At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 463: Changes in South Korea and Fantasy in the Indian Market
The 20th day of the second month of the 19th year of the Han calendar, Xinzheng.

Early in the morning, Agui washed himself, put on the silk clothes he wore for the festival, and even took out a piece of Hetian jade and hung it around his waist. This outfit made him look three times more handsome. Then he went out with a Indian-Chinese dictionary.

Kumaro did not do nothing during his two years in Korea. He originally wanted to preach in Korea. In order to facilitate his preaching, he not only learned Chinese himself, but also created an Indian-Chinese dictionary to make it easier for Chinese people to learn Indian. Unfortunately, the Korean people were not interested in Indian at all, and after a few copies of his dictionary were copied, it was placed in a Korean library and no one was interested in it.

But when these Indian brides arrived, these Indian dictionaries were snapped up. Zhang Buyi could only quickly copy them on the wooden board in front of his palace and let all the young people in Korea copy the dictionaries themselves. The Indian-Chinese dictionary in Agui's hand was the one he copied for more than a day. He had studied more seriously than ever in the past few days and had already understood a little bit of Indian. Of course, he didn't know whether the pronunciation was standard or not.

Today is the day when these Indian noble ladies end their half-month quarantine and start blind dates. All young men in South Korea who want to get married can go to the square in front of the palace to try.

After Agui ordered his tenants in Nanzhong to clean his ox cart, he rode the cart to the square of Xinzheng Palace. On the way, he did not forget to learn a few words of Indian language. He was very studious. Along the way, Agui met many Korean youths who were dressed as neatly as he was and took out new clothes that they usually didn't wear.

"Agui, the way you are dressed now really makes you look like an aristocrat." Lu Sheng, Agui's good friend and opera buddy, said with a smile.

Ah Gui said solemnly, "I am almost thirty years old this year. If I don't get married soon, I will be too old."

Lu Sheng said: "Who told you to be so picky? Otherwise, with your conditions, you would have a lot of children."

Ah Gui said, "This time I have found someone I like, you must not compete with me for her."

Lu Sheng said: "It's no use telling my little brother, look how many people are here?"

Even Lu Sheng's gaze, Agui realized at this time that the whole square was full of young Koreans. Korea is not big, and the news that Gongzi Yi was going to hold a blind date conference soon spread throughout the three counties of Korea. There are more than ten thousand people in Korea, and young men account for 90%, of which more than half are marrying wives, that is to say, there are almost more than 4,000 bachelors, and there are only thousands of noble ladies from Tianzhu this time, it can be said that there are more monks than porridge.

Seeing so many competitors, Agui became anxious and drove the ox cart forward.

Inside the palace, Gongzi Yi's wife Zheng Qian brought her maids to comfort the Indian noble ladies who were still in panic. They already knew that they were going to get married today, but in such a foreign land, they were still afraid of the future. This fear even made them very stiff.

Zheng Qian comforted them in fluent Indian: "Don't worry, the men of our Han Dynasty are all upright men and will not bully you. If anyone dares to bully you, come to me and I will take care of it for you."

A daughter of the emperor asked timidly, "If the men of the Han Dynasty bully us because we have no dowry, will the queen help us?"

Zheng Qian asked curiously: "What?"

"Because we have no dowry!"

"dowry?"

They did not understand the Han Dynasty's title system and mistook Zheng Qian for the Korean queen. Seeing that the queen wanted to help them, they immediately expressed their concerns.

India also has strict restrictions on noble women. They can only marry up or marry up. They cannot marry down. This means that if Indian women want to marry well, they must give a high bride price to the man. Because if the bride price is small, the wife has no status and may even be abused. This is too common in India. Now these Indian noble ladies have nothing in Korea except for their status. If they were in India, their status would be even worse than that of slaves. This makes them extremely fearful and afraid of being abused by their husbands.

When Zheng Qian heard about the strange dowry system in Tianzhu, she said angrily, "There are still men in Tianzhu who want to squeeze women's dowries. Don't worry, if your husband dares to do this, come to me and I will stand up for you."

And in the square, the Han soldiers shouted: "Line up and get a number, line up and get a number."

There were three long queues in the square, with all the young people queuing in the middle. Ah Gui had not expected so many people to come, so he was ranked very far back in the queue and only got a number 1143, which made him a little anxious. He was ranked so far back and was afraid that his dream lover might have been snatched away by someone else.

Lu Sheng held a number 1233 and said with a wry smile: "You are late, I am afraid there is no share for me."

At this time, Zhang Buyi appeared outside the square and said, "Because there are too many young people here, in order to ensure fairness, we can only draw lots. One hundred people will be drawn at a time. Then these 100 people will form a team to go on blind dates first. Whoever they like will be the one they take home."

