Chapter 140 Pu Shou Geng Ask for collections, ask for recommendations
Just when Chen Dexing was planning to shoot a detailed work from the Mongols, the underground workers of the Mongols had already arrived in the Great Song Dynasty.
In this era, the world's largest commercial port, Quanzhou Latong Port, is a time of wind and rain. Waves crashed on countless docks, stirring up a full head of spray. The sea is undulating, and the layers do not seem to be broken. Thousands or even tens of thousands of ships in the harbor rise and fall, as if they will be overturned by the waves at any time.
Several figures stood on top of a pavilion near Pujia Wharf, pushed open the window, let the rain wet their clothes, and only looked anxiously at the rainy and misty sea.
I don't know how long it was, but the people who were waiting were already drenched and cold. Only then did I see a passenger boat more than 20 zhang long floating on the sea from a distance, struggling to sail in the waves. One of the people waiting was so anxious that he stomped his foot: "How do you choose this kind of weather?" ”
The other calmly replied: "When the weather is fine, the left-wing navy in Quanzhou will patrol around, what if you find the nobles of the kingdom?" Only this weather is the safest! There are also some Han maritime merchants, we also have to dodge! ”
The two people who were talking looked somewhat similar, both had high noses and sunken eyes, fair skin, and curly hair. However, the accent they spoke was the standard official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were all dressed like Han Chinese. Obviously, he has settled in the Great Song Dynasty for many years, even many generations. Due to the Song Dynasty's policy of openness and mercantilism, a large number of people settled in the commercial centers of Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Mingzhou, and Lin'an, among which the Arab merchants who believed in the true god religion were the largest. Among all the foreign merchants who settled in China, the Pu family, who had settled in the Southern Song Dynasty for six generations, was the most luxurious. The ancestral name of the Pu family was Abu Dhabi, a maritime merchant from Arabia, who first settled in Guangzhou, and then took the homonym Pu of Abu Dhabi as his surname. When it was passed to the fifth generation of Pu Kaizong, the family moved to Quanzhou, and still took the sea trade as its main business, and the business became bigger and bigger, and when it was passed to the sixth generation of Pu Shou Geng and Pu Shou Sheng, it already had more than 2,000 sea ships, monopolized the spice imports of the Southern Song Dynasty, and became the leading wealthy businessman in the entire Great Song Dynasty and even the world.
And these two super-rich people don't stay in the mansion on Tumen Street to play beautiful chess (with 32 beauties as chess pieces), but they come here to drink wind and rain, which is really surprising.
The guy who was a little anxious was Pu Shousheng, who had served as the governor of Meizhou, and calmly replied that his younger brother had served as Pu Shougeng, who had served as the director of Quanzhou City. Although both brothers had official status, they were still maritime merchants at heart, and they never regarded the Southern Song Dynasty, a country where the pagans had an absolute advantage, as their homeland.
Pu Shougeng waved to the back, and several young people with the same white skin and high nose walked over, all of whom were the seventh generation of their Pu family.
"Go and keep the dock close to the left, don't let outsiders get close!"
A few young people ran downstairs like smoke, more strong men in short clothes and swords in their hands were already waiting downstairs, and when they saw a few pumen coming down, they immediately followed them to the four sides of the dock in the rain.
Pu Shousheng seemed to be a little uneasy, and turned his head to look at Pu Shougeng, "Haiyun, have you said hello to the left-wing navy?" ”
"It's all been pawned, thousands of copper pieces have been smashed out, even if there is a whole Mongolian naval army today, those Han people in the left wing army will not bother."
When it comes to the left-wing naval army stationed in Quanzhou for many years, Pu Shougeng's face is full of disdain. This naval army was established in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty and was stationed in Fashi Port near the mouth of the sea, with a military quota of four or five thousand people, and a vacancy of at least two thousand and five! Half of the rest are old and weak, and there are only a thousand people who can really sail to sea. There are no big ships, so they can only go around the waters near Quanzhou to catch smugglers or something, and they are often beaten by boat bandits (smugglers and part-time pirates). Compared with the Pujia fleet, which has more than 2,000 ships and more than 100,000 sailors, it is even weaker!
It's just that no matter how weak the left-wing navy is, it also represents the Great Song Dynasty, and no matter how strong the Pu family is, they are only merchants, and they are still the targets of the Great Song Dynasty's looting and extortion -- the commercial taxes of the Southern Song Dynasty are extremely heavy. The extraction tax levied by the Quanzhou City Shipping Division alone is as high as 2 million yuan, accounting for 5% of the annual income of the Southern Song Dynasty, and at most half of the imported goods will be "bought" by the Municipal Shipping Division at a low price. In addition, the local officials in Quanzhou, the Fujian Pacification Division, the Coastal Control Division, and even the powerful people in Lin'an all need to spend money on maritime businessmen. Add up a few, most of the profits of sea trade go to others, how to make Pu Shougeng and Pu Shousheng brothers not resentful? The thought of millions of pounds of copper flowing into the hands of the Han people every year in vain, the two brothers really felt as if they had been cut alive.
Moreover, what makes the Pu brothers even more miserable is that the Pu family's overseas trade is now facing a huge crisis! The news just came that the Pu family's homeland was attacked by the Mongols not long ago! The Abbasid caliph al-Mustasin was trampled to death! The glorious capital of the Great Food Empire, Baghdad, was devastated and hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered by the Mongols. And this is just the beginning of the Mongols' strategy of the Great Eat! The Pu brothers are convinced that it will not be long before the Nine Tours of Great Mongolia will be inserted into the land of Africa, and the glorious and magnificent cities of Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Alexandria will be conquered by Great Mongolia!
If the merchant ships of the Pu family still want to dock at the shores of the Great Food, they must be loyal to the Great Mongolia! Otherwise, the rich food trade route will be closed to the Pu family forever, and the Pu family will lose at least half of their profits every year.
Therefore, after learning of this bad news, the two heads of the Pu family unanimously decided to contact Mongolia through the Semu merchants who were operating in the northland. Unexpectedly, he received a response from the Mongolian side so quickly, and Liu Xiaoyuan, the representative of Kublai Khan, the four kings in charge of Han affairs, had already traveled south with the envoys of the Pu family, and arrived in Penghu with Kublai Khan's letter and the gold seal given to him three days ago. Because he was afraid of being discovered by the Southern Song Dynasty, he took advantage of today's stormy weather to venture into Hong Kong.
Now it's finally safe and sound!
Looking at the ship getting closer and closer, the two brothers of the Pu family let out a long sigh. Although they were already determined to rebel against the Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty was still very strong on land, and not long ago they had even defeated the Great Mongol Heavenly Soldiers in Yangzhou. This kind of power is not something that the more than 100,000 sailors of the Pu family can fight against. Moreover, most of those sailors are Han Chinese, and less than one-tenth of them truly believe in the true God.
So now is not the time to tear up his face with Da Song, the blow of the Pu family still has to be saved to the most critical moment. I hope that it will be a blow to destroy the Song Dynasty, cut off the Han people, and turn Quanzhou into the territory of the Pu family!
May the true gods bless the Great Mongolia and let the Great Mongolia dominate the four seas!
Pu Shougeng prayed silently in his heart, his eyes were full of fanaticism, as if he had seen the rich city bow at his feet, and millions of Han people knelt on the ground and trembled, all of them became his slaves.