Chapter 236: The Treacherous Merchant (I)
Guangzhou Xingwang Mansion, prosperous, for decades, the imperial palace built by the Han lord of the past dynasties is Qionglou Yuyu, as exquisite as a fairyland.
The ancestor Liu, the self-proclaimed emperor of the Southern Han Dynasty? At the beginning, generation after generation is more and more desolate and tyrannical, but it can still be a corner of peace, the city of Guangzhou is more and more prosperous, the palace is more and more luxurious, it is really because Guangzhou as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, commerce and trade are extremely developed, until recent years, the big food merchants are gradually attracted by the seaport of Qi, and are more willing to go to the seaport of Qi to trade, but for geographical reasons, Guangzhou is still an important node of overseas trade between China and Turkey, the importance is slightly lower than before, but the trade volume has also risen, higher than before.
Now, Lu Ning is in the city of Guangzhou, and when the envoy of the Han State has not yet arrived in Lianzhou, Lu Ning came to the city of Guangzhou.
In fact, after the fall of Lianzhou, if the Qi army went south to conquer Yingzhou and Shaozhou, Guangzhou, the capital of the Han State, would be undefended, and the troops would go straight down and conquer Guangzhou, and the Southern Han would be destroyed.
Those state capitals in Lingnan West Road don't need to be ignored at all for the time being, as long as the capital of the Han Kingdom is conquered, Lingnan will be all in the bag.
However, after recovering Machu and sending envoys to sue for peace, the Qi army really did not move, as many ministers of the Lingnan temple thought, as if they really had no ambition for Lingnan.
Fan Huzi, the national teacher of the Han State, also predicted that the Han lord would rule Lingnan for thousands of generations, and the remaining three members of the Gang of Four, Lu Qiongxian, Gong Chengshu, and Chen Yanshou, also said that they only needed to put forward some lucrative conditions, and they would definitely be able to negotiate peace with the Central Plains.
As a result, after the Han envoy came some good news from Lianzhou, the atmosphere of singing and dancing gradually resumed in Guangzhou.
At this time, Lu Ning had already entered Guangzhou City, and his identity was a Hu merchant's Yalang, that is, the middleman who helped Hu Shang purchase goods.
In the past two years, the secret prisons have been one after another, and hundreds of elites have been buried in the city of Guangzhou, and Lu Ning has entered the city to contact them.
In fact, the attack on the Southern Han Dynasty did not need to be so troublesome, although the Han State also had a famous general Pan Chongche, as well as the giant elephant soldiers at the head of the twelve forbidden armies, there were as many as a thousand giant elephants.
But Pan Chongche has been suppressed for many years, and he has already been disheartened, according to Feng Yanlu's interaction with him, Pan Chongche has no intention of serving the Southern Han Dynasty at all, and it seems to be the case in history, Song attacked the Southern Han Dynasty, Pan Chongche led the army to the army, but he did not move at all, and soon surrendered.
And even if Pan Chongche is stubborn, and with the help of the giant elephant soldiers, it is not difficult to defeat it, after all, the loud sound of gunpowder explosion is a sharp weapon to disturb the elephant soldiers.
Therefore, Lu Ning entered Guangzhou City, but he did not come to the bottom of the pot because he was worried about the anxiety of the war, but because the Lingnan official eunuch group was not normal.
Historically, the Song army besieged the city, and Gong Chengshu burned the palace and the warehouse, thinking that in this way the city of Guangzhou would have no value, and the Song army would retreat.
There was also the lord of the Han Dynasty, Liu Gang, who filled dozens of large ships with gold, silver and jewels looted by the monarchs of previous dynasties, and wanted to flee into the sea, but before he could board the ship, the eunuchs and guards stole the ships and fled.
Lu Ning didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past and capture the city of Guangzhou, but as a result, the wealth accumulated by the Han lord's treasury for decades was empty.
That's why he entered the city, contacted the internal response, and saw how to plan, so that when the Qi army broke through the city, he would keep his spoils, even if he was damaged, he would suffer the least loss.
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The rows of houses in the big food square are very Western style, all kinds of square earthen houses and brick houses, where hundreds of big cannibals live, and at the same time, it is also the second hometown of many Hu merchants, and the foothold of the trade in Middle-earth.
