Datang: Li Er, are you teaching me how to do things?

Chapter 60 Persian Envoy
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully punching the card, reward quality amateur boxing skills."

A hot current poured into Li Yun's body, and then spread to his limbs, transforming his muscle memory.

Li Yun turned over from the bed, and then waved his fist.

Straight punches, uppercuts, swing punches, sprint steps, slide steps.

Li Yun now has a feeling that he is Tyson. He showed Wing Chun and Bajiquan yesterday. These two kinds of boxing can be regarded as extremely powerful martial arts in Chinese martial arts.

However, compared with boxing, it is still more cumbersome, not to say that it is less powerful, but mainly because it is more difficult for beginners.

Relatively speaking, getting started with boxing is much simpler.

Li Yun felt that he might be the first to teach modern boxing to the soldiers of Donggong Ten.

"Report, Your Highness, there is a father-in-law from the palace to deliver the decree."

After a while, Li Yun got a message that a Persian Sassanian envoy came this morning. Li Shimin asked Li Yun to prepare and meet the Persian envoy together with the Dachao later.

Li Yun is not very familiar with the history of the Persian Empire, but he still knows the general situation. The Persian Empire has fought against the Roman Empire for hundreds of years.

Now is the time when the power of the Persian Empire reached its peak. They once occupied Constantinople and became a super empire across the Eurasian continent.

But the steps are too big to talk about.

The Persian Empire fell quickly within less than 20 years of occupying Constantinople.

He remembered that it was less than ten years since the fall of the Persian Empire.

Now the Persian Empire has been exposed, but no one thinks that they will perish, so the Persians are still very arrogant, and businessmen from the Western Regions also like to do business in Persia.

Li Yun thought about it, and he felt that the Persians would not want to be enemies with Datang.

After all, many people now think that the number one "powerhouse" in East Asia is Dong Tujue.

Before Datang defeated Dong Tujue, the countries in the Western Regions did not like Datang very much.

They don't have the conditions to become enemies, so they should focus on doing business.

Now that you understand this point, there is nothing to worry about. At most, you should pay attention to some details.

An hour later, Li Yun came to Tai Chi Hall and met a group of ministers.

Soon after, Li Er also came over, and then the Grand Court Meeting officially started, all the officials played their role, and the group of ministers discussed and resolved it.

Li Yun had participated in the Great Court Meeting a long time ago, and he thought it was quite boring, but after all, he was the prince of the Tang Dynasty, so even if he felt bored, he still had to listen carefully.

Sometimes Li Shimin would ask him some questions. Li Yun had systematically instilled the essence of chastity, and he knew everything about Li Shimin's period well, so he dealt with it easily.

Of course, he is not a person who likes to show off. Unless Li Er asks, he usually doesn't speak.

Therefore, Li Yun's reputation among the officials is not bad. Everyone thinks that Li Yun is a steady person, but he has his own opinions, and he looks at problems very sharply, and can often point directly to the core of the incident.

After discussing for about an hour and a half, the discussion about Datang was finally over.

"The Persian envoy Sako asks to see you."

After a while, five Persians slowly entered the hall. The leader was in his thirties, with a certain original appearance, wearing a white Persian robe, with a serious face, which looked quite similar.

"Foreign Minister Persian Sako pays homage to Emperor Tang."

He can speak Chinese, maybe he is a person who has been to Chang'an.

"The last time the foreign minister came to Chang'an, the owner of this place was still the emperor of the Sui Dynasty."

Sacco added a sentence, and everyone frowned upon hearing this.

The Li family and the Yang family are relatives, but this does not mean that Li Er and the officials like to hear about the Yang family in the court.

People like Cheng Yao, Jin Qinqiong and others have always opposed the Sui Dynasty. From Wagang to Li Tang, they have always opposed Yang Guang. Their perception of the former Sui Dynasty is even worse.

"Sacco, what do you mean?"

Cheng Yaojin asked directly.

Sacco saluted, "Don't blame the general, I'm just expressing emotion."

Everyone was a little curious. If Datang and Persia had no conflict of interest, why would Sacco be so nervous?

Lu Kuan, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, asked, "I don't know what's the matter with the Persian envoy coming to our Tang Dynasty?"

Sacco saluted, and then said: "The Persian emperor and all the kings have always admired Datang very much. This time they sent me here because they want to have a closer cooperation with Datang."

"Oh, your country and Datang are separated by dozens of countries, how can we cooperate?"

"If you go by land, it is indeed very far from Persia to Datang, and you have to pass through many countries, but if you go by water, you can go directly to Persia by boat from Guangzhou or Quanzhou."

Guangzhou and Quanzhou are now two major foreign trade cities in the south. Many businessmen from the Middle East, Persia, and Tianzhu traveled to these two cities by boat to do business with Datang.

It is said that there are about 20 foreign businessmen in Quanzhou and [-] in Guangzhou.

What the Persian envoy said made sense,

But Datang and Persia already had businessmen interoperating with each other, so why bother?

Everyone is a monkey spirit, and Lu Kuan then asked everyone's doubts.

Sacco smiled slightly, "I heard that there is a lot of grain in the south of the Tang Dynasty, and we in Persia are willing to pay [-]% more than the market price for grain."

Finally, he revealed his original purpose, which turned out to be to buy grain from Datang this time.

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and then curled their lips in disdain.

This Tang Dynasty is preparing for a war with Dong Tujue, where there is food delivery, even if there is, it is kept by itself, how can it be sold to Persia.

If Persia wants silk or porcelain vases, there is no problem, but grain cannot be sold outside.

Wei Zheng said directly: "I disappointed the envoy, Datang has no extra food."

Sako did not lose his temper, but slowly said: "Persia and Datang, if you insist, there is actually a country separated, and this country is Western Turkic."

"The feeling between Persia and Western Turks is not as good as that of Datang, but we also have commercial exchanges. Western Turks sell us cattle and sheep, and we sell Persian products, all kinds of commodities."

"Because our emperor admires the culture of the Tang Dynasty, he wants to trade with the Tang Dynasty instead of the Western Turks. I hope that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty will not disappoint our Persian hospitality."

Sacco speaks much more strongly when he speaks of "various commodities."

He obviously has deep meaning.

The commodities here should include weapons, whether it is Western Turkic or Eastern Turkic, as grassland peoples, they lack two things the most, that is salt and iron.

Both of these things need to be traded to get.

If Persia sells weapons to the Western Turks, and the Western Turks sell them to the Eastern Turks, it will undoubtedly be a bad thing for Datang.

When everyone thought of this, they were a little angry and a little helpless for a while.

Although he was angry in his heart, Persia traveled thousands of miles to Datang, and Datang could not do anything to Persia.

Seeing Li Yun showing disdain, Li Shimin smiled and said, "What does the prince think?"

(End of this chapter)