Chapter 11: All troubles come from marriage

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  Glancing around, I saw a bookshelf next to me and got up to browse through it at will.

  History, humanities, philosophy and art exploration, but more so, at first glance, it has a flavor of the news magazine provided by the coffee shop on that previous earth.

  I casually flipped through the books and noticed that in the corner of the bookshelf, where it said "recommended bestsellers", there were some brand new books. I picked one up and quickly scanned through each one, um, and surprisingly found over a dozen Mary Sue novels. Is this the current mainstream trend in Constantinople's literary world? I remember it used to be about New Continent tomb exploration! By chance, I pulled out one book from the shelf and started flipping through it carelessly.

  I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly felt a silence around my ears. Turning my head to look around, the second-floor hall was left with only Alexander and his group, while at this time someone mentioned that our plan had a high success rate, so why did I still have to marry a woman?

  Maurice chuckled and retorted: "Do you think that in all Constantinople, or even the entire Empire, there is anyone who needs Nikiforos' father to kiss his knee?"

  It's all gone!

  It's common sense that if it weren't for some historical legacies, the one sitting on the imperial throne would be someone from the Theophano family.

  "Our nature is different." I said to the lucky one, "Your parents chose a satisfactory goal from many options. So what you're doing is just an ordinary exchange of friendship between nobles, both you and that girl have the right to choose, so there's a lot of room for maneuvering. But it's not the same with me."

  "I remember that woman was just a merchant." someone said indignantly.

  "She has been operating on the canals along the southern coast of the Kingdom of France for a long time, and her family has good relations with many families in the Kingdom of France. She also has considerable influence in both the Netherlands and Milan. I've also heard that this woman is close to several trusted ministers of the French king. And all this, you know what it means."

  Wendy, a widow of the Leonidas family in Constantinople. Her mother was from the Milanese nobility of the Apennine Peninsula, and her father was a count of Marseilles in southern France. The Leonidas family, who accepted this half-blood into their Roman circle in Constantinople, also had some reputation, and according to Old Man Seofano's tone, it would not be a shame for this woman to marry into our Seofano family.

  As for the wealth of this woman, I can only say that it's truly astonishing. I'm too lazy to list out a bunch of data, but to give an example, the trading company under her name owns nearly twenty large ocean-going merchant ships with a tonnage of over 500 tons each. As far as I know, our Seoafano family has just over thirty such ships in total.

  There are many rich people in Constantinople. The importance of the geographical location where Constantinople and the entire empire are located, I won't say much, but if this hub is missing from trade between the two hemispheres, the consequences will affect the progress and pace of world civilization.

  In the past, wasn't it because of the rise of the Ottoman Empire and the blockade of trade routes that Western Europe tried to open up new navigation routes, only to accidentally discover the New World, and then rose rapidly by plundering the wealth of indigenous civilizations? It can be said that the reason why those indigenous peoples in the Americas died so miserably is that the Ottomans bear some responsibility, since they were the driving force behind history.

  However, in this world, the Ottomans never appeared. The Mongols took their place. Several western expeditions made the entire Western world tremble under their hooves.

  The third western campaign, also the one that went further than Vienna and reached the French border fortress city of Metz. In this battle, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Castile, the Crown of Aragon, and the Italian city-states were beaten by the Mongols until they were blue in the face. If not for the fact that the Mongol army also suffered heavy casualties and retreated on their own, those Europeans who were beaten to a pulp might have surrendered, because they basically thought that the end of the world had come!

  The Mongols were very brutal. So the Age of Exploration in this world was born prematurely, not for profit or wealth, but to learn from the story of Noah in the Bible, build a ship and escape to the sea, and then find a place to hide. It's so cool, I don't know how future textbooks will introduce this historic moment... To think that back then, royal families of various countries were sponsors of organized shipbuilding plans. If it weren't for the fact that trade routes became desolate due to the Western Expedition later on, Western European countries wouldn't have thought of developing a new trade route either.

