The meeting to decide the future fate of the Serbian region ended in less than two hours, and Yang Congrong, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty Europa Province, smiled at the two Roman missions: "Everyone, I have prepared a banquet, please go and drink together." ”

Of course, the two Roman missions would not be humble, and the banquet hall was next to it, and everyone quickly took their seats. The beautiful maids dressed in well-fitting clothes gracefully brought copper basins, and the members of the mission washed their hands and wiped their faces. A variety of dishes were served immediately.

The waiter rushed in and served the four appetizers first. Yang calmly raised his glass and said with a smile: "Come, please drink freely, and wish this cooperation a success." ”

The sweet and fragrant cherry shochu was eaten by the Mongolian nobles of Western Rome. The banquet adopts a separate meal system, and after eating the four first dishes, the main course is served immediately. Unlike the violent temperament of the Mongolian nobles in Western Rome, who looked down on life and death and did not accept it, the nobles of Eastern Rome, who were in a low-intensity chaotic and peaceful situation, although they enjoyed the food very much, often inadvertently fell on the beautiful maids. Yang Congrong smiled secretly in his heart, and did not immediately let the maid step forward to accompany him. It's not that stage yet.

After eating this feast, the Western Roman Mongolian nobleman, who had swept away the twelve dishes, wiped his oily mustache with satisfaction and was about to speak, when he saw another maid bring a copper basin. The people washed their hands and washed their faces, and moved to the next hall. Fruits, snacks, preserved fruits, and dried meat were placed on the table, and each table was accompanied by a maid. Let the maid who was favored by the Eastern Roman envoy accompany the Eastern Roman envoy. Holding the slender and supple hand, the Eastern Roman envoy was already smiling.

Yang calmly clapped his hands and played music. A woman in two costumes, barefoot, wearing a face mask, wrapped in purple tulle, swirled and jumped to the music, and entered the center of the field from behind the screen where the band was located. She held her twin knives and danced to the music.

The representatives of the Eastern Romans smiled in amazement, and the Mongolian nobles of the Western Romans looked intently at the dancing girl with only a bust and bloomers. I saw that she had a bee waist and hips, and the ** wrapped in her chest was slightly bigger than Yingying's hand. The six beautiful abs between the bloomers and the bust are clearly visible, and the posture of advancing and retreating on the dance court is so soft as a leopard.

Yang Congrong is not a scholar who is powerless, and he has led troops to fight with pirates over the years. The combination of the beautiful ** of the dancing girl, the seductive costume, and the actual combat knife skills of the battlefield fight is undoubtedly a gorgeous and dangerous femme fatale dance.

Yang calmly still felt like this, and the Mongolian nobles of the Western Roman Empire couldn't take their eyes off it, and their saliva was about to flow out. At the end of the dance, with the rhythm of the pipa, the dancer spun in the center of the dance hall, and the double knife snake flickered and retracted. It was a sword technique that fought in all directions at night, and the tulle wrapped around Myoman's body swirled with the dance, and if it was a heavy and thick cloak, it would surely spin like a windmill. Feel the touch in any direction, and the swift scimitar will unleash a swift assassination in that direction. At the end is a tempered knife technique.

As if no one around the Mongolian nobleman applauded vigorously, the dancer turned more than twenty times in succession to the sound of music and applause, and saw her stop steadily, her knees bent and fell to the ground, and her body leaned back with an amazing sense of balance. and straightened up with the strength of his flexible waist. The two knives in his hands were swung diagonally forward. The whole person is frozen in this heroic posture. The music ends and the dance ends.

"Good!" The Mongolian nobleman stood up and cheered loudly, "Good! Good! That's great! ”

Yang Congrong also applauded. This juggling-like posture is a superb equestrian skill to dodge the onslaught of the frontal slash, and the body is lowered and the kung fu of the iron bridge is used to dodge the onslaught with his back facing up, and he rolls over and blows the enemy with the double knives in his hand. Even if this place is not a battlefield, even if only a dancing girl performs martial arts alone, Yang Congrong seems to have watched a fierce fight, and his heartbeat is much faster.

The dancer took her sword and saluted, and left with light steps. The Mongolian nobleman swallowed a big mouthful of saliva and stared intently at the back of the dancing girl.

"Huh." The Eastern Roman envoys couldn't help but laugh out loud when they saw the performance of the Mongolian nobles of the Western Romans. There was a man's understanding in the voice, and there was also the kind of mockery peculiar to civil officials.

The laughter in Yang Congrong's ears made him more sure of the difference between the two Roman envoys.

"Your Excellency, can this woman give it to me?" The Mongolian nobleman turned around and said very rude words.

Yang smiled calmly, and then decisively refused, "No." ”

"Ten war horses!" The Mongolian nobleman did not hesitate to say the price.

