Chapter 105 Small Business

Zhao Su to the identity of the guards sitting at the head of the emperor, more or less still some constraints, in the seat of the officials who are more qualified than her in the seat, but the emperor preferred to designate her to come, the devil knows that he held what bad water, anyway, she looked up to see the fun, head down to eat on the line.

But in fact, she sat in such a conspicuous position, and how could she rest in peace?

After the ambassadors greeted each other according to their etiquette, everyone chatted away, first talking about their respective customs, and then talking about the business.

The general content is that in these years the sea transportation is developed, many countries in the west know that the silk of the Middle Kingdom of excellent quality, style and more, but is limited to the long route, transportation is difficult, now overseas silk is extremely short of goods, all parties under the competition led to the price is very high, the king of England, so the king of England sent ambassadors to come to discuss the business, the meaning is that you want to send a fleet of ships for counterpart direct sales.

The advantage of doing so is that the sale of silk is guaranteed, the development of mulberry and hemp industry is very favorable. Everyone knows that the economy up, the military will be guaranteed, and the dynasty will be more stable, the ambassadors will use this as a reason to lobby, tongue blooming lotus flower, gibberish.

The emperor listened to their statements, and did not rush to take a position, but only from time to time to ask them about the state of the country, the state of the ship, there are some such as their social aspects of the problem.

Both sides of the interpreter turned some stuttering, it can be seen due to the limitations of the times, the translation talent to be cultivated.

Good in the general meaning are no problem, there is no misunderstanding, Zhao Su side listening, one side in the rules allow the scope of eating and drinking, national feast, do not eat for nothing!

But the good times are not long, the blue robes lobbying half a day to no avail, after a few mouths of wine, they will be in Zhao Su face back and forth squinting a few rounds, and then said a string of English.

After Zhao Su heard it clearly, he couldn’t help but raise his face from the table full of food and looked straight at him.

“Your Majesty, the ambassador is curious about Squire Zhao’s identity, will I tell you truthfully?”

Sun Ji, the interpreter of the Hall of Congregation, asked for instructions.

“Is there anything that can’t be told?” The Emperor ate a walnut nut and looked down at Zhao Su.

Sunji said yes in fear and turned to the blue-robed man to give instructions.

After the blue-robed man heard that it was just a guard, he seemed greatly confused, and when he looked at Zhao Su again, his gaze became somewhat meaningful.

Zhao Su didn’t bother, after all, her parents allowed her to sit here.

Although she didn’t interrupt their conversation earlier, the arrogance revealed between the words of the foreigners always reminded people of the Eight-Power Allied Forces that destroyed the Yuanmingyuan, and from the bottom of her heart, she didn’t have a good feeling about these people.

“Your Majesty, the ambassador requests to leave the table for a moment.”

At this time Sun Ji reported to the emperor again.

“Entertain the envoy. Gather again in two quarters of an hour.” The emperor said.

The blue-robed man and his party of six then all rose and bowed to the emperor before retreating.

The rest of the hall was full of their own people.

Zhao Corner got up and said: “emperor, this silk price thing is small, open fleet of ships into the harbor thing is big, I heard that the westerners are good fighting, they come to the ship, the number must be quite a lot, the coast must be big open port.

“And after this precedent, I’m afraid there will be other countries to share this cup, dock a mixed, then the defense will be difficult.

“Our military defense, the focus is placed on the northwest, coastal military defense strength is not strong, I thought this matter is too great a hidden danger, but also need to be careful.”

Zhao Su originally thought that is the problem of interest, Zhao Corn said, she immediately felt that their pattern is small, the reason why there is a ban on the sea in history, is not for national defense, this blue robes are quite opportunistic, picking people like to say, really if the port is open, put the foreign fleet in, not to let her experience an eight-nation allied forces event?

The Great Liang is no longer strong, he founded the country is only twenty years ah! Right now, of course, it doesn’t have the strength to be foolproof in this regard.

“They want to be afraid of not just open wharf trafficking silk,” the emperor walked down Dan Edward, to the blue robes stopped in front of the table, picked up the tea cup on the table to the light to look at, “they are very interested in the Middle Kingdom’s tea and porcelain, silk here to open the mouth, there must be the rest of the goods will be in demand. ”

Zhao Sumi followed up, “so we can not loose this mouth.”

The emperor looked at this cup for a long time, put it back on the table: “Wolf prevention is important, but the fat meat sent to the door, push back is also a pity ah. Northwest bitter cold, Qin Wang sent back the report said, all the generals cold clothes are almost all patches base patches, anti-enemy weapons can not even do manpower a tool, not to mention the bow and artillery without worry about the reserves.

“With money, armaments can be strengthened, and with money, why worry about solid defense?”

Zhao Sumi murmured. These words had also gotten to the crux of the matter. The court has too many things to do, these years the Ministry of households has never owed the garrison soldiers food and wages, but to say that no worries, there is still a long way to go. And if the treasury is full, these will not be a problem.

“Your Majesty’s meaning, is to try it?”

The emperor turned around with his hands: “Look again.”

A raised his eyes to see under the courtyard still sitting and eating Zhao Su, he paused and said: “How are you still here?”

Zhao Su also do not want to stay here ah, because eat too much, she has been particularly want to go to a toilet, but she is the emperor asked not to leave the body of the “imperial guards”, he did not give the word, she can go where to go?

But now she knew she could go!

She stood up nimbly and exited the threshold.

The outhouse was on the west side – there was a distinction between men and women, as there were often female ambassadors in the envoy corps as well.

Zhao Su went out, looking at the time is still early, then want to find a quiet place to rest before going back.

Just aiming at the corner of a small piece of bamboo forest, the side of the box will be a silhouette swaying, not yet see it, the voice has come over, a mouth of long lost English: “The emperor out to see us with a female guard, must be just a flirtatious little emperor, rare that he came in person, we have to take advantage of the opportunity to persuade him down, if successful, this is a great benefit for us. As long as we monopolize the supply of Oriental silk, so the price of Oriental silk will be controlled in our hands in England!”

“Johnson is right! This land of Middle Earth is too rich, such as tea, porcelain, these are worth selling in large quantities! If we can get the Emperor to accept our fleet, we’ll be rich!”

Bamboo forest is not dense, finger-width gap at the other end, blue robes, six of them are discussing very enthusiastically. And about the convenience of the language barrier, they didn’t particularly lower their voices.

But they didn’t know that there was a Zhao Su from the twenty-first century who had passed the sixth grade English exam!

Zhao Su took in all of their words and accurately captured the glint of shrewdness in their eyes. The key is that she also heard them ambiguously think of her as a “female guard” who was involved with the “flirtatious little emperor”!

The first chapter is about the “female guards”.