The results brought by the consuls brought unanimous praise.

The kings and ministers of Eastern Rome all thought that he had done a very beautiful job.

After all, in normal people's thinking, they use mines that have not yet been mined to directly exchange for finished weapons.

This kind of thing, no matter how you look at it, they are more profitable!

Well, they will have such thoughts and thoughts, and it can only be attributed to historical limitations.

Eventually, the consuls were rewarded with a large amount by Constans II.

And this matter is still the responsibility of Constans II.

Next, of course, we will discuss specific matters.

For example, where to build a wharf, how many mines are needed.

These mines, how to convert the price.

There is also how to mine, and the ore that is mined, Li Su is naturally impossible to transport away.

It can only be smelted on the spot, and then the finished product is taken away like this.

Therefore, the matter of building a factory is also on the agenda.

In short, this is a myriad of things, and it needs to be discussed between the consul and Li Su.

However, the Archon did not find it hard.

It was an honor for him to be able to get this errand.

And, in this way, he will be able to help his good friend, the city lord of Huaxia City.

Next, Constans II invited Li Su to Constantinople as a guest.

When the time comes, all the paperwork will be signed where.

Li Su was happy.

Being able to see medieval Constantinople was a surprise for Li Su.

Next, Constants II set off and returned to Constantinople.

Li Su accompanied him.

Along the way, Li Su was watching the scientific and technological level of Eastern Rome with a cold eye.

He found that at this time, many of them were still at a relatively low level.

For example, horse-drawn carriages were still two-wheeled, and there were no four-wheeled carriages.

The production of weapons is extremely shoddy.

The armor was also extremely clumsy and heavy.

In short, at this time, the whole of Europe was very backward in scientific and technological development.

Well, well, if there is no Li Su, in fact, even if it is Datang, it is not much better.

However, Li Su thinks that it will always be better than the current Europe.

Within a few days, they were in Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Rome.

And Constantinople really lived up to Li Su's expectations for it.

It is a castle full of medieval European flair.

Well, well, it's medieval Europe now......

In the following time, Li Su began negotiations with the consuls.

The consul brought the resources of many mines for Li Su to choose.

At this time, the consul really did not hide his secrets.

From the bottom of his heart, he regarded Li Su as his closest friend.

The selected mine resources are all rich ores.

However, after looking at these mine resources, Li Su was not particularly satisfied.

Then he asked the archon, "Are there any other mineral resources?" ”

The archon spread his hands, loosened his shoulders, and said, "Oh, my friend, believe in the sincere friendship between us! ”

"These are the best mines in our Eastern Rome, and of course, what is being mined does not count. Which, there really can't be anything for you. ”

Hearing the consul's words, Li Su smiled slightly, and then knew that he had misunderstood.

Li Su did not suspect that the consuls would not help, nor did he suspect that Constans II would be treacherous.

After all, now the two sides have only reached an intention.

The goods of Huaxia City have not been given to them yet.

Li Su can regret it at any time.

And Constans II, there is no way to deal with him.

Mainly, the current Eastern Rome has extremely limited detection capabilities.

Many of the areas that have been explored in later generations are rich in mineral resources.

Now they don't detect it at all.

What Li Su wants, naturally, is these places.

However, the problem is that Li Su can't clearly designate it now, so I want these places.

Because after all, it was the first time for Li Su to come to Eastern Rome.

I've never been here before.

How did you know about these places in our country?

And, even know, where are the rich minerals?

Therefore, Li Su could only follow the temptation and constantly lure the consul to let him tell these places by himself.

In the end, Li Su selected fifteen mine resources.

These resources, which have been proven in later generations, are the largest bonanza in their country.

Now, of course, limited by technological capabilities.

These places are all small mining areas, and they don't even know that there are mines in these places.

Therefore, after Li Su finished picking these fifteen places.

The archon felt unexpectedly uncomfortable.

Even their monarch, Constans II, was a little unconscious.

Of course, what is more important is that I am afraid that the people of Huaxia City will regret it.

In case they find out, there are no mines at all in these fifteen places they have chosen.

When the time comes, what if they return and don't continue to work with them?

Therefore, the consul strongly demanded that Li Su be allowed to change a few more places.

