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With the permission of the Son of Heaven, Wei Shuo took the Jiangdong Navy warship against the river and officially embarked on the road back.

In addition to the original entourage, Liu Muzhi, Huan Zhen, Gao Jinzhi, Tan Daoji, Xue Tong, Kuai En, Tao Qian, Sima Xiuzhi, etc., including Wang Shenai, also accompanied him.

Because everyone was homesick and wanted to return to Hexi as soon as possible, they didn't plan to stop halfway.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the fleet arrived in Gangneung, it was intercepted by a fleet of sailors.

A large Huan character on the flagpole indicates the identity of the fleet.

"Dadu Hu, Xuan has been waiting here for a long time, dare to ask for a meeting."

"Who is my Dao, who dared to openly intercept the imperial court sailors on the river, it turned out to be the Duke of Nanjun."

At that moment, Wei Shuo took Kang Long, Kuai En, and Liu Muzhi to take a small boat to the building boat where Huan Xuan was.

The building ship is ten zhang high and can carry about 1,000 people.

There are three levels of superstructure, each of which has cabins, women's walls, battle grids, and other facilities for soldiers to fight and hide.

In front of the tall building boat like a mountain, the boat Wei Shuo was riding in was as small as an ant.

"I take the liberty to disturb, and I hope Naoyuan will forgive me."

"Hahaha, Nanjun Gong is polite."

After the greetings, while walking side by side, Wei Shuo lowered his voice and asked in Huan Xuan's ear: "Brother Jingdao, are you blatantly mobilizing the sailor warship for private use, aren't you afraid of being condemned by the imperial court?" ”

"Huh? This is Huan's private boat, I can use it how I want, and it's about the court birds?! ”

"Wow!"

Looking at the domineering Huan Xuan, Wei Shuo was shocked, the Huan family deserved to be an old family, and the wealth was strong.

The group stepped into the lavishly decorated cabins and sat down as guests.

Huan Xuan sat on the main seat and entertained Wei Shuo very warmly.

Looking at the overly enthusiastic Huan Xuan, for some reason, Wei Shuo always felt that the other party had 'bad intentions'.

As soon as he came up, Huan Xuan pretended to be ignorant and asked, "I heard that there is a trading company in the gauntlet of Dadu?" Specializing in foreign trade? ”

Since he couldn't guess Huan Xuan's true intentions for a while, Wei Shuo could only respond vaguely: "Yes, exactly!" ”

This trading company was founded by Wei Shuo when he was in Gaochang.

After several years of development, it is now one of the few major trading companies in the world.

There are a wide variety of commodities, including cement, glass, salt, roasted tea, grain, porcelain, ironware, textiles, etc., with 100 large and small shopkeepers and thousands of employees.

Such a grand scale, not to mention in ancient times, is also very considerable in modern times.

Since the forces in the northwest knew that the trading company had the backing of Hexi behind it, and they also had to obtain urgently needed materials from the trading company, no one dared to offend the trading company easily.

Some information about the trading company flashed in his mind, and Huan Xuan's heart was hot, and his gaze towards Wei Shuo became more and more urgent.

Today, he specially intercepted Wei Shuo on the river, and he had his own intentions.

Since he met Wei Shuo at the beginning, he immediately arranged for his henchmen to go to Hexi to investigate, and basically found out the details of Hexi.

Only then did he discover that Hexi was not as dilapidated as he imagined, but was very rich.

In addition to the specialties from the West, there are also special products such as cotton cloth, roasted tea, and glaze produced in Hexi.

In addition, Hexi is full of military workshops, and its production of horizontal knives, paper armor, Mingguang armor, and Mo knives are highly respected by all parties.

After successfully suppressing Yin Zhongkan, Huan Xuan's suppressed ambition or ambition burst out all at once.

At the instigation of his henchman Bian Fan, Huan Xuan began to seize power in Jingzhou step by step.

On the one hand, he used his father's prestige, money and jewelry, or recruited or bribed officials at all levels in Jingzhou, and on the other hand, he secretly accelerated the expansion of the Huan clan.

The expansion of the Troop requires a large number of weapons and armor.

Trade with Hexi was seen by Huan Xuan as an important step in realizing his political ambitions.

It is necessary to know that the glaze, roasted tea, cotton, gauze, wine and other commodities produced in Hexi are highly sought after by the family.

With money, he was able to buy horizontal swords and armor for the Huan clan.

In addition, Huan Xuan also understands that it is not enough to have money, and the purchase of ordnance requires the nod of most of the guards.

Therefore, he personally took a boat to intercept Wei Shuo.

"It is rumored that the Naomoto family trading company has a wide range of businesses, including grain, roasted tea, cotton cloth, glass and other goods?"

