Chapter 87 Champaign
Although Mao Geng hopes that this overseas project can be successfully undertaken, Mao Geng is not the Chu brother in the mall after all. After pondering for a while, he asked Cai Jianwen to meet with the people from Chameng tomorrow. Mao Geng still wanted to wait until the model building was completed before talking about this matter. The entire project was about to end, and it could be completed as soon as it was rushed.
In fact, Mao Geng also needs some time to think about all aspects of this overseas project, such as design style, building materials transportation and construction management, etc., and he still needs to consider it carefully before negotiating with others.
At noon the next day, the model building was finally completed. After some sorting and cleaning, the entire model building looked particularly grand, and the hour hand that kept twitching on the huge clock tower made the model building look even more extraordinary. Everyone passing by stopped to watch it, and then left reluctantly.
When the pointer was about to point to three o'clock, two sedan chairs surrounded by people and arrived at the model building. Cai Jianwen walked out of the first sedan chair. When he saw the person in the sedan chair behind him, he greeted enthusiastically:
"Brother Zou, please!"
The man was about thirty years old, with a slightly dark complexion, but he looked pretty handsome, dressed in a great scholar of Song Dynasty. He raised his hand and gave in:
"Brother Cai, please!"
Then the two looked at each other and smiled, and Cai Jianwen took the lead, and walked towards the gate of the model building.
When the crowd was watching was neutral, someone asked curiously:
"Is the one in front the owner of this house?"
Someone immediately sneered:
"The host has been waiting in this house for a long time, and these two guests are probably coming to congratulate you."
But then someone refuted his words:
"Hehe! These two men are empty-handed, as if they are coming to congratulate you! I saw that the person in front of me is handsome, and I heard that the owner here is as good as Long Yang. Hehe, what are they doing? It's hard to say!"
As soon as this statement was released, many onlookers immediately attracted discussions. This is a rare gossip. Those who are interested began to enthusiastically participate in this special interactive program, and some of them pointed out:
"The romantic and suave person in front of him is reasonable, but the one behind him is so dark and not young. Can he be that child? The owner of this house is too heavy!"
Now it's good. This person took the lead in complaining about the aesthetic taste of the owner here, and someone immediately agreed. Everyone thought his evaluation was very pertinent and was very puzzled why the owner here tasted very strong. However, some people pointed out that those who have a habit of breaking sleeves have different tastes from ordinary people, so it is not worth making a fuss.
Mao Geng and Wen Yuan are receiving guests in the hall at this moment, so of course they will not hear these gossips. If they hear them, they will not know how to think about them.
After the introduction of the guest, Mao Geng learned that the guest's surname was Zou, whose name was Zou Yalian, was the cousin of Zou Yana, the king of Chameng (referring to Jay Indra Varman IV, the translation of the Song Dynasty was so painful), and he traveled between the Song Dynasty and Chameng, and was considered to be the official and businessman of Chameng. Since the Xiaozong Dynasty no longer advocated the tribute of the vassal states that only talked about face but not affordable, the exchange of tribute between Chameng and the Song Dynasty had been carried out, and instead it was mainly civil business exchanges. The Cai family had close commercial exchanges with Chameng. After a while, Zou Yalian and Cai Jianwen became closer.
Mao Geng led Zou Yalian to look at the model building. The concrete floor slabs in it surprised Zou Yalian. In addition, Zou Yalian had never seen everything, so he was naturally shocked after seeing it. In fact, this shocking feeling came two days ago. After completion today, I looked at it from the inside out, which made Zou Yalian even more convinced that he would build a building of the same format in Chameng.
The four guests and hosts sat down at the oval conference table, and the maid served the tea. After Zou Yalian sat down, he looked at the novel oval large table, and then touched the new seats that were different from ordinary chairs. He felt that there were amazing things everywhere, but it looked indescribable luxury and elegance.
Mao Geng saw Zou Yalian's every move, thinking that this was just an ordinary conference table in later generations, and the chairs were Ming-style seats that focused on ergonomics, which were nothing. But all of this was quite novel in Cai Jianwen's eyes, let alone Zou Yalian's feelings.
The topic of both sides started with the model building. Zou Yalian sincerely praised it and mentioned that he wanted to build the same house for the royal palace in Chameng. But how to build such a novel and beautiful house? Only Mao Geng can build it in the world. Therefore, although Zou Yalian is a strong buyer, it is difficult to gain the advantage of negotiations in front of the monopoly seller Mao Geng.
Yesterday, Mao Geng heard Cai Jianwen introduce this Zou Yalian. Originally, Zou Yalian came to the Song Dynasty for the case of Wang Yuanmao.
