"Count, settle accounts?" King Zhenla asked in a daze.

"Of course, you and others violated the territory of the Tang Dynasty, since I apologize, my Datang is open-minded, and I don't want to make more killings, so I can let you and the others go, but my Datang people have been killed and injured tens of thousands, and more than 100,000 people are homeless, so this can't be compensated, right? Moreover, for this trivial matter, we have spent thousands of miles on the expedition, shouldn't you compensate for this," Feng Daiwen raised his head and said proudly.

"Compensation, how much?" When King Zhenla heard that hundreds of thousands of people needed compensation, he instantly felt bad, and he didn't know whether it was hot or weak, so he asked profusely.

"Hmph, Ben will not blackmail you, just as much as Funanguo will lose. 11 million guan, if you don't believe it, go and ask the king of Funan, I just beat Saigon City a month ago. Feng Daiwen snorted coldly and said.

"Ahh General, there really aren't that many. I don't know if King Zhenla heard that Saigon City was attacked, or was frightened by the 11 million pieces of wealth, and said with a bitter face full of fat.

"Well, we are not unreasonable, let's see how much you can compensate first, and the rest will be deducted with grain and mineral deposits." Feng Daiwen smiled and said to King Zhenla.

"Mineral deposits, to be honest, small countries can only dig on the ground, and they don't have the ability to mine in large quantities." King Zhenla said in embarrassment.

"These are all nothing, Datang is friendly, especially to friends, since you are obedient to Datang, you naturally can't treat you badly, the mining Datang will send someone to command, and the tools will also be provided, you just need to contribute." Feng Daiwen explained.

"That's good, that's good, everything is based on the general's meaning, Xiao Wang will definitely cooperate." King Zhenla wiped the sweat on his face, and when he heard that he was just out of the manpower, he immediately agreed to come down with confidence.

"Well, I said that I won't treat you badly, in the future, salt, porcelain, silk, everything can be exchanged for grain and minerals, and you can sell it to other countries if you have more, so you don't need to be reminded how much profit there is. And it will also teach you to collect food from the sea, and these Datang will buy it in large quantities. "Feng Daiwen has already beaten a stick first, and he is extremely skilled in using it for sweetness.

Many of the surrounding small countries in Datang do not have their own currency, and they are generally exchanged, and the copper coins of the Central Plains are generally currency in these places, and as for the gems produced by them, they are not as valuable as the Central Plains, so the value is not much higher in their hearts. As for the output of the Central Plains, just like many people in later generations like foreign goods, it represents exquisite, gorgeous, and noble, and it is the favorite of all Fanbang.

"Thank you, general, thank you," King Zhenla said with a happy face.

Feng Daiwen has been dealing with cottages and tribes for a long time, and he understands some of their thoughts. I also know how to lure, the small country of Fanbang can not mine in large quantities, firstly, because there is no prospector technology, and secondly, the smelting technology is unqualified, and a large number of good tools cannot be forged. None of this is a problem for Datang now, Feng Daiwen's plan is to develop these small countries into raw material production areas, use their manpower to mine them, and transport them back to Datang to make finished products and sell them back. However, this is just some vague ideas, and we have to go back to Chang'an to report to Li Shimin to discuss the specific plan later.

Skip the scraping of Zhenla, Feng Daiwen didn't have much time, and he had to rush back to Chang'an, so he had to lead the army back to the Elephant Forest, fortunately, it was only more than two hundred miles away from the Elephant Forest, and the road was easier to walk, and there were not so many mountains here.

After thinking about it, Feng Daiwen decided to leave Wang Xuance behind to guard the Elephant Forest, and it was enough for 15,000 young people to form an army to defend several counties. Li Yifu assisted in dealing with civil affairs, and after returning to Chang'an, he asked Li Shimin to send a group of people to manage, and 5,000 sailors were left to Liu Renliang to be responsible for the sea.

Feng Daiwen left all the equipment and materials for them to come later, and he only brought gold, silver, and rare treasures, and rushed to Xianglin first. Fortunately, Zhao Chengen, Li Yifu had already loaded the purchased grain on the ship, and this expedition was another bumper harvest, with a total of more than 120 million stones of grain loaded into 170 boats, which can be said to have collected the coarse grain and refined grain of several counties, and only the people's rations existed on the market.

Harvesting the three small national capitals, the harvest is unprecedentedly rich, gold and silver filled several ships, all kinds of huge coral, hawksbill turtles, pearls, agarwood, ivory, rhino horn, all kinds of precious stones also filled more than ten ships, these transported to the Central Plains are of immeasurable value.

When he went, he brought nearly 20,000 men and 300 large boats, but when he returned, he only brought more than 2,000 sailors, more than 3,000 soldiers, and more than 1,000 craftsmen of various kinds, and only 230 ships, and the soldiers were given to those who stayed behind except for crossbow arrows.

"How do you load this stuff on board as well?" Feng Daiwen asked speechlessly as he looked at the iron cage in front of him with several huge rhinoceros.

"That Li Yifu said that let the second brother send troops to attack other countries without authorization, I am afraid that someone will take advantage of this to make it difficult when I go back, and it is always good to bring more gifts back to the saint," Feng Daihuo explained on the side.

"Hehe, this Li Yifu is really flexible, I hope it won't go astray in the future, but people are still young, and there should be no problem with teaching well. It seems to be a very exciting thing to teach someone younger than yourself to become a talent. Feng Daiwen muttered to himself.

Feng Daihuo looked at his second brother talking to himself in confusion, swallowed his saliva and asked, "If the second brother doesn't like it, you can kill and eat meat, but the little brother hasn't eaten this thing yet." ”

Feng Daiwen glanced at Feng Daihuo, who was looking at the rhinoceros and drooling, and said: "Since you have caught it, send it to Chang'an, and kill it yourself after you want to eat it." ”

Feng Daihuo turned his head regretfully and looked to the side and asked, "Let's eat one or two of these birds, I'm tired of eating fish every day during this time." ”

Feng Daiwen looked at a few jade parrots in embarrassment, and said seriously: "Fifth brother, you see that this bird is very beautiful, the second brother plans to bring it back to your future second sister-in-law, right, in case other people want these two pairs are not enough." ”

"Okay, okay, this white elephant meat is too unpalatable, I'll go fish." Feng Daihuo looked at the two trained white elephants with disgust, this is not a war elephant, but a white elephant selected to be white and colorless, which is used for entertainment after training.

Feng Daihuo went out to the boat to beckon Xi Jun to buy two people to catch fish, it turned out to be a huge fishing net prepared by Feng Daiwen, the rope is one or two hundred meters long, sprinkled behind the boat, let the boat tow, and then use a huge winch to pull it up by several people, generally a net takes an hour before and after to get it. However, the harvest is also huge, a net full of all kinds of sea fish, no less than a few hundred stones, of course, if it is a fisherman, it will definitely be happy, and it does make everyone on the boat except Feng Daiwen very happy.

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