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After a more detailed exchange, Wang Baobao finally knew the real reason why the Orthodox Patriarch Alexius asked him to be the Roman Emperor.

Emperor John V of the Eastern Roman Empire had neither the means to win over insiders nor the ability to resist external aggression. He was gradually regarded as an outcast by the Orthodox Patriarch and Roman citizens.

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When Wang Baobao thought of this, his blood suddenly boiled all over.

He led his men to travel thousands of miles and arrived in a strange area of ​​Europe.

As soon as he arrived, he taught the Kingdom of Poland, which was known as the most powerful country in Eastern Europe, a lesson. Now, before the seat of Salai City is even warmed up, someone comes to the door and begs to be the emperor of Rome. This is simply trying to make a living.

Best proof.

Wang Baobao immediately agreed to the invitation made by Joseph on behalf of Patriarch Alexius.

However, the specific implementation of this plan is quite difficult.

Because there are still Genoese fleets patrolling the Black Sea, and they have cut off all routes on the blackboard.

It is impossible for Wang Baobao to lead his 100,000 Mongolian troops to swim across the Black Sea.

There must be a powerful fleet to transport his troops to Constantinople.

Otherwise, if Wang Baobao went to Constantinople alone, not to mention replacing John V as Roman Emperor, he would probably be killed by just sending a few guards.

"Mongolia has no navy!" Wang Baobao looked worried.

It must be said that this is a problem that has troubled the Mongolians for hundreds of years.

When Genghis Khan rose on the grasslands, he had no chance to train any naval skills.

Whether in the East or the West, when the Mongols launched a navy, it seemed to be very unsuccessful.

In the east, two large-scale campaigns against the Japanese were defeated by hurricanes and enemies.

In the West, the Golden Horde has not built a combat-effective Black Sea Navy for hundreds of years.

It was Wang Baobao's wish at this time to have a navy belonging to the Mongols.

Archbishop Joseph had already discussed this difficulty with Patriarch Alexius before coming to see Wang Baobao.

There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to compromise with the Genoese. As long as the Genoese agree to a truce with the Great Mongolia, they can give up the route on the Black Sea.

Then the Mongols can hire the Genoese fleet to transport troops to Constantinople.

Regarding such a suggestion, Wang Baobao immediately shook his head.

"No! No, this is too dangerous. I heard that the Genoa people are capricious. They only care about interests and do not care about morality at all. Not to mention whether they are willing to call a truce with us. Even if it is a truce, I will not

It’s impossible to send your troops to Constantinople in their warships!”

"Who knows what tricks they will play on the way! Once our warriors from the Mongolian Kingdom reach the sea, they will not be able to exert their fighting power!"

Wang Baobao is really scared!

What if the Noisy Man caused trouble on the boat and threw all his Mongolian warriors into the sea and fed them to the fishes? He wouldn't even be able to find a place to cry.

Archbishop Joseph's first suggestion was immediately rejected.

Then he made another suggestion.

That is to hope that Wang Baobao can spend a sum of money to buy the Roman fleet in the port of Constantinople.

Although this Roman fleet belonged to the Roman Emperor John V, its commander was a devout Orthodox Christian who had long been dissatisfied with John V's desire to defect to the Roman Catholic Church.

As long as a large amount of gold and silver can be used to bribe him, the Roman fleet can definitely be transferred to Wang Baobao's command.

In this way, with the escort of the Roman fleet, Wang Baobao's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could be transported to the gates of Constantinople.

At that time, there will be an invincible Mongolian army outside the city, and Patriarch Alexius and other archbishops inside the city will mobilize the people to force John V to get out of Constantinople.

Wang Baobao is not very satisfied with this suggestion either.

This is not to say that he was not willing to spend money to buy gold and silver from the Roman navy.

For Wang Baobao, he now has more gold and silver than he can spend all of it.

The treasures he snatched from the Muslims in the river alone allowed him to bribe several Roman navies.

In addition, the gold and silver treasures robbed from Poland were all piled up in the warehouse and gathering dust.

After all, in a remote and desolate place like the Eastern European plains, there are not many places to spend money.

