Molested Zulong at the beginning

Seeing Bai Su's kind face, the high priest couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

She looked outside the palace, holding flintlock guns one by one, and the Xia army soldiers who were full of murderous looks couldn't help frowning, and said, "This is the palace of Rome. It would be a little uncomfortable for you to send troops to surround it directly." It's very polite."

Bai Su said in a cold voice: "Putting the rise and fall of a country to the kindness of the other party is a ridiculous idea. If you want to save yourself, you have to show the corresponding value. Now you are not qualified to ask me..."

The high priest clenched his vermilion lips with his bright teeth, and did not speak.

She doesn't understand this truth, but now that Rome is desperate, they can only use these means to negotiate as much as possible.

However, this is bound to be useless.

After all, if you can't win on the battlefield, how can you win any favorable conditions at the negotiating table.

After pondering for a moment, she stretched out her hand and said, "Your Excellency, please follow me in, His Majesty the Emperor is waiting for you..."

Bai Su was not polite either, and walked into the main hall accompanied by Zhang Han.

Soon, a slim figure appeared in his sight.

This girl's age seems to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. She has a beautiful appearance, tender and fair skin, and a pair of green eyes with a proud look.

Her golden hair curled into a gorgeous sideburn, and she was wearing a long red and white dress, outlining her plump and slim curves, giving her a noble and elegant look.

It seems that she is the rumored Roman emperor, Nero.

The high priest came to the girl's side, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have brought you here."

Nero's slender black eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his green eyes looked at Bai Su with a frivolous smile, and couldn't help but said: "You unreasonable man, are you the rumored Bai Su? Why invade my Rome?"

Bai Su said slowly: "Back then, I opened up the Silk Road in the Central Plains, and wanted to do business with various countries. I brought you useful tea, porcelain, and silk products, so that Rome has exquisite goods. Trade Prosperity brings with it many taxes..."

Listening to Bai Su's words, Nero couldn't help thinking of the past few years. The Roman people were crazy about silk and porcelain, and countless nobles spared no expense. Through the prosperity of trade, the court also made a lot of money.

She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say for a while.

Bai Su continued: "I have loved peace in the Central Plains since ancient times, and I don't like wars. I once wanted to send divisions to cooperate with you."

"But you Rome are greedy, not only intercepting my division, killing my envoy, but even wanting to invade my Central Plains territory."

"Although I in the Central Plains don't like to fight, but in the face of wolves like you, I will naturally pick up sticks, launch a passive counterattack, and interrupt your claws that are stretched out..."

Nero's vermilion lips parted slightly, and he was speechless for a moment when Bai Su said it.

After all, in terms of righteousness, Rome is indeed wrong.

Bai Su curled his lips: "If you weren't too much, how could we come all the way here to fight with you? Isn't it nice to honestly do business at home and get rich peacefully?"

Nero was taken aback by what he said.

She fell into deep thought for a while, Bai Su has no problem logically.

Judging from experience, Bai Su's purpose is not as simple as what he said.

Bai Su didn't give Nero any time to think, and directly took a drafted treaty from Zhang Han's hand, and pushed it over: "This is our condition."

Nero took the treaty and took a look, his expression turned ugly.

One of the above conditions is more stringent than the other.

Order Rome to give up tariffs, fully develop free trade with the Central Plains, and require many ports to be directly ceded to the Central Plains. Officials in the Central Plains have judicial, governance, and business rights in the local area.

This is equivalent to the sovereignty of Rome, in a state of semi-intervention.

A businessman from the Central Plains committed a crime in Rome. The local officials in Rome did not have the right to arrest them. They needed to contact the local officials in the Central Plains to extradite them back to China and use the Central Plains’ judicial system to sentence them.

Once such a treaty is signed, it means that the people of Rome will directly have two more management agencies, one is the officials of the Roman aristocracy, and the other is the officials of the Central Plains, and two more masters will come out directly.

This is not the most harsh, what made her frown the most was that Bai Su asked Rome to liberate the slaves, restore their status as civilians, allocate land for them, and encourage them to grow cotton and food.

The Central Plains will set a minimum purchase price to stabilize a large number of grain purchases every year...

Nero gritted his teeth tightly and said, "Bai Su, these conditions are too harsh, I can't agree to all of them..."

There is still room for negotiation on these two aspects, but emancipating slaves and allocating land is tantamount to shaking the interests of the Roman nobles and directly cutting off the foundation of her rule.

After all, to keep these aristocratic groups, as the emperor, she still has the hope of maintaining the sovereignty of Rome. Once the slaves are fully liberated, the aristocratic groups will be broken up.

The whole of Rome lost its sovereignty and became a vassal of the Central Plains in trade.

