The feeling of the King of Persia was by no means unfounded.
If it were not a prosperous, developed and highly civilized place, how could it be possible to produce such incredibly sophisticated iron tools?
This is iron, something that is far more difficult to smelt and forge than copper!
In a word - black technology!
Black technology is relative, but no matter what era it is, it is something that can shock people.
After all, human beings rely on tools to become the king of nature, and their strong worship of black technology is instinctive.
And after realizing that...the country in the distant borderland was not a barbarian in the frontier, but an extremely great country, the King of Persia was greatly shocked and immediately sent an envoy to check the situation——
Not to mention anything else, first of all, you must find a blacksmith for me no matter what, and you must steal the forging method of this iron weapon back to me no matter what!
Just kidding, this iron weapon is just a plaything in the eyes of the Persian king. If a plaything can be forged with such precision and skill, then it is not invincible if it can be used to build weapons?
but……
These ideas of the King of Persia were not entirely his own. There were a group of core ministers in the cabinet who read the credentials with him. The King of Persia wanted to explore the situation of this mysterious border country. Naturally, the ministers responded immediately, and even
He also proposed to send an embassy to make friends with him.
However, we also encountered some problems at this time, because the relationship between Persia and the neighboring Kushan was relatively subtle. This Kushan was on the east side of Persia and on the west side of the Tang Dynasty. They were not completely bordering each other, but there was some exchange of merchants and merchants.
As for the Arab Empire, the big boss in the Arab world, just like the Tang Dynasty was bound to defeat Goguryeo sooner or later, the Arab Empire certainly wanted to defeat Persia, otherwise...otherwise, how could it become the Ottomans?
However, it is somewhat difficult to do so. After all, Persia is also very strong, so the Arab Empire has been contacting Kushan. The standards of national gifts between the two countries are extremely high, and there are frequent royal intermarriages——
With this kind of action, it is conceivable that the relationship between Persia and Kushan is not much better, so now the problem arises...
If Persia wanted to send a mission to contact the Tang Dynasty, it would have to go through the Kushan Kingdom. Wouldn't it be bad if they noticed their intentions...
Just when the King of Persia was worried and entangled, an unexpected news came. His daughter Asmin had recently turned sixteen and was considered a full adult. She was about to get married, but she suddenly ran away...
And the destination of the escape is Datang in the east!
The King of Persia simply didn’t know what his daughter was thinking. He didn’t want to just wait for his father to arrange a marriage. How could he survive at such a time. But...
His Highness's impromptu trip provided some inspiration to the ministers around the King of Persia. The Prime Minister Ibti immediately took action and asked the King to acquiesce to his daughter's escape instead of sending troops to chase her.
Directly assign her a mission to explore the Tang Dynasty.
No matter why His Highness is running around, he is in a panic, because the King of Persia must be captured and comforted to prevent His Highness from running to dangerous places in panic.
This is one of the reasons, and the second reason is because... His Highness ran around in private, so the task of investigating the situation in Tang State was secretly handed over to His Highness, wouldn't it be possible to avoid attracting criticism?
The cleverness of this plan is that it is against the will of the King of Persia for His Highness to run out of the palace and fool around, and there is no doubt that this is the case in anyone's eyes.
Since it was not in line with the will of the King of Persia, it is perfectly normal for His Highness to repent one day and decide to be filial to his father, and "coincidentally" brought something with him when he returned from Tang!
In this way, who else can see the strategic intention? They can't notice it at all, and even if they notice it, they can't say anything!
The Persian king's guards failed to find His Highness, this is a normal thing!
Of course, the King of Persia lacked a daughter and a means to unite the forces of all parties, which had to be said to be a loss.
But both in the eyes of the King of Persia and the minister Ibti, this was a completely cost-effective thing!
In this way, His Highness, who was actually going to be captured back to the palace soon and confront his father in anger every day, just swaggered all the way and arrived in China very quickly without realizing it.
Since he is His Highness, and has secretly received the support of the monarch through the guards, he is naturally rich in gold and silver, and there is no need to worry about life issues.
This is also the reason why the King of Persia and Ibti can rest assured that His Royal Highness the Princess will go to a foreign country. Since it can produce such exquisite iron tools, this foreign country is obviously a highly civilized place. It is inevitable to have a city-state, and as long as there is a city-state, then
You can definitely buy things with gold and silver.
The first place Asmin arrived was the Anxi Protectorate. Everything was done here because its role is firstly a military node, and secondly, it is to coordinate the military deployment of the entire northwest of China. At the same time, with the strength of the army, it provides support for the infrastructure construction in the northwest region.
, so Anxi Protectorate itself is not very prosperous and developed.
With nothing to spend on, and a very opinionated and alert personality, Asmin naturally lived a very low-key life in Anxi Protectorate, but she did not attract attention because of her extraordinary spending power.
However, Asmin did not look down on the Tang State because the Anxi Protectorate was not developed enough.
instead……
It was the troops of the Anxi Protectorate. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty wore complex and exquisite armor, thick and flexible iron plate armor, and beautiful shiny weapons that were as beautiful as silverware. Asmin was secretly frightened.
There are only two words, damn!
I have been paying attention to military and state affairs since I was a child, and I have never played boring games, or sang and danced with other royal highnesses because I was a daughter. I can be regarded as an elite who "has conquered classics and history when he was young, and has become powerful when he grows up."
I ran away this time because I wanted to go out and have a career on my own, and I didn’t want to waste my talents by getting married.
That part of Central Asia is also known as the Balkan powder keg in modern times. It has never been stable since ancient times. On the one hand, it is the source of war, and on the other hand, it is a paradise for all kinds of careerists.
Since Asmin is a royal highness on the surface and a reckless hero lurking in the dark, she naturally pays great attention to these details.
After observing for ten months, in addition to lamenting the extremely powerful military power of the Tang State, on the other hand...
Naturally, we also know where the core of Tang’s “civilization” lies.
"Civilization" has many literati giving various explanations, but among countries, the degree of civilization means the degree of development of manufacturing.
Asmin also finally found out that there are currently three places with the most developed manufacturing industry in China!