Chapter 422: A Country as Powerful as the Tang Dynasty
Luoyang, the return journey of the Feng Chan army is naturally going to stay here for two days, Qin Hao has an industry here, and it is not small, so naturally he will not go with them to the palace to squeeze.
This night, everyone who came to offer condolences was about to line up, as if the demon sect demon was not an assassination attempt, but was about to hang up.
Finally, the people who visited him in the future answered correctly one by one, and Qin Hao could finally have a meal with his life-saving benefactor quietly.
As soon as I chatted, Qin Hao learned that this person's name was Mo Yu, who had been mixed in Honglu Temple for more than ten years, and he had not even been an official so far, and he was still a small official, relatively speaking, he belonged to the kind of identity that was not very on the stage.
During the banquet, Mo Yu was very nervous, and his hand holding the chopsticks was trembling slightly, and he didn't know if it was because he was nervous or excited.
Generally speaking, the difference in status between the two is so big that Qin Hao doesn't need to care too much about him, in terms of his identity, just opening his mouth to help say a few words is enough to make his life go up a few steps, and even if he repays the grace of saving his life, but Qin Hao doesn't think so, this thing doesn't have too many class ideas in his head, and he is extremely afraid of death, he is polite to this little official, and the polite people are flattered and can't accept it.
"Brother Mo."
"Don't dare, don't dare, if you raise your love, just call Lao Mo."
"That's not good, I'm talking to you about personal friendship now, but I'm not talking to you about justice, you saved my life, you are older than me, how can you not be a brother."
Saying that, Qin Hao also personally gave him a Dongpo elbow that he 'invented', and after being a leader for so long, he still knows how to buy people's hearts, not to mention that he was also sincere.
When Mo Yu's mood finally stabilized, Qin Hao smiled and said, "Brother Mo, do you have any plans for scientific research in the future?" ”
Mo Yu shook his head lonely and said: "No, I am already thirty and six this year, and I have no foundation, if I really start from scratch, I am afraid that I will not be able to learn anything in ten or eight years, this heart of an official, I am already dead." ”
Qin Hao nodded when he heard this, and said, "That's what I mean, if you want to be an official, I can also arrange it, but at most it is eight grades and nine grades, even if you are willing to go to Liaodong, at most it will be around the seventh grade, and I am afraid that it will be hopeless to be promoted in the future." ”
"Yes. I was born without that rich life, if I had been born twenty years earlier, I would have asked my grandfather to reward me with an official and a half position, but now, I don't want to, grandfather, you might as well reward me with a little gold and silver. ”
"Hehe, you are also direct, I want to arrange for you to join the Green Gang, you see how it is, although the Green Gang has now been completely absorbed by the imperial court, but I think it is not difficult to insert someone in, but the Green Gang belongs to the military after all, if you can't go into battle to kill the enemy, your career is actually limited, but you can still make some money."
"Grandpa Xie arranged, I will listen to you."
"Okay, I heard Ying Guogong say that the Sky Rats have been active in the area of Xining City recently, and it seems that they are planning to insert a foot on the land route in addition to the waterway, it just so happens that you know Persian, I will write you a recommendation, and let him arrange for you to be responsible for the business communication and exchange of this part of Persia, if you behave well, it is not a big problem to be promoted to a hall master in two years, but you have to go to Xining, I don't know if you are willing."
Mo Yu was overjoyed after hearing this, after the Qing Gang went through the system, the current hall master is a real school captain, and who doesn't know that the Qing Gang has the most fat oil and water, a hall master may not have much power, but the money earned is by no means less than that of an ordinary general.
"I am willing, I am willing, thank you grandpa for arranging, thank you grandpa for arranging."
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After sending Mo Yu away, Li Xin said worriedly: "You want to support the trade between Persia and the Tang Dynasty?" ”
Qin Hao smiled and said: "The prince of Persia came with auspiciousness when he was enshrined in Zen, and it is rumored that it is all spread today, and the sage also ordered me to take full authority to deal with this business, and take this matter as the top priority, I care about the business of Persia, it is normal." ”
Li Xin said: "The old lady is not a lady who does not go out of the door, you don't use this to prevaricate me, how much trade can auspicious seeds support, even if you exchange gold for a few taels of gold, the Persian prince wants to replace the Sogdians to become the largest trade transit country in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, this is not a secret, I know that he saved your life and you are very grateful to him, but the more this is the case, the more you can't leave a handle!" Aren't you afraid that the royal history will tell you? ”
Qin Hao smiled and hugged Li Xin and said: "I do have the idea of supporting Persia through trade, but I am not using it for public and private purposes, and this idea is not a day or two, even if I don't know this Persian prince, I will do this with this auspicious opportunity, we must have more substantive strategic relations with them, and even send troops if necessary." ”
Li Xin was puzzled: "Why is this? I heard that Persia is in the extreme west, far away from the Tang Dynasty, if the two countries do not ride fast horses, it will take half a year from them to Chang'an, for such a barbarian country, what is the use of the Tang Dynasty? ”
Qin Hao said with a smile: "You only know one thing but don't know the other, although the Persian country is far away, they have a perennial shortage of water there, a large area is desert, and the ground is full of a black oil, so that more than seventy percent of the citizens of their country are merchants, and they are warriors when they pick up scimitars, and their most elite camel cavalry is not even much worse than our Xuanjia cavalry, so such a trading partner, the energy is actually far greater than that of the Sogdians, after all, the Sogdians are too few, and they can't do business too far, especially in the extreme west." Even if they were sold to the Sogdians, the Sogdians would sell them to the Persians, so why should they be allowed to draw a layer of skin from them? This is only economic, and what is more important in Persia is actually strategic. ”
"Strategy? What strategy can Datang have with them? ”
"Hehe, it's true that Datang is very powerful, but you must know that Datang is not the only powerful country in the world, in the extreme west, there is a country called Da Shi, I don't judge who is stronger in this Da Shi or Da Tang, I don't think I'm going to be a cow, I don't really have a fight, God knows who is the real god."
Li Xin obviously heard of this country for the first time, and couldn't help but be surprised: "There is still a country as powerful as Datang in the world?" Oh, my God. ”
"Economically, it should be inferior to ours, but militarily it's really not easy to say, but now the expansion of Datang's power on land is already obvious, to the south, all are mountainous plateaus, it must be dominated by maritime trade, and to the north, it is all ice and snow, and the land forces can only develop to the west, and the situation of Dashi is actually similar to our Datang, they are now only a group of barbarians left in the west, and the focus is also on the east, let's go west, they go east, it won't take many years, we should meet."
"Are you saying that there will be a battle between Datang and this big food? But what does this have to do with Persia? ”
"For I wish to place the battle in Persia."