The conversations and laughter during the banquet are probably a portrayal of this banquet.

When asked about his purpose of coming to the Tang Dynasty, Focas hesitated for a moment and decided to tell the truth, who made him not have the capital to show off in front of this Tang Dynasty Shen Langjun. Instead of using lies to gain trust, it would be better to fight.

"To be honest, I was the second son of my family and had no chance to inherit the family's industry. I heard that someone made up his mind to come to the Tang Dynasty to try to open up a business road and do a business after he had earned money in the Tang Dynasty."

After listening to the translation, Chen Guang looked at Focas with a sincere expression and knew that the second-generation ancestor of Byzantine did not lie to him. As the conversation deepened, Chen Guang knew that Focas's family could only be considered a purple-robed noble in Byzantium, but this was not bad news for him.

Anyway, he is now just a small judge of the Anxi Protectorate, not a nobleman. He is quite interested in working with Focas to open up a business path.

Chen Guang was extremely annoying about the great cannibals and their religion, and the great cannibals always had great enthusiasm for advancing eastward. After the Battle of Talas in history, after the Tang Dynasty withdrew from Central Asia's sphere of influence, it was the Tubo people who resisted the great cannibals' invasion. However, since he came to the Tang Dynasty, he would never let such things continue to happen.

Forkas may now be just a second son who cannot stand out in Byzantium, but with his help, he and his family may not be able to become the real nobles of the Eastern Roman Empire.

"The goods I carried this time were mainly glass mirrors produced by Byzantine. I am willing to give them to my husband as a gift for saving his life."

After the general translation, Forcas naturally signaled Olus to send the prepared colorful glass mirror, which was fired by Byzantine, and was a luxury product in Central Asia and even the Tang Dynasty.

However, for Shenguang, he was really not interested in this glass mirror that looked colorful because of impurities added during firing but had extremely poor light transmission performance. He just politely thanked him and asked Duowen to take it into the tent.

For Forcas, who was secretly observing the sunny expression, he was undoubtedly extremely disappointed, because the colorful glass mirror was the most precious of the goods he brought to the east this time, but this did not seem to allow the young Tang noble to take even one more glance.

At this time, Forkas had no doubt that when he was in Byzantium, the merchant who had returned from Chang'an City said that compared to the magnificent and rich city, Byzantium was like a countryside, and Chang'an City was worthy of the title of the city of tens of thousands of cities, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was worthy of being the king of tens of thousands of kings.

Looking at Focas, who was feeling a little depressed, Chen Guang didn't know what he was thinking. He just said to the playboy who was interpreting the translation, "Tell him that someone is willing to return his goods to him, but someone wants to collect 20% of them as a reward."

Before he could translate it, Ario, who was beside Forcas, heard it and quickly told him the good news. Then the somewhat depressed Byzantine Second Patriarch immediately became happy. He even stood up from the desk and praised Chen Guang's generosity in ups and downs in Latin.

Then, the embarrassing thing was that the playboy in charge of the translation and Ario did not understand what Faucas was saying. After looking at each other, they had to think about the content of his words in Foaucas' expression and exaggerated tone.

Listening to the translation of the playboy and the Persian businessman, Chen Guang couldn't help but chuckled. He had been studying folk music since elementary school, but he switched to the vocal music major in college, which required him to be able to speak Latin. Although he also couldn't understand what Fokas was saying, he knew he was chanting in Latin.

However, Chen Guang did not expose the two of them because there was no need for this, and he just accepted the flattery of them with a smile.

For Forcas, being able to get most of the goods back was a surprise to him. During the meal, the Roman soldiers such as Olus were also shocked by Chen Guang's generosity. To be honest, if it were in Byzantium, such a thing would never have happened. No wonder the scholars of the Stoic school always said that the moral standards of the Eastern Empire were obviously higher than those of the Empire.

With the kindness released by Chen Guang, Forkas was even more ready to move. He originally planned to listen to those Persian merchants, and first went to Gongyue City to ship goods, and then prepared to go to Chang'an City. However, since he had known this noble Tang nobleman, he was not in a hurry to go to Chang'an City, because in the conversation just now, he clearly felt that the Shen Langjun was very interested in his attempt to open up the trade channels between Byzantium and the Tang Dynasty.

So after sitting down, he asked boldly, "Dear Mr., I don't know if you are willing to be an ally of the Scipio family. We can cooperate on the silk trade."

Forkas came to the East from all the way, with the ultimate goal of obtaining silk fabrics from the Tang Dynasty. The demand for silk fabrics from the East in Byzantium was endless, but he heard from the merchant who returned from Chang'an that the silk on the Byzantium market did not come from the Tang Dynasty, but from low-end goods mixed with other fabrics from Central Asia.

Almost all the exquisite silks produced in the Tang Dynasty were occupied by damn pagans, and they also taxed low-end silk fabrics sold to Byzantine.

Forkas believed that as long as he could buy real silk and transport it back to Byzantium, even if it was not large, it would be enough to earn huge wealth. Now he had the best chance and wanted to strive for the game.

After hearing this, Chen Guang deliberately made a melancholy statement. He could not make the second ancestor of Byzantine think that cooperation was too easy. At the same time, it was necessary for these Romans to deepen their awe of the Tang Dynasty, so that cooperation could last long.

"Byzantine is too far from Anxi, and there are great cannibals in it. I need to think carefully. If you don't mind, you can follow us to Tiemen Pass."

Although Chen Guang did not give a clear reply, as long as he did not directly refuse, it would be enough to make Forkas feel excited. At this time, he began to seriously think about the business road that went straight to the Tang Dynasty from Byzantium. Chang'an was too far away. However, if he could reach a cooperation with this Chen Langjun in Anxi, the only trouble in this business road would be those big-food barbarians.

After the guests and the host and the host had fun, Forcas stayed directly and asked Olus to go back and bring all the caravans' men. He had already made up his mind not to go to Chang'an, and then followed this Shen Langjun. As for the goods in his hand, he found an opportunity to get rid of it. The most important thing was to deal with this young nobleman.

After letting the crow take Focas down to rest, Chen Guang suddenly felt that he should add a few more language courses, otherwise it would be unreliable to rely solely on translation. Given the importance of the Eastern Roman Empire, he planned to learn Greek first and then learn ancient Latin with this Byzantine Second Patriarch.
Chapter completed!