When he arrived at Sumatra, he docked at the mouth of the Gamba River, leaving half of the people to guard the boat, and Wu Yuanqing took the men to the shore immediately.

As soon as he came ashore, Bai Shan left with the men and horses led by the prince to look for gold. Wu Yuanqing led his subordinates to walk slowly in another direction.

This place is indeed primitive enough, there are no people near the estuary, which must be placed in the Datang Danfan near the estuary There must be cities.

After walking here for a long time, I only saw a few thatched huts scattered by the stars, saying that the thatched huts were praised, but in fact, they were broken sheds built with tree branches, which did not block the wind or rain.

Wu Yuanqing originally wanted to catch one or two as guides, but when these people saw their large group of people, they turned around and ran into the forest, jumping three times and two jumps before disappearing.

Forget it, don't catch it, anyway, if you catch it, you can't communicate, Wu Yuanqing comforted himself like this.

After walking more than ten miles, the population finally increased, although they were still very afraid of Wu Yuanqing and them, but at least they would not run away without saying a word.

After walking a few miles along the crowd, a dilapidated sand city appeared in sight, and the city wall was at most more than one person, which was not as high as the courtyard walls of many houses in the Tang Dynasty.

It's only a few hundred meters wide, the small ones are pitiful to death, Chang'an's Suzaku Street is a few hundred meters wide, and there are several such small broken cities on that street alone.

The city is broken like this, and the residential houses inside can be imagined. The good earth and stone are built, the bad ones are the branches and thatch, and the people are short and dark, dry and skinny.

But it was such a broken city, and there was a small Colosseum inside, Wu Yuanqing and the others followed the noisy sound to find it and went inside, and found that there were dozens of people gathered there, and below it was a pit about two meters deep and more than twenty meters wide. The pit is surrounded by a fence made of wooden stakes, and people stand behind the fence and watch.

When they entered, a half-sized tiger of more than one meter was facing off against a one-horned rhinoceros about two meters in the pit.

I'll take a look, the turtles are playing quite advanced, and I haven't seen such a grade of fighting beasts in Chang'an.

The gentlemen of Chang'an play fighting beasts, that is, chickens, dogs, at most lynxes, leopards, and the like. There are not many tigers, let alone rhinos.

"Haha, I'll just say that there are a lot of good things here, how about it, have you seen it?" Wu Yuanqing laughed and asked Changle who covered his mouth in surprise.

"Brother Yuanqing, is this what you said made you make a great contribution?" Changle asked cutely.

"Why, you can take a few of these things back to your majesty, but you can't rely on them for meritorious service. It's not like we don't have tigers and rhinoceros." Wu Yuanqing shook his head: "But animals can't, plants can."

"Plants?" Changle doesn't understand.

"To be precise, wood, have you noticed that although this is a Colosseum, with tigers and rhinoceros, the smell is not too bad, but there is some faint aroma." Wu Yuanqing said with a smile.

Changle wrinkled his little nose, sniffed slightly, and nodded: "That's really the case, it smells like there is a smell of sandalwood."

"That's right, it's sandalwood, and the fragrance of camphor wood, all of which come from these woods" Wu Yuanqing nodded, pointing to the fence in front of him and said.

"Brother Yuanqing, are you saying that these woods are sandalwood and camphor wood?" Changle asked in disbelief as he looked at the rotten wood covered in mud in front of him.

Sandalwood and camphor wood are all high-quality woods, and only the royal family and officials can use them to build houses and make furniture.

In particular, sandalwood is more valuable, not only for architectural use, but also for precious traditional Chinese medicine, which has always been valued by doctors, called "Xin, warm; return to the spleen, stomach, heart, and lung meridians; The heart is warm, appetizing and pain-relieving". External application of pen www.biquge.info can reduce inflammation and swelling and moisturize the skin.

It can also be used as incense, Buddhist believers are very fond of burning with sandalwood, sandalwood Buddhist beads have the effect of soothing the nerves, relieving the mind and assisting meditation.

An inch of red sandalwood and an inch of gold are not blown, and many people have a piece of sandalwood that can be passed on to future generations as an heirloom.

Looking at Changle's cute appearance with big eyes and a slightly open mouth, Wu Yuan Qingle said: "Haha, I didn't expect it, there will be many things that will surprise you in the future."

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Wu Yuanqing stayed in this city for three days, and his men searched for three days from the east to the west, and the only resistance they encountered was the army of thirty-two people sent by the city lord here on the first day.

It's a pity that the army of thirty-two people was killed and laid down in one face, and the city lord obediently became a prisoner.

Not only were the gold, silver and gems robbed, but even the houses were almost demolished, and the people in the city also suffered the same miserable fate as the city lord.

The earth and stone buildings are well preserved, but the broken trees have been demolished.

After Wu Yuanqing and the others returned to the ship, another day passed, and Bai Shan led the people back. Baishan also ransacked a city, which was much bigger than what Wu Yuanqing and they had encountered, and the good things in it were naturally more or less.

It's just that compared to the tigers, rhinoceros, long and short, thick and thin wood that Wu Yuanqing brought back, the one that Baishan brought back was much simpler. Gold, gold, gold, plus some pearls and gemstones in good condition.

Wu Yuanqing asked people to count it, and then collected it all. It's not that Wu Yuanqing doesn't plan to fulfill his promise, it's just that there is still a long way to go, and there are still a lot of things to grab and harvest, so there is no need to divide it now. It's not too late to wait until you return to Datang.

However, in order not to discourage the enthusiasm of these people, Wu Yuanqing did not leave a little encouragement for them, and the ones who stayed were not counted in that percentage.

Just when Wu Yuanqing and the others were about to stay for another day and set off the next day, the fleet encountered a problem.

In the afternoon, there was a sudden wind and waves, at first Wu Yuanqing felt that the wind and waves were not big, but after half an hour, the hull of the ship was shaken by the waves, and it became more and more intense, but the wind felt was still so strong.

"Young Master, I think we have to get out of here quickly, otherwise the ship will probably fall apart if we go down like this." Lao Huang ran over in a panic and said.

"Lao Huang, what's going on, obviously the wind is not big, why is the wave getting bigger and bigger?" Wu Yuanqing asked loudly.

"Back to the eldest young master, the little one hasn't been here, I don't know how such a strange thing happened." Lao Huang shook his head and said.

"If you don't know, forget it, you go and inform the other ships to lift anchor, let's leave quickly."

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As the ship slowly moved away from the shore, the impact on the hull gradually decreased, and Wu Yuanqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that there was no storm, just because he was staying in the wrong place.