Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 638

Yelu Yixin returned to his own house in Tokyo, his adopted son Yelushan ran up and whispered: "Guo Huaixin is here, in father's study!"

Yelv Yixin nodded, he knew that Guo Huaixin would come tonight, so he got off his horse and walked towards the mansion.

This is the fourth time that Yelv Yixin has negotiated business with Guo Huaixin. The first time they made a deal of 50 taels of silver, and the second time Guo Huaixin bought [-] stallions and [-] females from him. Ma, for the third time, he asked Guo Huaixin to arrange a Japanese envoy to meet the emperor of Liao, and by the way, reached a deal of [-] sheep and [-] catties of pig iron.

But this time, he believed that Guo Huaixin would bring him good news.

In fact, Yelu Yixin has already faintly felt something. Guo Huaixin's background is by no means as simple as that of the imperial merchants. He may have other plans for himself, but the huge benefits Guo Huaixin brought him made him unable to stop. It's like taking drugs. If this continues, there will be a day when he will be exposed, but he will still trade with Guo Huaixin without hesitation.

In the room, Guo Kui had been waiting for a long time, when Yelu walked in quickly and said repeatedly: "Mister has been waiting for a long time."

"It's okay!"

Guo Kui saluted and smiled slightly, "I hope the arrival of the Japanese envoy will satisfy you."

Yelu glanced at him and asked vigilantly, "Could it be that the Japanese envoy has a problem?"

Guo Kui shook his head, "There is no problem with the Japanese envoys, but they came in the name of envoys from the Emperor of Japan, and actually came for the benefit of the Fujiwara family. Didn't you see that?"

"I can see it. In fact, we also know that the Japanese emperor is just a puppet. It is not surprising that the real power is in the hands of the Fujiwara family!"

Guo Kui laughed again and said, "I am also responsible for buying the ships you want, but I said ugly things before, there are two kinds of ships in the Song Dynasty, one is the warship built by the official shipyard, and the other is the private shipyard. The warships I give you can only be warships from private yards, and ships from official yards cannot be obtained."

"What's the difference between the two?"

"The official ship is a brand new warship, while the private boat yard is an old ship refurbished."

"But the price you sold to us was three times the price of the official ship. Isn't that too dark?"

Guo Kui knew Yelu Yixin too well, and officials with a sense of justice would slap the table and curse, "Refurbish an old ship, trying to kill the Liao army?" ’ But Yelu Yixin didn’t mention the issue of the boat at all, but accused him of making too much money. Of course, Guo Kui knew the meaning of the string.

He smiled slightly and said: "To be precise, only twice the profit belongs to me, and the other double profit belongs to Xiangguo. If there is wealth, everyone will make it. I will not just make my own money.

"I take the risk, at least half of each person!"

"Xiangguo doesn't know. I have to spend money to manage the coastal patrol navy. I can't make twice as much, but I will still give Xiangguo some compensation."

He put an island deed on the table and pushed it to Yelu Yixin, "This is a large island in the Xiaoliuqiu Islands. Its area is about the same as that of Danzhou. There are rivers, lakes, forests and mountains on the island, as well as a grassland. , with an area of ​​tens of thousands of mu, which can be used for grazing and farming. I have already bought this kind of island under the name of Xiangguo, and it now belongs to Yeluxiangguo."

Yelv Yixin was overjoyed. He had been looking forward to the overseas islands for a long time. Last time he just mentioned whether the Liao people could buy the islands of the Song Dynasty. Guo Kui sent the islands to him. This man is really exquisite.

"It's actually my name, can this be done?"

"Don't forget that I am an imperial merchant, and I will not hide it from Yelu Xiangguo. Although the previous stallion went to Japan, it was finally transferred from Japan to Kunzhou. In fact, it was bought for Kunzhou. Based on this, the emperor specially approved it. your island."

Although Yelv Yixin had expected that the stallion would eventually go to Kunzhou, Guo Kui still felt a little embarrassed when he said it so frankly.

He coughed, changed the subject and asked, "Where is this island?"

"This island is called Xianlu Island. It takes about three days to go there by boat from Bohai Port. It is the place where the Song trade fleet and Japan must pass. If Yelu Xiangguo is interested, you can ask your son to go with me. have a look."

The island that Fan Ning chose for Yelv Yixin was the later Amami Island, not far from Kagoshima, Japan. This island currently belongs to the Ryukyu Islands. In order to buy and control Yelv Yixin, Fanning gave him this island up.

However, whether the Yelu Yixin family will be lucky enough to use this island in the future is another matter.

Yelv Yixin nodded happily, "I'll make some arrangements later, and let my second son follow Mr. to take over this big island."

