Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1409 The Unsaved Roman

"Serali?" Chen Xi began to think about whether he had ever heard of this person, and later found that his Roman history was not very good at this time, whether it was the five good emperors in the past or the dark three centuries in the future. Well, I guess I can meet a lot of people.

But no matter whether he knew it or not, Chen Xi returned the gift with a calm expression, after all, reciprocity is the consistent emphasis of the Han Dynasty.

Listening to what Selari said again, Chen Xi said that he could only hear a few words. There was no way that the Indo-European-Germanic language family had been changing for thousands of years, but fortunately, the Roman era was considered to be the era that had begun to take shape, so it was barely Can understand a few words.

"Uh, what does it mean to keep biting the silk?" Chen Xi asked while watching the other party's changing expression.

I can’t understand other words. The pronunciation of the words silk and porcelain has not changed much for thousands of years. Doesn’t it mean that the people of the Central Plains are called the people of Celis? Tea is also a meaning.

After listening to An Ri's translation, Chen Xi finally understood what Celis meant. First, he sincerely expressed his admiration for the Han Dynasty, thinking that it was an empire as great as Rome, and then turned to silk, culture, wisdom, The law and civilization are all skipped...

"Oh, your country needs silk very much. I hope that we can donate silk as a treasure to our friends from afar, so that we can form a life-and-death alliance?" Chen Xi asked, rolling his eyes. Who will give you the method of making silk? has a problem.

"Yes, for this reason, after the two sides formed a life-and-death alliance, we in Rome are willing to donate 20 boxes of gold coins, and give [-] gold coins to the Han Dynasty every year. I hope you, who are also nobles, can understand the Roman nobles' feelings for silk. " Selari said sincerely.

Chen Xi rolled his eyes, as if it was a very casual thing, five hundred boxes of gold coins, if replaced by a standard box, that is, one box of ten thousand gold coins, five million gold coins sounds like a lot, and whether you can buy five hundred cars of silk in Rome is the problem.

I really thought that Chen Xi didn't know about the "War of Silk". He fought another empire for the toll of silk for more than 20 years, but he couldn't suppress the toll in the end. A roll of silk was finally settled according to gems...

It seems that the silk in ancient Rome has not yet reached its peak in this era, and it is almost equivalent to silk and gold. After that, silk has been rising all the way. I remember correctly that in the third century of Rome's darkness, that is, a few years later, the weight of silk was exchanged for the weight of gold. It reached one to one point three five.

Afterwards, Sassanian Persia, who gained strength, was completely shameless. The price of Roman silk finally rose to 240 seven gold coins per pound of silk. Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that this is the Roman Emperor Diocletian. official pricing.

A mere 500 million gold coins can only buy [-] pounds of silk, which is equivalent to [-] tons in the current unit of ton. Sure enough, [-] carts of silk is a fantasy...

So this seemingly sincere price is actually completely wiped off the face and put it in the pocket. Even if the price of Roman silk and gold is only one to one now, the Romans have no face to say that, and they also mention technology. Is it the rhythm of wanting to die?

"I deeply understand Rome's desire for silk, but my family doesn't care about it, but I can recommend you to talk to the Mi family and the Zhen family. As a nobleman, I understand your feelings very well, and I like it too." Chen Xi completely There was no turning back, but a smile on his face.

The translator on the other side translated it truthfully, and Selari was overjoyed after hearing it, and immediately took out a box from the carriage behind, opened it and saw a gemstone that had been cut inside, reflecting the bright light.

"Thank you for your advice, this gem is given to you as a gift." Selari said excitedly, Chen Xi's light face, it is obvious that this is not a difficult task, which made Selari see the possibility of getting silk. For Rome, Silk is so important.

[Sure enough, only by communicating with the nobles can we get more information, especially the high-ranking nobles, and what the high-ranking nobles say must be the same status. 】Serari thought excitedly, as if the silk had already been in his hand.

Chen Xi accepted it unceremoniously, this thing can only be given to Chen Yun, if there are no three, anyone else will be unhappy.

"You're welcome, I just heard that there is an envoy from the distant Great Qin, so I came to have a look." Chen Xi leaned forward and said, "I have something to leave now, please forgive me for being rude."

An Yue translated truthfully. The other party felt sorry for Chen Xi's departure, but he did not stop him. After Chen Xi left the Roman envoy with a smile, his complexion suddenly became gloomy. Rome wanted to take advantage of him and actually took advantage of him.

"Let's go, this is the one." Chen Xi turned his head and turned into a shop. This shop is a special shop, which is the kind of shop that accepts prohibited goods and buys news.

"Dangdang!" Chen Xi knocked on the table a few times expressionlessly, without raising his head from the shopkeeper, "We only sell news here, and of course we also buy all kinds of supplies, as long as the supplies that are hot to the touch, we can sell them here ..."

It was at this time that the shopkeeper couldn't continue, he saw who was opposite him.

"Is this how you do business?" Chen Xi raised his eyebrows and said dissatisfied.

"This subordinate is guilty!" The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed and replied.

"Forget it, I won't pursue your problem, let me have a look at the account book." Chen Xi reached out to ask for the account book, but the other party immediately asked Chen Xi to enter, and then handed Chen Xi a stack of thick account books, Chen Xi quickly calculated For a moment, then put it aside.

Chen Xi didn't have much time to calculate these things, so he could only do a rough calculation of the monthly in and out. Even if it was a fraudulent account, the monthly increase or decrease could still be seen. Haven't worked out yet.

"There is a certain increase every month, so you can do whatever you want." Chen Xi said casually, since the income is increasing, and the increase is still obvious, then Chen Xi doesn't need to ask for these things too much.

The shopkeeper obviously wiped off his cold sweat, with an expression of amnesty.

"Notify the major aristocratic families, let them manage the silk industry under their names, and manage the sericulture farmers well. If someone steals it, take it directly, and don't spread the silkworm raising and silk spinning techniques to the outside world." Chen Xi stared. Said the shopkeeper.

The reason why the order is given here is very simple. The shops here are all big families. Although they are all businessmen, they are all families wearing vests. can receive.

As for the official, Wang Xiu will pass it back through the official, Liu Bei's orders, so that both the official and the people can do their own thing well, and the Romans want to dream about the full set of techniques for raising silkworms and drawing silk!
　Every time I look at this period of history, I feel that the Romans are too obsessed with silk. A pound of silk, which is 0.9 kilograms, was officially priced at 247 gold coins during Diocletian’s time. , what I want to say is this kind of situation...

　
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