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"The envoy of the Liao State has arrived in Kaifeng, and yesterday I met the rich minister."

Tang Yi said secretly: It's all the Yellow River diversion trouble, and the Liao envoy has come three or four times this year.

It is not surprising that the Liao envoy sees Fu Bi, and the envoy of the New Year, of course, will receive it after the New Year, when the dynasty comes. And Fu Bi once sent an envoy to the Liao State at the beginning of Qingli, and he was quite familiar with the officials of the Great Liao.

"The Liao envoy made a request to Fu Xianggong, which is about our Hualianpu."

"About us?" Not only Tang Yi, but also Zhang Jinwen and Pan Feng were stunned. The friendship between the two countries, what does it matter to one of our shops?

"The Liao envoy wants us to open a Hualian warehouse in Daliao Zhongjing!"

"What?"

"What!?"

“.....”

Tang Yi thought he had heard it wrong....

Pan Feng thought that Cao Tong was wrong....

Zhang Jinwen looked around to see if the sun was out in the middle of the night...

That's probably the biggest joke of the year, right?

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In other words, did these people react so much?

That's true!

What is strange is not that the exchange of visits between the two countries mentioned a small businessman, but that the Liao people actually took the initiative to let the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty go to Liao to do business.

You must know that except for the mutual market in Xiongzhou, the non-governmental commercial exchanges between the two countries can be said to be severed, except for smuggling, of course.

Some people may say that the Han people are xenophobic, closed off from the country, and do not communicate with the barbarians.

Not really.

The Great Song Dynasty was reluctant to open border trade with Liao, Xia, Gaochang, Uighurs, Tufan, and Jiaozhi, because the Great Song Dynasty took advantage of foreign trade.

Take the Great Liao as an example, the Liao State is bigger than the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also very strong, but what the Liao State can export to the Great Song Dynasty is nothing more than cattle, sheep, horses, and leather goods, which are all low value-added agricultural and sideline products.

Of course, there is a great shortage of horses in the Song Dynasty, and the added value is very high, but the Liao people don't dare to sell more! That's strategic material, and when the time comes, what if you use my horse to hit me?

So what did the Great Song Dynasty sell to Liao?

Silk, tea, cloth, porcelain, etc., were high value-added commercial goods at the time.

The so-called 'barbarians' in the trade with the Great Song Dynasty, with the Ben do not take advantage, if the border trade is opened, you can focus on the Great Song Dynasty to 'rob the Ming Dynasty', and it will not take a few years, you have to let the Great Song Dynasty hollow out.

However, whether it is the Great Liao, the Western Xia, or other neighboring countries, because the industry is underdeveloped and the Great Song Dynasty is inseparable, it can only be officially traded in the form of mutual markets.

In this way, it not only prevented being plundered by the Great Song Dynasty economy, but also satisfied the domestic market. Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty have never done business in the land of Daliao properly.

Now, Cao Tong said that the Liao envoy asked Hualian to open a shop in Liao, can a few people not be shocked when they hear it?

That's...

It's like Zhao Zhen asked Tang Yi to open a grocery store in the imperial city, it's just a fantasy....

So, why did the Liao envoy make such an 'excessive' request?

In fact, the two countries have been too diligent this year.

The current Liao State has basically shed the wildness of the nomads, and like the Great Song Dynasty, it believes in Buddhism and respects Confucianism, and the sinicization is serious. Up and down the Liao Kingdom, learn the Great Song Dynasty everywhere, whether it is the government or folk culture.

Let's put it this way, Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" was written in September of the sixth year of Qingli, and two months later, it spread all over the capital of Liao; The anthology of Kaifeng's writings was already on sale in the bookstore of the Great Liao Kingdom before Kaifeng was outdated.

Liao Xingzong is even more surrounded by Sinology, what Kaifeng has, Zhongjing must have. Otherwise, the old man felt uncomfortable.

At the beginning of the year, before the Liao envoy of the Song Dynasty left, Hualian Shop opened.

