"So, even if we obtain it, it is still a tree without roots?" Zhang Song frowned and said, "In this case, we are somewhat controlled by Kushan."
"There is indeed a problem in this aspect, but now we do not have the strength to deal with the entire Kushan." Qin Mi shook his head, "What I mean is to accept the tribute from the Kushan first, and then we will talk about other things."
"That's all we can do. We are beyond our reach to Kushan now. Building a road from Chengdu to here is more important than anything else." Cheng Ji said with a slight headache, "I think we might have to stay here for a long time.
Stationed."
"Being stationed for a long time can just intimidate the Kushans, and we now need a lot of information about the Kushans. Whether it is humanistic, political, or military, our understanding of the Kushans is almost nothing." Zhang Song
Xu knocked on the table and said solemnly.
"Don't worry, after you go back, we will still be stationed here. Have you ever seen me make any omissions in doing things for my brother?" Zhang Su said with a smile, "I have discussed it with Ziyuan and prepared to reopen the Southern Silk Road.
The eldest lady of the Wu family can communicate on your behalf at that time."
Everyone heard this and laughed. Everyone knew that the eldest daughter of the Wu family had abandoned her family, and the fuss was quite big, because Wu Yuan was originally planning to marry Liu Zhang's third brother, but later Wu Yuan hid in Taishan or Yecheng.
It is said that he got the protection of a certain big shot, but Liu Mao died due to physical reasons at that time, and Wu Yi expelled his own sister from the house because he was worried about Liu Zhang's face. In short, this matter ends here.
It's settled.
After that, there was no news about Wu Yuan. It seemed that there was no news, and Yizhou was relatively closed. Many people in Yizhou did not participate in many major world events, and the news was relatively closed, so this matter was treated as a topic of discussion.
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The result is now revealed by Zhang Su. Although Zhang Song and others have long known that Wu Yi's thoughts are not very pure, they really did not expect Wu Yuan to communicate on his behalf. This is not a trivial matter. Opening up the Southern Silk Road is not a simple matter.
, just a few people passing by.
That needs to be truly transferred. This requires more than just one or two merchants. If it really wants to be completely connected and it can be used to make money, it is estimated that one-tenth of the businessmen in the world, or the aristocratic family behind it, will be needed to take this path.
Cooperate.
A simple sentence can mobilize so many resources. The current network of contacts the Wu family has is really no joke.
"I'm very curious, Ziyuan, how many people can your sister bring?" Wang Lei suddenly asked curiously, and everyone else looked at Wu Yi in the same way.
"My sister-in-law is probably more powerful than my incompetent brother. She is the vice-president of the Taishan Chamber of Commerce in charge of personnel management." Wu Yi said with a wry smile. He himself did not believe that his sister could sit at such a height.
Although Wu Yi took care of his sister and handed over half of his family's network to Wu Yuan after Liu Mao's death, and allowed Wu Yuan to use the name of the Wu family, Wu Yuan could become the vice president of the Taishan Chamber of Commerce, which was in charge of 70% of the world's commercial affairs.
One of the leaders really scared Wu Yi.
Of course, there are indeed many coincidences here. After all, the Wu family is one of the earlier members, and it is indeed financially strong. More importantly, when the alliance was formed in Yecheng, the map sent by the Wu family to Chen Xi
Very satisfied.
Over time, when the establishment was being expanded, the Wu family was selected. At that time, Wu Yuan was living with Liu Bei, and Mrs. Gan had to take care of Adou. In addition, she did not understand this, so she took that authority more as a talisman, and Zhang
At that time, I didn’t have much time to take care of things.
Therefore, more of the Zhang family's share is given to Zhen Mi, and the Gan family does not have any close and capable descendants. She comes from a small family, and even in her current position, she is a bit cautious, and if she does not manage it, she will be self-conscious.
The corpse was a plain meal, but it was a pity that she really couldn't find anyone.
Originally, Mrs. Gan wanted to hand it over to Zhen Mi, but Mrs. Zhang declined in order to avoid suspicion, leaving Mrs. Gan even more confused as to how to deal with it. Fortunately, Wu Yuan appeared at this time.
Wu Yuan herself came from a wealthy family, and her status was completely the same as Zhen Mi's. The two families were both famous families, and they were actually wealthy businessmen. Naturally, Wu Yuan, who was a member of Zhen Mi's society, was also one, and Wu Yuan had lived with Liu Bei for a long time.
