The reason why she paid attention to the foreign merchants in the southwest Yi was because of the Ma Zheng proposed by Wang Shiqiang.

In order to transport horses from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the border of the north of the Yangtze River, the upstream horse sources must be sufficient. And she had heard that most of the good horses in the upper reaches came from the border merchants of various ethnic groups in the southwest.

At that time, in the main hall of Mazu, when those southwestern Yibo businessmen talked about Ma Zheng, they all felt that the Yangtze River was dangerous and it was difficult to transport horses.

She couldn't help but mention behind the curtain:

If Wang Shiqiang had arranged a hydraulic hoister along the upstream coast according to the plan he had discussed with her, he would be able to transport the horses from upstream to downstream.

However, the difficulty now is that the Han Shen government is far away in Lin'an City, and the maritime merchants of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang have no contact with the merchants of various ethnic groups in the southwest.

Wang Shiqiang can't buy a good horse.

If Lou Yun can join forces with Wang Shiqiang, she won't say a word, and she will take the risk to be engaged to the Chen family and live in Fanfang, Quanzhou.

After all, she had seen Chen Wenchang and did have a good impression of him.

But if Lou Yun has to go against the Han government and wait for Mongolia to go south, she would rather open up the wasteland in Taiwan.

Always be ready to flee a little further.

Suddenly, she remembered the general Lou Da she met in the moonlight woods, maybe this Lou Da had also seen her at the Fan Merchants Conference?

……

After the Fan Merchants Conference last year, because she mentioned a hydraulic hoisting machine at the meeting, she was followed by Lou Yun's people.

If it is not the general or servant of the building, it should be the tax collector of the city.

Although she took the opportunity to visit the jewelry shop with the Shunchang County Lord and several clan daughters, she got rid of the tracking on the road.

But half a year ago, the guys at the Quanzhou branch sent back the news that Lou Yun was in front of the mission. and the Shunchang County Lord of Quanzhou City was engaged.

She regretted it then.

She shouldn't stand on the side of the county lord of Shunchang.

……

On that day at the Fan Merchants Conference, the county lord of Shunchang and several sect daughters wore the same veil hat as her.

They mingled with the Arab ladies to look at the precious stones.

According to the Song system, the population of the clan in Quanzhou City was nearly 10,000, including relatives outside the five suits. Even in-laws count.

They are concentrated in the clan house.

And the title of the county lord is very common.

At that time, there were more than a dozen county lords, four county wives, and even a country lady. This was only less than one-tenth of the clans who came to attend the meeting that day.

These clans usually rely on the commercial tax of the city and the ship, and provide rice and silk according to their titles.

In addition to being a close branch of the Zhao official family of the dynasty. The others are not very rich.

Even Master Kong Ming told her that when he was in Wutai Mountain in the north, he heard Master recall the era of Song Weizong in the previous dynasty, when it was common to see the sale of women to marry in the clan.

There was once a wealthy family surnamed Zhang in Bianliang City, and the family married more than 30 county lords.

When behind the curtain. She lifted the hydraulic hoisting machine, which not only alarmed the clouds in the hall, but also the sect girls in the curtain seemed to have the intention of talking to her.

So, she decided to leave right away.

She mingled among the clan daughters, and followed the Shunchang County Lord to the clan room. She also followed them to a jewelry shop frequented by the clan.

When she entered the shop, she completely got rid of the stalker.

That jewelry shop has shares of Tang Fang, and there is also a steward of Tang Fang.

But she didn't expect Lou Yun to happen to be engaged to the lord of Shunchang County.

As long as they get married. I don't know when the county lord of Shunchang mentioned this matter, Lou Yun would be suspicious of the jewelry shop.

Tang Fang took a stake in that shop, and it was not enough to be discovered.

But the stack point is the money lent out in Quanzhou. There are also relationships with many merchants, which will be found out by Lou Yun.

Even in the restaurant in Quanzhou in those days, she secretly met with the slanted thorn to discuss the bronze mirror case, and he would know.

……

What's worse is that she is in a letter to Master Kongming. It is inevitable that a lot of various evaluations of the Zhao official family of the current dynasty have been written.

is in a foreign country thousands of miles away, facing an outsider like Master Kongming. Does she need to be polite to the Great Song Emperor?

Master Kong Ming also often criticized Song Huizong.

As long as he gets the letter, Lou Yun can get enough handles.

