There are a lot of things that need to be brought back, and the vast majority of things with 'Hu', 'Fan', and 'Xi' in later generations are foreign. It's just food, clothing, housing and transportation, Xiong Jing picked up a few important words. The rest of the things he usually thinks of have been drawn by the royal court painter in the booklet, and when the time comes, he will just follow the map.

"The ministers have seen the king." The envoy is not only business, but also involves the diplomatic relations between Chu and various countries, after Xiong Jing confessed that there was no hook, as the envoy of this envoy, the Yue Doctor Lu Zhuo, the Yingdu Commander who had full authority to dispose of trade, and the two scholars of Ma Yin and the horses, several people met Xiong Jing together.

Although their responsibilities are different, they should also listen to matters related to diplomatic relations and trade.

"There are tribal states, city-states, monarchies, republics, and imperial kingdoms," Xiong Jing said of the various countries he might encounter along the way, including Rome. "Each is different, and if it is not necessary, it does not have fellowship with the imperial kingdom. India is the imperial kingdom, and before that, it was like the world, with sixteen countries. To the north of the southernmost island, there is a country named Kalinga, during the Changping War, the Indian emperor led his army to destroy his country, beheaded 100,000, captured 150,000 people, and killed and injured countless people. ”

"Ru Qin also." Lu Zhuo sighed, this is a feeling of sympathy.

The unification of India predates China, and around 262 BCE, the kingdom of Kalinga was destroyed by Emperor Ashoka, achieving the first unification in history (excluding the southernmost part of the subcontinent and Sri Lanka). This was also a follow-up to Alexander's crusade, without which there would have been no unification in the history of India.

Unlike the Warring States of China, in the Battle of Kalingka, Emperor Ashoka beheaded 100,000 people and felt that the war was cruel, so he converted to Buddhism and adopted Buddhism as the state religion of India. In the late Warring States period of the Chinese world, the slightly larger battles were beheaded by more than 100,000, and the Battle of Changping was even more than 400,000, plus the previous losses of the Zhao army and half of the losses of the Qin army, the number of battle deaths was nearly 700,000.

After the death of Emperor Ashoka (232 BC), like the Qin who unified China, the Mauryan Empire fell apart, and the Southern Baicheng Dynasty was the first to become independent (230 BC), and the rest of the states also became independent one after another, and the Kalinga eventually became independent. The entire empire lasted for about forty years before it was replaced by the Sunga dynasty. The Sunga Dynasty and the Bactrian kingdom that descended south from the Transoxiana region divided India into the north and south, just like the northern and southern dynasties in Chinese history.

"If Qin is not as good as Qin, it is a matter of India, and it has nothing to do with the Chu State." Xiong Jing feared that Lu Zhuo would bring the world to India, comparing Kalinga to the state of Chu, and the southernmost tip of the mainland and Sri Lanka to Baiyue. "India is the closest to me, and there are not many Indians than me. The common people of India grow rice, and the land rent is one-sixth, and they get two crops a year, and they produce more grain than me. If he moves to Koto one day, he will have to buy rice from India. ”

"The minister knows also." Of course, Lu Zhuo is not an ignorant person, he fully knows the purpose of this trip.

"The northwest of India should be Seleucus, that is, before Persia, which occupies the Persian Gulf; To the northwest of the Red Sea is Egypt. Xiong Jing said that he had received the news from Wuji, "Both are empires and speak Greek. The remainder should be small tribal states or small city-states.

The empire is not to be taken lightly, and the gift is doubled. Their intimidating words and exaggerated words do not need to be believed, nor can they be trusted. The empire has favored ministers, favorite concubines, and even temple people can also fake tigers and refer to deer as horses, and these three kinds of people must also give gifts. Imperial Spy, what you see may be all such people, don't be wary. ”

"Temple people?" Forget about the favored ministers and concubines, don't talk about giving good gifts to such cheap things as the temple people, just say a few words to the temple people on an equal footing, Lu Zhuo feels that he has lost face and is a big humiliation.

"You should bear the burden of humiliation." Xiong Jing looked at him. Zhao Gao has not yet come out, and the people of the world, especially the Chu people, cannot imagine that the temple people can achieve such power.

"Yui." Lu Zhuo had no choice but to snort at Xiong Jing, and a bad feeling appeared in his heart.

"Because of the Indian emperors, Buddhism was prevalent in India," Xiong added. "The so-called Buddhism, the common people and slaves believe in it, and it is hostile to the Brahmins of the noble people's religion, so the fleet should not believe in it, let alone bring it back."

"The minister knows also." Lu Zhuo replied again.

"The price of silk needs to be cheap, remember this." After instructing Lu Zhuo, Xiong Jing looked at the city order again. "The rest, ironware, armor, porcelain, paper, etc., do not seek to make much profit, but to open up sales."

"The minister remembers the king's command." Bu hurriedly agreed, Yingcheng ordered a lot, and he was able to go to sea only because of his young age.

"Merchants do their own thing, don't interfere." Xiong Jing confessed again.

There are also merchants under the city order. The entire fleet carried 460 tons, even if it carried half a year's grain and straw and half a year's water, it was less than 200 tons, and the remaining tonnage, 200 tons (space) were all kinds of goods, and iron tools and armor accounted for more than half. With the help of the unconscious, these goods either bear Greek patterns or are painted with Greek elements.

"Yui." It's not sick and it's not sick.

"...... you wait," Xiong Jing looked at the two schoolmen sent by Ma Yin. Without waiting for him to speak, the two said, "The ministers swear to bring Ryoma back." ”

"Good." Xiong Jing finally felt that he had finished explaining, and all the unfinished words were on the thick booklet.

"Land transport is not as good as river transport, and river transport is not as good as sea transport. Zhongzhou, Xizhou, and Nanzhou are connected, and by land, from the easternmost mountain corner of Zhongzhou to the westernmost Dahracles Stone Pillar of Xizhou, the journey is more than 100,000 miles, and it is not allowed to go back and forth for more than ten years. By sea, it may be possible to turn around in two or three years. The round-trip time is like this, and the transportation is even more different. By land, just a few tons; By sea, the few are hundreds of tons, and the most are tens of millions of tons.

The firm is in the world, communicating with the existence of the Quartet; Boats sail the sea, transporting goods from all continents. With the art of managing the importance of the middle, the country can be rich, the country can be poor, life can be made, and people can die, all of which are in the sea fleet.

Qin and Zhao traded in Sogdia to the west of Kunlun, Sogdia to the south is India, to the west is Seleucus, Seleucid country, the Persian emperor built 7,000 miles of imperial road, ten months can reach the east side of the sea in the middle of the earth. If the sea route leads directly to the sea in the middle of the earth, or even Egypt in the northwest of the Red Sea, Seleucus in the Persian Gulf, Qin and Zhao merchants also suffered a great setback.

Zhao is my ally, Zhao can use my sea boat to trade to the sea in the earth, Qin is not, Qin is my enemy.

Horses are necessary for the army to fight, the Qin State stole our four-wheeled carriage, and transported it by land to avoid our boat division, but a cart needs three horses, or even four horses, and 100,000 cars need 300,000 or 400,000 horses, and the horses of the Qin State are insufficient.

Unheard of, Qin has a Wu clan, with silk things to the king of Rong, the king of Rong with ten times the horse, so as to get the horse. What is the use of the silk that King Rong wants? It was resold to the Sogdians, to Seleucid, India, and the Mediterranean countries.

The price of silk elsewhere is equivalent to the price of gold, and the price of weaving, dyeing and embroidery is dozens of times the price of gold. Yingdu is only three or five hundred yuan per catty, and the ordinary silk is less than a thousand yuan, and if it is sold to the Mediterranean countries, it can get twenty times the huge profit.

If you can trade with Seleucus, India, and the countries of the sea in the middle of the earth, and only take ten, five, or three times, or even no profit, you can make the Qin people have no horses. The Qin people can't have horses, they can't transport grain and straw by land, and they are afraid of our boat division by water, or they can't cut down ......"

A silk trade war against the Qin State unfolded under Xiong Jing's description. With the plan of the Great Sima Mansion, what the Qin State sells, the Chu State merchant fleet will sell at a low price. What the Qin State has, the Chu State, the Qi State, and the Zhao State also have. Such a heavy blow can make Qin's foreign trade completely halt, and make the silk silk exchange horse like Wu Shi Lu completely disappear.

"Don't worry about the price of silk being too cheap." Xiong Jing saw that everyone was thinking deeply, "The silk is in the hands of the Weaver Girl, and the gold is in the hands of the noble Hu Shang, if there is no sea boat, the two will not be a deal." Twenty years later, the price of silk rose again. The benefits of trade can be relied on silk in the early stage, and after a few years, they can rely on ironware, land, porcelain, paper, etc., and then on the profits of gold and silver. ”

Seeing Xiong Jing talking about the benefits of gold and silver, Lu Zhuo, who knew about it, nodded again and again. In fact, there is no need to sell any goods, as long as gold is exchanged for silver, there can be three times the gross profit - the ratio of gold and silver in China is one to four, and the ratio of gold and silver in the Mediterranean is usually more than one to twelve. Selling gold for silver, and then using it to shop or hedge gold from various countries is a big profit.

Lu Zhuo and the others nodded, Xiong Jing was a little annoyed in his heart, he wanted to cheer everyone up before leaving, but he didn't want to talk about the gold and silver comparison in the end. Looking at the people whose minds began to liven, he said again: "The sea route is the world, the fleet is our country, and the continents of the world will be opened up by the Chu people and the Yue people, and they will also be owned by the Chu people and the Yue people." ”

"Remember the Word." Lu Zhuo was a little excited when he heard this, he bowed his head, and the rest of the people also nodded after him.

"The matter of the route can be heard in the people of Yue Yue and Ou Yue." Xiong Jing added a little at the end.

After much translation, the boat official of Ou Yu said that he had been to Dunxun. I don't know where Dunxun is, but according to the description of the Yue people's boat officials: the boat needs to travel by land for a few days to Dunxun and then change ships to set sail, which should be somewhere in the Kra Isthmus, which can't help but make Xiong Jing think of the famous 'Han envoy voyage'.

In the first years of the Western Han Dynasty (1-5 AD), Huang Zhi sent an envoy to offer rhinoceros to Chang'an, and Wang Mang ordered the Han envoy to go to the South Branch with the envoy of the Southern Branch to show his consolation. The Han envoys set out from Hepu and arrived in Huangzhi thirteen months later; It took more than ten months to return to Hepu. I didn't go through the Straits of Malacca, and walked for about 10 days to cross the Malay Peninsula.

It is not surprising that the South China Sea was navigable with the Indian Ocean during the Western Han Dynasty, and that the South China Sea was navigable with the Indian Ocean during the pre-Qin period. The three Persian garlic clove silver boxes found by archaeology are one in the tomb of King Dian in Yunnan (buried in 175 BC), one in the tomb of King Nanyue in Guangzhou (buried in 122 BC), and one in the tomb of King Qi in Linzi (buried in 179 BC).

The silver box unearthed from the tomb of King Qi in Linzi is also engraved with the Chinese year of 'thirty-three years'. In the reign of the Qin and Han emperors, only Qin Shi Huang had 30 years, so it is not difficult to infer that the silver box came from the sea and arrived in China no later than the 33rd year of the reign of Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin.