Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 750 Quanzhou Bay

After thinking for a moment, Qin Qiong said: "I've agreed on Liu Mu's behalf. He will definitely return to Chang'an before the Mid-Autumn Festival at the latest, and hold a banquet at my house."

Xianyu Houde "Thank you."

What is Willow doing here?
At Quanzhou New Wharf, Liu Mu, who just came back from Luzon Island, stood alone by the sea and looked at the scenery.

The old foxes with seven surnames didn't care about rest at all. They were waiting outside two newly built workshops in Quanzhou. There was a big dyeing workshop here, and a workshop for deep processing of spices.

Linen is good, but the color is very important for high-grade fine linen.

In the afternoon, two officials, one civil and one military, came to the beach, asked where Liu Mu was, and came to Liu Mu.

These two, the military attache is Yuchi Baolin, they are young, energetic and full of energy.After arriving in Quanzhou, he drove the Quanzhou Wharf three hundred miles inland, and let him wipe out all bandits, even ordinary thieves, whether they were mountain bandits or water bandits.

In Yuchi Baolin's own words, Quanzhou Wharf is a cornucopia, and the bandits who are idle and irrelevant around here should come to do coolies to atone for their sins.Anyone who dares to influence this cornucopia will be punished by heaven.

Yuchi Baolin is now the right deputy envoy of Quanzhou Transit, and is a military officer of the fifth rank.

The other was dressed in the color of a civil servant.

Face time.

He is the younger brother of Yan Shigu, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty, who wrote Hanshu, and one of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Dynasty during the Wude period.In the early years of Zhenguan, he remonstrated with Dafeng and was a very upright official.

However, his body has suffered from cold and disease since childhood, which is the modern type of rheumatism.

Living in Quanzhou made him feel much more comfortable. Since he came to Quanzhou, he has never had another illness.

At this time, Yan Xiangshi was the left deputy envoy of Quanzhou Transshipment.

Zhengshi has never made any arrangements, because Li Shimin didn't think of a suitable candidate, so he would rather be empty than randomly arrange someone.

Liu Mu recommended Wang Gui, but Li Shimin thought that Wang Gui's talent was wasted in Quanzhou.

Wang Gui can be a talent to become a Hong Kong-level ship envoy.

The two came to Liu Mu, and Yan Xiangshi took half a step forward: "Mr. Liu."

After Liumu returned the salute, Yuchi Baolin saluted beside him.

Yan Xiangshi was regarded as Liu Mu's elder, so he was called Liu Mu's official position, Yuchi Baolin was the junior, and performed the junior ceremony.

"It's a good place. I've seen the map. It's a place with four bays and sixteen ports."

Yan Shixiang said beside him: "The general ship has worked hard, and I just came to observe it after disembarking in Quanzhou. I have seen this area, and it is currently planned to be eight ports. It is indeed as the general ship said, four bays."

Quanzhou, decades later, was an important port on the Tang Maritime Silk Road.

Quanzhou was once known as the largest port in the world in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, in the Song Dynasty, the north was completely lost, and the southward migration of commerce was also one of the factors, but it also represented the huge potential of Quanzhou Port, especially in Quanzhou where there are dense rivers, and many inland counties can be connected to Quanzhou waterways.

Liu Mu turned around, bowed slightly and said to Yan Xiangshi: "Zuo Shi, have you ever been to Guangzhou Wharf?"

"I've been there. I wonder if the boss has any suggestions?"

"In the planning of Guangzhou Port, there are three most important points. The berth is the first, and the rotation and warehouse are the second. The third is a huge open market."

When Liu Mu said this, Yan Shixiang understood.

"Zongbo, when it comes to this market, I think there is still room for improvement in Quanzhou. I have been in Chang'an for several years, and the Jinghe Wharf is a model. These words are not for Zongbo's liking, but the truth."

"How do you feel at the Jinghe Wharf?"

Yan Shixiang said: "Eat, drink, play, have fun, live, travel, money. And shops that don't sell goods."

Liu Mu laughed: "Indeed."

"There is no shortage of food and drink. In the new market in Quanzhou, I found some Persians living in Datang, and some other islanders. Based on their customs, I plan to build some shops for eating, drinking and living. I saw them thousands of miles away. Some things in my hometown are bound to make people happy."

Liu Mu silently nodded, this makes sense.

What Yan Xiangshi said about Daoyisi is actually a slightly derogatory statement.This is the arrogance of Datang people, and it is also a manifestation of Datang people's self-confidence.

Right now, for the officials of Datang, the only one who does not belong to Dao Yisi is Oscar Buddy.

If the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire established diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty with propriety and practiced the etiquette of a friendly country, then the merchants of the Eastern Roman Empire would be classified as outside the barbarians in the Tang Dynasty.

Afterwards, the Egyptian businessmen in their territories can also improve their status.

The Persians are not friendly. Apart from trying to make money, the people of Tang Dynasty did not feel the friendliness of the Persians.And Persia is also considered a big country. Datang has been established for more than ten years. Persian businessmen have traveled back and forth between Datang and Persia many times in these ten years, but Datang has not received even a small note from Persian officials.

This made Datang Rites very dissatisfied.

An important reason why Oscar Buddy is welcomed by the Ministry of Ceremonies is that he carries a letter of credence with him.

Even if there are only a few friendly words in this letter of credence, the Ministry of Rites also thinks it is a respect for my Tang Dynasty.

The two discussed the planning of Quanzhou for a while, and Liu Mu didn't intend to say more, because Yan Shixiang already had a fairly reasonable planning plan in his heart, and Liu Mu didn't think that he was better than others.

After talking about the business, Liu Mu asked Yuchi Baolin, "Baolin, I'm still used to it here."

"From riding a horse to sailing a boat, I can gradually get used to it."

"That's good."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, he was about to go back with the two of them, Yuchi Baolin said: "Yesterday evening, two Persian boats arrived at the pier. This Persian boat is a little different from the past."

"Oh, what's the difference?"

Yuchi Baolin replied: "In the past, the goods on Persian ships were mostly beautiful feathers, precious leather goods, medicinal materials and jewelry. This time, there are only a small amount of jewelry, and the rest are all people."

"Human?" Liu Mu was taken aback.

Xin said, is there a large-scale slave trade in this era?

"Go and see." There was a slight change in Liu Mu's expression, and he was shocked.

Yuchi Baolin immediately sent someone to lead the way, and the group went to the pier.

On the pier, all the slaves on the merchant ships from Persia have been sent to a large temporarily rented warehouse. It is not known whether Datang will accept the trade from the Persian merchants.

The Persian way of life is wars, trophies, and slaves.

To paraphrase this in modern terms, it means that Persian slaves are inflated, and it is serious inflation.

The price of slaves has dropped by over 90.00%.

So the Persian merchants saw that there were many aristocrats in the Tang Dynasty who had darker-skinned slaves and maidservants from Silla, etc., so the Persian merchants started to think about it, and wanted to see if slaves could have business in the Tang Dynasty.

It's not a few slaves, it's tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of slaves.

(End of this chapter)