When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 163 Qi Fang’s intention, rain is coming

As the sun sets, there are several bonfires and makeshift huts on the beach.

The two forces were clearly divided and used the foot of the southwest leeward mountain as their stronghold.

After a brief understanding, Shi Wu agreed to take these Qifang people from Yingqiu to trade with the Xin family.

The leader of the pedestrians in Qi Fang was an elder. His sixth generation ancestor came from the Bainiao clan of Dongyi. He later defected to Dayi Shang and made meritorious deeds. He followed a son of the Shang clan to build a city in Yingqiu.

In the land of Yingqiu, most of the people's surnames are Jiang and Ju. The surname Ying is the same as Zi, and they belong to the ruling class, but they are middle-level.

That is the embodiment of Xia Jun Yimin.

In his generation, the land of Weishan was used as a fiefdom. Under the Dayi merchant title system, it belonged to Dianjue (also called a baron), a vassal who specialized in handing over grain as tribute and generally did not have to join the army to fight.

His name is Zhou, which means you usually call him Weishanzhou, but when you curse someone, you can call him Yingzhou.

He is a great elder who owns a fiefdom.

Lead the team in person, or go ashore by sea. It can be said that they are here to take risks, but they are really forced to have no choice.

Shi Wu got a lot of information from this group of people.

One of them, Shi Wu thinks, is very important.

That is - during the internal struggle for the Shang throne in Dayi, the Chilong tribe of the Guzhu clan went south and camped in an abandoned city at the mouth of Jishui.

And this city is called "Hua".

Originally, if only the Red Dragon tribe settled here, then there would be nothing wrong with their camp.

But the problem is that the Red Dragon Tribe has now officially announced that it will surrender to Dayi Shang and become a subordinate of a certain prince.

As for which prince it was, Wei Shanzhou said he didn't know. Before they left, they only heard that the Red Dragon Tribe had surrendered, and they didn't know what would follow.

In addition, the nobles of Qifang Kingdom in Yingqiu asked them to pay tribute to a batch of skins, including cattle, sheep and deer.

Pedestrians speculated that they had asked for winter clothing in advance to appease the Red Dragon tribe. However, Dayi merchants had been experiencing serious civil strife in recent years, and the resources of various companies could not be coordinated. They were hoarding their own goods, just to attack their political opponents.

Therefore, the tasks were passed on to the surrounding surrendered Fang countries and tribes.

As a result, the price of leather has been rising in Shandong and even the Huaihe River Basin.

Later, someone wanted to go to Hebei to do business. As a result, there were troops from the Shang clan, relatives, and Fang Kingdom stationed at various important nodes in Hebei.

If you want to go north, you will need to be exploited heavily along the way, and sometimes you may even be killed.

The most critical thing is that the Guzhu clan moved south on a large scale and spread to the Cangzhou area. Basically, countless forces spread throughout the northern region controlled by the princes and princes of the subordinate clans of the Shang Dynasty.

Qi Fang's tasks were many and heavy. They had no choice but to choose to go north by sea to try their luck.

But it was a pity that the first batch had just set out, encountered strong wind and waves, and sank half of it.

The Dongyi fabric that Shi Wu and Qing Yan found on the beach was rolled ashore at that time.

In such a critical moment, as a pedestrian elder and the first sea-going warrior in Qi Fang, Wei Shanzhou was ordered to face the crisis and faced the difficulties. He led this group of people to fight the wind and waves, and finally spent the time carefully along the coastline when the wind was calm. Every reef arrives in Tianjin.

Originally, they did not plan to disembark here, but planned to continue north, to Liaodong Bay or Liaonan, to trade directly with the Guzhu clan.

After all, the Guzhu clan is close to the north and there are more elk.

But Li Zhou realized that a strong wind might be coming, so he hurried ashore.

Once the strong wind comes, I believe it will not take long for the heavy rain to come, so for these people, they would rather wait a little longer than rush for a while.

After listening to the information exchanged, Shi Wu looked at the sea to the east and said, "Is it really going to rain?"

"Hey! You're right! You must have it! Look at the clouds in the sky, are they moving towards the southeast? Look, this is the sea beast swallowing up the strong wind and waves, preparing to land on land!"

Li Zhou explained, but frowned slightly: "It's just strange that not only are there many clouds, they are also all black.

Hmm... that shouldn't be the case. At times like this, the color of the puffing clouds should be white, or at worst just a little gray. "Shi Wu raised his eyebrows and immediately thought of a possibility.

That is, Xinqu’s fire!
The smoke from the burning was black, turning the nearby clouds into black.

"In short, heavy rain will inevitably fall in three days at most." Wei Shanzhou made his own judgment.

Shi Wu frowned and said, "In such a hurry? Then we have to leave as soon as possible."

"Eh...it won't take more than one night, right?"

"No, we must go back as soon as possible." Shi Wu turned his head, "Niaodan, Qingyan, you two rush back and tell the clan leader that there are pedestrian elders from Qifang coming to trade and let him make preparations.

Others depart later. "

Shi Wu turned his head and looked at Wei Shanzhou and said, "In the recent period, Guzhu, Dayi Shang, and our Xin family have just finished fighting.

This month, the Yu family, the Ji family, and our Youxin family had another fight.

In addition, due to drought, many small tribes have no food. The food, bronze, and salt brought by you are just lunch for them.

Recently, the Ji clan is provoking a tribal alliance. It is estimated that tens of thousands of people are approaching the river we must pass through. If you don't leave quickly after trade, you may be in danger.

Moreover, if it really rains, or if it rains heavily, the nearby areas that turned into grassland will immediately turn back into swamps.

Without a local tribe to take you away, it's easy to get lost. "

"That's it... Okay, I'll let them bury the sail and canoe, and let's hurry up and set off."

Wei Shanzhou nodded. The fundamental reason why he chose to believe Shi Wu's words was because of the armor of this group of people.

No matter how hard it is to use a cauldron to knock out bronze armor, having a batch of bronze armor itself can speak volumes about the strength of the clan behind them.

In addition, Shi Wu directly told them that they had the Xin family as a tributary state of Dayi Shang, and were assisting Zi Lian in conquering the Guzhu family. Wei Shanzhou basically remembered who this "Yu Xin family" was.

Isn't it the Xin family who moved westward to southern Hebei more than sixty years ago?

No wonder they haven't been found in southern Hebei recently. It turns out that they migrated north to the mountains in northern Hebei.

More than ten years ago, there was a shaman from the Xin family, and the man from the Wu Xian family came to Qifang to ask their shamans for help.

At that time, he was still receiving guests.

With this kind of relationship, I thought I could get a batch of supplies cheaply.

Therefore, Wei Shanzhou thought that having an acquaintance would make things easier, and the situation nearby was also dark. It was also a good thing to have someone as a guide.

In the middle of the night, everyone held torches and left quickly.

This time, when a large army passed by, the small tribesmen were nervous and frightened.

Especially when I saw the group of guys on horseback that I had just met in the morning.

Fortunately, I didn't offend them before, otherwise I would definitely be exterminated today.

In just one day, they actually brought nearly a hundred people from the south, including a large number of people wearing armor. What kind of big tribe is this?

Everyone deeply remembered the flag of "Qi Fang", a blue bird with wings spread.

Then he told his children to hide quickly if they encountered such a tribe, and don't get involved!
Life is the most important!

Arriving at Da Huang Ze at dawn, the sea breeze from the northeast began to roll in, blowing the flags.

"The speed of the sea beast is faster than I thought!" Wei Shanzhou looked at the waves in Dahuang Ze, which had begun to surge. "It will definitely land in two days at most."

Shi Wuyi gritted his teeth while looking at the map: "Let's go, let's take the southern route. Let's change the flag. I have the flag of the Xin family."

(End of this chapter)