"Read the book I gave you carefully." Perennis glanced at the cautious Ma Chao and waved his hand. He also had many things to do, but he liked Ma Chao very much, so he came here to inform him and gave Ma Chao something by the way.
"What is this?" Ma Chao turned over the clay tablet and found that it was full of words, but Ma Chao couldn't understand it. The entire top management of Rome knew that Ma Chao couldn't read Roman characters. This guy was an Armenian, and he was like that.
Things for practicing at home.
But it’s normal to think about it. It’s unreasonable to break through the realm in your twenties and not practice hard every day.
"Ask your wife to translate it for you and you will understand. If nothing else, this is the path Ardashir is going to take." Perennis' voice came from a distance.
"What!" Ma Chao was shocked. He didn't care about his own injury. He picked up the mud board and went to find his wife. This is a secret. If you didn't tell me about this earlier, I would have been saved by Aldashir last time.
Damn it, you should have said something earlier.
Perennis couldn't help but shook his head when he saw Ma Chao carrying the mud board and running away. That was indeed a secret, but even if he knew the secret, he still couldn't be sure how to proceed.
For many things, the gap between knowing and understanding is big enough to make people despair, and the same is true for the gadget Perennis gave Ma Chao. He understood it, but it was useless.
"Adela, come and look at this clay tablet for me!" Ma Chao rushed into the independent tent of the Armenian princess carrying a large piece of clay tablet. As for what he saw, hehe, Ma Chao said that he had already eaten it.
It's been wiped clean, and there's nothing unsightly left.
"Chao, what are you talking about?" Edela looked at the big clay tablet Ma Chao held above his head and said in confusion. Rome usually recorded important things on the clay tablets, so that they would not be easily damaged, even if it caught on fire.
There will be no loss, papyrus is easy to weather.
"That guy Perennis gave it to me, saying it was something that could make me stronger." Ma Chao stuck the big clay tablet on the ground without caring.
Adela sighed. Ma Chao himself was handsome and strong, and was favored by Perennis. If Adela hadn't known that Ma Chao was not Armenian, Adela would have absolutely no worries now and would behave obediently.
This is the wife of my own regiment commander.
However, Ma Chao is a Han, an orthodox Han noble, and for such a person to be mixed up in Rome, Edela is always worried that one day he will be exposed.
"Let me take a look." Adela looked at the huge clay tablet and saw that it was upside down. After asking Ma Chao to straighten it, Adela slowly began to translate.
"How's it going?" Ma Chao happily ran to Edela's side and said face to face.
Adela immediately looked shy. Adela had never felt that Ma Chao was such a big man before, but after the other party became her husband, Adela suddenly realized that Ma Chao was just a child who had not grown up. In many aspects, he was completely different.
No brainer required.
But thinking about Ma Chao's strength, probably only with this kind of sincerity can he have such strength at such an age.
"Well, this clay tablet was probably specially made for you by the magistrate, and what is written on it is about His Majesty Trajan." Edela didn't care about Ma Chao's quarreling behavior, and instead began to translate for Ma Chao gently.
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"What bastard? Why didn't you dictate to me what you made? You threw such a big thing on me and knocked me awake." Ma Chao cursed, but then asked curiously, "Your Majesty Trajan,
I remember you said that the other party was a great emperor, are these his original words?"
"It should be." Edela nodded and said.
Although Ma Chao has no brains, he still respects the strong. After being in Rome for so long, Ma Chao gradually admitted that the Roman Empire was indeed not inferior to the Han Dynasty. Naturally, Ma Chao gradually became willing to accept the very capable emperors of Rome.
Give honorific titles.
Although the emperor of Rome, no one cares if you don’t call him your majesty, after all, the essence of the emperor of Rome is the first citizen, and the serious soldiers of the Eagle and Banner Corps are also citizens, and they cannot be considered noble.
How noble, just because the previous emperors were really powerful, Roman citizens were willing to give him the honorific title, and the citizens gave him the honorific title, so of course the barbarians followed suit.
"Tell me what's recorded." Seeing his wife reading through the clay tablet, Ma Chao asked excitedly, "Well, Ma Chao has actually admitted that Adela is his wife. Anyway, there is no shame in it. The family used to just
Marrying a concubine was not considered a humiliation for Adela as a princess, and she also helped Ma Chao a lot. Ma Chao, a simpleton, quickly accepted this fact.
Of course, Ma Chao at least remembered to send a message to his father when he got married. Of course, Ma Teng was so angry after receiving the news that he went around looking for girls from various families for Ma Chao in Chang'an, hoping to form a strong alliance.
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After all, Ma Teng and his family are descendants of Ma Yuan. Although there is some Qiang blood mixed in, it is nothing. The Qiang people are the descendants of Emperor Yan. Ma Chao himself is good at fighting, young and handsome, and he wants to marry someone from a top wealthy family.
