Including Miss Chen, all the people who could understand Wei Feng's words pricked up their ears, and they all wanted to find out where Wei Feng got this information, but Wei Feng said with a haha: "I am a Jin person who is like a fake, my ancestral home is Hedong, and I was born in Huiji, how can I be a Hun?" Come, please serve tea inside! ”

Antonio shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and led his companion to follow Wei Feng inside.

Passing through the spacious square in front of the palace is the majestic main hall, where the court holds a synodic court meeting on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month, whether there is anything to discuss or not, which is a symbol, and the same is true locally, which symbolizes the highest center of power in Guangzhou.

Compared with the ambiguity of the outside world, the hall seems more gloomy, which will make people feel awe-inspired, perhaps this is the effect deliberately created by the imperial politics, including the spacious square in front of each mansion and the official tooth hall in various places, in fact, from a practical point of view, it is not very useful, and it makes people walk more, but it can perfectly highlight the majesty and majesty of the hall!

When the Roman merchants were welcomed into the main hall, Xie Gongyi had just arrived, and after a brief introduction, the Roman merchants were gradually infected by the atmosphere, and their expressions became serious.

Wei Feng beckoned: "Relax, please sit casually!" ”

"Thank you!" After thanking Antonio, he led everyone to sit on both sides, but when they walked to the seats, they were all stunned, there were no stools on the ground, only a row of couches!

You know, the Romans were not used to kneeling, and kneeling was a rite of worship. It is also a culture, but also the embodiment of self-cultivation, only by the influence of Confucian civilization, can we appreciate the benefits of kneeling, but Wei Feng is not broken, looking at the Romans under the stairs with a smile, the Romans have no choice, they all know the truth of following the customs, so they have to learn the same, kneeling on the couch. Suddenly. A thousand strange gestures come out!

The key to kneeling is to sit with your feet on the ground, your buttocks on your heels, and your back straight. The Romans in the table were basically staggering. There are also a lot of hunchbacks. The better one held the ground with his hands, and he simply put his two arms on the small table without paying attention!

Xie Gongyi, Chen Maiden and the dominatrix who followed into the temple all looked at each other, and the Romans were extremely embarrassed. Staring at each other with big eyes, Wei Feng suddenly realized: "I'm sorry, I forgot that you are foreign friends, and you don't practice my Chinese etiquette, come here, bring some horses in, and then serve tea!" ”

"Yes!" Outside the hall there was a sound of promises, and in a short time, the servants took some small horses and handed them out, and the Romans took them and put them under their buttocks, and felt that it was really different, and when the tea was put on the desk, they took the tea bowls and poured them into their stomachs.

Wei Feng asked with a smile: "Your Excellency Antonio, what is the habit of drinking tea?" ”

In addition to wine, the Romans usually drank a variety of fruit juice drinks mixed with glucose syrup as the base liquid, and the taste was sweet, and the tea was ginger and cinnamon, in short, all the seasonings for cooking were put into it, and Wei Feng also took a lot of effort to get used to the hodgepodge of tastes, which made the Roman merchants led by Antonio adapt? They don't have desserts to drink at sea or in Panyu, they all drink water.

However, Wei Feng's enthusiasm was there, and Antoniola couldn't tell the truth, so he could only sneer: "It's okay!" ”

Wei Feng has a feeling that history repeats itself, when the Empress Dowager Ding in Longcheng let herself drink buttermilk, she also said something against her will, but the Empress Dowager Ding is not bad, there is no strong man, at this time Wei Feng did not hesitate to say: "You Romans like desserts, cheese and all kinds of meat, if I guess correctly, fat people account for a large proportion, but you have seen a few fat people on the streets of Panyu?" This does not mean that I Jin people do not eat meat, but rely on tea, drink it every day, can decompose excess body fat, not easy to get fat, and the benefits of thin people you know, at least sober-minded, agile body, as for the taste, it is not a problem to get used to it, not to mention the spices in the tea, you can put it according to your own preferences, you say but? ”

Antonio is a businessman, and the businessman's sense of smell is the keenest, if Wei Feng doesn't boast, there is a huge business opportunity in tea!

Rome is indeed a lot of fat people, especially the proportion of upper-class nobles is larger, although everyone knows all kinds of inconveniences of fat people, but there is no way, eat meat and drink desserts every day, and lack of exercise, you can't think about being fat!

The Roman nobles ate even more exaggeratedly, they all slept on deck chairs and ate, and three other servants served by their side, and they didn't need to use their hands during the whole process, just open their mouths, and the caravan led by Antonio was out for a long time, and there was a reason why they were not fat.

