10,000 taels of silver, roughly speaking, is equivalent to 10,000 jin of copper coins, but in fact, 10,000 taels of silver can be exchanged for more copper coins. After all, gold and silver have been hard currency since ancient times, and the circulation of gold and silver on the market is not large.

Many people packed gold and silver in crock pots and buried them somewhere in their homes, and did not use them easily.

There are many people in Jiankang City who can take out ten thousand jin of copper coins at any time, but not so many people who can take out ten thousand taels of silver at any time. Therefore, the value of the 10,000 taels of silver that Kong Fan received is a fraction higher than that of the 10,000 taels of copper coins.

Therefore, he had a new understanding of the wealth of his "friend" Yuwen Wen's wealth. This was not in the other party's old nest, Xiyang City. Since he could give out so much silver in Jiankang, Kong Fan felt that Yuwen Wen must have a secret house in the city.

And the secret house has a silver reserved for more than 10,000 taels.

Kong Fan was a little curious. He was not sure how Yuwen Wen accumulated so much silver. Although the other party made a lot of profits by selling glass mirrors, the "direct sales location" was not in Jiankang.

He was entrusted by Yuwen Wen to buy a large amount of incense medicine for him in Jiankang, so he felt that the other party made money by reselling incense medicine, but after thinking about it carefully, there were new problems.

Yuwen Wen had bought incense medicine in Jiankang, so it was impossible for him to be sold in the city. He would have to be shipped elsewhere, so the equivalents such as gold, silver, jewelry and other products obtained from the sale would only be stored elsewhere.

But Yuwen Wen was able to have so much silver in Jiankang. Kong Fan felt that it was very likely that the other party's person had transported the proceeds from selling incense and medicine to Xiyang and saved a part of it in Jiankang.

Xiyang is the end point, Jiankang is the middle way, so the place where Yuwen Wen’s business is east of Jiankang, and the east of Jiankang is the estuary of the Yangtze River.

Kong Fan occasionally provides Yuwen Wen’s travel convenience, knowing that the other party loads the incense medicine out of the ship, so where does the ship just go after entering the sea?

If it is sold in the North, it is all the territory of Zhou. Yuwen Wen does not need to take the risk of shipping, so it may be doing maritime trade.

After entering the sea from the Yangtze River, you can reach Lingbiao Guangzhou, but Guangzhou is a distribution center for overseas merchants and the main source of Jiankang fragrant medicine, so Kong Fan knew that Yuwen Wen's people were definitely not sailing south to Lingbiao.

Then you must go north to Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and even Japan. After selling incense and medicine there, you will return with full silver. After entering the Yangtze River, you will return to Xiyang. When you pass by Jiankang, you will have some silver in the secret house in the city.

Thinking of this possibility, Kong Fan was shocked by his inference. The connection between Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Japan and the Jiankang court was intermittent, and the envoys all came to Jiankang by boat, but few people in the Chen State specialized in maritime trade with these foreign countries.

As far as he knows, most of the fleets of Chen Guohai Shang travel between Jiankang (Jingkou), Fengzhou Houguan, Guangzhou Panyu, Jiaozhou Longbing and other ports. In other words, the sea trade area is in the south and the sea area north of the Yangtze River estuary, and basically no one goes there.

As a result, Yuwen Wen, whose territory is located in Huangzhou, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is very likely to start a northern sea trade. Kong Fan feels that this person's ambition is probably not small, because the sea trade is profitable, which is enough to make people get rich overnight. If Yuwen Wen is only satisfied with being a wealthy prince, there is no need to make such a struggle.

Kong Fan knew that Yuwen Wen had strong financial resources. Even if there was no sea trade, the profits of selling glass mirrors over the years were enough to make him squander. Under this premise, he still had to make a lot of money by making money by sea trade, which only shows that the goal was not small.

Although Kong Fan is from Chen and how Zhou State has nothing to do with him, he thinks that if Yuwen Wen really makes a name for himself, it is not impossible for him to make profits from it.

