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Shuibo Liangshan, Juyi Hall.

Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Xi knelt side by side under the hall.

Hu Yanzhuo hugged his fists at Jiang Hongfei and said: "Hu Yanzhuo was captured as a madman, offended Huwei, and begged for forgiveness." ”

Jiang Hongfei, who had already learned from Hu Yanqing that Hu Yanzhuo and the three of them had the intention of surrendering, immediately stepped forward to personally help Hu Yanzhuo and the three of them one by one, and said, "What is the meaning of this brother? If we do not abandon the lowly and do the right thing for heaven together, we will welcome you. If you don't want to, you don't dare to stay, but I'll send everyone home now. ”

Hu Yanzhuo pondered for a long time, and when he saw that Jiang Hongfei had enough steps, he sighed, pushed the gold mountain, poured the jade pillar, and bowed to the ground: "It's not that Hu Yanzhuo is not loyal to the country, but he admires his brother's righteousness, and he does not allow Hu Yanzhuo to disobey, and today we have a family and a country that is difficult to run, so I am willing to be a pawn under the account, and the great sage of Wanwang Heaven will forgive the crime of falsehood." ”

Jiang Hongfei was overjoyed.

On the same day, a feast was set up to celebrate, and on the one hand, people were recruited to recruit the defeated army, and on the other hand, Shi Xiu sent people to Runing County, Chenzhou, and Yingzhou to move Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Xi's children respectively.

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On this day, Du Qian, Jiang Jing, Jiang Hongfei's cheap father-in-law Hu Rong, and Jiang Hongfei's cheap brother-in-law Hu Cheng jointly came to see him.

Jiang Hongfei asked Du Qian and the others to come in and asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”

Hu Rong and Jiang Jing looked at Du Qian and motioned for Du Qian, who was the oldest, to talk about the matter.

Du Qian didn't push back, so he said:

"That's right, brother, this time the Cheng Navy has captured a lot of Goryeo and Dongying's seafood, the Hu leader has already sold all of them, I don't want to, those Goryeo spiritual weapons, Dongying's abalone, sea cucumber, shark fin, kelp and other dried seafood are still very marketable."

"Moreover, I Shuibo Liangzhai has accumulated a lot of spiritual weapons, and after laying down the Daimyo's Mansion, Kaide Mansion, and Gaotang Prefecture, the spiritual weapons obtained are piled up, and it is really difficult to deal with and realize, so the leader of Hu proposes that it is better for me to open a sea trade route to Goryeo and Dongying in Shuibo Liangshan, first, to open up a channel for the cottage to earn spiritual stones, and secondly, to sell all these spiritual weapons to Goryeo and Dongying for cash."

Shuibo Liangshan has accumulated a large number of spiritual weapons over the years, and it is roughly estimated that there are at least tens of millions of them, just this, it is only the price dealt with in the Zhao and Song dynasties, if all these spiritual weapons are sold to Goryeo and Dongying, the price will definitely exceed 100 million, and even reach two or three hundred million, three or four billion.

It is no wonder that the three giants of the three divisions came together to ask Jiang Hongfei for instructions.

As we all know, Jiang Hongfei has always wanted to engage in maritime trade.

Because this is the most profitable business in the world, there is no one.

According to legend, the maritime merchants in Quanzhou, worth millions abound, the most bullish one of the maritime merchants, engaged in maritime trade for more than ten years, saved 200 million yuan of family property.

This shows how lucrative maritime trade really is.

Shuibo Liangshan started as a robber, but you can't always rob and rob, because there is always a time when there is nothing to rob.

- Now, Jeju and Yunzhou near Shuibo Liangshan, even if it is a little farther away in Shanzhou, Puzhou, Xuzhou, and Xiqingfu, where it should be Tianxingdao, Liangshan heroes have almost fought almost, and now the high-ranking officials and nobles, wealthy families, and gentry near Shuibo Liangshan have learned well, and they have all "reformed themselves" and become "amiable", and they have taken the initiative to reduce the rent to one or two percent, or even don't rent it, in order to harm the township, bully men and women, rely on the strong and bully the weak, force to take the strong, force to buy and sell, The matter of bullying and dominating the market has basically become extinct, and the Tianxingdao called Shuibo Liangshan has no market for a while.

