Luoyang.

Seongnam, Baekje Embassy.

"The lord of the seal is coming, and if you miss it, forgive your sins."

When the Baekje delegation saw the sudden visit of the officials of the Great Qin Honglu Temple, they hurriedly came out to greet them.

"You don't have to be so polite, it's just an order from Shangfeng, come and take a look, and bring a few words by the way."

The head of Bapinfeng, who was wearing a cyan official robe, stroked his beard and said with a smile, and the Baekje ambassador Fu Yuan hurriedly handed over a silver collar from his sleeve, at least five taels.

The feudal lord quietly accepted it, and the Qingshui Yamen of Honglu Temple counted on one or two tributes from these envoys every year, anyway, a little money, and nothing to do with it, so I took it.

"Ambassador Buyeo, are you satisfied with this house?"

"It's nice, it's big, it's quiet."

"It's good to be satisfied, in order to find this house for you, I also spent a lot of effort, before this was a private house, it was not easy to persuade them to move away, but it also cost a lot, since you like it, you might as well simply spend money to buy it, it is also your industry, the sage also said before, to let all the vassal establish embassies in Luoyang, and at the same time send people to Luoyang, in order to facilitate the contact of the relationship between the clans and vassals."

The Baekje envoy Fuyu An is also a child of the royal family, but the relationship is a little farther away, but after all, it is a royal clan, and he has been studying Confucianism since he was a child.

In this regard, Baekje is relatively proud, Baekje has studied Han culture and Confucianism for nearly 300 years, and the entire court is written in Chinese characters, and even the aristocratic officials communicate in Chinese characters, which they do better than both Silla and Goguryeo.

In the early years, he had been in contact with the Central Plains Dynasty, but because of the demise of Goguryeo, the attitude of the people towards Daqin now is that they are both vassals and tribute, and secretly wary, always worried that Daqin will destroy them next, so despite the warning, they have been secretly supporting the remnants of Goguryeo.

For this small request from Shangguo, Fuyu An naturally did not dare to refuse, nor did he feel the need to refuse. A house costs only a thousand yuan, at most no more than three thousand, and they still have this money.

This time they came to Luoyang to pay tribute, in fact, they brought more than a dozen ships of goods, both to pay tribute to Qin Tianzi, but also to many noble officials, even if it was tribute, in fact, it was also tributary trade, in exchange for a lot of Great Qin specialties in return, not a loss, transport back these Qin goods can also immediately make a profit.

This kind of tributary trade is much more cost-effective than the Qin merchants who transported goods from the sea to their Baekje trade, and they did not have to go through the Qin merchants, so they had one less middleman, not to mention that they could also save customs duties, and their profits were greatly improved.

"Ambassador Buyeo, have you sold all your things?" Director Feng asked with a smile.

"It's already traded in the West Market."

"That's good, Your Majesty also explained that if you still have goods in your hands that have not been sold, you can buy them from my court. Next time, you can bring more goods. You don't have to come until the New Year's Day, such as the birthday of the saint, the queen's birthday, the emperor's birthday, the emperor's birthday, the queen mother's birthday, the queen mother's birthday, the crown prince's birthday, the winter solstice festival, you can send someone to congratulate you, and you can also bring some local products to Luoyang to trade. ”

When normal merchants come to the Central Plains, the goods have to be cleared and taxed, but as a tribute carried by the mission, or the goods entrained, they do not need to be cleared and taxed, which can be regarded as smuggled goods, but it is also a small privilege of the imperial court to the monarchs and ministers of the vassal states.

After all, this kind of transaction is still small, but it can make the princes and ministers of the vassal state pay off the sweetness and encourage them to come to congratulate them more.

They make a small profit, but the imperial court will never lose, and the little tariff that is lost, the imperial court can earn more from the transaction.

When Fuyu An heard this, he couldn't help but look a little excited.

This trip they brought a lot of goods, but the result was a lot of money, and the goods brought by the various Great Qin and other feudal merchants they traded in the West Market would definitely make a lot of money as long as they brought them back to Baekje. And now, the Qin State actually encouraged them to come more times a year, or in the name of Chaohe, which is the benefit of exempting them from customs clearance taxes.

"The next time you come, bring five hundred boys and girls." Director Feng said with a smile.

The so-called boys and girls, boys actually refer to children after being castrated, although there are not many people on the peninsula, but several countries have ruled for a long time, they all learn to use eunuchs in the Central Plains Palace, and there are special institutions, and the technology is very good.

Of course, the technology of the Central Plains is better, but Emperor Luo Cheng is reluctant to castrate the people of the Central Plains and waste people. So he sent tasks to the vassal states, three hundred for this family and five hundred for that family, and asked them to pay tribute to the boys.

And the virgin girl is naturally a show girl, and she has to be the daughter of a well-born aristocratic official and a big family, not only good-looking, but also young, and has an extraordinary temperament.

Director Feng even suggested that it would be best to select girls between the ages of 14 and 16 and that it would be best if they could be trained in etiquette in Baekje first, teaching them to speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and learn Chinese etiquette.

"The lacquer, rice, hemp, paper and mink skins you offered this time are all good, Your Majesty said, in the future, Haidongqing, hounds, etc. will not pay tribute, but cattle, horses, ginseng, etc. can pay more tribute, next time, you will pay tribute to 10,000 ploughing cattle and 8,000 horses." Director Feng drank the tea ceremony.

Buyeo An was taken aback.

He just asked for 500 boys and girls, which made him feel a little embarrassed, after all, Baekje is such a big country, and if he wants to send a thousand years of young men and women to Daqin at a time, it is impossible to go back with this send, and now he has opened his mouth to ask for so many cows and horses, ginseng, cloth, lacquered paper, etc.

"Don't worry, I'm in the kingdom of Great Qin, I will never take advantage of your vassals, no matter how much you pay tribute, we will only add rewards, and then my Great Qin's porcelain, silk, wine, fragrant tea, and exquisite swords and armor will be given back to you, and even Persian carpets, gold ware, etc., spices from Tianzhu, etc."

When Fuyu An heard this, he relieved his heart, but still said, "10,000 ploughing cattle and 8,000 horses, I'm afraid it won't be easy to raise for a while." ”

"It's okay, you can come often in the future, just bring three or two thousand heads every time you come."

Fu Yuan thought about it and felt that there was no problem with this, so he nodded at the moment, and solemnly took a pen to write down what the Feng chief said word for word.

"Tea servants who can cook, Nizi who learns music, can send some regardless of their background." Director Feng added another sentence.

"Of course, if there are prisoners in your country who have violated the law and committed crimes, if they are not easy to discipline, they can also be sent to the Central Plains."

Buyeo An knew that this sent to the Central Plains meant that the Baekje court would sell these prisoners as slaves to the Qin state.

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