Chapter 240: The Contest of Paper

After the Confucian officials brainwashed the missionaries, Gao Yang Yajun would release them, and then arrange them to serve in the North Star Palace of the national teacher Song Jue, you must know that this is the highest religious mansion in the Chinese Empire.

On the surface, Gao Yang Yajun is eclectic and kind to the missionaries of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, but in fact, it is because Gao Yang Yajun really doesn't worry about these missionaries! Gao Yang Yajun was afraid that if he was not careful, these missionaries would go to various states of the Chinese Empire to preach everywhere.

Gao Yang Yajun doesn't want the future Chinese Empire to become a monotheistic religion, and Gao Yang Yajun doesn't want the people of his country to change from the idea that man will conquer the sky to the person who everything is God's will and we have to obey.

It is precisely because of this idea that Gao Yang Yajun will treat the missionaries from the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Rome in such a way that she treats them so well.

After all, the Chinese Empire can't lose the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire as an ally, not to mention anything else, in terms of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire's imports of grain from the Chinese Empire, Gao Yang Yajun doesn't want to lose the treasury of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire.

There is also the Khazar Khanate also imported grain from the Chinese Empire, although the Khazar Khanate is not as rich as the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, but most of the cattle and sheep of the Khazar Khanate are also imported by the Chinese Empire, each taking what he needs. It's just that the Chinese Empire still earns it, after all, the cost of grain in the Chinese Empire is much lower than the cost of cattle and sheep in the Khazar Khanate.

And in addition to exporting grain, the Chinese Empire also exported high-quality and cheap paper, you must know that the Arab Abbasid Dynasty also had the process of making paper, but the paper they made was much more expensive than the paper made by the Chinese Empire, and the price of paper made by the Chinese Empire was only one-third of that of the Arab Abbasids, yes, one-third.

From the middle of the eighth century AD, after the Tang Dynasty's papermaking technology was introduced to the Arab Abbasids, paper mills were built in some major cities of the Arab Abbasids, and the paper produced in Damascus was exported to Europe.

The development of Arab Abbasid commerce and transit trade led to the rise of prosperous large cities, but the Chinese Empire did not let them get their way, to put it bluntly, the Chinese Empire was cutting off the financial routes of the Arab Abbasids.

After all, our Chinese Empire also needs money, and the countries that can make paper on a large scale are the Tang Dynasty, the Arab Abbasid Dynasty and the Chinese Empire.

The Tang Dynasty will not talk about it first, after all, the Tang Dynasty is now full of domestic festivals and frequent civil strife, and it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to sell paper from East Asia to Europa.

The Arab Abbasids were different, but the Arab Abbasids had been in the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, and since then the Arab Abbasids have been in control of the paper business for a long time until the Chinese Empire emerged.

After the rise of the Chinese Empire, the Arab Abbasids found that no one wanted the paper they made, and they inquired about the reason only to find that there was a Chinese Empire in the north, and the price of paper in the Chinese Empire was only one-third of the price of paper made by the Arabs.

The people of the Arab Abbasid Dynasty don't understand, in their understanding, one-third of the price is obviously sold at a loss, and the cost of paper production in their Arab Abbasid Dynasty has always been controlled at half of the price of paper, which is already considered powerful.

However, the price of the Chinese Empire was only one-third of theirs, and the merchants of the Arab Abbasid Dynasty thought that the Chinese Empire was doing this to make money at a loss, and they thought that the Chinese Empire would not last long.

But to their surprise, the Chinese Empire's insistence lasted for three years, and the price gradually changed from one-third of the original price of their Arab-made paper to one-quarter of the price of their Arabic paper.

The merchants of the Arab Abbasid Dynasty did not expect that the result after waiting for a long time would be like this, and the other party not only could not bear it, but lowered the price again, which made the merchants of the Arab Abbasid Dynasty really no longer calm.

The other party is obviously the first naked way to grab people's money, at this time, they can't take care of waiting with peace of mind, they hurriedly go around to find out where the Huaxia Empire is and what kind of country it is.

However, the Arab Abbasid merchants found very little information about the Chinese Empire, and they only knew that the Chinese Empire came from the cold northern polar regions, and they did not know much about the rest.

But this did not stop the explorers, who headed for the bitter north with the aim of proselytizing and exploring the Chinese Empire.

Unfortunately, when they reached the Khazar Khanate, most of them were captured alive by Ashina Zechariah, the Great Khan and Emperor of the Khazar Khanate.

I don't know what this group of Arabs thinks, they actually plan to pass through the Khazar Khanate, which believes in Judaism, isn't this looking for death?

In particular, Ashina Zechariah is obviously a fanatical follower of Judaism, just look at his name, Ashina Zechariah is obviously a Jewish name.

Therefore, before these Arabs reached the Chinese Empire, they were executed by Ashina Zechariah.

The remaining part of Ashina Zachariah heard that they wanted to go to the Huaxia Empire, and Ashina Zachariah finally released them for some reason.

In the end, the remaining people arrived in the Chinese Empire, and then were captured by the Wanzhou Prefecture Mulong Yaru, Long Yaru ruthlessly tortured them, and searched for the Quran from them, Long Yaru read it at will, and burned the Koran in front of these Arabs.

These Arabs looked at Long Yaru angrily, but they did not dare to open their mouths and scold Long Yaru loudly because they did not want to die.

They could only shout in their hearts: "Damn Kapir, you will surely go to Hellfire." ”

It's a pity that Long Yaru wrote an official letter after taking a casual look at them, and then asked an official who knew Arabic to escort them to Meijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire.

When this group of Arabs arrived at the city of Meijing in the Chinese Empire, they were frightened by the magnificence of the city of Meijing, and when they were escorted into the city, the people of the Chinese Empire looked at them one after another.

After all, the Arabs have dark skin and black eyes, which is different from the people of the Chinese Empire, so it is understandable that the people are curious.

In the end, after Gao Yang Yajun saw them, he waved his hand indifferently and asked them to send them to the Confucian officials to be brainwashed.

After all, the Chinese Empire would not clash with the Arab Abbasids at this stage, so Gao Yang Yajun didn't mean much to them.

Of course, after these Arabs are brainwashed by Confucian officials, it is possible that the Chinese Empire will have some Arab traitors in the future.

Of course, the Arabs did not give up, and they were trying to find ways to make paper more cost-effective, in order to one day regain the very lucrative market of paper.