Seeing his embarrassed look, Liu Xing couldn't help but laugh and said, "Who told you not to listen to what you said, turn around and leave." Okay, okay, I'll pay more attention in the future, and I won't let you make a fool of yourself in front of everyone next time. ”

As soon as the words stopped, Liu Xing immediately straightened his face and said: "The Seventh Division of your Military Intelligence Department will collect and organize all the information of the four major departments of Tubo within half a year from now on, and establish a file, and track it at any time. Half a year later, I want to know every move in the Tibetan compartment from your MI7 at any time. ”

After stopping talking again and thinking for a while, Liu Xing then turned his head to Su Quan and said: "You can order and notify the provinces of Xikang, Dongchuan, Shanxi, and Ningxia that all the merchants of the Tubo tribe who participated in the invasion of Bianjing in Dali this time will not increase the tax when they enter the territory of our Great Song Dynasty for tea and horse exchange, and they will be given a punitive increase of 30% of the war punishment tax when they leave the country." ”

Stopping his words for the third time, Liu Xing lowered his head and thought about it again, and then said: "At the same time, I will tear up all the market trade agreements signed with Tubo before, and prohibit me from selling a knife, a gun, a tea and a grain to anyone in the territory to Tubo. Those who disobey will be severely punished according to the law and will not be tolerated. ”

Tea and horses are a long-term policy implemented in the ruling period of the past dynasties, that is, to set up checkpoints on the traffic arteries in the southwest producing areas and the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities close to the border, and formulate the "Tea and Horse Law" to specialize in the function of tea and horses.

During the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Shao was appeased by a little pacification to fight against the people and wood in the Lintao area of Gansu Province, and a large number of war horses were needed The imperial court immediately ordered to collect them in Sichuan, and set up the "Tixing Tea and Horse Division" on the fourth road in Sichuan, which was responsible for the purchase and exchange of tea for horses.

And in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan set up "stores" and "horse farms". Ethnic minorities along the border are only allowed to engage in the trade of tea and horses with the government, and are not allowed to trade in smugglers. It is strictly forbidden for merchants to be trafficked to the border areas to sell. It is not even allowed to bring seeds and seedlings to the border. Anyone who sells smuggled goods will be put to death, or the army will be confiscated for 3,000 miles, and those who neglect to supervise the "Tea and Horse Division" officials will also be punished.

The purpose of the draconian legislation is to control and strengthen the rule of ethnic minorities in the border areas through the interior. This is the origin of "governing the border with tea". However, objectively, the tea and horse exchange market has also promoted the exchange and development of China's national economy.

And this harsh calendar was successful, so in the revision of the new law, the old Mr. Hu Anguo learned to sell now, and simply followed Liu Xing's instructions to directly apply this kind of seedling and seed prohibition prohibition to the monopoly control of a variety of Central Plains specialties when formulating the "Great Song Dynasty Monopoly Law......

As the secretary of the Ministry of International Trade and the most powerful arm-level task in business affairs that Liu Xing has always had, Su Quan heard the new term "war punishment tax" pop up in Liu Xing's mouth. immediately understood Liu Xing's true intentions.

He also thought for a moment, looked up at Liu Xingdao, and said, "Taifu, do you want to punish only the three Tubo tribes who have committed crimes against Dali, and not the king of Lhasa who has not committed crimes?" ”

Liu Xing didn't know which three tribes of Tubo had invaded the Dali Kingdom of Duan Heyu, the chivalrous king, but he was very clearly aware of the need to punish the three Tubo tribes with small punishments and big commandments, and it was best to let them stop the army on their own without doing anything, and the south of the beautiful Caiyun was peaceful.

"I don't know which three tribes invaded Dali, but the one who didn't invade will also be taxed for war punishment this time."

I didn't know what to say in my heart, but Liu Xing said very firmly when he spoke: "Those Tubo people have the same ancestry and ancestors, and they are all descendants of Xiqiang. Since they are siblings, one person commits a crime and the whole family is implicated, don't give the master another tea and food from the Central Plains. ”

People have been getting along with each other for a long time. Each other's words and deeds, every move will become intimate. In later generations, there was an Internet buzzword to describe this relationship. Call it a "good friend". In this day and age, there is also an adjective for this kind of relationship, called "Friendship of Friendship".

Ever since Su Quan and his brother Su Dong handed over the hunter Gu Yi's life to Liu Xing, he has always been the most relied on and trusted person by Liu Xing. The excessive secrecy of the personal relationship between the two has also made the two really become irreversible friends and have already become "good friends".

Since he is Liu Xing's "good friend", naturally when Liu Xing finished speaking, he immediately understood Liu Xing's true intention of doing this.

The four kings of Tubo, the same clan and the same ancestor, one person committed a crime, and the whole clan was connected, Su Quan understood that it was obviously just a pretext for Liu Xing to say on the surface. What is Liu Xing's real intention? It was to cut off the channels for the Tubo people to obtain supplies from the Central Plains, and to intensify internal strife.

So why did Liu Xing so firmly believe that as long as he increased the "war punishment tax", the civil strife in Tibet would definitely intensify? The reason is actually very simple, tea, grain, cloth, silk and other materials, the Tubo people have been the largest buyers of the Central Plains since the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, not all of these things were bought by the Tibetans for their own use. Tianzhu and other countries further south had a scene of "Tang goods" in demand as early as the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the reason for the emergence of that scene was that the Tubo merchants brought the products of the Central Plains to Tianzhu to sell.

Most people looked down on merchants, but Liu Xing exalted merchants and set up a special Ministry of Commerce, Su Quan certainly knew that the reason why his Shangshu appeared was because Liu Xing saw that commerce and trade were actually the most effective means to restore the vitality of the Great Song Dynasty and become rich and powerful as soon as possible.

Since the Great Song Dynasty could quickly recover its vitality through commerce and trade, and the country and the people became rich and powerful at the same time, then Tibet must be the same.

Second-hand merchant, this is a new name given by Liu Xing and Su Quan to the people of Goryeo, Tibet, and Khotan in the Western Regions during a private chat.

Cutting off the supply of goods from the "second-hand merchant" in Tibet will inevitably cause a crisis in the four major tribes. As long as there is a crisis in the royal courts of the four major tribes, with the personality of the Tibetan people, they will inevitably expand the scale of the war, especially the scale of their civil war, to seek to annex others and strengthen themselves, and then to overcome the predicament caused by the crisis of excessive support......

"Taifu, this is a good plan to make the offender worry first, but have you thought about it? If your plan is successful, the reunification of Tibet and the entry of soldiers into Chang'an will still be remembered! Su Quan understood Liu Xing's true intentions, but immediately said a new concern.

The unified Tubo was terrible, so terrible that when the Anshi Rebellion occurred in the Tang Dynasty, the army of the alien race could actually drive straight into the area of Xikang in Shaanxi, Longxi, and rush all the way into Chang'an City.

Therefore, Su Quan's worries are not unreasonable, so Liu Xing also immediately thought that he could not reunify the Tubo people, otherwise he would be violated next time not only Dali, but also the border of the Great Song Dynasty. (To be continued.) )