Qu Jun’s full name is Qu Yi, and he is the contact person designated by Jian Zengren.
Gu She let out a sigh of relief.
Togenki sneered.
"Don't hold out any hope. I think it will definitely not be good news."
"Sir, although you know swordsmanship, you don't know trade. For merchants, information is priceless. Any information is good news."
“You call that trade?”
"It's just that the Daxia government disagrees."
Gu She's face was very gloomy.
Because Jian Zengren hadn't sent any messages, they didn't dare to go out to sea rashly during this period. The Yingsang sea pearls they stockpiled were increasing, but the necessities such as fresh water and food were becoming less and less.
If we don't go to Bozhou to buy things, something bad will happen.
Moreover, the vagrants under his command threatened to go to Bozhou to rob, and it seemed that they could not be suppressed.
Gu She scoffed at this.
Why would you resort to murder and robbery when you can make money safely?
He has always considered himself a maritime merchant, and he also holds himself to the standards of a maritime merchant. He maintains armed forces under his command simply to protect the shipping routes and prevent them from being robbed by the navy of Daxia.
In Gu She's eyes, the Daxia government is the one that is destroying free trade.
but……
"You can't blame Daxia."
This sentence without a beginning or an end made Hugenmu a little confused.
"What do you mean?"
"There are dozens of countries in Yingsang. Daxia cannot condescend to make friends with them one by one. In the end, only one country can pay tribute, and the others can only smuggle."
"Ah……"
Togenki didn't say much.
He doesn't understand this.
Gradually, a small boat could be seen in the distance, slowly sailing towards Golden Eagle Island in the swaying waves.
It is indeed a boat from Quyi.
Gu She stopped arguing with Hu Genmu and came to a culvert on Golden Eagle Island.
There is a pier here for parking small boats.
Every time Gu She's smuggling group wanted to ship goods to Bozhou, they would set out from here in small boats, enter the bay and board a large ship, and then someone would drive the small boat back into the culvert.
Gu She ordered his men to pull up the floating bridge at the pier.
Not long after, Qu Yi's boat appeared at the entrance of the cave. After approaching the pontoon bridge, several sailors came down from it and tied the boat to the stone pillar nearby.
Gu She couldn't help but frown.
In the past, when they came to Quyi, they would not bring so many sailors.
Moreover, these sailors were extremely capable. They jumped directly from the bow of the ship onto the pontoon. The ship and the pontoon only sank slightly, and the amplitude of the shaking was very small. It was obvious at first glance that they were not ordinary people.
He waved his hand,
"Take it!"
The ronin next to him immediately rushed forward screaming.
The sailors were not afraid either,
Clang——
They drew their steel knives,
The two sides confront each other.
Gu She shouted, "Who are you? Where is Qu Yi?"
The sailors were stunned for a while, obviously not expecting Gu She to speak Chinese so fluently. His accent sounded almost the same as that of the locals.
They were about to answer when a voice came from the boat.
"They are officers and soldiers of the Bozhou Navy."
Gu She was surprised.
"Mr. Qu! Why did you bring soldiers to the island?"
This sentence is in Yingsang language.
He didn't want the officers and soldiers to overhear their conversation.
Qu Yi said in Chinese: "Don't worry, they are here to protect me. Of course, they are also here to monitor me."
"Surveillance?"
"Correct."
"Jian Jun, he..."
"already dead."
This news did not surprise Gu She.
Jian Zengren's actions are getting more and more serious, and he finally gets what he asked for.
Gu She glanced at the officers and soldiers of the Bozhou Navy, nodded to the wanderers, asked them to lay down their weapons first, then walked forward and pulled Qu Yi towards the meeting hall of Golden Eagle Island.
He lowered his voice,
"what happened?"
Qu Yi sighed,
"Jian Zengren was found to have assisted in the smuggling incident, and he committed suicide out of fear of punishment after the first public trial."
