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Outer Palace, Ministry of Rites

The foreign envoys of the new emperor of various countries are temporarily living in the Ministry of Rites, so that they can stay in the palace for one night, which is enough to see that the gifts they pay tribute are very satisfying to Lao Zhu.

A bearded young man with mixed black and yellow hair who always looked wet looked around with excitement in his eyes and couldn't help but exclaim,

"What a great nation! Just like Grandpa wrote! In China, there is gold everywhere! ”

The adventurer from Italy, Marco Polo, personally seemed very excited, after all, he saw the description of China from his grandfather's books,

In the Travels of Marco Polo written by his grandfather, China is described as a country built of gold.

When Marco Polo came to China, China was still at the peak of the Yuan Dynasty, and the commerce of the Yuan Dynasty was at its peak in all dynasties.

And the Ming Dynasty where Marco Polo is coming now, judging from the magnificence of the palace alone, is definitely inferior to the Yuan Dynasty.

But despite this, it also made little Marco Polo look amazed,

"Hey! Gandhi! Why didn't you react at all? ”

Marco Polo bypassed the foreign envoys, circled behind them, and walked around behind a middle-aged man with white skin and an Indian face.

This is the best friend of Marco Polo Jr., the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Delhi Sultanate, Gandhi, whom Marco Polo Jr. met in the Delhi Sultanate.

Under the caste system of India, the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, who are at the top, are not only completely different from the two castes at the bottom, but also have great differences in appearance.

It is no exaggeration to say that just from the appearance, you can see the level of its caste in India,

Like a black-faced and thin-skinned, protruding facial features are generally pure-blooded low-caste Indians,

For example, Gandhi, who has a tall white face and soft facial features, is a high caste at a glance.

The reason why there is such a big difference in appearance between the high and low castes in India,

It is precisely because a high caste like Brahmin is not a native race of India, but an alien race that occupies the magpie's nest in India.

And for nearly a thousand years when the caste system was established in India, a strict reproductive segregation to the perverted level has been maintained,

It is morally condemnatory for a high-caste man to marry a low-caste woman, but it is not impossible,

And if a low-caste man marries a high-caste woman, this is the biggest crime in India, which is tantamount to the rebellion of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it is directly punished.

Gandhi opened his eyes, and there was a black mole on the center of his eyebrows, which looked like some Buddha statues.

Marco Polo Jr. was surprised by the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, one of which is that the Eastern and Western civilizations are completely different, and everything in the Ming Dynasty is fresh to Marco Polo.

In addition, it is also under the filter of his Zu Marco Polo's travels, so Marco Polo sees everything in Daming is good,

But Gandhi is different, his life in the upper echelons of India is also very extravagant, so I don't feel much about this.

"I think you need to rest more."

"What are you resting for? How can you be in the mood to rest? I wonder when the officials of the Ming Dynasty will be able to let us into the city? I can't wait to see the city! ”

"Hehe, I'm afraid there's nothing to surprise you, but it's going to disappoint you when the time comes."

Gandhi, the Chancellor of Finance of the Sultanate of Delhi, smiled faintly, and although there was no mocking look on his face, his tone was full of mockery.

The group of foreign envoys were chatting, the door of the palace was squeaked open, and the household servant Xia Yuanji had a polite smile on his face,

"With the Holy Authority's permission, you can act in Ying Tianfu on your own."

“yeS！！！”

Little Marco Polo was overjoyed when he heard this, and he picked up Gandhi and was about to go out.

Gandhi couldn't resist his friends, and Gandhi really wanted to see what the Ming Dynasty had developed like now, so he got up half-pushed.

Walked to the head of the household servant Xia Yuanji and stood still, and performed a Buddhist salute,

Natsuhara nodded in response.

The two looked at each other deeply, and after all the envoys inside and outside the palace were dispersed, Yao Guangxiao, a scholar, walked in, and since the completion of the prototype of the cabinet, these people have also consciously supported each other.

"All gone?"

Yao Guangxiao wiped his bald head, even if it was a Buddhist robe, but there was not the slightest Buddha aura on his body, and his eyes showed a fierce light, but he looked like a big bandit.

"Hmm. It's all in the city. ”

Yao Guangxiao said confidently,

"That's for sure, Your Majesty deliberately suppressed them for a whole day, if the poor monk can't do these things again, it will be too incompetent."

"Okay, I'll go and tell Your Majesty."

Xia Yuanji nodded, and then turned around and walked towards the palace.

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Xiongying set up a table in front of the dragon chair, and the dragon chair was cushioned with a colorful but thick enough butt pad, which was also made by the grandparents and the two elders in a hurry.

"Your Majesty."

Xia Yuanji didn't need to be informed, and went straight into the palace, even if Zhu Xiongying was on the second day of his accession to the throne, but His Majesty Xia Yuanji was not unfamiliar with this call at all.

I don't know how many times he has secretly called in his heart to blurt out so smoothly,

"Say."

Zhu Xiongying raised his head and looked at Xia Yuanji, it was just half an hour's effort, and Zhu Xiongying had already reviewed the excerpts that had been moved in from the outer palace.

"Foreign envoy Zhu has already entered the city."

Zhu Xiongying's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile,

"We're all ready."

"Yes."

"Hehe," Zhu Xiongying breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and continued,

"These Tianzhu people have a grudge against my Ming Dynasty."

Xia Yuanji nodded in response,

"Tianzhu people like sugar, sugar technology is also second to none, the previous Yuan Dynasty, is the Tianzhu country to sell sugar buyers,

After the Emperor Taishang established the Ming Dynasty, he would occasionally import sugar to Tianzhu, but in recent years, Your Majesty has improved the sugar making technique, and we don't need to import sugar to Tianzhu at all.

Without such a big buyer as us, Tianzhu people are of course angry. ”

India is the most sugar-loving country on the whole planet, and its sugar-making technology far exceeds that of any other country of its time.

Not only do they produce sugar but they also export it in large quantities, which means that the sugar industry is the bulk of India's foreign trade.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin had to buy a huge amount of sugar with Tianzhu, and even sent people to Tianzhu to learn sugar-making skills, but of course he didn't learn anything.

After all, eating sugar in the Central Plains is a hobby, eating sugar in India is a faith, how can the guy who eats teach it to the Central Plains?

However, I have to admit that the quality of Indian sugar is indeed unsurpassed.

And Zhu Xiongying convened the household department to set up a bureau for Gandhi, not only to never buy Tianzhu's sugar in the future, but also to let Tianzhu buy sugar from Daming!

As long as Tianzhu's sugar market opens, it will bring a huge trade surplus to Daming every year!

Syllable!

Zhu Xiongying patted the table case, Zhengsedao,

"If you don't pick up a layer of skin on them this time, you must not let them leave Beijing!"