The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

Seeing that the group of Jurchens were satisfied with the clothes he presented, Gao Ming smiled calmly, "Then I won't bother you, everyone, have a good rest, let's go to the city tomorrow."

After bidding farewell to everyone, he turned and left the room. Hearing the laughter and laughter of the Jurchens behind him, he couldn't help showing a satisfied smile.

Gao Ming went downstairs and saw Song Jiang was still waiting there, so he called him aside, made sure there was no one around, and said in a low voice, "You have done a good job this time, the country is now employing people, so take As far as entering the trade, it is just the beginning, and there is an opportunity for you to display your talents."

If you do well in the gold trade, promotion is not a matter of the emperor's words.

Song Jiang nodded again and again, "Xiao Ke remembers Mr. Gao's point."

Gao Ming actually has a bad impression of Song Jiang himself, but Song Jiang has his own characteristics, he has a black face and a dark heart, and he can talk about benevolence and righteousness while cheating others. He is very suitable to be the implementer of Gao Ming's next plan.

Calling Song Jiang to enter the gold trade is just to make a stand in the front, to get familiar with a situation, and there will be appointments in the future.

"You have completed your mission well. You have nothing to do here. Take your people back tomorrow." Gao Ming said.

Song Jiang delivered the golden man to Gao Ming safely, which relieved him of the burden, and he no longer had to worry about these people having headaches and being held accountable for accidents.

It was getting late, Gao Ming told Song Jiang to go down to rest after finishing his speech.

He had nothing to do, so he went to bed early.

The next morning, I went downstairs yawning and saw that the people in Wanyan's family had changed into new clothes and even put on new hats.

They sat in the lobby and waited for Gao Ming for a while.

Gao Ming smiled and said, "You guys got up early enough." After looking at Yan Zongqiang, "It's really good, it fits well, everything is ready, let's go. We'll have breakfast when we arrive in Tokyo."

At this time, he noticed that there was a large birdcage next to Zong Qiang, which contained a bird that Gao Ming was quite familiar with - Hai Dongqing.

Wanyan Zongqiang held it up to meet him, "This is a gift from Dajin Kingdom, and we don't have many, so I will only give you one."

Jurchen's special product, the Liao Kingdom sent silver envoys to Jurchen to ask for it.

Gao Ming asked Duan Jingzhu's father to buy it, but was cut off by King Yun. Afterwards, the Jurchens raised troops and stopped capturing Haidongqing, and Duan Jingzhu couldn't get it either, so Gao Ming had no chance to get it again.

The last time I was wandering around the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan's family didn't take the initiative to mention it, and he didn't ask for it rashly.

Unexpectedly, this time Wanyan Zongqiang and the others came to the Song Dynasty, and brought such a big gift to themselves.

Gao Ming laughed quickly and said, "Give it to me? It's too precious."

The Jurchens knew that Gao Ming was a very important person, and they would not bribe him to bribe anyone, and Haidongqing was the most expensive gift, much higher grade than mink antler and ginseng, so they prepared one for Gao Ming.

"It is very precious, so you have to take good care of it." Wanyan Zong said strongly.

Everyone else nodded.

Gao Ming thought to himself, you are really not polite, shouldn't you be polite and express that you are not valuable.

But, forget it, don't worry about these details with them.

"Definitely." Gao Ming accepted with a smile.

He was going to buy Haidongqing for Hua Rong, but was taken away by King Yun. Although he changed to a better horse, he always felt it was a pity.

There is a destiny in the dark, Huarong is destined to ride a bad horse and let Haidongqing go.

No, the Jurchen gave him another one.

He was already looking forward to Huarong's happy appearance.

Wanyan Zongqiang and the others saw that Gao Ming liked Haidongqing very much, and they felt much more comfortable, and they were afraid that the other party would not know what to give as a gift.

They gave each other presents and set off on horseback together.

When they left, it was not yet dawn, but when they arrived at the gate of Tokyo, it was already bright, and there was already a lot of traffic in front of the gate.

Looking from a distance, everyone Wanyan was shocked. Although they were prepared, the city wall is too high and looks too strong, right?

Gao Ming saw their shock and smiled secretly.

Because there was no danger in the north before, the capital Bianliang was repaired every year to make it as solid as gold, trying to build the old nest into the strongest fortress.

In fact, the strength of Bianliang is the second strongest in the Eastern Hemisphere, and no city dares to be the first.

Needless to say, the moat is the basic configuration, and there is a sheep and horse wall behind the moat, and then the outer city, inner city and imperial city.

What's more, there are towers at the four corners of the city, and they can attack the enemy at will.

