Chapter 1355 is crazy for porcelain
Fusu was going to the autonomous region, and Duran first contacted the 'Qilu Sanjie'.
And the news leaked immediately, and the world knew it, and for a while, countless eyes were eyeing Fusu, and they hated to eat him immediately.
However, Zhang Han is not a vegetarian, as a famous general, his escort work can be described as watertight, and countless pairs of eyes inside and outside are staring at Fusu day and night.
But Fusu did not have this consciousness, although he had decided to go to the autonomous region, he still wandered around Songhai City every day. On this day, he found Duran again, waved the "Analects" in his hand and asked: "I don't know who invented this papermaking and printing technology, and who is Google, who translated the works of the Six Kingdoms?"
It's really a curious baby, Duran doesn't want to pay attention to him, so he finds a little guy and asks him to take Fusu to visit the workshop. As for Mr. Xun Kuang, he has already moved his translation work to the autonomous region, where he has found a lot of helpers to translate together.
Duran calculated the time, and said that Cai He should have arrived in Rome, and I don't know if he has found architects and mathematicians.
Cai He's fleet caused a sensation, and after entering the Mediterranean, it fought all the way to the city-state of Rome.
The ship was taller than the walls of the Roman city-state, and the sight frightened the Roman aristocracy.
And Cai He was still a little disappointed when he saw Rome, although the buildings were mostly stone, but they were not very majestic. In those years, even the Colosseum had not been built, and the facilities used to entertain the citizens of Rome were a wonder of mankind.
At this time, Rome had not unified the Mediterranean, even the Italian Peninsula was not unified, but the city of Rome was still a relatively prosperous city in Europe, although at this time Rome had not yet snatched all of Greece from the Macedonian Empire and had not become the future city of poverty and luxury, but now the city of Rome is thriving, and there are many similarities with the Great Qin before the unification of the Six Kingdoms, and all Romans believe in their own country and their own army.
When the ship was close to the shoreline, the Roman navy appeared on the surface of the sea, the ship was very low, with a lot of wood pulp, a total of two floors, below which were oaring slaves, and Roman soldiers stood in the open air on the upper floor, without any decoration.
Speaking of Macedonia, it is naturally the Macedonian phalanx that was turned into art by Alexander the Great, and when it comes to Rome, it is naturally the Roman shield. Roman soldiers set up a shield around the second layer to form a defensive line, and inside there were pikemen and crossbowmen.
However, the general was very skeptical that they would be able to shoot arrows at the ship, because the ship was so big that the Roman navy was like a teddy cow and did not know what to do.
Countless onlookers rushed to the shore and looked up, hoping to know where these big ships came from, and in so many cities in the Mediterranean, it seems that no country has such shipbuilding technology.
The Roman soldiers were a little nervous, because they did not know whether they were friends or foes, and hoped that they would not have to go to war, because they felt that their ship was not an opponent at all, and that if it was struck slightly, it would be a shipwreck.
Of course, if the other side wants to invade the city of Rome, then the Roman soldiers will also defend their homeland with their lives.
Cai He walked to the deck, looked at the orderly Roman warships on the sea, and nodded secretly, although it was small, it was very orderly, whether it was a ship or a soldier, they were lined up in a straight line like a knife and an axe, without any slack.
This is the army that Cai He has seen since his trip the most similar to the Great Qin Iron Army, and it is also the army that is most like the army. The primitive people on the American continent did not have an army at all, only warriors. On the island of Britain, there was only one group of natives who could not fight the battle, and only this Roman army was very powerful.
"Alex, you're back home. Cai He said to a respectful middle-aged man behind him.
The middle-aged man's name was Alex, a Roman, but he was an unfortunate Roman, he was captured and sold to Britain when he joined the army, and he had forgotten what his hometown was like.
When Cai He bought slaves, he took a fancy to the identity of the other party's Romans, so he bought them in the hope of being a guide.
Alex came back with tears in his eyes, not believing that he would ever return to Rome.
"My lord, I will fulfill my obligation at once. Alex is very grateful to Cai He, so he is willing to be loyal: "It's up to me to communicate with them." ”
Cai He nodded, both sides are Romans and should be able to communicate.
Alex got into a small boat and was lowered to the surface, and he rowed with two Great Qin soldiers to approach the Roman navy. Alex shouted, "We're not here to fight, the fleet behind me is from the distant Qin Empire, and they want to trade with Rome and resupply." ”
Listening to the somewhat non-standard Roman dialect, the Roman soldiers looked at each other, they had never heard of the Qin Empire, and there seemed to be no such empire in the entire Mediterranean.
Alex has been away for too long, and his hometown dialect has taken on a foreign accent because he hasn't used it for ten years.
The boat stopped twenty meters away from the navy, and then it was time to shout.
Alex first expressed the intention of the fleet, and the Roman soldiers had to ask the commander to answer.
There was no problem with communication, and at this time, even the senate members had already gone to the seaside, looking at the huge fleet blankly, saying that even the gods in mythology did not have such a large fleet, and he was full of yearning for the Qin Empire with such a fleet.
The Senate also mobilized the inhabitants of the port to give up their houses to guests from afar. It has to be said that Rome's mobilization capacity is still very strong, whether the residents around the port want it or not, they are all invited away anyway.
And the senate members were able to see the trade goods of the Qin state for the first time, ceramics and silk.
What is madness? Madness is the ability to make people lose their manners, and in order to get ceramics and silk, they took out the Senate's set of martial arts, and if they win, they will listen to whomever they win.
Cai He never expected that the reaction of these people would be so fierce, even more exaggerated than the primitive people in South America. However, this expression of sincerity also shows the confidence of the Romans at this time, although they have not yet unified the Italian peninsula, and the war with Carthage is not very optimistic, but this does not prevent them from loving life.
Cleaner than silver plates and bronze vessels, and more compelling than wooden bowls, porcelain is simply a gift from God to the world. Qin must be an empire favored by the gods, I have to say that porcelain is really a big killer, whether it is modern or in the future, the rich people in the West are used to eating with metal utensils, but the history has been until more than a thousand years later.
After the Silk Road was opened, the early porcelain was transmitted to the West through Persia, and only an extremely rare part was obtained. By the time of the Yuan Dynasty, porcelain was already a famous commodity, and by the Ming and Qing dynasties, China was already called 'porcelain'. During the Qing Dynasty, many foreigners ordered religious porcelain, painted crosses on the porcelain, and made the white porcelain kill in all directions.
Although porcelain came to the West hundreds of years earlier, porcelain is still a big killer of gods and Buddhas, and the smooth feel of the flawless texture makes people want to stop and indulge in porcelain.