Deng Yufu shook his head: "You said they would build a country?" How dare they build a country now that they are weak and in a mess? I am not afraid that the Khitans will destroy him---- hundred-legged insects will die without stiffness, although the Liao State is weak, the Khitans are still not easy to mess with. UC eBook () full text free to read! ”

"Then let them fight as soon as possible, and try to satisfy them with whatever the Jurchens want, especially weapons

Zhao Xing vaguely remembered that it seemed that at this time, the Jurchens obtained a group of Han fugitive slaves from the Liao State, so that they had weapon smelting technology, which made the Jurchens' force gradually rise, and what Zhao Xing wanted to do most now was to drown the Jurchens with a large number of products and destroy their own weak "national industry".

After the Jurchens possessed the smelting technology, they began to have the ability to compete with the Liao State, but they finally swept the Central Plains, not because of the support and connivance of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's weapons to support them were far from enough for them to fight two wars in a row.

It is said that before the war of aggression against China, every time Japan sold a rifle to China, it was equivalent to China helping Japan manufacture two rifles, one of which was sold to China...... Therefore, Zhao Xing planned to supply the Jurchens with enough weapons to start a war, so that the conflict between them and the Liao State would break out earlier.

At this time, although the Liao State was weak, it was still very strong, and the sooner the Jurchen tumor broke out, the easier it was for the battle to stalemate, so that the economies of both countries were completely disrupted.

"Also, since the Khitan people like to fight grass valleys, we should also sell weapons to the Hebei people. Strive to sell some long spears and short bows to the Hebei people, so that they can have the ability to protect their family property...... It's getting more and more interesting, the longer this big fight is entangled, the better it will be for Da Song, and of course, the better it will be for us. ”

After chatting about the affairs of Mizhou, a few people were idle, and Deng Yufu suddenly remembered something and smiled obscenely. said: "By the way, Liren, last year, the white ghost Sodi came again, and this time he brought a lot of tall Kunlun slaves. Good guy, there are a few Kunlun slaves who are like giants, and their arms are as thick as doorposts, I can't hold them with both hands, and the officials in Michigan have gone crazy, and he said that he left you a strong man. Four strong women, do you want to go and see it? ”

Deng Yufu's description, Zhao Xing knew. Sodi is selling real Zimbabwean slaves this time. And all of them are extremely high-quality.

"Okay, call him quickly, I happen to have something", Zhao Xing shouted anxiously......

"What about the ostrich, Steele, where is the ostrich I want", Zhao Xing saw Steele. Shout immediately.

Accompanying Steele was Gen Yeping. The latter threw a complaining look at Zhao Xing, and the former replied embarrassedly: "Sir." I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, for this time I've taken all the goods I've brought, and there are only four or five slaves left---- but, I assure, the rest are the best slaves.

As for ostriches, hehe, the domestication of ostriches is troublesome, we need to let them lay several generations of eggs, hatch. Only artificially hatched ostriches can be artificially bred when they have adapted to the domestic environment. Sir, I've already started this matter, I'm incubating you on my farm in Africa, and I need time. ”

Zhao Xing smiled very honestly: "The goods are all sold, ha, do you plan to go on an empty boat?" Or, have you already purchased all the goods in Michigan? ”

Steele broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly said, "Sir, I have left you the best slaves, and the best African gems...... You see, after I came to Michigan this time, everyone said that you were no longer here, so I put ......"

Zhao Xing cut off the other party and asked, "So, what can I offer you?" ”

"Silk, tea, ...... these things can be bought in Mizhou, sir, these things can also be bought in Guangzhou, and the price is about the same. And I've been to Michigan many times because I want to buy something special. Sir, I want to buy frosting, I want to join the frosting trade. If I can get this permission, sir, whatever you need, I can satisfy you. Steele replied graciously.

"I need machinery", Zhao Xing replied while thinking: "I have been to Europa, I also have my own fleet to Africa, just like you, I can get ordinary goods, but some equipment, it is really troublesome to travel by sea, so I need an agent to help me buy machinery---- such as machinery for the production of lathes, hydraulic stamping equipment, milling machines, boring machines, etc."

