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Chapter 314: Boxed eggs, boxed eggs!

"Please Zi Xifu! Please Zi Xifu!"

The female savage immediately became more excited. She kept slapping the ground and nodding frantically at Liu Ju. A flattering smile appeared on her rough face.

"Please Zi Xifu! Please Zi Xifu!"

The two male savages also shouted together, making the same movements and expressions as the female savage.

"Then do you know where the Qin Dynasty's Xu Fu... or his descendants are?"

Liu Ju gestured to the military officer who had just taught them and gave each of them a small piece of corn cake. After they calmed down, he asked again.

"Please Zi Xifu! Please Zi Xifu!"

The three short savages did not say anything different. While swallowing the corn cakes, they slapped the ground and shouted excitedly as before.

The military officer standing by saluted Liu Ju helplessly when he saw this:
"Your Highness, this question is a bit complicated for them. They currently don't understand what Your Highness means, let alone how to answer."

"Ah."

Liu Ju nodded slightly and said with a smile,

"It seems that they don't have any major problems with their intelligence. If we continue to teach them like this, it won't take too long for them to be able to communicate at a basic level. However, as a leader, it's really a waste of your talent for you to teach them the language. I'll find some people to take over your job later."

Statistics from later generations showed that although there are about 1000 Chinese characters, in fact, you only need to master 96 commonly used characters to complete % of daily communication.

Therefore, if one only wants to achieve the level of effective communication through gestures and facial expressions, the number of commonly used characters that one needs to master is even less than 1000. In addition, these short savages are all adults, and their ability to learn and understand things is slightly stronger. It seems that they have a small foundation, which will only make it easier.

"Thank you, Your Highness. Your Highness is wise!"

When the military officer heard this, he felt as if he had been pardoned, and hurriedly thanked Liu Ju with gratitude.

He had really had enough of the past few days. If he had the power, he would have drawn his knife and killed these stupid savages.

Although many civil servants and military commanders these days are both civil and military, they all have their own specialties.

For many people, teaching and educating is undoubtedly more painful than fighting in the battlefield. It is an all-round physical and mental torture from the inside out. Otherwise, how could there be so many highly educated parents in later generations who are in a panic when tutoring their own children, and even suffer heart attacks and are hospitalized?
"No need to be polite."

Liu Ju turned around and looked at Yang Pu again.
"General Yang, leave these three savages to me... Have you learned more about that island in the past few days?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, what we can confirm at present is that there is indeed only one tribe of savages on this island, with a population of more than 200 people. From what these three savages said, this tribe calls itself 'Dui Hai'."

Yang Pu said seriously,

"In addition, I have ordered people to go out to sea several times in the past few days to draw a map around this island. I found that the actual shape of this island is very similar to the shape that Your Highness drew on the map before."

"But because of the language barrier, we arrested some of their people before."

"In order to avoid further conflict and delay Your Highness's business, I have not yet ordered anyone to go to the island to negotiate with this savage tribe. I will wait for Your Highness' order before making a decision."

Liu Ju nodded, and after a moment of hesitation, he said:

"You have done a good job. Next, prepare to go to the island to negotiate with this savage tribe."

"But negotiations also require methods."

"Send a few more ships this time. The troops on the island must have an overwhelming advantage over them to ensure that the people of this tribe dare not rebel. If anyone refuses to resist, suppress them immediately with thunder and lightning, using killing as a supplement and deterrence as the main purpose."

"In addition, you need to bring these three savages with you to the island, as well as the alchemists I brought with me, and some food and supplies as gifts." "After we get to the island, the alchemists and these three savages will first take some gifts to meet the people of this tribe..."

Hearing this, Yang Pu felt that he had fully understood Liu Ju's idea, and immediately bowed and responded:

"Yes! I understand. Your Highness, this is called courtesy before force."

"That's pretty much what it means."

Liu Ju said with a smile,
"It would be best if the negotiations can go smoothly. Then we can build a transit port on this island."

"At the same time, these alchemists will teach the savages of this tribe their language. In this way, not only the savages, but also the alchemists will become familiar with their language while teaching them. In this way, we will soon have hundreds of translators who can communicate effectively, and we will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort when we continue to explore the large island overseas."

"However, there is one thing that is most indispensable as a gift to these short savages."

"Your Highness, please make it clear!"

Yang Pu asked hurriedly.

“Prepare a small amount of eggs, put them in a wooden box, and send them to their tribal leader.”

A hint of evil amusement appeared on Liu Ju's face.

Yang Pu looked puzzled when he heard this:

"Your Highness, what does this mean?"

"Boxed eggs, or box eggs for short, are the highest-quality gifts for them, and they will definitely be grateful."

Liu Ju just smiled mysteriously, turned around and walked out of the military tent, and ordered Guo Zhen to summon Gongsun Qing and those alchemists.

"..."

Yang Pu, Zhao Zhou, Ni Kuan, Chang Rong, Li Ji and others all looked at each other in bewilderment, as if they were completely confused.

Naturally, they had no objection to Liu Ju's previous arrangements. Even if it were them, they probably wouldn't be able to arrange anything better than Liu Ju's.

But his final arrangement of the so-called "egg box" is really too incomprehensible.

Admittedly, eggs are not cheap in this era.

In Chang'an, a stone of millet was worth about fifty five-zhu coins, a chicken would sell for thirty coins, and a hen that could lay eggs could be exchanged for at least a stone of millet.

At the same time, eggs are sold individually, and one egg can be sold for about five cents.

Therefore, for most ordinary people, although eggs are not a luxury that they cannot afford, they are also a rare delicacy like meat that can only be tasted during festivals. Even if the family conditions are relatively good and they raise a few chickens, most of the eggs they lay on weekdays can only be sold to exchange for food.

However, there seems to be no precedent for this kind of thing being given to the leader of a tribe as a diplomatic gift of the Han Dynasty?

As far as they knew, the great Han Dynasty had never given such a lowly gift.

No matter how small and weak a country is, as long as it sends envoys to pay tribute, even if they only bring some worthless local specialties like dried fish, the Han Dynasty's return gift will at least be copper, jade and cloth. The key point is that the emperor will not embarrass this person in front of a poor small country.

the most important is.

Eggs are just eggs, why do we have to put them in a wooden box and call them “box eggs”?
Is it a packaging method to make the eggs look high-end?
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(End of this chapter)