Since it is not about money, Wang Baobao is still worried about his own safety.

Although the commander of the Roman fleet was a devout Orthodox Christian, he was willing to obey the command of the Orthodox Patriarch.

But he is a complete stranger to Wang Baobao.

If he had bad intentions and plotted against the Mongols, there was nothing Wang Baobao could do against him.

What's more, Wang Baobao had already heard that the Roman navy had been defeated by the Genoese navy and was hiding in the port of Constantinople and did not dare to go out.

If the Roman navy were to transport its troops at this time, wouldn't it be possible to encounter the Genoese navy and be in danger of being sunk and fed to the fishes on the sea?

Archbishop Joseph had no solution to this problem.

He thought for a moment and said, "How about you spend more money to bribe the Genoese navy and ask them to withdraw their troops and not obstruct the navigation of our fleet. That should be possible."

Wang Baobao hesitated and rejected this proposal.

The Genoese people in the city of Kaffa on the Crimean Peninsula have long been a thorn in Wang Baobao's side.

Without uprooting the city of Kaffa, he would never have any thoughts of peace talks with the Genoa people.

Finally, Wang Baobao felt...

This Roman navy must be in his own hands and completely obey all his orders before he can be completely at ease.

but.

This proposal put Archbishop Joseph in a difficult position.

Finally, Archbishop Joseph said hesitantly, "The navy of the Roman Empire can obey your command, but in that case, the secret weapons of the Roman Navy may not be brought out, because these weapons have been kept secret for hundreds of years. After you become the Roman Emperor,

I'm afraid I couldn't leave this secret to you before."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The secret mentioned by Archbishop Joseph is naturally the secret weapon in the hands of the Roman Empire - Greek fire.

Since the Roman Empire mastered Greek fire six to seven hundred years ago, it has mastered the code of invincibility in various naval battles and city defense battles.

Neither the Arabs nor the Seljuk Turks could defeat the Roman army with Greek fire.

The Romans were superstitious about the secret weapon of Greek fire to the point of blind faith.

After learning that this so-called secret weapon was called Greek Fire, Wang Baobao showed a disdainful expression.

"I'm not interested in the Greek fire you're talking about at all! To be honest, in our Yuan army, the Greek fire is completely outdated."

After hearing what Wang Baobao said, Archbishop Joseph looked like "I know you are bragging, so I won't expose it."

Wang Baobao was very unhappy with Archbishop Joseph's expression.

He immediately led Archbishop Joseph to the church in his backyard.

Wang Baobao is now very keen on allowing craftsmen to create various new weapons.

There are a lot of weapons and equipment piled up in the backyard of his mansion.

Wang Baobao ordered the guards to pull out a strange-looking metal cabinet from a warehouse.

This cabinet is like a bellows, except it has a long pointed mouth and a long push rod behind it.

Under Wang Baobao's order, several guards carefully inspected the brass cabinet and then filled it with a pot of black mucus.

After some preparations, and with a command, the viscous liquid sprayed out from the brass cabinet flew more than ten steps forward in an instant.

When the viscous liquid flew out, it had already been ignited by the torch.

A pine tree in the distance immediately burst into flames.

Archbishop Joseph looked at the scene in front of him and instantly turned into a statue, motionless in horror.

He never expected that the Greek fire, which had been treasured by the Romans as a secret weapon for hundreds of years, was already mastered by the Mongols.

And from the demonstration just now, he could clearly see that the Mongols were much better at controlling this kind of Greek fire than the Eastern Romans.

Because the flames emitted by this kind of copper cabinet are farther and more accurate than those of the Eastern Roman army, the power is naturally greater.

Moreover, there was no leakage of kerosene in the cabinet during the transportation of the soldiers.

This shows that the Mongols also had the ability to install Greek fire on warships.

After all, the warship is very bumpy. Once the kerosene leaks, it will definitely be a tragedy.

After demonstrating the Menghuo oil tank in his hand, Wang Baobao looked very proud.

In his eyes, these Eastern Romans were just ignorant bumpkins.

Both the Song and Yuan armies threw away their outdated weapons, but they still regarded them as treasured magic weapons.

It's really laughable.
To be continued...