Kai Fu Han

Chapter 181 Heart to Sheji
Li Gang pondered for a while and replied:

"Your worries are not unreasonable. If the Kingdom of Jin is willing to temporarily withdraw its troops in exchange for your lives, I think Wang Boyan, Huang Qianshan and other thieves will happily hand you over to the Jin Army." Li Gang first agreed with Zhou Xinyuan's worries, and then Then he said: "However, they still want to be shameless after all, and the Kingdom of Jin will not withdraw their troops just to get your lives. So I think the most likely possibility is that they will accept the Wanyan Zongjun you offered, and then drive you away, leaving you in vain. Take a trip."

"Then we are destined to go on this trip in vain?" Zhou Xinyuan asked with a disappointed expression.

Li Gang did not answer, but looked at another old man: "Grand Scholar Xu, what do you think?"

"I don't think you have good intentions." The old man said something to Li Gang first, and then said: "This is also an opportunity. Although we can't use Wanyan Zongjun to make the anti-Japanese war factions rise, those surrender factions will definitely want to live completely. Yan Zongjun is used to negotiate with the Jin Kingdom. If Yan Zongjun can be used up in exchange for the official status of the Penglai Rebels, it will be very helpful to fight Jin Daye."

"Indeed, Penglai is in a good location. It can get support from the south by sea, and it can also harass the Jin Kingdom's rear from the sea. If there is an anti-Jin army here, the pressure on the Tokyo front line will be less." Li Gang agreed.

Zhao Liang interrupted at this moment: "I hear what this old man means. If we hand over Wanyan Zongjun to the imperial court, he may return to the Kingdom of Jin alive? This is absolutely impossible. If Wanyan Zongjun returns to the Kingdom of Jin alive, I will not be able to explain to those righteous brothers who died in the war against the Jin Dynasty, and I will not be able to face the elders of Dengzhou."

"This is Xu Han, the academician of Zizhengdian Palace, the former Chancellor of the Secretariat. Because I was dismissed, Chen Dong, a fellow imperial student who was also an anti-Jin sect, was beheaded in the East City. Mr. Xu was disappointed with the court and tried his best to resign. He was dismissed from the official position. Jia Ren was promoted to Dongxiao Palace as a bachelor of Zizheng Palace." Li Gang introduced the two of them.

"Sir Xu." The two of them saluted.

"Okay." Xu Han gestured for the two of them to sit down, and then answered Zhao Liang's question: "Actually, at this time, Wanyan Zongjun's life and death will not be beneficial to your development, but if his life can be exchanged for you to gain the recognition of the court, , you may be able to obtain material support from the imperial court."

"I think this is the ultimate goal of your trip south this time."

"Master Xu is wise. Penglai is remote and poor. If you want to resist the Jin Dynasty, you really need the support of the imperial court." Zhou Xinyuan admitted Xu Han's guess.

"Hey, I really don't want to participate in this court battle anymore." Xu Han sighed.

"If you don't go, who can do this? Now there are some cowardly people in the court who have no eggs. If this continues, sooner or later..." Seeing Xu Han's embarrassment, Li Gang persuaded him, and at the end he was a little agitated. Choking, unable to continue.

"Okay, I'm just going to take a trip. Anyway, I have nothing to lose with my old face, so I'll just do my best for the anti-golden righteous man in Dengzhou." Xu Han took Li Gang's hand and agreed.

Then he said to Zhou Xinyuan: "You are lucky, you know how to come to Mr. Li. Mr. Li loves the country and worries about the king all his life. I will go to Yangzhou with you for the sake of Mr. Li."

After hearing what Xu Han said, Zhou Xinyuan was overjoyed and quickly stood up to salute and thank him: "Thank you, Mr. Xu, thank you, Mr. Li."

Zhao Liang also thanked him, and then went out and asked someone to bring the gift in: "These are some specialties of our Xinghan League. I would like to give them to you two adults with a little thought."

Only one portion was prepared before coming here. Now there are two people who need to deliver it, so it can only be divided into two portions on the spot, resulting in two people receiving different things.

Xu Han saw that Li Gang had a glass mirror that was as tall as a person, and he was indeed a glass tea set. He joked: "It seems that I have taken advantage of Master Li today." Zhou Xinyuan blushed: "Master Xu is joking, come on. We are in a hurry and lack of preparation. If you go to Yangzhou with us, we will definitely not miss you."

"Don't listen to his nonsense. These things are valuable at first glance. If you keep them in exchange for materials to resist gold, it would be a waste for us. I won't accept them. You can take them back." Li Gang declined.

"Yes, take it back. If the two of us were greedy for money, how could we end up like this?" Xu Han also said.

"You two adults have misunderstood. This mirror is just complicated to make and takes a long time. In fact, the cost is not high. We brought a lot with us on our trip south. We originally planned to exchange money for food. We should not miss these two mirrors." Zhou Xinyuan explained: "This is our intention, otherwise how could we have the nerve to let the two adults help in vain."

"You are wrong. We are not just helping you. We will take action only if you resist the Jin Dynasty first. Everything we do is for Zhao's country." Li Gang corrected the errors in Zhou Xinyuan's words, but did not say anything else. Continue to refuse and accept the gift.

It was also the first time for both of them to see such a rare treasure, and they loved it very much.

The few of them chatted for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Gang and Xu Han went down the mountain to go home.

Before they separated, Xu Han and Zhou Xinyuan made an appointment to meet at the ferry at the foot of the mountain tomorrow, August [-]th. They would first go to Hangzhou to join the fleet, and then go to Yangzhou together.

Neither of them lives in Dongxiao Palace. They each have a house at the foot of the mountain, and their families are also settled at the foot of the mountain. When they have nothing to do at home, they will make appointments to climb the mountain to Dongxiao Palace to exercise and play chess to pass the time.

The weather was good today, so the two of them went out. Otherwise, Zhou Xinyuan came directly to Dongxiao Palace to find someone, and his trip would have been in vain.

……

The return from Dadi Mountain to Jiubao Town was much faster than when we arrived. It was a smooth journey. We set off at [-] o'clock on August [-] and arrived at the port of Jiubao Town at [-] o'clock.

When he returned to Jiubao Town, he found that Liu Xinkuan was not at the station. Zhao Liang asked the people who stayed behind and found out that he had gone to Hangzhou to contact the big businessmen and had not returned yet.

The method of selling goods in Hangzhou is different from that in Goryeo. Because I have been here several times and have people stationed there, I am familiar with it. There are many merchants who have dealt with it, and I can directly select the distributor of Xinghan League's goods.

In Hangzhou, in addition to letting distributors sell, Xinghanmeng itself will also open stores.In the same country of Zhao, there are no differences in culture and language.Opening your own store can not only add a stable sales channel, but also stabilize the price of Xinghanmeng's products on the market, preventing people from selling at excessive price increases and damaging Xinghanmeng's reputation.

This store will also perform some simple after-sales and repairs, and will also become a site for Tingting, killing four birds with one stone.

Zhao Liang did not wait for Liu Xinkuan in Jiubao Town, and directly summoned people to drive Zizhou (shachuan) and Yizhou (shachuan) to Yangzhou.The Dengzhou and the fleet were left to Zhu Lang, the adjutant of the first fleet, who led the fleet back to Dengzhou after the trade was over.

(End of this chapter)