Chapter 765: The Duke Trying to Regain Respect
Both parties sat together with their own ulterior motives, and if you didn't know, you would think that they had a very good relationship.
"Duke? Lord? He is really an extraordinary person." Li Yuan looked at the message solemnly, wondering whether he should go there in person.
"Such a person should be of great help to Shimin. No, who knows, he may even be a hindrance to the second brother in the future!"
"Wuji, what do you think?" Li Yuan turned his gaze to his chief of staff Sun Wuji.
This was also the relative's son that he had arranged for Li Shimin, so he brought him with him to train him on a daily basis, hoping to train him into an assistant for Li Shimin.
"Uncle, we must not take this matter lightly. The significance of the Roman delegation is unclear. If it turns out to be like the Kushans and Japan before, I'm afraid we'll get into trouble." Changsun Wuji answered cautiously.
"You are such a sly guy!" Li Yuan scolded with a smile but didn't say anything else.
"Then you can go to express your condolences on my behalf. You can also bring the things that Jiancheng promised. There is no need to save on these things. Do you understand?" Li Yuan said lightly.
"Yes, uncle!" Changsun Wuji bowed and saluted, then walked out directly.
"Oh, it's really hard to choose between the Changsun family and the Wu family!" Li Yuan shook his head, not knowing what to say.
Ever since the news of the exile leaked out, all the major families have been vying to get in touch with these outstanding young people, so much so that he simply wanted to send the eldest brother Li Jiancheng out as well, and leave the world to the third brother to inherit.
Compared with the eldest and second oldest brothers, the third oldest Li Yuanji is really useless.
As for the fourth brother, hehe, ever since Nanhua was responsible for the task of pulling down the evil beast from the other world, Li Yuanba's contributions have been increasing day by day.
Every time Nanhua summoned an evil beast, he would ask Li Yuanba to deal with it. This resulted in the Han Dynasty having no shortage of high-level meat, which was considered a great achievement.
Its significance to the entire Han Dynasty is no less than Guan Yu's achievements in Kushan.
After all, Guan Yu was very famous in Kushan, but he also suffered heavy losses, and did not gain enough benefits afterwards. He only promoted the name of the Han Dynasty and absorbed some low-caste believers.
Li Yuanba and Nanhua actually provided the empire with a sufficient amount of high-level killer meat, which was of practical significance whether for training soldiers or officers.
At present, Li Yuanba has been divided into the Marquis of Yizibingjian by Guo Hao. Although Li Yuanba's title is nominal and he does not have any real position, he is indeed a marquis.
Strictly speaking, Li Yuanba's position as the Yizibingting Hou was higher than his as the defender of Chang'an City.
Feeling helpless, Li Yuan finished the work at hand and planned to go to Chunxiang Tower for a stroll. Well, the life of princes and nobles is so simple and unpretentious.
On the other side, after Gulas received the silk given by Li Jiancheng, his waist and legs no longer hurt, and he could even climb to the eighteenth floor in one breath.
For Gulas, he had already made up his mind to make clothes out of this silk and pass it down as a family heirloom.
Are you kidding? He had never seen anything of this quality in his life.
The silks he had bought in the commercial district before were all high-quality silks. In Rome, only people like the duke were qualified to buy them, and they were in short supply. The silk that Li Jiancheng gave him as an apology was even of tribute quality.
"Parthia! Parthia! Grandpa will bring people to completely wipe you out when he gets back!"
Parthia had never sold this kind of thing to Rome. Ganasis touched the tribute silk in his hand and decided to call on the empire to kill Parthia and those traveling merchants when he returned.
These unscrupulous merchants only gave them inferior silk, and the price was hundreds of times higher, which was simply robbing the Roman Empire.
Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were quite curious as they saw Ganasis's naive appearance. They had no idea what tribute silk meant to them.
The silk they use themselves is much better than this stuff . If Ma Chao hadn't told them that the tribute was enough, they would even want to send some better special tribute from aristocratic families.
As for the royal special tribute and the emperor's special supply, those were not something they could give.
Although it was not prohibited, it was usually provided to the emperor and royal family members, that is, the current princess, as well as Liu Bei and others.
The royal special tribute is usually a reward for meritorious officials. It's not that these noble families can't produce it, but once you make it, you can't use it openly, so you might as well give it all to the palace.
Then the court would reward them with salaries, so they could use it justifiably and also gain a good reputation for themselves.
"The legendary hometown of golden silk really opened my eyes. I wonder what other specialties your country has. We can exchange some ideas!"
After Ganasis came to his senses, he looked at the surprise in Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's eyes, and felt a little ashamed for a moment.
As one of the four great dukes of the Roman Empire, he was second only to the emperor and above everyone else. But now he was treated as a bumpkin, and he was more or less embarrassed.
Moreover, they came here under the name of the Roman Empire, but from the beginning till now, they have been embarrassing themselves the whole time. Ganasis somewhat wants to save his face.
"We Han people are naturally good at martial arts!"
Speaking of this, Ganasis became autistic again. Gulas was already the best master of the envoy group, but he was easily defeated by a teenager, and he didn't even use his weapons. There is really no way to talk about this.
"Ahem, we Romans also advocate the use of force, but we are better at group combat!" Ganasis racked his brains and finally thought of an advantage that he could use at the moment.
Along the way, apart from the patrols in the commercial district that could put some pressure on his personal guards, they did not see any powerful legion on the territory of the Han Dynasty.
"Oh! Mr. Duke, why don't we have a discussion? I have trained a personal guard myself, why don't we exchange some ideas!"
Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this. Group combat, he was familiar with this. He happened to be training a black armor army in preparation for going abroad, and he had never fought with anyone yet.
When Ganasis heard this, he was no longer sleepy. He finally found a topic to talk about.
"Hahaha, come on and fight. I have thirty-three Roman Eagle Legions, and my personal guards rank among the top fifteen. We might benefit from an exchange!"
But when Ganasis saw Li Shimin's so-called Black Armor Army, he was embarrassed. His opponent was a super heavy armored cavalry team, and his personal guards were not fully armed.
As for letting others fight without armor, it is not reasonable at all. All their talents are in the armor, how can we fight them?
At the same level, weapons and armor still account for a large proportion.
However, after watching for a long time, Ganasis was sure that the opponent was a legion of recruits that had never even participated in a war. Although they were talented, they were no different from the guards and other soldiers.
Equipment has an impact at the same level, but when the two sides are not at the same level, the impact is minimal.
