India is a country without 'etiquette', and the prince Ermati invited Lu Zhuo and others to feast several times, which was very inconsistent with Chinese etiquette, especially when they actually ate with their hands. As far as China is concerned, the feast is a very important part of the ceremony, the Son of Heaven has nine tripods and eight tripods, the princes have seven tripods and six tripods, the doctor has five tripods and four tripods, and the Yuanshi has three tripods and one tripod. How can you use your hands to grab meat with a dagger, soup with a spoon, wine with a bucket, meat with a knife, and other utensils such as pods and pods?

Barbarian! The Indians, who wore gold and silver, were suddenly vaguely despised by everyone; Ermoti was also puzzled by Lu Zhuo's eating pomp, and couldn't imagine why so many tools were needed to solve problems that could be solved with one hand.

There are many differences in beliefs depending on the customs. Lu Zhuo is a Yue person, and the Yue people worship Lei Gong God; The captain Shen Yinshang is a Chu person, and the Chu people worship the Taiyi God; Yamati is a Buddhist, who is not to kill, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, not to drink alcohol, and to eat only vegetarian food.

Although there are such differences, after all, the two sides are two big countries separated by thousands of miles and have no interests, and India does not have the overall war idea of 'Jin Yi or Liang was born in the territory and Su 12 Shi died outside the country'. The 35:1 gold-silver ratio is to attract more gold to India, and it is good to sell rice and cotton in large quantities, and India has no shortage of grain and cotton.

Therefore, the two sides talked happily again and again. Ermati also agreed to Lu Zhuo's proposal to buy land in Fahrenheit to build an embassy and to establish a trading post in Sisupalgarh, a port of Kalinga. It was only as a reciprocal that when the sea boat returned to Chu, the Indian envoys would also go with him, and if possible, the envoys would also be stationed in Chu like Lu Zhuo.

It is normal for other countries to send envoys to the Chu State, and Lu Zhuo did not object, but before the monsoon turned, there were not many envoys to the Chu State, the envoys of the Pandia Kingdom, the envoys of the Chola Kingdom, and if the action went smoothly, there should also be envoys from the Seleucid Empire. He was worried that the envoys of Pandia and Chola would clash with their Indian envoys.

Lu Zhuo and Ermo submitted a lot of information, and the city order and those merchants under him went in and out of the palace from time to time, inquiring more and more, knowing more and more things, and feeling more and more necessary to trade with India. On this day, in the market, a group of people crowded into the crowd to watch the sale, and a seller with a head wrapped in cotton cloth and a colorful beard raised his hands to the crowd and shouted: "Ninety-five pana? Ninety-five panas? Ninety-five panas? ”

While looking at the crowd and shouting the price, after shouting three times, no one made any more bids, and he finally pointed to the string guard who was standing next to Bujian and bid for ninety-five silver panas, and nodded: "Ninety-five panas, deal." ”

Xianwei was also one of the merchants who traveled here, and the others paid attention to the goods such as rice, cotton cloth, agate, and treasure beads in the big market, and from the day he arrived in the big market, he paid attention to only one kind of goods: slaves.

In China, the market price of a slave (or a slave to be exact) was often more than 10,000 yuan, but in India, a sturdy male slave sold for only 70 to 80 silver pana, and female slaves were more expensive, because female slaves could give birth to small slaves, generally around 100 panas. One silver pana is equal to thirty-three chu coins, which means that a male slave is between two thousand three hundred and two thousand six hundred yuan, and a female slave needs three thousand yuan.

This price is only a fraction of the price of a Chinese slave, and about five Indian female slaves are equal to one Chinese female slave. And most importantly: the number of slaves in India is abundant, and the number is preferred.

Xianwei is the retainer of Xiandui, Xiandui is the Ziqian family (usurer), and there are two main sources of Chinese slaves, one is prisoners of war, and the other is debtors, so Xian is very expert in the slave business. The Six Kingdoms of Kwantung were on the verge of war, and the Qin State preferred to behead rather than sell slaves, so that the price of slaves increased.

If you can load a boatload of Indian slaves into the girders, one person can earn at least one gold, one ship can earn four or five hundred gold, and twice you can earn a glutton—the profit from selling silk and other goods is very high, but that is to come; When I went back, I pretended to be an Indian slave girl instead of rice and cotton cloth.

The young slave girl was brought over, and the guard habitually checked his teeth, and the seller, fearing that he would not be satisfied, shouted beside him, "Kumari! Kumary! ”

"Ziwei really wants to trade slaves?" Bai Di looked at him with some puzzlement.

"The price is low here, why not sell it?" Satisfied with the slave girl's health, the guard asked his retinue to pay the buyer ninety-five silver pana.

"This ......" Bai Di was also a little confused about this, he always felt that the taste of Indian barbarians was very strong.

"The women here are good at dancing, and if they are sold into the women's lumen for advocating excellence, they can get ten or twenty gold. If it is offered to the king, the benefits will be greater. "What is it from the big beam, the string guard whispered, and then he pointed to the slave girl and said, "This is Ku Marie." ”

Kumari is a Sanskrit word used for slave girls, meaning virgin. The concept of virginity did not exist in China at this time, and Xianwei spent a lot of effort learning how to distinguish and choose virgins from Indians. He believed that once Kumari's concept was popularized in China, the nobles would be the first to accept it.

The words 'dedicated to the king' made Bai Di shake all over, he slapped his head, why didn't he think of it? Indian women are good at dancing, and their dances are different from those of China. Everything is new, buy some Indian beauties to the beam, what a profit.

