"This business is good, this thing is not worth much." Guo Xiaoke also saw that this thing was a small thing compared to a real weapon. And they knew that there was a stamping machine for willow, and such cutlery could be mass-produced.

Li Xiaogong closed the lid of the box in front of Liu Mu, turned his head and asked Liu Mu: "Where is the knife?" ”

"Hug the piano." After Liu Mu shouted, a group of people came in and placed more than a dozen weapons in front of Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong took out a horizontal knife and tried the feel: "A good knife, several times better than an iron knife, this is the three-layer steel knife!" ”

Liu Mu didn't answer and gave Baoqin a look, Baoqin took two knives and threw one off the beam, and the other hand held it in front of Li Xiaogong.

Guo Xiaoke is a general, Guo Xiaoke died in Qiuzi in history, although there are some small problems, and he is greedy for luxury, but he is still an excellent general overall.

Guo Xiaoke didn't look up, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he caught the knife thrown by Baoqin.

This knife is completely different from the knife of the Tang Dynasty, the blade of this knife is flat and square-headed. The two generals flicked the blade with their fingers, and by listening to the voice, they understood that it was inferior steel.

"This blade is wide enough, although the steel is a little second, but I am afraid that an ordinary horizontal knife will be cut by this knife."

Guo Xiaoke shook his head: "This matter should be reported to the court, and what kind of weapons to sell to Rome should be cautious." By the way, to be serious, I came back this time with 200 people in addition to the items on the list. ”

Without waiting for Guo Xiaoke to finish speaking, Liu Mu said with a smile: "Slaves, all young and beautiful female slaves. ”

Guo Xiaoke's old face turned red: "Yes." ”

Li Xiaogong asked very seriously: "What is the origin of these slaves?" ”

Hearing this, Guo Xiaoke also became serious: "Although it is impossible for everyone to find out their origins, I believe that the Romans will not lie to me about the origin of these people." The Slavic people, who are said to be one of their three major enemies. Speaking of this, Guo Xiaoke changed the topic: "I found a treasure over there. ”

"Treasures?"

"Yes." Guo Xiaoke nodded heavily: "It's two horses, both three-year-old stallions." According to a great Roman nobleman, this is a great thoroughbred. One of them, I say it was a wild horse found by the Celts who conquered in the pre-Western Roman era, and after almost 400 years of training, it became a military horse. ”

Willow's expression also changed, he had heard of this kind of horse, but he did not remember that this era had appeared, it should have been five hundred years later.

There was a hint of excitement in Guo Xiaoke's tone: "One hundred stones, this horse can pull a carriage with goods of one hundred stones." The weight of an adult horse reached twenty stones, which was a military horse for super-heavy cavalry. Also priceless in Rome, it cost me three silk horses to get this thoroughbred stallion. ”

Three horses of silk, placed in Rome, were at least the price of a hundred taels of gold.

Li Xiaogong asked again: "What about the other one?" ”

"It's a trophy, not as strong as this one, but extremely fast. It was a trophy, the best one picked out of a group of horses snatched from the Persians. The price of two silk horses, they called Arabian horses. ”

"Weight-bearing?" Li Xiaogong's expression changed when he asked this sentence.

Guo Xiaoke stood up, almost roaring. "Fully armed, much stronger than our horse, which weighs no less than fourteen stones."

As a military general, Guo Xiaoke participated in the First War of Merging Prefectures and fought three small-scale harassment wars against Tibet in the Western Regions.

The heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty have to bring two people, all the equipment is worn in wartime, the best horse is the most three charge horses have no strength, and the heavy cavalry of Liu Mu is better equipped because of the better equipment, and it is already the limit to be able to charge four times.

It can be said that when the hoplites are fully armed, the ability to run ten kilometers at a medium speed is the physical limit of the horse.

You can run no matter how much you run, but it's not lethal at all, and it hurts the horse.

"I want this horse!" After Li Xiaogong finished speaking, he added: "I want to come and all the generals want it too." ”

"You can't buy much of this thing just by taking money, so you need to find another way."

Li Xiaogong asked: "Why?" ”

Guo Xiaoke replied: "The quality of the army in Eastern Rome is far worse than that of our Tang Dynasty. According to the locals, the time difference was too far from the glory of Western Rome, and their emperor was trying to figure out how to change the army. I can see that their best-equipped army is not as effective as our farmers with sticks. ”

"Why?"

"As a joke, I also heard from a nobleman. About five years earlier, the Eastern Romans had fought a bitter war with Persia, and their emperor had summoned hoplites to take part in it, and as a result, these men preferred to pay for it. They are all children of the nobility, and they have no blood, and in recent years, many new nobles in the lower echelons are the main fighting power of Rome. And these high-quality horses are in the hands of these nobles who are afraid of death. ”

Guo Xiaoke didn't think of a way, he couldn't wait to pull all the horses back this time.

Such heavy horses can improve Datang's horse breeds, so that Datang will also have a large number of heavy horses.

"We can't settle this." Yanagi put an end to the topic.

Li Xiaogong sighed slightly: "That's right, everything is up to Chang'an." ”

Liu Mu patted him a few times on his body and got up: "I'll go to the warehouse to take a look, what good things are worth intercepting." ”

Li Xiaogong didn't move, he planned to talk to Guo Xiaoke more, Li Xiaogong came to Jiangnan Dongdao as the general manager, this will be one of the main gateways to the outside world, it is very necessary to know more about the states outside the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xiaogong wanted to know about the humanities, customs, military, and social structure of the Eastern Romans.

Yanagi goes to the warehouse, where he wants to see the items on his list. Especially oil palm fruit with olives.

Datang's current rapeseed oil yield is too low, and the high-end technology of improved varieties cannot be made by live willow, even if willow has this ability, it will take ten or eight years to improve the oil yield of a plant, and willow is not in a hurry.

When Liu Mu arrived at the warehouse, he was already sorting out the various materials that had been transported back.

Among them, the largest number is a variety of oil palm fruits.

After turning around, Liu Mu asked the person in charge, "What about the list, how many kinds of fruits are there?" ”

"Lang Jun, there are less than half of the oil palm fruits here. Thirty percent of the olives. The rest was transported to the oil mill in Cixi. The steward reported from the side.

The other person brought the list, and Yanagi took it and looked at it carefully.

This list is not exhaustive, only the number of baskets of oil palm fruit, and it is clear that the Romans did not separate these things into different varieties, but it does not matter, Yanagi believes that the people in his oil mill will complete this, as a detailed list of oil yields, they have done these things quite professionally.