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Chapter 538 The Tibetan Envoy

When Zhao Xu returned to the palace, the two palaces had personally brought people down to the inner east gate to pick him up.

not only that.

The wives of the Gao family and the Xiang family also dressed up and followed the two palaces to greet him.

"I, my concubines, respectfully welcome the official's triumphant return!"

The married women saluted together.

Wen Xunniang, Di Qiang and Wang were also among the crowd, bowing with admiration.

The Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Xiang looked at Zhao Xu with smiles.

When Zhao Xu arrived, he saluted and said hello.

The Empress Dowager smiled and helped Zhao Xu up: "I already know that officials can revitalize the country!"

Queen Mother Xiang came to Zhao Xu and gently held Zhao Xu's little hand, her eyes full of joy and relief.

"This kid has really grown up!"

However, she never expected that more than two hundred houses in a small Jing'anfang could be sold out in one morning, and could be sold for a high price of 6.75 million yuan!
This shocked her.

As for why, wealth has increased so much.

"This winter, after the Xinglong Festival, Sixth Brother will be eleven!"

Empress Dowager Xiang finally found an opportunity at this time. She gently touched the futou on the child's head and said softly: "Sixth Brother's success today is a blessing to the country and a blessing to the world!"

It was not just Wang Anshi's reforms that profoundly changed the Song Dynasty.

A Jing'an square was sold for 6.75 million yuan!
It’s almost catching up with the country’s salt class income!

When the Longevity Palace was built, she took her aunt and moved in together.

Unexpectedly, it was sold for 6.75 million yuan!
And it was sold in one morning!
What does this mean?
Of course it’s clear to the Queen Mother!
This shows that both the government and the public have returned to the Sixth Brother - Empress Dowager Xiang's understanding of the world is still limited to the Zhiping three years before she entered the palace.

Instead, it was used to support the two palaces and promote education and religion.

Houyuan was deep in the forbidden area. Once she and her concubine moved in, the governors would have a good excuse to go directly to Funing Hall to request orders.

"Tell the ancestors that if there are successors to my Zhao family, the country will prosper!"

All of this has made the current wealth of the Song Dynasty far exceed that of the Song Dynasty before Empress Dowager Xiang entered the palace.

The Sixth Brother seemed to be stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "How could I be so virtuous and capable, Sun Chen? How dare I bother my mother-in-law and empress to mobilize troops and mobilize people like this?"

At the same time, money supervisors in various places in the Song Dynasty minted millions of new coins every year. Including Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places, the scale of new cast iron coins cannot be calculated at all.

"At that time, it is time for the ministers to go to the Funing Hall to request orders if they have something to do."

Moreover, there are no additional taxes or apportionments.

However, before Sixth Brother's Holy Day, she should take her aunt to see the 'Longevity Palace' prepared by Sixth Brother for them.

"How come my mother-in-law and queen mother mobilized troops and mobilized people like this?"

The young master is kind, loving, and filial.

She was not sure whether the concubine would agree.

Empress Dowager Xiang looked at her sister-in-law with a full smile, and heard the Empress Dowager say: "The official family has triumphed, I should lead the queen mother and the ladies in the palace to welcome her!"

Today's grand occasion was actually led by the Queen Mother.

Serving two palaces is filial piety!

Use this opportunity to establish prestige and authority for her children.

Promoting learning and teaching means governance and benevolence.

"Not only that, I have also sent Da Zongzheng to the Ancestral Temple to report to the late emperor and our ancestors..."

With this thought, Xiang looked at the Queen Mother in front of her.

Originally, she thought it would be great if she could sell two million strings. Three million strings would be a super performance.

Therefore, it was easy for her to think that the people who bought the houses in Jing'anfang were nobles in the court, military ministers and prime ministers above the distant county level.

The 30,000 yuan at that time was already more than half of the wealth of many people in Bianjing.

According to the plan, the Wanshou Palace will be built in the current rear garden.

At the same time, it also tells the world that although the young master is young, he is a virtuous king and a successful king!
Take a look!

