Chapter 26: Gift-giving

"What?" Zhu Huan couldn't understand Mandarin, so he asked.

"Frontier ......" Wang Ju had a flash of inspiration in his mind. The frontier was not good, especially in the northwest at this time of the Song Dynasty. Not only is the frontier not good, it turns out that when the Song Dynasty just unified the world, the best area was not Bashu, and the wealth of Bashu had long been taken captive by the Song Dynasty, coupled with the rebellion and uprising, the wealth was also washed away.

It was not Wu Yue, Wu Yue raised many soldiers, and bribed the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty got Wu Yue and became a place of hardship. The same is true of Nantang.

It is not Hebei, Henan, and Shandong, this area has been fighting since the Anshi Rebellion, and has been fighting until the Song Dynasty, and the vitality of the Song Dynasty has not had time to recover after the unification of the world.

It's Guanzhong.

However, immediately because of the Northwest War, the whole of Shaanxi was launched, including Guanzhong.

However, life on the frontier is hard, but it is a paradise for adventurers. This is where the bold are really supported and the cowardly are starved.

After thinking for a while, Wang Ju said, "Dong Weng, I don't know what the relationship between your family is?" If someone was sent to spread the rumor over there, saying that the black bee thieves were impersonated by the officers and soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion of the Song Dynasty's Wai Lin Zhai, and now they are wanted by the imperial court, and they are hiding in the barren area by the Tibetan River, but they have been killing and looting for many years, and have gathered hundreds of thousands of wealth, and because the imperial court arrested them, these riches cannot be transferred. As long as you send someone to look for it here, it will be easy to find. The imperial court immediately sent the Tiger Wing Battalion to rotate the soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion, and the one with the word Zhenwu tattooed on the forehead must be a black bee thief, as long as one or two black bee thieves are caught, they will know where they hide their wealth. What would be the result? ”

"Xiaolang, do you want to provoke the Song-Xia War?"

The people along the border are most afraid of war.

Especially the people of the Song Dynasty, no matter how many humiliating terms the country signed, as long as they did not fight, it was good.

"Song-Xia War?" Wang Ju wants to laugh, the Western Xia side still has the mind to start the Songxia War? It's just that he didn't hide Pang for bullying the weakness of the Song Dynasty and doing some provocations that were fierce and inward-looking.

"Then there will be war? The toughest people in my border area are not in Yanzhou, but in Fulin Erzhou. Didn't hide the Pang sent people to invade and cultivate the Quye River, the people of the Quye River were unwilling, and the Xixia people said that your officers and soldiers did not do it, so dare you do it? So the people were discouraged. This is a barren and idle field area, is it not a clear Song realm, once a large number of Western Xia people and soldiers come, how many people will stay here? And winter is coming. ”

Zhu Huan's eyes finally lit up.

Wang Ju's eyes also lit up, and he said, "Dong Weng, only one of the two evils is removed." ”

Zhu Huan sighed mournfully.

These smugglers and the scum of officers and soldiers like Yu Feng are disgraceful, but Cheng Kan represents the imperial court.

"Dong Weng, it will be difficult for Cheng Xianggong to solve it. Yu privately, it is very disgraceful for him to take office, and he will hate us. Yu Gong, the economy of our dynasty does not seek from the Western Xia, but the Western Xia seeks from our dynasty. If the business is interrupted, it will have little impact on our dynasty, but it will be difficult for Western Xia to move an inch. Once there are no private merchants, the economy and commerce of the Western Xia will be completely controlled by our dynasty, so maybe there will be people in the imperial court who want to have more black bee thieves, so that there will be no private merchants on the border to trade with the Tangut people. ”

"Xiaolang, you're right, but you want to ban everyone from coming together, ban one, can't help one, who can you ban?"

Zhu Huan obviously didn't think about Li Shun's equal wealth and poverty, let alone egalitarianism. But in fact, this is the truth, like commercial tax, why is the goods of the scholar's family not taxed? Why are Haoqiangjia's goods not taxed?

So can the commercial tax policy still be implemented well? The border areas are so miserable, taxes are still levied, military service is burdened, and there are disguised exploitation such as camping land, and if they survive, plus injustice, how can private traders be prohibited? The price of salt varies so much, how to ban it? Why is there such a big difference, please ask about the salt system?

Wang Ju thought about it, couldn't help but shake his head and smile, and said: "It's easy to do, in fact, in the end, the most important thing is one thing, that is, interests." Why did Han Gong kill General Di's general Jiao Yong? Without him, for the sake of authority, authority is profit. If Song Xia was at war at that time, and Jiao Yongding fought bloodily with the Tangut people on the front line, would the Han Guild kill Jiao Yong? ”

"Xiaolang, what do you mean ......?"

"If Dong Weng gives the court and gives Cheng Gong enough benefits, will Cheng Gong pursue you?"

"Gift-giving?"

