Immortal At The Edge Of The World - Plot & Excerpts
It was fortunate that Hsu and I had spent all those months beforehand talking to people in monasteries along the Road and trying to understand how to get close to Abraham bin Yasser, because we ended up absorbing a great deal about how trade went through the Indies. It wasn’t at all long before we had managed to connect a stable distribution of black cardamom from Javaland and Malay to India by sea, and then overland to the markets of Constantinople, Tbilisi, and especially Baghdad and Samarra. The real Xuangang proved worthy of being kept alive, because even though it was Hsu pretending to be him whenever it came time to discuss business with regional merchants or ship captains, we needed the real person when dealing with Fa Xi Han. This was especially true one or two times a year when we had to travel to Han’s court to run through the numbers. Fa Xi Han was a big fan of numbers. To make it easier on Xuangang we let him do the books. Hsu and I were traveling more or less constantly those years, trying to keep the modest one-product shipping business afloat.
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