Lu Ning wanted to return to Yanzhou after seeing Aladdin in Dengzhou, but he didn't want to, Aladdin, who led a large number of craftsmen to arrive, mysteriously reported that Wu Yue and the Khitan were going to conduct a large transaction, involving two thousand good horses, and the land of Wu Yue was collecting goods and preparing to go to sea from Hangzhou, and the Khitan people bartered with goods from Suzhou and the Khitans in the north.

Aladdin knew this secret information, King Qi must be interested.

Sure enough, when I saw that King Qi heard about it, he immediately sat down, not knowing what he was pondering.

Aladdin has now moved his family to the East China Sea, and like many subordinate officials in the East China Sea, all the family members except for their wives and concubines are ready to move to Yanzhou.

Accustomed to life in the East China Sea, although Aladdin was in huge debt, he was much more comfortable than before, risking his life and death to trade by sea, and he faintly felt that following King Qi, the future revival of his family may not be just a daydream.

Two thousand horses.

Lu Ning's heart is itching.

In his own part, what he lacks most now is war horses, especially excellent war horses.

There are not many war horses in the Zhou Kingdom, but they are all in the forbidden army and Hebei town soldiers, in the land of Qilu, there are not many cavalry, and the whole territory adds up to three or four thousand horses that can be called war horses, but among them, there are very few good horses, after all, there is a big difference between war horses and war horses.

Wu Yue was also a temporary cramler, and when he saw that the situation was critical, he remembered that he wanted to use the country's strength to buy a good war horse.

Although Li Hongyi, the king of Yan, although the initial battle was unfavorable, he did not destroy the withered and decayed city and conquer the city, and he also fell into a bitter battle, and now he has to adopt a siege strategy, gather heavy troops to besiege Suzhou, and after suffering several times, he began to besiege but not attack the strategy, focusing on annihilating Wu Yue's reinforcements, and some of the meaning of encircling and sending reinforcements.

Time has passed, and without the constraints of the northern country, it is only a matter of time before the Southern Tang Dynasty defeats Wu Yue.

Wu Yue only remembered to buy a horse now, not to mention making amends, just dying and struggling.

Khitan maintained a relatively friendly relationship with Nantang and Wu Yue, and Wu Yue would never sell it when he bought a horse.

"All good horses?" Lu Ning put down the teacup and asked.

"It's all a hundred horses!" Aladdin's accentuated tone, a hundred horses, and the best among the good horses.

"Okay." Lu Ning stood up, paced, turned his head and asked, "How long can I raise 200,000 pieces of goods?" To preempt Wu Yue. ”

One hundred horses, two thousand, is two hundred thousand.

Aladdin shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not enough time, with Your Highness's reputation, we big food merchants, who have collected enough goods to prepare to leave, and those who have just arrived in the East China Sea full of spices and other goods, are bound to be willing to lend the cargo ship to His Highness, and within three days, we can raise seventy or eighty thousand pieces of goods, but two hundred thousand yuan, it will take time to wait." ”

Lu Ning bowed slightly, "Seventy or eighty thousand is seventy or eighty thousand!" Then it seems that only I will go to Lushun in person, you go to do it immediately, I will also rush thousands of miles, transfer my pro-army, and five days later, I will set off from Dengzhou. ”

Aladdin was stunned, His Royal Highness the King of Qi, isn't it the idea of playing the white wolf with empty gloves again?

I shuddered in my heart, but I didn't dare to ask more, so I bowed down and said, "Yes." ”

It is also common for the King of Qi to often come up with some strange place names, and he knows that the Lushun that the King of Qi said must be the Khitan Suzhou and Zhendongguan.

Lu Ning looked at him and said, "In the future, don't say anything about you big food merchants, aren't you a citizen of my Qi realm?" ”

……

Five days later, in Dengzhou Port, more than 30 huge ships flying the flags of the Arab merchant group set sail and headed north.

Dengzhou of Qi and Suzhou of Khitan are the throats of the north and south of Bohai Bay, and the sea route is only more than 80 nautical miles, more than 300 miles.

The wind was smooth again, it was the oblique side wind, and within a day, the fleet arrived at the bay berth in the east of the town.

In fact, the so-called Zhendong Pass, is the Khitan people built the long wall pass, later generations called the shortest Great Wall, in the south of Jinzhou, the narrowest place to build a long wall, from the west Bohai to the east Bohai.

In later generations, the main urban area of Dalian and Lushun were encircled outside the east of the town.

This is because there are a large number of places where ships can be docked in the Lushun area, in order to prevent the homeless people or the southern navy from entering the hinterland of the Liao State from here, the Khitans built the Zhendong Pass, if the enemy wants to land and invade the Khitan from the Lushun area, there is Zhendong Pass to defend.

Nowadays, the east of the town is in the south of the country, and the area of Lushun, because the Hu merchants often come, the southernmost one near the tidal flat, but it has become a small market for the mutual market, and the scale of the market is getting bigger and bigger, and many Han people under the rule of the Khitan have also moved to serve the market as slaves, and several small villages have also been formed.

Of course, the Han people in the Khitan law, which can also be called the Nanren, are not the Han people in the division of ethnic groups in later generations, but the Khitans, the various ethnic groups that were originally ruled by the Central Plains, and now under their rule, are called Han people or Nanren, the vast majority of them are slaves, and the law clearly states that the Khitans killed the Han people and were not guilty.

It wasn't until a few decades later that the Liao State gradually became sinicized, and it gradually treated the people equally, and even because of the light taxes, there were many people who fled to the Khitan territory to seek a living.

The "Arab caravan" docked, and the whole market was immediately active, not every day there were Hu merchants coming, sometimes a month, there was not a single Hu merchant, but it was a huge boat Hu Shang arrived, which would make the whole market lively for a long time, not to mention, this huge fleet now.

The news immediately entered Zhendongguan and spread to the entire Khitan country, some unambitious nobles in the Khitan country would order the Han slaves who helped them to trade out of the town of Dongguan and trade with Hu merchants.

Ordinary Khitans, but they are not qualified to go out of the customs, and they exchange markets with Hu people and the like.

Because it is the current one who is extremely confused, knows all day long to drink and sleep and kill his close attendants, and is nicknamed the "sleeping king" in history, although he was instigated by the greedy minister to open the market outside the east gate of the town.

But he also knew that if ordinary Khitan people gradually took pride in doing business and took pleasure in accumulating wealth, it would inevitably shake the Khitan national foundation.

It is the same discrimination against the clansmen who do business in the Khitan country.

……

Lu Ning disguised himself as an entourage, followed Aladdin's loyal servant Muhammad, and landed and entered the post house in the East City.

Aladdin's preparations for the construction of a shipyard in Dengzhou were based on Muhammad as the master of the caravan.

Among the great cannibals, Muhammad has gradually become the most popular name, and now Lu Ning knows this Muhammad, but it is quite pleasing, since he has followed his master and become a servant of His Royal Highness King Qi, he is also devoted to Lu Ning.

Lu Ning came here and brought two battalions of pro-army, one battalion of cavalry and one battalion of sword soldiers.

In terms of archery, in fact, the cavalry is more proficient than the archer's army, and the archer battalion is more suitable for intensive combat with the opponent, just shoot arrows into the opponent's battle array, and it is more equipped with a simple knife, and it can also fight in close quarters, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

The requirements of the mounted archery battalion are much higher, not to mention every shot, but when practicing, accuracy is the first priority.

Now the guards in front of the two camps are hidden in the merchant ships, ready at any time.