Chapter XXVII
The Indian merchant ships from Chola, Lu Ning couldn't help but have to take a closer look.
Today, the Chola Empire is a maritime power in the Indian Ocean, even before it reached its peak, and a few decades later, its navy conquered almost most of the coastal areas of Southeast Asia, even as far as Burma and the Khmer coast.
The navy of the Chola Empire dominated the local area, mainly because it obtained Greek fire technology from the Middle East, which is actually a fire attack technology that uses oil as a combustion body, but all kinds of equipment that uses Greek fire are strange, whether it is pipe spray, small boat spontaneous combustion, throwing and so on.
However, now Daqi is studying the technology of artillery boarding and keeping the hull as little damage as possible and prolonging life, and now small-caliber artillery can be boarded, but the damage to the ship is too great, and the cost is high, but it is really worth mentioning that the Greek fire is not worth mentioning at all.
The Great Qi Navy, in the Sriwijaya and Chola spheres of influence, did not show its fangs very much, and traded with them very peacefully, and even the Great Qi fleet complied with the ban of the Chola State, and the goods were traded to Indian merchants or Arab merchants only to the Chola seaport, and did not go west.
The Chola Empire in southern India was actually dominated by Tamils, not Aryan descendants in the traditional sense.
Lu Ning saw the Indian merchant ship for the first time at this time, and couldn't help but take a few more looks, this is a huge flat-bottomed ship, speaking of which, it is more suitable for offshore trade, and it is unstable in the deep sea; With only hard sails, the performance is also unstable.
However, Indian ships are like this, they can even carry four or five hundred soldiers, but they are more like military ships prepared for offshore landing battles, and the Chola Empire's domination of the South Seas also depends on this.
When Lu Ning arrived, the owner and workers of this merchant ship anchored directly to the port outside the city, and dozens of people were surrounded by slave warriors who went directly to the kingdom.
Among them, there were several Zhuluo warriors, Lu Ning couldn't help but take a few more looks, their hair was curled, tied to their foreheads with strips of cloth or metal rings, and they were wearing soft cloth armor, in fact, they may not be armor, they were clothes and pants sewn from relatively hard cloth, all barefoot, and broad-edged knives and huge bamboo shields had been confiscated.
Its bamboo shield is so large that it can even curl up behind the shield, which is also one of the special equipment of the Chola samurai.
These deep-eyed races are completely different from the direct warriors, speaking of which, the straight people, or the Meng people, in later generations, still belong to the Mongol race, and the degree of blood kinship with Daqi is much higher than that of South Asians.
At this time, it should be the Indian shipowner who is arguing with the misty to prevent the misty from boarding the ship.
Ship owners should have come to the direct trade frequently and seemed to know the local language.
Lu Ning came with Duan Yuyan, and Duan Yuyan said on the side: "The owner of the Zhuluo ship said that his goods are all going to Daqi Haining for trading, and he doesn't want to sell them here. ”
Haining, naturally, refers to the Great Qi Shangjing, Haining Mansion in Guangzhou.
This kind of Indian merchant ship can't take the deep-sea route of the polar sea village, but has to drive and berth along the coastal water, although the risk is smaller, but it takes a long time, and it is even more helpless to encounter the strong local power of the maze.
Of course, if you buy and sell like this, you are afraid that in the future, the big man of the Chola Empire with a strong desire to expand will come to power, and there will be no good end to the kingdom.
However, this Indian shipowner seems to be a disaster, originally wanted to transport goods to Daqi, and wanted to buy them at a low price, but in fact, was he demonstrating with himself?
At this time, Mi Miao saw Lu Ning pacing, and immediately smiled and chattered a few words, glanced at Duan Yuyan, who was wearing a snow skirt on Lu Ning's side, and laughed more happily.
