Your majesty is awesome

Chapter 494 Everything Is For The Children
"It's really our family's fault to bother you, Mr. Cai, in such a snowy and cold winter..."

Tong Guanlang smiled and strode forward, saying hello.

Gao Lian on the side just greeted Cai Jing very politely.

Cai Jing, who was wearing a thick fur coat, saluted the two of them, and then smiled wryly.

"Tong Jian and Gao Taiwei can get together here in such a weather, and let this old bone of truth come to have fun. It must be related to those... um, the Jiangnan Suzhou incident?"

I wanted to talk about evil animals, but I considered that the prodigy champion Gao Zhang's father was standing beside him.

Cai Jing, who is also shameless, can bury his son and laugh at his son in front of Tong Guan, who is also an evil animal.

But he really didn't want to lose face in front of Gao Qiu.

As soon as the words fell, a steward of the manor came quickly, and behind him was the messenger who hadn't met Cai Jing before.

"Master Xiang, this is a letter that Liu Lang ordered the villain to send to Master Xiang. Liu Lang told the villain that it must be in the hands of Master Xiang."

Cai Jing took the letter, and it was naturally difficult to open it at this time, so the three of them went straight into the house.

Compared with the wind and snow outside, the inside of the house is much warmer, especially the big iron stove in the center of the house.

Although the temperature in this room is not as good as in spring, it is also much more comfortable.

And this kind of large coal-burning iron stove was originally made by Kaifeng Metal Workshop. Nowadays, many blacksmiths and iron shops in Bianliang, Tokyo have also begun to manufacture this kind of stove wantonly.

Compared with the carbon, this kind of coal-burning stove is hundreds of times stronger than the carbon basin in terms of firepower and heating effect.

The only thing that is a bit of an eyesore is that a long iron pipe needs to be installed to exhaust the smoke generated by the combustion.

However, due to the very low price of coal, the heating of the common people is guaranteed, and this kind of iron stove is not expensive.

So much so that in this winter in Bianliang, Tokyo, especially when it is snowing heavily during the day, you can see green smoke hovering everywhere.

Both took off their thick fur coats and the host and guest sat separately, the Tong Guan smiled at Cai Jing who was looking at the letter in his hand.

"Since your Liulang's letter has just arrived, then Cai Xiang, you should first see what your Liulang said, and then we can discuss it later."

"That's fine, then I'll offend..." Cai Jing left the two of them aside and began to open the letter.

In a short time, the familiar handwriting of my Liulang Cai Yao appeared vividly on the paper.

The content of the letter described in detail the great achievements of Qilinzi of his Cai family in Suzhou these days.

Even the Hangzhou World Commodity Fair, which was so popular some time ago and shocked the entire southeast coastal area, was the plan he worked out with all his heart and blood.

In addition, Cai Liulang's reputation has spread back to his hometown in Fujian, and even people from his hometown have come to Suzhou to visit him.

Just seeing this, Cai Jing's breathing has already started to become heavy, but fortunately, Tong Guan and Gao Qiu's whispers came from his ears.

Finally, let Cai Jing control himself, not to lose his demeanor in front of others.

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In addition, between Goryeo and Nawa, there is another country called Fujiwara.

Originally, they had been suppressed by the Japanese kingdom, which made it impossible for them to contact the Celestial Dynasty Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, now, the elder Ben Ge accidentally discovered this small island country, and introduced him to Gao Zhang.

At the end of the letter, Cai Laoliu finally talked about something dry, meaning that the special product of this island country is gold and silver, precious metal commodities that are scarce in the tribute system of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Lord Fujiwara came to negotiate in person, and was willing to donate a thousand taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver to Cai, the elder of the pavilion, every year.

However, considering that you are my own father, as a Qilin son of the Cai family who knows how to grow and order well, these money should be regarded as my son's filial piety to you.

Cai Jing read this in pain, and began to repeatedly squeeze the water in his mind.

After excluding nonsense and all kinds of rebellious words of that disobedient son, the conclusion is that this Fujiwara country is a friend worthy of dealing with the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the truth is definitely not based on the thousands of taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver every year.

It's just that in the last paragraph of the letter, the Fujiwara country is now in great chaos, with a large number of bandits making trouble everywhere, and because the Fujiwara country itself is an island country, it has no iron mines.

Therefore, even if soldiers and horses are recruited nowadays, there is a lack of weapons, protective gear and so on.

It is hoped that the court of the Great Song Dynasty will be merciful to the loyal vassal Fujiwara country, and sell all the weapons eliminated by the Great Song Dynasty to the Fujiwara country.

Until Cai Jing, who was frowning tightly, raised his head, the time has passed by Zhu Xiang's effort.

On the other side, Tong Guan and Gao Qiu, who had been whispering for a long time, also looked at Cai Jing at the same time.

"It seems that both Tong Jianguan and Gao Taiwei have already known about the Jiangnan incident?"

"Exactly, it's just that this matter has a lot to do with it. It is the blessing of the imperial court to have another obedient vassal state in Song Dynasty."

"It's just that there is chaos in the Fujiwara country, and they asked my Great Song for help.

Asking my Great Song Dynasty to sell weapons and armor to this country, this matter has never happened since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. "

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"However, if my Da Song recognizes its status as a vassal, and the Fujiwara country asks my Da Song for help, if it doesn't express itself, wouldn't it be easy to chill the hearts of the newly attached vassals?"

The three elders who covered the sky with their hands expressed that they were very distressed, but they also knew very well that it was the credit of their three dolls.

It is a merit to be able to persuade the vassals to come to attach them. The important thing is that this vassal country is very obedient and upright, and it is another merit to be able to provide the Song Dynasty with the gold and silver that the court is in short supply.

After all, Da Song needs to give the Liao Kingdom's yearly coins every year, and even Naxixia has to pay for it from Da Song's pocket.

The Liao Kingdom does not want the copper coins, iron coins, banknotes and food from the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty to give the Liao Kingdom 30 pieces of silk and 20 taels of silver every year.

Silk products are really nothing to Da Song, but hard currency like silver cannot be grown, so it can only be mined.

However, the production of silver in the Song Dynasty itself was very scarce. The silver production areas in the Northern Song Dynasty were only Guiyang, Fengzhou, and Jianzhou.

The income from silver lessons in the Northern Song Dynasty was less than 22 taels even in the reign of Song Renzong, which is well documented.

What does this mean? It can be said that the silver mined in the territory of the Song Dynasty every year must be paid to the Liao Kingdom in addition to the three melons and two dates.

It is equivalent to the people of the Great Song Dynasty working hard to mine silver mines, but they are actually working for the Liao Kingdom.

Once there is a change, or if there is a problem in the mine, it will be a big deal.

So much so that every year the imperial court pays for the 20 taels of silver, and the household department and the imperial court do not know how many hairs they have lost.

But now, the newly attached Fujiwara country has paid 5 taels of supercilious eyes at once, which can really be regarded as the urgent need to solve the Song Dynasty coins.

(End of this chapter)