As time goes by, Zhao Yan's high price acquisition of ginseng for more than a hundred years has spread more and more widely. As long as anyone who has ginseng for a hundred years and is not in a hurry to use it, he will try every means until the capital is sold to the Yue Palace. After all, it is twice the price after a change of sale, and this kind of transaction will not be lost no matter how much it is calculated.

However, ginseng was used less during the Song Dynasty. In such a large Song Dynasty, there was no way to find many ginsengs over a hundred years, let alone ginseng produced in Changbai Mountain. So in the end, nearly half of the inventory of ginseng in the Song Dynasty was purchased by Zhao Yan. The remaining ginseng people were either too far away to get out of the capital, or they were anxious to take action. Finally, there was a kind of person who wanted to hoard the market, thinking that Zhao Yan would buy such a large number of ginseng, which would definitely be difficult to find in the future, and the price would definitely rise.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that although Zhao Yan's mansion has always claimed that the number of parameters of the acquisition is still too small, no one has come to sell ginseng again. For this reason, Zhao Yan once again increased the price of ginseng for more than a hundred years. As a result, it finally caused the madness of many merchants. They began to turn their attention to the distant Changbai Mountain, which is the origin of ginseng, and there must be many ginseng for more than a hundred years.

Under such circumstances, many merchants began to organize manpower and material resources and prepared to take a trip to Changbai Mountain. No matter what method was used, a batch of ginseng would be obtained. However, before these merchants could set off, a sudden news came from the mall that several sea trade fleets under the name of the Yue Palace began to publicly recruit manpower and prepare supplies. There was no idea where the news came from. Under the order of Zhao Yan, these sea trade fleets would personally go to Changbai Mountain to purchase ginseng for more than a hundred years.

Many businessmen were very disappointed with the above news. After all, Zhao Yan's own fleet was going to Changbai Mountain to purchase ginseng, and they would definitely have nothing to do in the future. However, what everyone did not expect was that Zhao Yan did not cancel the acquisition of ginseng, but instead increased the price of ginseng by 50%. In other words, Zhao Yan raised the price of ginseng three times as much as before.

Seeing this situation, those merchants who were already disappointed had hope again and began to prepare to go north to purchase ginseng. Some of them had thick skin even found Zhao Yan's fleet and proposed to join forces to go to Changbai Mountain. Of course, the ginseng they acquired had to be handed over to the fleet. For this request, the fleet manager agreed after considering it.

A month later, several fleets under Zhao Yan were finally ready. Then they left the coast of the Song Dynasty and headed north. They would pass through the northern coast of the Song Dynasty, then bypass Goryeo, and finally arrived at the coastal area on the east side of Changbai Mountain, which was the territory of the Jurchens, and could get enough ginseng directly from the Jurchens. However, the merchants who did not join the company suddenly discovered that the fleets under Zhao Yan seemed to have too many people, with a total of thousands of people, and there seemed to be no goods for trade with the Jurchens in the fleet. On the contrary, the crew and guards recruited by the fleet were all fierce. If anyone who didn't know would think these were pirate ships.

At the same time, in the Changbai Nu territory in the northeast of Huanglong Mansion, since the last sneak attack on Yelu Jun and almost captured the other party alive, Aguda led Wanyan's troops to retreat to Changbai Mountain. This time, they sent troops not only to capture Huanglong Mansion, rob the Huanglong Mansion's supplies, but also defeated the Liao army several times, causing them to seize a lot of military supplies. It can be said that they have gained a lot, enough for the food and drink expenses of the Jurchens for several years.

It is precisely because of this. Whether it is the Wanyan tribe or other Jurchen tribes, they always have a joyful expression when they return to Changbai Mountain. However, Aguda did not relax his vigilance. Instead, after returning to the Wanyan tribe's base, he immediately ordered the entire tribe to retreat deeper into the mountains and forests. He also warned other tribes, indicating that the Liao army would likely send troops to chase them again, so it would be best to escape farther.

Many tribe leaders did not care about Aguda's warning. First of all, Aguda had just become the leader of Wanyan tribe and seized the position of leader through improper means. Even though he led them to win a big victory before, his prestige was still not enough to convince people. In addition, the Changbai Mountain area has always been the territory of the Jurchens. Every time the Liao army broke in, they would be beaten to the point of falling, so they were not worried that the Liao army would kill their nests.

However, Aguda was right this time. Because Yelu Jun was attacked by them before, he almost became a prisoner of the Jurchens. Such a great humiliation naturally made Yelu Jun, who was arrogant, unable to accept it. So after the Jurchens retreated, he immediately summoned the army from both east and west, and then gathered his remaining troops to kill Changbai Mountain. Although many ministers tried hard to persuade him, Yelu Jun insisted on taking revenge.

