Although painting is troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is fortunate that you can clearly express your meaning and understand the intentions of both parties.

The meeting lasted two hours, and through the pictures, Yang Congyi made the other party understand the intention of the huge fleet to come here, as well as his lofty status as an envoy of the Great Song Kingdom, once he traveled, he represented the entire Great Song Kingdom, representing the meaning of the imperial court and the emperor. Also, after he repeated his name over and over again, the other party was finally able to call out his name in broken Chinese.

And Yang Congyi also learned from the other party's drawings that this elder is indeed a very noble person, the king's younger brother, his official position is estimated to be equivalent to the Great Song Dynasty household squire or Shangshu, and he also has an army in his hands, and the people stationed in the villages and towns behind him are his people, his name is Adira. At the same time, I also knew that the country he was in was called Fatima, and the land area was also very large.

The two sides agreed that the mission would leave tomorrow and rush to the capital together, and after meeting the king, they could start a bargain.

Just after the meeting, Yang Congyi gave the other party a cart of exquisite gifts, including silk, tea and porcelain, and even finely made fans, wood carvings and stone carvings.

That night, Yang Congyi sent someone to send back the news that he had contacted the high-ranking officials of the Fatima Kingdom, and asked them to guard the camp and fleet and wait for news from the mission.

The next day, when the sun rose, the mission set up camp and marched north under the escort of Adira's army.

After two days of walking on dry red earth, the team reached the humid, verdant Nile Delta, the richest region of the Fatimid country.

Turning southwest for three days, the mission eventually reached Cairo, the capital near the mouth of the Nile.

When they entered the city, the Great Song delegation was greeted with unprecedented warmth, and even King Faiz himself walked out of the palace and came to the city to welcome visitors from afar.

Due to the tiring journey of Yang Congyi and the others, the mission was first arranged to rest in the embassy hall in the city, and the escort army was accompanied by a small number of escorts, and the others camped in the places designated by the other party outside Cairo.

After resting for three days, Adila came to the embassy where the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty settled every day to meet Yang Congyi.

Yang Congyi could only use his limited Arabic to engage in very in-depth small talk with the other party, and when it came to more complex substantive issues, he could only communicate through pictures, which was laborious and laborious.

In this regard, Adira also thought of a way to find someone who understood the Great Song dialect in the entire city of Cairo, but naturally found nothing.

Yang Congyi and others are the first batch of Great Song people to come here, and it is difficult for the Great Cannibal in the Great Song Dynasty to come back, rather than spending seven or eight years on the sea adventure, it is better to stay in the Great Song Dynasty and live well.

Even if there is no one in Cairo who understands the language of the Great Song Dynasty, it does not affect the communication between Adira and Yang Congyi, in fact, they talk about goods and transactions the most, and these contents are also the main topics of Yang Congyi and the Seljuks before, so it is not a problem to talk about these.

One morning three days later, the mission, accompanied by Adira, entered the palace with dozens of carts of exquisite gifts and handed over the letters of the Great Song Dynasty, hoping that the Great Song Dynasty could establish permanent good relations with the Fatila Kingdom and become a friendly country.

Fathira is now very passive, having been robbed of a lot of land by several countries in the east, and now there are big countries in the east to make friends, and King Faiz is very happy.

So he ordered a banquet of great standard to be set up in the royal palace, and summoned the ministers to the banquet, and celebrated for three days, with endless food, singing and dancing.

The dancers and singers brought by the Great Song Dynasty envoys shined in the palace banquet, the gorgeous silk skirts and beautiful oriental dance music attracted everyone's attention, and from the moment they appeared, their spirits were taken away, even if the local dancers and singers were extremely hot and unrestrained, it was difficult to touch their hearts.

The gorgeous silk of the Great Song Dynasty left a deep impression on the ministers and nobles of the Fatila Kingdom who went to the banquet, and they asked around for the time being.

After obtaining the consent of King Faiz, Yang Congyi decided to give each of the participants in the banquet a fine silk unique to the Orient.

When King Faiz announced the news in public, all the ministers and nobles were overjoyed, and they all stood up to bless Allah the envoys and the Great Song Dynasty.

This is a joyful banquet, this is a celebratory banquet, the Great Song Dynasty mission brought exquisite products from the mysterious East, and they gave the warmest hospitality, the most sincere blessings.

Before the end of the banquet, Yang Congyi, as the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, personally announced to everyone that the purpose of the Great Song envoy to Fatila was to exchange goods and exchange with each other.

At the same time, he told them that those who were interested in trading could go to the embassy where the mission settled for specific consultation and consultation.

