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Chapter 552: Convincing People with Virtue IV

"Come on, come on, another glass of wine, the Wuzhou master, let's stop after we get drunk!"

Wu Haogu diligently poured a glass of wine for Wu Yanpeng, and gave him and Tong Guanfeng.

The banquet placed in the Jiehe Maritime Ware Office has been drinking for three rounds of wine, five flavors, and all the guests and hosts have fun.

The flowing seats placed in the lobby of the government office have changed the tables. In the flower hall in the backyard of the government office, Wu Haogu waved his hand to ask the singer who was accompanying the wine to retreat, and then he and Tong Guan took a heart-to-heart talk with Wu Yanchong.

Of course, the content of heart-to-heart talk is mainly friendship, and it has a little bit of connection with evil money.

Wu Yanchong, who was half drunk and half awake after drinking, began to speak up the truth and frowned and said, "Wukesheng, let me tell you the truth. Those Koreans really don't have much money... They are different from our Song Dynasty, and they are bartering. Except for Goryeo Haizhou and Kaijing, there is no money in other places.

By the way, not long ago, the Koreans had just minted coins, called Haidong Tongbao, and there were only 15,000 shreds in total. It was so poor that they were so poor!"

Goryeo is actually not as poor as he said, but the degree of economic development is different. The manor economy is self-sufficiency, and it does not require any currency to make the economy work normally, so the cost of fighting is relatively low.

Wu Haogu and Tong Guan didn't actually drink much, and they looked at each other.

Tong Guan first said, "Our dynasty and Goryeo will not talk about money. Our two countries are friendly countries. The officials said that Goryeo has no money to buy our weapons, so we will lend money to Goryeo... When Goryeo has money in the future, we will pay it back slowly."

Wu Haogu also smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes, you can borrow it if you don't have money! There are many databases in Jiehe Market. With the credibility of Goryeo, millions of credibility can always be borrowed."

"Borrow?" Wu Yanchong, who was half drunk and half awake, also felt that this matter was unreliable, and shook his head repeatedly, "The high-ranking official was joking with Kesheng. Who would lend money to the Kingdom of Goryeo? If the king did not return it, wouldn't he have lost all his money?"

"How could it be?" Wu Haogu laughed, "Goryeo is a country of gentlemen. After Jizi, how could he borrow money and not repay it?"

In fact, if the Goryeo people borrow money and don’t repay it, Wu Haogu is not afraid of it. If you say you don’t repay it, you won’t repay it? What about dreaming? Moreover, there are some wars between the Goryeo and the Jurchens. If they dare to pay it back, hahaha…

Tong Guan also laughed and said, "Yes, how could a gentleman in Goryeo borrow money but not repay it? Besides, borrowing money is mortgaged. As long as Goryeo gives the mortgage, you won't be afraid of not being able to borrow money."

"Mortgage?" Wu Yanchong heard this and said something fresh. What should he mortgage? Mortgage the Wang Xi of Goryeo?

"Mortgage tax!" Wu Haogu asked with a smile, "How many major tax tariffs do Goryeo have now? How many tariffs can you earn every year?"

"The Goryeo State has three major taxes," Wu Yanchong was also half drunk. He actually talked about the taxes with Wu Haogu. "One is Weiyuan Pass on the Great Wall of Thousand Miles in the northwest; the Goryeo State Haizhou Pass near Kaijing; and the Goryeo State Busan Pass in the south of Goryeo. However, these three passes do not receive much tax, and the average annual price is not 100,000 yuan."

"Only one hundred thousand?" Wu Haogu asked, "The sea trade between Goryeo and Song dynasties is still quite prosperous, why is it so a little bit?"

"Hi," Wu Yanchong waved his hand, "Wuke Province doesn't know anything. Those who can do maritime trade in Goryeo have something to do with the nobles of two classes, and the money has been put into the pockets of two classes..."

"That's all right," Wu Haogu clapped his hands, "As long as you mortgage Haizhou Pass and Busan Pass, you are afraid you won't get millions of dollars? Your king's loss is only 100,000 yuan a year, what's that?"

"Yes!" Tong Guan also said, "Just detain the tax and let the merchants collect the money... There is no need to detain it for more. It takes 20 years to keep it, and you can borrow 4 million yuan! There is no need to repay the debt at that time, so let the creditor collect the money at the tax customs himself."

"Really or not?" Wu Yanchong cleaned his ears, "Impossible? It would be great if two tax authorities can receive 1.2 million in 20 years. This is better if the government of the Goryeo Kingdom collects it. If it were replaced by a merchant from the Song Dynasty, it would probably not be able to receive 600,000..."

That's right, businessmen were all inferior in the Song Dynasty, let alone the Goryeo Kingdom controlled by the manor nobles?

Those two teams of nobles from Goryeo paid taxes to merchants in the Song Dynasty? Isn’t this a dream? What’s wrong with not being afraid of death?

Wu Haogu waved his hand: "Mrs. Wuzhou, you don't have to worry about these... As long as your king is willing to mortgage the tax, we can lend you 4 million. With this money, you can buy any weapons, and you are afraid that you can't beat the Jurchens?"

"Yes," Tong Guan also said, "As long as you defeat the Jurchens, Song Li will join forces at that time... What is the 4 million chunk?"

