He looked at Qin Congyun with a smile and said:

"Chen Hong is a trustworthy person, he will not lose his word, from now on, the bronze mirror sold in Quanzhou Bazhen Zhai will not be sold to the East China Sea."

"The adults are laughing, but it's just a joke."

Qin Congyun is only in his early thirties, he is a young talent, he has two light beards on his lips, wears a soft-eared black hat, and wears a blue and light ink pattern dress that scholars often wear, and Lou Yun has the same style, elegant and elegant.

Because he was a jinshi in the same year as Lou Yun, not only did he have a friendship of the same year, but he also happened to be the fourth in addition to the top three, so he had long been dissatisfied with Lou Yun, the Tanhualang who was ordered by the official family.

And because he is now a general judge in Mingzhou, he often deals with lawsuits and practices where money comes and goes, and his elegance has long been forced out of twelve points of shrewdness.

He knew that the gambling contracts of the maritime merchants were of course not jokes, but countless treasures and copper coins.

"Chen Gangshou is only five ships here, but he can find more than 100 ancient mirrors, it is not enough to be from a Quanzhou maritime merchant family, and Xia Guan is also an eye-opener."

After the storm three days ago, the fleet finally rendezvous, and the maritime merchants came to plead guilt to the envoy.

Lou Yun, who was safe and sound, no matter what he thought in his heart, of course he wouldn't blame them for God's affairs on the surface, but Chen Hong, the head of the Chen family in Quanzhou, didn't pay attention to this, and gritted his teeth to avenge this arrow, so he used the twelve bronze mirrors in the public hall as an introduction.

These mirrors were placed in the public hall, which was originally used for the envoys and subordinate officials to enjoy and pass the boring things on the way.

And this time to envoy Goryeo, the Chen family in Quanzhou only because the envoy was Lou Yun, so they squeezed out the positions of several Jiangsu-Zhejiang maritime merchants in the envoy team, and personally pressed the ship and followed five Fujian sea ships.

This not only made the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang dissatisfied, but even Qin Congyun, who had already taken care of the court and wanted to seek the position of envoy for this state envoy's visit, was also robbed by Lou Yun halfway to the United States, and he had been waiting to see his jokes for a long time.

Although he was angry that the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang took advantage of the monsoon in the East China Sea to act recklessly and almost affected him, he did not persuade the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to take advantage of the gambling contract to give the Chen family another disadvantage in the East China Sea.

However, because of a few jokes between Chen Hong and Wang Shiqiang, Wang Shiqiang pointed to the bronze mirror offered by the Chen family and made a bet with Chen Hong.

Wang Shiqiang won, Fujian maritime merchants in the East China Sea still the only remaining copper mirror business does not have to do, if Chen Hong wins, Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants in the future copper mirror business, must be purchased from Quanzhou Bazhen Zhai.

"Chen Gangshou said that he would have to set up a banquet at the meeting, and admit defeat to Hu Gangshou and them in person, and the lower officials thought it was too much, it was just a joke, why should they care so much?"

"Businessmen don't read poetry and books, and they don't know etiquette, but now they can know that they keep their promises, so let them go, if they lose, they lose, Lin Xingshou——"

Lou Yun gestured slightly to Lin Thief Niang outside the curtain, Lin Thief Niang smiled lightly and turned away.

She knew that Lou Yun deliberately used the portrait in front of the bed to provoke Wang Shiqiang off the boat, and now she was going to start cleaning up Qin Congyun.

When the subordinate officials saw her leave, they knew that Shangguan was going to have an orchestral banquet tonight, and he carefully selected the officials and beauties who came to the ship from Quanzhou, not only played the Tang and Song Dynasty songs in the Goryeo palace, but also came out tonight to accompany the wine and perform and sing a few light songs.

The sea is boring and lonely, and they all have joy on their faces.

As for the Fuso envoy, they did not take it to heart.

