Wei Renshi took a lot of words, and finally persuaded the bigwigs of the three provinces.

The sale of Datang's 100 steel-making weapons has also begun to be put on the agenda.

The weather is also at its hottest time of the year.

Wei Renshi was awakened from his morning dream by a good news.

Jiao Haiqing is back.

In order to be the principal of the Royal Maritime Fleet, this cargo personally went to Lingnan and ran several times with his family's fleet.

It's been more than half a year, and I'm finally back.

His return means that the Royal Merchant Fleet can start operating. Because Jiao Haiqing must have found all the manpower in Guangzhou, only ships remained.

He must have come back for the sake of the ship.

Since it is a royal maritime merchant fleet, the ship is naturally from the royal family.

For a maritime caravan, the sea ship is the most important. Seagoing vessels need technology and maintenance, which require a lot of financial and technical support. And relying on the royal ability, the royal maritime merchant fleet will definitely be able to have the best sea ships.

Nowadays, the land trade routes are not smooth, and there is a big food barrier in the middle, and the sea trade routes are particularly important.

Previously, the Tang Dynasty had absolute control over the Western Regions, coupled with Persia's focus on commerce, the caravan was developed, and the land trade routes were very smooth and prosperous.

But then, with the expansion of the Great Eclipse, after destroying Persia, it continued to advance eastward, competing with the Tang Dynasty for interests in Central Asia.

The direct confrontation between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food in the real sense is reflected in the Battle of Talas. It was in the late reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty that the battle between the Tang army and the Great Food army ended in a great defeat.

At that time, Da Shi had not yet been able to shake the position of Datang in Central Asia.

But unfortunately, the Anshi Rebellion that followed was that the Tang Dynasty no longer had the heart and ability to take care of Central Asia and manage the Western Regions.

And although that confrontation ended in the defeat of the Tang army, it still showed the amazing combat effectiveness of the Tang army, so that the Arabs' eastward advance stopped in Central Asia, and they did not dare to continue to expand eastward.

The Battle of Talas was a direct collision between the most powerful Eastern and Western empires in history at that time, although the Tang army had tens of thousands of people, but most of them were the combined Fan army among the small countries affiliated with the Tang Dynasty, and the number of real Tang soldiers was not large. The Arab Empire's army was at least 200,000, with additional reinforcements.

Moreover, the Tang army was seven hundred miles deep, and it was already on the territory of Dashi, and its supply and intelligence were at a disadvantage.

And one of the main reasons for the defeat of the Tang army was the betrayal of the Qarlu division in charge of the perimeter guard in the coalition army, which led to the sudden chaos of the Tang army's position, which was attacked by Arab reinforcements.

It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army at that time was still quite high, and if there was no Anshi Rebellion, it could still be matched with the Arab Empire in Central Asia, and it was not known whether the Arab Empire could shake the hegemony of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia.

In fact, many historians believe that if it had not been for the civil strife within the Tang Empire, perhaps, in a few years, they would have regained their hegemony from the Arabs.

However, the subsequent outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion caused the Tang army to lose this opportunity forever, and it was this eight-year civil war from within the empire that almost exhausted all the wealth of this powerful empire, and the decline began abruptly at that time.

The empire that was rebuilt from the ruins was no longer the Celestial Khan Empire it once was.

However, no matter what you say, defeat is defeat, and the Anshi Rebellion has become a historical fact, and the Tang Dynasty has finally embarked on a decline of prosperity and decline, and has lost control of Central Asia.

Da Shi replaced the Tang Dynasty and became the master of Central Asia, and also controlled the trade routes.

Datang had to find another way to open up maritime trade routes.

"Lang Jun, Jiao Lang Jun has been waiting in the main hall for a while." Jia Ding reminded.

Wei Renshi retracted his thoughts and walked into the main hall.

Jiao Haiqing looked a lot thinner and darker.

Hurriedly entered the door, and saw that there were already a lot of large boxes in the hall, and at a glance, there were dozens of boxes!

Wei Renshi was immediately overjoyed, if each box was filled with a hundred copies, then there would already be thousands of copies in front of him!

This is what Wei Renshi explained to him when Jiao Haiqing set off.

It was for him to use maritime merchants to collect knowledge books in various fields from there and bring them back.

These thousands of books should cover literature, history, philosophy, warfare, nature, science and technology, astronomy, and even medicine, alchemy, and architecture...... It can be said that there are many aspects of the content that are covered in all areas except religion.

This will play a big role in expanding the horizons of the Tang people.

In the Greek civilization, there is no less than the essence of the Chinese civilization, and can complement the Chinese culture, what is the saying? - You have an apple, I have an apple, exchange with each other, and we still have an apple each; But you have one thought, I have one thought, exchange with each other, and we all have two thoughts, and even more! To change it, you have a pear, I have an apple, everyone eats their own, you only eat pears, I only eat apples. Sharing with one another, you have eaten both pears and apples. I ate both apples and pears!

These books are pears from Greek civilization! The introduction of the achievements of civilization in the Greek civilization is to inject some fresh blood into the Chinese civilization, which has always been the strength and advantage of the Chinese civilization.

The intelligent Tang people will naturally take the essence and discard the dross to make themselves more perfect.

Ignoring Jiao Haiqing, who was sitting there with a triumphant face, Wei Renshi went directly over and opened the box, revealing the books inside.

When it comes to books, they are mostly parchment scrolls or parchment handwriting, because there is no printing technology in Europe at the moment. Therefore, it is not easy to find these manuscripts, and more than a thousand copies can be found, which shows that Jiao Haiqing has indeed spent a lot of effort.

Wei Renshi himself couldn't understand these things at all, most of those books were in Greek, and there were a few Latin, Wei Renshi didn't know them at all, so he could only rely on the translators Wei Renshi had found in Chang'an before.

There weren't many translators found, only three people. It's not that Wei Renshi doesn't care, it's just that these translators are extremely difficult to find. Because most of the people who know both Chinese and Greek are these Hu merchants, how can the Hu merchants, who are busy making money, have the heart to sit down and translate books? Moreover, these Hu merchants are actually not highly educated, and if they are translated, the effect will be very poor.

But there is no way, Wei Renshi can only do this now.

It can only be published after the translation is completed, and then it can be printed by someone to polish the writing.

The best thing is to have a group of people who are already very well written and can speak Greek, so that the translation is much better. Unfortunately, this kind of person is too hard to find.