After Pei Xingjian and Liu Yilong cleaned up the battlefield, they continued to lead their troops to the border. Of course, the sentry reporting to Li Ke had also headed towards Xianglin City.
I don’t know if it was because Kebal notified the garrison they occupied along the way on his way back. When Pei Xingjian and Liu Yilong arrived at the original border between Linyi and Zhenzhou, no Zhenzhou soldiers were seen here.
Upon arriving at the border, the two of them stopped advancing. Instead, they directly occupied the original barracks of Lin Yi's army and began to garrison on the spot.
Li Ke waited in Xianglin City for about twelve days before he arrived at Zhenwa's envoy. Li Ke was a little surprised by the person who came. He was the prince of Zhenwa, or to be precise, Ba Po, the heir to the throne of Zhenwa. Varman. His name should be Bhava, and Varman means the King of the Universe in the true wax language. In fact, this Varman is the title he can inherit after he succeeds to the throne.
The real wax of this period was first influenced by ancient Indian culture. The customs and writings of real wax were passed down from ancient India. Well, in fact, India in this period was not that big like ancient India. It’s related.
"Prince Bhava Kshatriya of the Kingdom has met His Highness the King of Qin." This man, who was about 27 or 28 years old, knelt on the ground and saluted directly when he saw Li Ke.
After hearing what he called himself, Li Ke realized that his surname was Kshatriya. Tsk tsk, whoever you say is not good to learn from, you have to learn from the one with the worst grades. Of course, for the royal family, that system is quite good.
"Without ceremony, get up." Li Ke waved his hand lightly. The person in front of him probably succeeded to the throne in 639 AD. He was Babavarman II. Babavarman I was his great-grandfather. The reigning About twenty years. In this way, he was in his fifties and sixties when he died, which is considered a long life.
I just don't know whether he spent his later years in Zhenwa or in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.
"I don't dare. As a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, Zhenwa did something wrong this time and inadvertently invaded the territory of the Tang Dynasty. I am panicking." Bhabha Kshatriya did not stand up, but continued to kneel on the ground.
"It's not that the Tang Dynasty has no tolerance for others. As the saying goes, those who don't know are not guilty. Since you didn't know beforehand, it's not entirely your fault." Li Ke spoke calmly and took a sip of tea.
"It is our blessing that His Highness can tolerate us, but this is not the reason why we can invade the land of the Tang Dynasty casually. If my father were not too old and ill, my father would have been prepared to come in person to pay homage to us. His Majesty the King of Qin apologizes." Bhabha Kshatriya didn't even raise his head, he just knelt there, lying on the ground talking to Li Ke.
"Oh, I understand what you want, so I wonder how you are going to punish yourselves?" Li Ke was a little curious, "Tsk, tsk, to be honest, I don't know how powerful the Tang Dynasty is until I go abroad."
"Replying to Your Highness, since the Tang Dynasty has accepted the entire territory of Linyi as the territory of the Tang Dynasty, in order to make up for this mistake, Zhenwa is willing to withdraw a hundred miles from the original border with Linyi and compensate the Tang Dynasty for all its land. ." Bhabha Kshatriya said quickly while kneeling there.
"Why does the Tang Dynasty need so much land? What's the point?" Li Ke raised his eyebrows, "And it's a hundred miles away, how about sending beggars away? Otherwise, you really can't merge with the Tang Dynasty."
"Yes, what His Highness said is absolutely true. Our Zhenwa country is small and weak and does not understand the majesty of the higher country. It is not impossible to annex the entire Zhenwa country. Even if the country is full of unruly people, it is afraid of disturbing the higher country." Lee spoke quickly.
"Tricky people? You mean you think these unruly people are tougher than your real army?" Li Ke asked in a curious tone.
Bhavan Kshatriya: "..."
"Please forgive me, Your Highness the King of Qin." Bhava Kshatriya kowtowed to Li Ke again.
"Okay, get up. I don't like to see you kneeling all the time. I can forgive you for what happened this time, but you must compensate if you have something that should be compensated." Li Ke said lightly.
"Yes." Bhava Kshatriya stood up honestly this time.
"Sit down, let's talk about this compensation first." Li Ke said lightly.
Bhabha Kshatriya did not refuse this time, but sat on his chair obediently.
"I came south this time to do business with your real wax, for example, some silks, linens, and high-end porcelain from my Tang Dynasty." Li Ke said lightly. As he spoke, Li Ke picked up the wax from the side. A blue and white porcelain bowl was thrown directly over.
Bhabha Kshatriya was startled and hurriedly caught the porcelain bowl. After catching it, he was stunned by the blue patterns on the porcelain bowl.
Such exquisite porcelain...how much does this cost? Bhavan Kshatriya's eyes widened when he saw it.
The porcelain of the Tang Dynasty is not as exquisite as that of later dynasties, but it also depends on the era. In this era, such porcelain is still sought after by the princes and nobles of the surrounding small countries in their respective countries. Every household has porcelain of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was proud of its silk.
But compared with those used by His Highness the King of Qin, those porcelains were simply...Bhabha Kshatriya didn't know how to describe them for a while.
"But who knew something like this would happen now? I am not used to making things difficult for others. Let's do this. You will pay 10 million stone rice and this matter will be over." Li Ke said calmly.
Bhavan Kshatriya was stunned for a moment. Ten million stones of rice, this amount... is very huge, but for real wax, it is actually average, which is equivalent to about 400,000 to 500,000 pounds.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that there was no demand for real wax rice before, so it was not grown on a large scale. Now if it is grown on a large scale, the rice can be repaid in one to two years.
"Your Highness, ten million stones is no problem, but I wonder if Your Highness can give us a certain amount of time to raise these rice?" Bhavan Kshatriya decisively agreed.
"I can give you two years." Li Ke glanced at him and said.
"No problem!" Bhava Kshatriya said decisively.
"Very good, those who know the current affairs are heroes. Now that the matter is settled, let's talk about business. Speaking of which, I talked about this matter with your sister before." Li Ke said lightly.
At that moment, Li Ke showed the silk and porcelain to Bhavan Kshatriya, and then told him the price of the silk.
After hearing that forty shi of rice was exchanged for a piece of silk of this level, Bhavan Kshatriya almost jumped up from his seat. The profit was so huge!
Especially Zhenwa, there are several countries in the West. Although these countries are not large in scale, it is enough for Zhenwa to do business with them, especially for his mother-in-law, this is a huge profit.