Either she will stay in Taiwan forever. Either she will honestly show favor to Lou Yun and make a choice that satisfies him.

For example, marry Quanzhou immediately and marry Chen Wenchang.

……

"In my opinion, it's right that you have a fancy for that Chen family boy. But you may not have taken a fancy to the Chen family. ”

She was slightly surprised, but she didn't expect Ah Chi to say what was on her mind.

Ah Chi stared at her silently for a while before he said:

"I heard that the head of the Chen family doesn't have a son-in-law." According to Fusang's custom, the status of the concubine is low, and if the mother's status is not high, the concubine is equivalent to a slave.

and sister-in-law is the difference between cloud and mud.

Even if it is the Great Song Dynasty, he knows that unless the concubine is admitted to the imperial examination, his status cannot be compared with that of the concubine.

The head of the Chen family in Quanzhou has only one concubine who is not outstanding.

Otherwise, why would he bring his nephew to ask for marriage?

"If Chen Wenchang becomes the head of the Chen family, his relationship with the envoy seems to be very close. If you marry him, it will be bad in the future, and it will be no different from marrying Wang Shiqiang as a flat wife. ”

“……”

She didn't know that he was reasonable, which was also the reason why she had a good impression of Chen Wenchang, but she was not in a hurry about this family business.

"I know the reason why you let Lou Yun enter the workshop to protect the media......"

Ah Chi looked at her, and this time he didn't mean to be impatient,

"They Song people want to marry you into the family. Are you afraid that in the future, when the Chen family turns their faces and denies people, according to the rules of their Song people, you won't even be able to step out of the door of the Chen family. ”

She also understood that he asked Song Shang about the marriage system of the Great Song Dynasty.

According to Song law, a married woman leaves home without her husband's permission and is detained for two years. The only legal divorce procedure is for the man to abandon the woman, and more commonly, the woman's parents and brothers dislike the son-in-law, and the mother's family comes forward to take the woman home and arrange another marriage.

There is no room for wives to make their own decisions.

According to the Song system, even if the man commits a serious crime, and the wife herself comes forward to ask for a divorce, she will be punished in the end.

The Chen family is a century-old family in Quanzhou City. Although she has the means to protect herself, it is enough to negotiate with Chen Wenchang when the matter comes. But unless she leaves Quanzhou completely. She's going to have to be careful.

If there are people who move inward with her, there will inevitably be the Ji family, and it is too easy for her to get involved with the Chen family.

It will be difficult for them to marry the natives.

With Lou Yun coming forward to protect the media, it is different.

In addition to having the face of Song Guan, the more important thing is that Lou Yun, the supervisor of the Municipal Shipping Department, knows that she is a girl who has returned from overseas and is a native of Fan.

According to the Song law. The marriage folk customs in Fanfang use the Fan method. If the person is an Arab, he will use the Arabic law, and if he is a Srivijaya person, he will use the Srivijaya law, and will not ask for the Song law.

And she is from Tangfang, and she uses the rules of Tangfang.

Tang Fang's rules are set by herself.

"Even if Lou Yun guesses your intentions, he is biased towards the Chen family after all. He doesn't have a reason to go ashore just for you to protect the media. I don't care what method you use to win him over - but you have to think about Saburo too. ”

Ah Chi looked at her crookedly. The indifference in his eyes revealed the sophistication of the philistine, and said:

"Over the years, you've scraped enough oil and water on the Fuso people. The merchants of Xifang are not hating the new lord of Ping'an Capital now, but Tangfang - you should also stop it. ”

As he spoke, he folded the slip she had promised to pay. put it in a waist pocket,

"Since the two stewards of Fujian Bazhenzhai died in your hands, no one dares to rob you of the business of counterfeiting Song goods. But in the past two years, the Quanzhou visiting monks from the temple have come one after another. They all went to inquire with the old monk Kongming about the affairs of the year. Although Kong Ming can't say a word, sooner or later there will be a leak in this matter-"

"What is the owner talking about?"

She didn't plan to talk to Ah Chi about the two stewards who were still locked up in the grange, she just pretended to be surprised and said lightly:

"Why don't I understand?"

Of course, Ah Chi knew that the money she had built ten boats was all from copycats.

“…… I knew that just saying that you would not admit it. ”

He smiled coldly. Nothing to say.

His pinpoint gaze looked her head and face and clothes up and down.

She knew that he was looking at her earrings and necklace, and even the jade ornaments and sachets around her waist.