The more I thought about the slave trade business in the palace market, the more exciting it became, and in the council room, the return gift list that had been inked for a long time finally came out, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Clarityland, read it out in front of Ermati and Lu Zhuo: "...... 100 monts of agate, 300 monts of turquoise, 500 monts of sapphire, 500 monts of pearls, 10,000 monts of closed ginger, 10,000 monts of jasrom, 10,000 monts of jassin, 10,000 monts of pepper, 10,000 monts of myrrh resin, 10,000 monts of three tendon leaves......"

The return gifts were all Indian specialties, and outside of the pearls and jade were spices, Lu Zhuo did not mention rice and cotton cloth at all, until finally, Karma Lilan paused, glanced at Ermoti, and then said in a loud voice: "...... One million montes of rice, five hundred thousand pounds of cotton cloth, and one hundred slave girls......"

The monte is a unit of weight, approximately equal to two stones, and the monte varies greatly from place to place; It is a unit of cotton cloth, which is approximately equal to 660,000 Chinese horses. Lu Zhuo was very happy to hear that there were one million monters and two million stone rice, but he was taken aback when he heard that there were 100 female slaves in the end.

After reading the "envoy ......" gift list, Lu Zhuo was stunned, and Li Lilan couldn't help but remind him.

"The hospitality of the prince's feet, the king of Chu is grateful." Lu Zhuo was profound. The number of gifts in return is completely beyond Lu Zhuo's imagination, and he never thought that he could earn so much by giving national gifts.

"I hope that your country can bring more silk, Chuni paper, Lu Lijing, porcelain, and lacquerware," Ermati saw Lu Zhuo deeply, and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face. He emphasized: "There are at least ten thousand sets of Chu State armor. ”

"Yui." Although India also refines iron, it takes ten times as much money and time to build a pair of rohakalik (wire armor) or rahapata (full-body iron armor) as ring armor.

"I will send my minister Anazhou as an envoy to the state of Chu," Erma asked about the departure date of the Mingshan Ghost Ship, and the other party asked Lu Zhuo to retreat.

"The rice is 2 million stones, and it takes more than 60 gluttonous ships to transport it." Shen Yinshang and Lu Zhuo met Ermoti together, and he was taken aback by the number of return gifts. "And a hundred slave girls......"

"What can I do with the gift from the prince?" Lu Zhuo couldn't help but smile bitterly, he never thought that the other party would return so much in return.

"What if?" Shen Yinshang also exhaled, the profits of trade were completely beyond imagination, even if Xiong Jing had repeatedly explained, it was still beyond everyone's expectations.

"This matter naturally has to be decided by the king." Lu Zhuo said. As soon as he returned to Sanssouci Palace, he asked the clerk to draft a pigeon letter, and the affairs of India were indeed to be fully reported.

Under the watchful eye of the palace agents, the carrier pigeon flew out of Fahrenheit and into the far east. And in Langya Port, the northernmost part of the Chu State, a fleet is ready to go, this is the Blue Ocean Fleet led by Hong Mu.

It's May, and the northeasterly winds in the Pacific Ocean are turning to the southwest monsoon. Historically, the Spanish galleon left the Philippines at this time and headed north to 40 degrees north and south latitude of Japan, following the westerly winds and currents to the west coast of North America.

Unlike the Indian Ocean route, this is a true transoceanic voyage that takes five to seven months. Five to seven months on the sea, with no fresh water or food, and no islands to dock on, can be hard. Fresh water is easily spoiled and stinks for such a long time, vitamin C in canned citrus can break down completely, and hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean......

According to the reminder of the word, the fleet once again perfected the course plan. Fresh water is poured into Chuli without alum - wine can prevent fresh water from smelling, in addition to simple solar distillers, there is no plastic can be used to dislige; Vitamins can break down, fruits can rot, so bring soybeans; In the event of a hurricane, bring more timber and carpenters, and fully reinforce the boat......

Everything that can be thought of has been thought of, and everything that can be prepared has been prepared. However, when everything was ready, the captain Hong Mou and Wu Qiheng were not in Langya Port, but in Linzi, Qi State.

The 30,000 Chu army defeated the 230,000 Qi army and also occupied Linzi, and the news spread to the world, and the countries were shaken. People who don't understand say that the Chu army is invincible in the world, but those who really understand military affairs and understand the internal situation of Qi will only say that the Qi country is the same as before, and the battle is about to collapse. Today, there are not many strong armies in the world, and if the Chu State had not risen in recent years, the real opponents of the Qin army would only be one and a half: one Zhao State, and half a Wei State.

It is one thing for the Qi army to collapse at the touch of a button, but it is another thing to occupy Linzi. It is customary for a country to be destroyed when it is broken by an enemy army and its king is captured by an enemy army. Qi is a big country in the world, and the death of Qi will have a great impact on the situation in the world.

After the death of Zhao, the Qin army attacked Qi in the name of restoring Qi and occupied Qi with half the effort; Zhao Guo thought the opposite, if Chu State was trapped in Qi State, he would definitely not be able to rescue himself, so he hoped that Chu State would withdraw its troops;

Wei State trembled from the Qin State to attack Zhao, the three Jin Dynasty with the same root and branches, Zhao died followed by Han Wei, Wei King Wei Zeng also hoped that Chu State could take the role of the United States, it was best to pull the Qi State, I didn't think that the King of Chu crossed the sea for more than 2,000 miles to occupy Linzi; Korea became a vassal of Qin very early, but in front of the other countries, it pretended to be an independent country and harbored evil intentions.