"Yes, but I want to correct it, this is not my trading company, and there are many proprietors behind it."

"Hahaha, no matter how much it is the owner behind the scenes, anyway, Naoyuan still has the final say, isn't it?"

After laughing, Huan Xuan suddenly held the desk with both hands, leaned forward, stared at Wei Shuo tightly, and said in a cautious tone: "I and Zhiyuan hit it off at first sight, and if I have anything to say, I will say it directly." If there is anything offended, please also ask Naoyuan Haihan. ”

"It doesn't hurt to talk about Nanjungong, just listen to it."

"Today, the representative of the Huan family wants to cooperate with your trading company, I don't know what Zhiyuan wants?"

After speaking, Huan Xuan looked directly at Wei Shuo, for fear that the other party would not agree.

Don't look at Huan Xuanming asking Wei Shuo, but the momentum he showed showed that he was determined to cooperate with him, and Wei Shuo could not refuse at all.

"Yes, no problem."

Contrary to Huan Xuan's expectations, Wei Shuo agreed very readily.

In fact, Wei Shuo had long intended to cooperate with Huan Xuan, and then win the big market of Jingzhou, and it was better to find anyone in Jingzhou than to find Huan Xuan.

"However, Nanjun Gong must ensure that Hexi's interests in Jingzhou are not infringed upon!"

"Hahaha, this little thing!"

Huan Xuan smiled and said conceitedly: "Although my Huan Xuan does not have an official position, the Huan family has been deeply rooted in Jingzhou for many years. ”

"It can be said that there is a Huan family covering, and on one acre and three points of land in Jingzhou, the businessmen of Erhexi can walk sideways."

"If something goes wrong, just report my Huan Xuan's name, and I'll see who dares not to give face to the Huan family."

"Okay, with Nanjun Gong's statement, Shuo finally put his mind at ease."

After finalizing the preliminary cooperation agreement, Huan Xuan couldn't wait for Hexi to provide some armor.

"Armor?"

After Wei Shuo listened, he glanced at Huan Xuan calmly, and then came back to his senses, it turned out that Huan Xuan was paying attention to this armament, and it seemed that it was not far from Huan Xuan's chaos.

He quickly calculated the interests of all parties in his brain, and found that the advantages of providing weapons to Huan Xuan outweighed the disadvantages.

What does Huan Xuan want to do when he buys ordnance? It was clearly an attempt to prepare for a future rebellion.

Once Huan Xuan rebelled, Liu Yu would definitely not sit idly by.

Originally, in history, Huan Xuan couldn't even do Liu Yu, who went into battle in a hurry, let alone Emperor Wu of Song, who appeared several years in advance.

If he didn't give some support, Wei Shuo even suspected that Liu Yu would easily defeat Huan Xuan and then take control of Jiangdong.

Although Wei Shuo hoped that Liu Yu would temporarily maintain the chaos in the south before Hexi unified the northern land, he did not want it to be too powerful.

Therefore, today Huan Xuan can be supported by selling ordnance, so that he has a certain strength to confront Liu Yu, at least he cannot be defeated like paper paste.

"Hexi can sell some armor to the Nanjun Duke, but this matter needs to be concealed so that it cannot be known by the imperial court."

"Hahaha, this matter is simple, I am responsible for everything, I just need to deal with Yin Zhongkan."

"Okay, in the next month, I will ask the trading company to ship 5,000 sets of paper armor, 3,000 horizontal knives, and 200 pairs of Mingguang armor."

……

"Dadu Hu, it seems that Jiangdong is also in danger."

"First, there were five buckets of rice in Sanwu, Huiji was ready to move, and now there is Huan Xuan secretly cultivating private soldiers, but the Son of Heaven is still only concerned with Sima Daozi for power and profit, indulging in wine, once there is an accident in the court, it will inevitably be a chaotic army."

"Hahaha, Daohe is really knowledgeable, it can be said in one sentence."

At this time, Liu Muzhi was really glad that his family had moved to Hexi, otherwise how could an ordinary person like him who had no power and no power protect his family and himself?

Fortunately, Liu Muzhi didn't know what he had achieved in the future, otherwise he would definitely not go to Hexi with Wei Shuo.

In this way, after a month-long journey, they returned to Hexi in early March 393 AD.

At this time, it has been half a year since Wei Shuo went south to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and under the leadership of Song Xuan, Cui Hao, and Wang Zhenwei, Hexi is a political and harmonious place.

The newly recovered Qinzhou of Longyou was also gradually integrated into the Hexi system.

Knowing that Dadu Hu had returned smoothly, the civil and military forces of Hexi, who had been worried for several months, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, everyone still doesn't know that with the return of Wei Shuo, a storm involving government affairs and military affairs is slowly kicking off.