"Nope."

"Twenty horses!" The Mongolian nobles did not give up. For the Mongols who licked the blood from the knife edge, such a woman was much more precious than a valuable war horse.

Seeing that the Mongolian nobles were so insistent, Yang calmly smiled and said: "This woman is a woman in the workshop, if the Western Rome also sets up a workshop, she can send someone to teach." At that time, there will be such maiko in Western Rome, what do you think? ”

After saying this, Yang Congrong unexpectedly found that he only had the bold appreciation of the Mongolian nobles in his heart, and the hatred for the Mongolians that seemed to be engraved in his heart when he was a teenager was so weak that he could hardly feel it. As the nephew of Yang Shufei, Yang Congrong, who is already forty years old, has lived in the shadow of the Mongols since he was a child. That psychological shadow accompanied him throughout his childhood and adolescence, until the storm that swept up in Zhao's house completely blew away the boundless dark clouds. Now he can recall that fear, but he no longer lives under it.

The Mongolian nobleman didn't know what Yang Congrong thought, he just knew that he had been decisively rejected. Although they were unwilling, the Mongolian nobles forbeared** and maintained the humility that must be maintained in the face of the strong.

Seeing that the Mongolian nobles no longer insisted, Yang calmly high-fived again, and this time it was a group dance that came up. Watch the dancers dance with long sleeves and bewitching postures. The Eastern Roman envoys were greatly appreciative, while the Mongol nobles were a little uninterested.

watched a few dances, and everyone had fun. Yang calmly let the others go down, and sat around the small table with the Eastern and Western Roman envoys. He asked, "Now that you have a good strategy, I wonder if you think there is anything else to say?" ”

The Eastern Roman envoy's eyes lit up, but he didn't think that the Mongolian nobles of the Western Rome said in a deep voice: "There is something I want to say, can your subordinates do it?" Don't scream in fright at the sight of blood. We can only send cavalry, and all we do is reconnaissance, and it is up to you to do it. If your men are unable to do so, let our men command your men when they do. ”

Yang calmly couldn't laugh, the Mongolian nobles said their approach before, it was a very Mongolian approach. Those who resist will be killed, and those who surrender will be killed if they are taller than the wheels. Looking carefully at the expressions of the Mongolian nobles, Yang Congrong felt that this guy seemed rude, but he unexpectedly pointed out the key. Whether the Eastern Roman Empire could achieve this level, Yang Congrong did not know. The Great Song Europa Province was not at all interested.

This is not the Great Song Dynasty sweeping the barbarians on the northern border, for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty to eliminate the threat, it is an obligation, a responsibility, and an honor to kill those barbarians who have threatened China for hundreds of years. The northern border of the province of Europa is in central Greece, bordering the Eastern Roman Empire to the north. The Han Chinese in Europa had no interest in Serbia, hundreds of miles away, and had no intention of participating in the actual killings.

Touched by this state of mind, Yang calmly fell silent. The slender eyes of the Mongol nobleman turned to the Eastern Roman envoy, who did not care, and replied with a smile, "Of course such things can be done." ”

Yang was sensitive to this bureaucratic language, and he asked, "How?" "Civil officials are used to bragging, and if they can't do it, they will push back. The Mongols don't have this kind of style, and if they can't, they're going to go berserk. It can even affect cooperation.

The Eastern Roman envoy accompanied him and said with a smile: "Governor Yang, do you know who our Eastern Rome used to fight before?" ”

"Mercenaries." Yang Congrong, director of the Eastern European Department of the Great Song Dynasty, said the answer calmly, thoughtful in his heart.

The Eastern Roman envoy nodded heavily, "It's a mercenary." Those mercenaries are not good at fighting, they are even good at killing people. Now that we are rebuilding the Roman legions, it is really sad to look back on the past. Those mercenaries do all kinds of evil, but when they take the money, they will do all kinds of evil. ”

At this point, the Eastern Roman envoy sighed. Yang Congrong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this method is highly implementable. Of course, the premise was that the armies of the two Romans could really work together, with the Mongol cavalry of the Western Romans scouting and outflanking in the mountains, and the Eastern Roman armies striving to pursue. If the two work together to win, the mercenaries will have room to wield.

After combing through these details in his heart a few more times, Yang nodded calmly, "Then confirm this matter." The provincial capital of Europa will first come up with the money for your battle. ”

At last the negotiation was settled, and the Mongol nobles of Western Rome went to rest. Looking at his back as he left after he wanted to say something, Yang Congrong couldn't help but wonder if this guy wanted to express his distrust of Eastern Rome, or if he wanted to make a final effort to ask for the Sword Dancer.

When the Mongolian nobles left, the Eastern Roman envoy asked Yang Congrong, "Your Excellency the Governor, I don't know why the cherry shochu returned to China is more mellow than that of our country." ”

Cherry shochu has a strong aroma and is even more delicious when it is aged for more than three years. Yang Jiedu makes himself a winery and knows the key. It is not a secret that the barrels used to make cherry shochu were made from oak wood brought from the Yuan Kingdom, and it was used by the distilleries of the Eastern Roman, Western Roman, and Europa provinces. The reason why Yuan Guo did not do this was because the temperature in Yuan Country was too low, which was very unfriendly to winemaking. Even in the oak origin, the Yuan Kingdom can only buy large quantities of alcoholic beverages.

In addition to adding white sugar during the brewing process, the old liquor that has been allowed to stand for two years to remove the sediment and finally add sugar, starch sugar, glycerin and a small amount of high-purity edible alcohol to supplement the delicacy lost in the distillation process. This is the key to the richness and flavor of Europa Cherry Shochu.

Yang Jiedu, who has the ability to obtain Tianzhu white sugar, said with a smile: "This depends on the craftsmanship of the brewing master, and I don't know why." ”

The Eastern Roman envoy agreed with Yang Jiedu's explanation, and he smiled and said, "Governor Yang, in a while, I may go to Thrace to take up a post, and I also want to open a winery there, and I need more support from Your Excellency." ”

"No problem." Yang calmly replied very simply. Greece was a very poor place, and the crop yield was not as good as that of Eastern Rome. Yang Congrong's distillery has begun to import large quantities of virgin cherry shochu from Eastern Rome for aging, and even if the taste deteriorates during transportation, Yang Congrong's distillery has been able to improve the post-processing to improve the taste.

The two men privately agreed on these cooperations, and the Eastern Roman envoy departed happily. Yang couldn't help but smile, thinking that the envoy would feel even happier when he returned to his residence. Yang Congrong had already ordered the maid from the sect who the envoy had taken a fancy to him to sleep.

Tang Gaozu placed the inner teaching workshop in the forbidden, taught and practiced music, and belonged to Taichang Temple. In the first year of Wu Zetian Ruyi (692), it was changed to Yunshao Mansion, with eunuchs as envoys. In the second year of Xuanzong's Kaiyuan (714), he placed the inner teaching workshop on the side of Penglai Palace, Kyoto placed the left and right teaching workshops, held Haiyou acrobatics, taught customs and music, and took the eunuch as the teaching workshop, and then no longer belonged to Taichang Temple. Since then, all sacrifices will be used for Taichang Yale, and for feasting at the end of the year, they will use the secular music of the teaching workshop. The Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties also set up a teaching workshop,

Of course, the women who came out of the church will not be as guarded as jade, and Xue Tao, a famous woman in the church, has served many times as a festival envoy. However, what they admire is their talent, and after Xue Tao left the church, many princes and grandsons went to propose.

In the Song Dynasty, the women of the church were called courtesans and did not sell their bodies. At that time, Liu Yong's words were famous all over the world, and the courtesans were proud of their ability to sing Liu Yong's new words and Liu Yong's spring breeze. Yoo Naga died of poverty, but it was the courtesans who pooled the money to hold a funeral and bury Yoo Naga.

Those who make a living from the skin and meat business are called prostitutes, and they are completely different from courtesans in terms of nouns.

In order to provide public literature and art, the province of Europa established a workshop, and the effect was good. Yang Congrong didn't go to the workshop before, but this time he found out that these guys had made some amazing courtesans. If it can be used well, I am afraid that it can work wonders in many places. Although he wanted to ask what the sword dancer was called, Yang Congrong found that he was not in that mood.

Recently, news came from the Great Song Dynasty court, and the court sternly reprimanded the province of Europa for its lack of management of the Quadripartite Alliance's banknotes, but it did not mean to overturn a boatload of people with one shot. As an envoy of the province of Europa, I don't know what to do with the ambassadors who came later.

Sighing, Yang calmly felt that the time he stayed in the province of Europa would not be too long. For more than ten years, he has worked for the Great Song Dynasty in Eastern Europe, and if he follows the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, he will not be allowed to continue to stay here in the already stable province of Europa. I have worked hard for more than ten years, is this the end of it? Thinking of this, Yang Congrong suddenly became sad, and his eyes were blurred.

Half a month later, the minister of the Great Song Dynasty finally arrived. Yang Congrong and others welcomed the minister into the palace, and everyone bowed down to receive the order. In the holy decree, the person in charge of the Quadripartite Alliance's banknotes and the principal officials were removed from their posts and investigated. Other officials were also reprimanded. To Yang Congrong's surprise, the holy decree said that these people were inexperienced, but they didn't know how to report to the imperial court.

Whether this is a blessing or a curse, Yang was calmly confused.