My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 640

c630 Queen’s Tribute

After this simple banquet was over, Su Ze took He Xinyin’s hand and said:

“Zhu Gan, you have to take good care of your body. Your body is the capital of reform. If your body collapses, how can you write a code?”

He Xinyin was a little moved, and he quickly said: “Don’t worry, Commander-in-Chief, my subordinates will eat well and take care of themselves.”

Su Ze nodded and let go, but He Xinyin said the same thing last time, but every time he went back, he was still working all day and night.

Su Ze sighed. If He Xinyin hadn’t worked so hard, how could Southeast have promulgated five new codes of law in just one year and established a new system that was completely different from the previous thousand years?

It can only be said that Su Ze’s ambition is too great. To overturn the inertia of thousands of years and establish a new system in all aspects, this task is too huge. If these like-minded people did not burn themselves, it would be impossible. There are now these results.

But Su Ze soon had the opportunity to take He Xinyin to dinner.

The next day, the Khmer Queen’s express ship arrived in Shanghai. Then the young queen took a train, got on the train from the Songjiang Railway Station, which was about to be completed, and arrived all the way to Songjiang.

The young queen was completely stunned by everything in the southeast.

It’s not that she has never seen a port before, but she has never seen so many ships in the Shanghai port area!

There are so many ships, just these ships are enough to fill the Khmer, right? Even when the Khmer were at their most powerful, they never had so many ships.

The Khmer Queen watched the ship dock. When she saw the bustling Shanghai Port, the Queen was even more sure that she had come to the right place.

Such a wharf was larger and more prosperous than the royal city of Khmer back then. Rows of houses, smooth roads, and busy shops all shocked the Khmer Queen.

The Khmer envoys who followed the Khmer Queen were even more impacted. They could not imagine that there was such a prosperous port in this world.

According to Ambassador Shen from the Pingren Department, Shanghai Port is just a county in the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and Songjiang Prefecture is just a part of a province in the Central Plains. There are many such provinces in the Central Plains.

Now those who opposed the Queen’s trip to Nanjing to accept the canonization stopped talking. Everyone felt that the Queen had made the wisest decision and embraced the thickest thigh.

Next, at a station near the Shanghai port, the Khmer Queen saw a miraculous sight.

The train, which does not require any animal power to pull, is like a giant steel beast, stopping in front of the station on its own.

This steel monster made a terrifying cry, which scared many members of the mission and wanted to run away. The Khmer Queen also had to stay calm.

Shen Yiguan introduced: “Your Royal Highness, this thing is called a train. It is a steam-driven mechanical device. It was designed by our Southeast Governor himself. It can travel thousands of miles a day and carry a thousand kilograms of weight.”

Automatically travel thousands of miles a day? Can it still carry a thousand kilograms of weight?

The Queen looked at the white smoke spitting out from the locomotive, and finally boarded the carriage doubtfully.

With transparent glass and wooden seats, the train carriage is not gorgeous, but comfortable enough, and what the Queen is thinking about is the fear of the southeastern forces.

With so much precious steel, the Central Plains people actually used it to make trains. She noticed that the steel laid on the ground was all shiny steel. If these steels were placed in Khmer, they would be enough to arm an elite army!

So extravagant!

In the ancient books of our ancestors, the Central Plains was once described as a golden country covered with gold.

Unexpectedly, it is not a golden country at all. The Central Plains is a steel country covered with steel!

This stretch of railway is really an incomparable manifestation of national strength. The Khmer princess and envoys were silent.

They cannot understand the complex principles of trains, but they can understand the cost of building them.

And any ruler can understand the value of trains.

Trains that can move automatically can transport a lot of goods and connect cities together. The Khmer Queen finally understood why the Central Plains was able to build such a huge country.

When she arrived in Suzhou, the Khmer Queen had given up calculating the length of the track. She had only one idea now, which was to go to Nanjing obediently and pay tribute to the southeast to accept the canonization.

Originally, everyone thought that they would not be shocked, but they still underestimated the power of Zhongyuan’s shock.

When they were at the station, they saw loads of silk and cotton being put on the train. Seeing so many goods, the Khmer Queen asked Shen Yiguan:

“Ambassador Shen, are these goods going to the Shanghai port?”

Shen Guanyi nodded and said:

“These are all goods that need to be sent to the Shanghai port for export. Such goods have to be hauled by train several times every day, and there are also many goods that are directly shipped to Songjiang and shipped to sea.”

Everyone saw silk, which was regarded as a treasure by princes and ministers in Khmer, and was rudely thrown onto the train by the porter. They saw a mountain of goods, and while they were being moved to the train, new cotton and silk were piled on top. On the platform, it seems that these cottons and silks will never be finished.

The Khmer envoys were completely numb. Only with such wealth can they lay steel on the ground, right?

Now, no one doubts the Queen’s decision to defect to the southeast and become a tributary state in the Central Plains. This is the most beneficial choice for the Khmer.

When others are just a little stronger, there is still the possibility of trying to catch up, but the Central Plains Empire is so powerful that there is no possibility of catching up.

People in Southeast Asia know very well that the best way to face a powerful enemy is to surrender.

Facing Khmer, a country that actively surrendered, Su Ze also showed sincerity.

He led the cabinet to welcome the Khmer Queen outside Nanjing and entertained the Khmer envoys like state guests.

The grand ceremony attracted onlookers from the citizens of Nanjing. Although no one knew where the country of Khmer was, it did not prevent the citizens from experiencing the atmosphere of coming from all over the world.

The ruler of a country came to the Central Plains in person to accept the canonization, which meant complete surrender.

Some businessmen opened newspapers and unfolded maps to find the location of Khmer.

The Queen of Khmer did not know that her attitude had become the best advertisement for investment. Some southeastern businessmen were gearing up to go to Khmer to look for business opportunities.

Su Ze welcomed the Khmer Queen with a national gift and accepted the Khmer Queen’s credentials in the Constituent Assembly Palace. The Governor’s Office awarded the Khmer Queen the golden royal seal. Su Ze did not ask to keep the three Khmer items. Inheriting the treasure only requires that when the Khmer throne changes in the future, the new ruler must come to Nanjing to receive the seal.

The Khmer Queen agreed immediately, and the next step was to establish tributary relations and send envoys to each other.

Amid the joy and laughter in the southeast, the Ming court’s currency reform finally came to a dismal end.