Wang Zheng and Xiao Er arrived at the gate of the Shiraz King's Palace after a while, under the arrival of the old man who was a civil official of the Shiraz Kingdom. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When they arrived, the two of them forced back a smile.

Looking closely, this palace is really not as good as the mansion of a medium-sized merchant in the Great Song Dynasty, and the palace wall is actually made of clay and stone...... It can be a bit of a scale compared to other buildings on the island!

The eight guards at the palace gate also showed a majestic look......

The two young men really shouldn't laugh at people, what they didn't know was that this island only produced coral rock and clay.

Coral rock is an excellent building decoration material, but there are two shortcomings, that is, this material is very easy to corrode, and the load-bearing capacity is poor, and it cannot be used as the main material of the building at all.

There are some hardwood resources on the island, but those people are not good at the architecture of civil structures.

They obviously didn't care about the construction characteristics of the Great Song merchants who settled here, and they didn't want to follow it at all.

In front of them, most of the stone building materials in the humble Shiraz palace were brought by sea from the quarry on the eastern continent of Africa, and it took nearly 50 years to build it to its current size, and it is said that tens of thousands of people were used before and after...... It's not easy for the productivity of this island.

Of course, the two of them couldn't show their disdain without politeness, they could only keep a straight face and deliberately pretend to be dignified and follow the civil elder into the palace.

After passing through the two gates, they reached the hall of the palace.

The hall was lined with carpets, and two rows of courtiers were seated, and in the middle of the face sat King Shiraz, with a brightly colored tapestry hanging from the wall behind him.

The king of Shiraz was a middle-aged uncle with a mustache and a serious face.

His head was wrapped in a thick turban, with a green gem in the middle of the turban, and a beautiful bird's feather stuck above the turban.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er, under the leadership of the civil and official elders, made a deep bow to the king of Shiraz, after all, he is the king here.

The two of them were relatively calm, but the Great Song merchant who helped translate the conversation was a little panicked and looked at a loss.

Xiao Er secretly pulled his big sleeve and signaled him not to be nervous, such a king is not as large as the population of a county in the Great Song Dynasty------

Of course, he may have more power than the county order of the Great Song Dynasty, and can decide the life and death of the people on this island.

But Wang Zheng and Xiao Er made a deep understanding, and it was really just politeness, not for anything else.

The ministers in the hall looked at the two young captains and began to talk in a whisper, and for a while the whole hall became noisy.

After all, such a young man could steer such a large sea ship...... It's worth letting others talk about it.

The whole hall is about five meters high, with an arch in the middle, and the arch walls are decorated with patterns that the Hui people like more.

The length and width of the hall can be combined with an area of more than 300 square meters, which is quite spacious.

The king of Shiraz, with a majestic face, invited two distant captains and their interpreters to sit on the red and green carpet.

He asked, "Where are you from?" ”

The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty who helped with the translation hurriedly translated for them.

Wang Zheng replied that he was from Liuqiu Island.

The king of Shiraz then asked, "Is your island as big as my Shiraz kingdom?" ”

Xiao Er thought about it and said vaguely, almost, the population is the same......

The king of Shiraz frowned and said, "It is about the same as my kingdom of Shiraz?" Are you far from here? ”

Wang Zheng took over and said, "It's far away, and it takes more than a year to sail when the wind is downstream......

When the interpreter finished translating for everyone, everyone in the hall was taken aback, such a large sea ship would sail for more than a year!

Their boat may not be able to reach it even more......

Dinner began...... The staple food is one roast cow and four roasted forest antelopes.

Needless to say, the forest antelope is indeed a specialty of this island.

The interpreter whispered that this was the highest standard of dinner in the kingdom of Shiraz, indicating that the king valued the two of them.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er are not embarrassed...... The gifts they brought can fully afford to buy this cow and four sheep, even if it is according to the price of the Great Song Dynasty!

One of their boxes of matches can be exchanged for a sheep, and a pack of ten boxes can be exchanged for a cow, not counting the candles, porcelain bowls, and coarse silk?!

The gifts they brought were opened in the hall on the spot, and Wang Zheng and Xiao Er's entourage showed them to everyone one by one.

This was, of course, a matter of respect for the custom of the kingdom of Shiraz, and the gifts given to the king by foreign nationals were to be shown to the ministers as a sign of the king's dignity...... Who knows what they think.

There were ministers who made demands on behalf of their king...... They wanted the sea ships in Wang Zheng and Xiao Er's fleet, but the price was not proposed.

Xiao Er glanced at Wang Zheng, and he took the initiative to reply: "It's not unusual for me to build hundreds or thousands of such ships on the big island every year...... Why don't you wait two years, Your Majesty, and you can get or buy a bigger ship than us! ”

Xiao Er motioned to the translator to pronounce the words "buy" and "change" a little heavier.

The meaning is obvious...... If you want us to dedicate it to you, don't even think about it, we can do business!

The minister who spoke pondered for a moment and asked, "If we want to buy at what price, what is the exchange method if we want to exchange it?" ”

Xiao Er said happily: "It's very simple...... If you want to buy it, it will cost about 50,000 dinars of our size!

If you want to change, you can go out and exchange people with us......"

Oh, many ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

When they first heard that it was going to cost 50,000 dinars, they were all shocked, how many silver coins were there in the whole treasury?

A sea ship must be so expensive, they simply can't afford to build their own fleet!

When Wang Zheng and Xiao Er led the fleet to the island, the entire Shiraz royal palace was shocked...... Is there such a sea ship in the world that can be loaded?!

The largest galleys they've ever seen weren't half the size of those...... The reason for this is very simple, the Liuqiu sea boat does not need to think about arranging the oarsman's paddle cabin at all, and a fool can see it, and it saves a lot of space at once.

So, they immediately discussed how they could get such a sea boat!

In this time and space, the eastern region of Africa has all kinds of materials, and when they saw the sea ships of the Liuqiu merchants, they didn't know how ridiculous their original transportation capacity was!

With such a ship, it is not only possible to run and transport...... The point is, the ship could fit hundreds of people at once!

The kingdom of Shiraz, or Shiraz, was also one of the main markets for the slave trade.

They are different from Persia, Egypt and other war-torn regions, where people can buy slaves of all colors, and war and captivity can provide a variety of races for those who need it...... Otherwise, they had to go to the west bank of the strait to hunt blacks...... In addition, the king of Shiraz has a dream, whether he can completely conquer the black tribes on the western shore in one fell swoop with his own ability!

In this way, the result of the discussion was that they needed such a sea ship too much...... That's why they have dinner like this.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er sliced the roast beef and roast mutton divided into them with a hand knife with relish, and they tasted really good, but the seasoning was too little and too monotonous...... Not even paprika! (To be continued.) )