Wood's steel crossbow is such a high-level thing, the Duke of Edin has never heard of it, he has never even heard of it.

But he knew silk.

He saw piles of silk, and bundles of swords, stacks of shields, and hundreds of thousands of breastplates made of steel.

The Duke of Edin did not leave, he led the men away for some distance and set up a tent.

The next day, guests from the other side of the bay arrived.

The guests wore the banner of the Visigothic king, and wore the knightly armor of the King's Guard, which surprised the Duke of Edin, and was very similar to that worn by Wood's soldiers.

However, Wood's soldiers wore better armor.

Could it be that Wood became a knight of the Visigothic kings?

It was an earl who dismounted, and after dismounting, saluted Wood with the courtesy of a low-ranking nobleman to a high-ranking nobleman, but saluted the Duke of Edin with the same courtesy.

This is the geographical difference.

The title of the Visigothic kingdom is automatically downgraded by one level when it meets the title of the Roman Empire. When encountering a country nobleman like the Duke of Edin, you have to upgrade by two levels, and you have to upgrade the nobles of the seven kingdoms in the central and southern parts of Britain.

In the face of the title of the Tang Empire, it is necessary to demote itself by two levels.

A Visigothic Count is someone lower than the Baron of the Tang Empire. To put it more bluntly, a single duke of the Daliang Empire can destroy the Visigothic Kingdom, so it's as simple as that.

Strength determines status.

The strength of the country determines the identity and status of its citizens abroad.

He ...... "The Duke of Edin doesn't know how to ask, he is already a duke, so who is Wood and what title."

"Your Excellency, I have brought with you a memorandum of trade from His Majesty the King, hoping that cooperation will be strengthened in the years to come, and that no less than a hundred ships of wool of all grades will be procured by tomorrow spring. His Majesty the King sent a deposit. ”

After the Visigothic king's envoy finished speaking, an attendant behind him stepped forward with a box in his hand.

The envoy of the Visigothic king opened the box, which contained two hundred glittering pseudo-Roman gold coins.

Woodwarly grabbed a handful, he had seen all kinds of gold coins, and knew that this was a Roman gold coin specially formulated for several small countries such as the Visigothic Kingdom and the Frankish Kingdom, which was different from the real Roman gold coin, but it was equivalent exchange.

It was also a type of gold coin allowed by the Roman emperors.

These gold coins, along with the real Roman gold coins, came from the Tang Mint in Spice Bay, and of course the Romans did not know about Spice Bay, thinking that they were all shipped from Chang'an, Tang Dynasty.

"Okay, the price of the wool and coarse wool I provide is 75% of that of Datang, but the quality will be worse. Fine hair nicks with more advanced fabrics may be available if they wait another year. ”

The Special Envoy immediately produced a letter of intent.

The content of the letter of intent is that the Visigothic kingdom can be preferred to purchase at the same price and under the same conditions.

This paper is naturally also Datang's paper.

Instead of using the quill pen provided by the Visigothic envoy, Wood took out a steel dipping pen made by Datang and signed his name on the letter of intent.

"This pen is a gift, and I hope that Your Excellency the Special Envoy will accept it. I also ask the Special Envoy to greet His Majesty the King on my behalf and to pay my respects to His Majesty. ”

Wood pulled out a long wooden box containing a five-foot-long two-handed heavy sword.

It was a true knight's heavy sword, and it was a foot longer than the existing swords in Europe, and the blade was relatively thinner.

A soldier stood aside with an axe, and Woodwally split the axe with a sword in one hand, then handed the sword to the envoy to show him the blade.

The envoy took it with both hands very excitedly, this gift was too valuable.

With the participation of the Visigothic king's envoy, Wood negotiated with the Duke of Edin for three days, and Woodwally did not have half a gold coin in compensation, but only drew a line on the map.

To the south of the bay is the territory of the Duke of Edin, bounded by the end of the bay, which is again a direct line to the south.

The Duke of Edin and his followers had more than a third less than a third of the noble generalities, and the Duke of Edin endured it, knowing that there was nothing he could do with Wood at the moment. Woodwally seems to have received a very strong backer, otherwise how could he have just returned, and the envoy of the Visigothic king chased after him.

On the third day of the negotiation, the Duke of Edin held the pen but could not sign.

After all, it was a third of his territory and that of his followers, and the loss was too great.

But on this very day, an envoy from the Frankish kingdom also arrived, and put forward conditions similar to those of the Visigothic king.

Next, Woodwally's negotiations with the envoys of the King of Franks and the Visigoths, the Duke of Edin, was not even qualified to observe, the only thing he could do was to sign and go back to his castle.

Half a month later, the second fleet from Alexandria arrived at Woodwardly's hometown.

Only two of the fleet consisted of armed merchant ships, and the rest were pure cargo ships.

The flagpole of the cargo ship was hung with the flag of the Tang Dynasty, and the battle flag of the Tang Navy Division was hung on the armed merchant ship, and the journey was smooth. This second fleet departed no more than a few days later than Woodwally, and the speed of the cargo ships was incomparable to that of the battleships.

The cargo ship is equipped with a carding machine made from spices, a woolen spinning machine, and a very simple wind-powered mill.

The ship was accompanied by forty monks, twenty Taoist priests, and ten healers, as well as a team of up to 100 medicinal herbs.

The task of the medicinal herb collection team was to teach the locals to collect medicines, including 10 Tang people, 30 Silla people, 50 Fuso people, and 10 Jiaoren.

Woodwally and his family left their original village and began to build a new home in a place of abundant water and grass.

Other villages of the tribe began to move here, and the rest of the tribes with better relations began to send people to contact them.

First a school was built, then a temple, a Taoist temple, and a medical hall with a warehouse for medicinal herbs and a primary concoction workshop for medicinal herbs.

Confucian monks.

Woodwallly only wanted to have a better life with his family, who didn't have their own written language, so the already well-established Chinese was a great option.

Woodwally is a Scotsman who belongs to the country.

There were several different languages, the language they spoke was Pictic, the Duke of Edin's language came from High Gaelic, and they had previously spoken both Latin and Greek.

However, for these relatively primitive tribes, there was no writing of their own.

Since someone was willing to systematically teach them a language and script that was already perfect, and that it was still from a highly civilized country, Woodwally quickly persuaded the Tribal Elders.

The reason is simple, in order to have a warm winter, in order to no longer suffer from hunger, in order to be strong, in order to be able to truly establish a country in the future, they need the power of civilization, they need technology, they need to become nobles.