"Commander Qiqi, an urgent secret order has come from the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army." Qin Kong's side was about to make a move, and Wan Yi's urgent secret order was also transmitted to Qin Kong's side through the special channel of the secret guard.

"It seems that the commander trusts me very much, and with the Flying Eagle Brigade, I also have the means to adapt." Qin Kong muttered to himself for a long time and then suddenly smiled: "It seems that he is too nervous, since this is the case, he simply let go of his hands and feet." After thinking about it, Qin Kong immediately arranged for someone to notify the shadow to come.

Qin Kong's secret son was actually a down-and-out bishop, but after the Tang Dynasty occupied the northwest and reopened trade with Great Qin, he secretly imported a plant called Ouyejia from Great Qin and came back to plant it secretly, and then refined a substance that can make people addicted. Because of the importance of the matter, all the refined materials were refined into medicine and handed over to Xuan Yingwei, and the whole process from planting to production to final use was handed over to the secret guard, and Hu Xiaosi directly raised the level of secrecy to the highest, and issued the highest strict order, requiring all internal personnel not to use what Li Xuanqing called "opium" without approval, and a strict management system was formulated for this. It can be said that since Hu Xiaosi knew that this thing can make people addicted, and it is difficult to eradicate it after being addicted, he broke out in a cold sweat, so he directly transferred Zhao Si back from the northwest and took charge of this matter personally. And Qin Kong directly used this drug to charm the other party when he buried the shadows, and after the "brainwashing" concept he got from Li Xuanqing, this poor bishop completely betrayed his lord and became a secret guard of the Tang Empire in Taixi. And after seeing that Datang is getting stronger and stronger, the bishop began to take the initiative to serve Datang more and more.

So when Qin Kong secretly summoned the shadow son over to prepare to carry out his plan, he didn't expect this half-baked Tang Yan to speak directly: "Great envoy, why don't you summon the great imperial army to come over and take down the hateful Romans in one fell swoop?" ”

"Do you think I don't want to, this place is too far away from my Datang road, Datang must repair the railway, at least to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea to be able to summon the Tang army to fight in Taixi." Qin Kong shook his head and continued: "To get back to the point, there is one thing that asked you to come today, that is, to find a way to change the direction of the march of this crusader of yours, not to Byzantium, but to go to the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea according to the original plan, to your Jerusalem, only in this way can the balance of power between Great Qin and Great Food be broken, and you will provoke the entire situation in Taixi to change in the direction favorable to Datang." ”

"Well, it's just that the cardinal from Gaul said that Byzantium is very empty now, and that if we can rush into Byzantium, we will be able to grab more money, more wine, and beautiful women. So no one wants to go to Jerusalem. Although Polo was also a bishop and was in the upper echelons of the Crusaders, the crusaders formed by the ruffians who had been lured by the prosperity of Byzantium had long since lost their faith in finding the ancestral land of the Catholic faith, and had turned to the pursuit of real wealth and beauty.

"What are the bishops and generals from Florence or Venice, who also promised to attack Byzantium?" Qin Kong shook his head and said, "Could it be that these guys are also willing to risk their lives for the sake of this blood-licking wealth on the knife's edge?" ”

"No, no, no, they didn't say anything, and I don't know what they mean." Polo was a little distressed: "Although they did not express their position, I promise in the name of the Lord that they should not be hostile to Byzantium, because Florence has a lot of business to do with Byzantium all year round, and even the novelty goods shipped from the great empire are transported back to various parts of Europe by these people to sell." Once they go to fight Byzantium, there will definitely be no such opportunity to make money. Oh my God, did the Majesty know that silk alone is more expensive than gold from the great empire, and they will not give up such a good business, I swear. ”

Polo's words made Qin Kong ponder for a long time before suddenly laughing: "It seems that it's time to go out and negotiate the price with these people, but you can't come forward with them directly." Forget it, you don't have to worry about these people, I will arrange for someone to connect with them, and ensure that they will fight against them, as for the Holy See, I will leave it to you to lobby, I said that you, the bishop, should also find a chance to become an archbishop. Although Polo was puzzled by Qin Kong's words, he understood the last sentence, among the high-level leaders of the Crusaders, only the people of the Holy See were the most determined, and they must recover Jerusalem that had fallen into the hands of the infidels, so once Polo and them agreed that they would go out to get the bishops of the city-states in the Apennine Peninsula, then the trend of the Crusaders coming east must be unstoppable. Therefore, after hastily arranging for Polo to negotiate with the Holy See envoy according to the plan, he returned to the stronghold and began to arrange for the secret guard to go to the head of the Yelu family on the Tessie side, accompanied by the secret guard, and began to secretly contact the Florentine merchant representatives.

