The Byzantine Empire surrendered.

They didn't have the courage to surrender. In fact, the Byzantine enemies were surrounded by them at this time, especially the Bulgarians in the north...

In fact, they had just been liberated from the slavery of the Bulgarians. Although the word slavery is a bit exaggerated, before Constantine V ascended the throne, the Byzantine Empire actually had to pay tribute to Bulgaria every year in exchange for peace. He defeated the Bulgarians through war, but only temporarily lifted the threat. At the same time, the Elams in the East rely on Abu Musilin, the legendary commander, have also continuously defeated the Great Cannibals, and are gradually restoring the territory of the Sassanian Empire and beginning to threaten the Byzantine from the Anatolian Plateau. Thanks to the large number of armor and weapons obtained from the river through trade, the Elams threatened the Byzantine Empire even more than the previous Great Cannibals.

As for the big food...

The three emirs in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in North Africa have become like that, but they are nominally ministers of the Caliphate, but they no longer obey their orders. The Umayyad family's power has risen again in Iberia, the Elamites have restored the Persian plateau and Babylonia, and the Great Food Empire is divided. At present, the Hashim family of the Great Food has resolved their internal power struggle, but they can only retain the peninsula and Syria, and even the capital has been replaced with Damascus, and even the truce has truceeded with Elam, but the Great Food after the truce has targeted the expansion target Cyprus.

Similarly, the great cannibals in North Africa and Iberia are also expanding to the Mediterranean islands.

Constantine V, who was attacked from all sides, really had no strength to face another enemy.

And it is an suffocating enemy.

In this way, King Yang, who represented His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, signed a treaty with Constantine V, the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. The Tang Empire leased land on the north bank of the Golden Horn Bay for 500 years. Of course, other affiliated clauses were also listed. In short, with the signing of this treaty, the power of the Tang Dynasty officially expanded to Europe, and then a whole brigade of Anxi Army landed on the merchant ships that accompanied him.

The two sides then completed the demarcation, and then the garrison officer appointed by Yang Feng began to spread the money...

Sprinkle pepper.

This thing works better than money here.

The garrison officers of the Tang Dynasty used pepper as wages to recruit Byzantines as construction workers, and used ships of cement transported from Huaiyuan City to quickly build a large bastion opposite Constantinople, even a port was built, and a terrifying fifty kilograms, or 68 pounds of cannons were set up in this basin. The range of this cannon can easily cover almost half of Constantinople, and can use new flowering bullets, the first test of the cannon.

The shooting hit a huge flowering bullet on the other side of the Bosphorus Strait. The explosion of terrifying fire made all Byzantines on the walls of Constantinople tremble. In short, under Yang Feng's personal leadership, it took a whole year to build a solid fortress and also build a new commercial center. The merchants from the Tang Dynasty and the Hezhong countries who followed the footsteps of the Tang army quickly began their wealth dreams in this fortress named Longcheng by Yang Feng.

Of course, they would not pay a penny tax to Constantine V.

Fortunately, the latter also made huge profits.

His sensibility obtained Yang Feng's arms, which made the equipment level of the Byzantine Empire stand at once as high as Elam. In other words, the Byzantines also began to become a chain-like armor. Even after a Byzantine princess successfully relied on the beauty trick to squeeze into Yang Feng's bed and became his love, the Byzantines had already begun to obtain higher-end Mingguang armor.

Anyway, Anxi Army no longer plays this.

The Anxi Army, which has basically achieved firearming, has long abandoned all the heavy armors that were back then, and is now dumping them out.

Now the Anxi Army has heavy cavalry and wears heavy armor.

And it's full-body armor.

The rest were all line infantry riding horses, but they also conducted immediate fighting training, because they didn't need to bear the weight at all. They actually brought extra spears, knives, warhammers, and half-armors. After all, when chasing, it was easier to poke a spear on horseback than to stab a bayonet when they got off the horse, but in essence they were still line infantry, but the enemies in this era were too weak, and they were extravagant enough, so they were like this.