However, although Yelu Jun has been greedy for pleasure in recent years, his mind has not been damaged at all. He also knew that if he led a large army into the forest of Changbai Mountain like this, he would definitely suffer a great loss. However, he thought of a very vicious plan, which was to burn the mountain.

Changbai Mountain was full of dense forests in this era. It was already autumn. The trees in the forest were all yellow and dry. Just a little spark would trigger an amazing wildfire. It was precisely because of this that Yelu Jun first sent a small elite team to sneak into Changbai Mountain, fighting for huge casualties and finally figured out the location of the Jurchen tribes. Then he sent people to touch the upper vents of these tribes with tinder oil and set off a fire directly. The violent wildfire was blown by the strong wind and rushed towards the Jurchen tribes, which made them have no place to escape. In the end, except for a few people who survived, most of them died under the fire attack of the Liao army.

However, although the power of the wildfire is great, the side effects are also quite large. At least the mountainous areas near Huanglongfu were almost all involved in this artificial fire. Countless hills were burned into black soil, and many innocent people were accidentally injured by the fire. Yelu Jun had already expected this consequence, but he had been stunned by the anger before and didn't care about these things at all.

A fire burned tens of thousands of Jurchens to death, but no trace of Wanyan's tribe was found. Yelu Jun was still a little unwilling to accept it. He originally wanted to send someone to investigate, but unfortunately it was late autumn, the weather was getting more and more accurate, and the first snow was about to fall. Under such climatic conditions, it was impossible to pursue Wanyan's tribe who was hiding in the mountains. In desperation, Yelu Jun had to go back to the court.

Although Aguda led Wanyan's troops to retreat, he was actually paying close attention to the situation outside. When he learned that Yelu Jun had taken the blame to set fire to the mountains and forests, he was also shocked. At the same time, he secretly thanked that he hid quickly, otherwise he would die in the fire of the Liao army. However, this also made him hate the Liao Kingdom even more and began to contact more Jurchen tribes, preparing to unify the Jurchen people first, and wait until the troops in his hands are enough, and the Liao army must pay a hundred times the price for what they do today.

However, not long after the Liao army retreated, the Wanyan army encountered a big problem. In order to avoid the Liao army, they retreated to the northeast of Changbai Mountain. This was actually the road that the Ilbo took Zhao Yan and Zhao Xu to form an alliance. It was not far from the sea. Moreover, because of the sea, the temperature here is a little higher than that inland, so it is easier to spend the winter.

According to Aguda's plan, he planned to let the tribe recuperate here for a winter, and then after the spring next year, he would make plans to unify the Jurchens, but just as the weather became colder, a group of uninvited guests came to the tribe.

It was sunny that day. After Agu started fighting, he planned to organize men in the tribe to go out to hunt. Although they robbed a lot of supplies in the Liao Kingdom, and the food alone was enough for them to eat for a few years, the Jurchens were always afraid of being poor. The food was always better for them. Therefore, it was always a good thing to be able to prepare more food before the road was closed with heavy snow. Moreover, hunting can also exercise the fighting skills of men in the tribe, which can be considered as killing two birds with one stone.

However, just as Aguda had just organized the men in the tribe, he suddenly saw a tribe member who was venting the air outside and ran in and reported loudly: "Chief, a group of people coming from outside look like Goryeo."

"Goryeo people, how could they come here on their own initiative?" Agu was stunned when he found out about the report from his tribe members.

Speaking of which, the relationship between the Wanyan tribe and the Goryeo people is pretty good. Even the first leader of the Wanyan tribe was still in charge of the position of Huaihua General of Goryeo. However, like the Liao Kingdom, Goryeo regarded them as savages and never took the initiative to interact. The most important communication in normal times is that when the Jurchens did not have enough food for their Jurchens, they would take specialties such as fur and ginseng to the border market established by the Goryeo people to exchange for some food. Moreover, this kind of transaction was mainly dominated by the Goryeo people, and the Jurchens often asked the Goryeo people to trade. For this reason, the price of their goods would be extremely low. A precious hundred-year-old ginseng could only be exchanged for a truck of food. As for fur, it would be cheaper.

"Brother, stop guessing, let's go and have a look, won't you know?" Wu Qimai said carelessly. He was also very curious about the arrival of the Koreans. However, now they have sufficient supplies, so they are not afraid that the Koreans will lower the price when doing business. If they really can't reach an agreement, they will drive them out.

"Okay, the others continue to hunt, but we brothers see what the Goryeo people are doing?" Agu said with his teeth. He also has no good feelings for the Goryeo people. Now Wanyan's tribe is not short of supplies. If something is missing in the future, he can't even snatch some from the Goryeo people. Anyway, the Goryeo people are much easier to deal with than the Liao people. To be continued.
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