Chapter 150: A Ship Full of Treasures
Xi Junmai brought the woman back is not complicated, when he was bored at sea, Xuanzang told some stories of Buddhism to Xi Junmai and a boatman, one of which is that there is a prince, in order to ask the Buddha to preach the scriptures, the story of paving the ground with gold bricks in the lonely garden, Xi Junmai believed that it was true, and after going ashore, he wanted to find this Dugu Garden and dig some gold bricks back.
Who would have thought, in Tianzhu, there are many schools of Buddhism, he has not found Duguyuan, but first encountered an evil thing, that is, many women who are about to get married, were gathered in the temple, and the monk had intercourse, in that temple, there are many monks' work is actually for the girl to break the barrier in the body, it is really the world's most blessed work.
Xuanzang said that this school has embarked on an evil path, after Xi Junmai learned about it, he felt that this matter was ridiculous, so he snatched those young girls out of the Buddhist temple, so that they could not die, he didn't know that the veil of those Tianzhu women could not be easily revealed, no, twelve Tianzhu women became his wives, and one of them was the daughter of a king in Tianzhu, which was equivalent to the status of a princess.
"Hehe, the taste of taking twelve wives at a time must be very refreshing!" After learning what happened, Sun Xiangfu said.
"You don't know what it's like until you've married." Xi Junmai said with an expression that you don't understand, and then began to introduce his wife to Sun Xiangfu.
"Her name is dead, but there seems to be a Dai ending in it, so I will call her Dai'er, she is the daughter of the king of Varabi, the princess of the kingdom of Vaanaby." Xi Junmai pointed to one of the most richly dressed and white-skinned girls.
"The Kingdom of Vaanaby?"
"Well, it's the country we landed in, this country is near the sea, and the territory is estimated to be not as big as Lingnan."
At this time, the king of the Tianzhu Kingdom had not launched an attack on several coastal kingdoms, and there were many kingdoms in the entire West Asian region, and this kingdom of Vanabi and another kingdom of Kama Wibo were destroyed by the king of the sun after more than three years.
Sun Xiangfu didn't even know much about the history of the Central Plains during this period, let alone the history of India, so he didn't worry about what position it was, he only knew that this Princess Dai'er might help him get stable supplies along the coast of the Indian Ocean, so he glanced at his face a few more times.
"I really want to know, how did a princess marry you so easily, and besides, she followed you to our Tang Dynasty?" Sun Xiangfu asked curiously.
"This is very simple, I defeated the first warrior of their country with three punches, and Master Xuanzang, on the second day of the Vaanabi Kingdom, launched a debate with the local Buddhists, and they had nothing to say, and they worshipped one after another, and later were called the true Buddha by those big-eared monks.
And I, because I beat those bad monks who deceived the women of good families, and they worshipped them as the angry eyes of the Buddha in front of the throne, don't you know, in just a few days, I was able to walk sideways in the royal city of Vaanabi, and when those people saw me, they all bowed down to me, and handed over the bad people to me for punishment. Xi Junmai said very proudly.
"It seems that you have been lingering somewhere, and you have come back so many days late."
"No, no, no, that place is not fun at all, the people are stupid to death, the words don't make sense, nodding and shaking their heads can't figure it out, it's difficult to communicate with them, where I stayed for a few days, it's because Master Xuanzang wants to do some rituals, it seems to be with some sects again, let me protect him for a few days, and then the trouble was solved, but the three masters of Shaolin Temple felt that the situation there was too complicated, so they stayed there.
In addition, I also found a lot of good things along the road, don't I have twelve wives to support, no matter what, I can earn more money. ”
As he spoke, Xi Junmai waved his hand at the dozen or so veiled women surrounding them, and they all got out of the way, and Sun Xiangfu had the way to walk into the cabin of the Happiness to see what was inside.
"It's so spicy."
As soon as he walked into the entrance of the second layer of the warehouse, Sun Xiangfu smelled a strong smell.
"Well, it's the spice of the barbecue, I remember that the Wangjianglou barbecue also uses this spice, it doesn't seem to be cheap."
"This thing, it has always been difficult to buy a pound of money in Chang'an, but it has some value, how much did you get?" Sun Xiangfu opened several of the large cloth bags, took out a handful and looked at the color, there were cinnamon, cloves, and spices, and nodded with satisfaction.
"The entire second-story warehouse is there, at least three or four thousand stones!"
Xi Junmai heard that he could sell it for a pound for a consistent price, and he was immediately overjoyed. These three or four thousand stones, but fifty or sixty thousand catties, this is worth tens of thousands of yuan.
"What else is down there?"
Still in the second-floor warehouse, Sun Xiangfu saw Zhao Gang, who had not yet unloaded his armor at the door of the low-level warehouse, and seemed to be guarding something.
"You'll know if you've been there."
Seeing that Xi Jun's smile was very strong, Sun Xiangfu knew that there should be something better below.
"Oh, how much gold?"
Although there was only a small oil lamp lit in the bottom warehouse, the reflected metallic light almost blinded Sun Xiangfu's eyes.
"This is a very pure gold ore, a little smelting is gold, look at this piece of dog's head gold, at least seventy percent of the gold is in it. This time, we took four or five thousand stones of gold ore, and you can calculate how much gold you can refine. ”
No matter in any era, gold is a relatively valuable precious metal, in the Tang Dynasty, one or two pieces of gold are worth almost ten yuan, and Xi Junmai actually said that there are four or five thousand stones of gold ore on the ship, which means that there are about three thousand stones of gold on this ship.
More than 36,000 catties of gold? Three hundred and sixty thousand taels? Worth 3.6 million guan? Datang's annual tax revenue is not so much now!
"You, you, you, you've never gotten so much gold ore." Even Sun Xiangfu, who didn't have much thought about money, stammered a little at this time, and pointed to Xi Jun to buy.
"Hey, it's nothing, it's just robbing the treasury of a small coastal country, which is said to have been saved by them for several years!" Xi Jun bought Sun Xiangfu's expression, and said even more.
"Why are you still engaged in robbery?"
"There is no way, those natives don't give us water supplies, and they want to force our ship's food, as soon as we go ashore in full armor, they will be crushed, and the little king led hundreds of people to fight us, and was killed half of us by dividing two by three, and he fell on the ground and surrendered. I went to their palace and found that the gold mines were valuable, so I moved back.
By the way, there are also some shiny stones, and I don't know if it's the diamonds you mentioned earlier, all of which have been brought back and pressed under the gold mine. ”
"Quick, turn it out and I'll take a look." Sun Xiangfu said with some excitement.
After a long time, the shiny stones that were packed in cloth bags were turned out, however, Sun Xiangfu was disappointed, the shiny stones that Xi Junmai said were not diamonds, they were crystal ores, and they were crystal ores with very high purity, almost transparent, thinking about Sun Xiangfu, they didn't go to the African continent, but they also knew that even in Africa, there could be so many diamonds that they could not be packed in sacks.
"How? Is it a diamond? When Xi Junmai saw Sun Xiangfu's disappointed eyes, he felt that something was wrong and asked.
Sun Xiangfu shook his head and replied, "No, this is just a high-purity crystal ore, although the value is not as high as diamonds, but it is not worse than gold, and it is also a very useful thing for me, I will use these crystal ores to make something magical when I go back, and I will give you one when the time comes." ”
There are several large bags of crystal mines, and it is not difficult to fire some concave and convex lenses, but this simple telescope is embedded in the sextant, but it has the effect of improving its accuracy, in addition, making a magnifying glass out, in many cases, is helpful to Sun Xiangfu's plant research.
"You said it was magical, it must be a very fun thing, besides, how to distribute these things, we big guys agreed that it was most appropriate for you to decide, except for the members of the escort team, even the boatmen didn't know these things in the bottom warehouse!"
There are not many boatmen on the Happiness, mainly responsible for the sails, helms, and emergency repairs, etc., all of whom are people sent by Zhang Gongjin.
"Well, you did a good job at this, if this gold is known by others, I'm afraid it's a curse rather than a blessing, there is no ship like ours, and people who go to the sea to pan for gold don't know how many people will die, but since it's something that everyone brought back, even if it's shared by everyone, I only have one share, hide it in Lingnan first, and when it comes back and smelt it out, the brothers of the escort team are all rich."
Worth more than 3 million guan, even if it is equally divided into more than 300 guards, each person can also be divided into more than 10,000 guan, I believe that with such an interest relationship, everyone's loyalty to Sun Xiangfu will be improved by a few grades, in whose house can be a guard can be a family fortune?
As a result, Wei Shuhuan and others, who thought that they would be able to leave for Chang'an immediately after the Happiness came back, were kept by Sun Xiangfu for a few days under the pretext of the general manager, and after Xi Junmai and the people of the escort team dug holes and hid those golden bumps in the agarwood forest that Feng Ang assigned to Sun Xiangfu, many ships that had been filled with fresh fruits and grain were assembled in the port of Guangzhou.
"You've been sent far away."
"Take care all the way."
"When I arrived in Chang'an, I would definitely ······ many people in Lingnan to Your Majesty."
Similar words of parting, I said it on the dock for a long time.
The people of Lingnan spontaneously went to the pier to hold a very grand farewell ceremony, showing the people of Lingnan to the court envoys, of course, this is actually more of a thank you to Sun Xiangfu.
It is precisely because of his arrival that hundreds of people in Lingnan who would have been killed by potbelly disease this year have survived, and I don't know how many people will be cured in the future, the people are simple, who helped them and treated them well, they will remember who, even in Feng An's heart, he also feels that the tens of thousands of acres of land in Baiyun Lake, and a few mountains full of nanmu agarwood, are not enough to express the gratitude of the people of Lingnan to Sun Xiangfu.
Wei Shuhe and Li Gongyan just stained Sun Xiangfu's light, of course, they on the bow of the boat, smiling very highly, this time they patrolled Lingnan on behalf of the sky, and also made a lot of credit, they should be rewarded when they went back, after saluting and saying goodbye to Feng An, they pretended to wave to the Lingnan people who saw them off on the bow of the boat, and made a very reluctant look, and I don't know how much truth there is, anyway, Sun Xiangfu thinks that there are more elements of show.
They were also joined by Feng Zhidai and Ah Shan's father and daughter, as well as Xiao Hei and Xiao Ye's two elephant cubs, and they all felt that the Happiness was a little more stable and more comfortable to live in the cabin.
The room that originally belonged to the ten craftsmen brought by Sun Xiangfu was given to them, and the craftsmen were left in Lingnan by Sun Xiangfu to temporarily guide the techniques of several workshops of Feng An, and at the same time, Sun Xiangfu also left Zhao Long, Zhao Gang and twenty guards, who would be stationed on the Baiyun Lake Peninsula to conduct a series of training on the young men recruited from Shen Tuyong and various departments in Lingnan.