Ice Palace.
Zhao Ziliang and Bulgar Khan King Teletz were admiring the scenery at the end of the world.
The clouds and mist between the mountain tops made Teletz feel as if he had entered a fairyland.
He had never been in such an environment to appreciate the unique scenery of nature.
Zhao Ziliang looked at Teletz's expression and said with a smile: "King Khan came to see me today, didn't he just come to see this view of the horizon?"
"Your Majesty, you are so lucky.
There is no such intoxicating place in our Bulgar Khanate."
Tellez sighed after regaining consciousness, and then returned to the topic and said, "Yes, in fact, Xiaohan is here today.
The 5,000 sets of weapons and armor and 3,000 longbows purchased by Xiao Khan from your country have all been delivered, and the quality is very satisfactory to Xiao Khan.
Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and waved his hand: "Thank you very much.
This is just a transaction.
I have no help for you."
"No, no, no, if the king is willing to sell weapons, armor and crossbows to Xiaohan, it is already a favor.
You must know that the Eastern Roman Empire will never sell weapons to us."
The Eastern Roman Empire is your enemy.
It’s really weird that they can sell you weapons, armor, and crossbows.
Zhao Zi’s conscience was filled with disgrace, and he said with a smile on his face: “Well, since King Khan insists on going back, I won’t do it either.
It’s so hard to keep King Khan here, but I don’t know when King Khan will set off.”
"In the past few days, I heard that tomorrow is your country's court meeting.
The little Khan wants to formally bid farewell to the king and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty at the court meeting tomorrow.
At that time, I will have a small gift for the king."
"Oh, when the time comes, I will send eunuchs to wait for His Highness the Khan outside the palace gate."
King Teletsi Khan pondered for a moment and then said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, our Bulgar Khanate has always had a bad relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire.
It is a feud.
The hatred between us goes back hundreds of years.
It is irrespective of what it is.
It can be resolved.
In the Bulgar Khanate, any successor to the Khanate can only protect the Eastern Roman Empire.
If you maintain hostility and win the war with the Eastern Roman Empire, your succession to the throne or the stability of your throne will be greatly improved, and you will gain the support of all the people of the Bulgar Khanate.
The little Khan hopes that the king and the Western Qin can support The Bulgar Khanate's war against the Eastern Roman Empire, the Bulgar Khanate is willing to become a loyal ally of Western Qin forever."
Zhao Ziliang said: "Now the Eastern Roman Empire and the Bulgar Khanate maintain normal diplomatic relations with our Western Qin.
It is impossible for the Western Qin to openly support the Khan, but it will not support the Eastern Roman Empire against the Bulgars."
Khanate, the hatred between you two is a matter between you and has nothing to do with me, Western Qin.
From now on, I, Western Qin, will not interfere in any dispute between you two if the Khan needs food, weapons, equipment and other supplies. , I, Western Qin, can provide it at any time, as long as King Khan can afford to pay.”
Teletz had no expectations at first, but he felt very good to get such a promise from Zhao Ziliang.
He saluted Zhao Ziliang and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty.
As long as we can purchase weapons, equipment and food from the Western Qin Dynasty, our Bulgar Khanate will In this respect, the gap with the Eastern Roman Empire is gone.
In this way, Come on, we are not afraid of the Eastern Roman Empire.
In the past, we were not afraid that our equipment was inferior to that of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Now we are even less afraid.
Xiao Khan believes that as long as the Bulgars are not extinct, there will be more people every few years.
A warrior of the Bulgar Khan thrust his spear into the gates of Constantinople.”
After seeing off King Teletz Khan, Zhao Ziliang was about to return to the palace to rest for a while.
At this time, Wang Can hurriedly came to report: "Your Majesty, our country purchased ten large Roman-style warships from the Papal States and three hundred thousand from the Frankish Kingdom.
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Kilograms of metal ore were detained in Alexandria by the Food Country on their way back to the country.”
The so-called Papal State is actually the central region of Italy that is actually controlled by the Holy See.
It is actually governed by the Pope, but it has not actually established a country.
The establishment of the Papal State is actually the product of long-term political struggles among European countries.
From the seventh century to the first half of the eighth century, there were three powers in the Italian peninsula: the Eastern Roman Empire, the Lombards and the Pope.
The Eastern Roman Empire implemented a policy of imperial clericalism.
The emperor made decisions on sectarian issues, requiring Rome to obey the doctrines prescribed by the emperor.
But he was unable to protect the Pope when the Lombards invaded Rome.
Since the aid of the Eastern Roman Empire was unreliable, the Pope began to seek the protection of foreign monarchs.
Compared with other barbarian countries that believed in Arianism, the kings of the Frankish Kingdom were relatively close to the Holy See.
In order to resist the attack of the northern Lombard Kingdom and get rid of the control of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Roman Pope initially showed great courtesy to the Lombards. , led the Lombards to launch an army to attack the area ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire in the southern part of the Italian peninsula, thereby driving the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire out of Italy.
But in this way, the Kingdom of Lombardy became the master of Italy, which the Holy See did not want to see and allowed.
Therefore, Pope Stephen of the Holy See paid great courtesy to the Frankish King Pepin the Short, including approving the latter's dethronement of Mo.
Childeric III, the last king of the Lorwyn dynasty, proclaimed himself king.
Stephen also made Pepin a Roman noble.
In return, Pepin led his army into Italy in 754.
In the next two years, he pacified many places in central and northern Italy.
Pepin twice led his army into Italy to force the Lombard King Estulf to surrender, and handed over the former Viceroyalty of Ravenna taken from Byzantium to the Pope and his successors for rule.
Thus came the Papal States.
At that time, Byzantine representatives requested to recover this lost territory, but Pepin refused.
Zhao Ziliang frowned and felt something unusual here.