  Regarding the Mongol Western Campaign, my brain's memory tells me that the Mongols' last western campaign in the original world only reached as far as Bulgaria and Moscow before stopping their massacre. According to their military strength, even if they had charged into France, it would have been more than enough. Experts speculate that it was the impoverished Western Europe that made the Mongols, who had conquered countless countries along the way, extremely disappointed. However, in this world, I think the reason why they advanced further is probably because the Mongols saw Constantinople. To be precise, it was the Constantinople that the transmigrator had just restored to its former glory after reviving the Roman Empire.

  That time-traveler must be very depressed, I think whoever encounters the descendant of Genghis Khan, the number one golden thigh man in world history, will be depressed. Who let his old father be a fierce man who opened the cheat device? Nima, from a small tribal leader to a man who made the world tremble in just a few decades, heaven knows if he had a system with him.

  Fortunately, my former opponent was a descendant of Genghis Khan, but even so, he paid a heavy price.

  After my predecessor's death, the empire he left behind has been at war with Mongols, Arabs, Rus', and even Western Europeans. There have been victories and defeats, glories and shames. Now the man on the imperial throne no longer belongs to his family, because the family he belonged to had already become extinct more than 300 years ago.

  So, I'm saying that my previous boss was really formidable. With his own power, he managed to make the Roman Empire continue for several hundred years. According to my calculations based on the Gregorian calendar, this year is 1718. In other words, since the Eastern and Western Roman Empires split, the Eastern Roman Empire has truly existed for over a thousand years. However, this good performance also comes at a cost. If there's a Disney record for the country with the most emperors dying on the battlefield, the current Roman Empire would be the most deserving of it.

  The emperor died on the battlefield, and the king was killed in a national disaster. Over the centuries, the Roman Empire's emperors have changed several families, and the unwritten tradition has become a rule, directly written into the military school's teachings... It's a bit uncomfortable, because from my personal career aspirations, I can see that my future work is likely to get me killed, and the Wendy that my father wants me to marry may become a widow again. In other words, there is a high probability that I will be cuckolded.

  What's even more annoying is that the people interested in this widow are probably not just my father. Otherwise, he wouldn't have defined my mission with just one sentence: "I hope you can marry her." This means that the right to choose is on the woman's side, and if I want to marry her, I'll have to work hard to pursue her! It's really cheap of Old Dad to be so creative! I even feel like lamenting, wondering if the old guy's lingering soul has possessed him, making him think that a mature 25-year-old wife would fall for a little brat surrounded by handsome guys everywhere!

  This is no easier than asking a man to choose an ugly woman over a beautiful one.

  As the ugly girl among that woman's suitors, I've resigned myself to it. The initiative is in her hands, and no matter how hard I try, the outcome seems to be the same. And if I were to give up, it would actually be more beneficial for me personally. However, considering the entire Seo family, if we were to marry that woman, her wealth, her connections, and her influence in the West would be a great opportunity for us!

  I don't know what the old man is thinking, but after knowing the general situation of that woman, I clearly understand that if I marry this woman, she will be a huge wealth for our Seofano family, a wealth that others can't imagine. Yes, if others marry that woman, Wendell would just be a wealthy and influential noblewoman to them, but to the Seofano family, as long as we make good use of everything about that woman, the Seofano family's wealth will become the most deserving empire first! This is very helpful for us to get the imperial throne.

  I didn't say these things to Alexander, nor did I tell those guys. But they, as people who stood together with Alexander, knew a bit about the severity of it all.

  After asking the sweaty foreman who this property belongs to, we left the coffee house and when parting at Teodosio Square, everyone came up and said that if they were needed somewhere, please don't hesitate.

  Each profession has its own expertise. If I wanted to kill or set fires, these classmates who grew up with me since childhood would be the most suitable. However, my problem is that I want to seduce a 25-year-old man's wife, and I need an expert to teach me how to do it!