Hai'an County, Liankou.

On the sea not far from the county town, more than a dozen large ships slowly docked.

These ships are huge in size, some are even much larger than the warships of the Han Dynasty, and they look big and round.

On an open space not far from the pier, everyone was busy, and someone was building a fence.

Some people are building houses, and they all seem to be extra busy.

Yao Xiong and a few soldiers walked past these people and looked at the people around him, with a little confused in his eyes.

The trade with the Southerners is about to begin.

The emperor personally issued an edict asking Yao Xiong to be responsible for public security, and stated that if a merchant was robbed by robbers or killed by water thieves under Yao Xiong's rule, he would be punished by Yao Xiong's place.

Yao Xiong did not dare to neglect at all, and divided his troops to clean up the bandits in Haizhou and several surrounding mountains and forests over and over again.

Then he contacted Wang Lin, dispatched the navy, and washed the islands beside the estuary.

He was sure that there were no thieves in his jurisdiction and around him.

Today is the first day of the official opening of the market. Yao Xiong came to inspect himself. He arranged soldiers in many places, and some elite soldiers wore the clothes of ordinary people and mingled in it.

As long as the situation stabilizes in the first few days, Yao Xiong can gradually withdraw.

The soldiers following Yao Xiong were also full of helplessness at this moment.

They are obviously fierce fighting on the battlefield, but now they are going to do something erratic and responsible for market security? Is this what they should do?

"General, wouldn't it be better to just send a few tours to come here? Why do we have to do it in person?"

"Yes, even you are here...

Yao Xiong glared at them, "What do you know?!

"My brother's edicts have hit me in the face. I dare to send You Hui to come?"

"I tell you, no one is allowed to be careless. If something happens, I can't get in touch with my brother. I won't talk about death. Anyway, this whipping is indispensable. My brother has always been fair. He rewards merits and punishes me if he has made mistakes. It doesn't depend on what your relationship is with him:.:

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"It turns out that Cui Gang was almost dismissed from his post because of three minor errors in the Censor's documentary records. He was fined for one year's salary! The promotions he said were gone... I dare not be careless!"

The soldiers all said yes.

Many people have begun to gather here, most of them are merchants who rushed over after hearing the news.

When he was in Qi, the business south of the river was relatively developed, and there were many merchants. After a long period of war and baptism, the so-called famous families and other families also gave up their status. If the children of a large family went to do business during the Han Dynasty, they would definitely be ridiculed. Except for the classics, everything was a lowly thing, including instruments, medicine, business, and even poetry and literature could only be regarded as small hobbies.

Anyone who concentrates on his hobbies and ignores the classics will still be ridiculed.

However, hundreds of years of war changed this value. The natives generally no longer had a lofty sense of personal mission, and no longer felt that these hobbies were embarrassing. At the beginning, everyone threw themselves into these little hobbies, which also led to many children of large families starting to engage in medicine, mathematics, and machinery, which were not mainstream in the past, and the status of poetry and essays continued to rise. As for doing business, it was no longer a shame to the high school.

These Han tyrants south of the river generally had their own business, and the landlords used a large number of tenants to operate some economic crops to seek benefits.

Famous families also participated in it and worked hard to make money.

Yao Xiong ignored these merchants and continued to walk around.

After the big ships in the distance were docked, they saw many guys with big belly walking off the boat quickly. These people were obviously not from the northerners.

Their dresses are too bright, which is different from those of the northerners. They wear gold and silver, and they want to engrave the words "wealth" on their faces. If they are in the northern country, who dares to go out like this, the thieves will call for the New Year.

The nobles in the Northland are too inappropriate. Even if they are rich and powerful, they dare not be too arrogant. They can always meet EK

The shameless people of the Japanese were chattering and began to look around curiously.

In the past, when the two sides did not trade with each other, businessmen in the southern country had to be careful. At least those who had connections and were willing to invest in the day could only go to the vicinity of Guangzhou to do business with the northerners. But now it is different, everyone can come.

It was obviously the first time these people have come here, and they have shown great curiosity about everything around them.

What they were most curious about was the soldiers guarding the surroundings.

They looked at the straight armored soldiers who were standing, wearing armor, holding spears and fierce eyes, muttering in a low voice.

"Hu Qi!"

"It's really Hu Qi!"

"I heard that there are troops such as mountains, cangtou, rhinoceros horns, and Dali among the Hu people. I wonder which type of Hu cavalry is?"

"The five big and three thick ones should be the strong ones, right?"

"Do you say he can speak Chinese?

The soldier just listened to them talking in a nice and graceful manner, cursed in a low voice, and then turned his head away.

Yao Xiong ordered the soldiers to look forward to the place, but he left first. He didn't like these people.

These people looked around, chatted while walking, and finally came to this city where merchants gathered.