Not to mention the distance, just talking about the current situation. He and Shi Wenqing just advocated "to move the Northern Expedition and unify the Central Plains" in the ears of the officials. In fact, he and Shi Wenqing did not believe this.

The domestic situation in Chen State is actually not optimistic. The upstream land and the ridges were lost. The war that lasted for nearly a year has exhausted the military and civilians. Jiankang's food stocks are no longer sufficient. Whether it is attacking the north and defending the west or attacking the north and defending the west, one must be very cautious when using troops.

Once defeated, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing mostly know more about the hidden dangers in China, but they don’t plan to mention them in front of Chen Shubao, because the government doesn’t like to listen, so why should they let it go?

The same thing is said, they say whatever the government likes to hear, and it doesn’t matter to what the country will become.

Anyway, Jiankang has its own royal aura, and even if the Northern Barbarians are at the city, they will retreat sooner or later. Kong Fan and Shi Wenqing feel that as long as they serve the official family well, they will enjoy endless wealth and glory.

Up to now, they have done it and become the confidants around the official family. As long as the official family is in one day, they can enjoy the glory and wealth of one day.

But what if something happens?

This is a question that Kong Fan has been considering. The official family is too much wine and looks healthy, but he is afraid that he will die suddenly one day, and then Kong Fan's doomsday will come.

He knew that in the eyes of civil and military officials, he and Shi Wenqing and others were treacherous ministers and betrayals. Once the new king succeeded to the throne, it was very likely that he would "borrow" their heads to calm the public grievances.

Therefore, Kong Fan has been thinking about the future and tried his best to curry favor with the concubine Zhang Lihua, because Zhang Lihua's eldest son is already the crown prince. If the crown prince can be ascended to the throne, Zhang Lihua and his son will continue to reuse them in order to compete with foreign ministers.

But Kong Fan was still worried that he, Shi Wenqing and others, and the military generals were in a state of power and were not favored by civil officials. At that time, these civil and military officials colluded to launch a mutiny and wanted to "clear the king's side". At that time, the new king would definitely not be able to protect them.

Therefore, Kong Fan was still looking for another way out and successfully found it.

So he sincerely hopes that the Yuwen family of Zhou can compete with the Yuchi family. The Zhou family will be divided into East and West Zhou, and then the world will be divided into three parts, and then it will be in a tripod, and then he will be able to get along with the crowd.

If he couldn't stay in Chen State, he would go to the "Western Zhou" to join Yuwen Wen.

Yuwen Wen ordered someone to give him ten thousand taels of silver this time. Kong Fan guessed that the other party had a deep layout in Jiankang, so if something went wrong, he would go to the other party's spy and flee west with his family.

Of course, if Yuwen is defeated and Yuwen Wen runs to Chen State, he doesn't mind protecting this person's life in front of the official family. It is also a good choice to do business together again.

Thinking of this, Kong Fan became more and more proud. Seeing that Chen Shubao and Shi Wenqing were discussing the strategy of the Northern Expedition in a warm manner, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart: Northern Expedition? How many Northern Expeditions have been successful since the Jin Dynasty?

For more than two hundred years, during the Jin Dynasty, there were Zuti Northern Expeditions, Chu Qi Northern Expeditions, Yin Hao Northern Expeditions, Heng Wen Northern Expeditions, Xie Wan Northern Expeditions, Xie Xuan Northern Expeditions, and Liu Yu Northern Expeditions. During the Liu Song Dynasty, there were three Yuanjia Northern Expeditions.

There were several northern expeditions in Xiaoliang. During the Taijian period of Chen State, there were two northern expeditions. As a result, so many northern expeditions ended in failure. Kong Fan did not feel that with the current national strength of Chen State, he could support a successful northern expedition.

But the officials like to listen, so he wants to say that if he succeeds, he will be the hero; if he fails, he will let those military generals take responsibility in the future!
Chapter completed!