Given the popularity and lack of enamel tableware in the Western Regions, some officials and imperial guards who accompanied Li Shun on missions could not resist this temptation, especially when they arrived in Kangju and Daxia, the locals became even more crazy after seeing enamel. Some merchants, nobles and even kings sent officials to carry large bags of gold to the team to ask for their enamel equipment. So some people couldn't help but sell their equipment and exchanged them for big lumps of gold.

But although the money is good, it is not as good as life.

On the next long journey, when the food and accommodation conditions were extremely harsh, there was no enamel pot for cooking, no military kettle for boiling water, and no tea tank for drinking and eating. From Dayuan to Kangju to Daxia, many people fell ill on the road. In the absence of medical treatment and medicine, some people died by holding a wallet of gold.

Later on, Li Shun had to strictly order everyone not to sell enamel equipment, so the casualties from Daxia to Anxi were much smaller.

After finally coming to the Rest Empire and receiving warm reception from the king, Li Shun and others quickly relaxed.

In the palace, Antioch III held a banquet to invite Li Gui and others, and summoned the women from the palace to play songs and dances to cheer them up.

During the banquet, Antioch III and some noble officials also asked about the news about the Qin Dynasty. Li Gui and others introduced the customs and customs of the Qin Dynasty, and enthusiastically invited them to visit the Qin Dynasty.

This is the first direct contact between the two civilized powers of the East and the West.

Both sides were very enthusiastic and polite.

After all, they don't know each other.

Even so, after all, there are great power figures who have seen the world.

Li Shun and others came from the Qin Dynasty. They were already familiar with the situation of the seven Chinese kingdoms fighting for power and the years of fighting of dozens or millions of people. They also personally faced the sneak attacks of the Yuezhi people, and also supported Taiyi Shenlei and Qinghe Hou behind them. Therefore, they were not afraid of the emperor of the Anxi Empire. They were calm at the banquet and chatting. A group of officials and imperial guards who came with them were the same. After all, the kings they had seen were calculated along the way.

The emperor and noble officials of the Rest Empire were not novice. In thirty years, from a province of the Seleucid Empire, three generations of emperors, it has become the largest empire connecting Europe and Asia. Although it has not yet reached its peak to control the Mesopotamian River Basin, it is also the time when the national strength is booming. It is the east to defeat Daxia and Shindu, and the west to compete with Seleucid and Egypt, with strong troops and strong national strength.

The Qin and Anxi rose almost at the same time, expanded at the same time, and faced many contradictions and threats inside and outside at the same time.

But Daqin is now cheating, with a bug character named Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe.

Under the promotion of Chen Xu, the Qin Empire, which unified the rear chariot, the same track, the same text, the same system and the same legal system, has now wiped out the four barbarians. The Qin Dynasty has ushered in a peak of prosperity that has never been seen before, and has long extended its tentacles to the edge of the West.

Now, this tentacle finally crossed mountains and ridges and touched another body that was equally strong and sturdy.

At present, the soul feast on the tentacle was in full swing, and the Emperor of Qin was unfolding the letter of the kingdom, standing in front of the Emperor of the Abnormal Empire, reading aloud.

"I, the First Emperor of the Great Qin, sent envoys to visit your country, just for the friendship between the two countries. The Great Qin is a country of hospitality and etiquette. To express my wishes, I specially gave you a set of porcelain tea sets, glass, wine cups, ten pieces of silk, and two kilograms of tea. I hope that your country will treat our country's envoys well, and also send envoys to our Great Qin, and send envoys to trade and communicate with each other, and always establish good neighborly and friendly feelings!"

This edict from the First Emperor was written by the Hou of Qinghe himself. It was written in a very euphemistic and low-key manner, mainly expressing the friendship between trade and exchanges between each other. I have read it in Dayuan, Kangju, and Daxia. Now I have to read it as usual when I am at rest.

If this edict was drafted by other officials, it would have been full of aggressiveness.

However, the consequences of threatening others in such a distance of tens of thousands of miles may not be predicted. The methods of the emperor who was far away from the mountains in Daqin were not very good. Rebellion and turmoil occurred from time to time. Sending a few envoys to threaten other people's kings should be considered a relatively stupid behavior. Moreover, there is almost no contact between the two sides and no understanding of each other. Just like when you were hugging Lao Pi at home, you suddenly ran in a fool not only wanted your money, but also asked you to kneel down and call him dad. I'm afraid you will be pressed to the ground and rubbed to the end, and you will also have to hang it up to dry the body.

Therefore, the goal of Li Shun's mission, which was purely for exploration, was not to promote national prestige, but to explore the path and understand the strength and customs of various countries.

