"Your Majesty, Wu Shangshu asks to see you!"

Zhang Long bowed, walked over quickly, and said in a low voice.

"Xuan. Zhou Chuan opened his eyes and said lightly.

"Your Majesty has a decree, and the Xuanzhi Department Shangshu Wu has done to meet you!"

Zhang Long shouted loudly.

Zhou Chuan admired him very much, a eunuch could shout such a righteous voice, which could be regarded as a special function.

Wu Suo lowered his head, walked in quickly, and bowed: "Your Majesty, the old minister found that the merchants of the Aolai Dynasty had come to the royal city. ”

"Wu Shangshu, are you idle and have nothing to do?"

Zhou Chuan frowned slightly and said dissatisfiedly.

A businessman even took it to talk about it, isn't this a panic when he is full?

Therefore, the gaze that looked at Wu Shangshu also became stern.

Wu Suo hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty doesn't know that the merchants of this Aolai Dynasty have always sold ordnance. Their armament, the Maple Grove Dynasty, also bought quite a few. ”

"Selling ordnance?"

Hearing the ordnance, Zhou Chuan hesitated for a moment and asked, "What ordnance?"

"This ...... This old minister can't say clearly, why don't His Majesty ask him personally, he is waiting outside the palace, do you announce his audience?"

Wu replied respectfully, but he knew that everything he was doing now was given by Zhou Chuan, so he was naturally in awe of Zhou Chuan.

"Announce it. ”

Zhou Chuan also wanted to see how a businessman sold weapons, whether the Aolai royal family was behind the scenes, or those so-called families were behind the scenes.

The Aolai Dynasty is very special, it has existed for a long time, but it is still an ordinary dynasty, but there are thousands of years of family in this dynasty, which is very amazing.

And their merchants, footprints all over a dozen dynasties, jewelry, gold, yuanshi, silk, ordnance, monsters, Liji, all kinds of ores, etc., as long as they can make money, they do it.

Moreover, their trading has always been taboo-free. In the early years, they also did things like killer organizations.

If it weren't for the Holy Sect coming forward, I was afraid that all dynasties would be ruined by him.

However, the Fenglin Dynasty had recently purchased a large number of their ordnance, which had attracted the attention of Wu Su, and it was natural to hope that Zhou Chuan would pay attention to this matter.

After all, the ordnance of the Wu Zhou Dynasty has always been purchased from outside. For example, the Tongji Dynasty, which had a good relationship, often sold their ordnance to the Wuzhou Dynasty.

Generally, it is not purchased from the merchants of the Aolai Dynasty, but in recent years, the Tongji Dynasty has been in the flames of the war between the prince and the heir, and the arms trade has also decreased a lot.

Zhou Chuan naturally knew this, there were no mines in the territory of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and it was too difficult to build production by himself.

There is also an interest in this merchant of the Aolai Dynasty, and there may be unexpected surprises.

"Then declare it. ”

A glint flashed in Zhou Chuan's eyes, he stretched his waist and sat up straight.

Zhang Long went out to announce the decree.

Soon, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe walked in outside the door.

"Your Majesty of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, please allow me to introduce myself, I am a merchant from the Aolai Dynasty. ”

The Aolai merchant looked serious and saluted Zhou Chuan.

"I heard you're here to sell ordnance?"

Zhou Chuan asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, it's not an ordnance. ”

The Aolai merchant spoke in a sneering voice, like a shy girl, and a pale red appeared on his face.

Wu was stunned. He remembered just now that he kept saying that he was a merchant who sold ordnance, but now that the person came, he said that it was not the case. It feels like the sky is about to fall, this is the crime of deceiving the king!

Could this be a pit that a courtier didn't like him and dug it specially?

He had asked this proud merchant before, and he was indeed talking about ordnance!

"Your Majesty, old minister...... Lao Chen...... Sin deserves death!"

With a bang, Wu did something and fell to his knees, cold sweat streaming down his head.

"What are you guilty of?"

Zhou Chuan said lightly. There was no expression on his face, and he couldn't see any mental activity on his face, and no one knew what Zhou Chuan was thinking.

The more this was the case, the more panicked he became, but he knew that as soon as Zhou Chuan entered the royal city, he killed tens of thousands of rebels.

"Your Majesty, the old minister asked him plainly before, and he said that he was selling ordnance, so the old minister hurriedly entered the palace, but ......"

When he said this, he could no longer say any more, could he still say that he had not verified it? What is the difference between this and the crime of deceitful king?

Therefore, I will not continue to talk about it later.

"Your Majesty, when this lord asked, I did say that ordnance, but it was the raw material of ordnance. Only then did the Aolai merchant come to his senses, and he explained again and again, apparently he also realized that he had done something wrong.

"Raw materials, ores?" said Zhou Chuan calmly.

"Your Majesty, please look at ......"

The Aolai merchant took out a box from his arms, half-knelt on the ground, put the box on the ground, opened the box respectfully, held it above his head and said, "This is black iron ore." ”

"Huh?"

Seeing the black stone in the box, Zhou Chuan's eyes moved, and he said with some surprise: "Vitality?"

Beneath the black exterior, there is a faint pale white air flow swimming inside the stone. This ore is often the best choice for making excellent sword soldiers.

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

The Aolai merchant nodded respectfully, this stone is from the Yunluo Cottage. He specially acted as a middleman to find buyers, but ordinary dynasties were not willing to cooperate with the mountain bandits at all.

This includes the Aolai Dynasty, and it is also because of this that he came to the Wuzhou Dynasty, because he heard that the Wuzhou Dynasty and the Fenglin Dynasty had some friction on the frontier.

Zhou Chuan raised his eyebrows, looking at this piece of black iron ore, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Where is it made and who sells it?"

Zhou Chuan said in a deep voice, he was sure that if it was really black iron ore, then there must be a lot of buyers, why did the other party come all the way to the Wu Zhou Dynasty?

There is only one possibility, that is, this black iron ore, which ordinary dynasties dare not buy, will definitely not be the mine of the Aolai Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, I can't hide it, I'm from Yunluo Cottage. ”

The Aolai merchant said stiffly.

"It turned out to be a mountain bandit. ”

Zhou Chuan somewhat understood, if this was the case, it would be reasonable, after all, how could an ordinary dynasty have the courage to make a deal with these lawless and free forces.

In the previous Wuzhou Dynasty, no one dared to do it, because the strength was not enough, and they were afraid of being lured into the house.

But Zhou Chuan is different, he doesn't care at all, because he has strength!

"Then ......" Zhou Chuan smiled and said, "Let's talk about the price!"

"Ahh

The Aolai merchant didn't seem to believe his ears, he didn't know how many closed doors he had eaten along the way, and he wandered thousands of miles all the way to the Wuzhou Dynasty, where he heard hope.

"Your Majesty asks you something!"

Zhang Long frowned and reprimanded in a low voice.

"Oooh......"

Only then did the Aolai merchant hurriedly apologize and said, "Your Majesty, that's the case, they don't need the currency issued by the dynasty, they only need yuan stones." ”