Song Gexing

Chapter 261 Gaoju Jianban’s misfortune

Zhao Fang thought about it. The Imperial City Division is no longer just handling cases and arrests as it was before. Since his rebirth, he has incorporated many spies concepts from the Jin Yiwei and later generations.

In particular, they vigorously developed espionage personnel outside the Song Dynasty. They only raised a lot of carrier pigeons and the Imperial City Division. The Liao Kingdom had already developed hundreds of local people, and there were even Khitans.

As for the Western Regions, there were none originally, but after Xixia was destroyed, the Imperial City Division began to infiltrate the Western Regions. Now there are already people. Although there are not many, it is not difficult to pass on news, spread rumors and so on.

Zhao Fang then safely handed over the matter to Gao Jujian, and as expected, the foreign court was not alarmed. Rumors first started in the diplomatic posts of various envoys, and then he asked the Imperial City Secretary to send a secret message to the Western Regions.

Things changed at this point, which Zhao Fang didn't expect. Later, he even complained that he had done something wrong.

It turns out that the Northern Song Dynasty had frequent exchanges with foreign countries. There were hundreds of foreign envoys in Bianjing alone, and several foreign forces had people stationed in Bianjing.

If we talk about the national policy of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is commerce. The reason why the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty ranked first among the major dynasties in ancient times is because the Northern Song Dynasty attached great importance to commercial development.

The four classes of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were actually treated equally in the Northern Song Dynasty, except for the scholar-bureaucrats. As mentioned above, businessmen in the Northern Song Dynasty could participate in the imperial examination.

Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty collected commercial taxes, which was not as stupid as the Ming Dynasty. Merchants hardly had to pay taxes.

The Song court stipulated that missions from various countries could trade in the post house, and merchants from the Song Dynasty could also go to the post house to trade. This made many foreign countries flock to the Song Dynasty.

Even Goryeo and Jurchen, which had long since severed official ties with the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Liao Kingdom, had dedicated permanent personnel, euphemistically called envoys.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the external forces that have traveled to Bianjing include Xixia, Khotan, Dali, Qiuci, Gaochang, Jurchen, Tatar, Dangxiang (different tribes from Xixia), Tubo, Uighur, Nanbo, and Wu Xing The regimes of Fan, Kuizhou Man, Lidong, Ganzhou, and Songgecheng.

This is the official history of the various forces recorded in the Song Dynasty, but in fact, by the Zhenzong period, Khotan had been destroyed, and like Qiuci, it belonged to the eastern khan of the Black Khanate.

It is true that the Uighurs and the Gaochang Uighurs did not come together, but were sent by the two regimes.

The Uighurs recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty were actually the Hexi Uighurs. They were originally integrated with Ganzhou, but they later split and were sorted out by Li Yuanhao.

The Hexi Uyghurs are actually very powerful, but they have split themselves. There is more than one Uyghur tribe. In addition to Ganzhou, there are more than a dozen different forces such as Guazhou Uyghurs and Shazhou Uyghurs.

As for Nanfan, it refers to southern Xinjiang, and Fan with the five surnames refers specifically to the southwest minority tribes in the Guizhou area and not under the jurisdiction of the Yang family in Bozhou.

Kuizhou Man is a branch of Wuxi Man. They live in western Hunan but are not Miao. They should be one of the predecessors of Tujia.

Lidong refers to the aborigines of Hainan Island. The Han people have governed Hainan Island for a long time, but they only built cities around Haikou and did not go deep into it. Therefore, large areas of Hainan Island still exist as tribes.

Songkor City was a Burmese force in later generations, living in the southern part of Myanmar in later generations. At its largest sphere of influence, it included Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, southern Vietnam and other large areas, which were their territory.

They are different from the ethnic groups in northern Myanmar. Northern Myanmar has always been China's territory. It was not until the end of World War II that it gradually became Myanmar's territory.

As an aside, it was a pity for China at that time to abandon these two places. The Allies had already returned them to China.

At that time, including the United States, Britain, France and Russia, all recognized that northern Myanmar, Taiwan and Ryukyu were Chinese territories. However, the Kuomintang was unable to take over the territory in order to compete with the Communist Party, so it only took back one Taiwan, and gave up the remaining two.Don't underestimate the northern Myanmar region. Although it is barren, it is a strategically important area. If it were in the hands of China, the situation in Southeast Asia would be much easier to handle now.

As for the Tatar Kingdom, the Tatars in the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned above that they were a staunch supporter of the Song Dynasty. For the sake of the Song Dynasty, they fought hard with the Liao Kingdom, and later with the Jin Kingdom.

But readers, please note that the Tatars are not the Tatars that Westerners would call them in later generations, nor are they the Russian Tatars. They are completely different things.

The Tatars are not even Mongolians. They live near Lake Baikal and gradually migrate to the Yinshan Mountains. They are actually the descendants of the Rouran people and merged with a part of the Mongol tribe Wei Zhong.

Therefore, the Tatars speak Mongolian but write in Turkic script. They were originally tributaries of the Liao Kingdom, but they all broke away from the Liao Kingdom in 1012 and turned to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty. From then on, they were loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty. , until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty and they were annexed by Mongolia.

Gao Jujian did not expect that something unexpected would happen to what he had promised with confidence. That is, after the rumor spread, the envoys in Bianjing thought it was true.

They thought that Zhao Fang liked foreign women, so they sent letters back to their monarchs one after another.

In fact, it is no wonder that people misunderstand it. If you look at Zhao Fang's harem, you will know that starting from the earliest four dancing girls, Rou Niang, and the two Goryeo women sent by the Liao Kingdom.

Then there were the tribute girls sent by Dali, and later Zhang Dun planned to have Xiangxi send four Miao and Wuxi barbarian girls.

The last one this time was the four sent from the west of the Black Khanate. In everyone's opinion, they were all foreign women other than Song people, and these women were all favored in the palace without exception.

This confirmed the rumor to everyone. If he likes it, then give it to him. What a big deal.

The uninformed Zhao Fang was still planning how to quarrel with the Liao State until an agreement was reached between Song and Liao. After the Liao envoys returned, he was suddenly surprised when he received reports from the Imperial City Department and border officials.

"This...isn't this nonsense? Why do I need so many women!"

Today, the five surnames of Fan and Nanfan no longer exist. After surrendering, they were already Song people and would not participate in this matter.

Khotan has long since destroyed the country, and Kucha, a member of the Black Khanate, did not participate. However, the Gaochang Uighurs, Tatars, and Song Gecheng suddenly arrived at the border, and without exception, they asked to pass the customs and send tribute girls to Zhao Fang.

Later, news came from the tribes in southern Tubo that had not yet been integrated into the Song Dynasty, and the Jurchens, and Zhao Fang was dumbfounded.

Before he could receive instructions from these memorials, news arrived from Japan and Goryeo. In particular, Goryeo was so generous this time that it actually sent eighteen women.

This is the first official envoy to the Song Dynasty after Goryeo surrendered to the Liao Kingdom. It is impossible to say that it is meaningless, because it means that the prestige of the Liao Kingdom has been suppressed by the Song Dynasty.

Although Zhao Fang felt it was ridiculous, he did not dare to be arbitrary about this matter and quickly summoned the ministers to discuss it. It was the back garden of the Liao Kingdom.

Although Han Qi and others were dissatisfied with these regimes sending women to Zhao Fang, they could not object as this was a formal tribute. They were just curious as to why this was the case.

What was even more curious was what Gao Li was having this time. After the Imperial City Secretary learned about the situation and reported it, Zhao Fang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

(End of this chapter)