Chapter 30 Collusion (Part 2)
"Hehe, hehe" Zhang Zhao knew that he had blown his skin, but he didn't blush at all. He laughed dryly with everyone, thought for a while, and continued, "Of course, my lord's energy is limited, and some places that cannot be taken care of are inevitably taken by sluts. But overall, my lord's rule is much stronger than other parts of the Great Yuan Dynasty. If you don't believe it, the Grand Chief Manager sent someone to the Liaodong area to inquire and see if Zhang is talking nonsense."
"Liaodong,." Zhu Chongjiu pondered for a moment, then waved his hand with a smile, "There is no need, there is too far over there, and Zhu can't get enough."
As soon as the word "Liaodong" was released, the other party's intention was already very obvious. It was nothing more than a prince in the north of the Yuan Dynasty who had a strange intention to Tuohuan Timur and wanted to lead the Huai'an army as a helper. Until he showed enough sincerity and strength, Zhu Chongjiu would not send his brothers to take that risk.
"It's not far, it's not far at all." Zhang Zhao didn't expect Zhu Chongjiu to refuse so simply, so he hurriedly added loudly, "As long as the chief executive walks north, he can take Dengzhou down as well. Then your people can take a sea boat from Penglai to the Lion's mouth. At most, it's about four days to get ashore, and then enter the territory of my lord. After arriving there, no one dares to touch them at all."
"Didn't Manager Zhang just say that there are so many dangers at sea. At most, ten ships can only come back half of them?" Chen Ji immediately seized the loophole in the other party's words and asked with a frown.
"This" Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment, and his face instantly turned into purple eggplant color, but soon, he took a breath and explained with a smile: "Mr. Chen doesn't know that the risks from Dengzhou to Shizikou are completely different from those from Jiaozhou to Foreign Affairs. From Dengzhou to Shizikou, the sea surface is actually surrounded by Liaodong Road and Shandong Road. The wind and waves are much smaller than those from foreign countries. The villain takes a boat to travel more than a dozen times a year and is very familiar with this route, so he dares to boast that he will keep the brothers sent by the Huai'an Army safe from each other."
"This is what you said seriously." Chen Ji frowned and was skeptical.
Like most scholars in this era, his knowledge was limited to the inland China, and he knew very little about the situation at sea, so he could not judge whether Zhang Zhao was telling the truth. He could only pretend to behave so as not to lose a disadvantage in the negotiations.
"Really, it's totally true. If you don't believe it, you can go downstairs and ask others for questions later. If the grass-roots people are false, you are willing to receive any punishment." Zhang Zhao quietly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled on his face.
The less Zhu Tuhu’s people know about the sea situation, the more likely he will gain the upper hand in the subsequent negotiations. If he has been like before, no matter what he says, no matter what he says, then this trip will be in vain. Even if he can talk about something, it will not be the result he wants.
Unexpectedly, before he could breathe well, he saw Zhu Chongjiu tapping the table with his fingers and pondered, "Well, if you don't say it, I'll forget that this is the Bohai Sea, the calmest water surface, but well, Chen Zongjun, wrote this situation on paper, and after returning, he told the managers of the business that they formed their own fleet to run this route, and exchanged the Bingcui from our Huaiyang Mansion for the Korean Ginseng and war horses from Liaodong. One round and one round, there should be a lot of money."
"Yes." Chen Ji immediately stood up and answered the order loudly.
Looking at Zhang Zhao, the manager of the business bank, who had just become a little normal, in a blink of an eye, he twisted into a bitter gourd. According to his original expectation, as long as he exposed the meaning of joining forces, Zhu butcher should be happy. After all, at present, the army is now in a hurry to help the Huai'an army. Unexpectedly, Zhu's surname is not taking the initiative according to common sense. He said that he was doing business, but he just focused on doing business, putting the strong support he delivered to his door, but he stuck his head into the money eye, and he really wanted to make people worry.
Just as he was gritting his teeth with hatred, he heard Zhu Chongjiu ask with a smile, "I sent a caravan to do business here, your lord will not allow it, of course, how should you pump water after you get there, follow your rules, and Zhu doesn't interfere."
Zhang Zhao's heart twitched again, and he pretended to be a smile in response, "No, absolutely not. My lord, it's too late to be happy. How could he not allow people from Huaiyang Business to go there to do business?"
After saying that, while the matter was not yet crucified, he couldn't wait to add, "If the chief executive had mercy and could send some brothers who knew how to train troops, my lord would definitely welcome him. It's not to be hiding the flag of uprising, but the soldiers in his hands were unfamiliar, fearing, fearing."
As soon as he got to the point, he was forced to show weakness to the Huai'an army again. He was so depressed that his last few words were simply weak and flirted.
When Zhu Chongjiu heard this, he didn't mind. He smiled and interrupted in a low voice, "How is it possible to send some people to help your lord train soldiers? If your lord regrets in the future, isn't it equivalent to Zhu personally sending his brothers into the tiger's mouth? After all, he is also a Mongolian. After all, he is also a fellow tribe of Timur."
"No, no, absolutely no, Caomin, Caomin can take her body as a qualifier like Chen Wansan." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Zhao jumped up and raised his hand to curse, "If there really is one day, Caomin would rather be cut into pieces by the chief executive. Caomin's lord and Caomin himself have an irreconcilable hatred with the foolish monarch, and he would never do such ungrateful things."
"You are just a shopkeeper of a business company, how can you be someone else's boss?" Chen Ji couldn't believe his words at all. He asked with a sneer before Zhu Chongjiu made a decision.
"The grass-roots people are not actually named Zhang." Zhang Zhao, the manager of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, was forced to have no choice. He gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand to pull open the pair of his robe.
