In the evening, the two women did come, but they didn't turn into nonsense.
On the contrary, His Highness the King of Qin can admit defeat in anything, but not this one, so after Li Ke went through the battle with Yang Anning, Yang Li, Yang Yue, Liu Qingchan, and Li Changge, they all had to surrender.
The next day Li Ke got up late. Today he was going to go fishing. He heard that fishermen could catch anything, and Li Ke was also going to try to see if there were any mermaids he could catch.
However, Li Ke is very relaxed here, but some people are not.
Lu Dongzan didn't want to get into trouble with Li Ke at this time. In his opinion, Li Ke probably got beaten because he had offended His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, how could a serious person be beaten suddenly?
As for the specific cause of the matter, it is impossible for them to find out from the mouth of the Tang Dynasty minister. Who dares to spread such a thing?
If you say one more word, you will be dealt with by His Highness.
So Lu Dongzan can only guess on his own. The question is that everyone else can wait, but can he wait? cannot!
The family was still waiting for the rice to be cooked, so he had to get into trouble.
After taking a deep breath, Lu Dongzan still proposed to visit His Highness King Qin.
When Li Ke, who was fishing in Qinwangzhuang, received Lu Dongzan's request for a visit, he frowned slightly, so ignorant? Didn't you see that I was beaten just yesterday? Come visit today.
"No." Li Ke waved his hand and said.
"Your Highness, the other party said that a thousand Tianzhu girls have been prepared for His Highness, all of whom are Brahmins. These girls will be sent to the Tang Dynasty after he returns." Tian Meng bent down and said.
"Oh? If you are so sincere, let's meet." Li Ke thought for a while. After the construction of his never-sleeping city was completed, he still lacked some talents. These Tianzhu girls are good.
Lu Dongzan came in soon. When he saw Li Ke lying on the deck chair fishing, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"My envoy Lu Dongzan has met His Highness the King of Qin." Lu Dongzan saluted Li Ke. This time, his purpose of coming to the Tang Dynasty has been achieved. The ten thousand sets of Mingguang Armor have far exceeded their expectations.
"No need, we are already acquaintances. If you have any questions, just tell me. I still have to recover from my injuries. Tian Meng, give me a seat." Li Ke said calmly.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Lu Dongzan saluted Li Ke.
"Your Highness, books about the Tang Dynasty." Lu Dongzan hesitated and said.
"What do you want in terms of books? Tell me first and see if I can give them to you?" Li Ke looked at him and asked. Li Ke had talked to him once before the military parade, and at that time they only talked about elementary school. books.
"This is the book list I prepared." Lu Dongzan quickly took out a booklet from his arms.
Yang Anning, who was waiting behind Li Ke, reached out to take it and then handed it to Li Ke.
Li Ke took it over and looked at it. On the surface, nothing could be seen, but Li Ke couldn't help but praise him in his heart. Lu Dongzan was somewhat capable of leaving his name in history. Among these books, they were basically the best. The key point is that although Confucian books are available, some important books, such as the Nine Classics of Arithmeticology, are also available here.
Li Ke didn't care about many of the books he asked for, or rather all of them.
The reason is simple, so the books were given to him, and it would take at least twenty or thirty years for them to train enough talents.
It’s hard to say what Tubo will be like twenty or thirty years from now.
"To be honest, I don't care how much these books are for you or what they look like." Li Ke looked at Lu Dongzan and said.
"Yes, His Highness is right." Lu Dongzan lowered his head and said.
"Let's be real. What can Tubo give me? What can you give me? It depends on how much I can give you." Li Ke didn't want to say that Lu Dongzan was pushing too hard because these things are, in fact, short-term. It is not of much use to Tubo and will not affect Tubo's policies in the short term.
"Gold?" Lu Dongzan asked tentatively.
Very good, it seems that everyone in the world knows that His Highness likes gold!
"What else?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"I heard that His Highness wants some documents from Tianzhu. I can send people to Tibet to deliver these things when the time comes." Lu Dongzan said again.
"Those things are just handy to me. It doesn't matter if you want them or not." Li Ke waved his hand. Culture may be the most important thing for future generations, but in this era, for some countries, it is really useless.
Otherwise the Library of Alexandria would not have been burned down.
The same is true for countries like Tubo. Since Tubo has made the decision to learn Chinese and Central Plains culture, they have no energy to develop other cultures in a short period of time, and it is impossible to do so.
Therefore, the documents obtained by Tubo were of no use to them.
In fact, it is of no use to Li Ke, but there are some things that are useful to a civilization that has been passed down for a long time.
Since his original civilization no longer wanted these books, it was okay for Datang to reluctantly accept them.
"Why don't you speak frankly, Your Highness?" Lu Dongzan looked at Li Ke and asked.
"The gold is fine, and the books can be sent over. Another thing is that when the Tang Dynasty has enemies in the area, Tubo must unconditionally cooperate with the Tang Dynasty in sending troops!" Li Ke said calmly.
Lu Dongzan did not refute, but lowered his head and began to meditate, unconditionally cooperating with the Tang Dynasty to send troops. This is actually what a vassal country should do. All vassal countries that had submitted to the Tang Dynasty had this obligation, but Li Ke emphasized this again This shows that Datang does not trust them.
In other words, Datang was also warning them in disguise.
"We can agree, but the price... shouldn't be too expensive." Lu Dongzan hesitated and said.
"I can sell these books to you. Of course, I can even print them for you." Li Ke said lightly, "The price is about three times higher than the market price in Datang, and the books are delivered directly at Yuzhang Port."
Li Ke made it clear about the price and so on.
Lu Dongzan was stunned for a moment, and then said decisively: "No problem!"
"Another condition is that we need to sign a business contract. When Tang merchants do business in Tubo, Tubo officials are not allowed to collect any taxes for twenty years." Li Ke added.
During this period of the Tang Dynasty, there were tariffs. The current tariffs are basically taxes on the import and export of goods. But in fact, the Tang Dynasty was not called this name at the beginning, but was called customs tax.
In the future, Datang's customs tax will even extend to the point where there are cards set up to collect taxes between various states, but this will not happen now.
With a unified national commercial tax system and the existence of departments such as the Ministry of Security, these issues will be reduced a lot in the future.
