Autumn in October, before the rainy season.

The front foot has just sent the Tang Dynasty a custom currency and trade goods.

The crew, who had been back for less than a month, were idle again.

It's not that the rainy season is easy to make people moldy, but that these young people are worried about the large barren mountains and mountains in Boni Prefecture.

It is time to put the large-scale development of the western region on the agenda.

You have to go to sea to work!

Fortunately, the preparations for the voyage trade have been mastered.

After more than a year of hard work, the waterways from north to south of the island have also been dredged.

Several major workshops got the order and quickly sent the goods to the Beibu Gulf wharf

Twenty days later.

An ocean-going fleet of six ships appeared in the waters of the Arabian Sea.

After receiving the synchronous video information of the aircraft, the No. 01 command ship decisively issued a notice.

"02, 03, 04, 05, 06, I'm 01, please answer if you receive it."

"02 Roger."

"03 Roger!"

"Roger!"

"Fifty nautical miles further to reach the Arab Empire, please slow down all ships, and let the 02 and 03 frigates go first."

"02 Roger!"

"03 Understood!"

The fleet began to change formations.

in this fleet.

No. 01 is the commander-in-chief ship, and No. 02 and No. 03 are escort ships.

Numbers 04, 05 and 06 are passenger ships.

The negative floor of a passenger ship is mainly used to carry cargo, from one to four floors, each of which is equipped with eight hundred seats.

Yujiro and Yuzaburo, who passed the ship certificate at the end of last year, have been promoted to the captaincy of the 02 and 03 frigates.

You Dalang is the captain of the escort special team, sitting on the command ship No. 01.

You Dalang, who has just turned eighteen.

He is two meters tall and weighs ninety-five kilograms.

This guy wears a camouflage short-sleeved shirt with bulging muscles in his arms.

Bronzed skin that shines in the sun.

He stood with short hair, a wide forehead, thick eyebrows, thick lips, and a faint beard that set off a firm chin.

Standing there with a serious expression can give people a strong sense of oppression.

In the 21st century, that is, when you are just going to university.

In today's New South Vietnam, at the age of eighteen, he is undoubtedly the leader of the new generation.

What he learned the most in the past two years was team combat training and command.

The 300 special forces trained by him are the most special existence among the 6,000 soldiers in the country.

Not only are they the most physical.

He is still the most able to endure hardships, the most able to fight, the most patient, and the most dedicated.

On his first visit to the Arab Empire, a special brigade with an average height of 1.85 meters naturally accompanied him all the way.

"Sister, I'm tired of eating seafood, and I don't know if the Arabic food is good or not, how about we eat braised pig's trotters for lunch?"

Yes, as soon as he opened his mouth, the captain's domineering spirit leaked out.

"Eat, eat!"

Mrs. You swallowed her saliva, she was also hungry for such a mouthful.

Solve the chef's private dishes, pull them down after eating!

Looking at the sister with an ordinary man's face in front of him, You Dalang couldn't help but ask:

"Sister, do you have to dress up as a man? Could it be that our dignified status as the eldest princess of the protector of the new South Vietnamese Kingdom will not be welcomed in the Arab Empire? ”

"When I was in Canton, I inquired with the big food merchants that the lord of the Arab Empire had personally ordered his wives and daughters to be masked. What they preach is that women are respected by men only when they avoid being seen and heard.

It is conceivable that the status of women in the Arab Empire! If you want to do business with them, you need to know their customs to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

You Dalang frowned.

He didn't dare to think that his daughter would have to cover her face at home, and her father, brother and uncle would not be able to easily see her true face when she grew up.

I shuddered hard, and it was okay, it was okay.

At a distance of fifty nautical miles, the fleet drove at a tortoise speed for seven hours before approaching the port of Siraf Basgo.

At this time, the Arab Empire was in full swing.

A few months earlier, they had just sent off the Prophet Muhammad.

Abu 'Umar, the Prophet's Sadiq (the Loyalist), was chosen as the next caliph (successor).

In order to return the apostate tribes to the ranks of believers, the Arabs officially began the war of conquest.

Caliph Abu 'Umar was not only the earliest supporter and father-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.

Born in Mecca, he was also a well-known fabric merchant.

The Arabian Peninsula is located on the main east-west transportation route.

In addition to selling silk, porcelain, and tea from the Tang Dynasty, Arab merchants sold locally.

These goods were also sold to Europe, Africa and elsewhere via the Silk Roads by sea and land.

After the election of the caliph of Abu 'Umar, he increased his trade with the Tang Dynasty.

After all, foreign wars are always costly.

Coincidentally, the Arab merchant who ordered the canned food in Canton was a nephew of the caliphate of Abu 'Umar.

Messages about the new South Vietnamese state, they received several times in a year.

The first batch of canned food brought back to the Arab Empire from the city of Guangzhou, after observation, it really did not deteriorate for more than a year.

They really wanted to use these cans as strategic materials and distribute them to the officers and soldiers who were fighting.

Knowing that the new South Vietnamese Congress would deliver goods to his door, the caliph had already sent his henchmen and waited for two months at the port of Siravbasg.

Hope for the stars, hope for the moon.

On the morning of this day, this foreign fleet was finally awaited.

Although the henchmen have also seen the description of the exotic treasure ship in the secret letter.

After seeing it with my own eyes, I was still shocked.

The greed in my heart can't be stopped.

Arab men who grew up drinking camel milk and eating camel meat have always considered themselves the strongest people in the world.

When he saw the large group of burly men coming out of the cabin, the greed in his henchman's heart came to an abrupt end.

I checked my eyes, and those big guys had seen blood.

Although the leader was the shortest, he didn't dare to be sloppy.

From afar, he pulled a smile on his face, stepped forward quickly, and greeted him in the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty, which was not very proficient:

"Welcome to our distinguished guests from the New South Vietnamese Kingdom, Your Excellency is the person in charge of this trip?"

The other party spoke fluently in Arabic: "Your Excellency has been waiting for a long time, I am the person in charge of this trip."

It's an unofficial, purely commercial exchange.

One side is in a hurry to buy, and the other side also wants to sell quickly.

On the same day, at the port of Siraf Basg, the goods were inspected.

Normal trading is to pay with one hand and deliver with the other.

The henchmen brought a round of canned food that they had brought with them and wanted to retail in Arabia in more than twice the amount of the order.

As a result, he did not have enough money for the goods.

Henchmen have a way.

He called in a local official as a guarantor, saying that he would pay the rest of the money within 10 days as long as he brought the cans back to Mecca.

The atmosphere is all set here.

Who would doubt that the red-collared merchant who procured quarters for the expeditionary force would default on a measly 2,000 gold coins? (End of chapter)