Only two days later, Shaohu, the commander-in-chief of the Wei army in Northern Xinjiang, received a reply from the vertical arch hall of the Great Liang Palace. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The affirmation of the Vertical Arch Hall means that Wei Tianzi has approved the agreement of the "Wei-Han Handan Peace Conference", and under the authorization of the two kings of Korea and Wei, the "Wei-Han Handan Peace Conference" will become the mainstream of Wei-Han relations: neither the Han nor the Wei people can destroy the content of the peace agreement.

So on the same day, the Wei general Shaohu discussed with Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, and returned Handan to Korea first.

This move really made Handan's subjects breathe a sigh of relief, after all, although the Wei soldiers did not commit any crimes against the city after the capture of Handan, the people in the city were still uneasy, and even many subjects did not dare to show their heads for a while, for fear of being troubled by the Wei soldiers.

By the way, in the process of returning Handan, the Wei army denied that it was a night attack on Handan, and the Wei army said that when they were besieging Handan, they received news from the city of Handan and learned that someone wanted to take advantage of this incident to rebel, so the Wei army entered Handan to ensure that Handan was peaceful and stable.

Of course, this kind of lame reason is at best to fool those ignorant civilians in Handan City, even if Han Wangran issued an edict to confirm the matter, and Marquis Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu also expressed their approval, they could not deceive those Handan subjects who could see clearly.

But then again, as long as there is a good reason to get by, it is enough, why bother to make each other unhappy, you know, after the signing of the "Wei-Han Handan Peace Conference", "Wei-Han and Han's peace as neighbors" is the mainstream of relations between the two countries.

The next day, after the Wei army withdrew from Handan, Han Wangran of Han, Han Wu of the Marquis of Han, Han Hu of Kang, and Han Geng of Zhuang, returned to the city again and published a part of the "Peace Conference of Handan of Wei and Han", which was intended to show the subjects in the city and even in China that Wei and Han had settled their disputes and formed an alliance to jointly deal with the alien races in the Hexi and Hetao areas.

After learning of this, the subjects of Handan were greatly surprised, and they did not even think about whether the fall of Handan by the Wei army would affect the status of the Koreans, so they regarded this Wei-Han alliance as the focus of attention.

It is no wonder that after all, the Wei people and the Koreans are both Central Plains people who are quite close to each other in terms of culture and customs, and the conquest between the two countries belongs to the conflict between the kingships of the two Central Plains countries, but the Qiang and Hu are different, especially the Linhu, Donghu and other foreign races, who have frequently harassed the Korean border in the past, so that they have become the most hated people by the Koreans, which belongs to the national contradiction.

Therefore, the Wei-Han alliance against Qianghu belongs to the "brotherly wall, external defense of humiliation", which is an extremely correct proposition in the Central Plains cultural thought, if anyone dares to jump out to oppose it, it will be blamed by the whole world.

It is precisely because of this that it is clear that the Wei people captured Handan, the royal capital of the Koreans, but in the case that both sides have the foreign enemy of "Lin Hu", the Koreans chose to let go of the fall of Handan.

In this atmosphere, the Handan Han royal family then threw out the idea of an alliance between Wei and Han: Wei and Han would first devote themselves to attacking Hexi, and then attack Linghu in Hetao.

It has to be said that under the circumstance that Marquis Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu deliberately controlled public opinion, most of the subjects of Handan recognized this cooperation, and they even selectively forgot about the Wei army's counterattack on their Korea, and instead aimed the contradictions at the foreign races in Hexi and Hetao, laying the foundation for public opinion for the next Korean attack on Hexi.

On August 16, He Yu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, led the Liang delegation to visit Handan - in fact, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su who should be talking, had already completed the negotiations between Yue and South Korea, so the right attendant He Yu led the envoy to come, on the one hand, it was just a formality to maintain the face of the Wei Imperial Court.

But on the other hand, the Ministry of Rites of Wei also hopes to further discuss the cooperation alliance with South Korea.

For example, under the mainstream relationship of "harmony between Wei and South Korea and mutual rejection of foreign affairs", can Wei and South Korea open several "border markets" and exchange ideas.

Originally, Hou Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu were not interested in this, but Wei Guo threw out a big killer weapon - copper!

What is Copper?

In this era, copper could mint coins, especially for those who had the right to mint coins, and how much copper meant how much money there was.

This made Hou Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu heartbroken.

You must know that the state system of Wei and Han is different, Wei is a highly centralized monarchy, although the domestic princes and nobles control various profit channels of Wei, such as minerals, coarse salt, etc., but there is neither military power, nor coinage power, and the coinage right has long belonged to the state.

In other words, it is illegal to privately mint copper coins in the Wei State, although it is said that some nobles still mint copper coins privately and flow to Song County, but this kind of thing itself is not recognized, and once caught, it is a felony to confiscate the army and rob the family.

However, South Korea, although it is also a monarchical country, has not completely reformed in the matter of centralization, such as Kang Gong Han Hu and Zhuang Gong Han Geng, these two domestic ministers, in fact, are representatives of the local Han royal family and nobles, they not only have an army, but also have many rights that the Wei royal family and nobles do not have, such as the right to mint coins.

