Princess Apasha did not want to stay in Mengdu City anymore. This place was simply the place of suffering for the gods of Tianzhu.
"Your Excellency, I want to get to the big man as soon as possible. I don't want to wait in Mengdu any longer." Princess Apasha said.
When Xun Kui heard this, he nodded in agreement.
In his heart, he didn't want to waste too much time in Tianzhu.
Originally, the task of comforting the Gou Xi Group and sending an envoy to the Gupta Dynasty did not fall on him.
After all, he was from a famous noble family of the Xun family in Yingchuan, and such a hard job would generally not be given to someone like him.
However, Xun Kui had little merit in military and political affairs. After inheriting a Guannei Marquis, he began to concentrate on the compilation of the geographical chronicle of the Four Directions.
As the saying goes, seeing is worth hearing a hundred times, so the mission to Tianzhu was earned by himself.
"The princess is right. It is almost the rainy season here in Mengdu. If we wait any longer, it will take at least half a year. And once the war is extended, I am afraid we will have to wait even longer. There is a fleet of Han Dynasty on the southeast coast now. Only It will take three months to go back, and it will be just in time to appreciate the scenery of the sea!”
Xun Kui had seen the sea in Qingzhou and Xuzhou, but he had never experienced going out to sea by boat, especially a long sea voyage.
For a person who is determined to make achievements in the geography of the four directions, it is really a pity for himself not to seize such a good opportunity.
"Well, then I'll follow the teacher's wishes and let's go to the southeast coast and take a boat!"
Princess Apasha said in agreement.
Subsequently, Xun Kui issued a task to General Gou Xi of Mengdu to send troops to escort him to the seaside.
Regarding the envoy from Luoyang, Yang Nandi, the general of the Meng Kingdom who stayed behind, naturally did not dare to neglect and quickly sent troops to escort him.
"Mr.
"General Yang, what do you mean by this?"
Xun Kui originally looked down on Di Qiang savages like Yang Nandi, a barbaric frontier fortress, but Yang Nandi and others fought all the way from Liangzhou to Nanzhong, and then moved from Nanzhong to Dongtianzhu.
What I saw along the way was legendary to the extreme.
Xun Kui put down his identity and had several long conversations with him, leaving a pile of paper full of notes.
Yang Nandi thought that Xun Kui was going to write a biography for him, and he was so happy that he almost went to heaven.
That's the Xun family in Yingchuan!
The high-ranking gentry of the Xun family in Yingchuan had their own biographies in their own handwriting.
What an honor this is!
Therefore, Yang Nandi had already regarded Xun Kui as a noble person in his life.
Well, the kind second only to the benefactor Gou Xi.
“Mr.
"Why is this? Doesn't the Jiaozhou Shipping Department have enough ships?" Xun Kui wondered.
"It is indeed not enough. The Shipping Department of Jiaozhou City still has a large number of female slaves stranded in the port area and have not been transported back to Jiaozhou. This is the last shipment. I don't know when the next one will be. After Mr. Xun and you go, Even if I try my best to free up the shipping capacity of your boat, it is impossible to carry so many people and luggage." Yang Duryodhana said.
Xun Kui asked some more questions before he understood the situation.
It turns out that since the establishment of the Jiaozhou Shipping Division, a special fleet has been organized to transport Gouxi territory in Tianzhu.
At the beginning, normal trade was carried out, with spices, cane sugar, jewelry, ivory and other Tianzhu specialties transported.
However, since the Gou Xi Group began to eliminate the indigenous Tianzhu forces in the territory, it has captured large numbers of Tianzhu women and children.
Originally, women and children were extremely important strategic resources.
According to the needs of Gou Xi and others, they should have left it for their own people to enjoy, but years of fighting have left Gou Xi and others extremely lacking in weapons and equipment support from the Central Plains.
The mountain road transportation from Yizhou to Ningzhou is particularly difficult and cannot be compared with the sea transportation in Jiaozhou City.
