Prosperous Tang special forces

Chapter 256 Constantinople

"Then according to Tang Envoy's intention, how can you please the Emperor Longyan?"

"Establish diplomatic relations with Rome on a fair basis, and bring back the equivalent material. Now I have lost more than 100 million taels of silver. I don't have the face to go back to the Tang Dynasty. Please tell your majesty the Earl. Just say that I am an envoy of the Tang Dynasty. Humiliated, wait for your order to His Majesty, we will collectively kill ourselves outside the city of Bulan, in order to thank the emperor for his kindness."

Listening to Long Feiyu's eloquent talk, Lord Bulan really had the urge to let them commit suicide.But after thinking about it, if these people really committed suicide in his city, his life would be over.

Thinking of this, he quickly smiled and said, "Why is Tang envoy so depressed? I will send soldiers to arrest the perpetrators and compensate you for your losses. I will send soldiers to escort you to Constantinople soon."

"Since that's the case, I'm very grateful to the Earl, otherwise we really wouldn't be able to explain to His Majesty." Long Feiyu said a lot of polite words, and the Lord Bulan also apologized again and again, and finally watched Long Feiyu leave with a smile.Turn around and throw everything that can be moved in the room.

Walking out of the royal city, looking at the people passing by along the road, he waved his hands with a smile: "People of Bulan City, we are envoys from the Tang Dynasty, we have brought beautiful silk, exquisite porcelain and delicious tea .If you need it, our merchants will come to Bulan City later, and give back to the people of Bulan City at a cost price. I hope that the friendship between Rome and Datang will last forever."

Long Feiyu gave a speech all the way, and was sent out of Bulan City by the people of Bulan City.As soon as he reached the shore, Yuan Hong greeted him and said, "Father, why have you been here for so long? We thought there was something wrong. Uncle Yang Peng was almost ready to lead troops to attack the city."

"Hehe, Yuan Hong seemed to be the one who yelled the loudest just now, didn't you? I'm going to rely on you again."

Yuan Hong smiled awkwardly and said, "It's what you said anyway, if you don't believe me, you can ask Brother Qin and them."

"Okay, stop making trouble. Yang Peng is going to inform those merchants to get off the ship. If anyone wants to sell the goods in their hands, hurry up."

"Then what is the main price?"

"Forget about the cost price. Our primary goal this time is to establish diplomatic relations. One tael is one foot."

Hearing Long Feiyu's words, the group almost bit their tongues.Yang Peng was even more astonished and said: "One tael of silver? It's only one foot, and two taels of silver can buy a piece of cloth in Datang."

"It's normal for us to charge one tael after traveling thousands of miles. Besides, don't you know the price of silk in Rome? Those merchants sell it for five taels of silver per foot. It's not too low for us to charge only one tael."

"Okay then, what will happen next after the cloth is sold out?"

"Let them use part of the money from selling things to buy the necessities needed by the Tang Dynasty, and the other part to exchange silver for gold."

"For gold?"

"Yes, the value of gold is relatively constant, unlike silver, which sometimes fluctuates too much, and gold is a common currency. Silver is sometimes unstable. Another gold currency is relatively large and easy to take away. It takes up less space on the ship, and we You can also put something else to take back."

"Marshal, it's fortunate that you are from the Tang Dynasty, otherwise if you become a Roman, the Tang Dynasty will suffer a great loss."

Long Feiyu glared at Yang Peng and said: "Okay, stop talking nonsense. Order people to row a few boats over, and there will be money to move in a while."

"Silver? Where did you get the silver?"

"We broke so many boats today, the Lord Bulan promised to pay us 100 million taels of silver to compensate us for the loss."

"But today we overturned four small boats of two feet long, and only five soldiers were slightly injured. How could Lord Bulan give out so much money?" Yang Peng looked at Long Feiyu in astonishment, waiting for him reply.

Long Feiyu rolled his eyes and said: "What do you know, didn't two Jiangjiang dragons sink last night? More than 2 bolts of silk and other things were washed away along the river. Many boats were damaged by those fishermen , if we don’t have the money, how can we repair it?”

"Can……"

"But what's the matter, are you from the Tang Dynasty? If you are asked to transfer money, you can do so. There is so much nonsense."

A group of people now finally know what profiteers are, and these are still trolls.If they bring a few soldiers who have been to Mobei, they will get to know each other more thoroughly.

A few years ago, tens of thousands of bags of sand were used to cheat so much food from Nanbadi. This time, a few leaky broken boats were exchanged for 100 million taels.It's really how bold people are and how big money is.

Fearing that Long Feiyu was doing something unfavorable, it didn't take long for the Lord Bulan to send the money.Although he knew from the mouths of the common people that the Tang army did not suffer much losses, it was true that the common people attacked the merchant ships at night.This time he is a dumb man eating Coptis chinensis, so it's unspeakable.

The Tang army had just passed through two big cities. The defenders of one were wiped out, the owner of the city was captured alive, and the owner of the other city lost a lot of silver.This made the next city lords follow the rules.

As long as you meet Tang Jun coming, you will open the door of convenience.On the giant ship, in the cabin, a group of soldiers were polishing some glowing stones, and Wang Yan was here to supervise the work.

Seeing Long Feiyu come in, he said with a puzzled expression: "Everyone is digging diamonds on the island, but you ordered someone to load a few boats of broken stones. Even if you have polished them, will anyone want them?"