Lu Ning is a relatively high-status Yalang, and from the outsider's point of view, he can be half a family for Hu Shang, so Hu Shang who hired him went to Quanzhou to purchase silk tea and other things, and this Ning Yalang stayed and lived in Hu Shang's house with a two-room beautiful concubine to help Hu Shang buy local Nanzhu.
In fact, almost half of the hundreds of brave men who infiltrated Guangzhou City under the arrangement of the secret supervisor were in the big food shop, and their identities were all slaves and nurses, and the vast majority of Hu people did not know the true identities of the servants around them.
Lu Ning's hometown is Yalang from the local Zhenzhou, and he has all the quotations and texts along the way, and he brought two beautiful concubines into Guangzhou City, even if Northern Xinjiang is in dispute with Qi State, but he has no suspicion.
Today, Lu Ning is in a small square in the center of the big food shop, tasting the Western Regions food on the stall. It is similar to cumin mutton, but the seasoning taste is very strong.
Pan Yingying and Jiao Cailian, who were following Lu Ning's side, both sniffed it, and they both shook their heads and didn't dare to put their mouths down.
In the big food shop, Persian women and Arab women can be seen everywhere, under the influence of this, it is gradually common for the noble ladies of the Han family who live here to come out to play, as for the local women who have married the Hu people, it is even more to follow the local customs, and the wives and concubines of those who do business with the Hu people here, etc., the same is true, at least in this big food shop, it is very common for noble ladies to travel.
As for the merchants who take their concubines to visit the big food shop, there are even more places.
However, Ning Yalang's two-room concubines are too beautiful, and they all look like pampered noblewomen, beautiful and upright, which is very eye-catching.
There is no shortage of Hu people who feel rich and wealthy to talk to them, after all, the concubines in Lingnan today are all items that can be traded.
As soon as Lu Ning ate a plate of mutton, three Hu people came before and after, which made Lu Ning a little helpless, Jiao Cailian and Pan Yingying, do they have such a great charm?
But speaking of which, following by one's side, I don't know if it is to live in the body and transfer the qi; is still as Wu Niang said at the beginning, what a strange reason; In short, Jiao Cailian, Pan Yingying, etc., seem to have a better temperament, more tender skin, and more radiant than when they first met.
At first, I thought it was the psychological feeling brought by the secretary's uniform that made my eyes shine, but now that I have come to Guangzhou City, the two of them have changed into red skirts, and the style is even more unusual.
No, the third Hu Shang who came to talk to him, introduced himself as having just come from Dashi, coming to Middle-earth for the first time, and after a lot of hardships, he finally came to this place where Huatianbao is a place of outstanding people.
He called himself Muhammad, but because many of the Hu merchants here were called Muhammad, he gave himself the name of Middle-earth, Liu Dade.
He said that he was a descendant of the fallen family, the descendant of Mansurdi, who was praised as the "victor" in the Western world, and that his family now owns a large territory in Masett.
Lu Ning listened vaguely, what he said was true or false, and he bragged about it, but his family should be a lord in West Asia.
Liu Dade has a high nose and deep eyes, and he is very handsome, and when he mentioned to Lu Ning that he wanted Lu Ning to marry a concubine to him, the wording was as if he was proposing marriage to his father-in-law.
He said that if Lu Ning could cede his love and give up a house of concubines to himself, he could even transfer a territory in Masette as a bride price, which had hundreds of serf families and was land at his disposal.
Obviously, although it was the first time he came to Middle-earth, he was well aware of the mentality of Middle-earth's characters, and no matter how much money he made, the temptation could be said to be heaven and earth compared to owning land and being a soil emperor.
The little tooth in front of him is even more irresistible to such temptation.
He was also fluent in Mandarin, and was obviously ten percent prepared to come to China to trade.
Liu Dade also said that if Ning Yalang didn't believe it, he could write a note now and ask the richest cannibal in the big food shop to protect him.
Of course, if Ning Yalang is unwilling to leave his hometown, he can also pay the bride price with real money, in addition to seeking an official position for Ning Yalang in front of the Han lord, he can also pay another hundred gold coins.