Spring and Autumn I Am King

ps: Chapter 2

Yi Dun didn't lie, he did know Zigong known as "Tao Zhu", and that was six or seven years ago.

His family happened to be in the area where Lu and Cao bordered. Originally, he was a poor and down-to-earth young scholar. He was often hungry for farming and cold for mulberry. With nothing to do, he stomped his feet and decided to do business. He has no culture, and he has no support from the township party. He is struggling to do a small business as a businessman. Over the years, he has gradually gained a lot of capital.

Although Yi Dun doesn't know a word, he is quite ambitious. If he wants to be a big businessman who is richer than the princes, he needs to make this money flow and create greater wealth. But what to do to get rich? He was also very courageous, so he went directly to Taoqiu and asked Zigong, who was still in Taoqiu to run extravagant business for Zhao Wuchen, and had a thousand-dollar fortune to teach him how to get rich.

Zigong didn't pay much attention to this young man at first, but just mentioned to him: "If you want to get rich quickly, you can be a five-headed animal." This means that you should start by selling livestock and raising cattle and sheep, and then you can become rich when the livestock gradually multiply and grow. .

He also said: "I heard that Zhao Qing of Jin State will move his main town to Jinyang. Jinyang is near Hu, Raccoon and Beidi, and there are many cattle, sheep, dogs and horses. You might as well go there and try it, maybe there are business opportunities to be found."

So Yi Dun, who took Zigong's words as the bible of getting rich, came to Jinyang so far, and traded livestock between Jinyang and Loufan and Daiguo, and then raised the business. Improvement, there are more than 100 cattle and sheep!

But then he found out that his quilt was pitted!

In those few years, the six ministers of the Jin state made a pot of porridge, and the Zhi clan led the army to the south, breaking the Huo people and encircling Jinyang. Yi Dun also became a stricken pond fish, trapped in Jinyang City, and most of the cattle and sheep that he finally raised were taken away by the enemy, and the remaining few were eaten by Yi Dun himself.

After the war, he went from being a small rich businessman to being poor again, but the already experienced Yi Dun was not discouraged, and once again organized caravans inside and outside the frontier to start a business. He walked between Loufan and Jinyang, and occasionally helped Jinyang to transport heavy grains to Juzhusai. In the pasture, the family is getting richer and richer. Last month, he married a teenage girl who was a lousy girl as his concubine.

It is very cold in winter and it is not suitable for business, so I hugged the young concubine in Yidun's warm residence in Huoren County, and dreamed that I finally became the wealthiest businessman in Taiyuan, returning home in fine clothes, proudly entering Taoqiu, and offering to the world's most prosperous businessman. When Duanmuci, a successful businessman, was bragging about his entrepreneurial path, it was like a bolt from the blue, but he was woken up by a loud knock on the door!

After opening the door dissatisfied, Yi Dun couldn't help taking a deep breath. The person who came was Huo Ren's county official, and behind them were several black-clothed warriors with sullen faces.

"Yidun?"

"Yi, it's the villain..."

The leader of the black-clothed guards, a tall warrior looked him up and down and said with a sneer, "Please come with me to the county temple, there are nobles who want to see you."

Yi Dun only complied with his promise, but thought about it in his heart.

Although merchants are not discriminated against and suppressed in Jin, their status is really not high. Unless you are rich and powerful, any greedy doctor or county official can easily make you bankrupt and ruin your family.

What's more, there are no businessmen and no evildoers. Yidun has been doing business at the border in recent years, and he can't be called clean.

So he was a little nervous when he was suddenly visited by an official. But after all, he was well-informed and his expression did not change at all. He asked the people outside to wait for a while. The old sheepskin fur, ruthlessly instructed the concubine to close the door and stay there, and then put on a smile and obediently followed the people outside the door to the county temple.

He has already made all kinds of guesses: is it that he didn't pay taxes at the frontier when he bought cattle and horses from Loufan and came back? Is the county official who protected him in the past down? Or was the matter of secretly transporting copper and tin farming tools to Daiguo discovered?

Yi Dun originally thought that the person who saw him should be a middle-ranking official who could take care of him at will. If it was Huo Ren's county doctor, it would be a little troublesome.

But what he never expected was that when he just entered the county temple, Zhao Wuxi, the head of the Zhao family, the minister of the Jin state, and the father of the general of the Lu state, Zhao Wuxi, was already sitting in the hall impatiently waiting for him...

...

At this time, Yi Dun was less than thirty years old, and far from growing into the giant in history alongside Fan Li. When he heard that the noble person in front of him was Zhao Wuxi, his complexion changed greatly, his legs softened, and he bowed down.

"Shangqing! The villain has always been a businessman, so wronged!"

Zhao Wuxi laughed in his heart, as the so-called "Tao Zhu, Yi Dun's wealth", a big businessman who will be famous all over the world in the future, but now he is a young businessman who has just started his business...

He raised one hand and said, "I'm not calling you here to ask about guilt, but to ask you, are you familiar with Loufan?"

