"Has he finished sacrificing his ancestors?"

Wu Haogu held his chin and continued to ask about Wu Yanpet.

He came to Haizhou, nominally to order rice and grain, but in fact he came to talk to Wu Yanzhong about "military purchases"↑ The purchase was a big deal and the profits were unimaginably large - the Great Song Dynasty sold weapons to Goryeo as a kind of "aid", and the imperial court did not care how much it was sold. Therefore, Wu Haogu gave a cost price, and the court could explain it. In order to "Lianli Liao", it is not impossible to give it for nothing, and the city can take the goods from the Ordnance Supervisor at a low price, and then pour them to the Koreans at a high price.

And I'm not afraid that the Koreans don't want it!

If the Goryeo people don't want it, then Wu Haogu can also sell weapons to Sheng Jurchen through the surname Bo Yu, and after the war starts, Wu Haogu, as an international arms dealer, doesn't need to look at the buyer's face!

"The early sacrifice is over," Mi Youren said with a smile, "this guy is now busy contacting the wealthy merchants in Haizhou to buy ironware, cowhides, and buffalo horns!" ”

In the 11th century, the buffalo was also a strategic material in the East, and the export of M war horses was strictly controlled. The buffalo is a treasure, beef and offal, bullwhip can be eaten, cowhide can be made into leather armor, and buffalo horn is the most controlled material, even more than iron!

Because buffalo horn is the material used to make composite bows, and it is also the best material for bow arms. The best buffalo horns are known as "cow dai niu", which means that the price of one horn is equivalent to a cow without horns!

Because the Great Song Dynasty had a large number of paddy fields, it raised the largest number of buffaloes in the world at that time, so it was the main production area of buffalo horn.

This kind of strategic material, of course, is strictly forbidden to be exported!

And the next inferior to the buffalo horn is the horn of the naughty sheep. The Khitans, Jurchens, and divination people generally used the stubborn sheep's horn bow, which was also a fairly sophisticated compound bow.

The composite bow used by the Goryeo people was also a buffalo horn bow, but the number of buffalo in Goryeo was small enough to cope with the large-scale attrition in wartime.

Wu Haogu asked, "Did anyone sell it to him?" ”

"No," Mi Youren smiled, "The imperial court didn't ban it, this is a business of killing heads and filling the army, who is willing to sell without huge profits?" And that guy is not happy, for a few coercion bargains, so far he has not negotiated a big deal. ”

"Hmph," Wu Haogu snorted, "this guy is shrewd, and the news must be released to attract more sellers, and he has calculated that the imperial court will definitely ban the Goryeo Kingdom, and he will be able to lower the price at that time." ”

"Teacher, shall we make a deal with him?"

"Of course it did, and it's a big deal!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Let's rest for a day today, and tomorrow I will go to the Goryeo Pavilion with Tong Guan to meet this Wu Yanpet." When the teacher leaves Puyuan, let's go and see you again. ”

At this moment, in the Haeju Koryo Pavilion, a pair of elderly cousins are sitting in a loft overlooking the bay.

The older one is Wu Yanen, the current head of the Wu family in Haizhou, and the younger one is Wu Yanzhong, the Goryeo Quanzhou pastor who returned to Haizhou from Goryeo to worship his ancestors - although his official is the Quanzhou pastor, but somehow, after the official was conferred, he did not go to Quanzhou for a day, but crossed the sea to the Great Song Dynasty, and was in Haizhou for many days.

"Third brother," Wu Yanen picked up some Korean kimchi with chopsticks and looked at it, "I just received the news that Wu Haogu and the others have arrived in Haizhou." There was also a Tong Daguan who came with him, who was an official who went to and from the National Letter Office.

According to reliable sources, Wu Haogu and Tong Guan are here to talk to you about the sale of weapons. ”

"Arms trading?" Wu Yanzhong was a little surprised, he originally thought that the Song Dynasty would ban ironware, cowhide and horns on Goryeo. "Has there been any news of the ban?"

Wu Yanen stuffed the kimchi into his mouth, frowned slightly, and dragged it while chewing, "There is no ban." ”

"If there is no ban, how can we buy and sell weapons?"

Wu Yanen thought for a while, "It should be an official weapon, right?" ”

"Weapons from the official camp?" Wu Yanpet twisted when he heard this.

What does this mean? Is the great Song Dynasty going to sell weapons all over the world? It sounds new.

"Really sold to us?" Wu Yanpet is still not sure.

"It should be sold," Wu Yanen said, "I haven't heard that I want to give it for free, third brother, don't think about it for free, there is Wu Haogu, that profiteer, there is no such advantage to take advantage of." ”

Profiteer? Wu Yanpet had never heard his cousin say the word "profiteer". The Wu family is also a big businessman themselves, although they think that they are not traitors, but they are still sensitive to the word profiteer.

"How is he a profiteer?" Wu Yanpet asked hesitantly.

Wu Yanen snorted and said: "Don't ask about this, you know that this son is not easy to get along with, but ♀ the next time you meet a profiteer, you can be more careful, don't let him be deceived." ”

"Liar?" Wu Yanpet was nervous when he heard this, it was good that his family was a businessman, but he himself was a scholar and had never done business - Wu Haogu misunderstood him, and it was his cousin Wu Yanen who was better than a monkey in business.