He asked in a deep voice: "For what reason did they detain the warships we purchased from the Papal State and the metal ore we purchased from the Frankish Kingdom?"
Don’t think that there was no connection between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean during this period.
In fact, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt dug an “east-west” canal between the Nile River and the Red Sea more than a thousand years ago.
The canal is sometimes open and sometimes abandoned.
Beginning around AD 640 during the period of Caliph Omer of the Great Food Kingdom, the canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, which had been abandoned for many years, was once again dug, repaired, and maintained.
It was opened to the public by the time of Mansur.
More than a hundred years ago.
Wang Can cupped his fists and said: "The reason given by the Big Eaters is that they believe that those warships are from the Eastern Roman Empire.
Even if they have been sold to our country, there is still the possibility of posing a huge threat to them, so they must be detained.
Dongchang’s spies in the Great Food Country have notified my envoy in Baghdad of the relevant information, and they have begun negotiations with the relevant yamen of the Great Food Country, but Wei Chen believes that it is unlikely that the Great Food Country will release them.”
Zhao Ziliang stood up and walked back and forth in the hall a few times with his hands behind his back.
He stood still and turned around and said, "Tell me your reasons."
"Your Majesty, as far as I know, the purpose of the military purchasing these warships from the Papal State is not to actually increase the number of naval warships, but to understand the internal structure of Roman warships and learn to make such ships that can carry out ocean navigation in the sea.
The shipbuilding skills of the ships.
Originally, the military only wanted to buy one.
It was dismantled and reassembled to learn the Roman shipbuilding technology.
However, since it only bought one ship, the Papal State could not make much money, so it was not interested.
However, when the military proposed to buy ten ships, they became interested in us.
Although ten ships were successfully purchased, this number was not enough to own hundreds or thousands of warships.
The food country is afraid of it, and there are no weapons and equipment on these ten warships.
Wei Chen believes that the purpose of detaining these ships and metal ores is probably for another reason.
Through analysis, our Dongchang officials believe that the food country did this.
The purpose is not to be reconciled to being severely blackmailed by us during the last negotiation process, and wants to use this They extorted a huge sum of money from us.
As a result, the last time we asked them to pay 4 million yuan in war compensation, I'm afraid it wasn't enough.
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The news of their extortion came to Xinjing as quickly as possible through special channels.
The Government Affairs Council I think we haven’t received relevant news from the Military Aircraft Academy yet, and it will be three days at the earliest.”
Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Come here, call the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers of the Government Affairs Council and the heads of various government agencies in the Military Academy."
After all the heads of government agencies arrived, Zhao Ziliang reported the situation to them.
After hearing this, all the ministers immediately exploded.
Deputy Prime Minister Liu Dan stood up first and said with cupped hands: "Your Majesty, the purpose of this is obvious.
It is a sign of dissatisfaction with the extortion we received last time.
If the big food country seizes this opportunity this time, it will definitely blackmail us severely."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Have they delivered the four million yuan war compensation to us?"
Chu Ge stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Based on the days, the delivery should have been completed five days ago, and our army should have withdrawn to the territory of Khwarizm.
The messenger of the Fifth Army may come to Xinjing within these two days to report.
Relevant circumstances” Zhao Ziliang narrowed his eyes: "I have to say that the Great Eater has just grasped the time very well.
We want to get those ten Roman battleships and 300,000 metal ores back, but we can't do it without some blood.
Let's do it, Dugu.
Ask the customs, ask Honglu Temple to write a letter to the envoy in Baghdad, and negotiate with the Great Food Country to see what conditions the Great Food Country requires before it will be released."
Dugu Wensu raised his hands and agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand, and all the ministers said goodbye and left.
However, Wang Can had not left yet.
Zhao Ziliang was surprised and said: "Why don't you leave yet?"
Wang Can said: "Your Majesty, Pepin of the Frankish Kingdom died two years ago.
His sons Charlemagne and Carloman divided the Frankish Kingdom.
The two brothers became the common monarchs of the Frankish Kingdom."
How could Zhao Ziliang not know about Charlemagne, the famous Emperor in Western history?
He nodded: "Didn't you report this matter to me in an official document two years ago?
Why are you suddenly mentioning it now?"
Wang Can took out a scroll, unfolded it, handed it to Zhao Ziliang, and said, "A Chinese businessman returned from the Frankish Kingdom.
He met Charlemagne at that time and drew a portrait of Charlemagne based on his impression at that time.
Take a look, Your Majesty." " "He is very young," Zhao Ziliang said, taking the scroll and looking at it, he immediately said: "Huh" Wang Can asked: "Does the king think he looks familiar?"
"Yes, it does look familiar."
Wang Can said: "Your Majesty, do you still remember that in Xiping City, we used more than 10,000 people to withstand the crazy attack of nearly 200,000 Tibetan troops for more than ten days.
At that time, three Western mercenaries also assisted us in the battle.
At that time, there was one named Charlie.
The man is the leader of the three.
Your Majesty, let’s see if this King Charlemagne is similar to that King Charlemagne.”
Zhao Ziliang was reminded by Wang Can and immediately slapped his forehead: "It really looks like it.
Even though it has been ten years, I still remember that battle very clearly.
It was the most tragic battle that I have experienced for the first time in my life."
In the battle, three Western mercenaries participated and are still fresh in my memory.
You wouldn’t say that the king of the Frankish Kingdom was the young mercenary named Charlie back then."
Wang Can said: "Ever since the civil servants saw this picture, they sent people to Frank.
After two years of investigation, they finally came to a good conclusion.
This King Charlemagne is the Western Teutonic mercenary Charlie.
They are the same person." personal" Zhao Ziliang looked at the nearly thirty-year-old Charlemagne on the scroll and immediately smiled, "Interesting":