"Treacherous, wise, generous friend - greetings to you, may your soul not yet be devoured by the devil. Seeing you again, I need to hold my wallet tightly – my friend, you're not here for my wallet, are you?" replied the Arab businessman, who was fluent in Chinese, even with a slight Jingshi accent.

"May Allah bless you...... My friend, I'm not here for your wallet, but for sailing...... But my friend, why did you see you this time, your face was full of melancholy", seeing this businessman, Zhao Xing suddenly put aside his silent image, and his attitude was even a little slippery, which made Cheng Azhu very unfamiliar.

"Grass doesn't grow on the lively street - we won't get anything from standing on the street and talking, let's go to my house...... Is this your beautiful wife, you said last time you were going back to get married, then she must be your new wife. Allow me to introduce myself, beautiful lady, that I am from faraway Arabia and that I am your husband's friend Pu Yi'an", the Arab rapped.

Pu Yi'an's mansion is a typical Chinese house, with wooden walls, doors and windows, but the furniture inside is completely Arabic: Arabic soft couches, large round tables for knightly meetings, Arabic kettles, and Arabic cutlass on the walls...... Everything is exotic.

Pu Yi'an invited his concubine and introduced Cheng Azhu to Cheng Azhu – a Western etiquette that is common in modern diplomatic settings. Introduce your wife to the other person, and say that you treat the other person as a family.

Cheng Azhu doesn't know much, and a country girl seems a little helpless when she encounters this kind of thing. But obviously, everyone didn't notice her embarrassment, and after the family saw each other, Pu Yi'an drove away most of the concubines, leaving only one Yan Ji to greet him, and then gave his hand to Zhao Xing, and cut straight to the point: "You just said that you came for sailing, my friend, you have emptied my wallet, and now you plan to take out my heart?" Say, what are you going to get this time? ”

Zhao Xing turned his face sideways, observed the other party's expression, and asked very warmly: "You don't have a good face, it's very bad...... As a friend, I may be able to share your worries, say it, tell your heart. ”

Pu Yi'an sighed: "What else can there be?" It was not for the sake of the abominable Seljuks, who took Jerusalem and forbade Christians to go to the Hajj, and the whole of Christendom boiled. Those fanatics attacked Arab ships at will at sea, and on average, only one out of ten of our ships arrived safely.

Ten years ago, their pope was clamoring for a crusade. Recently we had a ship coming from our country, and in the morning prayer he told us that the situation was getting more and more serious, and that the pope of Christendom had made a series of calls for war, and that the peasants there had begun to arm themselves.

Now, there is no peace to be found in that sea except the sky. On the sea, on 6 grounds, there are constant wars, skirmishes are also going on every day, there is blood every day, on the sea, they are hunting down our merchant ships, 6 on the ground, they are besieging our cities - we guess: a full-scale war is approaching, maybe in a year or two. ”

Seljuk - Zhao Xing smiled.

History is so humorous.

The ancestor of the Seljuk nation, the Oghuz tribe, was originally a tribal alliance of "Shaowu Nine Surnames" in the Sui and Tang dynasties of China, and belonged to the Turks. After the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks and disintegrated the Turkic Empire, a part of the nine surnames went west, called Oghuz or Guzi in the middle of the century, and the Oghuz tribes settled in the lower reaches of the medicine and water under the leadership of the Seljuks, and converted to the Sunni Islam, and from then on they were called the Seljuks.

Forty-five years ago, Tugrilberg, the grandson of the Seljuks, occupied Khorasan; He went on to conquer all of Iran and entered Baghdad in 1055. Harikaim made him sultan and called him "King of the East and the West". Fifteen years earlier, the Seljuk Succession had defeated the Byzantine army and captured the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV, and most of Asia Minor, which belonged to Byzantium, was in his hands......

Lo and behold, this is the glorious history of the Seljuks. The humor of history lies in this: the Xiongnu, who were defeated and expelled by the Han Dynasty, and their westward migration destroyed the Western Roman Empire; The remnants of the Turks, defeated by the Tang Dynasty, captured the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and brought it to its demise.

The black humor shown by history is even more that the Han and Tang dynasties drove out the most vicious enemies, and the weak nomads who originally crawled at the feet of the Xiongnu and the Turks destroyed the glorious Han and Tang dynasties - they were all wolves raised by the Han and Tang people.

The Seljuks did not last long, and soon they were swallowed up by the kingdom of Khorezm, which in turn was destroyed by the Mongols. The Mongols did not last long, and during the Eighth Crusader Crusade, they joined forces with the Crusaders to attack Egypt and failed. During the Ninth Crusades, the two continued to join forces, but as a result, Egypt took advantage of the Crusaders to attack the Mongol Southern Expeditionary Army, uprooted the country established by the Mongols, and forced millions of Mongol prisoners to convert to Islam.

Pu Yi'an's emotion was obviously not worried about religious matters, he was worried about this trade route. The Arabs were embedded in the middle of the trade routes between the East and the West, and for centuries they made huge profits by reselling them, and if the Crusaders occupied Jerusalem, the throat of the East and the West would be cut by the Westerners.

How could the Westerners, who were holding their throats, allow the Arabs to continue to make profits, as soon as this trade route was interrupted, the volume of foreign trade of the Song State would shrink dramatically - because the passage was cut off, and the Arabs had nowhere to sell even if they purchased large quantities of goods.

"That's why I came to you", Zhao Xing seemed very leisurely, it didn't matter, of course he was very leisurely: "You have a religious conflict with that group of Christians, but the Song people don't. Christians have to fight, but they also need our goods—somebody has to sell them. In the case of extremely strong religious sentiments, they will attack your ship, but not ours, and I came to you to talk about cooperation. ”

"Cooperation? I still feel creepy when I hear this word again...... The last time you talked to me about cooperation, you used a necklace to deceive me out of a shipload of goods and twenty construction workers, this time I have to hold my wallet tightly and say, what are you going to exchange for? ”