As time goes by, Zhao Yan's high-priced purchase of more than 100-year-old ginseng has spread more and more widely, as long as there is a century-old Changbai Mountain ginseng in his hand, and people who are not in a hurry to use it, they will try their best until the capital sells it to Yue Wangfu, after all, it is twice the price when it changes hands, and this kind of trade is not a loss.

However, ginseng was originally used less in this period of the Great Song Dynasty, and the huge Song Kingdom really couldn't find many ginseng that was more than 100 years old, not to mention that it must be ginseng produced in Changbai Mountain, so in the end, the inventory of 100-year-old ginseng in the Great Song Dynasty was almost purchased by Zhao Yan, and the remaining people with ginseng were either too far away to catch up with the capital, or they were in a hurry and unwilling to sell, and finally there was a kind of people who wanted to hoard Juqi, thinking that Zhao Yan bought such a large amount of 100-year-old ginseng, and it would definitely be difficult to find ginseng in the future, and the price would definitely rise.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that in the end, although Zhao Yan's mansion has always claimed that the number of people who purchased it is still too small, but no one has come to sell ginseng anymore, so Zhao Yan once again increased the price of ginseng for more than 100 years by 50%, and as a result, it finally caused the madness of many businessmen, and they began to set their sights on the distant Changbai Mountain, which is the origin of ginseng, and there must be a lot of ginseng that is more than 100 years old.

In this case, many businessmen began to organize manpower and material resources, ready to go to Changbai Mountain, no matter what method to get a batch of ginseng, but before these merchants set off, there was a sudden news in the mall, belonging to the name of the Yue Wangfu several sea trade fleets began to openly recruit manpower, prepare materials, and I don't know where the news came from, these sea trade fleets under the order of Zhao Yan, will personally go to Changbai Mountain to buy ginseng more than a hundred years old.

For the above news, many businessmen felt very disappointed, after all, Zhao Yan's own fleet was going to Changbai Mountain to buy ginseng, and there would definitely be nothing for them to do in the future. However, what everyone didn't expect was that Zhao Yan did not cancel the purchase of ginseng, but once again increased the price of ginseng by fifty percent, that is, Zhao Yan raised the price of hundred-year-old ginseng to three times.

Seeing this, those already disappointed businessmen once again surged with a few hopes. One by one, they began to prepare to go north to buy ginseng, and some of them even directly found Zhao Yan's fleet and asked to go to Changbai Mountain in partnership, of course, the ginseng they purchased needed to be handed over to a part of the fleet, and the steward of the fleet agreed to this request after thinking about it.

A month later, several fleets under Zhao Yan were finally prepared, and then they left the coastal area of the Great Song Dynasty and headed north. They would pass through the northern coast of the Great Song Dynasty, then bypass Goryeo, and finally reach the coastal area on the eastern side of Changbai Mountain, where the Jurchens could obtain enough ginseng directly from the Jurchens. It's just that the merchants who didn't join in temporarily at this time suddenly found that the fleets under Zhao Yan seemed to have a little too many people, there were thousands of people, and there didn't seem to be any goods in the fleet to trade with the Jurchens. On the contrary, the crew and guards recruited by the fleet are all vicious, and if you don't know, you still think that these are pirate ships.

Meanwhile. In the territory of Changbai Nu in the northeast of Huanglong Mansion, since the last sneak attack on Yelujun and almost captured the other party alive, Ah Guda led the Wanyan Department to retreat to Changbai Mountain, this time they sent troops not only to defeat Huanglong Mansion, but also to loot the materials of Huanglong Mansion. Moreover, they defeated the Liao army several times, so that they captured a lot of military materials, which can be said to be a great harvest, enough for their Jurchens to eat and drink for several years.

It is precisely because of this that whether it is the Wanyan Department or other Jurchen tribes. When he returned to Changbai Mountain, he had a beaming expression, but Aguta did not relax his vigilance because of this, but immediately ordered the entire tribe to retreat deeper into the mountains and forests after returning to the station of the Yan Division, and he also sent a warning to the other tribes, indicating that the Liao army was likely to send troops to chase and kill again, so it was best to flee farther.

For the warning of Aguta, the leaders of many tribes are not careful, first, Aguta has just become the leader of the Wanyan Department, and he has won the position of leader through improper means, even if he led them to fight a big victory before, but the prestige is still not enough to convince people, plus the Changbai Mountain area has always been the territory of the Jurchens, and the Liao army will be beaten by them every time they kill it, so they are not worried that the Liao army will kill their lair at all.