This is on land.

The water gate is equipped with iron gates, and there are urn walls on both sides. The sergeants stand on the urn walls to attack the enemies who climb in from the water gate.

Basically, this is a strong city with a five-layer defense system.

Even if you enter the city, there are still forbidden troops and a population of more than 100 million.

A colossal creature clad in the strongest armor.

Under normal circumstances, of course, there is no problem.

But who can resist Song Qinzong Zhao Huan who took the initiative to give away the head, and let it go if he was so superstitious that the city gate was opened wide.

The second time, Jin Jun probably saw that this guy was so stupid that no one would detain him. History books would scold Jin Jun for being stupid in the future, so he took him hostage.

The emperor was pinned down, at least he was pinned down by others all of a sudden.

The rest is what Jin Jun said.

Otherwise, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan are God's gift to Wanyan's family.

Now the true strength of the Song Dynasty has not been exposed, and the emperor is still sitting firmly in the palace, a scene of prosperity.

The members of Wanyan's family in front of them were completely shocked by the grandeur of the city.

This is definitely not the easily breached city wall of the Liaoyang Mansion of the Liao Kingdom.

They approached on horseback, looked up at the city wall, and couldn't help but think in their hearts, this cannot be breached, and Song people are also good at defending the city.

Of course, they are just thinking about whether they can continue to win the war against the Liao Kingdom next year, and it is still a matter of not being snatched back by the Liao Kingdom.

No one is sure how far they can win the Liao Kingdom.

Gao Ming's entourage showed the documents to the guards at the city gate, and they didn't even ask questions, they all let them go, and everyone entered the city.

It was a big deal to come here. Although they had passed by some state capitals before, the prosperity was not comparable to that of Bianliang.

Gao Ming saw that they were looking around dazedly, and couldn't help thinking that although the Song Dynasty was very prosperous as a whole, the prosperity of Bianliang was not at the same level as that of other state capitals.

Otherwise, heroes like Liangshan who have traveled all over the country and seen many state capitals, when they went to Tokyo to watch the fireworks, they were completely conquered.

Not to mention these Jurchens.

After all, Bianliang at this time was the most prosperous and most populous city in the world at the same time.

After walking for a while, we arrived at a more prosperous area.

The restaurants have already started business for the day, Gao Ming pointed to one of the larger ones and said, "Stop here for a while and have breakfast."

Wanyan Zong responded strongly, and when he got off his horse, he was still looking at the rows of shops around him.

As soon as the waiter saw this group of people dressed luxuriously, he immediately greeted them warmly, "Guests upstairs, please—"

Invite them to the private room, and immediately present the menu, "What do you want to use?"

Gao Ming picked up the menu and flipped through it, and asked them, "Did you have anything you particularly like to eat during this trip? You can find it in other places, even in Tokyo, so just order it."

Wanyan and the others have been in the Song Dynasty for many days, and they have gradually become accustomed to eating snacks for breakfast along the way.

But there is one thing that confuses them, that is why there are so many types of breakfast?

I feel like I can eat different things every morning.

How on earth did you come up with such a trick for a breakfast?

In the Kingdom of Jin, they only had two meals a day, and each meal was a regular meal.

So at this time, they were still at a loss, not knowing what to order.

"It's not early, and we still have to eat at noon, so let's take a quick bite first. Let me see, to replenish water in the morning, drink tea soup. I'll have a bowl of ebony soup first, and you can see the rest , here are woody soup, sweet-scented osmanthus soup, magnolia soup, puzzle soup, xianshu soup, apricot cream soup... just make do with it."

Wanyan Xiyin is fine, but Wanyan Zongqiang is only average in Chinese, and he almost doesn't know the word Tang.

Others are even more confused, what, what is it?

Wanyan Xiyin felt that other people could not understand, let alone order, so she volunteered to order soup for everyone.

Then I heard Gao Ming say: "The soup is ready, let's eat some dry food, okay, I want crisp Qiong Ye and ring cakes, come and have a look."

Wanyan Xiyin saw all kinds of soup noodles and steamed buns on the menu. There were no less than a dozen kinds of them, such as Yunying noodles, chicken shredded noodles, and three fresh noodles. Steamed buns are always dazzling.

I thought it was over, but when I looked down, there was still a row of cakes, mille-feuille cakes, peony cakes, hibiscus cakes, and so on.

Wanyan Xiyin: "..."

He paused, then asked Yan Zongjun, Zong Qiang and the others in Jurchen words, "I know every word written on it, but I really don't know what it is, so let's just order it casually."

