Rome is very great, although he also claims to be called the Great Qin, but the Eastern Great Qin does not necessarily have to help the Western Great Qin, even if there is a Luo character in the Roman Empire, so what.

"We can add money!"

Although the crown prince was young, he did not perform well at critical times, and he immediately came up with the old methods used against the enemies of Rome. The Eastern Romans were jokingly called the Defeat Court by later generations, and it is true that they were defeated by countless enemies for more than a thousand years, and they had to pay tribute.

Not to mention, even the Persians and the Avars fought again and again and forced Persia to donate money, and even cede land.

At first, they agreed to pay the Avars an annual tribute of 100,000 yuan in order to reach an armistice. But later, the Avars were not satisfied, and continued to plunder and harass, so Rome had to keep increasing the weight, 200,000, 300,000, and finally 500,000 gold coins a year.

Rome is now at the point of life and death, and Egypt, the traditional breadbasket of Rome, has been taken away by Persia, and Syria, a natural barrier of defense, has now been taken away by Persia, so that the empire has lost almost most of its territory on the east coast.

The trade route between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf was cut off by the Persians, so that now the Romans are really like ants on a hot pot, and the granaries and granaries cannot be kept, and the trade routes and trade routes cannot be saved.

Money bags and granaries are stuck, it's terrible.

If you fight a war, you get money, and if you don't have money, you don't have money to fight.

The longer it was choked, the more Rome could not hold on.

So now I can only ask Daqin for help.

Even if Great Qin can maintain the Silk Road on the northern front, then it can make Rome hang his life, if Great Qin can promise a truce with the Eastern Turks under the mediation of Rome, and no longer crusade against them in the west, then the Western Turks can also help them send troops from the Caucasus and become an important partial division to contain the Persian power.

What's more, in the face of the combined fleet of Persians, Slavs and Avars, as well as the armored cavalry of the Persians, the barbarian infantry of the Slavs, and the light cavalry of the Avars, Rome urgently needed more equipment.

"Crown prince, 500,000 gold coins are really not attractive. You know, last time, a small county under the South Dao of Zhenguang took about 2,000 people to attack the Linyi Kingdom that dared to fight against my Great Qin, and broke through the opponent's capital in one battle, and directly seized more than 100,000 catties of gold. ”

How much can a pound of gold be converted into Roman gold coins?

Six Roman gold coins are only about one tael, and one catty is sixteen taels, which can be exchanged for nearly a hundred. More than 100,000 catties, that is more than 10 million Roman gold coins.

The Roman prince was speechless, but he had heard about this matter many times after he arrived in Daqin, and even heard a lot of specific details, so there was no exaggeration in this matter.

But if you add more, Rome won't be able to come up with that much money.

The eight-year bloody civil war triggered by Scarford's murder of the monarch, and then his father fought almost every year after he ascended the throne, and he had been fighting for more than ten years. The Roman Empire has not stopped for more than 20 years, and it is almost empty.

But now it's time for life and death.

Kraft stepped forward.

"May I ask the respected Son of Heaven, what kind of conditions do Great Qin want for Great Qin to be willing to help Rome?"

"It's not impossible to help Rome, after all, you can't write two Luo characters with one stroke, you Rome was also called Daqin by us before, so our two countries are still very fateful." Luo Cheng first flickered a few words, and then slowly threw out his own conditions.

"In order to conclude friendship between the two countries, we can form an alliance."

Cui Junsu came to negotiate conditions with Kraft on behalf of the emperor at this time.

The two countries became allies and friendly to each other, and Rome paid an annual tribute of 660,000 gold coins and 880,000 silver coins to Great Qin. Emperor Heraclius of Rome sent the princess to the Central Plains to enter the Qin Palace to give the Son of Qin as a concubine, and the two countries were in harmony.

The two countries agreed that the Western Turks and the Khazar were the vassal vassals of Great Qin, and that Great Qin and Rome were bounded by the Caucasus Mountains to the south, Qin to the north, and Rome to the south. The east and west are bounded by the Black Sea, and the east coast of the Black Sea belongs to Qin.

To the east and west, it is bounded by the Volga River and the Don River.

The west belongs to Rome, and the east belongs to Daqin.