Therefore, in order to ensure the advantage of their own military group, Gou Xi and others turned into evil slave traders and packaged and sold all the captured Tianzhu women to Jiaozhou City Bosi.
Now this fleet must transport all these women back, otherwise once the season of increased storms arrives, the Jiaozhou fleet will stop transporting.
"Each of these Tianzhu women can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars in Jiaozhou. If they are good-looking or have some talent, they can already be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars!"
As soon as Yang Nandi said this, he immediately became happy.
Obviously, as the empress general of the Meng Kingdom, Yang Duryodhana must have made a lot of profits from the sale of Tianzhu female slaves.
"What, the price of female slaves in Jiaozhou is already so expensive?" Xun Kui was immediately surprised when he heard this.
Today's Han Dynasty money has gone through a series of improvements, and its value is much higher than the crude coins of the past.
Ten thousand yuan is no longer a small number. As for the price of a Tianzhu female slave, one hundred thousand yuan, or even hundreds of thousands yuan, it is almost comparable to the price in Luoyang.
"Nowadays, the Han Dynasty does not allow Chinese people to be slaves, and the surrounding frontiers are sparsely populated. The price of these female slaves is already high. What's more, the sea trade in Jiaozhou is booming now, and the prices of all commodities are rising. The higher prices of these female slaves are not enough. It's surprising." Yang Nandi said.
At this time, Xun Kui didn't quite understand why Yang Nandi came to him specifically.
Xun Kui, who was no longer willing to speculate any more, asked him directly.
"General Yang, you came to me specifically this time. What are your plans?" Xun Kui asked.
When Yang Duryodhana heard this, he showed a simple smile, scratched his scalp and said.
"Hey, actually, I don't have any plans. I just came to remind Mr. Xun that the province will go to the seaside when the time comes. The Jiaozhou Shipping Department does not have enough boats, which delays the trip."
"General Yang has good intentions, and Xun understands it. However, this time King Gupta and his princess and his entourage will all be His Majesty's palace servants in the future. So won't the Jiaozhou Shipping Department free up some ships?"
Xun Kui thought that, among other things, he and his party would be the candidates for the Han Emperor's harem in the future.
Should the boat be allowed to transport the Tianzhu slave girl first, and then leave the Tianzhu princess and her entourage behind?
"Mr. Xun, I'm afraid this is really possible!"
"Are you kidding? Who dares to do this?"
“Mr.
"General Yang said that, it seems he has other plans?
"At this time, I can't tell what the master has been thinking these days. If he accidentally leaves again, their plan will have very serious consequences for Yang Nandi and others, so they have no choice but to , Yang Landi would do this without any scruples. Now he must be careful. Yang Duryodhana did this, of course, it was not a simple act of kindness.
The Tianzhu woman named Apasha brought with her a dowry entourage of over a thousand people. It would be a big problem for so many people to eat, drink, and defecate.
And then escorting them safely along the mountain road to the territory of the Nanzhong Governor's Mansion would take a lot of energy, manpower and material resources.
If there was no benefit to such a thing, Yang Duryodhana would definitely not be able to do it.
"General Yang, if you have anything to say, you may as well say it directly. As long as Xun can help, he will definitely not stand idly by!"
Xun Kui had already seen that the Yang Duryodhana in front of him definitely wanted something from him.
Seeing this, Yang Duryodhana stopped hiding him.
"Mr. Xun, you must be very familiar with the current situation in the Shendu area."
"Yes, after ten months of experience, I have a rough understanding of it." Xun Kui nodded and said.
In this matter, Xun Kui had no modest plans at all.
Among his geographical chronicles, the description of Tianzhu Shendu Continent can be said to be the most careful.
Xun Kui was the first person to carefully record this country thousands of miles away.
This kind of achievement is really unprecedented, and it is much better than those high-ranking children in the Central Plains who still think about taking drugs and drinking alcohol.
