Chapter 414 Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times
Hei Te Changzhi glanced at Sha Zha Xiangru and said: "Some Baekje businessmen came and said that they live very well in Dahang City, although they need to pay a heavy tax.
However, after paying the taxes, they can live in peace in Dahang City, and no one will rob their property or take advantage of their wives and daughters."
Pei Xingjian continued to nibble on the naan cake in his hand and said with a smile: "We are now in Changyuan City, which is on the seaside. Now is the time when the northeast wind is strong. If we take a boat with good wind and smooth water, we can reach Dahang City in one day and night. Do you want to
Go and have a look?
I think, after you have seen Dahang City and met Yunchu, you will realize what a neat man I am, Pei."
"Will you let us leave?" Heiqia Changzhi was a little surprised.
Pei Xingjian shook his head and said, "You two are too loyal to run away alone without caring about your wife, children, and children.
You can go to Dahang City, I will wait for you in Goguryeo."
"Are you sure you want to let us go?" Sha Zha Xiangru, who had always been a man of few words, confirmed again.
"I will equip you with ships, followers, and goods. You can pretend to be a merchant and go to Daxing City to see what it is really like there."
After speaking, Pei Xingjian drank the sweet tea in the cup and stood up to leave.
Hei Te Changzhi and Sha Zha Xiangru are two very ordinary Baekje people. They are two ordinary Baekje officials who were passed down from the Tang Dynasty and were well trained in poetry, books and etiquette.
Since King Baekje surrendered, the two local governors and generals also surrendered in order to protect the safety of the people.
They were two people who felt that it was more important to give an explanation to the people than to give an explanation to the King of Baekje.
Before sending the two people aboard, Pei Xingjian wrote a special letter to Yun Chu to prove their identities so that they would not be killed by Yun Chu.
Seeing these two people sailing away, Wang Fangyi said worriedly: "Are you going to let them go?"
Pei Xingjian said: "The two of them now hate Gui Shi Fuxin more than they hate us. In addition, they were captured alive by us. Now the Baekje people have begun to distrust them. The only way to go to the Tang Dynasty is feasible."
Now, I have given them great trust, believe me, these two people will definitely come back after seeing what Yunchu did in Dahang City."
Wang Fangyi sighed and said: "Now I just hope that Yun Chu will not make Daxing City too disgusting."
Pei Xingjian chuckled and said: "Yunchu is good at governing local areas, so he is more familiar with how to exploit people than we are. Therefore, today's Dahang City must be two extremes from his beloved Wannian County."
It is completely different from what Pei Xingjian and Wang Fangyi thought.
From the very beginning, Yunchu never thought of ruling Daxing City in a manner that would exhaust the entire lake.
Only when Dahang City develops well and becomes a source of wealth for the imperial court will the imperial court pay attention to Liaodong and not think that Silla has occupied the entire peninsula and feel that it is not worth fighting for those lands anymore.
There would not be a rebellion in Yingzhou, and Yingzhou would become a land that is either desirable or not.
From now on, Yun Chu has been selecting suitable businessmen to settle in Dahang City. He has no plans to build Dahang City into a city with comprehensive industries. If the industrial categories are complete, the end result will be to create another Goguryeo or Bohai Kingdom.
come out.
Therefore, Dahang City needs to become a city that focuses on the service industry, such as iron smelting, armor making, and horse breeding. These industries must be strictly controlled by the government, and the scale must not become larger, just enough for their own use.
Shipping, fur, medicinal materials, gambling, brothels, and hotels are the industries that Dahang City should really develop vigorously.
What Yunchu needed was a city with extremely deformed development, and through a deformed industry like Dahang City, it would be firmly tied to the domestic market of Datang.
He believes that just the ginseng and antler trade can make Dahang City the most dazzling pearl in the land of Liaodong.
The goods brought by Hei Te Chang Zhi and Sha Zha Xiangru were ginseng antler. Originally, Pei Xingjian wanted to give these two men some tattered leather armor and weapons seized from the Goguryeo army, so that they could contact Yun Chu more easily.
Because these things are in high demand in both Silla and Baekje.
Later, I felt that I couldn't create a good opportunity for these two people. Yun Chu, who was as cunning as a fox, might want to take advantage of the opportunity that these two people could get weapons and treat them with courtesy.
It just so happened that Wang Fangyi robbed a ginseng and antler store, so he packed up all the things and asked Hei Te and Chang Zhi to bring them to Dahang City.
Based on Pei Xingjian and Wang Fangyi's understanding of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of precious medicinal materials would basically be looted by the soldiers at the first time. Then one can imagine what happened to Hei Chi Changzhi and the two.
Only by exposing the ugliest side of Yun Chu to Hei Te Changzhi can these two people accept their fate.
In fact, ginseng and antler are two very new and precious medicinal materials, and their origins have a lot to do with Yunchu.