"But I have to tell you that it is very expensive to bring someone here from India, so when you choose a wife, you have to pay 30,000 coins for the boat ticket. You also have to pay for the bride's family's boat ticket, 5,000 coins per person."

"Ah!" Many people did not expect that it would cost money, especially since they had to pay for the bride's family.

"If the bride has more than a dozen family members, we can't afford this money even if we lose everything we have." Many people complained. Why is it so difficult for them to find a wife?

Zhang Buyi said, "Don't worry, there aren't that many people. Even if the bride does have that many relatives, the maximum amount is 5 coins."

This made many people breathe a sigh of relief. 5 yuan is not a lot of money in South Korea. It is almost their income for less than two years. Most people's families have such savings.

Zhang Buyi said, "Okay, now let's start selecting the first batch of people."

Several soldiers took out a large box filled with numbers written on white paper.

"No. 17, No. 22, No. 103, No. 309."

The soldiers kept cheering. Those who were selected were very happy, while those who were not selected were a little nervous. Among them, Agui was so nervous that he broke out in cold sweat.

"Number 1143!"

Ah Gui said in surprise: "It's someone, it's someone."

When the first one hundred lucky people lined up in an orderly manner, they followed Zhang Buyi into the palace.

"After you get your wives back, you must treat them well. You can't beat or scold them, and you must not bring shame to us Han people."

"promise!"

Zhang Buyi said: "Cheer up and show my manliness."

"promise!"

Under the leadership of Zhang Buzhi, the people who were going on a blind date came to the venue. Various foods and fruits were placed on the table. Zhang Buzhi also learned the buffet model from Xu Fan.

The venue was already filled with beautiful girls. The Korean youth who followed Zhang Buzhi didn't know where to look now. After a few days of rest and careful dressing up, these Indian ladies had become more exotic.

"Ahem!" Zhang Buyi coughed to remind them not to lose face. Many people reacted and looked straight ahead. The Indian ladies saw the young men Zhang Buyi brought, all of them were tall and strong, wearing expensive silk clothes. According to the queen, all the young nobles who came today were unmarried young nobles from this country. They were very surprised why so many young nobles had no wives. But for them, being able to marry a noble in such an exotic country was already a blessing from Brahma.

Zhang Buyi smiled and said, "You can get in touch with each other yourselves." Then the men and women who came for the blind date stayed.

Ah Gui was the first to rush towards his dream lover. In this way, hundreds of men and women began to get to know each other with only a few simple words and body language.

On the 15th day of the third month in the 19th year of the Han calendar, Xinzheng, Agui’s home.

After Agui chose the woman of his dreams and got married, he redeemed her and her relatives, including her father, mother and two younger brothers. Agui paid 5 coins, but it was all worth it for him.

After more than half a month of communication and mutual learning, Agui taught his wife and father-in-law's family Chinese, and his wife and father-in-law also taught Agui Tianzhu, and the two sides no longer had any problems in daily communication.

Agui already knew that his wife was called Shetty Rajput. He probably knew that Shetty was his wife's name, and Rajput was her surname. His father-in-law was called Singh Rajput. What surprised Agui was that Rajput was actually a royal surname. This was particularly gratifying for Agui, who was obsessed with aristocrats. He didn't expect to marry a royal woman. Agui felt like he had made a fortune.

The Rajput family was quite satisfied with Agui, although the land was a little smaller, only 500 acres, the servants were a little smaller, only ten, the manor was a little smaller, only a three-in-one courtyard, and the property was a little smaller, only a few hundred thousand coins and three big buffaloes. This wealth was relatively small among the Indian Kshatriya class.

But after all, they were of noble birth and were rich in this strange country. The Rajput family thought they would be reduced to slaves when they came to a foreign country, but now they are still in the noble class, which is a blessing in disguise for them.

The Rajput family treated their son-in-law's home as their own. Singh Rajput took on the task of stewarding Agui's family. He led Agui's servants and his two sons to continue reclaiming wasteland and strive to double the land owned by his son-in-law.

At that time, India was densely populated, with limited land and a large population. Even the Rajput family had no land to continue cultivating. Now they saw that there were a lot of wastelands around Korea that could be reclaimed, especially knowing that as long as the land was reclaimed, it would belong to their family. Naturally, they would not let go of such a good opportunity.

Rajput even told Agui to recruit 20 more servants so that there would be enough manpower to cultivate the land. Agui felt ashamed. After coming to Korea for many years, he was proud of reclaiming 500 acres of land. His father-in-law was more ambitious and wanted to double his wealth. However, 500 acres of land was not worthy of his father-in-law's royal status.

