In troubled times, relying on the strong is undoubtedly the safest way to survive, and in Pan Yan's opinion, the strength of Haihan, a strong man, is even above the Ming Dynasty. Because just Zhoushan, an overseas territory under the rule of the Han Dynasty, a little action is enough to make the Zhejiang government a mess and tired of coping. The Ming army, which once claimed to be invincible, also suffered setbacks one after another under his nose, and had to take the initiative to negotiate peace and beg Haihan to withdraw as soon as possible. With Pan Yan's knowledge, he really couldn't imagine how strong the national strength of the Haihan State was, so that it could maintain such a powerful military strength thousands of miles away from the country.

The longer he stayed in the Haihan army, the more interested Pan Yan became in the Haihan country, most of the Haihan soldiers he came into contact with were once Ming nationals, and the rest were generally from the south of the Li Miao ethnic group and Annamite descent, in addition to a very small number of short Dongying people, deep-eyed and high-nosed Persians, dark-skinned Kunlun slaves, and even blonde and blue-eyed Xifan serving in the army, the composition of the army can be described as extremely complex, which also shows that the territory of the Haihan country should not be small- Although Wang Tom once said that the territory of Haihan was probably only the size of the Ming Dynasty, Pan Yan thought that this statement might just be a deliberate joke on the other side.

But the more he came into contact, the more Pan Yan didn't understand the thoughts of the Haihan people. A country with such a strong military strength does not have much extravagant hope for land, and can obviously use the army to attack cities and plunder land, but it has to take the path of business, and expand its sphere of influence with the help of trade, which is a slow and effective means. For example, this time, the Haihan army attacked the city of Hangzhou smoothly, occupying an obvious battlefield advantage, and it can even be said that it is expected to break the city, but its purpose is that the drunkard does not want to drink, but to use this to force the Zhejiang government to agree to open up the right to trade. is also staging a bitter trick and using the army, how can it be smooth to do business in the local area just to do business in the local area after such a big play, which is simply like killing a chicken with a knife in Pan Yan's eyes.

But at the same time, Pan Yan also knew that the Haihan people were extremely shrewd, and the actions they had always taken were calculated before they started, and they would never trade at a loss, which must have deep meaning. It's just that his brain is not smart enough, and he can't figure out the real reason why the Haihan people chose this strategy for a while, but he paid so much price before, and it must be to get greater benefits from the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Tom asked, "Is there anything happening on the Qiantang River today?"

Pan Yan hurriedly retracted his thoughts and bowed down in response: "There are several cargo ships from upstream, loaded with goods destined for Dinghai Port, and the shipowner also has a port entry permit issued by the management committee. According to the previous instructions of the lord, they were all released after inspection. ”

Although the Haihan Army has nominally blocked the Qiantang River waterway, in fact it is not without a back door. All ships that have business dealings with Haihan and are on their way to and from Zhoushan Dinghai Port can still pass Haihan's inventory on the Qiantang River as long as they present the port entry permit issued by the Port Management Committee. In this way, the losses of Haihan's cooperative merchants will be minimized in disguise, and those merchants who have no trade with Haihan can only consider themselves unlucky, and must temporarily stop their activities near the mouth of the Qiantang River.

As for the livelihood of the fishermen along the river, it has not been greatly affected, and Haihan still allows these small fishing boats to fish near the shore, but they can no longer enter the main channel in the middle of the river at will. The ferries near Hangzhou City were all banned, and if they wanted to cross the river, they could only go to places outside the control of the upper Haihan to find boats.

Obviously, the military operations during this period will have a significant negative impact on the import and export trade of Dinghai Port, but the Haihan side is sure that after surviving this difficult period, the scale of cross-border trade around Dinghai Port will be raised to a new height. After all, there are a lot of people in Hangzhou who rely on shipping to eat, and even if the senior officials refuse to bow to Haihan, they have to take into account the degree of local public grievances, not to mention that many officials have participated in the operation of private shipping in private, and they can be regarded as one of the vested interests.

