69novels Chapter 321
Chapter 321
Li Shimin finished two cups of tea and waited for Su Chen for more than ten minutes.
"Is there a craftsman working in the backyard?"
Suddenly, he remembered that Su Chen seemed to be doing something about showering today, so he asked the servant.
"That's right, my dear guest!"
Li Shimin nodded, "Assistant, follow me to see what the shower toilet that kid said looks like."
Li Shimin didn't believe it, it was a toilet anyway.
Can Su Chen do anything fancy?
"Yes!"
Changsun Wuji immediately stood up and stood aside waiting for Li Shimin to go first.
But strangely, Changsun Wuji found that Li Shimin's eyes were staring at the outside of the living room without moving.
Changsun Wuji turned his head and looked in the direction of Li Shimin's eyes.
"Huh?"
Two carriages drove in the square, one of which was a carriage for goods.
The carriage stopped at the door of the living room, and Li Shimin was a little curious about who would get off the carriage.
He had guessed that he was coming to the manor to deliver goods.
"Xuanling?"
Li Shimin's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately stood up and walked out of the living room, followed by Changsun Wuji.
Then another person got off the carriage, and Li Shimin had never seen this person before.
He didn't look like a local.
"Xuanling, what's the emergency? Why are you here?" Li Shimin was worried that there was something urgent in the palace.
If it was to deliver a message, anyone could be sent, but the person who came was Fang Xuanling, so Li Shimin would inevitably think too much.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, it's a happy event!" Fang Xuanling bowed and smiled.
"Your Majesty and the Queen's favorite white floribunda flowers were brought back from the Western Regions."
Li Shimin was so excited that he wanted to laugh out loud when he heard this.
I vaguely remember that Su Chen once said: 'As long as there are enough white floribunda, there will be no more people freezing to death in the Tang Dynasty. '
Suddenly, I found a stranger present, who looked like a Hu merchant.
Li Shimin suppressed his excitement, "Okay, okay, I like flowers that look like white clouds."
"Let's talk inside, Xuanling." Li Shimin led Fang Xuanling into the living room.
"Your Majesty, please go in first!"
Then he turned to Atanaschinid and said, "You come in with us. Your Majesty has some news to ask you."
"Okay, sir!" Atanaschinid said respectfully.
At the same time, he was very excited because he had something he wanted to ask the prince for help.
It's better to see the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty now. As long as he behaves better today, he should be able to fulfill his wish.
"Assistant, go wake up that kid."
After coming to the living room, Li Shimin thought about it and decided that it would be better to let Su Chen come.
Then, he began to look at the Hu merchant.
"You look like a Persian." Li Shimin frowned slightly, and then relaxed.
"Your Majesty, I am a Persian merchant named Atanaschinides. I was previously ordered by the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty..."
Atanaschinides immediately shut up.
The Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty once said that his identity should not be revealed to anyone.
Li Shimin nodded. When Fang Xuanling mentioned Bai Diezi, he already knew that this Hu merchant was a member of the royal caravan.
"Well, Atana...what? Sit down and talk."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Atanaschinides bowed respectfully.
He has been in the Tang Dynasty for many years and knows some basic etiquette of the Tang Dynasty.
In the study...
"Su kid, wake up!"
Changsun Wuji came to the study and whispered beside Su Chen.
Su Chen was half asleep and half awake. Changsun Wuji only called once and Su Chen opened his eyes.
"Uncle Changsun, why are you in my study?"
Su Chen just opened his eyes and was a little confused.
"Stop talking, there's something important, His Majesty has been waiting for you for more than two hours." Changsun Wuji urged.
Su Chen looked at his watch and calculated the time.
'Nonsense, I've been in the study for at most forty minutes. '
"Uncle Changsun, let's go and see what's going on." Su Chen smiled slightly and didn't argue with Changsun Wuji.
"Well, the white folded seeds from the Western Regions have been brought back to Chang'an!" Changsun Wuji reminded.
"Cotton? Good! There's something to do, let's go!"
The two quickened their pace and walked towards the living room.
Suddenly, Fang Xuanling was there too, and he bowed his hands and saluted: "Uncle Fang is here too!"
"Your Majesty, when did you come?" Su Chen and Li Shimin laughed when they came to the living room.
"I've just been here for more than ten minutes." Li Shimin answered casually.
Su Chen silently glanced at Changsun Wuji, 'Haha, you waited for me for two hours? '
Changsun Wuji remained calm and arrogant.
"Boy, he is Atana, a Persian merchant who went to the Western Regions to look for Bai Dizi. If you have any questions, just ask."
Li Shimin didn't think about it and let Su Chen handle the matter.
Su Chen nodded, sat down slowly, and thought to himself: 'There is also thisWhat a strange name? ’
“Atana, how long did it take you to go to the Western Regions?”
“Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, my name is Atanaschinide.”
Atanaschinide reiterated his name.
“It took me 45 days to go there and 32 days to return to Chang’an.”
Su Chen nodded awkwardly, and he said it.
How could there be such a strange name.
“We will call you Atana from now on, is that okay? Your name is too long and does not conform to our Tang Dynasty’s naming habits.”
Atana did not care at all, he was not originally called Atanaschinide, he chose it himself based on the homophony.
In the Tang Dynasty, no matter how others call you, it is the same.
“Atana, thank you for the name.”
However, Atana was a smart man, and he immediately realized that Su Chen should have a high status.
"Atana, how did the tea and fine salt I brought last time do in the Western Regions?"
"Shangguan, this... the batch of goods I brought was sold out in less than a day.
These days, I have been waiting for the white flounder seeds to mature."
Su Chen was shocked after hearing this. This was equivalent to Atana's three months of traveling and waiting for cotton seeds.
"Oh? Then how much do you sell tea and fine salt for per kilogram?"
Atana seemed a little hesitant and didn't know how to start.
"Don't worry, we won't ask about the money you earn. I just want to know some information." Su Chen smiled and comforted.
Atana waved his hand quickly, "Shangguan, don't misunderstand, this tea and fine salt are not sold by kilogram in the Western Regions.
A spoonful of fine salt is sold at a uniform price of about three taels of gold, and a spoonful of tea is sold at about ten taels of gold."
As for why Atana said "about three taels of gold", it was because the gold in the Western Regions was not sold by kilograms, they only looked at the size of the gold and didn't weigh it.
Who carries a scale when doing business in the Western Regions!
Besides, no one knows how to weigh that thing.
Many countries in the Western Regions use the Tang Dynasty reign calendar, which has been done since before the Sui Dynasty.
They don't have their own calendar.
"Sell by the spoon? How big is your spoon?" Li Shimin asked immediately.
"Your Majesty, the spoon is on the small carriage. I'll get it now." Atana hurried out of the living room to get the spoon.
When he returned to the living room, he brought in the seeds and flowers of the white fold.
He must behave better today to realize his wish.
"Your Majesty, superiors, this is the spoon."
Haha!
Su Chen laughed, while Li Shimin and others were stunned.
Su Chen had seen that spoon before. It was the spoon used by supermarkets in later generations to sell rice or beans, and the spoon used by Atana was much smaller.
What's the difference between this and robbing money? That spoon was filled with at most sixteen taels of salt.
It's hard to estimate the tea leaves, but it should be one tael.
According to the ratio of gold in the Tang Dynasty, three taels of gold equal thirty strings of copper coins.
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