After watching Zheng Bin leave, Cui Da returned to his seat. The shopkeeper who saw Zheng Bin leave returned to the back room, looked at Cui Da and said, "Has the big shopkeeper ever told Eunuch Zheng about our difficulties?"
Cui Da shook his head and said: "I didn't say it. It's useless to say it. Instead, they have given us a new task, asking us to find out the ins and outs of the two palace ladies!"
The shopkeeper slammed his fist on the table and said angrily: "Why didn't Eunuch Zheng and the others ignore the fact that our business in Hedong was destroyed by Li Dongchu, Jiang Zhelangtan and other tough guys?
We pay so much money to the palace every year, can't we get their mercy? The queen is dealing with us, the nobles are dealing with us, Wang Anshi is dealing with us, and now even Yun Shuai has turned against us. If this continues, this business will
There is nothing we can do."
Cui Da sneered and said: "I remember you didn't see it that way back then. When we voted by a show of hands, it was nine to one. You just threw me, a big shopkeeper with two voting rights, into the ditch.
It is your choice whether you are good or bad. Now that you are on the ship, you will not be able to get off. Instead of complaining now, it is better to cheer up and do things for His Highness. Only in this way can we have a predictable future. Otherwise, once
Being abandoned by His Highness the Crown Prince, hey, it will be a problem for us to return to Shu naked."
The shopkeeper raised his head and whispered bitterly: "Why isn't the emperor dead yet?"
Cui Da smiled and said: "Believe me, if the emperor were to control Bintian now, our end would be even worse.
Prepare some gifts and I will go to the Yun family."
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment and said: "Shuai Yun is targeting us..."
Cui Da smiled and said: "You always see the wrong person. I can guarantee that Yun Shuai didn't know anything about Li Dongchu and the others, so this matter was done by Li Dongchu and the others in private and had nothing to do with Yun Shuai.
When we were at Douchuan Pass, it was Yun Shuai who threw all his property to us, not us who took it away. The Yun family knew this very well, at least Yun Yue knew it clearly.
If we want to save our business in Hedong, the Yun family must speak out."
"Yun Zheng's whole family is in the prison, why are those generals still loyal to him?"
Cui Da saw that the shopkeeper had exposed the most shameful and unscrupulous behavior of businessmen. He felt that there was no need to explain to the shopkeeper what it means that this prison is not another prison, and he was not willing to explain to him the differences between soldiers.
A bond of life and death.
In just one year, Shuzhong Commercial Bank encountered an unprecedented cold current in the Song Dynasty. In Tokyo, Hebei, Hedong, Jingzhao, Hejian, Huainan, and Jiangnan, these places encountered unprecedented resistance from the nobles of the Song Dynasty.
Those people's willingness to lose money and squeeze out Shuzhong Trading Company is very obvious. This makes Shuzhong Trading Company, which is determined to follow the rules of merchants, unable to resist. Now it has reached the point of no retreat.
Losing money is not important to Cui Da. The more you lose money now, the higher your future profits will be. This is certain. So when he saw the deficit figures on the books, Cui Da not only was not angry, but was actually a little happy.
The more severely you lose money, the deeper the affection the royal family owes you. If you can make this affection become the link between Shuzhong Commercial Bank and the royal family into a symbiotic relationship, then no matter how much money you lose, it will be worth it.
Cui Da has never doubted that Zhao Xu will definitely become the emperor. Although the queen is very powerful now, the potential power of the prince is even greater.
Before the prince is underage, the queen may be in charge of the government for a few years, but once the prince reaches adulthood, the queen cannot be the prince's boss anyway.
When Empress Dowager Li was in power, such a strong Empress Dowager presided over the national destiny of the Song Dynasty for eleven years. During these eleven years, even if she didn't like Zhao Zhen, she cared about Zhao Zhen very much, fearing that something would happen to him.
If something happened to Zhao Zhen, it would be absolutely impossible for Queen Mother Li to survive the next day.
This sentence of sharing the world with scholar-bureaucrats destined Liu E and Queen Mother Liu to have no chance of becoming a martial artist! Empress Cao, who was much weaker than Liu E, was even less likely to do so.
Therefore, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with hugging Zhao Xu's thigh.
Cui Da's carriage was blocked there when it crossed the Washizi Bridge. There were many carriages and horses on Zhuque Street in front of it. Groups of Xixia people wearing furs were passing by on Zhuque Street. Although it was summer, these
The Xixia people were still wrapped up tightly, and a strong fishy smell came over them, making it almost impossible to breathe.
The people in Tokyo were full of disdain, covering their mouths and noses and pointing at these barbarians. In the past, they did not dare to do this because who knew whether those barbarians would beat themselves. Ever since Yun Zheng defeated them on the edge of the Yellow River,
After getting rid of the hidden trap, the people in Tokyo became a little bolder. I heard that the real wax figure of Xixia warrior Zhang Zhi is still displayed in the Wucheng Palace of the Song Dynasty, so they are very interested in these fishy smells.
The serious barbarians looked down upon them from the bottom of their hearts.
