In the past two months, Jiang Kai has been very tired, originally he was only responsible for the control and supply of logistics materials for the fleet, but who knew that a storm changed everything.

Lord Yang and Lord Tang died in the sea to save the lives of more than 400 people on a boat, and the Huiyi fleet lost two absolute cores, and the fleet was fine when it sailed on the sea, but as soon as it arrived in Tianzhu, the fleet was in chaos, how to trade, how to trade, what to sell, what to buy, no one knew, and I didn't know who to ask. The fleet stayed in the sea off Tianzhu for five whole days, not daring to dock, until Jiang Kai stood up.

Jiang Kai is familiar with the materials of the entire fleet, and the first to participate in the construction of Hui Yi is now only Lord Huang, Zhao An, Jiang Kai, and Shen Jin. Lord Huang was used to not caring about anything, Yang and Tang died unexpectedly, and he lost two grips to control the fleet, which hit him hard, but he knew very little about Hui Yi and could not do anything. Zhao An has been in the Xuanwei Army from beginning to end, and he can't help Hui Yi, Shen Jin is dedicated to studying "Mengxi Pen Talk" and craftsmen to discuss some skills, and he is not interested in Hui Yi. Picking and choosing, Jiang Kai was the only candidate in front of him, so Lord Huang had to designate him to handle the matter of returning to Yi.

The country where the fleet docked is called Dongganga, which is a small country after the division of Tianzhu, but in the whole Tianzhu is also regarded as a relatively strong and rich power, the entire north and west of Tianzhu were invaded by major powers, the war is endless, the damage is serious, and the eastern coastal countries are relatively calm and rich. At the beginning, they were very wary of the fleet that suddenly appeared in the open sea, and after sending people to the sea to contact them many times, they knew that this fleet was from the homeland of the Tang Dynasty in the East, and their attitude immediately changed.

After meeting with Dai, the lord of the city expressed his yearning and respect for the Great Song Dynasty, and Dai, who explained the reason why the fleet came to Tianzhu, and hoped to meet the king and let the two countries conclude a permanent friendly relationship.

Tianzhu and the eastern power of the communication has been interrupted for hundreds of years, now the Great Song Dynasty sent a fleet of more than 100 large ships to Tianzhu, the city lord was very happy, immediately said that the Eastern Song Dynasty is rich in products, they are very willing to exchange goods with the Great Song Dynasty, please the fleet quickly docked, immediately start trading. As for meeting the king, he would go to the royal city and report to the king in person when he returned.

The lord of the city opened it with silk and porcelain presented by the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty.

Five days later, the chief and deputy envoys of the Great Song Dynasty Huiyi fleet jointly determined that Jiang Kai would be specifically responsible for the fleet's return to Tianzhu, and the fleet entered the port and docked.

Jiang Kai led a team of people to carry various materials into Buri City, and with the support of the city lord, they openly carried out small-scale transactions to barter, and the merchants who got the news in advance waited there early, and the materials carried by Jiang Kai were exchanged in less than a stick of incense. Later, the news was released that the Great Song fleet carried limited materials this time, and merchants who wanted to trade should hurry up and bring materials or gold and silver to Buri City, and the fleet would stay in Dongganjia for two months at most, and it would not wait for it to expire.

Since then, Jiang Kai has been busy bargaining with Tianzhu merchants every day, moving batches of silk, porcelain, tea and other materials off the ship, and then filling them with the materials exchanged for Tianzhu, as for the gold and silver, they are directly loaded on the main ship of Shenzhou, and he has been busy for two months.

Lord Dai and his envoys first spent time in Brie, and then, at the invitation of the king's own brother, went to Clark to meet the king, conclude friendship between the two countries, and enjoy the foreign scenery.

Lord Huang didn't like to be lively or rushing, so he stayed in the small coastal city of Buri, and from time to time organized the big merchants of Tianzhu who were waiting for the transaction to watch the oriental songs and dances, which also made the anxious hearts of the merchants a little stable.

Shen Jin has been responsible for the maintenance of sea ships and warships, before the sea storm a sea ship full of goods sank, several ships collided with each other although they did not sink, but the damage was serious, if not repaired, it is difficult to return to the Great Song Dynasty, taking advantage of these days in Tianzhu, just to repair all of them. In addition, he is also very interested in the various local crafts and skills in Tianzhu, and whenever he has time, he will spend money to find some craftsmen to communicate, and all the things he learned from them are recorded, and he is ready to write books and talk about them after returning to the Great Song Dynasty.

After a busy day, Jiang Kai cleaned up a little and went to see Lord Huang. As usual, he had to report the fleet transactions to Lord Huang every three days and report the accounts, and today it was time to report.

When he entered the cabin, he saw that Lord Huang was sipping tea as usual, he didn't have any hobbies on this ship, and he couldn't do more, when he was fine, he could only drink tea to kill time.

"My lord, this is today's transaction account." Jiang Kai handed the account to Lord Huang.

