Yangzhou.
Li Chao stood on the pier to send Quan Gai Suwen on board, and he was going to board a dhow to sail to Goguryeo Pyongyang.
Because it was still early spring and the southeast monsoon had not yet begun, his ship would not sail directly to Pyongyang, but would go north along the coastline and make a large circle back to Goguryeo.
"Goodbye" Li Chao smiled and waved to Quan Gai Suwen.
"Hopefully, we'll see you in Pyongyang soon, King of the Counties."
Yuan Gai Suwen, who was standing on the dock in a white robe, had a reluctant smile on his face, but he actually wished he would never see him again.
The deal with the demon has been signed, and he may not be able to escape the demon's control again.
Not long ago, he agreed to Li Chao's tempting plan.
The Tang Dynasty would support him as the king of Goguryeo and overthrow Gao Jianwu's rule.
The condition was that in the future, Goguryeo would be renamed Korea and become a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
His Yuan family will also change his surname to Li, and even the Tang Emperor has already given him a name, Li Xiaozhen, the king of the Tang Dynasty.
Is it loyal and filial to the Tang Dynasty?
"Thank you Zhao Guogong for sending him off, goodbye."
Yuangai Suwen waved to Li Chao with that one-arm, and then got on the boat.
The boat lifted anchor, hoisted its sails, and slowly sailed away from the dock.
"Saburo believes in this Goguryeo man so much, he is afraid that he will lose control this time."
Cheng Yanjin on the side asked.
Because of his resignation, Cheng Yanjin has never been willing to go back.
This time Li Chao went south, and he simply came.
He said that he was going to see Ryuqiu Island, and by the way, he went to Goguryeo to have fun.
"It's not easy for Quangai Suwen to get out of control.
The things he wrote to the imperial court, as well as the documents sent by his father and the secrets of Goguryeo, do you think that if Gao Jianwu saw it, he would still be able to tolerate their father and son?"
"Besides, Quan Gai Suwen is also a smart man.
He knew that if he cooperated with us, maybe he might be the king of Joseon.
And if you don't want to cooperate with us, I'll really come to you. ” "I still think this guy is unreliable, this guy has you cut off a hand and suffered a lot of crimes.
After I go back, I'm afraid that I will think of a way to retaliate. ” Li Chao shook his head, "Don't be afraid, I have a back move to deal with him." ” The dhow was very fast, much faster than the three-masted ship of Li Chao that he had taken from Xiangyang to Yangzhou.
Yuangai Suwen had never been on such a fast ship before, and this ship could sail in inland rivers as well as on the sea.
The sails of this ship are soft, and they borrow the wind very quickly.
Standing on the deck, Yuangai Suwen did not have the slightest ease.
Although he was on the sea, he knew that he was not free.
He thought again and again that when he returned to Goguryeo, he would throw Li Chao out of the clouds of Jiuxiao, and he would start his revenge plan, but in the end he sighed again and again and gave up.
He had seen Li Chao's new-style army and knew the power of firearms, and the musket was not the most terrifying, but the most terrifying was the cannon.
No matter how strong the city wall is, it is difficult to hold it for a long time in front of those siege mortars and general cannons.
Not to mention, Li Chao also has these more powerful warships, which are not only warships, but also equipped with cannons.
These ships were so fast and big that the Goguryeo ships would certainly not be able to stop them.
And Li Chao even told him a plan, he would lead countless such ships to land and plunder at will on the coastline of Goguryeo's thousands of miles.
This means that Goguryeo will advance the defense line to the Liao River, and the thousand-mile defense line of the Liao River, which took more than 200 years to build, will lose its meaning.
In the past, when the Central Plains attacked Goguryeo, they would inevitably come from western Liao, inevitably cross the Liao River, and pass through the defensive fortresses they built in those mountain tunnels before they could reach the heart of the rear and reach the capital Pyongyang.
Although in the past, the Sui army also came from the sea and went straight to Pyongyang.
But their way of fighting is actually still on land.
From the sea, it was just to transport troops, and it was to cooperate with the army from Liaodong.
But the plan Li Chao said was completely different, he didn't plan to fight Pyongyang at sea at all, or attack the city and occupy the city after landing from the sea, he only planned to grab it.
Stab knives everywhere, and leave when you're done.
At that time, Goguryeo had no defense at all, and in the face of these Tang army bandits with clipper cannons, they could only stare dryly, thousands of miles of sea frontier, and there was no danger to prevent.
He believes that this is also the confidence of Li Chao to dare to let him go back.
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Because he can't escape even if he goes back, Li Chao can come to the door at any time.
Day after day of coastal navigation.
The men who sailed were very experienced people, and there were no accidents along the way, and their ships sailed along the coast, and every two or three days they would stop by the shore to replenish some freshwater, meat, vegetables, etc.
After sailing like this for many days, he finally saw the coast of Goguryeo.
However, he did not go ashore, and walked much slower on land than at sea.
And he has the task given to him by Li Chao and needs to return to Pyongyang as soon as possible.
If it is in summer, take a direct flight to Pyongyang by southwest wind, at most three days.
As a result, it took them nearly a month to make a detour along the coast.
The ship docked at the pier in Pyongyang.
It didn't cause any sensation at the wharf, in fact, in the past two years, there have been many such Han sail merchant ships.
They brought with them many exquisite Tang goods, which were the favorites of the Goguryeo royal family and nobles.
Gao Jianwu stipulated that all Tang merchant ships arrived, and the goods could only be traded with the Goguryeo royal family.
