Xuanzong was a little unhappy when he saw that Hemar actually said a threatening word, but he still looked at Zhao Ziliang, who was standing at the back of the general's side, and asked, "General Zhao, you should know about this, right?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ziliang walked to Hemar's side and saluted Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, Galolin was arrested by Weichen, and Weichen is about to report this matter to Your Majesty!" ”

"Oh? Why did you send someone to arrest Garolin? ”

Not only Xuanzong was curious, but the other ministers also looked at Zhao Ziliang and opened their ears wide, except for Yao Jingming, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he had already known about it.

Zhao Ziliang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, our official and civil officials of the Tang Dynasty call the country represented by His Excellency Hemar as Fula, in fact, the real name it translates from is Eastern Rome, also known as Byzantium, and the emperor is Leo III, but according to the latest news obtained by Wechen, Emperor Leo III has died two months ago, and the current emperor is succeeded by Leo III's son Constantine V. Their rulers always considered themselves descendants of the ancient Roman Empire, hence the name Eastern Rome. The capital of Eastern Rome is called Constantinople, across the Eurasian continent, is an extremely important military fortress, the Eastern Roman Empire inherited all the land of the Western Roman Empire, the territory is extremely vast, but later due to their frequent change of rulers, resulting in instability, coupled with the ruler's exploitation of the people is becoming more and more serious, so it caused many rebellions, the territory was once greatly reduced, and now in the east of the Eastern Roman Empire, the big food country is rising day by day, they annexed and encroached on the land and people of the former Persian Empire, The Persian Empire, which is what we call the Great Qin, began to expand westward after the rise of the Great Food Country, and the eastern border of the Eastern Roman Empire was often harassed by the Great Food Country. Unable to resist the invasion of the Great Food Country, large areas of land fell, and more slaves could only be conscripted to join the army to support themselves, which is the current situation of the Eastern Roman Empire ······".

"I see, well, now I and all the ministers know about the situation in the Eastern Roman Empire. It's just that you say that this has to do with the fact that you sent someone to arrest Garolin? Emperor Xuanzong asked puzzled.

"Of course it is!" Zhao Ziliang continued, "The Eastern Roman Empire, and even some small countries further west, their military strengths are heavy infantry and heavy cavalry, the defense of heavy infantry is extremely amazing, the lethality is great, the soldiers are lined up in a neat phalanx like a wall, it is impossible to resist, and the heavy cavalry not only has a strong defensive power. At the same time, it also has a strong collision force, and the general military formation cannot block the impact of their heavy cavalry, but these two types of defense and lethality are not vulnerable to a large number of light cavalry and camel soldiers in the Great Food Country, because they lack long-range strike weapons, and the light cavalry and camel soldiers of the Great Food Country are equipped with light armor, sabers and cavalry bows and crossbows and a large number of arrows. The light cavalry was used to maneuver at high speed to outflank it, while the army of the Eastern Roman Empire had bows and arrows. But the range of the bow and arrow is far less than the cavalry bow and crossbow of the Great Food Country, so the two countries are fighting, basically only the light cavalry of the Great Food Country attacks the Eastern Roman army, they shoot an arrow and run, the Eastern Roman army is too heavy armor, can not catch up with others at all. You can only be beaten passively.

Also, in terms of weapons, the weapons of the Eastern Roman Empire army are not as sharp and tough as the weapons of the Great Food Country, the Damascus scimitar made by the Great Food Country is as sharp as clay, but the Great Sword of the Eastern Roman Empire is much worse.

So. The rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire believed that if they wanted to fight against the Great Food Country, they must obtain higher forging skills and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, and they learned from the merchants who traveled between the East and the West that the sharpness of my Datang's weapons was no less than that of the Damascus scimitar, and the range of the bow and crossbow was even more powerful than that of the Great Food Country, so they sent Hemar and Gallolin to my Tang Dynasty with a mission, and Galloline was directly responsible for stealing my Datang's weapons and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, in addition, There are also the Japanese who peep into the manufacturing technology of my Tang Dynasty weapons and crossbow manufacturing, and the Japanese are the ones who are sent by Japan to steal weapons and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, and now these two people have all been arrested by Weichen, in the face of sufficient human and physical evidence, they have no denial, they have all confessed, a total of eighteen officials have been bought by them, and now, these people have been arrested and brought to justice, Weichen has sent people to conduct a detailed investigation of them, Your Majesty and your lords, generals, if you don't believe it, The three divisions can be ordered to be tried, and Wechen will hand over the relevant evidence and witnesses, which are the testimonies of the relevant witnesses, the confessions of Galolin and Ryuichi Sakai, and the evidence recovered from them."

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's narration, Xuanzong and the ministers were all eye-opening, they only knew that there was such a country as Fula, but they didn't know anything about the situation in Fula, and they only knew so much under Zhao Ziliang's introduction.

Xuanzong also realized the seriousness of the matter, if it was other technology, Xuanzong and the ministers should not be the same thing, but the manufacturing technology of weapons and bows and crossbows was top secret and could never be leaked.

After reviewing the testimony of the witnesses and the original evidence, Xuanzong looked at Hemar with an unkind face and asked, "Your Excellency Shichen, even if you are an envoy, you can't come around in my Tang Dynasty, what else do you have to say now?" ”

Hemar was unwilling, looked at Zhao Ziliang, and asked: "General Zhao, I think my country and that country of Japan should not be the first country to want to steal your country's weapon-building and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, why do you and your subordinates only stare at us, but not at the envoys of other countries?" Don't they want to acquire your weapon-crafting technology? ”

After listening to Hemar's words, Xuanzong and the ministers were also very puzzled about this, yes, why didn't the small surrounding countries such as Tuqishi, Tubo, Hui in the north, and Murwei have stolen our weapon building and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology?

Everyone looked at Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang saluted Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, your lordships and Your Excellency Herma, since I took office as the general of the Left Jin Wuwei and the Right Guard, I have only discovered that the Eastern Roman Empire and Japan want to steal our country's weapons and crossbow building technology, but I believe that there must have been neighboring countries that have stolen our technology before this, and they have succeeded!" ”

Xuanzong was puzzled: "Then why didn't they build a bow and crossbow with the same sharp weapon and the same range from my dynasty?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "In fact, this is very simple, there are dozens of manufacturing processes for the completion of the creation of a weapon and the completion of the manufacture of a bow and crossbow, which requires several technologies or a combination of dozens of technologies, and the manufacture of a weapon and a bow and crossbow cannot be completed without any of them, any kind of technology requires the accumulation of civilization, and these technologies cannot be achieved without the corresponding degree of civilization."

Weichen gave the simplest example, for example, the creation of weapons, first of all, iron ore, some iron ore is suitable for building weapons, some iron ore is only suitable for building agricultural tools, I dynasty craftsmen can rely on the wisdom and experience left by their predecessors to identify which ore is suitable for building weapons, which ore is suitable for building agricultural tools, but no one in the surrounding small countries has this kind of knowledge and experience, I know that adding certain metals to iron tools can make weapons sharper and tougher, and can also prevent rust, But no one in the surrounding countries knows this, and they don't even know that there are other metals besides gold, silver, copper and iron, which is the huge technological gap brought about by the gap in the degree of civilization! Therefore, even if the surrounding small countries have obtained the manufacturing technology of China's weapons and bows and crossbows, they cannot be used for actual manufacturing for the time being. Your Majesty, it's not that Weichen looks down on those sour and rotten literati who care all day long, literati always look down on others, this is not right, everyone exists in the world and has the value of his existence, Weichen does not deny the role of literati, they play the role of a bridge to inherit civilization, but the existence of craftsmen can make our Tang soldiers have the sharpest weapons in the world and the longest-range bow and crossbow."

"I see! It seems that the role of craftsmen is indeed extraordinary" Xuanzong sighed very much, Zhao Ziliang's words made him very proud in his heart, and also greatly expanded the national self-confidence of other ministers.

Xuanzong looked at Hemar again and said, "Your Excellency, this evidence is enough to prove that your deputy envoy Garorin is stealing our country's secret technology through bad means, this is a capital crime, I am afraid I will not be able to help you!" ”

As an envoy, Hemar is of course clear about his mission, and now seeing that Zhao Ziliang has taken out the evidence and the testimony of other witnesses, he knows that the matter has been completely exposed, so he has to plead guiltily: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I ask you to forgive us for our sins, our Eastern Roman Empire is really forced by the Great Food Country to have no choice, so we have to take the risk to come and steal your country's weapons and bow and crossbow crafting technology, this General Zhao and his subordinates have a very sensitive sense of smell, We always thought that we were doing this very secretively, and it was impossible for your country to find out, but we didn't expect it to be discovered. In fact, our country does not want to use this method to obtain your country's weapons and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, if His Majesty the Emperor agrees, we want to exchange our country's armor manufacturing technology, horse armor manufacturing technology and horse taming technology for your country's weapons and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology, I don't know what His Majesty the Emperor thinks? ”。

"This ······" Xuanzong didn't expect that Hemar would want to exchange their technology for the weapons and bow and crossbow manufacturing technology of the Tang Dynasty, which caught him a little off guard.

Zhao Ziliang was afraid that Xuanzong's brain would faint and agree, so he immediately said to Hemar: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Majesty the Emperor still has to discuss with the ministers, please go back first, and we will give Your Excellency the envoy an answer as soon as possible!" ”

Xuanzong also reacted at this time, and hurriedly said: "Yes, Your Excellency Hemar, please go back and rest first, we will notify Your Excellency as soon as possible if we have the result!" ”

Seeing this, Hemar was also in a hurry, so he could only salute and leave. (To be continued.) )