Followers of the Old Gods

My surname is Cui Ming, a dandy in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty. When I was young, I spent money like water, but I was not addicted to sex, but I liked to make friends and entertain some strange people. When I was eighteen years old, my father was involved in a party dispute and was imprisoned and executed. I dispersed all my wealth and survived in the end, but I had no other place to live in the Tang Dynasty, and I was worried about the revenge of my enemies, so I simply went to the West with a big food businessman I had met before. In 867 AD, the eighth year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, the previous owner of Constantinople, the "drunkard" Michael III, died mysteriously, and Basil from the Macedonian family, who was rumored to be the mastermind, became the next owner of the empire. It was also in this year that I met the pagan who changed the entire Mediterranean world.