"Big brother, you have to help me." Wu Yan said, "This time I have been entrusted by the king, if I don't do it well, my family's arrangement in Goryeo for many years will be in vain." ”

"That's, that's." Wu Yanen patted his chest, "It's all wrapped up in the foolish brother, and you won't be at a loss."

By the way, how much money did your king prepare this time? How much fur and ginseng? ”

"The money was prepared in the millions, mainly silver and gold." Wu Yanpet naturally said everything, "There are more furs and ginseng, and since last year, the king has ordered more clawed tigers and bears to dig up more ginseng medicinal materials. Now we have enough stock, worth at least two million yuan! ”

For the sake of the ambition of Goryeo Sujong, the tigers and bears of the Goryeo Peninsula have also suffered, and they have almost been wiped out by the Goryeo people!

Wu Yanen stroked his beard and thoughtfully, "No? ”

"Ah," said Wu Yanen, "three million is not enough? ”

Goryeo is not prosperous now, three million is a huge amount of money!

"This," Wu Yanen said, "You don't know, the Jurchens are also preparing for war now, and now the tigers on the other side of Jiehe Commercial Market have fallen by half in price, and the ginseng has fallen by forty percent." The price here in Haizhou has also fallen, and the two million tiger skins, bear skins, bear paws, bear bile, ginseng, etc., which you have prepared, I am afraid that they are not even worth one million. ”

"How much has you fallen?" Wu Yanpet is in a hurry now.

Now that iron, horns, and cowhides can't be bought, and tigers, bears, and ginseng have not yet started the war, why are weapons not ready?

"Don't worry, don't worry" Wu Yanen hurriedly comforted his cousin and said, "I'll go to Wu Haogu later, explore the market first, and see if I can make a barter and exchange Goryeo's mountain goods for weapons." ”

"Okay," Wu Yan said, "Brother, hurry up and go to my brother's place, it's a hundred thousand in a hurry." ”

Wu Yanen, who figured out Wu Yan's pet hole cards, did not stay in the Goryeo Pavilion to eat kimchi, so he got up immediately and said goodbye and went to the end of the world.

"Da Lang, Wu Yanen is visiting."

It was about to be dusk, when Wu Hao Guzhen and Pan Qiaolian were strolling along the seaside together, it was Ximen Qing who hurriedly came and informed Wu Yanen of the news of his visit.

"Da Lang," Pan Qiaolian said to her husband with a smile, "you can go, state affairs are important." ”

She also knows how heavy the burden on her husband's shoulders is, Jiehe Commercial Market, northern grain and southern transportation, and now she has to do weapons business with the Koreans, Zhao Xing is really good, why do you let Da Lang do everything? Where have all the able ministers in the court gone?

Wu Yanen seemed to have come in a hurry, without an entourage, and came on horseback alone, without the pomp of the richest man in Haizhou.

However, everyone in Linhaizhuang knows this Wu official, not only because he is the richest person in Haizhou, but also because he is now also a scholar in Tianya Town.

He bought land in Tianya Town and built a Tingtao Village, which is the second largest mansion in the town after Linhaizhuang. And the purpose of his mouth in Ya Town is not because of how good the Jucha Realm here is, let alone because the Yuntai School Palace wants to run a school district house in the town! ), but to participate in the formulation of the Tianya Shiyue - he is also a scholar with a serious official body, and there are also children in the family who are motivated to read, and there is also a Goryeo Jinshi. How not to be a doctor?

Therefore, his old man "entered politics" in Tianya Town, and he also made friends with many officials who were demoted, and also funded a lot of cash-strapped Qingtian, and won the reputation of a famous person in Haizhou. He also mixed him with the "town elders" of Tianya Town - the Tianya Shi Covenant was concluded with reference to the Lu Township Covenant and the Jiehe Business Covenant, claiming to be the "Covenant of the Scholars", but in fact it is "elite politics", only in Juzong Tianya Town, male scholars who have official status or have a certain amount of property or pay taxes can "make an agreement", and the taxi people who can "make an appointment" can launch the town elders association, and then the town elders will elect the town governance office and basically copy the Jiehe business covenant.

And Wu Yanen has long recognized the benefits of "politics" in Tianya Town, so he elected the town elder, and also supported Hua Manshan to be elected as the mayor of Tianya Town - letting Hua Manshan control the "regime" of Tianya Town is of course what Wu Haogu means.

Although this autonomous order cannot be compared with the Jiehe Commercial City at present, its value may be higher in the future.

If there is still an incident of ethnic minorities going south in this time and space, Jiehe Commercial City is the frontline, Haizhou is the rear of the anti-Jin, so the future of Tianya Town is probably even more ambitious than Jiehe Commercial City.

It is precisely because Wu Yanen is "engaged in politics" in Tianya Town that the stewards and servants in Linhai Village all recognize him, and they politely invite him into the outer hall and serve Yunwu tea. Let him drink tea while waiting for Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing to come - there are also inconvenient times in Zongyou's private beach mansion, and when there are guests visiting, you have to walk for a long time to see them.

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