I am Da Song

Chapter 280
In August of the golden autumn, the talks hosted by Da Song in Jingzhao Mansion formally signed an agreement.

The five countries of Song, Xia, Liao, Jin, and Mongolia made a unified alliance to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road. Anyone who dares to rob caravans will be attacked by the world.

At the same time, the five countries unified tariffs, and only [-]% tariffs were imposed on caravans along the Silk Road.

At the same time, all countries have reduced checkpoints. A caravan is only taxed once when it enters the country and once when it leaves the country.

This tax rate is not high. When ruling corruption, even if commercial trade is carried out within the country, it will not pass through more than two checkpoints.

More importantly, when a piece of silk or porcelain is sold from the Song Dynasty to the West, its value can suddenly increase by tens or even hundreds of times.

Compared to this huge profit, a stable business environment, and a safe way to do business, the double tax rate is nothing to mention.

The reopening of the Silk Road quickly brought the industry and commerce of the Great Song Dynasty into a more prosperous level. Countless citizens took the opportunity to borrow money to open handicraft workshops and expand production in the city.

The students followed the caravan and embarked on the Silk Road to the far-away Dashi.

During the golden age of Arabia, millions of books were stored in libraries all over the world.

Under the ten-year translation movement promoted by Taixue of the Song Dynasty, knowledge is wealth.Everyone who translates one more cannibal book can earn one more government bounty.

This is also the golden age of Song Dynasty students, and it is the most convenient way to transform knowledge into wealth.

The entire Song Dynasty benefited a lot from the re-opening of the Silk Road from the imperial court, finance, economy, academics, and even wealth from all walks of life.

As for Xiliao, which has been dragging its feet and refusing to sign an agreement, it is of course attributable to Zhao Huan's great nephew, the Khan of the Black Khan Dynasty, who succumbed so quickly.

The Black Han Dynasty is the transliteration of its name in the Central Plains, and its real name is the Karahan Dynasty.

This is a dynasty established by the Uighurs. In the Tang Dynasty, the princesses were married off, so the Uyghurs called Zhongchao uncle, and every time Zhongchao issued an imperial edict, they were also called nephews.

This custom has been preserved for five generations.

Therefore, the Khan of the Karahan Dynasty has always called the Emperor of the Song Dynasty "the uncle of the Han family".

It is said that after Zhao Huan sorted out the internal situation of the Song Dynasty, he discovered that he had a lot of good guys outside.

The Lord of the Xixia Kingdom called him father, and the Khan of the Karahan Dynasty called him uncle.

The reason why this nephew of Zhao Huande has such an important influence is because Xiliao is at war with the Karahan Dynasty.

The most admirable thing about Song Dynasty is his openness of civilization. Unlike Ming and Qing Dynasties who can't figure out the external situation, Song Dynasty has a clear picture of the distribution of the surrounding countries.

From Shaanxi to the west in the Song Dynasty, there are Xixia and Gaochang.Out of Gaochang is the Karahan Dynasty, but the Karahan Dynasty is divided into two parts, the East and the West.

That is to say, from Gaochang to the west are the East Karakhan Dynasty, the West Karakhan Dynasty, then Khwarazmo, and then Dashi.After passing the western part of Dashi, it is the area where the Crusaders are now fighting bloody battles.

After Yelu Dashi led his army from Gaochang, the campaign against the Karahan Dynasty was extremely unsuccessful.

In history, Yelu Dashi suffered a disastrous defeat in the war against the Karahan Dynasty, and it is even more difficult now, and the war may collapse at any time.

Therefore, when the officials of Honglu Temple in Jingzhao Mansion "inadvertently" revealed that the Song Dynasty was about to marry the Karahan Dynasty and gave it a large number of weapons and armor from the Central Plains, Xiliao immediately relented.

Now the Khitans and the Uyghurs did not have the upper hand in the war. If the Karahan Dynasty received the military support of the Song Dynasty again, the remaining vitality of the Liao Kingdom would be exhausted.

So the Silk Road was finally re-opened.

