After sending people to send Kang Daqing away, Guo Song brought Pan Liao and Zhang Qiu'an again, and the reason why they were not discussed in the counselor's hall was because Guo Song found that the counselors were more concerned about Ma Weijiang's massacre of civilians, and were not very concerned about the overall situation in the Hezhong region.

Guo Song stood in front of the window and looked at the west for a long time before he said slowly: "We exterminated the Qarluqs, which triggered a series of reactions, and the Khazars and the Great Cannibals were all ready to move, which we never thought about before, and we didn't care about it, so why did I suddenly care about it today, is it because of broken leaves, because Ma Weijiang is suspected of supporting the army and standing on his own?" Maybe a little, but it's not all......."

Pan Liao and Zhang Qiu'an looked at each other, they didn't understand why His Royal Highness the King of Jin suddenly sighed?

Guo Song looked back at them, "There are some things I haven't said, maybe because they are not important, I selectively forget them for the time being, but today's Broken Leaf incident has made a lot of memories flood in, and I just remembered why I attacked Broken Leaf in the first place, because of Silver!" ”

"Silver?" Pan Liao and Zhang Qiu'an were both surprised.

Guo Song nodded, "There are huge silver deposits around Broken Leaf, and now Ma Weijiang is only mining a drop in the bucket, and the location is not right, I have been thinking that after we unify the world, we will build a straight road to mine the silver deposits of Broken Leaf and Bahanna, with sufficient silver, plus sufficient products, the world will become extremely rich." ”

"What exactly does Your Highness want to do?" Pan Liao finally couldn't help but ask.

"I mean wait a little longer!"

Guo Song said to the two: "Don't be so anxious to attack Ma Weijiang, if you change someone, he may not be able to block the eastward expansion of the Great Cannibal, Ma Weijiang may want to support the army and stand on his own feet and betray me, but I am more in favor of Ma Weijiang's strategy, using the Khazars to block the eastward expansion of the Great Cannibal, just like when Gelulu used the Uighurs to resist the invasion of the Tubo people on Tocharo." ”

"Does Your Highness think this strategy is reliable?" Zhang Qiu'an asked.

"I don't know!"

Guo Song shook his head, "So I'm going to wait and see, Ma Weijiang wiped out the Po tribe last year, so that the Khazars could smoothly expand to Yibohai, and then a few months ago, he conquered Bahanna, slaughtered the city of Thirsty Sai, and cut off the path of the great cannibals to expand eastward. ”

Pan Liao frowned, "Your Highness feels that Ma Weijiang and the Khazars will join forces to deal with the Great Food Army?" ”

"I think there should be some kind of agreement between them, Ma Weijiang will send troops to attack Bakhana, at least the Khazars don't want to see the eastward expansion of the Great Food, but I don't know what the result will be, so I said to wait a little longer."

Pan Liao nodded, "Since His Highness is considering the overall situation, then let's wait a little longer and wait and see how the situation develops." ”

Zhang Qiu'an also said: "The broken leaves are too far away, and it is not easy for us to interfere, we can use this time to prepare." ”

...........

After all, Kang Daqing was a Sogdian, sympathizing with the same faith in the country of Bakhana, and hating the Khazars who betrayed Zoroastrianism.

Although Ma Weijiang's ambition disappointed Guo Song, Guo Song still believed that he was not wrong, Ma Weijiang was smart, cautious, and able to stand alone.

Guo Song believed that the eastward expansion of Dashi was not as frivolous as Kang Daqing's narrative, and that there must have been substantial progress, so Ma Weijiang decisively sent troops to destroy the country of Bakhana.

Guo Song decided to continue to wait and see, pondering alone for nearly an hour, Lu Lun stepped forward and whispered: "Your Highness, Lord Shi asked if there was anything else, there was nothing else, and he went back." ”

Guo Song remembered that Shi Donglai hadn't left yet, and he suddenly felt sorry in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up and invite him over!" ”

After a while, Lu Lun helped Shi Donglai into the official room, and Guo Song hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "I'm really sorry, I was thinking about the problem just now and forgot about Shi Donglai." ”

Shi Donglai smiled, "The biggest advantage of the elderly is that they are patient, and Your Highness doesn't have to mind." ”

Guo Song asked Shi Donglai to sit down, and Shi Donglai explained to Guo Song: "Kang Daqing's description of personal emotions is relatively heavy, please don't be surprised by His Highness, but since he swore in front of the great god Ahuramaz, then he shouldn't lie." ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "I only listen to the facts, as for right and wrong, I have my own measure." ”

"Well, I'm also worried that His Highness has been misled by his emotions, he is a very devout Zoroastrian and has always been very repulsive to the Khazars."

Guo Song didn't want to talk about it more, so he smiled and said, "I plan to do a business with the proprietor, I wonder if the proprietor is interested?" ”

Shi Donglai smiled and said, "Your Highness doesn't say it, how do I know if I'm interested?" ”

Guo Song nodded and said, "I need 50,000 strong Bactrian camels to buy at the market price, can I accept this business?" ”

Shi Donglai was taken aback, 50,000 camels, still young and strong Bactrian camels, converted to at least one million taels of silver, such a big hand, where can his family eat, but as soon as he thought about it, Shi Donglai understood.

