Because he was very interested in the Great Song Dynasty, but as the king, it was impossible for him to leave Fatilla, so he wanted to send his children, grandchildren and ministers to follow Yang Congyi to the Great Song Dynasty, meet the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and learn from him the way of military and political theory by the way, and find out why the East can govern the country and the people, but Fatila is bullied by other countries everywhere, the land is robbed, and riots are everywhere.

Yang Congyi could not answer these questions of the old king of Faiz, as for his desire to send people to the Great Song Dynasty with the ship, he warmly welcomed them, and it was a great merit for the foreigners to enter Lin'an to congratulate, and he was naturally happy, and whether he could come back or not was not what he cared about.

The old king also revealed some news that he had not known before in his chat with Yang Congyi, such as Fatila and Seljuk are hostile countries, Seljuk have robbed them of a large area of land in the east over the years, and the Crusaders have also occupied a lot of their land, and the whole Fatila is now like a piece of precious frankincense, and everyone wants to come and grab a piece of it.

The complexity of the situation here is still beyond Yang Congyi's imagination, the black-clothed food, the green-clothed food, the white-clothed food, and the crusaders, etc., many hostile forces converge, and if you don't pay attention to it, it is not a good thing for the fleet to provoke any party.

And in the current situation, it is also easy for war to break out here, once several countries go to war, it is not impossible to hurt the Great Song fleet.

Originally, it was planned to set up a Huiyi stronghold in East Africa, but now it seems that it is not appropriate, religious wars are frequent here, the situation is too complicated, and the non-religious Great Song people stay here for a long time, which is to die, Yang Congyi directly dispelled this idea and no longer considered it.

The fleet is still simply to make some money, to come when you want, to leave when you want, without leaving a tail or worry.

Half a month later, Adira shipped the first batch of Da Song goods to Cairo and sold them directly in the city for twice the purchase price.

The people of Cairo, who had never seen the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, had no resistance to fine silk and smooth and beautiful porcelain.

The first shipments to Cairo were exchanged for the gold that Adira had brought with him, unlike the others who were still waiting for their family to raise money and goods to send to them, and he fought a time difference to make a quick buck and then hoard more goods.

After his goods were sold out in Cairo in three days, he hurried to the camp of the Great Song Dynasty with the gold and silver earned from the first shipment and the money and goods raised by his family.

The Huiyi camp by the sea gradually became busy, and the merchants who had been waiting there for a long time finally waited for their money and goods, and then counted them one by one, and began to trade with the Great Song fleet.

The news that a batch of goods in front of them was selling hot in Cairo stimulated them fiercely, since they can't fight for speed, let's fight for quantity.

As a result, many people pressed almost all their net worth, gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and various spices and perfumes, all of which were exchanged for the goods of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the Huiyi camp, the young people trained by the "business office" quickly got started under the leadership of Lu You, and according to the unified trading standards, they started trading with the Fatila people, collecting money and inspecting the goods, purchasing and shipping, and they were handy in a few days.

As the money and goods they raised arrived, the camp became busier and busier, and the manpower became more and more insufficient.

When the news reached Cairo, Yang Congyi ordered Pan Cheng to lead 700 men out of Cairo and return to the Huiyi camp to assist in the trade, while he himself remained in Cairo.

If the fleet does not leave, it is not easy for him to leave at will as an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, with him in Cairo, he has something to do with the fleet and negotiate with the old king of Faiz in time, not to mention that it is still a long time before the fleet leaves here, once he leaves, and then wants to come to Cairo, it is not very easy to do, for now, if there are no special circumstances, staying in Cairo is the best choice.

Cairo is an ancient city with a history of thousands of years, and it is also one of the largest cities in the entire Mediterranean coast and the Arab region, as far as the Arab region is concerned, it is estimated that Baghdad, the capital of the Seljuk Kingdom, can compete with it, such a prosperous ancient city for thousands of years, there are few in the world, even the Great Song Dynasty can not be found, it is worth taking a good look.

So on days when he didn't go to the palace or socialize, Yang Congyi, under the joint escort of the guards of the two countries, took Meng Yunniang around the streets and alleys of Cairo, no matter what interesting places he encountered, he had to go and see, of course, there was one exception, that is, the church.

No matter how old Cairo is, it's boring to stay there for a long time.

The mission stayed in Cairo for a long time, and in the first month of their arrival in Cairo, the old king invited Yang Congyi into the palace more frequently, and then it became less and less, and Yang Congyi also had more time to socialize with others, and at the same time had more time to arrange for himself. From the third month onwards, when the party was almost done, he proposed to the old king that he wanted to go to the rest of Fatilla, and he gladly agreed, and even sent a minister and a few hundred guards to accompany him.

