"Woo~Woo~~"

With the sound of several long horns, I saw that several samurai in white robes blew the horns in their hands on the tower of the palace, and then with the sound of tapping and tapping, a large group of soldiers wearing armor and holding spears rushed out of the palace, and then lined up neatly on the steps on both sides, and then a group of nobles and officials wearing various gorgeous robes came out, and in the center was a young man wearing a golden crown, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with thick beard and black hair, and a slightly short body, but he looked imposing.

"Lord Li, the one who wears the crown is His Majesty Antioch!" A resting merchant beside him reminded in a low voice.

Li Shun nodded and remained silent, and after a group of people stood on the platform at the entrance of the palace, Foreign Minister Agato and two soldiers quickly walked up the steps to Li Shun and others and muttered a few words, Li Shun roughly understood a few words, and then waved his hand and all the officials, servants, forbidden soldiers and merchants who followed the envoy all turned over and dismounted from their camels, Li Shun took out a letter stamped with the treasure seal of the Great Qin Emperor from the satchel next to the saddle, handed it to Agato with both hands and said: "This official is Li Shun, the envoy of the Great Qin Empire, and he is knighted and lowered. Wupin official, on the order of the First Emperor, sent an envoy to your country, this is the customs clearance document we came, please hand it over to the Emperor of your country for inspection......"

When Li Shun spoke, a merchant from the Western Regions, a merchant from Great Xia, and a merchant from rest next to him all followed the translation of the grunt, although the translation was probably messy, but the general meaning of Agator still understood, and after taking the document with both hands with the same respect, he turned around and walked down the steps to the gate of the palace, handed over the document to Antiochus III to look through, and pointed to Li Shun and others to record and said a lot.

Antiochus and a group of aristocratic ministers probably also listened to the same clouds, and they definitely didn't understand what Wupin Xiaqing and the like, but they still understood the words of the envoy on the order of Emperor Daqin, and on this well-made silk silk in his hand, he did sign several words, and it was also stamped with the seals of several kings, and the last one was Daxia, which was known to the emperors and officials of the Rest Empire, so Antioch and a group of aristocratic officials muttered and discussed for a while, He warmly invited Li Shun and a group of officials into the palace to attend the banquet, and at the same time asked the imperial officials to arrange the food and lodging of the soldiers and retinue who accompanied Li Shun.

Seeing that the emperor of the Rest Empire was so enthusiastic, Li Shun and a group of officials were all relieved.

To tell the truth, it is not easy to come from thousands of miles away, first stayed in the Western Regions for half a year, and investigated dozens of large and small vassal states next to each other, and then sent an envoy to Dawan, Dawan is in the westernmost part of the Western Regions, as long as you pass through Dawan to Central Asia, in fact, Dawan is the most convenient road to the West in Daqin, and Dawan is also because of its unique position, not only agriculture is developed, but also commerce is also very developed, The merchants of Dawan have been driving horses and camels back and forth between the countries of the Western Regions and the Great Xia Poison Kangju all the year round, earning a lot of price difference from the middle, after all, the channel advantage is very obvious.

Dawan has about 200,000 people, and it is also a settled farming race, and the language is similar to that of the Western Regions, and after learning that Li Shun and others are the envoys of the Great Qin Emperor, the king of Dawan received Li Shun and others very frightened, and after more than a month of luxurious hospitality, he finally arranged for soldiers to send Li Shun and others to Kangju.

Kangju is about 300,000 people, most of them live a nomadic life of chasing water and grass, the language and appearance are very similar to the people of the Western Regions, belonging to the dog Rong tribe that migrated to Central Asia in the early days, and the Kangju people are also good at business and are relatively hospitable, after staying in Kangju for two months, Li Shun and others went south to Daxia, and after staying in Daxia for three or four months, they originally planned to go to the body poison, but because the two countries of Daxia and the body poison fought all year round, the situation was more chaotic, Li Shun was afraid of being accidentally attacked and lost his life, Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, he turned west and decided to visit the rest of the empire, which is known as the most powerful empire in the vicinity.

In this barbaric era, although Central Asia and West Asia and other places have come and gone relatively closely, but just like Daqin, the land is vast and sparsely populated, sometimes you can't see a village for a day, wild beasts are rampant in the barren mountains and mountains, and the conditions such as food and accommodation are bad, and the mission has hung up a translator and three guides on the way, and the retinue and the forbidden army have also died seven or eight, and some are sick and stay in Kangju Daxia and other places for treatment and recuperation. If it is not cured, it is estimated that the corpse will be buried in another place in this life.

But no matter how hard and difficult it is, for Li Shun and others, they are also very satisfied along the way, especially when visiting these large and small monarchs, when they take out the porcelain glass silk they carry, they can always see the extremely surprised and excited expressions of these monarchs.

Moreover, judging from the situation in various places and the information they learned from the merchants, these goods of Daqin were very sought after in all countries, and the price also made them feel that their hearts trembled and they couldn't stop.

An ordinary porcelain bowl, the wholesale price in Daqin is about thirty or forty yuan, and the Qinghe brand is more expensive, more than one hundred yuan, but after it is transported from Daqin to the Western Regions, it will be at least five or six times higher, even if it is such an expensive price, the nobles and Dawan people almost never bargain, buy as much as they want, and the Dawan people turn around and sell it to Daxia, and the price will increase several times, and when the merchants of Daxia sell it to rest and poison and other countries, it can only be measured with a large amount of gold.

