Kyle Poirot (1254 ~ 1324) was a medieval Italian traveler. Son of nicolo Poirot, a Venetian merchant. Nicolo and his brother Mafio made an appointment to meet Kublai Khan in 1265 and were sent to the Holy See. 127 1 in the summer of, brother nicolo and Kyle came to the Yuan court to reply to me. They passed through Yili, came eastward along the ancient Silk Road, and arrived in Shangdu on 1275. After that, he lived in China for 17 years. Kyle traveled to many places in China. In his travel notes, he described dozens of famous cities in China, such as Dadu, Shangdu, Jingbei (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi), Chengdu, Kunming, Dali, Jinan, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Quanzhou. At the beginning of about 129 1, I left Quanzhou with my father and uncle and returned home by boat. /kloc-arrived in Maulde, Huli (east of present-day bandar abbas) on October 293. 1295 Return to Venice. Kyle was captured in the war of 1296, and told his story about the East in prison. This book was written by fellow novelist Lu Sidi Cherno and completed in 1298. It is often called The Travels of Marco Polo. For centuries, Kyle Poirot's books have been one of the main bases for Europeans to understand Asia and China. Since19th century, it has been recognized that this book has provided valuable information in the geography, nationalities, customs, products, politics, religion and culture of medieval Asia. China has published four complete Chinese versions, among which the most popular one is Feng's translation (Travels of Marco Polo, published by the Commercial Press 1935). Kyle Poirot is a prominent family in Venetian business circles. 1260, his father Niccolo Poirot and his uncle brought the jewels from Constantinople to Chincha Khan, ruled by Genghis Khan's eldest son Shu Chi, along the Volga River, and Shu Chi's son Burgaud Khan bought all their jewels at double the price. At this time, Bill Han Ge was at war with Prince Tatar, and the battlefield cut off their way home. They had to make a detour, bypassing the city of Boila (now Bukhara, Uzbekistan) 3,000 miles away. Live here for three years. I once saw Kublai Khan's brother Xu Liewu's envoy to Kublai Khan. The envoy persuaded the nicolo brothers to go together, so they arrived in China, where European businessmen had never been before, on 1266. Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan received them kindly. I inquired about the customs, legislation, military affairs and state governance of European countries in detail, and also learned about the situation of the Holy See. So Kublai Khan decided to send an envoy to the Vatican and appointed the nicolo brothers as ambassadors. He also solemnly ordered people to write credentials to the Pope in Mongolian, and asked the Pope to send 100 missionaries who are proficient in rhetoric, logic, grammar, mathematics, astronomy, geography and music to China to teach western Christianity and science. He also asked for some lamp oil at the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases. 1269, they returned to Venice and told Kyle Poirot many wonderful stories about mysterious China. 127 1 year, New Pope Gregory X wrote back to Kublai Khan, obtained the lamp oil on the holy tomb, and gave it to the nicolo brothers to take back to China. Kyle Polo, 17 years old, is very happy to walk with his father and uncle. 1275, Niccolo and his party arrived in China and were warmly received by Emperor Kublai Khan. Kublai Khan attached great importance to Kyle Polo, who was proficient in four languages, and appointed him as the emperor's special envoy to Xinjiang, Gansu, Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. He was also sent to Myanmar, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, India and other countries as an envoy of the Yuan Dynasty. He worked as a tax collector in Yangzhou for three years and was also ordered to check the salt, silk and commercial taxes in Hangzhou. /kloc-Kyle Polo was in China in 0/7. He participated in almost all the political affairs of Kublai Khan. He commented on Kublai Khan's "wide measurement, knowing people and being good at their duties" and praised Kublai Khan as a powerful monarch with a vast territory, a large population and huge wealth that has never been seen in the world since Adam, the ancestor of mankind. Indeed, Kublai Khan was an emperor in China who didn't think he was the son of heaven. The three Polo families were invited to return to China many times, but they were all retained by Kublai Khan. Until 1292, Kublai Khan's nephew, ilhan, king of Persia, proposed to him. Kublai Khan chose Princess Kokejin and decided that Polo and his son would escort the princess to Persia by sea and then allow them to return to Venice. Polo and his son set sail from Quanzhou, passing through Vietnam, Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Sri Lanka, India and other places, and once again went through hardships to escort the princess safely to the Persian palace. On their way back to Venice, they were also robbed by pirates. 1295 winter back to Venice. 1298, Venice city-state was at war with Genoa city-state. Kyle Poirot invested in the construction of the battleship "Orient" and served as his own captain. In September, the soldiers were defeated and captured. In Genoa's prison, a "rare book on earth", The Travels of Marco Polo, was written by my friend and novelist Stephen and dictated by Kyle Polo.