Just as she was thinking about these things, the Queen Mother heard her child ask.

"The Queen Mother and the Queen Mother are very happy for Brother Six!"

It is truly achieved that the people do not receive any tax, but the national treasury is full!
Throughout the ages, have any of the emperors in the past been able to achieve this?
What's more important is that Sixth Brother got this incredible wealth, but he didn't use it to enjoy it, nor did he use it to fight.

Little did they know that in the past twenty years, the entire Song Dynasty had undergone earth-shaking reforms.

The drums were beaten early in the Qingshou Palace.

Everyone in the world should be attached to you!
Therefore, Queen Mother Xiang prepared for today early.

"Of course we have to offer sacrifices to the Ancestral Temple and report to the gods of our ancestors. We should also send the governor to Yongyu Mausoleum and Yonghou Mausoleum to report to the gods of the late emperor and Emperor Yingzong!"

Is the Song Dynasty still experiencing a money shortage?
This issue is a bit complicated and cannot be explained clearly in a few words.

But one fact is clear - it has always been the common people who are short of money.

The local households in the Song Dynasty, the big merchants and scholar-bureaucrats, military ministers, and nobles in the city were never short of money.

Therefore, Zhao Xu sold the house and then used the money to build palaces and establish schools and religions. This was actually a method of redistributing wealth.

But even he himself has not thought of this now - he has not even thought of using this matter to promote himself.

His original intention is simply to use this opportunity to make money and develop the industry chain.

Real estate can effectively promote the development of various industrial chains in modern times.

Although Zhao Xu has never eaten pork, he has seen pigs running away.

Naturally, we know how to use this opportunity to accelerate and incubate various industrial chains.

Use other people's money to do your own thing.

This is something that Zhao Xu has long been numb to in modern times.

……

There was no need to elaborate on the excitement in the palace that day.

In the two palaces, especially under the will of the Queen Mother.

The wives of each family then came to the palace to congratulate him.

At the same time, everyone in the palace also received rewards.

The next day, the ministers came together to congratulate him, praising Zhao Xu and complimenting the two palaces.

On the Taixue side, after learning about it, the palace decree has been made. Half of the income from Jing'anfang will be used to build new schools and new residences. Money will also be used to reward the outstanding gentry of Taixue, and After subsidizing some poor scholars, they were all so happy that they completely forgot what they had said in the past.

In such an atmosphere, it was June 24th of the first year of Yuanyou (Xinyou).

Xixia's envoy Chunyue Guan Erlu and his deputy Lu Zeguan Tian Huairong finally allowed the delegation to enter the capital.

Also arriving in Beijing at the same time as Nianlulu was a delegation from Tibet.

The envoy sent by Aligu was his confidant and his half-brother by blood - Sunan Dangzheng, the lord of Jiezhan City, came to court.

Jiechang City is also called Yuechang City.

It was the westernmost fortress of Tubo in the Qing and Tang dynasties (roughly located in the Qiemo County area of ​​modern Xinjiang). It was the result of the westward expansion during the Xianzanpu Xisiluo era.

no way!
Xian Zamp's luck was so good. The middle and late period of his reign was also the period when Qingtang and Tubo were at their strongest, and they happened to encounter a golden opportunity for expansion.

At that time, the Song-Xia War and the Liao-Xia War hit Xixia one after another, making the party members who had the most motivation to expand westward no longer able to move westward.

At the same time, the original overlord of the Western Regions, the Black Khan Dynasty established by the Uighurs, had split and weakened (the Black Khan Dynasty split around the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Song-Xia War had just ended, but the Liao-Xia War began, and then the Yuan Dynasty Hao Shen died, Xixia was in civil strife, and the young master was in doubt... If it had split ten years earlier, everything would have changed, and Li Yuanhao would have definitely taken the opportunity to launch a massive western expedition!).

To put it in the Chinese language - if the artifact has no owner, it must be virtuous!
Xian Zanpu seized this strategic opportunity, successfully expanded westward, and gave the Tibetan forces such an advanced base in the Western Regions.

