Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 611 The Unexpected Guest

Xiao Ling'er was talking about the dowry, but Liu Mu was thinking about Dugu Lanruo and Baoqin.

Liu Mu really doesn't know what Dugu Lanruo's dowry is.

At least Liu Mu didn't know what it was to hold a piano.

Thinking about holding the piano, and being tired from running all day, Liu Mu fell asleep after a while.

Before dawn the next day, Xiao Ling'er woke Liumu up: "My lord, there is a fast boat from Xigang Shipping Company rushing to Kumamoto Port. They first arrived at Huating Port and then arrived here."

"Huh? There's something urgent." Liu Mu opened his still slightly confused eyes.

"I don't know." Xiao Ling'er definitely wouldn't know, Xigang Shipping Secretary came to Liu Mu urgently, and he definitely wouldn't tell Xiao Ling'er about it.

Liu Mu turned over and got up, Xiao Ling'er immediately arranged for a maid to come and change Liu Mu's clothes.

Soon, in the reception room that had been prepared in the front yard of Liumu's temporary house, it was Feng Xuan who came from the West Port Shipping Department.This is Feng An's own brother, and seeing Feng Xuan Liu Mu, he felt that the matter would not be small.

Feng Xuan stepped forward: "Brother Mu, here is a very special guest. Our people can't understand a word he said, but he can speak Persian, and our people can almost understand it. He said that he is from The fresh Ruoma is the governor of What Ding. He looks like a country rich man in appearance, but looks like a big man."

"Where is the person?"

"On my boat. My brother told me that although communication was difficult, he felt that this might be an opportunity. He said that he thought this was a very big man, at least on the same level as him, so he wanted to send Go to Chang'an, I knew you were in Kumamoto, so I brought you here."

Liu Mu didn't answer in a hurry, what kind of Ruoma is Liu Mu?

"So, let's go to...Hangzhou."

"Okay." Feng Xuan didn't ask the reason, he believed that Liu Mu must have made a decision.

Liu Mu got on Feng Xuan's boat and went to Hangzhou immediately, Xiao Ling'er casually took Liu Mu's luggage and went to Hangzhou later.

Even if they were on the same boat, Liu Mu was not in a hurry to see that guest.

During the few days on the boat, Liu Mu communicated the detailed situation of the guest with Feng Xuan for a few days, and probably already guessed who the other party might be.

Then Liu Mu made some simple arrangements.

Hangzhou Bay, here is one of the most important seaports in Datang. When Liu Mu arrived, Li Shentong came to greet him personally, and put on a lot of pomp.

The guest got off the boat one step later, his eyes widened and he looked around.

When he was in Lingnan, he didn't have the opportunity to go to Guangzhou Port. He hadn't seen the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Hangzhou Bay is an important pier for foreign trade in the states and counties on the eastern Jiangnan Road. Thousands of ships of all sizes pass in and out of the pier every day.

Looking around, there are countless ships dotted across the sea.

Looking at the pier again, one can see the silk flags that are worth more than gold, and countless people wearing silk are constantly crowded on the pier.

"This is the origin of the Silk Road!" the guest said to himself in his own language, which no one here could understand.

After Liu Mu and Li Shentong met on the pier, Li Shentong asked Liu Mu: "What the hell are those golden and red haired people at the bow of the boat?"

"I don't know yet, but I guess we're going to get rich, a lot of money."

"Uncle likes that."

"Order someone to set up a banquet. I will meet these people for a while, and let these barbarians see our Tang Dynasty in a more gorgeous way."

Li Shentong laughed: "It's no problem, it's a small matter."

In the evening, in the small living room outside the garden that Li Shentong lent to Liu Mu, Liu Mu led an official who was proficient in Persian to meet this unknown person. "

"Hello!" Liu Mu spoke first, and the other party looked bewildered.

Liu Muxin said that the modern English of the later generations is really useless, and now he used the two words he learned while traveling and said: "Ye Suo." Seeing that the other party still did not respond, Liu Mu continued: "Sai ah ga po."

"Saiah Gapa!" The other party seemed very excited, and he completely understood this sentence.

Liu Mu took a blank piece of paper and quickly drew a simple map of the Mediterranean Sea, and then drew four circles in four locations: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Constantinople.

After the guest looked at it carefully, he pointed to the location of Constantine.

Liu Mu drew a pattern of a double-headed eagle in the Orthodox Church.

The guest raised his chest to the willow picture and saluted devoutly.

I saw the willow painting the head crown under the double-headed eagle, and then branched, successively branching down continuously.

The guest seemed to understand Liu Mu's meaning, he was asking about his identity, and immediately drew a small crown next to the first-level crown.Then it points to Constantine again.

Liu Mu said to the translator: "Ask him in Persian, is he the supervisor of the Patriarch of Constantine, or the governor or something. What else can the Patriarch be called?"

The translator said to the conception: "Consort, there is the word patriarch in Latin, which seems to mean the leader of their religion."

After arduous communication, Liu Mu finally understood that the other party was the chief supervisor under the Patriarch Constantine of the Eastern Roman Empire, and also came to the Eastern Great Country to offer friendship on behalf of the Eastern Roman Emperor.

According to historical records, it was indeed in the early Tang Dynasty that Nestorianism was introduced to the Central Plains, and then it was still sinicized.

Nestorianism is the Byzantine Orthodox Church.

Liu Mu asked someone to take out a bolt of purple silk and put it on for the guest with his own hands, but the guest quickly declined.

The translator told Liu Mu that the guest indicated that he was not qualified to use such silk.

"The noble under the purple veil, it seems that there is nothing wrong with him. He is indeed a Byzantine, because in Byzantium only the royal family is eligible to use purple, and he is also called the noble under the purple veil, which means the most noble noble."

What Liu Mu said surprised the translator, and after communicating with the guests, the translator also confirmed what Liu Mu said just now.

"You tell me, this is a gift from me to him, and I am qualified to let him use such silk. My wife is the first princess of the Tang Empire." After speaking, Liu Mu added: "You are in the words, It must be explained that it is the Tang Empire, and then the first princess."

The translator dutifully completed Liu Mu's translation, and the guest accepted the piece of silk.

Liu Mu asked again: "Did the Persians beat your emperor under great pressure?"

The translator tried to express the meaning as clearly as possible, and translated the original words. After communicating for a while, the translator said to Liu Mu: "My son-in-law Liu, they have been fighting the Persians for a full 100 years this year."

"Ask him if the national power of both of them has been emptied, and the emperor's treasury has few gold coins left. Does he have any military purpose for coming this time?"

(End of this chapter)