In addition to porcelain, enamel, glass, silk and steel knives and, of course, fine wine, are also sought after, although these are rarer.

Large steel weapons belong to controlled knives, and the Ministry of Commerce does not allow trafficking to the Western Regions and other countries, so those that can circulate to the Western Regions are short blades, and there are more daggers in the standard of machinery factories, and these daggers are scarce even in Daqin, and merchants in the Western Regions basically can't buy them, even if they get some of them, the price is very high, and they have to find a relationship to go through the back door, and the possibility of continuing to sell to the West after being transported to the Western Regions is very small, and it is digested locally, and the same is true for glass and enamel silk wine.

The output of silk is low, most of them are levied by the Shaofu and the imperial court, and there are very few people who go to the people for trading, and they are basically purchased by nobles such as princes and princesses, as for glass enamel at present, there is no factory in the Daqin folk to produce, all rely on the affiliated factories of the Academy of Sciences, the output is limited, and the only output is relatively large, but the loss of wine transportation is too great, and if you accidentally encounter bad weather, you will lose all your money, so although the wine is easy to buy, it is difficult to traffic, and the merchants of the Western Regions generally dare not touch it. Bringing back one or two pieces once in a while is a great way to make a fortune, enough to earn back all the expenses of the trip.

A bottle of Daqin's ordinary wine, which costs hundreds of yuan, can now be sold for two thousand yuan in the Western Regions, nearly twenty times the profit, and such a bottle of wine flows to Dawan, the price is close to four thousand yuan, as for the possibility of continuing to circulate to the west, there is no longer the possibility of continuing to circulate to the west, first, when crossing the green mountains, the terrain and climate are too harsh, even the glass and porcelain have huge losses, not to mention the wine, and the second is that the quantity is indeed too small, it is simply priceless, and there is no market at all, and you can't buy a bottle of beautiful wine from Daqin with boxes of gold.

However, the windfall profits of wine are estimated to drop soon, because there are already shrewd Central Plains wine merchants who know that the price of wine in the Western Regions is so high, so they go to the places where the water and grass are fertile in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and begin to buy local grapes to make wine, and the grapes in the Western Regions are big and full, the sweetness is higher, and the wine tastes better, and it is estimated that in another year, a large number of grapes and wines from the Western Regions will be transported to the West through merchants to make a fortune.

Therefore, the current situation that Li Shun and others have seen in the Western countries is that all the commodities of Great Qin can be sold at a terrifying price in all countries, and the supply exceeds demand, if it were not for Li Shun's restraint, the accompanying forbidden army and officials would have already sold the enamel kettles and tea jars they carried.

And this is a criminal record.

When they arrived in the Western Regions, the enamel kettle and tea jar had just begun to be distributed to the two armies guarding the Western Regions, and some soldiers could not resist the temptation of money from the merchants of the Western Regions, and secretly sold the enamel pots, military kettles and tea jars to the merchants of the Western Regions, the price was extremely high, an enamel pot could be sold for three taels of gold, a military kettle could be sold for two taels of gold, and a tea jar could also be sold for one or two gold.

These enamel pots and kettles and teapots are not sold to the outside world because Daqin, so they are extremely sought-after scarce goods in the Western Regions, the most important thing is that they are not used to transport them back and forth, the military camp is in the Western Regions, and they can be bought with money, many soldiers have made a fortune because of this, and even some officers of all sizes participate in the intermediary to eat kickbacks, and the army commander Shi also opened his eyes and closed one eye when he saw it, although he knew that this might not be right, but it was not very easy to manage and play, because enamel teapots and military kettles were not weapons, It does not belong to the items that must be carried and properly kept, just like clothes and shoes, whether you lose it, break it or give it away, sell it, no one will interfere, anyway, the imperial court sends two sets of clothes every year, and no one cares if you want to run naked, after all, these equipment are systematic...... Well, it's distributed by the Ministry of War, and I don't want money anyway.

However, enamel pots, kettles and tea jars are military supplies after all, and they are relatively valuable, so they are sold and resold privately once they are found by the captains of the guards and supervisors at all levels will still be punished, and whipping is essential, but there are still many soldiers who can't help but sell secretly, and they can drink water and eat with the original bamboo clay bowl after selling, which does not affect life, at most return to the previous state, but can get a large amount of money out of thin air.

This kind of enamel pot and military kettle, tea jar for the people of the Western Regions, Dawan and other places, is completely a treasure artifact that can be encountered and not sought, not only the appearance is exquisite, but also has unparalleled practical value, the focus is on anti-falling, much stronger than porcelain, basically not bad, so enamel in the eyes of merchants in the Western Regions and other countries, more expensive than porcelain, but the number is also less.

So the current situation is that outside the Daqin military camp scattered in the Western Regions, you can often see sneaky merchants who come to buy military enamel equipment, and these merchants will also hire some local young and beautiful little ladies, wearing cool and naked clothes, as soon as they see soldiers riding out to patrol or hunt, they hide in the bushes and wave: Uncle, come and play!

So many soldiers could not resist the temptation, and would sneak to the grove, and after a moment or a long time they would come back with a happy and satisfied face, and there would definitely be one less military kettle or teapot hanging on their waists, and there would be one more money bag on their waists.

Under the temptation of this beauty and gold, the loss and damage rate of enamel equipment in the barracks is very high. ()

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