Chapter 1105: Success in the East and Success in the West (Ninety-Eight)

"King of the King!" This is the second time that Tan Feng has stepped into the Black Ice Terrace. The last time was when King Qin Wulie summoned him. He had come in once before. Time has passed and things have changed. The Black Ice Terrace has changed a lot. Compared with the time when King Qin Wulie was in power, this black palace was empty. Now the palace is full of curtains, rare woods, fragrant soft couches, and everything else.

"Get up, Tan Feng. You are from the north. You have been in the south for so long. Are you used to it?" Ying Ying, the current King Qin Wei, looked at Tan Feng in front of him and said with a smile.

"I am a soldier. Wherever I go, I can quickly adapt to the local environment. The north has its own problems. Well, the south has its own charm, each is good at its own place, it depends on how you treat him!" Tan Feng said.

"Well said!" Ying Ying clapped his hands and laughed: "Get used to it, you are the talent that my father told me to use before he died, I will not forget this."

"The late king really praised me too much." Tan Feng bowed his head and said humbly.

"My father values ​​you, but Tan Feng, you also know that you and Zhou Yu both rose to fame suddenly in Qin. When my father was here, he had his prestige and he had nothing to worry about. But I have just come to power, but I don't have the ability of my father to make decisions, so I can't take care of you like my father. These days, I have Many people have been talking about you two in the court meeting." Ying Ying said.

"Your Majesty, thank you for your concern. I will do my best to work for the Qin State." Tan Feng whispered.

"Well, it's best if you understand this. If you can make great contributions to the Qin State, then naturally no one will gossip. Now there is basically no possibility of conflict between us and the Chu State. Huang Xie, the chief minister of the Chu State, has also sent an envoy to discuss with us about dealing with the Han State together. Therefore, we no longer need to gather so many troops on the border between Qin and Chu. I plan to transfer you to Han to station there, where the Northern Field Army Group of the Han Army is stationed. You must know Xu Yuan, a complete human War maniac, although we have signed a peace agreement with the Han Kingdom, the provocations of the Han army there are happening every day. The current garrison commander is not responding well. I hope you can go there and save some of the situation."

"Your Highness understands!" Tan Feng nodded. "We can't fight a large-scale war with the Han Kingdom for the time being, but even if it is a small-scale confrontation, we can't lose face and let the opponent look down on our Great Qin."

"Well said!" Ying Ying nodded with relief, "This is the first, and the second, you also know that the means by which the Han army conquered Kangping City this time were really too amazing. Now in the Chu Kingdom, it is rumored that this is God's punishment for Chu, saying that this is God's favor for the Han Kingdom. The king was high and far away, so he sent down divine punishment, which made the people of Chu panic and Huang Xie anxious."

"It's ridiculous, what divine punishment? This is just another powerful weapon made by the Han Kingdom. You know, Your Majesty, the Han Kingdom has always been very good at these strange and tricky things. This is just another weapon."

"Whether it is divine punishment or a powerful weapon, if the Han army uses it against us, how can we deal with it?" Ying Ying asked.

Tan Feng was silent for a while and said: "We can't deal with it now."

"That's right, so after you go to Han, there is another thing, which is to find out the ins and outs of this weapon and how it was made. If the Han State has such large-scale lethal weapons and we don’t, how can we fight future wars and compete with them?” Ying Ying said: “Originally, I asked Zhongli of the Black Ice Platform to do this, but the Black Ice Platform was suppressed so badly in the Han State that it couldn’t even raise its head. Zhongli told me that when you left the Yan State, you also hid a group of Yan Lingwei’s confidants. Can you still control these people now?”

“It’s all under control.” Tan Feng said: “Don’t worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely do a good job of this.”

“Okay, if you do this well, I will promote you to Houye. In our Qin State, it’s not like the high-minded Han State. Houye is just an empty title. In our Qin State, it’s not like the high-minded Han State. Houye is just an empty title. Here, it's real." Ying Ying smiled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I will definitely complete this task."

After leaving the palace, Tan Kang had already been waiting outside the palace with his horse. Tan Feng's house in Xianyang was not big, and only his mother, wife, and a few guards lived there.

Having not been back to Xianyang for more than half a year, walking on the streets of Xianyang, Tan Feng suddenly found that Xianyang was much more prosperous now than when he left. There were shops on both sides of the street, one after another, and even stalls were set up on both sides of the street, and all kinds of goods filled the shops.

"The war is over, and everything is getting better!" Tan Feng looked at a cloth shop on the street, turned over and got off the horse, He said to Tan Kang: "Let's go. I haven't been back for a long time. As a son, I must show my filial piety and buy some good fabrics to bring home to buy some new clothes for the old lady. And the guards who stayed at home should also buy new clothes."

"The general is considerate of the servants!" Tan Kang said with a smile.

