Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 35 The Strange Customer
The story about Zhao Yingluo in Kaifeng City made Wanyan Zongyi feel a deep sense of crisis.

After Wanyan Zongyi arrived in Kaifeng, he spent half a month wandering around Kaifeng City, inquiring about news related to Zhao Yingluo.After arriving in Kaifeng City, he learned that Zhao Yingluo was not only an expert in growing grain, but also an expert in business!The Dasong Bank and Drunken Hibiscus all over Kaifeng once again refreshed his understanding of this woman.

But he didn't know that Zhao Yingluo had other talents besides being a farming expert and business wizard. For example, only half a month after he arrived in Kaifeng, Zhao Yingluo had surrendered tens of thousands of grass bandits in Hebei.

Not only did he not know, except for Zongze's three old men, none of the officials in Kaifeng City knew much about it, because the news spread to the outside world was that Zongze sent people to recruit him.

Shocked, he decided to pay a personal visit to this legendary woman.

However, to his embarrassment, he sent five greeting messages, but all of them came to nothing, so he decided to wait and see, and ordered Han Fang to stay at the Song Dynasty Bank, while he soaked in drunken hibiscus all day long.

He didn't believe that Zhao Yingluo didn't care about making money except farming.

A customer spent time in Drunken Furong every day, which naturally attracted Chuntao's attention. After she reported the matter to Zhao Yingluo, Zhao Yingluo also became curious about this customer.

Wanyan Zongyi, who had been squatting in Zui Furong for ten days, couldn't bear it.

It would be okay if he ate hot pot every day, but his stomach and intestines couldn't handle it, so on the 11th day, Wanyan Zongyi moved to Baozhailou opposite Zui Furong.

Sitting on the second floor of Baozhai Building, he could have a complete view of the entry and exit of Zui Furong personnel. In addition to his own personal surveillance, he also ordered several of his subordinates to disperse around Zui Furong's entrance to observe Zhao Yingluo who appeared at any time.

On the tenth day of August, a large-scale corn harvest was about to take place. Before the corn harvest, Zhao Yingluo finally came to Zui Furong.

I came here this time, on the one hand, to check the accounts, and on the other hand, I wanted to meet this strange customer who had stayed in Zui Furong for ten days.

When Zhao Yingluo's carriage arrived at Zui Furong, Chuntao hurriedly went out to greet Zhao Yingluo and welcomed her in.

Wanyan Zongyi, who was sitting on the second floor opposite, was shocked when he saw this scene. It turned out that Zhao Yingluo was actually the peerless woman he met before arriving in Kaifeng.

I was so confused back then!Why didn't you guess that it was her when we met!Who else could be the female landowner in Kaifeng City besides her?
"Princess, please stay!" Seeing that Zhao Yingluo was about to go in, Wanyan Zongyi shouted hurriedly.

She looked back and saw Wanyan Zongyi in Hanfu waving to her and then disappeared on the second floor opposite.

"Girl, this is the person I'm talking about."

It turned out to be him, a businessman from the Kingdom of Jin, who came to Kaifeng City to sell ginseng!The one who stole corn outside Kaifeng earlier and was fined 50 taels of silver by himself.

Did he stay drunk in Furong for ten days in a row just to see him?Could it be like those TV dramas of later generations, where the male protagonist is either rich or noble, falls in love with the female protagonist at first sight, and then does everything possible to create opportunities for chance encounters or acquaintances?

While Zhao Yingluo was thinking wildly, Wanyan Zongyi had already gone downstairs and came to her.

After cupping his fists and saluting, he said, "I didn't know that the woman I met by chance was actually the legendary princess of Kaifeng City."

Zhao Yingluo immediately responded with a smile, "I didn't know that the person who stayed in Zui Furong for ten days was actually a corn thief!"

Chuntao stared in surprise and asked, "Girl, do you two know each other?"

Zhao Yingluo said jokingly, "It's impossible to talk about it, it's just the fate of 50 taels of silver."

Wanyan Zongyi said with some embarrassment, "I had no choice but to do it during the Ten Days of Drunken Furong. I wanted to visit my house many times, but my visit was in vain, so I came up with this strategy." Zhao Yingluo then remembered that there was indeed something earlier I sent a few greetings, but as soon as I saw the words "Jin Guo", I threw them away.

"What's up?"

"There is indeed something going on. This is not the place to talk about it. I don't know..."

Although Zhao Yingluo did not want to contact the Jin man, she did not refuse directly because of his persistence, "Let's go to the second floor!"

In the VIP room on the second floor, after the guests and hosts were seated, Wanyan Zongyi did not get straight to the point. He just kept praising the unique furnishings of the VIP room and so on.

"I think you'd better stop beating around the bush and just say what you have to say!"

What can happen to Wanyan Zongyi?He just wanted to test whether Zhao Yingluo was willing to go to the Kingdom of Jin, but he couldn't directly say, "Don't be a citizen of the Song Dynasty. Become a citizen of Dajin." After thinking about it, he decided to start from Starting from human nature.

In life, the most attractive things are money, power and sex.

There is no need to consider the first color. She is a stunningly beautiful woman, and it is impossible to seduce her with her beauty.How many handsome men can you recruit?It’s not impossible, but ask yourself if you can agree in your heart?Definitely not!

The second money?With so much land in the Song Dynasty, as well as the Song Dynasty Bank and Zui Furong with monthly income of tens of thousands of taels, is she short of money?Unless the Kingdom of Jin gives her all the taxes of the entire court.Even if she is willing, His Majesty the Emperor will not agree!
As for this third right, it doesn't seem to be very feasible. Now she is the princess!What can the Kingdom of Jin give her?Unless she is allowed to do so, he can either make her the Prime Minister of the DPRK, or make her a Queen or Concubine.

The Prime Minister is definitely in trouble. It is impossible for the Kingdom of Jin to allow a Han to be the Prime Minister, Queen, Concubine, etc... Ask yourself, it is not possible to decide.

After some thought, he unexpectedly found that trying to persuade Zhao Yingluo to go to the Kingdom of Jin was not convincing at all.

That’s it, I’ll try the second strategy in the future!
The second strategy Wanyan Zongyi had in mind was actually to use Puppet Qi.

Now that the Puppet Qi had just been canonized, Liu Yu, in order to show his loyalty, expressed to him several times that he would capture Kaifeng to relieve the worries of the Jin Kingdom.

Since power, money and sex won't work, the only way to achieve it is through war.

As long as Liu Yu's troops attack Kaifeng, regardless of winning or losing, the city of Kaifeng will inevitably be in turmoil again!Once the city of Kaifeng is in turmoil, if I persuade Zhao Yingluo to go to Dajin and grant her millions of acres of fertile land in Yanjing, the resistance will be much smaller.

Zhao Yingluo said impatiently after seeing him speak for a while.

"If nothing happens, please help yourself!"

"Yes! The princess must know that Dajin and Song Dynasty have opened a trading market. I heard that the princess has planted many novel crops and specially invited the princess to go to the trading market to barter."

Zhao Yingluo raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "Ginseng? Ginseng is not what I want. Besides, since you can sell ginseng to Kaifeng, I don't need to trade it in the market even if I want to purchase ginseng."

Wanyan Zongyi laughed and said, "I have a lot of goods. As long as the princess wants it, I can provide any goods produced by the Kingdom of Jin."

"Really? This is a bit interesting."

(End of this chapter)