The consul also personally recommended several bonanzas to Li Su.

But Li Su always insisted on asking for these 15 mineral resources.

What are you kidding, these fifteen mine resources have almost wiped out their rich mines.

If you get a few more second-class mineral resources, you can really eat meat by yourself, and you won't even give soup to others.

Because Li Su insisted on refusing to change places, the consuls were helpless.

In the end, he still couldn't help it, and even gave Li Su five rich mines again.

Li Su is also helpless, this is not what I want.

I didn't ask for it, you had to give it to me, and I couldn't do anything about it, so I had to be disrespectful.

The next thing to do is to negotiate the details with the consuls.

When it comes to specific government affairs ability, the consul is much stronger than Li Su.

After all, although Li Su is in a high position, he has always looked at the overall situation, and has not personally grasped these problems at the grassroots level.

But let's talk about the details of the negotiations.

Together, the ten consuls were no match for Li Su.

Well, because for such a thing, for the consuls, there has never been a precedent.

This is the first time, and there has never been anything to learn from.

For Li Su, there are too many such examples to refer to in later generations.

What conditions are most beneficial to himself, Li Su is naturally clear.

There are some conditions that don't even need to be said by Li Su himself.

With just a few words of guidance, the consul himself will bring it up to Li Su.

The first phase of negotiations is nearing completion.

The personnel sent by Li Su have already been stationed in several mining areas and have begun to prepare for development.

And the first batch of food and weapons, Li Su also directly delivered to the Eastern Roman Empire, showing his sincerity.

What kind of food is enough, which weapons, really made Constans II overjoyed.

Originally, I thought that the weapons they provided would be worse than the last gift they sent anyway.

But what he didn't expect was that in terms of quality, this batch of weapons was exactly the same as the last time it was sent as a gift.

At this point, the cooperation between the two sides officially began.

Well, actually.

In Li Su's view, this is completely a series of unequal treaties!

The Eastern Roman Empire was equivalent to a dozen concessions for them.

Inside the concession, they had complete autonomy.

The laws of the Eastern Roman Empire, in the Concession, were invalid.

They were also given twenty mines, a wharf.

And all Li Su gave them was some food and weapons.

Well, of course, maybe in the eyes of the Eastern Roman Empire, it is not known that they took advantage.

In short, it can be said that it is a win-win situation now, and everyone is happy.

Li Su stayed in Constantinople, and for a short time, he could not leave.

After all, the two sides don't understand the language, and if he is not there, there is no way to communicate.

Now, Li Su is training a group of people around him and teaching them to learn the language of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Of course, the Eastern Roman Empire is also training a group of people to learn Chinese well.

It's just that there is a very good teacher here in Huaxia City, and that is Li Su, the city lord of Huaxia City.

He was fluent in Chinese and the languages of the Eastern Roman Empire.

On the Eastern Roman Empire, there was no such good teacher.

However, on their side, there must also be an interpreter.

They are even planning to train a group of people to learn Chinese.

Because, their dependence on Huaxia City is very high.

It can be said that Huaxia City does not necessarily have to do business with them.

In fact, there are many options.

Even in Europe, not necessarily only their Eastern Rome.

There are several countries to choose from.

But now, they've been chosen.

For them, if they can't do business with Huaxia City, they will lose a lot.

From this point of view, they have to train a group of translators.

In fact, the more people who know Chinese, the better.

However, they suffer from the lack of teachers.

Eventually, Constans II sent several nobles to follow Li Su and learn Chinese.

During this time, Li Su also often attended their banquets.

At the banquet, they were naturally all aristocrats.

Li Su's status was respected, and it was naturally impossible for Constans II to send commoners to study with him.

There were ten of these nobles.

Li Su did not refuse, but would spare an hour every day to teach these ten nobles Chinese.

And Li Su himself, with twenty apprentices, was learning the language of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Therefore, Li Su simply combined these thirty people into a class.

In the classroom, he was teaching Eastern Roman to the Han Chinese and the aristocratic Chinese to the Eastern Romans.

It happens to be a bilateral teaching, and there is no delay between the two.

In addition, it allows students from both sides to learn from each other and promote exchanges.

Let them usually talk half in Chinese and half in Eastern Roman language.

