Far East
Year 275. Great mission to the east is starting.
Fire was enormous. But romans were now trying to get further than India. Two legions and thousands of explorers started their voyage to the Far East. Thousands of soldiers leaved Optimia in january 275. They crossed Persia in july and India in december. They marched every day, through storms, woods, grasslands and mountains...
After months, they reached massive mountains. They crossed them, but hundreds of them died. Finally, they entered a huge valley with a river and big trees.
But it was not as good that it seemed. They found huge canyon. It was very long, but fortunately there was small bridge built by some culture. They crossed it without problems. It was built recently. They were close to the culture, where the merchants were from.
And in april 276, they finally found distant culture, where was spoken in strange languages, and where people looked different. They found small village, but they don´t understand nothing from the language of natives. They also wrote in strange alphabet, with hundreds of strange letters.
But native people were very friendly, and they showed way to bigger settlements. And after some weeks, they finally found a city of the distant culture. Architecture was very strange, and everything was build from wood, no stone, no brick.
City was not big, but beautiful. Temples to unknown entities were built just near deep gorges.
And they found there also three roman men. They went with explorers, to find more and more silk, but they stayed in city because they were simply amazed by this eastern culture. They were able to speak latin, so, first contact with distant culture started.
Who are you, white man?
I am Primus. Primus from Roman empire.
And we are from Guan´xi. We heard about rome. From these white men, what came with us from Persia.
They are roman. Me too. We are coming in peace. We want to know, where is your capital.
It is far, far away. You must go to the east, about five months. You will come to our kingdom. It is impressive, golden roofs, majestatic palaces. There lives emperor Wu.
Thank you, man. We will march now! Goodbye.
And roman explorers leaved the town, and went further to the east...
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