Chapter 852 Elephant Catching

"Weapon?" Fan Shengkai's eyes suddenly flashed with joy.

Su You said: "First of all, we must make it clear that the weapons provided by the Song Dynasty to Zhenla were used to quell the rebellion of the Thais and savages in the country. The swamps occupied by the Song Dynasty were originally unclaimed land and had nothing to do with the arms trade."

"However, for the sake of peace in the regional political situation, the Song Dynasty agreed to arm some of the armies of the two countries to dispel the concerns of the two countries in Chenla and Champa about the Song Dynasty occupying Jiaozhi and setting up a port on the southern peninsula."

"So this is not the Song Dynasty spending money to buy land, but the Song Dynasty's contribution to regional peace after occupying the unclaimed land. This section must not be mistaken."

Fan Shengkai thought for a while: "But the land occupied by the Song Dynasty must all be the swamp area of ​​​​the river mouth. There are already areas cultivated by our Zhenla people, so we cannot occupy them."

Su You nodded: "This is natural. Not only that, the Song Dynasty also promised that every place it occupies needs the consent of the Zhenla Kingdom, and will provide corresponding compensation to your country based on the area of ​​​​the land occupied.

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After speaking, he said meaningfully: "In other words, the number of aid weapons changes with the size of the swamp area occupied by the Song Dynasty."

Fan Shengkai wanted to speak again, but Su You continued to interrupt: "The most important thing is that after the prince becomes the king of Zhenla, he still needs to exchange credentials with the Song Dynasty and recognize the established situation, how about that?"

The words "King of Zhenla" completely moved Fan Shengkai. For him, it was equivalent to exchanging a promise of non-interference in a land without one for a throne!

And weapons!

This deal is really a bargain!

The atmosphere on the ship immediately became extremely harmonious. With such a considerate diplomatic ally, Fan Shengkai felt that he had taken the initiative to show his goodwill to Su You this time, and the reward he received was so generous.

After dinner, Fan Shengkai immediately appointed his younger brother Fan Shizhe as the plenipotentiary envoy, responsible for discussing aid matters with Su You, and would then go to Bianjing with tribute to meet Zhao Xu.

To the east of the Great Lake, at the end of the plain is a huge mountain range on the Indochina Peninsula, which is rich in valuable wood and a kind of spice - cardamom, which is called Cardamom Mountain by the Chenla people.

There is a lush tropical jungle. There is also a small highland on the plain between the mountain and the lake. There are many pagodas on the mountain, making it look like a larger city-state.

This place is called Battambang. In addition to being the largest granary in Ton Sari Lake, the mountains also produce precious woods such as teak, ironwood, rosewood, ebony, and whitewood, as well as important salt mines, as well as rubies, sapphires, topaz, and agate.

Stones, diamonds, and a kind of gemstone called zhenwa beads are produced here.

Because of the superior geographical location and products, the business here is also very developed. Now the nominal King of Chenla is recuperating here.

Hinduism is prevalent here, with countless tall and exquisite stone sculptures and stone temples dedicated to the three major Hindu gods - Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma.

Due to the entry of Buddhism and the influence of Fan Shizhe, there are several Buddhist temples in the city that worship Guanyin of Mahayana Buddhism.

Su You and Yi Sun-shin went to the palace to pay homage to the king. The king was obviously controlled by powerful ministers and was seriously ill.

Fan Shengkai knew that Su Shaobao's wife was a famous doctor and she had brought a lot of patent medicines this time, but he had no intention of using his king's illness to disturb his wife's leisurely visit to Battambang.

Su You and Li Shunju also seemed to have forgotten this incident and visited the king just out of courtesy.

However, when visiting the city afterwards, the business opportunities in the city made Su Tong children's shoes covet.

The gem is here, it is really not very valuable.

In addition to the precious gemstones in the local area, there are also emeralds, jade, red jewels, diamond diamonds that come from the country of Bagan.

After learning from the translation, he learned that the group was a nobleman in the Song Dynasty, and the boss of the gemstone laughed on his face.

With the popularity of pedaling pupae, and the invention of eccentric polishing shock barrels and various grinding pastes, the development of the Great Song Polytechnic has given the jade workers a greater creative space.

