Chapter 642 A Lot of Silver

As soon as they met, Guo Chong complimented, "My lord, I haven't seen you for a long time. I look like you are becoming more and more powerful."

"Really?" King Jin chuckled. He had been competing for territory with the natives recently, and he had indeed become much more mature.

"Your Majesty, our governor is worried that you are not used to living in Fusang. So we came to see you this time and specially brought you some Dali specialties."

King Jin nodded, "You are serious."

Later, after being informed by Bai Xingzhi, he learned that the specialty the other party mentioned was actually several shiploads of supplies, and almost everything was in urgent need of them.

Next, Guo Chong did not mention the purpose of their trip, but as if chatting, he told what happened in Pingzhou and Dali during this period.

Only then did King Jin and Bai Xingzhi learn that so many things had happened after they left Dali and came to Fusang. Especially for the sake of Zhang Zhongxian, Lu Songli went to Qingzhou to hire someone, and even ran into Xie Zhan. The two sides fought hand to hand, and in the end Lu Songli was slightly better and shot down the injured Xie Zhan into the sea.

Guo Chong also mentioned Lu Songli and Xie Zhan sitting down to discuss Taoism.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he mentioned that Lu Songli once said that the thirteen states of the Central Plains could support 40 million people.

Bai Xingzhi was stunned when he heard this number, and King Jin found it hard to believe it.

Then they talked about other things, and then King Jin arranged for someone to take them to rest.

After Qin Sheng, Guo Chong and the others had rested and had their meals, they went out for a walk. When they came back, if King Jin was free, they would go drink tea and chat with him.

It was like this for two or three days in a row.

King Jin asked Bai Xingzhi, "What are they here for?" King Jin didn't believe that the other party just came to visit him.

This Bai Xingzhi knew, "Your Majesty, they want to trade silver with us."

"Do you think we should trade?" King Jin asked.

Bai Xingzhi nodded, "I think it can be traded. Now that the prince owns four silver mines, there is no shortage of silver."

They are in Fusang now. To put it bluntly, it is difficult to spend the money they have.

King Jin hesitated because it would be bad for Dali. After all, if Pingzhou had money, it would be able to recruit troops, which would be a great disadvantage to Dali.

Bai Xingzhi advised him, "My lord, I don't blame you for this. It's all Song Mo's unrighteousness."

"To say the least, if you don't agree to the deal, you won't be able to hinder Pingzhou or anything else."

The news about the silver mine was revealed to them by Pingzhou.

Lu Songli can show them the way to Fusang. She may not have something similar to Fusang in her hands. At worst, she may send troops to attack.

The prince's refusal may be just a trouble for Pingzhou.

Bai Xingzhi persuaded the King of Jin in this way mainly because Guo Chong had previously reported Lu Songli's words, which had a great impact on him. The thirteen states in the Central Plains can actually support 40 million people. Now the people in Pingzhou and Dali combined are less than 20 million. There is really a big difference between 20 million and 40 million.

Bai Xingzhi saw clearly that Dali was exhausted. He persuaded the King of Jin in this way because he did not want the common people to suffer heavy losses due to the protracted war, so he regarded it as a virtue for the Song family.

Under Bai Xingzhi's persuasion, King Jin recognized the facts again.

"Your Majesty, don't talk about any deals." Bai Xingzhi grabbed King Jin and said, "Pingzhou is a kind person. Let's handle things more beautifully. Pingzhou will not treat you badly."

Didn’t Guo Chong say that before? There are many good things in Shan State, Shendu, Annan and other places. When Pingzhou unified the world and the people recuperated for a few years, they would develop in these places.

The current King of Jin owns several silver mines, and this silver should not be used for food or clothing.

It's better to take some out, make friends with Pingzhou, and when the time comes, when Pingzhou expands, just take them to play with you.

King Jin is a person who listens to advice. The most important thing is that Pingzhou has been very kind when dealing with Pingzhou and has not let him suffer.

So this time, with a wave of his hand, he asked people to move money up the ship after unloading the cargo, box after box, until the ship was half full. This is because if the ship is fully loaded, it will be difficult to sail.

silver! It's all silver, white money!

The Pingzhou group looked at this and laughed from ear to ear.

King Jin and Qin Sheng bluntly said that these would be regarded as gifts from him to Pingzhou.

Qin Sheng and Guo Chong were very grateful to the King of Jin for being so generous.

Before leaving, Qin Sheng handed over the secret recipe of cement to King Jin.

Seeing this, Bai Xingzhi sighed, Pingzhou is really kind.

Yanmen

This year, the Xianbei people are also very busy. When not fighting, herders also need to graze. In addition, the redeemed Fuyu people learned many skills in Pingzhou, such as building houses, paving roads, farming...

Some skills were quite practical and were gradually promoted in Xianbei. For example, when it comes to farming, they have learned how to plow and prepare the land. They have not learned how to raise seedlings, but they have learned how to transplant rice seedlings!

The reason for not being able to do it is very simple. Pingzhou is so crazy that he does the easy work himself and lets the prisoners like them do the hard work and dirty work! And some technologies are kept secret from Xianbei!

But it doesn't matter if they don't know how to transplant rice seedlings. The worst they can do is not use Pingzhou's methods. They can still grow food by using the previous methods of farming.

So this year the Xianbei people began to farm. After all, there were large areas of farmland in places like Yanmen in Liangzhou in the north they occupied.

This great field cannot be left unused, right?

However, since there were still not many people willing to farm in Xianbei, they only selected fertile land for planting.

The relatively poor fields were left to waste, and lush green grass grew, and then they were fenced off one by one to become grasslands.

It can be imagined that this year, the Xianbei people from top to bottom should be able to have a good winter.

So, when the informants from Pingzhou, who were loyal to them, came to them and said they wanted to buy their cattle and sheep at a high price, Tuoba Jin did not care. How high could the price be?

When he heard that the other party's offer was 10% or 20% higher than the current market price, he was a little impatient.

In the past year, the Xianbei people had more opportunities to deal with the Han people than before, and they felt that silver was still very useful. With silver, they could trade tea, various silks, etc. with Dali.

With this calculation, the Xianbei people still made a profit.

If the Pingzhou line was gone one day, they could buy salt from Dali with silver.

In fact, the Xianbei people like Pingzhou's soap and various detergents very much. They are so effective. The problem is that the people of Pingzhou don't sell them to them. They bought them secretly, and they don't know how many times they have been transferred. The price is much higher.

Dali also has soap and cleaning detergents. The price is cheaper than Pingzhou, but the effect is really not as good as Pingzhou.

After using them once, the herdsmen below also disliked them very much.

After this period of trading, he and the informant in Pingzhou have gradually established some trust.

Now the other party wants to buy their cattle and sheep at a high price, and he is very happy.

But Tuoba Jin also has doubts. Why does the other party want to buy so many cattle, sheep and other things at once?

The other party refused to answer and had a tough attitude, "Don't worry about it. You Xianbei have raised so many cattle, sheep and horses this year. You can't eat them all, right? In the end, you still have to trade them out? What I want to buy now is the part you want to sell."

Tuoba Jin was a little angry, but he was also worried that his refusal this time would break the relationship that had been well managed, and the price the other party offered was indeed not low.

In recent years, the price of cattle and sheep has not fluctuated much. The price offered by the other party now has exceeded the price of cattle and sheep in previous winters.

So after Tuoba Jin went to discuss with his father Khan, he decided to trade with the other party.