There was one more thing in the city of Athens that the ladies longed for.

The afternoon tea invitation of the Tang princess has only seven tea parties every ten days, and only seven invitations are released each time.

In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the tripartite negotiations are still arguing over some details. Yanagi, who was playing baseball with the guards in the clearing, suddenly saw the clerk of the Lord's Mansion of Athens running over with a sweaty head.

"Drink saliva, what's the urgency?"

Yanagi motioned for the guard to give the clerk a glass of water.

The clerk gasped breathlessly, drank the water and said: "A prince, a prince from the Tang Empire, came to the city of Athens from Alexandria. ”

"Prince?" Liu Muxin said that it had only been a month since he sent someone to deliver the letter, and even if he counted the distance, he would have just passed Malacca, how could there be a prince-level figure coming from Datang.

Liu Mu did not change his clothes, but wore his own baseball clothes, let people prepare their own dresses, got into the carriage and walked to the docks, and changed their clothes in the carriage.

There was a grand welcome ceremony on the pier, hasty but also solemn, and the number one in the city of Athens was coming.

When Liu Mu arrived at the dock and saw the people on the dock, Liu Mu was even more puzzled.

Li Daozong.

Not only Li Daozong, but also Li Junxian behind him, Liang Jianfang, a very trusted general during the Qin Wangfu period, and a Turkic general who insisted on thinking strongly. There is also Zheng Rentai, the governor in charge of the route from the Tang Dynasty to the Eastern Rome, and more than ten middle-level generals with outstanding courage and military skills in the Tang Dynasty.

Liu Mu participated in the welcoming ceremony, and then said to the lord of Athens: "Tonight, there will be a feast, sixteen cold dishes, twenty-four hot dishes, you must come." Wine pipes are enough. ”

Tang cuisine, has conquered all the nobility of the Mediterranean.

After the big man in Athens City left, the smile on Liu Mu's face disappeared in an instant, and the guards around him quickly opened a cordon around him, Li Daozong waved his hand, and the people behind him also retreated.

At this time, those who can stand beside Li Daozong and talk to Liu Mu cannot be lower than the third grade.

Li Daozong spoke first: "It seems that there is something we can't think of. A few months ago, when you first arrived here, you wrote back to Chang'an saying that the Roman emperor had given a hundred miles of land and half a port and half a canal to the Tang Dynasty, so the sage sent us. ”

Liu Mu replied: "The facts have changed, and I want to occupy more space." It just so happened that General Li arrived, how many men and horses did you bring here? ”

Li Junxian said: "I brought three hundred horses, but there were only fifty horses. There are enough ordnance, and equipping three thousand people is not a problem. ”

Liu Mu asked again: "What level of ordnance?" ”

"Acropolis ordnance."

Datang's ordnance is divided into levels, namely the Shence level, the Zhengyuan level, the Acropolis border army level, the state capital patrol level, and the county guard level.

"General Li, rest for two days and let them see our majesty with your fifty heavy horses." After Liu Mu finished speaking to Li Junxian, he said to Li Daozong: "Second brother-in-law, I have sent a letter back to Chang'an to ask the three thousand elites of the Shen Zewei to come here, for my voyage, no matter who they are, they will fight to the death." ”

"Three thousand! Is it enough? ”

"Don't go to the battlefield, be responsible for training the army here, and then let's sell ordnance, distribute the spoils, etc., the details Jiang Ke is leading people to negotiate hard, and they have been talking for a month. That's right. ”

Liu Mu pulled his strength and thought hard: "Since you are here, do you bring many people?" No matter how many there are, help me train an assault light rider. ”

Liu Mu said without a beginning or an end, although Zhili Sili and Li Junxian didn't understand, they didn't ask.

They came over because the Tang Emperor asked them to come, just to protect the interests of the Tang Dynasty, it doesn't matter who they fight, as long as there is a war to fight.

Feng Hou worshiped the prime minister and relied on the knife in his hand and stepped off the horse.

After entering the castle that Liu Mu temporarily borrowed in Athens, all the civil and military officers who came over this time came to Liu Mu's study.

Liu Mu stretched out his hand and ripped off a huge white cloth, and a huge hand-drawn map hung on the wall: "This is the New Canal, this is called Djibouti, a transit port I asked to come over, there is no name here, and the Persians are willing to build a port here." And here......"

Liu Mu slapped the face in Mogadishu.

"Any idea how much precious goods I've stocked up here? The Saracen Kingdom is preparing to invade the two kingdoms of Rome and Sassan, as an important trade partner of these two kingdoms, who thinks that the majesty of the Tang Dynasty will make Saracen dare not touch my Tang ships in the slightest? ”

Liu Mu threw a pile of materials on the table: "Look, this is a collection of all kinds of information from the three kingdoms here, the Saracen forces have been established, even if I use a thousand artillery to bombard their capital?" can only make us mortal enemies, how many soldiers and horses can I call over from Datang? ”

Liu Mu is a recognized strategic master of Datang.

This is recognized by the Tang Dynasty military, including Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Jing, the secretary of the Tang Dynasty.

"I want ordnance, an unlimited amount of ordnance."

Liu Mu's finger slid to the north again: "Here, there are countless barbarians in the eyes of the Romans, Eastern Rome wants to restore the glory of the old Rome, don't look at the current Visigothic Kingdom and the Frankish Kingdom still have respect for Heraclius, once the opportunity I have no doubt that they will annex Eastern Rome." ”

Liu Mu took out a few small pictures: "This is the result of the investigation, in the past seventy years, Eastern Rome has continued to lose land, and has constantly lost control of many subject countries. ”

At this time, Li Daozong asked Liu Mu: "Why did you choose to support Rome instead of those emerging powers?" ”

"Trust my choice." Yanagi didn't explain.

At this time, Li Daozong asked as the second brother-in-law, and Liu Mu would also say that he believed in my choice, if Li Daozong used the identity of King Yan, Liu Mu probably wouldn't say a word.

The Tang Emperor Li Shimin had already issued several secret orders.

The content of the secret order is completely consistent, outside the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the general division needs to use force to ensure the trade route, everything is ruled by Liu Mu, unless there is a major tactical mistake, it is not allowed to refute.

Li Daozong didn't ask again, and motioned for everyone to change their clothes, and the banquet was about to start.

After the banquet lasted for two days, Li Junxian was supplemented by five hundred Arabian horses, which were lent to the willow wood by the Athenian city guard, saying that it was borrowed, and it was unlikely that the willow wood would be returned, and the horses would be settled with ordnance in the future.

The silk business Liu Mu is not much interested, the profit of silk seems to be high, but the Mediterranean merchants are not pure stupid, when many Mediterranean merchants of all ethnic groups have been to the Tang Dynasty, the price of silk will change from huge profits to large profits in a few years.

Willow does not do business below the profiteering, the profit is too low.

The next evening, Liu Mu saw his second sister, and she came over in a boat with Baoqin.