The Legion is not as picky as Sheila thinks, and they can't tell the good from the bad in that detail because they don't know much about sweet potatoes. A sample survey of sweet potatoes shipped from Europa Province determined that the skin of the sweet potatoes was not rotten. The other part of the spot-checked sweet potatoes were cut open and tasted by several people, and no one felt any peculiar smell of the sweet potatoes. The Legionnaires, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately received the sweet potatoes on the docks and transported them to the empty warehouses of the Legionnaire Sugar Factory in Constantinople. The technicians at the starch sugar factory immediately began to direct production, and if the sweet potatoes in Europa Province were not available, the factory here would be closed.

Before the new batch of caramel came out, the legion had already feasted the representatives of the provinces. After a few words, the representative of the province asked, "I wonder what the legion thinks of the current battle situation on the Mongolian side?" ”

Hearing this question, the expressions of the generals of the regiment changed, as did the expressions of the senior officers present at the meeting. Before the re-establishment of the legions, the Eastern Roman court was armed only by a few hundred guards from northern Europe and mercenary regiments hired before each war. At that time, the Ilkhanate, which was an ally of the Eastern Roman Emperor, was simply invincible in the eyes of the Eastern Roman court.

Now the number of Eastern Roman legions has exceeded 200,000, and the number continues to increase. The number of legionnaires exceeded one million and headed straight for two million, and the Roman legion's defense of Rome naturally became a real problem.

"The province thinks Mongolia will lose?" The general asked.

"It's a possibility." The representative tells the truth. The province of Europa originally thought that the rotten ship also had three catties of iron, and the performance of the Mongolian flag army on the battlefield was not bad before. Up to now, the Mongol Banner Army still maintained sufficient combat effectiveness, but the performance of the slave dynasty greatly exceeded the previous predictions of the province. The slave dynasty seems to have someone.

"When?" The corps general was in a bit of a hurry.

The provincial representative was a little frustrated by the performance of the Eastern Roman general, and he tried his best to explain, "We don't know when, we just put forward a possibility for the current situation." Another possibility is that the Mongols defeated the slave dynasty. ”

With that, the provincial representative observed the upper echelons of the Eastern Roman legions. The results of the observation led the delegates to believe that these people, even in their high positions, were still a group of military novices. The level of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers has to be proved through the war, and the Great Song Army has quite complete education. All officers who want to become professional soldiers have to memorize the multiple choice questions in order to complete the fill-in-the-blank questions, and when facing the war, they must first recognize various possibilities, including the possibility of our defeat.

These questions don't look like a high score, and if you get them wrong, they will be recorded. Even if you pass the written test, you will still be paid special attention to by the interviewer during the interview. Soldiers who refuse to admit that our side will lose are not qualified to be officers. At least a few of the Roman legionnaires in front of them did not look very good, as if they could not accept the possibility of Mongol defeat at all.

The Eastern Roman general asked, "Do the provinces want the Mongols to be defeated?" ”

"We ...... The defeat of the Mongols was not wanted. The provincial representative replied. After saying this, he himself felt that this answer was a bit ridiculous. The province really did not want Mongolia to be defeated in the short term, and this view was sent to the Great Song Dynasty and was recognized by the Great Song Dynasty. From a simple standpoint, the assessment of absurdity is not excessive.

The Eastern Roman general was silent, and a legion commander next to him took over and asked, "What if the Mongols are defeated?" ”

The representative calmly replied: "The Mongols have been defeated, and the slave dynasty will inevitably continue to march. Our Great Song Dynasty is protected by naval armies, and the province of Europa is to the west of Eastern Rome, which will inevitably face a threat from the east. ”

The meeting said that the atmosphere had nothing to do with the conviviality envisioned by the Legion. The Roman legions had to defend Rome, and this was something that the legions knew. Less than a decade after the re-establishment of the legion, the closest thing to a foreign war was a crusade against the Serbian barbarians. Serbia has been Roman territory for most of the last millennium. The atmosphere of the banquet after that was very bad, everyone just hurriedly perfunctory, and left after eating.

The provincial delegate did not leave Constantinople at once, but first spoke to the people in the office about the state of affairs in Eastern Rome. Director Xin mentioned the recent troubles of the Eastern Roman Church, and some people in the intellectual class began to raise the question of whether God would care only for believers. What does it mean if a nation that has never believed in God has always been stronger, richer, and more civilized than a nation that believes in God? The God who created this world was more caring for those people? Or is the God who created the whole world harsher with His own followers? Either way, the church feels more pressure than ever.

The emissary said that there had been a violent reaction against religion in the areas controlled by the province of Europa. The local people naturally began to turn away from the influence of the Cross Religion, and of course the provinces would not support the Cross Religion, and they lost official support, and they could not impose the tithes tax on the people. The provincial side has already begun to prepare for what may arise.

Li naturally sighed: "When the official family led the school to eliminate the feudal sect, I thought it was okay, but I felt that the method was a bit harsh. I didn't expect the official family to be right, if we don't do it, the feudal society will do it. Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind. There is certainly no way to avoid this. ”

The envoy nodded and sighed, "Now the Athenian side is just worried about whether the Eastern Rome will react when we start." ”

"Athens isn't worried about Western Rome?" Director Xin asked.

"The Western Romans were ruled by the Mongols, who, although there were many Nestorian Christians among them, never had a tradition of subordination to the Crucifixion. Athens had sent Shezon to meet with Boyan, who said that he would firmly support the province and would not allow any religious forces in Western Rome to intervene or propagandize. ”

Hearing Xie Song's name, Director Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly. Now Xie Song is no longer Director Xie, but has officially become Director Xie. According to tradition, the Setsudo was equivalent to a local feudal king. The Imperial Protectorate was a military institution set up by the Central Plains Dynasty in the Han and Tang dynasties to defend the border and rule the surrounding ethnic groups. In the Han Dynasty, there were Western Regions Protectorates, Wei and Western Jin Dynasties had Western Regions Changshi Mansions, and the Tang Dynasty had six Protectorates. The governor of the prefecture is called the governor.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, along the old system of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, important areas were placed in charge of the army, and the name was changed to the governor, but Shuofang was still called the governor, and the border states were not placed by the envoys, and there were Tuntian Prefectures and the camp envoys.

The current Jiedu has made several letters to Yeluhon to request the establishment of the Europa Road, officially turning the province of Europa into a domestic administrative unit of the Great Song Dynasty. Yeluhon said that at least the official position of the province of Europa would be changed, the title of Jiedu envoy would be abolished, and it would be changed to the prefect of Athens according to domestic rules.

However, the officials did not agree. He only made some adjustments, and the supreme governor of Europa Province was still the Jiedu Envoy, but he only promoted the Governor of Europa Province to the same status as the Jiedu Envoy. The supreme governor of the government under the two is the governor of the province of Europa, and the military is managed by the governor of the province of Europa.

Sézon's rise from director of the Constantinople office to governor of the province of Europa was a truly remarkable change in his life.