Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 166 The Greek Noble in an Embarrassing Situation

Guo Kang's brain hole has always been big, and with the information bonus of the traveler, every time he lets himself fly, he can shock the people around him.After hearing this, the bishop of Rome exclaimed that this son is so heretic that he must not stay.

Everyone is not surprised.Except for the heroine Jeanna who couldn't react, the others didn't take it seriously.

"Look, I just said, isn't that enough." Tuo Huan said with a smile: "He knows a lot, calling him a half-immortal is not flattering him."

"All right, all right, stop teasing me, let's get down to business." Guo Kang waved his hands again and again.

"This is also a business." Tuo Huan pointed out: "What I mean is to tell my sister not to get entangled in those bloodlines. And I haven't said it directly. I don't really think our mother's side, What kind of noble blood is it?"

"Uh, you can't say that..." Guo Kang hurriedly persuaded him to say a few words less.

"Hey, back then, it wasn't your great-grandpa, who kept talking about being righteous and righteous. That's why my ancestor married the official's daughter according to the Greek rules, so that he could claim to be the bird emperor." Tuo Huan was obviously unwilling: "Actually, what's the use? Didn't Barcelius of Rome do it for a man with a strong army? The marriage has caused a lot of trouble, and I feel dizzy."

"That's not what I said." Guo Kang became serious: "How do you say that Confucius said? 'Only names and utensils, not fake people'. The things in this name are as long as they can be taken, they must be taken. of."

"What we lack is not military power. But there is a problem with the name. Even Tang Taizong's literary and martial arts will be troubled for a long time, and even affect the entire Tang Dynasty."

"We are not as capable as Emperor Taizong, and we don't have the same level of management as the Zhenguan famous officials. When conditions permit, of course we must pay more attention to the name. Anyway, the price is not high, why not do it?"

"Hey, you're not getting married anyway..." Tuohuan muttered.

"It's okay, marriage is a part of politics." Guo Kang didn't care about his complaints: "And I see that your father and mother are on good terms. What are you worried about here?"

He said, just remembering what happened before.At that time, the adoptive father seemed to mention it to him once, saying that the Queen's family was active again and wanted Tuo Huan to continue marrying their family's daughter.Thinking about it this way...

"No, are you worried about yourself?" He suddenly realized.

Tuo Huan was speechless for a rare occasion, and his expression became cramped.Both Guo Kang and Theodora couldn't help laughing, and even Wang Da Lama also laughed and said: "Tai Jimo should care, the queen should just mention it at the request of her family. Her mother's family has this wish and will not help Say I'm sorry, but that's it. I won't say that you must marry her."

"That's right. You're not expected to be a philosopher anyway, why marry a Greek wife." Guo Kang also took the opportunity to tease him in turn.

Little Rangna and Lama Wang obviously understood, and couldn't help laughing again.Tuo Huan had heard this allusion to Socrates before, and was even more embarrassed for a while.Theodora began to look at Guo Kang meaningfully again.

Only the heroine Jeanna was still confused: "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing, nothing." Guo Kang quickly waved his hand.

Lama Wang looked at Tuo Huan and found that he was still depressed, so he looked at Theodora again.Seeing the other party nodding, he began to give popular science knowledge to the heroine Jeanna.

"Socrates is the founder of classical Greek philosophy, but his wife is a well-known shrew. Later, Socrates chatted with his friends and laughed at himself, saying that all men should get married. Because if he marries a good wife, he If he gets a bad wife, he can be a philosopher."

"I thought everyone knew this story." Guo Kang said with a smile, "Didn't Ms. Jeanna read it?"

"Uh, we, the Ancient Tomb Sect, have helped people transfer ancient books in history, and indeed have collected a lot of books. But those books... I can't read them any longer." The heroine Jeanna said with a headache: "After reading books for a long time, I will I can't help but want to sleep, so I have always suspected that there is knowledge of sleep aids in philosophy..."

Guo Kang was speechless.

"It's okay, if you encounter interesting content, just read it slowly. When I was young, old man, I didn't like to read. Now I can read what I should read." Lama Wang comforted.

"As for the meaning of what they said just now, it's not difficult to understand." He explained: "Our queen, the mother of Taiji and the princess, Anna Ketun, is not a direct descendant of the Valleo family. So Say, do you understand?"

Jeanna shook her head resolutely.

Lama Wang was a little surprised, but Theodora had already nodded, so he further explained: "Before we entered Dadu for the first time, John VII married John V, the official of the Pakistani Dynasty at that time. His own sister. Because according to Roman practice, this kind of son-in-law has the right to inherit."

"Then if they marry the princess, aren't they afraid that someone will get the inheritance?" Jeanna asked curiously.

"Another official, John VI, has already married his own daughter to Ottoman Sultan Orhan." The Lama Wang had no choice but to tell her: "It will be too late to hesitate."

"what……"

"It's not bad. Before, the Queen Mother's plan was to marry her to a pirate leader in the Aegean Sea, because they wanted to find pirates to borrow people and boats to fight the civil war." Guo Kang said: "Although we were grassroots at the time, But it's more or less more formal than a pirate. It's not a bad treatment for her."

"Oh, by the way, the princess who married Ottoman was also named Maria. At that time, there were two Maria Ketuns at the same time." He added: "However, the Maria over there can Dun was too young, she was only 14 when she got married, and Orhan was 66. So, she was actually the worst."

"This age difference... Well, anyway, we have seen a lot in Europe." Jeanna hesitated, and said, "Isn't it a political marriage? I didn't want to fall in love with the old man."

"It's not a question of love or not." Guo Kang corrected: "The age gap is too big, which means that her children don't have much time to grow up. Sure enough, when Orhan passed away, her only son was only fifteen or sixteen years old. They couldn’t beat their grown-up elder brothers at all. In the end, all the other sons of Orhan were killed by the victorious Murad. This practice has become a habit there.”

"At that time, the officials also had the idea of ​​using the princess and her grandson to intervene in the Ottoman government. But Murad probably didn't regard her as a threat, and didn't use the knife. He just let her go... or drove her back."

"Because at this time, we have returned to the capital. Now, her situation is more embarrassing than those of the Greek nobles."

(End of this chapter)