Political discussions are interrupted, and the banquet continues.

But as long as there are many people, how can there be a reason to only eat and drink and not speak, as long as you speak, there will always be questions and discussions, so you will soon start to discuss again.

However, this time the discussion is no longer about national affairs, but about returning to change.

The people who attended the welcome banquet were either high-ranking officials and ministers with great power, or royal nobles, either rich or noble, and the wealth in their hands had been accumulated for many years, and there was not much in the Seljuk territory that was worth buying, and they had everything that could be obtained with power or money, but they could not buy the specialties of the East.

Because the land route to the east is blocked by several countries, and the sea route is thousands of miles, it takes a long time, the risk is extremely high, and even if a merchant successfully returns, he can't bring back much things, and in the blink of an eye, it is swallowed by more powerful people, and the vast majority of people can't see it at all.

Eight years ago, the batch of goods brought by the Great Song Fleet, after several years of export trade and consumption, except for a few people who still have a small amount of inventory in their hands, keep it for their own use, and no one will sell it in the market.

At the banquet, everyone rushed to ask the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty how much silk, tea and porcelain they brought this time, how much they could trade with them, what things they could trade, and whether they could reach a deal immediately and go to the beach to deliver it immediately.....

They had a lot of questions, Yang Congyi answered them one by one, and gave them an answer, saying that the goods brought this time were not less than last time, and all of them could be used for trading, as long as there were enough gold, silver and goods, there was no upper limit to the transaction, and he also specially explained that the goods that could be exchanged with the fleet also included means of transportation and horses.

Yang Congyi saw the Seljuk horses, although they were not large, they were docile, had good stamina, and could be seen to have good discipline during the march, even if they were temporarily resting, they would not run around at will, and generally stood in place and maintained their formation. Truth be told, he liked the horses here, and even though he was traveling thousands of miles across the ocean, he wanted to take the risk of bringing some merchant ships with him, in case they made it back alive?

When everyone heard that the trade was unrestricted, they were overjoyed, and they all smiled, secretly calculated, and eagerly hoped that the banquet would end soon, so that they could rush to the beach at once, and be the first to trade with the Great Song fleet and select the best goods.

However, the old king did not want to let them go, and in the middle of the feast, a group of hot women in thin clothes, covered with silk scarves, * arms, and bare waist and legs entered the banquet hall, and after a little preparation, their song and dance performance began.

Together with the music, all the women danced, their soft arms stretched, their waists were light, their feet were spinning, their clothes were flying, their youthful breath was blowing, and the boundless scenery came to their faces, which made everyone's blood spurt out, and their mouths were dry, but they were still reluctant to take their eyes off for half a minute.

Dance after dance, I don't know how long it took for the group of Seljuk women to retreat.

Without waiting for everyone to recover from the dancing posture of the departing women, they drank a sip of soup and water to moisten their dry throats, and another group of beautiful Oriental women in bright and beautiful clothes, showing their true faces, slowly walked into the banquet hall, they either held musical instruments in their arms, or held ribbons, and some women followed behind with empty hands.

After a little preparation, the music was together, and the song and dance with oriental charm were immediately displayed in front of everyone.

Although the Oriental Dancer is not as scantily dressed as the local dancers, the beautiful dancing posture, accompanied by beautiful music and flying ribbons, makes everyone feel relaxed and happy, and they can't help but relax, shake their heads, indulge in it, and suddenly don't know the passage of time.

After a few songs and dances, everyone was completely quiet, only to feel comfortable, and most of the distracting thoughts were removed.

The dancers and singers retreated, and the banquet finally came to an end.

When the banquet was over, Yang Congyi walked out of the palace with the delegation, and a group of people who had just attended the banquet immediately surrounded him and asked about the transaction of goods.

But the scene was so chaotic that the interpreter couldn't even hear the problem clearly, let alone translate.

Yang Congyi could only tell everyone that starting tomorrow, they could go to the embassy where the Great Song Mission was located, where he would answer everyone's questions one by one and help them solve some trading problems.

For more than a month after that, Yang Congyi kept attending banquets held by the Seljuk princes and nobles and important ministers of the dynasty, talking to them about the mysterious East, the Liao Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty, but the most talked about was the trade and the Hui fleet.

Before, they wanted to go east, and go to the more prosperous Great Song Dynasty to see with their own eyes, but they did not make the trip for various reasons, and now they saw the Great Song Dynasty delegation coming west again with the fleet, and the fire of curiosity in their hearts was ignited again.

However, eight years ago, the Seljuk mission that went east with the Great Song Dynasty fleet, on the way back, the fleet encountered wind and waves, and sank on the coast of Tianzhu, except for two retinues who floated to the coast and survived, everyone else was buried in the sea.

