The sudden night rain made the originally quiet night lively. Queen Yuchi Chifan, who was walking in the corridor, couldn't help but speed up her pace when she looked at the water curtain under the eaves.

The rain was getting heavier and the water splashed even harder. If she didn't return to the bedroom earlier, the corners of her skirt would probably be easily wet.

While walking in a hurry, she did not forget to instruct the palace maids to go to the prince's bedroom to take a look. If the prince does not sleep but reads at night on the lamp, she must persuade him.

If you don’t listen, tell her immediately and she will go to blow the lights and pull out the wax in person.

Half an hour ago, after Yuwen Weicheng finished the conversation with his father, he came back and wanted to read the information, looking like he was about to read at night, which made Yuchi Chifan, who had been waiting for a long time, feel a little distressed.

She knew that her son was motivated and wanted to perform better, so whenever Yuwen Wen assigned "homework", Yuwen Weicheng would work hard to complete it without delaying at all. Yuchi Chifan was very pleased with this, but worried that his son would be exhausted.

She was going to tell her son something, so that she could go to bed early and rest more, and after a long story short, she was not allowed to read at night, so she watched her son fall asleep before leaving.

Seeing that he was worried about his big and small, Yuchi Chifan felt very tired. She didn't have so much energy to stare at the prince, so she needed someone to help.

That is the Crown Princess.

Thinking of this, Yuchi Chifan felt a little headache. Yuwen Wen threw the prince's marriage to her and asked her to draft the candidate before "reporting".

Yuchi Chifan has been worried about choosing a crown princess for his son over the past few months, but he is still undecided until now. Fortunately, she still has a long time, so she doesn't need to be too anxious.

The Crown Princess is the prince's virtuous supporter, and her mother's family is the inevitable supporter of the prince. Therefore, if the Crown Princess is chosen, the position of the crown prince will become more and more stable, but if the choice is not good, it may be counterproductive.

Yuchi Chifan knew that because of his family problems, there was a vague undercurrent in the court and the country. He wanted to push the deposed queen and the deposed prince, which made her feel a lot of pressure. Although Yuwen Wen gave her strong support from her mother and son, Yuchi Chifan did not dare to slacken at all.

Not to mention anything else, she did not want the Crown Princess’ family to become a breakthrough for some forces to promote the deposed prince, so the Crown Princess had to be of good origin, and the character of her family should at least be able to be passed, and it is not easy to be found fault with others.

First, second, Yuwen Wen likes the candidate.

Yuchi Chifan knew what the person next to him was thinking and knew that Yuwen Wen was afraid of the relatives of the outside world, but he also hoped that the relatives of the outside world could become a strong supporter of the prince. How to grasp the position during this period made Yuchi Chifan feel worried.

In addition, she is also in charge of harem affairs and taking charge of various industries. If she hadn't had her caring sister help, she would have really never known how old she would be.

Seeing that the yard where the bedroom was located was right in front of it, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Yuchi Chifan accelerated his pace and waited closer to him, seeing that most of the palace maids were waiting under the corridor outside the courtyard, and a small sign was hung at the gate of the courtyard.

The brand means "not to be disturbed", which is a rule set by Yuwen Wen. Generally speaking, it means that there is "fighting fiercely" inside and that it is not to be disturbed.

However, tonight, Empress Yuchi Chifan is serving in bed. Other concubines are very cognitive and can't "stop in the lineup". Of course, the younger sister is an exception.

It would be fine if my sister came inside, Yuchi Chifan would not hesitate and went in directly. However, my sister was not feeling well these days, so...

At this time, she hesitated: Do you want to wait for a while? Then go in after the work is done inside?

Until now, Yuchi Chifan has only served Yuwen Wen with his sister, so she is not used to it and does not want to spend the night with Yuwen Wen with other women. However, now there are concubines who openly challenge the rules to "stop the line". If this is opened, it will be hard to deal with in the future.

Yuchi Chi thought for a while and continued to walk forward. The palace maid guarding the courtyard gate did not stop him when he saw this.

The queen is the lord of the harem, and the queen is always an exception to that brand.

"Who is serving Your Majesty in the hall now?"

Facing the queen's question, the palace maids did not dare to hide it at all: "Go back to the Queen, it was Li Guan who listened to His Majesty's inquiry."

Yuchi Chifan was stunned when he heard this: It turned out that it was the eunuch Li Sanjiu who served as the observing envoy. It seemed that his husband had something important to discuss with Li Sanjiu and did not want anyone to disturb him.

Looking at the bedroom, Yuchi Chifan felt a little confused. She didn't know what happened and asked Yuwen Wen to summon Li Sanjiu overnight and even hung up a sign.

......

"The Roman Kingdom, known as the Great Qin in ancient times, was called Fuqin, which was previously called Fuqin, which was a great country with a long history and was not inferior to the Central Plains..."

"This country was originally a city-state, and its city, Rome was named after it. Later, after hundreds of years of continuous expansion, its territory was vast, and it was very inconvenient to rule a central center, so it was divided into East and West Rome, with its own chief and deputy emperor..."

"The Emperor of the Lord is called 'Augustus' and the Deputy Emperor of the Lord is called 'Caesar'..."

"Later, Western Rome was destroyed by the barbarians, and a city in the east of Eastern Rome, "Byzantium" was the capital. The country's destiny has continued to this day, which is the current Roman state, and the capital was renamed Constantinople."