Speaking of the story of Wang Yuanmao's early years, it can be called a legend. Wang Yuanmao's family was poor. When he was young, he worked as a monk like a monk who swept the floor in the temple. However, Wang Yuanmao was very smart. The temple in the Song Dynasty also taught his disciples, and the scope of his studies even involved encyclopedia knowledge. It happened that a monk in the temple where Wang Yuanmao was well-versed in "Southern Fans Books" and taught Wang Yuanmao to speak Champa. It was because Champa was influenced by India and used the Southern Heavenly characters, so the monk was well-versed in Champa.
Strange. But later, Wang Yuanmao went to Chameng with the merchant ships of the Song Dynasty during the Qiandao period. Because of his language talent, he was soon regarded as a well-educated scholar in Chameng. The king hired Wang Yuanmao as a guest. Soon, he summoned Wang Yuanmao as his son-in-law. After that, Wang Yuanmao further utilized his Song people's advantages. After the tribute trade was blocked, he took advantage of the official background of Chameng to engage in the private trade between Chameng and the Song Dynasty. It became more and more prosperous in a few years. Wang Yuanmao had accumulated a million-yuan family business in Chameng for ten years.
Ten years later, Wang Yuanmao returned home in glory and was once a good story in Quanzhou. But this lord later encountered an unlucky thing. After Wang Yuanmao became rich, he was still in love with foreign trade with Cham City, but many things were no longer needed to come forward in person. Ten years ago, Wang Yuanmao hired Wu Daweigang to launch his first ship to Cham City for trade. Unexpectedly, a murder case occurred during the voyage. Wu Da and 21 others were killed by sailors on the same boat. The murderer replaced Wu Da and made a deal in Cham City. On his way back, he lied that Wu Da and others died naturally in danger and the lies were immediately discovered by Wang Yuanmao. However, according to the laws of the Song Dynasty, if this matter was reported to the official, the murderer's trade proceeds would not be confiscated. Therefore, Wang Yuanmao was confused by profit and conspired with the murderer to cover up and hide the murder case.
But the net of heaven is vast and unlimited, and the murder case was not covered. Last year, one of the victims survived the disaster. After being injured, he was rescued by the chasing people. Ten years later, he returned to the Song Dynasty and reported the murder case to the official, so Wang Yuanmao was imprisoned for hiding and sharing the spoils.
After all, Wang Yuanmao was also the son-in-law of Chameng, so Chameng sent people to the Song Dynasty to mediate. But it was a matter of 21 lives. Wang Yuanmao's crimes were of course despised by the Song Dynasty, which was always respectful to etiquette. Even if he had the status of the son-in-law of Chameng, the punishment would not be light. In addition to exempting Cong Yilang, who had previously rewarded Wang Yuanmao, he could not escape the confiscation of some of his family's wealth. However, since Zou Yalian came to the Song Dynasty, he always had to give face. In the end, Wang Yuanmao would punish the murderer seriously. It is estimated that Wang Yuanmao will be released from prison in two or three months.
However, Zou Yalian's trip was not just for the case of Wang Yuanmao. It was just that the king of Champa Zou Yana (Jay Indra Vamanum IV) was preparing for war and preparing to launch troops to attack Zhenhuan the following year. This matter greatly worried the lords and factions of Champa, so they tried every means to stop the king's conquest. Zou Yalian's trip came to the Song Dynasty, and another purpose was to seek some intervention from the Song Dynasty and try to stop the king's conquest plan.
Speaking of the situation in the Indochina Peninsula over the past two hundred years, simply put it, it is a reduced version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After the Five Dynasties, Annan began to expand its path after the rule of the Southern Han Dynasty. At that time, the territory was only less than a quarter of the territory of later generations. After hundreds of years of struggle for power, Annan finally annexed Chameng. At this time, Annan, Chameng and Zhenwax were still in the early stage of the three kingdoms' struggle. Overall, Annan has gradually been in the strong situation of the "Wei Kingdom" in the Three Kingdoms era. Chameng and Zhenwax are equivalent to the "Wu and Shu" among the Three Kingdoms. Wei and Wu and Shu are also in the weak pattern between Annan, Chameng and Zhenwax.
In the sixth year of Qiandao, Chameng and Annan reached a peace agreement and sent troops to conquer Zhenwax. Chameng and Zhenwax were originally hard to distinguish and each had their own victory or defeat. However, in the seventh year of Qiandao, Wu Yunxiang, a Fujian native who went from the Song Dynasty to Chameng, changed the course of the battle. This person taught the Chameng army the method of cavalry and shooting, so Chameng won many battles in the subsequent battles. In the fourth year of Chunxi (1177), Wu Yunxiang made another move. Chameng went up the Mekong River with water ships, arrived at Tonle Sap Lake, and directly hit the real wax capital Angkor, and captured the capital Angkor in one fell swoop, killed the real wax king, and looted all Angkor.