Qin Congyun saw that Lou Yun actually admitted defeat happily, and then remembered that Wang Shiqiang had told him not to go to Lou Yun's boat before getting off the boat, he couldn't help but feel bad in his heart, but he said humbly:

"My lord, as seen by the following officials, the Chen family can temporarily collect one hundred and seventeen bronze mirrors from five boats in the blink of an eye, which is really rare, and the lower officials have long heard that the Luodian bronze mirror produced by his family Bazhenzhai enjoys a good reputation overseas, and it is sold very well in the island countries such as the Three Buddhas of Nanyang, no wonder when the Lord went on this mission, he strongly advocated the Bazhenzhai bronze mirror as one of the national gifts to the king of Goryeo......"

Lou Yun is the envoy, he is his superior, he has invited him several times to come over to enjoy the painting, he is not easy to refuse, but he also wants to see if he loses this gamble, and whether he can smile at the maritime merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In his opinion, Lou Yun not only used the Fujian sea ship as the seat of the state envoy, but also stuffed the Fujian sea goods into the national ceremony, and blocked the financial route of other people's houses in a grand manner, and it is no wonder that there are always a few people in the group of Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants who ask for money and do not want to die, and three days ago deliberately omitted to the Chen family's ship mate to report the sea situation that the typhoon was going to start, and they did not admit any of them after the accident.

Although he has been living on his ship because of his friendship with Wang Shiqiang, Lou Yun, the official, had an accident, and his future as a deputy envoy was also explained in the East China Sea, and he was so angry at that time that he complained about Wang Shiqiang and those leaders.

It is also a shame that Lou Yun has been unharmed in the past three days, his face is calm and clear, and everything is as usual.

It's just that Wang Shiqiang didn't listen to his hard persuasion and insisted on getting off the boat, which was really embarrassing, without his prestige and means to suppress these bold and reckless Jiangsu, Zhejiang maritime merchants, he was also worried that Lou Yun would be angry and ashamed.

As for him Qin Congyun, as a general judge of Mingzhou, it is impossible for him to offend these giant businessmen in Mingzhou City.

The subordinate officials laughed and talked, and they were all carefully watching the bronze mirror produced by the Chen family's Bazhen Zhai, Luodian is the shell inlay process of the Tang Dynasty, and I saw that the back of the bronze mirror was a snow-white shell carved and inlaid with exquisite ship patterns.

For example, the first sea falcon boat in the mirror on the left case, the six-cabin painting boat and the painted building boat in the fourth Tianxia An Yan mirror on the right case, as well as the four-wheeled boat and eight-wheeled boat in the lake landscape mirror, the pointed river boat in the mirror of the Yangtze River, and the catamaran fishing boat, are really dazzling, and the boats come and go.

Looking closely, a mirror can see at least one or two different ship types, Chen Hong is obviously prepared, he has long observed the number of room decoration paintings on the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Haihai ships is only more than 80 pairs, mostly mountain and forest hermit paintings, and there are no paintings in the cargo on these ninety-eight boats, and the most goods on his five ships are the eight Zhenzhai bronze mirrors.

It's just that Chen Hong didn't expect that although he could master the monsoon in the East China Sea, he still didn't understand the changes in the countries of the East China Sea in the past ten years.

It's not the same as the islands of the South Seas.

Goryeo, Fusang, Okinawa's sinicization has been deep, the nobles all learn Han painting, Han calligraphy, especially in the past ten years to Tang Fang as the transit of the East China Sea trade, the pursuit of Song books, Song paintings are more popular, Wang Shiqiang every time he goes to sea with three or four axes of the dynasty of the Gongbi painting scroll, from time to time to Fusang, Goryeo officials, nobles to make a personal gift to pull friendship.

Among them, there are also many unique masterpieces of famous artists.

And the habit of giving paintings as a gift, of course, is the unique secret of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants in the East China Sea, and it will never be passed on, even if they have secretly sent out a lot in Goryeo, the rest is enough to win or lose with Chen Hongyi, for this kind of gambling contract, the ninety-eight ships of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang maritime merchants all sent the paintings at hand to Wang Shiqiang.

