"We want boats, big sea ships, the kind you built, we have this!"

Wushu stood in front of Zhou Quan and carefully looked at this brother-killing enemy again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info He looked at it as he reached out and pulled out a wrapped box from his waist.

The box is full of pearls, and they are the best eastern pearls.

Wushu has seen many times, those Liao people, whether Han or Khitan or Goryeo, when they see his fine Dongzhu, the hungry light in their eyes, he believes that these glossy gadgets can also help him impress the Han people in front of him.

It's a pity that he stared at Zhou Quan and found that Zhou Quan just glanced at him casually.

Then he waved his hand expressionlessly: "This thing wants to buy a sea boat, not sell it." ”

Zhou Quanzhen has no interest in pearls, treasures and the like, he is interested in gold and silver, because these two can be used as goods, pearls and jades are useless except for being placed in the home of a wealthy man as decorations, and this function can also be replaced by glass.

"We still have this!"

Wushu thought for a moment and pointed to a large piece of fur hanging in front of the pavilion door.

"Oh, we've already bought a lot from the Liao, and we don't need to increase imports for the time being." Zhou Quan glanced at the fur, yes, it is a good bear skin, but unfortunately, Zhou Quan himself has no love for leather, and the market for fur is limited, but it is not as easy to sell as wool and the like.

The green tendons on Wushu's forehead jumped, he thought for a moment, and took out another box: "We still have this!" ”

What was in the box was Changbai old ginseng, which made Zhou Quan's eyes light up, and he nodded slightly: "This thing is about the same, but to tell the truth, the Korean people can also give us ginseng, so you this, the price will not be very high, if you want to change ships, you have to have a lot of them." ”

As long as you can change to a big ship, you can take a big boat to Japan to grab gold and silver mountains, what does it matter if you pay more old ginseng, anyway, you don't need them Jurchens to dig in the mountains, and they will drive the Koreans to drill deep in the mountains and old forests.

"I'll send a lot of old ginseng, what else do you want, what we have, we can use it for boats!" The vultures shouted again.

Changing ships is the first step, and if you can establish a trade relationship with Jeju, you can often send people here in the future, and you can always find the secret of the cannon by looking for opportunities, bribes or coercion.

Of course, poor vultures, at this time I don't know what it means to be "no business and no treachery".

"You deliver the goods, and contact the mall director directly...... If there's anything else, I'm leaving. ”

Wushu wanted to say something, but this time he was pulled back by his companions, and the group of people muttered a few words in Jurchen words, Wushu glanced at Zhou Quan and saluted: "Then...... Bye! ”

Sooner or later, we will see each other again, but when the time comes, we must surprise this Song man.

Zhou Quan flicked his sleeves, didn't pay attention to him anymore, and was about to say goodbye to Yelu Dashi, but Yelu Dashi grabbed his sleeve: "The Jurchens are used to treachery, barbarians have no etiquette and shame at all, you and I belong to our relatives, you should be careful of the Jurchen barbarians!" ”

Zhou Quan said with a smile: "Don't worry, rest assured, our side will impose a trade embargo on the Jurchens, and all commercial goods that can be used in the military, such as iron, armor, bows and arrows, are forbidden to be sold to the Jurchens, how about it?" ”

Yelu Dashi saw that he could not cut off the connection between the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce and the Jurchens, so he could only retreat.

The next day, in the midst of farewell, Zhou Quan sent away Yelu Dashi and Yu Liyan. Another day, he and Yue Fei took a boat back to Haizhou.

Wushu is still in the Five Kingdoms City, he still plans to abduct Fang Hao, but for several days, Fang Hao has not appeared again, Wushu can't help but be a little lost, in his opinion, this Fang Hao, is a great talent, not used by Zhou Quan, bring back their Jurchen, will definitely be able to write a good story.

Maybe it's like Han Derang when the Khitan rose, obviously a Han Chinese, but he has also become a legend of the Liao State.

After staying for ten days, the Goryeo merchants who had brought them were about to return, so he had to leave, but Wushu left with confidence, feeling that he had learned Zhou Quan's skills a few points, and after returning to Dajin, he could also use his skills and make a big career.

And Han Shizhong and Song Xingfeng, almost on the same day that Wushu left, came into contact with the cannon for the first time in the inland far away from the Five Kingdoms City.

The momentum and power of the artillery shocked the two of them.

Not to mention how the two of them explored the training system of grassroots officers, not to mention that Zhou Quan returned to the Great Song Dynasty and went to Tangyin to guard the tomb of Zhou Tong, just mention that the Japanese merchant who sold knives finally sold all his knives and returned to Japan on the merchant ships of the Song people.

Only a few days later, he arrived in Heiankyo, Japan.

"What is the reality of the Jeju thief?" Soon after arriving in Heiankyo, he went to the house of a samurai, knelt down before his master, and listened to his master's questions.

Nowadays, the Japanese already know that the Donghae Chamber of Commerce on Jeju Island is still very different from the Song Dynasty, so they call the Donghae Chamber of Commerce the Jeju thief.

"Second Lieutenant Keiyu Saemon, Jeju Island has a large population, only its capital city of Gokokuseong, the population is not inferior to my Heiankyo, there are 100 large and small warships, and the army is 20,000, all of them are armored samurai!"

The second lieutenant of Saemon was the young general Taira Tadamori, who was greatly appreciated by the Japanese lord at this time. He is only twenty years old now, and it is time for him to forge ahead. Because he was ordered to arrest pirates, he fought several times with smuggling ships at sea, and found out that most of these smuggling ships came from Jeju Island. He was quite resourceful, and did not rush to report the matter to the Japanese court, but privately sponsored a Japanese merchant to go to Jeju to sell goods, and at the same time find out the truth about it.

When he heard that there were 100 warships and 20,000 troops, Ping Zhongsheng took a breath of cold air.

These are 20,000 samurai, not 20,000 peasant soldiers with only bamboo guns and wooden swords!

"Jeju thieves will be a disaster for our country in the future, and they must not be careless...... The Song people are now constantly dumping some of the luxurious things that plague the country on me through the Jeju thieves, resulting in the loss of gold and silver in the country, and the people's hearts are turbulent, especially the smuggling of soju by the Song people, which is even more harmful to the country and the people, if the court does not pay attention to it, I am afraid that after 30 years, there will be no gold and silver available in our country, and the recruits will be all drunkards! ”

Ping Zhongsheng's words, but when he heard the businessman's ears, he didn't think so.

Could it be that if the Song people did not sell alcohol into Japan, the Japanese would not drink alcohol?

On the contrary, the Japanese are good at drinking, from the ministers to the farmers. It's just that Japanese liquor is not as good as the Song people, especially in the past two years, the Song people Tianshui Chamber of Commerce and others have tried their best to sell liquor to Japan, and these things mixed with water are much sweeter than the sour made in Japan, so they are very popular.

In particular, those civilians who could not afford to drink alcohol also used their pitiful little property to buy alcohol, just to seek a drunken atmosphere. And those samurai who had a small fortune, or the ministers in high positions, also regarded drinking as a popular and elegant thing, and sent acting officials to raid the people of the territory, in order to just put on the luxury goods from the Song Kingdom, and hold a famous drinking party with a full set of glasses, which even replaced the tea party and became the etiquette of the Japanese upper class.

"I must report to the Emperor!" Ping Zhongsheng thought to himself.

At this time, Japan implemented the system of imperial administration, and the major national policies were all from Emperor Shirakawa, who is now the grandfather of the so-called Emperor Toba. And the one who served as the regent of Sekihaku was Fujiwara Faithful, and he was separated from Emperor Shirakawa. Ping Zhongsheng intends to ban the Jeju pirates, but he also knows that the Jeju pirates have an unclean relationship with Genji, the pillar of the Kanto martial arts, and if they really want to ban it, they also need to use the emperor to suppress Genji.

Sure enough, although Taira Tadashi's proposal was approved by Emperor Shirakawa, it sparked a fierce debate among the ministers. The first issue in dispute is whether the ban on the Jeju pirates will arouse the wrath of the Great Song Dynasty and the wrath of the Liao State, which is said to have the support of these two powerful countries behind the Jeju pirates.

The result of the quarrel was naturally a compromise, first sending envoys to the Song Kingdom, bypassing those on Jeju Island, and directly negotiating the matter with the Great Song court.

So the next thing to argue about is the second thing: how to write the national letter of the Great Song Dynasty.

Those who think that Japan has been humble since ancient times following China is a big mistake.

Since the reunification of Japan, they have been arrogant, otherwise they would not dare to play the trick of "the son of heaven in the country of the rising sun" to the "son of heaven in the country of sunset", let alone call the lord of the country the emperor.

This letter to the Great Song Dynasty involves salutation and etiquette, and there must be some disputes over this.

The dispute lasted two months.

In the end, it was decided that neither in the name of Emperor Shirakawa nor Emperor Toba, but in the name of the regent Seki Shirafuwara Faithful, a letter was sent to Cai Jing, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty.

This avoids the high and low titles between the two countries, and completely interacts with the Great Song Dynasty on an equal footing.

But immediately afterward, there was a dispute over the gift given to Cai Jing and the gift given by Emperor Toba to Zhao Go, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time, Japanese knives were squeezed by the steel knives produced by Liguo in the Song Dynasty, and there were not many goods that Japan could export to the Great Song Dynasty, either precious metals or some rare novelties, Fujiwara was faithfully determined to give Cai Jing a good knife and several armors, the original intention was to help Japan open up some markets, but it caused quarrels, and there were those who opposed exchanges with the Song State, and took the sword of Shang Fang of the previous dynasty to restrain today's officials on the grounds of Emperor Daigo's "Yanxi format - Wu Yong's equipment does not go out of the country".

In the end, Fujiwara Tadashi had to change his gifts, from swords and armor to paper fans, calligraphy and paintings, and a maki-e handbox.

The gift given to Zhao Ji in the name of Emperor Toba was a chef, a hand box, and 30 pieces of color leather, plus 100 taels of gold dust (don't ask me what these things are, the gift list refers to the gifts given by the Japanese government to the Southern Song Dynasty during the period of Song Xiaozong, and the negotiation process also refers to this time).

As for the envoys, because the merchants may not be reliable, the envoy sent to the Song State this time was served by Taira Tadamori, who provoked the matter, but Taira Tadashi was the person of Emperor Shirakawa, so Fujiwara Tadashi also stuffed a cronie of his own as a deputy envoy.

The name of the deputy envoy is the source of righteousness. (To be continued.) )