Chapter 30: Collusion (II)

"Hey, hey" Zhang Zhao knew that he had blown through the cowhide, but he didn't blush at all, laughed a few times with everyone, thought about it, and continued, "Of course, my lord's energy is limited, and there are some places that can't be taken care of, which will inevitably be taken advantage of by the small people, but on the whole, under the rule of my lord, it is much stronger than other places in the Great Yuan Dynasty. ”

"Liaodong,." Zhu Chongjiu groaned slightly, then smiled and waved his hand, "That's not necessary, it's too far over there, and Zhu can't reach it." ”

As soon as the word "Liaodong" came out, the other party's intention was already very obvious, it was nothing more than that a certain prince of the Great Yuan Dynasty in the north had a different heart for Tuhuan Timur and wanted to lure the Huai'an army as a helper, and before he showed enough sincerity and strength, Zhu Chongjiu would not send his brothers to take that risk.

"Not far, not far at all." Zhang Zhao didn't expect Zhu Chongjiu to refuse so simply, and hurriedly added loudly, "As long as the chief manager walks north, he can take Dengzhou down, and then your people can take a sea boat and go straight from Penglai to the lion's mouth, which is about four days at most, and then they will enter the territory of my lord, and after arriving there, no one dares to touch them." ”

"Didn't Shopkeeper Zhang just say that there are many dangers at sea, and ten ships go to sea, and at most half of them can come back." Chen Ji immediately seized the loophole in the other party's words and asked rhetorically with a frown.

"This" Zhang Zhao was stunned, his face instantly turned purple eggplant color, but soon, he breathed a sigh of relief, and explained with a smile: "Lord Chen doesn't know, from Dengzhou to Shishikou and from Jiaozhou to the ocean, the risk is completely different, from Dengzhou to Shishikou, the sea is actually surrounded by Liaodong Road and Shandong Road, the wind and waves are much smaller than those in the ocean, the villain will take a boat back and forth more than a dozen times a year, and he is very familiar with this route, so he dares to boast that the brothers sent by the Huai An Army are safe. ”

"That's true." Chen Ji frowned, skeptical.

Like most scholars of this era, his knowledge was limited to Huaxia6, and he knew very little about the situation at sea, so he could not judge whether Zhang Zhao was telling the truth or not, so he could only pretend to be a pretend, so as not to fall behind in the negotiations.

"Really, completely true, don't believe it, adults can go down there and ask others later, if the grass people's words are a little false, they are willing to receive any punishment." Zhang Zhao quietly breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on his face.

The less the people of Zhu Butcher know about the situation at sea, the easier it will be for him to gain the upper hand in the next negotiations, and if he has been like before, no matter what he says, he will be caught by others immediately, then today's trip will be in vain, and even if he can talk about something, it will not be the result he wants.

Who expected that he didn't catch his breath in one breath, but he saw Zhu Chongjiu lightly knock on the table with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "Well, if you don't say it, I forgot, this is the Bohai Sea, and the water surface is the calmest, well, Chen joined the army, write down this situation on paper, and tell the stewards of the business after going back, let them form their own fleet to run this route, and use the Bingcui of our Huaiyang Mansion to exchange the Korean ginseng and war horses in Liaodong, and there should be a lot of money." ”

"Yes." Chen Ji immediately stood up and answered the order loudly.

Look at the big shopkeeper Zhang Zhao of the trading house, just a little normal face, in the blink of an eye it was twisted into a bitter gourd, according to his original expectation, as long as he revealed the meaning of joining forces, Zhu butcher should be happy, after all, now out of the pressure of the army, any help, for the Huai'an army is a charcoal in the snow, who is surnamed Zhu does not follow common sense at all, saying that it is business, just a mind to do business, let go of the strong reinforcement sent to the door, but put the whole head into the eyes of the money, really to worry people to death.

was gritting his teeth with hatred, but he heard Zhu Chongjiu ask with a smile, "I will send a caravan to do business here, and your lord will not allow it, of course, after arriving over there, how to pump water, according to your rules, Zhu will not interfere." ”

Zhang Zhao's heart throbbed again, and he responded with a smiling face, "No, absolutely not, my lord, it's too late to be happy, how can you not allow the people of Huaiyang to do business over there." ”

After that, while this matter was not nailed, he couldn't wait to add, "If, if the chief manager is gracious and can send some brothers who know how to train soldiers, my lord will definitely greet him, and I can't hide it, my lord has long been ready to erect the banner of rebellion, but the training of soldiers in his hands is unfamiliar, I am afraid, I am afraid."

As soon as he entered the main topic, he was forced to show weakness to the Huai'an army again, he was really depressed, and the last few words were simply weak gnats.

Zhu Chongjiu didn't mind when he heard this, smiled and interrupted in a low voice, "Send some people to help your lord train the army, how is that possible, in case your lord repents in the future, wouldn't it be equivalent to Zhu personally sending the brothers into the tiger's mouth, after all, he is also a Mongolian, how to say, he is also the same clan of Tuhuan Timur." ”

"No, no, absolutely not, grass people, grass people can be like Shen Wansan, with their bodies as hostages." As soon as the words fell, Zhang Zhao jumped up and raised his hand to curse, "If there really is such a day, the grass people would rather be cut by the chief manager, the lord of the grass people, as well as the grass people themselves, all have a common hatred with the faint king, and they will never do such an ungrateful thing." ”

"You're just a business shopkeeper, how can you be someone else's master." Chen Ji couldn't believe his words at all, and asked with a sneer before Zhu Chongjiu made a decision.

