Chapter 82: The bottom of the kettle draws wages and turns over the huge waves

Shima Guangyan is not only fine now, but also warm and fragrant.

He is not in Kaifeng, the current capital of Dajin, but in the middle capital that was corrupted and dilapidated by the Hu people, counting this time, after the Hu people captured the central capital, he was already the second time to come to the central capital.

At this time, the Hu people have occupied Yanyun for a long time, although there is no killing and plundering in Zhongdu, but the whole city is still desolate and bleak, and the winter has arrived, and it is even more deserted.

But in the tents of the Hu nobles, it was as warm as spring, and the wives and daughters of the robbed nobles forced their faces to laugh and serve wine and meat.

Shi Mo Guangyan pinched the chest of the golden woman who was kneeling in front of him, and the woman was in pain, and her face showed pain, but she didn't dare to cry out, because she saw her sister more than once, and because of a look or a movement, she was dragged out and cut down by the chief of the Hu people who were still laughing and cheering.

Shi Mo Guangyan's action was not intended to tease her, but to win the favor of the Hu people and chieftains on the other side through this action. Sure enough, except for Mu Huali, who was sitting on the main seat, all the Hu people and nobles showed ambiguous smiles.

"Shima Hirohiko, if you like it, this slave girl will be yours." Mu Huali sat on the main seat and said expressionlessly.

Shi Mo Guangyan immediately turned over and knelt down: "Thank you for the gift of King Taishi!" ”

"Get up, your family has always been friends with Ah Hai and Bald Flower, and I am entrusted by the two of them, so I naturally want to take care of you." Muhua Li Road.

At this time, Tiemu really prepared for the western expedition, entrusted the matter of cutting gold to Mu Huali, and named him the Taishi and the king of Lu. He was forty-eight years old, calm and solemn and dignified, and it is said that when he was born, his home was covered with white, and the Hu people praised him as a great hero. Shima Hirohiko arched his hand again, returned to his seat, and pondered how to speak.

Mu Huali stared at Shi Mo Guangyan, so he didn't have to be so careful. Shima Guangyan was brought by Yelu Ahua and presented him with a generous gift, in addition to a large number of brocade silk and silk that the Hu people liked, as well as a quarter of an hour from the southern Song Kingdom. Mu Huali had seen a quarter of an hour before, which was plundered from the homes of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, but the kind of gold and silver inlaid with pearls and jade sent by Shimo Guangyan was still the first.

"I am very happy with the gift you have given me." After being full of wine and food, Mu Huali said: "What I like is not the gold and jade on it, those things are useless, but they can be accurately timed, which is not ordinary." ”

He was originally a slave, and he was not very articulate, and he only said such praise to the quarter of an hour. Shi Mo Guangyan arched his hand: "If it can help the Great Khan's deeds, it is the luck of a businessman like a villain." ”

"There are many merchants in the Great Khan's tent, and those who are Hui." When Mu Huali said this, there was a clear trace of disgust on his face: "I am willing to recommend you to the Great Khan, you will be like Ah Hai and Bald Flower, holding an official position in the Great Khan's tent and serving our Great Khan!" ”

"It is the glory of a villain to be able to serve the Great Khan, and to hold an official position is not what a villain wants." Shi Ma Guangyan said: "The villain is in the south, and he can inquire about the reality of the Jin State for the Great Khan, and raise military funds for the Great Khan to fight the war, which is more useful to the Great Khan than settling accounts in the camp tent." ”

He knew that most of the Mongolian generals in Temujin's account did not have a good impression of the Hui merchants who only relied on being able to settle accounts to gain Temujin's credit, so his words also carried the disdain for being in the company of those Hui merchants.

"You have given me so many gifts, I can't help but give you in return, stinginess is not the quality of our Mongols, but the fault of your Emperor Jin and those Hui merchants." At the end of the wine, Mu Huali said: "If you have any requests, just ask me." ”

"King Taishi knows that because Ah Hai and Lord Bald defected to the Great Khan, the villain family was destroyed. Although King Wei Shao and Hu Shahu are now dead, there are some people who have not yet received retribution. Shi Ma Guangyan said: "Thanks to the heavens, these people stayed in Zhongdu and were captured by the elite army of the Great Khan. These people were not craftsmen, nor warriors, they were of no use to the Great Khan, and to live they were only a waste of food. However, they were useful to the villain, who wanted to beg the king of Taishi to sell them to the villain, and the villain was willing to buy them with silk and gold from the Song Kingdom. ”

Mu Huali stroked his beard, squinted his eyes and looked at Shi Mo Guangyan for a long time, and then said slowly: "I don't like others to deceive me, you are a businessman, businessmen like wealth, no businessman will give wealth to others in vain." Those captives are of no use to me, but I hate it when people deceive me. ”

