"Hello, my master is a friend of Oscar Buddy, and he was entrusted by Oscar Buddy to equip his family troops, and by the way, he brought some products from my master's origin here to trade."

"I see, is that the three pearls the treasure of this time?"

Liu Ping shook his head and asked someone to bring a box, after the box was opened, it was equivalent to fifteen millimeters of beads, which was a treasure for trading with the royal family, and the larger ones, Liu Mu had them, but the number was also very small, and they belonged to individual products.

The court scholar came to the four elders and said a great deal.

Roughly speaking, this was a fleet of nobles from the East, friends of the Eastern Roman Empire, and His Majesty the Emperor granted permission to the Senate to trade in items beyond the decree, subject to the filing of the imperial court.

First of all, these people were invited to the court, and after the feast, all the goods were recorded, and finally the official transaction, in the name of the state.

But at the moment, since so many people from the Senate have come, it is natural that they can be traded here.

A balance is here, and purple pearls are traded for two hundred times their weight in gold.

Liu Ping didn't say a word, basically he recognized the price of the patriarchs, and there was no half-word of bargaining.

This made the patriarchs of the Eastern Roman Empire exclaim again and again, this is friendship.

Guo Xiaoke changed into an official Tang Dynasty dress and armor on the ship, preparing to enter the palace to meet the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

The attendants around him have been quoting him prices.

The more he listened to Guo Xiaoke, the more surprised he became, and asked in a low voice: "This Liu Ping is too ruthless, he dares to ask for a price equal to 200 times the weight of gold, what is the reaction of these Romans?" ”

"General, you may have misheard. These 200 times is the price quoted by the people here, our people have never quoted the price from beginning to end, and the other party has been thanking, thinking that we value friendship more than money. ”

"Ahh Guo Xiaoke felt that his outlook on life had been affected for the first time.

Golden pearls are not cheap, this thing is ridiculously expensive in Chang'an City, but it is not to the extent that it is calculated by a multiple of the weight of gold by hundreds of times. Purple is precious and inexpensive, and this is a variant of the red pearl of Halong Bay Pearl Pond.

No one has bought black pearls in Chang'an at the moment, and there are not many of them.

It was discovered by chance in the south of the island by the fleet of the Thousand Islands, and the real origin has not yet been found, so I picked some fine products and sent them here.

Chang'an City is second only to the gold pearl, which is dark green and a blue variant of pearl.

Guo Xiaoke hung up his cloak and sighed: "Anything, there is no cart of coins that can't be solved, if it doesn't work, add another cart." The order goes down, no one is allowed to lose the face of my Datang on the coin, and whoever loses it will consider throwing it on a certain island on the way back. ”

"Order." A herald trotted away.

The soldier who helped Guo Xiaoke put on the armor asked in a low voice: "General, if anyone accidentally spends too much, even if you go back and be punished, it is just that it is difficult for the fleet to move an inch here, and you can't buy what you need to buy, which is also a sin." ”

"Joke, do you know how much silk is in the shipyard? The lower seven-color rainbow brocade is three times the weight of gold, and this is not even to the upper seven colors, and there are thousands of lake brocades, hundreds of velvets, and golden velvet? Remember, coins are not a problem, Datang's face is more important. ”

"Yes!"

Worried that the guards didn't understand, Guo Xiaoke deliberately explained two sentences: "We are here to explore the way, in the future, there will be hundreds of fleets going back and forth here every year, Datang's face is there, our face is also there, and here we are the masters." No matter what you do, it will be smoother, so remember it, whoever loses my Datang face, I will throw him to the desert island. ”

"Yes!"

In the evening, Dun Xiaoke entered the Eastern Roman Palace.

The gifts he prepared before the banquet were not pearls, not silk, not porcelain. It's a set of swords and shields.

Yanagi never believed that the Roman Empire was really the same as in the movie, wearing a bright red silk cloak, iron plate armor all over his body, and then holding a large red shield, which was extremely powerful.

In fact, at this time, even the Royal Forbidden Army could not obtain this kind of full-body armor.

Many soldiers tied a piece of wood with a rope around their chests, which was called a cuirass, and the size of the board was a few inches in size. It can be understood as a square heart guard.

The military products specially prepared by Liu Mu for export are specially customized according to the equipment style of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Stainless steel with triangular iron ribs, large square shield. Half-body heavy armor, with arms, shoulders, then short swords, spears.

These are what Yanagi saw in the movie, in real history, the Eastern Roman Empire at this time did not have such gorgeous armor at all.

Dun Xiaoke did not take out such an item as an envoy's scepter.

"Your Majesty, Eastern Roman Emperor, please accept my respect. This time I came to your country, it was not an official exchange, but a private exchange between the respected Bishop Oscar Buddy and my boss, the husband of the Duke of the Tang Empire and the first princess. ”

Gifts to the Eastern Roman Emperor existed, but they were not needed at this time.

Dun Xiaoke only took out a full set of armor.

"Can my soldiers try these weapons?"

"Of course, Your Majesty."

The shields of Rome at this time were still wooden, some inlaid with iron sheets, but most of them were not.

The Eastern Roman Emperor came up with another idea: "Can you give it a try, the weapons of your country?" ”

"Absolutely."

There was no reason to refuse.

A heavily armed Roman phalanx soldier stepped forward, Dun Xiaoke thought for a moment, reached out for a strange knife, and swung it with strength to split a stone pillar in the garden.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I can't test the sword on your soldiers, it will kill them. This was detrimental to the friendship between the Tang Empire and the Roman Empire. ”

This knife scared I don't know how many people.

Without superb steel refining technology, how could there be such a knife with such a domineering knife.

"So, what about this shield?"

Dun Xiaoke told his men to hold a large shield, and then called a Roman soldier to cut it. This Mo knife is a skill that has been practiced for many years, and it is impossible to split the stone pillar with ten knives of willow wood.

Ordinary people used this knife to slash at the large shield with cross-ribbed steel bars, and there was only a piercing sound of steel rubbing.

On the contrary, with a slash from the Tang soldiers, the wooden shields of the Roman soldiers were shattered.

To change the shield, the Tang soldiers used the Roman short sword brought from the Tang Dynasty, and after stabbing it, they twisted it slightly, and the shield shattered again.

Yanagi had studied the short swords of the Roman legions, and in the formation of the phalanx shield, the spear was useful, and it was easier to stab people through the gaps in the shield than to cut them in the melee, and it was several times more efficient.