There are crowds of people outside the city of Xingqing Prefecture. Countless people have come out of the city to watch the majestic Northern Expedition of Wang Shi. The [-] troops have assembled, and they are slowly rising to the sound of war drums. On the wharf two miles away, all kinds of food and supplies are piled up like a mountain. Hundreds of ships A huge leather raft is moored on the shore, and thousands of civilians are busy carrying food and various supplies onto the raft.

The minimum size of this kind of huge leather raft is more than a thousand stones. It is composed of countless small leather rafts superimposed and bundled. The population of Xixia is sparse. It is difficult to mobilize civilians on a large scale like the Song Dynasty. Using waterways, large-scale leather rafts were built and transported along the Yellow River.

Among the visiting crowd, shopkeeper Zhang and several shopkeepers of the Song Brocade Silk and Satin Shop were also there, and a shopkeeper whispered to shopkeeper Zhang: "That raft can carry at least three thousand stones!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Shopkeeper Zhang glared at him, looked to both sides, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he turned around and left quietly.

Half an hour later, a letter eagle circled and flew to the north.

The strength of the Song army in Hetao has increased to 5, including [-] cavalry. The burned outer city has been cleaned up, and the outer city is full of tents.

Fan Ning has received news from the Xingqing Mansion that a 20 army marched north to fight for Hetao. At the same time, Di Qing also led [-] Song troops and a large amount of food supplies to go north to support Hetao.

In a martial arts arena, Fan Ning asked Yang Wenguang with a smile, "Old General, what do you think is the sharpest weapon against a raft?"

"Fire oil should be good. The dry sheepskin will be burnt at one point. I tested it more than ten years ago, and it is indeed an extremely sharp weapon against leather rafts."

Fan Ning shook his head, "Fierce fire oil is good against the raft itself, but it is a double-edged sword, and it is easy to burn your own big ship. Just imagine, the leather raft turned into a ball of fire and hit the big ship of the Song army, directly sticking to the big ship. On board, what will be the impact on the big ship?"

Everyone laughed. This is called killing three thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred. Yang Wenguang said a little embarrassedly: "I have never considered that my own ships are also afraid of fire."

Fan Ning said to the crowd again: "I originally thought about the Iron Fire Thunder, but when we were in the South China Sea and Sanfoqi Kingdom's naval battle, we used the Iron Fire Thunder to blow up and sink the opponent's main ship, but our own ship was almost overturned as well." Turning around, I realized that unless you have the ability to shoot from a long distance, it is best not to use the iron fire thunder in naval battles, but long-range shooting is not easy to hit the opponent, and it will be extinguished when it falls into the sea. It is more suitable for use on land."

"Sir, bows and arrows are not bad! Deal with the raft," said a commander.

"Bows and arrows are good, but leather rafts are afraid of leaking air. This is their biggest weakness. If you grasp this weakness and find a way, you can find a big killer against leather rafts."

Yang Wenguang pondered for a while and said: "Although bows and arrows are good, but unfortunately there are not many of them. They are okay for small rafts, but not very effective for large ones."

Fan Ning said with a smile to everyone: "I visited the Military Weapons Bureau in the capital, and found that the Nut Academy was developing a standard barrel arrow to deal with cavalry, which could shoot [-] arrows at a time. Isn’t water warfare very good? It is installed on the bow, with thirty arrows in one tube, and then quickly change to another quiver to shoot again, which is equivalent to integrating a continuous crossbow.”

Yang Wenguang said: "Master, do you want to use this barrel of arrows to deal with the raft?"

Fan Ning still shook his head, "This just gave me an idea. To deal with the rafts, there must be enough numbers. It doesn't need to be as big as an arrow. As long as you shoot through a small hole, it will leak air. Think about it, everyone. Apart from the iron fire thunder, what other weapon can cause this kind of intensive shooting effect?"

"Fire Tribulus!" Several generals blurted out at the same time.

Fire terrestris is a weapon widely used by the Song army. In fact, eight terrestial caltrops are wrapped in a paper fire thunder. Spread the thorns of thistles.

Fan Ning stopped making trouble for the crowd. He asked the soldiers to protect the crowd with shields, and then took out a round porcelain bottle the size of a grapefruit from the wooden box. The bottle had a thin neck handle that could be held by hand.

Fan Ning got ready to throw, and lit the matchlock on the thin neck with a torch. When the matchlock reached the bottle mouth, Fan Ning threw the round porcelain bottle out, and accurately threw it into a large wooden bottle twenty steps away. inside the box.

There was only a dull sound of "bang!", and the porcelain bottle exploded in the wooden box, and the porcelain pieces and the thin iron pieces inside were scattered everywhere.

Everyone stepped forward one after another, and saw that the bottom and walls of the wooden box were densely packed with pieces of iron and broken porcelain, as many as hundreds of pieces.

Everyone understood, and applauded enthusiastically together, one thing fell one thing, the porcelain fire thunder had no effect against the big wooden boat, but it was a great killer against the sheepskin raft.

(End of this chapter)