10,000 taels of silver, roughly speaking, is equivalent to about 10,000 pieces of copper coins, but in fact, 10,000 taels of silver can be exchanged for more copper coins, after all, gold and silver have been hard currencies since ancient times, and the circulation of gold and silver on the market is not much.

Many people get gold and silver, put it in a clay pot, bury it somewhere in their home, and easily leave it unused.

There are many people in Jiankang City who can take out 10,000 taels of silver at any time, but there are not so many people who can take out 10,000 taels of silver at any time, so the value of the 10,000 taels of silver that Kong Fan received is higher than that of 10,000 copper coins.

Therefore, he has a new understanding of the financial resources of his "friend" Yuwenwen, this is not in the other party's old nest Xiyang City, since he can take out so much silver in Jiankang, Kong Fan feels that Yuwenwen must have a secret house in the city.

And there must be more than 10,000 taels of silver stored in the secret house.

Kong Fan was a little curious, he didn't know how Yuwen Wen had accumulated so much silver, although the other party made a lot of profits by selling glass mirrors, but the 'direct sales location' was not in Jiankang.

Previously, he was entrusted by Yuwenwen to buy a large number of incense medicines for him in Jiankang, so he felt that the other party made silver by reselling incense medicines, but after thinking about it carefully, there were new problems.

Yu Wenwen bought incense medicine in Jiankang, it is impossible to change hands in the city, it is bound to be transported to other places for sale, and the equivalent items such as gold, silver and jewelry obtained from the sale will only be hoarded elsewhere.

But Yu Wenwen was able to stock so much silver in Jiankang, Kong Fan felt that it was very likely that the other party's people had saved some of the proceeds from the sale of incense medicine to Xiyang on the way to Xiyang.

Xiyang is the end point, Jiankang is the halfway, so the place where Yu Wenwen's subordinates do business is east of Jiankang, and east of Jiankang is the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Kong Fan gave Yuwen Wen convenience from time to time, knowing that the other party was loading incense medicine on the ship and transporting it, so after entering the sea, where did the ship go?

If it is sold in the north, it is the territory of the Zhou Kingdom, and Yuwenwen does not need to take the risk of shipping by ship, so it may be a sea trade.

After entering the sea from the Yangtze River, you can reach Lingbiao Guangzhou, but Guangzhou is the distribution center of overseas merchants and the main source of Jiankang incense medicine, so Kong Fan knew that Yuwenwen's people definitely did not sail south to Lingbiao.

Then it must have been going north to Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and even the Wa Kingdom, where they sold incense and returned with silver, and returned to Xiyang after entering the Yangtze River, and when they passed through Jiankang, they deposited some of the silver in the secret house in the city.

Thinking of this possibility, Kong Fan was shocked by his own inference, and the contact between Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Wa and the Gyankang court was intermittent, and the envoys all came to Jiankang by sea, but there were very few people in the Chen state who specifically engaged in sea trade with these foreign states.

As far as he knew, most of the fleets of Chen Guo's maritime merchants traveled to and from the ports of Jiankang (Jingkou), Fengzhou Houguan, Guangzhou Panyu, Jiaozhou Longbian, etc., that is to say, the maritime trade area was in the south, and the sea area north of the Yangtze River estuary was basically not visited.

As a result, Yuwenwen, whose territory is located in Huangzhou in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is very likely to engage in northern maritime trade, Kong Fan feels that this person's ambition is probably not small, because the maritime trade is lucrative, enough to make people rich overnight, and if Yuwenwen is only satisfied with being a rich and noble county king, there is no need to toss so much.

Kong Fan knows that Yuwenwen's financial resources are abundant, even if there is no sea trade, the profits from the sale of glass mirrors over the years are enough to make him squander, and under this premise, he still wants to get involved in sea trade to make a lot of money, which can only show that the plan is not small.

Although Kong Fan is a native of Chen Guo, and Zhou Guo has nothing to do with him, he feels that if Yu Wenwen really makes a name for himself, it is not impossible for him to profit from it.

Don't talk about it from afar, just talk about the current situation, just now he and Shi Wenqing advocated in the ears of the official family what "waving the Northern Expedition and unifying the Central Plains", in fact, he and Shi Wenqing didn't believe this kind of thing.

The domestic situation in Chen is actually not optimistic, the upper reaches of the country have lost even the ridge table, the war that lasted for nearly a year has made the soldiers and civilians tired, and Jiankang's food stocks are not so abundant, whether it is to attack the north and defend the west or the west to defend the north, we must be cautious in using troops.

Once the army is defeated, the consequences are unimaginable.

Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing mostly know about the hidden dangers in the country, but they don't plan to mention it in front of Chen Shubao, because the officials don't like to hear it, so why should they be disappointed?

is still the same sentence, what the officials like to hear, they will say, as for what will become of the country, it is none of their business.

Anyway, Jiankang has the blessing of the king's spirit, and even if the northern captives come to the city, they will be defeated sooner or later, Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing feel that as long as they serve the official family, then they will enjoy endless glory and wealth.

Up to now, they have done it and become the henchmen of the official family, as long as the official family is in one day, they can enjoy one day of glory and wealth.

But what if something happens?

This is a problem that Kong Fan has been thinking about, the official family is overly drunk and looks healthy, but even if he suddenly dies one day, the end of his Kong Fan will come.

He knew that in the eyes of the civil and military officials, he and Shi Wenqing and others were traitorous ministers, and once the new monarch succeeded to the throne, it was very likely that he would "borrow" their heads to calm down the people's grievances.

Therefore, Kong Fan has been thinking about the future, and desperately slaps the concubine Zhang Lihua, because Zhang Lihua's eldest son is already the crown prince, if the crown prince can be enthroned, Zhang Lihua's mother and son will inevitably continue to reuse them in order to compete with the foreign ministers.

But Kong Fan is still worried, he and Shi Wenqing and others are on the same page with the generals, and they are not treated well by the civilian officials, and when the time comes, these civil and military officials collude and launch a mutiny to "clear the monarch's side", and the new monarch will definitely not be able to protect them at that time.

Therefore, Kong Fan is still looking for another way back, and he has successfully found it.

Therefore, he sincerely hopes that the Yuwen clan of the Zhou State can compete with the Yuchi clan, and the Zhou State will be divided into the Eastern and Western Zhou, and then the world will be divided into three parts, and then it will be full of momentum, and then he will be able to meet the source left and right.

If he couldn't stay in Chen State, he went to the "Western Zhou" to defect to Yuwenwen.

Yu Wenwen ordered someone to send 10,000 taels of silver this time, and Kong Fan guessed that the other party had a deep layout in Jiankang, so once something went wrong, he went to find the other party's eyeliner and fled west with his family.

Of course, if the Yuwen clan is defeated and Yuwen Wen runs to the Chen State, he doesn't mind saving this person's life in front of the official family, and it is also a good choice to partner again to do business when the time comes.

Thinking of this, Kong Fan became more and more proud, he saw that Chen Shubao and Shi Wenqing were discussing the Northern Expedition strategy, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart: Northern Expedition? Since the Jin Dynasty, there have been so many Northern Expeditions, how many times have they been successful?

For more than 200 years, there were Zu Ti Northern Expedition, Chu Pei Northern Expedition, Yin Hao Northern Expedition, Constant Temperature Northern Expedition, Xie Wan Northern Expedition, Xie Xuan Northern Expedition, Liu Yu Northern Expedition, and in the Liu Song Dynasty, there were three Yuanjia Northern Expeditions.

Xiao Liang had several Northern Expeditions, and during the Taijian period of Chen Guo, there were two Northern Expeditions before and after, but most of the Northern Expeditions ended in failure, Kong Fan did not feel that with the current national strength of Chen State, he could support a successful Northern Expedition.

But the official likes to listen, he will say, it is done, he is the hero of the decision; If it doesn't work, let those warriors be held accountable in the future!