Chapter 397 Li Junwei's letter
With a few knocks on the door, Lin Junhong said angrily: "Didn't I say that, I want to be quiet."
"Your Highness, it was Governor Juan who brought a few people to see you. He looked very anxious." The chief guard knew that Lin Junhong was in a bad mood and whispered.
The door was opened, and the Portuguese Governor Goa suddenly walked in. Lin Junhong asked: "What, is it Aurangzeb who led his army to attack?"
"No, Your Highness, there is a merchant ship coming to Port Abbas, and a Persian merchant must see you." Juan said.
"Persians, do he have to see me if he wants to see me?" Lin Junhong said unhappily. Since the beginning of the Goa War, the Persian Safi Empire has also joined the ranks of robbery. It attacked the Mughals on land in southern Afghanistan, and merchants also participated in the robbery at sea. However, the internal internal of the Safi Empire was not stable. Emperor Suleiman I and the women in the deep palace ignored government affairs at all. The eunuchs and the prime minister controlled the government affairs.
However, eunuchs and the prime minister also compete for power and profit, and most of the national strength is lost in internal friction. Because the great prince Li Jundu defeated the Safi Empire several times in the past few years, the Persians did not form an alliance with the empire on the southern battlefield. In Goa for more than half a year, Lin Junhong was requested by the Prime Minister of the Safi Empire to form an alliance. Before a decision was discussed, eunuchs were punished by the empire in the name of Suleiman I. For Lin Junhong, the Persians were in a state of schizophrenia, so they did not take it seriously.
Seeing that Lin Junhong was unhappy, Juan said directly, despite the fact that there were many guards from the imperial guards around him: "It was the great Prince Yu who sent this merchant here. At least he said so personally. I think it is very important, so he brought him here."
"You should have said it earlier," Lin Junhong said.
Juan admitted this mistake, and Lin Junhong arranged for a Persian merchant named Mahmoud in the pavilion in the garden. Juan knew Persian and took the initiative to take the job of translator.
"Businessman, I am the king of the empire, Lin Junhong. Did King Yu bring you a letter or a verbal message?" Lin Junhong looked at this guy with a scammer's eyes and asked seriously.
Mahmood looked at Lin Junhong suspiciously and asked: "Are you really Your Highness, King Yu once gave you something, saying that you must have worn it on your body, why didn't the villain see it?"
"Is this the one?" Lin Junhong took out the weird amulet from his collar.
Mahmood tore off a corner of his clothes and took out one exactly the same one. Lin Junhong took the one and compared it, and finally believed that Mahmood was sent by King Yu Li Junwei.
"How did you know His Highness Yu?" Lin Junhong asked.
"In the words of the noble Your Highness, it is called "no fight and no acquaintance". We met in Termez. He wanted to buy my slaves, but I was worried about being hurt and avoided. His Highness Yu, and finally His Highness Yu selected the strongest slave for me, but also punished me. He took off my clothes, spanked with a whip, and clasped his mouth with a shovel." Mahmoud said some of the details, and the more Lin Junhong heard it, the more he felt that it was King Yu's style.
Lin Junhong said: "Okay, Mahmoud, you need not say anything. I have already believed in your words and trust you as the envoy of His Highness Yu. You have arrived here from the land in the river thousands of miles away, not just for sending this amulet."
Mahmoud said: "His Highness Yu entrusted a villain to bring you a letter."
Before Lin Junhong could speak, the chief guard said, "I didn't find any letters on you."
"You haven't found this amulet, either." Lin Junhong said lightly.
Mahmoud said: "The letter has been taken away by the person who searched just now."
"No, no faith is believed at all." The chief guard said angrily. Lin Junhong said, "Put up all the things he searched for."
A tray was brought up, a short knife inlaid with gems, a map and a purse, and some miscellaneous things. Mahmoud took out a small box from it and pulled out a mezzanine. There was a piece of crispy candy inside, with some white things stuck on it. Looking closely, it turned out to be rice grains. Lin Junhong smiled: "Have you really found someone who can write on rice grains? Haha, you really took your time. Come on, bring the magnifying glass."
