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Inside Guest House, a group of Dianke officials had already arrived. When they saw this scene, although their faces were pale, they did not feel too shocked.

After all, before they arrived, someone had already told them everything. Although the death of the Large Order had dealt them a great blow, many people's faces did not have the slightest trace of blood on them. Furthermore, when they looked at Xiao Wen, their expressions were not very good either.

After all, he was someone who dared to personally poison his superior to death. Was there anything he didn't dare to do with such a person?

Filled with the fear that Xiao Wen might not do well at any time, these subordinate officers fearfully ordered the foreign mercenaries in Guest House to return to their own rooms to wait for news. You are not allowed to come out without an order.

And only Anthony, who had defected to Xiao Wen's side earlier, did not need to be restricted.

But in the corner of Guest House, Xiao Wen and Wang Ce Xuan were completely indifferent to what was happening around them. They were only concerned about one thing, and that was the Great Tang Dynasty and the big sized man's foreign policy.

At this moment, Wang Ce Xuan looked at the cups and asked, ”Brother Xiao, what do you want to say?”

Xiao Wen laughed, then took out a teapot and placed it beside the wine cup that represented Tang Xiu. After that, he took out two cups and arranged them vertically into a single cup. Wang Xuance understood, these two blankets represented Ming and Song respectively.

This made Wang Xuance even more confused.

But just then, Xiao Wen suddenly spoke out. He said, ”Brother Wang, please look. This is the Great Tang Dynasty, this is the Great Song, this is the Great Ming. Great Tang Dynasty, Da Song and Da Ming wanted to communicate with each other. I want to know, what should we do? ”

Hearing that, Wang Xuance was startled. He looked at the teapot on the table and said, ”Is this the Crosscut Mountain Range?”

”Smart!” Xiao Wen clapped his hands, and said: ”Because of the obstruction from the mountain range, in the past, it was difficult for Song Ming and Tang Kingdom to directly communicate with each other. ”Thus, your caravan and Song Ming's caravan, if they want to enter each other's land, they will have to rely on the Han way.”

As he spoke, he made some wine in his hand and then placed it on Tang's cup. With the teapot as the center, he drew an incomplete circle.

As for the trajectory of the circle, it happened to pass by Han's wine cup.

Looking at the circle, Wang Xuance revealed a look of understanding. He asked, ”Does Brother Xiao want to bring in Song Ming and his sister?”

”Exactly.” Xiao Wen nodded his head and said: ”As far as I know, every year, the people of the Western Regions would pass through the Great Tang Dynasty and the ocean to the south of Tuo Fan, travel a few thousand miles, and head towards Song Ming. They would import a large amount of silk and porcelain and sell it to the west to earn more wealth. Some of these people came from the far west. But most of the food came from the food that came from the Anxi Capital Residence. Am I right? ”

”That's right.” Wang Xuance nodded.

Xiao Wen then continued, ”Although these people are thousands of miles away from Song Ming, they can use nautical arts to travel all the way to Song Ming's land, buying silk and porcelain ware to return. But why is it that even though I am closer to the Great Tang Dynasty, I am unable to be as rich as Song Ming? ”

Xiao Wen knew that the history of the Great Tang Dynasty was one of the most prosperous places in the world. The size of the Tang Chang'an City was more than five times that of the Eastern Roman Empire's capital, Constantinople, and the Arab Empire's capital, Baghdad.

Yet this country had not created as much economic wealth as the Arab Empire.

In fact, not to mention the Great Tang Dynasty, even if we were to count the entire world, we would find that, until recently, the Darchu Empire was the richest country in the world. However, the second place belonged to no power that belonged to the same land.

The name of second place belonged to the same era as the Great Tang Dynasty, namely the Arab Empire.

Historically, the Arab Empire occupied ”granary” areas such as the rich two river basins and the Nile basin, which provided abundant products for the empire.

The main crops include wheat, barley, rice, dates and olives, and the horticultural crops are quite abundant, with dates, olives, plums, peaches, apricots, oranges, apples, watermelons, grapes and various vegetables.

During the Artaxis dynasty, the area and output of cultivated land were greatly increased due to the development of irrigation works.

In the south of the Arabian Peninsula, because of its oasis, date, grain and vegetables abound.

The Arab nation itself is a nomadic people, the Arabian Peninsula and other desert and semi-desert areas abound in sheep, horses and camels.