The priest was indeed rich, and he took ten minutes of gold and bought ten horses of silk that Bass and Rag had carried.

The first deal made in the Western world was dramatically completed.

Amid the respectful farewell of the priest and the crowd present, the four Besses left the city of Assyria with a heavy load of ten pieces of gold.

Because Ragah had made the first deal with the priests in the name of God's messenger, they could not return to Assyria to continue selling silk, or they would attract the whole city to watch. Besides, since he is a messenger of the gods, it is understandable that in order to improve his life, he occasionally does a little business to earn some money, but if he often goes in and out of the city to do business and earn money, he will attract the criticism of the world, and seriously affect the glorious image of the gods in the eyes of the locals.

When the four of them returned to the ship, they told Raco what had happened, and Raco praised Raco for doing a good job. He then left the woods and flew to the city of Babylon, south of Assyria.

After about half an hour of flying, Ragoo saw a large castle through the observation system, which he was sure was the city of Babylon. He slowed down and lowered his flight altitude and sent the observation image to the window of the cabin for his companions to see.

The castle looks about the size of the Assyrian city, and the streets and buildings in the city are almost identical, with many large and small temples scattered throughout the city. The difference is that there is a river running through the city.

"The whole of this city fits exactly the characteristics of Babylon as described by the Rastians!" Raco said.

"That must be the city of Babylon, I think there are at least twenty temples in the city!" Daorong said.

"Not only is there a temple in the city, but Racho and I saw in the sky that there was a temple in the desert to the west of the city, and trees were planted around the temple to form an oasis in the desert. We wonder why the Babylonians built a temple in the desert so far away. Rag said.

"Rako, let's see, it must be a very special temple." Bass Road.

Raco quickly adjusted the viewing system, and the image in the window shrank sharply to reveal the desert landscape to the west of the castle. As the desert area zooms in through the window, the image of a temple becomes clearer.

The temple seems to be built on a large scale, and the plants and grass around the temple seem to be growing well, indicating that the temple has not been abandoned and that there are people living in it to take care of the surrounding gardens.

"This temple in the desert is at least seventy kilometers to the west of the castle." Rakodao.

"It's strange that there are already so many temples in the city, why would the Babylonians build a temple in the desert so far away?" Yang looked at the window.

"There must be an important reason, maybe there is some miracle in the history of that place, or we should land near that temple and take a look now?" Daorong looked at Raco and said.

Raco said, "It's too far away from the city, which is not good for you to trade, and besides, our ship is parked near the temple and can easily be spotted by the locals and attract onlookers. When you go into the city to do business, ask the locals why it is, and if it's a famous temple, we'd better wait until it's dusk when no one is visiting the temple. ”

The spaceship landed in a wooded area not far from the city, and seeing that it was almost noon, the three creatures replenished a little food and water again, and then prepared to enter the city to do business.

Bass suggested that this time he would go to the city without any silk but two pieces of gold to buy an ox cart, and then use the ox cart to load silk into the city to trade, and the last painful experience of carrying silk into the city caused a lot of trauma to his soul.

The companions understood the bass's difficulties and agreed to his suggestion.

The four of them went to a gate and asked the soldiers who were standing guard, and sure enough, this was the city of Babylon. Moreover, the soldiers here were more polite to the travelers who came from afar, and when they heard that the four of the Besses were going into the city to buy ox carts, the soldiers explained in detail which direction in the city and how far away there were ox carts to buy and sell.

Entering the city, although the sun was hotter at noon, the bass felt much better than last time because he didn't have a bag on his back.

Soon after the four entered the city, they found that there were significantly more pedestrians and ox carts on the road than in the Assyrian city.

Following the doorman's instructions, they found a market for the ox carts, and they bought a sturdy ox and a brand new ox for a minna nugget.

Moreover, the four of them had some unexpected gains in the process of buying the ox cart, and they obtained a lot of important information from the merchants who sold the ox carts: the king of Babylon attached great importance to commercial trade, and he offered many preferential conditions to those who did business in the city of Babylon, one of which was the establishment of more than a dozen professional trading markets, the goods of each industry were traded in the same market, and these professional markets were open to merchants equally, and they did not have to pay any additional taxes and fees to buy and sell goods in them.

But the bullock cart seller warned the four businessmen who had just arrived from afar that they would be fined or confiscated if they set up stalls in the city to buy and sell.

When Bease told the ox-cart merchant that he had come from the East to sell silk, the bullock cart merchant was very envious and said, "Oriental silk is a rare commodity in the city of Babylon, so you only have to load the silk on my ox-cart and go to the hemp clothing market, and the rich people in the city will come to you with bags of gold to buy silk." ”

Bass and his three companions happily drove the ox cart back to the ship's landing site, and they had forgotten all about visiting the temple outside the city until Raco inquired, and Dao Rong told Raco that when he returned to the city to sell silk, he would remember to ask the locals what was so special about the temple in the desert.

Bass and his three companions rushed into the city of Babylon again with an ox cart full of a hundred silks, because they had found the location of the linen trading market after buying the ox cart, so this time they arrived directly by car.

The market was so busy trading linen, clothing and leather goods that when the four of them stopped at an empty spot in the market and then opened the cloth bags covering the goods of the ox carts, a large pile of colorful silk immediately attracted a large crowd of onlookers in the market.

Rag immediately opened his voice and shouted to the onlookers: "Oriental colored silk! One Sam two minna gold! ”

All three of Rag's companions remained silent, their eyes wary of the crowd of onlookers.

Onlookers looked at the fine silk and praised it, but only a few people bargained with Rag, but the newcomer, Rag insisted on not changing a word of the advertisement.

