China is actively preparing for the upcoming World Expo, with various new industrial technologies and inventions emerging.

A group of ambassadors also took this opportunity to go overseas and took the initiative to deal with backward civilizations around the world.

African civilization is too scattered and primitive. Except for several North African forces, this International Expo did not invite other African kingdoms.

There is a relatively prosperous Asian civilization, and Chu Yun has rarely contacted it at present.

However, this Asian civilization still played a huge role in the world before the industrial age.

This civilization is the Persian Empire located in the Persian Gulf.

Now it is the Third Persian Empire - the Safavid Dynasty.

This empire is located between Europe, Central Asia and India. It competes with the Indian Mughal Empire to the east and fights with the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the west. It is one of the four major Asian powers in the 17th century.

However, its two great enemies were all severely taught a lesson by the Jiuzhou Army led by Chu Yun.

The Indian Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan died of illness after the battle. The Mughal Empire was divided and has not been unified again.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was defeated twice, cedeed land and paid compensation, lost half of Egypt and the entire Greece, and signed the humiliating Treaty of Constantinople.

The two powerful enemies were defeated, which was undoubtedly a good thing for the Persian Empire, which was sandwiched between the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire, and the Persian Empire might even revive again.

Chu Yun has never dealt with this Persian Empire very much.

The reason is also very simple. After the large route was opened, Persia gradually deviated from the center of the world's main economic channel.

Before the opening of the Suez Canal, trade between the East and the West no longer followed the traditional Silk Road, but detoured through the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

After the opening of the Suez Canal, ships entered the Mediterranean directly through Egypt instead of the Persian Gulf, which also avoided the Persian Empire.

This is why Chu Yun rarely intersects with the Persian Empire.

Of course, Chu Yun, the oil in the Persian Gulf, has never forgotten that this is a very important oil-producing area in the future.

At present, only Southeast Asia cannot exploit oil, so Chu Yun temporarily ignored the Persian Empire without a sense of existence.

When more oil is needed in the future, Chu Yun will definitely not let the Persian Gulf go.

As an important civilization, the Persian Empire sent envoys to serve as envoys, which had never dealt with before, and invited them to attend the World Expo.

The Chinese Ambassador of the Ministry of Rites had no relationship with the Persian Empire. However, they could indirectly establish relationships with the Persian Empire through the English.

More than 20 years ago, the captain of England brought Western Europe's firearm technology to the Persian Empire, helping the Persian Empire develop from a tribal army to a new type of army equipped with muskets, bronze cannons and other equipment. He defeated the Ottoman Empire westward to recover some lost territory, defeated the Mughal Empire eastward, and occupied Kandahar. With the help of the English fleet, the then Persian Emperor Abbas I took Hormuz back from the Portuguese colonists.

In return for the English, the Persian emperor generously gave the English the dominant position in Persian trade, especially the English East India Company.

Chu Yun purchased 90% of the shares of the East India Company in England, and acquired the employees and captains. He used their business stations and relationships in the Strait of Hormuz to easily and safely enter the Persian Empire.

What Chu Yun valued when acquiring England East India Company was some of the connections it had already established, not its technology and ships. Using these connections can save a lot of effort to re-establish relationships.

This time, the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites was going to Isfahan, the imperial capital of the Persian Empire, a key station located on the traditional Silk Road, a concentration of East and West commerce, and a city that once had the most prosperous world.

A team of envoys wearing Persian robes and headscarves or silk hats led camels. They landed from the Port of Abbas. In order to ensure safety in the Persian Empire, they bought local clothes and hired camels to carry luggage.

Isfahan, where the Persian emperor lives, is inland in the Iranian Plateau. It will take some time to travel from Abbas Port to Isfahan.

"Isfahan is magnificent, with a population of 500,000 to 600,000. In the Persian Empire, there was a saying that "Isfahan is half the world" which shows its prosperity. The Persian Gulf is a vast market, second only to the Indian market in the Arabian Sea." Employees from the East India Company, who once came to the Persian Empire to do business, led the way for envoys of the Ministry of Rites, and they knew more or less about the Persian Empire.

"Is the Persian emperor easy to get along with now?" asked the envoy of the Ministry of Rites.

"It is hard to say that the former Persian emperor Abbas I was the real emperor. The Persian Empire led by him had gained an advantage in the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire. The current Persian emperor is his grandson Abbas II, but he is only 14 years old. The prime minister is currently the one who holds power in the Persian Empire." said an English employee.

"I hope they are a little self-aware. If something happens to us in the Persian Empire, our army will use this as an excuse to enter the Persian Gulf and destroy Isfahan." The envoy of the Ministry of Rites was full of confidence.

Behind him is a powerful country as a pillar.

A weak country has no diplomacy, but a strong country can do whatever it wants and set the rules of the game itself.

Merchant Li Jinde was hijacked by North African Barbary pirates, and then the Fourth Fleet destroyed the Pernion Fortress in Algiers.

If the ambassador of the Ministry of Rites had an accident in the Persian Gulf, the South China Fleet might have sent troops to the Persian Gulf.

This is the confidence to be an ambassador of a powerful country.

The ambassador of the Ministry of Rites and the English employees who were guides first found local Persian officials and submitted diplomatic documents to them. After obtaining the permission of the Persian emperor, they walked through the plateaus, rivers, towns, and headed towards the imperial capital Isfahan. They carried dozens of muskets to defend themselves, and some conflicts arose due to customs clearance inspections in the middle. Persian soldiers were full of alert for this group of strangers.

Isfahan is an ancient and populous city like Constantinople. A large number of people gather here, and the business is quite prosperous, mainly Persian merchants, Arab merchants, and Indian merchants are active in this area.

The envoy led by the Ambassador of the Ministry of Rites entered Isfahan, an ancient city they had never set foot in before.

"These people look a little strange..."

"The blonde and blue-eyed ones should be Europeans, and those people are a little different from those of Indians. Are they from some wilderness overseas?"

The residents and merchants of Isfahan whispered when they saw such a strange camel caravan.

"We seem to be treated as barbarians by them." The Ambassador of Rites said to the rest of the envoys when he saw the people in Isfahan looking tall and arrogant.
Chapter completed!