The two walked into the shop. The shop owner was a smart man. Although Tan Feng was wearing casual clothes and had nothing special on him, Tan Kang, who was following behind Tan Feng, had a sword on his waist. In Xianyang, you can't just walk around with a sword, especially after the rebellion of the eldest prince.

"This guest, please come in, please come in." The owner greeted him attentively.

"Boss, you have a rich supply of goods here. Many of these patterns and colors were not very common before?" Tan Feng looked at the rolls of cloth on the counter with a smile.

"Well, these goods are all coming from Han. The transportation is good. This is a new batch of goods that just came in yesterday. I will sort them out and put them on the counter today!" said the boss.

"Goods from Han?" Tan Feng frowned slightly.

"Yes, they came from Han. Don't tell me, sir, that the cloth from Han is softer, stronger, and more beautiful than our own. Moreover, it has many kinds of designs and pure colors. Compared with ours, The country's cloth is so powerful that almost none of the country's cloth is sold in Xianyang City anymore," the boss introduced at the side.

Tan Feng's heart skipped a beat, "This cloth is really good, but the price is certainly not cheap. You don't sell your own cloth, so how can ordinary people afford the good cloth from Han?"

"Look at what you said, guest sir. Have you just come back from overseas?"

"I just came back from the south."

"Oh, no wonder the guest didn't know. This cloth is cheaper than the domestic cloth we used to sell!" the boss said with a smile.

"What? Even cheaper? How is this possible?" Tan Kang on the side yelled in surprise.

Tan Feng glared at Tan Kang, "Boss, please take one piece of each of the cloths on the counter and send them to Tanfu, Hengdianzi Hutong, Xicheng. Tan Kang, please pay."

"Thank you for your business!" As soon as he heard that he wanted one, the boss immediately burst into laughter. I bet it was a big business.

After walking out of the cloth store, Tan Feng did not get on his horse and leave. Instead, he led the horse and walked forward for a while, then walked straight into a grocery store.

"Sir, what do you want to order?" The store owner smiled brightly, "But there are Chinese goods that just came in, they are good and cheap."

Tan Feng stared at a bag of salt in the corner of the grocery store, "Boss, doesn't it look like this salt is produced in Daqin?"

"Your Majesty, you have good eyesight. Who in Xianyang still uses local salt now? Look!" The boss reached out and picked up a handful of salt and slipped it from between his fingers. "Look at this snowflake salt, how pure it is, but there is not even a trace of sand in it." It’s not adulterated, but the price is the same as our previous salt prices. Once this Han salt comes on the market, no one wants our domestic salt in Xianyang even though the price has dropped! Now we can no longer buy our own salt in Xianyang.”

Tan Feng took a deep breath. How could something like salt be allowed to come in from the Han Dynasty? When he walked out of the grocery store, Tan Kang saw a bag of Han salt held in Tan Feng's hand, "General, you, you What are you buying salt for?”

"Tan Kang, you go home first and tell the old lady and madam that I'm back. Now I'm going to go to the chief assistant." Tan Feng said in a deep voice.

Fan Sui received the general who had just returned from the south with a smile on his face. Nowadays, there are many objections in the court about Tan Feng and Zhou Yu, two Yan people, leading the Qin army. However, Fan Sui does not think so, and he himself is not He was born and raised in Qin, and he quite recognized the abilities of Tan Feng and Zhou Yu.

"General Tan just came out of the palace. I thought you would go home to recuperate for a few days before coming to my place to do some official handovers? Why did you come here so quickly?" Fan Sui said. "Sit down, please sit down!" "

Tan Feng placed the Han salt he had just bought in front of Fan Sui.

"Why, General Tan is giving me a gift?" Fan Sui opened the paper bag with a big smile and looked at the snowflake silver inside. He couldn't help but be shocked, "General Tan, what does this mean?"

"Xiang Fan, after I left the palace today, I took a stroll on the street. What I saw and heard was shocking. Our shops are full of Han goods. Even salt, which is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, has Han goods. Monopoly, others don’t understand what it means, and I don’t believe Fan Xiang and I don’t understand either!”

Fan Sui smiled and reached out to fiddle with the snow-white salt flowers: "Is this good?"

"Of course it's good."

"Then do you think the price of this thing should be higher than that of our own products?"

"Of course, but his current price is only the same as our salt, which will drive our salt out of the water." Tan Feng said: "Fan Xiang, this is not a small matter."

Fan Sui snorted coldly: "Since the price of salt must be higher than ours, why is it lower? Not to mention the cost itself, how much does it cost to transport it thousands of miles away? Han Chinese Losing money and making noise, do you think they can last? This is something that was agreed upon in the peace negotiation agreement. If the Han people do this, they are probably waiting for us to fall out. Once we fall out, they will have an excuse, right? But we put up with it. Once I endure it, I want to see how long the Han people can hold on?" (To be continued)