When the Yan State's documents were sent to the Wu State, the newly-made Clippers sailed starry night. After all, preparing for the tea-horse market was a connection between life and death of Yan State, and there was no slackness at all. Fortunately, the calculations were correct, and there were no storms in the days, so the Clippers arrived at the dock without any danger.

Wu Guojianye was close to him, and Jia Fan, who was carrying the documents, walked into the Palace of the King of Wu as an envoy.

Sun Quan was in the top, staring at Jia Fan at the stairs, and said in surprise: "Are you the censor Jia Fan of Gongsun Xiu?"

“It’s right down.”

As soon as Jia Fan looked up, he looked at Sun Quan's purple beard and blue eyes. He felt quite afraid and secretly sighed: "People say that Master Wu was born with a majestic appearance and was different from ordinary people. When he saw him today, he was really extraordinary."

He calmed down and said, "I am here to be instructed by the King of Yan to come to visit Master Wu."

At this time, except for Sun Quan, there were Gu Yong and Zhuge Jin in the palace. When they heard the word "hate", they both hummed with their noses to express their dissatisfaction.

Sun Quan said coldly: "I have known about the King of Yan that he would not enter the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. I just don't know what happened this time? Last time, Sima Yi attacked Liao, and Yan asked me to send troops to help. As a result, the King of Yan removed the firewood from the bottom of the cauldron, which made my Wu Navy fight Sima Yi endlessly. This time I heard that Cao Shuang was also interested in sending troops to attack Yan. Could it be that the King of Yan sent you as a lobbyist?"

He was so angry that he snorted coldly when he said this: "I really think I dare not kill the envoy?"

Jia Fan was quite nervous and smiled and said, "That-that is a misunderstanding. The King of Yan specially sent him to clarify. This time, the envoy was not to transfer rescue troops, but to trade with Wu."

Sun Quan said "Oh" and his face looked quite happy, but he restrained it in time. Wu has always lacked war horses. The local Yunnan Dian horse can only be used to transport goods. It is quite reasonable to use it as a mule, and it is almost impossible to use it as a war horse. He asked without changing his face: "What are your country's things to exchange for?"

This was also the problem that Sun Quan tried his best to win over Gongsun Yuan back then. Although the two countries of Yan and Wu were separated by the vast sea and had no territory, this was Sun Quan's strategic intention of diversification. First, it was to trade war horses, and the two sides traded each other. After all, Jiangdong lacked war horses. Secondly, it was to cultivate Liaodong to grow and tempt it to make Yan a border threat to the north of Cao Wei. For this reason, Sun Quan sent more than 10,000 troops to Liaodong, but was eaten by Gongsun Yuan.

Today, the three major Chinese forces are all the strongest in Wei, while Wu and Shu often form alliances to resist Wei, which is repeated.

The Battle of Red Cliff in the 13th year of Jian'an was the peak battle of the Sun-Liu Alliance, and defeated Cao Cao's ambition to quickly unify Jiuzhou.

In the 24th year of Jian'an, Guan Yu was ordered by Liu Bei to attack Fancheng where Cao Cao was located, but was sent by Sun Quan to stab Guan Yu and retake Jingzhou, resulting in the death of Guan Yu, the tiger general of Shu Kingdom, and the Wu-Shu alliance was broken.

In the second year of Zhangwu, after Liu Bei failed to attack Wu for Guan Yu, Sun Quan sent an envoy to Shu Kingdom to ask for peace. Later, under Zhuge Liang's suggestion, he admitted that Sun Quan was the emperor, which was inevitably criticized. After all, Shu Han always regarded himself as orthodox and was a thief of the Wei Kingdom. Now, for the sake of alliance, he had to recognize Sun Quan's throne and agreed to the agreement of "sharing the world".

Of course, the division of the world is more like a map cannon. The two countries of Shu and Wu have already imagined how to divide the world. Even if you occupy a few states and I occupy a few states, the boundary between each other is divided wherever they are.

"The Three Kingdoms: Biography of Chen Zhen" records: "Sun Quan and Zhensheng's alliance were in harmony and divided into the world: Xu, Yu, You, Qing belonged to Wu, Liang, Ji, and Yan belonged to Shu, and the land of Sizhou was bounded by Hangu Pass."

The serious covenant of sacrifice to heaven declared that Shu and Wu formed another alliance and divided the world. It even wrote in the covenant and recorded: "Since today, after the Han Dynasty and Wu have joined forces, they have worked together to fight the Wei thieves; if it harms Han, Wu will attack it; if it harms Wu, Han will attack it."

Sun Quan repaired the rift with Shu Kingdom and was quite concerned about Gongsun Yuan. He originally planned to add the King of Yan to Gongsun Yuan, grant him the title of Jiuxi, and ordered him to command the various empty words of the seventeen counties of You and Qing Prefectures.

As a result, the old fence-bearer killed the envoys directly and swallowed more than 10,000 troops from the State of Wu. He turned to rely on Cao Wei. Soon after, he proclaimed himself king and named the country Yan.

