Chapter 21 Forcible Seizure
The inn was very simple, and there was an endless stream of people visiting Muhammad, all of whom were Han Chinese who lived in this market, chatting with Muhammad on behalf of the Khitan nobles behind them, asking Muhammad what goods he had brought, what they needed, how much they needed, and what goods they could prepare.
These Arab merchant ships, there are silk, porcelain and medicinal materials from the Central Plains, and what surprises the Khitan people is that there are spices from Dashi and Tianzhu, after all, spices are usually traded by Arab merchants in the Central Plains, and the Khitan Suzhou market is mostly a specialty of the Central Plains.
Within a few days, Lu Ning became acquainted with some agents of the Khitan nobles, and in today's words, the merchants of the Yaren.
Early this morning, the horses neighed, the east gate of the town opened, and many horses were driven out and enclosed in the fences that had apparently been built not long ago.
Obviously, the Khitans had already prepared 2,000 horses and sent them to Dongshi one after another, just waiting for Wu Yue's envoys to trade.
Lu Ning secretly came closer to take a look, and the horses were good horses with excellent bloodlines, and their spirit and spirit were completely different from ordinary war horses.
The more he looked, the more itchy Lu Ning became.
And on the evening of this day, someone from the post house came to visit, the city envoy of the East City Ship Division.
In this eastern city, the Khitan people also learn from the Central Plains, set up the city to manage the ship, and the city envoy is called Yelu Haitong.
The Khitan people, originally had no surname, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Abaoji gave the royal family and ministers Yelu and Xiao two surnames, and then the common people followed suit, and now the vast majority of Khitan people are either surnamed Yelu or surnamed Xiao.
This Yelu Haitong should be considered to have a good temper among the Khitans, after all, the object of the city's dealings is with foreign merchants and not slaves, but when he came to the post house, he waved his horsewhip to Lu Ning, his face was extremely ugly, and he whipped Lu Ning in front of Muhammad, and laughed: "Hu Ren, you slave is very handsome, wait until you finish the transaction, leave him, my brother wants it!" "Zhongyuan dialect, I speak quite fluently.
Although Lu Ning skillfully dodged and just let his leather whip rub against the placket of his clothes, he couldn't help frowning, and his heart was a little angry.
Muhammad was even more embarrassed and could only laugh dryly, but as long as you deal with the Khitans, you know that the Khitans will not joke with you, if Muhammad is really Hu Shang and Lu Ning is really a slave, then when Muhammad leaves, this handsome little guy will definitely be detained by Yelu Haitong.
"Also, your spices, don't trade with others, the deeds are invalid, those spices, our emperor wants them!" Yelu Haitong said this, of course, and said: "The rest of the goods, trade quickly, leave quickly, we have to trade horses with the southerners, in a few days, the southerners should arrive, you can't block these ships at the berth, give you three days, if the transaction is not completed, the rest of the goods will be confiscated!" ”
Muhammad was dumbfounded, he had never been to Dongshi, but he didn't want to, the Khitans were so arrogant.
Of course, it is also because he is not a familiar face, there are a few Hu merchants, who are very comfortable among the Khitans, and this kind of treatment will not be this way.
"I don't know, what is the valuation of this batch of spices given by the Great Liao Holy Son of Heaven?" Finally, Muhammad came back to his senses and remembered a more important question, he had to be instructed by Lu Ning, that is, to play the role of a good businessman, how the businessman thinks about how to treat people and things, he is told how to do, he does not have to play, he is familiar with the road.
"Exchange two queens of the Central Plains with you!" Yelu Haitong laughed and licked his lips again, "It's cheap for you Hu people, those two queens of the Central Plains sent back to the Central Plains to sell to the dignitaries and nobles of the Central Plains, they will definitely sell your tattered spices for several times the price!" ”
"Empress of the Central Plains?" Muhammad was a little dumbfounded, and he didn't know what the Khitan was talking about.
With an understanding of the history of the Central Plains a few years ago, Lu Ning, who was half a bucket of water, was also a hundred times stronger than him.
Lu Ning knew that although the Khitans were bad, this kind of thing should not lie, the so-called Queen of the Central Plains should be the concubine of Shi Chonggui, the last emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, who was captured by the Khitans ten years ago, not Shi Chonggui's queen, queen, where are there two?
A few months ago, when the spring flowers were blooming, he and King Boryeong looked at the north at the pier of the East China Sea, and once talked about Shi Chonggui being captured by the Khitans who broke through the capital.
Historically, Shi Chonggui survived in the Liao Kingdom for nearly 30 years, and now, just ten years after the death of the country, he is naturally still alive and well.
However, his concubine, now in the Central Plains, is naturally worthless, after all, the emperor and the lord of the Central Plains don't know how much has been changed, and the Jin State has already died.
Mohammed didn't quite understand whether the two Central Plains queens were really valuable, and he couldn't ask Lu Ning about his flaws, so he said, "Mr. City Envoy, please allow me to think about it for a few hours." ”
Yelu Haitong laughed and got up, "Okay, I'll come back tomorrow, those two queens should also be sent tomorrow, and our horses will all go to Dongshi tomorrow, and then you can come and see if there are as many high-grade horses as the ocean in our Daliao!" Just by selling it to the outside world, you can weigh it like selling gravel! ”
Before walking out, he whipped Lu Ning with a whip in his hand, and laughed: "I really want to smoke you little thing to death!" ”
Lu Ning was depressed, so he didn't hide, he was whipped by him, and he just didn't say anything when he looked at him.
Jerehatong laughed and left.
"Master......" When Mohammed anxiously wanted to ask Lu Ning if he had been scratched, he saw Lu Ning frowning, so he saved Lu Ning and said that when they arrived in this East City, no matter what the occasion, they would show that he was the master and Lu Ning was the servant.
Hurriedly stopped, and asked: "Look, as Yelu Haitong said, the transaction is worth the same?" ”
Lu Ning shook his head and said, "I'll go out and inquire." ”
That night, Lu Ning invited a tooth man to have a drink, and when he chatted, he learned that the Khitans attacked Bianjing that year, and all the concubines, including Empress Feng, were captured.
Shi Chonggui was sent to Jianzhou for confinement, but the Khitans gave him more than 50 hectares of land, but except for Empress Feng who was still by his side, all the other concubines and Shi Chonggui's young daughters were robbed by the Khitan royal family.
What was snatched away by Yelu Jing, the "sleeping king" of Liao Muzong, who was still the prince of Shulu at that time, were Shi Chonggui's two favorite concubines, who are said to be like immortals.
Shi Chonggui only reigned for four years, and his two favorite concubines, Zhao and Nie, were recruited into the palace in the year of their death.
However, I want to know that now the Zhao family and the Nie family are afraid that they will be destroyed long ago in their inhuman form, and it is already luck that they are still alive, Yelu Jing has long been tired of them, and now they are used to trade spices as the "Queen of the Central Plains", which is no different from Ming robbery.
Listening to the tooth man talk about these past events, Lu Ning remembered that he seemed to have seen the record of the sleeping king snatching Shi Chonggui's two beautiful concubines on the Internet.
Back at the post house, Lu Ning pondered for a while, and then returned to the merchant ship, not knowing what to arrange.