The city of Fahrenheit on the bank of the Ganges River was the capital of the Mauryan Empire, and unlike the almost square capital of Chu or the capital of the nations, it was a rectangular city, it was thirty-six miles long and less than seven miles wide, and it was shaped like a long and narrow clippers. Beyond the city walls was a moat that was just over a foot wide. Inside the moat, there were sixty-four gates throughout the city, which were protected by five hundred and seventy towers on the walls.

The palace was extravagant, with columns entwined with gold-relief vines, walls decorated with gold, silver, birds, and precious stones, more magnificent than Susa, the capital of the Persian Empire before its destruction. The King of Peacocks lived in this city.

As in the kingdom of the Heavens, the time system here is also sixteen hours of the day, each of which is ninety minutes; The carving is the same, each narig is fourteen and four minutes, and there are one hundred narigs a day. Time is of great preciousness, and the king must be diligent, with detailed arrangements for the eight hours of the day and the eight hours of the night:

At the sixth hour of the evening the king should get up to the sound of music, review the scriptures and consider what he is to do today;

At the seventh hour of the evening, the king should consult with his ministers and send spies;

At the eighth hour of the evening, the king receives the blessings of priests, state teachers, and royal sacrifices, and receives personal doctors, cooks, and astrologers. After a circle around the calf cow and bull (in the godly way), one can go to the council chamber (i.e., the court) to discuss with the ministers;

At the first hour of the day, the king should listen to his report on his defense and his finances.

In the second hour of the day, the king should know the burghers and the peasants;

the third hour of the day to bathe, eat, and study on your own;

On the fourth hour of the day, he received the tribute of gold, and appointed officials of the various departments;

In the fifth hour of the day, he consulted with the ministers and governors by letters, and learned about the information brought back by the spies;

The sixth hour of the day amuses and thinks for yourself;

The seventh hour of the day watched the drills of elephants, horses, chariots, and infantry;

At the eighth hour of the day, the military arrangements are considered with the commander-in-chief, and prayers should be prayed at the end of the day;

The first hour of the evening to meet the secret agent;

the second hour of the evening to bathe, eat, and study by yourself;

The third, fourth, and fifth hours of the evening rest and sleep to the sound of music.

This is the detailed royal calendar, and it is clear what to do. At the sixth hour of the night, the crown prince Ermati woke up from his sleep and woke up dimly from the music. It took a while for him to pick himself up and begin the day's business. At first, the recitation of scriptures is carried out, and only after the whole person has completely recovered his spirit can he think about the political affairs of the day.

There was nothing particularly important on this day, the only thing special was that the envoys from the Far East Chuni Kingdom would come to Fahrenheit City to meet them.

The country located in the east of India, according to the minister of the DPRK and China, has only Cina. The name comes from the Sogdians of the north of India, who called the easternmost country Cyn. The splendid silk was produced in the northern part of the country and transported to the north of northern India through a country called Serice [note 2] in the northern part of the kingdom of Qinni.

The name of Chu'n is unknown, and according to the Sogdian naming convention, 'Ni' is just a suffix, and in fact Chu'n is Chu. According to the self-introduction of the envoy of the state of Chuni: Chuni is in the east of the country of China, the country of China is not connected to the sea, and the eastern part of the border of the state of Chu is full of sea. It was from the sea that the envoys arrived in India by ship. Their purpose was simple, in addition to establishing diplomatic relations with the Indian Empire, the other was to buy and sell goods.

According to the report, the envoy described Chuni as a kingdom with a radius of more than 400 yudian (mileage: the distance traveled by a bull in a day, that is, about 11.2 kilometers), and that the country was rich in silk, iron, paper, cement, and other things that the spies had not seen before (porcelain, lacquerware). The envoy also said that after leaving the capital of Chu, he sailed a thousand yudian to the mouth of the Ganges.

1,000 Yudians is a very long distance, from the mouth of the Ganges River to Babylon is only more than 600 Yudian. As a result, the envoy said that he had been away from the capital for more than half a year.

Nemati thought back to the report about the Chuni. Because of the huge size of Chuni, which he did not expect, the population was very small, only about one-eighth of India's, and he had to receive the envoy carefully, and if the Chuni merchants could sell silk, then there would be no need to buy silk from Sogdian merchants in the future, which would save a lot of money.

Agate, turquoise, precious stones, pearls, ivory, cotton cloth, and even cane sugar, pepper, sweet rosin, and three tendon leaves produced in India can be sold directly to the Chu State. Agate, in particular, was something that the Sogdians often bought......

A large silk-producing country is extremely far away from India, so such a country naturally has no stakes. It didn't take much time for the crown prince to make a decision to treat the envoys of the Chu State with courtesy. At the seventh hour of the evening, when he met with the assistant minister, he asked the court to prepare to welcome the envoys of Chuni.

"Your Highness, the envoy of Chu Ni proposed to meet the emperor and love the emperor." "It is said that they first came to Arakan and then from Arakan Kulan to meet them. ”

After Ashoka unified India, he felt that the killing was too heavy and worshiped the Buddha, and the reward for Buddhism was extremely heavy, according to the record reward has been as much as 9.6 billion, he wanted to make up the total amount of charity before his death to 10 billion, so he was opposed by the courtiers, and was finally placed under house arrest by his grandson (the son of Tunara), the crown prince Ermati, and the entire empire was in charge of the government affairs of the crown prince Ermati.

Of course, Aramathi knows what kind of place Arakan Kulan is. It was a port in the far south, and after the destruction of the Kalingka, who controlled trade on the east coast of India, the Chola to the south rose rapidly to replace the Kalinga in trading with the Persians in Arakan Kulam.

The southernmost provinces of the Indian continent, Chola, Jera, Pandia, and Sinhalese (Sri Lanka), had previously submitted to the empire, but over two decades, these kingdoms have become increasingly isolated from the dynasty. Arakan Kulan belongs to Pandia, the southernmost point of the subcontinent. The Chuni had been to Arakan Kuran and probably had an understanding of the situation inside the empire.

Compared to the empire's heyday twenty years ago, the empire now is as old as his grandfather, and many ministers fear that the empire's rule in the south will collapse once the king is seated. The arrival of the Chuni was good news, the empire could not save money and increase taxes, and for a centralized emperor, finance was the deadliest weakness.