The night gradually shrouded, and on the tall wall of the temple called Changle Fang in Xijin Mansion, Wu Haogu, who had changed back to the Han costume, was looking at the place where the fire was raging in the distance with Guangmingjun, who was still dressed as a Khitan.

There's a pitched battle going on there, oh, not a pitched battle, but a one-sided slaughter!

The uprising of the Bohai Nu in the city of Xijin was destined to be tragic, although they mobilized some Han people to join the uprising, but the strength was still too weak, only a few thousand could participate in the battle, and there was no good equipment, and the organization and tactics were extremely bad.

After seizing the North Market and the South An, the rebels seemed to be at a loss and simply closed the gate as a means of defense.

At the same time, the "reactionary forces" in the province reacted quickly. By the afternoon, the Han family headed by the Yan four tribes had organized tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers. Among them, 2,000 people immediately threw themselves into the attack on Beishifang, they dragged a battering ram from the armory of Xijin Prefecture to hammer the west gate of Beishifang, and at the same time let hundreds of archers shoot arrows under the fangfang wall, throwing waves of feather arrows into the fang, so as to disperse the "rebel army" concentrated in the fangmen and fangfang.

The gate of Beishifang cannot be compared with the real city gate, and it collapsed after being hammered by the battering ram in a few blows.

Then, Ma Zhi, who was wearing armor, rushed into Beishifang with his 300 Ma family armor soldiers like 300 tigers, and now he is probably killing people, setting fires, robbing and capturing slaves inside, right?

"Guangming-kun, does it make sense for you to do this?"

Listening to the shouts coming from afar getting softer and softer, Wu Haogu sighed, turned his head and asked the bright monarch beside him, who looked a little brave and unscrupulous.

"Does it make sense to live as a slave for the Khitans?" Guangmingjun asked with a smile.

Wu Haogu is silent, although it is better to die than to live...... But everyone has their own aspirations, maybe they are the masters who don't care if they are free to kill their heads?

Guangmingjun said in a heavy tone: "There is no food, no clothing, no soil under your feet, no tile on your head, and you can't rest from working all day long...... On such days, there is no difference between living and dying.

And in the Great Liao Kingdom, we are not the only people who live this kind of life...... This time, it is not only Bohai Nu who has risen in Beishifang, but also many wealthy men! ”

Yiqian Han was originally a curse, but Wu Haogu knew that Guangmingjun's words were not insulting the Han people, but a fact...... In Yanyun, in other parts of the Liao Kingdom, most of the Han people were just a Qian Han. Like the Bohai people, they are all looking forward to the Khitan sky falling.

It's just that the Han family is content to oppress their compatriots together with the Khitans, and refuses to lead them to overthrow the Khitan rule.

And because the right surname of the Bohai people did not have the opportunity to participate in the distribution of fertilizer, they had to embark on the road of leading the resistance......

Guangmingjun asked: "Now the noble envoy, Jian Zheng envoy, and Deputy Envoy Li should now understand, who is the real enemy of the Khitans, right?" ”

Wu Haogu sighed, he already knew who was the real enemy of the Khitans! But...... He did not consider himself and the Great Song to be the real enemies of the Khitan. How nice it would be if the Khitan rule could be maintained!

But if this doesn't exist!

"Guangming-jun," Wu Haogu smiled, "After the official goes back, he will definitely tell the official's family what happened in the Xijin Mansion as it is." If you and the King of Swords have a serious request, this official can also play on your behalf. ”

Guangmingjun grinned, touched his beard and said, "Then you're welcome...... There is no doubt about the aspirations of our Bohai people to restore the country, and we don't know how many uprisings have been launched in the past 100 years. However, because our strength was still not fully utilized, the uprising was not very successful. ”

"Then what does Guangguang Jun think is the reason why the power of the Bohai people cannot be exerted?"

"Because there's no money." Guangmingjun's answer surprised Wu Haogu slightly.

"Money? Isn't it a lack of iron? ”

In Wu Haogu's impression, iron has always been a bottleneck that plagues the rise of ethnic minorities in the north. The current divination people are pressed and beaten by the Khitans, whose combat effectiveness has been seriously reduced, because they have no iron.

Hearing this, Guangming Jun laughed: "Your envoy must think that we Bohai people are nomadic fishing and hunting people, right?" ”

That's right! Wu Haogu thought about it, the Bohai people had long been sinicized, they were agricultural settlers, and they also had a relatively developed handicraft industry.

Guangmingjun continued: "Most of the iron in Daliao is made by us Bohai forging slaves...... How can we Bohai people have no iron? ”

It turns out that the Bohai people have iron! They will strike iron themselves!

This is ...... for Wu Haogu Not good news!

Because the Bohai Sea - the Jurchen is one! There is iron in the Bohai Sea, and the Jurchens naturally have iron! It seems that it is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to use the strategy of "iron forbidden" to weaken the Jurchen's combat effectiveness.

