Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 961
Duke Edinburgh has never even heard of such an advanced thing as Wood's steel crossbow.

But he knew silk.

He saw a lot of silk piled up there, as well as bundles of swords, piles of shields, and hundreds of breastplates made of steel.

The Duke of Edin did not leave, he led the people away for a certain distance and set up a tent.

The next day, guests from the other side of the bay arrived.

This group of guests carried the banner of the Visigoth king and wore the knight armor of the King's Guard. These knight armor surprised Duke Edinburgh, and they were very similar to those worn by Wood's soldiers.

However, Wood's soldiers wore better armor.

Did Wood become a knight of the Visigoth king?
It was an earl who came, and after dismounting, he saluted Wood with the etiquette of a low-ranking nobleman meeting a high-ranking nobleman, but saluted the Duke of Edin with the etiquette of his peers.

This is the geographical difference.

When the title of the Visigothic Kingdom meets the title of the Roman Empire, it will be automatically downgraded by one level.When you meet a country noble like the Duke of Edin, you have to upgrade two levels, and you need to upgrade to the nobles of the seven kingdoms in the middle and south of Britain by one level.

In the face of the title of the Great Tang Empire, he has to be demoted by two ranks.

A count of the Visigothic Kingdom is a person lower than a baron of the Tang Empire.To put it more bluntly, one Duke of the Daliang Empire can destroy the Visigothic Kingdom, so it's as simple as that.

Strength determines status.

National strength determines the identity and status of citizens abroad.

"He..." Duke Edin didn't know how to ask, he was already a Duke, so who granted Wood a title.

"Your Excellency the Baron, I have brought the memorandum of trade from His Majesty the King. I hope to strengthen cooperation in the next few years, and even more hope that I can purchase no less than [-] ships of various grades of wool in the spring of tomorrow. His Majesty the King sent someone A deposit has been sent."

After the special envoy of the Visigothic king finished speaking, a follower behind him stepped forward holding a box.

The special envoy of the Visigoth king opened the box, which contained two hundred gleaming pseudo-Roman gold coins.

Woodworth grabbed a handful. He had seen all kinds of gold coins, and knew that these were Roman gold coins specially formulated for the Visigothic Kingdom, the Frankish Kingdom, and several other small countries. They were different from real Roman gold coins, but they were equivalent. exchange.

It was also a gold coin allowed by the Roman emperors.

Both these gold coins and the real Roman gold coins came from the Datang Mint in Spice Bay. Of course, the Romans did not know about Spice Bay and thought that these were all shipped from Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.

"Okay, the price of the wool and coarse wool I provide is 70.00% of that of Datang, but the quality will be lower. Fine wool and more advanced fabrics may be available in another year."

The envoy immediately took out a letter of intent.

The content of the letter of intent is that the Visigothic Kingdom can purchase preferentially at the same price and under the same conditions.

This paper is naturally Datang's paper.

Instead of using the quill pen provided by the special envoy of Visigoth, Wood took out a steel dip pen produced by Datang and wrote his name on the bookmark of intent.

"I hope that the special envoy can accept this pen as a gift. Please also ask the special envoy to send my regards to His Majesty the King and offer my respect to His Majesty the King."

Wood took out a long wooden box containing a five-foot two-handed epee.

This is a real knight's epee, and it is one foot longer than the existing swords in Europe, and the blade is relatively lighter and thinner.

A soldier stood aside with an axe, and Woodworth split the ax with a sword in one hand, and then handed the sword to the envoy so that the envoy could see the blade.

The special envoy took it with both hands excitedly, this gift is too expensive.

With the participation of the special envoy of the Visigoth king, Wood negotiated with the Duke of Edin for three days. Wood Wally did not pay half a gold coin, but only drew a line on the map.

To the south of the bay is the domain of the Duke of Edinburgh, and with the end of the bay as the boundary, there is another line going directly south.

The Duke of Edinburgh and his followers lost more than one-third of the total territory of the nobles. The Duke of Edinburgh endured it. He knew that he had nothing to do with Wood now.Woodworthy seemed to have a very strong backing, otherwise, why would the special envoy of King Visigoth chase after him just after he came back.

On the third day of the negotiation, the Duke of Edinburgh held a pen but could not sign.

After all, it is one-third of his and his followers' territory, so the loss is too great.

But on this day, the special envoy from the Kingdom of Franks also arrived and proposed conditions similar to those of the Visigoth king.

Next, the Duke of Edin was not even qualified to attend the negotiations between Woodwally and the special envoys of the Frankish King and the Visigothic King. The only thing he could do was to sign and then go back to his castle.

Half a month later, the second fleet from Alexandria arrived at Woodward's hometown.

Only two of this fleet are armed merchant ships, and the rest are pure cargo ships.

The flag of Datang was hung on the flagpole of the cargo ship, and the battle flag of the Navy of Datang was hung on the armed merchant ship.The departure time of this second fleet was not more than a few days later than that of Wood Wally, and the speed of the cargo ships could not be compared with that of warships.

The cargo ship was equipped with carding machines made from spices, wool spinning machines, and a very simple wind mill.

There were 100 monks, [-] Taoist priests, and [-] doctors on board, as well as a medicinal material collection team of up to [-] people.

The task of the herbal material collection team was to teach the local people how to collect herbs. Among them were ten Tang people, thirty Silla people, fifty Fusang people and ten Jiaoren.

Woodward took his family and left the village where they lived, and started to build a new home in a land with abundant water and grass.

Other villages of the tribe also began to move here, and other tribes with better relations also began to send people to contact them.

The school was built first, then a temple, a Taoist temple, and a medical hall together with a medicinal material warehouse and a primary processing workshop for medicinal materials.

Confucianism and Taoism.

Woodworthy only wants to lead a better life with his family. They don't have their own written language, so the perfect Chinese is a good choice.

Woodwallis belonged to Scots.

There are several different languages ​​here, the language they speak is Pictish, the language of the Duke of Edinburgh comes from Highland Gaelic, and the script they used before has used Latin and Greek.

But for these relatively primitive tribes, they don't have their own writing at all.

Since someone was willing to systematically teach them a language and script that was already perfect, and that was from a highly civilized country, Woodwalli quickly persuaded the tribal elders.

The reason is simple, for a warm winter, for no longer suffering from hunger, for strength, and for the future to be able to truly establish a country, they need the power of civilization, they need technology, and they need to become nobles.

(End of this chapter)