Kai Fu Han

Chapter 163 One surname, one country

(It is a very low-level historical mistake. I have commented on others before, but I actually made it here. Renzong is the temple name of King Wang Kai of Goryeo. It was only given after his death. The previous one has been changed and it will not appear again.)
Every time someone hurts someone like this, the feeling of finally having to negotiate a compromise to resolve the conflict is really frustrating.

Liu Xinqi now finally understands the reasons for the attitude of countries in previous lives towards various diplomatic events.

"Take care of the overall situation!"

It's easy to say, but so difficult to do.

"Have you seen the two people I sent ashore, a translator and a soldier." Liu Xinqi asked Cui Wu.

"Yes, I signaled them to stay on shore to monitor the development of the situation in case there are any changes." Cui Wu replied.

"Well done, keep up the good work. You handled the emergency in the city decisively this time. Although there were still casualties, it was pretty good. After I learn Korean and Japanese, I will send you down to do the job when I go back." Battalion Commander, you will be on your own when the time comes!" Liu Xinqi patted Cui Wu on the shoulder to express his appreciation and encouragement.

"Thank you, leader! I still like to stay with the leader. I learn and progress quickly."

"Hahaha, there's no need to flatter anyone. If you want to go far, experience at the bottom is indispensable. Otherwise, it's just a loft in the sky, a flash in the pan."

……

Although it has been negotiated with Wang Hao's family and an agreement has been reached, Liu Xinqi still arranged for the fleet to withdraw from the Licheng River at night for the sake of insurance and stop the ship in the sea off Jianghua Bay for the night.

Fortunately, everything was fine overnight.

At dawn the next day, the fleet set off again to Kaijing West Port and continued to stop in the middle of the river. Only a state-level sand boat was arranged to dock to pick up people.

This time Cui Wu was still in charge of things ashore, while Liu Xinqi stayed on the Qizhou.

After Cui Wu got off the ship, he got a report from the people who stayed on the shore yesterday that there was nothing unusual in opening the capital. Then he began to unload the displayed goods from the Laizhou. The same goods as yesterday were displayed on wooden frames at the shore where the Laizhou docked.

"Are you the Zhao businessmen who displayed the glazed mirror in the market yesterday?"

A Korean businessman next to him came up and asked. This man had been waiting on the port shore since the ship docked. He didn't come up at first. It wasn't until Cui Wu displayed the goods and stood up a mirror as tall as a person that he stepped forward and asked.

"Yes, do you want to buy it?" Cui Wu said.

"I'm a little worried that the big fuss you made about opening the capital yesterday will affect our subsequent sales." The businessman worried.

"We can only guarantee that it won't affect your purchase from us today. As for what happens after that, it depends on each person's ability." Cui Wu did not guarantee casually. The reputation of Xinghan League is much higher than the benefits obtained by deceiving these businessmen today. , continued: "However, there is no way in this world that you can make money by just lying down. If you want to make big money, you have to take risks."

"Yesterday's rioting in Beijing should be regarded as a good thing for you. There must have been more people competing, and the price must have been high; now that what happened yesterday, there are fewer people competing, and the cost of your purchases must also be reduced. The profits will be higher.”

Cui Wu added one last sentence.

The Korean businessman gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and said, "Okay! I'll participate."

After saying that, he asked the servant next to him to pay a deposit of 100 taels and boarded the Laizhou.With this Korean businessman taking the lead, the businessmen who had been watching at the port immediately swarmed up, scrambling to pay deposits to board the ship.

After a while, there were more than ten businessmen participating.

"Send a signal and ask the fleet to send a ship to pick up the people."

For safety reasons, the docked Laizhou was just a transit ship. There were not many goods on board, only those on display.

After the signal was sent, the Weizhou quickly came over and picked up the Korean merchants waiting on the Laizhou.

Jiao Rui looked at the endless stream of Korean merchants participating in the purchase, and suddenly thought of what Liu Xinqi said to him last night:
"No businessman is timid, and timid people will definitely not succeed. As a qualified businessman, he will inevitably take high risks for high profits. Once the estimated profit exceeds [-]%, he will take risks; if the profit exceeds double, He dares to trample on all human laws; if it is higher, and the profit exceeds three times, he dares to commit any crime, and even risk being beheaded."

I also remembered Liu Xinqi’s final sigh: “As industry and commerce within the jurisdiction of the Xinghan League continue to develop, the Ministry of Finance will inevitably establish a commercial department to manage these industries and commerce. By then, our officials in the Xinghan League will face more complex management. The problem: preventing corruption!”

"In the industrial and commercial community, those who are capable of getting things done do not have a fuel-efficient lamp. In the future, we must not only prevent them from taking advantage of loopholes, but also prevent them from corroding the official team of Xinghan League, harming the public and enriching private interests, and enriching the public and private pockets."

Seeing that the people below were already familiar with the reception process, Cui Wu was temporarily idle. Jiao Rui said to him: "These businessmen really have no bottom line. We just made a big fuss in their country's capital yesterday and killed so many of them." The country’s soldiers and people. Today they came happily to buy our goods. It’s really a small country with no morality.”

Cui Wu smiled and retorted: "You're wrong, don't say that these businessmen are helping us now, they are our friends. It's a bit one-sided to say 'a small country has no virtue'. It doesn’t matter, it’s a matter of people’s wisdom.”

"'You know the etiquette in the granaries, and you know the honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing.', you must survive before you can ask the people to be virtuous."

"And there are all kinds of birds in the big woods. Our Zhao country is considered a big country. There are also a lot of gentry who have read the books of sages. When the Jin Kingdom came, they lost their backbone. First from the Puppet Chu, and now from the Puppet Qi, and later it may directly Drop gold.”

"But there are also loyal and brave defenders of the country, just like those who fled with the Southern Zhao court. At least their moral character is worthy of recognition."

Both of them had a tacit understanding not to talk about the Xinghan League. After all, the officials in the Xinghan League now knew that although the leader Liu Xinqi did not surrender to the Jin Kingdom or submit to the puppet Qi, he was not loyal to the Zhao Kingdom either.

Nowadays, officials of the Xinghan League will deliberately avoid this topic when chatting.

Liu Xinqi has been aware of this problem, but there is currently no good solution.

In his last life, Liu Xinqi was just an ordinary college student without deep philosophical attainments. He could not establish a self-justifying theory to support his actions and ideals. He could only take things one step at a time.

But deep down in his heart, Liu Xinqi knew it.

This contradiction is mainly concentrated in China's thousands of years of history, which has always been one family, one surname, one country, so Liu Xinqi is now not loyal to the Zhao State of the Song family, which seems very abrupt.

Only when one day the surname of this country is Han and the surname of the Chinese nation can this shackles be broken.

……

"First take them to the warehouse to check all the goods so that they have an idea." Liu Xinqi arranged for an interpreter and pointed to the Korean merchants who were boarding the ship.

(End of this chapter)