As for whether Yang Feng's firearm will spread...

That would not happen in a short period of time, because only the arsenal of Crayola was manufactured by the Arsenal, saltpeter came from the saltpeter mine in Shanshan, and sulfur came from the sulfur mine in Turkmen. The final production was completed in a separate castle outside Crayola City. All the workers were Yang Feng's own slaves and his crazy believers.

As for the creation of cannon flintlock rifles, it doesn't matter if it is leaked.

If there is no gunpowder, it is a fire stick.

In this way, Yang Feng officially opened the door to Europe. After the construction of Longcheng, his fleet then drove out of the Bosphorus, entered the Aegean Sea and then went south, opening its bloody mouth like a crocodile breaking into the swimming pool, and moving forward with a huge flag that would not be approached by strangers. Because it was actually delayed for another two years, his fleet had expanded to twenty battleships, and together with the large number of merchant ships accompanying him sailed gorgeously in the blue of the Aegean Sea, crossed Crete and turned to the west and began to cross the Mediterranean Sea. He drove into ports with the signs of trade and visit, showing the gods from the East to the people of Yawei, making Western Europe a mess.

At this time, Charlemagne ruled Western Europe.

The Pope of Rome had just obtained the Pope from his father, the Bald Man, and in northern Italy, because Charlemagne had just conquered the Lombards, he belonged to the Frankish Empire, and the southern and Balkans belonged to Byzantines. Charlemagne was conquering the Saxons in the German region to the north and forced them to convert to the Lord's arms with his sword.

If you don’t convert, just die.

As for Central Europe, there were the Avals who had some relationship with Rouran and the Slavs. In short, they were all barbarians defined by European history. The situation was very chaotic. The European powers were the Franks and Byzantines. Southern Italy and Sicily were both Byzantine territory. Even the Balearic Islands were Byzantine, and only Spain was occupied by the remnants of the Umayyad Dynasty. Britain was still in the chaotic seven-nation era. The seven invading Anglo-Saxon tribes became masters after killing all the Celtics in England, and then each occupied the territory and fought against each other. It would take at least a hundred years before they could unify them into the Kingdom of England by Wessex as the leader.

It's still in chaos at this time!

It is the remotest small corner of Europe.

In fact, these lands have no need to conquer Yang Feng at all. Conquering them is equivalent to saving them and allowing them to get the sunshine from ignorance. Moreover, the distance is too far and the cost of control is too high. Besides, there is nothing good in their hands, at most they can sell a white slave or something, but the white slave does not need to control it.

At this time, the gap between Western Europe and the Tang Dynasty was too big. Not to mention that compared with the Tang Dynasty, the level of civilization was even worse than that of Persia.

In fact, Europe at this time was the same as modern Africa.

This is completely a barbarian continent. Except for part France and part Italy, because of the remains of the Roman Empire, the vast majority of European lands were still in the barbaric darkness, from Germany to Eastern Europe to Northern Europe, and then to Northern Europe, and there were not many countries in the true sense. It was Charlemagne's conquest that made them become Yawish. As for the pattern of modern European countries, including Shinra, they had to be the heir of Charlemagne's death, after the devout Louis died, the Frank Empire was divided by three sons and then gradually began to form, and at this time, even Charlemagne himself had not been crowned the Roman emperor.

The best way to do such a land is to keep them in chaos, and even if they are not confused, they have to provoke them, such as giving some Modao to the poor Saxons.

Or give the Aval people some chain plate armor.

They are said to be Rourans who moved westward, occupying Pannonia, which is Central Europe with Hungary as the core.