The head guard took a magnifying glass, Lin Junhong placed the candy on the table, looking at it bit by bit, and the expression on his face changed very quickly. The head guard and Hu An also stretched out their heads to take a look, but the words written on the rice were too small, and the magnifying glass was right next to Lin Junhong's eyes, and they stared at them and could not see anything.
Because it was really difficult, Lin Junhong read the letter of about 200 words for a full quarter of an hour. Obviously, he didn't read it once. When he raised his head and put down the magnifying glass, Mahmoud asked, "Your Highness, have you finished reading it?"
"I've finished reading." Lin Junhong nodded, and Mahmood said: "There is a small mechanism on it."
"Don't get close, just open the mechanism." The chief guard didn't dare to let Mahmud get too close to Lin Junhong, so he gave Mahmud to Mahmud. Mahmud took it respectfully and fiddled at the sun. Suddenly, he slapped his mouth and ate Mahmud's stomach.
The group of people were stunned, only Lin Junhong stroking his hands and laughing. The contents of this letter were indeed inconvenient to others to see. The confidentiality method chosen by King Yu was really hilarious. Even if Mahmood's belly was broken, the fine and shallow words on the rice grains could not be seen clearly. What did King Yu write for King Cheng? King Cheng compiled it.
"Hahaha, it's interesting that don't hit him, don't hit him, Mahmood is just to complete the order of King Yu." Lin Junhong stopped beating the Mahmood guards and asked, "Mahmood, King Yu has assigned you the task, have you completed it?"
Mahmoud shook his head and said, "The last one is left. His Highness Yu said that the two amulets must be exchanged, the one that His Highness has will be handed over to King Yu, and the one that He has will be handed over to His Highness. The villain will also take the amulets back to Samarkand City."
Lin Junhong took off the one on his body, put it on the table to compare, and looked at it and found that the two were exactly the same, without any difference. Lin Junhong picked up one and pinched you, wanting to see if there is a mezzanine inside, and asked: "There is mystery in it."
Mahmoud said: "The things themselves do not have them, but they contain very different magic powers."
"Oh, what does it mean?"
Mahmood explained: "His Highness Yu said that this was obtained from Shin Kyung's Zhenyang Temple. The one you wore was spent fifty taels of silver to ask the Taoist Nine Yang to recite the mantra, which can drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. The one I brought was a street stall with ten sons and only fools the ghosts.
His Highness Yu said that he is going to fight in spring and you are going to finish fighting, so change it, he will wear the one who drives away evil spirits and avoids disasters, and you will wear the one who fools ghosts, and you will also say whether you are injured. If you are not injured, let the villain change it back. If you are injured, don’t talk about this. Seeing that your face is full of red light, the essence will burst out, so he told the truth.”
"Damn it, I cut corners when I ask for an amulet, and I still use it as a test subject." Lin Junhong was so angry that his heart hurt.
Juan wanted to translate, but was stopped by Lin Junhong. Lin Junhong ordered Mahmoud: "Take this mana of blessing power back to Samarkand, tell Your Highness Yu that because of this amulet, I am not invading arrows in Goa, and I don't hit the lead bullet. I don't need to hold the reins on a horse, and I don't need to wear armor when I go into battle."
Mahmoud remembered it bit by bit and recited it silently several times, and Lin Junhong asked: "King Yu will not know you if you don't fight, but you are also a loyal person. I don't know what kind of reward did King Yu give you."
"His Highness Yu said that if I could bring back the amulets and complete all the tasks, I would be rewarded with five thousand silver coins of the empire and eight hundred of the most powerful slaves. But Yu also said that villains were not allowed to deceive him. As much as His Highness Cheng rewarded me, he would have to subtract from the five thousand silver coins of the empire." Mahmoud said seriously.
Lin Junhong nodded angrily, thinking that Li Junwei is far away in the river and can never forget to take advantage of himself. The habit he has developed since childhood cannot be changed. Lin Junhong waved his hand: "Come on, give him 4,999 silver coins."
Mahmoud bowed and thanked and asked, "Your Highness, can you provide some paper and pen?"
The head guard brought the paper and pen, Mahmoud wrote a line of Persian text, and Juan explained: "It seems to be the situation of a family and their address."