"What gifts?" Wang Ju couldn't help laughing, Bao Zheng's income as the governor of Kaifeng for a year amounted to 2o856 copper coins, 218o stone rice, 18o stone wheat, 1o silk, 34 silk, 2 piro, 1oo two cotton, 15 scales of charcoal, 24o bundles of firewood, and 48o bundles of hay.

Cheng Kan participated in the governor's political affairs and foreign domains, and his salary was only high. People have an annual income of tens of millions, what gifts do they care about?

"Xiaolang, don't sell Guanzi."

"What goods does Western Xia want to sell to my dynasty the most?"

"Green salt."

"What's the last thing you want to sell?"

"Horses."

"What goods do you most want to buy from me?"

That's not too much, Zhu Huan thought for a while, and finally came up with it: "Iron." ”

"It's iron, if it weren't for the large amount of iron ore from the various channel cities in my dynasty, with the iron production of Western Xia, I'm afraid it wouldn't even be enough to ensure the iron for the manufacture of weapons."

Zhu Huan still didn't quite understand.

"Dong Weng, why didn't you hide the false Pang and invade the Quye River?"

"Greed."

"No, it's really funny that some people laughed at Pang for not hiding the slander in order to invade and cultivate the twenty miles of the Quye River and make enemies with the Song Dynasty. Actually, not. The Tibetan tribe is not a wild tribe, but a big tribe, and the Tibetan tribe is not big, but he relied on his sister and nephew to become the first powerful minister of Western Xia, and there will be many people who are not convinced. And this person has a very strong sense of power, Yuan Hao left a message before he died, the power of the other day is weak, it is advisable to attach to China, not to follow the Khitan. Gai Khitan is cruel, China is merciful, and he is given an official title, if it is threatened by the Khitan, then our country is in danger. Yuan Hao, a generation of masters. ”

Although Yuan Hao is very shameless, I have to admit that he has vision.

If the Western Xia did not repeat itself, why did the Song Dynasty gather elite soldiers in the northwest? So whether there is a maritime alliance with the Jin State in the future, will the Northern Song Dynasty perish? The Northern Song Dynasty perished, but the Western Xia did not.

However, when the Yuan and Meng Dynasty rose, if the Song Dynasty was not in a safe corner, would the Yuan and Mongolia succeed in going south, and the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty would be each other's horns, and would the Western Xia perish? In the end, even the Dangxiang clan disappeared in the long river of history. Not as good as the Uighurs, at least after the fusion of the Uyghurs, what about the Dangxiang people?

"There will be a rare period of peace between Song and Xia. However, the death of the queen seems to be related to the failure to hide the false Pang. Therefore, there are many people in the country who are not convinced, he is a powerful minister, but he also has to make friends and win over some people. Western Xia was also poor, and the treasury had limited money. Twenty miles of the Quye River was encroached on, which is the width and length, and there are actually thousands of hectares of arable land. It is not surprising to be placed in one country, but there is a lot of wealth to be gained in the hands of one person. This is the real reason why he ignored the evil relations between Song and Xia and invaded the Quye River. ”

"That's ......" Zhu Huan's mouth opened, right or not? This kid must be thinking too much.

"Are you saying that the soldiers at the checkpoint on the Great Wall Ridge are the ones who didn't hide the fraud?"

"This is not true, if it is troublesome, no matter how short-sighted he is, he will not let go of the merchant horse in a big way, unless I silently ignore his invasion of the Quye River and then open a mutual market. I mean, under his leadership, will other people become greedy together? ”

"This is a saying that the first minister of the country does not care about the country for his own interests, how can he ask others to take care of the country?"

"Moreover, I have banned the market and business, although there are private businessmen, I believe that Western Xia will also have a hard time in the past few years."

"Yes, I heard that the price of cloth has risen over there."

"The reason why Li Jiqian was able to succeed back then was because of some policy mistakes of our dynasty, and it was also because he was related to the Yeli tribe, another major clan in Hengshan, and received the support of the Yeli tribe at that time. However, under the counter-plot of the general, Li Yuanhao killed Yeli Yuqi, although the Yeli tribe is large, but it has deteriorated over the years like the Weimu tribe, another big tribe in Western Xia. It just so happens that the Great Wall Ridge is where the base camp of the Yeli tribe is located. ”

Zhu Huan's eyes finally lit up.

"Dong Weng, but please keep in mind that the country is also disgusted with the flow of iron to the Western Xia, although our dynasty lacks horses, but even more lack of good horses, except for a small number of good horses in the Fushilan area, or a small number of Qingtang horses purchased from Tubo, although the market was opened in the past, the Western Xia also sold horses to our dynasty, but those are all short horses transferred from the Khitan or the Tatars, even in the private market, there are few tall Hetao horses easy to come to our court. This is an opportunity, no matter what it is, once the gap is opened, you can't collect it if you want to, just like the commercial tax of our dynasty. ”

Zhu Huan couldn't help laughing: "Xiaolang should read." ”

It's a pity that this kid is placed in the northwest, and he should be placed in the court.

Joy also appeared on Wang Ju's face, if this plan can be successful, the black bee will be finished!

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