Finally, a man took out two pieces of gold and claimed to buy a piece of red silk, and he had to check the size first, as is customary, and the bass opened a red silk and measured it with the guest's hand.

After the measurement, the guest was satisfied, and he handed the gold to Rag, who confirmed that it was the gold of the two Mingna, and the guest left happily with two red silk horses in his arms.

The four of the bass were secretly happy in their hearts, if the priests in the city of Assyria were afraid of the gods to be willing to trade at the price that the rag shouted, then the customer just now was indeed voluntary, indicating that the price was acceptable in the local market.

After the first trade in the city of Babylon, several more were followed, but they were all small deals of one or two silks.

Although there are more and more onlookers, most of them just watch the excitement and do not buy goods, only a small number of people bargain with Rag, and even fewer end up doing business. It can be seen that oriental silk was an expensive commodity in Babylon, and not the average person could afford to consume it.

Seeing that only a dozen pieces of silk were sold within an hour of opening, Bass was a little disappointed, and if he had to sell all five hundred pieces of silk at the current price, he didn't know when he would be able to complete the deal.

Just as he was about to discuss with his companions whether to sell the goods at a lower price, the crowd of onlookers suddenly and spontaneously moved out of the way.

Bass thought to himself that he would not meet a money-hungry priest again, and if that was the case, it would be a good thing, and maybe this cart of silk could be sold to this priest. From the priest in Assyria, it can be inferred that the priests of the Western Regions were very wealthy.

This time, walking through the passage of the onlookers was a well-dressed local old man, whose eyes glowed strangely when he saw a cart of brightly colored silk.

He stepped forward and touched the silk with his hand, then looked up and down the four sellers, who looked and dressed differently from the natives, and asked Rag very culturedly, "Are you from the East?" ”

Rag replied politely: "Yes, this is the finest colored silk of the Eastern Shu Kingdom, one sa and two mins of gold!" ”

"How many of these silks do you have?" The old man continued to ask polite questions.

"We brought two hundred and fifty sarcass and sold ten, so there are two hundred and forty sarcas left." Rag Dao.

"If I buy all your surplus silk, will it be cheaper?" The old man asked unhurriedly.

The bass and the two female companions were overjoyed when they heard it, it turned out to be a big seller!

Rag's expression remained calm, and instead of immediately replying to the old man's words, he looked at his companion for advice.

Princess Yang was decisive at the critical moment, and he said to Lag in Shu Chinese: "If he can buy them all, buy ten horses and get one free!" ”

The bass sighed in his heart, Yang is really his confidante, because that's what he thought just now.

"He's going to buy it all and cut it down by 10 percent!" Bass said to Rag in Morrow.

So Rag said to the old man, "If you can buy all the silk we have left, you can reduce it by a tenth of the price of one silk and two golds." ”

The old man was a little surprised when he heard Rager's new offer, and his originally smiling face became serious: "You Orientals already know such advanced mathematics as one-tenth?"

Rag didn't want to digress so as not to delay the deal, so he replied briefly, "Yes." ”

The old man exclaimed: "The progress of oriental civilization is very fast, no wonder it can make such wonderful silk." Well, we make a deal! Please calculate how much gold I need to give you. ”

Raga said: "It's very simple, two hundred and forty minna of silk is traded according to two mina of gold per sa, a total of four hundred and eighty minna of gold is needed, and a tenth of the price reduction is a reduction of forty-eight minna, so you need four hundred and thirty-two mina of gold in exchange for our two hundred and forty sa of silk." ”

After Rag finished speaking, the old man and the onlookers let out exclamations in unison.

"If your calculations are correct, prove that you are the greatest mathematician!" The old man said excitedly to Rag, "I will send someone to the palace to have our mathematicians calculate whether your calculations are correct, and bring all the gold we need, and ask you to gather all the silk here and prepare to trade." ”

After the old man finished speaking, he waved his hand behind him, and a young man in uniform walked over quickly, the old man whispered a few words to him, and the young man nodded and walked away quickly.

The silk was bought by the old man, and the onlookers soon dispersed, and the silk business here was all done, and there was no longer any suspense.

Bass thought it was ridiculous in his heart just now, such a simple addition and subtraction calculation was not worth mentioning to Lager at all. However, when he heard the old man mention the palace, he guessed in his heart that the old man was from the palace of Babylon, no wonder he was so amazingly generous.

As soon as the old man turned around, the bass hurriedly asked, "Are you an official of the palace of Babylon?" ”

The old man replied with a smile: "Yes, I am the official in charge of procurement in the palace, and we have everything here, that is, your oriental silk is rare." You just mentioned the Eastern Shu Kingdom, are the four of you from that kingdom? ”

"Exactly, this is the princess of Shu, and this is the apprentice of the high priest of Shu." The bass first introduced his two female companions.

"Fortunately! Fortunately! I invite the four guests to come to my palace after completing the transaction, and I will ask my king to meet your guests from the Orient who have come from afar. The old man politely extended the invitation.

Bass said to the old man: "We will stay in Babylon for a while, and we will definitely visit your palace, we have a question, why is there a temple in the western desert outside your city?" ”

The old man replied, "That temple was the first temple built by the first king of my kingdom of Babylon, and it is still a very famous temple, and it is the temple where our five greatest priestly events are held every year, and our king himself attends. ”

"Why?" Rag asked, he couldn't understand how the people of his city had to go far and wide for big events.

The old man looked at Ragah and said, "Because there is a god among the gods enshrined in that temple, who became the best friend of my Babylonian king after descending from heaven, if the four eastern guests want to visit my temple in Babylon, I solemnly recommend you to visit that temple." You can go there on camels, where the priest was an assistant to the gods, but he knew everything about immortality, and five kings of my kingdom of Babylon had great respect for him. ”