He sent off the Polos to go home and ask the Holy See to send 100 educators and teach Khan’s citizens become Christians. The Polos were treated with high respect especially when the emperor learned about the Catholic faith. There they meet an ambassador of Hulago who became an instrument of the meeting between the Polos and the great emperor as the latter was excited meeting a Latin for the first time. However, as they planned going back home using the same route, they were trapped by the civil war between Hulagu and his opponent cousin Barka in Bukhara, and thus decide to use an eastward route although it was unfamiliar to them. Traveling on a Silk Road was a long sail, good enough for merchants like them. It was in 1254 when Maffeo Polo, a rich Venetian merchant, and his business partner brother Niccolo Polo were engaged in a journey outside Venice, Italy for trading in Constantinople and Far East.
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