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As the saying goes, happy events come in pairs. On the second day after Fish Street opened, Shang Qiulu also returned from the sea with a merchant ship.

This time, Shang Qiulu took the merchant ship farther away. They traveled northward along the offshore coastline, almost across the entire continent, and the harvest was huge.

Shang Qiulu has never been a simple person. On the surface, he led the team to do business on behalf of the Bai family. Lord is investigating the distribution of other forces in this continent.

When they left, they brought six big boats with them. All the boats were loaded with the products of the Bai family workshop, as well as some exquisite jewelry, gold and silver playthings, silk and silk that the two fathers of the Bai family collected from the mainland where they lived. Luo silk satin, tea porcelain, and some gemstones, sea pearls, and crocodile silk at the bottom of the box. Before leaving, we agreed that we would rather not sell them and bring them back, and we must not sell them cheaply. If we open a store in the future , These can all be used as the treasure of the town store.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that when we went there, there were only six large ships, but when we came back, we followed at least 20 sea ships of different sizes. up-and-coming.

Shang Qiulu seems to have suffered a lot along the way, and he has lost a lot of weight, but he seems to be in good spirits. Hearing that the sea boat that the Bai family went out to sea for business has returned, everyone in Yujie ran away. In the past to watch the excitement, the pier was blocked for a while, Bai Chunsheng looked at Shang Qiulu striding down from the sea boat through the crowd, for some reason, he always felt that after going to sea, Shang Qiulu's whole person changed, She no longer had the cautious, gloomy, and oppressive aura of the past, and her whole person seemed to have been completely reborn.

"Prince! Concubine! Master! Shang Qiulu fulfilled his mission!" Seeing them from a distance, Shang Qiulu walked over quickly and saluted.

"Okay! Okay! Just come back, let them go ashore to eat first, if there is anything to do, let's talk about it after eating!" Bai Ji had already seen the fleet of ships following them, and knew that Shang Qiulu would definitely gain a lot from going out this time. However, there are too many people here after all, and some things are not easy to ask in detail, so they simply let them take turns to disembark for dinner, and talk about anything after dinner.

"Thank you, my master, for your understanding. Let me make some arrangements first, let them take care of the things on the boat, and order the food to be delivered to the boat. People coming and going on the pier will all come down to eat. If they are caught by someone when they board the boat If you get mixed up, it will be troublesome."

The onlookers thought that Shang Qiulu was worried that someone would board the ship and steal the valuables on board, but they didn't know that what Shang Qiulu brought back from overseas this time was something more valuable than gold, silver and jewelry!

After closing the door, while eating, Shang Qiulu picked out the most important things they had seen and heard along the way as if they were a story.

It turned out that Shang Qiulu led the fleet all the way to the north. At the beginning, he only met some sporadic people who came out to fish along the way. Knowing that there were some scattered cities nearby, they also went ashore several times to deal with the lords of these cities at the beginning. , found that the so-called "big cities" in the mouths of these natives were not actually rich, and the lords relied on exploiting their slaves to harvest food and livestock.

Seeing this, Shang Qiulu didn't bring out too many things, but pushed a few half-demons out, saying that they represented the monster clans at sea to come to the shore to exchange items, and also took out some dried gemstones that were not before. Sure enough, those lords were not interested in this, so they prevaricated a few words, and worried that they would be dissatisfied with their perfunctory behavior, so they pointed them out, saying that further north, it is the place where the great lords in the north live , the city is prosperous there, and the people's clothes are very exquisite and gorgeous, maybe they need their gems.

However, those lords were very interested in the various delicious sauces they brought, so Shang Qiulu took out some sauces, exchanged some supplies with them, and continued northward.

They had been walking for almost a month before they arrived at the big northern city that the lord said. It was indeed very prosperous, and it was almost the same as the imperial city they used to live in, but the architectural style here was different from theirs, and they liked to make it colorful. The steeple-roofed houses are painted with a kind of ground shells in the sea. When the sun shines on them, the colorful brilliance is reflected, which is almost blinding.

The people in the big city are also more particular about their clothes than the small city below. They soak silk with dyes made from different plants, and then weave them into large pieces of colorful cloth and cut them.

Seeing that people here like shiny things so much, Shang Qiulu was relieved, pretending to be a merchant at sea, and ordered someone to take an exquisite box, filled with colorful gems, exquisite gold and silver heads, exquisite handcrafted Small ornaments, handkerchiefs with intricate embroidery, etc. were brought ashore, and they really attracted the attention of many people.

