Mooney suddenly asked about this, and Bai Liyan knew that he must have used the ice velvet flower as a check and took it to the Central Plains in exchange for a huge amount of goods.

Thinking through this layer, Bai Liyan continued:

"Your Excellency must have brought ice velvet flowers to sell here."

"You can all plant, what else can I do." Mooney was angry with his hands held high, and the wrinkles on his face were deep and shallow, which showed how angry he was.

"Isn't it just business, buying and selling is not benevolent and righteous, not to mention that my Xianguo has not sold ice velvet flowers to the outside world, and the Central Plains countries are still hard to find, you can go to other vassal countries to sell ice velvet flowers."

"You can plant, and you don't take the opportunity to blackmail us."

"Eh, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Since it is a business, you must have the sincerity to do business. I have a way to make sure that your ice velvet flowers sell for a good price. ”

"Can you help me?" Mooney questioned, highly suspicious of Bailiyan's sincerity and sinister intentions.

"Of course, I can't help you for nothing. Let me ask you, how many ice velvets do you harvest in a year? ”

"What are you asking for?"

"Of course, it's for a better business in the future. Tell me, how many ice velvets do you harvest in a year? ”

"Ice-velvet flowers only bloom in winter, and at other times it is difficult to see when buried in the ground, while in winter the flowers are white, only the seeds are black, and it is difficult to find them in the mountains and valleys buried in the snow, so in good times, there can be more than six or seven hundred plants in winter, and only about a hundred in bad times."

"It doesn't seem like much."

"What are you asking for?"

"Business, of course. Since it's a trade, you can't just do business once, right? ”

"The future is a matter of the future, it is up to Your Majesty to decide, and I have no right to make any reply."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about this time first. At present, the annual harvest of ice velvet flowers in our Xianguo is extremely limited, and it is not for sale for the time being. As for Your Excellency, it is still very profitable to peddle to the countries of the Central Plains this time. But in the future, countries will inevitably ask your country to reduce prices on the grounds of high prices, and use the ice velvet produced in our country as a threat to pressure you to reduce prices.

Do you want to see a limited amount of ice velvet flowers in your country every year, and the price of them is falling? ”

"So what are you going to do?" Mooney asked.

"In this way, you may be able to sell for a high price this time, but I am afraid that it will not be possible next time. Therefore, Your Excellency goes back this time, and suggests that Your Majesty suspend the mining of ice elweiss flowers, but if you find that ice elweiss flowers are protected first, and then wait for their results to turn black and mature, and then collect them and send them to Ben Hou.

As for me, I will breed seedlings in Xianguo, and then plant them. When it grows up, before your state trades back and forth every year, I will hand over the harvested ice velvet flowers to your state, and your state will sell them in the Central Plains for Benhou.

At the same time, my Xianguo will also mark the price of ice elweiss, so that the princes of the Central Plains can only use the price of my Xian country to suppress your state, at most the same price as me, but most of the ice velvet flowers in your state come from my Xian country, so even if the price is lowered, but the number is large, and the profit is still very large. ”

"You shameless scum, even your own people are pitted!" Mooney cursed, rolling his eyes and glaring at him.

Bai Liyan disagreed, and said with a cruel smile:

"Huh...... There are no friends in the business field, anyway, don't you know that the Central Plains is like this, it is divided, so why not make some money, and you don't suffer. ”

"You are not afraid of being denounced as scum by the Central Plains."

"Hi...... Commerce is the permission of the royal guest, the national letter is the evidence, the business is bought and sold you and I are willing, there is a kind of can not buy. ”

"Hmph, you're amazing. Say, how to divide the accounts after that? ”

"Ben Hou suggests splitting the account fifty-fifty, but it still needs the permission of my king, I don't think Your Excellency will object."

"That's pretty much it." Mooney agreed, reluctantly.

"After that, what you want to buy with gold and silver, your state decides for itself, and our country will not interfere. However, Ben Hou suggested that Guibang should find more Weiguo to trade some local goods, especially this time you should buy more Weiguo goods. ”

Mooney was suspicious, and immediately thought that Baili Yanzhun was not well-intentioned.