Shi Mo Guangyan's face was panicked, he hesitated for a while, and under Mu Huali's gaze, he had to say: "I really don't dare to deceive King Taishi, there are indeed enemies of my family among these captives, but most of them want to sell them to the Song Kingdom, and the Song people are willing to buy them at the price of two zhang of silk for each young and strong." ”

"What does the Song State want to buy these captives?" Mu Huali was aggressive: "Didn't the emperor of the Jin Kingdom send you to deceive me?" ”

"How can this be!" Shi Mo Guangyan knelt on the ground, raised his hand to Mu Huali and said: "The villain is the same as Lord Ahai, they are all Khitans, and the villain Shi Mo's family was originally surnamed Xiao, the queen of the Great Liao Kingdom, and the generations are from the villain family. The emperor of the Jin Kingdom has a hatred of dying in our family, and the villain's father died in their hands, and they have a grudge against the villain. Although the villain is not a warrior who can ride a horse and wield a sword, he also knows shame, how can he really serve the Jin country? ”

He almost burst into tears when he said this, and even the noble chiefs of the Hu people who killed people without blinking an eye also nodded again and again.

Then Shi Mo Guangyan said: "The villain is not selfless, the Song people want to open a mine, they need a large number of slaves, sell these people to the Song people, you can not only make a fortune from it, but also let them be tortured forever in the dark underground until they die, the king of Taishi, the warriors of the grassland take revenge with bows and arrows, the Confucian students of the Han people take revenge with pen and ink, and the villain is a businessman, of course, he has to take revenge in the way of my businessman!" ”

His words made Mu Huali laugh, Mu Huali didn't believe that he dared to serve the Jin Kingdom, so he was even more suspicious, pointing to Yelu Bald Flower who was sitting next to him and said: "Bald Flower, you still have a bit of a warrior appearance, but your fellow clan is an authentic businessman." ”

"If the Taishi thinks that he is still sincere, let him go, those people are all wasted food anyway." Yelu Ahai followed Temujin's expedition to the west, and it was Yelu Bald Flower who stayed by Mu Huali's side, and he had also been an official in the Jin Kingdom for a long time.

"The population is quite large, there are thousands of people, and I don't know how you brought him to the Great Song Dynasty." Mu Huali said, although he had not explicitly admitted it, but he knew from this tone that he had already agreed.

"This matter is not difficult, the villain has prepared a boat in Zhigu Village (Note 1), as long as the villain is young and strong, after getting on the boat, he will go to the sea and go south, and the Jin people are now facing enemies on several sides, how can they have time to run to the sea to manage the villain?" Shi Mo Guangyan said: "If the Taishi King wants something from the Great Song Dynasty, just give the order, and the villain will bring it for you next time he goes north." ”

"I want something, I'll pick it up myself, why don't you need to bring it!" Mu Huali's words were extremely arrogant, and when he heard that Chief Hu was boiling in the tent, he shouted a few times: "Go and get it!" Go pick it up! ”

Shi Mo Guangyan nodded yes, but he didn't think so, this gang of Zihu people, except for robbery and killing, really didn't know anything.

With Mu Huali's permission, Shi Mo Guangyan quickly got the people he wanted, and after some deletions, he only singled out more than 500 young people between the ages of eighteen and thirty, and went south in three sea ships. These sea ships were originally Jin Guocao ships, although they were not as stable as the ships of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were not as advanced as the shipbuilding of the hanging islands, but it was still very convenient to sail near the shore with the wind.

The sailors on the ship were all recruited from the people, but the people who guarded these captives were the cronies brought by Shima Hirohiko, and the number was nearly 100. Falling into the hands of Shi Mo Guangyan, these Jin people were all panicked, but when they heard that they were going to be brought to the Great Song Dynasty, some people wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the water.

"Brother Jin Qing, why can you sit still?"

On one of the ships, a man with a long beard and no more than thirty years old, dressed in blue, sat on the deck on his knees, and when he heard the people next to him ask, he smiled slightly: "Even if you are panicked, like them, what does it matter?" ”

The person next to him smiled, but he muttered a little in his heart, although this brother Jin Qing is talented, but now that he is a man and a fish, he can still be as stable as Mount Tai, should he admire his bearing, or should he laugh at him for pretending?