And to go far, one to go, one to come, too time-consuming and labor-intensive, for the current stage of the development and growth of Shuibo Liangshan, the role is extremely limited, quite a bit far from the water can not quench the meaning of near thirst.

Therefore, if Shuibo Liangshan wants to continue to develop and grow, it has to produce and make money by itself.

Do you produce it yourself?

Because the current territory of Shuibo Liangshan is either too small or still under development, it really does not have the conditions for its own production, and can only barely maintain the self-sufficiency of the people under the rule of Shuibo Liangshan.

And make your own money?

In fact, Shuibo Liangshan has been engaged in it for a long time, and refined salt is this way, and the effect of refining salt to make money is very good.

But if Shuibo Liangshan wants to have better development, it must open up a wide range of financial routes, and it can't put all its eggs in one basket.

Maritime trade is a very good new way to make money.

Previously, the reason why Jiang Hongfei did not engage in maritime trade was because there were Dengzhou naval troops robbing the waterway of the Northeast Asia route of the Maritime Silk Road.

Don't look at Shuibo Liangshan to transport some people, transport some grain or something, the Dengzhou Navy is forced by the strong military strength of Shuibo Liangshan, and does not dare to rob.

If this is changed to Shuibo Liangshan to transport a large amount of property out, do you think they will be able to do it?

After all, sake is popular, and money is touching.

Don't think that Jiang Hongfei is wronging the Dengzhou Navy.

Not really.

After Sun Li defeated the Cheng navy, he seized a large number of Goryeo furs, elixirs, Goryeo spiritual weapons, abalone, sea cucumbers, shark fins, kelp and other dried seafood from Dongying.

- The fur and elixir were left behind by Shuibo Liangshan, and Jiang Hongfei asked Hu Cheng, who was in charge of Shuibo Liangshan's foreign trade, to try to sell it to see if there was a market in the territory of the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

What's even more surprising is that Sun Li copied millions of treasures from several generals of the Cheng Navy.

- This is not counting the family assets that these Cheng Admirals hid in Dengzhou City or somewhere else, otherwise it must be more.

Jiang Hongfei sent people to interrogate several generals of the Cheng Navy separately and learned that they often disguised themselves as pirates to rob maritime merchants, and sometimes they would make a cameo appearance as maritime merchants to trade with Goryeo and Dongying, so they each saved so much wealth.

A small naval army of several hundred people, just because they occupy the main route of maritime trade, they "earned" so much money, if Shuibo Liangshan engaged in maritime trade, how bad could it be?

In fact, one of the reasons why Jiang Hongfei chose to occupy Liuqiu was that it was convenient for maritime trade.

In the past few years, Jiang Hongfei has spent millions of manpower and tens of millions of financial resources in Liuqiu, and he has not seen Li Jun dare to hand in the examination paper he gave them, let alone engage in maritime trade.

In addition, Shuibo Liangshan has grabbed enough in recent years, and it has not made less money selling refined salt.

Jiang Hongfei put the matter of maritime trade on hold.

Now, with the collapse of the Dengzhou Naval Army, the entire northern area of the Jiaodong Peninsula, especially the coastal areas, has been under the control of Shuibo Liangshan.

By the way, if Shuibo Liangshan starts to engage in maritime trade, it can also occupy Shamen Island, making it a supply depot to the Liaodong Peninsula.

All in all, at this stage, although Shuibo Liangshan does not yet have the conditions for the development of the South China Sea route of the Maritime Silk Road, the conditions for the development of the Northeast Asia route of the Maritime Silk Road are basically mature.

Therefore, Hu Cheng's proposal is not untargeted.

Jiang Hongfei asked: "Are those spiritual weapons in Goryeo and Dongying marketable?" ”

Hu Cheng said excitedly: "Not only that, the Goryeo people, especially the Dongying people, have never seen such a good spiritual weapon at all, just because the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts want to hang the appetite of those barbarians to do this business for a long time, and also want to prevent those barbarians from being greedy to invade our Middle Earth, so it is forbidden to sell too good spiritual weapons to the outside world. ”

Afraid that Jiang Hongfei would not agree, Hu Cheng said again: "That Dongying, known as Lingshi Island, is rich in Lingshi; And Nagoryeo, surrounded by high mountains and dense forests, is rich in elixir. Once a maritime exchange, it is more than ten times more profitable. ”

In this era, many of the commodities of the Zhao and Song dynasties were well-deserved high-end and sought-after goods in international trade, especially the exquisite silk and spiritual weapons of the Zhao and Song dynasties, which were rushed out of the country, while many other small countries that traded with the Zhao and Song dynasties could only make up for the trade deficit by selling the most basic resources, such as Dongying's spiritual stones, Goryeo's ginseng and other elixirs.