Shang Qiulu was not in a hurry to sell these "precious gems in the sea", but let people spread the word in the inn, saying that their gems were very expensive and not affordable by ordinary people. After a while, there was a housekeeper People who looked like this came to the door, saying that the concubines of the king wanted to see his gems.

The great lord here did not know where he learned it. He became a king on his own, and he also named his wives, big and small, concubines. There is no queen.

Shang Qiulu took some gems and embroidery to the place where the concubines lived. It was not a heavily guarded palace, but a taller and larger pointed house than ordinary people. The walls inside the house were also painted with that kind of The colorful shell powder and the colorful blankets on the ground make people dizzy.

Those concubines were really well-informed, seeing that Shang Qiulu and others brought out extremely high-quality colored gemstones, and the patterns on those uniquely embroidered handkerchiefs were not available here, so they asked about it through the translator. How much are these gems worth.

Shang Qiulu didn't take out these gems to sell them for money. He also wanted to use the reason that merchants on the sea went ashore to sell the treasures, so as to get more information. After thinking about it, he said that this time he went ashore. He wanted to sell some gems in the sea that they exchanged from sea monsters along the way. Secondly, he said that he actually had a fief overseas, but the population was sparse and it was difficult to reproduce. I also want to use these gems in exchange for some population to fill my fief.

The king's men were a little bit surprised when they brought so many big ships here at once, but now they heard that Shang Qiulu was a lord even in his own size, but probably his territory was barren and the population was not large, so he had no choice but to He just came out to buy someone, and immediately felt a sense of superiority from a big country in the sea, and his attitude towards Shang Qiulu and his party was much better.

The concubines accepted Shang Qiulu's exquisite and gorgeous gift, and they also said many good things for him in front of the king, which made the king happy, so they waved their hands and promised to choose some slaves from their own hands to sell to him, but In exchange for gems and those fine gold and silver jewelry they brought.

In this way, Shang Qiulu used the excuse that his fief wanted to buy a large number of slaves, and successfully settled in this place called Xishan City.

Xishan City is very large, formed by the settlement of many tribes. The core city in the middle is home to the king and his concubines, as well as the children born to him by the concubines, as well as the lords of nearby tribes, all of whom are relatives by marriage. Relying on the continuous deepening of the relationship through marriage, the embryonic form of establishing a kingdom has already taken shape.

The second outer layer is a variety of shops and private mansions, and further outside is the army formed by the king and the warriors under the tribal lords, and then the place where the civilians live, the most peripheral area is the worst environment. The farmland and pastures are inhabited by a large number of slaves.

The entire city is incredibly huge, directly occupying a large area of ​​land and forests in the north. Shang Qiulu hired a group of local people as guides, and only said that he hoped to buy some rare local products and sell them here. The merchants came over, and everyone saw that he was only focused on making money, just like those greedy merchants, and their suspicions about them completely disappeared, and they thought that they might have met a big businessman with a lot of money. He came to the door and said that his village also has a lot of local unique products and livestock, and he can recommend it to this wealthy sea merchant.

In this way, Shang Qiulu successfully mixed into the upper class of Xionshan City by relying on rare colored gemstones and various exquisite embroideries, and took the opportunity of inspecting local products to follow the local traders who offered to come to the door, almost I have traveled all over the tribes and tribes around Xionshan City. In addition to drawing a complete and detailed map of the layout of Xionshan City, I also bought some rare local products from those tribes that they did not have, especially some He knew that Bai Chunsheng would definitely like such things as high-yield food crops and local seasonings.

Their fleet stayed in Xishan City for two full months, and bought a large number of local products unique to Xishan City, as well as textiles with intricate and beautiful patterns, woven carpets, etc. The king also kept his promise. After taking their gems, he gave them He prepared a thousand slaves, originally he didn't intend to give so many, but among the gems Shang Qiulu sent up, there was a very large garnet red and flawless gemstone, the king liked it very much, and decided to give this gemstone It was inlaid on his own crown, so he gave them a few hundred more slaves, making up an integer of one thousand.

As a result, the merchant ships brought by Shang Qiulu and the others were not enough. Fortunately, they still had a lot of sea pearls and silks, which they exchanged with local merchants for a batch of merchant ships, and then came back full of slaves and various local products. up.