Duan Yuyan said: "Mi invited His Highness to board the ship with him, saying that His Highness saw something he liked, so he bought it and gave it to His Highness." ”
Lu Ning smiled, took two steps, and said to the fan: "Okay, let's board the boat together, but I don't need you to send it to me, if I meet anything I like, I will buy it." Then he said to the Indian merchant, "Whatever is your name, come with you." ”
The Indian merchant saw that Lu Ning was already stunned, and then listened to Duan Yuyan translate what Lu Ning said, he said anxiously: "Honorable man, my name is Moro Yajun, are you from the East?" I have a Chinese Chinese interpreter. Looking at Lu Ning's appearance, he is naturally different from the locals, more like the legendary Oriental Chinese characters.
Lu Ning didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, not to mention asking him to translate again, the communication would be even more chaotic, so he just smiled at the fan: "Is this good?" ”
A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, nodded, and grunted, and agreed.
The cargo holds of Indian merchant ships are all below deck, and the cabins on the deck are only resting places for cargo owners and sailors, which are very small and low.
Two lost slave warriors lifted the deck, went down first, and then reported safety.
Mi, Lu Ning and his entourage, as well as the Tamil merchant Moro Yajun, descended the wooden ladder in turn this time.
The slave warrior lit the oil lamp inside, but the light was still slightly dim.
The cabins were all separated, and the smell of the cabins was choking, and the goods of the Moroya were mainly spices, which were scoffed at, because spices were also produced locally, but the production was not enough for a large trade.
After looking at a few cabins, he smiled and said, "It's all cheap things that I don't need, so I'll give them to you." ”
Listening to Duan Yuyan's translation, Lu Ning smiled and was silent.
Moroya smiled and said, "Yes, there are spices in every cabin, so you don't have to look at it." ”
Mi was a little impatient and was about to turn his head, listening to Moro Yajun's words, his eyes flashed a trace of cunning, waved his hand to the samurai next to him, and muttered a few words, so that he wanted his entourage to continue to open the next hatch.
The doors are tightly sealed, that is, the shell of a certain cabin is cracked and flooded, and after it is completely closed, to a certain extent, it can also prevent other cabins from entering the water and sinking the ship.
With a bang, the tightly sealed plank was pried open, and when the inner cabin gradually showed its outline, Lu Ning couldn't help but sigh.
The mime reacted even more, and without waiting for those slave warriors to explore, he got into it first.
The cabin was large, more like a comfortable living room, with a large Arabic bed, crimson curtains spilling from the bed in all directions, a faint fragrance in the cabin, and even a dressing table, and there was a wooden ladder leading to the top, probably the captain's cabin above, and a secret door leading to it.
The mist was chattering, and Duan Yuyan translated synchronously beside Lu Ning, but it was the mist who was ridiculing Moro Yajun It must be the golden house that hides Jiao and hides a woman.
Moro's face was already the color of earth.
At this time, there was a creak, but there was a small wooden door next to the dresser, which was opened at this time, and when he looked up, his eyes immediately became extremely hot.
It should be a small house for people to wash, out of a stunning girl with Indian style, deep eyes and high nose, slightly darker complexion, delicate facial features almost perfect, red dots on the forehead finishing touch, like a ruby reflecting her peerless face, her brown eyes, water waves like veins and affection, intoxicating and inextricable, long black hair wavy like flowing, covered with gold silk light gauze, more noble style, a long skirt tightly wrapped, the devil's figure at a glance, jade arms and wrists and soft ankles, all wearing large and small gold rings, The delicate without a trace of flaw is like a bodhisattva stepping on the beautiful feet of mortals, painted with red toenails, and adding a bit of gaudy and playful charm to its dusty and unblasphemous fairy breath, which makes mortals' hearts sway and difficult to control.
Although Lu Ning's harem is the best in the world, he can't help but be slightly stunned at this time, he has seen a lot of oriental beauties, exotic beauties, which will inevitably bring a different kind of impact, not to mention, the girl in front of her, even the so-called first Indian movie stars on the screen in her past and present lives, are quite inferior to the original Indian beauty in front of her.
Faintly, it seems to be a little similar to Aishwarya, India's first beauty star, when she was young, but she is much more delicate and beautiful than Aishwarya.
The mystery has become like a pig, his mouth is open, and his saliva is about to flow down.