Gao Jianwu bought these goods, and then sold them to those noble officials at a higher price, and some of them were even sold to the Ya tribe between the white mountains and black waters.
Just by monopolizing the transaction with Tang Chuan, Gao Jianwu has made a lot of money in the past two years, which has attracted the envy of many nobles.
There were already people from the royal family on the dock who came to greet them.
The boat boss laughed and went up, they had been running here a lot, and they were all familiar with these people.
This time, they did carry a lot of cargo on board, and Yuan Gai Suwen was just by the way.
Yuangai Suwen did not reveal his identity, he pretended to be a steward of the Tang Kingdom, and hid in the cabin until the ship's boss finished negotiating the deal with the royal family, and waited until it was dark before quietly going ashore.
The people of the royal family were glad that the ship boss came before the summer.
A boatload of Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures also has Confucian classics, as well as high-quality paper, pen and ink inkstones of the Tang Dynasty, as well as silk, tea, cane sugar, wine, etc., these goods are extremely popular in Goguryeo, and the royal steward is smiling without disturbing his mouth.
"Is it still the same old rule?"
asked the steward.
The captain laughed and replied, "Well, let's still trade in gold or silver. ” The steward responded with a smile in proficient Chinese, and with a wave of his hand, someone immediately brought the box.
Inside is the gold that has already been exchanged for the commodity price agreed upon by both parties.
According to the agreed price, in fact, the gold on the Goguryeo side is much cheaper than that in the Datang Dynasty.
The comparison of gold, silver and copper in the Tang Dynasty is one or two gold and eight copper coins, and one or two silver and five copper coins.
Gold and silver are one point six to one.
But here, one tael of gold is in the ratio of four copper coins, one tael of silver and two copper coins.
The Tang merchants were very clever in taking advantage of this price difference, and the goods they transported were all priced according to copper coins, but they did not charge copper coins, but asked the Goguryeo people to pay in gold or silver.
In this way, they can transport the gold and silver back, and immediately make a difference in the price.
The gold price of Goguryeo and the gold price of Datang are actually as much as doubled, and although the risk of transporting goods once is not small, the profit is more.
They brought in the goods, which were already sold at a high price, but ended up being settled in gold, and they made double the difference.
Then, when they returned, they were almost empty, except for the gold, so they would buy another batch of local products in Goguryeo, and they would not give money, but counted it as a deposit for the next shipment.
These Tang businessmen fully exerted their shamelessness to the extreme.
Anyway, that's how sea trade makes money.
The main sustenance they brought back was usually the young and beautiful women of Goguryeo.
"Do you want a woman this time?"
asked the steward with a smile.
Goguryeo women were as popular in the Central Plains as silk tea from the Central Plains was among the Goguryeo nobility.
The young women who brought back Goguryeo were always very profitable.
But this time the captain didn't want a young and beautiful woman, he wanted a man, and a strong young man.
"Do you want a man, has the atmosphere of the nobles of Middle-earth changed?"
asked the royal steward in surprise.
"That's not true, it's just that His Majesty the Emperor made a big feud with the princes last year, and the princes have their own fiefs, and all need manpower.
Buy some young people and go back, farm and graze or something, just right. ” "That's right, no problem, I'll get you some Sanhan prisoners when I go back."
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The boat boss knew that these three Hans were the real natives of the peninsula, and that Goguryeo and the current Baekje were actually migrating south from Liaodong in the north, and they were mainly anti-guest.
Once upon a time, the southern part of the peninsula was ruled by a confederation of three tribes: Mahan, Jinhan, and Benhan.
Among them, Mahan was the most powerful, and was proclaimed as the king of Chen by Sanhan, ruling the land of Sanhan.
Later, however, a branch of the Buyeo tribe in Liaodong in the Central Plains went south to establish the Baekje Kingdom, and the Silu Division, the most powerful of the Jinhan tribes, unified Jinhan and established the Silla Kingdom.
Benhan gradually merged into the Gaya Kingdom, which was later annexed by Silla.
Sanhan also had close contacts with the Central Plains Dynasty during the Western Han Dynasty, and the Chenhan Dynasty was even called Qin Han by the Central Plains because of its language, titles, and utensils that were very similar to the Qin Dynasty.
There was a record in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Han Hao was strong at that time, and many people from Liaodong flowed into Korea.
This is the earliest record of the Central Plains referring to Korea on the Samhan Peninsula.
Today, there are three countries on the peninsula, Baekje and Silla to the south, and Goguryeo to the north.
However, Baekje and Goguryeo were both branches of the Buyeo Kingdom, but Baekje was a fusion of Buyeo and Mahan, but Goguryeo never regarded itself as a Samhan.
Their biggest goal was to sweep away the Samhan Peninsula and destroy Silla and Baekje.
Over the years, the Three Kingdoms have also often been at war, which is commonplace.
"Captain Li, as long as you continue to send us silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, wine, books, and paper, we can catch as many three Han slaves as you want."
The steward patted his chest and promised.
Compared with the beautiful Samhan girl, these Samhan young men are better.
The captain agreed with a smile, but sighed a little in his heart.
When the head of the family arrived and led the sea ships to land on the coast of Goguryeo, he was afraid that such a lucrative maritime trade with Goguryeo would come to an end.
Come to think of it, it's a little reluctant, after all, the Goguryeo people have always been stupid and have a lot of money, and doing business with them is too easy to make. t1706231537: