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Zhao Ziliang and King Teretz of the Bolgar Khan were looking at the end of the world to enjoy the scenery, and the clouds and mist between the mountain tops made Telertz feel like he had entered a fairyland, he had never been to this environment to enjoy the strange scenery of nature.

Zhao Ziliang looked at Telertz's expression and smiled: "King Khan didn't come to see this king today just to see the scenery of the end of the world, right?" ”

"What a blessing the king, but there is no such intoxicating place in my Bolgar Khanate!" Telertz came back to his senses and sighed, and then returned to the point: "Yes, in fact, the little Khan is here to bid farewell to the king today!" The 5,000 sets of weapons and armor and 3,000 longbows that Xiao Khan purchased from your country have all been delivered, and the quality is very satisfactory to Xiao Khan. ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and waved his hand: "Thank you, it's just a deal, this king didn't help you!" ”

"No, no, no, the king is willing to sell weapons, armor and bows and crossbows to Xiao Khan, you must know that the Eastern Roman Empire will never sell weapons to us!"

The Eastern Roman Empire is your enemy, so it's strange that they can sell you weapons, armor, and bows and crossbows! Zhao Ziliang slandered in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Okay, since the King Khan insists on going back, this king is not good to force the King of Khan to stay, I don't know when the King Khan will leave?" ”

"In the past few days, I heard that tomorrow is the court meeting of your country, and the little Khan wants to formally bid farewell to the king and the Manchu dynasty at the court meeting tomorrow, and there will be a small gift to the king at that time!"

"Oh? When the time comes, the king will send eunuchs to wait for His Royal Highness the Khan outside the palace gate! ”

King Terretz Khan pondered for a moment and then said to Zhao Ziliang: "Great King, our Bolgar Khanate has always had a bad relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire, it is a feud, the hatred between us goes back hundreds of years, and it is impossible to resolve it no matter what, in the Bolgar Khanate, as long as any candidate for the succession to the throne remains hostile to the Eastern Roman Empire and wins the war with the Eastern Roman Empire, the stability of the succession to the throne or the throne will be greatly improved, and it will be supported by all the subjects of the Bolgar Khanate, The Little Khan hoped that the Great King and Western Qin would support the Bolgar Khanate in its war against the Eastern Roman Empire, and that the Bolgar Khanate would be willing to become a loyal ally of Western Qin forever! ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Now the Eastern Roman Empire and the Bolgar Khanate have maintained normal diplomatic relations with my Western Qin, it is impossible for the Western Qin to support the Khan on the surface, but it will not support the Eastern Roman Empire to deal with the Bolgar Khanate, the hatred between the two of you is a matter between you, and it has nothing to do with my Western Qin, from now on, my Western Qin will not interfere in any relationship between the two of you." If the Khan King needs food, weapons and equipment and other supplies, I, Xiqin, can provide them at any time, as long as the Khan can afford to pay! ”

Telertz didn't expect to get Zhao Ziliang to promise him, and he already felt very good, and saluted Zhao Ziliang: "Thank you, king." As long as we can buy weapons, equipment and food from Western Qin, the gap between our Bolgar Khanate and the Eastern Roman Empire in this regard will be gone, so that we are not afraid of the Eastern Roman Empire! In the past, our equipment was not as good as that of the Eastern Roman Empire, and now we are even less afraid, and the little Khan believed that as long as the Bolgars were not dead, every few years a warrior of the Bolgar Khanate would stick a spear into the gates of Constantinople! ”

Seeing off King Terets Khan, Zhao Ziliang was about to go back to the palace to rest for a while, when Wang Can hurriedly came to report: "King, the ten large Roman-style warships purchased by our country from the Papal States and the 300,000 catties of metal ore purchased from the Frankish Kingdom were detained in Alexandria by the Great Food Country on the way back to China!" ”

The so-called Papal States are actually the central regions of Italy actually controlled by the Holy See, which are actually governed by the Pope, but there is no real state, and the establishment of the Papal States is actually the product of long-term political struggles in European countries. In the seventh and first half of the eighth centuries, there were three powers in the Italian peninsula: the Eastern Roman Empire, the Lombardy, and the Papal powers. The Eastern Roman Empire pursued a policy of imperial clericalism, in which the emperor made decisions on sectarian issues, requiring Rome to obey the doctrines laid down by the emperor. But when the Lombards invaded Rome, he was powerless to protect the pope. Since the aid of the Eastern Roman Empire was unreliable, the pope began to seek the protection of foreign monarchs (Frankish, etc.). In order to resist the attacks of the northern Lombard kingdom and get rid of the control of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Pope of Rome initially offered courtesy to the Lombards, leading the Lombards to attack the southern part of the Italian peninsula, thus driving the Eastern Roman Empire out of Italy.

But in this way, the Lombard kingdom became the master of Italy, which the Holy See did not want to see and allow, so Pope Stephen of the Holy See paid tribute to Pepin the Short of the Franks, including approving the latter to depose the last Merovingian king, Hildric III, and establish himself as king. Stephen also made Pepin a Roman nobleman. In return, Pepin led his army into Italy in 754. In the two years that followed, he pacified many parts of central and northern Italy. Pepin twice led his army into Italy to force the Lombard king Estuff to surrender and give the former Viceroyalty of Ravenna from Byzantium to the Pope and his successors. Thus came the Papal States. At that time, the Byzantine representatives had demanded the recovery of this lost territory, but Pepin refused.

