Asean in Love

From Constantinople, Subadar and his daughter set off on one of their other ships from the fleet already anchored in that important maritime city. They left the ship they used to reach Egypt in the port of Myos Hormos in order to use small ships to transfer the goods through the waterways and canals that flowed into the Nile River and after 200 miles they reached the port that opened onto the Mediterranean Sea. So on the way to Venice, they went to Constantinople on business and to visit their officials and sailors who were also merchants of goods."When we come back we better bypass the port of Constantinople because there are pirates nearby, we have already been with our trade representatives and there is no need to risk meeting the pirates again.""What do you think if it is possible that we also open our trade pavilion in an Egyptian port, there will be a marina for our overseas ships and boats for traveling and transporting goods across the Nile?""That's right. The Red Sea is an important strategic point and crossroads. This was well known by the Romans who opened a trade route that reached all the way to Bali and Java as other kingdoms of our archipelago. The Pharaoh's Canal was an artificial canal like the Grand Canal in the Song Dynasty, and several other canals were built to have access to lakes and other seas, only some canals got filled up by themselves due to swamps and floods, maybe they could clean themselves and rebuild one of those canals, so we will transport goods from Bali to Venice as soon as possible.""Well done, that's my plan too, but let's keep this a secret so we don't get intercepted by pirate ships on the way and we must avoid them."Now on their way back from Constantinople they took the sea route that leads to Alexandria in Egypt and stopped there to find an office building and examine the possibility of restoring the canals that are not in operation.The expedition in Egypt lasted a few days, enough for their architects to begin work on the restoration of a canal, and Subadar and his daughter continued their journey to Venice."You know, father, later a new sea route will be discovered that will not be across the Red Sea, but the journey will be much longer, and the canal that we are restoring will be in use again, so the journey and the transport of our goods will be the fastest by the same route. We are laying the foundations and building a canal for future generations, and later it will be called the Peace Road, isn't it nice that we made this maritime expedition and initiative so that we could transport goods faster."A favorable wind carried them across the Mediterranean Sea to Venice, they did not stop anywhere because they had enough supplies and mostly to shorten the length of the journey and arrive in time for Mark's wedding.They passed beautiful cities and ports in the Mediterranean, but Venice in the lagoon on countless islands was like a dream city."Father, I have already fallen in love with Venice, even though we haven't sailed into port yet," said Subadara's daughter."Nice city, you are right, but my greatest love remained in Shantang Street."Marco Polo met them on the shore with his future wife, and he already had a daughter with her."Do you realize now that family is the most important thing to the people of the Adriatic Sea, " said the Subadar to the daughters," but it seems that he did not get over Kublhai Khan's daughter and the death of the first child who died of the plague."In Venice, there were large controls of foreign ships and their ship was inspected, fortunately Marco Polo was with them so they gave permission for Subadar's ship to drop anchor.They wanted to stay in the city hotels, but Marco Polo did not allow it."No way, You are my guests", and took them to the new stone house he bought with his father in Venice."Thank you dear Marko, we are also planning to buy a house that will be our residence in the Venice Republic, it would be best to be the first neighbors to keep an eye on our residence while we are on a sea trip.""Certainly, I have acquaintances who are currently looking for buyers for their villa, so we can visit them together and agree on a price."So it was, and Samadar immediately moved into a new villa in the Republic of Venice, as he had previously planned, the city of Rialto, near Marco Polo's house in San Giovanni Grisostomo.