The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 126: Showing clues

Drinking with a fever, Yun Yan returned to sit in a chair, only smirking, "I, I came here under the identity of others... It's okay, the relationship between me and Zhao Yunchu, Much better than you think."

Liu Yong scratched the last sentence and laughed twice, "Really? You know, the three of us will make a fortune together..."

"It's not my family, it's me." Yun Yan replied in a daze, "If the old man hadn't said that he didn't sell the silk silk, he would just keep the silk silk from now on, and he would rather donate all the property to the clan. ...Am I going to get locked up?"

Liu Yong's eyes straightened, "Isn't this your family's biggest business?"

Yun Yanhui was so drunk she didn't know what she was talking about, "Tea...he sells tea..."

Liu Yong's heart jumped suddenly, Da Song was drinking tea, unless this Zheng Feibo was the son of an official family, would he dare to say that his family sells tea? Then there is only one possibility, that is, his family also has a source of tea, and he also smuggles!

Liu Yong couldn't wait to know the story behind this, he patted Yun Yanhui on the shoulder, "Ling Zun... Where did you get the tea?"

Yunyan looked back with a smirk.

Liu Yong pressed the question twice again, and Yun Yan returned with a wave of annoyance, "The people from the tea farm, the tea, the tea case..."

He said the foreword out of line, but Liu Yong understood it.

It's amazing, this Zheng Feibo's father is really a man. He can actually get through the relationship between the tea case and get the goods directly. Unlike them, they can only play tricks in the market, and it takes a long time to settle the account.

It's just that this person must not be selling tea to the Liao Kingdom, otherwise he could never have heard of it.

Sure enough, Yun Yanhui giggled twice, "People from Tubo can't live without tea for a day..."

Liu Yong held Yun Yanhui's shoulder and showed a smile, "Brother Feibo, don't worry, you will definitely make a lot of money from this silk business."

In the Ansu army, in the market, he and Shao Tingyi said who should earn it, and who could not earn it?

……

The moon was in the middle of the sky, and Liu Yong led someone to support Yun Yan back.

The servants carry a round lantern to illuminate the road. This is the Kaifeng lantern from Bianjing, also known as Mingyue Lantern and Kaifeng Moon. It is named after the shape of the bright moon.

In the beginning, Shao Tingyi ordered people to purchase a large number of people. He was from Bianjing, and he was in the Ansu Army. After the Kaifeng Lantern came out, he changed all the lamps in the house. Yue is his hometown Ming, and he wanted to Take a look at the moon of the hometown to understand the feeling of homesickness.

Up and down, Shao Tingyi did this, and within a few days, the Ansu army was all over the Kaifeng month.

Liu Yong feels that Shao Tingyi's guess may be true, and the two have a close relationship.

It was announced that the envoys could not bring irrelevant people, but Zhao Yunchu put this Zheng Feibo in the name, maybe because he had a stake, but since this was just a trial given to him by Zheng Feibo's family, then Zhao Yunchu completely It's escorting.

After they arrived, Zhao Yunchu went out to pick them up in person. Liu Yong couldn't help feeling that Shao Tingyi's eyes were vicious.

Yun Yanhui was carried by a servant Liu Yong, with her head buried on the shoulders, Zhao Yunchu glanced at the light, "What's wrong?"

Liu Yong hehe laughed twice, "As far as I am happy, I am greedy for cups, and Zheng Lang is drunk."

Zhao Yunchu: "..."

Zhao Yunchu: "Drunk?"

"Yeah," Liu Yong pushed Zheng Ling, but saw him waving impatiently, "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't stop it, the grapes on the table today are too strong, give him some hangover soup, it's good Rest."

"...Well." Zhao Yunchu personally picked up the person and carried him back.

Liu Yong was even more happy when he saw it. The better the relationship between the two, the more they would take advantage.

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The next day, Zhao Yunchu was going to meet with the envoys of Liao and Xixia. They came to Songjing on purpose to discuss the amount of tea trade with Song Dynasty.

Yun Yanhui followed behind, rubbing her head all the time, looking like she had a hangover and headache.

Shao Tingyi and Liu Yong both accompanied him to the meeting, and Liu Yong squeezed up to greet him, "Brother Feibo, how are you resting? You drank too much last night."