And almost all of which are sold here are rough stones, grinding a rounded bead, which is very difficult for the reallars now.

Well, until thousands of years later, the apprentices could not grind the beads, and they would have to make fun of the Burma workers by the craftsmen of the four associations.

Li Shun's eyes were poisonous, and he chose a lot of gems, which almost brought the silver coins he brought.

It turns out that Su Yau deliberately called himself and let himself get rich!

Su Yin didn't know where the stones were so good. Shi Wei was not particularly interested in these flowers and green things, so he picked a bunch of diamonds.

Li Shunju was strange about Su Yau's behavior, and secretly pulled him aside: "Those who are not worth picking you choose, my pile is a good product, I am not enough money, half of them are picked by you."

Su Yin is not deeply studying this: "How do you have a good law? I picked these backs, but I can draw glass porcelain ..."

"Don't make trouble!" Li Shunju rolled his big white eyes, and then whispered: "More good is the best in the eyes of cats. People here do n’t know how to play. Hurry up.

I have only seen one or two times in the inside. "

Li Shunju's jewelery appreciation level Su oil is a hundred assured. One finger, the nephew paid for it, he should deceive the punishment of Uncle Xiaoyu's use of loot elephants.

So the group spent fifty gold coins and robbed the jewelry shop.

The owner of the jewelry store was so excited that he was crying. This line did not open for three years, and the opening of the opening was three years. Today, I have done this vote.

In order to express his gratitude, the boss also gave a large green green jadeite to Su oil.

Emerald is not too valuable now, the price is similar to the crystal, even the jasper is not as good as the jasper.

But the tide is brought up. Isn't the coconut rosary be rare? In fact, what is good?

It is the temple of the reallars, which reflects the high level of art and architecture.

Stone carved statue technology, cast copper, tooth carving, all above the standard.

The temple does not have a bonding agent, and it is stitched with stones. With the current processing tools of the reallars, it can be said that it is extremely huge.

Fan Shizhe was full of pride. He introduced the spread of Hindu and Buddhism in the transmission of Hindu and Buddhism to Su Yinan.

There was nothing that night, and the next day, everyone rode on the elephant and started to march towards the original jungle of Cardamom Mountain.

Su Yau is also curious about the technique of elephants in the reallars.

The elephants of the reallars are all wild elephants, and they see them from coming to a valley, and the female elephant will be brought into the valley.

Then set up a huge trap at the channel entering the valley, and left many sugar cane on the road.

After that, the crowd rode the elephant and hid in the dense forest.

After a while, a group of wild elephants were attracted by sugarcane. Xiangqun hesitated for a while, and began to roll sugarcane to eat with his nose.

Several young male elephants smelled the scent of female elephants in the valley, and hormones overwhelmed their young minds. They ignored the warning of the female elephant, the leader of the elephant group, and walked step by step towards the trap in the valley.

The natives hiding in the big tree pulled the rope, and the huge log fell down, trapping a few greenheads.

The crowd rushed out from their hiding place beating gongs and drums. Seeing that the situation was not good, the wild elephant leader abandoned a few young elephants and ran away.

The baby elephants are relatively big, but the trap is strong and they cannot break out.

The next step is easy. They need to be locked up with the female elephants in the valley for a few days. After they become familiar with the taste of humans, they will be brought out by the female elephants and taught how to get food from humans. Elephants are very smart and can be domesticated quickly.

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A group of people from the Song Dynasty were amazed to see that such a powerful labor force could be obtained so easily. Compared with their stupid efforts to work hard on the river beach, it was really shameful.

Su You also understood why the Chenla people were able to build such a magnificent stone temple, and the help of elephants was absolutely indispensable.

Fan Shengkai proudly claimed that he had more than 50,000 elephants under his name. In the entire Indochina Peninsula, there were no less than 200,000 elephants driven by humans.

Elephants cannot plow fields, so they are not on Suyou's attention list. Now the elephants captured in the Cochin War are working in several mining areas. Suyou is determined to launch an elephant taming project after returning.

After watching the Chenla people capture elephants, Su You also discovered another good thing: the Chenla people's sugar cane is good.

However, they did not have the technology to make rock sugar and white sugar, so the sugar they produced was very rough brown sugar.
Chapter completed!