Chapter 1358: Another Small State
Said said sincerely, he very much hopes that his son will go to Chang'an, he is optimistic about the development of the Tang Dynasty in the next few decades, if the family wants to go further, it is far from enough to be a businessman who monopolizes the trade routes of the Western Regions, only to enter the power core circle of the Tang Dynasty magnates is the only way out.
As a merchant of a foreign race, it is not an easy task to establish a career in a foreign land. But fortunately, the Tang Dynasty has had a tradition of sharing and inclusiveness between Hu and Han since the founding of the dynasty. This obstacle has been minimized in fact.
Said had arrived in Chang'an with a caravan ten years ago, when Emperor Xuanzong was at his peak, and the magnificent and prosperous city of Chang'an completely shocked him, even the scale and prosperity of today's Taixifeng are far from reaching.
It was precisely because of the results of the comparison that Said became more determined to attach himself to the Tang Dynasty and tied the revival of the family to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty.
He grew up in the Western Regions since he was a child, and he had no impression or sense of belonging to his mother country and Ctesiphon, which were thousands of miles away, and since he can remember, the clansmen around him gritted their teeth with hatred when they mentioned the white-clothed Umayyad Dynasty and the Ctesiphon court.
This kind of hatred accumulated throughout the family is naturally transmitted to Said.
There are many nobles who fled with the Saeed family, they were all defeated in the political struggle, and those who could escape had a glimmer of hope of survival, and those who did not escape were either brutally killed or sold to the frontier to be slaves forever.
Many of the fugitive nobles were completely wiped out in decades of exile, but Said's family survived as tenaciously as pasture and became one of the leading merchants in the Western Regions.
By chance, Said became acquainted with Qin Jin and became the eyeliner of the Tang Dynasty under the Great Food Cloth.
All of this felt like a dream now, but he knew he had to seize the opportunity.
"What's so embarrassing about it, I can guarantee now that your two sons can enter the official school, and after completing the study, you can choose to send a local experience, how about it?"
"The prime minister is very gracious, and the villain doesn't know and thinks he will repay ......"
Said bowed down quite excitedly, this is of course a gesture, but what could be more secure than being able to get the personal assurance of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty?
Xiang Qin Jin, a pivotal person, will not easily make a promise, once the promise is made, it must be practiced, if there is a promise and other behaviors, it is tantamount to suicide in the officialdom!
He also learned that there were many uncivilized countries outside the territory that had sent many people to study in the Tang Dynasty, and many of them became officials in the Tang Dynasty after completing their studies, among which the more famous one was Abe Nakamaro, a native of the Wa Kingdom in the east of the sea.
Abe Zhongmalu was once reused by Emperor Xuanzong, and was once a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and after the Qin and Jin dynasties took power, he was promoted and appointed as the protector of Annam.
Therefore, since there are examples of foreign races in power, Said is not worried at all, as long as his son has real materials, he will not worry about not being reused.
What's more, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to gain a firm foothold in the newly opened lands such as Tocharian and Khorasan, it was absolutely inseparable from the support of these locals.
On the other hand, the court of Ctesiphon is much more closed and conservative, and the important official positions in the inner circle of power will always circulate among several noble tribes in the empire, which means that the core power of the empire will never be allowed to be touched by other tribes.
And Sa'id's tribe was either beheaded or fled as early as the White Clothes Diet, and it has long ceased to exist, and a mere merchant may be able to sit in a high position with the appreciation of the caliph, but once the caliph dies, how can the magnates of several major tribes in the imperial court allow a merchant with no foundation to sit side by side with them?
Therefore, it is not necessarily a good thing to be appreciated by the caliphate, relatively speaking, the environment of the Tang Dynasty was much more relaxed and open.
After all kinds of silent comparisons, how to choose is naturally logical!
Of course, Qin Jin didn't know what Said was thinking in his heart, but he had always enveloped the two benefits and made peace, so he also really contributed to Said's plan, after all, it was hard to find a fine work close to the Great Food Caliph.
As a result, Said's family was allowed to monopolize the trade route from the Western Regions to Tocharo, and at the same time agreed to a request to send his two sons to Chang'an.
In the eyes of others, Said's two sons were sent to Chang'an, perhaps with the implication of being taken hostage, which was used both inside and outside the Tang Dynasty, and no one would think it was excessive.
But only Saeed himself knows the difference between killing two birds with one stone.
"Prime Minister, as Fazler's deputy envoy this time, the villain can have a certain influence on Fazler, if you need the villain to do something, please give me instructions!"
Qin Jin waved his hand and said to Said, who was becoming more and more submissive:
"Your main task and duty this time is to assist Fazler with all your heart, and there are no things to do at the negotiating table, so what's the matter if he returns satisfied?"
Hearing this, Said was a little surprised, he didn't expect Qin Jin to actually plan to make some concessions in the peace talks.
"The villain dared to ask, I don't know what the prime minister intends to do, how do you plan to make concessions?"
Qin Jin didn't hide it, he came directly to the side of the tent to hang the map of Khorasan, and stretched out his hand to make a gesture from top to bottom in the area of Sylvan.
"From here, here, it can be turned into the border of the two countries, and the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food Covenant are brotherly countries, and they are not allowed to open the border without permission......"
Sa'id was greatly surprised, and Caliph al-Mansur was even ready for the Tang lion to open his mouth, believing that the Tang people had won two great victories against the Great Eclipse after all the hardships, and they would definitely seek to conquer the whole of Khorasan. But now it seems that Qin Jin's idea is a bit small, from the demarcation of Silvan, at most he will eat half of Nuo's big Khorasan.
The remaining half of Khorasan is now considered borderless, and since the defeat of Abbas and Mahdi, the local officials have either been killed or fled with their families, and the court has largely lost control of these lands.
Now that Qin Jin wants to almost give away the meat in his hands, it is really difficult to understand his true meaning.
At least on the surface, this is an act of folly, and will even be interpreted by the caliph as a sign of the end of the crossbow.
Qin Jin glanced at the stunned Said, and then stretched out his hand to make a circle on the remaining nearly half of the land of Khorasan.
"In these places, the great cannibals have no time to take care of it, and they can set up another country...... Persian ......"
It turned out that the Tang Dynasty didn't want to eat the whole Khorasan, but it was just more secure and circuitous. The damage to the Great Eclipse is several times or even dozens of times worse than directly eating Khorasan. In this way, those small countries that have been wiped out by the great food will probably pin their hopes on the Tang people.
Would al-Mansour agree?
Said thought to himself......