"What do you mean?"

"That's right, Weiguo is now the largest country in the Central Plains, and my Xianguo is small and weak, and it borders Weiguo, so I don't want to cause trouble. If His Excellency Mooney can make some deals with the Patriotic Nation, it will also save our Ham Kingdom a lot of trouble. ”

"Aren't you amazing, there are still things you are afraid of in the world."

"Your Excellency's words are wrong, there are more powerful people in this country than Ben Hou, if it was the people who went to Po Song and Songdia back then, I am afraid that there will be no one left today, and Ben Hou does not want to cause this kind of trouble."

Although the Jin Xuedi people have thieves lurking in the Central Plains, they don't know much about the details of each country, and even less know about this short catty. Mooney had fought with Wei Guo Shen Bi, Zhiguo Gong Liangwen, and Jin King Yanfei many times in the south, and fought the most with Wei Guo.

The first batch of reinforcements for the Patriotic Nation were all slaves and miscellaneous soldiers, and it was convenient to pack them up, but later the main force of the Patriotic Army arrived, and it was much more difficult to fight again, so Mooney had a deep memory of the strength of the Patriotic Nation. Of course, it is not as painful as Bailiyan.

Now Weiguo is the largest vassal state in the Central Plains, and it is not false that Xianguo borders with it, Mooney wants to successfully complete the transaction and raise enough herbs and goods, Xianguo is very important, he does not dare to play tricks, at least in the case of business losses, he has to take into account the consequences of Bailiyan's "advice".

The reason why he pulled business for Weiguo was not because Bailiyan ate good.

Not to mention that Wei Guo has nowhere to do now, he is really red-eyed, and he can come and rob it. Secondly, Mooney came to carry gold and silver coins, which could not be the inch gold and silver of the Central Plains system, which was related to the content and weight conversion, and was closely related to the lack of sufficient reluctance.

Mooney's use of the Xian State as the main trading point means that the exchange of gold and silver coins and the Central Plains gold and silver or gold and silver collars will be replaced by the Xian country, which directly affects the formulation of the new standard. It will inevitably lead to the fact that the transaction with the country must be based on the standards of the Xianguo, otherwise the resulting loss of value conversion, Mooney has a strong self-esteem, and most of them will not accept it.

This means that the country will either accept the standards of the salty country, or it will not accept it.

If you accept the standard, you will soon face the invasion of the new gold and silver currency, and if you don't accept it, it means that the country itself has given up the transaction, and in the future, the precious metal currency standard of the Xianguo country will unify the Central Plains, and the country will lose even more. Whether they accept it or not, it will only get worse.

On the contrary, Xianguo made a gesture and gave the profit to Wei Guo, and Wei Guo was malicious again, so it is no wonder that Baili Yan greeted him with his old fist.

Agree on the details with Mooney, and the brigade will go to Chengling one after another.

A few days later, in the palace of the Jin Dynasty in Pingtang, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, the King of Jin could not sleep day and night, seeing that the good business was robbed by the Xian Kingdom, Ji Jun scratched his heart and was very angry about this.

"Fan Xiang, you said that there is nothing good about Xianguo, I don't have any medicine in Jinguo, and the barbarians go to Xianguo to buy medicine, how can it be reasonable!"

"The king is angry, there is no definite news at the moment that the barbarians only trade with the Xian country. Moreover, the medicinal materials of the Xian country are limited, and the barbarians will inevitably ask for them from other countries. In addition, the Song State sent news from the south that the barbarian caravan entered a thousand miles south of Jieping in Qianyue Mountain last month, and it is said that there are more than 20,000 people and tens of thousands of unicorn horses, carrying countless goods.

Xianguo has Yin Yangjun and His Royal Highness Xihuan, and my Jin Kingdom will definitely get a lot of benefits. ”

"Can Bailiyan agree!" King Jin asked, pacing back and forth in the inner hall, restless in his heart.

