Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 673 Yuan Gai Suwen's Worry
After Tang Shang left Fuyu, he did not return to Chang'an with his entourage. Instead, he headed towards the original location of Khitan, which is now the Dudu Mansion of Songmo in the Tang Dynasty.

One thing that must be known is that there is only one kind of Tang people who can do business in the grasslands and Fanbang, that is, businessmen with people behind them.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to obtain expensive and monopolized commodities such as white sugar, woolen clothes, and rice paper.If there is no one behind you, but you get the goods, either someone else takes your share, or you smuggle it yourself.

As for smuggling, once found, it will be annihilated.

Tangshang Lu Sanjin is obviously the former, and there are people behind him.This person is none other than Zhang Jinshu, the deputy chief of the marching army of the Songmo Governor's Mansion.

Years ago, Zhang Jinshu killed Gao Kaidao and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and then followed the Tang army to the north to destroy Khitan, and because of his meritorious service, he was appointed as the deputy commander of the march in the Songmo Governor's Mansion. In the Khitan land, he is somewhat a figure.

The emperor took more care of the soldiers.Zhang Jinshu scraped wool in the prairie enclosure in exchange for selling woolen clothes. In fact, many senior generals of the Dudu Mansion did this.

Li Junxian, the governor of the Songmo Governor's Mansion, is the emperor's confidant and favorite general. He holds a white sugar brand in his hand. He has made a lot of money from Goguryeo these years.

How to make money?
It is also simple to say, nothing more than 'eating at both ends'.

Goguryeo's ginseng has always been the big money maker.Li Junxian bought the goods from Chang'an, turned around to Goguryeo and sold them at sky-high prices, and then bought Goguryeo ginseng to Chang'an, again at sky-high prices.Earning profits at both ends will fill your pockets.

And because the Songmo Governor's Mansion is close to Goguryeo, nearly [-]% of the market for wild ginseng is monopolized by Li Junxian.

He ate it himself, and naturally he would not forget the emperor, and sent tribute silver and a large number of slaves to the emperor every year.

In order to expand the market, the younger brothers naturally had to take them to drink soup.

Zhang Jinshu is also a member of the soup.

Naturally, he didn't earn as much as Li Junxian, but it was also much higher than his own salary.

Songmo Governor's Mansion, Daying.

Now the prairie is quite peaceful. Every time Li Junxian goes hunting, he hunts not wild beasts, but those prairie people.

This time he took his old brothers out and captured a lot of slaves, preparing to send them to the Central Plains to build roads. Now he is drinking with his brothers while bragging, so happy.

After drinking for three rounds, a general said: "Governor, the people from Chang'an said that the Great Governor of Hanhai sold more than twenty Jinshan horses."

"What!" Everyone breathed heavily, "Is it really Jinshan horse?"

The Jinshan horse is a Turkic war horse, which is extremely expensive in the eyes of the generals.Yue Gong Qin Qiong's golden mountain horse really attracted the eyes of everyone.

"Really!" The general nodded and said, "My people saw with their own eyes that those horses were ordered as soon as they entered Chang'an. The price set was this amount."

He held out five fingers.

"Five hundred hanging?" Someone guessed.

"Fart, fifty silver pancakes!"

Whoa!
Everyone was so shocked that they even forgot to drink.

Li Junxian was also envious, and sighed: "This has nothing to do with us, I have a casual relationship with that King Xu. Let's forget about this Jinshan horse."

A general rolled his eyes and said in a low voice, "General Governor, we can send someone to buy it directly."

"You mean to contact the governor of Hanhai in private?" Li Junxian asked.

"Correct."

"Shut up." Li Junxian said unhappily: "You are not allowed to say such things in the future. If I do this, I will have to go back to Chang'an to retire next year like Wu Guogong and others."

He was clear in his heart that His Majesty the Emperor would not let the governors stay in the governor's mansion for too long, especially if they were allowed to do business in private to make money.If I dare to contact Hanhai Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, His Majesty will know about it in a short time.

