Pei Min actually had a lot of worries in his last sentence, mainly because he had seen a lot of foreigners in the 21st century. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Those two or five boys always think that everything in foreigners is good, even if it is the moon, foreign ones are rounder than China. As a teenager with a little bit of resentment, what I am most unaccustomed to is the kind of Chinese who are humble to foreigners and are like slaves.

But he ignores that it is now the Tang Dynasty, one of China's greatest dynasties. In this era, China stands on top of the world in terms of economy and culture, art and medicine, and industrial science and technology, which is incomparable. In contrast, Arabia, another major empire in the West, except for the military can be compared with the Tang Dynasty, other aspects are not at the same level at all.

As a Tang people, both officials and ordinary people have a sense of superiority, and regard themselves as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the countries of the world are the four kingdoms. In this era, there is only the idea of Chongtang, and there is no Chongyang at all.

Lu Yu, as the governor of the state and the first leader of Lanzhou, if he wants to summon a few businessmen in normal times, it is a matter of sending someone to say a word. Now is a very moment, he personally invited, in his opinion, he has given enough face, how can he lose the demeanor of the Heavenly Empire.

However, after a while, Avier, Savoy, and Iricus came to the backyard courtyard specially vacated by the shopkeeper under the leadership of Lu Yu.

"I've seen Lord Yushi!" Avier, Savoy, and Ilidou speak broken Chinese. As soon as they said this, Lu Yu held back a smile and couldn't help laughing.

Pei Min also smiled, the word "adult" was rotten on TV in later generations, in fact, in ancient times, "adult" could not be called indiscriminately. In ancient times, the colloquial term for "adult" was father and mother, and "adult" could only be used to address parents or direct blood relatives. Calling Master Pei Min is equivalent to recognizing his father.

Aiming at a group of cultural differences and misidentifying their father's "son", Pei Min asked them to sit down and talk, and poured each of them a cup of mint tea prepared for him by the shopkeeper.

"I have some interest in your national culture, and if you have time to go to Chang'an, you can come to my house and have a good chat!" Pei Min is not interested in Tianzhu, where Irisdou is located, but Avier's big food, Savoy's Whisk, has a deep interest.

The Great Food, also known as the Arab Empire, is the only Western country in the world that can compete with the Tang Dynasty. The Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire, is not as powerful as the Arab Empire, but it is also an ancient country with a long history and unique features. It is still necessary to get in touch with them and be able to learn some information about the situation in the West. As the saying goes, stand tall and see far. How far the vision is, how long the road to success is, and Pei Min is not lagging behind in this regard.

However, the current situation does not allow him to talk in detail in this regard, so he just mentioned it casually, and immediately cut to the point, saying: "Now that Jincheng is in a little crisis, I need to borrow your guards." Help me meet the enemy, help me defend the city, I wonder if you are willing to give generously? Do me Pei Min a favor? ”

"I do!" The first to answer was actually Savoy, a merchant from the country of Fula, who obviously had Germanic barbarian blood, blond hair and blue eyes, fine white complexion, but as fat as a pig, with a ball in his head and a ball in his body, and a merchant's philistine, it was hard to imagine that such a fat person could survive hundreds of thousands of miles of the Silk Road.

Savoy squinted his eyes, rubbed his fat big hands and said, "I, Savoy, am willing to help Lord Zhongcheng and hand over all the two hundred and fifteen guards to my lord." ”

Pei Min couldn't imagine that Savoy agreed so happily, and he was overjoyed.

Aviya is a pure-blooded Arab, with all the characteristics of Arab physiognomy, a high nose with a slightly curved hook, deep eyes, high eyebrow bones, a short beard, a tall and thin body, and wheat-colored skin, which looks very heroic. He glanced at Savoy in surprise and said, "Lord Zhongcheng, Wo brought the gold and silver, jewelry, begonias, sea pomegranates, sea pearls, spices, and bamboo cloth from Damascus in exchange for your Tang Dynasty satin, embroidery, gold brocade, silk, tea, porcelain, and medicinal materials. On this way, it is more than ten thousand miles away. On such a long road, there are countless thieves and horse thieves, and they can arrive safely, all thanks to the protection of guards. Without them, the nest would not have returned to Damascus. ”

Pei Min smiled: "So, you don't plan to help?" ”

Aviye shook his hands and said, "It's not that the nest doesn't help, it just wants some returns, rewards worth paying." The nest is a businessman, and a businessman pays attention to profits. The guards of the nest are hired at a high price, and they need to add a lot of mercenary money to let them go to war. Loss-making business is impossible to do. ”

Pei Min said solemnly: "There is no other return, only my Pei Min's friendship." You do business in Datang, as long as you don't violate my Datang laws and hurt my Datang interests. When you have a problem, you can ask me for help. I don't put off helping when I can, and I never skimp on helping my friends. ”

Aviye glanced at Pei Min deeply and said, "Okay!" The friendship of Lord Zhongcheng is priceless, and Wo Aviye is willing to hand over all the guards in exchange for the friendship of the adults. ”

Pei Min nodded and said, "Thank you!" As he spoke, he looked at Irisdou again.