Everyone agreed, just order casually, don't show timidity, and don't act like you have never seen the world.

Wanyan Xiyin casually pointed out the names of some food according to the measurements of several people.

The waiter wrote down one by one, and after a while, all kinds of ordered food came up.

The members of Wanyan's family began to eat in silence.

Ok!tasty!

After a hearty meal, everyone thought it was over, and were about to get up and leave, when Gao Ming smacked his lips and said, "I'm thirsty again, let's drink something and go."

Wanyan Zong is not a strong man, but he has the toughness of the Northland, "Drink!"

What kind of wine do you drink in the morning, Gao Ming said with a smile: "It's not good to drink alcohol in the morning, it's better to drink something to quench your thirst." He called Xiao Er to order a bowl of ginger honey water, and then asked Wanyan and the others, "You also want to drink some water? Have a drink."

Wanyan Xiyin once again fell into the embarrassment of not knowing what was behind these names.

Anyway, I can't drink it to death, so I have to order it anyway.

So, I randomly pointed to the papaya juice, sweet bean soup, coconut wine, agarwood, lychee water, etc. on the menu and ordered some.

After wetting his throat, he was finished eating. He paid the bill and went downstairs to leave.

As soon as I went out, a fruit seller came up with a basket, "Your official, you can try some fresh kumquats. It doesn't taste good, and you don't need money."

Bianliang has never been short of fresh fruits to eat, since there are no oranges produced in the country of Jin.

Gao Ming decided to ask the guests from afar to try something new, so he paid for a whole basket of oranges, and smiled at them: "One fruit is complete after a meal. Let's try this year's oranges whether they are sweet or not."

Wanyan's house didn't move, the reason is very simple, I haven't seen this thing before.

What is this yellow-orange fruit?

Gao Ming understood their concerns all of a sudden, he took one and peeled it up, in case they took a bite, it would be embarrassing if they directly bit the skin.

Oh, it turns out that this is what you eat.

Only then did everyone peel and eat one by one.

Ok!tasty!

Sweet and sour, rich and juicy, it turns out that there are such delicious fruits in the world.

Originally kumquats were a tribute, and only a few people could eat them, but as the citizens became rich, the fruits in the south began to flood Bianliang, and ordinary people could eat them.

But these fruits are not easy to preserve, and they will not go north, let alone the remote Jurchen tribe.

Gao Ming handed over a basket of oranges to Wanyan Xiyin, "Take them all."

Wanyan Zongqiang waited for the basket to reach his own hands, immediately took another one, and sat on the horseback to peel and eat.

Seeing that Zong Qiang had eaten all of them, Zong Jun also took one to eat.

"Where are you going now?" Wanyan Xiyin was not overwhelmed by Juzi, and asked her next plan.

"Oh, go to the house arranged for you." Gao Ming said with a smile: "Everyone follow me, I will be there in a while."

Wanyan Xiyin nodded and followed Gao Ming closely while staring at them.

Bianliang City is too big, and I'm afraid that someone who doesn't pay attention will fall behind and become a lost population.

To get lost in such a big city and not understand the language is to be called incompetent every day.

In fact, Gao Ming was also afraid that they would lose them, so he told his followers to keep a close eye on them.

Once it is lost and then kidnapped and sold by Ren Yazi, the picture is really beautiful.

Soon, they came to a wide street and stopped in front of a house in the middle. Gao Ming pointed to the huge courtyard, "This is it."

Zhong Wanyan: "..."

Unexpectedly, it is not worse than our palace at all.

Gao Ming walked up the steps and knocked on the door, someone inside immediately opened the door and greeted him with a smile, "I've met Mr. Gao, ah, this is the guest from Beidi, please come in." Then he smiled at Wanyan and the others.

Gao Ming introduced: "This is Chang Degui, butler, you can just call him Old Chang."

Also known as the detailed number one.

Gao Ming led the crowd in, this is a courtyard with three entrances, it can accommodate dozens of people, now it is more than enough to accommodate Wanyan's ten people.

"All the daily furniture in the house is ready. You can discuss how to live in it yourself. If there is anything else missing, you can tell Lao Chang that he is an expert in Tokyo, and he knows everything about what is sold and what is sold."

Wanyan and the others are newcomers, so they need someone like Lao Chang to help them.

Lao Chang bowed and pointed at the maids and servants lined up behind him, "These ten maids and ten servants are all for you to send. In addition, there are rough maids and fire-burning girls. If they are too rough, I won't give them to you." Look. These first-class maids are ordering them first, if there are not enough, I will ask for them tomorrow."

Gao Ming thought to himself, these are the No. 21 to No. [-] of the secret agents.

