A country that is about to perish, and the hope of survival and restoration are pinned on other countries, which is an indescribable helplessness. Zhang Liang's convoy hurried into Wei, and the Wei people deliberately made the convoy wait outside the customs for a whole afternoon. Zhang Liang went to negotiate with the Wei generals at all, and his Wei pawns also pushed him to the ground, causing the Wei people to laugh, and finally it was Mrs. Qin's servants who took the talisman of the Chu State to see the Wei generals, and the convoy was able to enter the customs, otherwise it is estimated that it would wait until the next morning.

National hatred, family hatred, personal honor and disgrace, the young people who have just been crowned are tormented by these. Men's aging is an overnight thing, and growing up is also an overnight thing. When he entered the border of Chu from Wei, Zhang Liang was no longer a frivolous son who drank and had fun in the Han capital, fighting cocks and lackeys.

"This is the State of Chu?" Zhang Liang looked at the field cottage in the distance. It was a cold season, but because of the abnormal climate, there was no snow in the entire Central Plains this year, and the big rivers were not frozen. Only Qin and Zhao moved one after another, especially Zhao, on behalf of the west of Lexu and north to Pingyin, the walls of the platform house were too half broken, and the ground was one hundred and thirty steps from east to west. ’

At the end of Qianmo, Zhang Liang saw some cottages, which seemed to be no different from the Wei countryside in the same plain, except that there was an extra flagpole in a certain village-like building, because of the angle, he couldn't see the flag fluttering in the wind on the flagpole.

"This Chu country also." Shang Hu, the housekeeper of the Zhang Mansion, replied when he heard this. He understood the real question in Zhang Liang's heart, and said: "There are many princes in the west of Chu, so the king of Chu contracted the county of Chuxi to various clans, such as the division of the Zhou people. ”

The convoy entered Chu and had to arrive at Ruxinyi along the Rushui before the boat went to Yingdu. The carriage slowly moved forward, Zhang Liang thought carefully about Shang Hu's words, and asked: "Qin Zhijun and Chu Zhi contract, who is good?" ”

"Naturally, it's ......" Shang Hu paused, and naturally replied: "Naturally, Chu Zhi is contracted for good." When Zhang Liang asked again, he said in a low voice: "Childe, in the Chu State, it is naturally Chu Zhi who is contracted for good. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Liang couldn't help but laugh a little, he smiled and asked, "What if it's in the Qin State?" ”

"That's naturally Qin Zhijun doing good." Shang Hu also laughed. The two of them stared at each other, and they knew the meaning outside the language.

"If you are in ......" Zhang Liang wanted to list a country that could not look at the faces of other countries, but after thinking about it again, he felt that Shang Hu's meaning was not as simple as currying favor with Qin and Chu. Qin is Qin, Chu is Chu, there is no best, only the most suitable, so if the contract between Qinzhi County and Chu is divorced from the actual situation, there is no correct answer at all.

'Dangdang... When... When the ......' convoy went further south, the closer it came to the flagpole-lined cottage, about a mile or two, the village bell rang from there, and soon the sound of chirping birds could be heard from afar, and soon there was a neat queue of children on the path.

"This Chu country's school house is also." Shang Hu was stunned when he saw Zhang Liang, and stroked his beard to explain.

Regardless of gender, he studied at the age of eight and became a career at the age of eleven, which is the cultural and educational politics of the Chu State. After the implementation of the Ao system in the state of Chu, it was impossible to meet all the standards of culture and education, but many schools were also built in various counties, and Zhang Liang saw such a rural school.

"Mother, why are they...... Cough cough cough cough ......, "Children are the easiest to attract children, and the students lining up to go home outside tempted Han Yi to look up hurriedly, and he was a little excited to see those peers lined up neatly.

"They are students of the Academy." Miqin's voice was still low, and when she heard the cough, she hurriedly pulled her son back from the head of the car. "When you arrive in Yingdu, you also have to enter the dormitory, and you will ...... in the future"

Han Yi is eight years old, not outstanding among the sons of Korea, and has been sick since childhood. The reason why Han Wangan chose him was simply because his mother was the princess of Chu State.

"Mother, what will happen in the future? Future? Han Yi hurriedly drank a bowl of hot willow bark juice, and then asked after his mother's words.

"...... in the future," Mi Qin's expression darkened when she heard this. Korea had already prepared for the worst, so she and her son, escorted by the sons of several important ministers, returned to Chu with almost a third of the gold treasures in the royal treasury.

"Madame." Han Cheng's voice came from outside, and his voice was a little excited. "The king of Chu sent an envoy to Ye."

"Brother Wang?" Miqin snorted, she went outside, only to see a team of knights in armor standing at the front of the convoy, a knight standing beside Han Cheng Zhang Liang, and when he saw the knight, he saluted: "On the orders of my king, I personally welcome Princess Qin back to Chu." ”

"The general is exempt." The number of knights was in the hundreds, so Miqin called him a general. Zhang Liang was a little distracted at this time: these cavalrymen rode eight-foot-high sweaty horses, although the knights were not tall, but because of the horses, they looked very heroic.

The more than 1,600 sweaty horses transported by Hu Shang could not be hidden, and all of them were filled into the light jockeys, and only about 200 were distributed to the three kingdoms of Zhao, Qi and Wei, thinking that they were reprimanded. According to the calculations of the Ministry of Military Affairs, a distance of 1,000 meters takes 1 minute and 22 seconds for Dima, 1 minute and 16 seconds for a horse, 1 minute and 11 seconds for Nissa, and only one minute and 7 seconds for a sweaty horse.