Unless the copper content of the minted copper coins is too low and filled with too many impurities, which has a serious impact on the economy of South Korea, the fact that the local princes and forces have minted copper coins without permission will not be guilty of such a thing.

It is precisely for this reason that when Wei proposed to open a border market and hoped to exchange copper for Korean cattle and horses, Han Wu and Han Hu hesitated.

In fact, they knew very well in their hearts that resources such as ploughing cattle and war horses must not flow into the Wei State, after all, Wei and Han were not sincerely allied, in the final analysis, they were just temporarily working together for their respective strategic purposes, that is, there would be a war between Wei and Han in the future.

Knowing this, selling vital resources such as cattle and horses to the Wei State is not an act of the enemy?

It's a pity that the price given by Wei is so generous that neither Marquis Han Wu nor Kang Gong Han Hu can refuse it.

So within two days, Wei and South Korea opened the "Moyi Border Market" and the "Qixian Border Market".

The essence of these two border cities is the same, the difference is only that the Wei army has returned Moyi to Korea, therefore, this border city will be governed by South Korea - Zhao Hongrun guessed that it is likely to be Hanyang, the Marquis of Dangyin.

The border city of Qi County is still under the control of the Wei army.

After all, by this time, the five Wei armies in Handan County had retreated to Qi Pass one after another—until Korea seized the land in that area from the Qianghu in Hexi and transferred it to Wei, and the Wei army garrisoned this pass and a little further north in Qi County.

Therefore, if nothing else, the border cities of Moyi and Qixian will become the base camps of Korean merchants and Wei merchants on the route of "Wei-Han trade" for some time to come.

In late August, the Wei state took the lead in trading with Korea, and the Hubu convoy brought in a large amount of copper ore in exchange for cattle and horses from Korean merchants.

There is no doubt that at this moment, those Korean merchants must be the forces under the command of Han Wu, Kang Gong Han Hu, and Zhuang Gong Han Geng - how could the real Korean merchants know the situation in the border market so quickly, and transport thousands of ploughing cattle and horses here to exchange copper ore with the Wei State?

After observing for two days, Zhao Hongrun invited Cui Can, the left attendant of the household department.

Cui Can, the left waiter, is a capable subordinate of Li Liang, the secretary of the household department, and this time he came with the transport fleet of the household department, temporarily serving as the city commander of the "Qi County Border City".

It is inconceivable in Zhao Hongrun's opinion that Zuo Shilang of the dignified household department took the position of the city commander of the Wei Han border city, especially Cui Can is still a very capable household official, so Zhao Hongrun feels that Cui Can may only temporarily act as the city commander, and after the border city of Qi County stabilizes, this position will be handed over to the subordinate officials of the Ministry of Rites, or others.

After waiting for the arrival of Cui Can, the left waiter, Zhao Hongrun took the lead in asking about the transactions in the past two days.

Cui Can said with a wry smile: "In the past few days, most of the livestock traded are horses and few cattle. Among the cultivated cattle, bulls of several years are the majority, while cows are few; Most of the horses are colts or horses with disabilities......"

Zhao Hongrun was not surprised at all - how could Korea sell many cows and fine war horses to Wei, if he put himself in his shoes, even he would not do so.

Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that the cultivated cattle sold by Korea to Wei are nine times out of ten the kind of bulls that are old or have hidden diseases, and the horses must be horses or disabled war horses.

But even so, whether it is Wei or Zhao Hongren, they are also happy, after all, Wei's animal power is too scarce, and at least seventy percent of the farmers in Wei are still using manpower farming, so even those old cattle and horses that South Korea looks down on are also quite scarce animal power for Wei.

What's more, Zhao Hongrun believes that in such a huge transaction, Wei will definitely be able to get some cows and good horses in the end - even if Marquis Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu and others are still on guard against Wei, but it is believed that even these two powerful ministers are powerless to interfere with the nobles and merchants in their country, can they still issue a royal edict and only allow the sale of Wei's remnants of livestock?

Impossible, if Marquis Han Wu and Kang Gong Han Hu dared to do this, it would be equivalent to handing over the handle to the Wei State.

After bidding farewell to Cui Can, the left waiter of the household department, Zhao Hongrun invited He Yu, the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to ask the latter about the border city.

You must know that in the "Handan Peace Conference" sent by Shaohu and Zhao Hongrun to Daliang, there is no mention of the border city, because Zhao Hongrun's mind was full of Hexi at that time, and he did not take this into account at all—although he must admit that this was a suggestion that would be of great benefit to his Wei state.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun wanted to know who made the proposal for the border market.

At first, he wanted to ask Cui Can, the left attendant of the household department, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided to ask He Yu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, after all, the Ministry of Rites and the border city did not have a boundary at all, so the words of the officials of the Ministry of Rites were more credible.

And after hearing Zhao Hongrun's inquiry, He Yu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, said the person: "It's King Xiang." …… It was His Royal Highness King Xiang who suggested that my household department add the border market. ”

"King Xiang? Zhao Hongjing?'

Zhao Hongrun was really surprised.