Chapter 247: Nothing Can't Be Sold
The Liao State has five capitals, but the emperor has no fixed residence, they use a way called "bowl", the so-called camp, camp and hunt in the vast land at any time, the Khitan nobles, the ministers of the court have to follow the emperor, deal with various government affairs.
It seems like a primitive way, but it is still very useful for maintaining a loose empire.
The grace of the Son of Heaven was able to spread all over the country, and the royal nobles of the Khitan maintained their martial spirit by participating in hunting.
Normally, in the winter, they move south, and in the summer, they move north.
Yelu Jingyue's big Zhou meeting was in winter, and it was reasonable for the two sides to meet south of Yingzhou to negotiate peace. With the end of the peace talks, the weather became warmer, and Yelu Jing led the Khitan nobles to embark on the return journey to the north.
As for the trade between the Great Zhou and the Khitan, it is still going on.
Originally, Ye Hua and the Khitan agreed that Da Zhou would export 500,000 guan to the Khitan, and the Khitan would sell 1 million guan to Da Zhou, but in fact, this amount was not enough to even plug the gaps!
The crazy Khitan losers soon purchased more than 1.5 million yuan of goods from Da Zhou, mainly silk, porcelain, and high-end tea.
There's one more output, and that's books!
That's right, it's the Analects, Mencius, the Book of Changes, and most of the Buddhist scriptures...... Wang Pu and Ye Hua promoted the reform of Confucianism and recompiled the teaching materials, which made it very popular.
But the Khitan people are obsessed with what was given up by the Great Zhou, especially the nobles in the upper class, everyone likes to make a few books to decorate the faΓ§ade, and when they speak, they also feel that they have come out of barbarism and become civilized.
If you want Ye Hua to say, the son of a robber is always a robber, even if the house is full of books, he can still smell the smell of scum!
But either way, these things can be very profitable, and that's a good thing.
With money, there's nothing in this world that can't be done.
It only took three months for Hantong to dredge 300 rivers, and the Yongji Canal was opened, and along the Yongji Canal, the fleet of the Great Zhou Dynasty was able to directly enter the Baigou River on the border of Zhou-Liao!
"Wait another two months, as long as the water level of the Baigou River rises during the flood season, our fleet will be able to swim upstream, cutting off the connection between Yingzhou Mozhou and Youzhou, and these two states will be in our pocket!"
Han Tong wiped the sweat from his face, and he was in a very good mood.
For three months, he carried goods, carried heavy sandbags, cleaned up the mud, and grinded thick calluses on his hands. A layer of blood bubbles burst, and before he could recover, he continued to move, and in a blink of an eye, the bubbles came out again, just like that, one layer pressed another, and the palm of his hand was thicker.
Han Tong shook his big slap as if showing off, and said with gritted teeth: "See, it's just this slap, invulnerable, turn around and kill the Khitan dog, it's even more energetic!" β
Ye Hua likes people who work hard, although he prefers to be opportunistic most of the time. It seems that many smart people are like this, others are always working, and they don't have to put too much effort into managing them...... From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with fooling the people, at least it can reduce the cost of governance.
The sentence "the people can make it, but they can't know it", there is really no need to dig out the mind to explain it in a broken sentence, the truth is so red fruit, and the sage thinks so, but you don't want to accept it......
"How is the city of Cangzhou and the Qianning Army, this is our base camp for Yanyun, we must not be sloppy!"
Hantong is a little embarrassed, Cangzhou is a saline-alkali land, the sea invasion is serious, coupled with the Khitan harassment from time to time, the people are displaced, the gap is very large, Hantong uses the limited manpower to dredge the river, as for the repair of the city, only half of the foundation has just been laid, and the progress of the project is limited.
"That's not going to work!"
Ye Hua immediately shook his head, "The progress of the city must be accelerated, and we must be ready to break out a war with the Khitan at any time!" β
Han Tong's body was shocked, "Master Hou, rest assured, even if I fight for more than 100 catties, I will repair the city and never delay the military affairs!" β
He was in a desperate posture, but Ye Hua was distressed, Han Tong knew him the earliest, and after several years, it seemed that he took the least care of this old friend, and let him play with his life, and he didn't want to go......
"Since there is a big shortage of people, let's recruit some people from the Central Plains." After Ye Hua finished speaking, he shook his head first, this method would not work.
Not to mention that the spring ploughing is approaching, the Central Plains is very busy, just by mobilizing the people to the north, the Khitan will be on guard immediately, and his abacus will fail.
Where do you get people?
Ye Hua was silent for a long time, and suddenly slapped his thigh.
"Haha, I have a way!"
Han Tong said curiously: "Master Hou, will the plan be released?" β
"I'm so stupid, why just think about selling things, and forget that there are people trading!"
Ye Hua didn't explain too much to Han Tong, but went to find the businessman, and after talking to them, he lent 20 people.
These 20 people received new titles and were appointed as "fair traders", and at the time of the Great Zhou and Khitan trades, they were responsible for verifying commodities and estimating prices.
For some obviously inferior and high-priced goods, a purchase warning is issued.
