The Gold and Silver made a short stop at the direct port, and after simple maintenance and cleaning, it sailed southwest into the Bay of Bengal.

Two days later, we arrived in Chittagong.

Chittagong is the name of the Qi people for this fishing village harbor, that is, the later Chittagong of Bangladesh is located.

Today, Chittagong belongs to the Kingdom of Arakan.

The Arakanese are the ancestors of the later Rakhine people in Burma, but they were influenced by ancient India and entered the era of civilization earlier than the other Burmese tribes, but the Arakan Kingdom, like most of the Tianzhu splinter powers, was an alternative slave kingdom.

Chittagong, more than 200 years ago, the Arabs have come here to trade, the Arakanese are good at seafaring, and the Arakan sailors are famous all over the world.

The 500 Jingnan capitals of Daqi and the Zhenyi women's battalion have been stationed here, and in addition, there are thousands of slave soldiers recruited from southern and northern Burma and Arakan.

The king of Arakan discussed several times with the embassy of the Great Qi in Chittagong that he would send troops to fight and conquer the Baltic kingdom together.

The Baltic Kingdom occupied Bengal and was one of the most densely populated regions in later generations.

From the perspective of agricultural society, the plain land crisscrossed by rivers is similar in dimension to Lingnan in Daqi, and it is really a treasure land of feng shui suitable for living and working in peace and contentment.

The Gangetic Plain, like the Central Plains, gave birth to civilization very early.

It's just now, because the primitive religion has always occupied an absolute dominant position in the culture, and there has been no Zhou ritual of the sages like the Central Plains, and there have been hundreds of schools of thought, and this kind of academic contention has finally formed a unique culture that is ahead of the contemporaries, and it is the influence area of Indian civilization, which is generally stagnant and solidified in class, in fact, the so-called hot weather makes the people inert, it is better to say that it is because its religion has impregnated its caste and slavery system for thousands of years, and there has never been ideological emancipation. I don't know what resistance is.

There have been many great famines in Tianzhudi, but there has never been a large-scale peasant uprising? Until after the British came? Only then did there be a peasant uprising in the true sense of the word, of course? Now? Tianzhudi, there are not many farmers in the real sense? In addition to the privileged class of monks, slave owners, lords, there were only a small number of commoners? The rest were serfs and slaves of lower status.

The Baltic kingdom of Bengal? It's also this social structure.

And today's Bengal, in the Central Plains, is "the land of anointing", in Western terms? It is "the land of honey and milk".

Of course? Although this is a good place for high grain production, the same rivers are often overflowing, and many serfs and slaves are eager to be used as human dikes to isolate the flood by the elite at this time, and they live in extreme drunken dreams? For the people at the bottom, life is very difficult.

Is Lu Ning preparing to encroach on Bangladesh? Just, although theoretically? Dali can be bordered by Bengal, but separated by several mountain ranges? Ultimately? Is it the encroachment of Bangladesh? It is also an enclave, and in later generations, it is easy to get out on its own.

Therefore, even if this place is encroached upon, there is no need to worry about it, as a special administrative area for blood transfusion to the Central Plains, after the population of the Central Plains is under pressure, immigrants can come here, as for what will happen in the future, it is not something that they can control.

However, precisely because of the desire to encroach on Bengal, the king of Arakan also wanted to invade this fertile land that he had coveted for a long time, and the embassy of Daqi would naturally not allow it.

However, once the war is not so devastating, it is necessary to need Arakan's full support to prepare logistics, and also to give him some sweetness.

It was finally agreed by the two sides that the king of Arakan would lead 10,000 barbarians to fight with the Qi army, and once the battle was won, he would obtain the right to jointly levy taxes on Bengal, and his barbarians would assist the Great Qi army and horses in maintaining law and order everywhere, and they would receive one-tenth of the total tax paid by Bengal as compensation for the garrison every year.

Hearing this agreement, Lu Ning was even a little funny, King Arakan, who gave him the courage to seek skin with the tiger?

But it's okay, think about it, in the early stage of the conquest of Bengal, these barbarians in Arakan were very useful.

Moreover, the king of Arakan recruited 10,000 barbarian soldiers, even if he had to pour the power of the country.

Fei made such a lot of effort, in the end, it is likely to help Daqi make a wedding dress, if it is in the Central Plains, this kind of loss-making business, the important ministers in the temple are afraid that they will have long been opposed.

……

The Gold and Silver left Chittagong and sailed into the Bay of Bengal again.

In the cabin, Lu Ning sat on the head, and the Polo merchant who was rescued on Longmen Island stood respectfully on the side.

Duan Yuyan translated on the side.

Duan Yuyan was originally interested in foreign languages, and she had dabbled in all the languages of Dali, and a year ago, before separating from the king of Zhennan, she heard that the king of Zhennan was going to lead the army into the Baltic land, so she began to learn the Baltic language, and now it seems to be the same.

When the Jingnan Army and the Zhenyi Women's Battalion went south, she also went along.

Of course, there is also a serious Baltic translator next to her, named Wu Qiong, who is also a woman, the Tianzhu and Baltic languages in the Wanyi language department studied at the Royal Women's College in Bianjing, and is also a professor of Baltic at Duan Yuyan.

Lu Ning has already figured out the identity of the Polo Kingdom, and he is the uncle of a great nobleman in the Polo Kingdom, and the Hina Polo, according to this Taye Polo, is the most powerful lord of the Polo Kingdom.

According to this logic, the Rhina family may be the ancestor of the Rhina Dynasty that later overthrew the Polo Dynasty.

In the Baltics, Lu Ning was not prepared to look for a proxy to rule, and this was the first time among overseas countries that he wanted to really "invade" a country.

What's more, the rhino family is in a prosperous period, even if they are looking for an agent, they are not a suitable candidate.

Yes, when listening to Ye Polo boasting about the heaven and earth that his nephew boasted, Lu Ning smiled slightly and said: "Dafang, you talk to him, ask him and his relatives, how much ransom is worth, and ask for it from his nephew when you go back." ”

Lu Ning beckoned to Duan Yuyan again, "Sit down and rest for a while, and hand it over to Dafang and Wu Tongyi." ”

Duan Yuyan bowed her head lightly and sat down.

Liu Dafang immediately puffed up his chest, snorted coldly at Ye Polo, and said: "Since your family has strong capital and you are a human being, then your life, plus your relatives, seems to be very expensive, so I will pay 10,000 catties of gold and ask your nephew to redeem it." ”

Listening to Wu Qiong's stern translation, Ye Polo froze suddenly, dumbfounded for a while, unable to answer.

In fact, after deciding to attack Bengal, Lu Ning also studied the Tianzhu language family to a certain extent, but the local accent of Taye Polo was weird, and Lu Ning did not react to various tone changes at first, but after Wu Qiong Duan Yuyan came, Lu Ning understood the law of Baltic accent changes, so that he could do it by having a simple conversation with Taye Polo now, but Lu Ning would not talk to him directly.