Seeing Zhang Liu's victory, Yang Congyi exhaled deeply, Fang Cai was really dangerous, if it wasn't for his exclamation, the Dao Chief would not only be defeated, but also inevitably injured.

After a long struggle, the winner was finally decided, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but the defeat of the Seljuk warriors made them unhappy.

At this time, the happiest person in the field was not Zhang Liu, who won, nor Yang Congyi, who was worried, but Lord Huang who was watching the battle from the sidelines.

As soon as the competition ended, Lord Huang immediately came to the field, smiling, difficult to control, and laughed loudly: "I'm sorry, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty have crossed the sea, and it is difficult to adapt to your country. In this competition, my Song soldiers won, it's a fluke, you don't have to care, if you still want to have a competition, there are not many people in the mission, and you can find a few more, I don't know what you think? ”

The interpreter explained to the guests, and Lord Huang said apologies in his mouth, but his face was not half embarrassed, and he was clearly very happy. The Warriors who played for Seljuk lost two games in a row, although they had little to do with them, but their faces were a little unbearable.

The envoy of the Great Song Dynasty said that those who came with him were not elite, obviously not the truth, how could there be a reason to go out without the most powerful warriors, the Great Song Kingdom could inherit the land of the powerful Tang Dynasty, and it seemed that the real power was not bad, thinking of this, everyone felt better.

Moreover, it is said that Lin'an, the capital of the Great Song Kingdom, has a population of one million, which is about to catch up with a small half of the entire Seljuk population, and it is speculated that the population of the entire Great Song Kingdom is likely to be forty or fifty million.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the contest. We continued to listen to music and drink tea. Lord Huang smiled and then sat down in the middle of the field.

Zhang Liu withdrew from the hall with Yang Congyi, and the unfortunate defeated Seljuk warriors also left.

Soon after, the monk took the little novice back to the hall to make tea, share tea, invite the guests to smell the fragrance and taste the tea, the singer also came to the hall with the guqin in her arms, sat aside and played the elegant and quiet oriental qin music.

In the sound of the piano and the fragrance of tea, everyone gradually returned to calm.

After a cup of fragrant tea, Lord Huang said loudly: "Huang has been in your country for almost a month, since the king's birthday has passed, I will leave the royal capital in a few days, return to the port, and wait for the monsoon to go east and return to the Great Song Dynasty." ”

After a pause, after the translator finished speaking, he continued: "I invite you to come to the banquet today, first, to thank you for your hospitality and love over the past few days, second, to take this opportunity to introduce you to the Great Song Dynasty cuisine and oriental tea ceremony, and third, to take this opportunity to give you two exquisite clothes, one in the style of the Great Song Dynasty and one in the style of your country, I hope you can like it, if you don't like it, you can go to the Great Song Dynasty to ensure that you are satisfied." ”

After finishing the translation, he said: "Huang came to Seljuk this time, also on the orders of my Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and has other matters. My Great Song Kingdom is located in the East, inheriting the land of the Tang Dynasty, the land is vast and rich, rich in products, hundreds of years ago, the East and the West have land connections, and can also communicate with each other, but the northern grassland barbarians do not respect the number of courtesies, forcibly cut off the east-west passage, so that the Great Song Kingdom and your country can not get in touch from the land. If my guess is correct, the great power to the north of your country was driven from the eastern steppe after being defeated by the Great Song Kingdom. ”

After the translation, he said again: "It's far away, let's get back to business, and continue to talk about the errand that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty gave me." After the passage on land was cut off by the home country in the east of your country, the Great Song Dynasty had no contact with your country for a long time, so Huang led a huge fleet to find a way to connect the countries of the Western Regions by sea. Presumably you already know that this time the Great Song Dynasty fleet came to your country and brought dozens of ships of oriental products, exquisite silk, beautiful porcelain, and fragrant tea in your hands, these are the best things in the Great Song Kingdom. ”

After a short pause to explain, he continued: "It's not easy to come to Seljuk, there are not only terrible storms on the sea, but also murderous robbers. Silk aside, this is unique to the East, the clothes you wear can be sewn with silk, just said, our garment craftsmen have used silk to sew two exquisite clothes for you, and I will give them to you later. As for porcelain, what you hold in your hands and put in front of you is a kind of porcelain, called tea sets, and Song Dynasty porcelain covers all aspects of life, as long as you can think of it, you can use it, and it is an indispensable thing for life. ”

After the translation, the recommendation continued: "Speaking of this tea, the tea soup in your hands is made from a kind of roasted and dried oriental leaves brewed with boiling water, this kind of secret leaves, we call tea, when drinking, with boiling water. You all like to eat meat, and after eating meat, your mouth is greasy, and it is really a pleasure to have a cup of fragrant tea at this time. Well, the main specialties brought this time are silk, porcelain, and tea, and if you need it, the fleet is in a port six hundred miles away, and we can exchange it for goods of equal value, whether it be spices, medicinal herbs, jewelry, or gold and silver, and we will promise not to treat you badly. It's rare for us to come once, the cargo is limited, and when the west wind is blowing, we have to return immediately, so hurry up. ”