It's just that Wang Shiqiang watched Chen Hongxian display his more than 100 bronze mirrors silently a few days ago, which made Lou Yun almost think that Chen Hong would win, and he only hung out the "Qingming Riverside Map" before getting off the boat today, which is really quite patient.

Although Wang Xiaogang got off the boat, he still refused to let go of the battle with the Chen family. It's like his temperament, and even his own officials have been fooled. ”

Lin Qinniang, who was standing on the side of the door, heard Lou Yun's words, and when she saw that he said this casually, she just shook her head in her heart.

"It's a pity that Wang Gangshou asked himself to get off the ship first and go ashore to Fuso Dazaifu to check the matter of the letter of state sent by Minister Guan Bai, the regent of Fuso, otherwise this official would have praised his patience in person."

There was a soft sound, he just didn't know that this was Wang Shiqiang's excuse to go downstairs, picked up a bronze mirror next to the desk, and flicked his fingers on the back of the mirror, making a soft sound.

"My lord, in the opinion of the following officials, Fusang is a small country and poor, and it is far overseas, so there is really no need for adults to visit ashore."

Qin Congyun looked at the mandarin duck lotus pond mirror in his hand, and pretended to persuade inadvertently.

In this East China Sea, without Lou Yun, the envoy, what are Chen Hong and the five boats?

Without Lou Yun's support, before meeting the heroine of Tangfang, the maritime merchants of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang could drown Chen Hong and his begging nephew in the East China Sea with a mouthful of foam.

In the past few years, he has been familiar with Mingzhou City, and most of the people he has interacted with are maritime merchants, and he has long known that there is a Tang Fang on Yi Island overseas.

Just for Wang Shiqiang's destruction of the marriage and remarrying, in the past three years, the maritime merchants in Mingzhou have complained to the Siming Wang family from time to time, and of course he knows more than Lou Yun in Quanzhou.

What's more, even the official family deliberately mentioned Tang Fang to Lou Yun when he was leaving, how could he Qin Congyun not know? As soon as he remembered that before Lou Yun left, he was summoned by the official family to the palace to watch the tide and talk to him, and he was not convinced.

Not to mention, Lou Yun came to the Fusang Sea with the wind this time, which was fundamentally against the will of the official family in the tide viewing building:

"Fusang is far overseas, has not been called a vassal to our court, Qing can not make extraneous branches, but if the situation requires, the coast of the East China Sea is really as the merchant said that there is a Tang Fang, the 30,000 remnants of the Middle Earth in the fang do not forget their homeland, their hearts are to the Great Song Dynasty, after the Qing returned from Goryeo, you can consider it at your own discretion, send the merchant to summon the elders in the fang to the ship to say, appease the people, reward the silk silk, ask about the situation of the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, and the trade of grain, war horses, and weapons between the port of the Jin Kingdom and Goryeo and Fuso, and it is enough."

As a deputy envoy, he just understood that Lou Yun's violation of the order this time was related to the concealment of typhoon information by maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so he could only grit his teeth and give up this opportunity to sue the black after returning to the court.

This time Wang Shiqiang went to Tangfang, if he couldn't persuade the female owner to continue to support the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants to monopolize the benefits of the East China Sea, even if he could use the connections of the Lou family to participate in the general election and officially enter the official position to get the vacant official position, but his foundation in the East China Sea was only afraid that it would be ruined.

He was thinking about it, but Lou Yun suddenly turned his head to look at Qin Congyun and said with a smile:

"It just so happens that Wang Gangshou is not on the ship, but I have something to discuss with Lord Qin."

"Your Excellency?"

Seeing that the officials had official discussions, the officials did not want them to participate, so they hurriedly retired.

Qin Congyun's face was calm, and he sneered in his heart, and finally knew that Wang Shiqiang and Chen Hong's gamble was indeed instructed by Lou Yun, but it was just to provoke the words of this bronze mirror.

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