“Mr.
"It should be like this."
"Although Yang has no talent, he has some suggestions that he would like to mention to Mr. Xun!"
"General Yang, please speak!"
“Mr. If one unifies the body with poison, wouldn't it mean that a powerful enemy appears for the big man?" Yang Nandi said.
Hearing this, Xun Kui nodded, feeling that what Yang Nandi said made sense.
"What General Yang means is that the Gupta Kingdom is still a strong enemy and cannot make peace?" Xun Kui asked.
Yang Nandi shook his head when he heard this, and then lowered his voice and said.
“Mr.
Xun Kui was shocked when he heard this and immediately realized something.
"General Yang, is he saying that Gou Xi intends to rebel?"
"No no no!"
Yang Duryodhana waved his hand quickly and continued to explain.
"King Meng wholeheartedly fought for the Han Dynasty and often told us that he would always be a vassal of the Han Dynasty. How could he possibly rebel?"
"Then what did General Yang mean just now?" Xun Kui also breathed a sigh of relief.
“Mr.
Yang Nandi's words sounded like farts to Xun Kui.
nonsense!
Even if Gou Xi's descendants rebel in the future, it is not called rebellion, but self-reliance.
This kind of thing that didn't happen is completely meaningless.
"General Yang is thinking too much."
"No, no, Mr. Xun, if you think about it carefully, it shouldn't be a problem to occupy such a rich place in Tianzhu Continent and raise an army of hundreds of thousands in the future."
"Of course I have recorded these things." Xun Kui said.
"Therefore, I ask Mr. Xun to talk to His Majesty in detail after he returns, and then find a way to stop this trick on you in advance." Yang Nandi said.
"How to stop it?"
Xun Kui asked with a puzzled look on his face.
He didn't have much experience in military and political affairs, and he didn't have enough experience in mind-reading to observe words and emotions.
Seeing this, Yang Duryodhana had to take a deep breath and then continued.
“Mr.
Having said this, Xun Kui still showed no reaction.
Yang Duryodhana had no choice but to continue.
“Mr.
"If Duke Xun returns to Luoyang, he can persuade His Majesty to grant more vassal states in Tianzhu. Not only can we open up more territories now, but we can also prevent the Mengguo Gou family from becoming a dominant family in the future and revealing any evil ambitions!"
The words have been said here, and Xun Kui has completely understood.
"What General Yang said is indeed reasonable. Xun also thinks it is feasible. When he returns to Luoyang, he will write these things to His Majesty."
Xun Kui really agreed with this idea in his heart.
"However, I'm afraid it's not that simple to decide how to entrust it."
"This is natural, but we and other Di and Qiang tribes are willing to serve the big man just like Meng Gong!"
Yang Nandi's words have been made so clear, and Xun Kui also understands them all.
These Di Qiang refugee leaders, after seeing that Tianzhu Continent's 'career' was extremely simple, were no longer willing to continue to be Gou Xi's hawks.
Yang Nandi and others all wanted the reward of a feudal state, not some fancy thing with a false name.
After Xun Kui agreed, Yang Duryodhana immediately became more respectful.
By the time Xun Kui led the chariots to set off towards the harbor, Princess Apasha's accompanying chariots had been reduced by more than half.
After these dowry male and female slaves and the palace calligraphers and painters, they are just a group of talking slaves.
There would be no problem at all if they were allowed to stay in Mengdu and then go to Luoyang through the difficult and dangerous mountain road.
"Teacher, has our car arrived at the harbor?"
After some trekking, Princess Apasha seemed to have heard something different from the past.
"Princess, we have arrived at Meng Port."
Princess Apasha looked out of the window.
But I didn't see the sea or the pier, but I saw the bustle of people coming and going in Austria.
"What it is?"
Princess Apasha suddenly stretched out her hand and asked in one direction.
Xun Kui followed the gesture and saw dense rows of low houses on the pier in the distance.
