Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 452 Border Foreclosure
After hearing what the prince said, Zhao Mu smiled and said: "Haha, it doesn't matter. I feel that once the war starts, the Liao Kingdom will not be in the mood to marry any princess from the Koryo Kingdom."

Prince Wang asked somewhat inappropriately at this time: "So, the Song Dynasty will destroy the Liao Dynasty in this year?"

Zhao Mu looked at Prince Wang and did not answer.

At this time, Prince Wang also realized how wrong his words were.

Then Zhao Mu said: "His Royal Highness's gift, I really use it. In the future, I and the Kingdom of Korea will be considered to be related by marriage. In this case, I will not hide it from you. It won't take long for this king to crack the earth. Seal the territory. Later, I asked the Kingdom of Koryo to send Princess Anping to my palace."

Prince Wang was surprised when he heard Zhao Mu's words. He knew the ancestral system of the Song Dynasty. The ancestral system of the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system. Although the princes had feudal territories, they were only fictitious titles with salaries but no real power.

For example, the Daihou before Zhao Mu was indeed granted the title of Dai. But he had no right to interfere with the local administration and military affairs of Dai County. All he had was a fiefdom, and it was only a few hundred households in this county.

What Zhao Mu said just now was that he had his own palace, not a palace. This shows that Zhao Mu is talking about the vassal king who split the soil and sealed the territory. Instead of a prince in name only.

However, Prince Wang did not dare to ask any more questions. He just agreed: "I will obey His Highness King Qi's order. As long as His Highness King Qi no longer makes things difficult for us, Goryeo. We, Goryeo, will definitely follow the Song Dynasty in the future."

Zhao Mu chuckled and said: "Very good, very smart. I hope you can always be so aware of current affairs."

Faced with Zhao Mu's thoughtful attitude, Prince Wang just smiled awkwardly.

After Zhao Mu reached an agreement with the King of Goryeo and his son, he once again embarked on a journey to the Jurchen tribe.

Everyone also asked what happened when Zhao Mu stayed in the palace. Zhao Mu just said that he had some "deals" with the King of Korea. Not much else was said.

But this time, with the clearance token from the Goryeo royal family and Chairman Park's negotiation, everyone was saved a lot of trouble.

After traveling for about ten days, everyone arrived at a foreign trade point of the Jurchen tribe in the Goryeo Kingdom.

But that’s all President Park can bring. After all, the Jurchen tribe had different settlements, and in order to avoid the harassment of the Liao people, they often changed their settlement locations. Therefore, the settlement location is kept very secret. However, their foreign trade treaty ports are unified and unchanged.

Zhao Mu, Murong Fu and others stayed here with other businessmen for more than ten days.

This is because although the trading location is fixed, Jurchen caravans do not come every day. Jurchen caravans come here every other month, and they regularly bring dried venison, mountain mushrooms and other foods that their tribes hunt here. Bear bile, tiger bones, Korean ginseng, Changbai mountain ginseng and other medicinal materials, as well as various animal skins, etc., were brought here to exchange with other merchants for supplies needed by their tribes.

Basically, bartering is the norm here, and people rarely use money to trade.

The reason is very simple. The Jurchen tribe lives in deep mountains and old forests. Even if they have money in such a place, they have nowhere to spend it. And money can only be used in towns, markets, or trading ports like this. Therefore, it is more practical for the Jurchens to directly exchange things for things.

Zhao Mu's eyes were opened here. The merchants who were ready to exchange supplies with the Jurchens came from all over the world, including those from the Liao Kingdom, some from Goryeo, and even those from the Song Dynasty.

And the merchants who are preparing to trade here bring real bargaining chips.

Zhao Mu walked around the market in the past few days. Most of the exchange chips prepared by most merchants were nothing more than these, cattle, sheep, and silk. There are also things like tea and salt.

But in addition to these, Zhao Mu also saw some more popular "hard currencies" that the Jurchens liked. One is iron sand, one is a horse, and the other is a woman. And those women are from all ethnic groups, including Koreans, Khitans, and Han Chinese. No one knows whether they were bought or kidnapped.

But this doesn't matter to others. As long as they arrive at this market, they are goods.

And when the two parties trade, they will pay a large sum of money to Guancheng of Goryeo. Korea also turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. However, the Korean women who are sold will be strictly checked. Confirm whether it was purchased from a regular person and not abducted. As for women from other countries, they don't care at all.

Zhao Mu also took a look and found that although the ages of these women varied, they were generally not over thirty years old. Most of them are women in their twenties.

Zhao Mu also asked about what the Jurchens wanted with so many women.

The answer Zhao Mu received was also very simple, that is, to have a child. Replenish the population.

These women are not so much goods as they are tools for reproduction. Because the Jurchens live in the bitter cold jungle, their fertility rate is very low. It is difficult to reproduce on your own tribe. Therefore, they would spend a lot of money to buy women from foreign tribes to reward the warriors in their tribe to reproduce their children.

Zhao Mu looked at those pitiful women and couldn't help but sigh.

Zhao Mu didn't sympathize with them, but looking at the eyes of those women, he couldn't help but imagine the scene of Jingkang's shame.

During the Jingkang Disgrace, countless female relatives of princes and nobles were abused by these barbarians.

Zhao Mu looked at the wheels on the side and wondered if he needed to make the wheels smaller.

After Zhao Mu thought about it, out of compassion, he spent a lot of money to buy all these women.

And Zhao Mu's prices are pretty good, since these merchants are here to do business anyway. As long as the price is right, it doesn't matter who you sell it to. So all these women were sold to Zhao Mu.

Zhao Mu asked Ju Jian to distribute some money to them, burned their deeds, and then sent them on their separate ways.

Those who had homes to return to went home. As for those who were homeless or in the Han region, Zhao Mu entrusted President Park to help. As a businessman, Chairman Park was very puzzled by Zhao Mu's behavior of doing business at a loss. But I also admire his kindness.

So he also took on this job. For those homeless women, he would arrange for them to stay in Korea. For those who want to return to Han, she will arrange a merchant ship to take them back later.

Looking at Zhao Mu's chivalrous act, Abi admired: "Although Uncle Patriarch seems to be lustful and cruel on weekdays, he still has a chivalrous side when facing the weak."

Although Wang Yuyan had a grudge against Zhao Mu because of the water mill incident, she admired him very much after seeing his kind deeds today.

But now Wang Yuyan's mood has changed slightly.

Wang Yuyan couldn't help but look at her cousin Murong Fu next to her.

(End of this chapter)