But when she was changing clothes at the Grange. I have already handed over these ornaments to Qin Tietou's wife Lloys for safekeeping.

She wouldn't even put them in the treehouse.

In addition to her underwear and underwear, her whole body is also a collared monk's robe, a string of Buddhist beads and a green silk landscape pattern cloak that has just been tied.

On the contrary, Ji Mo, who walked back, was angry at him again because of the rudeness of this temple slave.

"I forgot you were careful. Every time you come back to the temple to meet the old monk, you always pick up all the bits and pieces. Coaxed him into thinking that you turned back to the shore and became a Buddha on the ground—"

She frowned and looked at him.

He doesn't need to say more. She also knew that if it weren't for her eagerness to accumulate wealth in the East China Sea. Eager to make bronze mirrors and sell them to build ships, why did this envoy come to Tangfang?

What will his home do so that he will come ashore from the West Water Gate?

How could they get the news from the Song monks in Quanzhou. I learned that Master Kongming had a box of her letters hidden in the Buddha's house?

However, it was also this huge income from counterfeit goods that made her quietly buy ten old ships that had been built directly in the shipyards along the coast of the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo, and then rebuild them in the Ezo Secret Port.

In this way, the number of processes and craftsmen required can be reduced.

Now, the converted sea vessels are enough to do business with the Jurchens in the East China Sea.

-- There are too many enemies in this kind of copycat business, and it will end long ago.

"Tell San Lang, I only have ten boats, even if I want to give it to him, it will be half a year later."

I haven't seen my sister and brother for half a year, and these words need to be conveyed by outsiders.

Ah Chi stared at her, silent for a long time, and then said:

"San Lang, you know, he doesn't want to fight with you."

Without waiting for her to answer, Ah Chi looked sideways at the luxuriously decorated guest house.

He didn't take off his shoes, he went directly to the porch and walked inside, and uncovered the snow silk barrier.

There was a large Song Bolai's Zhumolan indoor screen inside the barrier, and he pushed it open directly and walked into the inner room.

There was a sound of footsteps, and she saw the blurred figure in the screen, and knew that he had lifted a small Tang cabinet directly out of the bed. With a loud bang, he placed the little Tang cabinet in front of her.

He sat down again and took out a makeup box from the Xiao Tang cabinet.

This is the Zhuma Temple for the female benefactor of the guest house, double-layer four-grid carved cedar wood makeup box.

Produced by a cottage.

His pale fingers gently peeled back, revealing the inner grid inside the makeup box carved with autumn-colored patterns of the four seasons.

The upper three lattices are successively placed with a beaded tooth comb, a pair of glazed ear beads, and a carved jade skirt pendant. After the lattice layer is removed, the lower layer reveals a colorful Tang-style lantern depicting figure fan.

"Look, this is the owner of the shop, you have been borrowing the fame of Bazhenzhai to make a knock-off for the past eight years. Almost all the lords of East Japan bought them in their homes - and a few Tang Arks were indeed small businesses. ”

He lifted his fingers and reached into the two points of the hibiscus carved lattice recess.

He twisted a crystal clear glass earring from the stamen.

Earrings made into a bunch of bright red hibiscus fruit new style,

The moonlight shines through it, refracted between his and hers' sights, crystal clear.

The mountain wind blew, and for a moment it was as if I heard the sound of tinkling bells and hibiscus fruits.

"This pair of hibiscus fruit glass earrings is worth forty taels of gold dust, and the price is still above a small Tang cabinet. This lacquered Bazhen Zhai comb and Qiuling flower sachet are all at the same high price. Plus this Tang fan-" With a soft ding, he threw the glass earrings back into the carved wooden lattice and took out the dough fan.

She remained silent, watching him rub the slender lacquered wood handle between her fingers.

She saw the intertwined warp and weft dyed by the moonlight between the turned white gauze fan, and between the colorful warp and weft, she saw his sharp eyes that seemed cold and indifferent.

"You should have stopped a long time ago. If you continue to make these fakes, you will lose the reputation of Song goods in the East China Sea - and you are too anxious. Now you take a break and marry back to the Great Song Dynasty. Do you think Tangfang's business can still be done? ”

He said lightly, hinting at the reason why he came out to ask her for a boat on behalf of Saburo,

"Even with my help, Saburo won't be able to earn another amount of money to build a ship." (To be continued)

ps: Bow and thank Tsing Yi for the gift of Tsing Yi and Tingting

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