At the end of the banquet, Yang Congyi returned to the embassy with the entourage of the mission, and many ministers and nobles followed, eager to trade directly with the mission and take what they wanted.

Among those people, the most sought after for the goods of the Great Song Dynasty was Adira, and among all of them, only he was the most familiar with the Great Song envoy Yang Congyi, so the first transaction was undoubtedly given to him.

He wanted the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty very much, and the only things he could exchange for were pearls, coral, agate, jade, gold coins, and coins, including musk, rose, lotus essence, dry tea, saffron, camphor, frankincense, and of course, finished perfume.

After staying in Cairo for a few days, Yang Congyi also went to the street, and there were spice shops everywhere in the shops on the street, which had a wide variety of spices, all kinds of spices were very common, and most of them were sold cheaply, so the value of these spices was repeatedly depressed by Yang Congyi.

He told the Fatila people that in the Great Song Dynasty in the East, neither men nor women had the habit of applying spices and perfumes to their bodies, and they couldn't make any money by trying to transport them back.

Adira and other Fatila ministers did not question Yang Congyi's words, because they really couldn't smell any spices and perfumes on the Great Song mission, and even the Great Song women who performed songs and dances at the king's banquet to lure their minds away, and the spices and perfumes did not seem to please the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Congyi suggested that it was best for them to exchange gold, silver, coral, pearls, agate, jade and other valuable things for the Great Song Dynasty, of course, if these things are not much, they can also be exchanged for spices and perfumes, but the value is lower and they can't exchange many things.

As far as he knows, the value of the Great Song Dynasty goods in the Persian Gulf is more than five times higher than here, and the value of the goods transported to the Mediterranean coast is even higher, and he is also more aware of the value of gems, spices and other goods compared with the value of the Great Song Dynasty goods.

Therefore, in the end, Yang Congyi set a lower reference price for various corals, pearls, agate, and gemstones, and the exchange value of various spices and perfumes was two or three percent higher than the local retail price, so as to secretly guide them to exchange more spices and perfumes for Song Dynasty goods, rather than using coral, gems and other valuables that are difficult to consume.

Within a day, Yang Congyi, as an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, signed dozens of contracts of intent on behalf of the fleet.

On the morning of the second day after the contract was signed, the Fatila people who signed the contract of intent to trade, accompanied by Luo Cong, the representative of the Great Song Mission, hurried to the Red Sea, where the Great Song fleet was located.

As for their own convoy and goods, if they want to organize them, it will take a lot of time, at least half a month they will not be able to collect gold, silver and goods of the same value as the Great Song goods they want, the Great Song fleet will stay here for a long time, they are not too anxious.

Yang Congyi asked Luo Cong to bring back a letter from him, which detailed the situation in Fathira and Cairo, as well as the customs and folklore here, as well as various common and valuable local specialties, such as a variety of spices and perfumes, and also attached a reference price for various items.

Since the first group of people left Cairo with the representatives of the mission, there were fewer courtiers and nobles who came to the embassy to visit later, and the fanatical ones had already gone, and the latter ones were not so determined, and many people were still waiting, they were still worried, worried that the things of the Great Song Dynasty would not be popular among the common people.

Yang Congyi doesn't care about this, Da Song's things are absolute bestsellers anywhere in the world, and there will be no exceptions. Moreover, the trade of goods is not carried out in the embassy, he has already told them before, the fleet is on the east coast, and those who have the intention to trade can go by themselves, he is just here to answer some questions, and by the way, sign a few contracts of intent, there is no contract to trade, but those who have a contract in their hands have priority to trade, that's all.

King Faiz was very interested in the Great Song Dynasty, a great country in the East, and invited Yang Congyi into the palace many times to learn from him about the customs and customs of the Great Song Dynasty and military and political affairs.

Yang Congyi was also willing to have a good relationship with the king, and was invited to the palace again and again to tell him about the Great Song Dynasty, the customs and history of the great eastern countries, from the Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, and then to the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Great Song Dynasty. It is said that the Han and Tang dynasties have a vast land area, and can directly connect the Fathira area from the land, hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of Fatila can still walk to Chang'an City, the capital of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty in the East, and now there are several big countries between the east and the west to block the road, the land route has been blocked, and the east and west can only venture to take the sea and land, the Great Song Dynasty mission from the Great Song Dynasty came to the Song Dynasty and walked for several years, and finally came here, which is not easy.

King Faiz agreed, and several countries to the east of Fathira were indeed very domineering, not only blocking the way, but also grabbing Fathira land.