The merchants here did not have any thought of despising the Southern people. They looked at the southern people in front of them, all of them looked like treasures flashing golden light, and they all came to hawk.

These businessmen are also smart. They know that the first batch of people who arrived must be rich, so they are mainly luxury goods, such as jewelry, calligraphy and painting, paper, good clothes, jewelry...:

Fast horse.

These things are all things that can attract the interests of the Southern people.

They quickly dispersed, and some bought clothes from the north and wore them on them, smiling happily.

Some buy some jewelry and so on.

But the most common ones are to buy fast horses.

Horses are rare goods in the south, with extremely high prices. The nobles like them very much and like to compare them. If anyone can get four fast horses of the same color, their tails will be able to rise to the sky.

But it is more common in the north. There are several horse-trading merchants who take them to visit BMWs.

The Han Dynasty did not prohibit horse trading. These war horses and ordinary horses are completely different concepts. The horse farms in the government raise war horses, but there are many herders among the people. The horses of these people are normal horses, and their main functions are transportation and transportation, rather than fighting.

The horse merchant fooled several southerners and pointed at the good horse he tied up in advance to show off.

"Look at this horse, even the Northland can't find a few horses... These are all seedlings of war horses!

"Look at this tooth, this mane...

Nan Shang was erect, and his eyes were shining.

"Is there anyone with the same color as this one? I want fifty ones in this body!!"

Ma Shang's hand trembled, "Can find it! Can find it! If you buy more, I can also reduce the price for you..."

"The price doesn't matter! I just want a good horse, the best one!"

For a moment, the city, which was originally slightly quiet, suddenly became noisy, and there were crowds of people everywhere, as if they suddenly came to life, and the soldiers were shocked.

After the first batch of nobles, merchants from the south came continuously. Not all these bigwigs who came to buy goods. Merchants who came to sell goods from the south began to appear. A large amount of goods and money rushed into Hai'an. The narrow and dilapidated city was directly more lively than the county town next door. The people all heard that there were merchants from the south here, and they came to watch it. Some were just curious, and some were buying things.

The previous wars caused shortage of goods in the areas south of the river, rising prices, and the daily lives of the people were very inconvenient, but merchants were able to solve these problems.

It was just Hai'an at first, and then it began to spread around, from Haizhou to Chuzhou, and continued to go up the coast, to the richest Guangzhou. Some merchants even began to appear in Hebei, to Yingzhou and other places, wanting to directly acquire horses and cavalry from here.

Because of Zu Ban's business strategy with Nantong, domestic commercial activities suddenly became frequent, and commercial taxes were no longer in a state of sluggishness, and huge increases occurred. These active merchants enriched the local market and showed signs of recovery in the dead Henan.

Several governors who had just taken office in Henan kept sending documents to inform the local government about everything.

Even the north had good news. The expensive herbs he planted in the local area finally welcomed the buyer. The Yingzhou government and the people made a lot of money and almost lost the title of the poorest state of the Han Dynasty, although the governor Yuan did not want to lose it.

Job City.

Wei Shou was sitting next to Liu Taozi at this moment, presenting the documents to tell the results of his negotiations with the Chen people.

Those in China who hate Wei Shou the most have to praise him at this moment, he did a great job in this matter.

In the negotiations of mutual markets, Wei Shou played the greatest role and correctly made all terms more beneficial to the Han Dynasty. For example, he got the best promise on currency, price and tax issues.

Liu Taozi looked at the densely packed trading documents in her hand and showed a complimentary look at Wei Shou for the first time.

This person who is full of money is dealing with money thoroughly and knows what is the key.

He praised, "Duke Wei did a good job this time and made contributions."

Wei Shou hurriedly lowered his head and replied, "I have no merits, all of which are the achievements of Your Majesty. The Han Dynasty is strong and Lord Chen is afraid, so I dare not refuse to follow my proposal...\n.\n.\n:

Listening to Lao Wei's words, Liu Taozi didn't interrupt him and let him finish flattering.

"I heard that the Chen people gave Wei Gong a lot of gifts, which were what Wei Gong had always wanted to get in the past. Where did he put it?"

Wei Shou immediately replied, "Your Majesty, those Chen people have given gifts. I have to accept them for the sake of great things. However, as envoys, I cannot really bring them back, otherwise I will not be able to explain clearly, so I stayed in Haizhou and gave them to General Wang to prepare for the navy. General Wang has always been honest and will not be used by other people."

Liu Taozi nodded and looked at the warrior beside him, "Go and get that thing."

After a while, a warrior saw a wooden box walking in quickly and handed it to Liu Taozi.

Liu Taozi handed the wooden box to Wei Shou again.

"This is what I gave to you."

Wei Shou gently opened the wooden box, and there was a large jade in the shape of a Pegasus. The jade was as big as two fists, and it was extremely dark all over. You could vaguely see some green mixed with it.

"Your Majesty! This...

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To be continued...