Of course, this business was not given to the historians, and the historians could not bear it, so they mainly took the order by themselves, and then dispersed it to other Sogdian merchants to buy it from all directions.

Shi Donglai's heart was put down, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "What about the time requirements?" ”

"Done in two years!"

Shi Donglai quickly calculated in his heart, and said to Guo Song: "Time is okay, but because of the large purchase of camels, the market price of camels will rise, and the market price in the later period will be a little higher, I hope Your Highness can understand." ”

"I can understand this, as long as the price is not too excessive, I can accept it."

Shi Donglai nodded, "I understand, I will make it clear to everyone, this is not to make money, but to pave the way for future trade." ”

"That's a good thing to say!"

Guo Song praised and said, "There is one more thing I want to ask for help from Shi Dongzhu." ”

This time it was not a business, but a help, Shi Donglai looked solemn and waited for Guo Song to continue.

"It's about broken leaves!"

Guo Song said slowly: "I need to grasp the movements of the Broken Leaf Army, as well as the activities of the Great Food and Khazar in the west of the Green Ridge, but where is it inconvenient for my people to appear?" I think it's most convenient for Sogdian merchants, does the proprietor understand what I mean? ”

Shi Donglai nodded, "I have a lot of friends over there, and I will set up an intelligence network and put my brother Shi Dongyu in charge, he has lived in the area of Broken Leaf and Bahan for twenty years, and he is very familiar with that area. ”

Guo Song continued: "Use the Eagle Letter to contact Shule, I will give you a letter, I hope this matter can be done as soon as possible." ”

Although Guo Song can also receive eagle letters from Ma Weijiang from Broken Leaves every month, Ma Weijiang has seriously concealed too many things, and Guo Song can only build another way.

........

Due to being deliberately suppressed by Guo Song, the Broken Leaf Incident did not cause waves in Chang'an, and this incident soon disappeared silently.

On the morning of this day, an official fleet of 1,000 cargo ships arrived at Guantao County in Weizhou, although the Wei and Jin countries were bounded by the Yongji Canal in the middle section of Hebei, but this middle section was limited to the north of Weizhou, and the Yongji Canal in the three prefectures of Wei, Xiang and Wei in the south belonged to the exclusive possession of Wei, which led to the official ship transit agreement signed by Wei and Jin.

Originally, the Jin State asked to cancel these checkpoints, but Tian Yue insisted on retaining them, and finally the two sides reached a compromise, the checkpoints were invalid for the official ships, if the checkpoints dared to go to the official ships of the Jin State for inspection, the escort soldiers had the right to shoot them, which was equivalent to the official ships of the Jin State being the mobile territory of the Jin State.

In the two months since the armistice, there have been two large salt fleets of the Jin State official passing through Weizhou, both of which have been very smooth, but this fleet has come from Youzhou City, it is said that it is full of gold, silver and brass, and there are 2,000 soldiers to follow the escort.

Before the fleet set off, it had already sent envoys to Weizhou to deliver the vouchers, and it was necessary to check the identity at the Guantao County outpost, and then it went all the way south without any obstacles.

On the big ship headed by the fleet, escort officer Zhang Lianliang walked out of the cabin and looked coldly at the oncoming sentinel ship.

The brigade commander on the sentry ship saw that there were official flags on each ship, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "But the official fleet from Youzhou?" ”

"Exactly!"

The brigade commander hurriedly said: "Then please prepare the talisman and the transit password, and the front will be verified." ”

The brigade commander's ship turned back, and the fleet continued on its way, at this time the two escorts on each ship were on the alert, and they stood in front of the ship and stern with crossbows in hand, watching the movements on both sides.

The fleet was still fifty paces away from the sentry post, and an official came up on the boat, clenched his fists and said: "Zhao Qing, the pottery whistle of the pavilion, please show the voucher and the transit order." ”

Zhang Lianliang took out a bag and handed it over, Zhao Qing took the bag and took out half a jade pendant and a letter from it, he also had half a jade pendant, which was sent by the messenger before, the two jade pendants matched, the password was brought back by the messenger, and the password was also matched.

Zhao Qing returned the bag to the other party, waved his hand and said loudly: "Release!" ”

The barridal platoon was pulled away, Zhang Lianliang clasped his fists at the bow of the ship and saluted, and the fleet sailed through the sentry post.

Zhao Qing saw that each ship had a deep draft, and the items transported on the ship were tightly covered with tarpaulins, so he vaguely guessed that it was estimated to be valuable.

"Sentry, I'm afraid it's all gold and silver! Otherwise, the draft would not be so deep. The brigade commander whispered to the side.

Zhao Qing sighed slightly and said, "So what, dare to move?" ”

The brigade marshal bowed down and said, "What does the lowly position mean, do you want to notify Yuancheng?" ”

Zhao Qing pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, he really wanted to report, if he didn't report this matter to the top, he would probably be punished by the top afterwards.