Asean in Love

Life become so precious in Medieval times, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire it was not easy like before, during the Mongol invasion of Europe, life was harsh and many people died in battles such as Mohi, the Battle of Legnica, Kublai Khan's army even came to the attack on Sicily by sea, and after the lost battle in the fortress of Klis in Dalmatia, their invasion was not successful because they couldn't capture King Bela, who took refuge in Dalmatia, but the Mongols repeatedly attacked the European kingdoms as before the attack on the Song dynasty for 20 years.The generals of Kublai Khan were ruthless conquerors, especially when Nogai Khan became general of Horde in the Second Mongolian invasion of Europe.The Queen father suddenly became gloomy, thinking about something too hard for him to accomplish and solve the problem, so Queen Kang asked him a question:Father, what's going on you look like somebody with worries?""Nothing, just one of my old business partners from Europe traveling near our islands, now he stopped in Sumatra with his ships."Are you talking about Marco Polo?"The queen was also invited to torment Marco Polo who was traveling around Sumatra island at that time, and had a diplomatic mission in a South Asian country before."He is the son of my friend Nicola.""I invited him to torment.""Yes, I know that, Nicola sent me a letter, they can't come here, that is strange, they are already 6 months in Sumatra, I'm thinking that is the tactic and strategy of Kublai Khan who is surely planning invasion on this part of the world, Sumatra was never defeated in battle with Kubli Khan. Princess Kukajin is also on ship, she was traveling to Persia for marriage with Persian khan Arghun. You know they all have relationships and marriages, this is levirate mongolian marriage from Bayat tribe, Arghun was not alive anymore and she will marry his son Ghazan."Are life just about money," queen though, she heard gossips that Marco Polo proclaimed that "Kublai Khan was so rich like biggest millionaire of the world, he make world suffering in messy war around Europe and Asia, and Marco Polo just respect him for his money in tresore Kublai Khan generals and soldiers stole from Dalmacia towns and Sicilia, even they burn cathedrals and took prince of kings in Europe as hostage in capital of Kublai Khan empire." As a mother of child she also has sympathy for others, even we belong to royal family we don't know how is our destiny, people bring news from Europe about Mongols invasion and the wife of King Bela was pregnant and expecting child any moment, but had to fled with husband to Dalmatia where she give birth to princess Margherita during the battle in the fortress of Kliss. Queen was so struggling and can not believe that Marco Polo don't have empathy for his own people, because his father origin was from one island in Dalmatia, Korcula island was so that was reason she want to invite Marco Polo sharing some kind of pain and suffering people in countries occupied by Mongol empire.The Queen has a feeling that Marco Polo is just acting publicly, even when he spoke in public like this about Kublai Khan, he must be a very wise young man with strategy, he was knight who works behind for his own country's benefits and peace between two countries, Marco Polo become influential in economic fields travels the Silk road and around many Asian country and with noble people like Mongolian princess to escort her in Persia for marriage with Persian khan.Since Marco Polo stopped in Sumatra with his ship, the queen was eager to meet him personally because everyone was talking so much about him and that he was returning to Venice after 20 years working for Kublai Khan.When she was in future time she read about Marco Polo on smartphone, some people saying that Marco Polo never traveled to China, just that he was fiction storyteller, so now she was so curious to meet Marco Polo because he was real person, thank to him people can travel much easier because his precious geography mapping and cartography."It is a pity that Marco Polo didn't get married during his life at Kublai Khan palace", said her father."Maybe he has a sweetheart in Venice, so he was faithful to her all these years" -queen said.Yes, He had a girlfriend Franceska when he was young, and now he is traveling with Princess Kukajin, everybody thing that they have romance, but it was gap between them over 20 years, and Arghun Khan was very handsome men which Kukajin meat surely early, so that was only true that Marco Polo just doing his job and as European knight protecting princess, that was tradition since princess Maria Palailogina daughter of Byzantine emperor was married with Abaga Khan which was father Arghun Khana. They traveled on 14 ships to Persia, but they lost many ships during a heavy storm so now they are waiting for the weather to calm down so they can continue traveling to Persia."We are going to visit Sumatra, if not Kublai Khan may attack Bali, so we must unite with Sumatra and the islands around."During her visit to Sumatra queen left her mask behind, in Sumatra she can be herself and free.