"Your Majesty, this shining golden elephant was also brought from Tianzhu?"
"Of course not. How is it possible to transport it from Tianzhu? The sea route from Surat to Guangzhou is more than 10,000 to 20,000 miles. How can you put an elephant on the ship and not stink to death?"
"Then this elephant is..."
"I ordered the goods from Jinoujun and asked the seller to deliver them to Guangzhou."
“Buy an elephant and have it delivered?”
"Princess Nessa has a lot of money! Money can make all the difference, so what's the point of sending an elephant to your door?"
"Then why did Princess Nisha bring an elephant to Wuchang?"
"Of course it's a ride... Do you see the little golden house on the elephant's back? The princess will sit in it."
The people who were talking were Zhu Cibing and Grand Duke Luo. It turned out that they came to the dock to greet Princess Nisha of the Timur Empire of Tianzhu. While the two were talking about elephants, they looked at some people wearing colorful saris and dresses, with glittering jewelry on their wrists, necks, hair, ears... and even their nostrils. The maids of Tianzhu lined up in two teams and walked from the golden ship to the dock through the long springboard. There are 20 of these maids in total. They are all beauties with wheatish skin and a somewhat coquettish appearance. Each of them has a basket on their right arm. There is something shining in the basket. I don’t know what it is?
Immediately afterwards, Princess Nisha, who was dressed in a white sari and only had a string of pearl necklaces hanging on her long neck. She looked extremely elegant and appeared in the sight of Prince Fu Zhu Cibing.
Zhu Cibing pulled Grand Duke Luo, who was looking at Princess Nisha's Rajput maid, in a low voice: "Princess Nisha is here."
After hearing what he said, Grand Duke Luo quickly looked towards the golden ship and immediately saw Princess Nisha who was dressed in all white and wearing a white headscarf.
"Why does this princess look different from her maids?" Grand Duke Luo looked at the princess's facial features and skin color, and then looked at those Rajput maids. They were completely different!
"Of course it's different," Zhu Cibing said, "The princess is Mongolian, and the maids are Rajputs from Tianzhu... They are not the same species."
"Mongolians? They don't look like them!" Grand Duke Luo took another look.
"She's gone...she has more Persian blood, and a little bit of blood from the Western Regions, but she doesn't have the blood of the local people in Tianzhu, so she is very white. Those who are a little bit dark are the noble blood of the local people of Tianzhu."
"Exalted species?" Grand Duke Luo asked, "Are there any cheap species?"
"Of course there are," Zhu Cibing said, "There are many species in Tianzhu, and they are clearly distinguished... It is difficult for outsiders to distinguish them clearly. I also know that the whiter the skin, the higher the species."
"Really?" Grand Duke Luo glanced at Zhu Cibing and said half-jokingly, "Your Majesty, we are both pretty fair. We will probably be noble breeds in Tianzhu, right?"
Haha, it can’t all depend on skin! Zhu Cibing has actually studied caste in Tianzhu, and caste is actually linked to occupation. Grand Duke Luo is a descendant of Luo Yuzhang, a great Confucian of the Song Dynasty. His 600-year-old scholarly family is probably a Brahmin in Tianzhu. And Zhu Cibing's ancestors had to have a meal... I wonder if Princess Nisha will look down on Emperor Zhu after knowing this?
While he was thinking wildly, Princess Nesa had already walked onto the Hanyangmen Pier surrounded by a group of maids. Her eyesight was quite good, and she saw Zhu Cibing from a distance, so she walked towards him with a smile, and she started to imitate her when she got there. She looked like a Chinese woman and made a blessing ceremony.
"Nisha is so polite." What the princess said was also in Chinese - she can now write poems in Chinese, her language talent is really quite good!
Zhu Cibing quickly returned the favor and said, "Xiao Wang has met the princess." Then he introduced Grand Duke Luo to Princess Nisha, "Your Highness, this is Grand Duke Luo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Cihong abolished the cabinet of bachelors and replaced it with a cabinet system in which the prime minister and the ministers jointly assisted the administration. As a result, the eight ministers were all called "ge Lao".
