The city of Hua on the bank of the Ganges River is the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty. Unlike the almost square Chu Yingdu or the capital of various countries, it is a rectangular city. It is thirty-six miles long and less than seven miles wide, and it looks like a narrow and long flying scissor ship. Outside the city wall is a city protection that is only one foot wide. Within the city wall, there are sixty-four city gates in the entire city, which are protected by 570 city towers on the city wall.

The palace inside is extremely luxurious. The columns in the court room are wrapped with gold relief vines, and the walls are decorated with gold and silver birds and birds, gold, silver, Lu Li, and gems are dotted everywhere, which is more magnificent than the capital of Susa, the Persian Empire before the destruction. Tian Aixie King (King of Peacock) lives in the palace of this city.

The same as the following countries, the time system here is also sixteen hours a day, ninety minutes per hour; the carving is the same, each narig is fourteen minutes, and there are one hundred narigs a day. Time is extremely precious, and the king must be diligent, and there are detailed arrangements for the eight hours during the day and eight hours at night:

At the sixth hour of the evening, the king should get up with music, review the scriptures and treatises, and consider what he wants to do today;

At the seventh hour of the evening, the king should discuss matters with his ministers and send spies;

On the eighth hour of the evening, the king received blessings from the sacrificial officials, national teachers and royal family sacrifices, and received private doctors, chefs and astrologers. After a circle around the cows and bulls with calfs (a way of worshiping God), he could go to the chamber (the court) to discuss matters with the ministers;

The first hour of the day should listen to reports on defense and fiscal revenue and expenditure;

The second hour of the day the king should know the citizens and peasants;

Take a bath, eat and study by yourself on the third hour of the day;

On the fourth hour of the day, they receive tribute gold and appoint officials from various departments;

On the fifth hour of the day, he consulted with the ministers and the governor through letters, and learned about the information brought back by the secret agents;

In the sixth hour of the day, enjoy and think by yourself;

At the seventh hour of the day, watch the exercises of elephants, horses, chariots, and infantry;

At the eighth hour of the day, consider the military arrangement with the commander, and pray at the end;

I met the spy on the first hour of the evening;

Take a bath, eat and study by yourself in the second hour of the evening;

The third hour, the fourth hour, and the fifth hour of the evening rest and sleep in the sound of music.

This is the detailed and dense king's schedule, and you can clearly know what to do. On the sixth hour of this evening, Prince Ermoti woke up from the music in a sleepy way. Under the servant's service, he was cheered up and started the affairs of the day. The beginning was to recite scriptures, and when the whole person completely recovered, he considered the affairs of the day.

There was nothing particularly important on this day, the only special thing was that the envoys from the far east of Chuni were about to visit the city of Fahrenheit.

According to the ministers in the court, there is only China (Cina). This name comes from the Sogdians in the north of northern India. They called the most eastern country Cyn. All the gorgeous silks were produced in Qinni and were transported to the northern part of northern India through a country called Serice (Serice [Note 2]) in the north of Qinni.

Chu’n is unknown. According to the Sogdian naming habit, ‘Ni’ is just a suffix, and Chuny is actually Chu. According to the self-introduction of the envoy of Chuny: Chuny is on the east of China, and the Chinese state does not connect to the sea, and the eastern part of the border of Chuny is full of sea. Chuny’s envoy arrived in India by boat from the sea. Their purpose was very simple. In addition to establishing diplomatic relations with the Indian Empire, the other was to buy and sell goods.

According to the report, the envoy of the country introduced that Chuni was a kingdom with a radius of more than 400 Yudian (mileage unit: a bull travels a day, that is, about 11.2 kilometers). This country is rich in silk, iron, paper, cement, and some things that secret agents have never seen (porcelain, lacquerware). The envoy also said that after leaving the capital of Chuni, he sailed for a thousand Yudian before he arrived at the mouth of the Ganges River.

One thousand Yudian is a very long distance, and from the mouth of the Ganges River to Babylon in Seleucid, it is only more than six hundred Yudian. Therefore, the envoys of the country said that he had left the country for more than half a year.

Prince Ermoti recalled the secret reports about the Chuni people. Because of Chuni's huge area - what he did not expect was that although Chu was large, its population was very sparse, about one-eighth of that of India. He had to receive the envoy carefully. Moreover, if the Chuni merchant could sell silk, there would be no need to buy silk from Sogdian merchants or other merchants in the future, which would save a lot of money.

Agate, turquoise, gems, pearls, ivory, cotton, and even sugar, pepper, sweet rosin, and three glutinous leaves produced in India can be sold directly to the State of Chu. Especially agate, which is something that the Sogdians often buy...

A great country that produces silk is very far away from India, so such a country naturally has no interest. Prince Ermoti did not spend much time making the decision to treat the envoys of Chuni. When he met with Fuxian on the seventh hour of the evening, he asked the court to prepare to welcome the envoys of Chuni.

"Your Highness, the envoy of Chuni proposed to see the Emperor of Heaven and Ai Xi." Tigeti told him carefully, "It is said that they first came to Aragankuran, and then came to Aragankuran."

After King Ashoka unified India, he realized that he was too heavy to kill and worshipped Buddhism. He gave great rewards to Buddhism. According to records, he had already given as much as 9.6 billion. He wanted to make up the total amount of donations before his death, so he was opposed by the court officials and was eventually under house arrest by his grandson (son of Jenara) and Prince Ermoti. The government affairs of the entire empire were managed by Prince Ermoti.

Of course, Ermoti knew where Aragankuran was. This was a port in the far south. After the destruction of the Jielingjia, which controlled the trade on the east coast of India, the Jura people in the south rose rapidly and replaced the Jielingjia to trade with the Persians in the Arragankuran.

Jura, Zhero, Panthia, and Sinhalla (Sri Lanka) in the southernmost part of the Indian continent have previously expressed surrender to the empire, but over twenty years have passed, these kingdoms have become increasingly out of the dynasty. Aragankuran belongs to Panthia and the southernmost part of the subcontinent. The Chunis have visited Aragankuran and are likely to have learned about the situation within the empire.

Compared with the most prosperous moment of the empire twenty years ago, the empire is as old as a grandfather. Many ministers are worried that once the king is like a person, the empire's rule in the south will collapse. It is good news for the Chuni to come to trade. The empire can not only save money but also increase taxes. For a centralized empire, finance is the deadliest weakness.
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