The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

"Anthia? What country is this?" When Meng Yi received the report submitted by the staff, he didn't know how to understand it.

"Do you know what this Parthian country is?" Meng Yi asked his assistant.

"I don't know? Prime Minister." the assistant replied.

"Well. The staff said that they captured some special envoys from the Western Regions. They were special envoys from the Parthian Kingdom. Where is this Parthian Kingdom? What its location is and how big it is, we don't know at all." Meng Yi frowned.

"It seems there are too many things we don't understand." Meng Yi said.

"So, Prime Minister, what do you plan to do? If this Parthian country is a country in the Western Region, we need to understand it, and what kind of situation the Western Region is like, we don't know at all." The assistant said.

"Yes, at present, where is the border line that we can control the Western Region? It has not been determined yet. And what is the situation in the surrounding area is even less clear. The report also said that a large number of translators are needed. These people

The language is extremely incomprehensible. They can only know the meaning of a few words, and then analyze and draw conclusions based on the meaning of these words." Meng Yi said.

"It won't be good for us if this continues," Meng Yi said.

"Yes, Prime Minister, to carry out trade at the border, we need to understand the countries, the surrounding customs and various situations. However, if you look at us, we cannot understand them at all. We only know our borders.

The line is there, but the surrounding

We still don’t know what kind of tribes there are on the land. During the last war in the Qilian Mountains, we thought our opponents were just the Qiang people. Who would have thought that there is a big difference between the Qiang people and the highland Qiang people.

The difference." The assistant said at the side.

"Well. You're right. We should have paid attention last time. This time we haven't paid enough attention. It seems that our focus on diplomacy needs to be adjusted. Qin has a large territory and many neighbors.

We don't know. Whether these new neighbors are enemies or friends, we don't know at all. For example, in the Parthian country, we don't know where the other party is? How much do they know about us? We don't know at all," Meng Yi said.

What Meng Yi said is indeed a big problem.

When Naofumi established the cabinet, he did not specifically create the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. He only established a brand-new position of Secretary of State. Meng Yi's understanding of Secretary of State was not at the diplomatic level, and Naofumi did not have a unique explanation.

Shang Fan Zeng's inaction made Qin's country even more

The cabinet fell into an awkward position without the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Many things required other departments to temporarily perform the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or to be temporarily represented. In addition, the Qin State expanded too deeply at the beginning, and military power played a big role.

Under the strong military inertia, the role of military

It has been far greater than the role of diplomacy. The role of diplomacy is very limited, and the military role is so strong that diplomacy cannot play a role. Coupled with Qin's lack of understanding of the northwest, the expansion speed is accelerating and the local population loss is serious. Diplomacy naturally

can't play much role. However,

With the passage of time, especially after Qin changed its previous military-oriented strategy, the role of trade became more and more important, and the ensuing diplomatic issues began to come to the fore, but Qin simply did not arouse enough attention.

Attention, in fact, is still caused by the strong inertia caused by powerful military power.

But now that border trade has begun, Qin has to re-emphasize the role of diplomacy. It has to make up for Qin's weakened diplomacy. Qin faces many problems. Especially the language barrier, Qin needs to spend a lot of money.

It took a long time to make up for it. After all, there was too long a distance between Qin and Parthia. There was no communication between the two countries. The language barrier between the two countries caused a huge communication barrier.

In Qin's southern border area, Qin's border trade was not very peaceful either.

"You hide here and don't come out. If you see us shooting later, shoot." A man with a long beard and a cowboy outfit said. He had two revolvers on his waist.

There were several other people, all sitting on horses, holding rifles in their hands.

"Da da da." At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from the distance. A horse team was approaching them. Because of the dust, the Qin people here couldn't see how many of them there were.

"The whistle just sent a message, there are more than a hundred of them." A man carrying a connecting gun said as he rode forward.

"Well, I understand." The man with a beard said.

It didn't take long for the team to arrive in front of the bearded man.

Opposite them was a group of typical Westerners. Among them was a man with a long beard and a thick scarf on his head. They were learning the etiquette of the Central Plains people to say hello to each other. Although the two sides did not communicate in language,

There were many, but both parties were more studious. At this time, the bearded man put his right hand on his left chest, making a salute like a Westerner.

"Have you brought anything?" asked the bearded Westerner.

"The things are here." Long Beard said. As he spoke, he stepped on a few boxes underneath.

"Yes. Very good. This is your thing." The bearded Westerner motioned to his men to take down several large wooden boxes from the horses.

"Crash." The box opened. It was full of various gold objects.

"This is your stuff. We want to take away our stuff." said the bearded Westerner.

"Yeah, not bad." The bearded man looked at the boxes of gold items with gleaming eyes.

"Let me show you." He said the bearded man turned over and opened the box at his feet. At this time, the people in the Western Regions also relaxed their vigilance.

"Bang bang bang." Just when they thought the deal was about to be completed, the bearded Qin man suddenly pulled out his gun and shot at the opponent wildly.

"Bang, bang, bang." When other Qin riders saw this, they started shooting at each other.

At this time, the people who had ambush in advance also rode out to block the opponent.

"You are villains." The Westerners were caught off guard. Only a few of them were holding flintlock guns, and the other party suddenly attacked. Many of them were knocked off their horses. The bearded Westerner used

He cursed loudly in Chinese, which he was not very fluent in.

"Bang bang." But those cowboys holding up guns and shooting didn't care about their crazy shooting, leaving no one alive. They had no mercy at all towards these people.