Iridou looked embarrassed, hesitated and said ashamedly: "My lord, I'm sorry, I only have less than a hundred guards, all the way to the west, there are countless thieves, if there is any damage, I am afraid I will not be able to protect myself." "He speaks Huaxia the most fluently, and he refuses the most neatly.

Pei Min squinted at him, and he also knew the real reason: Tubo was the overlord in the southwest, and he was friendly with Nepal and Tianzhu, and it was reasonable that Yi Li Dou, as a Tianzhu businessman, was unwilling to help them offend Tubo. Just watching the drama while making Datang's money?

Pei Min said without hesitation: "Then you can go!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Avier and Savoy and said, "Whatever the reason, you helped me today." When you return to Chang'an, you will be rewarded. Gather the guards now, and I'll take them with me. And your horses will lend me by the way, and they will be returned to you in the evening, and I will return one more for every two lent to me. ”

Avier and Savoy returned the salute without hesitation and retreated.

Aviye told the house slave Tasim about his agreement with Pei Min.

Naturally, their servants spoke Arabic.

Tasim said with a bitter face: "The master trusts Pei Min so much? ”

Aviye shook his head and said, "I don't trust him, I can't believe him." I don't know who he is, I don't expect his friendship, but I can't be his enemy. At first I expressed his reluctance, instead of being angry, he laughed. This kind of person who can laugh when he is angry must not be offended. We are merchants, and in their territory, harmony can make money. As long as there is money, mercenaries can be recruited anywhere. You can't lose big interests for the sake of a small profit. Look at it, that Tianzhu merchant will definitely be retaliated. After a pause, he said with a hint of surprise in his eyes: "If you really get Pei Min's friendship, it will really be a good thing." You hurry up and arrange it, increase the commission of the mercenaries, and let them listen to Pei Min's arrangement. ”

Compared with Avier's calm and rational mind, Savoy was much more exaggerated, and when he returned to his room, he couldn't stop laughing, and the fat on his whole body couldn't stop shaking with a smile.

"Father, what happened?" Hacro, the son of Savoy, looked at his father with a confused expression.

Savoy said, "The great Jesus blessed his devout followers. Knowing his father's plight, the Lord arranged for his messenger to recruit the greedy mercenaries. He could save a lot of money for his father...... "It turned out that Savoy was not having a good time in the Byzantine Empire, and the rise of the Arabs occupied almost all the southern regions of Byzantium. The Byzantine Empire lost a lot of land, but its power did not weaken, but increased. Because the war made Byzantium twist into a rope and no longer so mixed. Their system of Emperor Hiraclion was successfully implemented, leaving the country Hellenistic. Defeated the Lombards, the Slavs, and the Persians.

Hellenistic Byzantium was extremely xenophobic, and Savoy, with its Germanic barbarian blood, was ostracized. Savoy was reluctant to return to his Germanic hometown, unwilling to give up the interests of the Silk Road, and yearning for the legendary all-inclusive Tang Dynasty, so he specially moved his family to the Tang Dynasty to gain a foothold, change the East as the starting point, and do business with Byzantium. He did not plan to return to Byzantium, and when he arrived at the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the accompanying guards were already a burden to him. One less equals one less commission. Because of this, he agreed to Pei Min's request without hesitation, he wished that the mercenaries in his hands would die cleanly.

In a moment, the mercenary guards of Avier and Savoy were ready.

Pei Min saw that their formation was messy and unorganized, but the brave and killing aura on each of them was obvious. This kind of group struggling on the line of death, the temperament they exude is obviously different from ordinary people. This kind of mercenary is not common in their Central Plains, but in the Western Regions, in Arabia and Byzantium, mercenaries are very common. They relied on bravery, lived by war, had money, wine and women when they were alive, and when they died, they were rotten loess and had no place to bury.

There is no doubt that these mercenaries fighting on the line of death are very strong, and each of them has extraordinary individual combat ability.

Pei Min led five hundred and fifty-one mercenaries back to the urn city at the south gate of Jincheng, Yang Yun had ordered eight hundred cavalry, not that he couldn't find a soldier who was good at riding, but he really couldn't get together a thousand war horses.

Pei Min synthesized the resources he had at hand, reduced the eight hundred cavalry to four hundred, and distributed the remaining four hundred military horses to the mercenaries who did not have horses. The two phases were mixed together, and the strongest cavalry combat power he currently had: one hundred and sixteen wealthy guards, four hundred Jincheng cavalry, five hundred and fifty-one mercenaries, and one thousand and two troops.

"Enough!"

Pei Min looked at the time, estimated the speed of the Tubo vanguard cavalry in his heart, and said to Yang Yun with a smile: "Three thousand Tubo vanguard cavalry, dare to follow me to destroy them?" ”

Yang Yun was a little frightened, but seeing that Pei Minnian was only a weak crown and his status was far above him, he was not afraid, what else did he have to fear, so he said loudly: "Why don't you dare!" ”