Outlaws of the Marsh

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This time the Xixia mission was led by Li Zhizhong, who belonged to the Xixia clan and was also a minister of the two dynasties. At the beginning, the reason why Li Qianshun was able to marry Yelu Nanxian was the result of his two trips to the Liao Kingdom to ask for marriage. Now , Li Qianshun sent him to Dazhong again, the intention can be imagined, it was for Li Yan's daughter.

Apart from wanting to marry Li Yan's daughter and form an alliance with Dazhong, Li Zhizhong and the others also had the task of finding out the real situation of Dazhong.

Therefore, as soon as they entered the Middle Realm, Li Zhizhong and others began to observe the current national conditions of Dazhong.

In the end, if you don't look at it, you don't know. Li Zhizhong and others were shocked by seeing it!
Although some areas were still in chaos when they were in Hedong, when Li Zhizhong and his party approached the territory of Henan, there were no traces of the war anymore-everywhere was orderly, and there were men farming and women weaving everywhere.

From the mouths of passers-by, Li Zhizhong and others learned that Zhang Suoyi's army, which had been making a fuss in Hedong, Hebei, and Henan some time ago, had collapsed after Zhang Suo was deposed by the Southern Song Dynasty—most of them were recruited or wiped out by Dazhong , a small number fled to the south of the Yangtze River, either to the Song Dynasty, or to the Li, or to the bell. In short, there is no trace of them in Dazhong.

When Li Zhizhong and his party came to Tokyo, they found that it was not much different from the Tokyo they knew before, with a population of over one million and a prosperous world.

What made Li Zhizhong and others different was that they actually saw a lot of merchants from the Western Regions (big food merchants, that is, Arab merchants) in Tokyo.

This surprised Li Zhizhong and others.

You know, since Xixia occupied the Hexi Corridor and cut off the Silk Road, merchants from the Western Regions can no longer reach the Central Plains—if merchants from the Western Regions want goods from the Central Plains, they must buy them from Xixia. A large amount of financial income.

Unexpectedly, merchants from the Western Regions could bypass Xixia and come to the Central Plains!

This made Li Zhizhong and others worry that Xixia might lose a huge amount of financial revenue, but at the same time, they couldn't help but wonder how these Western Region merchants came to Tokyo?
Li Zhizhong held on to the big and middle officials who brought them to Tokyo, and at the same time sent people to secretly contact those businessmen from the Western Regions to find out how they came to Tokyo.

Soon, Li Zhizhong and others got an answer that worried them - the merchants from the Western Regions came to Tokyo from the sea.

Moreover, the price for these merchants from the Western Regions to come to Tokyo is very low - they only need to pay a small amount of money to buy a boat ticket, and they can take the treasure ship of Dazhong from Zhuluo County to Dazhong without any danger. Then they can go to any place in Dazhong with the temporary passports issued to them by the Dazhong imperial court. There are post houses, post stations, and post kiosks along the way for them to eat and live. The most important thing is that they can also use gold. Exchange banknotes that are convenient and common in Dazhong at banks all over Dazhong. Of course, they can also exchange paper currency for gold, which greatly facilitates their trade. In addition, because they can use large ships to trade by sea, merchants can carry The goods have also greatly increased. In a word, Dazhong's sea trade has a much greater advantage than Xixia's land trade.

Just like this, Xixia may lose most of its financial revenue. What should we do?
After careful observation, Li Zhizhong and others also found that there were not only merchants from the Western Regions in Tokyo, but also Indian merchants, as well as a small number of blond merchants. The Roman Empire, which is still on the west side of the Western Regions.

In addition, whether it is a businessman from the Western Regions, an Indian businessman, or a businessman from the Holy Roman Empire, when they talk about Li Yan and Dazhong, they all show admiration, and they all respect Li Yan as the Emperor of the East and Dazhong. For the Dazhong Empire.

Only then did Li Zhizhong and the others really know how powerful Dazhong is.

This kind of power is not only reflected in the strength of military power, but also in cultural governance and comprehensive national strength.

With a heavy heart, the Xixia Mission came to the outside of Bianliang City with the officials of Dazhong.

At a place about one mile away from the Duting West Station, the diplomatic officials sent by Dazhong to contact the Xixia Mission finally appeared-the previous officials were only responsible for bringing the Xixia Mission to Bianliang, Tokyo, and could not A true diplomat.

As soon as the two sides met, the two young officials at the head clasped their fists at Li Zhizhong and others and saluted, saying: "Welcome the envoy Xia, I am Zhe Yanwen, Shaoqing of Honghe Temple." The master book will tell you the truth."

Upon hearing the names reported by Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang, Li Zhizhong and the others, who were very familiar with the Fuzhou Zhe family, changed their expressions—they guessed that Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang were from the Fuzhou Zhe family. And their reaction was completely subconscious!

If you ask who the Xixia people hate the most, Fuzhou Zhejia is definitely the first to bear the brunt!

Over the past few hundred years, the Fuzhou Zhe family has killed hundreds of thousands of Xixia people, and they have already formed a deadly enmity with the Xixia people. It can be said that the two sides will never die.

But Dazhong actually arranged for people from Fuzhou Zhejia to receive their Xixia mission, what is the meaning of this?Isn't it ready to coexist peacefully with Xixia?
but--

After all, Li Zhizhong was a veteran of the two dynasties of Xixia and an experienced diplomat who had traveled to his country several times. He quickly calmed down and said, "Old man Li Zhizhong is the ambassador to China this time."

Zhe Yanwen said: "When I was in the Northwest, I often heard about Mr. Li's deeds. If there is no Mr. Li, there may be no Xixia. Mr. Li has the grace to rebuild Xixia."

What Zhe Yanwen refers to is that Li Zhizhong helped Li Qianshun marry Yelu Nanxian, and then saved Xixia.

Although Zhe Yanwen's words seemed to be praising Li Zhizhong, they were actually saying that if it weren't for the Liao Kingdom, Xixia would have perished long ago.

Li Zhizhong's face darkened in an instant when he heard the words, and said: "The reason why the Great Xia has been able to survive until now, and has not been destroyed like Song and Liao, is because the five million people in the Great Xia are united, advancing and retreating together, not Li Zhizhong's work alone!"

Zhe Zhichang said with a blank face: "At most 300 million, remove the Han people, there are less than 80, and then remove the old and weak, it is less than 50, and only among these 50, it is not the same as one. As we know, Xixia is currently divided into three factions, they are..."

Li Zhizhong interrupted Zhe Zhichang and said, "Is this Dazhong's way of hospitality? If it is, then in my opinion, there is no need for us to go to see His Majesty the Emperor Dazhong!"

Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhi often listened to the words and were silent for a while.

In the end, Zhe Yanwen stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation as if a little unwilling, and said at the same time: "We are only responsible for receiving the envoys, and the one who is really negotiating with the envoys is our Siqing, Mr. Ma, who is now in the posthouse Waiting for you."

Hearing this, Li Zhizhong flicked his sleeves and said, "Let's go, let's go see Mr. Ma, if he is also so rude, let's go back immediately and never form an alliance with Dazhong!"

Li Zhizhong's words were very harsh, but if you taste them carefully, you can see Xixia's attitude towards this alliance, that is, he very much hopes that this alliance will be successful!
Zhe Yanwen and Zhe Zhichang exchanged glances indiscriminately, and then followed Xia Envoy's footsteps with a smile on his face...

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(End of this chapter)