"I've met Mr. Ge." Princess Nesa also gave a blessing gift to Grand Duke Luo.
Grand Duke Luo returned the courtesy quickly, and then said with a smile: "Your Highness, I and His Royal Highness Prince Fu have received the emperor's order to take you into the palace... The East Lake Palace is quite far from here, we'd better hurry up and don't let Your Majesty Awaited."
"Listen to Mr. Ge." Princess Nisha waved behind her, and then she saw two dark elephant slaves driving a big golden elephant towards her.
At the same time, there were more slaves who looked very dark. The two of them picked a big box and got off the gold boat. There are many slaves and many boxes. Until Princess Nissa entered the small golden house on the back of the elephant with the help of her maid, there was a steady stream of slaves getting off the boat.
"His Royal Highness Prince Fu, let's set off!" Princess Nesa watched all her slaves get off the boat, then smiled and said to Zhu Cibing.
Zhu Cibing and Grand Duke Luo looked at each other, then looked at the elephant that had stood up, and then ordered various servants to bring the horses - they had prepared a carriage for the princess, but if they wanted to ride an elephant, they also I had no choice but to ride on horseback and clear the way ahead.
But they were not the ones walking at the front. The one at the front was Zhu Cibing's guard of honor. Behind the guard of honor were Princess Nesa's twenty Geralput maids, then Grand Duke Luo and Zhu Cibing, and then the people on horseback. Princess Nisha on the elephant. Behind the princess is a slave carrying books and jewelry for her. Most of her dowry has been deposited in Maritime Bank and remitted directly to Wuhan. Only part of it was taken with her to spend on the road. . What came with her were mainly her books and jewelry... She is the number one bibliophile in Tianzhu! The results of the entire Tianfang Sect's century-old translation movement came to China with her.
As for jewelry, there are so many. India is rich in all kinds of gems and pearls. The Timur Empire has robbed India for so many years, and there are only a lot of these kinds of things in the warehouse. Princess Nisha wants as much as she wants. have?
In fact, she doesn't wear much, she only wears a string of pearls and nothing else... However, Princess Nisha still brought many to Daming to show off her appearance.
The team had already started to move forward. After walking for a while, walking in front of Zhu Cibing and Grand Duke Luo were 20 Rajput maids carrying baskets. As soon as they walked out of the pier and walked on the street outside Hanyang Gate, these maids started throwing things in their baskets to the people watching the excitement on both sides of the road!
"What are they doing? Why are they throwing things around?" Luo Dagong was shocked when he saw small pebble-like objects being thrown out. "Will this hit someone? What should I do if it hits someone?" ?”
Zhu Cibing had seen this happen when he was in Tianzhu. He said in a dumbfounded way: "They are throwing rupees."
"Rupees? What are rupees?"
Zhu Cibing explained: "The rupee is money! It is the silver coin of Timur's empire in Tianzhu!"
"What? Throwing money? Can money be thrown around? Isn't this a waste of money?"
"It's like this over in Tianzhu," Zhu Cibing said. "Waters will kill you, and drought will kill you... Timur's dynasty was so rich that its annual income was equal to that of our Ming Dynasty. That’s half! Princess Nisha’s dowry also includes her own private property plus several million taels of silver, plus an annuity of more than 300,000 taels!
I guess her maid will spread the money all the way to the East Lake Palace! "
Luo Dagong thought: Throwing money along the way? This princess is too extravagant. I will tell His Majesty later and discipline her!
Princess Nisha rode an elephant, scattered rupees, and carried countless jewelry and books through Wuchang City and rushed to the East Lake Palace. When Emperor Zhu was taking out the examination papers in his imperial study room - this It’s a test paper for Jinling Women’s University admissions! But it was difficult, and the first one to accept the test was, of course, Princess Nessa who was rushing to the East Lake Palace.
Fortunately, Zhu Cixiang figured out that he would use a semi-public examination to entertain this foreign princess from afar, and her status in the harem would also be determined by the examination results. The highest she could get was a noble concubine, and the lowest she could only be a concubine. To be a selected attendant...so Princess Nissa has to take the exam well!
