"Madam, come here."

Lai Fu attacked his wife, an eighteen-year-old white woman wearing a blue narrow-sleeved short coat and a red double-breasted shirt. This was his wife Isabella de Seguer, the type of person who owns castles and territory and can pull out a hundred or dozens of knights! He is also the number one figure among the many vassals of the French king.

If it weren't for the Mongolian invasion and France destroyed the country, Isabella would definitely be the object that many tall, rich and handsome Europa's famous young men wanted to pursue! After all, she only had one brother, and her brother had not made his wife pregnant for several years, and she was keen on participating in various competitions and wars. As long as she was a little surprised, Isabella would be the future Count Seguel!

However, France's demise made her lose everything overnight. From the second heir to the Kingdom of Beth above the clouds, she became an exile with nothing. If she had not met the rich merchant Lai Daguan from Cyris, she would not have known whether she would one day sell her body in exchange for food to fill her stomach.

Hearing her husband's call, Isabella smiled gently, walked forward obediently, and performed a curtsy. Although Lai Fu was just a pawn used to explore the way in the eyes of a person like Chen Chongguan, it would not be distressed if he was killed by the Mongols! But in Isabella's eyes, he was nobler than any prince in Europa. Being able to become his wife is enough to make any princess in Europa feel jealous.

"My husband." The beautiful Earl's lady looked at Lai Fu with a affectionate look, and said the Chinese Isabella de Segur, who had just learned, was very talented in language. Before marrying Lai Fu, she could speak French, Latin, Greek, three German dialects, three Italian dialects and three Iberian dialects. Now she quickly learned Taizhou Mandarin, and even learned complex Chinese characters with Chinese self-study books bought from Macau. The speed of progress made Lai Fu, a Chinese nobleman who could not recognize a lot of big words, feel ashamed.

"Mr. Solomon has made someone prepare dinner." Isabella smiled softly and spoke Chinese with a Taizhou accent, which made Lai Fu feel like he was going home.

"Let them wait a moment." Lai Fu pulled his wife's tender and slender hands. The two went to the side of the boat together and leaned against the railing. "Is this very close to your hometown?"

"Yeah. It's very close." Isabella looked at the familiar and unfamiliar scenery, and her big and shining eyes were covered with a layer of thin tears.

Her family was once a loyal follower of the French royal family and made great contributions in the war between Britain and France. Therefore, she obtained a castle that originally belonged to the Duchy of Normandy (the territory of the British Plantain dynasty) and became an earl.

Lai Fu did not pay attention to his wife's expression, but was attracted by the pastoral scenery by the Seine River.

"It's very rich here, and... it's impossible to tell at all that I've been attacked by the Mongols."

Lai Fu was probably the first Ming official to enter the core ruling area of ​​the Mongolian Europa Empire. The scenes he saw now were very different from the rumors he heard in Hong Kong and Macau. The Mongols did not seem to have started killing on the land of France. There was no difference between villages and pastorals and before the war. Serfs were still farming, and their lives seemed to be no different from before the war.

"Yes, my husband," Isabella wiped her tears. "The Principality of Normandy is indeed very rich, and the agriculture on both sides of the Seine is very developed. The capital of the Principality, Rouen, is one of the richest cities in France. Before... before the Mongols came, most of the year, my family and I lived in Rouen."

"We will live in Rouen City in the future," Lai Fu took a breath, "if we can negotiate with the Mongolian Xiangye Liu this time."

The establishment of the Business Supervision Department in Rouen was a dispatch sent by Lai Fu from the Atlantic Governor's Office. If it could be successfully established, Lai Fu was the first business supervisor. In the future, he would be able to serve as the representative of the Atlantic Governor's Office in Rouen. If there was no talk, his business supervision would naturally be gone! If he could go further and go to Paris to meet Kublai Khan, Chen Chongguan would promote him to be a consul...

"So... can I go back to Segul Castle to take a look?" Isabella asked hesitantly.

The territory of the Seguer family is near the city of Rouen, and Isabella really wants to go and see it.

"Try it," Lai Fu said carefully, "When I see Liu Xiaoyuan, I will find an opportunity to propose it to him."

...