The girl may need both parties to look at each other, but in a normal family, Ma Chao can still talk even if he is not around.
Although the fact that Ma Chao's personal guards were missing for more than half a year and Ma Chao only learned the news makes some people doubt Ma Chao's IQ, some families like stupid people. Stupid is good. If you are stupid, your wife can take care of it easily. And even though Ma Chao is a bit stupid,
But the Ma Chao record is not bad.
With so many attributes added up, many families were naturally tempted after hearing the news that Ma Teng had released. After all, this could be regarded as a powerful alliance between an ancient wealthy family and a new wealthy family.
However, before Ma Teng had made a choice, Ma Chao said that he had already found his wife, the princess of Armenia, and his father did not have to find one for him. Ma Teng was so worried that he was not angry to death.
By the way, Ma Teng also felt lucky that he was just looking for it at that time and had not finalized it. If it was finalized and Ma Chao sent such a message back, the Ma family would need to prepare to fight with the family that had previously planned to marry their children.
In this day and age, do you want to break off your engagement? Unless you are dead, the two families have to be at odds with each other, or even fight to the death. They have been in this situation for hundreds of thousands of years, and everything else can be put aside. Family reputation is very important!
Naturally, this matter fell through, and then other families had nothing to talk about when they received the news. As for marrying Ma Chao as a concubine, forget it, it’s just a small family, and the big families have recently...
Waiting to move out and establish a country, it would be great to use concubines to win over those people who stand out in the future development period.
That's so easy to win over, you are willing to do so, and my own daughter did not suffer in the past. Concubine and other things were not important before. Now I marry a concubine to be your Ma Chao's concubine, and the actual benefits I get are not as good as mine.
The army looks for a general who has become a master of Qi to marry him and become his wife.
Even aristocratic families know about investing. In the past, concubines were not of much use. When their legitimate daughters married into the same family, they were given as concubines, or they were married into the lower class as wives.
The problem is that there are very few opportunities to marry into the lower class as a head wife. Most of the time, they are given as dowries or given to people of the same level as concubines.
Now the situation is completely different. During the pioneering period, there were not many other people. There were many ordinary people who climbed up from the bottom. Especially after the military merit and title system was launched, many ordinary people fought their way to more than ten levels of titles, even people like Guo Si.
The horse bandits have all been made marquises.
These people have little foundation, and it is difficult for them to have a correct understanding of their own height. At this time, the aristocratic family reaches out to express that they are optimistic about you. I will marry you to a person who is well-educated, can manage money, can manage the family, and is also very good-looking.
, a girl with a particularly good temperament.
Nine times out of ten, it will be okay, and for those families with more than two hundred years of inheritance, the concubines in their families are really knowledgeable and polite, and can manage money and household. Although it is probably impossible to manage the backyard of a wealthy family, but management
This group of people can do this kind of small family with just a few people.
Naturally, now every family has begun to take good care of their concubines. If they don't have enough concubines, they can find orphans to train them. Anyway, they have private schools, so they just need to teach a few more. As for dowry, forget it, how much will I give you in dowry?
Forget about a maid.
Under this situation, each aristocratic family took good care of their own gardens. Not to mention cabbage, even if it was grass, they had to find a good fat pig to grow it and give it to Ma Chao as a concubine. Wake up,
I'm afraid this has not become popular in the past fifty years.
Chen Xi was very happy to hear about this, and even held several social gatherings to form hundreds of couples. Now that the school can't expand any more, it would be nice to loosen some ground from the aristocratic family.
Anyway, the girls from these aristocratic families are all literate. In the decades since Chen Xi was a child, she has never seen her mother be able to read and write and her offspring not be able to read and write.
Finally, needless to say, Ma Teng wanted to find a more respectable concubine for Ma Chao, but not many families were willing. If Ma Chao had been in front of him during that time, I am afraid Ma Teng would have fought with Ma Chao and wanted to adjust his family's bloodline.
Is it so difficult? What kind of strange bloodline are you going to introduce into it? Is your Ma Chao poisonous? I decided to pass the family head to your brother.
Ma Chao sneered at this and said, Adela is so cute, I don’t want her as the head of the family!
This is roughly what happened. Naturally, Aidra, who knew about this matter, was even more considerate towards Ma Chao and worked hard to help Ma Chao solve some problems.
"Has the translation been completed?" Ma Chao saw Edela frowning and asked in confusion, "Is the content strange?"
"Well, this clay tablet talks about how to use military souls to break the will of the empire." Edela said in surprise.
"How is this possible? Isn't the will of the empire more than one level higher than the soul of the army?" Ma Chao looked at Edela in disbelief and said.
"No, Trajan's Army did it." Edela said with a wry smile, "No wonder it's no wonder that even now it's restless and it doesn't show the will of the empire. It turns out it's already broken."