In the end, the vast majority of them just talked casually, and did not have the determination to go out and take risks, after all, they can enjoy life while alive, once they are shipwrecked at sea, they are really dead and lifeless on the vast sea, anyway, they have money and power, is it not good to live?

Of course, it was good to be alive, especially the first princes and nobles who traded goods from the Great Song fleet, and when their carriages loaded with silk, tea, and porcelain appeared in the Baghdad market, the onlookers and small merchants immediately blocked the streets.

Those princes and nobles who got the goods of the Great Song Dynasty were surrounded by everyone in the bustling street market, like the stars holding the moon, and when they rose, they couldn't help but pick up their favorite goods and show them to their relatives and friends who came to greet them in public.

One of the most eye-catching is the porcelain with an aqua blue pattern, no matter how big or small, it will always make people shine and love it.

These exquisite porcelains are all from the official kilns, all from the most skilled craftsmen, from the strict firing process, even the Great Song people are difficult to find any flaws, let alone the Seljuks, they only have empty hands of envy, or infinite joy in their hands.

The first batch of porcelain sold in the Baghdad street shops was quickly snapped up by the people, and then some people raised the price and continued to put it on the market, and it was soon sold out again.

Among them, the most popular is the large porcelain with a body size of more than one foot, and this kind of porcelain is also the most difficult to burn paper successfully, and the price is naturally not cheap, but even if the price is high, it cannot resist the enthusiasm of the Seljuk people to rush to buy.

The first group of people who transported the goods from the sea to Baghdad soon sold out the goods and made a lot of money, seeing that the later people raised the price and sold them, they were still snapped up by the people and small merchants, and suddenly began to blush and regret it, but in their hands except money, there was no more goods that could be exchanged, and they were reluctant to buy gold and silver from the fleet, after all, gold and silver were rare everywhere, and once they left, it would be difficult to get them back.

When they found Yang Congyi and complained about their distress, asked if they could be accommodating, buy a batch of goods on credit to them, and wait for the sale of the goods, make a lot of money, and divide the two sides fifty-fifty, Yang Congyi simply refused.

He told them that the goods of the fleet belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, and the rules of the transaction were not determined by him, and if there was no exchange of goods in his hand, and he did not want to buy directly with gold and silver, he could actually buy a batch of goods that could be traded with the fleet, such as blue ore and horses, these two things were a lot of Seljuks, and the price was not expensive, as long as the speed was fast enough, a batch could be purchased soon.

At the same time, Yang Congyi gave each of them a letter in his own handwriting, and if they wanted to trade, they would take their horses, ores, and letters, and go to the seaside to return to the Yi camp to find Lord Tang or Lu to join the army.

Half a month later, the first batch of horses was sent to the seashore by the merchant and returned to the Yi camp.

Tang Xun looked at Yang Congyi's handwritten letter, and without any hesitation, he directly asked the invited locals to classify the horses into upper, middle and lower grades, and evaluate the horses of each grade to set up horse trading standards.

The local horses, which were regarded as valuable and cherished property by the Seljuks, were short in stature, and they were a lot shorter than the fleet's own horses, so in the eyes of the Great Song people, they could not be compared with the Jin Kingdom and Western Xia war horses, and the price was naturally several times lower than their expectations.

The two sides have been entangled for a long time over the standard of horse trading, and neither can really convince anyone.

But the goods of the Great Song fleet are rare, miss this time, and if you want to buy it next time, I don't know what year and month you will have to wait, so in this confrontation, the fleet has an absolute advantage.

When the Huiyi fleet released the news, due to the thousands of miles away, the living creatures could not travel by sea for a long time, so in order to avoid excessive losses, only 500 horses were needed.

As soon as the news came out, the merchant who came to trade with the horse team could no longer care about the value, and hurriedly used the horses in his hand to complete the transaction with the fleet, because once the goods of the Great Song Dynasty in exchange were sold, they could also buy back several times the number of horses, and they did not lose money in this transaction, but they only made a part less than expected.

The merchants who traded with the fleet for the second time held the goods in their hands, and did not dare or want to sell them easily, they had already made a lot of money through the first batch of goods, and this batch of goods could be put into the warehouse, put them for a few years, and when the similar goods in the market were sold out, even if the price of their goods was doubled, they would definitely not worry about sales.

There were many merchants who had this idea, and the goods of the Great Song Dynasty for sale in the city of Baghdad gradually decreased, and at the same time, the prices became higher and higher, and the ordinary people and small merchants who did transshipment transactions could not afford them, and the dignitaries and merchants did not lack these things.

As a result, the sale of tea, porcelain, and silk cloth gradually stagnated, and the desire of ordinary people to buy soon decreased, because they could not even afford a small porcelain vase.