However, this time Ah Guda guessed correctly, because Yelujun was attacked by them before, and almost even made himself a prisoner of the Jurchens, so shameful and humiliating, naturally Yelujun, who was arrogant by nature, could not accept it, so after he withdrew from the Jurchens, he immediately gathered the armies of the east and west, and then gathered his remnants to kill in the Changbai Mountains, although many ministers persuaded each other, but Yelujun insisted on revenge.

However, although Yelujun has been greedy for pleasure in recent years, his brain has not been broken at all, and he also knows that if he leads the army into the mountains and forests of Changbai Mountain like this, he will definitely suffer a big loss, but he thought of a very vicious plan, that is, to burn the mountain.

Changbai Mountain is full of dense mountains and forests in this era, it is already autumn at this time, and the trees in the mountains and forests are also yellow and dry leaves, and it only takes a little spark to cause an amazing mountain fire, and it is precisely this that is known, so Yelu Jun first sent a small elite team to sneak into Changbai Mountain, and finally figured out the location of those Jurchen tribes with huge casualties, and then he sent people with fire oil to touch the upwind of these tribes, and directly set a fire, and the fierce mountain fire was blown by the strong wind all the way to those Jurchen tribes, which made them have nowhere to flee if they wanted to, and in the end, except for a few who survived, most of them died under the fire of the Liao army.

However, although the power of the mountain fire is great, the side effects are also not small, at least almost all the mountainous areas near Huanglongfu are involved in this man-made fire, countless mountains have been burned into black soil, and many innocent people have been injured by this fire, for this kind of consequence, Yelujun has long expected this consequence, but he has long been overwhelmed by anger before, and he can't care about these at all.

A fire burned tens of thousands of Jurchens to death, but no trace of Wanyan was found, which made Yelujun still a little unwilling, and originally wanted to send someone to investigate, but unfortunately it was the end of autumn at this time, the weather was getting more and more accurate, and the first snow was about to fall.

When he learned that Yelu Jun had set fire to the mountains and forests in the face of the world's disapproval, he was also shocked, and at the same time secretly glad that he hid quickly, otherwise he would have died in the fire of the Liao army, but this also made him hate the Liao country even more, and began to contact more Jurchen tribes, ready to unify the Jurchens first, and when the troops in his hands are enough, he must make the Liao army pay a hundred times the price for what he has done today!

However, not long after the Liao army retreated, Wanyan encountered a big problem. In order to avoid the Liao army, they retreated to the northeast of Changbai Mountain, which is actually the road that Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan were preparing to form an alliance with Zhao Yan at the beginning, not far from the sea, and because of the sea, the temperature here in winter is a little higher than that of the inland, but it is easier to survive the winter.

Originally, according to Ah Guta's plan, he planned to let the tribe recuperate here for a winter, and then after the spring of next year, he planned to unify the Jurchens, but as soon as the weather became cold, a group of uninvited guests came to the tribe.

The sun was shining on this day, and Ah Gu was ready to organize the men in the tribe to go out hunting, although they robbed a lot of materials in Liao, and the food alone was enough for them to eat for a few years, but their Jurchens have always been poor and afraid, and the more food they have, the better, so before the heavy snow closes the road, it is always a good thing to be able to prepare more food, and hunting can exercise the fighting skills of the men in the tribe, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

However, just as Aguda had just organized the men in the tribe, he suddenly saw a clansman who was letting off the wind outside quickly run in and report loudly: "Chief, a group of people from outside look like Koreans!" ”

"Koreans, how did they come here on their own initiative?" Ah Guda was also stunned when he heard the report of the clansmen.

Speaking of which, the relationship between their Wanyan Department and the Goryeo people is not bad, and even the first leader of the Wanyan Department still holds the position of a Goryeo Huaihua general, but Goryeo, like the Liao State, regards their Jurchens as savages, and never takes the initiative to come and go, and the main communication is that when their Jurchens do not have enough food to eat, they will take furs, ginseng and other specialties to the border market set up by the Goryeo people to exchange some food with the Goryeos, and this kind of trade is mainly dominated by the Goryeo. Often, the Jurchens begged the Goryeo people to make a deal, and for this reason, the price of their goods would be kept extremely low, and a precious century-old mountain ginseng could only be exchanged for a cart of grain, and furs and the like were even cheaper.

"Big brother, don't guess, let's go and see, won't we?" At this time, Wu Qimai said with a big grin, he was also very curious about the initiative of the Koreans, but now that they have enough supplies, they are not afraid that the Koreans will lower the price when doing business, and they will be driven out if they can't talk.

"It's okay, the others continue to go out hunting, but our brothers see what the hell the Goryeo people are up to?" Ah Gu bared his teeth, he also didn't have a good impression of the Koreans, and now there is no shortage of materials in the Wanyan Department, if there is something missing in the future, he can also grab some from the Koreans, anyway, the Koreans are much easier to deal with than the Liao. (To be continued......)