Yelu Yixin returned to his other house in Tokyo, and his adopted son Yelu Shan ran up and whispered: "Guo Huaixin is here, in his father's study!" ”

Yelu Yixin nodded, he knew that Guo Huaixin would come tonight, he turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the mansion.

This is the fourth time that Yelu Yixin has negotiated business with Guo Huaixin, the first time they have made a business of 500,000 taels of silver, the second time Guo Huaixin bought 300 stallions and 1,500 mares from him, and the third time he asked Guo Huaixin to arrange a Japanese envoy to meet the Son of Heaven of Liao, and by the way, they reached a business of 10,000 sheep and 100,000 catties of pig iron.

And this time, he believes that Guo Huaixin will bring good news to himself.

In fact, Yelu Yixin has already faintly felt something, Guo Huaixin's origin is by no means as simple as an imperial businessman, he is afraid that he has other intentions for himself, but the huge benefits that Guo Huaixin brought to him make him want to stop, this is like taking drugs, knowing that there will be a day when it will be exposed, but he will still not hesitate to trade with Guo Huaixin.

In the room, Guo Kui had been waiting for a long time, when Yelu walked in quickly and said repeatedly, "Mr. Let me wait for a long time." ”

"It's okay!"

Guo Kui saluted and smiled faintly, "I hope the arrival of the Japanese envoy can satisfy you." ”

Yelu glanced at him and asked vigilantly, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the Japanese envoy?" ”

Guo Kui shook his head, "There is no problem with the Japanese envoys, it's just that they are in the name of the envoys of the Japanese emperor, and they are actually here for the benefit of the Fujiwara family, don't you see this?" ”

"I can see it, in fact, we also know that the Japanese emperor is just a puppet, and the real power is in the hands of the Fujiwara family, which is not strange at all!"

Guo Kui smiled again: "I am also responsible for buying the ships you want, but I said ugly that in the front, there are two kinds of ships in the Great Song Dynasty, one is the warship built by the official shipyard, and the other is the warship built by the private shipyard. ”

"What's the difference between the two?"

"The official ship is a brand new warship, while the private ship yard is a refurbishment of an old ship."

"But the price you sold us is three times the price of the official ship, isn't this too dark?"

Guo Kui knew Yelu Yixin too well, and officials with a slight sense of justice would slap the table and scold, 'Do you want to kill the Liao army by renovating the old ship?' But Yelu Yixin did not mention the problem of the ship at all, but accused him of making too much money, and Guo Kui certainly knew what he meant.

He smiled slightly: "To be precise, only two times the profit is mine, and the other time the profit is Xiangguo's.

"I'll take the risk, at least half of it!"

"Xiangguo doesn't know, I still have to spend money on coastal patrol sailors, I can't earn twice as much, but I will still compensate Xiangguo a little more."

He put a deed of the island on the table and pushed it to Yelu Yixin, "This is a big island in the Xiaoliuqiu Islands, the area is about the same as Tanzhou, there are rivers, lakes, forests and mountains on the island, and a grassland, with an area of tens of thousands of acres, which can be grazing and farming, this kind of island I have bought in the name of Xiangguo, and it now belongs to Yelu Xiangguo." ”

Yelu Yixin was overjoyed, he had been looking forward to the overseas islands for a long time, last time he just mentioned it, can the Liao people buy the island of the Song Dynasty, Guo Kui sent the island to himself, this person is really a seven-trick exquisite heart.

"It's my name, and that's okay?"

"Don't forget that I am an imperial merchant, and I don't hide it from Yelu Xiangguo, although the previous stallion went to Japan, and finally transferred it from Japan to Kunzhou, it was actually bought for Kunzhou, and on this basis, the Son of Heaven specially approved your island."

Although Yelu Yixin had expected the stallion to end up in Kunzhou, Guo Kui still made him a little embarrassed to say it so frankly.

He coughed and digressed the subject, "Where is this island?" ”

"This island is called Xianlu Island, take a boat from Bohai Port, it takes about three days to walk, it is a must for the Great Song Dynasty trading fleet to pass through Japan, if Yelu Xiangguo is interested, you can let Ling Lang go with me to see."

The island that Fanning chose for Yelu Yixin was later Amami Island, not far from Kagoshima, Japan, which is currently part of the Ryukyu Islands, and Fanning gave it to him in order to buy and control Yelu Yisin.

However, whether the Yelu Yixin family will be blessed to use this island in the future is another matter.

Yelu Yixin nodded happily, "I'll arrange it later, and let my second son follow my husband to take over this big island." ”

............

Xingqing Mansion outside the city of crowds, hundreds of people out of the city to visit the magnificent Wang Shi Northern Expedition, 100,000 troops have been assembled, in the sound of war drums slowly pulled, two miles away on the wharf all kinds of grain and materials piled up, hundreds of huge rafts moored on the shore, thousands of people are busy carrying grain and various materials on the raft.

