I am Da Song

In order to develop the north, what the Song Dynasty implemented against the Mongols was not a strategy of reducing Ding, but a strategy of plunder.

That is to say, Wang Shi went north to rob the Mongols from the grassland, and then treated them as war seizures and cleared them to the Central Plains merchants.

This point is really not the style newly created by Da Song.

From the Tang Dynasty to Rome, from the Ottomans to the sun never sets, probably every powerful empire strengthened itself by capturing slaves.

Datang once had [-] captives, but only a few thousand remained in the second year.

The empire on which the sun never sets also sold a large number of slaves all over the world.

This is a good thing for the empire, but it may not be a bad thing for the Mongolian herdsmen.

They are huddled in Mobei, there is no hope.The tribe has already been battered to fight for the limited pastures, and they are always worried that the Song army from the south will go north and crush them on the battlefield.

But when they were captured and went south, they became the servants of the big merchants, at least they were safe and secure.

If it is engaged in animal husbandry production, there is no squeezing at all.

Yue Fei didn't talk about this in detail, but Zhao Huan didn't ask any more questions because it was really not worth mentioning.

He just asked Li Gang curiously: "Qing said just now that a country with a large population and trade is divided into three modules. What else is there?"

Li Gang said: "It's the trade between Kunlun slaves and Gulam."

"Huh?" Zhao Huan asked, "Is this two trades?"

Li Gang shook his head and said, "It can probably be regarded as a trade."

"The officials should have heard of the Gulam Slave Legion?"

"I still know the name of the Turkic Slave Legion."

Li Gang went on to say: "The trade of Turkic slaves has always been very popular among Puritan countries, especially the country of Besli, which likes to buy Turkic slaves very much, and then expands its territory southward and westward."

The country of Besli, that is, the country in the direction of Egypt.

Egypt relied on the Turkic slave army, and later even formed the Mamluk cavalry.

Basically relying on the Turkic slave cavalry, the Egyptian dynasty can easily beat the black uncle army in the south.

Even Moore was able to lead cavalry into the Iberian Peninsula for a time, and captured a large area of ​​​​Spain.

And the north and west of the Hezhong and Qihe areas happen to be a large number of Turkic tribes.

Can get the most Turkic slaves.

Zhao Huan just asked curiously: "Can the wealth of the Wusli country be comparable to that of the Central Plains? It can actually snatch a large number of Turkic slaves."

Li Gang immediately said: "It was not the wealth of the Besli country that robbed the Turkic slaves, but the Kunlun slaves of the Besli country robbed the Turkic slaves."

"The Turkic slaves in the Qihe area can be exchanged for a large number of Kunlun slaves in the Besli Kingdom. The price of Kunlun slaves in the Central Plains is higher than that of Turkic slaves."

"So the taxation on the Silk Road shows that the main content of this trade route is to sell Turkic slaves to the Besli country, and then obtain a large number of Kunlun slaves in the Besli country, and sell them to the Central Plains. In order to obtain the maximum benefit."

Zhao Huan had to sigh with emotion that this trade relationship is really close.

Like a network, the whole world is connected together.

Zhao Huan asked, "Are there many slaves in Kunlun?"

"There are a lot of them. There are Kunlun slaves all over the south of the Besli country. Their bodies are like black paint, they are punched, and they are lured to eat and captured. There are tens of thousands of them."

This description, Zhao Huan immediately confirmed, is undoubtedly the black sorghum.

The body is like black paint, fists.

Lured with food, thousands of them can be caught.

And the Privy Council and the Zhengshitang refused to bring this matter up to the public, obviously because of this.

Zhao Huan didn't care too much, he said decisively: "The current Kunlun slaves seem to be very pitiful, but they may not be enlightened."

"If our dynasty fails to achieve industrialization, then the Kunlun slaves will still be hungry after a thousand years. The number of people who will starve to death is in the trillions."

"I don't think I can love the world at the same time, but from my point of view, if we really want to change the situation of Kunlun slaves so that they don't become slaves just for a little food, in the final analysis we must bring the civilization of industrial civilization to the past. "

After all, the current civilization of the Song Dynasty has not yet developed to the point where it can be a Holy Mother.

How many days have passed since the people of Song Dynasty were not hungry?
So Zhao Huan said: "I have always felt that if we want hundreds of millions of people in the Song Dynasty to live comfortably, we cannot do it only by internal distribution."

"As long as the distributors are still human beings, there must be some people who are as rich as the enemy, and some people who have no place to stand."

"If you want every commoner in the Song Dynasty to live a decent life, you should coordinate all the states in the world, and all the wealth in the world will be harvested by the Central Plains."

Li Gang, the envoy of the third division, nodded solemnly, and said: "It is this national policy of my direction. During Xiangzhe Yongxi's reign, the imperial court dispatched eight servants to write imperial edicts, gold and silk. Boxiang medicine rhinoceros like pearl dragon nao. Each gang is empty and named three edicts, and it is bestowed everywhere."

Hook Zhao Jinfeng.

This term is very unfamiliar, but if you change it to another word, it is easy to understand, which is to attract investment.

The imperial court sent servants to various countries in Southeast Asia to attract foreign businessmen
At the same time, the local shipping department also has the duty to send officials abroad to solicit foreign businessmen.

For example, the Shipping Department of Fujian Road City once sent Liu Zhi and other officials to "Luohu (now Thailand) and Champa (now southern Vietnam) to talk about recruiting" in accordance with the "Chongning Second Year Imperial Order".

Even the imperial court has very rich incentives for this: "Those who can lure ships, extract the accumulated value of goods, and fifty thousand guan and one hundred thousand guan will be poor in supplementary officials."

That is to say, those who recruit a group of cargo ships and pay [-] to [-] guan in taxes can be awarded officials.

This is tantamount to using the wealth of other countries to support Song Dynasty in disguise.

In this case, large-scale vassal merchants usually enter the Central Plains together to organize large-scale trade.

The people of Suzhou proudly say that the goods of the Quartet, the rare treasures, and the collections are endless. This is the background.

This move is still very meaningful. Da Song harvested the wealth from all directions.

So much so that the king of Sanqi Buddhist Kingdom had to write to the emperor, saying: "In recent years, frankincense traders have suffered a lot of losses." He asked Song Dynasty to lower the tariff a little bit, and distribute some benefits to merchants from other countries.

Frankincense is a very profitable business in spices.

Even selling spices can lose money, so one can imagine how much wealth Da Song has reaped.

And it goes back to that classic question.

Such close communication will definitely lead to the rapid spread of Central Plains culture.

This is a tradition that has always existed in the Song Dynasty. China's advanced culture is even more yearning for foreign businessmen.Foreign businessmen have lived in the Central Plains for a long time, and they have requirements for their children's education
"Between Daguan Zhenghe, the world is in great order, and the barbarians are facing the wind. Guangzhou and Quanzhou please build a barbarian school."

Zhenghe is also the reign title of Taishang.

At that time, the culture of Song Dynasty had already begun to be vigorously promoted outward.