Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 139 Swing your sleeves and take away all the treasures

"Forget it, settle it?" King Zhenla asked in a daze.

"Of course, since you have violated the territory of the Tang Dynasty, since I apologize, my Tang Dynasty is open-minded, and I can let you off if I don't want to cause more killings. However, tens of thousands of people in my Tang Dynasty were killed and injured, and more than [-] people were homeless. You have to pay for it, right? Besides, we spent thousands of miles on an expedition for such a trivial matter, shouldn’t you pay for it?” Feng Daiwen raised his head and said proudly.

"Compensation, how much?" King Zhenla asked sweating profusely when he heard that 10 people needed compensation.

"Hmph, I won't blackmail you, I will pay you the same amount as the Funan Kingdom. 1100 million coins, if you don't believe me, just ask the King of Funan, we just captured Saigong City a month ago." Feng Daiwen said with a cold snort.

"Ah! General, there are really not that many." King Zhenla didn't know whether he heard that Saigong City had been attacked, or was frightened by the 1100 million treasures. He screamed and said with a fat face.

"It's easy to say, we're not unreasonable, let's see how much you can pay, and the rest will be deducted with grain and mineral deposits." Feng Daiwen said to King Zhenla with a smile.

"Mineral deposits, to be honest, a small country can only dig out the ground, and it doesn't have the ability to mine in large quantities." King Chenla said in a difficult way.

"It's nothing to worry about. Datang is friendly, especially when you treat friends. Since you have surrendered to Datang, you can't treat you badly. Mining Datang will send people to command and provide tools. You just need to contribute. .” Feng Daiwen explained.

"That's good, that's good, everything is according to the general's wishes, and Xiao Wang will definitely cooperate." King Zhenla wiped the sweat from his face, and when he heard that it was only manpower, he immediately agreed with confidence.

"Well, I won't treat you badly after I said it. From now on, you can have everything from salt, porcelain, and silk. You can exchange them for grain and minerals. If you have more, you can sell them to other countries. Don't remind me how much profit there is. And also I will teach you how to gather food from the sea, and the Great Tang will buy it in large quantities." Feng Daiwen has already hit the first stick, and he is extremely proficient in using sweets.

Many small countries around the Tang Dynasty did not have their own currency, and they usually exchanged it. The copper coins in the Central Plains are generally used as currency in these places. As for their local gems, they are not as valuable as the Central Plains, so the value is not in their hearts. how high.As for the output of the Central Plains, just like many people in later generations like foreign products, it represents exquisiteness, gorgeousness, and nobility, and is the favorite of all foreign countries.

"Thank you, General, thank you, General," King Chenla said happily.

Feng Daiwen has dealt with copycats and tribes for a long time, so he understands their thoughts to some extent.I also know how to lure them. The small country of Fanbang cannot mine in large quantities because of the lack of prospector skills, and because the smelting technology is not up to standard and cannot forge a large number of good tools.These are not problems for Datang now. Feng Daiwen's plan is to develop these small countries into raw material production areas, use their manpower to mine, transport them back to Datang to make finished products, and then sell them back.But these are just some vague ideas, and they have to go back to Chang'an to report to Li Shimin to discuss specific plans later.

Leaving Zhenla aside, Feng Daiwen didn't have much time, and had to rush back to Chang'an, so he had to lead his army back to Xianglin. Fortunately, it was only two hundred miles away from Xianglin, and the road was easier to walk. There are not so many mountains here. .

After thinking about it, Feng Daiwen decided to leave Wang Xuance to guard Xianglin. It just so happened that an army of 5000 young men would be enough to defend a few counties.Li Yi's mansion assisted in handling civil affairs. After returning to Chang'an, Li Shimin sent a group of people to manage it. The [-] navy troops were left to Liu Rengui to be in charge of the sea. Liu Renyuan and Cheng Wuting asked them to bring [-] Lingnan recruits to guard Rinan County. Chang'an was left to Li Shimin to worry about who would guard it. I think that as long as the poor family can be an official, they generally don't care too much about the place.

Feng Daiwen left all the equipment and materials for them to come later, and he only brought gold and silver, rare treasures, and rushed to Xianglin first.When I arrived at Xianglin, I just made a hasty confession, and carried the belongings on board overnight. Fortunately, Zhao Chengen and Li Yifu had already loaded the purchased grain into the boat. This time the expedition was another bumper harvest. It can be said that Yu Wanshi took away the coarse grains and refined grains of several counties, and only the common people's rations existed on the market.

Collecting the capitals of three small countries, the harvest is unprecedentedly rich. Several ships are filled with gold and silver, and more than ten ships are also filled with huge corals, tortoise shells, pearls, agarwood, ivory, rhino horns, and precious stones of various colors. These are of great value when transported to the Central Plains Estimate.

When I went there, there were nearly 2 people and 2000 large ships. When I came back, I brought only more than 3000 sailors and more than 1000 soldiers. I blackmailed more than 230 artisans of various kinds. There were only [-] ships. The soldiers were all left behind except crossbows. personnel.

"How do you put this thing on board?" Feng Daiwen asked speechlessly, looking at the several huge rhinos in the iron cage in front of him.

"That Li Yi's mansion said to let the second brother send troops to attack other countries without authorization, I'm afraid someone will take advantage of it when he goes back, it's always good to bring more gifts back to the Holy One," Feng Daihuo explained on the side.

"Hehe, this Li Yifu is really flexible. I hope he won't go astray in the future. However, he is still young, so it should be no problem to teach him well. It seems to be very exciting to teach someone younger than himself to become a talent." Feng Daiwen muttered to himself.

Feng Daihuo looked suspiciously at his second brother talking to himself there, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Second brother, if you don't like it, you can kill it and eat meat, since I haven't eaten this stuff yet."

Feng Daiwen rolled his eyes and stared at the drooling rhino Feng Daihuo and said, "Since you caught it, send it to Chang'an. If you want to eat it, you can kill it yourself."

Feng Daihuo turned his head regretfully and looked to the side and asked, "Let's eat one or two of these birds. I'm tired of eating fish every day during this time."

Feng Daiwen looked at the emerald parrots in embarrassment, and said earnestly: "Fifth brother, look at this bird is very beautiful, the second brother is going to take it back as a gift to your future second sister-in-law, right? In case other people want these two pairs Not enough points."

"Okay, okay, this white elephant meat is too unpalatable, I'll go catch fish." Feng Daihuo looked at the two trained white elephants with distaste. These are not war elephants, but selected ones. White elephants without variegation are used for entertainment after training.

When Feng Daihuo got out of the boat, he asked Xi Jun to buy two people to catch fish. It turned out that it was a huge fishing net made by Feng Daiwen. The rope was 200 meters long. Pulled up by a few people, it usually takes an hour before and after a net to get it done.But the harvest is also huge, a net full of all kinds of sea fish, no less than a few hundred stones, of course, if it is a fisherman, it must be very happy, and it does make everyone on the boat very happy except Feng Daiwen.

(End of this chapter)