Yi Dun was startled, knowing that he thought too much, he immediately wiped away the tears that almost burst from his eyes, and said with a smile: "Familiar, naturally familiar, the villain has to go back and forth several times a year. I don't know how I can serve Shangqing."

"Familiarity is good. I want to find someone who is familiar with the terrain, tribes, and customs outside the Great Wall for consultation. You sit down and say everything you know without omitting!"

Yi Dun sat down obediently in the hall. Although he had a small income in business, he was still a small person. Apart from having a relationship with Zi Gong back then, he did not have any intersection with the upper-level bigwigs. Now that he was suddenly summoned by Zhao Wuxi, he was given a seat, and he was asked the right question.

"I heard that Duanmuci was supported by Zhao Shangqing to become a giant from an ordinary businessman, and then to become a man of influence that can make the princes stand up against each other... Could it be that I am going to have good luck today?"

He stammered like this, telling all the troubles he had seen and heard about you...

"Loufan has been around for a long time. It lived in the north of Shang in the Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Chengwang also paid tribute to Zong Zhou."

Zhao Wuxi asked, "What is a star drag?"

Yi Dun explained graciously: "It's the flag decorated with jade. There is a mountain in Loufan that produces jade. The water will wash down the jade and you can pick it up by the river, but the color is far inferior to the jade of Huoshan."

"You know quite a lot, but it's similar to Zigong, and it's different from the general merchants who only know how to seek money." Zhao Wuxi smiled and asked Yidun to continue, but he didn't know that just this praise, let Yitun Dun was ecstatic.

After all, Yi Dun was not an ordinary person, so he gradually became less nervous, and began to talk about the scenery outside the fortress vividly. Unconsciously, even the black-clothed guards behind him were attracted by his narration.

"To this day, Loufan's range of activities starts from Dahe in the west, Sanggan in the east, Luliang Mountain in the south, and Yin Mountain in the north, and their main business is animal husbandry. Most of their livestock are horses, cattle, and sheep, as well as donkeys and mules. Etc. Lou is annoying and brave and good at fighting. Children can ride sheep, draw bows to shoot birds and mice, and when they grow up, they can shoot foxes and rabbits for food. Adult men can draw bows, wear leather armor, and ride horses. "

"Can Loufan have farmland in the city?"

"Yes! But not many. The villain listened to Lou's annoying self, saying that his ancestors originally migrated in pursuit of aquatic plants, but gradually they began to have some wooden walls at the northern foot of Luliang Mountain and along the river. They imitated the Jin people to engage in agriculture, and went north with them. merchants, exchanging livestock for farm tools and seeds."

Zhao Wuxi smiled: "You just sell these things to Loufan to get cattle and sheep?"

"only……"

"Have you ever sold weapons?"

Yi Dun was awe-inspiring, his heart was beating wildly, and he swore to the sky: "The doctor of Jinyang has a ban, and those who export goods should not carry iron, gold, tin, leather, arrows, and plows. The villain has always abided by the law, how dare he openly violate it, and he has never Have!"

Zhao Wuxi was noncommittal: "I'm just asking, there is no best. You continue to say, how many Loufan there are, and what is the relationship between the various departments?"

"There are more than ten tribes in Loufan, each of which ranges from hundreds to thousands of people. They are not under each other, and each has a leader. action."

Zhao Wuxi nodded. It seems that the customs of Loufan are not much different from those of the nomads of later generations. However, because they lived in the northwest of Shanxi and were close to the Jin state, they began to settle down gradually. , Zhongshan similar. It will take about a hundred years for Loufan to unite into a loose alliance, become the frontier enemy of King Wuling of Zhao, and be conquered by Zhao State. In the next few hundred years, the Central Plains feudal lords, the turn of Chu and Han. At that time, there were also many warriors from Loufan's native place.

He already knew about Loufan's situation, and the plan was slowly taking shape in his heart. He only had to wait until next year when the time was right. As for the businessman in front of him...

It is indeed a useful talent, courageous and knowledgeable, given time, perhaps another Zigong! Be yourself another money bag besides Taoqiu!

Hmm... Although the virtues can't compare to Zigong, but Zhao Wuxi chooses talents, virtue is only a secondary reference condition, businessmen, why are the requirements so high...

Zhao Wuxi laughed suddenly, patted the file in his hand, and said to Yi Dun: "Dai Guo is hostile to Jin, so I asked Dong Zi to put restrictions on the sentence plug, put an end to the trade fair with Dairen, so that Dai Rong couldn't get the weapons and farm implements in the Central Plains, which made them poor and embarrassed. But the people of the generation urgently needed these things. Except for the Yan Kingdom in the east and Zhongshan in the southeast, they could only smuggle them through merchants, and you, the Huo people's biggest smuggler..."

...

Yi Dun's body was shocked, and Zhao Shangqing's next words made his heart feel even colder.