Cui Da frowned and listened to the people outside whispering Xixia jokes. He couldn't laugh at all.
In recent years, the Xixia people are working hard to promote de-Sinicization. They abandoned their favorite silk in the past and put on leather robes. They abandoned the military system of the Song Dynasty and began to break up the military of the country into the tribal model and began to mix
Rise up and fight, so that the people of each tribe will regard the people of other tribes as their own brothers.
Tribal integration is a difficult and painful process, but the blood on the battlefield is the glue that bridges the gaps between tribes. After several battles, no matter how stubborn a person is, they will have to leave their backs to other guards.
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Cui Da had a conversation with Su Shi and knew that Su Shi had a saying of being barbaric in body and civilized in spirit. He believed that such a proposal was very reasonable, but there was no possibility of it being implemented on a large scale.
After seeing these Xixia warriors who were extremely barbaric and simple today, Cui Da felt that it might be difficult to civilize a person, a tribe, or a country, but it was very easy to make them barbaric.
Regarding the Xixia people, Cui Da knew them much more deeply than the average Song Dynasty people. Not only did he know that the Xixia people were invincible in the river, he also knew that the Xixia people had already wiped out the Huangtou Huihe last year.
, and forcibly moved the yellow-headed Uighur population back to Yumen Pass. They planned to use these Uighur people to replace the population lost in the war with the Song Dynasty in previous years.
Ever since the defeat of Wu Zangying Pang, under his strict restraint, the unruly army of capturing soldiers never entered the territory of the Song Dynasty and robbed anyone again.
As a result, there were no slaves to supplement the population, so Wu Zangpang naturally targeted the savages outside the pass.
They once extended their power to the middle of the river, and they were almost closely connected with the Liao Kingdom's Shangjing Road, and then they gave up.
Cui Da looked carefully and found that there were indeed many outsiders with high eyebrows, deep eye sockets and beards among the Xixia warriors. This showed that the strength of the Xixia people had made great progress in these years, which was not a big deal for the Song Dynasty.
Not a good thing.
There are many reasons why Yunzheng was imprisoned in the heavenly prison. The one that Cui Da believes in the most is that Yunzheng secretly mobilized his own warriors to go to the capital.
I just took a quick look and found that there were five hundred Xixia warriors walking in front of me. Tokyo City can accommodate five hundred fully armed Xixia people entering the city, but it does not allow farmers from Yunzheng's family to enter the city.
This is simply the biggest joke.
When Cui Da entered the door of Yun's house, he shouted for a drink. Yun Yue came out to greet him. The two of them sat in the flower hall and before they started talking, Cui Da had already drank a jar of wine.
"I am the one who should be feeling depressed now. Why do you seem more depressed than me?" Yun Yue grabbed a broad bean and threw it into his mouth and asked with a smile.
Cui Da said angrily: "You are so depressed. I heard that it is such a great honor for your eldest brother to go to the Heavenly Prison. Those ghost shadows you left in Dengzhou are now killing people on the sea, and the water is dyed red with blood."
, Now the communication between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, Japan, and Liaodong has been cut off. Anyone who wants to take a bite of ginseng will have to look at your face. Why are you depressed?"
Yun Yue smiled and said: "It's not as exaggerated as you said. It's just that no one wants to go to the sea to earn those hard money. If you are willing to go to the sea, you will still make money."
Cui Da looked at Yun Er and said, "You don't need to pay, so you just take the goods out to sea?"
Yun Yue frowned and said, "Without ballast cargo like silver, I'm afraid that the storm overseas will be too strong and the ship will capsize."
Cui Da smiled and said: "You mean to use my money to buy your cabin?"
Yun Yue smiled and nodded: "In this case, everyone's boat will be very stable."
"Has the Yun family's pirate business started?"
"Not yet, but we have started selling Sea Dragon flags. You Shuzhong Trading Company is very wealthy, so why don't you buy hundreds of them and hang them on your ship? I guarantee that your ship will not see a single pirate at sea. As long as you can defeat the waves, you will make money.
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"Okay, let me buy a hundred noodles first. How much silver is it? I won't talk about copper coins. You brothers don't seem to like taking copper coins."
Yun Yue smiled, lifted up his clothes and pointed at the corner of his clothes: "When I was young, my elder brother was afraid that I would lose it, so he sewed some money into my clothes. As a result, when I grew up, this problem disappeared, and the corners of my clothes stopped.
It would be impossible to wear this garment without the silver embroidery sewn on it.
It’s just that gold leaves have been sewn on now, and it’s a bit unseemly to sew ten taels of silver into the clothes.”
Cui Da sighed and said: "How many gold leaves do you plan to collect for one flag?"
Yun Yue smiled and said: "The Yun family is more reasonable. If you want to sail safely on the sea, the Yun family only wants 10% of the value of the goods!"
"Why don't you go and grab it?"
"I'm just robbing! You forgot, my house is going to become a pirate's house."
"Write a letter to Lang Tan and the others and make it clear that I really don't want to destroy your family's property in Shu. When I met him, he spat hard and said that it was already cheap to kill me without a single blow.