The Great Mongolian official who was preparing to meet Lai Fu, the Minister of Rites and the Chief Minister of the Red Banner Liu Xiaoyuan, sat in a sedan chair with eight carrying large sedan chairs and surrounded by full prime ministers and personal followers. He finally arrived at Luvier, less than 30 miles from Rouen's mansion.

"Zhao Ye, Luvier's inn has arrived. The Prime Minister's personal barracks have guarded the Prime Minister's tiger frame around the inn. The local magistrate of Luvier has brought several tables to the Prime Minister. When I asked for a visit, I ordered the Prime Minister to block the car... In addition, I wonder if the Prime Minister wants to send someone to find some girls in the nearby villages? Please tell me."

The person who spoke was Liu Xiaoyuan's tribe, named Liu Zitai, who is now his personal military camp. He just took office and did not have enough experience in serving in Liu Xiaoyuan. He actually asked Liu Xiaoyuan if he wanted to send troops to a nearby village to find French girls to sleep with him.

Hearing the words of his own tribe, Liu Xiaoyuan smiled in the sedan chair: "No need, if you want a girl to warm the bed, go and search for it, but it can't hurt people's lives, do you know?"

This is France, and it was the Middle Ages. The nobles had the power to sleep in the serf's daughters. It's natural to sleep with the bannerman master now... Moreover, for the French serfs, the bannerman master seemed to be better than the original noble master.

Because the bannermen and the masters do not live in the countryside, they do not have much demand for serfs, they just need to be some food when harvesting. Moreover, there is also a quantity of grain handed over, which is collected according to the amount of land cultivated by each serf, about 20% of the harvest. The rest are all the serfs themselves. In fact, the bannermen and the masters do not regard these French countrymen as serfs, but treat them as ordinary farmers.

In the two places where the Mongolian governments, the Paris Palace and Rouen Palace, had already established, even began to issue land deeds to French farmers, making them self-cultivated farmers who own the land!

After getting out of the sedan chair, Liu Xiaoyuan looked around and found himself outside a castle gate by the Seine River. The castle was surrounded by farmland and wheat was planted. It was about to be harvested. The ears of wheat looked heavy, and it was obviously a good year.

Many French people dressed as farmers seemed to be attracted by the huge movements of Liu Xiaoyuan and his group. They were willing to stand beside the fields, stretched their necks and looked at their new masters curiously. The new era seemed not bad. At least these masters from the East asked for less serfs than the original knight masters.

The gate of the castle was open, and a Semu official led a few guards who were also Semu people and bent down at the door to welcome him. They should be the postmaster and postmaster at the postmaster, and of course they are also the so-called flag slaves. The Semu official was mostly a slave in the Shangting family of Rouen Mansion. The bannerman who served as officials was a civil servant. It was already a common practice for Liu Xiaoyuan to do this himself. There were many clerks in his ritual office who were his Semu flag slaves.

"Prince, do you want to rest soon?" Liu Zitai leaned over and smiled at Liu Xiaoyuan, "I will take a boat to Rouen Mansion tomorrow morning."

"Oh? The business supervisor of the Ming Dynasty has arrived in Rouen?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked.

“It should be available this afternoon.”

"This afternoon?" Liu Xiaoyuan looked up at the sky and said to himself, "It's already here? I don't know where this business supervisor came from and what he wants to do..."

...

"Officer Lai, you can only move on this island..."

"What? Only on this island? Why?"

Laifu had already arrived in Rouen, but did not enter the city, but went to a small island in the Seine River next to Rouen. This is a narrow and long island, which the Mongolians named it "Carcity Island". The island is across the water from the prosperous city of Rouen. Originally, there were villas here that were unknown to the French master. Now the entire island has been converted into a market, and along the west bank of the island is a row of docks and shopping malls. Most of the shopping malls are still under construction. Only a few shopping malls seem to be rebuilt with old buildings and are now in use.

Laifu counted and found that there were eighteen berths at the pier, each corresponding to a cargo house and a shopping mall. Merchant ships were moored everywhere on the river. The main ones were Kirk sailing ships and long ships sailing inland rivers. Most of the former were flags of Norway and Sweden. These two Viking pirate countries did not go to war with the Mongols, so their merchant ships could enter and exit the Seine River, but they could only go to the mall island of Rouen.

