Inadvertently, Yingdu has become a pivotal world power, and many states south of the 30th parallel north latitude are determined by Yingdu. After Feixun transmitted the king's order to Panyu Port, the new Suzaku sailed out of Panyu Port on the same day, ignoring the storms brewing in the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal, and brought the king's order to the Red Sea as quickly as possible.

At this time, it was almost summer in South Arabia, and the Red Ocean Fleet stationed in the port of Cana, Qataban, intuitively felt that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the Vietnamese sailors from the south were better, and when it was hot, they hid in tents, or simply went to swim in the sea a few times, and the sea breeze blew and cooled their bodies;

Mercenaries from the north can't swim and can only smash their chin on the shore and look at it. In the midday heat, they can't wait to shed a layer of skin, and they have never experienced the subtropical sun. I only hope that the general of Chu who led him can attack a few days earlier, so that he will not continue to suffer in the tent outside the city.

The port of Kanna is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden, about Bi'r 'Ali in what would become Yemen, and about 100 kilometers east of Mukla. Of course, the port of Mukala was built 1,200 years later, and in this era, the port of Kanna was the largest of the ports in the Yemeni region north of the Gulf of Aden, and was one of the main export ports of frankincense.

Frankincense and myrrh are found on both sides of the Gulf of Aden, in South Arabia (Yemen, Oman) and the Somali Peninsula, and some can be traced back to Ethiopia, where the legendary Queen Shiba also built a palace.

Although it is produced in a wide range of areas, frankincense is concentrated in the country of Hadramat (present-day Yemen) and a little further east in the Dhofar region (present-day Oman), both of which have dense frankincense forests within a radius of several hundred miles. For this reason, the two origins correspond to the port of Khanna in the Hadramakau State and the port of Moscha (40 km east of the present-day Salalah Port in Oman) in the Dhofar region.

From the southernmost port of Muza (now Muza in Yemen), it turned into the Gulf of Aden, passed through the port of Kanna, the port of Muska, and finally entered the Persian Gulf, where it was unloaded at the port of Wublay, which was the spice destined for West Asia;

Also at the southernmost point of the Red Sea, the port of Muha, it passed through the port of Kanna and the port of Muska, and finally stopped at the port of Barbaricum (present-day Karachi, Pakistan) and Barygaza (present-day Broch Harbor, India) in northwestern India; Or sail directly from Kanna Port to Muziris (present-day Pattana, Kerala, India) on the west coast of India.

In addition to the port of Muha, the port of Kanna, and the port of Muska, which is a port of myrrh trade in the Somali Peninsula, the spices exported from the ports of Kanna and Musca are mainly sold in Seleucid and India, and most of the spices imported into the Mediterranean and Syria are actually taken by land, and finally arrive at the Mediterranean ports of Gazai (now Gaza) and Alexandria.

Therefore, a series of spice states were gathered on the land route, such as the kingdom of Hiba, the kingdom of Maiin, the kingdom of Khataban, and the kingdom of Hadramao. Each kingdom had its own sphere of influence, and spices passed through their towns and were subject to a certain tax as a reward for the safety of the caravans along the way. In frankincense-growing areas, such as the Cataban country, which controls Port Canna, a 25 percent tax is levied on frankincense growers.

Since he didn't understand the local situation and it was difficult to describe it in the pigeon news, Red suggested that the port city-states and the states that controlled the spice production areas cooperate rather than plunder. The plunder was only against Seleucid merchant ships and merchants, and it was an act of revenge.

It was almost impossible to plunder the spice growers, who were four hundred miles inland, and the desert and high mountains were cut off, and the lack of drinking water made it difficult for foot soldiers to reach the valleys where frankincense was grown; It is even more impossible to plunder the spice states on land, which are north of the spice forests, and the foot soldiers need to go further inland to find their city-states.

What can really be plundered is only the spice ports along the coast, if the Chu State really wants to carry out spice trade, these ports should not only not be slightly right, but should be friendly. Befriending will allow them to bring more and better frankincense from the four hundred miles inland. Before the king's order arrived at the port of Kanna, the red and the deacons of the Twelve clans had already made peace with the lord of the port of Kanna, Abi Yatu.

"This is the Frankincense Tree?" In the adobe city of Kanna, Hongzhu and Baiyi, Xianwei, Tian Gao, Bing Le and others saw clumps of trees, each of which had three or five trees. In the summer of Canna, these peach-like shrubs are covered with green leaves and begin to bloom pink, and bees flutter among the flowers from time to time.

"This is the frankincense tree." Abi Yatu nodded, his words would have to go through several translators before they could reach everyone. It was a Shiba man in his forties, with a black beard on stilts and deep-set eye sockets.

As the lord of Canna City, countless huge merchant ships appeared in the harbor overnight, which has to be said to be a terrible thing. Fortunately, these uninvited, self-proclaimed Chu intruders did not capture the city of Kanna, but sent people to send gifts. The messenger told them that they were at war with the Seleucid Empire, so they were to garrison the port of Canna to intercept the Seleucid merchant ships and prevent them from obtaining spices.

Such a request would have been rude, of course, but there were not many soldiers in the port of Canna to chase the intruders away, especially since their huge merchant ship had a weapon of the gods. This weapon has a thunder-god-like roar and can smash boulders across the coast when used. For such an enemy, Abi Yatu could only send someone to inform the king quickly, and at the same time treat him with courtesy, and use his good offices to gain time.

As soon as Abi Yatu said that this was the frankincense tree, Hongmu and the others were a little moved, Bing Le's eyes flashed, and he asked: "If there is a flower, there must be a fruit, is frankincense its fruit?" ”

The question of Bingle aroused the interest of everyone, who had already heard that frankincense was similar to lacquer, a kind of resin. He asked this question, apparently to ask if the frankincense tree had any fruit. Where there is fruit, there is seed, and where there is seed, you can grow it yourself.

"Of course, the frankincense tree has its own fruit." Abi Yatu remained silent. "But if there is fruit, it cannot be planted in a place other than God's blessing. Even in the place blessed by the gods, frankincense is divided into three types: Rakat, Shetawi, and Kabham, which are the highest, medium, and lower frankincense.

The frankincense tree loves the heat, hates the cold and wet, and can only produce rakat where the sea breeze does not blow; The frankincense tree, which can blow a part of the sea breeze, will bear Shetawi; The frankincense tree, which blows the sea breeze every day, can only produce kaboom. ”

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