You can go to Hangzhou with me, and I will point you to the Hangzhou dock and personally guide you to the shore. In the future, I plan to trade with you there---- which is my family's own dock. If you can do what I need, I can give you what you need, and I can even bring the frosting to your land, and you just need to load the frosting onto your ship, load the goods you prepare onto my ship, and wait for the rest to count the bills. ”

"As you wish," Steele clapped his chest, "Your Lord, your will is my command, and I will fulfill all your requests...... Can we get started now? ”

"We're going now, but not to Hangzhou, but to Tamna Island," Zhao Xing replied with a smile: "I never put all my eggs in one basket, and that island is another basket for me to put my eggs." An Arab who started my own business was there to help me run the island, but now something went wrong and I needed to go over and solve the problem. ”

"Tamna ----!" Steele gasped and said, "Sir, that island is also your property...... I have to say: you are so rich! I've heard about that island, and I've heard that it's now a sea transit station, where goods from the four northern countries are transported to Goryeo, Wa, Ryukyu, and Song...... Sir, you need me to show up with you, what can I do to help you! ”

"You don't need to help me", Zhao Xing smiled proudly: "Recently, the power of Tamna Island has risen, and the Tamna Star Lord (king) is a little disobedient, so where did Goryeo transfer a few Goryeo nobles. Fortunately, because of my close relationship with the crown prince of Goryeo and my contribution to the Goryeo royal family, I was awarded the title of Dasa along with another Song merchant, Xue, and was allowed to build a castle on Tamna Island. Oh. The word Sa is pronounced in the same way as your duke's duke, but in Goryeo, it means "lord of the city." ”

"Congratulations", Steele hurriedly congratulated: "Sir, you have obtained a new territory." ”

Zhao Xing shook his head indifferently and said with a sneer: "The responsibility brought by this new territory is not small. Now, Tamna Island has officially been annexed to Goryeo and become Tamna County---- I don't know if this is because I have accelerated the pace of history. This Tamna Shin Taishou was a Goryeo prince named Wang Hong, who was named Namyang-kun. His palace promotion is my acquaintance Park In-kwang. His daughter is five years old, ten years later. I had to marry his daughter and serve as a servant. ”

Steele frowned and said with emotion: "Sir, although the temptation of a city is great. But it is not worth it to abandon marriage and family, no matter what the cost. ”

Zhao Xing continued to smile and replied casually: "Steele, it's not worth abandoning family and marriage for the sake of a fiefdom of a city. But you don't understand the relationship between Goryeo and our country. We Song people don't need to abandon our wives when we marry Goryeo wives, and we don't even need to bring Goryeo wives home. In other words: she is just a symbol of existence. ”

"Then, you are doing it unjust to the Korean woman." Steele said solemnly.

"Okay, okay. Ten years later, even if we think of a way to do it in the future--- I asked you to go with me to Tamna because I planned to use that city as my overseas production base and store some of the most important equipment. You can't find me in Hangzhou in the future, but come to Tamna Island, and I'll leave a liaison in that city......"

"What?" Steele exclaimed, "Isn't Hangzhou your home?" Why are you not at home? ”

"I'm an official", Zhao Xing looked helpless with "convinced you": "You don't understand our system." Few of our officers serve in their hometowns. There was always a time when I was transferred somewhere else, then. Tamna Island is our overseas base ......"

"Sir, I have to admire your planning skills, but I always feel a little unstable, this feeling is from you, you are very uneasy, why? Why are you always building overseas hiding places---- is the word, I land is a hiding place. Steele asked curiously.

"This ......" Zhao Xing's eyes rolled: "Let's take anchor, we have a long sailing time, I'll explain to you slowly!" ”

Zhao Xing went to sea this time, and it took more than a month. Fortunately, this is winter, and there are not many things in the yamen in winter, nothing more than the distribution of money and food in the snow. Zhao Xing's students took all the work, and even when he was not there, Hangzhou's official business did not stop. A month later, in mid-December, he rushed back, Su Shi did not feel that there was anything unchanged during this time---- he didn't ask too much about the work in Hangzhou, most of the time, he just put forward an idea, and the specific work did not have to worry about at all, so Zhao Xing was not there, he thought that the other party was going out to inspect the counties.

Zhao Xing brought back a tall Kunlun slave who looked like a door god, and two black slave girls of his height, and a white man who stayed at Zhao Xing's house for two days before leaving the port with his ship...... Well, at this time, in fact, the Hangzhou government has no intention of working, and they are all preparing for the Winter Solstice Festival and the New Year.