As the emperor, she has almost become a polished commander. She can only choose to rely on the support of the Central Plains in order to stabilize her throne.

The result of begging for mercy like this was something she couldn't accept no matter what.

Bai Su picked up a Roman dagger from the wall, wiped the blade lightly with his fingers, and said, "With such a sharp dagger, I don't know how fast I can chop off my head."

As he said that, he turned his head as if he didn't hear what Nero said, and asked, "By the way, Your Majesty Nero, I didn't hear what you just said clearly."

Nero's eyelids twitched wildly, and he stammered, "No...it's nothing, I just want to say that everything is negotiable."

Bai Su said with a sneer: "Your Majesty Nero, you have to think clearly, you were the one who first propagated to me in the Central Plains, and we were just forced to fight back, traveling all the way for thousands of miles, consuming huge manpower and material resources."

"Now that our army has arrived at the capital of your country, Your Majesty Nero, you are no longer qualified to negotiate terms. You agree to sign the treaty."

"I'll let the officials from the Central Plains help you manage Rome's customs, and bring you a lot of money every year, so that you can continue to live a luxurious life, and you are still the nominal emperor of Rome."

"If you refuse, I don't mind leveling the entire city of Rome, and hanging your body on the tower, your majesty, choose a suitable person from countless states, support the superior, and cooperate with him..."

Facing Bai Su's naked || threat, Nero's face turned ugly for a while, and he began to feel entangled in his heart.

If she agrees, she will be a sinner in Rome, and she will be reduced to a marionette for others, without a trace of security.

If you don't agree, there will be a blood sacrifice on the spot today.

At present, the only way to ensure his own safety and keep the throne of the Roman emperor seems to be to take the initiative to hug the thigh in front of him.

After all, this Rome was defeated by Bai Su in front of him, and most of the officials dispatched from the Central Plains in the future were also recommended by Bai Su.

In addition, Bai Su is a member of the Great Liang of the Central Plains, with a high position and authority, and is in charge of the military and political power of the court. As long as she hugs Bai Su's thigh, the officials and the army of Daxia will stand by her side in the future.

In this way, those feudal officials all over Rome did not dare to have any ill intentions towards her.

Nero thought of this, looked at Bai Su with his green eyes, and said in a low voice: "I... I understand, please go to the Roman Baths with Gong'e for a while, take a bath and wash, I will discuss it with the officials, and then formally Sign the treaty."

At this time, a palace woman in a male dress came in, she came to Bai Su, and respectfully said: "My lord, please follow me..."

"That's annoying."

Bai Su cupped his hands, greeted Zhang Han who was at the side, and walked in with Gong'e.

He is also full of curiosity about the rumored Roman baths.

Although he has done a lot in the Central Plains, such as bathing, heating and other things, after all, the water source environment cannot be compared with Rome.

The scale and facilities of the baths are not as huge as those in Rome.

Now that he can experience it himself, he will naturally not refuse.

As for whether Nero would become angry and send someone to assassinate him in the bath, Bai Su didn't have the slightest worry about it.

After all, the regular Roman army was completely annihilated by the Xia army's flintlock attack, and now that the entire palace was surrounded by troops led by Zhang Han, how could Nero dare to disagree.

If something unexpected happened to Bai Su, there would be no possibility of peace talks in the entire palace, and even the entire city of Rome.

Under Xia Jun's tragic revenge, I am afraid that the entire city of Rome will be turned into a sea of ​​corpses and blood, which will not be of any benefit to Nero.

Chapter 480 The moonlight is beautiful tonight

Under the leadership of Gong'e, Bai Su came all the way to the bathing place in Rome.

This is not so much a bathing place as it is a large leisure and entertainment center.

In addition to bathing places, there are also libraries, sauna rooms, massage rooms, and fitness centers, which are eye-opening.

After all, being able to build such a developed drainage system in this era is not something that ordinary countries can do.

Seeing the surprised look on Bai Su's face, the maid at the side couldn't help introducing with some pride: "My lord, please look, this is the water supply pipeline built by us in Rome, it is the crystallization of our Roman wisdom, and... because this pipeline is specially made Yes, the water here is extremely sweet, do you want to try it?"

Bai Su waved his hand, and said with a strange expression, "I...I can't do it. My lord likes to drink the wine that I bring with me all the year round, and I don't like to drink water."

Gong'e was a little surprised and said: "Drinking alcohol and not drinking water, your lord is really a hero."

Bai Su smiled, and glanced at the lead pipe beside him, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch wildly.

Obviously, he didn't drink alcohol or water at all, but because the water here is poisonous.

Lead is used to make pipes, and the lead content in the water exceeds the standard, which is rarely toxic, and the natural taste is sweeter.

