"Dozens of stones?" Li Shimin was taken aback, and without waiting for Ye Siniang to hand over Dugu Lanruo's letter, he stood up and stretched out his hand to snatch the letter.

Liu Mu writes in a colloquial style, and the same thing makes him write twice as many words as Dugu Lanruo.

Dugu Lanruo didn't write many words, but the content was several times that of Liu Mu's letter.

Among them, Dugu Lanruo mentioned two spice islands, both on the coast of East Africa, Dugu Lanruo wrote in the letter that the first island is not too big, but there are countless lilac trees as far as the eye can see, and sent people to conduct a preliminary investigation, thinking that it will not be less than two million lilac trees.

Another place is called the island of Madagascar, a very large island with countless herbaceous spices.

If Dugu Lan wrote countless two words in a row, it is enough to represent how many spices there are on this island.

Then came the decision of Willow to build a port in Mogadishu, where countless frankincense, myrrh, and locusts ran in incredible numbers, with herds of bison, sheep, and horses in the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

The letter was circulated to all the important ministers.

Fang Xuanling let out a long breath: "Sage, fortunately, you sent Zhili Sili to travel far away a few months ago, and now it seems that you need to send the elites of the Turkic, Murwei, and Khitan tribes to go." Under the wild rush of 100,000 bison, the minister couldn't imagine what kind of momentum it would be. ”

Li Jing said on the side: "Ten thousand horses are galloping, and everything that stands in the way will be crushed." I didn't read the letter that the most common death for lions was death under the hooves of bison. ”

"Pick a suitable person to participate in the Alliance. When I got the battleship just now, I thought that if there was an emergency, even if I used the ship's small general's cannon if necessary, I would let the enemy know the majesty of our Datang. ”

Originally, the Ministry of War really did not plan to send the main battleships abroad, but now that Datang has accumulated for several years, there are only eight battleships with 2,200 materials, and this kind of ship is completely prepared for naval battles and shore attacks from the design.

Every cabin and staircase on board is designed to make the ship more survivable in the face of artillery fire.

Even if there is no one with such weapons as artillery except Datang at the moment, Datang must also make strategic arrangements in advance.

Willow traveled to Rome without such a ship.

The willow wood used was a heavily armed merchant ship of the previous generation, which was only 1,300 meters long, and could only be said to be a combat-oriented merchant ship, which could not be regarded as a pure battleship.

The Tang Emperor Li Shimin launched a ruthless attack, which was quite terrifying.

Especially in the imperial interests of the Tang Empire, Li Shimin is absolutely unyielding.

"Today's discussion is temporary, and tomorrow afternoon I will discuss it."

"The ministers receive orders."

Li Shimin didn't want to discuss the alliance on a small scale on the Roman side, this matter needed to be carefully studied, and sending four battleships could be said to be a little selfishness of the Tang Emperor.

But how many soldiers to send, what level of ordnance, what kind of strategic materials to bring, etc.

Li Shimin believes that this matter needs to be seriously considered.

The discussion of the public will have a better effect than the discussion of a few people behind closed doors, so the Tang Emperor Li Shimin initiated a cabinet meeting tomorrow afternoon.

Tang Chang'an, Li Shimin has already shown his knife.

Mediterranean Sea, south of the site of the city of Thebes.

There is a huge construction site here, and the widening, dredging and embankment of the Nile to the Red Sea has been dry for a month.

Here, there were eight thousand Roman soldiers, one hundred Tang soldiers.

There were also nearly 100,000 slaves from all over the country.

The Eastern Romans had a population of more than 34 million people before the war with Persia. After more than 200 years of fighting, the population has dropped by 30%, and the ratio of citizens to slaves has reached 1 to 13.

That is to say, if there was one citizen in Rome, there were thirteen slaves.

On the site of the Nile's canal to the Red Sea, 100,000 slaves came from different peoples, regions. Heraclius would continue to increase the number of slaves here, working with all his might to consume 80,000 dead slaves to ensure that the willow ships could get from the canal to the Nile as quickly as possible.

Then head north from the Nile to the Mediterranean.

Yanagi had just bought five thousand slaves from Rome with the help of the Roman high priest.

The price of a slave was only one Roman gold coin.

Willow gave double, that is, a total of 10,000 gold coins for 5,000 slaves, and Rome promised Willow that he could choose slaves at will in any region, and any Roman nobleman would sell slaves to Willow.

Even if it's a first-class gladiator, it's just a little gold.

Gladiator Liu Mu can't look down on it, those are just personal forces, Liu Mu wants a very coordinated legion-style combat slave, the first condition is to be strong, incomparably strong.

In the middle of the chaotic slave settlement, 500 Roman soldiers forcibly carved out an open space.

Willowwood stood on one side of the clearing, with three trays behind him, the first with a plate of Roman gold coins, the second with a handful of pearls, and the third with a silk horse.

"Gao Hu!" Willow pointed forward.

Gao Hu, who was wearing only a pair of large boxers, first showed off his strong muscles, and then walked to the side of the shelf and picked up a javelin, on which there were forty javelins, divided into four types.

The first was wooden, the standard throwing gun used by the old Roman legions. The second is a new and improved javelin, with an extra leather ring to make it easier for people to exert their strength. The third type is the Tang-style short javelin, with a wooden handle that is 1.9 feet long, a steel tip of 6 inches, and weighs less than two catties. The last is a two-foot-long javelin of pure steel, which weighs no more than four pounds.

The first threw the spear, Gao Hu threw a distance of thirty steps, the second threw a distance of fifty steps, the third Gao Hu threw a distance of almost seventy-five steps, and the last, Gao Hu accurately stabbed a wooden man standing there at a distance of fifty steps.

A proclamation by Willow was translated into more than five languages and spread throughout the slave camp in three days.

Anyone who breaks the record with two of the four javelins will be rewarded with the three trays.

Willow's announcement made it very clear that you were all slaves, and that you were worth a gold coin, and that everyone was entitled to come and try it.

It was not the slaves who went crazy first, but the Romans.

They didn't understand at all whether there was something wrong with the heads of the people from the Tang Dynasty, and immediately some Roman soldiers found the 100 Tang soldiers who had been stationed here for a few months and asked them if they could also give it a try.

"Of course, anyone can."