Chapter 75: The Business Show in the Song Dynasty (Part 2)

"Treacherous, wise, generous friend - greet you, may your soul not be swallowed by the devil. When I see you again, I need to hold my wallet tightly - my friend, you didn't come for my wallet, right?" The Arab businessman answered in skillful Chinese, with a little bit of a capital accent in his accent.

"May Allah bless you... My friend, I came not for your wallet, but for sailing... But my friend, why did you look so sad when you see you this time?" When Zhao Xing saw this businessman, he suddenly put aside his taciturn image. His attitude was even a little slick, which made Cheng Azhu very unfamiliar.

"The bustling streets don't grow grass - we won't get anything when we stand on the street and talk. Go to my house... Is this your beautiful wife? Last time you said you want to go back to get married, then she must be your newlywed wife. Beautiful lady, please allow me to introduce myself. I am from a distant Arab, and I am your husband's friend Pu Yian." The Arab said ravingly.

Pu Yi'an's mansion is a typical Chinese-style house with wooden structures, walls, doors and windows, but the furniture inside is completely Arabic: Arabic soft couch, large round table for the Knights' meeting, Arabic kettle, Arabic scimitar on the wall... Everything is full of exotic style.

Pu Yian invited his concubine and introduced it to Cheng Azhu - this is a kind of Western etiquette, and this kind of etiquette is common in modern diplomatic occasions. Introducing his wife to the other party, he said that he treated the other party as a family.

Cheng Azhu didn't know much, and a country girl seemed a little at a loss when encountering this kind of thing. But obviously, no one noticed her embarrassment. After the family met each other, Pu Yian drove away most of the concubines, leaving only one Yan Ji to greet him, and then bowed to Zhao Xing and got to the point: "You just said that you came for the voyage. My friend, you have emptied my wallet. Are you planning to take my heart out now? Tell me, what are you planning to get this time?"

Zhao Xing looked sideways, observing the other person's expression, and asked warmly: "Your face is not good, very bad... As a friend, I may be able to share your worries, tell me, and tell me what you are thinking."

Pu Yian sighed: "What else can be there? It's not for the abominable Seljuks, who occupied Jerusalem and forbid Christians from going to pilgrimage. The whole world of Christ was in full bloom. Those fanatical people attacked Arab ships at sea at will, and our average of only one of our ships arrived safely.

Ten years ago, their pope was yelling to hold the crusades. Recently, a ship came from our country. He told us in the morning prayer that the situation was getting worse and worse. The pope in the world of Christ had issued continuous calls for war, and the farmers there had begun to be armed.

Now, there is no tranquility in that sea except the sky. On the sea, on land, there are constant wars and small-scale conflicts every day. Every day, people are bleeding. On the sea, they are hunting our merchant ships, on land, they are besieging our cities - we guess: a total war is approaching, maybe in the past or two years."

Seljuk - Zhao Xing laughed.

This is the humor of history: the Huns who were defeated by the Han Dynasty and expelled from the West, their westward migration destroyed the Western Roman Empire; and the remaining Turkic tribes defeated by the Tang Dynasty captured the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire and led them to perish.

The black humor shown by history is even more: the Han and Tang dynasties drove away the most vicious enemies, and the weak nomadic peoples who were originally crawling at the feet of the Huns and Turks, but destroyed the glorious Han and Tang dynasties - they were all wolves raised by the people of the Han and Tang dynasties.

The glory of the Seljuks did not last long. Soon they were swallowed up by the Kingdom of Huarazimo, and the Kingdom of Huarazimo was destroyed by the Mongolians. The Mongols in the southern expedition did not last long. They joined forces with the Crusaders to attack Egypt during the eighth Eastern Expedition of the Crusaders. During the Ninth Eastern Expedition of the Crusaders, the two continued to join forces. As a result, Egypt took advantage of the crusades to attack the Mongolian Southern Expedition before the arrival of the crusades, uprooted the country established by the Mongols, and forced millions of Mongolian prisoners to convert to Islam. From then on, the Mongols did not even splash and disappeared completely in the Arab world.

Pu Yian's feelings were obviously not worried about religious things, he was worried about this trade route. The Arabs were embedded in the middle of the trade routes in the East and the West. For centuries, they had made huge profits by reselling them in the two places. If the Crusaders occupied Jerusalem, the throats of the East and the West would be cut off by the Westerners.

How could the Westerners who were guarding their throat allow the Arabs to continue to make profits? Once this trade route is interrupted, the foreign trade volume of Song State will shrink significantly - because the channel is cut off, the Arabs have nowhere to sell even if they purchase a large amount of goods.

"I came to you for this reason." Zhao Xing seemed very leisurely and nothing happened. Of course he was very leisurely: "You have religious conflicts with those Christians, but the Song people did not. Christians want to fight, but they also need our goods - someone must sell them. In the case of extremely strong religious sentiment, they will attack your ship, but they will not attack our ship. I came to you to discuss cooperation."
Chapter completed!