When Zhao Xing was away, Gao Yu took over his work completely, and all the small cases that could be handled were dealt with, leaving only a few big cases, Zhao Xing spent two or three days to deal with them, and he was idle again, and he stayed in the castle all day long, teasing his children. After another snowfall, Su Shi rushed to visit with Qian Xian, and when he saw that Qian Xian was still there, he was very puzzled: "Lord Qian, haven't you taken office yet?" ”

Qian Xian shook his head and replied: "Yuezhou is not far from here, I have sent a post to inform them that I have arrived in Hangzhou, and I plan to take office after the New Year. ”

Zhao Xing waved his hand again and again: "Lord Qian, don't dare to say nonsense, I didn't participate in sea trade, and our family did not participate in sea trade. ”

Qian Xian nodded as a matter of course: "Of course, of course you didn't participate, but did your family participate." It's hard to say. When I was in the capital, I heard a rumor, it was rumored that someone had impeached you, but the Queen Mother suppressed it, and if the Queen Mother didn't say it, the officials wouldn't say it, do you understand? ”

After Zhao Xing participated in the imperial examination, he had nominally withdrawn from the sea trade, initially managed by Chen Yiyi, and finally let the Israelis take over.

The Song Dynasty did not yet have the concept of professional managers. Seeing that Zhao Xing handed over all the property to the Israelis to take care of, those people were not good at attacking at will, and the previous attack was because of Chen Yiyi's special identity. was ambiguously ignored by the court, and later, because of the news that Zhao Xing sent to Princess Lezhi, the palace used him as a communication bridge with Princess Lezhi, who was married far away, and suppressed all impeachments.

Originally, Yushi was ready to make waves in this matter, but the name Princess Lezhi was a taboo. After a well-wisher reminded the imperial history, the imperial historians also chose collective aphasia......

However, Zhao Xing was reluctant to give people a handle. Although everyone knows it. But in front of people, he always pretends that he is innocent in the affairs of maritime trade, and he is as innocent as a washed green onion.

After Qian Xian's hint at Zhao Xing, seeing Zhao Xing's confession, he smiled, pointed to the pages of the book that Zhao Xing turned in his hand, and asked curiously: "Is this a feudal book?" I don't think the words on it are Middle-earth? ”

Zhao Xingyang raised the pages in his hand. Answer: "A few days ago, a feudal merchant came to my house, and he was the local feudal merchant who told Fan Jinbu the story of the three ladies of Banqiao in Banqiao. He had come to trade slaves, and he had left a few items for me in Michigan, and he had sent me a few books by the way. This is one of them, and the book is called: "A Day in the Castle". ”

Su Shi sighed, pointed out the window and asked, "The stout man you brought back is the Kunlun slave he sold?" It's so majestic, and the black ground is scary. ”

Qian Xian had never seen the black slaves that Su Shi said, so he urged curiously: "Call up, call up, I heard that Hedong and Guangnan both like to buy Kunlun slaves, but I rarely see such people, call up." ”

When the two black slaves, a man and two women, were brought to the ground, Qian Xian hissed, frequently pumped cold air, and hurriedly signaled Zhao Xing to take the black slave down with his eyes, and when the black slave retreated, he looked at the backs of the two black slaves, and asked worriedly while inhaling the cold air: "What a vicious man, leave people, this arm is as thick as a ladyboy, you are not afraid that he will have a seizure...... Such a man, once he has an attack, I am afraid that thirty or fifty people will not be able to control it. ”

Zhao Xing smiled slightly, he didn't want to explain to Qian Xian, one of the benefits that passing through the time and space tunnel brought him was that his strength became extraordinarily large, although the black slave was very stout, more than two meters long, and the whole image was like a Holyfield, but simply competing for strength, that black man was not his opponent.

"Sodi sells black slaves for more than a year or two, he has his own set of methods for training people", Zhao Xing explained lightly: "It is said that the captured black slaves must first starve for three or five days, only give a bowl of water every day, and wait until he is tamed before being sent to the ship."

During the whole process of trafficking, those black slaves must be allowed to go to the deck from time to time to breathe, so that they know that the sea is vast, there is nowhere to escape, and they know that if they go, they will not be able to return to their homeland. Man is a social animal, after a set of means, and then send those black slaves to a completely strange place, they will have a kind of loneliness, want to find a support, at this time, whoever gives them food is their master, they will be faithful, until death. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Xing smiled lightly, pointed to the backs of the three black slaves, and said: "These three big guys have a lot of food, and when they are familiar with the environment, they will know that they have such a large amount of food, ordinary people can't afford to raise it, so they can only be loyal to me." ”

Qian Xian shook his head and said, "I heard the name of Kunlun Nu just now, and I wanted to ask you for one, but this big man, I'm afraid I can't raise it, it's just that!" …… By the way, what do you have in your hand, "A Day in the Castle"? These foreign characters are crooked, like ghost paintings, can you understand them? ”

Zhao Xing handed a few pieces of paper to Qian Xian, and explained with a smile: "This is a book written by an island man named Yingjili, and I just happened to learn the language of this country for a few days. It records a recipe ---- an English way of making soy sauce: first a plant from the castle garden ----which I can't translate---- ground, then wine, verjuce (the juice of an unripe grape), vinegar, onion, ginger, pepper, saffron, cloves and cinnamon......