At this time, the European barbarians were equipped with too poor equipment, basically no decent weapons. Even if there was a sword, many of them were playing with big wooden sticks! Although the equipment of the European chain armor knights was already very bad, they were even worse. If the Saxony tribe warriors in the German jungle had a terrifying sword, then the small iron rings on Charlemagne's conquering army might not be able to hold on. Similarly, if the bows and arrows in the hands of the Aval people were replaced with compound bows and armor-breaking arrows, it would be difficult for the Frank soldiers to resist. Anyway, the warehouses in the river were filled with eliminated weapons. As long as they had money and nothing to do, women would do if they had no money. By the way, King Yang always regretted that he had not had a standardized ocean horse.

Especially the Nordic system.

In short, it is just about trading and control, but there is no need to conquer. At this time, conquer is not conquest but gift unless they are killed.

Give them civilization.

But there are a few places.

"Go back and tell Lingzun that I'll want a few places we pass by!"

Yang Feng said, touching the head of the girl kneeling at his feet.

The latter raised his head reluctantly and looked up at him with charming eyes. This was the daughter of Constantine V and also Yang Feng's love. Although he had faith and could not marry a pagan who was said to have countless pastors, love did not need to care about the gods at all. In more than half a year, the princess had completely fallen and was fascinated by Yang Feng's big stick. Although Yang Feng left Constantinople, she still followed her under the banner of going to Rome.

"Wipe your mouth!"

Yang Feng handed over the handkerchief and said.

His Highness the Princess quickly took over and wiped his mouth.

“First, I need to rent Crete.

In return, I will pay you twice the rent every year according to the tax you received in Crete in the past, and the lease period is also five hundred years. In addition, I also promise that the troops stationed in Crete, including our warships, will destroy their fleets for you when the cannibals invade the Aegean Sea.

Second, I also need to rent the Island of Malta.

As for the same conditions as Crete, if the Great Cannibals in North Africa invade Sicily, my fleet will also provide support for you.

Third, all ports along the coast of the Byzantine Empire were open to the Tang Dynasty. The merchant ships and warships of the Tang Dynasty could dock at any of your ports to replenish supplies. Similarly, the Tang Dynasty could set up consulates at the ports needed. The Tang Dynasty merchants could live and set up shops in these ports, and their treatment was also in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty of Constantinople.

If he promised these, I would give him three thousand sets of equipment to be equipped with cavalry.”

Yang Feng said.

"The third one is fine, and the second one is probably fine, but the first one, don't you think Crete is too big?"

His Highness the Princess lay on his lap and said.

"Is size important? I cannot migrate to you. My own population in the river needs to be moved from the mainland! And according to my estimate that even if there are another hundred years, I cannot fill the land in the river. It is larger than your entire empire, and the population is probably not more than Greece. I cannot migrate outward. All I want is to ensure the safety of the route from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. I cannot expect you to defend it. I must let my own army defend this route, so I must establish my own control area. Since it is my own control area, it is impossible to share it with others. I must control the entire island.

Crete and Malta.

The people on the island are still yours, but my people are managed for you. My army will protect the Aegean and the Mediterranean with you. I don’t think you have lost anything. You must understand that the Great Cannibal and I are incompatible. I killed their emperors, killed countless of their people, and I destroyed their glorious empire. I and them can be said to be natural enemies. We are allies in this regard. For you, Crete is nothing more than a barrier to the Great Cannibal entering the Aegean, but are you sure your army can defend it?

You can't be sure.

But I can be sure my soldiers can do this, they can protect Crete, and my fleet can guarantee that any big food warship attempting to enter the Aegean Sea will be sunk.

After all, Constantinople also has my city.”

Yang Feng said.

With Crete and Malta in hand, his routes in the Mediterranean were stringed together, starting from Huaiyuan, forming a pearl chain along Constantinople, Crete, and Malta, and then he could control the entire trade along the route.

As for the last stop...

"The king, the warship of the great cannibalism should have come from Tunisia."

Yang Zhong suddenly walked into the room and said.

His Highness raised his head and looked at Yang Feng like silk. Yang Feng stroked her hair like a pet.

"Kill them, no one will be left!"
Chapter completed!