The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 192 Southern Silk Road
The Ancient Tea Horse Road and the Shu Shen Poison Road.

The former goes south and the latter goes west.They all have to go through Dali.

Liang Xin asked: "Can you make the decision on this matter?"

Duan Zhengyan said: "I can't talk about other matters, it's just business matters. If the Song Dynasty can support it, I can make the decision. The Gao family did not dare to oppose the decision of the Song Dynasty, not to mention that I lost [-] acres. "

Liang Xin thought for a moment: "Let me send [-] merchants and [-] soldiers?"

Duan Zhengyan said: "I can do it if the number of soldiers is less than three thousand. The business scope is unlimited, but I, the Dali merchant, must be involved and can travel to and from Bianjing."

"Okay." Liang Xin smiled: "I'll give you a gift. I promise you will like it."

Duan Zhengyan stood up and saluted.

Liang Xin asked: "If you don't ask, what gift should I give you?"

Duan Zhengyan was stunned for a moment.

Just listen to Liang Xin ask: "Have you ever heard of Wukong Ya?"

Porphyrin pass.

Duan Zhengyan knelt down, not toward Liang Xin, but to recite sutras.

He knows this stuff too well.

In the ninth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, the chief leader of Northern Tianzhu and the national adviser came to Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty and asked for surrender.

Later, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent an official to Northern Tianzhu as an envoy.

The envoy was seriously ill in Tianzhu and stayed. After 30 years of pilgrimage in northern Tianzhu to seek Dharma, when he returned to his hometown, his master gave him a Buddha tooth. In the sixth year of Zhenyuan, this official of the Tang Dynasty returned to In Chang'an, Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty bestowed the title of Wukong.

Therefore, this tooth is called Wukong tooth.

Liang Xin is talking about sending.

Duan Zhengyan didn't dare to accept it, but he still dared to ask him to return to Dali to worship him for one year.

If it possesses this treasure, Bagan will definitely send troops to snatch it. Dali cannot guard this treasure, and with the Wukong tooth there, the Song Dynasty will send three thousand troops to protect it, which is justifiable.

Duan Zhengyan knelt on the ground and began to chant sutras continuously.

No matter what Liang Xin said, he pretended not to hear it and concentrated on chanting sutras.

Where is Liang Xin?

Forget it, go home, this person can probably read it all night.

Others don't know, but Liang Xin knows that there is still a finger bone, which is in the underground palace in Jingzhao North.

Zhao Ji believed it, and Liang Xin believed that as long as he could gain the favor of the Dali people and restart the Southern Silk Road by borrowing this thing, this would be the most practical thing for the Song Dynasty.

Xiao Fengxian went back in a hurry.

Although he is a fool, he has also read books. He knows that Brother Richard, who only has meat in his head, still does not understand the meaning of these acres of land.

Although Xiao Yuanfeng is a loser, he is a somewhat wise person.

Xiao Feng returned to the post house first, and Xiao Yuanfeng stood in front of the door in a daze, muttering silently.

It seems that he is thinking about something very important.

Xiao Feng came back first: "Yeah yeah (Dad)."

"Well, I'm back."

Xiao Fengxian: "I have more than 300 acres of chips from the Song people. I sent people to see it. Just by the river in the south of the city, a small dock can be built. But I lost a lot. I estimate that the Song people have more than [-] acres of chips. Together with our Da Khitan, Xixia, and Dali, the total is close to [-] acres."

"Ah, yes." Xiao Yuanfeng nodded: "He is just a jester of the Song Dynasty. He just wants to make some money. He can't achieve anything big."

"Yeah, we can arrange for people to stay in the field to spy on the news of the Song Dynasty at any time. But they will do the same, and they can't make up their mind at the moment." Xiao Yuanfeng asked: "Do you want to eat boiled mutton or stew in an iron pot at night? Where’s the goose?”

"This……"

"choose one."

"Stewed goose."

"Yes." Xiao Yuanfeng took a long breath and went back to the house with his hands behind his back.As he walked, he said: "Let's discuss with the Song people. Send us a basket of cherry radishes. Pickle them with sugar and add some vinegar to relieve the greasiness. As for those hundreds of acres, I have already written back to Beijing. Your Majesty will definitely Will agree."

Xiao Yuanfeng understands the current Lord of Liao.

This one relies on dice to promote officials.

The current Privy Councilor, Yelu Yan, got this official position only by winning the dice game in the court.

After entering the house, Xiao Yuanfeng said again: "As for you, please tell that little Song man that I, the Great Khitan Emperor, and the Emperor of the Song Dynasty are also going to have a fight. One of your bets is an acre, so one bet is one mile. It's possible. Also, the agreement is that it is farmland, so no city can be built or walls can be erected."

"I understand, I mean to send detailed work."

"You don't have to think about it. You can think of the officials of the Song Dynasty. They will definitely guard against death, so it's useless." Xiao Yuanfeng thought far ahead. After all, he had been an official in the court for so many years, even if he had no achievements. , but his two daughters were married to the emperor's grandson of the Liao Kingdom.

The blessing of this status still gave him some say in the court.

only……

He was so unlucky that he lost every time he played dice in the court. He was never promoted once.

Let’s talk about Liang Xin.

When Liang Xin returned home, Cao Tan asked him: "Yu Xuan is here and asked if he wants to arrange for people to be ready to go to Xijin Mansion at any time. I said let him prepare first. The Liao people may not be able to agree to how much they will really pay if they lose." Hundred Acres.”

After hearing this, Liang Xin replied: "Well, people must be sent, one team will be exposed and countless teams will be hidden. But the purpose of my needing this field is not to send people, but to infiltrate."

"penetration?"

Cao Tan didn't understand.

Liang Xin explained: "The reason is very simple. The Khitan is said to be one country, but in fact it is two countries. The South Khitan is centered on Xijin Prefecture, and practices the rules of the Han people and follows the etiquette of the Han people. The North Khitan However, it is still a nomadic and tribal style, just like I encouraged the Jurchens to attack Goryeo, for the future."

Cao Tan asked: "What will happen in the future?"

Liang Xin asked back: "If there is a silver mountain right under your nose, what will you do?"

Cao Tan smiled at the question and said, "What should I do? Go dig. Send as many people as you can. If you dig out, you will get money."

"Yes, it must be dug, but the locals are definitely not willing. They will not be friendly and cook meat, bake pancakes, and prepare tea for you to dig. They will definitely tell you with swords that they themselves dig."

As Liang Xin spoke, she leaned on the soft chair, took a piece of pear and prepared to put it in her mouth.

Cao Tan was quick and grabbed it.

Liang Xin was anxious: "What's wrong with eating a pear?"

Cao Tan asked his maid to peel another pear for Liang Xin and cut it into slices. Then he replied: "It is unlucky to eat pears without sharing them."

"What the hell."

"Continuing to talk about Yinshan, it is obviously not within our Song Dynasty."

Liang Xin smiled: "There are also Jinshan and Tongshan. But in the world, as the sun shines, if I say it is mine, it is mine, and it is all mine. The Jurchens can't do this. They fight But the other side, although the other side is in chaos internally and trying to seize power from each other, when there are external enemies, they are very brutal."

Cao Tan quickly looked around the Song Dynasty: "Could it be..."

"That's right, Japanese!" Liang Xin said: "That silver mountain, when we first started digging, we could dig out more than [-] tons of silver in a year. Once we dig smoothly, once we develop the sinking machinery well, we can dig out more than [-] tons of silver in a year." Four thousand loads of silver were dug out, not including copper, gold, lead, tin and other accompanying ores. I said it was silver, not silver ore."

(End of this chapter)