Wang Ze's reception of Belsalika and his party in the main hall was just a courtesy, and he didn't say much.

After all, Wang Ze received not only the envoys of the Great Qin people, but also the envoys of Pandia, the envoys of Sri Buddha, and even the envoys of the Persians.

Therefore, after the Great Dynasty Meeting, Wang Ze specially ordered someone to take Belsalika to a study converted from a small room in the Tiger's Den, and after moving to Zhenhai City, Wang Ze spent a large part of every month here, and often met with ministers here.

"Mr. Belsalica! After reading these two books, I have to admit that Justinian the Great of your country was really a great emperor! This is an emperor worthy of respect! ”

Wang Ze solemnly closed a thick book in his hand, and then solemnly said to Belsalica, "In my opinion, the greatest merit of Emperor Justinian is not the almost complete restoration of all the territories of the Roman Empire, but the "Civil Law Canon" and "Compendium of Doctrines" that he presided over the formulation! ”

"Your Majesty, it is our honor to receive your compliment! We Romans also consider him a great emperor! Belsalika respectfully bowed to Wang Ze.

He was very surprised when he saw the young king in front of him for the first time, but after combining all the achievements of this king that he knew before, he admired it even more, who could start to build his own country before he was ten years old?

Moreover, this country is currently the dominant sea route from the east to the west, and has completely controlled the sea trade route between the east and the west, which is beyond the reach of even the Roman Empire, so Belsalica's attitude is even more respectful when he thinks of this.

After Wang Ze received Belsalica, the young man who claimed to be a Roman envoy gave him two books on the law of the Roman Empire.

One of them is Justinian's Compendium of Civil Law, published in 529 A.D., after collating the Roman law system, and the other is the Compendium of Doctrines, compiled in 533 A.D.

Needless to say, the "Encyclopedia of Civil Law" is of great help to the current revision of the civil law of the Xia Kingdom, and the work "Compendium of Doctrines" is even more remarkable, it brings together a large number of Roman jurists at this time for the judicial interpretation of Roman law, which represents the highest achievement of Roman law.

Until the 20th century, Justinian's interpretation of justice and law was still the only standard for the laws of European countries that adopted Roman law.

After seeing this, Wang Ze finally suddenly realized that in addition to working hard to expand the land and improve the living standards of the people over the years, he had never made too many refinements to the laws formulated before, although there were also judges with independent judicial power, but he did not pay more attention.

So far, he has only copied some of the practices of the Legalists in the past Spring and Autumn Period, and it seems that the further standardization of the law will continue, and now the foundation of the various forces in the East China Sea is not deep, so it can be said that the ship is a good turn, and any changes are still too late.

But these things have to be done later, he still has to talk to this Roman, looking at this young man who called himself a Roman envoy, Wang Ze smiled and said: "Mr. Belsalika, thank you very much for your gift, but what I don't understand is that the governor of Egypt also has the right to send envoys on behalf of the Roman Empire?" ”

Belsalica's face turned pale all of a sudden, when he first met the Xia people, in order to make Wu Meng and He Liang pay attention to his party, Belsalica claimed to be envoys of the Roman Empire, so he was called the same after arriving in the East China Sea.

Although after Zhenhai, Belsalica saw that the people of Xia Guo did not know anything about the Roman Empire as he imagined, but it was too late to change his words at this time, and at this time, he was suddenly exposed by Wang Ze, and his face changed color at that time.

Looking at Belsalika's face, Wang Ze smiled, this is really a young man who doesn't have much experience, but such an envoy is what he needs.

Wang Ze smiled at Belsalika: "Mr. Belsalika, please come with me!" As he spoke, he got up and turned around and opened a door behind him, not the one when Belsalika came in just now, Belsalica didn't know what Wang Ze was going to do, so he could only hurry up.

Suddenly coming out of the burning coal-burning study, Belsalica shuddered, but then he was surprised to find that he had not gone out into the courtyard, but into a very large building.

Needless to say, this is naturally Wang Ze's Tiger's Den Operations Center, and today's Tiger's Den is also responsible for some of the teaching practice of the Military Academy, and now from time to time, some students of the Military Academy will come here to explain some strategic situations on the sand table under the leadership of the generals who serve as teachers.

Today, a group of reserve officers are listening to the explanation of their own instructor, and the instructor who is the main instructor is Hu Bingchang, the chief cavalry general, and any general above the rank of lieutenant in the Xia Kingdom must regularly teach at the military academy for a certain amount of time, even if they can't talk about tactics and strategy, it is very good to talk about some things when they are fighting.

This regulation played a very important role in the training of officers in the Xia Kingdom, at least until now, many officers who entered the army could quickly adapt to the life of the army.

Seeing Wang Ze come in with a Yiren, Hu Bingchang smiled at Wang Ze and saluted, then gave up his position, and took a group of academies to another place to explain, leaving this huge sand table to Wang Ze. new

Belsalika, who was now able to understand most of the Chinese, listened to the conversation of the students, and learned that this was a group of students who were conducting a strategic course, and what a terrible people, even the palace was holding these war courses at any time.

