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Chapter 8 - Chapter 7: Live Well in Spite Enemies

Despot Stefan decided to give the general's wife the princess a royal name in addition to the title, he wanted that name to be easy to pronounce in the Ming dynasty, so he asked Olivera what name to give the princess. "Name her Dan, and in Asia they had a name for girls Dandan, which is similar and close to their customs."Stefan was embarrassed," I can't call her Dana, which would mean she was a gift because Vukashin gave her to the general of his own free will, everyone in the bazaar would laugh at me, but wouldn't it be better if her name was Dan because it's a nice word meaning and everyday life, day of the week.""Do you agree?""It's not bad, Princess Dan of Nemanjić sounds nice.""When you and the general return from the tour of the Golubac fortress, invite them to tea at my place, I will prepare cakes for that occasion."The princess liked her royal name, so she decided to give Olivera a nice gift in the form of jewelry.The two became closer as if they were sisters, their fates connected them with dynasties in the east of the world."Dear Olivera, there is a beautiful saying in the Ming Dynasty, I have heard it many times, and it is very similar to our proverb that says,"Don't show the enemy that you are struggling. Live well even though your enemies envy you. "says their proverb."You now have a lot of enemies in the Belgrade bazaar who gossip about you, they are nobles who are fighting for power, here you choose jewelry from the box that you like, then wear it when you walk around the city, and when they ask you, tell where you got that jewelry that you got it the son-in-law gave. You know that in our country it is customary for the bride to adorn herself with gold, to take gold or white pearls from Nina Belova's treasury."Olivera chose the pearls she couldn't part with."Olivera, do you know how to play the Montenegrin round of Oro?Don't tell me about this " my heart hurts right away."Listen carefully to what I'm telling you, and I've already told you that belly dance is played in harems, the royal dance in the East is played by princesses, it's similar to the folk dance Oro played here, it's a dance to celebrate our ancestors, we're going to Stefan's castle in Herceg Novi and there to learn oro kolo because I also want to teach my daughter that artistic dance because the artistic dance is appreciated among the nobles.I want us to visit the craftsmen in a free city of the Republic Dubrovnik who are restoring the walls around Dubrovnik and to invite them to work in the Ming dynasty, namely, the emperor of the T dynasty captured some craftsmen from Dubrovnik, so those craftsmen managed to escape and arrived across the border with us, so currently are working on the construction of the Great Wall, but we were told that there are still good craftsmen in the city of Dubrovnik who were trained in Italy.You may not remember, but King Milutin had to give his son Stefan and other nobles from Serbia and Dubrovnik as hostages to the Tatar Khan Nogoi, later Stefan was returned. Now Branković's son is captured by the T dynasty. Peace treaties and agreements as a pledge of peace always require hostages and monetary tribute. We have plenty of gold and the tribute in money was not as much of a problem as the hostages.For peace now we need to fight with culture, I can show you how porcelain vases are shaped, so that this new Wolf, and brother Stefanov in lamb's clothing, does not seize the despot's place.It's good for you to change the environment a bit, you'll be better there on the Adriatic because you're all pale.Since his wife was given the title of princess, the general became proud of her, and only when he saw the courts and palaces in the places where Stephen has residences, he was amazed and admired those buildings and fortifications and decided to build a continuation of the Great Wall with this style of construction.