In the city of Pyongyang, a rumor spread around the people at lightning speed, and the Tang Dynasty cut off all the trade routes of Goguryeo, and could no longer buy anything from the Datang Dynasty.

This rumor makes those ignorant people feel that it is a fantasy, what is the trade route? That is the lifeblood of trade between the south and the north, and there are trade routes when people come and go, how to cut them off?

Besides, even if the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo belong to the enemy country, it is impossible to move the merchant class in the world, as the so-called bustle in the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, Datang can control officials and businessmen, how can it control people and commerce? If it were coercive means, I am afraid that Datang would have been in chaos a long time ago.

However, they could never have imagined that in Datang, not only the government represented by the emperor could influence businessmen, but also the existence of the head of the Tang Dynasty businessmen, Lantian Hou Baifan, who held the Bai's Chamber of Commerce, the first chamber of commerce in the world, and several sub-chambers of commerce: Beggar Gang Chamber of Commerce, Zhongnan Chamber of Commerce, United Chamber of Commerce, etc., it can be said that Bai Fan alone represents half of the sky in the Datang business community.

As long as Bai Fan said a word, businessmen need to cooperate with the plan to destroy the country, no one in the world dares to show their heads against the wind, even if they are a little desperate to smuggle, I am afraid that within one day, they will be captured by the intelligence network of the beggar gang, it can be said that in this regard, Bai Fan has more energy than the emperor.

Even those family firms with a thousand-year-old inheritance have to look at Bai Fan's eyes, who dares to be disobedient, and soon the Bai Chamber of Commerce will ban the business of these people, no way, the Bai Chamber of Commerce has this strength, not the financial strength, but the strength to produce and sell high-quality products in any industry.

Returning to the city of Pyongyang in Goguryeo, unlike many unresponsive people, many shrewd people have realized that something is wrong, especially the shops in the city, many of which were closed when rumors arose.

This is the sensitivity of businessmen, even if these people are only retailers at the bottom level, they can't get in touch with the upper trading houses of Datang trade, and they also know that there is no wind, if it is really Datang out of stock, then the goods in their hands can no longer be sold, some people think that strange goods can be lived, hoarding will become rare things, some look further long-term, if it is really permanently out of stock, I am afraid it will be a catastrophic storm.

And in the Goguryeo palace, many of the original big families of Goguryeo have come to the door, without him, foreign trade is the channel for these families to collect money, and now the channel is blocked by the government, then it should be solved by the government, even if it is unilateral by the Tang Dynasty, it should also be solved by Goguryeo envoys.

Yuangai Suwen said in his heart, if it can really be solved by diplomatic reprimand, then there will be no such things at all, this time it is obviously the Tang Dynasty that is menacing, and it is going to kill my Goguryeo, a group of vampires of the people, I didn't see where I did when I needed you to contribute money and efforts to the country, and now I can't earn money and think of the imperial court.

Goguryeo, whose heart is like a mirror, has a long-term vision than everyone else, this time the Tang Dynasty is going to make a dead move, even if it is to send diplomats, it will not help, but these families don't know, so taking advantage of the time difference in this news, they can take out some practical benefits from their arms.

"Datang bullied me like this, I absolutely can't bear it.

However, now that the court is worried about internal and external troubles, the border soldiers are still fighting hard to resist the enemy, and the ministers of the court and the central government are busy day and night, if this matter is to be done, are you also considering making a contribution to defending the country? ”

Yuangai Suwen bluntly wants benefits.

These people have been in business for many years, of course, they are extremely shrewd, if they want the horses to run, they have to give them grass, and the sooner they get through the business checkpoints, everyone will earn money sooner, there is nothing wrong.

"My Golden Grain Chamber of Commerce will send thousands of stones of food to comfort the front-line soldiers." An old man spoke first, this is the person in charge of the largest chamber of commerce in all of Goguryeo.

"Our Jinchou Chamber of Commerce will pay 5,000 yuan."

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One by one, the businessmen have spoken, some people have paid money, some people have paid grain, of course, there is still a lot of money, one is that everyone does not have much food in hand, and the other is that many shrewd people understand that it is now a troubled time, food is hard currency, and money is somewhat useless.

As for whether these people have worried about front-line wars or anything like that, what are you kidding? At that time, the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains raised two million troops three times to attack, and they didn't return in the same way? The Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo with 200,000? Ghosts don't believe it, which is why many people give money happily.

But five days later, bad news came from the border pass, all the diplomats sent to the Tang Dynasty were detained as prisoners, and there was not even a report back, and Li Jing, the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty's expedition to the east, personally told the city guards of Anshi that the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo belonged to enemy countries and would never trade, and not a single item of goods was allowed to flow into Goguryeo, as for the diplomats? Take the money to redeem it to avenge the last time I killed the Tang envoys.

It's just that Li Jingkai's price is a bit high, and he is about to be able to buy a city in Goguryeo, so it is impossible for Yuangai Suwen to agree.

Soon the news spread to the country through the defenders of Anshi City, so the previous rumors were officially confirmed, and the people were completely confused.

Yuan Gai Suwen was furious, the Tang Dynasty was despicable, and the detain of the envoys was nothing more than to prevent us from covering up the news, and at the same time conspiring to cause panic among the people in the country through the mouths of the border soldiers, which was a vicious strategy.

The people had to panic, if the Tang Dynasty cut off the trade route, not to say anything about clothes and cloth, just say grain, food is definitely not enough to eat, in previous years, Goguryeo's own grain production can be said to be not enough to make ends meet for a year, many of them are sold by Datang's grain merchants at high prices.

As for saying that Tang merchants bought and sold grain to Goguryeo, whether this kind of behavior was treason or not, it was obviously not in the Tang Dynasty, even in the former Sui Dynasty.

The grain in the hands of the people, except for the grain tax that must be paid to the imperial court every year, the rest is the surplus grain at home, and some people have more acres of land and sufficient grain production, so they will naturally not let the hoarded grain rot in the warehouse, and will sell it to the officials and merchants of the imperial court, or sell it to the private merchants to collect grain.

In this way, some of the grain in the hands of these merchants is sold to the people who have no land in the city, and more is sold to foreign countries to export grain, which is a huge profit, and most of the time, the officials and merchants under the jurisdiction of the imperial court will also be pushed to do this business, which can stimulate the economy and accumulate wealth faster.

And this time, Datang cut off the trade route, that is, cut off the grain road, on the day the grain shop in the city closed, even an ordinary person knew that it was not good, and the surplus food at home was not enough to survive the winter, and then there would be a famine.

That's right, not only Pyongyang City, but also other cities in Goguryeo are like this, the people are okay, most of the people are the rations left by farming, but seeing that the autumn harvest was taken away by the government fifty percent, now the food can be described as tight, if you don't count it, I'm afraid that people will starve to death this winter.