Wu Haoguman drank a glass of wine and said in a scent: "Wuzhou Mu, do you really think that our official family cares about just 4 million? The official family really wants to help Goryeo..."

"Wuke Province!" Tong Guan seemed a little awake and shouted loudly.

Wu Haogu then pressed his forehead, "Ah, this is not what the official family means, uh... there is no need to say this.

In short, as long as you detain two taxes, we will give you weapons worth 4 million!”

Wu Yanchong understood a little!

This 4 million was probably allocated by the Song Dynasty officials from the inner treasury... Maybe the group of civil servants who were afraid of trouble in the Song Dynasty stopped them from publicly supporting Goryeo, so they arranged this way?

This matter... seems to be feasible! Wu Yanchong, who was sober, secretly thought that the two taxes were nothing, and they were on the territory of Goryeo. The Song people had no choice but to do anything if they could not collect taxes, so they were not afraid of this.

Yes, I will send someone to Goryeo to report the good news to the king!

...

At the same time, on the third floor of the newly completed Jingong Building in Jiehe Commercial City, the Bohai people "Great Guangming" who had not met for many days with Wu Haogu, Guo Yaoshi, was in a private room full of Kaifeng cuisine, and a few stout men wearing round-necked, wide-sleeved leather robes, bald heads and no hats, and two slender braids behind their bare big heads.

These men with small braids were obviously headed by a strong middle-aged man in his thirties and full of virginity. He sat face to face with "Da Guangming", holding a golden fried chicken in one hand and a white wine pot in the other. He took a sip of wine and ate a bite of fried chicken. After swallowing it, he smiled and laughed in Bohai's words: "That's right, this Han people's things are good, the wine is delicious, the food is delicious, the cloth is beautiful, and the city is even more prosperous and joyful!

When I was in the north, I heard people talk about the prosperity of the Southern Dynasty and the world of flowers. I still couldn’t believe it. Now I know it.”

"Da Guangming" smiled when he heard this, looked at Guo Yaoshi, and just laughed: "Where is this place? Jiehe Market is just a small town on the border of Song and Liao. Those southerners who go south are so prosperous than here!

The pharmacist has been to Kaifeng Prefecture, so you can talk to Aguda about Kaifeng Prefecture!"

A Guda! The Jurchen man who was having dinner with "Da Guangming" and Pharmacist Guo was named A Guda. He was from Wanyan's tribe and was Wanyan A Guda!

If Wu Haogu heard the name Wanyan Aguta, he would not know if Zhou Yunqing, Lin Chong and Zhao Zhongge would rush forward and chop the disaster into 17 or 18 pieces!

Unfortunately, Wu Haogu was unlikely to know that Wanyan Aguda had come to Jiehe Commercial City, because Jiehe Commercial City was a place of mixed things. You don’t need a passport or visa to enter the Commercial City, and just register with a fake name. If you want to live for a long time, you can get a temporary household registration. You can make up your own surname and name, and there is no way to verify it.

When Wanyan Aguda entered the city, Guo Yaoshi mentioned that he had a pseudonym of Wanyan Monk. This Buddhist name is very popular in Liao Kingdom, and it is not surprising that there are many Jurchens with the surname Wanyan. They may not necessarily have Jurchens, but there are many Wanyans among the mature Jurchens.

"I don't want the Han people in the Southern Dynasty to be so generous!" After hearing what Guo Yaoshi said, Wanyan Aguda said in an envious tone.

At this time, Aguda would not have thought that his descendants would one day become the master of the Central Plains, the flower world. He did not even think that his family could destroy the Great Liao Kingdom and become the founding king of the Great Jin Kingdom in the future.

In fact, he couldn't think so far now, because he was not the heir of Wanyan tribe at all. His brother Wanyan Wuyashu was the heir of Wanyan tribe and the next Dubo Jilie (the meaning of the Great Chief).

It is precisely because he was not the heir that he was sent by his father and brother to Jiehe Market to do fur and medicinal materials trading in the past. In the past, the transactions were carried out through the Bohai people and Yanyun Han people. However, because they were going to sell a lot this year, the Bohai people and Yanyun Han people could not eat them, so Agu could make a horse.

In addition, there is another treasure from Jiehe that also aroused the interest of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe, which is the wine fairy that Aguda was drinking.

Unlike the Koreans who needed a large number of weapons to arm their large but not elite military soldiers, the Wanyan tribe had only a few thousand elite soldiers, and did not require much equipment. In addition, they could also obtain many iron tools and stubborn sheep horns through the Bohai people, and horses were enough for them to use.

Therefore, what Wanyan tribe needed to prepare for war was not weapons, but enough silk and fine wine. These two things were used to win over the leaders of the Jurchen tribes. In the process of establishing the Jurchen tribes in the Wanyan tribe, drinking blood wine and sending silk are indispensable... How can you do without good wine and good silk?

This time, Aguda came to the south, mainly because he wanted to get enough silk and fine wine from Jiehe Market to bring back the tiger water.

His secondary task was to inquire about the truth of the Goryeo people. His father, Wanyan Yingge and his brother Wu Yashu, didn't want to go to war with the Goryeo Kingdom.
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