Theoretically, each should be assigned a servant and a servant girl, but Zong Juan and Zong Qiang are both children of Aguda. They have the same status, but others have a wall with them. These people will not be evenly distributed, but they choose.

Zong Juan and Zong Qiang saw the beautiful looks and gentle smiles of these maids, so they liked them very much.

In particular, there was a maidservant in emerald green shirt with crooked eyebrows and smiling dimples, who had already teased Zong Qiang with her eyes.

Although others are also beautiful, she is the sweetest.

Gao Ming knew this would happen a long time ago, there are relatively few women in the Kingdom of Jin, and even the princes of Wanyan's family don't have so many concubines.

And the most important point is that women in economically and culturally developed areas are better at dressing up and are more fashionable.

This law is still valid after 1000 years.

For example, Han Zhu'er is not ugly, otherwise she wouldn't be attracted to Wang Fu, but she doesn't even have hand cream, so she doesn't even think about being fashionable.

Furthermore, Wang Fu eats a lot of urban cosmetics, and in that situation, he only falls in love with someone who doesn't use cosmetics.

People like Wanyan's family who have only been in contact with women who are not well groomed have almost no resistance to well-dressed women.

Gao Ming pointed to the living room and said, "Allow you to divide the room first and pack your bags. I will wait for you here. When it is ready, we will have lunch."

After Lao Chang took orders, Gao Ming went to sit in the living room.

On this side, discord immediately arose in Wanyan's family over how to distribute the maids.

The conflict was concentrated on Zong Juan and Zong Qiang, mainly because they were competing.

Gai was picked away by Zong Jun because of the maid who was forced to smile by Chao Zong just now.

Zong Qiang said angrily: "Zong Juan, are you against me? Obviously I was the first to see it."

Zong Juan just laughed, "It's the first time we've seen them, so it's your first?"

Zong Qiang saw that Zong Juan refused to let her go, and said angrily: "She is mine, and it will belong to you when I die!"

In the Jurchen tribe, brothers can inherit each other's concubines, but there is a prerequisite, the brothers must die.

Because women are a resource that everyone can roll up their sleeves and openly compete for.

Zong Juan refused to let him, "Then let's compare!"

Wanyan Xiyin took a look, although it is normal for women to fight for horses, but this is the Song Dynasty after all, the customs of the two countries are different, so don't be a joke, and persuaded: "Hey, I have something to say, Gao Ming hasn't left yet , telling him to hear the movement is not good."

Zong Qiang snorted: "Then go to the back yard to fight! You got the golden knife yesterday, but now you still want to snatch this woman from me?"

"Gao Ming is willing to give it to me! If you don't accept it, go to him, it's the same thing!" Zong Juan yelled.

At this time, Gao Ming's voice came, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

It's all Jurchen talking, and he can't understand it, but if nothing else happens, there must be a dispute over the robbing of the maid.

Nine times out of ten, the result is to compete for the sweetest and most beautiful Jiang Yuxiang.

Wanyan Xiyin immediately said to Gao Ming who came over, "It's all right."

"But I think the faces of the two princes don't seem to be in trouble. Is there something that can't be decided? Oh, it's simple. Let's roll a dice and compare the size." Gao Ming took out a dice from his sleeve, "Look, there are a total of six points on it. Everyone tosses once, and whoever has the most points will have the final say."

Wanyan Xiyin thought it was better than fighting with them, "This is a good way." He took the dice from Gao Ming's hand.

Gao Ming said: "Then you can decide for yourself, I'm leaving." He turned and left.

Although Zong Jun and Zong Qiang still wanted to fight to decide the maidservant's ownership, they finally agreed to throw dice to compare the size under Wanyan Xiyin's earnest persuasion.

Zong Juan came first, and it was six o'clock with one throw, "Hahaha, there is no need to compare."

Zong Qiang was overwhelmed, "I will start again at six o'clock!" After that, he grabbed the dice and threw it, but there was only one point.

"I told you not to compare me with me!" Zong Juan said with a proud smile, "Okay, she's mine now."

Zong Qiang gritted his teeth, as if he was going to fight with his brother. The others felt that they were willing to gamble and admit defeat. This woman said that it is better to use dice to decide, since the points are not as high as others, there is no more competition."

Not only did Zong Juan win over his younger brother, but he also received the support of other people. He chose Jiang Yuxiang and another maid, and took them to choose a room.

Before Jiang Yuxiang followed, he frowned slightly on purpose, Chao Zongqiang took a look, bowed his head sadly and left.

Zong Qiang also chose two in a fit of anger, and then went to the backyard, he must choose the best room.

