In addition to food that looks more normal, Wang Wei also saw something that he could not accept.

He saw a plate with some grilled black stuff.

I picked it up and pinched it, and I felt a little elastic. Moreover, the thing looked square, but there was a strange bulge on it, which looked quite strange.

"What's this?"

Wang Wei looked at the translator.

The translator took a look and his face looked a little strange.

Emperor Caracala came over and asked the translator what Wang Wei asked. After knowing it, he smiled and said something to Wang Wei, then pointed his hand at the chest of a Roman noble woman.

"This should be the part of the sow."

When the translator said this, Wang Wei looked along Emperor Caracala's fingers and saw the full breasts of the Roman noble woman, almost overflowing.

The Roman noble woman didn't know if she had a husband by her side. When she saw Wang Wei and the emperor's eyes, she not only did not shyly avoid it, but instead proudly raised her chest and raised her head. Her strange charm made Wang Wei stunned.

So Emperor Karakala burst into laughter and was very happy.

After coming to his senses, swallowing, Wang Wei put down the dark food in his hand awkwardly.

Sure enough, I hope it's all delicious, and it's a little difficult.

And the women here...

Ahem.

The taste is a bit different.

After that, what made Wang Wei a little interested was the thing that turned yellow in the white.

A plate of white yellow things cut into small pieces can be smelled, and you can smell a milky smell, which is fragrant and slightly smelly.

Since it was placed on the plate, it should be edible, so Wang Wei tried to take a bite, and suddenly, a strange salty smell filled his mouth, but at the same time, a strong milky fragrance also filled his mouth.

The two flavors are intertwined, making Wang Wei wonder whether it is delicious or not.

I won’t mention some other strange staple foods, they taste pretty good and taste good.

But the more he ate this, the more he missed the rice made of rice cooked in his hometown and the dishes made in a wok.

It's really delicious, it's really delicious.

Unfortunately, during the more than two months of sailing on the ship, he didn't eat a few meals of rice in total, and basically used large pancakes in the army to solve the food problem.

That thing is full of people, fragrant, and it is not easy to break, so it is simple to make.

So now Wang Wei still misses the rice full of rice with a fragrance of rice flowers.

It is certain that you eat well and full, but the taste from your hometown will always give people a different feeling. No matter how much you eat, the taste of your hometown is irreplaceable in people's hearts.

Although big fish and meat are delicious, even some pickled vegetables from my hometown can make some people cry when they eat it.

Wang Wei misses the taste of his hometown very much now.

The sumptuous dinner party was underway, and many Roman powerful people came to the emperor and Wang Wei.

While communicating with the emperor, he communicated with Wang Wei through interpreters. Wang Wei was forced to stand with wine and communicate with the Roman powerful people at close range.

Although the banquets in Wei State also have social functions, everyone is somewhat apart and sits at each other, unlike now, holding wine glasses, people come to touch you, people come to touch you, and then communicate with you in a rumbling manner.

Wang Wei couldn't understand their words, so he could only communicate through translation. It was not easy to communicate, and it was easy to understand what they were saying. He felt that the translator was in a dilemma.

But generally speaking, Wang Wei can still figure out what these guys want to do.

It's nothing more than some issues of interest.

His purpose here is very simple, to trade.

And trading means making money.

Rome was too big, and it was difficult for merchants from the Wei Empire to do business throughout the Roman Empire. They needed suitable business partners. Wang Wei needed to find suitable business partners here to do business together.

Simply put, while doing business by yourself, you also need to find suitable second-dealers in Rome, let them do business in more remote places, and reduce the cost of the Wei Empire itself.

This is a win-win situation for the Roman nobles and the Wei Empire.

Such a large piece of fat meat could not be eaten in one bite by the Wei Empire. If it was to be irritated, it would easily offend the local power-oriented faction. Naturally, the Roman powers needed help and everyone would make money together.

With these people clearing up the relationship, the Wei Empire's products will naturally be green all the way. Maybe a considerable amount of tariffs can be exempted, further reducing costs and making more money.

At the same time, some local specialty products of the Roman Empire can also be introduced.

For example, wine, although there are also wines in the Wei Empire, imported wines from the Roman Empire can also attract the powerful and wealthy people of the Wei Kingdom to invest in buying and trying them out.

When discussing the issue more in-depth, Wang Wei noticed that most of these Roman powerful people discussed with him about importing silk, porcelain, lacquer, iron pots and other products of the Wei Empire. He rarely mentioned the export of local products, nor did he mention any characteristics.

Wang Wei asked the translator to ask them if there were any good things worth buying here. These Roman powerful people looked at me and I looked at you, and laughed out loudly.

The translator said that they believed that the things from the Wei Empire were the best things, exquisite, comfortable and practical, and they simply turned the local things in Rome into slag.

They hope to have more silk, porcelain, lacquerware, iron pots, and other special products from the Wei Empire.

Wang Wei felt strange. Are they just defaming the things in their own country so worthless?

But for a period of time, after Emperor Caracala led Wang Wei to understand the Roman Empire more deeply, Wang Wei found that the cultural level of the Roman Empire was remarkable, and many interesting things were worth learning from by the Wei Empire, but the economic level was really lacking.

I have to say that the economic aspects of the Roman Empire that the Wei Empire might need may be wine, minerals, and slaves.

The slaves had been abolished and illegal in the Wei Empire and were very active in the Roman Empire.

Wang Wei noticed that the Roman Empire often dispatched troops to expand its territory and plundered a large number of prisoners and wealth, but did not pay attention to governing the local area. If there was a problem, it would suppress it and then acquire slaves.

These slaves were widely present in the empire and were included in the private estates of Roman powerful and powerful landlords. Therefore, within the empire, the private estates existed very widely.

Wang Wei once asked Emperor Karakara how he viewed these private manors.

Emperor Karakara said that he also wanted more land and slaves to run his own manor, providing him with greater and more benefits for him to enjoy.

"Isn't this the happiest thing to have so many manors and slaves and occupy such a wide range of land, and will inevitably get huge wealth, which can buy more silk and enjoy more luxuriously?"

Emperor Karakara said so.

Wang Wei was very surprised.

Because in the Wei Empire, I had just experienced a terrible land clearance movement.

The manors of the powerful landlords in the Wei Empire were almost flattened by the emperor, and villages directly under the management of the empire were built on the ruins of the manor.

All land began to pay taxes to the empire and directly paid taxes to His Majesty the emperor. The empire obtained more fiscal revenue for this and became stronger.

His Majesty the Emperor has more money to do things, and major projects within the empire are launched one after another, effectively changing the appearance of the entire empire.

The farmers in the village and the soldiers from the army were grateful to the emperor, worshiped him and regarded him as gods.

The losers were either killed or trembled and dared not move. The lucky ones who survived by chance were glad to their existence while viciously cursing the empire and the emperor.

This polarized attitude was widely present in the Wei Empire.

However, at the economic level, the existence of the manor owners has disappeared, and the manor owners can no longer challenge the imperial power. The economic foundation of the empire is the farm farm.

In the Roman Empire, what Wang Wei saw were the powerful manors everywhere and the serfs who worked hard in the manors without a future.

These serfs were not Roman citizens, and did not pay taxes to the Roman Empire, nor were they free. All the economic outputs they earned from their lives belonged to their masters.

It was no similar to the previous Han Empire.

No, this is the Han Empire before, the Han Empire that was divided into warlords and separatist.

Wait, there seems to be no separatist melee here...isn't there really?

Wang Wei has just arrived in Rome and doesn't know much about Rome, so he needs time.

To be honest, the Wang Wei family also owns part of the land and has enviable wealth, but his family's manor completely pays taxes to the empire, and the output of each acre of land is taxed.

At the beginning, in order to accept such harsh conditions, a fierce debate was held within the family, and Wang Weili insisted on obeying the imperial decrees.

What happened later proved that Wang Wei's choice was correct.

The emperor is too strong and has too much desire for power.

But Emperor Karakara seems to be not like this.

Seeing Wang Wei's expression, Emperor Karakara felt a little confused and asked Wang Wei, is there no such manor or slave in the Wei Kingdom?

"There were once, everywhere, but now there are very few, because all of our Emperor's Majesty have been destroyed, the rebellious manor owners were killed, the land was owned by His Majesty the Emperor and belonged to the country, and even the land that still belonged to the manor would be taxed, and a mu of land must not be paid without tax."

The translation reposted Wang Wei's words, using words that Emperor Karakara could understand.

"Is there such a thing?"

Emperor Karakara was obviously very shocked: "There are thousands of owners in the manor. With such a large number, can your emperor defeat them?"

Although both emperors were in different situations, Emperor Karakala took over the throne from his father.

Not only did he know the truth that if he wanted to be a good emperor, he also knew the problem of the empire.

Because there are so many manors, the self-cultivated farmers who were once the main part of Roman citizens were almost plundered.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Caracal even had the idea of ​​giving the identity of Roman citizens to every free person in the Roman Empire, and really planned to put it into practice.

Times have changed.

Once upon a time, Roman citizens were a symbol of identity, a symbol of honor, a first-class citizen of the Roman Empire, and could enjoy many rights that non-Roman citizens could not enjoy.

Becoming a Roman citizen is a shared desire of all people living in this land.

But as the empire's power continues to decline, foreigners who were not citizens of the Roman Empire and people in non-Italian areas can enjoy no worse than Roman citizens.

Emperor Caracala has already recognized that the rights and glory of Roman citizens have long passed. The existing number of Roman citizens can no longer collect enough taxes, and they are almost plundered.

The powerful and powerful people of the empire embezzled most of the war dividends, acquired huge wealth, and operated a very huge industry, which was as rich as a country.

They are very rich.

He was so rich that he could buy luxury goods produced by the Wei Empire to show off his wealth.

Emperor Karakara not only had to bear the daily expenses of the empire, but also had to be ready to give a lot of [emperor bounty] to the imperial guards who would never be able to satisfy their appetite.
Chapter completed!