A bronze-colored skin immediately appeared in front of everyone. Between the two solid chest muscles, a silver-white wolf head was undulating and waving, with very exquisite craftsmanship. As he breathed, he seemed to be able to jump off the ground at any time.
"Rareless." Yu Tonghai was anxious and pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife to scold him.
Zhang Zhao, the shopkeeper of Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, changed his previous appearance and knelt down again, bowing deeply at Zhu Chongjiu, "Liu Zhao, the 19th generation grandson of the Emperor Daming of the Great Liao Dynasty, met with the Grand Governor of Huaiyang, and wished the Grand General to win every battle and had already led his troops north to restore the old land of the Song Dynasty."
"Yeah." Zhu Chongjiu was finally surprised this time, and quickly stood up from the chair and reached out to support him, "You are a Khitan. Why don't you have a surname Yelu, but your surname is Liu."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." A series of coughs came from behind him. Zhang Yi, the army officer, lowered his head and wiped the tea on his chest hard. Feng Guoyong and Chen Ji performed slightly better than him, but they were also embarrassed, and lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him.
"You reported to the great general manager, the Yelu family was the descendant of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, in addition to the surname Yelu, they also took Liu as their surname." Yelu Zhao had asked others for help at this moment, but he did not dare to think that Zhu Chongjiu was ignorant. He thought about it and told him the truth, (Note 2)
"This" Zhu Chongjiu was stunned again, laughing and crying.
In his previous life, he read novels, and Yelu Chucai, Yelu Qi, and Yelu Hongji were all outstanding, so he subconsciously thought that the Daliao royal family was proud of the surname Yelu. Who would have expected that people would actually recognize their ancestors and become relatives with Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang.
Yelu Zhao didn't know that Zhu Chongjiu's thoughts had gone to his previous life. Seeing that his face was strange, he kowtowed again and added indignantly, "My family of the Great Liao Dynasty is a bloody family of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. During the rebellion, Dong Zhuo avoided disasters and slept with firewood and tasted gall for nearly a thousand years before he regained his ancestors' heroic spirit. However, the world was unfair. Emperor Tianzuo died in vain as the Jurchen herd slave. Although the descendants of the clan tried to cheer up repeatedly, unfortunately they were bullied by foreign races and were repeatedly displaced to Liaodong. After suffering hardships, they were able to build their homeland again. Unfortunately, the Mongolians broke their promises and turned against their will and took over our country, which made my Yelu family lineage."
"Okay, okay, I understand. You are the descendant of Yelu Dashi and once established the Western Liao Kingdom." Zhu Chongjiu was most impatient to hear people talking about family history, waved his hand and interrupted in a low voice, (Note 3)
Just like he is said to be the descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, no one knows how true it is. In the 21st century, except for no one who randomly recognized Qin Hui as his ancestor, almost all the emperors and sages in history had countless different versions of the genealogy, so in his eyes, whether the genealogy is the same? Anyway, there are at least eight out of the ten, which is purely far-fetched.
"It's not Yelu Dashi. Although Dezong was a genius, he came from Taizu's side branches." Unexpectedly, Yelu Zhao became more serious than Zhen'er, shook his head, and continued to make a loud statement, "The fourth generation ancestor of Caomin was named Liu Ge, and was the great-grandson of Emperor Tianzuo. He raised an army in the first year of Chongqing in the pseudo-Jin Jin and built the Liao Kingdom again" (Note 4)
This history seriously exceeded Zhu Chongjiu's knowledge range. He heard his eyes straight and confused. Seeing this, Chen Ji, the army, had to come forward and explain in a low voice, "He was talking about the Later Liao King Yelu Liuge who once led Mongolia as a foreign aid to restore the Liao Kingdom, and accepted the title of Liao King of Temujin Khan. He was promised to be in the Liaodong for generations. After the Dayuan stole the Central Plains, Kublai Khan's vassal, and the descendants of the Liao Kingdom were all changed to officials, and the Liao Kingdom was destroyed."
When Yelu Zhao heard this, his eyes immediately turned blood red, gritted his teeth and said loudly, "Although my Yelu family has lost the country, he has never lost his ancestors' will. He endured humiliation and was waiting for the changes of heaven. Now his children are everywhere in Liaodong and Liaonan, and they all hold important positions. If General Zhu is willing to help with righteousness, he will definitely summon Khitan men and burn the entire outer world. At that time, General Zhu is in the south and General Zhu is in the north, so why worry about not overthrowing the tyranny of the Mongol Yuan and restoring the Han family's mountains."
Note 1: Shizikou, which is now Lushun. According to historical records, the navy of the Ming Dynasty set out from Denglai and arrived at Shizikou for three days and three nights, and then changed Shizikou to Lushun.
Note 2: The Yelu family took Liu as their surname. In order to advance to the Central Plains in the future, Yelu Abaoji specially declared to the public that he was descended from Emperor Gaozu of Han, with his surname Liu and his name was Yi.
Note 3: Yelu Dashi, the Khitan royal family, passed the top scorer. After the fall of Liao, he led his clan members to the west and established the Western Liao in Central Asia. More than 80 years later, the Western Liao was destroyed by the Mongolians.
Note 4: Yelu Liuge, a Khitan, called himself a Khitan royal family. In 1212, he launched an army to fight against the Jin army, defeated the Jin army, and established the Eastern Liao Kingdom. Later, he joined forces with Mongolia. His descendants were highly valued by Ogedei Khan. As the Torrei Khan, Kublai Khan seized the throne of Khan, he attacked the supporter of the Ogedei Khan, and the Eastern Liao Dynasty was then reduced to the vassal.
Chapter completed!