"What can you see, Belsalica?" Wang Ze stood next to the sand table and smiled at Belsalica.

For this king who created such a great cause at a young age, Belsalika never dared to despise it, any word he said, Belsalika would carefully ponder it in his heart at this time, and when he heard Wang Ze's words, he carefully looked at the sand table in front of him.

Beersalika didn't know that he was the first foreigner to be invited here by Wang Ze in all these years, and he was only immersed in his own shock.

Although he was also amazed that Wang Ze controlled the sea route between the East and the West before, because it was not so intuitive, everything was not as shocking as what he saw today.

On the huge wooden case in front of him, which is about three feet long, a vivid world is displayed in front of him, especially Wang Ze also asked people to draw a border line to distinguish the borders of various countries, so that the situation of the whole world is more clearly displayed in front of people.

Wang Ze adopted a cartographic approach that placed China at the center of the world (which is of course inevitable), starting from Zhenhai, passing through the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and all the way to Haitou (Sabang), a large area of land, which was simply full of red and bright national flags of the Xia Kingdom.

In the Western Ocean, although it is not as obvious as the South Sea, there are also three obvious strategic locations in the Pearl Islands, Bixia Islands, and Dingrong City. Today's Pearl Islands and Bixia Islands, after Wang Ze moved part of the population, the total population of the two places has more than 20,000 people.

At the beginning, Sun Xing and others cooperated with Pandia to conquer the newly occupied Dingrong City, and now there are 30,000 Han people, many of these Han people are people who have undergone strict armed training, Wang Ze let them move here on the condition that they were exempted from taxes for five years, and each person was allocated 200 acres of land!

To the west from these three places lies the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea coast.

Previously, due to map defects, this huge sand table only reached the Persian Gulf region, but after He Liang's Wu Meng went to Egypt, even the topographic map of the Red Sea coast all the way to Egypt was available, and Belsalika even found the general appearance of Cairo on it.

This not only surprised Belsalika very much at the fineness of the sand table, but what made Belsalika feel even more dazzling was undoubtedly the Zhiyuan Islands (Socotra Islands) blocked near Yemen at the mouth of the Red Sea, and now he already knew that the Xia Kingdom had also begun to send troops and craftsmen there, and moved some people to live there.

Although there is still a part of the continent on the sand table that has been extending from Zhenhai to the east for a long time, in Belsalika's opinion, this continent is still in the Xia Kingdom to the east, so he did not pay much attention.

He looked at this sand table for a long time, and finally understood what Wang Ze meant, he asked in a slightly trembling voice: "I'm really sorry Your Majesty, I just wanted to use the name of the imperial envoy to attract Your Majesty's attention, in fact, I am just the envoy of the Egyptian governor Humouf, because my uncle is General Belisarius, does Your Majesty want to trade directly with our Egypt?" ”

Wang Ze said with a smile: "Mr. Belsalika, you are a very smart person, if it was Justinian the Great, I would still attach great importance to the Roman Empire, but after his death, the Roman Empire will inevitably be weakened due to the church, as well as the barbarian invasion and the hostility of the Persians!"

I brought you here to show you that the control of the east-west sea route must be in my hands, not only the current region, but even Yemen in the Red Sea must be in my hands, and Kunlun! That is, the Afrika in your country's mouth, and your country should also respect our country's interests there! ”

"Your Majesty, this can't be!" When Belsalika heard Wang Ze's words, he jumped up at once, and he said eagerly, "Yemen is not only a place that our Roman Empire attaches great importance to, but also the interests of the Persians and Axumes, and they will definitely not agree!" ”

"That's one of my demands, Yemen is in our hands, it's a must!" Wang Ze said in an unquestionable tone, "In addition, when your country has a dispute with the Aksumites, you must not support the Aksumites in the back!" ”

I don't know if the Aksumites still have the strength to protest here! Belsalika muttered to himself, at this time, the kingdom of Axum, which was originally powerful in Ethiopia, was in a period of decline, and I was afraid that there was no power to protest when this great power was competing.

Wang Ze ignored Belsalika's inability to fight, he continued: "I do not make these demands to the Roman Empire, I only ask the governor of Egypt, if he can agree to these, then after I trade with Egypt, the goods I sell to you will be sold to the Persians at the same price, and there will be certain discounts in terms of weapons!" ”

Originally, Belsalika wanted to protest, but after hearing Wang Ze's words, Belsalika finally couldn't say anything, you must know that the Oriental goods sold by the Persians to the Romans were more than double the price sold by the Xia people to the Persians.

If the Egyptians could take advantage of their geographical advantage and get the same price as the Persians, then the profits obtained when sold in places such as the Roman Empire would be greatly increased, and the Xia Kingdom was also very famous for its excellent weapons, so he could not be distracted.

Thinking that in the end, all this was of great benefit to the Viceroyalty of Egypt, Belsalika finally gritted his teeth and finally agreed, anyway, the things that Wang Ze asked for were never obtained by the Romans, and he didn't lose a piece of land anyway, so he agreed!