Situations like Agui's happened everywhere in India. The people brought by Hu Hai were at least the Kshatriya class of India. In terms of quality alone, they were even higher than the Han immigrants like Agui. India was at least a feudal agricultural country. These people might not be good at fighting, but they were better than the natives of Southeast Asia in terms of management and agricultural technology. They valued the land even more than the natives of Southeast Asia, and they could not bear to see the land being abandoned like this.

Zhang Buzhi was extremely happy about the changes within the Kingdom of Han. Now, Korea was full of people pioneering new land. With the addition of these Indian nobles, his people once again had the spirit of struggle. He decided to wait for Hu Hai to return, and then find a way to get a group of Indians to his own vassal state.

On the other hand, after Hu Hai and his men rested for a day in Han, they led the fleet northwards back to Kuaiji County. Then they put all the gold, silver and jewelry they had obtained in India up for sale in the cargo exchange.

These exotic jewels immediately attracted the attention of merchants in Kuaiji County. They were obviously not products of the Han civilization. Merchants immediately targeted Hu Hai and his group, trying to get some information out of them.

This time, there were more than 1700 sailors returning with Hu Hai. These people had saved a lot of spoils of war. They sold the jewels and boasted about their bravery in India. They also said that they had destroyed a small foreign country. Soon, everyone in Kuaiji County knew that Hu Hai and his men had found Sindhu and robbed a city there, earning (robbing) hundreds of millions of dollars.

This incident caused a sensation in the entire Kuaiji County maritime merchant group. Ever since the Han Dynasty discovered the Spice Islands, the Han Dynasty's maritime trade has been developing for more than ten years. A large number of ships are manufactured every year, and more and more people are sailing. These maritime merchants are becoming more and more competitive, and the profits from maritime trade are getting lower and lower. In the beginning, they could make more than ten times the profit from a trip to the sea, but now it is difficult to make even twice the profit from a trip to the sea.

The Han Dynasty's maritime merchants did need a new market with high profits, and now this new market was found by Hu Hai, which was actually Sindhu in the north. It was said that Sindhu had more than a dozen countries and a population of tens of millions, a problem similar to that of the Han Dynasty. Its wealth far exceeded that of Southeast Asia. The most important thing was that Sindhu was still connected to the sea, and they could go there as long as there was a sea route.

The most exciting thing is that this is a market with a population of tens of millions, and it is an undeveloped market. This time, the thousands of sailors who followed Hu Hai made a fortune, and this is just a little dregs next to the Sindhu market.

Because Hu Hai and his caravan were placing orders in Kuaiji County, they knew the price of Hu Hai's goods, which was only less than 3000 million coins. However, the goods from Hu Hai this time were worth about 5-6 million coins. The 20-fold profit made all the sea merchants crazy. The craze of the Spice Island could reappear, and even make more money than the Spice Island. This is a huge market with tens of millions of people.

Soon, Hu Hai's elder brother in the officialdom, Guan Hong, and his elder brother in business, Wu Xiao, came to find Hu Hai, and they could only meet at Gaosheng Inn.

As soon as Guan Hong saw Hu Hai, he said, "Brother Hu Hai, I always think of you when I have good things to do. This time, you are a little bit unkind. You have such a way to make money, but you kept it a secret."

Hu Hai immediately poured wine to apologize, and drank three cups as punishment. Then he said, "It's not that I don't want to help my brother get rich, but the trade route to Tianzhu was discovered by Prince Yi of Han. I was just an errand boy. How dare I disclose this matter without Prince Yi's consent?"

Wu Xiao said: "Now the whole Han Dynasty knows about Sindhu, no, it's the news of Tianzhu. Even Gongzi Yi doesn't have the strength to dominate the whole Tianzhu. Brother, don't worry about the news leaking out. You should know that the nobles of the Han Dynasty are not just the Duke of Han."

Guan Hong also said sarcastically: "When the emperor discovered the Spice Island, he opened it to all the people of the Han Dynasty. Now, Master Yi is not even a Duke of Han, but he is acting more domineeringly than the emperor. Isn't this a bit too much?"

What the two men implied was that one should not eat alone. Tianzhu is such a big pie that Zhang Buyi cannot finish it all by himself.

Hu Hai smiled bitterly and said, "How can it be considered a secret if thousands of people know it? Gongzi Yi also knows that the news from Tianzhu cannot be concealed, but he just spread it word of mouth. If the two brothers go to Tianzhu, does Gongzi Yi dare to stop them?"

Wu Xiao said: "Brother, you have been to Tianzhu. It is said that you have conquered a city as our Han stronghold in Tianzhu. Can you tell us about the situation in Tianzhu?"

