Liu Mu said again: "I should advise Your Majesty, that the Ancient Suez Canal be repaired immediately. At least it can allow big ships to pass through, and I'm willing to invest in this canal. ”

"I'll give you a large enough piece of land, and you will contribute half of the money."

Heraclius ran out of money, and the Eastern Roman Empire did not have enough money, and at this time, the Suez Canal that Heraclius and Yanagi talked about were completely two canals in modern times.

The modern one runs north-south, with the exit at Port Said.

At this time, Liu Mu and Chirac said that they began to repair BC, and then used it several times, and abandoned it several times, and now the river is through, but there are many parts with too much silt, stones, etc., which can only guarantee the passage of the flat-bottomed boat.

The river runs east-west and has a different starting point than it is in modern times, except that it starts in Suez Province and digs all the way to a canal in the Nile, and then borrows the Nile to Port Alexandria Rashid.

"Okay, gold and silver, weapons, ordnance, wound medicine, and spices?"

"Weapons, I also want you to put an end to the plague on me, and I will go to war against the Alva and the Slavs." Heraclius was a military genius, and he knew exactly what Eastern Rome needed most at the moment, more taxes, more slaves, more people, and more resources.

The main body of his empire was in the Balkans, that is, in the eastern Mediterranean.

Sindiandi is very good at taking chances, although he is only a short-lived king in history, and his career as a king will end in two years, although this is true in history.

None of the next two kings of the Visigothic kingdom lived for a year in the position of king.

At this time, Sinian said: "I will give 30,000, not 50,000 soldiers to help you." ”

"Good." Heraclius was pleased with the answer.

But he still did not make a commitment to the spice trade, but said: "It is better to hold a banquet in Constantine, in the style of the royal banquet of the Tang Empire." ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Constantine is your capital, and I personally think that the Roman royal banquet should be introduced. As for the Tang-style royal banquet, we can change to a city that is almost a little bit, we are guests, and we can't take away the grace of the Roman Empire. ”

Heraclius took the advice of the willow wood: "I admire your wisdom, so which city is more suitable, how about the old city of Rome?" ”

"How is the city of Athens?"

"Then the city of Athens."

The choice of this location was not important to Heraclius, but the significance of the duke's visit to the Eastern Roman Empire. As for the small fortress of Ceuta, it can only be regarded as an after-dinner dessert.

After all, Heraclius's imperial center of gravity was in the eastern Mediterranean, and he didn't care much about the old Roman city.

The area where the old Roman city is located is now nominally under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire, but in fact it is a matter of time before a powerful character wants to unify and stand on his own.

In the evening, Liu Mu and Dugu Lanruo returned to the boat.

Even if the fortress castle has been renovated, it still smells bad in the eyes of willow wood.

In the bedroom on the ship, Dugu Lanruo asked Liu Mu: "The city of Athens is the capital of ancient Greece, right?" ”

"Yes, there's a place there that's worth visiting, the Parthenon, dedicated to Athena, the goddess of war. In this Mediterranean, you can find at least hundreds of places to play, and you can have a good time. Then, let's go our separate ways, and let all the noble ladies here see what luxury is and what is gorgeous. ”

"What goods is the husband going to let the Mediterranean people purchase from Datang?"

Yanagi looked proud: "Of course it's war." Whoever likes to fight will fight to the death, and whoever likes war will continue to wage war, and they will fight me and provide weapons, and of course there are finished medicine powders, pills and the like. ”

"The most profitable things in the world are ordnance, women's perfumes, clothing, perfumes, and so on. And then there's the medicine. ”

The theory instilled by Liu Mu to Dugu Lanruo has slowly taken effect.

Dugu Lanruo secretly calculated that the profit from selling a boatload of ordnance in Liu Mu was worth a year's worth of linen in a large workshop in Cixi. Silk and pearls need special items, and the price will definitely fall in the future, even so, at the moment, the profit of this pervert of silk is not as high as that of ordnance.

Of course, Yanagi has not yet said the fourth and fifth, and there is some kind of hidden item.

Late at night, the Roman Emperor Heraclius, who lived in the guest room of the fortress, took out a small box that willow wood had quietly given him, and when the brocade box was opened, it contained two porcelain vases, one in the shape of a dragon and the other in the shape of a phoenix.

Heraclius certainly didn't know what these two beasts were called, but he could tell who the bottle was for.

The words written on both bottles, Heraclius, did not recognize either.

The dragon-shaped bottle says that the golden gun will not fall, and the phoenix-shaped bottle says that the dry seedlings love the rain.

What is the biggest profit, under the ordnance is this kind of hidden secret goods, this is a product that Liu Mu asked the Medical Holy Pavilion to study with all his strength three years ago.

In the eyes of those famous doctors in the Medical Saint Hall, the Europeans who can even grind ancient corpses into powder are estimated to be very resistant to drugs, and they can be a little strong and can be used for fierce medicine.

Liu Mu really wants to name the bottle of dry seedlings Xiyu, I love a piece of firewood, unfortunately Liu Mu does not have the right to name it.

It was late at night, and Willow stood at the bow of the boat looking at the moonlight, listening to the sound of the night by the way.

Dugu Lanruo woke up from sleep and saw that Liu Mu was not in the house, put on her clothes and walked to the bow of the boat, but saw Liu Mu looking at the castle from a distance.

"Husband, what are you looking at?"

"A piece of firewood!"

Dugu Lanruo reacted after being stunned for a moment, covering her mouth and almost laughing.

Liu Mu was very serious: "Ordinary merchants do ordinary goods and transactions, and some goods cannot be traded through ordinary merchants. The only shortcoming of my Datang at the moment is that the population is too small, and the lack of it makes people feel powerless in their hearts. ”

"Are there fewer people?" Dugu Lanruo objected to Liu Mu's statement: "Since the eighth year of Wude to the present, according to the statistics of the household department in six years, the original population of Datang alone has increased by more than 4 million newborns. ”

"I know that the birth rate has reached 37 per 1,000 per year at the lowest and 42 per 1,000 at the highest. However, the total population base is too small, and this growth is still too slow. ”

Liu Mu took out a beautiful silver box as he spoke, flipped through it with a stroke of his fingers, sniffed it and then looked at Dugu Lanruo, and closed the silver cigar box again.

"I heard, there is a strange effect?" Dugu Lanruo pointed to the small box in Liu Mu's hand.

Liu Mu didn't rush to answer, he still had some feelings in the future, smoking in front of his wife is estimated to be scolded to death, and then it will be miserable.