"Lord Wang, the task you ordered earlier has not been completed!"

On the third day, Li Yuanba was tired and didn't wake up after a day's work, so Wang Jun knocked on the door directly and called him.

"Not finished? What does that mean? Li Yuanba was dressed in a big coat, and his sleepy eyes suddenly woke up.

"Lord Wang, after the construction of the Shenji Mansion Branch, a lot of saltpeter and sulfur are needed, and saltpeter is good to say, after all, the imperial court purchases a lot of saltpeter every year, but this sulfur is more troublesome!"

Wang Jun shook his head helplessly, and said, "After all, the sulfur produced in our Central Plains is not much, and the quality is not good, so it is extremely difficult to purchase. The sulfur purchased by our Chang'an City Shenji Mansion is all from the hinterland of Fanbang to either buy or forcibly plunder the mines! Therefore, it is indeed difficult to acquire a large amount of sulfur! ”

"Is that so?" Li Yuanba was a little puzzled, no wonder when he was in Chang'an City, there was always a lot of saltpeter, but sulfur was in short supply.

In fact, this is also a point that Li Yuanba did not consider, in Li Yuanba's previous life, sulfur production was mainly concentrated in China. Dong, Hua. Zhong, Hua. North and China. In the southern region, there are very few other places.

"Yes!" Wang Jun nodded and said, "However, the lower officials have already ordered the people below to step up their investigation in other prefectures and counties around Dengzhou, and I believe that it will not be long before news will come back!" ”

"It doesn't have to be so much trouble!"

Li Yuanba frowned and shook his head, he suddenly remembered that the inevitable condition for the formation of sulfur was that there were many volcanoes, and the unfortunate place of the Wa Kingdom was not established on the volcano-prone area?

And in the previous life, there were earthquakes or something from time to time in the Wa country, and such a place was almost full of sulfur.

"That's it! You go and tell the people in the house and the maritime merchants who often go to sea to trade. In the northeast of the Wa country, volcanoes are everywhere, sulfur resources are very abundant, and the quality is also excellent, they can go there to buy! ”

Li Yuanba thought for a while, added, and said, "By the way, don't forget to tell them!" The Japanese people have always been the virtue of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and it is nothing to be tough, and it is best to keep the price to the lowest. But don't be fooled by those dwarfs! ”

"It's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes!" Wang Jun's eyes lit up, and he said, "Your Majesty will order to go down!" ”

"Well, go ahead!" Li Yuanba nodded, seeing that Wang Jun was about to walk out of the room, as if he remembered something, and said: "By the way, Goguryeo has been more chaotic recently, you should pay attention to it, and report any news over there to this king at any time!" ”

"No!"

Wang Jun responded. Hurriedly walked towards the outside of the governor's mansion.

……

The Governor's Mansion was going to buy a large amount of sulfur, and all the merchants of Dengzhou who had heard the news were crazy with joy.

But then, the merchants, who had never done or rarely did the business of sulphur, were dumbfounded, because there was so little sulphur. Even if they want to buy it in Datang, the sulfur in Datang can't even be supplied to Chang'an, let alone sold to others.

As soon as the news of the sulfur in this Japanese country circulated, some merchants were immediately excited.

If it had been before, it would have been. But now, since the prince came to Dengzhou, he has been constantly searching and expanding the situation in the surrounding sea area, after Li Yuanba's efforts. A new route was opened to reach Silla directly from Dengju, and it was not far to go to Wakoku or Baekje.

In addition, the time for purchasing, at most, there are five or six days to be able to run back and forth, and as the Governor's Mansion said, the dwarves of the Japanese Kingdom are all masters who bully the soft and fear the hard, as long as the price is pressed to the lowest, and the sulfur transported after that is directly purchased by the Dengzhou Governor's Office, the price is also guaranteed.

None of these businessmen are fools for such a good deal, so they are naturally willing to go on this trip and do a good job.

As a result, driven by profits, many merchants began to take action, loading the silk and some other luxury goods produced in the Tang Dynasty on ships, and then transporting them to the Wa Kingdom through new routes to sell, and then using the money they earned to buy sulfur at an extremely low price, and shipping it back to Dengzhou is another profit.

Sulfur is simply useless in the Wa Kingdom, and exchanging useless things for some useful luxuries is simply a pie in the sky for the dwarves of the Wa Kingdom, so they are happy to mine the sulfur to sell.

In this way, whether it is saltpeter or sulfur, they are stepping up their acquisitions.

At this moment, the construction of the hidden island also began to break ground, and several fleets of different sizes have arrived on the island one after another, these fleets do not look special on the surface, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a lot of cargo on it, and it is also necessary for various buildings.

Of course, the goods were all wrapped in thick packages, and the fishermen and the shipwrights who were in charge of carrying the goods were all unaware of what was on this strange ship.

……

Just when Li Yuanba was preparing for the civil strife in Goguryeo a few days later, Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, was turbulent, and although it had passed the spring and gradually became a little hot, it was still a little cold in the city of Pyongyang.

Although Pyongyang is the royal city of Goguryeo, compared with the tall and magnificent Chang'an, there is no comparison at all.

To put it mildly, this Pyongyang can't even compare to the city of Dengju, which has been developed for a month.

However, among these small countries such as Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, and Wa, it is also a rare fortified city, after all, Goguryeo is the closest to the Tang Dynasty, and all aspects are moving closer to the Tang Dynasty.

At present, although Pyongyang seems to be calm on the surface, people in the officialdom clearly know that under this calm, it is not peaceful.

The Wenchen and some military attachés who supported the King of Rongliu were fighting with the generals led by the Izumi clan on the ground, and it was inevitable that when the conflict intensified, it would inevitably be a dragon fight, so the people of the entire city were running out of the city with all their might, as if they would be exempt from the burden of war.

In the very center of Pyongyang, there is a large mansion that was built on a large area.

At this moment, in the main hall of the mansion, a group of people dressed in Goguryeo official robes sat around the chairs and had a crucial conversation about the future of Goguryeo! (To be continued......)