In this way, you can really make a lot of money.

Hu Cheng knew that Jiang Hongfei liked to store grain, so he continued: "There is also a lot of grain in Goryeo and Dongying, if I am short of grain in Shuibo Liangshan, I can also buy some from his two families." ”

It can be seen that Hu Cheng is very concerned about maritime trade.

But think about it, the current development momentum of Shuibo Liangshan is so good, who doesn't want to lay more of their future status?

However, then again, if you really want to engage in maritime trade, then Shuibo Liangshan still has to prepare.

First of all, Shuibo Liangshan has to strengthen the route from Liangshanbo to Qingzhou.

Don't look at this Jishui-Beiqinghe route, it needs to pass through Yunzhou, Qizhou, and Zizhou to reach Qingzhou, and it has experienced many transportation hubs in the middle.

In fact, the checkpoints on this route, Shuibo Liangshan have all been opened up a long time ago.

For example, Qizhou City, the largest hub city on this route.

Since the prefect has lowered the evidence of the corruption of the officials of Qizhou and the big and small, the intelligence department of Shuibo Liangshan has all mastered it, and it is guaranteed that if the evidence of any of them is released, the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts will definitely raid their homes and ask their clans to assassinate Shamen Island, so it is impossible for the officials of Qizhou not to listen to Jiang Hongfei's greetings.

The situation in Yunzhou is similar.

And Zizhou has long been annexed by Qingzhou, which is secretly controlled by Shuibo Liangshan.

Don't forget, Li Qingzhao was snatched by Jiang Hongfei from Yuanzhou.

To be honest, that is, the strategy formulated by Jiang Hongfei is to surround the city from the countryside.

Otherwise, in view of the importance of the Jishui-Beiqinghe route, Jiang Hongfei should send people to knock down several hub cities along this route.

But first, Jiang Hongfei didn't want the Zhao Song Dynasty to feel that he had begun to attack the city and seize the land, and then regarded Shuibo Liangshan as the target of attack before Longhu Mountain, Fangshan, and Manichaeism.

Second, these cities actually don't have much oil and water, and if they are down, they will not be of much help to Shuibo Liangshan.

The Song Dynasty is no better than the Tang Dynasty.

The local state capital of the Tang Dynasty was rich in wealth.

And the Song Dynasty seemed to be much more stumbling.

In the Song Dynasty, there were transshipment envoys on every road, and their task was to transport the taxes of the state capitals to Kyoto in addition to expenses, at least to those important distribution cities, such as those of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and for example, Kaide Mansion, which almost became Beifu.

During the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty lost both capitals, but the states and counties behind the enemy were able to fight on their own, and a big reason was because the states and counties had money and grain in their hands.

As soon as the Jin people invaded, most of the states and counties of the Zhao and Song dynasties did not make due resistance, which had a lot to do with the national policy of the Zhao and Song dynasties - the Zhao and Song dynasties not only collected military power, but also financial power, and the local states and counties had no money and no food, how could they organize an army?

However, the poor are poor, most of these cities on the transportation hub, most of them are the capital of a state, and the wealth is certainly not comparable to that of Zhujiazhuang and other folk villages, although taxes other than expenses have to be paid, but they cannot be deposited in the bank as in later generations, they want to save money and grain, and watch how many times a year to transport to Kyoto.

There's a time lag here.

In other words, before the money and grain were shipped, although they did not belong to the state capital, they were stored in the state capital.

Therefore, as long as the intelligence is accurate enough, you can still make a lot of money by fighting these cities.

But then again, the general direction of Shuibo Liangshan's development and growth has not changed, and Jiang Hongfei still pursues a policy of low-key development, so he basically will not mess with the state capital.

- The main reason is that Jiang Hongfei doesn't want Shuibo Liangshan to become the number one target to be exterminated by the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

Therefore, although several hub cities on the Jishui-Beiqinghe route are not completely under the control of Shuibo Liangshan, they can only do so at present.

