Liu Mu looked at what Dugu Lanruo was going to write.

Dugu Lanruo said to Liu Mu while writing:

"Husband, I just wrote it down first, and then I went back to Chang'an and then sorted it out and presented it to the second brother, what I heard from what you said is that excessive foolishness is the root of the country. Of course, there may be other reasons, don't worry, our trip to Rome is still long. ”

Liu Mu was a little unimpressed: "This kind of thing, the second brother has been thinking about it for a long time. ”

"One person is short, three people are long."

"I remember it's the two of them, right?" Yanagi began to doubt his knowledge, which was clearly not confident in his reaction.

Dugu Lanruo pointed at Liu Mu and then at herself.

"Yes, three." Liu Mu also told Dugu Lanruo generously that he never told anyone again.

"Let's not talk about anything else, the husband will talk about the two heroes of the Song Dynasty." Dugu Lanruo took out a gold coin and gestured it to Liu Mu, and Liu Mu took the gold coin: "Words speak of literature, and people speak of martial arts." First of all, Song is also the era of heroes, but I prefer these two. ”

"Got it, throw it away."

Liu Mu threw it to the side of the word, and after putting down the gold coin, Liu Mu said: "Speaking of this article, let's first talk about the Bao Gong case that I liked to hear about when I was a child, of course, historical research proves that some cases were made up by later generations. ”

Dugu Lanruo heard the three words that Liu Mu inadvertently said when she was a child.

I pretended not to hear it, since Liu Mu had already begun to tell such a big secret, some small problems will be said later.

Liu Mu and Dugu Lanruo began to spend more time alone together every day, which made Xiao Ling'er have a lot of opinions, and after coming to protest twice, Dugu Lanruo waited until Liu Mu finished telling the Bao Gong case in his memory, and then let Xiao Ling'er and Xie Xing'er enter their cabin.

"Do the math, we're going to Ivory Coast. First of all, let's not do that kind of thing when it hurts the peace of the world, hunting elephants and taking ivory. When you go back, make a rule and take your time to reduce or not use ivory. Elephants are not bred pigs and sheep. ”

It's rare that Liu Mu cares about one thing, and if Dugu Lan expresses his support, no one in the fleet dares to make a mistake.

However, Liu Mu released another piece of news, collecting fruits, and that all the oil yield of all the oil palm fruits provided by the Romans is not high, and whoever can find the real oil palm fruit with an oil yield of more than forty percent here will be rewarded with seven or nine.

It's just a penny short.

Alomy!

At this time, there were no people here, boundless primeval forests, natural harbors, countless bread trees, oil palms, and dozens of woods that the Tang people had never seen.

Dugu Lanruo asked Liu Mu: "Since there is no one, why is it called Alome." ”

"Follow me." Liu Mu took Dugu Lanruo to find a kind of tree, cut off a small branch and let Dugu Lanruo hold it in his mouth, and soon the fibers of the branch automatically cracked, just like a natural toothbrush.

"The name of this tree is Alo. So it's called Alomy, and you can tell them that it's a beautiful place, and it really means that it's surrounded by the Alome tree, in the middle of the tree. ”

After listening to Liu Mu's explanation, Dugu Lan didn't ask any more.

The only feeling is that Yanagi has been here before.

Willow did come here, and in later generations in modern times, there were friends who wanted to invest in the coffee trade, and this is an excellent place for coffee cultivation, so I only knew about the Arlo tree.

The import trade was too cumbersome, and in the end Yanagi gave up, even though there were quasi-first-class coffee beans here.

After staying for three days, countless fruits were collected, and many oil palm fruits were found, but the fleet did not know how to extract oil, let alone machines, and began to continue north after collecting oil palm fruits.

Finally, after half a year of sailing, Yanagi's fleet entered the Strait of Gibraltar.

Before entering the strait, Yanagi asked the fleet to find a place to dock temporarily.

Liu Mu first said to Dugu Lanruo: "Madam, we are not here purely for fun. First of all, it is necessary to represent that Datang has a covenant, which is a face-saving job, so Madame, you have to pay attention to it personally, and let everyone take out the good clothes at the bottom of the box, and whoever wears shabby clothes is not allowed to get off the boat. ”

"Is it to show the prestige of the country, or is it to do big business?"

"Of course, for the sake of big business, women in this world have the best money, and when the nobles of Rome feel like savages in the country, they will force their men to find a way to get gold and silver, and then ask us to exchange them for all kinds of treasures to dress themselves."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, he pointed to the two brothers: "You two listen well, be mighty." When you need to fight, you should show as good your equipment as possible. Why did the aristocratic men in Rome get gold and silver, it was just one word, hit. If they wanted to go to war to get gold and silver, they had to find a way to buy more ordnance first. ”

"Order."

"It's not an order, it's a move of your head, and if you can't sell the arsenal of the Tang Dynasty, I'm sorry that I personally ran Rome."

Such a terrible ambition, Datang's armory is enough to equip a million soldiers.

"Remember one sentence, we are here to earn coins for Datang, with enough coins here, the good horses here, the treasures can be pulled back. What's more, whoever loses the prestige of my Datang doesn't have to go back, pass on my words, and let everyone remember them. ”

"Now, rest for the night, give me a little refreshment tomorrow, and let's go into the Strait of Gibraltar."

The crowd dispersed, each of them going to convey the words of Yanagi to the people under his jurisdiction.

Xiao Ling'er and Xie Xing'er were no exception, they personally lectured the servants and maids. make necessary warnings, etc.

The next day, Willow's fleet was full of sails, and the soldiers of the flotilla were armoured except for the sailors.

East side of the Strait of Gibraltar, west estuary of the Mediterranean Sea and south coast, Ceuta.

Ceuta was a military town that was built and garrisoned in the 5th century BC. The Romans succeeded in occupying the area, and more than a hundred years ago, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Jandars occupied it, and then the Byzantines, the Eastern Roman Empire.

Recently, due to the successive defeats of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Visigothic kingdom took the opportunity to occupy it.

Now, here comes the willow.

Liu Mu also wanted to occupy this place, that piece was an enclave tens of thousands of miles away from Datang, and Liu Mu also thought about it, after all, this is the throat of Gibraltar.

Willow's fleet forced its way to and from the port of Ceuta.

At this time, in the Mediterranean, they still didn't know how to play with boats, and more than 200 years later, there were primitive sailing ships that took advantage of crosswinds, which was barely equivalent to the level of sailing ships in the Han Dynasty.

The warship under Yanagi is equivalent to the full-sail sailing ship of the Age of Discovery at the end of the seventeenth century.

At present, except for the ships of the Eastern Roman Empire, which are barely good in technology, the rest of the ships in the Mediterranean are small boats with slave oars and small sails.