Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 140 Gold and Silver Jewelry
Food is the most important thing for the people, no matter how much food there is for the people, they will never dislike it, and the soldiers and sailors are all from the common people. It is the first time to see so many big fish piled up in front of them, and they shouted with joy, After that is infinite melancholy.In the weather in June, so many fish are salvaged, and it will stink within half a day.

Feng Daiwen really had no choice but to stand up and direct the crowd to cut off the fish head, remove the internal organs, break it in half, and then put it on the deck, exposed to the high temperature of the sea, and it would become dried fish in a day.In the end, Feng Daiwen had to order that the fish could only be caught in the morning, and then dried into the sun. At first, everyone was very excited.

Among them, Feng Daihuo and Xi Junmai were the most excited. The two were able to pull up the fishing nets that more than ten people were struggling with.Now the boat eats different fish in different ways for three meals a day. In the past five days, Feng Daihuo has already started to complain. He probably vomits when he sees fish after eating for a few days.

Feng Daiwen let his boat go ahead, he couldn't stand the soaring fishy smell.

"Old Tai, see if you can build a bigger and better ship if you wrap the outside of the ship with iron." Feng Daiwen asked Taimin who followed the fleet to check the performance of the ship. This is another elder in Taijia Village. Help build and improve ships at the shipyard.

"In principle, there is no problem, but the iron used in shipbuilding is easy to rust and break, so the cost is too high. And the bigger the better, the small pieces of iron may not have much effect and will increase the weight." Taemin thought about it and replied.

"There shouldn't be a problem. Now we are using a large furnace to make steel plates that are large enough. After returning to Chang'an, let them study the formula to see if they can make rust-free ones, or let Taoists see if they can make steel plates that are large enough. Can’t make a layer of anti-rust material.” Feng Daiwen believes that it should be possible with the current technology, if it still can’t be done, then recruit people, or go to other countries to ask for craftsmen.

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It didn’t dock in Jiaozhou, and it didn’t stop until Quanzhou to replenish fresh water. Since Lingnan has a large fleet of ships in the past year, the Quanzhou wharf has been expanded many times.Jiangnan businessmen who want to do business in Lingnan will also take Feng's boats at the wharf.Commerce is what makes a place prosperous. More and more merchants realize the benefits of the sea route, which is not only fast, but also able to transport a large amount of goods.Feng Daiwen believes that bringing back so many treasures this time will definitely make Quan Datang look overseas.

Changing people all the way, they finally arrived in Luoyang on July [-]th of the first year of Zhenguan.Feng Daiwen visited Qu Tutong and his son with gifts, changed to a riverboat and continued to Chang'an. The food was left in the Luoyang official warehouse, and Qu Tutong would help to deal with it.

Stepping on the land and returning to Chang'an, Feng Daiwen felt extremely at ease, and eagerly wanted to return home.The fleet followed the Wei River, detoured through the Qingming Canal, and then entered Chang'an City from Mingde Gate.

The news of returning to the city had already been notified to Li Shimin, otherwise such a large team would not have entered Chang'an.But what Feng Daiwen didn't expect was that Li Yuan actually came in person, Li Chengqian, Li Ke and Li Tai were quite a few, Guang'an didn't come, Yuzhang Changle also hid behind Changsun Wuji, after all so many belongings had to go through him, the Minister of the Household Department .

Seeing the huge crowds at the pier, Feng Daiwen thought secretly to play with a big one, called Feng Daihuo, and Xi Jun ordered to buy it.Xi Junmai smiled and left excitedly.

As soon as the boat landed, Feng Daiwen took the lead to pay respects to everyone. Li Tai was full of excitement. Li Ke and Li Chengqian were relatively more stable. They seemed to grow taller after not seeing them for a few months. Of course, Fang Yiai didn't count. Be a head taller.Feng Daizhi nodded with a smile, Changle and Yuzhang waved from behind, Feng Daiwen nodded in response one by one.Feng An and Changsun Wuji laughed without saying a word, only Li Yuan laughed out loud at the disrespect of the old man and said: "Good boy, what good things did you bring back for me?"

Feng Daiwen smiled helplessly and said, "I will definitely not disappoint Grandpa Huang." After speaking, he accompanied Li Yuan with a mysterious smile and waited aside.

Li Yuan didn't say anything about Feng Daiwen's pretending to be mysterious, and waited with great interest.

It didn't take long for Xi Junmai to lead the people to push the carriage down first. The top of the carriage was covered with cloth so that people couldn't see what was inside, but they knew it was very heavy. There were more than 10 people pushing a cart.

Under the eager eyes of the surrounding people, the carriage was pushed to the open space, and then Xi Junmai led 100 soldiers in armor and carrying large shields to set up a shield formation in front of Li Yuan, and then uncovered the cloth of the carriage.

"Wow!" The people around exclaimed in surprise at the huge monster appearing on the carriage.

A few rhinos suddenly appeared from the darkness to the light, and could not help but hiss "Mou!", the sound was extremely penetrating.

"Grandfather, this is a rhinoceros that Fanbang paid tribute to. It is very strong, so it was locked up just in case." Feng Daiwen explained.

"Well, that's right. I've only used a rhinoceros horn cup before. I haven't seen a live rhinoceros yet. It's interesting." Li Yuan stroked his beard in satisfaction and took a few steps forward, watching it.

At this time, the animal trainer drove the white elephant out of the boat.

"This is an elephant. Isn't there a war elephant? Although the two ends look better, they are not too big." Li Yuan looked at the white elephant and said.

The animal trainer drove the white elephant to an open space. Following the command, the white elephant actually knelt down to Li Yuan, nodded a few times with its long nose like a human being clasping his head, then got up and stood upright on his hind legs, closing his front feet together like a human clasping his fists. salute.Lao Huai, who made Li Yuan teased, burst out laughing.

"White elephants are auspicious things in Fanbang. If the pair of grandpas don't have anything to do, let them perform for fun." Feng Daiwen continued to introduce.

"Well, good, good, I'm so relieved." Li Yuan praised with a smile that couldn't see his eyes.

After the rhinoceros and elephants left, the main event came. The soldiers pushed the flatbed carts to the open space of the pier, and piled the gold and silver wrapped in linen into two piles. It took half an hour to get all off the boat. Come.

The surrounding people and guarding soldiers were stunned, and the originally noisy pier fell silent for a while.A mountain of gold and a mountain of silver are right in front of them. Changsun Wuji, Feng An and others have also seen the big world, but they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

"Forgive me, grandson, since there are not so many boxes, these can only be placed in the bottom of the boat, scattered, and they are not afraid of being broken anyway, right?" Feng Daiwen apologized to grandson Wuji.

The corner of Changsun Wuji's mouth twitched. Before he could speak, he saw the soldiers carrying many objects. The boxes were piled up next to the gold and silver, and the lids were opened when the boxes were lifted down.

Inside the box are gems, pearls, tortoise shells, and jade, all of which shine in the sun.There are hundreds of huge white ivory on the ground, rhinoceros horns are densely packed and neatly piled up, dozens of blood-colored corals, the tallest one is taller than an adult, blue, green, and colorful corals are placed on the ground.Huge pure gold Buddha statues, pots, bottles, bowls, pots made of gold and silver, and all kinds of utensils made the huge pier almost impossible to store.

"Elder Grandson, these are all paid by Fanbang to Datang. I didn't bring so many scribes with me when I went out this time, and the barracks are full of rough people, so I didn't count the exact number. I will trouble you, Xiaguan. I'll take my leave first." Feng Daiwen said with an embarrassed smile.

"you……"

(End of this chapter)