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

Yelu Yixin nodded. He knew that Guo Huaixin would come tonight, so he turned over and dismounted and walked into the mansion.

This was the fourth time Yelu Yixin had negotiated a business with Guo Huaixin. The first time they had completed a business of 500,000 taels of silver. The second time Guo Huaixin bought him three hundred stallions and 1,500 mares. The third time he asked Guo Huaixin to arrange a Japanese envoy to meet the emperor of the Liao Kingdom and to achieve a business of 10,000 sheep and 100,000 kilograms of pig iron.

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

In fact, Yelu Yixin had already felt something. Guo Huaixin's origin was definitely not as simple as the imperial merchants. He was afraid that he had other intentions for him. It was just that the huge benefits Guo Huaixin brought to him made him unable to stop. It was like taking drugs. Even though he knew that this would be exposed one day, he would still trade with Guo Huaixin without hesitation.

In the room, Guo Kui had been waiting for a long time. At this time, Yelu quickly walked in and said repeatedly: "Let me wait for a long time."

"It's okay!"

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

Yelu glanced at him and asked vigilantly: "Is there something wrong with the Japanese envoy?"

Guo Kui shook his head, "There is no problem with the Japanese envoy, but they are actually coming for the interests of the Fujiwara family, but you don't see this?"

"I can see that, in fact, we also know that the Japanese Emperor is just a puppet, and the real power is in the hands of the Fujiwara family, which is not surprising at all!"

Guo Kui smiled again and said, "I am responsible for buying the ships you want, but I said that there are only two types of ships in the Song Dynasty. One is a warship built by the official shipyard, and the other is a warship built by the private shipyard. What I give you can only be warships from the private shipyard, but the ships from the official shipyard cannot be obtained."

“What is the difference between the two?”

"The official ship is a brand new warship, and the private yard is a renovated old ship."

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

Guo Kui knew Yelu Yixin too well. Officials with a little sense of justice would slap the table and curse, "Do you want to kill the Liao army with an old ship?" But Yelu Yixin did not mention the ship's issue at all, but accused him of making too harsh money. Of course, Guo Kui knew the elegance of the strings.

He smiled slightly and said, "To be precise, only twice the profit is mine, and the other twice the profit is from the prime minister. If you have money, I will not just make money by myself.

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

"The Prime Minister doesn't know anything. I have to spend money to manage the coastal patrol naval army. I can't make twice as much, but I will still give the Prime Minister some compensation."

He put a deed on the table and pushed it to Yelu Yixin, "This is a large island in the Little Liuqiu Islands, with an area similar to that of Danzhou. There are rivers, lakes, forests and mountains on the island, and a grassland with an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres. It can be grazed or cultivated. I have bought this kind of island under the name of the Prime Minister, and it now belongs to the Prime Minister."

Yelu Yixin was overjoyed. He had been looking forward to 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 was really a delicate heart.

"It's my name, can I do it?"

"Don't forget that I am an imperial merchant. I'm not to mention Yelu's prime minister. Although my previous stallion went to Japan, it was finally transferred from Japan to Kunzhou. In fact, I bought it for Kunzhou. With this, the emperor specially approved your island."

Although Yelu Yixin had expected that the stallion would eventually go to Kunzhou, it still made him a little embarrassed when Guo Kui said it frankly.

He coughed, asked in a different way: "Where is this island?"

"This island is called Xianlu Island. It takes about three days to take a boat from Bohai Harbor. It is a must-pass place for the Song Dynasty trade fleet. If you are interested, you can ask the son to go with me to take a look."

The island Fanning chose for Yelu 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 Yelu Yixin, Fanning took out the island for him.

However, it is another matter whether the Yelu Yixin family will have the blessing to use this island in the future.

Yelu Yixin nodded happily, "I'll make arrangements back and let my second son follow his husband to take over this big island."

............

There were crowds of people outside Xingqing Prefecture. Countless people came out of the city to visit the mighty northern expedition of the royal army. The 100,000 troops had been assembled and slowly pulled up at the sound of war drums. Various food and supplies were piled up on the dock two miles away. Hundreds of huge leather rafts were anchored on the shore, and thousands of civilians were busy carrying food and supplies onto leather rafts.