The smallest of this huge raft is more than a thousand stones, and it is made up of countless small rafts superimposed and bundled, and the population of the Western Xia is sparse, and it is difficult to mobilize the people on a large scale like the Song Dynasty, and it is impossible to organize a large number of land logistics baggage teams, so the Western Xia also made full use of the waterway and built a large raft to transport along the Yellow River.

Among the visiting crowd, the shopkeeper Zhang and several men of the Song brocade silk shop were also there, and one of the men whispered to the shopkeeper Zhang: "The raft can carry at least 3,000 stones!" ”

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Shopkeeper Zhang glared at him, looked to both sides, and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he turned around and left quietly.

Half an hour later, a letter eagle circled and flew north.

..........

The Song army in Hetao had increased to 50,000 troops, including 20,000 cavalry, and the burned outer city had been cleared and the outer city was filled with large tents.

Fan Ning had received news from Xingqing Mansion that 100,000 troops had gone north to fight for the Hetao, and at the same time, Di Qing had also led 200,000 Song troops and a large amount of food supplies to the north to support the Hetao.

At a martial arts arena, Fan Ning asked Yang Wenguang with a smile: "Old general, what do you think is the sharpest weapon against a raft?" ”

"The fierce fire oil should be good, the dry sheepskin is a little bit, I tested it more than ten years ago, and it is indeed an extremely sharp weapon against the raft."

Fan Ning shook his head, "The fierce fire oil is good for dealing with the raft itself, but it is a double-edged sword, and it is also easy to burn your own big ship, just imagine, the raft turned into a ball of fire and hit the big ship of the Song army, and it was directly stained on the big ship, what will be the impact on the big ship?" ”

Everyone laughed, this is called killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, Yang Wenguang was a little embarrassed and said: "I haven't considered that my ship is also afraid of fire." ”

Fanning said to the crowd again: "I was initially thinking about the iron fire mine, but when I was in the naval battle between the South China Sea and the Srivijaya Kingdom, I used the iron fire mine to blow up and sink the opponent's main ship, but our own ship was almost overturned, I realized that unless you have the ability to shoot long-range, it is best not to use the iron fire mine in naval battles, but the long-range shot is not easy to hit the opponent, and it will be extinguished if you fall into the sea, so although the iron fire thunder is powerful, it is more suitable for use on land." ”

"Xianggong, the bow and arrow are good! Deal with rafts. A commander said.

"The bow and arrow are good, the raft is afraid of air leakage, this is their biggest weakness, grasp this weakness and find a way, you can find a big killer against the raft."

Yang Wenguang groaned and said: "Although the bow and arrow are good, but unfortunately there are not many of them, they are okay for small rafts, but they are a little weak for large rafts." ”

Fan Ning smiled at everyone: "I visited the Ordnance Bureau in the capital, and found that the Crossbow Academy was developing a standard barrel arrow to deal with cavalry, which can shoot thirty crossbow arrows at a time. Mounted on the bow of the ship, thirty arrows per barrel, and then quickly replaced with an arrow barrel and fired again, which is equivalent to the integration of a repeating crossbow. ”

Yang Wenguang said: "Xianggong wants to use this kind of barrel arrow to deal with the raft?" ”

Fanning still shook his head, "This just gave me an idea, there must be enough to deal with the raft, it doesn't need to be as big as an arrow, as long as it shoots through a small hole, it will leak, think about it, in addition to iron fire and thunder, what other weapons can cause this kind of dense burst effect?" ”

"Tribulus terrestris!" Several generals blurted out at the same time.

Tribulus terrestris is a weapon widely used by the Song army, in fact, it is a paper fire thunder wrapped in eight tribulus terrestris, after a single soldier throws it out, the tribulus terrestris explodes, and the tribulus terrestris splashes, but the power of this explosion is too small, at most it is used to sprinkle tribulus terrestris thorns.

Fanning stopped beating the crowd around, and asked the soldiers to shield them with shields, and took out from the wooden box a pomelo-sized porcelain vase with a thin neck handle that could be held in the hand.

Fanning made a gesture of throwing, and lit the fire rope on the thin neck with a fire fold, and when the fire rope reached the mouth of the bottle, Fan Ning threw the ball porcelain bottle out violently, and threw it into a large wooden box twenty paces away.

Just listen to "Bang! There was a slightly dull explosion, and the porcelain vase exploded in the wooden box, splashing the porcelain pieces and the fine iron pieces inside.

Everyone stepped forward one after another, only to see that the bottom and four walls of the wooden box were filled with dense pieces of iron and broken porcelain, and there were hundreds of pieces.

Everyone understood, and applauded enthusiastically, one thing fell one thing, the porcelain fire thunder had no effect on the big wooden boat, but it was a big killer against the sheepskin raft.