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"Father, Father......"

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, came back to his senses, and looked at Sun Luban who was pouting blankly, only then did he realize that he was distracted, he smiled apologetically, and gestured: "Big Tiger, you say, I'll listen." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"You didn't listen." Sun Luban said angrily: "Father, you just looked outside in a daze, and didn't listen to a word." ”

"Who said that?" Sun Quan disguised: "I'm listening." ”

"Then you say, what did I just say?"

Sun Quan choked, and subconsciously asked Mrs. Bu for help. Sun Luban has not been afraid of him since he was a child, but he is a little afraid of Mrs. Bu, once he encounters something so brutal that he is at a loss, he will ask Mrs. Bu for help. Mrs. Bu's face sank, and just as she was about to speak, Sun Luyu was happy: "Sister, you are miserable." ”

Sun Luban's eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand: "Give me back the sugar!" ”

Sun Luyu hid his hand behind his back and shook his head again and again. Sun Quan noticed that her mouth was bulging, so he asked curiously, "What sugar?" ”

Sun Luyu moved his mouth, changed the direction of the candy cube, and then said vaguely: "The caramel that my sister brought back is sweet." Sister, I don't want to go back with the gift I gave to someone. ”

Sun Quan was amused by the two sisters, he grabbed Sun Luyu, rubbed Sun Luyu's little face with his face, and said flatteringly: "Father help you, can you let your father taste it?" ”

Sun Luyu looked at Sun Quan, then at Sun Luban, thought about it, turned his back, picked up a piece from the palm of his hand, held it with his fingers, and said to Sun Quan: "Father, open your mouth." ”

Sun Quan obediently opened his mouth and raised his neck, Sun Luyu carefully put the sugar cube into Sun Quan's mouth, as soon as the sugar cube touched his tongue, it turned into a ball of sweetness, Sun Quan closed his mouth, opened his eyes and nodded again and again, happy like a child: "Sweet!" Sweet! Little Tiger, it's really sweet. ”

"Giggle......" Sun Luyu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hmph, what is this, we have more than one country." Sun Luban raised his head proudly with three points.

"Is there a lot of caramel in Yue?" Hearing the news, Sun Luyuan, who was concentrating on tasting the sugar cubes, asked in a low voice.

"A lot." Sun Luban nodded, revealing a surprised expression: "There are many sugarcane forests in Funan, and they can produce a lot of caramel every year. Why, you don't know? There must have been a lot of merchants who came back from selling caramel candy. ”

"Yes, yes, but it's expensive." Sun Quan's squirming mouth stopped, straightened his waist, and put his hand on his thigh, looking surprised: "How much do you say a lot?" ”

"A lot, a lot of it." Sun Luban puffed out his cheeks, waved his arms, and made an exaggerated gesture: "Whether it is Zhuya or Funan, there are many lands and large areas of sugarcane forests. Originally, it was all manually squeezed sugar, but now Zhuya College has made a lot of machines, and has built sugar factories in various places, and the squeezed caramel is shipped out one by one, as far as I know, there are merchants in Wu who have shipped more than a dozen ships out, and Jianye should have sold it a long time ago. ”

"It's for sale, but it's a bit ridiculously expensive." Sun Quan suddenly realized, and his face showed a little anger. Jianye has sugar from Funan, but it is very expensive, and there are some in his palace, but these very expensive things have not been rewarded to Queen Xu and Mrs. Bu, so they don't know, and now when he listens to Sun Luban, he knows that he has been blinded by those merchants, and he can't help but be unhappy.

Sun Luban didn't know what he meant, and he didn't know what to say, but Mrs. Bu saw the clues, and a sense of loss surged in her heart. In the past, Sun Quan had some good things, and most of them had to be rewarded to her, but now she can't think of her at all, if it weren't for her daughter coming back, she might never have known that there were such good things.

China has had sugar for a long time, "The Book of Songs? Daya has verses such as "Zhou Yuan's flesh, violet is like starch", in which the starch refers to sugar, but this sugar refers to the sugar made from rice and malt through saccharification, also known as maltose, also known as starch sugar, for a long time, starch sugar is a good thing enjoyed by the nobles of the Central Plains. Since the Warring States period, there has also been sucrose, "Chu Ci? In the "Conjuring Spirit", there is "Turtle Cannon Lamb, There is a syrup", the syrup here refers to the sugar made of sugarcane juice, which is a viscous liquid, also called sugarcane, but sugarcane is produced in the south, and the Central Plains cannot see it at all.

And the hard lump of candy that Sun Luban brought back had never been seen before, and even if Sun Quan saw it, at most it was only sugar with a certain amount of crystals in the liquid, even if it was, it was already very rare.

Jianye's very expensive things abound in Funan, so what will be the strength of Funan? Sun Quan immediately thought of the most critical problem, if a large number of these goods from Funan were allowed to enter Wu, then the wealth of Wu would flow out at an astonishing rate, and the most direct problem was that Wu's copper coins would be tense, and once the copper coins were tense, the economy would be in crisis.

The more Sun Quan thought about it, the more he was shocked, he didn't dare to think about it, he said a few perfunctory words, and hurriedly left Mrs. Bu's palace, leaving Queen Xu and Mrs. Bu looking at each other. Sun Luban saw that Sun Quan's face was not good, and he didn't know if he had caused trouble, but she was not a person who would be heartbroken, she just scratched her head, and soon got into trouble with her two younger sisters.

In the Gu Mansion, Prime Minister Gu Yong and Mrs. Lu sat side by side, and the youngest son Gu Ji, grandson Gu Cheng and others sat in groups, listening to the red-faced Gu Yu talk about the war in Funan and what had happened recently. Gu Yong's face was still as heavy as water, and she couldn't see her joy or anger, and Mrs. Lu looked at her son, who had been depressed because of his poor health, was now so energetic, and the joy in her heart couldn't help but be revealed, she looked at Sun Yuanying who was listening intently, and sighed secretly, the eldest son Gu Shao was the most capable, but unfortunately he died early, otherwise, the situation of the Gu family would be better now. It was right to arrange Gu Yu to Sun Shao's side at the beginning, otherwise, how could he be so happy now.

"Zimo was originally going to come back, but now that Funan is newly determined, there are too many things, and he, the new Funan Yin, can't get out, so he has to ask me to ask the two elders to say goodbye." Gu Yu turned around and saluted Sun Yuanying: "Sister-in-law, Zimo brought gifts to sister-in-law and Zizhi, and he also said that he hoped that his sister-in-law would have time to go to Funan, the king's ship is in Qiantang, if your sister-in-law wants to accompany her, you can get on the boat at any time." ”

Sun Yuanying smiled faintly, and couldn't see a trace of excitement: "Thank you, uncle, I know." ”

"Funan Yin, not bad, not bad." Old Madam Lu nodded with a smile: "Funan County is not only the seat of Taizhou, but also the new capital of Yueguo, if this Funan Yin has a lot of power." Zimo is so young, and he doesn't know if he can afford such an important burden, you, as an uncle, have to remind him more. Zimo's child is smart, but he is a little arrogant, and compared with his father, he is less stable. ”

Gu Yu smiled and nodded: "Auntie rest assured, Zimo is much calmer now, according to Shen Xuan, he has the style of Aweng." ”

"Really?" Old Madam Lu looked back at Gu Yong, who was frowning slightly, in surprise, and couldn't help but smile: "Shen Xuan is vain, Zimo has been in the business for many years, and it is possible to be more stable, but it is estimated that it will take another twenty years to be like his eldest father." ”

"Hehehe......" everyone laughed softly.

Sun Shao asked for the establishment of Funan and Borneo, but the Son of Heaven issued an edict and rejected Sun Shao's original plan of Funan Prefecture and Borneo Prefecture's request, and set up Funan as Taizhou, Borneo as Haizhou, and took Funan Antai and Borneo Haiguang, which can be regarded as a little authority of the Son of Heaven, Sun Shao doesn't care, and the Yue people have already called Shunkou, and they have always been called Funan Prefecture and Borneo Prefecture, but the three dukes like Gu Yu know the official name. More than a dozen counties near Temu City are Funan County, which is the new Gyeonggi of Yue Kingdom, and Funan Taishou is also called Funan Yin, which is half a level higher than ordinary Taishou. Gu Tan was only in his early twenties, and he became such an important position, on the one hand, because he was Sun Shao's nephew, and on the other hand, because he was indeed intelligent. Of course, Mrs. Lu was overjoyed when she heard such news, Sun Yuanying was also very proud when she heard it, and Mrs. Lu and her son Gu Cheng were only envious. Gu Cheng has already performed the crown ceremony and married Zhang Wen's sister Zhang Yuying as his wife, but if he wants to become a monk, it is estimated that he will have to wait a few years, and then follow a series of procedures such as being a lang and being released, to imagine that Gu Tan can become two thousand stones at such a young age, but I am afraid that there is no hope in this life.

Gu Yu laughed for a while, put away his smile, and looked at Gu Yong seriously: "Zimo asked me to relay a message to Ah Weng." ”

"What's the news?" Gu Yong stroked his beard, squinted his eyes, and asked lightly.

Zimo heard that Sun Changxu had passed away, and it is estimated that Ah Weng may also take over as prime minister. He wrote to say that if Ah Weng became the prime minister, the first problem he might face would be a shortage of money. If there is something that needs help, Aung can provide an opportunity. ”

Gu Yong's eyelids jumped, and his originally plain eyes suddenly flashed, and then returned to their original state. He nodded silently and said quietly, "I know." ”

In fact, as soon as Gu Yong took office, he felt this problem. The economic situation of Wu was originally good, especially after the pacification of Jiaozhou, a large amount of tax revenue made Sun Quan's son very nourishing for a while. But then there was an accident in Yuenan, and the commercial tax was greatly affected, and then Sun Deng rushed to Yuenan to quell the rebellion, and most of the taxes in Jiaozhou were transferred to Yuenan to support the war, while the goods transported from Jiaozhou increased unabated, and a large number of copper coins were earned by the merchants of Yueguo, and the deficit that existed but was not serious suddenly showed its power, and as soon as Gu Yong took office, he felt the seriousness of the problem, and if it continued to develop at this rate, I was afraid that in a few years there would be no copper coins available in Wu.

Now that Gu Tan mentioned this issue, Gu Yong had a score in his heart, but he didn't want to talk about it in front of so many people, but after everyone dispersed, he called Gu Yu to the study and asked in detail how Gu Tan could help.

Gu Yu said directly: "It's very simple, increase the trading volume of Wu Yue, sell a large number of goods needed by Yue to Yue Guo, maintain a balance, and avoid the outflow of copper coins." Gu Yu thought for a while, and then said: "In fact, not only Wu State, but also Wei Shu has also encountered such a problem, they are also sending people to discuss this matter with my Yue Kingdom, my Yue Country also has a money shortage problem, the king is now considering using gold coins, this time in the East China Sea Alliance, this time in the East China Sea Alliance, this issue may be discussed." ”

Gu Yong frowned, he knew that Sun Quan still had doubts about whether to participate in the East China Sea Alliance, but if the East China Sea Alliance also included such content, and Wu Guo might lose a great opportunity if he was absent. Han is a parallel currency system of gold and copper coins, but gold is generally not used for circulation, but for rewards, gifts, etc., usually the market circulation is still five baht coins such as copper coins, with the development of the economy, the increase in trading volume, the number of copper coins is seriously insufficient, gold as a currency in circulation can indeed solve this problem, but the premise is to balance the price of gold. If the price of gold cannot be maintained within a more suitable range, then the resale of gold will become a more convenient way to make profits than piracy.

This is not something that Wu can decide, in terms of the amount of gold, Yue Guo wants to hold the bull's ear, everyone knows that Sun Shao not only grabbed a gold mine from Yizhou, but also made a lot of gold from the transaction with Xiyi. If you want to stabilize the price of gold, the weight of Yue Guo is self-evident.

In other words, the sentence that Gu Tan asked Gu Yu to convey is very significant, and it is directly related to whether Gu Yong can sit firmly in the position of Prime Minister of Wu State, as long as he obtains the support of Yue Guo, even if Sun Quan has any ideas, he must also consider whether other people can maintain the steady development of the economy like Gu Yong.

Gu Yong pondered for a moment and asked lightly: "Yue Guo is now wealthy, what else can we sell?" ”

"That's a lot." Gu Yu smiled and said: "Not to mention anything else, the citrus in Changsha and Yuzhang are very promising, and the citrus in Jiangling is now a large part of the money exchanged by Shu from Yue, which is not much worse than Shu brocade." ”

"So many?" Gu Yong raised his eyebrows, feeling a little incredible. Shu brocade is a specialty of Chengdu, although there are a lot of citrus in Jiangling, but the price is far behind, how can it be about the same. Does the country consume so many citrus fruits every year?

"Yes, citrus is mainly bought by seafarers, and it is said that eating one or two citrus a day can cure what kind of scurvy, so now as long as the merchants go to sea, they have to bring some. The king is planning a voyage, and the storage of this citrus is one of the important preparations. ”

Gu Yong's interest increased greatly, and the more he talked with Gu Yu, the happier he became.

"The king is here." The news of Sun Quan's arrival interrupted the conversation between Gu Yong's father and son, they looked at each other, and they both felt a little surprised, Gu Yong asked Gu Yu to stay away for a while, and then put on his court clothes and prepared to go out to greet him in person. As soon as he came out of the backyard, he bumped into Sun Quan who was striding over.

"Gu Gong, no courtesy." Sun Quan said with a smile: "I heard that Ji Ze is back, and he must have brought a lot of Funan specialties, so I rushed here to get some light." ”

Gu Yong was taken aback, as soon as Gu Yu arrived home, Sun Quan came, this is too fast, right? He didn't dare to slack off, and immediately welcomed Sun Quan to the main hall and sat down, and asked people to put refreshments on the table, and then Sun Yuanying came out to pay a visit. Sun Quan talked and laughed freely, and pulled Sun Yuanying to ask a few words, and in the end, only he and Gu Yong were left, and he put away his smile.

"Gu Gong, you've been prime minister for two months, right?" Sun Quan picked up a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly, and said lightly: "But what's the problem?" ”

Gu Yong was puzzled, and tentatively said a few questions, but Sun Quan was noncommittal, until he talked about the money shortage, Sun Quan came to the spirit: "How is Gu Gong going to solve it?" ”

Gu Yong breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glad that if it wasn't for Gu Yu telling him about this problem, and now he was suddenly tortured by Sun Quan, he really didn't have any good way.

"It's easy to do." Gu Yong said calmly: "Traders, trade and trade, we can't just buy, but also think about selling, so as to keep the amount of money stable." ”

"Someone mentioned that they wanted to mint a lot of money, do you think it's feasible?"

Gu Yong glanced at Sun Quan and was silent. Sun Quan laughed embarrassedly, knowing that Gu Yong would oppose it if he didn't speak, of course he also knew that this idea was a bit rancid, and it was not appropriate to bring it up at this time. This kind of thing to cast big money, there were a lot of things before, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had made a white deer coin, Wang Mang also cast a knife flat five thousand, that is, a knife money as five thousand five baht coins used, "a knife" on the word wrong gold, later generations also called the gold wrong knife, is the treasure of the later generations of coin collection, but from the currency reform this is a failure. Even if the gold is wrong, a knife money is not worth 5,000 yuan, it is profitable, and naturally some people take risks, so the imitation of casting and stealing is repeatedly prohibited. Liu Bei also engaged in making 100 big money in Chengdu, but it was only a temporary measure, a measure to circle the scattered coins back into his hands, and it ended in a short time. Now someone has proposed to Sun Quan to cast a lot of money, but it is just a copy of this method, which can cope with the urgency of the moment, but it cannot solve the final problem. Because a coin is a thousand, the value of the coin far exceeds the value of the copper coin, there will be people who smelt the copper coin, and then mint it into a thousand dollars to make a profit, which is much faster than doing business to make a fortune.

"So how do you sell things? What can I sell for money in Wu Kingdom? Sun Quan said curtly.

"Wu Guoneng has too many things to sell." Gu Yong said with a smile: "We have good materials, fruits and vegetables, big ships, copper and salt, not only can we do business with Yue, but also trade with Wei Shu, not to mention anything else, every year there are more merchant ships passing by the river like fish in the river, just to provide these people's food, you can earn a lot of copper money......"

Sun Quan looked at Gu Yong, who was talking eloquently, and suddenly felt a little strange, when did Gu Yong talk about business so smoothly?

Gu Yong said in the end, he returned to the issue of the currency system, and he vaguely suggested that Sun Quan could not miss this opportunity, because even if Wu did not participate, the three kingdoms of Yue, Wei and Shu would be able to reach an agreement, and it would be difficult for Wu to squeeze in at that time. Now that Wu and Yue are one, King Yue let the eldest princess come back, that is, to show favor to the king, why don't the king seize this opportunity and work side by side with King Yue to organize this East China Sea alliance, so that Wei Shu sees that Wu Yue is on good terms, and they don't dare to move the idea of Wu again.

Sun Quan was silent, he had long been mentally prepared to listen to Gu Yong's persuasion to reconcile with Sun Shao, after all, Gu Yong's sons and grandsons all held important positions in the Yue Kingdom, Gu Yong hoped that Wu Yue would reconcile, what he didn't want was to tear his face and fight.

But he was slowly moved by Gu Yong's words, although Gu Yong was selfish, but the actual situation was true, and making peace with Sun Shao was far more advantageous than going against Sun Shao. Not to mention anything else, Sun Shao standing behind him to support him, and stabbing him in the back are completely opposite situations for Wu Guo.

"Gu Gong's words are reasonable." Sun Quan nodded a little reluctantly: "I want to meet Ji Ze, is it okay?" ”

Gu Yong smiled: "The king has an order, how dare he disobey?" ”

…… Gu Yu hurried back to Qian Tang and reported the news of Sun Quan's willingness to reconcile to Sun Shao. Sun Shao smiled and asked people to invite Yu Xuan.

"Duke Yu, please go to Jianye and discuss related matters with Duke Gu." Sun Shao touched his nose and smiled a little embarrassedly: "It is said that there should be another place close to everyone, but the matter is very urgent, in ten days, the Son of Heaven will go to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it has not been negotiated here, and the King of Shu has no shadow, so in order to save time, I have to grieve you." ”

Yu Pan was indeed a little unhappy, Gu Yong was the prime minister of Wu State, he was the prime minister of Yue State, since he was going to meet, it was said that he should choose a place to lean on the border and let him rush to Jianye to meet Gu Yong, which was a bit cheap. But Sun Shao had already said so, and he couldn't refuse, so he had to respond.

"It's a waste of time to go back and forth." Sun Shao continued: "I'll tell you my bottom line first, and then it's up to you how to talk about it." Sun Shao thought for a while, and then said: "It's like when you negotiated with the Sheng family and the Zhou family." ”

Yu Fu was in a good mood all of a sudden, it was he who accepted Sun Shao's entrustment to negotiate with several families of Huiji, laying the initial foundation of the Yue Kingdom, and now Sun Shao handed over such an opportunity to him, which was a great trust in him, even if there was a big grievance, he was willing to endure it.

"The king can rest assured, the minister will definitely live up to the king's mission." Yu bowed and saluted. After discussing some specific conditions with Sun Shao, he immediately set off with a few subordinates and went straight to Jianye.

Gu Yong got the news and asked Sun Quan, and when Sun Quan heard that it was Yu who came, he couldn't help but be a little worried. In the past, when Yu was still his courtier, he didn't give him face, but now he has become the prime minister of Yue Kingdom, let alone give him face. In order to avoid being turned over by Yu, Sun Quan decided to let Gu Yong talk and report to him in time. When Gu Yong heard this, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, Sun Quan and Sun Shao are both kings, but their qi is much worse, Yu turned to Jianye, he is the plenipotentiary representative of Sun Shao, and he is also the prime minister, but the authorization he gets is very different, it is really more popular than people. He had a hunch that in the next negotiations, he would definitely be ridiculed by Yu.

The matter was unfortunately said by Gu Yong, and in the subsequent negotiations, Yu Yu firmly held the initiative in his hands because he had the bottom in his heart and did not need to ask for instructions, while Gu Yong was restrained step by step because of insufficient authorization, and he suffered all the hardships. Fortunately, the purpose of Yu Translation is very clear, Yue Guo has no intention of being an enemy of Wu State, for the sake of the face of King Wu and King Yue surnamed Sun, we are pulling you to make a fortune together, if you know each other, you will immediately agree to peace talks, participate in the alliance, and at the same time send a fast horse to inform Shu State, if you don't know each other, delay it for two more days, and spoil the good thing of my king Donghai Alliance, hehe, then there is no need to talk about it.

Gu Yong immediately sent the news to Sun Quan, who weighed it for a long time, and finally decided to send a fast horse to inform Sun Deng, asking him to negotiate with Guan Yu and invite Liu Bei, the king of Shu, to participate in the upcoming East China Sea Alliance.

(To be continued)