Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 58

half year later

Autumn of the third year of Emperor Guang's reign of the Han Dynasty
Wei's Korea
Wang Dancheng

"Central Plains businessman? Want to do business with North Korea?"

Wei Youqu looked at the paper in his hand, very puzzled.

According to the personal guard's description, a group of businessmen who claimed to be from the Central Plains came from the sea. There were more than 30 of them, and each of them wore heavy armor.

These Central Plains businessmen had a "small conflict" with the North Korean army stationed at Lieshuikou, and more than 40 North Korean soldiers were slaughtered by these Central Plains businessmen.

But after the Central Plains businessmen slaughtered more than 40 North Korean soldiers, they told the remaining North Korean soldiers that they only came to North Korea to do business and had no intention of being an enemy of North Korea. Everything was just a misunderstanding.

"The soldier who killed the widow, slaughtered the widow's people, and told the widow that it was a misunderstanding, ha ha..." The king of North Korea, Wei Youqu, sneered, and then opened the piece of cotton paper, which was written in Chinese and Korean, and the content was as follows: :

"Honorable and great King of Korea, the merchants of the Xu family from the Central Plains pay tribute to you. At the same time, we sincerely apologize to you for some small misunderstandings that occurred at the mouth of the Lieshui River. We hope to have a long-term and friendly business relationship with your country. Trade, and borrow several of your islands to dry your goods on the southern coast of North Korea, we will pay a certain rent, and return the islands to your country after the time expires, in order to express our respect to you, we present you two Ten bolts of silk and a basket of tea, please accept our envoys to enter your palace to negotiate specific trade matters. Below are the goods we are generally willing to sell to North Korea and the goods we want to buy from North Korea, but the specific goods It can be negotiated in the palace."

After rambling for a long time, the bottom of this piece of paper lists many goods for sale and goods for purchase.

"The goods we can sell: sea salt, animal skins, wheat, wine, silk, cloth, tea, jade, pearls, agate, ginseng, the goods we want to buy: iron ore, high-quality girls."

Seeing this list of goods, Wei Youqu was even more disdainful: "Hehe, what North Korea sells to me are all useless luxury goods, and sea salt is still somewhat useful, but I want to buy useful iron ore and iron ore from North Korea." Beauty, do you take me for a fool?"

However, seeing what was written at the signature office can be discussed in detail, and thinking of the guard saying that this group of Central Plains businessmen are wearing thick armor, Wei Youqu hesitated again, so he ordered the guard around him: "Let those Central Plains businessmen send their Messenger, bring the Messenger to the palace."

"Yes." The guard replied.

The upper echelon of North Korea, such as Wei Youqu, spoke the Yan language of the Warring States period, which is similar to the Liaodong language of the Han Dynasty today, with a slight difference in accent, but the ordinary Korean soldiers and Korean people spoke the Korean language that was fused with the Yin and Shang languages. , while some barbaric aborigines in the Korean mountain forests still speak the local tribal language.

……

ten days later

Hunting grounds outside King's Adventure City
"Xu Yang, a merchant from the Central Plains, see the king, the king is ten thousand years!" Wang Taiyang, who called himself Xu Yang, bowed to Wei Youqu, and did not dare to raise his head after speaking, quietly waiting for the king of Joseon to reply. The same goes for the soldiers.

Liaodong dialect is not very different from the language spoken by the upper-class Korean nobles, so they don’t even need a translator, they can communicate directly, but in order to pretend to be more similar, Wang Taiyang speaks Dahan Mandarin throughout the whole process, and dare not reveal his Liaodong accent.

"Bold! You don't kneel when you see the king!"

A personal guard next to Wei Youqu scolded loudly, and then threatened Wang Taiyang with a spear in his hand, trying to force Wang Taiyang to kneel down.

A civil servant translated Qin Wei's Korean sentence into Dahan Mandarin and advised Wang Taiyang: "Businessmen in the Central Plains, kneel down quickly, or the king will be angry."

Wang Taiyang broke out in a cold sweat and was considering whether to kneel down.