The person in charge of receiving Lai Fu was also a Han man, who was in his sixties. He always looked at someone's old servant with a simple smile. But a pair of triangular old eyes flashed from time to time, emitting a few rays of light.

This person's surname is Liu. His name is Liu An. He was originally the housekeeper of Liu Xiaoyuan. He is now also a European bannerman, and he also has an official who is the deputy supervisor of the customs of Rouen. He is always on the island of the mall to interact with merchants from various countries who are communicating with trade. He is also responsible for secret contact with the Atlantic Governor's Office of the Ming Dynasty and the Kingdom of England.

"There is no reason, so that's what the above said. The old man just acts according to the rules."

Liu An touched his gray beard and replied lightly: "Now Khan is implementing a policy of closing the country in Europe. The two people in the country are engaged in trade. Apart from the Rouen Shopping Mall Island here, it is the Golden Horn of Constantinople. Apart from these two places, foreign merchants are not allowed to set foot elsewhere, and they can be executed if they violate the order. Chinese businessmen are not allowed nor can they enter the Shopping Mall Island and the Golden Horn, otherwise it will be a death penalty!"

Of course, this "close-close-country" is just a beginning. It is said that it is a trade between the two parties, but in fact it is leaking everywhere and smuggling is rampant. However, with the stability of the Mongol rule in Europe, the "close-close-country" policy will definitely become more and more severe!

He made a gesture of Suke and pointed to a very beautiful shopping mall next to the dock.

"Master Lai, Mrs. Lai, Mr. Solomon, please come with the young old man, the banquet has been prepared."

Refu and Selassi Solomon looked at each other, and Solomon asked, "Mr. Liu, even entering and leaving, how should we do business?"

"Business can be done naturally," Old Man Liu led the way and pointed at the surrounding shopping malls with a smile. "See? There are eighteen shopping malls here, which are the places where foreign merchants trade. Just look for these eighteen shopping malls. Whatever you want to buy and sell, you can just pay the taxes and fees you need to pay. Moreover, these eighteen shopping malls also have their own guest rooms, and foreign merchants can live here. The merchants will provide the food and drink expenses, and you can just give them money."

He suddenly stopped, turned around, and said to Lai Fu quite seriously: "Master Lai, you must remind you that our place is not the Ming Dynasty, and merchants cannot buy a gentry card and are disrespectful to the government... Here, merchants must be loyal to the government, the court, and the Khan! This is especially true for the eighteen merchants!"

The Eighteen-League system was naturally also figured out by the counselors of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty around Kublai Khan. The foreign trade of the Mongolian and European Empire was monopolized, and only by becoming a businessman and entering a shopping mall could he engage in profitable foreign trade.

To become a businessman, one must serve the court, serve the Mongols, and have official positions, but the bannermen and banner slaves cannot be appointed. According to Kublai Khan's will, the bannermen are not allowed to engage in business openly, and there are many restrictions on holding the banner. The main responsibility of the bannermen is to serve in the army for Kublai Khan's empire, and they cannot become rich merchants one by one. In this way, they will have no combat power!

In addition to doing business, the Mongolian Europa Empire also had two types of privileged merchants, imperial merchants and official merchants.

The Imperial Merchant was a big merchant who had business dealings with the Chiexue Mansion. Among them, there were nine largest imperial merchants, commonly known as the Nine Great Emperor Merchants. They mainly came from the Eastern Roman Empire, the Ross countries and Lithuania. They were the first Europa merchants to defect to the Great Mongolian, the foreign trade routes in Constantinople, and trade with the Golden Horde, the Ily Khanate, and the Menggetemuro Khanate in the Two Rivers.

Officials and businessmen are big merchants serving various banners, with about a hundred and scattered throughout the country, mainly engaged in monopoly industries such as selling salt, making wine and selling wine, developing mines, and buying and selling slaves.

Like the merchants, the heads of the imperial merchants and officials and businessmen also have official positions granted by Mongolia, and are not bannermen or slaves. Of course, these three types of privileged merchants undoubtedly have some special friendships with the great men of the Mongolian Europa Empire.
Chapter completed!