Chapter 185 Liang Zi

Liao and Jin were so pitiful. Ouyang sighed. Not only did the two countries become enemies, but they were still in a stalemate. Half of this credit would fall on Tong Guan, who was in the Military Affairs Office. When Liao won, he smuggled igniters and even gave them food to Jin. When Jin won, he exchanged weapons and food for the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Liao and Jin are now like chess pieces on a chessboard, and their fate is no longer allowed to be chosen. Ouyang understood that Tong Guan was already formulating a plan to join Jin to attack Liao, and then a plan to destroy Jin. This strategy began for some time. When the West Road was merged to the East Road, it was to invest more troops in the battlefield against Jin. As soon as the time was ripe, the Western Xia would no longer be afraid. The Song army had no worries and swallowed the Liao and Jin.

This aspect is a great contribution to Ouyang Wuju, and the promotion of young generals. Of course, Zhao Yu's attention to the army and the popularization of firearms are indispensable.

Finally, there was no more book. Zhao Yu sighed that the time for the court today was so long, so he said, "The Persian envoy is already waiting in the side hall. The Ministry of Rites goes with me later, yes... Ouyang, come too."

"yes"

"Retreat the Court"

Ouyang was one step behind Zhao Yu, and behind him were more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Rites. Zhao Yu smiled and said, "I heard that you have achieved good results this time. Not only did you receive three carts of gifts, but you also have two Persian beauties."

"By your Majesty, these two Persian women, my husband has already told them to learn Chinese and then give it to the Emperor of Liao and Jin."

"Why do it be done in detail?"

"No, they are not qualified if they are careful. I just let them get drunk and be ecstatic." Ouyang smiled and said, "It's better to serve my seventh-rank official, or to serve two emperors. They know how to choose."

Ouyang likes to eat pork, but is not interested in raising pigs. If you have physiological needs, you can spend money to go to the stimulant hospital. Besides, women of all races have experienced it for so long in Yuzhou. As for the dancer, they are just women who can dance and wear veils to pretend to be mysterious. If you take off naked, there is no difference from other Persian women. The censor also said that Ouyang is hypocritical. Zhao Yu smiled and replied that he spent money. So no one cares about Ouyang's behavior of losing his manners.

Zhao Yu asked: "What do you say about Persian envoys?"

"They need to use ceramics, silk and other technologies, but we are not stingy. As for other related military affairs, we still cannot agree. We know that they have ideas about the firearms of the Song army."

"Yeah." Zhao Yu said: "How to reward this time has been debated in the court. Do you see?"

"General Zhang and Li Guang must be re-elected. General Han and Liu are still young, and His Majesty will probably harm them again. Lord Li Gang is a very outstanding talent and can be sealed, making civil officials feel that civil and military affairs are small, and they are reasonable in terms of face."

Zhao Yu stopped and looked at Ouyang with a smile: "What about you? General Han said, if you make merit, you will be a great achievement. If you have any mistakes, it is all his faults. Should you be named King Yangping?"

Ouyang smiled bitterly: "Weichen is a civil servant. If he gets the title because of murder, Weichen will be uneasy."

Zhao Yu nodded and continued to walk: "You gave the order to massacre the city?"

"……yes"

"It's done well." Zhao Yu ignored Ouyang who was stunned and entered the side hall.

The Persian envoy's request was similar to what Ouyang thought. Trade was the key, and learning technology was also the key. To show sincerity, the envoy also brought some gifts, and some specialty seeds that were not available in the Song Dynasty. He was also willing to send someone to teach the Song Dynasty to plant grapes and make wine. He even mentioned alloy smelting technology. Alloy smelting is actually adding other materials to iron. The Song Dynasty has never noticed this point, even Ouyang. He thought pure iron was the best, but as for what alloy technology was, it was a cloud. But simply adding some carbon materials to the iron can improve the quality of iron, he really didn't know.

The peace talks were friendly, and Zhao Yu was obviously very interested in alloy technology. The two sides had a talk for more than an hour and finally agreed to most of Persia's requirements. Specialty seeds from the Song Dynasty were provided, allowing Persia to send people to study in handicraft fields. At the same time, the Song Dynasty sent people to study in vineyards. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, Zhang Qian's first purpose was to join forces with the Yuezhi Kingdom to deal with the Huns, and the second purpose was to obtain the formula for the Yuezhi Kingdom's iron smelting. In the end, he only brought some configured iron sand and did not bring the formula back. Although neither purpose was achieved, the Silk Road was opened.

Now the Persians are willing to use this technology in exchange for the gunpowder technology of the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Yu is very embarrassed. She knows that increasing the iron quality will increase the power and range of the cannons, and the combat effectiveness of the Song army will be greatly enhanced. But...

Ouyang Xiao took out a piece of paper and said, "This is the gunpowder formula of the Royal Tokyo Making Bureau. If the nobles also have smelting materials formulas... let's exchange them?" He is a merchant, and he dares to say such shameless words here. What's so strange about the gunpowder formula? Isn't it just those three things? As for the ratio... I'll talk about the formula of the Tokyo Making Bureau. I don't say that the one who wants to be the Yangping Military Factory. Anyway, I don't know that this guy is beaten to death. The formula of the Yangping small county is stronger than that of Tokyo.

Zhao Yu blushed. As an emperor, it was wrong to deceive others in person. But thinking about it again... it was Ouyang who deceived him, but not him, so he regained his expression. Zhao Yu didn't speak, and of course the Ministry of Rites did not dare to speak. This secret that was well-known throughout the country in the Song Dynasty, so he fooled the kind Persian people like this.

Of course, in order to avoid the evil Persians deceive the kind Song people, Ouyang had to take the recipe to the military factory and use a balance to mix it. If you believe that strangers have bad habits, you should be suspicious of everything to strangers.

...

The next day, the imperial court issued an edict, conferring Zhanglan as Duke of Yuzhou County. Li Guang was granted the title of Grand Secretary and was awarded the second rank. In addition, some rewards from the Northwest Army, but no further information was given. Even so, the court's work still surprised everyone. Zhanglan, a founding duke of Han Shizhong, was hereditary. Zhanglan was appointed as the King of Yuzhou and lived in Yuzhou for generations. After Li Guang returned for 10 or 20 years, he would definitely be the first rank, and then retired gloriously to support his descendants. It was also a good thing for his ministers with a personality like him.

This storytelling has begun to spread among the people. The most famous story is that Liu Qi rode alone and defeated thousands of troops. It is said that during the day when you can see your five fingers with your hands...

Ouyang really went to practice cultivation. Ouyang's parents believed in the truth. Although Ouyang didn't believe it, doing so was the only way to punish himself and accept it. Although the dead person was just data for him.

Wang Wenqing said: "General, he has been sympathetic to the bones for hundreds of battles, but are you wrong?"

Ouyang said: "Please give me advice."

"The success of the king and the defeat of the enemy, the world should be judged by future generations. But you are confused about the views of future generations. You need to know a hundred years later, a cup of loess will be gone. You say you are traitorous, but you don't know. You say you are loyal, but you don't know."

Ouyang said after a while: "Disciple understands. Everything is right and wrong. If I succeed, he will be wrong. If he succeeds, I will be wrong. Thank you, my teacher." Ouyang suddenly realized that the judgment standards from all generations to the modern era seem to be like this. Even when the Qing Dynasty began to rule after the Han people began to massacre, the people were grateful when the current emperors were gentle to the people. Until modern times, many people still believed that Kangxi and others were good emperors. But the fact is that the weakening of the policies they implemented made China's overall strength retreat instead of advancing.

A month later, Ouyang returned to Yangping in a sick way. The food was so bad that Ouyang, who had no meat, wanted to run away on the third day. Bai Lian and three other yamen runners returned to Yangping for a rest, and then came to pick up Ouyang Huiyangping. Bai Lian said: "Sir, the business association..."

"Don't talk about official business." Ouyang Jianzhi said: "I am understanding the truth of Taoism."

Bai Lian asked: "What truth?"

"Hungry" Ouyang wondered: "I'm weird and I'm not at all good. I just couldn't eat what was full of things."

Bai Lian smiled and said, "As the adult said, the stomach is getting smaller."

"I said Bai Lian, you are almost thirty years old, are you still marrying?"

"..." Bai Lian was stunned for a while and shook her head: "Bai Lian will never marry for life."

"That won't happen." Ouyang thought: "Next time, let the Royal News help you register for a marriage. Your family's wealth is 100,000 yuan, and you will guarantee that you will become a sweet bun immediately... Just kidding, don't be so nervous... Bai Lian, don't you like women, right?"

"..." Bai Lian blushed and said, "Nothing."

It was rare to see Bai Lian blush once, Ouyang smiled and said, "It's not the best. What about those two Persian women?"

"By the way, let me tell you about this." Zhang San said: "There was something wrong. The two Persian women said that if the adults don't want them, they hoped to give them freedom and allow them to make a living in Yangping. Ou Ping thought that the adults would not have any objections, so he helped them settle the house outside."

"If you don't understand Chinese, how can you make a living?" Ouyang asked.

Li Si said: "Sir, you don't know. Two women have been hired by Jinzun Hotel and have been dancers, performing every seven days. In just half a month, they have become popular throughout Yangping. Even Tokyo people come to watch from afar. To be honest, I, Li Si, have also accompanied the adults to travel south and north, but such enthusiastic dances have made men unrelenting and unrestrained, except Persia, and there are customers who buy them to spend ten thousand yuan to spend the night, but they even refused. I heard that people in Tokyo and Hangzhou have invited them to perform on tour."

Ouyang smiled, but it was true. Song emphasized that he had a half-covered face with a pipa, which was a kind of implicit beauty. Not only did he show off, but he was tall and frivolous, his eyes were like lightning, and he twisted it out in a very coquettish way... If he didn't turn red, it would be unreasonable. Ouyang said: "I think this is great. No matter what, they are supporting themselves now."

...

Several people came back from the Western Regions, and everyone didn't have much to talk about. The journey was relatively easy. Another change is that the official road between Shanggu and Yangping counties has doubled. According to the meaning of the Shouzhou Magistrate, all the roads in the five counties of Shouzhou were repaired and finally connected to Tokyo. Most of the people used were Ouyang's set, which intercepted some taxes as funds, and hired slack farming and foreign refugees as coolies. The roads were maintained in a specialized manner, but one thing was that vehicles passing through the official road, whether it was manpower or animal power, certain fees were paid between the two counties. The 100-yuan power, 150-yuan power, and the money obtained were all used to maintain the road. This proposal had nothing to do with Ouyang, and was proposed by the magistrate himself.

Yangping was rich and Tokyo was prosperous. Shanggu between the two places was naturally not poor. Shanggu had just become the magistrate and had trained at Yangping University in his early years. When he heard that Ouyang returned to Yangping, he welcomed and received him very politely. According to the court's practice, a wealthy county like Shanggu was once every three years, usually two periods. The Ministry of Personnel of the Song Dynasty already had an official assessment system. There were investigations from prisons to people's livelihood. But even if Ouyang was not here for a year, the court's assessment was excellent. After all, they also knew that although Ouyang was a magistrate, it was no longer within the scope of their management.

Stay for a night and continue on the road. Now it is very peaceful. Taiping does not mean that there are no thieves, but that there are no gang robberies and no bandits. In addition, there are many people coming and going from official roads. In ancient China was not as indifferent as modern times, and there were few robberies with swords.

It was not until he saw the Yangping city that Ouyang asked: "White Lian, Yangping Money House and Southeast Money House discussed what result?"

Bai Lian smiled bitterly: "There is no result. Yangping Money Bank's opinion is to withdraw the Southeast Money Bank to the Southeast. The Southeast Money Bank requires Yangping Money Bank to sell silver bill paper. Lord Gan said that there is no way for the Southeast Money Bank. The Yangping Money Bank's silver bills are in circulation, and the Southeast Money Bank market has lost 40%. Moreover, because everyone uses silver bills, the Yangping Money Bank's silver bills are not available to be deposited in the Southeast Money Bank, which undoubtedly adds trouble to the Southeast Money Bank."

Ouyang nodded and asked, "What about now?"

"Everyone is waiting for the adults to come back to deal with it."

"I'm dealing with it again. Should I take care of it if I sleep with a woman or a sow at night?" Ouyang said: "Zhang San"

"exist"

"Notify the Business Association that if there is no satisfactory result within three days, all loans in the four states will be cleared, and all lenders will allow the refusal of the loan and interest on the grounds that the bank violates the agreement."

"yes"

Ouyang said: "Let's go to the south gate."

Ouyang Huiyang Ping, no one saw him. The representatives of the merchants on both sides had no choice but to sit together again. They knew that Ouyang was definitely not intimidation, and this matter had already come to court. But the key is that neither side was willing to give in. Whoever conceded would suffer a big loss.

On the second day, the two parties reached a basic plan. Yangping Money House tried to use paper for the Southeast Money House, and the Southeast Money House withdrew it back to the Southeast. However, the two parties were not uniform in terms of the amount of paper used. Yangping Money House believed that it should be a draw of one thousand, while the Southeast Money House believed that it would cost two hundred documents for one thousand. Because Ouyang was forced to force it, both parties immediately completed a deal of six hundred documents. However, there was another problem. Yangping Money House was only willing to sign a two-year supply peace agreement, while the Southeast Money House hoped to have ten years. The Southeast Money House knew that two years later, the silver paper would be suspended, and they expanded northward again at that time, which was a unilateral violation of the contract.

Finally, the agreement was made for three years, and the Southeast Money House was confident that it would not be able to imitate the paper silver bill within three years.

The matter was finally resolved, and it seemed that there was no difference from before. However, both senior executives were dismissed, Zhou Ping was ordered to return to the Southeast to manage the tea business, and Su Qian was demoted to the shopkeeper of Yangping Headquarters.

Due to frequent exchanges between the north and the south, conflicts will naturally increase. Under the leadership of Ouyang, the Southeast Business Association and the Yangping Business Association held a joint meeting to formulate standardized business management.

Based on the statements of both parties, the two business associations established rigorous seats. A total of 21 seats were set up to be responsible for commercial arbitration between the north and the south. The seats were elected every four years, and the members were elected by the registered merchants of the two business associations. Ouyang served as the first chairman. In the future, all conflicts in the north and the south will be arbitrated by the United Business Association. It is said to be arbitration, but in fact it is more like a modern business court. Ouyang only hopes that everything can be resolved within the merchants, rather than disturbing the court, and being severely punished, both sides will suffer losses. The slogan of the United Business Association is to unite and develop, and help each other.

...

After everything was settled, Mr. Su invited Ouyang to the Jinzun Hotel to watch Persian dance.

"The children are ignorant, which makes adults worry more."

As soon as Master Su said, Su Qian served tea ceremony on the other side: "Sir, please use tea."

Ouyang took a sip of tea and turned around to look at Su Qian: "Su Qian, I have a few questions that I don't understand. Why are you so anxious to make a banknote? Then why don't you give in on this matter? Isn't this like your personality?"

"this……"

Mr. Su said: "Sir, I laughed. Actually, the cause of the incident was because Su Qian's little family was angry."

Ouyang smiled and said, "No."

"Let me say that. Yangping Money Bank didn't let go this time, but it was actually the meaning of all shareholders." Mr. Su said: "I don't know anything. Siam business and Japanese silver are all made by merchants in the southeast. We people in the north want to drink some leftover soup, but they didn't expect that they didn't even give them water to wash the pot."

Ouping explained to Ouyang on the side. Due to the growth of the Hangzhou fleet, although the fleet held power in Yue Fei, Yue Fei supported the training. However, there were no soldiers nearby, so it was a relatively good navigation practice to help Japan fight or escort the caravan to the south. However, because the Southeast Money House was quick to start, a piece of Song land in Japan was completely managed by the Southeast Money House, and the agriculture and commerce in Siam were also managed by the Southeast Business Association.

After the conception, the Yangping Business Association wanted to set up a wharf in Temasek, and then relied on sea routes to sell goods from all sides. Unexpectedly, the Southeast Business Association did not agree. Because the Southeast Business Association was familiar with the fleet, and Yue Fei ignored the business and only cared for the training results, the Yangping Business Association was robbed by local indigenous people shortly after entering Temasek due to lack of strong force protection, and suffered heavy losses. The Liangzi was formed.

Ouping continued, "It is true that the fleet cannot be drawn out. Some of the fleets are helping the Japanese Damingshimazu family to attack the three good families of the four countries. The other is investigating the hydrology of the Great Song Dynasty's sea realm, and the other is traveling southeast."

Su Qiandao: "As far as I know, the part of the fleet that attacked Japan was signed with Shimazu a month after our Yangping Business Association made a request."

Ouping did not object, "It's like that."
Chapter completed!