In order to obtain loans and armaments from Dahua, the Romans were willing to open thirteen ports, and set aside a special area for Dahua to be a concession in each port.
The concession was proposed by Dahua when he took out the last loan, and the Chinese concession is equivalent to Dahua's territory in the territory of the Roman Empire.
In the Chinese Concession, Dahua had the right to garrison troops.
Even the administrative, judicial, and taxation powers in the concession are all in the hands of Dahua.
To put it bluntly, it is a country within a country, and the merchants and citizens of Dahua still abide by the laws of Dahua in the Chinese concession.
Even the people of the Roman Empire, as long as they stepped into the Chinese Concession, then they were regarded as entering the territory of the Great Chinese Empire, and then they had to obey the laws of the Great Chinese Empire.
Roman merchants who did business in the concession also had to pay taxes to the Dahua Concession Bureau according to the tax laws of Dahua.
In the concession, there are Dahua garrisons, Dahua police, Dahua management yamen, taxation departments, etc.
The concessions of these thirteen cities are all port cities in the Mediterranean, so Dahua's warships are actually equivalent to more than a dozen base ports in the Mediterranean.
Heraclius showed such great sincerity, Zhang Chao really had no reason to refuse.
It stands to reason that Heraclius was not a fool either, and he was the founder of a dynasty.
But Heraclius also had no better choice, borrowing and borrowing several times, borrowing and borrowing, and all that could be mortgaged was mortgaged, and the Suez Canal and the island of Cyprus were all loaned.
If you want to borrow money, it will definitely be difficult to borrow if you don't have anything.
However, the Arabs reached an agreement with Dahua again, and now they are going all out to the west, and they are determined to attack Armenia and Asia Minor.
And these two places are the lifeblood of Rome, if these two places are lost, then Constantinople may not be able to be saved.
Rome has already lost Syria and it is impossible to lose Armenia again.
Heraclius not only wanted to stabilize the situation, but even wanted to counterattack back to Persia and drive the Arabs back to their desert home in the Arabian Peninsula.
On the other hand, the loan conditions proposed by Heraclius this time seem to have conceded a lot of benefits, but in fact, the thirteen concessions are basically on the east coast of the Mediterranean, in Egypt, the Asian Peninsula and other places.
Bringing Dahua to these places and letting them send fleets and troops and horses is actually pulling aid for the Romans in disguise.
Once the Arabs come over, Dahua will have to support Rome in its own concession, and at least it will mediate.
From an economic point of view, if Dahua has a concession, then the volume of trade in the future will definitely be greater.
Even if Rome could not directly collect taxes in the concession, they could still collect taxes outside the concession, and a larger volume of trade naturally meant more taxes.
There were many barbarians to the west of Rome, and it was also a big market.
The retrade of the various commodities of the Oriental Dahua to the barbarians would also bring great profits to Rome.
Win-win cooperation.
Originally, Heraclius came up with such sincere cooperation conditions, and Zhang Chao should be more specific.
But Zhang Chao is not in love with Rome.
He was willing to cooperate with the Romans, but he was not willing to let the Romans monopolize it.
Ignoring Herac's desperate gaze, he asked the Arab envoy with a smile.
"I don't know how Caliph 'Umar wants to cooperate" Compared to Heraclius, who directly wrote his terms of cooperation in his letter, the Arab Empire's caliph Umar was more cunning.
He was worried about the long distance and the uncertainty of the specific situation, so he directly gave the envoy the right to be very cheap.
Let him negotiate conditions with Dahua according to the situation.
In the letter just now, Umar only told Zhang Chao that he had given full authority to his envoy to negotiate cooperation with Dahua on his behalf.
The caliph, the equivalent of the emperor of the Arab Empire and the heir to the Prophet, was a combination of military, political and religious power.
In today's world, there are only three countries with the title of empire, the Dahua Empire, the Roman Empire, the Arab Empire, and the three emperors of the three empires.
The Roman Empire and the Great Chinese Empire were both inherited from the leaders of the East and the West, and the Arab Empire was regarded as the king of kings that replaced Persia in the past.
The three major empires, Dahua and Arabia, are all considered emerging empires, but Dahua is inherited from the Qin and Han empires, so it is not only a new empire, but also a traditional old empire.
Only the Arab Empire was truly a new empire, a nomadic tribe that rose in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.
Dahua is now in a rather transcendent position, and Dahua's diplomatic strategy has made Dahua invincible.
Zhang Chao succeeded in making Rome and Arabia both compete for friendship with Dahua rather than hostility.
Both countries have turned to Dahua and hope to get Dahua's economic and military support.
"Our Arab Empire is also willing to open the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean coast ports to the Empire as trading ports, and is willing to set aside places to set up Chinese concessions."
Words are not shocking, swearing.
The Arab envoy was also an experienced man, and as soon as the Romans made the offer, he realized that there was a serious problem.
If the Arabs do not enlist the support of Dahua, then the strength of the Romans will be greatly increased.
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At the same time, he also saw that the advantages of setting up a trade port and even the establishment of a Chinese concession were not only disadvantages, but also many positive ones.
