Pier on the east coast of the Bosporus.
Zhao Ziliang and a group of others stood on the shore and looked at the ships frequently coming and going on the water.
Liang Zhenwu walked over quickly and clasped his fists and said: "Sir, gentlemen, the ship is here."
Several large ferries are slowly approaching the dock.
Each large ship can carry more than a dozen horses and more than a dozen people.
This kind of ship is the fastest and most flexible ferry on the water.
The larger the tonnage, the more clumsy it will be. , too small and can’t hold much.
Zhao Ziliang said to Zhang Bi: "Zhang Bi, take thirty brothers to escort Master Liu and Master Dugu back.
Liang Zhenwu and Zhang Huchen will take the remaining twenty brothers with me."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and Dugujun hurriedly said: "Master, didn't we agree that we would all go back to China together?
Why did you suddenly change your mind again?
Besides, you are injured and there is no way you can recover from your injuries while you are away for a long time."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Actually, I have already considered it.
There is a high possibility that we will be attacked by practitioners from the other side in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Since the two sides have already fought, it is possible for them to concentrate their efforts to catch up.
It’s very big.
With so many of us together, the goal is too big.
If we want to be safe, we can only spread out.
In fact, your journey is more dangerous because you will attract the attention of other practitioners.
My team will be safer.
There are only about twenty People are not a burden.
As long as they are not blocked, there is basically no great danger.
As long as they leave the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, their practitioners will not dare to pursue them.
In the north, the Bulgar Khanate and Avar Khan There are practitioners in places such as the Kingdom of the Franks, the Saxons and the Slavs, and they dare not set foot in other people's territories.
In addition, my injury is not as serious as you think, and even if you tell me, you don't understand.
Let’s just settle the matter like this.”
Liu Dan said anxiously: "That won't work, Young Master, you are injured.
If the other party's practitioners discover your whereabouts and attack you again, you will be in danger.
I will not agree to anything you say."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "You think too highly of them.
Those nine practitioners from the Eastern Roman Empire are indeed powerful.
I was injured by them, but they are no better than me.
Their injuries are worse than mine."
What's more serious is that they have absolutely no ability to hunt me down anymore.
I'm worried that they just have accomplices of the same level, but even if they have accomplices and friends, They shouldn’t be in Constantinople either.
By the time they arrive, I will have already left the sphere of influence of the Eastern Roman Empire.
As for other small fish and shrimps, I don’t take them seriously at all.
You go, you just need to follow the normal rules.
It will be safer for me to return to the country at a faster speed.
Zhang Bi asked the brothers to take Mr.
Liu and Mr.
Dugu on board, and don’t make me say it a second time.”
"Yes, sir."
Zhang Bi hesitated for a moment, then made a fist-cup salute and agreed, then waved to the guards behind him and said, "Come, please invite Master Dugu and Master Liu to board the boat."
"Wait a minute."
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Dugujun raised his hand and said to Liang Zhenwu and Zhang Huchen: "Two generals, the safety of the young master is entrusted to you.
If something happens to the young master, even if you wipe out the nine tribes, it will not be enough to offset your sins.
On the way to the west, even if you all die in pieces, you must ensure that nothing happens to the young master, do you understand?"
Liang Zhenwu and Zhang Huchen simultaneously made a fist-cup salute to Dugujun and Liu Dan, and said: "Don't worry, two adults, we will fight to the death to protect the Lord of the Center."
At this time, a guard came over and clasped his fists and said: "Sir, there is a man over there who claims to be from Dongchang.
He was appointed by Mr.
Wan to see the master and said that he has something important to report to the master."
Zhao Ziliang turned around and looked over when he heard this, and saw a young man waiting not far away, so he ordered the guard: "Let him come over."
"yes" The young man was brought over.
When he saw Zhao Ziliang, he bowed and clasped his fists and said, "Young Master Peng Jinshui pays homage to the Young Master.
Mr.
Wan sent the Young Master over to report to the Young Master.
He received the latest news.
On July 19, General Zhao Bei has already arrived."
He led his army to capture all the areas along the coast of North Africa.
Harun Rashid, the remnant of the Great Food Kingdom, and his general Thomas led the remaining 3,000 horsemen to cross the Strait of Gibraltar on sea ships and retreated.
In the Iberian Peninsula, General Zhao Bei wrote to ask for instructions.
Should the army be stationed in place, prepare to cross the sea to attack the Iberian Peninsula, or return to the North?
Master Wan also asked me to report to the young master, Bulgar businessman Tramcz All the goods have been loaded onto the ship, and all official relations have been established.
As long as there are no other accidents, no official personnel will come on board for inspection when the fleet sets off."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang ordered: "Go back and tell Wan Qingming to reply to Jerusalem and activate a new group of officials to be dispatched to the newly conquered North African coast for governance.
Let Zhao Bei lead his troops to station in place and maintain public order in various places.
On the other hand Send capable manpower to sneak into the Iberian Peninsula to reconnoiter the enemy's military situation, and at the same time strengthen the alert and train the troops.
In addition, ask Wan Qingming to send someone to tell Tramtz that I have something to do and cannot meet him at the dock tomorrow, and let him take the ship.
The team leaves first, we are destined to meet again.”
"Yes, I will write it down.
If there is no young master and nothing else, I will immediately return to Master Wan."
Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Go ahead."
After sending away the Dongchang spies who had reported the news, Zhao Ziliang said to Dugujun and Liu Dan: "You can go too.
When you go back, give my instructions to Dugu Wensu, Chu Ge, Li Muchen and others.
If there are any more military and political affairs, unless it is It’s such a big deal, otherwise you don’t have to ask for instructions on everything.
You can make decisions after discussing them on your own.
All you need to do is pass the news to me through Dongchang in a timely manner.”
The two of them bowed their hands and said, "I obey your order."
Liu Dan, Dugujun, Zhang Bi and others finally reluctantly led their horses onto the ferry.
Zhao Ziliang watched them all get on the boat and waved, watching the ferry they were riding on go farther and farther until they reached the other side.
Liang Zhenwu withdrew his gaze, clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said: "Master, they have left, and they are just ordinary people.
The practitioners of the Eastern Roman Empire should not attack them.
They have more than thirty brothers, and ordinary bandits will also attack them."
Don’t move them, so they shouldn’t be in any danger.
Don’t worry, Master.
Where are we going now?”
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "We are not going back to Qin's Trading Company.
We will go directly through Lagatasi and let the brothers dress up as mercenaries or rangers."
"yes" More than two hundred years have passed, and the most prosperous period in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire has passed.
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The territory of the Justinian period has shrunk by half.
However, except for the east and west, the northern territory has not changed due to successive years.
Shrunk by war.
Although the Thrace region has been experiencing constant wars for hundreds of years and has been plundered and impoverished by northern barbarians several times, it is still firmly controlled by the Eastern Roman Empire.
Its geographical location is north of the Aegean Sea, west of Macedonia, and the Balkans.
The vast area south of the mountains is divided into Upper Thrace and Lower Thrace by the rolling walls of the Rhodope Mountains, which span more than 250 kilometers from east to west.
As the main area to resist the Bulgar attack, the Thrace Province has long been restructured into the Thracian Military District.
The predecessor of its main garrison army was the Thracian Legion.
The Thracian Military District was the first to be restructured from a province to a military district.
It is one of the four major military regions.
Therefore, its administrative and financial system has been completely transformed into a military region system, while in some other regions, many still exist as a provincial system.
Zhao Ziliang and his party disguised themselves as mercenaries and rangers, passed through Constantinople and entered the Thrace Military District, enjoying the scenery of various parts of Thrace along the way.
It has to be said that the military district system of the Eastern Roman Empire further inhibited the development of agricultural production to a certain extent.
Farmers usually work as farmers, and they also spend some time every month to participate in military training organized by military and political structures at all levels in the military district.
After Zhao Ziliang and his group entered the Thracian region, they saw no one working in the fields on both sides of the road for several days, and there were many weeds in many fields.
The direction Zhao Ziliang and others are heading towards is the Adrianople Pass, but there are not many pedestrians going in this direction, and even fewer business travelers.
As long as they are going in this direction, they are basically merchants from the Bulgar Khanate, or He was a merchant traveler in the provinces of Macedonia and Thermium in northern Thrace.
The reform of the military district system in the Eastern Roman Empire was not accomplished overnight, but gradually improved over a long period of time.
Until now, many provinces have not been abolished and still perform government functions in the form of provinces, such as the provinces of Macedonia and The province of Thermium, as well as the province of Greece, as well as many islands in the Mediterranean, all exist in the provincial system.
"At this speed, we can arrive at Adrianople tomorrow morning.
After leaving Adrianople, if we continue to go north, it will become more desolate.
The empire's dominance over that area is relatively weak, and there are often The business trips were attacked by bandits and barbarian tribes," the newly hired mercenary guide Phyllis said to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Is this why I heard that there is a huge mountain range in the north that runs through the east and west, and the east side extends to the west coast of the Black Sea.
The area south of this mountain range belongs to the Thracian region of the Eastern Roman Empire."
Phyllis explained: "What you are talking about should be the old name of the Balkan Mountains in the Matori Mountains.
In the past, this mountain range was called Hermus by the Romans, which means blood, so it was also called Blood Mountain.
Later, the Slavs came, This mountain range was renamed the Martorie Mountains, which means mature and old, so it is also called Laoshan Mountain.
However, for hundreds of years, sometimes every few years, and more frequently every year, the northern barbarian cavalry crossed the Martoria Mountains and plundered southward.
Many Thracians have moved to the southern region, and some have even moved to the south.
The barbarians who settled in the northern region were plundered and had to move south.
This was all caused by the war."
As the group of people were talking, Zhao Ziliang suddenly stopped and raised his hands.
When everyone looked at him, he said, "Listen, I really want to hear a lot of hoofbeats."
One of the guards immediately dismounted and lay down on the ground with his ear to the ground to listen.
After two or three minutes, he got up and clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said: "Sir, there are about 700 cavalry coming from ten miles behind.
The footsteps of these cavalry are heavy.
I judge them."
It should be heavy armored cavalry with both men and horses wearing armor."
Liang Zhenwu turned to Zhao Ziliang and asked: "Sir, are these cavalry coming for us?"