Then he sent them an invitation: "The Great Song fleet is huge, smooth sailing, don't stop halfway, you can return to the Great Song Dynasty safely within half a year, if you want to go to the Great Song Dynasty to see, you are welcome to rush to the port before the fleet leaves, take our ship to the Great Song Dynasty, to the Great Song Dynasty, Huang will definitely entertain you well." ”

Lord Huang's words were in line with the meaning of the guests, they came to this banquet not to do a business with the Great Song fleet, or to follow or take the Great Song fleet to the Great Song Dynasty, and there was nothing else. Of course, it is not excluded that some people come to the banquet for other purposes.

The guests were very happy to hear Lord Huang's words, and many people immediately wanted to discuss material trade with him.

Lord Huang never participated in the return to the exchange, where would he understand this, so he politely refused, telling them that there was a special Song official in charge of the return to the port in charge of the return, and when they went to the port, if necessary, he would help you introduce you and get the best goods.

Hearing this, all the guests gave up.

At the same time, several guests expressed their desire to go to the Great Song Dynasty with the Great Song fleet, and asked Huang if he could stay in Baghdad for a few more days, and when they were ready for a while, they would go to the port with the mission.

Lord Huang didn't agree immediately, so he said that he would consider the itinerary, and whether it was okay or not, he would send someone to inform them.

At the end of the feast, more than 30 singers and dancers walked into the hall with silk clothes in their hands and handed them to their hosts one by one.

The guests received the exquisite clothes from the hands of the Oriental beauty, smiling and smiling, their eyes were misty, and it was difficult to control themselves.

This scene of the beauty giving clothes is estimated to be a beautiful memory that they will never forget in their lives.

The guests were satisfied and a little disappointed, and left one by one, and the mission banquet for nearly two hours ended successfully.

Huang was very happy to be able to hold such a banquet under such harsh conditions, and immediately promised all the members of the mission that each of them would be rewarded with five gold coins and twenty silver coins.

This huge reward fell from the sky, and everyone was ecstatic.

The weight of a gold coin is nearly one tael of gold, and five gold coins are five taels of gold, and when you return to the Great Song Dynasty, you can exchange at least two hundred yuan for money, and twenty silver coins can also be exchanged for forty or fifty yuan, which is equivalent to earning two hundred and fifty yuan in three days.

For ordinary Xuanwei soldiers, this is a huge income that they can't imagine, and with this money, it is not a problem to return to their hometown to build a house and marry a wife.

To say that the most income this time, it belongs to the thirty-two singers and dancers, since the departure from Lin'an, they have spent most of their time on the boat, and there are only a handful of places they have been, and the rewards are even fewer, but this time they came to Seljuk is different, although they only participated in the king's birthday performance, but the king's reward for them is very rich, Lord Huang is not greedy, those rewards are an average of one point, and they return to the Great Song Dynasty to sell, and each person can get no less than three thousand yuan.

This is really a huge amount of money for them, with this money, as long as they are not registered official concubines, they can completely redeem themselves, change their faces, and then find an honest family to marry, and live a stable life from now on.

After rewarding the members of the mission, Lord Huang left the singers and dancers behind and told them the good news that they had been dreaming of. In view of their wonderful performances in Seljuk, when he returned to the Great Song Dynasty, he would ask the emperor to restore the status and freedom of all of them as commoners, so that they could live and move freely from now on.

This was undoubtedly the best news for them, and when it was confirmed that the news was true, they hugged each other and cried, tears sparkling their makeup, and they didn't care.

They collected their minds and left, and the next batch of rewards came.

The thirty elites of the Xuanwei Army who were rewarded this time, their previous military performances, were also very outstanding, showing the courage and military might of the Great Song Dynasty's strong army, so each of them was rewarded with ten gold coins.

Everyone just got five gold coins, and now they have ten more, and today is really a big profit, which is the money they couldn't think of before, and they can't earn a lifetime as a soldier, but they didn't expect it to arrive in their hands overnight, and they immediately thanked them.

That night, Lord Huang called Yang Congyi and Zhang Liu again.

The performance of the two of them tonight made Lord Huang and the Great Song Kingdom very long-faced, and the Great Song Dynasty, which has always been militarily weak, was able to exalt his might in a foreign land, and fiercely rubbed the sharpness of the Seljuks after unifying many countries, and this credit was all due to the two of them. Yang Congyi was originally an officer, and fighting and winning battles were all things he should do, but if he can defeat a foreign warrior, he should also be rewarded, and Zhang Liu, as an entourage, can fight a foreign warrior, and if he can win, he should be rewarded. Therefore, each of them was given a hundred gold coins.

After receiving the reward and walking out of Lord Huang's room, Zhang Liu suddenly said, "Lord Yang, I want to follow you in the future and not return to the mountain for the time being." ”

Yang Congyi didn't ask why, smiled indifferently, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder.