The rise of the prince

Chapter 411 Jing Foreign Trade
Every time the brothers go to Ningjiang Mansion to rob, why is it so smooth? It’s not because there are locals leading the way. Then the prefect of Ningjiang is a fool. In the past two years, we robbed the counties on the east side of the mountain, but the brothers didn’t enter. Back, the county magistrate reported to the magistrate that we had looted their county.

That idiot magistrate believed it without asking someone to see it. The tax was exempted for two years without mentioning the tax, and he gave money to appease the people in the county. Even find someone to talk to me, give me money to grab, and someone to lead the way, hahaha
You say how he can cure it, even if his emperor's grandfather comes, he can't help it.

The real grab is the area in the north of Jiangning. Those days of hell killed our parents, men, women and children, and we have a bloody feud with them.

After two days, ask someone to ask when that Pingnan King will take office, and just avoid the limelight for a few days.

The new official took office three fires, and he was still a child with no hair on his face, so what was there to be afraid of. "

The big ship of the royal palace leaves Kaiyuan and has to go through the inspection of the city shipping department.

Only the ships entering and leaving Kaiyuan must be inspected, because this is a matter of the safety of the royal family in the capital.

The officials of the Municipal Shipping Department knew that this was a big ship of the royal family, so they never felt embarrassed. Li Xinzhou was also the commander of the new army and the status of the Privy Council, so it was legal to equip the ship with additional weapons.

But there are strict requirements for leading troops. Even if he is the king of Pingnan County, the champion general and the Beijing North Transit Envoy, he needs to show tiger charms for the transfer of troops with more than 50 people, so he naturally has tiger charms.

Pingnan Wangbei went to heaven with great news, and Shibosi also knew that looking at the tiger talisman was just a formality.

More than a dozen officials boarded the boat, took a symbolic tour, and then got off the boat to reveal the inspection documents.There were five or six officials who wanted to go north and wanted to take a boat, and he agreed, but Li Xingzhou always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't think of what was wrong.

In addition, Shibo is mainly in charge of foreign trade.

During the Song Dynasty, foreign trade was very developed, and so was Jingguo. Although the existence of Xixia blocked the Northwest Silk Road, it was exactly the same. In addition, the economic center of gravity gradually moved southward, which made Haiyuan develop.

More ships went to sea, and more merchants traded with Wa, Goryeo, and West Asian countries in the east.

The City Ship Department was originally established to manage those merchants who went to sea, and the supervision and inspection of the capital ships was only a secondary function added later.

Jing Guozhong's most important trading partners were Goryeo, Liao, Xixia, Dali and Wa.

During the Han Dynasty, Japan was conferred the title of "Han Wa Slaves King" by the Han Emperor, and was conferred the title of Himihu by the Wei Emperor during the Three Kingdoms period. It was close to the Wei Wa King. At that time, the central empire was powerful, not only the Wa Kingdom, but also many subordinate countries. Honestly.

Wa country is a country that is good at learning.From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom became stronger and stronger, and its ambitions also grew, and it began to force countries on the Korean Peninsula to pay tribute.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty just hit Baekje to the point of almost subjugation, and Wa felt that the time had come, and it was time to support Baekje so as to dominate the regional situation.

But what I didn't expect was that the iron board was kicked. Tang general Liu Rengui fought at Baijiangkou, and defeated the Japanese and Baekje coalition forces with more than three times his strength. Then Baekje and Goryeo perished, and the Korean peninsula only remained on the side of the Tang army. of Silla.

At that time, Wa country began to learn the culture of Tang Dynasty. After learning some Chinese characters, it felt that Wa country was not good.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty didn't pay much attention to the country of Wa at that time, so it didn't pay much attention to it, and agreed verbally, and it was still called the country of Wa afterwards.Because the territory of the Tang Dynasty at its peak was more than 1000 million square kilometers, and there were nearly [-] countries that perished from the beginning to the end, and there were more unnamed small countries with similar tribes in the West Asian generation. care.

But the interesting thing is that the foreign trade of the Song Dynasty was developed, and Koryo, Japan and others adopted a passive and defensive attitude towards foreign trade because they were afraid of China's strength. Due to the difficulty in information exchange, my impression remains between the strong man who bestowed the title of Wa Kingdom and the prosperous Tang Dynasty who beat them to death.

Therefore, when dealing with trade, we want to be conservative and reject it, but we dare not offend it.

This attitude is very interesting, because since the Ming Dynasty, the attitude towards foreign trade has been reversed. On the contrary, China has become the conservative side, and began to impose sea bans instead of customs.

Many people say that China's decline began in the Qing Dynasty, but it is not, because the Ming and Qing Dynasties are in the same line. If there is a problem with the Qing Dynasty, it means that there is also a problem. Both are highly centralized to distorted empires.

This is different from all previous dynasties. The open attitude of the Song Dynasty and its predecessors to foreign trade is in stark contrast to the conservative and suppressive attitude of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to foreign trade. It is also because of the fear and anxiety of the highly centralized central government towards sea power.

The ocean is a vacuum of power. There, not to mention the emperor, the emperor and I can't control it. In this case, the emperor is of course uneasy, and the uneasiness about power brings about sea bans and seclusion.

In dynasties such as Song, Tang, and Han, it would be difficult for this situation to arise, because "loyalty" was not prevalent at that time, and it was very difficult to form a high degree of centralization like the Ming and Qing. In many cases, a few prime ministers, The power of the generals and others can restrict the royal power.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, the development of commerce and trade was unexpected. According to the records, there were more than 60 foreign countries that traded with the Song Dynasty, large and small, and their names were recorded again. Influenced by Wuxi's ethos.

Li Xingzhou sighed. Compared with the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was actually a better era, and the centralization of power was far inferior to that time. Even if the emperor is strong now, Zhong Daoyu, Degong and others can control it.

There is no absolute thing in the world, and things are neither good nor bad. For example, the struggle for power and profit is derogatory to many people, but only the struggle for power will have checks and balances. Once power loses checks and balances, becoming supreme is the worst. result.

When it comes to supremacy, people will think of the emperor, but the reason for this impression is that people live in an era closer to the Ming and Qing dynasties, so they will think so due to the influence of extremely centralized dynasties.

But in fact, the Song Dynasty and its previous emperors were far from having such great power. For a long time in the Han Dynasty, the emperor was even just a seal, meaning that the court ministers decided things, and then the emperor was responsible for affixing the seal.

The central government's ability to control the localities, especially in areas far from the central government, is also limited by transportation technology, communication technology and other reasons. In many cases, it is just to collect taxes.Taking Fuzhou as an example, Suzhou is actually an enclave surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the east.

The imperial court's control over Fuzhou is limited to collecting taxes from the sea, and then claiming control. Even if the prefect has always been appointed, it depends on Fuzhou's own political wind. As long as the imperial court gives face, Fuzhou will naturally default to the imperial court. Fuzhou people will also send troops.

On the west side of Jiangzhou, Taiyuan Mansion between Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain is probably the case. It is also the root of the disaster. The famous Yang Family Army in the previous life came from there, but I don’t know if there is a powerful Yang Family Army today.
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