The re-opening of the Silk Road is not only an important achievement of Song Wenzhi, but also a great achievement of Song martial arts.

Because the newly reopened Silk Road can be said to be completely dominated by the Song Dynasty, and Jin and Liao are no longer the masters of the Silk Road.

They can participate in commerce and trade on the Silk Road, but cannot cut off or dominate the starting position of the Silk Road.

From the Jingzhao Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty to Dashi, Holy Rome, and France, the trade routes can be unimpeded.

All western countries can directly contact the caravans from the Jingzhao Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty and learn about this powerful country located in the east of the world.

When a country is strong and prosperous, it will naturally open its borders outward.

The Crusaders expanded their borders in the west of the mainland, and the Song Dynasty wasted no time in the east.

After the Silk Road began to operate, Zhao Huan immediately began to solve another difficult problem in the Song Dynasty, the lack of horses!
The lack of horses in the Song army is already a topic that has been discussed by later generations.

In fact, Zhao Huan has always believed that Song Dynasty did not lack horses, but only lacked professional cavalry before.

Because the Song Dynasty had a stable supply of war horses.

So in October, Zhao Huan ordered to recruit another good boy, Zhao Huai'en.

Hearing this name, one knew that it was the surname and first name bestowed by the royal family of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, this is a Tubo native, a descendant of Zanpu Zansiluo of Tubo, who was enshrined in the first year of Jingkang by Da Song, the predecessor of Zhao Huan, to "handle Huangshan affairs" to help Da Song manage local complicated matters .

In the third year of Xining, Huizong, Zhao Huan's cheap father, went west to destroy the Tubo regime, opened up thousands of miles of land, and formally established the Longxi Protectorate.

But with the rise of the Jin people, Da Song has never had the energy to manage Longyou.Zhao Huaien was the last local official appointed by Da Song, intending to rely on his prestige in Tubo to guard the border on behalf of Da Song.

It's just that there has been little effect all the time. The Longyou Protectorate of the Song Dynasty was seriously infiltrated by Tubo.

More importantly, Song Dynasty could hardly collect taxes locally.

This made Zhao Huan completely unbearable. He even suppressed the stubborn scholar-bureaucrats in the country and forced them to pay taxes.

A group of Tubo barbarians still want to stay out of justice?

The expansion of Hehuang border has once again become the most concerned issue of the Song court.

The imperial court issued a conscript to Zhao Huai'en in October, and in December when it snowed heavily, Zhao Huai'en arrived in the capital under heavy snow.

He rushed to the capital together with Liu Kai, the newly appointed Longyou Governor of Song Dynasty.

Before meeting Zhao Huaien, Zhao Huan specially hosted a banquet in the palace to entertain Liu Kai, a famous general of the Song Dynasty.

The season of heavy snow is undoubtedly the most suitable for eating hot pot.

"Green Ant's new grain wine, a small red mud stove. It's going to snow in the evening, so I can drink a cup of nothing."

This poem by Bai Juyi directly pushes the artistic conception of eating hot pot to an unparalleled height.

In order to entertain his confidant and beloved general, Zhao Huan specially asked Shangshi Bureau to prepare the most abundant ingredients.

The white bone broth boiled with fresh beef bones is used as the base material, and wolfberry, cinnamon, lotus seeds, and jujube are also added.

When Zhao Huan eats hot pot, he always prepares two dipping sauces, one is a dry dish, that is, sesame paste, and the other is an oil dish, that is, sesame oil and sesame oil.

But the common ingredients for the two dips are chopped green onion, mashed garlic, sesame seeds, and dogwood!

It is the cornel with one less cornel planted everywhere. Before pepper was introduced to the Central Plains, it was the most popular condiment in the Central Plains.

There is a whole tray full of freshly cut mutton and beef. There are two large servings of this tray on each table, weighing nearly ten catties.

Zhao Huan first picked up a large chopstick and started to boil it in the hot pot, and said to Liu Qi with a light smile: "Liu Qing, come and taste the difference between the beef and mutton in the capital and the beef and mutton on the plateau."

(End of this chapter)