"It doesn't matter." Wei Youqu didn't care much about this etiquette, he waved his hand to stop the guard, and then said to Wang Taiyang: "Businessman from the Central Plains, please sit down."

Wang Taiyang understood, but he didn't dare to sit down, because he wanted to pretend he didn't understand.

The Korean civil servant continued to translate: "Your Majesty asks you to sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Until then, Wang Taiyang knelt down on a soft seat beside him. As for his two personal soldiers, they stood on both sides of him for protection.

da da da~~
A group of Korean court ladies brought delicious food and wine.

"Please." Wei Youqu said lightly.

"Please start eating and drinking." The Korean civil servant translated.

"Thank you, King!" Wang Taiyang thanked him again, moved his chopsticks, picked up a piece of cooked meat and put it into his mouth.

Later, Wei Youqu asked his personal guards to perform riding and shooting skills in order to deter Wang Taiyang.

call out!
The guards shot arrows, and one arrow hit a mountain deer.

"it is good!"

The rest of the guards applauded.

"reward!"

Wei Youqu didn't hesitate to reward him, and made eye contact with the other guards.

Later, several guards lured a wild boar to fight with the wild boar. During the fight, the guards deliberately exposed their flaws and let the wild boar rush directly to Wang Taiyang who was watching the show.

ow~~
"Young Master, be careful!"

Clang!
Clang!
Wang Taiyang was taken aback. Fortunately, the two soldiers around him responded in time and drew out their long swords to aim at the charging wild boar.

At this moment, Wei Youqu's personal guards chased after him and stabbed the wild boar to death with the spear in his hand.

ow~~
The wild boar wailed, and immediately fell to the ground and died.

"The negligence of my personal guards surprised you, the envoy." Wei Youqu showed a smile. Naturally, he couldn't let the wild boar attack the envoy of the Central Plains businessman. He did this just to give the envoy of the Central Plains businessman a blow. The following business negotiations will be more favorable.

"Thank you king!"

Wang Taiyang wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, and then signaled the two soldiers to put away the long swords in their hands.

Afterwards, the two sides began to discuss trade matters while eating.

"I'm not interested in the goods on your waffle paper, but I am very interested in the heavy armor on your body. If you can sell the heavy armor to us, North Korea is willing to pay a high price for it, and is even willing to use various types of beauties to sell it to us. Change your armor."

"Selling armor is a capital offense in the Central Plains, we dare not do such a thing."

"Hehe, isn't it a capital offense to smuggle goods into North Korea?"

"Forehead……"

"You are businessmen, making money is the most important thing to you, isn't it?"

"But we lack iron ore, not enough iron ore to make armor."

"Our North Korean iron ore can be sold to you."

"But making armor in the Central Plains is easy to be discovered by the court. We need to secretly build armor overseas, but we have no place to stay overseas."

"Don't you want to rent a few islands to dry your goods? As long as you are willing to sell your armor, you can rent all those islands without paying rent."

"Don't your majesty consider such things as silk, tea, and jade? The dignitaries in the Central Plains like these things the most, especially the daughters of rich families, who like beautiful silk and jade very much."

"Is this the Central Plains? I don't need these luxuries for enjoyment."

"Drinking in winter can keep your body warm, and food can keep your people from starving to death. As a great king comparable to Yao, Shun and Yu, don't you need these?"

"What does the life and death of the subjects have to do with me? I just want armor to strengthen my strength, so that I can restore the glory of my country of Yan!"

"..."

Wang Taiyang didn't know what to say. The Joseon king in front of him was only interested in the heavy armor of their Liaodong royal family, which made it difficult for him.

So I had no choice but to sigh to Wei Youqu: "The sale of the heavy armor is too important. I need to ask the opinions of the big figures above. Can you give me a few months to go back to the Central Plains?"

"Of course." Wei Youqu is also very happy. At least there is still hope for the armor. He can't wait to build a fully armored army, so that he can conquer the barbarians around in the future, and even counterattack the Central Plains and rebuild the Yan Kingdom. !
(End of this chapter)