And now it is even more outrageous. Gongsun Xiu usurped his father's throne and surrendered to the State of Wei, which made Sun Quan very angry.

Of course, when the energy is returned, Sun Quan was happy to gradually grow and grow, so that Wei would have to distribute troops to deal with Yan.

Besides, it is the most important thing to be able to trade with each other.

Jia Fan thought that it was indeed a good thing to trade with each other. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled and said, "This is mostly the Wu area that I owned by Yan State, and even more than that. The only thing that can be used is war horses."

Sun Quan was stunned and then laughed: "This is not bad. How many war horses will be produced by the King of Yan? I have gold, silver, jewelry, Shu brocade, silk and satin here, and it is convenient to communicate with each other."

Jia Fan said: "No hurry. The King of Yan sent an old minister to ask if there was any tea cake in Wu."

"Tea cake?"

Sun Quan was stunned, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong, and pondered: "The two are of great value, how do you change it?"

The ministers looked at each other and didn't understand why Yan State had to exchange precious war horses for tea cakes.

Although the price of tea cakes is not expensive, it is only the powerful family who have reserved their homes. It has not yet been widely popularized on a large scale, and ordinary people drink less.

War horses are different. They are both transportation and transportation tools, and one of the ancient war resources.

It’s crazy to exchange horses for tea!

Although tea is produced in Bashu, it has begun to flow to various prefectures and counties since the Qin Dynasty unified the world, and it is more or less planted in various places, and the Jiangdong area is particularly prosperous.

On the way here, Jia Fan had already ordered people to check the price of tea cakes. He thought that what the former King of Yan explained before leaving, how much could it be exchanged. Anyway, we may not be short of tea, and Jiangdong must be short of horses.

He pondered: "A war horse is exchanged for four hundred kilograms of tea, and the King of Yan ordered his old minister to trade with two thousand war horses."

The smile on Sun Quan's face slowly froze. He thought that although two thousand war horses are precious, one thousand cavalry can be equipped with one horse and two horses. But the cost of each war horse is extremely expensive to exchange for 400 kilograms of tea. He thought: "If you exchange it like this, it may not be cost-effective."

At the same time, I was quite suspicious and frowned and said, "Your country wants to exchange so many tea leaves, what's the matter?"

Jia Fan said nonsensely: "It's not a big problem. In recent months, there have been many miasma in Liaodong. People and soldiers were disgusted when they heard this. Alchemy masters and sorcerers all said 'It's solved when they meet tea'."

There are many records of tea that can detoxify. The "Shennong Bencao Jing" of the Han Dynasty records: "Shennong tastes hundreds of herbs, and encounters 72 poisons in one day, and gets tea and relieves it."

In response to this, Jia Fan once dug out this sentence in the palace of the Yan King and told the Yan King that the two had an interesting conversation.

When the King of Yan heard this, he smiled and said, "It is mostly a weak point, which can produce fluid and quench thirst, clear heat and reduce fire. However, no matter how powerful Shennong tastes hundreds of herbs, he can't taste the book written by an old friend of Gu. If you read it carefully, you will get poisonous after reading it within three pages."

Jia Fan was shocked: "Can you get poisoned even if you read books? Could it be that you feed the poison between the cracks in the pages of the book - I just don't know who the old friend of the king is named?"

Gongsun Xiudao: "No, this poison is colorless and tasteless, and it is not easy to detect at all. When you feel poisoning, there is no medicine to relieve it. This old friend of the orphan is named Linghu. Every time he writes, readers will die. It is not easy to survive three chapters. There are countless people who die from poison. Fortunately, this person is hiding in the mountains and is not known to the world."

Jia Fan could only hear the fog and echoed: "Fortunately, this old friend of the king, Linghu, has never had any works circulated in the world. Otherwise, I would not know that there were thousands of scholars in the world who were poisoned by it."

After three years of contact, he had long been accustomed to the strange words and fresh words of the king, and did not ask more questions, but only remembered the important things he needed to go to Jiangdong.

Sun Quan didn't know whether he was right or wrong, but if there were such a large amount of tea, it wouldn't be possible to purchase it like this without major changes. He frowned and said, "War horses are precious, but tea leaves are from cultivation, picking, and exposing them to the sun. Every process is extremely complicated. I can't accept it if a war horse is exchanged for 400 kilograms of tea. If the noble envoy intends to change it, I have to promise you that a war horse will exchange for 300 kilograms of tea."

"Only three hundred kilograms..."

Jia Fan was overjoyed, pretending to be worried on his face, frowned and said, "It's not easy to transport horses here. This time, it's been several months since then. The King of Yan told his ministers to exchange for 400 kilograms of tea. However, the ministers did not know that there were many processes for cultivating, picking, and exposing the sun. Only after hearing the master of Wu's clever explanation did he realize the difficulty of making tea. Since this is the case, it would be okay to exchange for 300 kilograms of tea for a war horse."
Chapter completed!