When he was about to rest at night, he ran over to Han Qian and told him that after the dinner, Song Hongzhong, a general secretary, introduced several businessmen, intending to undertake the bulk goods they transported to Shudu this time and in the future.

Han Qian sorted out the information of the southern Sichuan bureaucrats in the middle of the night, was dizzy, listened to the report from Zhou, and asked curiously: "Beat us with two sticks yesterday, and today you will send sweet dates?" With their attitude and posture, they will have to drag us for a few days! ”

Song Hongzhong, the general secretary, is a person from the Marquis of Qingjiang, Wang Hongyi, it is not surprising at all, they were arranged in Nanyuan before, and their daily life and behavior were all seen by the people in the main building, obviously it could not be that Wei Qun, the Qing of Honglu Temple, deliberately wanted to embarrass them.

After all, the Marquis of Qingjiang Wang Hongyi is the prince of Shu State, although he is a little narrow-minded, but his temperament is not too obedient and ridiculous, and there is no outrageous bad virtue.

Unlike the courtyard in front of the mansion of Changxiang Hou Wang Yong, there are few cats and dogs walking around.

Thinking like this, Han Qian felt like a little sheep in a wolf's den!

"It's not necessarily sweet jujubes, their price is more ruthless, we go to Wushan Changxia to come, and the profits are not as good as selling in Hunan Prefectures; At the same time, they also demanded that the goods transported from Xuzhou to Sichuan and Shu be handed over to them to take over! Seeing that Han Qian had misunderstood, Zhou explained with a little embarrassment.

"That's right!" Han Qian muttered with a little hesitation, "In this way, we can't take advantage of the slightest advantage, but the Marquis of Qingjiang wants to take advantage of us!" ”

How to sell the ironware, cotton cloth and goods from other parts of the Chu State from Xuzhou into Sichuan and Shu is precisely the main point of the negotiations between the two sides in the mutual market.

In any case, no matter how open Shu is, it will definitely allow Xuzhou to directly send people to various parts of Shu to open warehouses and shops, in that case, who knows how many spy scouts and even elite combat power will be stuffed into Shu by the Chu State?

The final result of the negotiations must be to allow the caravans of the Chu State to come in, and under the supervision of the Si, to conduct large transactions with the designated merchants, or directly with the official institutions of the Shu State.

Similarly, if the goods of Shu want to enter Chu, they must also follow such rules.

Listening to the meaning of Zhou, the Marquis of Qingjiang sent people to contact this side, not to send two sweet dates after the horse was defeated to show that he was wooing, but in fact, he still monopolized part of the interests of the mutual market between the two countries.

Of course, the fine iron and cotton cloth produced in Xuzhou are very advantageous in terms of cost, and if they can crack down on other competitors and spread the market as soon as possible, it does not matter if the price is low, and in the end they can still expand the trade volume and increase profits.

However, even if the Marquis of Qingjiang and his relatives Zhao did not directly control a large number of Shu brocade and iron industries under their names, it was impossible for the Marquis of Qingjiang, as the prince of Shu, to be short-sighted enough to connive at the large-scale entry of cloth iron in Xuzhou and crack down on the brocade wrought iron and other industries in Shu.

On the issue of mutual markets, the types and scale of goods traded by the two sides each year are the main points of the negotiations, and it also involves the setting and collection of the municipal parking tax.

Shu initially proposed that only the cotton, linen and silk produced by Chu should be allowed to enter Shu no more than 100,000 horses per year, and it was impossible to occupy all the Qianyang cloth produced in Xuzhou, otherwise it would be a little ugly to eat, and it would be easy to become the target of public criticism.

If the Qianyang cloth produced in Xuzhou can only be transported into Sichuan and Shu for sale every year, if the price is still eaten to death by the merchants under the Marquis of Qingjiang, then the whole thing will be meaningless to Xuzhou - after all, the Qianyang cloth has not even filled the market in the eight states of Hunan, and now it is mainly expected to be able to get Shu land and sell it at a high price.