It's not short, and it's rare to be able to talk about it with Mr. Gan.
As time went by, Gan knew Wu Yuan's identity, and handed over his part to Wu Yuan to take care of. From that time on, the three giants of the Chamber of Commerce became Mi Zhen, who represented Mi Zhu, and Zhen, who represented Zhang.
Mi, and Wu Yuan who represents the Gan family.
It just so happens that this era is in an era where people are ashamed of business. Chen Xi doesn't think there is any problem if it is left to these three guys. Only villains and women are difficult to raise. Mi Zhu is embarrassed to do some things, but there is nothing wrong with the three of them.
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Later, when the Chamber of Commerce expanded again, under Chen Xi's suggestion, three more vice-chairman positions were added. Zhang immediately resigned and gave full power to Zhen Mi. Wu Yuan got a position belonging to the Wu family. The two Wei families refused to bow their heads.
, Chen Xi gave a position, and the last position was naturally reserved for Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang.
In this way, Wu Yuan truly secured her position as vice-president at the beginning of the year and controlled a large amount of resources. However, she was completely tied to the ship. She probably won't be planning to return to the Wu family. Anyway, this time
The position was pretty good too.
Everyone looked at each other. Although they didn't think highly of businessmen, they really wouldn't underestimate the president of the Chamber of Commerce. With the resources held by those people, it wouldn't be a big problem to enrich a state in a short time. Those people were truly important.
Rich people.
"Don't look at me, I don't know how my sister did it, and I can guarantee that I didn't put my focus on that side." Seeing everyone's expressions of doubt, Wu Yi immediately explained.
"Are you going to tell me that your sister built a huge family business from almost nothing?" Zhang Song rolled his eyes and said, are you kidding me?
"That's not true. I did give my sister a lot of help, but everyone here has been working with me in the past two years, so you can probably see the situation in my family." Wu Yi said with a wry smile, "To be honest, now
My sister and I are probably the only ones in the Wu family who still have some kind of brother-sister relationship."
It was not a joke when the Wu family wanted to deal with Wu Yuan who had run away. Wu Yuan had promised to marry Liu Hao, but Wu Yuan ran away due to Wu Yi's indulgence.
Fortunately, Liu Yan did not pass the throne to Liu Hao when he died, and Liu Hao died soon after, otherwise Wu Yi might not be able to stabilize the Wu family as the elder.
Everyone present looked in disbelief, but in the end they had to nod. Although the Wu family had said a lot of nonsense in the past two years, Wu Yi had indeed never done anything that was disgraceful.
"So don't think too much. Although I am his brother, after all, public is public and private is private. I can guarantee that the terms offered by others will be better than those offered by others, but I'm afraid it may be a little different from what you have in mind.
"Wu Yi vaccinated these people without thinking.
All the civil servants nodded silently. They found that after accepting this reality, there was nothing surprising. It was not that there had never been a wealthy businesswoman in Bashu. Four hundred years ago, the widow Qing of Ba owned money equivalent to 800 million taels of silver.
There are more than five million taels of gold, and Wu Yuan is in trouble.
Places in Guanxi such as Sichuan, Sichuan, and Yongliang are more tolerant to women than other places. After all, these places have produced either wealthy businesswomen or talented women in the past few hundred years. Three of the four most talented women in ancient China (there are five)
It's in this area back home.
"Don't worry, Zi Yuanda. It's not your own stuff anyway, so you won't feel bad if you use it." Huang Quan waved his hand and said with a smile, "And there is such a way. When Zi Ting goes back, we will be able to use it in many places.
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"Well, indeed, Ji Xiu, after I leave, you will take my place, collect and organize all information about Kushan, and cooperate with Kushan merchants to obtain the most authentic Kushan records as possible." Qin Mi faced Yang Hong.
said.
"As for what happens after we go back, if we offer sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple, there will probably be some other things that happen." Although Qin Mi is not a highly intelligent person, he still has a normal political IQ. "If possible, I can do it in that place."
It’ll be nice when the time comes to an end.”
"It's a pity that since ancient times, there has never been a situation where peace was negotiated when there was still enough strength to fight." Zhang Song sighed and said, "If the Lord goes there, we will also go to witness it. I always feel that
Something big will happen then.”
"Stop being so cunning." Zhang Su said to Zhang Song angrily, "The situation of worshiping the Ancestral Temple in Chang'an is not getting better. The three families and the emperor meet at the same time. This is an opportunity for the emperor, and it is also a disaster that the emperor must overcome."
"As for all our previous estimates about Liu Xuande, we can see it clearly this time." Zhang Su glanced at the crowd and said. He knew very well that many of them had a good impression of Liu Bei, and even he himself could not
Free from vulgarity.
Everyone was silent when they heard the words, Zhang Su didn't pay too much attention to it, but Zhang Song coughed twice and said, "We will see if there is a chance then. If so, we can solve the problem of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect."
"Don't have too much hope." Zhang Su warned. Zhang Song just smiled. Success or failure was not too important to him. He was more interested in going to the theater. After all, even with his wisdom,
There is no way to determine what happened when the three families gathered in Chang'an to worship the ancestral temple.
"Ziqiao, please be optimistic about my lord. If there are three families gathering together in Chang'an to worship the Ancestral Temple, I'm afraid there will be an undercurrent." Zhang Su warned solemnly.
"Okay, okay, I'm very clear about all this. What we can think of, how could those three civil servants not think of it. When they go to worship the Ancestral Temple, the biggest problem is not the undercurrent formed by others, but
The internal conflict between the three parties." Zhang Song waved his hand and said.
"As long as you are mentally prepared." Zhang Su nodded and said. He trusted Zhang Song's ability. He was just worried that if Zhang Song didn't focus on this, everything would be in vain.
Then Zhang Su stopped talking and began to discuss with Li Hui, Cheng Ji, Lu Kai and others how to control the various satellite states in Indochina, while Gao Pei and others began to lead troops to clean up
"Report, General, there is an envoy from Guishang." A few days later at noon, when a group of people were handling official business in twos and threes, Gao Pei came over with an envoy.
"It seems that Kushan's speed is faster than we thought." Zhang Song said with a smile, "Invite the other party to come in."
The messenger turned and left after hearing the words, while a group of civil and military officials began to quickly arrange their positions, and then sat in a suitable position. After they adjusted their posture, the Kushan envoy was finally led into the Han army's camp.
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This time is very different from the Kushan envoys Li Xin saw before. At least this time, the clothes worn by the Kushan envoys are Han Chinese clothes, and the etiquette they use are also orthodox Han Dynasty.
Although some of them are not very skilled in etiquette, it can be seen that the other party has really worked hard in this aspect.
"Dear General Yan, our commander-in-chief, General Brahe, would like to extend his high respect to you and ask the general to accept the bet originally agreed upon." After the salute, the Kushan envoy took a volume of the book from his deputy envoy.
The map made of sheepskin was presented to Yan Yan with both hands.
Yan Yan took the scroll and opened it with both hands. He glanced at it and knew that the map represented half of the land of the Baicheng Dynasty. This was also the so-called map presentation. He immediately nodded to the Kuishang envoy with satisfaction.
Although they did not intend to occupy it, Kushan's approach made them very satisfied.
"We have received Kuishang's sincerity. We plan to reopen the Southern Silk Road and build a city here. I wonder if Kushan is willing to re-establish diplomatic relations with us." Yan Yan rolled up the map, put it aside, and looked at the other party.
said.
"We are willing to re-establish relations with the Han Dynasty, and are willing to communicate with the Han Dynasty again to jointly maintain the stability of the western region from Wenjia to Baisheng." The Kushan envoy nodded and said to everyone with his mind.
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"In this way, Guishuang and the Han Dynasty will be like brothers." Yan Yan said matter-of-factly.
The Kushan envoys came to negotiate peace. They had to give Yan Yan instructions on what he might say and the corresponding answers. Zhang Su and others had already taught Yan Yan early in the morning, and even reminded him of what to say and what not to say. As for the details,
Naturally, the civil servants will solve the problem themselves.
As for the framework of the credential peace talks, it was naturally presented to Liu Zhang as a trophy of war and presented as tribute to the emperor.
After that, the two sides submitted the drafted regulations to each other, which were all loose frameworks. The remaining complicated parts still needed to be discussed after the civil servants of both sides met. After receiving the documents, the matter of the Kushan envoy's visit was basically settled.
It was over, but the other party did not leave.
"Generals, the commander-in-chief of our army, Brahe, plans to entertain you at a banquet in the Ganges River. I wonder if you can show your respect." Relying on his understanding, the Kushan envoy translated the words with humility.