"Such a huge deal, he Xianguo can eat, the vassal states may not let him swallow it alone, Bailiyan has always been good at pulling forces to support him, and he will not forget the harm of fighting for the sake of gold and silver interests. Hence ......"

Without waiting for Fan Tao to finish speaking, Wang Li entered the hall:

"The king of ministers and kings sees the king."

"General Wang is exempt."

"King Xie."

Affected by Bailiyan's defection and Yunjie's humiliation, Ji Jun's attitude towards Wang Li turned cold, if it weren't for the sake of the prince and the queen, the king of Jin had a great plan to belittle Wang Li.

When he was young, King Jin asked:

"What does General Wang have to report?"

"The return to the king is a letter from His Royal Highness Xihuan from Xianguo, and at the same time there is a secret letter from Ma Zhongning."

"Oh, both."

Fan Tao was surprised when he heard the news, and King Jin hurriedly asked:

"Fan Xiang, could it be a trade with the barbarians?"

"It is said that I didn't arrive in Chenling so soon, and even if I did, His Highness and Ma Zhongning shouldn't have written at the same time, I think there must be another situation. General Wang, where is the faith? ”

"Here."

Wang Li handed over two iron letters, Fan Tao confirmed that they were in good condition, and transferred the iron letters belonging to Xihuan to the King of Jin, who opened Ma Zhongning's secret letter and looked at it carefully, and immediately chuckled in his heart:

"It's broken, it's really careless!"

The king of Jin didn't notice the letter and hurriedly asked Fan Tao:

"Fan Xiang, why are you so alarmed?"

"My lord, did the princess say in her letter that Xianguo had found that there was a shortage of gold and silver?"

"Huh? Why, Ma Zhongning's letter is also about this. ”

"King Qiqi, at the beginning of this year, the taxes paid in various places have been transferred to the capital, and the gold and silver have been short of two catties, at that time it was not much only two percent, slightly more than the perennial years, the minister only thought that this year was a little more, so he did not take it to heart, but last month there was a batch of gold and silver, enough three percent of the gold and silver short catties are missing two and one money, the minister is ordering people to go to various places to investigate the matter, do not want Xianguo has been victimized."

Wang Li was also taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly said:

"If there is one penny less, the gold and silver accumulated in the treasury in previous years will be less than 20,000 gold and silver, and two coins will be 30,000 or 40,000."

"Exactly." Fan Tao was heartbroken, and hurriedly said: "It's only been spring now, and if it comes to this time next year, the loss will probably be even more." This is not counting Yin Yangjun's annual gold and silver that he loses to my Jin Kingdom, if they are all counted, the loss of fifty or sixty thousand at this time next year is considered less. ”

"It's okay, Fan Xiang, what did the people of Xianguo do." Wang Li asked.

"Bailiyan and the princess secretly discussed, pressed the full amount of gold and silver in the treasury, released the shortfall of gold and silver transactions, and at the same time raised the price of goods to avoid further losses."

Hearing that Bailiyan and Xihuan were conspiring, Wang Li said in disbelief:

"Bailiyan has always had bad intentions, how can she find Her Royal Highness the princess to discuss this matter secretly."

"What General Wang said is that Baili Yan has malicious intentions and has repeatedly trapped the widow and the Jin Kingdom in a dangerous situation, so how can he be credulous this time."

"This ......" Fan Tao hesitated, and after thinking quickly, he continued: "Great King, the minister thinks that if the Xianguo loses in this matter, it must be a huge loss, but my Jin Kingdom is in the same boat mountain, and it is difficult to be alone.

Bai Liyan proposed the method of leaving enough to give up the shortage, which is of great benefit to the Xian State and a small benefit to the Jin State of China, so he will make an exception and discuss this matter secretly with His Royal Highness Xihuan. Otherwise, if there is a disadvantage, not to mention that Yin Yangjun is a human spirit, Ji Jinsheng can also see through his treacherous scheme. ”