This monk and layman from Muzhou, Jiangnan, turned out to be an acquaintance of Ji Yi and Mo Niangzi. The monk's Dharma name is Jingming, a somewhat thin middle-aged monk, wearing a white monk's robe, with dignified and solemn facial features, and long hair, which is very much like a high-ranking monk.

The young man dressed as a layman is the apprentice of the monk Jingming, born burly and majestic, with a lion nose and wide mouth, his eyes are like copper bells, blazing, and he also has a beard, like a martial artist who can really fight. The young man's surname is Fang, and his single name is a wax character.

That's right, it's called Fang La!

It was the Holy Prince's Fang La, who set off a vigorous Manichaean uprising in history, and let the Song army suppress it and become a martyr in less than a year.

But now he is not a holy duke, and the current holy duke is the old monk Jingming who is with him. And he didn't think about creating a rebellion against the Great Song Dynasty now, the purpose of him and his master Jingming all the way to Kaifeng Mansion was not to subvert the feudalism of the Great Song Dynasty, but because of a letter from Mo Niangzi.

Mo Niangzi is also a Manichaean saint! Although she is a little unprofessional now, she has not apostasy, nor has she lost her status as a saint - for this reason she has always been guarded.

As the holy daughter of Manichaeism, Mo Niangzi naturally thinks about the light of day all the time, from an underground sect that has not seen the light of day, to a legitimate religion.

And the establishment of the Jiehe merchant market opened her eyes to the possibility of legalizing Manichaeism.

In the "Republican Commercial Treaty" of Jiehe Shang City, it is stipulated that all religions are equal...... Since all religions are equal, it is natural that Manichaeism can openly set up temples in Jiehe Shang City.

In addition, when Ji Yi was in Liao, he also met with Manichaean envoys from the Uighurs in Liao. This also let Mo Niangzi know the news that there are still Manichaean activities in the Western Regions. It also strengthened her confidence in reopening the Manichaean temple in the Boundary River...... Jiehe Commercial Market is ready to become the starting point of the land Silk Road!

When the time comes, there will be Manichaean Uighur merchants. The Manichaean temples in the Boundary River can not only become their spiritual sustenance, but also make the Manichaean temples in the Boundary River the center of the two branches of Manichaeism.

Maybe we can use this as a basis to rebuild the Manichaean Holy See in Jiehe Shang City!

With the Holy See, Manichaeism can flourish again...... The organization of Manichaeism is somewhat similar to Christianity, with the Holy See dividing the diocese, but now it has become a fragment.

In addition, Mo Niangzi also knew that Jiehe Commercial Market would definitely become a place where thousands of merchants gathered in the future, and there were considerable business opportunities.

Therefore, she also wanted to transfer most of the Manichaean religion to the Jiehe Trading Market, which was safe and had many investment opportunities.

Kaifeng Mansion Inner City, East Crossroads. She was about to transfer the commission collected in a "secret singing transaction" in the early hours of the morning to the Mo Niangzi, who was deposited in the Pan family's gold, silver, silk and silk shop, when she suddenly heard someone shouting her name.

"Mo Niangzi, is it Mo Niangzi in front?"

Mo Niangzi has long been accustomed to this kind of life where she can meet "fans" wherever she goes, so she turned around gracefully, with a charming smile on her face, but when she saw the person who called her name, she was stunned.

I saw a Confucian dressed fan, with a few white-bearded old people wearing brown robes and white cloth wrapped around their heads, and when they got closer, Mo Niangzi recognized that the leading Confucian was Bai Siwen, the young master of the Quanzhou Aladdin Chamber of Commerce.

When he was in Jiangnan, Bai Siwen often represented the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce to go to Pingjiang and Mingzhou Tongji families and some Manichaean families to do business—Manichaean clergy were called electors, and most of the Mo Niangzi were from a dozen Persian exiled families. Of course, they also had their own livelihoods, mainly engaged in shipbuilding and the forgery of various Persian artefacts (i.e., counterfeit Persian artefacts, mainly Persian carpets and gold and silverware). Therefore, there is a lot of business with the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce, which sells real Persian handicrafts.

Well, those who sell fakes need the real thing as a reference, and those who sell the real thing need to buy a little fake stall at a low cost......

However, the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce has no business in Kaifeng Mansion, because the "foreign goods" in Kaifeng Mansion are monopolized by the eight Jewish families of Zhao, Ai, Li, Zhang, Shi, Jin, Gao, and Zhang (the Han surname of the eight Jewish families is given by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty), and there is no share of Tianfang Sect merchants.

"Bai Xiaoyi, how did you get to Kaifeng Mansion? Are you here to apply for the imperial examination? ”

The reason why Mo Niangzi asked this question was because she knew that although Bai Siwen was a Tianfang Sect, he had studied Confucianism and had participated in the Liberation Test in Quanzhou.

"Sure enough, it's the ink lady."

Bai Siwen walked forward with a laugh and sang a fat song: "I just looked at your back from a distance, I was a little familiar, but I didn't dare to recognize you." These days have not been seen, and Mo Niangzi is indeed very different, this rich and noble spirit is a hundred times stronger. ”

"Brother Xiao Yi is ashamed of his own family."

Mo Niangzi blushed a little when he said it.

She is really a rich woman now, and her worth has long exceeded 100,000! She doesn't look much like an ascetic Manichaean saint anymore.