I was still wondering what this soy sauce tastes like, mixed with so many ingredients, can it still be called soy sauce? ”

Qian Xun looked down at the words in his hand. It was written in flower script, that is, in Gothic script, and he didn't know any of the words in it, and there were many plants in Zhao Xing's words that he had never heard of. However, when he heard that there were green onions, ginger and pepper in it, he didn't even have any interest in tasting it, he shook his head and sighed and said, "It seems that those feudal ghosts are not fond of food---- what does it taste like to add green onions and ginger to vinegar and a bunch of messy things?" ”

Su Shi curiously took the pieces of paper and studied them. Then he asked, "With so many ghost drawings, you just memorized a recipe?" ”

"Not only that---- but there are also some fish, and it is said that the Earl's favorite food is fish, herring, sole, flounder, flounder, harrier, mackerel, salmon, and trout. Sturgeon, whales and dolphins are the king's and queen's favourites, with the first two being the exclusive use of the royal family. Only kings and queens are fit to eat. The people were only allowed to eat pike, crabs, dragons, oysters and eels.

There is also a local government proclamation, a royal decree issued by the county magistrate, which states that since the king and queen have no appetite for other fish after eating the eight-eyed eel, the magistrate shall obtain as many eight-eyed eels as possible in his jurisdiction, either by purchase or by other means, and put them in bread or make jelly gum.

When the king was not in these places, give the fish to the king's cook, John of Sutton. The king will send him to the land. When the king was in a nearby place, the local governor should bring fresh fish. ”

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he pointed to the pieces of paper. "It's interesting," he said. Isn't it? ”

Su Dongpo was very interested in this matter, because he was also a person who liked to study market life, and had written a lot of poems to show the life of the Song Dynasty, but Qian Xian couldn't understand it, his eyes widened, and he questioned: "You said that the maritime merchant came all the way, in addition to bringing you three Kunlun slaves." I'll bring you this book. What's the point? ”

"Life, don't you notice the breath of life in it? At least. After reading this book, I learned how the people outside the Great Song Dynasty lived, and how interesting it was. Zhao Xing replied slowly.

Qian Xian still couldn't understand, he shook his head and sighed frequently, in his mind, it was really not worth spending so much effort to make these useless pieces of paper. However, he did not expect that the Song Dynasty left countless books, and the books that later generations were most interested in were those books that described the market customs and life of the Song Dynasty. Reading these books, the breath of the times rushes in.

"That's all?" Qian Xun continued to ask.

"And", Zhao Xing touched his chin, recalled the manifest, and replied slowly.

Sodi sailed from Zimbabwe this time, in addition to bringing some slaves, he also brought a large number of Zimbabwean emeralds, these emeralds could not be sold for much price in Michigan, only Zhao Xing knew the goods, he bought all these emeralds, but due to the rush of time, only had time to process a few rings.

Qian Xian's eyes flashed, and he replied: "Emerald, I haven't seen this thing for a long time." Leave people, take it out and see. ”

Zhao Xing didn't expect that Qian Xian, a descendant of Qian Wangdi, was very knowledgeable, so he immediately ordered: "Yiyi, take out the gem box and show it to Lord Qian." ”

As soon as Qian Xian saw the emerald, he directly called out its original name: "Cat's eye, this is the legendary mother to help the cat's eye, legend has it that this gem is polished into several sides, there will be a green line, at noon, the green line becomes extremely thin, and at night it becomes very thick, like a tiger's eye...... How much is this worth? ”

ps: The time when Song Shang Jinan Xue and Zhejiang Zhang were named Dasa is slightly earlier or slightly later than the time mentioned in this book, I hope readers don't care about the omissions here...... Oh, you can think that this is the butterfly effect--- this book does not mention Zhang, and Zhao Xing replaces it.

In 938 A.D., Tamnafu belonged to Goryeo. In 1105, Goryeo established Tamna County in the local area, and when Tamna was returned to Goryeo, he canonized 14 "Dasa", which is actually equivalent to a village-level unit, and the so-called "city lord" is actually the village chief.

Tiao, Zhizheng, and Naokchang are all the names of the governors of Naigenji Temple in Goryeo. He is in charge of the palace's palaces and the ministers of the second rank and above in the court, such as food, wine, and oil. He was also responsible for the weaving and grain trade between Japan and the Jurchens, and was subordinate to the Yamen.

Servant: The name of the military attache of Goryeo, who was idle and subordinate to the prince Yiwei, and later served as a military attache to protect the safety of the king and the prince.

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