This seemingly sweet taste is fatal.

It's also a good thing that I came early, if it was three or five years later, maybe there would be a group of high-level Romans including Nero.

Due to drinking water with lead poisoning all the year round, when the toxin accumulates to a certain level, it will directly lead to kidney failure, liver damage, and early sudden death.

Gong'e brought Bai Su to the bathing pool, raised the black hair between her eyebrows with her small white hands, and looked back at Bai Su: "My lord, let me serve you."

Bai Su waved his hand: "No need, you can step back for now."

Gong'e opened her mouth, but didn't say much in the end, she bowed and retreated.

Bai Su took off the clothes on his body, and stepped into the misty bath, feeling the heat seeping in through the pores, he couldn't help but take a long breath.

Although the Daxia Treasure Ship can carry a lot of supplies and store a lot of fresh water, it is not so luxurious that it takes frequent baths.

After months of exhausting travel, it is rare to relax like today.

Just as he was meditating, there was a sound of "crashing" water.

Bai Su didn't know how to say: "I don't need you to serve me, just step back."

The person behind him didn't answer at all, and with the sound of "crashing" water, he could obviously feel that he was approaching him.

Bai Su frowned slightly, and when he looked back, he couldn't help being stunned: "Your Majesty Nero, why...why are you here?"

She was covering her plump chest with one hand, and the white bath towel wrapped her slim body.

The golden hair is gently pulled up and tied with a red headband. The fair and delicate facial features, long eyelashes, green eyes, delicate nose, and thin red lips are like a beautiful picture scroll. , people can't help being amazed for a while.

Nero bit his red lips lightly with his bright teeth, and said in a low voice, "Hum, I...I want to discuss with you about signing the Treaty of Rome."

She seemed to have never been so close to the opposite sex before.

Facing Bai Su's scorching gaze, she didn't dare to look at Bai Su for a while, her fair hands tightly clenched the bath towel on her chest.

She didn't know whether it was because the water was too hot or because she was too shy, but her fair and pretty face was flushed with a blush.

"Discuss... about the Treaty of Rome?"

Bai Su scratched his cheek with his fingers, and glanced at Nero next to him with a strange expression. This is not so much a negotiation, but it looks like a beauty trick.

However, since the other party said so, then he should take it as such.

After all, the signing of the Treaty of Rome has great benefits for the Central Plains, as long as it does not affect the fundamental interests, only give up some irrelevant things.

He pretended that he had accidentally fallen for a beauty trap, and it was fine, just treat it as a sacrifice for the country.

After pondering for a while, Bai Su said, "I let you free the slaves, not against you, but to help you."

Nero gave Bai Su a weird look, wondering if he was making fun of himself.

After all, Rome relied on plundering the slave trade and squeezing it desperately to make the Roman economy so prosperous.

Now that Bai Su has cut off her source of finances, he still has the face to say that he is helping her.

Bai Su looked at the girl's contemptuous gaze, and couldn't help but smile: "Your prosperity is nothing more than a deformity. It seems that you let the slaves work hard without paying wages, and you have created a lot of food, cloth, and iron. Mine, everything is thriving.”

"But this is doomed. Only a few nobles have obtained huge wealth, while ordinary Roman people, due to the low price of food for farming, low price of cloth, and low price of mining."

"If you do some small businesses, you can hardly make any money after a year of hard work. Once you encounter a natural or man-made disaster, you will basically have no way to survive."

"So blacksmiths, farmers, textile workers, and a large number of ordinary people gathered together will become the source of mutiny."

"In addition, with the opening of trade in the Central Plains, as the trade with other countries became more and more ordinary, those nobles sought after the goods of the Central Plains, which led to the outflow of a large amount of gold and silver in Rome, which easily caused a fiscal deficit."

"In addition, the idea of ​​abolishing slaves in the Central Plains will slowly spread along the Silk Road."

"Those oppressed slaves will feel dissatisfied and revolt one after another. Once these slaves unite with ordinary citizens of Rome and individual ambitious nobles."

"Rome falls apart, it's only a matter of time..."

Nero's green eyes widened suddenly. She never thought that Rome's seemingly prosperous scene hides so many hidden dangers.

She wanted to refute at first, but after thinking about it carefully, some things that happened in Rome, she was horrified to find that it was exactly the same as what Bai Su said, and there were already many signs in the empire.

The financial constraints of the imperial court, the slave uprising, and the rebellion of the people all joined forces to enter the city of Rome. As the emperor, she would definitely be hanged on the top of the city.

A ghastly pale color appeared on Nero's beautiful cheeks, and he hurriedly asked: "I don't know, my lord, is there a countermeasure?"