Therefore, Chen Xu decided to let the delegation be as low-key as possible and also give some local specialties from the Qin Dynasty to express his desire to reciprocate.

China has always emphasized etiquette first and then military force, and it is important to conquer people with virtue. It is not Chen Xu's style to deliver it to the door so far.

So after listening to Chen Xu's suggestion, the First Emperor agreed to the letter of nationality, but after all, he was the Emperor of Qin. He never won a fight and never lost a fight. With the support of the national strength of Qin, his mentality was a little inflamed, and he insisted on using the word "given" in the letter of nationality to represent the high status of Qin.

However, this kind of chewing words game does not matter to Chen Xu, because Western countries do not know the difference between gifts and gifts.

Sure enough, after a group of merchants passed on word of mouth three or five times, Li Shun and others no longer knew what they were talking about, but they only understood the two foreign words porcelain and glass that spread from the Qin Dynasty.

Antioch III and a group of ministers and nobles did not look unhappy after hearing this. Instead, they stood up excitedly and asked the translator to urge Li Shun and others to take out the gifts that the Emperor of Qin had presented to them.

The two emperors of the East and the West tried their best to maintain their high status in their writing, but the atmosphere became lively and harmonious in the fucking translation and tacitly agreed to each other.

Under the arrangement of Li Shun, several mission officials accompanied by the Foreign Minister went to the hotel where the envoys stayed to collect gifts.

Half an hour later, several officials returned to the palace with the Foreign Minister.

Several officials were walking in front, each holding a square and exquisite wooden box. Foreign Minister Agato's face was very serious and cautious at this time. He didn't dare to walk too fast, and even felt the blood in his body flowing rapidly.

Just now in the hotel, he watched with his own eyes several mission officials ask the imperial guards to carefully remove these exquisitely made fragrant wood gift boxes from layers of oil cloth and wooden boxes filled with millet.

These gift boxes are made of fragrant wood that you have never seen before, and are covered with exquisite patterns of flowers, birds, insects and fish. In addition to the gorgeous decorations such as gold, jade, beads and shells, there are also exquisite copper fasteners and copper locks.

Therefore, when these gift boxes appeared in the palace, they immediately caused commotion and exclamation among dozens of nobles and officials.

Antioch III couldn't help but stand up, staring straight at the gate of several mission officials entering the palace, and then looked at the table placed in front of him.

Just looking at the appearance of these wooden boxes, you can tell that the gift from Emperor Qin must be very expensive, because these wooden boxes inlaid with luxurious jewelry and exquisite patterns are very valuable at first glance.

Antioch III was very excited and looked forward to it even more. He even felt that he could not control his urge to drool.

"Please look at your Majesty!" An official took out the key and opened one of the wooden boxes. The moment he opened it, a colorful light emitted under the sunlight shining through the window.

Antioch III's body trembled violently, his eyes protruded and looked straight at the items in the wooden box. His face was dull and his mouth was opened, as if his soul had already floated outside his body.

As the monarch of a powerful empire and the successor of an ancient civilization, Antioch III was definitely not a rich man in the countryside. He had seen countless treasures. Although the ancient civilization in the Mesopotamia had gradually collapsed, there were countless exquisite treasures left after the integration of the two powerful civilizations of Greece and Persia, he had never seen such treasures that were more exquisite than porcelain in front of him.

There are six crystal glasses neatly arranged, just like the most precious treasure given to the world by the gods, lying quietly on the silk brocade in the box with five colors, transparent and flawless flashing with a tempting light in the sun.

"Study hard, hey, wow, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

After a long time, Antioch III finally returned to his body. He was drooling and said something he couldn't understand at all. He bent down and looked at the six glasses carefully, and then gently touched them with his hands.

"Your Majesty, this is a crystal glass, you can pick it up and watch..." The mission officer spoke with a light face.

They have seen this situation many times on the way to come.

The kings of Dayuan and Daxia performed even worse than Antioch. They only came back to their senses after half a stick of incense, and their saliva flowed all over the floor.

No matter who is in the world, as long as he reaches the level of a king, his wishes and extravagances are already very single and convergent. Apart from his desire for territory, he is to collect treasures from the world. Qin Shihuang is no exception, and other kings are no exception.

The nobles and ministers sitting on both sides did not know what treasures were contained in the box, but the colorful light reflected by the sunlight could still be seen faintly. Seeing the king so disobedient, everyone felt anxious and uncomfortable as if they were scratched by cats, and they stood up to look at them.

"Crystal...glass..." Antioch III twitched hard and muttered these two new foreign words. With the envoy's eyes, he finally reached out to pick up a crystal clear glass cup and slowly lifted it up.
Chapter completed!