Of course, the most targeted targets of the Haihan fleet were not civilian ships, but armed sailing ships belonging to the upper state capitals. These combat ships belonging to the Zhejiang Navy Division had already suffered great losses when the Haihan fleet advanced into the Qiantang River, and now no one would take the initiative to go downstream to fight the terrible Haihan warships. Zhejiang Dusi knew that he was not an opponent of Haihan on the water, and he only symbolically gave the order of "strict prevention and death", and did not force the sailor to take the initiative to attack, so in the past few days, the Qiantang River has been calm and calm, and there has been no major chaos.

Wang Tom said: "In a few days, this matter will be resolved, I will give you two days off, and you can go to Hangzhou City for a walk." This is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are still a lot of delicious and fun things that you will definitely not be able to enjoy in the north. ”

Pan Yan hesitated: "The humble post is a traitor to the imperial court, and now he is serving under the general, if his identity is revealed, I am afraid that he will not be able to leave Hangzhou City!"

Wang Tom shook his head with a smile and said, "You think too much, even if the government knows that you are from our side, it will not do anything to you." It is very likely that someone will be specially sent to protect you, otherwise if something happens to you in Hangzhou, it will be a big trouble!"

Pan Yan seems to be justified when he thinks about it, the Zhejiang government has suffered a big loss this time, and it will definitely not let similar incidents become the reason for Haihan to raise troops in the future. At that time, the government should have agreed to open up to trade, and as long as he entered Hangzhou City as a merchant, he should not cause any trouble.

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table. Qi Jie and Qu Yu came out of the Haihan camp and rode back to the city. Wang Ji and the others had already gathered in the yamen of the political envoy and waited anxiously, and finally waited for the two to return.

"Fortunately, the Haihan people have agreed to withdraw their troops!" Qu Yu first reported a good news.

Someone secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they heard it, but Wang Ji was not so quickly confused by Qu Yutong's words, and asked, "What about the conditions proposed by the Haihan people?"

Qu Yu Tongqi said: "If you don't agree to their conditions, how can you let them withdraw on their own?"

Wang Ji snorted coldly and said, "Since it's about conditions, you have to bargain." Master Qu didn't want to tell the official that you agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Haihan people, right?"

This book was first published on the Genesis Chinese website, and the following content will be re-edited later for anti-theft

In troubled times, relying on the strong is undoubtedly the safest way to survive, and in Pan Yan's opinion, the strength of Haihan, a strong man, is even above the Ming Dynasty. Because just Zhoushan, an overseas territory under the rule of the Han Dynasty, a little action is enough to make the Zhejiang government a mess and tired of coping. The Ming army, which once claimed to be invincible, also suffered setbacks one after another under his nose, and had to take the initiative to negotiate peace and beg Haihan to withdraw as soon as possible. With Pan Yan's knowledge, he really couldn't imagine how strong the national strength of the Haihan State was, so that it could maintain such a powerful military strength thousands of miles away from the country.

The longer he stayed in the Haihan army, the more interested Pan Yan became in the Haihan country, most of the Haihan soldiers he came into contact with were once Ming nationals, and the rest were generally from the south of the Li Miao ethnic group and Annamite descent, in addition to a very small number of short Dongying people, deep-eyed and high-nosed Persians, dark-skinned Kunlun slaves, and even blonde and blue-eyed Xifan serving in the army, the composition of the army can be described as extremely complex, which also shows that the territory of the Haihan country should not be small- Although Wang Tom once said that the territory of Haihan was probably only the size of the Ming Dynasty, Pan Yan thought that this statement might just be a deliberate joke on the other side.

But the more he came into contact, the more Pan Yan didn't understand the thoughts of the Haihan people. A country with such a strong military strength does not have much extravagant hope for land, and can obviously use the army to attack cities and plunder land, but it has to take the path of business, and expand its sphere of influence with the help of trade, which is a slow and effective means. For example, this time, the Haihan army attacked the city of Hangzhou smoothly, occupying an obvious battlefield advantage, and it can even be said that it is expected to break the city, but its purpose is that the drunkard does not want to drink, but to use this to force the Zhejiang government to agree to open up the right to trade. is also staging a bitter trick and using the army, how can it be smooth to do business in the local area just to do business in the local area after such a big play, which is simply like killing a chicken with a knife in Pan Yan's eyes.

