The Three Kingdoms: Summoned generals at the beginning, shocking Cao Cao

Chapter 255 Roman messenger, a profiteer

"Send someone to find that messenger, I want to meet him personally." Liu Bian said immediately.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Dilinaza quickly responded.

After making some preparations in the palace, Liu Bian ordered someone to bring the envoy.

A Latin man with black hair and a height of about seven feet walked in.

"Greetings to His Majesty Emperor Selyse of the East!"

The translator on the side said.

"I am the envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of the Western Land..."

Liu Bian looked at the translators on the side, and finally understood the diplomatic troubles of this era, that is, these subcontracted translators.

Each of them can be described as a good hand in bad things.

A good sentence will immediately change its meaning after being translated by them.

As a result, Liu Bian didn't understand what it meant at all.

However, judging from the other party's attire and the eagle flag symbol carried on that side, it can be immediately concluded that the Roman Empire is definitely not running away.

"Go and bring those Anxi hostages." Liu Bian suddenly thought.

Soon, several Anxi hostages were brought in.

They were all captured Anxi people, and they were fairly honest along the way, and they had already been tidied up and docile.

Liu Bian asked them to speak together and each translate their own.

Anyone who dares to be false in the slightest will be immediately beheaded.

As centuries-old enemies, these Parthians are all proficient in the Roman language.

Sure enough, communication became much smoother this time.

"I am His Majesty the Emperor of the Roman Empire, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, and I have come to conclude our friendship and alliance with Emperor Celes of the East!"

Patrius said loudly.

As Caracalla's special envoy, he traveled all the way for more than two months before passing through the Caspian Sea and arriving in Khorezm.

It was the favor of Goddess of Luck, not long after arriving, the emperor of Seris returned with his army.

"Okay, I have long wanted to make friends with you Roman Empire." Liu Bian said happily.

"Your Majesty, our friendship will last forever. For the sake of friendship, we propose to start with the Parthian Empire. We send troops, and you can provide money, such as spices, gold or silk, to pay for military expenses." Patrius said.

For this proposal, Liu Bian directly rejected him.

Just kidding.

The current Anxi Empire is already a nominal vassal state of the Han Dynasty, and it is not easy to unite with outsiders to start a war.

Even if you want to annex the Anxi Empire, Wei Qing has to go to war, and the Han court can ignore it if the two vassal states go to war.

But it is absolutely impossible to unite the Roman Empire and attack the Parthian Empire together.

What's more, if the Anxi Empire is too dangerous and there is a risk of being annexed, Liu Bian has to ask Wei Qing to take action in advance.

"Parthia is already our subject. I will not send troops or money. Our friendship should be maintained in other ways." Liu Bian said.

"Your Majesty, what should we do?" Patrius asked.

"Business!" Liu Bian said.

"Business?" Patrius became even more excited when he heard this statement.

Even, compared to uniting the Easterners to attack the Parthian Empire, Patrius is more interested in business.

"That's right, it's business. Now we have all kinds of things that we need each other. If there is no business, then we can't communicate with each other, so I think we should start with business." Liu Bian said.

Afterwards, Liu Bian and Patrius sighed about business again.

Rome now has many unique commodities, such as various dye ores, wine making and other products.

But in the Han Empire, it was even more.

From ordinary paper, cloth, silk and medicinal materials, all of them are the urgent supplies of the Roman Empire.

Patellius, relying on his eloquence, quickly made Liu Bian have a good impression of him.

Both parties have abandoned military and political issues, and instead started a long talk about business.

In the end, Liu Bian gave Patelius a brand new trade route agency privilege.

"After I go back, I plan to open up a sea route, that is, from Hepu, Jiaozhou of our great Han, down the sea, then to the Tianzhu mainland, then continue westward through the Parthia Empire, then pass through the desert peninsula, and finally arrive at your Egyptian governorate. .” Liu Bian said.

After hearing this grand shipping plan, Patrius was stunned.

This is an unprecedented feat!

If this sea route can be unimpeded, their commodity trading volume will be more than ten times that of the previous land route!
More than ten times the trading volume means huge profits.

Moreover, all these interests are monopolized by Patrius alone.

"Honorable Majesty, I am willing to establish a permanent base harbor in the Governor-General of Egypt for our friendship!" Patelius said.

If it is really possible, with the silk and spice trade in the East, Patellius only needs to spend one-tenth of the profit to buy the throne of the Egyptian governorate from the Roman emperor and the Senate.

That can be said to be a profit of hundreds of thousands of Olis gold coins!

You know, a rich Egyptian governorate is only a tax of more than 50 Olis.

"Haha, this is naturally the best. I also have some expectations for your products." Liu Bian laughed.

Then, he listed the products he wanted.

It's not a luxury, but more of a variety of books.

These commodities made Patrius difficult.

The Roman Empire did not have high-quality and cheap papermaking technology, which is very expensive and precious for books.

Even if Patrius wanted to get books, he still had to pay a lot of money.

However, Patellius decided to conceal this problem, and agreed to it first. After returning, His Majesty Emperor Caracalla will definitely be able to come up with a solution.

After all, as long as both parties have consistent interests, more gold coins can be obtained.

Emperor Caracalla will definitely find a way to generate an extra tax revenue from the Governor General of Egypt.

"Also, I heard that there are a large number of barbarian female slaves in your northern frontier?" Liu Bian asked.

As soon as he heard this topic, Patrius immediately became energetic.

"Your Majesty, you are right. On the frontiers of our empire, there are many barbarians. They are all barbaric and ugly, but their women have a lot of good stuff, with fair skin and frivolity. Abominable blond hair," said Patrius.

These barbarians were naturally the Germans and Celts in the northern part of the empire. As for the other large barbarian tribe, the Slavs, they were still hiding deep in Eastern Europe and had not yet entered the Romans' sight.

(End of this chapter)