I am Da Song

King's tribute ivory, pearls, embroidered gold and embroidered silk strands, variegated silk strands, Jibei woven variegated strands, sandalwood, tortoise betel nut plate, rhinoceros sword, gold and silver sword, rattan flower mat, white Parrots and Qibao decorate the sandalwood pavilion.

It makes Biegong Daimao, borneol, clove, and rattan weaving flower mat.

After listening, Zhao Huan couldn't help but smile faintly, and felt that the propaganda of later generations was very interesting.

These tributes, when the servant looked at them, he knew that each one was priceless.

That's tortoise, pearls, and ivory, all of which are valuable in any era, and any country is a symbol of wealth.

And sandalwood, borneol, and cloves are all things that are priced like gold.

Sandalwood, that is used in the court to grind down a strand of sawdust bit by bit, and it is a high-end item that is only used in the homes of princes and princes.

The sandalwood tree in later generations is directly called the tree of gold, and the sandalwood oil is called liquid gold.

A piece of sandalwood the size of a baby's fist can sell for tens of thousands of yuan in later generations.

From ancient times to the present, this is the most important commodity on the Silk Road.

And the tributary country moved boxes of these gold-worthy things to the Central Plains, knelt down in front of the emperor, and paid tribute.

But later generations said that the vassal state took some worthless rags to send off the emperor of the Central Plains.

They did not mention the ivory, pearls, and tortoises in front of them, nor did they mention precious swords, expensive spices, and a large number of exquisite handmade products, but only promoted the last one. They presented hundreds of rattan and flower mats.

Mats are mats and carpets, and rattan flower mats are exquisite carpets woven with precious vines.

In the West, this kind of thing can only be spread in the homes of nobles, businessmen, and scholars. Even in Indy, having a beautifully shaped carpet in a family is something worth showing off.

But the propaganda of later generations is very interesting. It hides everything in front of it, and only says that the vassal state paid a few pieces of local worthless broken straw mats, and the Central Plains gave back a lot of wealth.

Zhao Huan was very curious and asked, "What is the reward given by Honglu Temple?"

Tang Wan replied: "The most recent time, the imperial court sent a middle-ranking official to Java and gave him a gold-plated silver seal and thirty pieces of wenqi color coins." Sex, the tribute system of the Ming Dynasty has been scolded to death, and it has been established as the most typical way of losing money and making money)”

An official seal, not pure gold, but gold-plated.

Thirty pieces of Wenqi colored coins, that is, thirty pieces of cloth, even if the thirty pieces of cloth are Song brocade and Yun brocade!That's only worth a hundred, and it's not worth one hundredth or one ten thousandth of a box of pearls.

Zhao Huan asked: "That's all, is it gone?"

"It's gone." Tang Wan said, "It's just thirty Wen Qi coins."

Zhao Huan leaned on the soft couch, and couldn't help laughing. As for the boxes of tributes from Heling Kingdom and Zhuliye Kingdom, and the rewards given by the Song Dynasty, later generations can publicize them as tributes, and the Central Plains will suffer even more. Propaganda is really genius.

Even if Song brocade and Yun brocade were regarded as imperial rewards and priced at ten thousand guan, it would be impossible to settle the account on the surface.

How can I lose money?
When it comes to the world, it is impossible for a small country to pay tribute, and the suzerain country will suffer even more.

Putting aside such nonsense, and looking at it from a serious and universal perspective, any vassal system is a manifestation of the power of the empire.

It is absolutely impossible for these small countries on Java Island to submit to the Zhuliya Kingdom, and it is impossible for the Ghaznaean Dynasty to pay tribute to the Sanqi Buddha Kingdom, and it is even more impossible for the Li Dynasty to submit to the Angkor Dynasty.

And all these countries have knelt down and surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, entered the tributary system of the Great Song Dynasty, and desperately raised their tributary levels.

Its essence is the surrender of small countries to superpowers, paying real money and tribute to vassal states, so as to avoid being attacked by the celestial kingdom.

If you don't have this kind of strength, even if the king of the Zhuliye Kingdom shouted loudly, you can see if the king of the Heling Kingdom looks at him more, let alone paying tribute.

Zhao Huan said: "I remember that Honglu Temple should issue a charter to establish the amount of tribute according to the clear rules and regulations. Why is the tribute in Nanyang still so chaotic?"

Tang Wan immediately said: "Honglu Temple has been vigorously promoting this aspect. The Longyou Governor's Mansion, Korea, Dali, Xixia, Ryukyu, and Persia have all promoted this system."

"Countries provide tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tributes depending on the territory."

"However, Nanyang's progress in this regard is a bit slow, mainly because the local vassal states themselves do not clearly delineate their boundaries, and their data is very confusing."

"However, the round-trip time measured by the officials of Honglu Temple is not enough to be extended to the Heling Kingdom."

After listening, Zhao Huan can probably understand.

With the current traffic conditions, how many years would it take for the officials to run around?

What's more, it is necessary to draw a map in detail. In more than ten years, it is impossible for the officials of Honglu Temple to record all directions in detail.

As far as Zhao Huan knew, there were only more than 2000 officials and subordinates in Honglu Temple. They wanted to travel to Persia, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Ten years is indeed not enough time to paint all these.

And more importantly, there is no obvious territorial division among countries at present.

If there is no governor's office in Nanyang, it will take a long time to waste a long time just to make political intervention and delineate the borders of various countries.

At that time, all countries will compete for rich areas.

A barren area that this country says belongs to another country.Another country refused to take it, and said it belonged to a certain country.

After all, for every acre of land, a tribute must be paid.

Therefore, there must be a strong administrative organization and a fair division.Instead of drawing lines horizontally and vertically on the map like in Great Britain.

Honglu Temple has been advancing the matter of vassal state tribute, Zhao Huan did not pay special attention, quickly returned to the topic, and said to Wu Ge: "Just looking at the tribute of the king of Heling Kingdom, you can know the local prosperity. My Central Plains businessman Local business operations are bound to make a lot of money.”

"In addition to Wu Ge, Qing also recruited a group of merchants from Nanyang and returned to the Central Plains together. Before the court meeting is held in the Political Affairs Hall, I would like to hear a detailed introduction of these merchants on the Nanyang issue."

It's not that Zhao Huan doesn't believe in the Right Minister Zhang Jun and the privy envoy Yue Fei, but that these people are high-ranking and powerful. They are in Tokyo, so far away from Nanyang, and they must have a layer of knowledge about the situation in Nanyang.

It is bound to be difficult to understand the specific situation in Nanyang only by looking at the information reported by officials.

In this case, they directly carry out blueprint planning, completely building castles in the air.

So Zhao Huan ordered to Wu Geyou: "Senior captains, heroes also summon a group. Especially those who provide armed guards, also call in a group. Those who have participated in the Nanyang trade specifically, don't bring a group of brocade-clothed dudes. Come here, if I can't answer the questions I ask them, they will be embarrassed."