After exchanging a secret look with his companions, Antonio said cautiously: "The envoy is not mistaken, the nobles of my new Roman city are indeed suffering from obesity, if this tea is effective, it should be popular, may I ask the envoy, what is the price of tea?" ”

If you want to talk about the price, Wei Feng is not clear, so he sighed slightly, and said: "Tea is divided into three, six, nine and so on because of its origin and picking time and parts, I take out to entertain you, it is produced in the Qiantang County Chen County Xie manor in the top grade tea, so that, I and His Excellency Antonio fell in love at first sight, I will give you a hundred catties in my personal name, if you are interested in buying back to Rome, you can talk to Xie Beijia, this Xie Beijia is an important person in the Chen County Xie family with thousands of hectares of manor!" ”

Xie Gongyi was a little stunned, but he didn't think much about it, although the Xie family of Chenjun was rich, no one in the world would dislike a lot of money, so why not make money through foreign trade? couldn't help but glance at Wei Feng gratefully.

Xie Gongyi does not understand, Wei Feng is very broken for his family's thousands of hectares of fertile land, it is impossible to use strong means to deprive it, Chinese have special feelings for the land, as long as Wei Feng reveals a little thought, then there is no need to think, Wang Xie and the various warrior clans will not have a second possibility except to choose to break up!

All Wei Feng can do is to slowly dilute the importance of land by doing business, developing foreign trade and promoting productivity, and when the time is ripe, increase the burden on landowners by taxing them, so that they can give up excess land, and at the same time, although only Wang Xie can benefit from foreign trade, with the increase in exchanges, the demand for tea in the West will also increase steadily, and the ultimate benefit will be all the tea farmers and tea merchants in the world!

Of course, it is not enough to strengthen the trade between the East and the West by sea alone, but there is a roadblock by land, that is, the Sassanid Empire, from the beginning of the Sassanid Dynasty, it blocked the direct trade between the East and Rome, and did not allow the merchants of the East to go to Rome, but bought the silk, plus two zeros and resold it to the Roman nobles, grabbing a hundred times the profit that should not belong to it!

Marx once pointed out that if there is 100 percent profit, the capitalists will take risks, if there is 200 percent profit, the capitalists will defy the law, and once the profit reaches 300 percent, then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world!

And this is only three times the profit, but Sasanan earns a hundred times the profit! What is the concept of a hundredfold? Enough to destroy the earth! If it were possible, Wei Feng would like to build a few nuclear bombs and bomb Sassanid to the ground!

I just want to think about it, Wei Feng knows that it is not easy to defeat the Sassanid tiger, first, the Sassanid Dynasty is a powerful military and political group that is comparable to Eastern Rome, and the prerequisite for attacking him is to unify the world and build a good business atmosphere in the country, so that the merchants can know that Sassanid is blocking their financial route, and send envoys to contact Eastern Rome to attack from both sides!

Second, the Sassanid Emperor Yihehou was a brilliant and iron-blooded cool monarch, and in China, he was a figure like the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, especially the Eastern Romans gave up their land commercial interests to defend against the Huns and formed a military alliance with the Sasanians!

It can be said that at this point in time, both the East and the West are in chaos!

Antonio is just a small person, he won't think about it so much, at this time, he is in awe of Xie Gongyi's identity!

Although he didn't know the status and prestige of the Chenjun Xie clan in Jiangdong and even the entire northern part of Middle-earth, just by virtue of the thousands of hectares of land he occupied, it was enough to squeeze himself into the top nobles of Eastern Rome!

Antonio hurriedly stroked his chest with one hand and gave a deep salute: "Empress Odoxia of my country will definitely be happy to make a deal with your family, and I, Antonio, can negotiate as a plenipotentiary, please don't worry!" ”

Xie Gongyi was speechless for a while, this is what he didn't understand, when the little people see the big people, they often subconsciously raise their own value in order to obtain an equal status at the negotiation table, the status is too low First of all, it is psychologically lower, in Antonio's understanding, Wei Feng and Xie Gongyi are both great nobles of the Seris country, and what about himself? In fact, he is a servant of the Odoxia family, and his status is too low to talk about it!

Shaking his head secretly, Xie Gongyi arched his hand and said, "Your Excellency Antonio is good to say, if you are not in a hurry to leave, we can make an appointment to talk!" ”

Antonio was overjoyed! But he probably doesn't know, Xie Gongyi said that the appointment time will be at least two or three months later, this can't be helped, as Xie Xuan's grandson, if he can calculate the cost and selling price of tea, it would be hell, he must send a fast horse back to Qiantang and call a steward who understands the market to negotiate with Antonio!

Wei Feng also threw an approving look at Xie Gongyi, his idea was to drag Antonio's group as much as possible, there were still some good things in the Roman Empire, such as navigation and shipbuilding, how could it be possible to let people go if they didn't squeeze the oil and water dry?

"Hahahaha~~" Wei Feng laughed again: "This is a good start, I believe that the trade between my Dajin and Eastern Rome will become closer and closer, and the friendship between the two countries will be built with all sincerity, when the big white is revealed!" ”

With a big laugh, Wei Feng instructed the dominatrix: "You guys go back to the house, bring the drinks, and by the way, bring the porcelain specially used to entertain the VIPs!" ”

"Yes!" The four dominatrixes saluted and walked briskly outside. (To be continued......)