"Dear lord, I'm afraid this is a bit difficult." Antonini spread his hands and shook his bearded head, looking like there was really no way.

"Oh?" Qiao Renke never thought that he would get such an answer, looked at Antonini's cautious look, and asked, "Why?" “

"Honorable Lord, our empire is at war with the Empire of Rest, and... and..." The current Emperor of the Roman Empire, Caracalla, was a war maniac, an envoy from the Far East who did not care about alliances and commercial deals, and only let him know that there was a more powerful opponent in the Far East---- the Han Empire.

Above all, His Majesty Caracalla was moody, often making rude demands, and killing people for no reason, and the Great Han of the Far East was a ceremonial state, and revered what they called integrity, and he could not imagine what would happen if their Majesty killed his envoys. Before coming to Soochow, Antonini only thought that the so-called Soochow was just a small state under the Han Empire, but when he saw the majestic Jianye city wall and the powerful Soochow navy docked at Jingkou, he knew that he was wrong, and he was wrong.

As he learned better, Antonini knew that this Eastern Wu was only one of the three states of the Han Empire, and that there was an even more powerful kingdom called Wei in the north, with a territory no smaller than the Roman Empire and a larger population. (In fact, Cao Wei's population and territory were far inferior to those of the Roman Empire, but Eastern Wu included the population and land of Wuhuan and Xianbei conquered by Cao Ying when introducing it.) In Antonini's imagination, the state of Wu, which had about the same territory as the Wei state, should also be about the same in strength. (Theoretically, the territory of Eastern Wu is indeed similar to Cao Wei) so how strong the strength of this Han Empire, which has established diplomatic relations with Anxi for hundreds of years, and the most terrifying thing is that his main ethnic group still has an absolute advantage.

Qiao Ren couldn't say anything after looking at him for a long time, and he didn't want to talk about stiffness in his heart. "It seems that Your Excellency has something unspeakable, so before your caravan returns, you can come to the mansion to find Lone."

At this point, Qiao Ren didn't want to force it, anyway, the shipbuilding technology of the Roman Empire was not particularly ahead of Soochow, but after all, the Roman Empire had been playing in the sea for hundreds of years (the Mediterranean Sea is also a sea), especially across the ocean many times, and Soochow had just started in this regard, and suffered a little in terms of experience and charts.

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After three days, Qiao Ren, who thought that the alliance was hopeless, especially the navigation technology, ushered in an uninvited guest. Hassan, the guy who didn't talk about it when he was with Antonini, actually asked to see Qiao Ren alone at this time.

"Your Excellency Hassans, I don't know what it is important to see Gu."

"Lord Lieutenant, the grass people are here for the navigation skills you mentioned." Hassan spoke Chinese with an exotic accent, but he spoke to Qiao Ren very skillfully.

Unlike Great Qin, the Anxi Empire had established diplomatic exchanges with the Han Empire as early as the time of Emperor Wu for hundreds of years, and before the Liangzhou Rebellion, the two countries had traded for two hundred years through the overland Silk Road. It will not be like Antonini, it is not clear what kind of official position the captain is, and the captain in the Roman Empire is the immediate boss of all the army commanders.

However, due to the Liangzhou Rebellion, Liangzhou and the Western Regions were constantly in turmoil, and the land Silk Road came and went, and most of the Sabbatical and Roman merchants set their sights on the Maritime Silk Road, and Hassan was one of them, and his Chinese was also learned in Funan. The Han Dynasty was not just a dynasty for China and even the entire East, but an era. In this era, the Han Empire is a well-deserved overlord, and the surrounding countries all send tribute, learn Han culture, and take pride in eating Han food, wearing Han clothes, and speaking Han Chinese, especially the culturally backward Korea, Yueben, and Funan, which are simply a copy of the princely kingdoms, among which Funan and Korea are the most, and their ancestors and rulers all migrated from China. (Minzi Joseon, Weishi Joseon, and Vietnam are under the direct rule of China).

