Chapter 581 Are Roman nobles without silk still Roman nobles!
"Prince Arslan is a good dealer, but all you can exchange for is my personal friendship."
"If you want to gain friendship from the Song Dynasty, you have to discuss with our officials." Chen Dong always keeps his identity in mind.
Although he was far away from the Qinghe River, thousands of miles away, he still did not forget the word "cautious".
When an official in the Song Dynasty, if you are not careful, you will die.
Shi Kang also wanted to correct Chen Dong's name, but he had no good idea.
He heard Chen Dong say a nobleman from the Jin Dynasty named Wanyan Zonggan. After he was driven out of the mansion due to political struggle, he helped tens of thousands of Song troops return to the Song Dynasty.
He also changed his name to Wang You, whose courtesy name was Jiayan, but no Song people called him Wang You, and more people called him Wanyan Zonggan.
He knew why, the influence of the distinction between Chinese and foreigners in the Song Dynasty was by no means a joke.
It takes a long time to be recognized by the Song people and become a Song people.
Arslan thought for a while and said, "I heard that your emperor likes beauty very much. I prepared a beard as a gift to the emperor of the Song Dynasty."
Chen Dong staggered, looked at Arslan in surprise and asked, "Where did you hear that our official family likes beautiful people?!"
"Those caravans say this. It is rumored that your official family married the princess of Xixia. This kind of courage is admirable. It's so courageous!" Arslan said as expected.
Chen Dong looked at Arslan in confusion and asked, "Why can't the princess of Xixia touch? I have heard of this legend, but I don't know the details."
Arslan looked around and whispered: "The princesses of Xixia are all poisonous women among the poisonous women. The deeds of the two poisonous men, Empress Dowager Daliang and Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, have been widely circulated in the Western Regions."
Chen Dong said laughing and crying: "Our official family is not beautiful. Don't really send Hu Ji over, be careful that the official family will chop you up."
"If you plan to buy this, Hu Ji's status is too low. Didn't you say that the Seljuk Empire was divided into many vassal states? It would be nice to find some princesses and other things to press the legs of the official family."
Both of them smiled like men.
"Can we go and see the path you mentioned now?" Chen Dong asked anxiously.
Arslan said: "Angel Chen is still very anxious, so we businessmen will know that this matter is very important to Angel Chen. Isn't it because it is the basic cultivation of officials of the Song Dynasty?"
Chen Dong turned his head and asked Niu Gao: "Am I acting urgent?"
Niu Gao nodded and said, "It's very urgent."
"I will pay attention in the future." Chen Dong nodded. He was a student and was not very proficient in this calm skill.
Arslan whispered: "Angel Chen, please come here, and we must remind the caravans who will go to the Seljuk Empire to have a strict attitude. This trade route is also the wealth path for us Sogdians. If the Khitans know this path, we Sogdians will not be able to make a living."
"Save, please mobilize a hundred people to accompany me. I want to go and see it myself." Chen Dong took Arslan to the path.
You can go west without passing through Chuhe Shuye City.
Niu Gao originally wanted to go with him, but was stopped by Chen Dong. Niu Gao and Chen Dong had to leave one person behind to deal with the trivial matters of Qinghe City.
Niu Gao was kept by Chen Dong, and the 100-man team plunged into the deep mountains and forests, arousing waves of birds.
After several sunrises and sunsets, Niu Gao did not wait for Chen Dong, but waited for the angel sent by Yanjing.
It took Sun Li two days to get from Yanjing to Datong Prefecture with the imperial edict, and another four days to get to Zhenzhou.
It took him ten days to go from Zhenzhou to Qinghe City.
"The angels worked hard all the way." Niu Gao was shocked when he saw Sun Li. Chen Dong had not come back yet. This was a dereliction of duty. Li Zhu, the previous dereliction of duty, was still watching them in the field!
Sun Li slapped the dust on his body and said with a smile: "The degree of the road is much greater than the straight road, and the degree of the straight road is much greater than the small road. Since the founding of the official family in the Song Dynasty, it has shrunk into an inch, and it feels not far away from thousands of miles away."
Sun Li smiled and looked at Niu Gao and asked, "Where is Mr. Chen? Where did you go? Let him come here to receive the order, there will be a good thing."
Niu Gaohan smiled and touched his nose and said, "He went to the toilet. He came over to see the angel in a while."
Sun Li patted Niu Gao on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When General Yue sent you to Qinghe City, he wrote a note saying, "You don't lie, you like to touch your nose as long as you lie. Last time you drank and were almost killed by the Taihang Mountain bandits, General Yue found out about lying and touching your nose."
"What did he do?"
"I followed the prince of Huoxun Kingdom to investigate the business road. I'm very serious. Mr. Chen was relieved, so he went there in person." Niu Gao said carefully.
Sun Li nodded. He looked at the colorful clouds in the sky and rushed from Zhenzhou to Qinghe City. The ground was covered with gravel along the way. He also saw the grand scene of the lonely smoke in the desert and the setting sun in the long river.
I also felt the bitter cold here.
"The official knew that this place was barren, so he asked me to bring some food to the soldiers. It seems that Mr. Chen has no such blessing." Sun Li smiled happily.
