Chapter 852: Elephant Hunting

"Weapons?" Fan Shengkai's eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of joy.

Su You said: "First of all, I have to make it clear that the weapons provided by the Great Song Dynasty to Zhenla were used to quell the rebellion of the Tai and savages in China, and the swamps occupied by the Great Song Dynasty were originally borderless land and had nothing to do with the arms trade. ”

"However, for the sake of peace in the regional political situation, the Great Song Dynasty agreed to help the two countries arm a part of their armies in order to dispel the concerns of the two countries about the occupation of Jiaozhi by the Great Song Dynasty and the establishment of a port on the southern peninsula."

"So this is not the Great Song Dynasty spending money to buy land, but the contribution made by the Great Song Dynasty to regional peace after occupying the terra nullius, and this section must not be mistaken."

Fan Shengkai thought for a while: "But the land occupied by the Great Song Dynasty must be all Jiangkou swamp area, and there is already a place where my Zhenla people cultivate, so it cannot be occupied." ”

Su You nodded: "This is natural, not only that, but the Great Song Dynasty also promised that every place occupied by it needs to be approved by the Zhenla Kingdom, and it will also give your country corresponding compensation according to the area of the land occupied." ”

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

Fan Shengkai wanted to speak again, but was interrupted by Su You: "The most important thing is that after the prince becomes the king of Zhenla, he will exchange letters of state with the Great Song Dynasty and recognize the established situation, how about it?" ”

The four words of King Zhenla completely moved Fan Shengkai, and for him, it was equivalent to exchanging a promise of non-interference in a borderless land for a throne!

And weapons!

This business is really good deal!

The atmosphere in the ship immediately became extremely harmonious, and with such a considerate diplomatic ally, Fan Shengkai felt that he took the initiative to show favor to Su You this time, and the reward he received was really rich.

After dinner, Fan Shengkai immediately appointed his younger brother Fan Shizhe as a plenipotentiary envoy to negotiate assistance with Su You, and then he would bring tribute to Bianjing to meet Zhao Xu.

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

There is a lush tropical jungle, a plain between the mountains and the lake, and a small plateau with many stupas on the mountain, which is like a large city-state.

Called Battambang, in addition to being the largest granary of Dong Sari Lake, the mountain also produces teak, ironwood, red sandalwood, ebony, white mao and other precious wood, as well as important salt mines, and is also the source of ruby, sapphire, topaz, agate stone, diamond, and a gemstone called Zhenlazhu.

Because of the superior geographical location and products, the business here is also very developed, and now the titular king of Chenla is here to recuperate.

Hinduism is prevalent here, with countless tall and exquisite stone carvings, stone temples, and worship of 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, which are dedicated to Guanyin of Mahayana Buddhism.

Su You and Yi Sunsin went to the palace to meet the king, who was obviously controlled by the powerful ministers and was ill.

Fan Shengkai knew that Su Shaobao's wife was a famous doctor, and he also brought a lot of medicines this time, but he didn't plan to use his king's illness to disturb his wife's visit to Battambang's Yaxing.

Su You and Li Shunju also seemed to have forgotten about this stubble, and visiting the king was just out of courtesy.

However, when I visited the city later, there were business opportunities everywhere in the city, which made Su Spoke's children's shoes salivate.

Gems are really not worth much here.

In addition to the local precious stones, there are also jade, jade, ruby sapphire, and diamonds from Bagan.

After learning from the interpreter that the group were all nobles from the Great Song Dynasty, the owner of the gem shop had a smile on his face.

With the popularization of the pedal stone machine, as well as the invention of eccentric polishing vibrating barrels and various abrasive pastes, the development of the Great Song Dynasty Institute of Technology has given jade workers more creative space.

And almost all of the stones sold here are rough stones, and grinding a round bead is a very difficult thing for the current Zhenla people.

Well, until a thousand years later, the apprentices couldn't grind the beads, and they were all made fun of by the craftsmen of the Sihui as Burmese workers.