This huge leather raft is at least 1,000 stones, and is made up of countless small leather rafts. The Xixia has a sparse population and is difficult to mobilize civilians on a large scale like the Song Dynasty. It is impossible to organize a large number of land logistics and supplies teams. Therefore, Xixia also made full use of waterways and built large leather rafts to transport along the Yellow River.

Among the visitors, Zhang Manager Zhang from the Songjin Satin Shop and several friends were also there. A guy whispered to Zhang Manager Zhang: "That raft can carry at least three thousand stones!"

"Don't talk nonsense!"

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

Half an hour later, a letter eagle hovered and flew north.

............

The Song army in Hetao has increased to 50,000, including 20,000 cavalry. The burned outer city has been cleaned up and the outer city is full of large tents.

Fan Ning had received news from Xingqing Prefecture that a 100,000 army went north to compete for Hetao. At the same time, Di Qing also led 200,000 Song troops and a large amount of food and food to go north to support Hetao.

On a martial arts performance field, Fan Ning asked Yang Wenguang with a smile: "Elder General, what do you think is the sharpest weapon to deal with the raft?"

"The hot turbulent oil should be good. The dry sheepskin is just a little bit. I tried it more than ten years ago. It is indeed an extremely sharp weapon to deal with the raft."

Fanning shook his head, "It's good to deal with the raft with strong turbulence, but it's a double-edged sword and can easily burn his big ship. Just imagine, the raft turned into a ball of fire and hit the Song army's big ship, and directly touched the big ship. What will the impact on the big ship?"

Everyone laughed. This is called killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of them. Yang Wenguang said a little embarrassedly: "I haven't considered my ships and are afraid of fire."

Fanning said to everyone again: "I was thinking about the iron fire thunder at first, but when I was fighting with the Sanfoqi Kingdom in the South China Sea, I used the iron fire thunder to sank the opponent's main ship, but our own ship was almost overturned. I realized that unless I had the ability to shoot from a long shot, it would be better not to use the iron fire thunder in a naval battle. However, long shots are not easy to shoot from the opponent, and it will be extinguished when it falls into the sea. Therefore, although the iron fire thunder is powerful, it is more suitable for use on land."

"My husband, the bow and arrow are good! Fight against the raft." said a commander.

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

Yang Wenguang pondered for a moment and said, "Although the bow and arrow are good, it's a pity that there are not many. It's OK for small leather rafts, but it's a bit ineffective for large leather rafts."

Fanning smiled at everyone and said, "I visited the Military Weapon Bureau in Beijing and found that the Crossbow Academy was developing a standard barrel arrow to deal with cavalry, which could shoot thirty crossbow arrows at a time. At that time, I was thinking, wouldn't it be great to use this kind of barrel arrows to engage in water battles? Put it on the bow of the ship, and thirty arrows at a time, and then quickly change to another quiver and shoot again, which is equivalent to the integration of a crossbow."

Yang Wenguang said: "Does my husband want to use this kind of arrow to deal with the leather raft?"

Fanning still shook his head, "This just gave me a way of thinking. There must be enough numbers to deal with leather rafts. It does not require as big as an arrow. As long as it shoots through a small hole, it will leak. Think about it, besides iron fire thunder, what other weapons can cause such dense bursting effect?"

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

The fire caltrop is a weapon widely used by the Song army. In fact, it is eight caltrops wrapped in paper fire thunder. After the individual soldier throws it out, the caltrops explodes and the caltrops splashes. However, the power of this explosion is too small and is at most used to spread caltrops thorns.

Fanning no longer made a fuss for everyone. He asked the soldiers to protect everyone with their shields, so he took out a ball porcelain bottle the size of a grapefruit from the wooden box. The bottle had a thin neck handle that could be held by people.

Fanning made a throwing gesture and lit the fuse on his thin neck with a fire skewer. When the fuse burned to the bottle mouth, Fanning suddenly threw the ball porcelain bottle out and threw it into a large wooden box twenty steps away.

There was a slightly dull explosion of "Bang!", and the porcelain bottle exploded in the wooden box, and the porcelain pieces and the fine iron pieces inside splashed everywhere.

Everyone walked forward one after another, and saw that the bottom and four walls of the wooden box were filled with dense iron and broken porcelain pieces, as many as hundreds of pieces.
Chapter completed!