This commercial negotiation, secretly supported by Xuan Yingwei, led the Florentine representatives astray from the beginning, because Yelu Chi of the Yelu family directly asked the other party to place the transaction location on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, and said that the Tang Dynasty currently has no intention of establishing a trading base on the Mediterranean coast, so the trading place between the two parties needs to be built by the other party. Such a condition surprised the other party but did not refuse, the reason is that it can avoid the price increase of the merchants of the Great Qin Empire in the middle, and the difference in the middle is several times more than ten times the profit, so these merchants are full of promises. Moreover, Yeluchi agreed with the other party that if the other party's actions were fast enough, the Tang merchants had hoarded a large number of goods in the northwest, which could be traded at any time, and even the Tang Dynasty could provide the same reserve price to the Florentines and the Great Qin Empire.

This news then quickly spread to Qin Kong, and at this time, after receiving the news, he immediately began to send people to Florence and Venice to spread the news, telling the benefits of going to Jerusalem, and also being able to trade directly with the Tang Dynasty, avoiding the Great Qin Empire's price increase and heavy taxes from the middle, so as to earn a lot of profits and wealth. This news spread rapidly in Florence, which was founded on commerce, and quickly affected those industrial and commercial aristocrats, who were all people who had really felt the huge profits brought by the Tang Dynasty goods, so they were convinced of this news, and the merchants who negotiated with the Tang Dynasty merchants later returned and brought back more direct news, so these people were convinced and immediately began to discuss how to build a trade point on the east coast of the Mediterranean. At this time, the best way was to let the Crusaders recover Jerusalem and use it as a stronghold.

This proposition was put forward almost simultaneously in Venice and other places, and received a positive response, after all, the merchants were profitable, and enough profit was enough to drive these people to change their original intentions. Although the capture of Byzantium was enough for these people to make huge profits in a short period of time, it undoubtedly offended Great Qin to death. is different from what Qin Kong and others thought, these people deeply feel the power of the Great Qin Empire now, and the Apennines, where Venice and other places are located, have been recovered by the Great Qin people, even if they capture Byzantium, Great Qin will move back to Rome directly, and they can just get the orthodox status. Both are the fundamental reasons why the Crusaders have hesitated in places like Athens to this day. The deepest reason why these people are raised together is that they have long been accustomed to living independently, and they are unwilling to be ruled by the Great Qin again, and the aggressive offensive of the Great Cannibals in the south and west makes them sit on pins and needles, for fear of being ruled by these infidels, so they will think of forming a crusade to take Jerusalem and force the Great Cannibals to withdraw their troops back, which is also the reason why these people did not stop when they first saw the Great Qin people's navy sailing to the Apennines and other places in the Mediterranean. After all, the fight against the Great Food and Great Qin is the main force. But what I didn't expect was that Da Qin's idea was the same as that of the Great Cannibal, which was to solve the middle forces as much as possible before the opponent's soldiers pressed the border, and then the two strong forces would face off. However, judging from the geographical distribution, these middle ground will inevitably be repeatedly contested by the two countries, and the war will inevitably be destroyed in one fell swoop.

