Chapter 1852: Trade Fair (I)
After the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, the whole country celebrated!
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The envoys of Byzantium and other countries were not surprised to hear the news of the great victory of the Tang Dynasty, but out of courtesy, they still handed over a congratulatory letter to Li Chengqian, although the words were not flattering, but they also showed respect.
Li Chengqian didn't care much about this, and after ordering someone to prepare a return gift, he put the matter aside.
It's already April, and the envoys from the countries who have received the invitation have also come to Chang'an, and some formal business negotiations are about to begin.
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Changle, Yang Yuxin and Xiao Wu have been very busy during this time, no, it should be said that they are very busy.
After all, those envoys from Byzantium, Dashi and other countries did not come by themselves, and there were many foreign merchants with them, and after these merchants walked around Chang'an, what they wanted to do most was to meet the 'person in charge' of the Tang Dynasty.
Although the foreign fanbang is also the aristocracy first, but there is no such rank as scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, and the status of foreign merchants in their own country is completely different from the status of Tang merchants in the Tang Dynasty.
Many of their merchants were nobles themselves, so it was not difficult for them to meet the king in their country.
Although Datang has integrity and will not do things according to the rules of foreign races, but in the case of meeting for the first time, the royal family still has to give these foreign races a little face.
So in the Datang Welcome Building, Changle and Xiaowu set up a banquet and invited those Fanbang nobles and businessmen to eat, of course, this meal is actually not so delicious, and the people who came were not only Fanbang nobles, but also Datang businessmen.
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The welcome building is now the property of the eldest grandson and the empress dowager, and although Li Chengqian became the emperor, even if he had the courage to change his wife's property to his own name.
Besides, the little income from the Yingbin Building, even Li Tai is a little disdainful now, and Changle ignores it, as for Li Chengqian...... Well, this one is rich all over the world now, and he needs to grab everything, and the little money he earns from his wife's welcome building is not enough for him to show more between his fingers, so there is really no need to upset the old lady.
However, although these royal families don't look down on these properties, the luxury of the welcome building still makes those alien fanbangs stunned.
The porcelain that they carefully cared for at home turned out to be just plates for bones in Datang; The silk silks they used to show off their worth were only used as rags here; The glass products worth thousands of gold are just ordinary people who are casually put aside here.
A Byzantine merchant once saw a maid accidentally break a dozen crystal-clear glasses, which he thought was enough to kill the maid.
However, in the end, the maid summoned a fellow and cleaned up the broken glass as if nothing had happened, and even the guy who cleaned up the glass did not show anything unusual.
Oh, my God! What kind of world is this? How rich is Datang! You know, if those exquisite glass cups were put in Byzantium, just one could be exchanged for dozens of the strongest slaves, and if it was a dozen or so cups, ...... God, five hundred strong slaves would be killed like this!
Although the Byzantine merchant knew that the glass products were produced by the Tang Dynasty and would be very cheap locally, he still couldn't help but feel an urge to kill.
Oh yes, and that so-called electric light overhead, that thing is just, it's a gift from God, it's bright, it's dazzling, but it doesn't smell weird.
How much does it cost? How much does it cost? Is the queen mother of the Tang Dynasty the richest person in the Tang Dynasty? Otherwise, how could there be so many luxurious things laid out here?
Crazy, really crazy, during the time of waiting for Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty and Her Royal Highness the imperial concubine, all the foreign merchants were almost stupid by everything in front of them.
It's not that these people haven't seen the world, but it is precisely because they have seen the world that they have a strong sense of disbelief about everything in front of them.
The food on the table was something they had never seen before, the dress on the maid was still something they had never seen before, and the electric light was still something they had never seen before.
Although the ladies of the alien race were already dressed up, they seemed to be more like maids than the ladies who were dressed in formal robes and treated people politely.
Countless noble ladies looked at those maids with jealousy, and if their shining eyes could transform the light into substance, they would probably have snatched the dresses from those maids long ago.
There is an idiom in Datang, how do you say it? Oh yes, it's worth the trip! This time Datang came really worth the trip, and I saw too many things that I had never thought about before.
The kind of car that can not stop for half a month when they come, and the kind of car on the road that can be ridden by one person but never fall down, all of these make those foreign nobles feel ashamed of themselves.
On the other hand, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty are much more natural, many of them are frequent visitors to the Welcome Building, and they have become accustomed to everything here.
Those things that are very rare in the eyes of foreign races, in their eyes, are really nothing, the price of glass cups is very cheap, you can buy several for three or five cents, as for those porcelain, well, in fact, many merchants do this at home, those porcelain can be fired by themselves, but it is just some soil.
However, they will not tell those aliens about these things, this is a trade secret, they have discussed it before coming here, and they will never reveal these secrets to those foreigners, otherwise they will be everyone's public enemies.
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The banquet hadn't started yet, but as the sky outside gradually darkened, everyone knew that the two top nobles of the Tang Dynasty were about to arrive.
One is Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the concubine of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, these two women almost control the economy of half of the Tang Dynasty, and they are definitely the highest unattainable existence among all the people present.
It's just that I don't know when these two highnesses will appear, and whether they will agree to the next trade request from everyone, if they don't agree, it would be a pity, and if they can agree...... Well, then make a fortune!