Li Shun raised his eyes and picked out a large number of gems, almost spending all the silver coins he brought.

It turned out that Su You deliberately called himself to make himself rich!

Su You didn't know what was good about those stones, and Shi Wei wasn't particularly interested in these colorful things, so he picked a bunch of diamonds.

Li Shunju felt strange about Su You's behavior, and secretly pulled him aside: "Mingrun, the ones you picked are worthless, my pile is good, I don't have enough money, half of them are for you." ”

Su You didn't study this deeply: "How to make a good method? The ones I picked out are the ones that can scratch glass and porcelain......"

"Don't make a fuss!" Li Shunju rolled his eyes, and then whispered: "Many of them are the best in the cat's eye, the people here don't know how to play at all, hurry up and buy it, listen to me, I've only seen it once or twice." ”

Li Shunju's jewelry appreciation level Su oil is a hundred assured, a snap of his fingers, and his nephew pays the bill, so he should be punished for deceiving the little uncle to use the spoils of war elephants.

So the group spent fifty gold coins and ransacked the jewelry store.

The owner of the jewelry store was so excited that he was about to cry, this line has not been opened for three years, and it has been opened for three years.

In order to express his gratitude, the boss also gave Su You a large piece of green jade with a large head.

Jadeite is not too valuable now, and the price is about the same as crystal, not even jasper.

But the trend of this thing, they are all brought, isn't the coconut dirley rosary just rare and expensive? Actually, what's so good about that thing?

However, it is the temple of the Zhenla people, which reflects a very high level of art and architecture.

Stone carving technology, bronze casting, and ivory carving are all above the level.

There is no adhesive in the temple, they are all spliced with stones, and the processing tools of the Zhenla people can be said to be extremely expensive.

Fan Shizhe was full of pride and introduced the spread and evolution of Hinduism and Buddhism in Zhenla to Su You and his party, which made Su You and Li Ruoyu listen to it with relish.

That night was fine, and the next day we got up, rode elephants, and began to march towards the primeval jungle of Cardamom Mountain.

Su You is also very curious about the elephant taming technique of the Zhenla people.

The elephants of the Chenla were all wild elephants, and when they came out of a valley, they drove the females they had brought into the valley.

Huge traps were then set up in the passage into the valley, and a lot of sugar cane was dropped on the way.

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

After a while, a herd of wild elephants was attracted by the sugar cane, and the herd hesitated for a while at the mouth of the valley and began to roll up the sugar cane with its nose to nibble.

Several young male elephants smelled the female elephants in the valley, and the hormones overwhelmed the young mind, ignoring the warnings of the female elephant, the leader of the herd, and walked towards the valley trap step by step.

The natives hiding in the big trees pulled the ropes, and the huge logs fell, locking up a few stunned greens.

The crowd rushed out of their hiding place with gongs and drums, and the leader of the wild elephants, seeing that the situation was not good, left a few baby elephants and fled.

The baby elephants are only relatively speaking, in fact, they are still quite large, but the trap is strong, and they can't break out.

The next thing is easy, they need to be locked up with the female elephant in the valley for a few days, and after they are familiar with the human taste, the mother elephant will take them out and teach them how to get food from humans, elephants are very intelligent and domesticated quickly.

The Song people were amazed, they could get such a powerful labor force so easily, compared to the stupidity of selling coolies on the river beach before, it was really too shameful.

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

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

Elephants can't plow the fields, so they are not on Su You's attention list, and now the elephants captured in the Jiaozhi War are working in several mining areas, and Su You is determined to go back to carry out the elephant taming project.

After watching the Zhenla people capture elephants, Su You also found a good thing, the sugarcane of the Zhenla people is good.

However, they did not have the technology to make rock sugar and white sugar, and the sugar they produced was very coarse brown sugar.

Wild elephants were domesticated in the valley, and Fan Shengkai invited Su You to his territory, which was the royal court in the traditional sense of Chenla, Angkor.