Mahmoud explained: "This is the address of the villain's family. His Highness Yu said that if I can get a reward of more than a thousand silver coins, I will leave it to you actively, so that you can feel at ease and avoid me from being greedy for silver coins and fearing danger and not bringing the amulet back."
"What else has he explained, whether it is what he has given to you or me, let's talk about it together." Lin Junhong didn't like this feeling that everything was predicted by Li Junwei, so he asked directly.
"His Royal Highness Yu also asked the little man to bring back some subcontinental and Persian foods within his ability, but made a request. Given the poor hygiene habits of the people of the subcontinent, he hoped that these foods would be made by the chef you brought. If the cook tastes unauthentic, the little man should watch the locals make them with his own eyes, and all the ingredients are provided, and they are absolutely not allowed to touch those ingredients with their left hand." Mahmoud said seriously, and then asked: "The little man doesn't know why the regulations are so detailed, but."
"Your Excellency Juan, you have heard it too. Please wait until everything is done and send him back to Port Abbas with a fast ship." Lin Junhong was not in the mood to hear Mahmoud say these bullshit things, and handed them over to Governor Juan.
After Governor Juan and Mahmoud left, Lin Junhong said to the chief guard: "Carry up the restaurant, invite Cambatru and His Highness Aldisha to have dinner together, prepare some food that the Tianfang Cultists are not taboo. I will finish the peace talks for this lunch."
"Your Highness seems to be in a good mood." The chief guard asked with a smile: "Is it because the Lord Yu has come down to believe it?"
"Of course, I'm very happy to hear the news about the third brother in a foreign country, even if he was cheated of a lot of money and even if it became his test subject." Lin Junhong said.
The head of the guard smiled with him, obviously he could not test what Li Junwei wrote in the letter. It seemed that only King Cheng knew about this.
Because Lin Junhong was in a good mood and didn't care about some unpleasant remarks and bad breath issues in Kambatru, the peace talks were successfully reached, and the Allied forces were very sincere, and the Mughal Empire led by Aurangzeb hoped to resolve the war here sooner.
March 1st of the seventeenth year of the empire was the day of armistice. From this day on, the two sides were disconnected from contact, the Mughal army must retreat to its pre-war starting position, and all official piracy of the Allied forces must be stopped, and the remaining terms must be reached before the arrival of April 15th.
Before that day came, the Mughal Empire's foreign policy would be restored to seven years ago, which was when Li Junduo was before the expansion of territory in the river. The empire's army was about to leave Goa and Bijapur's army returned to its own country. This war directly caused no less than 200,000 people to die, and at least 500,000 people were looted as slaves, and the indirect losses were even greater. But the result was that everything was restored to its pre-war state, as if nothing had happened, but the dead would not be alive.
"There is plenty of time. My Excellency the messenger, the communication ship I sent has already gone to the ports where the license is issued. The third batch of licenses will definitely not be issued." At the banquet, Lin Junhong said to Kambatru with a swearing voice.
"Of course, it's a pleasant negotiation with you. I know my son did something bad in Diu, but it's all over. The war is over and Diu's merchant station can be reopened." Kambatru raised his wine glass to Lin Junhong.
Lin Junhong smiled: "Of course, as long as the emperor of your country fulfills his promise, the merchants will go back, and the scars will always heal."
Kambatlu got closer because he used a toothbrush made of horse-haired ivory given by Lin Junhong. Kambatlu had been around for fifty years, but the bad breath problem that had never been mentioned was solved, so the two could communicate more intimately.
"As you said, Shivaji is really a poisonous snake. He refused to accept the armistice agreement and had moved the army into the mountains and forests, ready to fight to the end. This is not good, it is not good for the Mughal Empire, nor is it good for you. His Majesty the Emperor hopes to get your help to solve the problem of Shivaji." Kambatru said.
Lin Junhong asked: "You mean to kill him"
"If you can do it, that's great," Kambatru said.
"I can't do it. In fact, this poisonous snake is no less alert to me than to you, but I can introduce someone to you." Lin Junhong said.
"A killer from the mysterious East?" Cambatru asked.
Chapter completed!