Chapter 208 Faith and secularity

Can use the power of the faithful to influence my rule. And he was rather pedantic, and if the fate of the two islands were entirely in his hands he would have to play the game of both. This is something I simply cannot agree with.

Soon the messenger returned and led us in. At the palace gate, I asked Nath and the others to arrange lodging and rest. I went in alone to see Old Cheng.

In the palace hall, the lights were blazing, and a man was busy with his work. There were piles of paper in front of them.

I walked forward and asked, "Uncle Cheng, what is love doing?"

Without looking up, Lao Chen said, "I'm doing what you told me to do. Just wait a minute. I'll soon be finished."

I picked up a pile of papers and saw that on the first sheet was written, "Yamamoto script."

Open to see, it is clear that some simplified Chinese characters can no longer be simplified, there are a lot of new words. I could barely pick out 30 percent.

One after another, some people came to hand in their manuscripts, and when they greeted me, I recognized the group of emissaries I had sent over.

About ten minutes later, Old Cheng rubbed his eyes, stood up and said, "Let's call it a day. We can go home and rest."

They said goodbye and filed out.

After Collecting a pile of papers, Cheng and I walked outside.

I told him to take out some of the paper he had stored and let us make a deal with El Dorado.

"Paper?" Lao Cheng stopped and said, "Lu Fei, we all use earth method to make paper. It doesn't make sense for you to trade on it. Aren't you going to start education? There will be plenty of paper in the future."

"I'll send a little more men to help you make it." I explained, "You know our two islands together don't have much variety. It won't do us any good if we don't trade with other tribes. And there's inflation on the island right now. Expanding trade is the best way to make everyone's life better."

"And the money from the paper?"

"To the Treasury." I said, "I've stopped producing money now. The tribe doesn't have any money at all now. You know I sent people back to talk about the tax system?"

Lao Cheng nodded: "Of course, but we also have to make paper costs, if all go to the state Treasury..."

"You don't need to say, so, I buy line." Even though his game was imaginary, he needed a lot of money to support it.

"That'll do." Lao Cheng replied, "I'll tell you what, ten copper coins for 100 pieces of paper."

"Isn't it too expensive? Two pieces of paper are a small copper coin. After that, how can we dare to start education?" I don't know if he doesn't understand prices or if that's what he means.

As we spoke, we had gone to the place where we had dinner. His two female disciples brought us a midnight snack. We continued to negotiate while eating.

Somehow, the price of a hundred sheets of paper was reduced to five coppers. Even so, I think it's still too expensive. But he wouldn't budge any more, and THERE was nothing I could do.

He also wants money and delivery. I had to run back and get everyone together for the fundraiser. Scraped together a thousand coppers. He took someone to buy 20,000 sheets of paper from him that night.

Lay down to sleep not too long, was woken up. Kings and chiefs have been arriving overnight. I sent men to each of the four gates to meet them. I was deliberately asked to be woken up at first light.

When I woke up, I was a little confused.

"Husband, don't be to do a trade, you do of be like big soldier pressure city same." Lucie yawned and complained.

As I dressed, I said, "They have been here for some days and will not stay with us long. We have to get this sorted out fast. This time we will open up trade with El Dorado for good."

"You also don't sleep, go to rain tong call, in a short while we still want to go up to square parade." I stretched. I didn't want to move my feet.

Lucy grunted and got up weakly.

When I got to the rear of the hall, I sent someone to blow the horn.

In less than twenty minutes, they all gathered in the side hall.

After saluting, I counted the number of people. Five had not arrived.

After offering a little food, I smiled and asked, "I set the tax policy. Is that ok with you?"

Most people shook their heads and supported my new policy.

I then asked, "Have you brought all the goods for this trade?"

When the answer fell apart, one of the Kings stood up and said, "All ready, Sir. I was going to sell the goods to get some gold for the leader."

I waved my hand and said, "There is no need to offer it to me. It is useless for me to have so much gold. Keep them for yourselves."

"Thank you, chief."

When the man took his seat, I told them to trade less in gold and more in other things. After all, gold only looks good, but it is decorative. Neither eat nor drink.

When everyone answered, I continued, "If we have more, we can take the house we bought from El Dorado and trade it for other goods in other kingdoms. Maybe we can make a fortune in the middle."

"The leader said so."

"Why do you think I'm right?" I asked deliberately.

The chief froze and looked at the others for help.

The other king stood up. "I don't really understand, Sir. Currency only works with us, trade with other tribes, we all have to barter. We can get what we want without money. Money doesn't do anything for our wealth."

"You'll see." It's a gradual process, and explaining too much to them may not make everything clear.

"The leader is wise, and can think of none of us."

"Yes, everything we have now is made by the leader, and the leader will surely bring us more good things in the future."

"It may not be long before other kingdoms use our copper coins."

Listening to their praise, I did not feel much satisfaction. After greeting them, he explained the arrangements for the day.

Just say that finish, Li Ding and Zhebie came in together. And brought back three chiefs.

As they entered, the three fell on their knees and pleaded their SINS, saying that they would be on their way as soon as they got the news, and that they had not come late on purpose. I looked at the other Kings and chiefs. They were all sitting precariously. It must have seemed to them that their lives were in danger.

I walked up, pulled the three people to their feet and warmly welcomed them to their seats. The three men were deeply moved. It's like you've been given a gift.

Although Li Ding and Zhebie had been running all the way, they could not get a rest. I asked them to command the soldiers brought by the tribal kingdoms and wait for Cui Bin's arrival in the square. Before meeting the El Dorado emissaries, they need a brief training session.

Fortunately, Cui Bin soon came back and joined the last two leaders.

After breakfast with them, it was getting late. I took all the men to the small square in front of the palace hall. Cui Bin, who was directing the training of the soldiers, immediately adjusted the sequence and had them lined up on the square.

He came quickly and said, "Captain, the soldiers have been arranged."

I nodded. "You'll all have to work hard for a while. After I've seen the messenger, you can go home and rest."

Cui Bin yawned. "Nothing. I can handle it."

I thanked him and sent Nath and Brown to meet the messenger.

Because there was some distance, I went into the palace hall. Lao Cheng was already busy with the emissaries. He was so focused on his own thing, it was like what we were doing had nothing to do with him.

I guess he arrived too late last night and had no one with him. Now it was different. I was accompanied by four disciples, two men and two women.

He just drank a mouthful of water, there is a female disciple immediately go up to refill a cup.

"Uncle Cheng, how many disciples have you around?" I asked aloud.

Old Cheng buried his head and said nothing.

"Hui Chief, the master has more than 300 disciples." A male disciple replied.

I walked up to him. "Are you all going to work?"

He shook his head. "We all have a lot of teaching to do. We don't have to work in the fields."