Yunyan frowned and glanced at him, "Director Liu, I didn't say anything last night, did I?"

Liu Yong smiled meaningfully, "It's nothing."

Yunyan replied: "...It's really nothing? I can't remember."

"Relax, you didn't say anything that shouldn't be said." But everything that should have been said was taken out. Liu Yong smiled and said to him, "Let's make an appointment tonight."

Yunyan replied hurriedly: "No, no, no."

Liu Yong: "Don't worry, I won't drink tonight, let's talk business tonight."

Yunyan looked back at him with a puzzled face, "How do you talk at night?"

The trade in the market is under the supervision of the government, so how can it be discussed at the wine table, and the goods have not been delivered, and even the market cannot be entered.

"You'll know when you come." Liu Yong didn't reveal any points.

At this time, Zhao Yunchu suddenly turned around, "Fei Bo came over to serve tea, I want to talk privately with the two messengers."

Once the others heard it, they took the initiative to avoid it. Of course, it was impossible to ask Zhao Yunchu and the envoy to go private.

Liu Yong and Shao Tingyi's eyes flashed, and they reconfirmed the relationship between Zhao Yunchu and Zheng Feibo. Otherwise, even if Zheng Feibo's family smuggled tea, he knew very well about tea, and if he didn't trust him, he wouldn't ask him to make tea on such an occasion.

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When everyone else had left, Zhao Yunchu set up a battle and fought with the envoys of the two kingdoms of Liao and Xia.

Both Liao and Xixia were very dissatisfied with this system, not only that Song was making too much money.

Because the quality of the copper coins in the Song Dynasty is very good, it is very popular in other countries, especially the Liao Kingdom. And the way for the money of the Song country to reach the Liao country is nothing more than trading between the two countries, as well as the old coins of the Song country.

Recently, Song Guo sold a very high price tea, which is very popular in various countries. It has caused them to lose a lot of copper coins. Now it is even worse. Every batch of tea needs to be used. It's shameless to sell them in a way called auction.

The person in front of me is the clan of the Song Dynasty. He looks fair and handsome. He is the son of the Eight Kings. Although the tiger father has no dog, the Eight Kings have been trapped in the mansion because of the late Empress Liu. To protect himself, not only was he abandoned, but several sons were also abandoned, and he returned to the court recently.

Thinking about it, the messenger of the two countries could not help but stiffen his waist, becoming a little arrogant.

"No, this is not fair, how can you use such a method, we will never agree!"

Zhao Yunchu glanced back at Yunyan who was making tea, and said with an expressionless face: "Our emperor has already made a decision on this method. Song Guo will sell flower tea like this in the future. You only have three choices. One is to accept it. , one is not to buy it, and the other is—”

The envoys couldn't help but leaned forward a little, wondering what he would say. According to their understanding, it should be a little bit of retreat, right? For example, add some price.

Zhao Yunchu said with a smile but not a smile: "That is to exchange horses."

The envoys of Liao and Xixia, at the same time, uttered a **** in their own language.

What about playing with them? !

Isn't the purpose of opening the yard and inspecting the incoming and outgoing goods to prohibit the flow of such war materials to other countries, especially to Song?

Liao and Xixia have good horses, but Song relies on imports. Both of them are stuck, and they will never sell their horses to Song. To be honest, the Song Kingdom with poor horses gave them some headaches, how dare they export war horses to them?

When Zhao Yunchu said this, he was clearly teasing them. He also expressed an attitude. You can all stop selling horses. Don't think we dare not sell tea. To tell the truth, the two countries don't want them, the Song country can fully bear it, and the Song Dynasty's economy does not depend on them to prosper, okay?

But if they can't buy scented tea, they will be scolded by rich people in their own country, including the royal family, who like scented tea.

"You two don't need to be excited," Zhao Yunchu said calmly, "I didn't say that it must be bought with money, and a certain amount of goods can be allowed to be bartered."

The faces of the envoys from the two countries looked a little better, and they continued to argue without giving up, but Zhao Yunchu's attitude was very firm.

Yunyan looked back and saw that they would have to grind it for a while, and then saw that the tea was almost dry, so she went out to add water.