"I know you, you go to Loufan to trade every two months, but the place you go is not only Loufan. You will take the caravan along the upper Sanggan River into the kingdom of Dai, and trade in nominal terms. The goods for Loufan will be handed over to the Dairen tribe in exchange for twice the usual amount of livestock, and then hurried back to Seine to domesticate and sell them. If you go all the way to Daicheng, you can even get three or four times as much. That enviable richness comes from this..."

The voice gradually fell, and the smile of Hexi on Zhao Wuxi's face turned into an icy cold wind, causing Yi Dun to bow his head involuntarily, trembling.

"The world is bustling for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. As a merchant, your actions are understandable. But although there are no borders for goods, merchants have their own motherland. Xiangao is a good example. Love money can , but you must not forget your own roots. If you think you are from Jin, I am the Minister of Jin, and if you think you are from Lu, I am also the father of General Lu. If you do something too much, you must be strict with you. Add a warning: If you sell the interests of the country and the race to the ugly people of the Rong and Di for your own interests, then even if I can tolerate you, the law will never tolerate you!"

"What Shangqing taught is that the villain is convicted!" Yi Dun knew that Zhao Shangqing must have been checked by someone, and all the things he did to get rich in the past year were in his eyes, and this little life was only in his eyes. Shang Qing flicked his fingers. He could even feel the cold eyes of the warrior in black behind him, and the sharp sword that could be drawn at any time!

What to do? What to do? What to do! ? There were big drops of sweat on his forehead. Do you want to donate all the family wealth as Zhao Jun's salaries? But Zhao Shangqing sits on thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, can he take a fancy to his grasshopper legs?

However, Zhao Wuxi suddenly asked, "You used to be a farmer in the country of Lu, and then you became a businessman. You know your interests the most, but do you know how many times a farmer can get a grain of millet in spring, how many times can he get in autumn?"

Yi Dun was stunned, thought for a while and said, "Ten times..."

"How many times can you gain by smuggling strictly prohibited goods to Loufan and Dairong?"

Yi Dun gritted his teeth and admitted, "Hundred times!"

"Hundred times, it's not bad. But you know what? Duanmu gave the past for me and the official business of Zhao's business, but it has a thousand times the benefits! Ten years ago, he was only a small businessman in Wei, but now he is the best in the world. A successful businessman is also the actual ruler of the state of Cao..."

"Although Zigong suddenly became rich, he was still eager to pay the public, benefiting the country in the top, or pity the orphan and the poor, and benefiting the people in the bottom, so I was able to get the name of a righteous merchant and a Confucian merchant, and to be famous all over the world, so I can rest assured. Put Taoqiu in his hands. What I want to say is that a person's choice now determines who he will become in ten years. Yi Dun, you haven't been in this illegal business for a long time, and you haven't done evil for a long time. Shen, as far as I know, I didn't sell Jin's intelligence to the generation, and it's too late to look back now..."

Yi Dun was startled, looked up in disbelief, Zhao Wuxi had already walked to his side.

"The reason why I preach to you so much is because of my love for talents. I heard that you will find a way to redeem Jin people who are slaves in Daidi and Loufan. I appreciate this very much. You can suppress your violation of the ban, and allow you to make meritorious deeds and do things for the Zhao family!"

As if receiving an amnesty, Yidun repeatedly pointed his head and said: "The villain is willing to die for Shangqing to atone for his sins! I don't know what Shangqing wants me to do? I will not hesitate to go through fire and water!"

"It's not something you have to fight with your life..." Zhao Wuxi nodded to the black-clothed guard at the door, and asked the tall and thin warrior to come over, and said to Yi Dun again.

"What you did as a merchant before, you will do it in the future. Prohibited goods will still be shipped to Loufan. You can continue to go to Daiguo, and it will go deeper than before. In addition to Loufan's ministries, there are also Daicheng, north of Daiguo. Tu He, the southeast has no end to go for a walk~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It’s best to get in touch with the local Rong Di Junchang, climb up friendship, with your courage and ability, it shouldn’t be difficult…”

"This..." Yi Dun felt a little confused, but when he contacted Zhao Wuxi's sudden appearance in Huo Ren and asked himself what was bothering him, he quickly reacted and said in a low voice excitedly: "Isn't it possible that Shang Qing? ...to crusade against Daiguo!?"

Although he is holding his nose and doing business on behalf of others, this is to get rich quickly. Whatever is prohibited by the government is beneficial. For businessmen, it is not too early to be profitable. But from the bottom of his heart, he could never forget that it was the people who looted his livestock and forced himself to be trapped in Jinyang, and had to start all over again, not to mention that war is often a big opportunity for merchants to get rich!

"Let you do it well, and don't ask what you shouldn't ask." Zhao Wuxi was rude to him, and after telling Yi Dun to shut up, he introduced the black-clothed warrior to him: "Next time you go out, take him with you. go together."

Yi Dun guessed that it must be Shangqing's henchman, so he nodded and bowed: "I don't know how this Yousi is called."

The warrior looked down on Yi Dun very much, but forced by Zhao Wuxi's gaze, he could only bow his hands coldly: "Yu Xi, please advise!"

(To be continued.)