Fahrenheit City is getting closer and closer. An Indian ship covered with gold foil outside the pier came out to greet him. When the Mountain Ghost fell to the anchor and threw cables, Prince Ermoti suddenly appeared on the pier, which immediately caused a wave of fluctuations among the crowd. Although Ermoti was the prince, he had actually ruled as the Mauryan King, and personally went out to welcome him to show the empire's importance to the envoys of Chuni.

The drums were ringing, and several golden plates were presented. In addition to flowers and bronze mirrors, there were also gold boxes, gold bottles, and neatly folded white cotton cloth. The Indian ministers used their actions to show that this was a bathing bath, and Lu Zhuo happily accepted it. When he finished washing and was about to get off the boat, another person came up from the dock. After two translations, the documentary said: "The Prince Ermo asked to board the boat and watch."

The Shangui is the third ship of Shaosiming class, the smallest among the Chu sea boats. However, even such a small boat, Ermoti was still shocked by its hugeness and strength. The Indian ship is extremely simple, and the hull is either bonded by sugar fibers or rope tying. According to the Roman historian Pliny, the largest Indian ship is only 75 tons. Although this does not conform to the facts, the mortise and joint (connection) and seam process determine that it is difficult for Indian ships to build very large.

This is true for Indian ships and Persian ships, all of which are sutured ships. Until the Middle Ages Arabs, Sinbada's sailing in "One Thousand and One Nights" was still sutured ships (the entire ship did not use a single iron nail, and was sewn with a coconut brown rope that lasted 640 kilometers).

Compared with the traditional nautical kingdoms such as Jielingjia, Juluo, Zheluo and Pandiya in the south, although the Peacock Empire had a decent navy, the actual ships were just some weakened versions of old-style large-wing warships. With the combat effectiveness of these warships, the Chu merchant fleet could completely rush around the coast of India.

"Please ask the prince to take his seat." Xiong Jing set out to explain in detail to Lu Zhuo: First, in navigation technology, second, sailing and cable technology, and third, the construction technology of the sea boat itself. If the Indian prince wants to board the boat, he can only accept it.

The trestle was already set up. When Ermoti came up, Lu Zhuo led everyone to bow to him. According to the standards of China, Prince Ermoti was a standard barbarian. He was about thirties, with white deer leather wrapped around his head and decorated with gold and jade. He was wearing a tight-fitting dress made of cotton cloth that Indians often wore, and a delicate embroidered brocade draped over his shoulders. According to the judgment of the silk merchants under the city order, this was a piece of Wenxiu produced in Chu State, with a white deer leather shoe on his feet.

These are what Lu Zhuo and others could understand, but they couldn't understand them were the earrings on Ermoti's ears, the marks in the middle of his eyebrows, the eye sockets of the ointment, touched the vermilion lips, and the white lead powder on his face. The makeup made the prince look like a palace temple man. The nobles with good Chinese men liked their male favorites to dress up like women, but their dense beards showed that this person was not a temple man.

Smelling the perfume smell on Ermoti, Lu Zhuo and others' first reaction was strange. However, in Ermoti's entourage, the envoys of Chuni were a little disappointed. Chuni is a huge kingdom, but why are the envoys of the country not fair in their skin? Isn't it only white people who can build a great country?

In the case of Gentile diplomacy, India can't help but bring the caste system into its own perception. Persia, Egypt, and Seleucid, which were originally white in the West. Human history was deeply influenced by the primitive Indo-Europeans near the Caspian Sea (because of the head of state, the Aryans were renamed the primitive Indo-Europeans after World War II).

The original Indo-Europeans entered Europe, were called Greeks in Southeast Europe, Latins in Italy (the Romans belonged to one of them), Celtics in Western Europe, and Germans in Northern Europe (the ancestor of modern Westerners); the original Indo-Europeans entered Asia, were called Hittites and Ryudians in Asia Minor, and were called Medes and Persians in Iranian Plateau. In India, due to race differences, it became the root of the caste system. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas were all primitive Indo-Europeans, and Shudra (local natives) might be Negros or Sinhalese.

Just as the Zhou people replaced the Shang Dynasty and became the ruler of China, the Shang and Zhou culture (the script of the Shang people, the rituals and music of the Zhou people) influenced the Chinese countries, and the various civilizations developed by the primitive Indo-Europeans who entered the Eurasian continent from the grasslands have certain similarities, such as the similar shapes of gods and the worship of cows.

These primitive Indo-European descendants who called themselves Indians, naturally they could not feel the intimacy of facing the Greek, Persia, Egypt, and Seleucid envoys. And Lu Zhuo was also a Yue people, the Yue people south of the Yangtze River, the Dongyi people north of the Yangtze River (Shanghai) and the Zhou people north of the Yangtze River (including the Chu people before the migration south), these three types of people occupied the East Asian world. Among them, the Zhou people were the least, the fertile Central Plains, the Dongyi people were the most in the Bohai Rim, and the Yue people in the southern mountainous areas were only more than the Zhou people.

