On the fifth day of November in 3052, the northwest wind.

Somewhere on Tamna Island, caravans from Tang and Baekje came here again to borrow land on the island to trade.

This time the goods are indeed very large, and there are five ships of grain alone, two ships of salt, and several ships of other porcelain.

Baekje sent 1,000 horses as promised, and the remaining difference was made up with gold, copper, leather goods, medicinal herbs, etc.

Because the transaction amount is particularly large, Jin Rushan and Shaai are also very cautious, personally leading people to check the quality and quantity of the goods.

Sha Ai is naturally very satisfied with the quality of the goods in the Tang Kingdom, and there is no problem of fooling people.

Instead, there was a problem with their own goods.

Jin Rushan said with an ugly face: "The quality of these leather goods is too poor, you see that these are all shedding, these are all traces of insect and rat bites......"

"And these medicinal herbs, you can smell a musty smell from afar, it's really hard for you to turn over the old medicine from the bottom of the box?"

"Sha Changshi, it's not the first time we've traded, we haven't fooled people like this, right? Do you think that I am a bully of Tang people, or do I think that Tang Guo's money is hot and I don't want to continue to do business? ”

Sha Ai begged for mercy with a bitter face: "The golden shopkeeper is really sorry, I really have no choice, my country has been in short supply of foreign war materials for many years." ”

"The goods I bought from you last time haven't been sold, and I really can't get together so many materials for a while, so I still found them after rummaging through the domestic warehouses."

"This time, you will raise your hand and accommodate me, and next time I will guarantee that it will be the best goods."

Jin Rushan flatly refused: "Impossible, this kind of goods must be taken back to the lord of the country to pick my skin." Either exchange these goods or give money. ”

Shaai said: "Oh, everyone is obedient and obedient, and we should be considerate of each other." I knew that the quality of the goods was a little poor this time, so I made up for it in other ways. ”

"If you look at these horses, they're definitely the best breeds. There were 200 horses that we had selected, and they were all pulled to the gelding arena and snatched by me. ”

Jin Rushan came to the place where the horses were kept, and found that two-thirds of these horses were Northern Xinjiang horses, and one-third were Yan Ya horses, and two hundred of them were indeed very tall and handsome

But he still didn't dare to believe it easily, and asked the horsemakers he brought to inspect them one by one, and finally confirmed that there was no problem with the horses.

The expression on his face looked a lot better.

Sha Ai kept paying attention to the change in his expression, and when he saw that his attitude had softened, he quickly made persistent efforts to complain and beg for mercy, and promised that there would never be another Yunyun.

Jin Rushan said with a reluctant face: "It's okay, it's okay, don't take it as an example." ”

The loading and unloading of goods was very troublesome, especially the grain transshipment, and it took them a total of seven days to complete the turnover of goods.

When it was time to separate, looking at the enthusiastic Jin Rushan, Sha Ai's expression was a little tangled, as if he had encountered some problems.

Finally, he sighed and shook his head, and said meaningfully: "Golden shopkeeper, my subordinates have found that there are ships wandering in the distance from time to time these days, as if they have bad intentions, so be careful on the way back." ”

Jin Rushan glanced at him deeply, and arched his hand: "Xie Sha Changshi reminds me, I will." By the way, maybe there is the possibility of further cooperation between you and me in the future, and Sha Changshi can prepare in advance. ”

Sha Ai was stunned for a moment, and said puzzledly: "I don't know what the golden shopkeeper means?" ”

Jin Rushan said mysteriously: "You will naturally understand in the future, remember what I said, and don't tell others at will." Let's go, see you another day. ”

Watching Jin Rushan's fleet slowly leave, Sha Ai was very puzzled, what does this further cooperation mean?

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, until the people below reminded him that it was time to go, so he shook his head and muttered to himself: Do you want to cooperate further, wait until you escape this catastrophe.

Escorting this batch of goods back to China, as soon as it was parked at the port, dozens of people rushed over.

These commodities in the Tang Kingdom are so easy to make money that they are at least double the profit when they are shipped abroad.

The powerful magnates in Baekje want to come over and get a piece of the pie, and in order to win over these people, the king of Baekje will also deliberately give some profits to the obedient people.

These people are waiting to come and pick up the goods.

Shaai didn't wait for the goods to be distributed before leaving, and others were responsible for them. After the ship docked, he went to the palace without stopping and met the king of Baekje, Buyeo.

"They didn't say anything about the quality of our shipment, did they?"

Sha Ai replied: "Jin Rushan has a great opinion on medicinal herbs and leather goods, if it weren't for those two hundred war horses, he would have turned his face." ”

Fu Yuju nodded and said: "Attaching so much importance to those two hundred war horses shows that the Tang Kingdom lacks cavalry, and may not even have cavalry, and now I am even more sure that it is on a certain island in the south." ”

"The king is wise."

"Anything else you've found?"

"When loading and unloading the goods, I found Yan Guo's spies."

Fu Yu said with a smile: "With such a big fortune, Yan Guo finally couldn't sit still, and it was in vain that I deliberately leaked the information of this transaction to them." ”

Sha Ai hesitated for a moment before asking, "The minister has an unknown matter, and we have made a lot of profits from the transaction with the Tang Kingdom, why did the king deliberately reveal their whereabouts?" ”

Fuyu said: "It's very simple, no one likes people who hide their heads and tails." This time, I just want to use the hands of the Yan people to test the strength of the Tang Kingdom, and it is best to find out where they are. ”

"And sooner or later, the Tang State will leave us to trade directly with other countries, and now that the Yan people have moved their merchant ships, they can delay the time for contact between the two countries."

"We can take advantage of this time to earn more benefits from Yan Kingdom and fill the void in the treasury."

Sha Ai said convincingly: "The king is clever, and the ministers admire." ”

As for Jin Rushan's further cooperation, he selectively forgot about it.

……

On the other side, not long after Jin Rushan and his caravan left Tamna Island, they found several clippers hanging far behind them.

He was not panicked when he had been mentally prepared, the purpose of his trip was to fish out the other party, and he was even happier when the other party took the bait.

However, in order to be more realistic, after a while he pretended to find an anomaly and sent several clippers to capture the other party.

As soon as the clipper fled, he began to speed up and flee in panic.

But their ship was full of cargo, and they couldn't run fast at all, so he pretended to be in a hurry and began to throw it into the sea.

The first to be thrown down were the problematic leather goods sent by Baekje, which were deliberately placed on top when loading the ship, just to facilitate the throwing at this time.

The clippers hanging behind them found that they were throwing goods, and thought that they had found danger and wanted to abandon the goods to escape, so they quickly separated two clippers to notify the large army to come and intercept them.

The sea is endless, and if you want to hide without the island to cover it, you can only keep a distance and hide out of sight.

It was already an hour and a half later when the Yan Guoda army received the news and rushed over.

The merchant ships of the Tang Kingdom seemed to have increased their speed because of the unloading of goods, and they were a little unable to catch up for a while.

However, the Yan people were obviously prepared to have a back hand, and they ran for about forty or fifty miles, and a fleet under the flag of Yan appeared on the sea in front of them.

The Tang merchant ships were a little panicked, turned around and ran to the deep sea.

Yan Guoshui didn't think much about it, and also turned around and chased after him.