After a year-long bilateral conflict, I was finally too tired to stand it, and because of the Chinese Empire's commodity embargo policy, ** suddenly became a lot sadter.

First of all, whether it is gorgeous silk, or exquisite porcelain, or glassware that can see the contents of the cup, and the kind of tea that is refreshing and tiresome after drinking.

There is also the copper material dug up after the embargo, except for using it to make copper basins, I don't know what to do with the rest of the copper? However, after a year-long campaign, the iron tools have been consumed a lot, and they are already in a state of making ends meet.

After thinking about it for a long time, after discovering that there was no way to open a passage for the * cavalry to come and go at will, whether it was from the land of Longyou, the land of Hetao, or from Shanxi. Unable to withstand the internal pressure and not wanting to continue the war, Jieli Khan finally bowed his head and once again sent my old friend Kang Sheli as an envoy to Chang'an.

Khan Khan of Khamariti brought peace to him, hoping that both sides would forget the unpleasantness of the past and set their sights on a new future. Jieli Khan is willing to sign an alliance with our Chinese Empire and strictly abide by peace. In addition, it is natural to hope that the market will be reopened, and that the two sides will continue to trade in the past.

For the shameless request, many ministers of civil and military affairs jumped up to oppose it, thinking that this was clearly their own way to take my Chinese Empire and then they could only give in. But he still said it so openly, it is really shameless.

I can understand the thoughts and thoughts of these ministers, but now, it is indeed not the time to continue to confront the evil face, because our Chinese Empire has not yet been unified, and if we can shake hands and make peace first, at least we ⊥can put our minds on the Central Plains.

After taking the Central Plains and seizing the Silla Peninsula in the north, it is the best time to pacify the siege on three sides, at least not yet, and keeping this strong enemy can also make the court, so that the military and people of the Chinese Empire can always be vigilant, so as to pay attention to the development of armaments and scientific research.

Nowadays, many of the products invented and created by Ben Gongzi have entered the homes of ordinary people, such as cement, or porcelain? Khan, this thing is not mine. It's glassware, which has at least made its way into the homes of the rich.

As for the glass mirror, even in the Western Thai countries, it is regarded as a treasure, and a small piece of glass mirror the size of a palm can even be exchanged for 100,000 Roman gold coins. That's definitely a crazy number and wealth.

Legend has it that the Byzantine emperor was the first to pay so much money to buy such a small mirror from a merchant, and then countless wealthy merchants from all the Western and Thai kingdoms waved their money bags to get such a mirror with incredible clarity.

But in the end, the merchant of the Chinese Empire sold only ten of them, and all of them were slightly smaller than the mirrors in the hands of the Byzantine emperor, and they were set in silver frames. This made the Byzantine emperor very satisfied, because, in addition to the mirror he bought, the generous merchants of the Chinese Empire also gave him a set of transparent and crystal clear glass tea sets.

This thing is also popular in the Western Thai countries, although it is not comparable to glass mirrors, but it can be exchanged for the same weight of gold as silk, where to find such a good thing?

Although the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire could not directly reach the Western Thai countries, we also had a way, and we have occupied a borderless land in the Red Sea, where we have built a cement city that is two miles wide and long, and is guarded by 5,000 elite soldiers of the Chinese Empire.

The goods will be unloaded and collected here, and then the merchants will set off with the goods from here, and after more than 100 miles, they will arrive at another small fortress on the other side of the Mediterranean, which is also garrisoned by the soldiers of our Chinese Empire, and then sail by boat to the Western Thai countries.

In order to choose these two suitable garrison sites and docks, it took a lot of effort for our ocean-going fleet. In addition, in order to obtain peace in these two places, almost hundreds of miles of land were cleared. Therefore, those who were hostile to the outsiders of our Chinese Empire were all driven away, but more natives were bought by our people with all kinds of specialties of the Chinese Empire.

So that no one will dare to peep at this more than 100-mile land route. Of course, there were still necessary guards, and every time a cargo was delivered to the Mediterranean side, it was escorted by at least a thousand elite Chinese imperial cavalry.

Wearing a composite armor with a chain and a sharp horizontal knife pinned to his waist, he held a mounted spear with a handle, and a steel crossbow and round shield hung from his horse's buttocks. With the equipment and strong combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, although it is only a thousand, it is enough to defeat 10,000.

