The three barbarians were the Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic peoples who had no writing and could not speak a lingua franca in the eyes of the Roman Empire. The rest of the savages were in fact far more than seven, the people who wore animal skins in northern Europe, the people who didn't even know how to wear clothes in Northwest Africa, and so on.

Of course, not counting Africa, the primitive tribes of central Africa, the Romans, did not regard these as human beings.

These are pure savages.

Baoqin and his cronies hunted a super-giant crocodile and then two zebras in Mogadishu. Because Baoqin really wanted a pair of zebra skin boots, of course, to wear them back to Chang'an, not in the scorching heat of Mogadishu.

Mediterranean, willow to Constantine.

When the boat was about to dock, Xiao Ling'er, who was wearing a veil, asked Liu Mu: "Husband, Ling'er is puzzled. Just to train the high-ranking attendants of the Roman Palace, we spent thousands of Roman gold coins, and these gold coins are worth a lot of money in Chang'an. ”

Dugu Lanruo also heard Xiao Ling'er's question, but she just smiled indifferently but didn't speak.

Xie Xing'er looked at it with concern, because she didn't understand either.

Liu Mu said to Xiao Ling'er: "You have always been good at business before, but you never understood that there is no free thing in this world. For the Roman royal palace, they learned the court etiquette specially designed for the Roman royal palace for free, then the Romans would spread the noble aristocratic lifestyle to the whole Mediterranean. ”

Dugu Lanruo had already seen this.

I remember that year, the first batch of willow wood was washed, and the willow wood was given away for free on the streets of Jingyang.

It's the same thing right now.

Liu Mu continued: "Send you four words, cultivate the market. ”

Constantine will have a grand banquet, as the Eastern Roman Emperor welcomes the princess from the mysterious country of the East, Heraclius sent out thousands of invitations, each of which explains in detail the strength of the Tang Empire and the status of this princess in the Tang Empire.

Not only all the vassal states and vassals of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Rim, but also other barbarian states, and even the Persian envoys who had just ceased fighting for many years were invited.

Compared with these barbarians in the Mediterranean, the Persians know the Tang Dynasty best.

The Persian emissary, Turius Mazda, a member of the royal family, was in Constantine, and he came to Constantine in the Eastern Roman Empire as an envoy sent by him after the armistice.

Since the civil strife in Persia a few years ago, Persia has been unable to wage foreign wars.

This time, Turius signed a peace treaty at Constantine and Iraq that was extremely unfavorable to the Persian Sassanids. Return the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire that has been invaded by successive dynasties, release prisoners of war, return the holy weapons, and repay military expenses.

The Sassanid dynasty can be said to have returned to the beginning overnight.

Nothing was gained except for the original territory, because the Sassanid Empire had been weakened by civil strife and could no longer afford to go to war with the Eastern Roman Empire.

When he came to Constantine, he was welcomed with a banquet that was just an ordinary dinner.

And this time, I heard that the high-ranking nobles invited were close to a thousand, and the range was extremely wide.

Turius opened the invitation, which was written in both aristocratic Greek and Tang Chinese, and Tulius knew aristocratic Greek and also knew Chinese.

After reading the invitation in detail, Tulius burst into tears as he held it.

"Persia is saved, Persia is saved."

Persia had just fought a defeated battle, not with the Eastern Romans, but with the Saracen Empire, and by superior forces, losing Bahrain and becoming a port city in the Saracen Empire's province of Basra.

The Saracen Empire, that is, the Arab Empire.

After reading the invitation, a priest in the envoy group said: "A princess, even if it is a princess of the Tang Empire, cannot affect the military of the Tang people, except for ourselves, no one can save Sassan." ”

"The princess can't save Persia, but the princess's husband can. There is no writing on it, but the husband of Her Royal Highness Princess Tang, a very powerful person, used to be a civilian, and went north alone to subdue a general with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and then used a strategy to assign a very large piece of land to the Tang Empire. ”

"It seems that he is a very wise man."

Turius was very dissatisfied with this statement of sacrifice, and immediately said: "Is it only wisdom? The following year, he led 800 people to the north to attack the Turkic Jieli Khan, 800 people did not die in battle, and killed 20,000 elites of Jieli Khan, do you still think that such a person is only wise? ”

The sacrifice stayed on the spot.

"I'm going to take back Bahrain for our Sasan and get more land back. I am willing to pay whatever price he can give me a strong army, or build a strong army for me. ”

"Come on, take out all the treasures I brought and present them to the noble princess of the Tang Empire."

Turius had a desperate resolve.

The banquet was held as scheduled, and the gift list of the Persian envoys frightened Liu Mu, and a scribe beside Liu Mu estimated that no matter how much these precious gifts from Persia were worth in Persia, they were worth at least 100,000 yuan in Chang'an.

Some gemstones do not look at the color, if they are all excellent color, it is not surprising to say 200,000 yuan.

Liu Mu asked the people around him, "Do any of us know what kind of character this Turius is?" ”

No one knew at all that there was once a person who had served in the Ministry of Rites for a long time before telling Liu Mu that this person seemed to have been to Datang a few years ago, but was certainly not the head of the envoy group.

"Lang Jun, shall we return the gift?"

Liu Mu shook his head: "Stay, just say that after the banquet, I will invite him to taste tea alone, if he doesn't like our Datang tea, then I will invite him to drink." ”

"Yes!"

Liu Muxin said that no one would be stupid enough to give themselves an extremely expensive gift for nothing. There must be a reason.

In fact, without waiting for Willow to set up a separate banquet, Heraclius prepared a small table separately at the dinner, and only two guests were invited to the table, one was Willow and the other was Turius.

Heraclius was also frightened, and he needed a positive and accurate statement from Turius.

Why did you give such a large and precious gift to the princess of the Tang Dynasty, is there any conspiracy against Eastern Rome, you must know that the two countries have fought a war for more than 200 years.

After most of the formal banquet was carried out, when Heraclius said that he was a little tired and left after the ball began, the people around the small table were driven away, and no one was allowed to approach within twenty paces around.

The guests were very interested and made excuses to leave, and many noblewomen sent people to send many gifts of their own territory to Dugu Lanruo, Dugu Lanruo said that he would hold a tea party, and the invitation to the tea party became a hot item.