It was Yunchu who discovered that the Pingzheng Medicine Store he had set up in Jinchangfang had stopped making money after giving away too many medicinal materials to ordinary people.
Naturally this is not possible.
So, Yun Chu told the old immortal about the effects of the ginseng and deer antler he had found. After the experiment, the old immortal found that the effect was very good, so he praised it casually. Then, Yun Chu told the old immortal about the two medicinal materials.
The price of drugs with similar efficacy has increased a hundred times.
Anyway, ordinary people will not touch such expensive medicinal materials if they have nothing to do. Even if necessary, there are a large number of other cheap medicinal materials that can be substituted.
Because it was medicinal materials, the soldiers guarding the Haibing Pier naturally did not send Hei Zhichang and his party to the so-called Black Pier, but sent them ashore from the White Pier in a serious manner.
There were many merchants from various countries disembarking from the White Pier, although Hei Teji Changzhi frowned when he saw the bouncing Japanese merchants.
Baekje is closest to Japan, and he doesn't like this group of people who bow down when facing powerful tribes and are arrogant and powerless when facing weak tribes.
The process of taking the goods ashore on a horse-drawn sledge was nothing to say. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty neither showed any enthusiasm nor showed any special disgust. Black Teeth Changzhi could even learn from these soldiers.
, seeing what he looked like in the past when he was a general of Baekje.
If I had to give a metaphor, it would be a business-like face.
The government soldiers checked the goods he brought, but they were just checking. There was no robbing or stealing as Hei Te Changzhi thought.
The soldiers seemed to have long been accustomed to Baekje merchants like them, so they had nothing to say to them on the way. After sending them to the port, they drove their sledges back.
Sha Zha Xiangru said: "I can't see anything yet."
Hei Te Chang said: "I hope everything comes from Pei Xingjian's jealousy.
However, this is just the beginning, there is still a lot to see and a lot to experience.”
The two of them carried the goods ashore with hand-carried bags and saw many people queuing up behind a fence.
Heiji Changzhi asked a Baekje merchant in front of him and found out that the first thing merchants had to do when they came ashore was to estimate the value of the goods, and then pay taxes according to the value of the goods. From the pained face of the Baekje merchant,
Hei Te Changzhi knew that this should be the place where the Tang people plundered and exploited merchants.
After experiencing the cruel environment in Baekje, Heiji Changzhi even believed that if he only lost part of his money, it would be far better than staying in Baekje and accepting the burning, killing and looting of the Tang people.
When Heiji Changzhi came to the front, when he announced that he was from Baekje, the soldiers guarding the fence impatiently asked him to go to the Baekje passage to handle the matter of leaving the harbor.
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This was something that Heijia Changzhi did not expect, coming to a guy with a strong aura of a Baekje merchant.
At this moment, Hei Te Changzhi felt like an animal, being fattened and weighed by the guy in front of him, as well as the price.
"It would be a shame for a strong man like you not to become a soldier."
The guy in front of him, whose identity had changed from a Baekje merchant to a Tang Dynasty official, opened his mouth, and Hei Te Changzhi didn't know how to answer.
Unexpectedly, they didn't seem to expect him to answer. While he started to let his subordinates check the goods brought by Heiji Changzhi and others, he said to himself: "Everyone has come here, what is left in Baekje?
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Sha Zha Xiangru couldn't help but retorted: "Didn't you come here too? How can you blame others if you are not upright yourself?"
The clerk laughed, pointed at Sha Zha Xiangru and said, "It's not easy to come to Dahang City alive, so let's not laugh at each other."
Heiji Changzhi said: "Can the Baekje people survive here?"
The clerk pointed to his nose and said, "Am I a dead person?"
Hei Te Changzhi smiled and said: "No."
"I was originally a merchant in Baekje. After I lost my money, I came to Dahang City. I thought I would starve to death. Unexpectedly, Datang gave me a job and a mouthful of food. A person like me who has no money has to live in Dahang City.
If you can live in the city, a luxurious person like you can naturally live too.
You just have to pay half of the goods as city tax."
Black Teeth Changzhi didn't understand the meaning of what the little official said for a while. He wanted to ask again but was urged by the Baekje people behind him, so he had to watch the little official take away half of his goods.
He could see clearly that exactly half of the goods were taken away, neither more nor less.
It seems that Dahang City is a place with rules.
In troubled times, as long as there are rules, no matter how unreasonable the rules are, people can survive.
When Hei Te Changzhi left the port with longing and actually entered Daxing City, he suddenly discovered that the soldiers guarding the port did not chase them, nor did they look at them twice.
Standing on the streets of Dahang City, looking at the busy pedestrians and the shops doing business, Hei Te Changzhi said to Sha Zha Xiangru: "If I am not blind, then Pei Xingjian is talking nonsense.