"The grass people are not actually surnamed Zhang." Zhang Zhao, the chief shopkeeper of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, was forced to have no choice, gritted his teeth, and reached out to tear open the placket of his robe.

A bronzed skin immediately appeared in front of everyone, between the two strong pectoral muscles, there was a silver-white wolf head up and down, the tattoo was very exquisite, with the breath, as if it could jump off the ground at any time.

"Presumptuous." Yu Tonghai was in a hurry, and he scolded sharply by pressing the handle of the knife.

Zhang Zhao, the chief shopkeeper of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, changed his previous appearance as a philistine, knelt down again, and bowed deeply to Zhu Chongjiu, "Liu Zhao, the nineteenth grandson of the Great Liao Great Sage and the Great Emperor of Tomorrow, see the Governor of Huaiyang, I wish the general manager a hundred victories, and has already led the troops to the north to recover the old land of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Chongjiu was finally a little surprised this time, quickly got up from the chair, and stretched out his hand to help, "You are a Khitan, you, why don't you have the surname Yelu, but the surname Liulai." ”

"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Behind him, there was a series of coughing sounds immediately, Zhang Yi, who joined the army, lowered his head and wiped the tea on his chest vigorously, Feng Guoyong and Chen Ji were slightly better than him, but they were also full of embarrassment, lowered their heads, and didn't dare to look at this side more.

"The chief manager of Qiyu, the Yelu family, is the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, so in addition to the surname Yelu, he also takes Liu as his surname." Yeluzhao had a request for help at the moment, but he didn't dare to suspect that Zhu Chongjiu was lonely and unheard, so he thought about it and told the truth, (Note 2)

"This" Zhu Chongjiu was stunned again, crying and laughing.

In his previous life, he read novels, in which Yelu Chucai, Yelu Qi, and Yelu Hongji were all prominent, so subconsciously, he thought that the Da Liao royal family was proud of the surname Yelu, who would have expected that people would actually recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and they became relatives with Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

Where did Yelu Zhao know that Zhu Chongjiu's thinking had gone to his previous life again, seeing his strange face, he kowtowed again, and added indignantly, "My Daliao Yelu clan is a descendant of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's rebellion to avoid trouble, lying on the salary and tasting courage for nearly a thousand years, before reinvigorating the ancestors, but the world is unfair, Emperor Tianzuo actually killed the hands of the Jurchen shepherd slaves in vain, although the descendants of the clan have repeatedly tried to cheer up, but unfortunately they have been repeatedly bullied by foreign races, and they have been displaced to Liaodong, and have gone through hardships to rebuild the homeland, unfortunately the Mongols have betrayed their trust, and they have rebelled, Take away my society, let me be in the vein of Yelu's family"

"Okay, okay, I know, you are a descendant of Yelu Dashi, and you once established the Western Liao Kingdom." Zhu Chongjiu was the most impatient to listen to people talk about his family history, waved his hand, and interrupted in a low voice, (Note 3)

Just like he himself is said to be the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, no one knows how much it is true, and in the 21st century, in addition to no one recognizing Qin Hui as an ancestor, almost all emperors and sages in history have countless different versions of genealogy, so in his eyes, genealogy is the same whether there is anything or not, anyway, there are at least eight out of ten, which is purely far-fetched.

"It's not Yelu Dashi, although Dezong is a genius of the sky, but it comes from the side branch of Taizu." Unexpectedly, Yeluzhao shook his head and continued to affirm loudly, "Brother Liu, the fourth ancestor of the Caomin, is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Tianzuo, who started his army in the first year of the pseudo-Jin Chongqing and re-established the Liao State" (Note 4)

Seeing this, Chen Ji, who joined the army, stepped forward and explained in a low voice, "He is talking about Yelu Liuge, the king of Later Liao, who once cited Mongolia as foreign aid, restored the Liao State, and accepted the title of King of Liao of Temujin Khan, who was promised to Yongzhen Liaodong for generations, and after the Great Yuan stole the Central Plains, Kublai Khan cut the domain, and the princes and sons of Liao were all changed to officials, and the Liao State was destroyed. ”

When Yelu Zhao heard this, his eyes immediately became blood-red, he gritted his teeth, and said loudly, "Although my Yelu clan has lost the community, but I have never died the will of my ancestors, endure humiliation and burden, and wait for the sky to change, now the children are all over Liaodong and southern Liaoning, all of them are in important positions, if Zhu is willing to help, he will be able to summon the Khitan men and burn the war all over the outside of the Saiwai, at that time, Zhu will be in charge of the south, and my Yelu clan will be in the north, why not overthrow the tyranny of Mengyuan and recover the Han family's rivers and mountains." ”

Note 1: The lion's mouth, that is, the current Lushun, the history records, the Ming Dynasty sailors from Denglai, three days and three nights to the lion's mouth, then changed the lion's mouth to Lushun.

Note 2: Yelu took Liu as his surname, and Yelu Abaoji specially declared that he was the ancestor of the Han Dynasty in order to enter the Central Plains in the future, and his surname was Liu, and his name was remembered.

Note 3: Yelu Dashi, the Khitan royal family, once took the top prize, after the death of Liao, led the people to the west, established the Western Liao in Central Asia, more than 80 years later, the Western Liao was destroyed by the Mongols.

Note 4: Yeluliuge, a Khitan, self-proclaimed Khitan royal family, began to resist the Jin in 1212, united with the Mongols to defeat the Jin army, established the Eastern Liao State, and later attached to the Mongols.

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