It's just that, because of the maritime trade, it is inevitable that there will be large amounts of goods on this route, and it must be sorted out anew.

The relevant officials of these hub cities, the warning warning, the replacement should be replaced.

The same is true of the various forces along the way, and those who are not under their control will be exterminated to save them from bad things.

For example, the big dormitory in Toyota Town can no longer be kept.

This Toyota Town, seventy miles southeast of Kouzhou, can extend its influence to a section of the Beiqing River.

In this town, there are a total of three or four thousand families, there is a family called a big family, giving birth to three children, the eldest son is called Su Liang, the third son is called Su Yi, and a daughter in the middle is named Jin Niang.

The three of his brothers and sisters are not weak qi refiners, especially the Su Jin Niang, the most in order to get, riding a horse and archery, everything can be done, good at using a moon wheel fire spear, seven flying forks on the back, immediately take people, and hit every shot.

This big house is the same as Zengtou City, gathering thousands of people, erecting a fence in the town, building enemy buildings, recruiting troops and horses, accumulating grass and grain, once pulling up the banner of "serving the country with loyalty", performing people and horses every day, teaching the art of war, and vowing to fight against Shuibo Liangshan.

——Earlier, when Shuibo Liangshan was not strong, the big households were shouting all over the world, and they would soon come to attack Shuibo Liangshan, so as to eat the sincerity of the soil.

There is a teacher in his family, whose surname is Hong, and his name is Yan.

Teacher Nahong also intercepted a cargo ship in Liangshan.

At that time, Shuibo Liangshan really did not have the ability to go on an expedition.

Moreover, soon Shuibo Liangshan became famous, and the big households saw that Shuibo Liangshan was not easy to provoke, so they quickly put away the banner of "loyalty to the country", and no longer mentioned the stubble against Shuibo Liangshan, obviously not wanting to provoke Shuibo Liangshan anymore.

The enmity between the two families also stopped at that time.

But that's not the end of it.

The intelligence department of Shuibo Liangshan inquired that when Lin Chong strayed into the White Tiger Hall, was assassinated in Cangzhou, and passed by Chai Jin's village, there was a Hong Yanhong sect leader, who had a bet with Lin Chong and lost to Lin Chong's men.

That Hong Yan was shameless because of this, and left in a bad mood, and went to the big house, and became the teacher Hong of the big house.

Hong Yan was angry that Lin Chong had won him, making him lose face, and he also left the rich and powerful Chai Jin, so he had a grudge against Lin Chong.

Later, when Hong Yan heard that Lin Chong had gone to Liangshan, he hated Wu and Wu, and also hated Shuibo Liangshan, and then provoked the big residents to fight against Shuibo Liangshan.

If the big family found out that he couldn't afford to provoke Shuibo Liangshan, he tied up Hong Yan and sent him to Shuibo Liangshan, and then compensated Shuibo Liangshan for the loss, and the grudge between the two families would be resolved.

But the big family was too blind, he always kept that Hong Yan, and he didn't say anything about compensating Shuibo Liangshan for his losses, and he didn't even apologize.

In other words, the big tenant has been waiting and seeing.

If the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts encircled and suppressed Shuibo Liangshan on a large scale, Su Dahu might send troops to help the Zhao and Song courts attack Shuibo Liangshan.

Taking a step back, at that time, if Sudahu sent troops to cut off the Jishui-Beiqing River route, and cut off the connection between Shuibo Liangshan and Qingzhou, the Liangshan army would not be able to transport grain, grass, baggage, and troops back and forth, and it would be enough for Shuibo Liangshan to drink a pot.

Now, if Shuibo Liangshan wants to engage in maritime trade, it is necessary to sort out the important route of Jishui-Beiqing River, and at the same time, it is necessary to make an example of chickens and monkeys, so that all parties along the way do not dare to fight the idea of Shuibo Liangshan ships.

Of course, if you want to engage in maritime trade, Shuibo Liangshan has to do things, and there must be more than that, at least the hole left by the Cheng Navy and the Peace Navy must be filled by the Liangshan Water Army, right?

In short, to engage in maritime trade, mainly the Northeast Asia route of the Maritime Silk Road, the conditions are ripe for Shuibo Liangshan, but some details also need to be solved.

And the first detail that needs to be solved is to use thunderous means to eliminate the big household......

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