The most surprising aspect of this condition, in addition to the increase in annuities and the requirement for Rome and pro-Great Qin, was that Great Qin wanted to include the Western Turks who had retreated to the territory of the Khazars along the Volga River into the name of Great Qin, and to include their tribes and the territories they now occupied as fiefs of the vassal princes of Great Qin.

This was originally a matter between Great Qin and the Western Turks, but now it has to be written in the alliance between the two countries, which is undoubtedly for Rome to express its position.

The Khazars of the past and the current Western Turks were allies of the Romans, and even after retreating to the Volga, they needed the support of Rome even more, and the Roman emperor had recently personally met with the Khazar Yehu and the Western Turkic commander Yehu Khan.

Tongyehu Khan also married his daughter to the second son of Emperor Heraclius.

The Western Turks defeated the Volga River from the Western Regions, which can be said to be a lot more down, but after uniting with Khazar, there were still 100,000 horsemen, and the force was not small. They were unwilling to be a vassal of Great Qin, and now Great Qin made this request.

Some embarrass them.

Kraft didn't immediately refuse, but asked, "If there is an alliance, what can Great Qin help Rome?" ”

"If the two countries form an alliance, Daqin will strengthen the northern route of the Silk Road, from Yili, Xiaye, Dawan, Kangju, Mulu to the five northern cities of the Western Regions, directly open up five routes directly to Rome, as long as the Western Turks are attached and incorporated into our Great Qin, then there will be no obstacles to this distance from the Western Regions to Rome, and there will be a steady stream of oriental goods, silk, tea, porcelain, paper, including the armor, swords, bows, crossbows, etc. you want, will be sent over in a steady stream, especially as long as our goods reach the Caspian Sea, they can be transported by boat, Traveling between the Caspian Sea, the Volga, the Don River, and the Black Sea, you no longer have to fear the raids and robberies of the nomadic barbarians in the Western Regions, in the River, and in the West, and you no longer have to worry about being controlled by the Persians over the Red River and the Persian Gulf, nor do you have to worry about the Arab merchants of the Arabian Peninsula intercepting the overland trade routes. ”

"What else?" Krawut wasn't satisfied with that. "What benefits do the Western Turks get? It's no good, even if we in Rome agree to this covenant, they won't agree to it. ”

"The benefits that the Western Turks can get, I can allow them to settle in the west and northwest of the Caspian Sea, as long as they accept the canonization of the imperial court, no longer attack the east, and do not intercept trade routes, then the imperial court will not continue to conquer and exterminate them in the future, they can live freely on the banks of the Volga River, in the north of the Caucasus, this is my commitment and benefits to the Western Turks."

"The benefits for Rome are not enough!"

Kraft is shrewd.

Rome needed more than just smooth trade routes, not just some verbal help, but real help.

"Rome needs Great Qin to send troops from Persia in Daxia and Hezhong!"

The Emperor shook his head.

"Impossible! It is impossible for Great Qin to send troops to Persia, Great Qin can sell weapons and armor and even ships to the Romans, and can also increase the trade volume of the northern route of the Silk Road, and can also promise the Western Turks that they can send troops to help you without worry, but Great Qin will not send a single soldier to Persia to set foot on their territory. ”

Kraft was silent.

Luo Cheng also smiled and said no more.

Sure enough, after a long time, after all, it was Kraft who bowed their heads first, Rome needed Great Qin more, but Great Qin did not necessarily need Rome.

"Rome gives 200,000 gold and 300,000 silver to Great Qin every year! Everything else remains the same! Kraft said.

"300,000 gold coins, 500,000 silver coins! I can send you a batch of ordnance to bring back first, and pay for it when the goods are delivered, and even in order to show Daqin's sincerity, I will not charge you the interest this time. ”

"Deal!"

Kraft finally nodded in agreement.

Although Rome eventually betrayed the Western Turks, the help that Great Qin gave to Rome was also obvious, and these were exactly what Rome needed most now. Not to mention this condition, in fact, even if Daqin's conditions are harsh, Rome can only agree, they have reached the time of exhaustion.

Now that both sides have exerted their full strength and are evenly matched, any external force at this time can break the current balance of power and bring devastating consequences.