Datang Library

Chapter 761 Rumors and Panic

In the city of Pyongyang, a rumor spread around the people at lightning speed that Datang had cut off all the commercial routes of Goguryeo, and they would no longer be able to buy anything from Datang.

This rumor made those ignorant people think it was a fantasy. What is the trade route?It is the lifeblood of trade from south to north, and there are trade routes when people come and go, how to cut it off?

Besides, even if Datang and Goguryeo belong to enemy countries, it is impossible to move the merchant class in the world. As the saying goes, all the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world is for profit. Datang can control officials and businessmen, so how can they What about controlling business?If it was a coercive method, I am afraid that there would have been chaos in Datang.

But they never imagined that in the Tang Dynasty, not only the government represented by the emperor could influence the merchants, but also the leader of the merchants in the Tang Dynasty, Lantian Hou Baifan, who holds the world's number one chamber of commerce, the Baishi Chamber of Commerce, and has several sub-chambers under its jurisdiction: The Chamber of Commerce, the Zhongnan Chamber of Commerce, the United Chamber of Commerce, etc., it can be said that Bai Fan alone represents half the sky of the Datang business community.

As long as Bai Fan says a word, businessmen need to cooperate with the great plan to destroy the country. No one in the world dares to show their heads. Even if they take a little risk and want to smuggle, they will probably be captured by the impeccable intelligence network of the Beggar Clan within a day. It can be said that this On the one hand, Bai Fan is more powerful than the emperor.

Even those aristocratic business houses that have been passed down for thousands of years still depend on Bai Fan's wink and actions. Whoever dares to be disobedient will soon have the Bai's Chamber of Commerce to ban the original business of these people. There is no way. Strength, but the strength of producing and selling high-quality products in any industry.

The topic goes back to the city of Pyongyang in Goguryeo. Unlike many unresponsive people, many smart people have realized that something is wrong, especially the shops in the city. Many shops announced their closure when the rumors started.

This is the sensitivity of merchants. Even if these people are only retailers at the bottom level and have no access to the upper-level firms that are interested in Datang Trade, they know that there is nothing wrong with it. The goods on the website can no longer be sold. Some people think that rare goods can be lived in, and they will become rare after hoarding.

In the palace of Goguryeo, many of the original big families of Goguryeo have come to the door. Without him, foreign trade is the channel for these families to make money. Now that the channel is blocked by the government, it should be solved by the government, even if it is Datang. If it is unilateral, Goguryeo should also send envoys to communicate and resolve it.

Yuan Gai Su Wen thought, if it can be solved by diplomatic reprimand, then there will be no such things at all. This time, it is obvious that the Tang Dynasty is coming aggressively, and it is going to kill me, Goguryeo. A group of vampires of the people need your money and effort to serve the country I didn't see where I was when I was there, and now I can't make money and think of the court.

Goguryeo, whose heart is like a mirror, is against Lu, and his vision is far ahead of everyone else. This time, Datang is going to kill him. Even if he sends diplomats, it will not help. But these families don’t know, so let’s take advantage of the news. Although there is a time difference, we can get some practical benefits from their arms.

"It is absolutely unbearable for Datang to bully me like this.

However, now that the imperial court is facing internal and external troubles, border guards are still struggling to defend against the enemy, and the ministers of the court are busy day and night. If this matter is to be completed, do you also consider contributing to the defense of the country? ? "

Yuan Gai Su Wen bluntly wants to benefit.

These people have been in business for many years, so of course they are extremely shrewd. If they want horses to run, they have to eat grass. The sooner they get through the business barriers, the sooner everyone can earn money, there is nothing wrong with it.

"My Golden Grain Chamber of Commerce will send thousands of grains of grain to comfort the frontline soldiers." An old man was the first to speak. This is the person in charge of the largest chamber of commerce in Goguryeo.

"Our Jinchou Chamber of Commerce will pay five thousand guan."

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One by one the merchants all spoke up one after another, some offered money, some offered food, of course they still paid a lot, firstly because they didn’t have much food in their hands, and secondly, many smart people understood that in the current troubled times, food is the most important thing. Hard currency, money is somewhat useless.

As for whether these people have ever worried about front-line wars and the like, are you kidding?Back then, the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains raised 200 million troops three times to invade, didn't they still return in defeat?Datang 20 to destroy Goguryeo?Ghosts don't believe it, which is why many people give money readily.

But five days later, bad news came from the border. All the diplomats sent to Datang were detained as prisoners, and none of them came back. Goguryeo belongs to the enemy country, and it will never do business, and no goods are allowed to flow into Goguryeo. As for diplomats?Take money to redeem, in order to avenge the killing of my Tang envoy last time.

It's just that Li Jing's price is a bit high, and he will soon be able to buy a city of Goguryeo, so it is impossible for Yuan Gai Suwen to agree.

Soon this news spread to the country via the Anshi City defenders, and the previous rumors were officially confirmed, and the people were all in chaos.

Yuan Gai Suwen was furious, Datang was despicable, and the detainment of envoys was nothing more than to prevent us from covering up the news, and at the same time conspired to cause panic among the domestic people through the mouth of the border guards, such a vicious strategy.

The common people had to panic. If the Tang Dynasty cut off the commercial roads, and did not talk about clothes and cloth, but food, the food would definitely not be enough. In the past, the food produced by Goguryeo itself could not be enough for a year, and many of them belonged to the Tang Dynasty. Grain merchants sold it at a high price.

As for whether merchants in the Tang Dynasty bought and sold grain to Goguryeo, whether this behavior was treason, obviously it was not in the Tang Dynasty, even in the former Sui Dynasty.

The food in the hands of the people, except for the food tax that must be paid to the court every year, the rest is the surplus food of the family. Some people have more acres of land and sufficient food production. Naturally, they will not let the hoarded food rot in the warehouse, and will sell it. To the officials and merchants of the imperial court, or to sell to private merchants to collect grain.

In this way, some of the grain in the hands of these merchants is sold to people in the city who have no land, and more is sold to foreign countries to export grain. Doing this business can stimulate the economy and make money faster.

But this time, Datang cut off the commercial road, that is, cut off the grain road. On the day when the grain store in the city was closed, even an ordinary person knew that the surplus grain at home was not enough to survive the winter, and there would be a famine.

That's right, not only Pyongyang City, but also other cities in Goguryeo. Ba Lai described it, if it wasn't for eating, I'm afraid people would starve to death this winter.

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