It is not hard to escort Mrs. Qin back to Chu, and since the King of Chu has already sent someone to greet her, then things are simpler. When the convoy arrived in Xinyi, it boarded the boat that came to greet it, and went straight down to Yingdu along Rushui and Huaishui. Seeing that Chu Guo even had poetry and calligraphy schools in the villages, Zhang Liang, who was full of beautiful fantasies about Yingdu, was disappointed as soon as he landed from the Huaishui Wharf.

The capital of Chu may be prosperous, but it is chaotic, and even if Mrs. Qin is escorted by the knights of the Chu army, she is blocked outside the city gate. A quarter of an hour later, as he passed the blockage, he saw a pool of blood on the ground and a corpse covered in sackcloth by the side of the road. When he entered the city, there was a pungent and unpleasant smell of coal, and the constant roar of the machine shook people's nerves, and Prince Yi in the carriage behind him didn't know if he was frightened by this roar, and he began to cry.

The mountain residence in South Korea is naturally not as prosperous as Chu, Wei, Qi and Zhao, but it is so prosperous that it is so chaotic that there is no other place in the world except Yingdu. The chaos is one, and the ragged paupers that appear on the side of the road from time to time surprised Zhang Liang. It is said that the sea boat of Chu can pass the world, and there is no other wealth, how can there be so many poor people?

The convoy stopped and stopped, Zhang Liang didn't have time to take a closer look, there was no doubt that the reality had a huge impact on him, Chu State was fundamentally different from what he imagined, but whether this difference was just chaos and poverty, he couldn't answer.

*

"Your lord, this year's sea boat will be transported for another year, and six thousand horses will be gone." Yingdu is sleeping, and Zhao Huang, Shi Yu, Wugou Chang and others are reporting to Xiong Jing. It was already a howling north wind outside the bed, and it was the day when the fleet set sail.

"I thought I should buy a dragon horse from the Seleucid kingdom again." Zhao Huang suggested after speaking.

"Great King, the Seleucids want to buy my waistcoat, and they are willing to exchange three sets for one horse, limited to two thousand." No hook is also long. He did not return for the previous year, and when the monsoon turned this spring, he sailed away from the Red Sea, and after joining the convoy of horses at the port of Wubley, he returned to Chu with the flotilla in the autumn.

"Three sets for one horse?" Xiong Jing smiled. The chain mail is not ring piece armor, the chain mail of the armor has to be compiled for one or two years, and the area of the vest is several times that of the armor chain mail, and it cannot be compiled at all without six or seven years. "No."

"The king thinks how many armors can be exchanged?" The commander was only a captain, and he did not understand the details of the manufacture of armor, nor did he understand the heavy cavalry, but Seleucus was eager to get the chain mail of the war horse.

"The vest involves heavy riding, and heavy riding is the heavy weapon of the country, how can heavy weapons be lightly shown to others?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically, and then he complained: "The Seleucid merchants are unwilling to lower the price to sell silk, how can I profit?" They do not want to make small profits but sell them quickly, but they are reluctant to sell for large profits. ”

After the market was completely occupied, profits fell sharply. The silk price reduction strategy only quickly seized the original silk market, and did not open up a new silk market. There are reasons for this because of the Seleucid merchants, and the bigger reason is the Seleucid royal court.

Silk is taxed on valuation. The price of silk sold to the port of Wolbrai fell again and again, but the valuation of silk by Seleucid officials remained unchanged, especially at the customs in the direction of the Mediterranean. According to last year's survey, the Seleucid port in the Mediterranean direction still sells silk for 30 to 40 gold horses, and half of the price has to be paid to the Seleucid tax collectors.

Thankfully, after Ashoka's death, India was in the midst of a war, and India's demand for armor had skyrocketed – something that may have been blamed on Oetel. While still building a city in Sinhala, he met with an envoy from the patriarch of the Deccan Plateau, Sumuga, and promised to sell his armor, and the Baicheng people soon launched a massive rebellion, which brought all of South India out of Fahrenheit's control.

"Please go to the green ocean to enter the sea in the middle of the earth." The entry into the Mediterranean Sea has been planned for a long time, but it has been delayed until today. Now that the improved Flying Shear Boat has been launched, it is time to explore the Mediterranean route.

"Yes." Xiong Jingdao asked the shipyard to launch a new type of flying shears this year, in order to set sail for the Mediterranean this winter. "However, the Seleucid silk silk is thirty or forty gold horses, and the sea boat reaches the sea in the middle of the earth, and what is the price of silk brocade?"

Xiong Jing's question made Wu Gou ask about the taste of war. The sea boat of the Chu State, which arrived on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea at great risk, naturally had to sell silk, Chu paper, lacquerware, porcelain, armor, ironware, and spices. At the current price of silk, the Mediterranean sells for twenty gold a horse at most, but this price is enough to make the Seleucid merchants lose all their money.

Zhao Huang, Wu Gou Chang and others were thinking about how to avoid war, but they didn't expect Xiong Jing's next sentence to make everyone stunned: "I don't think that if the sea boat can reach the sea in the middle of the earth, it is necessary to control the west coast of India and the east coast of Nanzhou, and it is strictly forbidden for merchant ships to carry pepper, ginger, dried rosin, myrrh, frankincense and other valuable goods into the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea." ”