the province of Europa after a distance of tens of thousands of miles.

Sheila finished excitedly, only to feel that she had no strength in her body. She even felt ridiculous how she could suddenly say so much. In particular, he is criticizing the fallacy of His Excellency Tiberius. What kind of country is the Great Song Dynasty, in the Oriental Travelogue, it is a rich and beautiful country, and the system of this country is even more magical than that rich and beautiful. It is said that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, the most powerful and powerful man on earth, said, 'We are on the side of the laborers, and the rights and interests of the laborers must be protected.' Such words seem to have come out of the mouths of the Song people, but in Eastern Rome it is simply a strange theory.

Laborers are penniless, and they can only use their own strength in exchange for a meager income so that they will not starve to death, and even if they try their best, they will starve to death. But in the Great Song Dynasty, such a person can live a stable and even wealthy life. It is precisely because the Great Song Dynasty gave these people the opportunity that these people love the Great Song Dynasty so much, and when they say 'we', they represent the country, the people, and the Chinese nation. This was something that Sheila felt and Tiberius clearly did not understand.

Just when Sheila felt her heart jumping, she heard her father ask, "My daughter, I know that you are very familiar with the Song people, so I know more about them than His Excellency Tiberius. But I want to ask you a question, the Song people can rely on the Song State when they encounter problems, but who should the Song Kingdom rely on when they encounter problems? ”

Sheila was stunned. She really didn't think about this problem, the Song State was so powerful and wealthy, there should be no problem that the Song State couldn't solve. But what my father said was a problem that even Song Guo couldn't solve. What kind of difficulties do such problems have to be, and are there still problems that the Song Kingdom cannot solve?

At this time, the husband and wife spoke again, "Sheila, you have read the Oriental Travels, and I have read it too. It is written in the book that the Mongols once almost destroyed the Song State, and even the Song court surrendered. However, His Majesty Zhao Jiaren of the Song royal family led the Song people to defeat the Mongols and save the Great Song. My daughter, the state is not omnipotent, and if that were the case, the Roman Kingdom would not have been replaced by the Roman Republic, and the Roman Republic would not have been replaced by the Roman Empire. It must be humans who can solve the problem, and this cannot be wrong. If the state could solve all the problems, there wouldn't be so much of a problem. As long as the eagle banner of the Roman Empire is raised, all problems should be easily solved. ”

Sheila fell silent. What she fears most is that her father talks to her like this, because even if the truth of what her father says is not unbreakable, at least Sheila herself can't deny it. If the Song State was invincible, it was also because of a great emperor like Zhao Jiaren who led the Song people to defeat the Mongols. But Sheila still felt that something was wrong, because she really didn't see any way for Tiberius to create such a hero. After all, even Sheila couldn't fully agree with what Tiberius said.

Then Sheila heard her father say, "Thank you, daughter. I know you must be wronged, at least I don't think I can help you much. But Rome can definitely be revived, and this revival is a process that began when Baselus began to rebuild the legions, and you have worked hard enough. Take a good rest, and it's time for the Roman people to make a choice. ”

There was a passion in his father's voice that Sheila had never heard before, and his father used to be calm, but he seemed a little melancholy. At this time, the father's voice was full of enthusiasm, as if something had ignited the fire in his father's chest.

Just as I was thinking, I heard the bell ringing in the street. That's when an emergency happens. Sheila didn't want to hide, she rushed out of her father's study, and on the way she felt that she was too bold. He rushed into the bedroom again, pulled out a dagger from the closet, and put it in his arms.

There was already an uproar in the streets, and regiments of legions were seen rushing out from all sides, ordering the inhabitants to return to their homes. The residents were horrified and driven home by the legionnaires, and several soldiers came to Sheila, and the leader looked at the other soldiers a few times, and said, "Is it Miss Sheila?" ”

Sheila didn't know the soldiers at all, and she asked with some alarm, "Have we met?" ”

"We worked as guards when we were promoting pumpkins and potatoes for Miss Sheila." The leading soldier replied.

Sheila really can't remember who was the guard at the time, and Sheila was so tired that she just wanted to fall asleep at the promotion meeting that more and more people attended, and she couldn't remember how many promotion meetings she had attended. But Sheila smiled, "Thank you for your help." ”

Hearing this, the legionnaires all had shy expressions on their faces. The soldier at the head said, "Miss Sheila, please go back quickly." ”

"Can you tell me what happened, is it the enemy attacking Constantinople?" Sheila asked stubbornly.