"Qian ......" Wu Haogu continued to deal with Guangmingjun, he actually didn't want to support the Bohai people at all, but he didn't count this kind of thing, "Do you also need to use money to hire soldiers?" ”

In his impression, when the ethnic minorities in the north rose, they generally did not engage in mercenaries.

Guangmingjun smiled bitterly: "Do you think that we Bohai people are still people of the tribe?" As long as the patriarch gives an order, the strong men in the clan can bring their own bow and horse food to participate in the battle? ”

Yes, the Bohai people are also settled farmers.

"Isn't there a big family with the right surname in Bohai?" Wu Haogu asked uncertainly, "Could they be the same as the Yan family?" ”

"Naturally different!" "But they also need money...... We Bohai people are very short of money. ”

This Guangming Jun naturally won't tell the truth to Wu Haogu, in fact, it's not that the right surnames of the Bohai clan are open to money, but that the big clan to which he and the Sword King belong is now weak, and at the same time, the internal is also falling apart, if there is not enough money, it is impossible to drive the right surname families to establish their own leadership position.

In addition, the Bohai people are a settled farming people after all, and commerce has long been developed. Therefore, money has a certain role in their life and production, and money can also employ strong men.

If the Bohai clan wants to raise troops, it will naturally need to spend money to hire a large number of samurai to serve as their descendants.

Otherwise, they are all people from the big clan with the right surname, who will have the final say in this Bohai Country at that time?

Wu Haogu nodded, thinking: If you ask for money, the official side will definitely pay for it ...... "big gift", but not for other things, but it is better to send money. The Khitan side sends 500,000 a year, the party side sends 200,000 a year, and the Bohai people send tens of thousands a year. Besides, Bohai people don't take money in vain, and they still do things!

"So......" Wu Hao Gu paused, "how are you going to collect the money?" If the official family wants to unite with you Bohai, there will always be tens of thousands of yuan a year. Of course, I won't give all the money, it is estimated that the money and silk are half each, or they may all be given to the silk, after all, I have been a little short of copper in recent years. How will so many copper coins and silk silks be transported to you? ”

What the? This discusses the issue of transporting copper coins and silks?

Guangmingjun was stunned, he didn't expect things to progress so quickly...... Oh, it's not that things are progressing fast, but that the nine-rank petty official of the Song Dynasty in front of him is thinking a little far.

But now that I'm idle, I'm idle, so let's discuss it.

"This money delivery is a problem," asked Guangmingjun, "I wonder what your envoy can do?" ”

In these years, there is no international payment and settlement system, tens of thousands of copper coins and silk silk are very heavy, and the volume is huge, if you want to send it from Kaifeng Mansion to Liaoyang Mansion where Bohai people live, you can ...... It's not easy.

"Of course, you have to go by sea, and there is no way to do it on land." Wu Haogu actually had an idea a long time ago, "In addition, copper coins cannot be transported directly, because my dynasty prohibits the outflow of copper coins, and if it is discovered by the Liao people's checkpoints, it will definitely be suspicious." Therefore, if you want to exchange money for goods, I will send you some things that can be sold in Liao. And you, then, set up a trading house to sell these goods. In this way, it will be difficult for the Liao people to find out......

By the way, it is better for this trading house not to use the name of the Bohai people, nor the name of the Song people, but to run it in the name of the Koreans. ”

Wu Haogu's plan was actually an excuse for himself to set up a "franchised" shipping firm.

Because although it is imperative to support the Bohai people, people in the Great Song Dynasty are very timid and cannot support it openly, and most of them will adopt the method of supporting it in private.

And Wu Haogu just managed to get this errand in his hands, and then he could justifiably set up a "privileged" shipping firm.

The "privilege" that Wu Haogu wanted was not a tax concession - he was a transportation merchant anyway - he wanted the privilege of installing crossbows and stone tools on the "gang ship"!

The reason, of course, is to avoid being caught by the Khitan sailors...... For this reason, this kind of sea ship should also be built more specially, not only strong, but also fast enough, and the sailors and fighters on board should be adequate.

In this way, even if they encountered the Khitan sailors—I don't know if there were—the samurai gang ship could also escape with its strong combat power and speed.

In fact, Wu Haogu wanted to build a fleet of warships that could come and go freely in the waters off China, in the West Sea of Goryeo, and in the waters of western Japan!

And with the warfleet, trade at sea was easy to do......

"Good! Good! That's it! Guangming Jun nodded again and again, in fact, although he is a "businessman", he doesn't know how to do business, let alone sea trade. Now that I hear Wu Haogu say this, I think it still makes a lot of sense.

"That's right," Guangmingjun said with a smile, "I can't accompany you to Kaifeng Mansion, and this businessman has a big mess!" Why don't you do it...... Ask two people to accompany you. ”

As he spoke, Guangmingjun made a big move: "Pharmacist Guo, Luohan maid, you come here!" ”