According to Xian Zanpu's vision, the next step for Tubo was to march westward with all its strength, defeat the Uighurs, and rebuild the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions.

However, Xian Zanpu never expected it.

After his death, Tibet's westward expansion came to an abrupt end.

Because Song Jun is coming!

Wang Shao opened the Hehuang River, expanded the land thousands of miles, and established the Xihe Road.

Then, the Song army moved forward rapidly and now occupied six states including Lanzhou and Xizhou.

Not only did he stab the party members' weak flanks with a knife, but he also put a knife on the party members' necks.

This is very uncomfortable!

Since last year, a series of incidents on Xihe Road have made Aligu in Qingtang City even more troubled.

Because the Song Army on Xihe Road was making more and more small moves.

In the beginning, they were just flirting with young men like Xiba Wen and Wen Xixin, using Buddha tooth relics to attract Tibetan nobles to go on pilgrimage. At the same time, they sold some ironware, silk and tea to various Tibetan tribes, and bought horses from various Tibetan tribes.

Ali Gu recognized these things while pinching his nose.

But soon, things changed radically!

Because those damn Song people actually started recruiting serfs from various Tibetan tribes in large numbers!

They even sent cavalry to pick up escaped slaves from various tribes!

When the two young men Wen Xixin and Xiba Wen acted as internal responders and leaders.

The Song army specifically targeted those Tubo tribes who were loyal to Ali Gu.

The monks under Wen Xixin and Xiba Wen also went specifically to the tribe under Ali Gu's hands.

Under the guise of spreading the Dharma, they say some monstrous words to confuse the public.

Why, 'Uncle of the Han family, is the incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha in the human world. The Zisheng Temple on Xihe Road even enshrines the Buddha's relics', so 'Xihe is already a paradise on earth, a place where the Buddha's light shines' .

As long as it passes, you can be blessed by the Buddha, and you can hope to be reborn into a good family in the next life.

At the same time, the benefits of growing cotton on Xihe Road were also spread everywhere.

Not just for the serfs, but also for the welfare of the tenant farmers on Xihe Road - not only wages, a place to live, and even the opportunity to eat highland barley rice - most importantly, the opportunity to go to Zisheng Temple for pilgrimage, Zisheng The eminent monks of the temple will also regularly go to cotton fields in various places to give lectures and pray to believers.

These people also talked to the tribal leaders.

He talked about how the income from growing cotton on Xihe Road was huge, and it was also convenient for pilgrims to Zisheng Temple to enshrine the tooth relics of Buddha. He constantly persuaded them to move to Xihe with their clansmen.

Qingyi, who was originally extremely hostile to the Song people, was furious because his territory bordered the Song Dynasty, and the border was chaotic - almost nothing. The nomadic tribes of the Tubo people often went to Hezhou and other places to graze in autumn and winter. , and return to plateau pastures in spring and summer.

Well now, these people are gone forever.

Qingyi Jieguizhang's forces lost tens of thousands of people in just six months.

So, after April, Qingyi Jie Guizhang could no longer hold back.

He could no longer endure the torture of having his flesh cut with blunt knives from the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, thousands of cavalry were sent to prepare for a head-on attack by the Song army, intercepting and killing the Song army's rangers who entered their territory, and also severely punished Wen Xixin and Xiba Wen.

then……

Like all other wars between Tubo and Song Dynasty, the news leaked while Qingyi Jiegui Zhang was still preparing troops.

Zhongyi, the magistrate of Hezhou in Song Dynasty, took his troops and horses, put on the clothes of Wen Xixin and Xiba Wen's troops, and under the banner of these two Tibetan leaders, they fought in the valley between Hezhou and Taozhou. A battle.

The losses were extremely heavy!

According to Sunan Dangzheng’s knowledge, at least two thousand people were killed and captured.

Anyway, he was beaten very badly.