"I'm here to do business in Kaifeng Mansion." Bai Siwen said with a smile, "Mo Niangzi should recognize the big proprietor of Christie's business, right?" I've heard about it in Quanzhou, and you're doing things for this military official now, aren't you? ”

"Are you looking for a military official?" Mo Niangzi was stunned for a moment, "What do you have to do with the martial arts officials?" ”

"We had a relationship in Haizhou two years ago." Bai Siwen said with a smile, "At that time, the military officials ordered a few Gulam war slaves and Persian slave girls from Xia, as well as a big food BMW.

For this deal, Zai Xia traveled thousands of miles to Baghdad. ”

"Oh, really?"

Mo Niangzi showed a surprised expression.

It wasn't because Blaswin said he went to Baghdad - Mo Lady knew he was bragging. Two years ago, how could Wu Haogu be qualified to labor the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce to really fulfill the transaction? The contract signed by Bai Siwen and Wu Haogu in Haizhou is actually similar to waste paper. The only ones who could be fulfilled were the Persian slaves.

Selling female slaves was originally the main business of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce, and Bai Siwen could find a reason to shirk other things.

However, Wu Haogu wanted to invite Gulam to fight slaves two years ago and buy a big food BMW, but Mo Niangzi was surprised.

Could it be that Wu Haogu two years ago was already planning the military force of Jiehe Shang City?

"Bai Xiaoyi, have you brought the Gulam war slaves and the big horses to Kaifeng Mansion?" When Mo Niangzi spoke, she looked at the few old men who came with Bai Siwen. They are all burly and gloomy guys, and they look a bit like the thugs of the big food and maritime merchants!

"Dashi BMW is still in Quanzhou, but it has brought a few retired Gulam soldiers."

In fact, the big food BMW is still in Tianzhu! Bai Siwen didn't want to fully fulfill the contract signed with Wu Haogu, until he saw the photo album of Mo Niangzi in Quanzhou, knew that Wu Haogu had become a big bull, and heard about the affairs of Jiehe Commercial Market, so he decided to make friends.

So I invited a few retired sailors in Quanzhou, Gulam, who was actually the head of the navy of the big food maritime merchants. He also sent people to Tianzhu to buy Mawari horses to pretend to be big food horses, Tianzhu's Mawari horses are a cross breed of Arabian horses and Turkmen horses, and they are also quite good horse breeds.

Now that Mawarima hadn't bought it yet, Bai Siwen came to Kaifeng Mansion first with four fake Gulams.

"It just so happens that my family is also about to meet the military officials, so Brother Xiaoyi might as well go with the slave."

Mo Niangzi glanced at the four tanned white old men, and already understood in her heart that they were warriors on the water, but they didn't break it, and invited Bai Siwen to go with them to the Pear Blossom Courtyard outside Kaifeng Mansion in Wuhaogu.

……

When Mo Niangzi arrived at the Lihua Courtyard with Bai Siwen and the others, Wu Haogu was flipping through the inaugural issue of a newly printed "Wenqu Xing" magazine.

In addition to the white portraits of the top ten Jinshi (Wen Jinshi) in the imperial examination, there are also "treatises" and "countermeasures" written by them in the Ministry of Rites examination, as well as some poetic works.

Of course, there are also tricks!

Of course, this trick has nothing to do with beauties, "Wenqu Xing" magazine is mainly facing readers from all over the world, and there is no age limit, so don't let the Oiran of Kaifeng Mansion spoil the mood of readers. In addition, in view of the fact that the "Wenqu Xing" magazine will be distributed throughout the Great Song Dynasty, the tricks are also divided into regions. Wenqu Star magazines published in different regions will be accompanied by different editions of tricks.

However, there are some tricks that will be printed on all versions at the same time, such as a trick that recommends the tribute cloud tea.

Yunwu tea dragon and phoenix cakes have not yet been produced, but the publicity and promotion have begun. Wu Haogu even invited a few talented people from the top ten jinshi in high school to write poems to tout Yunwu Tribute Tea!

In addition, Zhao Ji will also give the first batch of Yunwu tribute tea sent from Haizhou to all the civil and military jinshi when he gives a banquet in Qionglin.

In short, we must fry Yunwu tea in the shortest possible time to make it the world's first-class famous tea.

"What's the hell? Bai Siwen of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce? ”

Wu Haogu closed a copy of the "Wenqu Xing" magazine that was about to be released on the day of the Donghua Gate roll call, and looked up at the visiting Mo Niangzi.

"You know him, too?" Wu Haogu had almost forgotten about this Bai Siwen.

"I recognize." Mo Niangzi smiled, "Quanzhou Aladdin Chamber of Commerce...... That's a well-known big chamber of commerce, and it has a semicolon in Haizhou.

He came all the way to Kaifeng this time, thinking that he wanted to open a branch of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce in Jiehe Commercial City, right? ”

"Hmm," Wu Haogu nodded, "They can go to the Boundary River, the Boundary River Merchant Market is supposed to welcome visitors from all over the world." ”

Mo Niangzi smiled faintly: "But they are big eaters, and they still believe in the Heavenly Sect!" ”

Wu Haogu looked at Mo Niangzi, who had a somewhat strange expression, "Mo Niangzi, are you worried that the Heavenly Fang Sect imam supported by the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce will preach to Yelu Hongji?" ”