"It's not bad to send it to the Great Song Dynasty, if we can find a gap and run away, with our status as a country, the Great Song Dynasty will not obediently send us back to China?" The man thought about it, and couldn't help but say again: "I don't know why these people are so afraid of going to the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Now that Da Song is at war with Dajin, will he send us back to China? I'm afraid it's worse than falling into the hands of the Hu people. Jin Qing showed a hint of worry at this time: "Besides...... If we are really caught mining, I am afraid that we will not be able to escape. ”

His companion was also silent, and only lamented after a long time: "When Kaifeng was captured, our ancestors took the two emperors of the Song Kingdom to the city of the Five Kingdoms to sit in the well and watch the sky, and now the middle is broken, but we have to be sent to the country to mine, even if we want to see the sky, it is not easy to ......."

Jin Qing shook his head and did not continue.

The boat left Zhigu Village on December 21 in the first year of Xingding in the Jin Kingdom and the tenth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, and at first traveled in the Bohai Sea, because the northeast wind blew, the speed of the ship was slow, and it took six days to go around the cape of Shandong. After that, they began to sail with the wind, and the speed of the voyage immediately increased, and on the third day they reached Jiaoxi, where two more ships joined the fleet. Jin Qing couldn't help but be shocked when he saw it, Shi Mo's family was a large merchant in the Jin Kingdom, he had also heard of this, and he also knew that his family was quite capable back then, but he was still surprised to drive in the Dajin Sea Frontier like this, and regarded the Dajin Sailor as nothing.

Among these people, there were originally some people who thought that they might be rescued if they met the Dajin Sailor halfway, but now they are completely desperate.

On January 3, the second year of the reign of the Jin Kingdom and the eleventh year of Jiading of the Great Song Dynasty, the fleet of five ships arrived at Donghai Island (now Lianyungang). Not only did the Hu people treat the Shi Mo family like a guest, and the Jin Guo sailor opened the door for the Shi Mo family, but these Shandong red jacket thieves were also respectful when they saw the ship of the Shi Mo family, and they were not rude at all. The Shi Mo family was wiped out once, and in just a few years, it has grown so strong!

Five ships anchored on Donghai Island, and some people shouted to get off the ship, Jin Qing's heart was also moved, and after more than ten days on the boat, people were already tired of it, and many people got sick because of it. But the Shi Mo family who accompanied the boat sneered: "There are all the Red Jacket Army here, the heroes who killed officials and rebelled, if you don't want to find death, it's better to stay on the boat honestly, if you want to find death, your own family jumps into the sea, you have jumped one or twenty in the past few days, you see who has saved it!" ”

Jin Qing felt a pang in his heart, this is a good point, the Red Jacket Army killed officials and rebelled, although these Beijing officials of the Dajin Kingdom, although they are just small officials, they will not end well in the hands of the Red Jacket Army. In the past few days, those who committed suicide in the sea and died of serious illness, more than ten people were thrown into the sea only when he saw them.

He was thinking about it, but Shi Mo Guangyan came over: "Brother Jin Qing, if you are interested, can you go to the island with my junior brother and take a look?" ”

He and Ishima Hirohiko were old acquaintances, but they didn't have much friendship, and along the way, I didn't see how Ishima Hirohiko took care of him. He only said that Shimo Guangyan hated Dajin deeply, so he held a grudge against them, so he never got together to make fun of himself. Now he suddenly said this, which surprised him.

"Good...... Well, since it is the invitation of the Shi Mo owner, dare to disobey his fate? He was stunned for a moment and then said.

Seeing that his mood is not in color, Shi Mo Guangyan also nodded secretly, anyone who encounters this situation now, will try his best to get close to himself, but he is neither humble nor arrogant, a sentence Shi Mo Dongjia keeps a distance from himself, and a sentence of "dare not obey" shows that he will not refuse his kindness.

The East China Sea Island is not very good-looking, and across the vast smoke waves, Jin Qing asked the land after identifying the direction, and stood for a long time before sighing: "I went south this time, but I don't know if I can return to my homeland." ”

"Now that Dajin has a faint monarch and a powerful minister outside, the wind and rain are shaking, you are back in Dajin, but I am afraid that it will be useless." Shi Mo Guangyan smiled: "Such a homeland, don't go back!" ”

"There's something down there that I don't know." Jin Qing pondered for a while, and finally said: "The Shi Mo Dong family has spent a lot of effort and countless sums of money to take us away, what is the purpose. If it is for revenge, wouldn't it be easier to throw us directly into the sea; If it is said to be for trafficking, what is the use of these hundreds of people being sold to the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"I am also entrusted by others to be loyal, someone asked me to go north, and the officials of the Jin State who were stranded in the central capital, as long as the younger ones were bought, all the ones were bought and sent south, and they also specifically said that you Brother Jin Qing." Shima Guangyan looked at him deeply: "That man said, if you can't give birth, you will die." ”

Note 1: Located in today's Tianjin, it is an important port for Jinguo Caoyun