After the defeat, Qing Yi was unable to fight against the increasingly brave Song Army (Xihe Song Army). The current combat enthusiasm and subjective initiative are several times that of the past, and they are very active from top to bottom—— There is no way. Everyone either already has cotton fields or is cultivating cotton fields. However, the population of Xihe is too small and labor is becoming increasingly expensive. There is no way! We can only use benevolence and righteousness to save the Tubo, Qiang, and Dangxiang people who are in dire straits. Serfs of other clans, let them bask in the glory of the good governance of the Imperial Song Dynasty and become free tenant farmers. Under such circumstances, how could the Song army not be brave?).

Qingyi had to go to Aligu in Qingtang City to form a ghost chapter, and constantly asked Aligu to form an alliance with the Dangxiang people. The two countries worked together to launch a war against the 'Southern Barbarians'.

To fight back the claws of the 'Nanbarbarians', it is best to set fire to those damn cotton fields and the even more damn Zisheng Temple, and take back the Buddha's Tooth Relic!
Ali Gu was still hesitant.

This is because the Tubo people won more than they lost in front of the Song army.

He is somewhat Song-phobic.

At the same time, it was also because Ali Gu found that the Song army in Xihe seemed to be a bit too capable.

Not to mention the great evil star Wang Wenyu who is like the reincarnation of Asura who lives in Lanzhou - Ali Gu dare not touch it.

Even the friendship in Hezhou is really fierce.

After the First World War in Taozhou, Qingyi Jieguizhang shouted every day to send troops to punish the Southern Barbarians.

But he began to lead his troops to retreat northwest and retreat to the plateau.

This is the result of pain from being beaten and fear of being beaten.

Therefore, after much thought, Aligu decided to send Sunan Dangzheng to Bianjing City to complain, and at the same time, he also tried to find out whether the Song Dynasty really wanted to destroy me?

If this is indeed the case, then Ali Gu will naturally not hesitate.

There is no hesitation at the critical moment of life and death!
The only thing we can do is to mobilize the capable soldiers across the country, unite with Xixia, and fight to the death with the Song people in Hezhou, Taozhou, and Minzhou.

If he wins, he will attack Lanzhou with Xixia, capture Xizhou, and expel the Song people.

If defeated, retreat to the plateau, fortify the walls and clear the fields for the future.

In short, we cannot sit still and wait for death.

As the peace advocate in the Tubo Aligu regime, Sunan Dangzheng never wanted Tubo and Song Dynasty to have an enmity, let alone an all-out war - not that he, Sunan Dangzheng, was so pro-Song.

It is purely the bottom that determines the head - his base is in Jiezhan City. Once a full-scale war breaks out, Ali Gu will mobilize his troops, soldiers and horses to participate in the war, and even take time out of Jiezhan City.

Although Ali Gu was his brother, Jie Zhancheng was certainly the territory assigned to him by Ali Gu.

But the question is - why should I use my soldiers, horses, and troops to fight for Qingtang City?
Will Qingtang City reimburse me if I die? Will it be compensated?

The Southern Jiangsu Party is not stupid.

No matter how much the people of Song Dynasty lured serfs, they could not harm him who was far away in the Western Regions.

On the contrary, once the war started, his troops and troops had to respond to the call of Qingtang City and go to Xihe to fight against the Song army.

What if at this moment, the seemingly dying Black Khanate suddenly sends troops to attack Jie Zhan City and drive him back to Qingtang City? Wouldn't he be homeless?

In addition, the Southern Jiangsu Party had economic considerations in conquest and peace - Jiezhan City was a trading city on the Silk Road.

His main income from party levies in southern Jiangsu is closely related to East-West trade.

Especially after he took over the city of Jiecheng, the fierce wars between Song and Xia made the party members unable to participate in the Silk Road trade.

His Jiecheng city became the largest node in the silk trade.

Over the past few years, his money has become numb.

Where are you willing to fight?
If there is a war, the business travelers will not come.

Without a business trip, what would he eat? What to drink? How can you support your wives, concubines, children, and soldiers?
(End of this chapter)