Now there are thousands of sailors who have been to India. These people can indeed find India by recruiting a few sailors and guiding the direction. However, maritime trade is inherently risky, especially when going to an unknown area. Those sailors are not professional captains. They do not understand the art of star migration and cannot read longitude and latitude maps. At most, they can only guide a general direction.

Relatively speaking, the sea map of India that Hu Hai controls is worth a fortune, not to mention that Hu Hai and his men have also conquered a city in India. This is a natural safe base. Cooperating with Hu Hai and his men is the lowest-risk option, so they found Hu Hai.

Hu Hai said: "India is a civilization slightly inferior to our Han Dynasty. Their wizards and monks still hold great power. Their power even overwhelms the local nobles. It is similar to the Shang and Zhou dynasties of our Han Dynasty. There are more than a dozen countries in it. The most powerful of them are the Yuezhi people who escaped from our Han Dynasty. They are called the Kushan Empire in India, and there are more than a dozen small countries afterwards.

This area is said to have a population of tens of millions, but I don't know exactly how many. But from the areas I know, the population density of Tianzhu is not much different from that of Han Dynasty. The total area of ​​the entire region is still not larger than that of Han Dynasty, but it can be regarded as a good place. The population is estimated to be about half of that of Han Dynasty.

Because of the Kushan invasion, the whole of India was in chaos, like the Warring States Period of our Han Dynasty, but it was richer than Southeast Asia. There were abundant spices, gems, gold and silver. India was also richer than Southeast Asia. The local noble monks loved our silk, tea, porcelain and sugar. Our silk, sugar, tea, and even salt and steel could be sold at more than ten times the price. "

Hu Hai's words excited the two men, and they immediately had the same dream as Hu Hai. With a market of tens of millions of people, if they could earn 100 coins from each person in Tianzhu, it would be a market worth tens of billions. If each person could earn coins, it would be tens of billions. The most helpless thing about Nanyang was that the population was too small and the market was too small. Apart from the population, they didn't know what goods to transport to Nanyang. With a market of millions of people, most people had no consumption capacity. They only needed to load a cabin of goods to meet the needs of a vassal state. The silk, cloth, and iron tools of the Han Dynasty were already unprecedentedly cheap, but not many people in Nanyang could afford them.

Especially for someone like Wu Xiao who owns a textile factory, he would rather have Nanyang order cloth from his own textile factory than transport specialty products from Nanyang. Every year, Dahan would count the production capacity of the textile industry, hoping to use this method to dissuade a group of people from investing in the textile industry, but it is completely useless. The textile industry requires small investment, has quick results, and easy-to-use technology, so the first choice for Dahan entrepreneurs is to invest in the textile industry.

Therefore, textile workshop owners like Wu Xiao have a sense of urgency. The crisis of overcapacity is looming. They urgently need a new market, and Tianzhu obviously meets their fantasy of market demand.

"But the Indians are very barbaric. I went to India to do business, not to fight. But the Indian city lord saw my huge fleet and became greedy for money. He wanted to kill people and rob them. Fortunately, I had the artillery and musket team sent by Gongzi Yi, and I quickly defeated the city lord's army. Then I decided to occupy the city directly as a base in India."

"From what I have observed in India, the nobles there are generally shameless and have no credibility. If you want to sell goods in India, it is best to bring enough sailors and ensure that you have overwhelming military strength. Otherwise, you will not be able to do business, but may be killed and robbed by the locals."

Guan Hong and Wu Xiao hesitated. They did not expect the situation in India to be so complicated. The situation in the Han Dynasty was different from the great voyages of the West after all. Some of the so-called navigators in the West were actually pirates, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of atrocities. However, the great voyages of the Han Dynasty were mainly in the Nanyang Basin, which was close to the Han mainland. The North Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet patrolled everywhere, searching for pirates, and regarded it as their military merit. Compared with the West, the environment of the entire South China Sea was not too bad. Although the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants asked the sailors to prepare swords and crossbows, this was also to prevent pirates.

Now, according to Hu Hai, if they want to go to India to do business, they should bring an elite army with them. Normal merchants would not bring an army with them to do business. It is unimaginable how much the labor cost would increase. Most importantly, if they did not bring an army with them, they would not be able to do business. This was a bit of a fantasy for them.

The Han civilization had too little external communication. Ever since Xu Fan established the Han army, the ordinary people of the Han Dynasty had an extremely high sense of morality for an army. But now they have encountered an army with even lower morals than the tyrannical Qin army. For a moment, they were all at a loss. This was a bit beyond their cognition.

(End of this chapter)