Niu Gao didn't know whether he should cry or laugh. These eunuchs all came from the inner court. The feminine aura on their bodies made people feel uncomfortable. When they were laughing, they seemed to be crying.
Yin is not yin, and Yang is not yang, which makes people afraid.
"Don't worry, Commander Niu, the official family has given a special reminder this time. Qinghe City is located in a special location and Mr. Chen has the right to act cheaply." Sun Li explained as he looked at Niu Gao's expression.
"I'll ask the angel to take a bath here before entering the city." Niu Gao hurriedly welcomed Sun Li into the bathhouse outside the city.
After Sun Li was full of wine and food, he stayed on the wall of Qinghe City and watched the dim sunset slowly falling. The entire sky and the ground were covered with a layer of golden light by the sunset, and the ripples of the Chu River water dispersed the golden light again.
A grand scene.
A tornado crossed the sky, flew into the sky with sand, stirring the burning clouds.
One hundred cavalrymen walked wildly, coming from the horizon, and the dust raised was like a scattered dragon lying on the horizon.
Beacon fires descended from the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Sun Li pointed to the places where the beacon fires were and asked, "Is that the beacon fire you built?"
Niu Gao hurriedly said: "In order to warn the Khitans to pass through the Tianshan Pass from Suye City, the beacon tower built is just a post."
"The commander of the beacon fire is set up with one commander and two deputy commanders. Each beacon has seven beacons, a total of nine people and three 3rd teams."
"When the smoke is released, it will be fine for only a moment. It is not a warning to remove the smoke from the basin."
Sun Li nodded and looked at the calm and restless look in the city, he knew that these hundred cavalry should not be Khitans.
When the salon went from far to near and ran to Qinghe City, Sun Li also saw Chen Dong, who had become a native. However, Chen Dong did not rush to enter the city, but instead entered the bathhouse next to Qinghe City.
Niu Gao hurriedly explained: "I'd like to ask Angel Sun to wait a moment. Mr. Chen still needs to wash up before he can come to pay his respects."
"The desert dust is too great. The sandstorm squints. If you don't use sulfur to wash away the lice, there may be a plague."
"So that's it." Sun Li understood why he had to wash up before entering the city, and it was the kind of unsmelling sulfur soap beans.
After seeing Sun Li, Chen Dong didn't care about enjoying the food brought by Sun Li, but opened the map very seriously and said: "This is the Prince of Arslan, and his father is the king of Huoxun Kingdom. This time we found a business road that bypassed the Khitans and led to Huoxun Kingdom!"
"Dear angel, my name is Shi Kang, and my name is Lida." Arslan tried to correct Chen Dong's words, but it was still useless. He could not change the title of the Song people to him.
It’s not that easy to be a Song person.
"This business road! It's time to come!" Sun Li looked at the route on the geometric map and nodded vigorously.
Chen Dong pointed to Qinghe City and Suiye City and said, "I have judged Yelu Dashi's idea. The Khitans' idea is very simple. Qinghe City is in their hands, so there will not be so many merchants and transactions with the Song Dynasty."
"Qinghe City is in the hands of our Song people. More merchants can collect more taxes when passing through their Khitan territory. What they hope is to move westward and will not attack Qinghe City in a short period of time."
"So there is no war in Qinghe City for a short time. I can follow Angel Sun back to Beijing. As for the mission to Daqin, it depends on the official's will."
"Okay!" Sun Li nodded and praised. After not seeing each other for more than a year, Chen Dong became more angular and his future husband must have a place.
The next morning, Chen Dong and Sun Li rode a fast horse and left a back for Qinghe City and quickly headed towards Zhenzhou.
At this time, at the Yanjing Inn, Anna stared at Humbert angrily and asked, "I want to buy customized clothes from the Dasong Clothes Store, why not!"
When Anna passed by Datong Mansion, Humbert met the shopkeeper of the Dasong Clothes Store, Li Shishi.
Li Shishi is now a mat and clothing designer at the Great Song Dynasty Clothes and Hats. She has come into contact with Humbert. Humbert, as the Nestorian Cardinal, has a great effect on the business of the Krei tribe. Naturally, Li Shishi will not miss this opportunity.
Humbert left Li Shishi a design draft, which was in line with the aristocratic clothing of the Roman Empire.
Humbert wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's too expensive. My eldest princess, if it's just ordinary clothes, it's silk! We don't have that much money now, and pay for this clothes."
Anna said angrily: "Are the Roman nobles without silk or the Roman nobles? Humbert, you forgot the word glory, how should you spell it?"
"But it's too expensive." Humbert was still persuading her eldest princess.
If it is cheaper, they can still afford it, but now silk products are really beyond their tolerance.
Anna sat on a stool and sighed. This was the current situation of the Roman Empire, poverty.
Anna said helplessly: "There will be a royal dance tonight. The emperor of the Song Dynasty invited me to attend, but I did not have decent clothes to attend the dance. This is a shame for our Roman Empire."
"However, I heard that the emperors of the Song Dynasty were very rich?"
Humber nodded and said, "That Song Dynasty Clothes Store is the private property of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. I have inquired about it. The income of just one Clothes Store is about half of the annual tax of our empire."
"He is very rich. My eldest princess."
Chapter completed!