In the past, Persia has always been a monopoly of trade between the East and the West, and most of the spices and silk from the East were monopolized by them.
Persia became rich as a result.
Now the Arabs have annexed Persia, but they can no longer enjoy the windfall profits of the entrepot trade that Persia used to enjoy.
Dahua's cooperation with Rome allowed them to dredge the Suez Canal, fight piracy in the Red Sea and the canals, and allow goods from the East to sail easily, quickly and safely into the Mediterranean, and even directly to Constantinople.
Merchants did not take the overland trade routes of the Arabian Peninsula, much less the land trade routes between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and even less so the Caspian Sea to the north.
More than ninety percent of the commercial goods are now on the Mediterranean line of the Suez Canal in the Red Sea.
And although the Arabs also held on to the northern shore of the Red Sea, they could only do nothing in the face of the Eastern merchant fleet escorted by a powerful navy.
The Arabs found that after they annexed Persia, they did not have as much trade and taxes as they had before the fall of Persia.
Fewer caravans passed through them, less goods they could get, and fewer taxes they received.
Now the Arab emissaries have decided on one.
Rome could not be allowed to get more benefits from Dahua, and what the Romans could give to Dahua, the Arabs could also give.
Although there was no canal in the Persian Gulf that led to the Mediterranean, there was also a well-established land trade route from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, and the huge area controlled by the Arab Empire was also able to absorb a large amount of Oriental goods.
Since the Roman Emperor Heraclius was willing to take out thirteen Mediterranean port cities as trading ports, and even set up a concession for Dahua, then he could do the same with the Arab Empire.
Arabia now has even more borders with Dahua, the Mediterranean, the Caspian Sea, the Arabian Sea, and even the Red Sea, as well as a long border line on land.
The Arabs could set up trading cities on the borders, concessions at the ports, etc.
"We are willing to trade concessions and tariffs for loans, arms sales, and trade from Dahua."
Herac really had the urge to roll up his sleeves and go up and beat the Arab envoys, he was completely a copycat of their proposals.
Not even a little changed.
They proposed to open thirteen commercial ports, set up thirteen concessions, and use customs duties as collateral for loans.
As a result, the shameless Arabs actually copied it word for word, and also used it as a condition, and also asked for loans and arms sales.
Grass.
Herac couldn't help but curse Dahua's national scolding in a low voice.
Shameless.
Shameless.
Zhang Chao sat there.
"The words of the envoy can really speak and count, can they represent the Arab caliphate?"
"Your Majesty the Emperor Dahua, the handwritten letter of the caliph of my Arab empire, His Majesty the Emperor has also seen it, and the letter is very clear, the caliph has granted me full powers."
Zhang Chao put the letter aside.
Two letters are placed side by side, one in the personal handwriting of the Roman Emperor Heraclius and the other in the handwriting of the Arab Empire's caliph Umar.
Both letters were written in Chinese characters, and the choice of words and sentences was excellent, and it seems that their imperial translator had translated the emperor's letter.
Roman Emperor Heraclius.
Arab Imperial Caliph Umar.
The two great powers of Europe and Central Asia, the old and new kings, all sought to the Dahua Emperor of the East with a very low attitude.
The conditions of both companies are indeed very good, and both have shown the greatest sincerity to ask for Dahua's support, hoping to strengthen economic and trade with Dahua, as well as expand loans and arms purchases.
As the old saying goes, a good woman never marries twice, but Dahua is just selling some armaments, and it is not a second marriage.
What's more, the home of the country and the country is not so exquisite.
For Dahua, the harder Rome and Arabia fight, the better, so that Dahua can also make a fortune selling arms.
Moreover, if two tigers fight, one will be injured, and it would be better if both were defeated.
"Originally, the relationship between my Dahua and the Roman Empire has always been friendly, especially the relationship between me and His Royal Highness Augustus Herac.
We have always had a cooperative relationship with Rome, but now that the Arab caliph is asking for this, I can't refuse it. ” When Herac and the Arab envoy Uthman heard this, they couldn't help but roll their eyes.
"Rome is my old friend, and Arabia is my new friend.
Moreover, both countries are our Dahua's neighbors, and now that there are some contradictions and frictions between the two neighbors, our Dahua is also very willing to mediate the war between the two countries and promote harmony. ” "It's better that everyone doesn't need to take out loans to buy ordnance, let's take peace as the most valuable, sit down and turn hostility into friendship, how?"
Herac and Osman just smiled helplessly, Emperor Dahua said this too shamelessly, obviously he just wanted to sell arms on both sides to make a fortune, but he still said such cool things.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, but this is a private matter between my Roman and Arab families, and it is better for us to settle this matter ourselves.
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If Your Majesty is willing to remember the old friendship between the two families, it is better to ask Your Majesty to agree to the loan and arms sales, which can be regarded as the greatest support for our Rome. ” Osman also stepped forward and said that they needed Dahua's loans and ordnance, but Dahua's reconciliation was not needed.
Of course, Zhang Chao is just talking on the surface, if he really wants to reconcile the war between the two families, he himself will have to regret his death first.
Laugh at the moment.
"In that case, then I will treat everyone equally, and the requests of both families have been granted" t1706231537: