Chapter 405: Hu Shangbul
The Han Dynasty and other countries began with the opening of the Silk Road.
The Silk Road began in the Western Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At this time, the Han Dynasty was the richest and most powerful country in the world, and the merchants of Eurasia were proud to be able to trade with the Han Dynasty.
Although it is now the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are still many foreign merchants living in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, and these people generally have a general name, and the Han Dynasty people call them Hu Shang.
Although the countries are happy to go to the Han Dynasty to do business, but the Silk Road is too far, more than 7,000 kilometers long, and most of them are deserts with harsh climate terrain, so it can be said that every time a merchant has to look at the will of God, if God opens his eyes, if he is lucky, he may be able to go to the Han Dynasty, if God does not open his eyes, luck is almost there, these merchants will be buried on the Silk Road.
In later generations, there is a legend that there are many precious jewels buried on the Silk Road, which is actually true, most of these are Hu merchants who died on the way, and the goods they carried with them were buried, these things are waiting for the excavation of future generations, if they cannot be discovered, they will be slowly assimilated by time, and finally disappear with the long river of history.
Compared with the danger of the Silk Road, although the sea voyage is equally dangerous, if it is sailed along the coast, it is actually relatively safe, and the fleet of the Dayong Kingdom has explored the routes, and the merchants of the countries only need to pass through these routes, which is safer and more secure.
When the big ships of the Great Yongguo were mighty on the sea, the merchants began to take an interest in the Great Yongguo, and they were happy to go to the Great Yongguo to do business, because the Great Yongguo was strong.
It's a strange psychology, for many. They will think that the more powerful the country, the better the things produced, with the predecessor of the Han Dynasty, and then there is the aftermath of the Dayong Kingdom, the merchants of the countries easily accepted this concept, and the things produced by the Dayong Kingdom are good and leading. As long as you bring it back, you can get rich.
The lord of Malacca City is Dongguo Chengming, who came to Wanghai City with Mo Fei Mo Buyan, Zhang Gui and Zhang Ziyi, etc., and then was sent by Kong Ming and Xu Shu to the Strait of Malacca to build Malacca City.
Now that the construction of Malacca City has been completed, the construction of Malacca City marks that the Dayong Kingdom has completely controlled the important shipping route of the Strait of Malacca, and at the same time, it has also explored the surrounding islands. Some of the natives were killed, some of the natives were moved to the Dayong Kingdom, and a very small number of the natives hid in the forest areas of the island.
With the increase in the population of Dayongguo, today, Malacca City is quite prosperous, the standing dragon god army is 8,000, and the common people are almost 70,000, and among them. Almost all of these commoners were maritime merchants, and they were ready to go to sea at any time.
These people are the second batch of maritime merchants in the Dayong Kingdom. Ordinary people who yearn for peace and tranquility generally do not come to this city, after all, it is far away from Wanghai City, and only those who are not willing to be lonely will come to Malacca City, these people are looking forward to getting rich like the first maritime merchants, so it can be said that the current city of Malacca is very aggressive. Of course, this aggressiveness refers to outsiders.
Before the first batch of maritime merchants went to sea, didn't Lin Bei formulate a strict law, at that time Lin Bei was very worried that because of the vast sea, these maritime merchants would kill each other, and this strict law did play a great role. The lives of many maritime merchants were saved, and these maritime merchants also paid more and more attention to this law, and with the establishment of the Dayong Kingdom, the law was gradually improved.
Now, if you ask the natives who have been plundered by the maritime merchants of the Dayong Kingdom and ask them to describe their impression of the maritime merchants of the Dayong Kingdom, these natives will definitely say two words: murderous and united.
Murder refers to the indigenous people, and solidarity refers to themselves.
The Dayong Chamber of Commerce has also opened up a special organization to manage maritime merchants, which is based in Wanghai, and there is also a branch in Malacca City, which has a stricter review of maritime merchants' qualifications and vouchers, and if one of the maritime merchants dies, the investigation measures can be called strict.
And now, the Dayong Merchants Chamber of Commerce is ready to manage the Hu merchants, and it is necessary to issue the qualifications and certificates of these Hu merchants to do business in the Dayong Kingdom, because a group of Hu merchants from the poisonous country have come to Malacca.
Although the Poison Country and the Dayong Kingdom are now at war in Lion City, for these merchants, they don't care whether they fight or not, and many merchants are also the most fearless of war.
After the opening of the Silk Road, the merchants of the countries already knew the thinking of the Chinese people, even if the war was in full swing, the trade continued, and even when the war was fought, they could even do the buying and selling of weapons, which would be more profitable.
This group of Hu merchants came from all over the poisonous country, and including the servants and guards, they added up to more than a thousand people.
There was a leader of this group of Hu merchants, named Muhammad. Boolean.
Bull's ancestors are also Hu merchants, after the Silk Road was opened, Bull's ancestors once trekked mountains and rivers to the Han Dynasty, and came and went three times, bringing back a large number of Han Dynasty goods, when many Hu merchants died on the Silk Road, the experience of three trade made Bul's ancestors were once a legendary figure.
But then, the family never went to the Han Dynasty again, and the Silk Road was too dangerous, not only did it have to pass through various countries, but it also had to beware of horse thieves who arose because of the Silk Road.
Bull's ancestors got rid of a large number of Han Dynasty goods, but some of them remained at home, these things were regarded as family heirlooms, Bull grew up in this kind of family, and admired the culture of the Han Dynasty very much, because according to the words left by Bull's ancestors, the Han people are simply exemplary, kind, upright, humble and erudite, but there are also bad ones, these Han people are greedy and hypocritical, and most of these people are Han officials.
Boer wanted to go to the Han Dynasty since he was a child, preparing to become a legend like his ancestors, for this reason, he contacted many big merchants, and prepared to organize a group to go to the Han Dynasty through the Guò Silk Road.
Just as the Han Dynasty people collectively referred to the merchants of other countries as Hu Shang, Boer actually had no concept of the Han Dynasty, only knowing that they were all Han Chinese.
Considering the danger of the Silk Road, Boer dismissed the idea of going to the Han Dynasty via the Guò Silk Road, and instead took the sea route.
As soon as he arrived in Malacca City, Bull was a little shocked, because the seventy or eighty thousand people in Malacca City are a lot for Bull, and in the city where Bull is located, there are only one or two thousand people in a few hundred miles, and there may be so many people only in Mandalay, the ancient capital of the poisonous country.
In addition, the cleanliness of Malacca City also left a deep impression on Bull, although Malacca City has just been repaired, but now almost all the cities of Dayong Kingdom will be on par with Wanghai City, clean and tidy is also a sign of whether the city is good or not, related to the ability of the ruler, under the supervision of the common people of Dayongguo, Dongguo Chengming did a good job.
The arrival of Bull and others made the people of Malacca City addicted, and many people came to see it, because many of them had never seen people from other countries. It's too dark, what's on your head? Aren't you afraid of the heat? In addition, the clothes were not very good, and then, the people of Malacca City were very disdainful: it was indeed a barbarian.
Bull sensed the malice of the people of Malacca, and felt that these Han people were not like what their ancestors said: kind, upright, and humble.
Bull asked to see the lord of Malacca City, Dong Guo Chengming, remembering the words of the ancestors, Bull took out a precious gift, a box of opals the size of pigeon eggs, according to the words of the ancestors, if you want to do anything in the Han Dynasty, it is the fastest and most convenient to send good things to these officials.
Seeing the box of opals, shining with bright light after opening, Dong Guo Chengming hesitated, don't accept it, this is the etiquette of a foreigner, it doesn't seem to be very good, take it, it doesn't seem to be very good, so Dong Guo Chengming hesitated for a fraction of a second, and said categorically: "You better take it back." ”
As long as Dongguo Chengming dares to accept this box of opals, it will not take an hour, there will definitely be a dragon god army to capture him back to Wanghai City, and now the people of Dayong are all monkey spirits, and the daily life of supervising officials has become a habit, and the officials have slowly become accustomed to the original resistance, and now, they don't feel how high it is to be an official, for these officials, it is just a job.
Bull was surprised, could this be the Qing official of the Han people that the ancestors said? It is said that this kind of person is even rarer than a poisoner who does not use divine oil.
"My lord, I want to do business in your land." Boer is fluent in Chinese, not only Chinese, but also in the languages of several countries, such as Qiuzi, Khotan, Loulan and other countries.
"We Dayong are very welcome to merchants who want to do business in our country, but this matter is not under the jurisdiction of me, the city lord."
Dongguo Chengming sued the Dayong State Chamber of Commerce and asked Bul to go to the Chamber of Commerce, and told Sù Bul that with the merchant certificate issued to them by the Chamber of Commerce, they could accept the protection of the Dragon God Army, of course, this merchant certificate needs money, and in the future, they will have to collect taxes according to the commercial tax formulated by the Dayong Kingdom, provided that these people pass through the sea area of the Dayong Kingdom.
Originally, Bull thought that this matter was very difficult, but when he arrived at the Chamber of Commerce, he knew that it was actually very simple, the staff of the Chamber of Commerce asked Bull to exchange the gem for something called the Dragon God Coin, and then, out of 10,000 Dragon God Coins to buy the merchant certificate, this merchant certificate is a small flag, called the Dragon God Merchant Flag, which can be hung on the boat or car, with this Dragon God Merchant Flag, you can buy many commodities in the Dayong Kingdom, and you can also enter and exit many places in the Dayong Kingdom, this Dragon God Business Flag has a time limit, and it is only three years for the time being, Three years later, you need to spend Dragon God Coins to buy it.
Bul left Malacca City with the merchants and went to Wanghai City, they were the first Hu merchants to come to Dayongguo, and in the future, the Hu Chamber of Commerce will continue to flow. (To be continued......)
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