If we use India to understand East Asia, the Zhou people were primitive Indo-Europeans, the Dongyi people were Negros, and the Yue people were Sinhalese. A dark-faced envoy like Lu Zhuo made Prince Ermoti feel uneasy, and he was worried that he would meet a Shudra.

After two translations, the clerk said: "The prince's words, is the doctor a noble person? Is there a noble person in Chu?"

"Haha." Lu Zhuo couldn't help laughing, "The nobles and common people should not be confused. Zhuo's ancestor was a general of Yue Kingdom, so how could he be a common people? The ancestor of the king of Chu began with Emperor Yan and was a descendant of Zhurong. He married the daughter of Shang King Pan Geng in the Shang Dynasty and was as noble as the people of Zhou. His bloodline has been passed down for more than two thousand years. How can he say there is no noble person?"

Lu Zhuo tied his hair and had a high crown, a black suit and a sword hanging on his waist. Although his skin was dark, his demeanor was completely a noble style. When he smiled and showed his neat white teeth, Ermoti believed that he was a nobleman. When the general translation translated Chu into Greek and then from Greek to Sanskrit, he immediately smiled at Lu Zhuo and began to visit the mountain ghost name.

It is the most difficult and longest flight from Panyu to the Strait of Malacca. It is only a few days' journey from Panyu to the mouth of the Strait and to the Sinhalla. In addition, it is a new ship, and the mountain ghost does not have the usual wet and stench of the sea boats. The sailors are in very good spirits. When they see Ermoti, they bow and bow.

I walked around the deck and looked at the lower deck. When I returned to the main deck, Ermoti looked at the rigging densely packed with spider webs and asked, "So many sails, how do I use it?"

Indian ships have sails, but they are just one side of sail. There are three masts and three layers of sails on the mountain ghost. This shape is completely beyond the imagination of Indians. Lu Zhuo smiled and replied: "Caofans are common sailors, and we don't know."

Lu Zhuo's answer was very clever, and Ermoti had to give up. He could see that the Chuni ships were better than all Indian ships, but the empire could not even build the best Indian ships now, so how could it be imitated by Chuni ships? After the visit, the group led Lu Zhuo into the Palace of Fahrenheit City and to the chamber of the meetings, many ministers had already stood in the hall waiting.

"Lu Zhuo, the envoy of Chu, presented the letter to the emperor of India." In the conference hall, Ermoti sat in his grandfather's seat, personally took over the letter presented by Lu Zhuo, and asked the court officials to receive the gift presented by Lu Zhuo.

The national gift was extremely grand. There were thousands of silks alone, including treasure knives, porcelain, lacquerware, paper and other items. The ministers in the conference hall were shocked by the gifts. The thousand silks were only more than 2,000 gold in China, but they were worth more than 100 million silver papillas when they came to India. The Peacock Empire lacked gold, so the official gold-silver price was 1:35, not the normal 1:12\13\13. Even so, these silks were worth more than 1.6 million gold papillas. Converted to the Chu gold, it was about 22,000 gold.

The gift was so heavy that Ermoti stood up from the throne in shock. The letter that he dared not put on his eyes was wandering between the court officials who were reading the gift list and Lu Zhuo. The ministers in the court's eyes of Lu Zhuo also changed from the previous suspicion to the current solemnity.

Lu Zhuo smiled bitterly in his heart. When he was in Aragankuran, he knew the value of silk. A piece of silk could be sold for 40 times the purchase price in Aragankuran. India is north of India and trades with the Sogdians, and the price is lower, about thirty times.

It is a pity to give such a big gift to the Indians. However, in the Chinese countries, there were so many gifts to the king. When Chu and Qi married each other, there were 5,000 pieces of brocade in the dowry of the princess of Qi, not including other higher value Lianzi and Sui. According to the idea of ​​the city order, the gift list had already cut the silk in half, but it still surprised the Indians - if the Chuni people could have come one or two years earlier, and give two more gifts, the prince would not need to put Tian Aixi under house arrest because of the 400 million silver pana gift.

"Zhe Luoke, immediately arrange the Wuyou Palace, and the envoys of Chuni need to move in." Ermoti immediately ordered his side. His decision surprised the ministers again. But he thought that this state gift worth more than 100 million silver panas was almost half the amount of the empire's annual income. Even if the envoys of Chuni moved into the emperor's Tianai Palace, it was not unacceptable.

"Dignified envoy, what do you need?" Ermoti then looked at Lu Zhuo. He really didn't know how to thank him for such a state gift.

Pandiya's general translation was not surprised by the Chuni's grand work, because they gave Queen Pandiya eight hundred pieces of silk. After two translations, Lu Zhuo said: "The prince's foot is insufficient for food and fodder, and he needs rice; the clothing is insufficient for cotton. If he can give this gift, the King of Chu will be very happy."

"Rice? Cotton?" Ermoti laughed at the sound. These two things are the most common and cheapest things in India. "I am worried that your country's ship is too small to hold so many gifts."
Chapter completed!