"You don't understand that these things are polished, but they are the legendary night pearls, which will glow at night."

"It's just a legend. No one wants these things at all."

"That's when I told everyone that this thing is not as valuable as diamonds, but I have the treasure of Zhenshan. We dug out a fluorescent stone with a diameter of about one foot. Objects, like day."

"So what, there are a lot of these things in Datang. It's not that no one wants them."

"What do you know? No one wants these things in the current Tang Dynasty, but they were definitely good things ten years ago. The current situation in the Tang Dynasty is that most of the money is passed on in the hands of the people. The common people finally have a little spare money. Whoever has nothing to do Buy these useless broken stones. Ten years ago, before the reform of the government decree, all the money was concentrated in the hands of the rich. For the sake of being arty, they will definitely pay for these things one after another to show off at night. This is the situation in Rome, they are The era of the slave monarchy. The nobles were rich, and the common people were generally poor. These things are very popular.”

"Hmph, I don't believe that your stuff is worth as much as the diamonds we dug up."

"Diamond? Is the diamond you dug up bigger than mine?"

"You're out of luck."

"No matter what luck I have, there is a group of fluorescent stones wrapped in the middle of my diamond. It can illuminate objects within a radius of more than ten feet in the dark night."

"boast."

"Forget it if you don't believe it, the diamond is transparent, and the fluorescent stone magnifies the light source by more than ten times after being refracted by the diamond wrapped outside."

"Then just wait and see, and see if your pile of broken stones is worth more than the diamonds we dug."

After a week of rushing, Long Feiyu and the others finally saw the hub of the Roman Empire.Looking at the magnificent building below the sea level, Wang Yan said with emotion: "This is the Roman Empire, why did they put the capital on the seashore. You must know that it is easy to be attacked from the sea."

"Except for our Tang Dynasty, no one has such superb navigation skills. They don't have to worry about being invaded at all."

"This is the capital of Rome, but I heard there is a place called Rome to the west. Why didn't they build the capital there?"

"These are two countries. The Rome you mentioned in the west is called West Rome and has been destroyed for many years. The city we see now is called Constantinople, because their first emperor named after Constantine the Great."

"Why did Western Rome perish?"

"With the help of friends from the East."

"Friend, who is that?" A group of children stared wide-eyed and waited for Long Feiyu to tell them about Western history.

The Roman envoy who was in charge of the reception also pricked up his ears to listen.

"Because of the cruel exploitation of his people under the rule of Western Rome, they led to a large number of uprisings. At that time, the Huns who migrated from the East, under the leadership of Attila the Hun, who had grown up, fought with the Goths and the Goths. After repeated blows by the Tetes, Western Rome was eventually destroyed. Since then, Western Rome ended its unified era and was divided into several small countries. Rome was also occupied by other people, and this Eastern Rome was preserved in a corner.”

"Are the Huns so powerful?"

"Don't mention the Huns here, especially Attila or you will be attacked by the Romans. Attila was once forbidden to mention existence. Where Attila passed, blood flowed like a river, and the destructive power The power made the entire Roman Empire tremble. It was called the 'God's Whip', and it whipped the entire Roman Empire."

Facing Long Feiyu's explanation, the envoy chose to shut up.In fact, in the nearly 200 years of history, Attila is a painful memory that has been buried in people's hearts.

"God? What is God?"

"God is similar to the Taoist Supreme Lord, the Jade Emperor. It is the most powerful existence."

"And who is this Jesus they're talking about?"

"Jesus is similar to Laozi of Taoism and Sakyamuni of Buddhism. They are the founders of a sect. Moreover, Jesus and my Tang Dynasty have some legendary blood relations."

"Blood relationship? With whom?"

"Su Wu, it is said that when Su Wu was herding sheep in Beihai, a descendant moved westward. It has a certain relationship with Jesus."

"Su Wu? Who is Su Wu?"

"Li Zexu, you don't even know Su Wu?"

"What's surprising? Confucius also said that he was not ashamed to ask. Besides, Su Wu is not a famous person. If you didn't mention it, I wouldn't bother to ask. How do you know about Long Yuanhong?"

"Su Wu is an envoy with the same name as Zhang Qian. He was detained as an envoy to the Huns. He never betrayed him for 19 years. In the end, he tied a blood letter to a wild goose and was rescued only after being discovered."

"Oh, how did you know that?"

"My dad said it."

"Should I just say that I don't know? The master is biased and beats and scolds me, so celebrities don't tell me."

Hearing Li Zexu's words, Long Feiyu's eyes were already closed.Staring at Li Zexu with a sneer.Over there, Qin Huaiyu patted Li Zexu on the shoulder and said, "Su Wu and Zhang Qian are role models for courtiers. Their integrity has been admired by the emperors of all dynasties. They are the ones that teachers must teach. I don't believe your father and grandfather didn't tell you I remember it. You must have forgotten it because you didn't listen carefully."

"Really? So they are so famous? I'm sorry, Master, for blaming you."

Hearing Li Zexu's apology, Long Feiyu chuckled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, how can Master have the same knowledge as you. Go in and see if they still have those gemstones with big edges and corners that haven't been polished well. Let them stop bothering, I'll leave it all to you. Don't even think about eating today if you don't grind well."

(End of this chapter)