Chapter 528: Tianzhu Returns

Yang Congyi told him that the Great Song fleet had a lot of goods, and he couldn't eat all of them, so he could give him a part, but the premise was that he could invite kings or city lords from all over Tianzhu, and the more people he invited, the greater his share of consignment.

The king did not quite understand what he meant, so he explained that before inviting others, the fleet could trade ten ships of Great Song goods with Dong Ganga alone, and then he would have one more shipload of goods for each country he invited.

After a moment's consideration, the king readily agreed.

The verbal agreement was reached, and the king immediately began to collect goods and treasures that could be traded with the Great Song fleet, while his envoys set out from the capital and galloped towards more than a dozen small states and city-states in Tianzhu.

Yang Congyi was kindly invited by the king to stay in the eastern country for half a month, during which he should eat, drink, live and travel, which is the highest treatment, but he is really not used to eating and drinking.

Then, according to the agreement, Yang Congyi invited the king to go to the small coastal city of Buri where the Great Song fleet docked.

On the seaside, the king saw for the first time the huge scale of the Great Song fleet, each merchant ship was three or four zhang wide and more than ten long long, especially the Shenzhou, even if it stood far away, he could still feel its huge and unparalleled momentum, he was impressed by the strong strength of the Great Song fleet, and was even more overjoyed to conclude friendly relations with the eastern powers.

Invited to board the Shenzhou, the king felt the greatness of the Shenzhou even more, a gust of wind came, the clothes floated, but the boat under his feet did not move at all, walking on the deck, as if walking on the ground.

There are countless cabins on the ship, and after obtaining consent, he took a few accompanying ministers to look at multiple cabins in a row, and after reading it, he was amazed, and sighed that the strength of the Great Song Dynasty was far beyond his imagination.

Yang Congyi told him that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is larger than the entire Tianzhu, if the northern region is unified, the area is even larger than unimaginable, the Great Song Dynasty is the same as the East Gentle, it is also the east facing the sea, the Great Song Dynasty can become a big country in the East, and the East Waga can also become, as long as the Great Song Dynasty establishes a long-term permanent friendly relationship and learns more from the Great Song Dynasty, over time, the Eastern Waga will be able to unify Tianzhu and recreate the prosperity of the Mauryan Dynasty.

Seeing the power of the Great Song Dynasty, and hearing the words that Dong Ganjia can also be powerful, the king who felt small suddenly had his mind sparked, and he was busy asking the well-informed envoy of the Great Song Dynasty for advice on how to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

Yang Congyi told him four words, communication and integration. Of course, the exchange is to communicate with the Great Song Dynasty, a big country in the East, to exchange what is available, to learn from the Song Dynasty culture and the system of various rich countries and strong soldiers, and integration is to thoroughly integrate everything learned from the Great Song Dynasty with the Eastern Song Dynasty's own self-owned, to form complementarity, so that the weak become stronger, and the strong are stronger.

The exchange and integration of the four words, the king listened to it, and remembered it deeply, but then he had a question, the Eastern Waga and the Great Song Dynasty are thousands of miles apart, and it will take several years to come and go, and the communication is inconvenient, how to learn?

Yang Congyi immediately told him that the Great Song Dynasty fleet was tens of thousands of people, and there were many capable people, and if he really wanted to exchange and learn the way of governing the country and strengthening the army in the Song Dynasty, he would send some people to return to the capital with him later, or stay in Dongganjia for the time being, it was not impossible.

When the ambitious king heard this, he was overjoyed. Immediately asked Yang Congyi to send him more capable people, their food, clothing, housing and transportation, all inclusive, and give them the highest courtesy, treat them like guests.

Next, with the assistance of the translator, the two determined the details of sending people into the capital and signed an aid agreement.

According to the agreement, the Hui Yi fleet sent one soldier, 20 foreign soldiers, and 500 guards to form the "Great Song Tianzhu Governor's Office", which was responsible for communication matters on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty, and accompanied the king when he returned to the national capital, and provided close and all-round guidance in terms of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and helped him to innovate the Eastern Wagalia.

At the same time as the king arrived and the agreement was signed, the Great Song fleet began to exchange and trade goods with the great merchants who came from all over the eastern Gaga country, and the largest of these transactions was the king's self-sufficiency, a full ten ships of goods, including silk cloth, tea, and porcelain.

More than a month later, at the invitation of the king of Dongga, the envoys of the seven kingdoms came to Buri on behalf of their respective kings and entered the camp of the Great Song Huiyi fleet.

The fame of the Great Song fleet, these envoys heard some rumors earlier, but they basically didn't believe it, because many landlocked countries have never seen a ship three or five zhang long, let alone a dozen or twenty zhang long sea ships, standing on the shore, looking at the Great Song merchant ships densely parked on the coast, everyone was amazed and couldn't believe it.

When they came to Shenzhou, they were even more shocked speechless, and they were speechless for a while.

Inviting them to board the Shenzhou to visit, the envoys of the Seven Kingdoms were completely conquered by the Great Song fleet, boasted about the sea in a daze, and promised that they would have as many goods as they wanted, and they could exchange the goods with gold and silver.

Everyone stayed in the camp for a few days, carefully inspected the various goods of the Great Song Dynasty, and signed a preliminary transaction agreement directly by ship, the number of transactions in each country was not less than five ships, but not more than ten ships, originally they wanted more, but some countries are landlocked countries, and the transportation is inconvenient, so they can only watch other countries sign large orders.

The king left Bri with the envoys of various countries, and Shen Jin, the head of the Huiyi army and the "Great Song Tianzhu Governor's Office", and a team of entourage.

Due to the limited time and Tianzhu territory, the Huiyi fleet had to be divided into two, one to stay in the Tianzhu area to continue the return, and the other to go south more than two months later, when the southerly wind weakened, and westward to the Seljuk region of the Persian Gulf.

As early as when he stayed in Nanyang to rest and wait for the monsoon, Yang Congyi had discussed with Tang Xun, Shen Jin, Lu You and others many times about Tianzhu, and finally decided to let Shen Jin, who had experience in going to sea, concurrently serve as the chief manager, leading fifty ships full of goods and ten warships to stay on the coast of Tianzhu to be responsible for the return of trade, and establish a long-term and stable return relationship with the countries of Tianzhu.

Shen Jin, as the head of the "Great Song Dynasty Tianzhu Governor's Office", went to the capital of Dongjia on behalf of the Great Song Dynasty, and returned to Buri after half a month, gradually taking over the exchange and trading of the fleet with other countries in Tianzhu.

At the same time, thousands of guards began to build the "Great Song Tianzhu Governor's Mansion" near the original camp of hundreds of Xuanwei troops, building houses, building barracks, and reclaiming land, so as to build a long-term and stable Huiyi stronghold in Tianzhu for the Great Song and Huiyi fleets.

And the Xuanwei soldiers who have stayed in Tianzhu for many years and their families are naturally incorporated into the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office, and all of them are assigned to the Great Song Dynasty, and the money owed to them before is fully repaid, and those who are willing to return to the barracks directly enter the escort army, and are awarded military positions according to their ability and seniority.

These old generals of the Xuanwei Army have been in Tianzhu for many years, and they know a lot about the language and culture of Tianzhu, but their living habits have not changed very much, and they are now hundreds of people in the local integration very well, and at the same time they are self-contained, their experience is very important for the Governor's Mansion to take root in Tianzhu, so the old Xuanwei Army who were reorganized into the Guardian Army were quickly reused and played a leading role in the construction of the Governor's Mansion.

In the process of the construction of the Hui Yi and the Governor's Mansion in full swing, Yang Congyi was invited to visit several countries adjacent to the Eastern Song Dynasty with the Great Song Dynasty National Letter, including Senna in the north, Kakadiye in the south, and Karachuli and other countries in the west, and introduced the Great Song Dynasty and the Huiyi fleet in detail with them, and also made some understanding of their national conditions and customs, established their friendly relations with the Great Song Dynasty, and signed the Huiyi Agreement between the countries.

One of the provisions of the treaty was that in order to enhance the exchange between them and the Great Song Dynasty, they would not collect taxes on each other's goods.

Tianzhu countries do not have much foreign trade, they do not care about how to collect goods taxes, they are more interested in how much fine porcelain, silk cloth and tea can be exchanged with the Great Song Dynasty.

As for the question of how much goods to buy, Yang Congyi's reply to them was that the fleet would try its best to supply it, and strive to come to Tianzhu every two years to meet their demand for Great Song products.

The transactions between the Great Song Dynasty fleet and the Tianzhu countries were carried out almost every day, and the Great Song Dynasty goods were moved off the ship, bags of Tianzhu products and boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were loaded back into the vacated sea ships, and the Huiyi camp was in full swing.

In the blink of an eye, the weather turned cooler, and the time came to the end of September, the south wind weakened, and the northeast wind quietly blew.

The Huiyi fleet was divided into two according to the plan, Shen Jin led 50 sea ships and 10 warships to stay on the coast of Tianzhu to continue to return to Yi as the commander of the Huiyi army and the "Great Song Tianzhu Governor's Office", while Yang Congyi, Tang Xun and Lu You led the remaining sea ships and warships to the south by the north wind, detouring Ceylon outside the southern waters of Tianzhu and heading towards the Western Ocean, with the destination being the Persian Gulf.

The fleet drifted south for more than ten days, stayed in Ceylon for three days, and after replenishing fresh water, quickly turned around and headed northwest, day and night.

Due to the changeable direction of the winds and currents in the Arabian Sea, the fleet adjusted its course several times, and after several twists and turns, it took nearly a month to reach the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and then lowered the sails and slowed down, slowly entering the Persian Gulf, where there are many islands and reefs, all the way to Basra.

Half a month later, the fleet successfully reached the end of the Persian Gulf, and after the deployment, Yang Congyi led people to land on the Seljuk territory.

Seljuk Kingdom, Yang Congyi, Tang Xun and others have all come, although it was eight years ago, but they are still quite familiar with this place, plus there is a guide, Yang Congyi, as an envoy to return to Yi, soon spread the news of the arrival of the Great Song fleet to the mainland.

The nearest major city to the port was Basra, where news of the Great Song fleet was quickly passed on by coastal officials.