"I say, chaps, it's been another good year. Many lands coming under beneficent Mongol rule. Trade and tributes swelling our coffers. It's a yak market."
Applause and smiles all round.
"He's been talking this way since we moved into Europe", murmurs one executive to another. "Calls it business language".
"Great Kahn, at whose voice the whole earth trembles...", begins one of the younger executives.
"Save that stuff for the public meetings, Temujin. But speak. You are a man of learning and knowledge. What would you have us know?".
"Sire, on the southern tip of the Dark Continent lies a fertile land of great riches...".
"Why is it so named? Dark Continent?".
"There is a tribe that goes through the land from time to time, extinguishing all lights that they may do their business in darkness. They are much feared and are known as the Esscom".
"Most peculiar. What else should we know of this land".
"They are ruled by a tribe of fat ones, yet many of the people live in poverty and want".
"Why do they not rise up?"
"Well, Sire, they themselves choose the fat ones in a kurultai, much as we have".
"What manner of people is this? Shall a wolf be chosen to guard the sheep?"
"It is a land of mystery and magic. They have a saying: Better the wolf you know".
"Better the....Surely this is a cursed people. Or drunk on strange potions".
"It is said that many of the people inhale a mysterious incense which renders them insensible or prone to great mirth at things of no significance. Sire, they may be ripe for conquest but surely it is a land of strange things and sorcery."
"You speak wisely, Temujin. We are warriors, conquerors. But, of sorcerers, we know little. We shall not venture into that cursed land. Better the wolf you know, indeed!"
Murmers of assent.
Secretary crosses Africa off to-do list.
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Apparently that "incense" makes the bullet proof too!
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