After telling the story, Qi Run said with a look of surprise and excitement, "So that's the case!" ”

And then it's over.

When Shao Zhiqiu asked her again, she still had to be a general.

The original words are like this, "It's okay mother, whether you want it or not, Erchen thinks about it." ”

Shao Zhiqiu quietly turned her head to look at Qi Wu, her eyes full of sympathy.

Anyway, it was her father who promised her at the beginning, and now she has to ask her father to collect debts, and Shao Zhiqiu doesn't care much about it.

"Okay, that's it, I'll go and learn the foreign dialect with the translator later, so as not to be incomprehensible to what others outside say."

"Got it."

Although Shao Zhiqiu can still remember it, once she reads a book for a long time, she will have a headache, so she has to read it for a short time every day, and spend more time talking to the translator.

In fact, she was also willing to ask the translator a little bit about the vassals.

The translator's surname is Jiang Mingqian, and he used to be a native of Wei, but now he really agrees with himself as a native of the Great Zhou.

Of course, he didn't know that the family of four in front of him at this time was actually the pinnacle of power in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Otherwise, he was afraid that he would not be able to talk to Shao Zhiqiu and the others so freely.

"So, your ancestors made a living by working as translators for maritime merchants?"

"Exactly."

When Shao Zhiqiu heard this, she had a plan in her heart.

Nowadays, the development of maritime trade is getting faster and faster, and the demand for translators is also increasing, it seems that after going back, you have to add a lesson in the official school of Luzhou, but Shao Zhiqiu then thought about it, this is still inappropriate, and it is the right solution to have the opportunity to let them all learn the official language of Da Zhou, otherwise Da Zhou will still invest too much manpower and material resources.

However, you still have to learn the language of the domain.

Otherwise, everyone knows what you say, and you don't know what they say, so wouldn't you let others speak?

Jiang Qian has never seen Shao Zhiqiu learn the foreign dialect so quickly, in fact, there are many people in the maritime merchants who send people from their families to learn the foreign dialect, but the pronunciation of the foreign dialect is really different from the official dialect of the Great Zhou, and it is very tongue-twisting to learn, and there are still a few who can really learn it.

However, there are a few families who have invited gentlemen from other clans, and they plan to let their children start from elementary school, but this is not a day's work, and the specific success or failure will have to wait until these children are older in the future to see.

Shao Zhiqiu was greatly amazed when she heard this, because she knew that the younger the language lesson, the more effective it would be for children to learn it with half the effort.

After sailing for more than 40 days, although the sailors were curious about who this family was, they saw that their owners were respectful to them, and they didn't dare to come up to talk to them at first, but Qi Wu took the initiative to talk to them and gradually had a conversation.

Maritime trade did bring high taxes to the Great Zhou, and at the same time, it also provided better livelihood opportunities for the people in the coastal areas. This kind of prosperity is exactly what Shao Zhiqiu wants to see.

It's just that the ensuing problems are also obvious, the Great Zhou Dynasty has not yet set up customs, although the navy has been stepping up training in recent years, but in the end the time to become an army is still short, and there are few opportunities for actual combat, so I can't really pull out to find those bandits to experience and experience, thinking of this, Shao Zhiqiu subconsciously looked at her daughter, and couldn't help but feel funny when she thought of her eager to try.

Qi Wu seemed to know what she was thinking, sighed aside, and said, "I'm afraid that our family is really going to have another female general." ”

"I'm okay." Shao Zhiqiu said with a smile.

Now Run'er's ability to protect herself is enough, but the others dare not say.

Not to mention that there are very few people who talk about water warfare in the war book, and there are almost no naval battles, even if Shao Zhiqiu has those things left by the wood mound, before the real battle, Shao Zhiqiu does not dare to say that he can win.

Sea trade, the Great Zhou Dynasty still has a long way to go.

In the evening of this day, Jiang Qian came to pass a message to Qi Wu and the others, saying that they would be able to reach the first destination of the trip in two days, which was a country named Danqi, and they learned the foreign dialect, which is the language of this country.

I have long learned from Jiang Qian that the foreign domain is actually a general term for the countries on the other side of the strait by the maritime merchants, and as for how many countries there are on this continent, so far the Great Zhou people are not clear.

Most of the goods of Da Zhou are also sold through Danqi as a transit station.

This made Shao Zhiqiu feel very curious.

How is it possible for so many countries on one continent to coexist peacefully?

Later, I asked Jiang Qian to find out that the relationship between these countries was complicated, and they often maintained their relations with each other through various marriages, and usually several countries were allied with each other, and once there was a war, it was likely to be a war to destroy the country, so everyone carefully chose to value peace.

Jiang Qian said that the goods of the Great Zhou Dynasty are very popular in Danqi today, and most of them are only affordable by the aristocracy. And he also knew that the Danqi people made profits by reselling the goods of the Great Zhou to other foreign feudal countries, but if the Great Zhou people did not go through the Danqi and did it themselves, it would increase the cost and outweigh the losses, so everyone was mutually beneficial, and they also cooperated well with each other.

Today's foreign feudal countries are not as fast as the Great Zhou Dynasty, and many basic farmland and water conservancy basic equipment are still in the most primitive state, which makes Shao Zhiqiu's expectations for this trip to the foreign domain much lower.

Two days later, the treasure ship arrived at Dench as scheduled, and the family of four, who had been floating at sea for more than a month, was finally down-to-earth.

The city they landed in was called Amtros, and the maritime merchants called it Amu City for short, and it was the largest port city in the Danqi Kingdom, just like Luzhou in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The arrival of merchant ships from the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been a major event in Amu City.

Speaking of which, I have to insert that the maritime merchants who fled from the Wei State to the Danqi Kingdom before slowly returned to the Great Zhou after seeing that other people who returned to the Great Zhou could still do business freely, after all, their homeland is difficult to leave, and they are unwilling to live in a group of foreign vassals who are obviously not the same kind of people as themselves.

As soon as the treasure ship docked, locals began to wait on the shore.

Of course, such a person must not be a nobleman, but some coolies who hope to be able to help run errands and transport goods after the Great Zhou maritime merchants and local nobles have done business.

Although I had seen some foreign feudal people in Luzhou before, when I really arrived at a place where there were foreign feudal lords everywhere that were different from my own, not only Qi Run and Qi Heng, but even Shao Zhiqiu and Qi Wu were full of novelty.

Jiang Qian's biggest task on this trip was to serve Shao Zhiqiu and his party, so he got off the boat with their family as soon as possible.

"Sir, ma'am, what are we going to do next?"

Shao Zhiqiu and Qi Wu glanced at each other, and Shao Zhiqiu smiled, "It's still the old rule, let's taste the food of this Emu City first!" ”

Jiang Qian was used to seeing this family as a lady along the way, so he happily went to the boat to pay the money, and began to take them to enjoy the delicious food.