Egypt, an ancient country, has now become a precarious state, having been conquered by Rome in the past, and then by other peoples. Before, the Great Cannibals had invaded many territories in Egypt, and the pharaoh of Egypt could only shrink in Cairo and sigh with tears from the corners of his eyes.

But now, the Chinese Empire has brought good news, showing them what it means to be a good weapon, a blood-chestnut armor that is so strong that of course, beautiful porcelain, and luxurious silk are also indispensable, and they soon won the friendship of the Egyptian pharaohs.

After seeing the strength of the expeditionary force of the Chinese Empire, the Egyptian pharaoh even had the idea of paying to hire the army of our Chinese Empire to fight for them and drive out the despicable and shameless infidels of the Great Cannibals.

After careful consideration of this idea, we gave the conditions: first, the Kingdom of Egypt recognized the land controlled by the Chinese Empire from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, which was about fifty miles wide, and belonged to the Chinese Empire.

In addition, although the Chinese Empire cannot send troops, it can recruit a mercenary from the Chinese Empire to help in the war. Of course, the mercenary's commissions, baggage, and other expenses had to be paid by the Kingdom of Egypt.

As for letting them go, of course, it's how much money you give, and how much we do. After harvesting the first gold harvest, the first five thousand mercenary cavalry set out

Among the 5,000 mercenaries, except for more than 100 high- and middle-ranking officers, who were Han Chinese, most of them were cavalry composed of captured nomads in the Hetao region or the Xihai region. And the concept of mercenaries reminds us of this group of prisoners of war, and when they went to the prisoner of war pile, a large number of people came.

There is still money to be earned in the war, and it is still a lot of money, and their families can still be guaranteed, for them, the prisoners of war, naturally they are not wanted, and the imperial army has also sent a group of instructors to train them into a disciplined army, instead of the past rangers.

Although it was a nomadic army that was defeated and captured by our Chinese Empire, compared to the armies of other places in this era, its combat effectiveness was definitely far superior. Think about it, whether it is the Xiongnu or the Turks, they are all defeated under the command of our Chinese Empire, but they are all able to sweep across the Western Continent, so these nomadic cavalry, after rigorous training, are not inferior to the most elite troops on the Persian Peninsula.

These mercenaries brought not only gold and wealth to the empire, but more importantly, the Chinese Empire became more closely connected with Egypt and other West Asian countries, and also gained more friendship.

And the most gratifying thing for me is the acquisition of control of the future Suez Canal area, although it is an enclave for our Chinese Empire, for the Egyptians also feel that this small barren land is of no use at all, because they are all ancients more than a thousand years ago, and they have no idea how significant the opening of this canal will be for the world's maritime trade.

Although we have not dug the canal at present, after all, the control of this land is not perfect now, but in the future, it will definitely be completely in the hands of the Empire.

And since the appearance of the steam locomotive of the Chinese Empire, countless feudal states have cried and shouted that the Chinese Empire can provide them with the technology of the steam engine, and we will not sell it at all. All steam engines were all large, and each one had a fixed number, and even if it was scrapped, it had to be returned to the steam engine factory for destruction.

There is no way, for the sake of secrecy, it can only be so. At least the Chinese Empire needs to stand at the pinnacle of the world's science and technology to lead. More importantly, science is an important process of civilization, how can it be mastered by those barbarian countries?

All technicians are required to sign confidentiality regulations and must keep their work strictly confidential, and their spouses and relatives have no idea what their work is. It is to prevent it from being noticed by people with ulterior motives.

And all kinds of counter-espionage work is in full swing, every month there will be new details arrested, and even some of the people of the Chinese Empire were bribed by those vassal states to use money as details, these people are all found out, or Luzon, Wadao and other territories.

Of course, those who have already dug up some important news naturally cannot be let go, and are directly thrown into labor camps, so that they can accept ideological indoctrination and reform, and work hard for several years until they truly realize their mistakes, and will not be released.

As for those foreign crafts, the general situation is to interrogate things and throw them into the mines, so that they can spend the rest of their lives there, and of course there are some obedient subdued ones, so they stay, and then start sending all kinds of false information to their countries in order to confuse and confuse the sights of the countries.