Subsequently, Yang Congyi and Meng Yunniang left Cairo accompanied by Fathira officials and the escorts of the two countries, and headed along the direction of the Nile towards the Mediterranean coast.

The Nile Delta, the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, the agriculture is quite developed, because it is the Mediterranean coast, commerce and trade are also very developed, every city that passes through can see a lot of industrial and commercial people, in the Great Song Dynasty only a few big cities have such a strong industrial and commercial atmosphere.

According to the accompanying officials, the businessmen of Fathira bear a lot of taxes, but they are still willing to do business, because making money in business is always faster than growing grain, and although there will be some risks, they are completely able to bear it. In fact, there is another reason, which the accompanying officials did not say, that is, Fatila has too many people, and there is too little land suitable for farming, and the landless people do not do business, what do they eat?

From the estuary to the shore of the Mediterranean, along the way, the business atmosphere of the common people has become more and more intense, almost to the extent that no one does business.

Yang Congyi and Meng Yunniang saw dense merchant ships in the coastal port, in and out, very busy, busier than the busiest Mingzhou port in the Great Song Dynasty, the ships entered the port quickly, and the port left the port quickly, unloading and loading can be completed on the same day, and the efficiency is not known how many times higher than that of the Great Song Seaport.

In the port, Yang Congyi saw the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, which were loaded onto small single-sail merchant ships or double-sail merchant ships, and when the goods were full, they sailed out of the port and quickly disappeared into the vast sea.

Yang Congyi pretended to be surprised by such a scene, and asked the accompanying officials to explain, where were they going to transport the goods of the Great Song Dynasty?

The official immediately explained that the ships in this port came from many countries along the Mediterranean coast, and he didn't know how many there were, but it was estimated that there were more than a dozen countries, and it was not clear where they were transported, and that some of the merchant ships that went to sea were from other countries, and some of them were themselves, and that the purpose of going to sea to trade was to make money, and that the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty were so good, no matter who wanted them, it was not uncommon to ship them anywhere.

Later, Yang Congyi was more interested in the selling price of the Great Song Dynasty goods at the port, and asked the accompanying officials to help inquire.

Not long after, the other party gave a reply, Yang Congyi was shocked, the price of silk and porcelain in the port was already three times the price of the Great Song fleet, and it was shipped to other countries a few days later, and it was not a problem to increase it by three or five times.

After spending some time in the port, Mr. Yang said he was interested in the busy sea area and asked the officials accompanying him to help him find a map or chart.

The official readily agreed, and soon took a more detailed map of the Mediterranean Sea from the hand of a small merchant, and the countries, cities, and ports along the coast were all clearly marked.

Yang Congyi thanked him after receiving the map, but the officials accompanying him said that such maps are everywhere, and people who go to sea have a copy for each, and they are not worthy of thanks.

But Yang Congyi still thanked him, although this map is useless to him, but it is not necessarily for others, maybe in the future, the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty will go further, then more charts and maps will be needed, with such a map as support, the map he took out will be more convincing, and it will not arouse suspicion.

After spending some time in a town near the port, the group slowly returned to Cairo.

After Yang Congyi returned to Cairo, the embassy where the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty settled was once again open to the noble ministers of Fatilla, and some big businessmen also entered the embassy under the recommendation of the nobles, hoping to get the opportunity to trade directly with the mission.

It wasn't until the arrival of the merchants that Yang Congyi knew that the opportunity to trade with the Great Song fleet had been monopolized by some high-ranking ministers of the Fathira Dynasty and some nobles a month ago, and set up many barriers between the Great Song Huiyi camp and Cairo, without their permission, it would be impossible for other merchants to reach the Huiyi camp, let alone trade.

And the way to obtain their permission was to hand over 30% of the goods traded from the Great Song fleet.

Without their permission, even if they carried gold and silver through the desert to the Huiyi camp and successfully traded with the Great Song fleet, their goods would not be transported back to Cairo or other cities, because any bulk cargo transportation would not be possible without taking the main road, and the main road was full of their patrolling troops.

Yang Congyi never thought that Fatila's magnates were so arrogant, he had never encountered this situation in the Tianzhu region and Seljuk, let alone heard of it, if it was normal to pay business taxes, it was understandable, so openly robbed, but it was very unacceptable.

They blocked the way and divided the thirty percent of the goods purchased by the merchants, which seemed to have nothing to do with the fleet, but in fact it was detrimental to the fleet, if they were so arrogant, the merchants were unwilling to cooperate, then who would the dozens of ships brought by the fleet be sold to? Can a bunch of powerful people buy all the cargo of the fleet?