Historians suspect that this was not an official embassy but merely an effort on the part of enterprising western traders to obtain silk directly from China instead of through middlemen.
لنعُد الآن الى السؤال الذي طرحناه في مستهل المقالة :‏ الى اي حد توغّل المرسلون المسيحيون الاوائل شرقا ؟‏