This stunning Indian girl, seeing so many people, just stood quietly, but in her beautiful brown eyes, there was a trace of sadness, but there seemed to be a trace of relief.
Lu Ning coughed and took the lead in asking, "Moro Yajun, is this your wife?" ”
Compared with Duan Yuyan, Lu Ning was the first to come back to his senses.
Listening to Duan Yuyan's translation, Moro Yajun shook his head with a sad face and muttered.
Duan Yuyan said: "Your Highness, he said that this woman's name is Lassi Mishasi, and she is a slave that he is going to send to the Central Plains and sell to the powerful in the Central Plains. ”
The incarnate clay sculpture of Brother Pig suddenly came back to his senses and immediately shouted a few times.
Moroja immediately pleaded and pleaded, and kept talking.
Duan Yuyan said on the side, Mi Wan asked his subordinates to take away this Lawan Shimi, Mo Luo Yajun pleaded, begging Mi Mi to reward some silver, saying that this slave girl was still a virgin, and he had never touched her with his fingers, because he heard that the powerful people in the Central Plains were very taboo about these, and he wanted to sell them for a particularly high price.
When translating these, Duan Yuyanqiao's face was slightly red, and she continued, and Moro Yajun also said that this slave girl was the daughter of the prince of Shaxi in the north of Tianzhu, who was destroyed by Ghaznavid last year, and fled to the south with her retinue, and happened to enter his manor.
After determining the identity of Lasshmi, this Mora Yajun thought hard about how to make the most profit from her, and for this reason, he poisoned and tried to kill Rasishmi's retinue, but two of Rasishmi's retinue died without poisoning, killing many of his samurai, and even several of his relatives were killed.
He did not dedicate Lasshmi to the magnates of the Chola Kingdom, but tried his best to hide the news, and wanted to send her to the far east, because he felt that it was a strange thing to live in, and if he did not send it to the prosperous land full of gold and silver, his relatives who died were sacrificed in vain.
When translating these, Duan Yuyan's face was full of disdain.
Lu Ning listened, slightly stunned.
The Ghaznavid, who destroyed the Indian maiden state, were Muhammadite states in the same way as the Qarakhanids, who now waged religious wars against Khotan, and the two countries were adjacent to each other, with the Qarakhanids in the north and the Ghaznavid in the south.
The two countries were also allies, and more than twenty years later they united and destroyed the suzerain, the kingdom of Samanid.
These two countries were also the front line of the eastern invasion of the Muhammad sect, the Qarakhanid, and the goal was the western regions of Daqi.
Ghaznavid, whose target was the Indian mainland, also occupied all of North India a hundred years later, establishing the Sultanate of Ghul, the predecessor of the Delhi Sultanate.
At present, the Great Qi is only supporting the Khotanese state in its holy war against the Muhammad sect behind the scenes, and has not come to the fore to start a war with the Qarakhanids.
First, the Central Plains needs to recuperate, and if you come to the forefront, then you will have to fight against the entire Muhammad sect, after all, to truly defeat the Qarakhanate, you have to enter the Transoxiana region.
This river is not a river in the Central Plains, but a Central Asian region, the land of the five Central Asian countries in later generations.
In this way, the Samanid Kingdom, which inherited the jurisprudence of the original Arab Empire and the Abbasid Empire in Baghdad, is afraid that it will inevitably blow the horn of jihad.
It will be a war that will never stop until the other side is crippled.
After all, Great Qi would never give up the land of the Western Regions.
This war, Lu Ning hopes to postpone it as much as possible, and the later it comes, the better.
Now it is the full support of the Khotanese state behind the scenes, so that those fanatical believers can retreat in the face of difficulties.
Let them target the holy war on the Indian continent, and maybe, in the future, Daqi can also serve as a savior, enter the Indian continent, and establish some colonies.
With today's means of communication and transportation, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to say that the annexation of India's territory is a fool's dream.
But at a time when the Muhammadists were brutally killing Indians and had not really killed them to the point of forgetting history, the Great Qi might be able to enter the Indian continent and gain some political and economic benefits.
Historically, it is also now that the Muhammad sect began the road to conquer the Indian continent, bloody killings, slaughtering cities and destroying the country, killing tens of thousands of people in a city, and gradually ruling North India with this bloody means.
Shasi is supposed to be the first country in northern India to be destroyed by the Muhammad sect.
Lu Ning was pondering, but he saw that the confusion seemed to be impatient, and walked towards the Indian girl.
Lu Ning smiled and said, "Lost, this girl, I want it!" ”
This sentence is like a conditioned reflex, neither for any purpose of using the descendants of this Indian prince to play any big chess in the future, nor for the righteousness and courage to save the beauty of the hero, but to really fall in love with this little girl, too handsome, so beautiful that Lu Ning, who is a little tired of aesthetics, is a little tired in front of his eyes, and naturally has a desire to possess.
After listening to Duan Yuyan's translation, she turned around violently, stared at Lu Ning like an aggressive rooster, and muttered a few words.
Duan Yuyan said: "Mi said, don't rob him, yesterday's incident will be written off." ”
Lu Ning smiled: "No, I said it, she is mine!" "I laughed at myself in my heart, I was actually unbearable, and I was angry at the crown, and I was greedy for her body.
Now I feel that as long as I want it, it should be my own, money and beauty, it's all like this, but in the past, I don't have to fight for it at all, and I don't even have to move my fingers, I don't know how many people have arranged it.
Lu Ning also saw that when Duan Yuyan helped him translate and say his own words to the fans, he clearly had a slight disdain for himself, obviously feeling that he was no different from others, and he was just a vulgar thing with lust.
Mistressed glared at Lu Ning angrily.
Lu Ning had already looked at Mo Luo Yajun, nodded and said, "You have worked hard from afar, although you killed my girl's entourage, but after all, you sent her." After thinking about it, he took out two large Qitong treasure banknotes from his bosom, with a face value of 100 yuan, and sent them to Moro Yajun, and said, "I don't want any spices, Aishwarya, well, auspicious, just follow me!" ”
Lu Ning knew that Rashimi was the Indian goddess of happiness and wealth, the auspicious goddess, and she was extremely beautiful and had caused the gods and the asuras to fight.
However, the name Lassimi was transliterated into the official dialect of Daqi, which sounded a little awkward, so Lu Ning simply gave her the nickname "Ji Xiang'er", and the official name was named after the recognized first beauty in India, Aishwarya, after all, Aishwarya's exquisite beauty when she was young, and a little bit of the shadow in front of her, with her beauty.
It's just that the name Aishwarya is a foreign product, a name that came after Christ, Muhammad, etc., entered India, and there is no such name in India today.
Mo Luo Yajun looked at the Daqi Tongbao banknote in his hand and smiled bitterly, he knew the Daqi banknote, and he also knew that he could exchange Daqi goods or silver coins and copper coins and the like by going to the Polar Island not far from here, but this was a loss of money.
Sending this stunning Tianzhu beauty to the eastern country, originally, he hoped to exchange it for a boatload of exquisite porcelain.
Tianzhu beauties are not as low as Orchid in the Central Plains, not to mention, he is even confident that such a stunning color, I am afraid that those powerful people in the East will eventually be dedicated to the emperor who rules the population of the Oriental tribes, is to his belief, in the end, in exchange for a boatload of exquisite porcelain, in the Central Plains coins, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars of wealth is not necessarily a dream of the Spring and Autumn Period.
But now, it seems that it is a great fortune to have 200 Oriental coins in hand.
There was a fierce light in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but suddenly, there was a chill on his neck, but it was Lu Ning's long sword on his neck, and he smiled and said, "Let's go up." ”
Lu Ning knew that the lost man would never give up, and he would start to move for a while, in case he couldn't take care of himself, it would not be good to hurt Duan Yuyan and Ji Xiang'er.
Misty's eyes were about to erupt with fire, but the slight tingling in his neck made him know that if he resisted a little, he might be in a different place.