Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 354 Goodbye Dao Baifeng
The result was just as Zhao Mu expected.

Zhao Mu rode a Han-blooded horse that traveled hundreds of miles a day, much faster than the Dali people's honor guard team.

Zhao Mu has arrived in Dali City, and they are still in the Song Dynasty. After all, every time he went to a place, out of the friendship of the landlords, officials from all over the place would be attentive to receive him, and it would also take a lot of time to welcome him and send him off.

When Zhao Mu came, he also took a look at the open border towns of Dali Kingdom and Song Dynasty.

Zhao Mu was very happy to see the carts of iron ore, furs, and medicinal materials being transported to the Song Dynasty. With these materials in hand, when the Song Dynasty's soldiers and horses are strong, it will be the end of the Siyi.

Zhao Mu also felt a little emotional. Although all the officials in the Song Dynasty were weak at the knees, their economic skills were not bad. As for some minor corruption and bribery in the business, Zhao Mu turned a blind eye.

After Zhao Mu entered the pass, he traveled south all the way to Dali City.

After arriving in Dali City, Zhao Mu found that these merchants in Dali Kingdom really did not suffer.

They resold the silk and porcelain they bought from the Song people at high prices to other Yi people around Dali. Businessmen from all over Southeast Asia even came here to buy Song products.

After all, compared to traveling thousands of miles or across the sea to Song Dynasty to buy. Accepting Dali's reselling is the most cost-effective way.

Dali City is not big, far inferior to Bianjing City, the capital of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, not long after, Duan Zhengming came to the posthouse in person to take Zhao Mu into the palace.

This time he reported his name and was immediately received with the highest standards of Dali Kingdom.

But Zhao Mu is also very happy, after all, he and Dali are mutually beneficial and win-win. The Dali Kingdom exported the military supplies he needed, while the Song Dynasty exported goods that brought wealth to the Dali Kingdom.

Although the price of goods here in Dali is twice or even three or four times more expensive than in Song. But buying here saves transportation costs, warehousing costs, and even risk costs to Song Dynasty. Excluding these costs, even if the prices of goods in Dali are a bit more expensive than those in Han, these Southeast Asian businessmen can still accept them.

Moreover, the Dali Kingdom gained such huge benefits from becoming a vassal, which can be regarded as setting an example for the countries in the southeast. As long as you surrender to the Celestial Empire, you will get a big golden ticket!
After passing through the bustling Dali State Market, Zhao Mu arrived at the post house with a familiarity.

Moreover, most of them are also "traitors". They transport these goods back, except selling them to the nobles of their own country. They would also be resold to maritime merchants in Persia and other countries.

Only now did Zhao Mu understand why Dali had been sullenly supporting the Song Dynasty. With such a profit, he would be willing to kneel down and be a dog to Da Song. He even felt that it was a great honor to be Da Song's dog.

The country of Dali gained the advantage of being a vassal of the Song Dynasty, which not only stabilized the domestic internal affairs, but also became a transit merchant for the Song Dynasty's goods in the southeast.

The post officer of Dali State not only invited him to the upper room, but also went into the palace immediately to inform Duan Zhengming.

Now that the people in Dali have become rich, they will naturally not go against the imperial power group composed of the Duan family and the Gao family. The imperial power group, with the Duan family and the Gao family as an alliance, is now being lenient in collecting taxes.

But this time is different from last time.

Zhao Mu stood in front of the post house. He looked at Duan Zhengming who was getting off the carriage, and then saluted and said, "My son-in-law, Zhao Mu, I have met my father-in-law."

Hearing Zhao Mu's address to him, Duan Zhengming was stunned for a moment, and then said: "His Royal Highness King Qi came to Dali in person. I have not welcomed you from afar, but I hope you will forgive me." As he said this, Duan Zhengming, who was wearing a python robe, faced Zhao. Mu Yili.

Although he was in Dali, Duan Zhengming still retained his imperial title and reign title. But since Dali officially sent back its credentials to the Song Dynasty, Duan Zhengming began to show his sincerity to the Song Dynasty. The first is the dragon robe that he wears. Except for the formal attire, all other casual clothes have been changed into python robes. And when he treated the envoys from the Song Dynasty, he changed his self-identification from "I" to "Gu", which was reserved for princes. The official documents of the Song Dynasty always end with "Your Majesty, King of Dali, Zhengming."

Although Duan Zhengming is Zhao Mu's nominal father-in-law, Zhao Mu is the benefactor of Dali.

Zhao Mu first saved the face of the Duan family in the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations, and then rescued Duan Yu, the only heir of the Duan family in Dali. After that, he killed four evil men so that Dali would no longer be humiliated. Now he helped Dali become a vassal. This incident brought peace and huge profits to Dali.

In the eyes of everyone in Dali Kingdom, Zhao Mu could bear the courtesy of Duan Zhengming, the "emperor".

What's more, Duan Zhengming now admires Zhao Mu from the bottom of his heart. He feels that it is a great honor for Dali for Zhao Mu to marry a daughter of the Duan family as his concubine.

The myth that Zhao Mu single-handedly defeated the Liao army was also spread back to Dali by Gao Shengtai at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.

When Duan Zhengming finished reading it, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a whole day. If Duan Yu and Gao Mei hadn't seen and experienced it with their own eyes, he would never have believed that the arrogant Daliao Kingdom was defeated by Zhao Mu like this.

He was also thankful that his younger brother and Gao Shengtai chose the right path. Let Song and Li both have a decent result.

Regardless of whether it was public or private, if Zhao Mu came to Dali in person, he would naturally receive him attentively.

However, the sudden salute from the Dali Emperor made Zhao Mu a little embarrassed. After all, Duan Zhengming is the leader of Dali and his father-in-law in name only. And this time I did not come as an imperial envoy to the imperial court. Just coming in a personal capacity.

How can there be any truth in this world that a king should pay homage to his ministers, or a father-in-law should pay homage to his son-in-law?

So Zhao Mu hurriedly stepped forward to help him and said: "My son-in-law cannot bear this great gift from my father-in-law. This time my son-in-law is here only in his personal capacity. He is not an envoy from heaven, so my father-in-law does not have to be like this."

Duan Zhengming straightened up after hearing the words and said: "This gift cannot be abolished. Although the good son-in-law comes in his personal capacity, he is still the prince of the country. Gu is also a minister of the Song Dynasty, and he is equal to the good son-in-law. This gift must still be given. of."

Duan Zhengming said with a smile: "I have already prepared a banquet in the palace. Please ask your virtuous son-in-law to move to the palace."

Although Zhao Mu didn't want to be too ostentatious, since Duan Zhengming's kindness was hard to refuse, he couldn't refuse, so he and Duan Zhengming took the same car back to the palace of Dali Kingdom.

However, due to Zhao Mu's request, this reception banquet was not grand. All the civil and military officials of Dali came to pick up Zhao Mu.

It was just a small gathering of Zhao Mu's "family". It's just that the number of people is not very large.

There were only three people who supported Zhao Mu, and the first was naturally Duan Zhengming and his wife. The emperor and queen of Dali will naturally appear. This was also the first time that Zhao Mu saw the Queen of Dali.

But the other person was an old acquaintance of Zhao Mu, the crown prince's concubine Dao Baifeng, who also lived in the palace and lived in the East Palace.

Now that old lovers meet, both of them have a different feeling.

(End of this chapter)