For this novelty shop that has been passed down in Kaifeng City for a year, the Liao envoy naturally went to visit. At first glance, it was simply breathtaking, and I said in my heart, if only there was a shop in my Daliao that gathered the world's strange things, what do you want, what do you have.

After going back, Liao Xingzong asked, what is popular in Kaifeng?

The envoy said that it is now popular to visit Hualian in Kaifeng, and described the Hualian shop in detail to the emperor of Liao.

When Liao Xingzong heard it, it was just a shop, although he thought it was novel, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Later, the Yellow River collapsed, and the Liao envoy visited again. When I went back, I brought a gift to Liao Xingzong, which was Hualian's 'Thousand Army Brewing Collection'.

Liao Xingzong liked this gift very much, and he was also curious about this Hualian shop.

The heart said, such a good shop is in the Song Dynasty, we have to have it too! So, he ordered his subordinates to contact the country's giant businessmen to open a shop in Zhongjing, and the specifications could not be worse than those of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is difficult for the merchants of Daliao, Tang Yi's Hualian Warehouse, it is not something you can get if you have money, you have to have supply channels. How do you open it without goods?

The merchants of the Liao State have been tinkering for half a year, but they still haven't continued at all, but it has made Xingzong's heart itch. Gritting his teeth at the end, Lao Tzu couldn't drive it himself, so he just moved that Hualian directly!

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"The imperial court should not agree..."Cao Tong explained the truth of the matter, and began to speculate.

"I can't go if I agree!" Pan Feng shook his head like a wave drum. "Now Song Liao is a sensitive period, if one is not good, you have to fight, and a fool will go to Da Liao to die!"

Cao Tong nodded, agreeing with Pan Feng's idea.

No, Tang Yi finally came back to his senses and slammed the table, "Go!" Why don't you go? Fools don't go! ”

"Song Liao definitely can't fight, Emperor Liao's old immortal doesn't want to fight even more than us!"

Cao Tong was stunned for a moment, "How do you know that the Liao Kingdom doesn't want to fight?" ”

Pan Feng also said: "Yes! Don't look at the constraints of the Yuanyuan Covenant, if the Liao State wants to invade the south, it is not a matter of one or two days. ”

Tang Yi shook his hand, "If you want to fight, you can just send more troops to the border, and why do you send three or four missions a year?" ”

"Xu is to explore my Great Song Dynasty?"

"You don't know." Tang Yi said firmly, "Emperor Liao is thinking about how to put his own son on the throne, and now if he starts a war, then he will find death by himself!" ”

Cao and Pan were confused, and they couldn't understand why Tang Yi was so sure that Song Liao couldn't fight.

However, Cao Tong said: "Even if you want to open Hualian to Daliao, our channels can't reach Liaodi." Then we will face the same problem as Liaoshang, there is no supply! ”

"It's so easy!"

Tang Yi's heart is already beautiful. In the past, he had been thinking about how to infiltrate the economy of Daliao. Unexpectedly, someone sent a pillow for sleepiness, which came too timely!

Tang Yi asked Heizi to bring a map of mountains and rivers, this map was specially asked by Cao Tong to come to Zhao Zhen, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty could not have a map.

He pointed to the location of Dengzhou on the map, "Go to sea from Dengzhou, land in Laizhou, Liaoguo, and travel 500 miles to Zhongjing Dading." ”

Seeing that everyone was dumbfounded, he pointed to another place:

"If you are troublesome to unload, you can also enter the Liao River through Chenzhou, turn the Huang River and the Tu River, and go straight into Dading City."

“.....？”

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Now, no one listened to what Tang Yi was talking about, and they all stared at the few big words on the picture in shock!

That was before, Tang Yi wrote it down when he was idle.

"Attack, Liao! Route Diagram!! ”

In the picture, there are two lines marked with cinnabar red lines that stand out.....

It is the two places of Laizhou and Chenzhou that Tang Yi refers to!!

.... (To be continued.) )