"The Roman Kingdom regards purple as the most respected, and both emperors and powerful people wear purple robes, so there is a common saying that literally means 'born from purple', and the real meaning is 'born from famous families'."

"If it were the Central Plains, it would be similar to the meaning of 'born in Zhongming Ding Food House'..."

In the bedroom, Yuwen Wen was telling Yuchi Chifan about the style of the Roman Kingdom in the west, which was to change the topic between husband and wife. Otherwise, it would be boring to say that the firewood, rice, oil and salt are boring all day long, and it would be boring for old couples to have too much "honor".

Yuwen Wen talked endlessly, Yuchi Chifan listened carefully, asked a few questions from time to time, and looked very interested, but in fact she wanted to "guess the question".

After Li Sanjiu left, when she came in, she found that Yuwen Wen was focusing on refining the materials and studying the Roman style. At that time, she became thoughtful that her husband was thinking so, and she was afraid that it was not for the future test of the prince.

Even though Yuchi Chifan was not very interested in the Roman country in the west, he cheered up. He listened to Yuwen Wen’s exotic style, listened to the content that the other party mentioned the most, wrote it down, and let his son pay attention in the future.

She also worked very hard for her son.

Yuwen Wen did not notice Yuchi Chifan's little thoughts. He was a little excited at this time, because the reason was not because he showed off his knowledge and had an audience, but because of a letter.

This letter was secretly handed over by someone in the Persian mission to the eunuch Li Sanjiu, who asked Li Sanjiu to pass the letter to the emperor.

The letter was written in Persian. Li Sanjiu first asked those who were proficient in Persian to translate the letter, and then entered the palace with the original and the translation, and submitted it to Yuwen Wen himself.

This letter is a handwritten letter written by the Roman princess Maria (transliteration) of the Persian country, Kusa and (transliteration) "King of Kings of Kings". It is impossible to distinguish whether the letter was written by Maria, but what interested Yuwen Wen was the content of the letter.

In this letter, the Persian queen and Roman princess Maria made a request to the emperor in the East, asking the Zhou Kingdom to engage in trade with her mother country Rome and strengthen friendly exchanges between the two sides.

Considering the reality, the way to trade and exchanges can only be done by sea.

The premise for trade and friendly exchanges through sea routes is that both sides have a harbor. In the letter, Maria mentioned that the Roman Kingdom had recovered the eastern region of Africa. After Yuwen carefully considered it, she believed that this region was what later generations called Egypt.

This was also recognized by the Persian envoys at the banquet.

Yuwen Wen was not very clear about the specific history of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), but he knew that the administrative regions of the Roman Empire were translated into Chinese as "province". The area under the rule of the other side's Afirm's province should be North Africa in the southern Mediterranean.

From this point of view, the Red Sea waters in the southeast of Egypt should have been under the control of the Roman Kingdom.

The sea ship sets out through the Red Sea, passes through the "Eastern Gate" port at the mouth of the Straits east of the Red Sea, and can go to the far east and arrive at Jiaozhou Longbing or Guangzhou Fanyu.

Where is the "Gate of the East"?

Yuwen Wen studied it carefully and felt that this port should be located in the coastal area of ​​Yemen, which later generations called it. Because it is the starting point of the Eastern route (relative to the Red Sea waters), it is called this.

The Roman princess born in purple, Maria, the Persian queen, took risks to install confidants in the mission for her motherland and brought a handwritten letter to the Central Plains, hoping to attract the Central Plains sea ships to enter the Red Sea through the "Gate of the East" to arrive at the Afilica Province and trade with Rome.

In the letter, the other party introduced that Chiraclio, the highest commander of the province of Aphilica, was a loyal subject of the Roman emperor and agreed with the policy of carrying out trade with the East, and would definitely do various conveniences at that time.

At the same time, the sea ships from the Roman Kingdom will also go to the Eastern Central Plains to do business. Maria hopes that the Eastern Emperor can "make convenience" and pay a little attention to the sea merchants in Rome so that the sea merchants can purchase various materials in the Central Plains.

This incredible request made Yuwen Wen excited and felt very strange. He felt that if the Roman Kingdom really wanted to carry out the East-West sea trade, he could send an envoy to Zhongyuan to discuss in detail. Why should a married princess take the risk of someone secretly bringing a letter?

The water splashed by his married daughter, Maria, as the "middle-middle-in-law" of Persia, was willing to take the risk of "investing" for her mother country. Could it be...

Could it be that Rome is short of money and urgently needs open source to alleviate the financial crisis?

Yuwen Wen was not clear about the national conditions of Rome, but he knew that the Eastern Roman Empire was known as a thousand-year-old empire, and its tenacious vitality was amazing. Of course, the imperial heritage of the Eastern Roman Empire was different from that of the East. The throne was not passed down from father to son, and it was divided into many dynasties within it.

Hearing that the imperial heritage of the Roman Kingdom was not a father-son tradition, and even the late emperor and the new king had no blood relationship at all, Yuchi Chifan couldn't help but be surprised: "Ah? The emperor of the Roman Kingdom was... selected?"

"Support, do you know whether you support me? Whoever gets supported by the great nobles and the army will be the emperor." Yuwen Wen said this and smiled a little embarrassedly:
Chapter completed!