Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 193 The Lion's Mouth

Zhou Qing and the others went to Liaodong for the first time this year, and the three boats arrived at Shizikou, which is later known as Lushun Port.For the sake of safety, Zhou Qingrang parked the three boats by the waterway entering the harbor, so that he could enter the harbor or retreat at any time, and he could also go to the peninsula called Tiger Tail to rest at night.

There are towering old trees everywhere around the harbor, and if you go ashore, you can cut some and drag them back and sell them for a high price. However, Zhou Qing has to be careful before he understands the situation here, because last year's wood exchange gave the locals a lot of linen, silk, porcelain, Iron pots and spices, these things are likely to attract the Liao government.

Coastal areas were always deserted before man mastered the art of navigation.Suzhou in the Liao Kingdom is surrounded by the sea on three sides and is full of dense forests. It is also a place where rabbits don't shit.From what I learned last year, the Bohai tribe living here mainly lives on fishing and hunting, and also grows some unproductive crops. They are extremely poor and mainly wear animal skins.People in Bohai can only build small boats to catch small fish near the coast, but they can't go to the far sea at all.

Li Buqi said that the products of the Song Dynasty in Suzhou of the Liao Kingdom must be very eye-catching and cannot be hidden.The city of Suzhou in the Liao Kingdom is a hundred miles away from Shizikou. As long as the Liao people find the items of the Song Dynasty, they will definitely track them down.

As for inquiring about the news, it didn't take much effort. When their boat just sailed into the bay, people from Bohai who were fishing on the shore rowed the boat over.A clever boy in the fleet poked his head out and gestured to ask about the local situation in the local language he just learned last year. It took a long time before he turned around and said to Zhou Qing: "Boss, that guy seems to say that the government came to collect taxes last year. The source of their linen and silk was questioned. But the government did not embarrass them."

Zhou Qing asked: "Ask again, are there any people from the Liao government here?"

After another round of gestures, the locals replied with certainty that there was no one from the government.Zhou Qing was a little puzzled by this.How could the government of the Liao Kingdom have no response when they learned that the Song people had landed here?

However, the Bohai people on the fishing boat expressed anxiously that they had already cut down a lot of trees in winter and piled them up by the sea, which could be traded immediately.This matter is easy to understand, but the Bohai people made gestures for a while, and after guessing for a long time, they realized that their leader was waiting for the arrival of the Song people, and they had something to discuss.He asked if he could go with him to meet their leader.

Zhou Qing then asked the fisherman to send a message to meet the leader of the Bohai people at the place where the wood was piled up.So Zhou Qing got on the boat and was led by the people from Bohai and walked a few miles into the bay. He saw that the beach at the foot of the mountain was covered with two hundred big trees.It can be seen that the local tribes are really not idle in winter.

Zhou Qing and the others were left to look at the goods, and the Bohai fisherman rowed ashore and ran to find the headman, with one thought: The God of Wealth is here, so don't delay.

When the leader of the Bohai people came and gestured, Zhou Qing frowned.The meaning of the headman seems to be that the people from the government want to meet the businessmen from the Song Dynasty.

To be honest, Zhou Qing was ready to go to war this time.If the Liao government found out their whereabouts and took action, Zhou Qing would not mind confronting the Liao government head-on.Anyway, as long as the trees can be cut down and dragged back, it will be a huge profit, enough to attract more refugees to join the ranks of invading the Liao Kingdom, so in the face of the temptation of huge profits, it is really not a problem to kill a few people.

What's more, Li Daguan said that the Liao people are abused goods when they go to sea, and Han Jiaerlang can be a guerrilla at the seaside just like the Liao people went to Hebei and Hedong to plunder grass and valleys, and they can make money without losing money.Suzhou is also a remote area, and it is very difficult for the Liao people to mobilize a large number of troops.When the Liao people were many, they retreated to the sea, and when the Liao people were few, they went ashore to cut trees. After a long time, the Liao people had nothing to do.Therefore, the victory of the war must belong to the Han family.

But it is definitely the best to try to postpone the violent conflict and get as much money as possible to strengthen yourself first.So Zhou Qing agreed to meet with Liao officials while conducting the transaction after a little thought.

With the experience of last year, the Bohai people have already cut off the branches of the big tree. Now after negotiating the price, they just push the wood into the sea, and help the Song people tie it into a raft with palm ropes, and the Song people unload the cloth and silk from the boat. , iron pots, spices and porcelain, the two parties counted each other and the transaction was completed, it was as simple as that.

This time, the people of Bohai also learned to be smart, and traded the excess fur, beef tendon, horn, cowhide, and horsetail.What?Want to buy a bow?There are not many ready-made items, but if you want them, we can make them again, or buy them from other tribes for you.

As for the decree of the Liao Kingdom that forbids the private sale of these things to the Song people, sorry, I have never heard of it.Suzhou is not close to the border of Song and Liao, and no Song people have appeared before. Liao officials never thought of implementing this decree in this place.

Zhou Qing saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, and asked if their horses could be sold, and the answer was of course they could.So regardless of the future, Zhou Qing took out forty bolts of silk and asked Mai Buku, the leader of the Bohai people, to buy three horses for him, and Mai Buku readily agreed.

When the big logs were tied up and dragged behind the boat, the officials from Suzhou, Liao Kingdom, arrived.Because Zhou Qing and the others were stationed on the tiger's tail in the sea, Mai Buku sent a fishing boat to call Zhou Qing.Zhou Qing brought more than a dozen sailors with high martial arts skills, all of them poked simple knives and spears, and took a small boat to the camp of the Maibuku tribe with bows and arrows on their backs.

Arriving in front of Maibuku's wooden house, Zhou Qing glanced around the wooden house vigilantly, only to see four Khitan soldiers with bows and knives on their backs, but without armor, standing casually at the door of the wooden house.He looked at the more than 20 military horses next to the wooden house, and couldn't help but frowned. He asked his followers to stay outside and be careful before walking into the wooden house.

Behind the firepit facing the door, Mai Buku respectfully talked with a fat man covered in silk and satin.Although there was a flattering smile on Maibuku's face, the smile was obviously distorted, which made people feel uncomfortable.

When Maibuku saw Zhou Qing coming in, he immediately wanted to introduce him to the fat man, but the fat man had already raised his head and asked in Liao official dialect with a fierce look on his face, "Song people, where are you from?"

Zhou Qing learned some Liao official dialect when he was smuggling between Song and Liao in Cangzhou. Come up."

The fat man was surprised that Zhou Qinghui spoke the official dialect of the Liao Kingdom, and asked, "Who are you, and why do you speak our official Khitan dialect?"

Zhou Qing said: "I used to go to Luanzhou, Runzhou and Qianzhou for trade, so I learned a little bit."

What Zhou Qing never expected was that the frost on the fat man's face melted away, and even turned into sunshine.He smiled and said, "So it's a businessman. Very good. I'm Luoluo, the chief secretary of Suzhou governor Yelunegu. Since you often go to Luanzhou, Runzhou and other places, you should know the rules, right?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up too.This guy wants to do business with himself, it's important.

(End of this chapter)