Almost all of the topics discussed at this banquet were on the mysterious eastern country.

Dugu Lanruo's set of dresses made the ladies of the entire Mediterranean feel that they were wearing like rags, so when Dugu Lanruo made an excuse to leave, Heraclo asked the people around him not to approach.

The three big men sat together around a small round table, and the men also walked away in amusement.

The entire banquet hall was suddenly empty, and the palace guards began to distance themselves, leaving the entire banquet hall to Willow, Heraclius, and Turius.

"Does Sassani really want peace?" Heraclius spoke first, in a questioning tone.

Tulius asked rhetorically: "A year after our armistice, where are Ghassani and Ramkh?" ”

What do you mean? Yanagi didn't understand at all.

Heraclius took a deep breath and turned to Willow: "Two years ago, our two countries had just ceased war for a year, and the Saracen Kingdom of the Arabs sent troops, before which they continued to expand from a small state, and their territory became larger and larger. ”

"Our Sassanid kingdom lost Ramkh and last year lost Bahrain. Right now......"

Turius didn't say more, but looked at Heraclius.

Heraclius nodded: "That's right, we sense the danger, and Damascus seems to be in Saracen's conspiracy. ”

Liu Mu held his forehead with one hand, in the world history in Liu Mu's memory, it should have been 634 A.D., when the Arab Empire began a full-scale invasion of the Byzantine and Persian Empires, and won consecutive battles.

It seems that the first piece of land lost by Byzantium was Damascus.

"That's not right." Liu Mu shook his head: "According to what Your Majesty says, then half of my Suez port, as well as a hundred miles of surrounding land, will be very dangerous." ”

Heracle pointed at Turius, apparently asking him to explain his intention to give a heavy gift to Willow.

"I need your army, which only has 800 men, and has killed 20,000 of the enemy's elite without killing a single person."

Hearing that 800 killed 20,000 people without killing a single person, this data shocked Hirac's heart slightly, which was absolutely impossible in his heart.

But Turius was so serious that Heracle couldn't believe it.

"This matter, that unit does not belong to me at the moment, it is the Praetorian Guard of my Tang Emperor, and the number is no longer only eight hundred."

Turius asked, "Stronger?" ”

Yanagi didn't answer, and he didn't answer.

The Red Sea line is very important, this is Datang's money bag line, if there is no Red Sea, you need to bypass the whole of Africa, which is too costly and consumes too long.

Once the Eastern Romans, Persia and the Arab Empire were at war, the Arab Empire would certainly attack the fleets that traded with the Eastern Roman Empire in the Red Sea, and its losses would not be small.

Thinking of this, Liu Mu asked, "Good, help you fight, my good." ”

"What do you want?"

"I want a tenth of the booty, and for every hundred miles of land I conquer, I want a hundred Arabian war horses, real war horses. In addition, the merchants of Persia had to obey the dispatch of our Tang Dynasty general ship during the war, and when they needed to transport war materials, they could not push back and push. ”

Without waiting for Willow to finish speaking, Tulius made a statement on the merchant question: "Whoever is disobedient, as long as he does not serve the war, can confiscate all his property, and the whole family will become slaves." ”

"Okay, then I will write to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, adjust the three thousand elite of the Divine Guard, these three thousand I guarantee that each of them is stronger than the previous eight hundred people, and among these three thousand people, five hundred and fifty people can be selected at random to defeat the eight hundred people you know, this is my Tang Praetorian Guard, the elite of the elite."

"Okay." Turius almost shouted.

"But!" Liu Mu's this made Tulius nervous.

Liu Mu said: "I won't let these three thousand people go to the battlefield easily, transfer them over, I am going to help you train a group of real elites, give me half a year, and the trained people can reach the level of eight hundred people before, equipment, I will give you three thousand pieces of equipment, as a reward for the gifts you gave me, and you can buy more coins or exchange them for loot." ”

"Okay."

Heraclius then asked, "Eight hundred, kill 20,000 elites and not one of them?" It's amazing. ”

Tuleus told Heraclius about what he had seen and heard with his own eyes after he went to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and he specifically mentioned: "This extremely powerful army, their infantry is invulnerable, and they have not found any kind of weapon that can hurt them." The light cavalry was so fast that only they attacked the enemy, and the enemy had no chance to counterattack. Beyond the reach of the heavy cavalry, there was only complete crushing. ”

"I want it too. I'll give you ......" Heracle thought for a moment and said, "100,000 gold coins." ”

The small gold coin of the Tang Dynasty is a coin, and one coin of the Tang Dynasty is about equal to 3.125 grams in later generations. There are two types of Byzantine gold coins, the small gold coin is equivalent to 2.7 grams, and the large gold coin is equivalent to 3.2 grams.

The gold coins made by Liu Mu for Eastern Rome are the same size as the Tang Dynasty gold coins, which are the small gold coins of the Tang Dynasty.

100,000 gold coins is 100,000.

"Okay, let's send someone to discuss some details, we have a saying in Datang called villain first and then gentleman. It means to talk about the gains and losses first, and then talk about friendship. ”

"Yes."

Both Heraclius and Turius agreed.

A banquet turned into an alliance meeting, and as Yanagi would definitely kill all possible enemies in order to secure his trade routes.

Complex negotiations are naturally left to professionals.

For the interests of the Tang Dynasty, for the interests of the Roman Empire, for the interests of the Sassanid Kingdom.

A marathon negotiation began in the city of Athens on the training of soldiers, the supply of equipment, the price of strategic materials, the distribution of spoils of war, the conversion of the price of seized land resources, and so on.

Negotiations are negotiations, and Turius has rushed back to Sassan, where he is to personally select between five and ten thousand strong soldiers to be sent to Athens for training.

Heraclius also secretly gathered his troops and selected strong soldiers from among them to prepare for training.

And Liu Mu also sent someone to bring his secret letter back to Chang'an with the fleet.

The gold coins, the 100,000 gold coins that Heraclius promised were not given to Liu Mu, and a part of them were topped with goods and slaves, and the rest would rather pay interest than take the booty. However, the money for the equipment was happily given to Liu Mu for the upfront cost of 20,000 gold coins.

The city of Athens, where the willow wood is still the same life as the uncle, is the largest here.

The most important officials of the city of Athens would come to visit politely every three days, and the only thing they needed for life on the willow side was what the willow did not want, and there was nothing they were unwilling to find for the willow. 8)