"How long has this been going on?"
"About four days ago."
As soon as he heard the time, Gu She knew it was not good.
Four days was enough for the Bozhou officials to catch all the sellers they had contacted on land.
This is like going back to the time before liberation...
Even if Gu She tried to keep his composure, his face turned black.
He stopped.
"Mr. Qu, if things have come to this, why haven't you been beheaded?"
Qu Yi looked at the meeting hall which was only a few steps away, then looked at Gu She, thinking that the Yingsang people really changed their attitudes faster than turning the pages of a book.
He said, "It's not that easy to behead someone, right?"
"What do you mean?"
"Before Jian Zengren died, many businessmen who cooperated with you had already confessed their problems and spit out part of their earnings to buy peace."
"!@#*￥%..."
Gu She cursed loudly in his native dialect.
These Daxia people are so determined and have made it clear that they don't want to cooperate with the Yingsang people anymore. I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to do business in the future.
Are we really going to become pirates?
Gu She gritted his teeth.
"Mr. Qu, if that's the case, why did you come to Golden Eagle Island?"
Qu Yi did not answer directly, but talked about something else.
"The people who came with me this time are from the Bozhou navy. What do you think is the reason?"
"Speak directly if you have anything to say."
"Oh, then I'll speak frankly."
Qu Yi reached into his arms,
The valley is set to take a step back,
The distance was so close that if the other party took out a pistol and shot him in the forehead, even a god would not be able to save him.
Unexpectedly, what Qu Yi took out was a piece of bright yellow silk cloth.
Gu She was stunned for a while.
"Isn't GHS exclusive to your Daxia royal family?"
A smile appeared on Qu Yi's face.
"Yes."
"What's this!?"
"In order to quell the pirate rebellion in Bozhou, the Seventh Prince is willing to let you pay tribute. Congratulations, Island Master Gu... No, once you pay tribute, you will become an envoy, or Ambassador Gu."
Gu She was like falling into a dream. He stretched out his trembling hands to take the "imperial edict".
I didn't expect that the thing I had been thinking about day and night would be obtained so easily.
Seeing him like this, Qu Yi couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the Yingsang people were really foreign barbarians who couldn't even tell the shape of pants.
How could that be the imperial edict?
It was clearly made from the Seventh Prince's pants...
Chapter 240 Mr. Gu, please!
Night came,
The waves washed over the rocks along the coast of Golden Eagle Island, making a loud noise.
But the atmosphere in the meeting room was so lively that it completely drowned out the noise.
"I agree!"
"I agree!"
"I like it... Hey... Gu Jun, please read it to us again."
Someone jumped out, and seeing that Gu She's face was gloomy and his expression was not very good, he immediately changed his words, laughed dryly twice, and then retracted.
Gu She frowned.
“No matter how many times I read it, the content won’t change.”
On this Golden Eagle Island, he is the one who is most familiar with Chinese.
The content of the "imperial edict" was indeed to allow Gu She's smuggling group to pay tribute, and what was required was also the specialty that Ying Sang could provide:
Yellow ramie cloth, white ramie cloth, flower-covered mats, sea pearls, mother-of-pearl combs...
But Gu She always felt that something was not right.
He had heard that imperial edicts usually begin with words like "The Emperor, by the Will of Heaven and the Mandate of Heaven, decrees that" but the one Qu Yi brought did not have that. It was just two paragraphs.
The first section is about canonizing Gu as an ambassador;
The second paragraph is about offering tribute.
Agreeing to pay tribute is equivalent to establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, but the imperial edict did not even have formal words like "with a long history" or "since ancient times", which exuded an air of unprofessionalism no matter how you looked at it.
Qu Yi's explanation is that, officially, Daxia could only recognize one kingdom of Yingsang, that is, one Yingsang principle.
but,
There can be two missions!
Gu She was able to pay tribute, which was a result of taking advantage of a loophole.
