More than three hours later, just as Liang En was drying up while explaining, the sound of horse hooves saved him. A panting Li Captou walked in from the door, and then opened a package he carried with him.
Inside the package was a piece of dirty leather with tattered edges. You could vaguely see some writing on it, and in the center of the leather was a flattened gold ring.
"We found this ring from the iron box where the captain kept his jewelry in the stern cabin of the ship. It was placed together with a lot of gold and silver coins and a small amount of jewelry."
When Dong Xian Cheng picked up the crushed gold ring, Li Captou immediately stepped forward to explain.
"So the officers at Senhu Station judged that there might be money in the box that belonged to the ship owner, but most of it should be things they robbed during piracy."
"Because only in this case will they choose to pry off the gemstones from the original jewelry and put them together, and then compress all the gold and silver to reduce storage space."
"I see." Dong Xiancheng nodded. "Fortunately, the ship is not suitable for igniting the furnace, so the ring can be roughly preserved and used to confirm identity even if it is deformed."
After confirming the condition of the seal ring, Dong County Cheng put down the ring and picked up the certificate of credence, but at the same time, a stench like fermented garbage began to linger in everyone's noses.
"What's going on with this smell?" Dong Xian Cheng asked with a frown, after gently waving his hand and casting a purification spell on the piece of parchment.
"Because... because this thing is a good piece of leather. It was taken away by pirates and used to strengthen the crotch of his pants." Capt. Li lowered his head and said.
"When we were looking for it before, we almost thought that the piece of kraft paper had been thrown away by the pirates. Fortunately, we finally found it on a pirate's pants after using the soul-searching technique."
"Okay, Mr. Liang, can you understand what is written on this?" After figuring out why this credential had a strange smell, Dong Xiancheng handed over the kraft paper.
"Please let me take a look." Liang En said, picked up the brown paper, and then began to check the text on it.
This document was written in two languages, one of which was Latin, and the other Liang En could roughly judge to be French, both of which were commonly used diplomatic languages in Europe in this era.
Although the French text was incomprehensible, Liang En confirmed through the Latin text that this was indeed a diplomatic letter from the city-state of Florence, and the content expressed the hope of establishing commercial relations with the East.
However, in the letter, the other party also clearly pointed out that due to the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the original peace under the Mongolian rule had disappeared, so a safe passage must be found.
According to their suggestions, the Song Dynasty could choose the northern route to pass through the entire northern grassland, and then go through the Slavic territories through the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and finally reach Florence.
In addition to the content of the credentials, the waiter also specifically mentioned that the Medici family hoped to establish stable ties with the Song Dynasty, and also hinted that more benefits could be provided.
"These people are definitely crazy." After listening to Liang En's letter and translating the waiter's words, Dong Xian Cheng shook his head helplessly. "Although the power of our Song Dynasty can prevent the Northern Yuan from going south, it is impossible
Maintain such a trade route on the grassland."
"The idea of the Medici family is even more wishful thinking. The majestic emperor will never enter into any secret agreement with such a guy with a dishonest name and bad words."
"The most important thing is that the other country is too small. It is not worth changing the national policy for such a small country - hey, anyway, this is something that the Gonggun princes in the Jidu temple should be concerned about. All I have to do is report it.
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Having said this, Dong Xian Cheng shook his head, then carefully wrote down what he had just recorded and put it into an envelope, and then looked at Liang En.
"Thanks to your help, Mr. Liang. If it weren't for your help, this matter would have been troublesome today. But we may have to trouble you a few times in the past few days."
"It doesn't matter, I will be staying in the city during this period of time. You can just send someone to find me when the time comes."
Liang En naturally agreed to the county magistrate's request. After all, if he wanted to live here for a long time, it was definitely not a bad thing to deal with the lawsuit well.
"Don't worry, we won't let your work go in vain." After hearing Liang En's straightforward agreement, Dong Xian Cheng smiled and touched his beard.
"I heard that you want to do some maritime trade business after you come back, but you have no way of doing it? Then I will introduce you to Wu Yuanwai and others who are doing this, and help you connect the dots."
"Then I'd like to thank you, Mr. Dong Xian Cheng." After hearing what the Xian Cheng said, Liang En stood up and made a bow seriously, with an expression of gratitude on his face.
In the next week, Liang En began to live a life of running between his residence and the government office. Fortunately, although his residence at that time was not on the main street, it was in the city center, so running between the two would not delay anything.
Because he served as an interpreter, Liang En met many people during this period. In addition to the county magistrate and magistrate of the county, there were also Qianhu of Fushan and Tongpan of Gusu.
At the same time, in order to cope with this temporary job, he had to choose to consume the last two drops of his luck essence and learn calligraphy and Arabic.
After consuming so much luck essence and learning a series of skills, Liang En also mastered some relationships between luck essence and skills.
One of the most important relationships is that the amount of luck essence consumed when learning a skill is directly proportional to the degree of change in the real world after learning.
For example, learning a language or various pure knowledge skills consume the least amount of money. You only need to spend a little to upgrade this skill to the top.
But when it comes to skills like calligraphy, because the body needs to be changed, consuming a little luck essence can only improve his calligraphy level to the level of a relatively advanced enthusiast.
As for practicing or learning martial arts, it consumes a huge amount of luck essence. It may take several points to barely reach the entry level.
After a whole week of busy work, the matter finally came to an end successfully: the Jin Yiwei sent from nearby Jianye took away the envoys and pirates, and also took away all the information.
When these matters came to an end, Dong County Cheng also fulfilled his previous promise and introduced Liang En to the businessmen in the county, and then successfully negotiated the matters related to the guild.
From now on, Liang En is considered a member of the local maritime trade guild. From now on, the frankincense, medicinal powder, blood root and other spices he obtains can be sold on a large scale.
But according to the rules, in addition to retailing, he can only sell to a few designated fragrant medicine wholesalers if he wants to wholesale on a large scale, and cannot sell to other wholesalers.
Of course, the rules are also mutual. For example, after joining a guild, no merchant can inquire about the source of other merchants' goods or their unique secret recipes, etc.
For Liang En, these rules are just what he wants, because his goal is to practice and make money without attracting attention, and these guild rules can just satisfy his idea.