After the unanimous decision was formed within the city-states such as Florence and Venice, it immediately affected the attitude of the generals and archbishops in the crusaders, and their changes also quickly changed the balance of power between the two sides in the crusaders. And the locals of Athens have long been looking forward to these people leaving, the soldiers of the crusaders are simply robbers, and in half a year, they almost killed Athens and other places, and hundreds of people suffered. So as soon as they heard that these people were leaving, people from all over Athens took to the streets to celebrate, hoping that these people would leave the place as soon as possible. And the crusaders did not do anything serious during this time, at least they collected a lot of money, food, materials and soldiers, and almost wiped out all the local believers in Athens. Therefore, when these crusaders set off, the original ships were not enough, and at Polo's suggestion, they directly requisitioned more than 50 local merchant ships in Athens before they could barely load all the soldiers and soldiers and then sail towards the east coast. As a result, Qin Kong painstakingly and secretly connected the marching route of the Crusaders completely, which also made the Tang Empire's strategy in Taixi not need to make major adjustments, and the overall situation on Taixi's side was completely stabilized. It's just that Qin Kong ignored one thing, the suppressed Gallic Cardinal was planning another conspiracy at this time. The cardinals on the Gallic side were at odds with the Holy See, otherwise they would not have even directly informed the Holy See when the Crusaders were just formed, but acted on their own, until the Crusaders passed through the Apennines and needed to replenish troops and supplies, so they pretended to inform the Pope, but the Gallic Cardinal, who had the dominant power of the Crusaders, did not take the Holy See envoys into account at all, and even the other bishops in various places who joined later were faintly controlled by him. But what he didn't expect was that when he made a change of goal and was preparing to attack Byzantium, the originally unknown Polo had such a big force to directly connect all the opposition forces to unite against him in just half a month, and he really overturned his decision. Qin Kong didn't know these things, and after completing the task, he naturally couldn't take care of them, which also caused the later Jerusalem upheaval. However, although Qin Kong did not know the plans of the Gallic Cardinal, in order to monitor Polo and prevent this army from being outside the chessboard, Qin Kong directly asked the Flying Eagle Brigade who came to assist him to secretly lurk beside Polo, preparing to prevent Polo from having an accident at a critical time. This unintentional move also allowed him to completely control this army as soon as he learned of the upheaval in Jerusalem.

Qin Kong's movements and the movements of the crusaders were also quickly transmitted back to Shule and sent to Wan Yi and the others' desks, so that the tension that had lasted for more than half a month began to relax. Liu Xuan said with a smile: "It's still the two handsomes, Qin Kong and Xuan Yingwei really got this thing done." However, we have worked so hard to save Byzantium from a disaster, can we let the Great Qin people send us some hard-earned money in the future? You can't work for them in vain, can you? ”

"You better forget it, although the Great Qin people have avoided a disaster this time, but they don't seem to have an easy fight on the Gallic side, this is the intelligence of the secret guard, you can take a look." Wan Yi smiled: "The Gauls seem to have found a way to deal with the breech guns, so the Great Qin army is advancing very slowly over there. The most important thing is that the Great Qin people still maintain the old way of their previous army formation, so they were caught off guard by the other party, and I heard that the heavy infantry corps was directly wiped out by the other party. After the information in Wan Yi's hands turned around in the hands of the two, Liu Xuan frowned and said: "These Great Qin people don't know how they managed to keep an empire for so long, if it were in the Central Plains, it is estimated how many times it would have been wiped out." ”

"Dashuai, why don't we go and remind Daqin? If this continues, even if Great Qin destroys Gaul, I'm afraid that when I fight against the Great Cannibal in the future, I am afraid that I will not be able to resist the opponent's offensive, right? At least the Great Cannibals are much better than them in terms of timely response. Gauss Ji frowned.

"Not necessarily, the Great Qin people just haven't reacted yet, or their army hasn't reacted, but the navy isn't fighting well." Wan Yi shook his head and said, "At least it's not the time yet, if they really can't remember, we'll remind you again." ”

"Chief of Staff, you immediately send the news of the Crusaders back to the General Staff, Qin Kong's side probably doesn't care about sending the news back to the Xuanyingwei headquarters." Wan Yi shook his head and continued: "There is news from the deputy prime minister's side that they have heard from the merchants of the Great Food Empire that they have received a notice from their side to negotiate with Datang whether they can pay on credit. It seems that the funds on the big cannibal side are about to run out, and Daqin's side is afraid that it may not be much better, so I am afraid that the war will start soon. ”

"You give this news to Xuan Yingwei, and then send it back to the General Staff." Gauss continued: "We should also prepare, and I will leave for the construction site of Whitewater City early tomorrow morning to supervise the construction of the railway." ”