Zhou Qing and the others went to Liaodong for the first time this year, and the three boats arrived at the Lion's Mouth, which was later known as Port Arthur. For safety, Zhou Qingrang parked the three boats at the waterway into the harbor, so that they could enter the harbor or retreat at any time, and they could also go to the peninsula known as Tiger Tail to rest at night.

There are ancient trees everywhere around the harbor, and if you go ashore and cut some and drag them back, you can sell them for a lot of money, but Zhou Qing has to be careful before he knows exactly what is going on here, because last year the exchange of wood gave the locals a lot of linen, silk, porcelain, iron pots, and spices, which are likely to attract the Liao government.

Before humans mastered the art of navigation, coastal areas were always desolate. Suzhou in the Liao Kingdom is surrounded by the sea on three sides and is full of dense forests, which is also a place where rabbits don't poop. Judging from what we learned last year, the Bohai tribe living here mainly lives by fishing and hunting, and also grows some crops that are not in the boat. The Bohai people can only build some small boats to catch some small fish near the coast, and they can't go to the far sea at all.

Li Buqi said that the appearance of the goods of the Great Song Dynasty in Suzhou of the Liao State must be very eye-catching and cannot be hidden. The city of Suzhou in the Liao Kingdom is a hundred miles away from the lion's mouth, and as long as the Liao people find the items of the Great Song Dynasty, they will definitely track it down.

As for the news, it was not a matter of effort, and as soon as their boat entered the bay, a Bohai man who was fishing on the shore rowed his boat. A clever boy in the fleet poked his head out, gestured and asked about the local situation in the local language he had just learned last year, and it took a long time to turn around and say to Zhou Qing: "Chief, that man seems to have said that the government came to collect taxes last year, saw their linen and silk, and interrogated the source. But the government did not embarrass them. ”

Zhou Qing asked: "Let me ask if there are people from the Liao State Government here now?" ”

After another round of comparisons, the locals replied with certainty that there was no one from the government. Zhou Qing was a little puzzled by this. When the Liao government learned that the Song people had landed here, how could it have no reaction?

However, the Bohai people on the fishing boat have already said in a hurry that in the winter they have cut down a lot of trees and piled them up on the seashore, so that they can trade immediately. This matter is easy to understand, but the Bohai people made another comparison later, and it took a long time to guess before they realized that their leader was waiting for the arrival of the Song people, and there was something to discuss. He asked if he could go with him to meet their leader.

Zhou Qing then asked the fishermen to summon a message and meet with the leader of the Bohai people at the place where the timber was piled up. So Zhou Qing got into a small boat, and was led by the Bohai people to walk a few miles into the bay, and saw that the beach at the foot of the mountain was full of big trees, there were 200 trees. It can be seen that the local tribe is really not idle in winter.

Leaving Zhou Qing and them to look at the goods, the Bohai fishermen rowed the boat and hurriedly went ashore to find the leader, just one thought: The God of Wealth is here, don't delay.

When the leader of the Bohai people came to make a gesture, Zhou Qing frowned. The meaning of the head man seems to be that the people of the government want to meet the merchants from the Great Song Dynasty.

To be honest, Zhou Qing was ready to go to war this time. If the Liao government found out about their whereabouts and took action, Zhou Qing would not mind confronting the Liao government head-on. Anyway, as long as you can cut down the tree and drag it back, it will be a huge profit, enough to attract more displaced people to join the ranks of the invasion of Liao, so in the face of the huge profit temptation, it is really not a problem to kill a few people.

What's more, Li Daguan said that the Liao people are abused goods when they go to the sea, and the Han family's sons can fight guerrilla at the seaside like the Liao people go to Hebei and Hedong to plunder the grass valleys, and they will make sure that they will not lose money. Suzhou is also a remote area, and it is difficult for the Liao people to mobilize a large number of troops. When there are many Liao people, they retreat to the sea, and when there are few Liao people, they go ashore to cut wood, and after a long time, the Liao people have nothing to do. So the victory in the war must have belonged to the Han family.

But it would be best to put the violence off as much as possible and get as much money as possible to grow yourself. Therefore, Zhou Qing only thought about it for a moment and agreed to meet with the Liao officials at the same time as the transaction.

With last year's experience, the Bohai people had already cut down the branches of the big trees, and now after negotiating the price, they just pushed the wood into the sea and helped the Song people tie it into a raft with brown ropes, while the Song people removed cloth, silk, iron pots, spices and porcelain from the boats, and the two sides counted the transaction and the transaction was completed, it was as simple as that.

This time, the Bohai people also learned to be smart, and took out the excess fur, as well as cow tendons, horns, cowhides, and horsetails. What the? Want to buy a bow? There aren't many ready-made things for this stuff, but we can make more if you want it, or we can buy it from other tribes for you.

As for the decree of the Liao State not to sell these things to the Song people without permission, I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it. Suzhou is not close to the Song-Liao border, and no Song people have appeared before, and the officials of the Liao State never thought of enforcing this decree in this place.

Zhou Qing saw that there was a loophole to exploit, and asked if their horses could be sold, and the answer was of course yes. So regardless of the future, Zhou Qing took out forty silks and asked Maibuku, the leader of the Bohai people, to help him buy three horses, and Maibuku readily agreed.

When the big trees had been tied up and dragged behind the boat, the officials from Suzhou, Liao State, arrived. Since Zhou Qing was stationed on the tiger's tail in the sea, Maibuku sent a fishing boat to call Zhou Qing. Zhou Qing took more than a dozen sailors with strong martial arts, all of them poked Pu knives and spears, and carried bows and arrows to the camp of the Maibuku tribe in a small boat.

When he came to Maibuku's wooden house, Zhou Qing vigilantly glanced around the wooden house, only to see four Khitan soldiers with bows and knives on their backs, but no armor, standing at the door of the wooden house very casually. He looked at the more than twenty military horses next to the wooden house, couldn't help frowning, and asked the people who followed him to stay outside and be on guard before entering the wooden house.

Behind the fire pit directly in front of the house, Maibuku respectfully spoke to a fat man covered in silk and satin. Although there was a flattering smile on Maibuku's face, the smile was obviously distorted, which made people feel uncomfortable when they saw it.

When Maibuku saw Zhou Qing coming in, he immediately wanted to introduce the fat man, but the fat man had already raised his head and asked in the official dialect of Liao with a fierce face: "Song people, where are you from?" ”

Zhou Qing learned some Liao official dialect when he was smuggling between Cangzhou and Song Liao, and he could not only understand it, but also speak some of it, so he replied without waiting for the people around the fat man to translate: "I'm from the island of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

The fat man was surprised that Zhou Qing would speak the official dialect of the Liao State, and asked, "Who are you, why do you speak our Khitan official dialect?" ”

Zhou Qing said: "In the past, I used to go to Luanzhou, Runzhou and Qianzhou to trade, so I learned a little. ”

What Zhou Qing never expected was that the frost on the fat man's face melted all of a sudden, and even turned into a sunny day. He smiled and said, "It's a businessman." Very good. I am the chief bookkeeper of the Suzhou Thorn Shi Yelu Negu, Loro. Since you often go to Luanzhou, Runzhou and other places, you should know the rules, right? ”

Zhou Qing's eyes also lit up. This guy wants to make a deal with himself, and he has to get it.