However, in the seventh year of Chunxi (1180), the successor to the throne, Jayavarman VII, led his army to launch a large-scale counterattack, defeated the occupying army of Chameng the following year, and restored the territory of Zhenwa.
Of course, Jay Indra Vavarman IV, the king of Cham City, was unwilling to accept it. For seven or eight years, he had been preparing for the army to attack Zhenwax again, hoping to conquer Angkor again to completely conquer Zhenwax. Some of the people in the Cham City court were deeply worried about this, because Jay Indra VI, the king of Zhenwax, was not an ordinary person. Cham City used all the troops to conquer Zhenwax. If they could not win, it would be a great disaster for Cham City.
Therefore, the peace faction sought international mediation from the Song Dynasty, but the matter could not be carried out publicly, so he had to let Zou Yalian come to the Song Dynasty and act at the camera.
However, the foreign policy of the Song Dynasty was in a period of contraction, and the disputes on the Indochina Peninsula were mainly based on empty mediation. Zou Yalian came to the Song Dynasty and was even dismissed by Quanzhou Prefecture. The Song Dynasty had no intention of allowing Zou Yalian to enter Lin'an as a Champa envoy.
Zou Yalian finally managed to come to Lin'an, but not Lin'an as an envoy of Champa, but as a merchant of Champa.
Zou Yalian revealed his thoughts to Cai Jianwen. When Cai Jianwen heard about this, he came up with an idea. This idea was nothing more than to make the King of Chameng indulge in enjoyment and gradually forget about the matter of swords and weapons. Zou Yalian had the habit of a playboy, but when he heard this plan, he realized it was reasonable.
Then Zou Yalian saw the Mao family model building, and the prince of the Chameng royal family immediately fell in love with it. Even if he was not for the national plan, he intended to build such a building. Zou Yalian used his own judgment, so he thought that if he built a novel and luxurious palace for his cousin and kept a beautiful house in a golden house, the king would probably lose his ambitions from then on and no longer talk about soldiers easily. Besides, even if his cousin was not caught, it would always be good to build a gorgeous palace. For this cousin who was interested in fighting, those people in the country could not think of a way to stop him from sending troops. We would just do it as a living horse and try the way of the left side of the door, which might have unexpected results.
Mao Geng did not speak business with Zou Yalian at the beginning, but chatted with him in a wide range of places. According to the golden rules of sales in later generations, it was crucial to narrow the distance between customers. Therefore, Mao Geng guided Zou Yalian from time to time to talk about current affairs in Champa. Zou Yalian thought that Mao Geng advocated Champa civilization, so the conversation was always very prosperous, and it was said that he could speak everything and said everything. Soon, Mao Geng gained a general understanding of the situation of the three kingdoms in the Indochina Peninsula.
In the history of Mao Geng's previous life, the king of Champa, Jay Indra VI of Champa, launched an army to conquer Zhenwax in the next year (1190), but was defeated by King of Zhenwax. The army of Zhenwax took advantage of the victory and captured the capital of Champa. Even Jay Indra VI of Champa. Jay Indra VI of Champa was also captured by Zhenwax. Jay Indra VI of Champa. Jay Indra VI of Champa originally wanted to destroy Zhenwax, but in the end he died.
Mao Geng came from later generations and did not know about the grudge between Chameng and Zhenwax, but he knew about Annan, that is, Vietnam annexed Chameng. Mao Geng complained in his heart that Chameng and Zhenwax should have joined forces to compete with Annan. Just as Shu Han's "union of Wu and Cao" during the Three Kingdoms was the correct national policy, and it was the same truth. But what's funny is that Chameng and Zhenwax were determined to fight to the death. According to Mao Geng's idea, isn't this a waste of Annan?
Given that Mao Geng had no good impression of Vietnam in later generations, Mao Geng turned his mind at this time and thought that he would certainly make money from Chameng, but how to make Chameng more disgusting Annan and be able to compete with Annan for a long time can be considered together. If he could help Chameng, the money would be more reasonable.
Mao Geng conceived a night last night. Today, he was prepared and proposed three plans for the upper, middle and lower. The first plan is of course the most expensive and the most luxurious construction plan, and the third plan is the most frugal, but I thought the other party would not choose, so it should be the second plan that has the greatest hope of success. But after the three plans were put out, judging by the situation, the customer looked rich and generous, and seemed to be more interested in the first plan.
Chapter completed!