"Oh, didn't your companion say that your emperor does not welcome our envoys?" If you want to doze off, someone will send a pillow, and Qiao Ren's expression will not move, so he can watch how Hassan answers.

"Their emperor did not welcome it, but my king welcomed it very much."

"The King of kings?" The Sabbatarian Empire was more technologically advanced in the ocean-going seas than the Roman Empire, which liked to play navy in the Mediterranean. The Anxi Empire was located on the Silk Road, the trade route between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty in the Mediterranean, making the empire a commercial center, and the Anxi people who occupied the Persian Gulf were more fond of far-reaching trade, and the sea fleet reached as far as Funan, Jiaozhou and Yangzhou of the Han Empire.

"Exactly, if the Lord can help my king resist the invasion of Great Qin, let alone navigation technology, anything else, my king will not be stingy."

Qiao Ren would not easily believe the words of a mere resting merchant, but his words made Qiao Ren fall into deep thought, and he still remembered that when Qiao Ren used the system to check three days ago, Hassan showed that he belonged to the Resting Empire, and he himself claimed to be a member of the Roman Empire.

"Your Excellency, aren't you a merchant who claims to be Great Qin?" Qiao Ren asked with a smile.

Looking at the lord in front of him, who was more aristocratic than any noble royal family in the country, Hassan took a deep breath and said: "The villain is my king's secret envoy, and he joined the Great Qin caravan to the east as a generation of merchants, in order to demand the support of the Kushan Empire, but I don't want to..."

"Failed, didn't you?"

"Yes."

Qiao Ren knew in his heart that the Kushan Empire, established by the Yueshi people, not only maintained good relations with the Han Empire but also with the Roman Empire, and they were also constantly fighting against the feuding Huns in Central Asia who had fled to them. Even the distant attack is not only understood by the Chinese, but the Kushan Empire is not so kind to help the neighboring powers rest in peace.

"Have you done the Lord?" Qiao Ren was still not at ease and asked Hassans.

"Yes, the domestic situation is not optimistic, and the king has given me the right to form an alliance."

"Okay, but our country is far from resting, and it is impossible for us to send troops to help you."

Of course Hassan understands this, begging for reinforcements? This is not the afterlife, I went in an aircraft carrier. "My lord, my country only needs your lord to provide the crossbow machine technology for defense on the Jianye city wall and a large number of hand crossbows to equip the army."

"I see" Qiao Ren understood that now the king of rest was probably only thinking about how to defend the city, and as soon as Hassan came to Jianye, he took a fancy to the bed crossbow and ballista at the head of Jianye City. It doesn't matter, anyway, the ballista was originally modified by Qiao Ren based on the original ballista of the Greek Empire, and it doesn't matter if he gives the technology to the country of rest, anyway, it is so far away, and there is a powerful Kushan empire in the middle, even if he masters this technology, it doesn't matter.

"Yes!" Qiao Renke has much more authority than Hassan, not to mention that these two samples are his skills. "Besides, it's very difficult for your country to deal with the phalanx infantry, right!?"

"This! Adults also know the phalanx infantry! ”

"Of course, I heard that your country is rich in fire oil." Qiao Ren remembered the method of Liu Ye to deal with Ma Chao's phalanx infantry.

"Yes!" Hassan replied crisply.

"Do you have trebuchets in your country?"

"Yes!" Hassan replied directly, the joke was that the trebuchet that appeared in the Greek era was certainly there in the Empire.

"Then it will be done, throw a jar with fire oil with a trebuchet and shoot it with a rocket." Qiao Ren didn't understand that although the battle formation in the West was powerful, it never used fire and water.

"Huh!?"

"If the jar is not enough, Lone can send you a few boats!"

Even Qiao Ren's not very good history knows that Anxi's 40,000 infantry legions that once annihilated Rome with 20,000 archers and cavalry with fewer victories and more victories, why can't they confront Rome now? Although Rest is a nomadic empire, its military strength is not weak, but the technology is... The new catapults and ballistas, bed crossbows, and scarf crossbows that Hassan needed are almost impossible to build in the rest country.

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