But at the same time, Pan Yan also knew that the Haihan people were extremely shrewd, and the actions they had always taken were calculated before they started, and they would never trade at a loss, which must have deep meaning. It's just that his brain is not smart enough, and he can't figure out the real reason why the Haihan people chose this strategy for a while, but he paid so much price before, and it must be to get greater benefits from the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Tom asked, "Is there anything happening on the Qiantang River today?"

Pan Yan hurriedly retracted his thoughts and bowed down in response: "There are several cargo ships from upstream, loaded with goods destined for Dinghai Port, and the shipowner also has a port entry permit issued by the management committee. According to the previous instructions of the lord, they were all released after inspection. ”

Although the Haihan Army has nominally blocked the Qiantang River waterway, in fact it is not without a back door. All ships that have business dealings with Haihan and are on their way to and from Zhoushan Dinghai Port can still pass Haihan's inventory on the Qiantang River as long as they present the port entry permit issued by the Port Management Committee. In this way, the losses of Haihan's cooperative merchants will be minimized in disguise, and those merchants who have no trade with Haihan can only consider themselves unlucky, and must temporarily stop their activities near the mouth of the Qiantang River.

As for the livelihood of the fishermen along the river, it has not been greatly affected, and Haihan still allows these small fishing boats to fish near the shore, but they can no longer enter the main channel in the middle of the river at will. The ferries near Hangzhou City were all banned, and if they wanted to cross the river, they could only go to places outside the control of the upper Haihan to find boats.

Obviously, the military operations during this period will have a significant negative impact on the import and export trade of Dinghai Port, but the Haihan side is sure that after surviving this difficult period, the scale of cross-border trade around Dinghai Port will be raised to a new height. After all, there are a lot of people in Hangzhou who rely on shipping to eat, and even if the senior officials refuse to bow to Haihan, they have to take into account the degree of local public grievances, not to mention that many officials have participated in the operation of private shipping in private, and they can be regarded as one of the vested interests.

Of course, the most targeted targets of the Haihan fleet were not civilian ships, but armed sailing ships belonging to the upper state capitals. These combat ships belonging to the Zhejiang Navy Division had already suffered great losses when the Haihan fleet advanced into the Qiantang River, and now no one would take the initiative to go downstream to fight the terrible Haihan warships. Zhejiang Dusi knew that he was not an opponent of Haihan on the water, and he only symbolically gave the order of "strict prevention and death", and did not force the sailor to take the initiative to attack, so in the past few days, the Qiantang River has been calm and calm, and there has been no major chaos.

Wang Tom said: "In a few days, this matter will be resolved, I will give you two days off, and you can go to Hangzhou City for a walk." This is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are still a lot of delicious and fun things that you will definitely not be able to enjoy in the north. ”

Pan Yan hesitated: "The humble post is a traitor to the imperial court, and now he is serving under the general, if his identity is revealed, I am afraid that he will not be able to leave Hangzhou City!"

Wang Tom shook his head with a smile and said, "You think too much, even if the government knows that you are from our side, it will not do anything to you." It is very likely that someone will be specially sent to protect you, otherwise if something happens to you in Hangzhou, it will be a big trouble!"

Pan Yan seems to be justified when he thinks about it, the Zhejiang government has suffered a big loss this time, and it will definitely not let similar incidents become the reason for Haihan to raise troops in the future. At that time, the government should have agreed to open up to trade, and as long as he entered Hangzhou City as a merchant, he should not cause any trouble.

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table. Qi Jie and Qu Yu came out of the Haihan camp and rode back to the city. Wang Ji and the others had already gathered in the yamen of the political envoy and waited anxiously, and finally waited for the two to return.

"Fortunately, the Haihan people have agreed to withdraw their troops!" Qu Yu first reported a good news.

Someone secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they heard it, but Wang Ji was not so quickly confused by Qu Yutong's words, and asked, "What about the conditions proposed by the Haihan people?"

Qu Yu Tongqi said: "If you don't agree to their conditions, how can you let them withdraw on their own?"

Wang Ji snorted coldly and said, "Since it's about conditions, you have to bargain." Master Qu didn't want to tell the official that you agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Haihan people, right?"

(End of chapter)