When the time comes, His Majesty will not let him come back, and the imperial censor will inevitably impeach him for his ulterior motives.He also wanted to make more money so that he could return to Chang'an to enjoy the blessings in the future.

He didn't dare to do such a stupid thing.

At this moment, Zhang Jinshu suddenly walked into the camp.

"Great Governor, the Goguryeo Pure Land has bullied people too much and robbed me of my goods. Please, the Great Governor, be the master for me!"

"General Zhang, don't be impatient for the time being. What happens, tell me in detail, and I will make the decision for you." Li Junxian said.

Immediately, Zhang Jinshu told the story of his subordinates being robbed of goods by Yuan Pure Land.Before Li Junxian could express his opinion, the other generals couldn't sit still.

Goguryeo is okay, take it by force?

Today they took Zhang Jinshu for surgery, will it be their turn tomorrow?

"Governor, Goguryeo's lowly servant girl, I must give them a warning this time, and give General Zhang an explanation!"

"That's right, Commander-in-Chief, this matter must not be tolerated!"

"Governor, give the order!"

These generals drank a few glasses of wine, got on the head, and were about to hit them as soon as they opened their mouths.

Of course Li Junxian knew that he couldn't fight, but he was also extremely annoyed that Yuan Jingtu, a bastard, made things difficult for him.

"Come on, order troops!"

"Yes!"

The generals smashed the wine cups and responded one after another.

Fuyu City.

Yuan Pure Land is drinking with Yuan Gai Suwen. The two brothers are a few years apart, and they can still help each other.

"Those small ministries in the east have been making troubles in secret all the time, preventing me from unifying the army and horses, wasting time in vain. In the future, these short-sighted people will surely die." Yuan Gai Suwen complained.

He is as old as Li Zhiyun, but he has gray hair early and looks haggard.

For him, there was the Great Tiger Tang before, and Gao Jianwu later, so the situation was quite dangerous and difficult.In order to keep the inheritance left by his old father, he really broke his heart.

Yuan Jingtu comforted: "Brother, take your time, don't be in a hurry. Gao Jianwu himself is not in a good situation. Baekje and Silla are about to make trouble. He dare not provoke us."

"This is not the reason for us to stop moving forward." Yuan Gai Suwen said in a serious tone: "I sent someone to inquire about the grassland. Now the entire grassland has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Once the Tang Dynasty is free to deal with us, then we will face Life and death are at stake. Gao Jianwu, that idiot, doesn't know his own situation, but wants to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty. It's really stupid.

In the future when the Tang Dynasty raises troops, there will be changes in Silla and Baekje. At that time, there will be a double attack, and Goguryeo will be in danger! "

Yuan Pure Land was silent for a moment, and immediately said: "But Gao Jianwu has always been unwilling to admit the position of Big Brother Mo Lizhi, and his original intention was to deal with us. Big Brother, why do you have to think about this for him? In fact, I think it is better to unite with Silla Baekje, Destroy Gao Jianwu first, brother, you will be the king of Goguryeo!"

Yuan Gai Suwen thought about this matter, but only thought about it.Because he didn't know what to do, and he couldn't guarantee that Silla Baekje people would be so easy to deal with.What if the time comes to join forces to destroy Gao Jianwu, and the two countries are greedy and still think about their own territory, what should they do?

The reason why he is not moving right now is to use Gao Jianwu to involve Silla Baekje in preparation for his own strength accumulation.Second, it is to eat a complete Goguryeo steadily, not a fragmented Goguryeo.

Once Goguryeo's power is greatly damaged, the Tang Dynasty will inevitably take action.

Their real enemy should be the terrible Tang Dynasty.Yuangai Suwen saw in dreams countless times that the Tang army crushed the Goguryeo army and captured the Goguryeo people as slaves.

That kind of thing, thinking about it, he couldn't accept it.

In other words, it is simply unacceptable!
His ambition is more than a small Goguryeo.

(End of this chapter)