Chapter 1399: The Silver Mountain of the Wa Kingdom
The weather was sunny.
Along the way, I didn't experience a single rain. The winter road without rain is also good, although the cold wind is whistling, there is no rain and snow, and there is no hurry, which makes the team travel very easily.
The emperor's chariot traveled along the Jishui, and the fields on both sides of the river could see green wheat seedlings, and the huge team, every time they arrived, they could consume a large amount of materials, but fortunately, they had already prepared in various places. However, this huge team of eastern patrol teams still made the prices of places along the way soar several times.
In particular, some rare local specialties have been bought and sold.
Every time the car is stationed in the camp, it will attract a large group of merchants and people, and a temporary market will rise next to it, Luoyang merchants bring all kinds of capital goods, all kinds of local products prepared by local merchants, and all kinds of commercial goods of merchants who have heard the news nearby, and many local people also drive chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep to sell.
The huge spending power of the team swept away the goods every time, so that the merchants and ordinary people who came were full of excitement and couldn't close their mouths.
"When Emperor Sui Ming passed by us this time, at that time, our county order let us all go to get the pheasant feathers, and it had to be the longest and most beautiful hair on the male pheasant, and a male pheasant only had one hair, and we had to hand over several each, you said how to get so many pheasant feathers at a time, but for the sake of the errand, there was no way. I remember at that time, a pheasant feather was fried for more than 100 yuan, and some people had no choice, they couldn't get it themselves, and they couldn't afford to buy it, but the yamen urged it tightly, and finally had no choice but to sell their daughter. ”
An old man sits under a willow tree and talks about the past.
It was also the emperor who went out on patrol and passed by, and now that the Qin Emperor is passing by, he is not only not required to pay any local products, nor is he required to bear any additional labor, let alone pay any money, and he was hired to repair roads before, and he also got a pen's salary. Now the family comes to sell the chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and sheep of the family, and the price of everything is much higher than before.
It's a real profit.
"I knew that this year's Holy Driving Tour Eastward, I said that I should raise more chickens, ducks, geese, and chickens and ducks."
The other also said, "No, a goose sells a pig for money." ”
"I sold half a pig for a basket of eggs."
Everyone is a nearby villager, this day I don't know how many trips to and from this camp market, at first I came to sell some eggs and duck eggs or something, who knew that it was so easy to sell, as soon as the things were sought-after out of stock, I hurried home and went to get some more, or immediately bought up.
This is ruthless, the old hens that lay eggs at home, and the crowing roosters are also caught and sold, all of which have multiplied several times, those people from Luoyang are really rich, and they don't ask the price to buy things, just rob them.
Xu Laohan finally dragged the pig that was ready to be killed for the New Year, and it was slaughtered and sold.
"I thought the nobles in Luoyang didn't eat pork, only mutton."
"The nobles don't eat pork, but the nobles bring so many retinues, how can there be so much mutton to eat, you can't drive the sheep behind every day."
From Luoyang to Lu County, the number of people accompanying the car has increased from 100,000 at the beginning to nearly 300,000 now, and too many people have rushed to follow, all want to go to Mount Tai to see the big scene.
Along the way, although the province had already mobilized a lot of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, it was still unexpected. These people who accompanied the car were all in good condition, and they came east with their families and mouths, and they were not short of money in their hands.
The meat and vegetables prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs were given priority to the emperor and hundreds of officials, and of course they could only buy them with the local people at their own expense, and they could not bring pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks on the road by themselves, there were too many people, so the local supply exceeded demand, after all, it was more difficult to transport live and fresh vegetables.
So the price rose again and again, and everyone didn't ask about the price at all, and when they saw the thing, they grabbed it first, and no matter how expensive it was, they could eat it.
"I've made a lot of money on this trip." Old man Xu said with a smile.
"It's a pity that the driver doesn't stay here for long, and he will leave tomorrow."
A person next to him said, "Doesn't this holy car have to go back to Luoyang, maybe it will pass from here then, we can prepare some more." ”
On the big set.
A group of strangely dressed people strolled along, and they were very interested in the goods in front of each stall, and they all looked at it, but in the end they didn't buy it.
Even if they buy, they like to bargain for a long time, and they don't have the boldness and generosity of the nobles.
Xu Laohan asked, "Who are those people?" ”
"I heard that they belong to the Japanese Mission, you see that they are extremely short, and the legs of these Japanese are still Luo Huan legs. These little dwarfs are the most stingy. I like to ask left and right to buy something, and I like to bargain. ”
"Do you still dare to come to see the driver? Didn't they unite the Baekje rebellion? ”
"It was true that this was the case before, these Japanese people didn't know the height of the sky, and they dared to call themselves emperors? After being reprimanded by the emperor's envoys, the Japanese people were dissatisfied, so they responded to the rebellion of Baekje and rebelled. As a result, they brought 10,000 people over, but as soon as they arrived in Baekje, they were all annihilated by the Bohai Fleet, and then the Japanese ships could not go out to sea, and they were sunk at sea as soon as they left the port, and they lost tens of thousands of them at sea, most of which were later fished up and sent to our Daqin to be sold as slaves, but I heard that these Japanese slaves were not very popular, they were too short and useless. ”
The Japanese army could not go out to sea, and the fleet of the Qin army with merchant ships attacked the coast of the Japanese country everywhere, hunting people everywhere, and the local heroes of the Japanese country were too busy to take care of themselves and could not resist at all, so they had to ask the female emperor to send back the local troops gathered earlier and defend them separately.
When Baekje was destroyed, everyone in the Wa Kingdom was shocked.
The regent's crown prince and the ruling Su Ma Zi also stopped fighting among themselves, and finally reached an agreement to send an envoy to Daqin to plead guilty, hoping that Daqin would stop sending troops to attack and attack the Wa State.
"Are these widows really stupid or pretending to be stunned? They came to cause trouble first, but now they want to clap their hands and forget it? Xu Laohan couldn't listen to it anymore.
"But no, how can you say this is possible, the Wa Kingdom has provoked something, and now it wants to end, how can the saint agree? It is said that the sage refused to accept the guilt of the Japanese envoys, and he had already agreed with all the ministers to send a fleet with merchant ships to continue to attack the coastal areas of the Japanese state, and even issued an edict, saying that all the righteous merchants and righteous people of the Great Qin could cross the sea to attack the Japanese country, and if they could capture a hundred li, they would be rewarded with ten li as a fief and awarded a baron. ”
"What do you mean?" Xu Laohan didn't understand.
"It means that the sage encourages everyone to fight the Japanese people, and whoever can lay down the territory, the court will set aside a piece of land and give him a fief to reward him with a title!"
Xu Laohan slapped his thigh, "This edict is over, won't the country be finished?" ”
"But no, there is another news that is spreading rapidly, it is said that this country is rich in silver and copper, and there is a big mountain full of silver underneath, which is enough to tens of millions of catties? Another big copper mountain, even more incredible, has more copper below. ”
"Impossible, tens of millions of catties of silver?" Xu Laohan didn't dare to imagine how big this silver mountain was. "If the Japanese really have such a big silver mountain and copper mountain, will they be so weak?"
"There are also people who guard the golden rice bowl and ask for food, and the Japanese people have poor mining skills, if they change us, how can they have to pick millions of taels of silver from him a year."
A group of villagers sighed there, if there is such a big silver mountain and a big copper mountain, then the Japanese people will really be finished now.
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