Chapter 667: The Wedding Proceeds (13)
Among them, the most important is the maintenance of the relationship between Qiao Mao, Ding Yuan, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other surrounding princes and Yang Rui, the relationship between these princes and Yang Rui's camp has long been established, but whether it is hostility or alliance, taking advantage of Yang Rui's wedding, they have also put forward a lot of new cooperation intentions.
The princes of the alliance side are to consolidate the relationship with Yang Rui, while the princes of the hostile camp are to maintain the status quo and avoid too much intervention by Yang Rui.
Including Ma Teng, Tao Qian, Sun Jian and other princes who are relatively far away, they are also actively repairing relations with Yang Rui, and have put forward a lot of cooperation intentions in various fields.
At this time, with the royal wedding as the node, Yang Rui was the most widely recognized among the princes, and his position was finally consolidated, laying the foundation for dominating one side within the region and even in the entire Three Kingdoms civilization region.
The Imperial Wedding may not be comparable to the "Princes' Alliance" during the Spring and Autumn Period, when the princes were hegemonic, when the major overlords usually established their status through the "Princes' Alliance" and received special rights from Zhou Tianzi.
Therefore, the "alliance of princes" is often regarded as a landmark event for the princes to dominate.
The main reason why Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Sun Qian, Fu Zhu, Chen Lin, Liu Ba and others are very united in supporting Yang Rui's wedding is that the Spring and Autumn "Princes' Alliance" incident is the goal and reference.
In fact, Yang Rui's royal wedding has a lot of similarities with the "Princes' Alliance", and the major princes have attended in person or sent envoys, and they have received a high-level royal gift from the Son of Heaven. All the big and small forces from all over the world came to congratulate. are significant table xiàn.
The royal wedding can be said to be a landmark event in Yang Rui's development and growth. After this incident, the basic form and framework of Yang Rui and the relevant major princes have been established, and even have a great impact on the development and promotion direction of the entire Three Kingdoms civilization region.
In addition to the major princes, various large and small forces have also reached a lot of cooperation agreements or intentions with Yang Rui, even if there are more agreements mainly on commerce and trade, in addition to being profitable, friendship with Yang Rui is also the main purpose.
For example, the Xuzhou big merchant Mi family, Mi Zhu personally came to participate in Yang Rui's royal wedding this time, not only married his sister Mi Zhen directly to Yang Rui. At the same time, Mijia also reached a series of cooperation intentions with Yang Rui, including basic resources, various finished products, etc.
In terms of resources, Mijia almost undertook several categories of basic resources except grain, about half of the trade, especially in terms of timber, eighty percent of which was handed over to Xuzhou Mijia to operate, and the low-grade timber produced in Qingzhou and Ezo was sold by Mijia, and at the same time responsible for Yang Rui to purchase high-grade timber.
The cooperation between the Mi family and Yang Rui will inevitably have no less benefits, and at the same time, it also has the intention of representing the attitude of Tao Qian in Xuzhou. After all, at this time, Mi Zhu is Tao Qian's other driving history, and the Mi family has completely fallen to Tao Qian's camp.
And in terms of food resources. It is also the most important of the many resources, and it is still in the hands of Wei Xiuer.
Although the Wei family of Chenliujun is also like the Mi family in Xuzhou, there is a daughter Wei Xiu'er who married Yang Rui as his wife, and the relationship has been enhanced again, but the main body of the Wei family of Chenliujun has already fallen to Cao Cao's side, so there is no more cooperation in resource trade.
Chen Liujun Weijia only expanded Yipinxiang's business on a large scale this time, including the supply of wine, various materials, finished products, etc., and undergrounded a lot of orders to Yang Rui's family, and almost all the purchases in the surrounding areas were placed in Yang Rui's territory.
As a result, the scale of trade between Chen Liuwei and Yang Rui within the Yipinxiang chain system has almost tripled.
However, Wei Xiu'er has completely become Yang Rui's person at this time, and the basic resources such as food she manages have almost nothing to do with Chen Liuwei's family.
The Xuzhou Mi family and the Chen Liuwei family are just two representatives of many large and small forces in various places, and the rest of the seven clans such as Jingzhou have the Kuai family, the Cai family, the Ma family, and the Yang family.
Including the supply of ships, Yang Rui ordered more than 1,000 medium-sized transport ships from each of the four companies, which made several companies overjoyed and happy.
In terms of warships, Yang Rui already has the ability of large-scale production at this time, such as large and medium-sized warships such as building ships, fighting ships, and shippers are being launched one after another, and various small warships such as Ge ships and clippers have also been in full production.
However, due to the shortage of manpower and craftsmen, there is a shortage of transport ships among Yang Rui's forces, and at this time, Yang Rui distributes large orders to several families, and establishing contacts is only one of the aspects, and he has a rigid demand.
After the battle with Cao Cao and Liu Dai, the blueprint for the water defense line that Yang Rui expected to build before has already met the conditions for construction.
In order to achieve the goal of controlling the Yellow River and Jishui in the north and Wenshui and Surabaya in the south, effectively defending a large area of land in the northern part of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and even expanding the control area to the line of Yingshui and Huai River, encircling the Qing and Yanzhou prefectures, and providing protection for the two allies of Ding Yuan and Qiao Mao, it is obvious that ships are a must-have item!
For this reason, Yang Rui not only threw out several large orders to the four families in Jingzhou, but also ordered 1,000 transport ships from the Lu family and the whole family in Yangzhou, which made the two also happy.
You must know that among the transport ships ordered by Yang Rui, the lowest price also needs more than dozens of gold coins, and the larger ones are also more expensive.
Whether it is the family in Jingzhou or the family in Jiangdong, due to the geographical distance, most of the people who came to congratulate Yang Rui on his wedding this time are mainly side branches, and being able to get back such a big list for the family is also an important support for their own status in the family, so they can't help but be unhappy.
While ordering a large number of ships from Jingzhou and Yangzhou, Yang Rui also agreed with Jizhou businessmen - Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang to order a large order of 30,000 horses per year, and expanded the scope of business to cattle, donkeys and other large livestock.
At this time, large livestock such as horses, cows, and donkeys can undertake a lot of heavy work, which is the basis for transportation, farming, etc., and Yang Rui collected a large number of these large livestock, naturally in order to further improve the productivity within the jurisdiction, and also had the strategic intention of competing with Yuan Shao and others for production tools
Business orders such as the South Ship and the North Horse, Yang Rui signed out an unknown number of orders in one day, almost so that the large and small forces and families in various places did not return empty-handed, and at the same time, all the guests were happy, and naturally they were deeply shocked by the strong strength shown by Yang Rui's generous strokes!
The day passed quickly, Yang Rui gained a lot of money but had a headache again, seeing the night under the cover and the lights on at the beginning, Yang Rui finally went to the courtyard of the Lady of the Mandate of Heaven - Ren Sisi (to be continued......