A group of relevant officials were still waiting outside, Liu Yong and Shao Tingyi were also there. They were drinking tea together, and they were drinking the controversial scented tea inside. He said with a smile, he didn't know when the tea case would have new tricks. .

Yun Yanhui added water to them as well, because he had a bad attitude before, Liu Yong actually felt a little flattered.

Yun Yanhui wanted to ask Liu Yong what happened tonight, but Liu Yong did not let go.

Shao Tingyi smiled lightly, "Don't worry about Feibo, he will definitely give you a good introduction at that time."

Shao Tingyi also spoke up... Sure enough, he and Liu Yong are the same raccoon dog. The situation may be worse than the officials thought. The officials here are all colluding. This so-called Zhao Yunchu's father's old department cannot be trusted in the face of interests.

Yun Yan Hui had to suppress her curiosity.

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On this day, Zhao Yunchu's negotiation with them is over, and there is no result. They have to go back to discuss. This is a long time ago, and it can't be over so soon. Since there was nothing to do, Yun Yan returned to leave and went out to do business with Liu Yong.

Liu Yong led Yun Yan back with only two guards, who followed far behind and led him away on foot.

Yunyan said curiously, "What the **** is going on?"

"Don't say it, Brother Feibo, and see for yourself." Liu Yong said.

Look at what?

Yunyan recalled that she was taken to a restaurant by Liu Yong. There were many soldiers, officials, and occasionally civilians in and out of the restaurant. Yunyan would think it was an official guest house.

But after entering, Yun Yanhui realized that something was wrong. The soldiers and officials who came in usually had pockets, big and small, and when they went out, it was just a bulging purse.

Yun Yanhui was shocked, "They are..."

Liu Yong smiled slightly, "There are a lot of Liao people living here, some are doing big business, some are doing small business. They are all selling things and selling things to these Liao people."

A flash of shock flashed in Yun Yan's eyes, "Is that so... grand?"

Transactions that do not go through the market, whether large or small, are logically smuggling.

Before he came to Ansu Army, Yun Yanhui knew that smuggling was widespread here, but he always thought that it was among the upper-level officials who used the country's goods to make a profit, without any cost, to make a fortune.

However, he never imagined that this unhealthy wind had already blown among ordinary soldiers. You know, in Beijing, no one dares to mention this kind of thing. This made him deeply feel, what is the sky high and the emperor far away.

Yunyan looked back and found that the smile on Liu Yong's face was a little smug.

"Brother, there are three kinds of people who do this kind of business in the Song Dynasty. One is ordinary people. It is more common for them to exchange items with ordinary people in Liao. If you go to the border, you can see many. One is these Soldiers and small officials, they took advantage of their positions to get things and sell them to the Liao people. As for the third type..."

Liu Yong said, with a strange smile in his eyes, "It's our ambassadors from the Song Dynasty. They do business with the ministers of the Liao Kingdom, and the profits can be higher. So, what are we people? Why not imitate it?"

Yun Yanhui could hardly maintain her expression, and her anger almost burst out. So, Liu Yong and his like, just secretly change the concept, brainwash people, and then make the atmosphere crooked?

The state sets up a market, collects business taxes, and ordinary people exchange small items. This is a gray area. No one would have thought that this situation can be completely banned or severely cracked.

However, most of the smuggling of ordinary people, even those low-level soldiers and officials, is mostly for tax evasion. Could it be a prohibited item like Liu Yong and the others? Not at all!

As for Liu Yong, they smuggled tea. Tea, for other countries, may be just a drink, but for Song Dynasty, it is not.

Liao and Xixia were reluctant to sell horses to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty wanted to train troops, so they could only exchange tea with another horse-producing region, Tubo. In Tubo, there was a large demand for tea and the Song Dynasty did not want to lose a lot of them. In the case of copper coins, a large amount of tea is exchanged for their horses, and the tea is equivalent to military supplies to a certain extent!

What is even more terrifying is that today is tea, what will it be tomorrow? They are officials stationed at the border for the imperial court.

Yun Yanhui made up a daring businessman, but he didn't expect that the reality was crazier than he imagined.

Yunyan clenched her back teeth and showed a smile, "That's right, even those high-ranking officials don't care about strict orders, so how can we care?"