Therefore, the Khitan people saw such a scene, they were also Han people, and these fair traders actually helped the Khitan people to speak, and they were chased and beaten by the merchants of the Great Zhou, and their faces were covered with blood.
But even after being beaten, they still did not change their original intentions and insisted on making trouble for the merchants of the Great Zhou, and many of the fish that had been hooked were all stirred up by them.
"Your folding fans are from the Wa Kingdom, not made by the craftsmen of the Great Zhou Dynasty; These tea leaves are old tea, why should they be sold at the price of new tea; How dare you pass off as rhinoceros horn with scalper horn; Also, your porcelain is from a private kiln, and it is 108,000 miles away from the official kiln......"
Appointed by the Emperor to trade with the Great Zhou, Jerusha met these fair traders on the field and was so interested that he summoned one of them.
This person is not good-looking, but he speaks very reliably, and all the fakes he believes are successful!
"You're a Han!"
"That's right!"
"Why are you talking for Da Liao?"
"I didn't help Da Liao, I just helped the Han people themselves!"
Jerusha was puzzled, "Did you make trouble for them, or did you help them?" β
This person raised his head and said with a smile: "If you want to make the business last, you shouldn't be opportunistic, some people with bad intentions, shoddy, ruined the reputation of the Han businessmen, sooner or later there will be endless disasters, only genuine, fair and reasonable, in order to achieve a win-win situation!" β
"Suck!"
Yelusha looked at him seriously, and was overwhelmed with emotion, I really didn't expect that among the Han people, there are also honest people!
"You're right, in that case, you can be a guest of honor for this official, I'll give you a thousand a year, uh no, it's 10,000! How is it? β
This person shook his head decisively, "I am the people of Da Zhou, this time I am under the order of the champion Hou to maintain market transactions, if you follow the adult, won't you become a traitor, and you will be stinking for 10,000 years!" β
"Humph!" Jerusha slapped the dagger on the table, "What a traitor! I let you do it, and you still dare to be disobedient? β
This person smiled slightly, "Of course, adults can kill me, but if you want to come to your side, there are many sycophants around you, and when they speak, do you dare to believe it?" If the small ones are shameless, are the adults still willing to recruit the small ones? β
This is an interesting statement, soft and hard, so that Jerusha can't find fault! He groaned angrily, "Humph! Don't think you can hide, I still have a way, sooner or later let you do something for me! β
Yerusha's opportunity soon came, the trade between the two sides was tried for three months, and it needed to be changed to official operation, Yerusha found Ye Hua, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted a fair trader, and he wanted to hire a group of people to do things for him.
"This matter is very troublesome, you also know that the people of the Great Zhou are unwilling to do things for outsiders, if there is not enough reason, they are traitors, they are defecting to the enemy, they are poked in the backbone alive, and they cannot enter the ancestral grave after death!"
Yerusha has dealt with Ye Hua a few times, and knows that this guy has a lot of bellies, "Is it as smart as the champion Hou, and there is no way?" β
"Yes!"
Ye Hua replied very simply, "Now our commodity trade is doing very well, but the business is getting bigger and bigger, so we need to have all kinds of supporting facilities...... For example, the merchants of the Great Zhou need to hire Khitan porters, and the Khitan side needs our talents. Let's sign a people trade agreement. β
"A trade deal for people?"
"That's right, so that we can be above board, hire our own people, and have detailed rules in place to avoid misunderstandings."
Ye Hua said, took out a draft text contract, and threw it to Yelusha.
"Look at it!"
Well, this was premeditated!
Jerusha nodded secretly, he unfolded it and took a look, not to mention it, it was very detailed, and it looked fair and reasonable...... One of the things that made Yerusha most excited was that they could sell their laborers, and the money earned by their laborers in Da Zhou would be handed over to the Khitans. They have suffered too much loss in business, and it is also a good choice if they can rely on manpower to trade and earn back the losses.
Yelusha's mind was full of copper, and he agreed to Ye Hua's request without hesitation...... When the first batch of laborers from Liao was sent to the Cangzhou construction site.
Han Tong and Zhao Kuangyin are stupid, my God!
Could there be anything crazier?
Are the Khitans all fools?
You sent money to Da Zhou, and you gave it away, do you know that these projects are used to clean you up? Zhao Kuangyin finally believed that someone would indeed dig their own grave.
In front of Ye Hua, these Khitans are simply fools!
"They are not stupid, their families are full of money, they eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, they are dressed in silk and satin, and their lives are not too comfortable!" Ye Hua said with a smile.
"But they won't be comfortable for long, and when we are ready, their time of death will come!" Zhao Kuangyin said with confidence.
"That's right, this is the contradiction between interest groups and the country as a whole...... At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was still possible to work together, such as commanding the arm, but after a long time, the interests of each other were differentiated, and there was gradually a conflict, and even knew that it was a traitor, but for the sake of interests, it would be done! β
Ye Hua stretched his waist and picked up a bucket of cement.
"While we haven't fallen yet, let's get Yanyun back quickly! Otherwise, you will never get it back! β
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