"No one can stop me..."
"This Kushan will eventually fall into my hands..."
Ashoka walked to the window, opened it, and looked into the distance.
...
The Northern Liang Imperial Palace.
Ji Yanran and Chen Yuanyuan, Xue'er and Li Feier, Jiang Tian and Li Feng gave him four beautiful concubines.
These people got together.
Ji Yanran showed one arm, holding a dice cup in her hand.
"Buy big or small, place your bets now..." the little girl shouted as she stretched out a delicate pink arm.
"Place your bets quickly, place your bets quickly!" the girl said as she shook the machine vigorously.
"I'll buy big..."
"I'll buy a small one..."
"Lord Jiang, I'll buy whatever you want." Chen Yuanyuan looked at Jiang Tian, her eyes darting around.
"I'll buy from both." Jiang Tian took out two silver ingots, each worth more than ten taels.
"Sir, if you play like this, it won't be fun."
“Then I’ll buy both large…” Jiang Tian pushed both silver ingots onto the large plate.
The four young girls sent by Li Fengnian, the King of Beiliang, also followed Jiang Tian.
Everyone followed Jiang Tian and took a big step.
"Open it quickly!" Jiang Tian shouted as he watched the dice cup fall to the ground from Ji Yanran's hand.
The other girls also craned their necks and started shouting.
Ji Yanran smiled slightly and opened the dice cup.
123, small.
"I'm sorry, sir, you can keep these 20 taels of silver." Ji Yanran pocketed the 20 taels of silver.
All the other girls at the table followed Jiang's lead and bought large quantities of food.
Ji Yanran earned more than 100 taels of silver this time.
“Husband, this won’t do,” Chen Yuanyuan pouted. “I’ve gambled away all of my 20 taels of silver, which is my monthly allowance.”
"Come on, let's continue..." Ji Yanran said with great interest.
The group played dice all night.
The next day, when the sun was high in the sky.
The group slowly woke up.
Li Yuanhao, Duan Yanqing, and the Tibetan prince's envoy stood respectfully outside waiting.
Jiang Tian yawned and went outside.
The hundreds of waiters knelt respectfully on the ground.
"General Li Yuanhao of Western Xia has offered 500,000 taels of silver. Please accept it, sir."
"Our General Li said that he will prepare a grand gift after he returns."
After he finished speaking, dozens of envoys from Western Xia stepped forward.
They opened the huge box.
The box was full of gleaming silver.
The hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were dazzling in the sunlight.
Jiang Tian nodded.
The Tibetan envoy said, "The Tibetan prince, on behalf of the Tibetan king, presents 100,000 taels of gold, 20 catties of the finest cordyceps, and 20 catties of the finest saffron."
The dozens of Tibetan envoys placed the 100,000 taels of gold in front of Jiang Tian.
Then they opened several wooden crates.
Jiang Tian was quite shocked by the high-quality cordyceps.
Each of these cordyceps is about twelve centimeters long.
If Jiang Tian hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that cordyceps could grow so big.
The finest saffron was a deep, vibrant red.
Jiang Tian picked up a piece of cordyceps and examined it carefully.
The value of these 20 catties of cordyceps alone is far greater than that of 100,000 taels of gold.
He then grabbed a handful of saffron.
He placed the saffron in the sunlight and examined it carefully. It was indeed top-quality saffron, with each saffron bead plump and full.
In the 21st century, this high-quality saffron is sold by the gram.
Jiang Tian nodded in satisfaction.
An envoy from Dali approached.
“The Prince of Dali presents 100,000 taels of silver and 50 catties of the finest Pu’er tea.”
Jiang Tian was not interested in silver.
These people went to war with the army, so they certainly didn't carry much money with them.
However, upon seeing the Pu'er tea cake, Jiang Tian nodded in satisfaction.
I've been eating too much beef and mutton these past few days, I should drink some Pu-erh tea to help cleanse my system.
"Sir, we also have some fine jade here." The marble man opened the box, inside which was a piece of imperial green jade.
This piece of imperial green jade weighs a full seven or eight hundred pounds.
Jiang Tian was stunned when he saw it.
This imperial green jadeite is extremely valuable.
“You guys carve this imperial green jadeite into a Guanyin statue.”
To Jiang Tian's surprise, the envoy from Dali shook his head.
"My lord, you are unaware that this jade is extremely hard. Our Dali Kingdom does not possess anything so hard that it could be carved from this piece of jade."
Jiang Tian: "Alright, thank you very much then. I'll gladly accept all of these things."
The envoy from Dali Kingdom snapped his fingers behind him again.
A dozen or so girls in white came forward.
"Lord Jiang, Dali is not as wealthy as Tibet and Western Xia. These are the only things we can offer. I hope you will not find them lacking."
The dozen or so young girls from the white-clad tribe quickly stepped forward and respectfully bowed to Jiang Tian.
"I'll accept this jade, the Pu'er tea, and the silver as well." Jiang Tian looked at the dozen or so girls from the white-clad tribe and shook his head. "Take these dozen or so girls back with you."
Upon hearing Jiang Tian's words, the dozen or so girls were immediately filled with disappointment.
Watching them all sigh and lament.
"On my journey to Rakshasa, I encountered countless enemies along the way, with high mountains and long rivers."
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