"This is not the enemy. It was a mob of country people who came to Constantinople. There are a lot of people. ”

"Mob?" Sheila couldn't believe it. She had traveled to the eastern countryside and seen peasants who, though very different from Sheila's aesthetic, were not mobs. Why did the peasants dare to attack Constantinople when they met the nobles, so Sheila continued to ask: "If the mob wants to attack Constantinople, shouldn't the legions have gone to meet it earlier?" ”

The leader of the soldiers could not hide it from Sheila, so he whispered, "This is a peasant." I heard that it was the peasants who came with banners to plead with Baseles. ”

"Peasantry?" Sheila still couldn't believe that the peasants she had seen weren't so bold. Those peasants did not even have the courage to step out of the territory, the boundaries of the territory seemed to them to be a chasm, and many people were born on farms all their lives, grew up on farms, and died on farms.

"Miss Sheila, go back quickly, we are guarding the name and cordoning off the streets, and that's all we know." The soldier persuaded again.

Just when Sheila had to return to her home, the Eastern Roman Emperor in the Eastern Roman Palace had already received the news. Venerable Baseleus was taken aback by the news, and he quickly asked the general in charge of the security of Constantinople why he would tolerate the mob marching on Constantinople. The general bowed his head and replied, "Venerable Baseleus, they are not mobs, we have received information that these people are only carrying salutes and food, and are not carrying weapons. They just came to petition Baseles. ”

"Petition?" The Eastern Roman Emperor would be skeptical.

At this moment, the official strode into the palace, knelt down on one knee and reported to the Eastern Roman Emperor, "Begin Barcelus, the peasants have arrived at the gate of Constantinople, and the leader has sent a letter. ”

The Eastern Roman Emperor turned out to write a lot of letters in crude Greek. The Eastern Roman Emperor, who was proficient in theology and Greek, read it quickly, and the emphasis of so many texts was very simple, that is, he asked Barcellus to prohibit the army and his family from stealing grain from agricultural operators, and also asked Sellers to restore the price of grain to the price before importing Yuan grain. Farmers say low food prices have left them unable to sell their grain and therefore have no money to buy daily necessities. It was not easy to get food prices to recover, but it ushered in looting. If Baselus insisted on such a policy, he would have sent troops to kill all the unarmed petitioning peasants outside the city, or at least to stop the peasants from suffering.

The Eastern Roman Emperor asked the school officials, "Aren't there really mobs outside the city?" ”

The officer hurriedly replied, "Venerable Baseleus, we don't see them carrying weapons. If Baseleus doesn't believe him, he can go up to the city and see for himself. ”

The Eastern Roman Emperor didn't believe the words of the school official very much, and couldn't help but look at the eunuch next to him. The eunuch hurriedly walked outside, and there was a moment of silence in the palace, until the Eastern Roman Emperor asked, "How many people are there outside the city?" ”

"About five thousand people." The school officer replied.

The Eastern Roman Emperor finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the Roman legions in the city numbered as many as 50,000 men, which was more than enough to deal with the 5,000 mob. Not too long later, the eunuch rushed back to the palace. When he returned, he whispered in the ear of the Eastern Roman Emperor what he had seen, "Baseleus, it seems that the petitioning peasants outside really do not carry weapons. However, there were many priests with them, so Barcellus was invited to visit them. ”

Hearing that there were clergy among the petitioners, the Eastern Roman Emperor said to the Patriarch, "Go to the city and see what is going on outside." ”

The Patriarch hurried away, and this time there was no news from the Patriarch for a long time. Someone had come back to report that the Patriarch had gone into the crowd of petitioners and was talking to the clergy. After a long time, the Patriarch finally returned. He grimaced what he had seen, and the clergy were willing to join the peasants in petitioning for Baselus to ease the price of grain, or at least to ensure that the peasants would not be plundered.

Knowing that it was indeed not a mob outside, the Eastern Roman Emperor fell back into his stomach. But after a while, he only felt very annoyed, why did those peasants dare to come to persecute the court, stood up and snorted, and the Eastern Roman Emperor brushed his sleeves away.