The severe cold in the north has always been bitter, but the coastal areas in the north are even colder.

But no matter how the cold wind blows and the waves fly, even people's brows are covered with hoarfrost.

But nothing could cover the raging flames in Li Jiao's heart, the shopkeeper of Waguo Branch of Hantang Commercial Bank.

Panting heavily, he walked slowly out of the Han and Tang trading houses located in Shijian City, Shanyin.

Under the guidance of the Japanese man with a flattering smile on his face, Li Jiao nodded slightly towards the Japanese man. "You lead the way."

Surrounded by two guards, they went straight to the largest and most scaled building.

And those local Japanese with an average height of 1.3 to 4 meters saw these Tang people who were all 1.7 or even 1.8 meters tall.

They all shrank back into the distance in awe, until these fat and strong Tang people strode away, and then they dared to brave the cold wind and tremblingly looked at the backs of these giant Tang people.

After a short time, he came to the mansion of Daban Fufei (it's really a name, not just fooling around).

Seeing the arrival of this distinguished guest invited by his master, the Japanese hurriedly opened the door, smiling all over his face, nodding and bowing his head as he watched the three of them enter the mansion with great strides.

Li Jiao saw it. Outside the house in front of him, there was a man who was about five feet tall, well, he was already much taller than ordinary Japanese.

Wearing a gorgeous silk robe, with an eager smile on his face, he boasted to the owner of the mansion who had bowed to him.

"I have seen Master Li."

Li Jiao hurriedly took two steps, and returned a salute to the speaker in Shanyin, cheerfully and honestly.

"Oh...you don't need to be so courteous, big companion, hurry up and invite me."

The big companion cheerfully led Li Jiao into the house, and the two guards followed suit.

"It's really cold on this day. Fortunately, there is this kind of iron stove sold by Han and Tang merchants, so that Fubu can live comfortably in such a severe winter..."

The big companion blew and signaled Li Jiao to sit next to the iron stove. After having this thing, even here in Japan, no coal has been found yet.

But whether it is burning charcoal or burning wood, this iron stove is hundreds of times stronger than those used in the past, and it is really warm.

Li Jiao warmed his hands cheerfully, and then hooked his hands behind him. The guard behind him presented a wooden box about one foot high and half a foot wide.

"A ship just arrived today and brought a glazed vase from the Western Regions. It was a congratulatory gift for brother He Daban's promotion to the right minister of the Great Purple Crown..."

After Li Jiao opened the wooden box, he carefully took out a piece of Western Region glassware from inside. It was a drop-shaped water blue glass bottle.

As soon as he appeared, Otomo's eyeballs bulged instantly, and the eyeballs began to turn red, with a greedy and possessive expression.

"The glazed vase from the Western Regions, this is simply too beautiful. In our Japanese country, it can be regarded as a national treasure. This, this is actually a congratulatory gift for my brother..."

"Haha... Boasting brother, accept it, this item represents the heart of our Hantang Commercial Bank."

"If it hadn't been for the great help of my younger brother, who contributed both people and efforts, how could the silver mountain be excavated from the stone?"

After Big Companion Chuck received it in his hand, he wished he could stick out his tongue and lick it twice to express his love.

"Since that's the case, then, let me brag on behalf of my elder brother, thank you big shopkeeper, thank you Hantang Commercial Bank for your kindness."

Seeing the greedy appearance of this wealthy Japanese family, Li Jiao stroked his thick long beard and laughed aloud.

What I like most is to see these barbarians, after receiving these exquisite gifts from Tang Dynasty, look like country bumpkins who have never seen the world.

It makes people have a sense of superiority and achievement. This thing is a good treasure of Zhao's Liulifang exclusively for Han and Tang merchants. Even if it is in Datang now, it is impossible without Bailaiguan.

But once it is taken outside the Tang Dynasty, well, it can really be regarded as a national treasure by these small barbarian countries, or even enshrined.

The big companion in front of me is a big wealthy family in the Shanyin area of ​​the Wa Kingdom. His surname is Lian, and his alias is Ma Kai or Ma Yang.

However, it is generally called Daban, and his eldest brother, Daban Changde, is now considered a quite powerful minister in the Wa Kingdom.

The Hantang Commercial Bank received instructions from Cheng Sanlang, the chairman of the Hantang Commercial Bank, to look for mountains of gold and silver in this Japanese country.

This caused headaches for countless shopkeeper-level middle-level cadres, because Cheng Sanlang only drew a rough area.

For example, there is Jinshan on Sado Island on the west side of the northern end of the main island of Japan, and Jinshan is in the area around Sanyin Shijian.

All of them only give a general direction, which is very painful.

But fortunately, after the Han and Tang dynasties took control of the Bailiang business, under the lure of this kind of luxury that made everyone from the Japanese king to the nobles on Wa Island crazy about it.

Han and Tang merchants established bilateral trade with several wealthy families.

That is to say, a few wealthy families were designated as sellers, and the white sugar of the Han and Tang Commercial Bank was only sold to them, and each of them was responsible for a certain area.

One of the conditions is that Sado Island will be assigned to the Han and Tang merchants for free, as the private territory of the Han and Tang merchants in the country of Wa, which is convenient for the Han and Tang merchants to trade and berth.

On Sado Island, there are no people at all, they are all a bunch of poor ghosts from the Japanese country, and there is not even a wealthy family.

Yuezhou Shou generously signed a power confirmation letter with the Hantang Commercial Bank, and even asked the Hantang Commercial Bank to give him several hundred catties of sugar for the first time.

Not only did everyone in Haozhou in Yuezhou sign the confirmation letter, but they also affixed the official seal of the governor of Yuezhou.

But Yinshan had no choice. After all, it was on the main island of Wa Kingdom, but it was not afraid, under the attack of Baitang.

The Lian family, a wealthy family in Shanyin, directly nodded and agreed to help find the silver mine. After finding the silver mine, the profits were divided between two parties.

In less than two years, and at a considerable price, the Lian family finally discovered a silver mine with a huge reserve in Mount Zomo, not far from Shijian City in the mountain cave~lightnovelpub.net~every tael Silver can be exchanged for one thousand Wen Kaiyuan Tongbao, which is a normal price, but in fact, one thousand Wen Kaiyuan Tongbao can be exchanged for five to six taels of silver in Japan.

In addition, one tael of gold from the Wa Kingdom can be exchanged for five taels of silver...

That is to say, the Han and Tang dynasties can exchange for one tael of gold or five taels of silver on Wa Island with one thousand Wen Tang coins.

In Datang, one thousand wen can only be exchanged for one tael of silver.

Especially when the scale of the silver mine on Mount Zuomo was outrageously large, if it wasn't for Li Jiao's brains, he asked to mine only 500,000 taels a year.

I am afraid that just the silver transported back to Datang from the country of Wa will cause the price of silver in Datang to plummet.

Now, it's just leaking out secretly, and it just so happened that after the Great Tang Emperor took action, the gold and silver became even more useful.

When gold and silver are cast into the exquisite money making of the Tang Dynasty, their currency value is even higher than that of gold and silver.