Chapter 455: The Messenger of the Eastern Roman Empire
While the emperor was supplying beef to the army, the Southern Continent was launching a war to destroy the country.
The emperor's vision is far more than that. After ensuring the stability of the Great Song Dynasty granary in the Southern Continent and opening up the Maritime Silk Road.
Zhao Huan's eyes were already shifting to the west.
In a sense, the current Jin Kingdom no longer poses a threat to the Song Dynasty.
Not only was there no threat, but in the next five years, the Jin Dynasty gradually became even weaker in accordance with the business rules of the Song Dynasty.
It will be sooner or later to destroy the Jin Kingdom.
In the eighth year of Jingkang, there were obviously many more Hu people in both Chang'an City and Tokyo City.
The Hu people showed unprecedented enthusiasm for the Song Dynasty. After the road from the Western Regions to the Central Plains was fully opened, the cost of commerce suddenly dropped to the lowest point.
Commerce in the northwest is developing rapidly.
From the Yumen Pass area to Xingqing Prefecture, when you reach Jingzhao Prefecture, Hu people can be seen everywhere.
In August of the eighth year of Jingkang, the wind in early autumn was cool, and a group of blonde and blue-eyed people came to Tokyo.
The Great Qin Kingdom is a name for the Roman Empire in the Central Plains.
The Roman Empire here refers to the Eastern Roman Empire.
In later history books, Western scholars called it Byzantine.
But it was the orthodox Roman Empire.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, people were more willing to call them Fuguo.
This group of people with blonde hair and blue eyes are from Fuguo.
There are embassies in Tokyo that are specially designed for foreign ambassadors to live in.
However, these people obviously cannot be considered ambassadors, because they cannot provide the envoy's certificates, and at most they are merchants.
There are also many Hu people in Tokyo, but they look different from Hu people in the Western Regions and even the Pamirs.
Therefore, they quickly attracted the attention of the Imperial City Guards.
The emperor naturally knew about this matter very quickly.
"Blonde hair?"
Zhao Huan was slightly shocked. Could it be that he is a European?
Europe has facilitated the exchanges between Middle-earth since ancient times, although the exchanges are not close enough.
Let me think about it, what is Europe in this era doing?
Damn, a group of people are fighting a holy war!
During the Crusades, Jerusalem was the center of stirring up the storm.
In this era, Western Europe is still a countryside full of streets.
It should be said that the rural areas of China are better than those of Western Europe.
In this era, the center of Europe was not the poor people in Western Europe, but the rich Eastern Roman Empire, and Constantinople was the center of Europe.
That was the Greek world that was not shrouded in the Roman Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, that world is being continuously destroyed by the Crusaders.
Zhao Gou on the side said, "Your Majesty, you have heard from some sea merchants that most of the people in the Great Qin State have blonde hair and blue eyes."
"Can I have contacts with the Qin Dynasty?"
"The Song Dynasty did not have direct contacts with the Fu Kingdom, but every year the goods from the Qin Dynasty entered the Song Dynasty, and these goods were circulated through the cannibals."
"I see."
In the Song Dynasty, especially in Quanzhou, Fujian, it was a gathering place for foreigners.
Arabs and Indians communicate with China, and they basically stay in Quanzhou.
Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty was an international port for ocean sailing.
Many Central Asian and Eastern European commodities are circulated from Quanzhou to Central Earth.
Zhao Huan asked deliberately: "How much do you know about this Fuguo?"
Xu Churen said: "I don't know much, but I only know that these Hu people are barbarians without fathers and mothers, and are not subject to the king's transformation!"
What Seo Chu-in said is not entirely racism.
"Your Majesty, they said that Gaochang State and a grassland army were fighting. They experienced war there a year ago and many people died. They hope that Fuguo can maintain contact with the Song Dynasty in the future, but His Majesty needs to send troops to protect the trade routes."
Zhao Huan laughed and said, "I have this intention."
"Your Majesty, there is another beauty here, named Alice, who is a princess from Fuguo..."
Zhao Huan quickly interrupted him: "It's okay, let's wait and arrange a mansion for them, and treat them well and have good food and drink first."
"yes!"
After retreating from the court, Zhao Huan ran back to his study and opened the map further away from the Western Regions to take a look.
Yelu Dashi really ran to the West and must be fighting with the Karakhanate at this time.
In a few years, we will fight against the West Asian coalition forces' army that blocked the flowing pillars.
Zhao Huan looked at the Western Regions and found that most of them were almost controlled by the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!