Lord Huang put down the teacup, and the attendant next to him stepped forward to take the account book and handed it to him, and after opening it and reading it, some questions appeared on his face, so he asked: "Jiang Kai, what's going on these days, the trading volume of silk cloth, tea and porcelain is getting smaller and smaller, the day before yesterday more than 22,000 silk horses were exchanged, yesterday it became 20,600 horses, today it became 17,000 horses, more than 5,000 horses in two days, and the porcelain is even more outrageous, yesterday it was more than 40,000 pieces, today it is only more than 30,000 pieces, a decrease of 10,000 pieces!" How many days can you trade like this? Tell me why that's going to happen? ”

As soon as he heard this, Jiang Kai was under a lot of pressure, he didn't know much about the matter of returning to Yi, and this time there was really no one, so he drove the duck to the shelves and let him do such things, now that the number of merchants has decreased, the transaction is not as hot as before, and he has no choice. But Lord Huang asked, and he couldn't help replying, so he said: "My lord, there is a reason for the decrease in the number of transactions, more than a month ago, we first arrived, the exquisite silk, exquisite porcelain and tea of the Great Song Dynasty attracted them a lot, and the merchants have exchanged a lot of things in the past month or so, and they are afraid that there is no material we need to trade again, and it is normal for the volume to decline." This country is a small country, although there are many people, but the rich population is only a few, after all, the people who can afford to buy the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty are a very small part, these days the merchants have bought more than one million pieces of silk, more than two million pieces of porcelain, more than four million catties of tea, it is already very much, it is estimated that they can not take out more things. ”

After thinking about it, Master Huang felt that what Jiang Kai said also made sense, after all, this is a small country, that is, the region of the Great Song Dynasty, where can the money go. But he heard from the merchant that there are many countries in the north, west, and south of the Eastern Waga Country, and that the fleets of the countries in the south will pass through when they go south, but it is difficult to reach the north and west, and now that the trading volume has dropped so much, he has to think of some way to sell more goods, so he asked: "Since we can't sell anything here, what do you think we should send a fleet of ships along the coast to the north?" ”

When Jiang Kai heard this, he immediately objected, and immediately replied: "My lord, this matter should be carefully and carefully considered. We don't know what country there is in the north, and without envoys accompanying us, I am afraid that the fleet will be more than lucky. Lord Dai is still a guest in the royal city of Clarke, and he can't come back in a short time, and it is too dangerous for us to go by ourselves, and once something happens, the loss is immeasurable. Think again! ”

Lord Huang was a little unhappy, but Jiang Kai was the only one available at the moment, and what he had done in these days was okay, there were 100,000 taels of gold in exchange, more than 1 million taels of silver, and more than 5 million taels of real money and silver, not to mention more than 10 ships of spices that he had never seen before, and the gold, silver and materials exchanged in the past month or so were worth at least 10 million yuan when he returned to the Great Song Dynasty. In view of this, he didn't care about Taixue students like Jiang Kai.

So he smiled and said: "What you said is reasonable, the situation in the north is unknown, and it is indeed dangerous to go with no envoys." But that Dai Cong was fascinated by the Tianzhu woman, and he was free in the world of flowers all day long, forgetting all the major affairs of the court, and when he returned to Lin'an, he must sue him well. We've been here for a long time, so let's get ready to head south in a few days. ”

Jiang Kai said: "My lord, the south wind is still blowing on the sea, and it is very inconvenient to go south against the wind. ”

Lord Huang waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know, these days, you continue to preside over the return to Yi, everyone is for you to deploy, try to exchange as many spices as possible." ”

"Yes, my lord." Jiang Kai responded and went out of the cabin to find a way.

"You go and tell General Zhao, just say that according to the itinerary, the fleet will leave for the south in half a month, and let him send someone to find Master Dai back." Lord Huang gave an order, and an attendant immediately left the cabin and got off the boat to find Zhao An.

The Great Song Huiyi team continued to trade with the Tianzhu merchants who came later, but the whole transaction was obviously weak, not only the number of merchants was decreasing, but the trading volume of each merchant was also decreasing, and if it continued like this, it would not take three or five days for the transaction to stop, which made Jiang Kai a little headache, Lord Huang asked him to be responsible for such an important matter, if he didn't do it well, he might never have a chance again.

When he was upset, General Zhao sent someone to urge the Xuanwei army salary, this account was previously in charge of Lord Yang and Lord Tang, he had never been in contact at all, and now after the two adults had an accident, Lord Huang handed over this errand to him, making him busy and irritable, and he was even more irritable when he saw the Xuanwei Army and the reserve army who had nothing to do for more than a month. You have to find something for them to do, or you will be sulky.

After Jiang Kai went to see Lord Huang again, he conveyed an order to the entire Xuanwei Army and the reserve army, this month everyone should go out to sell at least ten horses of silk or ten sets of porcelain or fifty catties of tea, if they can't be sold, the salary will not be paid this month, and the selling price of all goods cannot be lower than the reserve price, and if the goods are lost or sold at a low price, the loss will be deducted from the salary after that.

As soon as this news came out, the Xuanwei Army and the Reserve Army were in an uproar, if Zhao An hadn't received the news from Lord Huang in advance and controlled the Xuanwei Army, the sergeants would have made trouble immediately, and the Reserve Army had always been controlled by Jiang Kai, although they had opinions, they did not dare to oppose it blatantly.

The Xuanwei army and the reserve army have really been idle these days, and the eastern army is on the eastern coast, and there has been no war for a long time, so the army is very small, only more than 10,000 people, and almost all of them are in the royal city, the people of Buri believe in Buddhism, and they are very moderate, and there are only a few dozen soldiers to maintain law and order, and the six or seven thousand people of the Xuanwei army and the reserve army are basically useless here.

After explaining and communicating over and over again, the whole army finally understood that they had to go out and do something, and the idle meal was not so delicious.

So groups of Xuanwei troops and reserve armies carried supplies and walked the streets and alleys, went up to the mountains and went to the countryside, and sold their silk, porcelain, or tea to the common people and to the wealthy households, and they did not want gold or silver, but could only exchange spices.