"Fortunately, we didn't put our hope on Qingjiang Hou." Thinking of this, Han Qian said to Xi Ying with a smile.

"The Marquis of Qingjiang seems to think that he has settled us, and he doesn't think that we may collude with the Marquis of Changxiang." Xi Ying said.

"The environment in which Changxianghou is located is a little worse!" Han Qian said in a deep voice.

Xi Yixin said that where is this, it is just a little worse?

They can now confirm that Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong has been idle in poetry in recent years, but he is actually suspicious and guarded by his father Wang Jian, and as an ordinary person, he has long decided that Changxiang Marquis has no chance to turn over.

And Changxianghou hides ambitions that do not match his strength, which is actually the way to die.

Han Qian groaned for a while, and then said to Zhou: "Since Song Hongzhong is so 'kind', you can talk to them first......

It is better to have contact at any time than not to have contact at all, and only by continuing to contact can it be possible to gather more useful information.

"Okay." Zhou responded to the road, and then retired and left.

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In the next few days, the two sides mainly had in-depth discussions on the details of welcoming relatives and forming an alliance, and Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, may have some symbolic rewards to send over, but what ideas Han Qian has on his side are still passed through the officials of Honglu Temple.

The formal audience was not rushed.

Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, had to report to Han Qian once a day, and the county lord of Qingyang would occasionally disguise himself as a man to accompany him, but neither side talked about more substantive issues, nor did they mention meeting with Jing Qiongwen.

Until December 8, this time it was rare for a heavy snowfall in Shudu for several years, and the East Garden of Jinhua Building was crowded with dignitaries and literati who enjoyed the snow and plum blossoms.

Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, also specially set up a banquet on the top floor of Jinhua Building on this day, invited Han Qian and Guo Rong to enjoy the snow, and specially invited Wei Qun, the secretary of Honglu Temple, and Song Hongzhong, a general secretary, and other officials to accompany him.

Although there is a side door from Nanyuan to directly enter the East Garden, Han Qian has entered the Shu Capital City for more than ten days, except for secretly taking a telescope to observe all kinds of people who climb the tower and look at the heights, he himself has never stepped into the East Garden for half a step.

At this time, I walked in, only to see that the bottom of Jinhua Building is a stone pedestal nearly five zhang high, and three more layers of wooden buildings are built on the pedestal, which naturally looks majestic and towering in Shudu City.

Jinhua Building occupies an extremely wide area, the abutment is like a small stone castle, nearly 200 steps in circumference, ascend the abutment, the three-storey wooden building is also rare and magnificent in the world, the first and second floors are separated by large and small private rooms, there are almost sixty or seventy elegant rooms, and the top floor as a whole is a hall that is wide enough to have six zhang into the depth, look at it by the railing, almost can take the Shudu City into the eyes.

It is said that Shudu is prosperous and thousands of lights are shining, but Han Qian climbed to the top floor of Jinhua Building and looked at the four fields, the so-called lights are still few, and the bright lights in the dream world are really different, but the city is lying quietly in the dark night, giving people a different feeling.

"Master Hou's side, this is the Chu envoy Han Qian, Lord Han?"

Han Qian was climbing high with Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, and the county lord of Qingyang, who was disguised as a man, and suddenly heard someone around him say hello, and turned around to see five or six more people coming upstairs, led by a person wearing a plain robe with a crane pattern, with a clear face, about fifty years old.

"It turned out to be Lord Jing, the envoy of the sect, and this is indeed Lord Han, the envoy of Chu." Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, saluted the people, and smoothly introduced Han Qian and Jing Qiongwen.

It is inconvenient for Han Qian to enter and exit the South Garden of Jinhua Building, especially when he is targeted by the Marquis of Qingjiang, and it is not realistic to want to meet Jing Qiongwen privately in the Changxiang Hou Mansion, so he can only arrange to meet by chance when he admires the snow in Jinhua Building.

However, Jinhualou is a place for the official eunuchs and literati of Shudu to feast, Han Qian can come over with the Marquis of Changxiang, Jing Qiongwen can come over, tonight is a rare snow in Shudu for several years, and it is difficult to block other people from the banquet, and there have been several people before and after to greet him and the Marquis of Changxiang.

At this time, Han Qian could only bow to Jing Qiongwen quietly, and took a step to the side, thinking that Jing Qiongwen could come over and watch the night snow by the railing.

"Jinhua Building is really lively tonight!"

Han Qian was about to talk with Jing Qiongwen, but when he heard a commotion around him, he saw a commotion among the people enjoying the snow on the top floor, and saw that surrounded by a group of people, Wang Xiaoxian, the Marquis of Wei, was accompanying the two brocade-clothed men, and said loudly while climbing the stairs to the top house.

Two men in brocade clothes, one of whom was thirty-two or thirteen years old, had two short mustaches on his lips, a thin face, bright eyes, and a short sword at his waist. The other person is the same age as Jing Qiongwen, but he is very rich, and he is full of smiles and beckons to everyone who climbs the stairs to enjoy the snow.

There is no need for the introduction of Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong, Han Qian also knows that the person with the short mustache is Wang Hongyi, the prince of Shu Kingdom, and through the staircase, he saw that there were many personal guards brought by Wang Hongyi standing on the next floor.

Jinhua Building has rules, and guests to the banquet are not allowed to bring guards and guards to the building, but Wang Hongyi, as the prince, can obviously ignore the rules and enjoy the privileges that Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, cannot have.

The other person is Zhao Weisheng, the current uncle of Shu and the Duke of Qiang.

"Wang Yong has seen my brother." Seeing that Wang Hongyi, the Marquis of Qingjiang, also climbed Jinhua Tower tonight to enjoy the snow, Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, could only honestly step forward and salute.

The county lord of Qingyang knew that he couldn't hide the eyes of the Marquis of Qingjiang, and followed the side of the Marquis of Changxiang Wang Yong to salute.

"Humph!" Qingjiang Hou glanced at Qingyang and snorted lightly, but he didn't break it.

"Jing Qiongwen has seen the prince, but I didn't expect the prince to be so good tonight with the Duke of Qiang and the Marquis of Wei." Jing Qiongwen was much more chic, and saluted the Marquis of Qingjiang with a smile.

"Duke Jing is also a good Yaxing," the Marquis of Qingjiang has not yet ascended the throne, but he does not dare to be too lazy with the close ministers around his father, but after the greetings, his eyes are swirling on Han Qian and Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong, "The Chu envoy has been in the Shu capital for many days, and the Marquis has not been able to find time to invite him, and he also asked the Chu envoy not to blame the Marquis for being slow in hospitality." ”

"The prince of the world is polite, Han Qian makes Shu accompanied by the marquis of Changxiang every day, but he does not feel the slightest sense of neglect, and he asks the prince not to read it." Han Qian said with a smile.

Qingjiang Hou's eyes narrowed, and he smiled again in an instant: "Life is not as good as a chance encounter, since you met in Jinhua Building, then Ben Hou will hold a banquet in Jinhua Building, and enjoy the snow with Lord Han, which can be regarded as a happy life." ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey." Han Qian didn't shirk either, and accepted it with a smile.

At this time, there is no need to signal, those who know that they are not qualified to dangle in front of the prince have said goodbye and left by themselves, the top floor that was still a little crowded just now, the time and space are wider, in addition to the several entourages who came with the Marquis of Qingjiang, the Duke of Qiang, and the Marquis of Wei, there are also eight or nine people and Jing Qiongwen, Honglu Temple Qing Wei Qun and others were left to drink and enjoy the snow together when they retired.