Seeing this, Wanyan Xiyin chased after him, saying: "We are here to learn from Song's more excellent ruling experience, so don't argue over this trivial matter."

Zong Qiang frowned at him, "Who didn't say not to learn?! Brother Six shouldn't have robbed me!"

After being heard by Zong Juan, there was another dispute.

Hearing that Wanyan Xiyin was quite helpless, if his sons and daughters were orderly like Song Guo, Zong Qiang would definitely not fight with his brother, so it stopped.

Gao Ming waited for quite a while, almost dozed off, only to see Wanyan and the others coming late.

Gao Ming rubbed his eyes and said with a smile: "Let's have lunch. Lao Chang just sent someone to say that everything is ready. Don't worry, you will definitely like this dish. It's roast suckling pig."

Pigs are only eaten when they are raised. After all, there is so much meat, and it is too extravagant to eat pigs when they are young.

However, it will feel tender and delicious.

At this time, many servants came and began to set tables, chairs and plates.

Soon, a servant brought in the roasted suckling pig and placed it in the middle of the table. The color was as golden as amber, and the whole body was smooth and seductive.

Gao Ming smiled and said, "Knowing that you guys like to eat barbecue, I specially prepared roast suckling pig as the main course of the banquet."

Everyone in Wanyan stared at the pig, feeling their mouths drooling more.

Gao Ming smiled and watched the servant slowly divide the pork, thinking, the Jurchen has a wolfish nature, but so what?

If wolves cannot be tamed, how did dogs come about?

Faced with the roasted suckling pork slices on the dinner plate, the members of Wanyan's family began to eat them unceremoniously.

Um!The skin is crispy and the inside is tender, delicious!

I'm almost tired of saying the word delicious, but I still can't help but want to say it.

Gao Ming introduced with a smile: "I chose a piglet that has not been weaned, and the inner cavity is smeared with honey and spices, so it is very sweet..."

After eating delicious food, I feel better. Wanyan Zong said with a strong smile, "No wonder it's so delicious. I love honey the most! Bears are the most hateful. They eat all the honey in the forest."

Speaking of this, the other Jurchens also laughed, and began to talk about the past encounters with bears and bear hunts.

Gao Ming was taken aback, because he suddenly realized one thing from Wanyan Zongqiang's words, that is, where there is no sugarcane, there is no way to extract sucrose, and it is very difficult to eat sugar, and can only rely on honey.

And Da Song's sugar is easily available, and it is so cheap that even the youngest children can afford it.

Because sugar can be seen everywhere in later generations, and it was not scarce in the Song Dynasty, so Gao Ming never set his sights on sugar.

So he ignored one thing, that is, in this era, there are still many people in the world who are not in the Song Dynasty who have difficulty eating sugar.

Struggling with hunger and thirst for insufficient sugar intake.

The nearest is the island nation of Japan!

It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty in Japan that the Dutch brought sugar from Taiwan to Japan, and they didn't know about sugar for the first time.

I never saw it before the end of Ming Dynasty, let alone now.

Because sugar is scarce and they knew each other late, sugar is very precious to them.

As a result, Japan has always been very sweet, and loves sweet as life.

At this point in time, even Europe was just beginning to know the existence of sucrose in Arabia.

But because of environmental problems, they have no colonies and no plantations, and they are still in the stage of the whole people.

If you want to eat sweetness, it depends on the cultivation of bees. Even the nobles can't open their bellies. If there is a beehive in the household of ordinary people, it is a large inheritance that must be written in the will, and it is worth the sons breaking their heads to grab it.

A pound of sugar is equivalent to a pound of gold.

Da Song lived a much more comfortable life, even a beggar would not have never eaten sugar.

Who didn't realize that sugar is so precious.

Europe was still too far away, and the nearest Japan produced silver. Later, a quarter of the silver that poured into the Ming Dynasty came from Japan.

Therefore, the one in front of Gao Ming can be said to be a profitable business.

The sugar that was used at a very cheap price in the Song Dynasty was sold to Japan by sea.

Silk porcelain is a luxury item, and the cost price is not low, not to mention the few people who buy it.

But sugar is different. The cost price is very cheap, and it is a product consumed by the whole people. The market is very large.

Go to sea at low prices, sell at high prices, and return with silver.

No matter how you look at it, you can make money.

If you are more courageous, you will sell it further afield.

Thinking of this, Gao Ming was in a good mood, took a bite of the roasted suckling pig, and said with a smile, "The suckling pig wouldn't be so delicious if it wasn't coated with honey. Sugar is really a good thing."