In this way, their learning progress can be greatly accelerated.

Moreover, these 20 Han students will all stay here in the future and preside over the situation in various places.

Knowing the nobility of Eastern Rome now also has certain benefits for them to carry out their work in the future.

And among the ten Eastern Roman nobles, there was a young girl who was particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

This girl, even if she stands among 10,000 people, people will look at it, and the first thing they notice will definitely be her.

She is tall and has long blonde hair.

The skin is white and delicate, and people are afraid to touch it, for fear that it will break if they touch it.

In general, it's probably because of the dimension.

Although Europeans are all white, their skin is often very rough.

But the skin on this girl's body is extremely delicate, and it doesn't look like an Eastern Roman.

And her appearance, in addition to the exotic style, also has the classical temperament of an oriental girl.

These two temperaments are mixed together, giving her a special beauty.

Even with the knowledge of Li Su and his two lives, when he saw this girl for the first time, he couldn't help but look at it twice.

And in the entire study class, the twenty students in Huaxia City are all boys.

Although now in Huaxia City, women can already come out to work and become officials.

But after all, the education they have received for many years is that they are all women with three virtues and four virtues.

If you are not married to your father, you are married to your husband, and your husband is dead to your son.

The four virtues are virtue, words and merit.

The educational concept that women are virtuous if they are not talented makes women willing to show their heads.

Therefore, these twenty trainees are all men.

Of the ten Eastern Roman Empire aristocrats, women accounted for half of the positions.

In this regard, Eastern Rome is more advanced than the Tang Dynasty.

In them, the princess can also inherit the throne.

If the previous king had no son, the daughter could inherit the throne and become queen.

Of course, Constans II had a son, Constans IV.

The father of Constans II was Constans III.

Well, it looks a bit messy.

I don't know what their order is.

And this girl was the daughter of Constans II, whose nickname was Anna.

Anna's beauty is known to almost everyone in the whole of Eastern Rome.

Known as the most beautiful princess.

Which aristocratic men, as well as which twenty students in Huaxia City, were very fond of Anna.

Every day, he is ingratiating himself with Anna, consciously or unconsciously.

Anna, on the other hand, has a good diplomatic approach.

Her demeanor is elegant and calm, and her speech makes people feel like a spring breeze.

She doesn't snub anyone, but she doesn't give people the illusion that she likes each other.

All of this makes everyone impeccable.

And her language talent is also very outstanding, and among the ten nobles of Eastern Rome, her learning progress is the fastest.

It only took half a month to start a conversation with the Tang people in Huaxia City.

She likes Chinese civilization very much, and when she has nothing to do, she will ask Li Su all kinds of questions.

And Li Su also likes this diligent and studious student.

Every time she asks a question, she will always answer it concisely and concisely.

Through conversation, Li Su found that Anna was very knowledgeable.

She was also a fanatic of the church.

However, she had some doubts about some of the problems in the church.

Then, she would often ask Li Su about these questions.

For example, the geocentric theory of all kinds of doubts.

There are also metaphysical problems.

These questions were raised by Aristotle, the sage of the West.

These ideas were extremely advanced and sensational at the time.

But now, many of the problems in it seem out of place and full of contradictions.

Li Su didn't expect that Anna, as a princess, would be so knowledgeable.

In addition, they will also put forward their own doubts and opinions on these philosophical issues.

It's really rare.

Fortunately, Eastern Rome was one of the least persecuted Western countries by the Church.

Because in Eastern Rome, the power of Constans II was very heavy.

He can appoint everything in the church, he can control the church.

In other countries, it's the church that's in control.

Any theory that is inconsistent with the Church's philosophy is a fallacy.

The Church ruled the West for hundreds of years.

This dark period is called the Middle Ages.

And now, it was just the beginning of the Middle Ages.

If Anna wasn't a princess, not in Eastern Rome.

Based on these questions of hers alone, I am afraid that she would have been regarded as a heretic by the church a long time ago and burned alive.

In the face of Anna's question, Li Su combined the concept of later generations, and similarly, gave her in-depth analysis in simple terms.

And Li Su's analysis is tantamount to lightning for Anna.

Cut through the layers of fog in front of her.

It always makes her feel a sense of sudden enlightenment.

And the erudition of the city lord of Huaxia City made her heart broken.

Over the years she had been growing up, there had been a lot of problems that had plagued her.

And the people around her are always like flies, constantly running to him to offer their courtesy.

But in the face of these people, she did not have the slightest interest.

She was only interested in knowledge and philosophical issues.

However, she is a princess, she is a nobleman.

She had to perfunctory these people.

And her questions, her doubts, these people, have never been given even a few questions.

Even the learned clergy of the church could not explain his doubts.

Moreover, some clergy always thought that her ideas were very dangerous and contrary to the purpose of the doctrine.

For those doctrines, you just need to follow them, so why are they questioned?

This idea is already close to that of the infidels.

And Li Su's appearance is equivalent to a light in the dark for her.

pointed out the way forward for her and solved her layers of doubts.

However, at the same time, it is also the beginning of new troubles.

Because, as the doubts are solved one by one, more incomprehensions appear.

She is a very knowledgeable person, so she is naturally able to judge right from wrong.

The more she knew, the more she felt that many aspects of the doctrine were wrong.

And, there are some mistakes, which are fundamentally wrong.

This kind of realization will make her feel very painful.

Could it be that all the teachings she had believed in since she was a child were wrong?

This is the faith she has cultivated since she was a child.

This made her very conflicted.

Because of this, even her teacher Li Su, in her eyes, has changed a layer of color.

In her eyes, her teacher Li Su seemed to have turned into the devil.

In the Garden of Eden, the apple is constantly tempting her to make mistakes.

But she knew very well in her heart that in fact, the devil was right.

That apple is the real result!

She was now pounced on the lamp step by step, like a moth.

Li Su is very busy, of course he doesn't have time to pay attention to this little girl every day, he is thinking about something.

He has a lot of things to do.

Of course, it is impossible to develop these twenty mining areas at the same time.

They don't have that much energy, and they don't have that much manpower.

They are planning to develop five mines in advance.

These five mines are not the richest in mineral deposits, but the most suitable geographical conditions and the closest to the wharf.

For example, the dock requested by Li Su, the consul ordered someone to repair it, and there was no need for Huaxia City to do it.

This is also their return for the favor and the return of Li Su's friendship.

There are also five places where the mines are located, and now they have all become the concessions of Huaxia City.

These places are all decided by the managers of Huaxia City.

The people of Eastern Rome in these five places were in a state of panic.

Originally, they lived well, but they didn't expect to suddenly change their owners now.

In the future, you must listen to the words of the new master from Huaxia City.

What should they do if the new owner abuses them?

Fortunately, after the establishment of the concession, their new owners did not have any new requirements for the time being.

With the preparation for the development of the mine, there are already many people from Huaxia City stationed in the mountain.

After a few days of mapping, they started recruiting.

The conditions for recruiting workers are that they are in charge of eating three meals a day, and their wages are ten copper coins a day.

With such a salary, Li Su naturally inquired.

There are so few jobs here, and there are many people who are willing to work.

Therefore, the wages are very cheap.

Five copper coins a day is already considered a high wage.

Well, the currencies used here are gold, silver and copper.

After coming here, Li Su could only settle in their currency.

Such conditions make the local people a little unbelievable.

You know, their highest wage here is only five copper coins a day, or the kind that doesn't care about food.

And now what about people?

He took care of three meals a day, and was paid ten copper coins.

Is there really such a good thing?

They always have a sense of disbelief and unreality.

However, they don't want to miss such an opportunity.

So, people started signing up.

In the first batch, they enrolled only more than 500 people.

Soon, after a brief training, the group began to mine in the mountains.

When it was still dark, the men came down the mountain in high spirits.

In each person's hand, he held ten sweaty copper coins.

It seems that they were really paid ten copper coins each.

"Hey, what's the job on which mountain? You must be tired! They must have treated you like cattle, otherwise how could they have paid you such a high salary? ”

"Am I right? If you work slowly, you will definitely be beaten, haha, I know, such a high salary, where is it so easy to earn! ”

"Haha, lame, you're wrong! That's a good job! I'm not tired at all, I don't say anything, the food is fine! If you don't believe me, ask them! Look at what I said, if it's true! ”