Zhao Ziliang frowned, feeling that there was something unusual in this, and he asked in a deep voice, "On what grounds did they detain the warships we purchased from the Papal States and the metal ore we purchased from the Frankish Kingdom?" ”

Don't think that there was no connection between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean at this time, in fact, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt dug an "east-west" canal between the Nile and the Red Sea more than 1,000 years BC, but this canal was sometimes open and sometimes abandoned. Around 640 A.D. during the time of Caliph Umar, the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea, which had been abandoned for many years, was dug up, repaired and maintained again, and it was open for more than 100 years until the time of Mansur.

Wang Can clenched his fists and said: "The reason given by the big cannibals is that they think that those warships are the warships of the Eastern Roman Empire, and even if they have been sold to our country, there is still the possibility of posing a huge threat to them, so they must be detained!" Dongchang's spies in Da Shi Guo have already informed my envoy in Baghdad of the relevant news, and they have begun to negotiate with the relevant yamen of Da Shi Guo, but Wei Chen thinks that it is unlikely that Da Shi Guo will let him go! ”

Zhao Ziliang got up and walked back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, then stood up and turned back and said, "Tell me your reasons!" ”

"King, as far as Wei Chen knows, the purpose of the military to buy these warships from the Papal States is not really to increase the number of naval warships, but to understand the internal structure of Roman warships and learn the shipbuilding skills of making ships that can sail in the sea. Although we managed to buy ten, this number is not enough to make the Great Food Country, which has hundreds of warships, fearful, and there is no weapons and equipment on these ten warships, Wechen thinks that the purpose of their detention of these ships and metal ore is only for another reason! Through analysis, our Dongchang officials believe that the purpose of the big food country is not to be willing to be blackmailed by us in the last negotiation process, and they want to blackmail us a lot of money, so that we asked them to pay 4 million yuan in war compensation last time, but I am afraid that it is not enough for them to extort! This news came to Xinjing through special channels at the fastest speed, and the Government Affairs Yuan and the Military Aircraft Institute should not have received relevant news, and it will be three days later at the earliest! ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Come on, go and call the chief and deputy prime ministers of the Government Affairs Yuan, and the heads of all the official offices of the Military Aircraft Academy!" ”

After the heads of the yamen of the various official offices arrived, Zhao Ziliang informed them of the situation, and the ministers immediately blew up after hearing this, and Liu Dan, the deputy minister, first stood up and said: "King, the purpose of the Great Food Country is obviously to express dissatisfaction with the last time we blackmailed a sum of money, this time the Great Food Country will seize this opportunity and will definitely blackmail us!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "Have they handed over the four million war reparations to us?" ”

Chu Ge stood up and hugged his fists and said: "According to the day, the delivery should have been completed five days ago, and our army should have withdrawn to the territory of Huathornzim, and the messenger of the Fifth Army may rush to the Beijing News to report the relevant situation in these two days!" ”

Zhao Ziliang narrowed his eyes: "I have to say that the big cannibal has just grasped the time very well!" We want to get back those ten Roman warships and 300,000 metal ores, but I'm afraid we won't be able to get some blood! In this way, Dugu asked the customs, and asked Honglu Temple to send a letter to the envoy in Baghdad, negotiate with the big food country, and see what conditions the big food country wants before he is willing to let go! ”

Dugu asked, "Yes, king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand, and all the ministers said goodbye and left, but Wang Can had not left, Zhao Ziliang was surprised: "Why don't you leave?" Anything else? ”

Wang Can said: "Great King, two years ago, the Frankish Kingdom Pepin died, and his sons Charlemagne and Carloman divided the Frankish Kingdom, and the two brothers became the common monarchs of the Frankish Kingdom!" ”

Charlemagne, who is famous in Western history, how could Zhao Ziliang not know? He nodded: "Didn't you report this matter to this king in the form of an official document two years ago?" Why is this suddenly mentioned again? ”

Wang Can took out a scroll and handed it to Zhao Ziliang, saying: "There is a Chinese merchant returning from the Frankish Kingdom, he saw Charlemagne at that time, and drew Charlemagne's portrait with his impressions at that time, look at it, king!"

"He's young, isn't he?" Zhao Ziliang said and took the scroll to look at it, and suddenly let out: "Huh! ”

Wang Can asked, "Does the king think he is a little familiar?" ”

"Yes, it's familiar!"

Wang Can said: "Do you remember that in Xiping City, we used more than 10,000 people to resist the crazy attack of nearly 200,000 Tubo troops for more than ten days? At that time, there were three Western mercenaries who assisted us in the battle, and there was a man named Charlie who was the leader of the three. ”

Zhao Ziliang was reminded by Wang Can like this, and immediately slapped his forehead: "It's really like, although it has been ten years, this king still remembers that battle very clearly, that battle This king has experienced the most tragic battle for the first time in his life, and there are three Western mercenaries who participated and remember it vividly!" You wouldn't say that the king of the Frankish kingdom was the young mercenary named Charlie back then, would you? ”

Wang Can said: "Since Wenchen saw this picture scroll, he sent someone to Franks, and the investigation that lasted two years finally came to a conclusion!" Yes, this King Charlemagne is Charlie, a Western Teutonic mercenary, and they are the same person! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Charlemagne, who was nearly thirty years old on the painting scroll, and immediately smiled, "Interesting!" ”