The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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After meeting the two daughters of the Su family, Ye Lidulan once again convened a group of ministers to discuss. This time, she tried her best to analyze the current situation and future of Daxia sincerely, and asked everyone to abandon unrealistic fantasies so that the Dangxiang clan could Prosper and thrive.

Although the ministers still have the intention of resisting the people of Song Dynasty, but when you think about it carefully, what the queen mother said is not unreasonable. When the former emperor was alive, he was so heroic and powerful, but he couldn't make an inch of progress. On the contrary, he destroyed the Song and Xia countries. After decades of harmonious relationship between them, although the queen mother is smart, she is a woman after all, while the lord Li Ningling is a weak person with his own opinions, and the fantasy of fighting for world hegemony is already illusory.

On the sixth day of October in the seventh year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Zhen of the Song Dynasty met with the Empress Dowager Li Ningling of Ye Lidulan in the Palace of Mingzhu City, and the two sides signed a treaty of eternal friendship.

The two sides agreed to set up ten bargaining places on the border, open six types of prohibited commodities to each other, and encourage free trade between merchants on both sides; Annual gifts of 20 coins, [-] pieces of cloth and silk, and [-] catties of tea; Xia Guo also promised to send envoys to pay tribute every year, and Song envoys would treat each other with the same courtesy as the country when they came. [

Zhao Zhen also complied with Su Jin's wishes, and personally apologized to Ye Li Dulan in private for the previous incident of coercing the bloody battle between the Xia people and the Liao people. .

Regarding the matter between Xia and Liao, beyond Ye Lidulan's expectation, Song State did not force the two to sever diplomatic relations, but Su Jin implicitly hinted that the Song people would not let the Liao people go, and hoped that Xia Guo would stand Stabilize your position so as not to cause trouble for your upper body. Ye Lidulan knew the elegant meaning after hearing the string song. The next day after the meeting and returning to China, he sent an envoy to Liao to cut off the relationship between the two parties under the pretext of the former Liao Kingdom's alliance with Song Dynasty to attack Xia. At the same time, he mobilized troops to pay Xia Liao border guards are very decisive.

The sudden friendship between Song and Xia surprised the people of Liao. Yeluzong was really furious. The repeated military and diplomatic attacks made him depressed. The Liao Kingdom responded quickly and mobilized 20 troops from Shangjing Road to quickly support the Xijing Datong Xialiao border On the front line, at the same time, 15 troops were mobilized from Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo Province, and a total of 20 troops were mobilized together with the 70 Palace Tent Army from Dading Prefecture, Zhongjing Province to support the front line of the border between Song and Liao in Jin Prefecture, Nanjing Road. So far, there are still nearly 60 troops in Liao Kingdom and 15 deployments At the junction of Song and Xia, the defense of Shangjing is only [-], and the defense of Shangjing and other east and north of Liaoyang Prefecture is only [-] regular troops plus less than [-] retinues recruited urgently.

If we use the balance as a metaphor, the troops at the southwest end have pressed the balance to the base, while the northeast is raised high, becoming a hollow area for defense, and that is where the Jin people and the Koreans are eyeing. Although Yeluzong really knew this A little bit, but there are ways to do it. At present, Song Guo is the biggest enemy.

The large-scale construction in the Song Dynasty is in full swing. Li Zhong is a master in power. Under his coordination and command, several measures of the Development and Reform Department are carried out in an orderly manner. Under the anonymous reporting system set up by the Department of Development and Reform, all reports are strictly investigated to the end, and many important officials have been linked, such as the case of Hu Wei's interception of materials by the Liangzhe Warehouse Department, and Li Yapeng, the prefect of Shuzhou in Huainan, embezzling national highways. The compensation case was punished with the strong cooperation of Yousi.

As the construction progressed, Su Jin found that the funding gap was getting bigger and bigger, which exceeded his expectations. Originally, all the projects were expected to be 8000 million yuan, but the gap was only 2000 million yuan. Li Chong just reached out to ask for money to distribute, and only Su Jin could do the money-finding thing. The issuance of national debt cannot be restricted, and 1000 million is already the bottom line, otherwise the income will not be enough to pay for the cashing of the national debt, and a huge crisis will arise; Therefore, Su Jin had to run around all over the Song Dynasty, and ordered Liang Shi to take people to find mines in the places where coal mines and iron mines were produced in the later generations in his memory.

But Su Jin understands that some mines know where they are, but the backwardness of technological means will make you helpless, and even if you can find mines and mine them, you can't expect to be profitable in the short term, and you need to build a few hundred mines. Wan went to invest, and all this almost drove Su Jin crazy.

One day when Su Jin was inspecting the southern coastal area, he saw many foreigners with dark skin like ink or hair wrapped in white cloth at the port of Mingzhou. He felt very curious. Although it is normal to see foreigners in later generations, in this era I was surprised to see foreigners. The accompanying prefect of Mingzhou said that Mingzhou is located on the coast, and there are a lot of Fan people sailing and trading. The local shipping department manages the trade between the Fan people and the Song people.

This remark suddenly awakened the dreamer. I actually ignored this source of income. Overseas trade is a big piece of cake, especially in today's era. Many commodities in the Song Dynasty are unique, and they are still in the wild in other countries. In the backward period, this was a huge business opportunity. I didn't expect it, and it was indeed a big mistake.

Su Jin hurried back to Beijing and reported this idea to Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen was not very interested. He didn't think he could make any money from the Fan people. In addition, the tax revenue provided by Mingzhou Shipping Department to the imperial court is only 20 yuan a year, which is really despised.

Su Jin was surprised by Zhao Zhen's short-sightedness. Since the country doesn't want this cake, why not swallow it in one gulp? After two months of investigation, Su Jin recruited a large number of coastal sailing experts and hired dozens of Tibetans as guides. In the case of extremely difficult funds, it cost 500 million yuan to purchase 1000 large ships with ten thousand stones. Although they are only small and medium-sized ships with a displacement of more than [-] tons according to the current displacement, it was already the limit of technology at that time.

For the safety of this trip, Su Jin did not hesitate to equip each ship with expensive firecrackers. Each ship had more than 30 boatmen, [-] guards, five people from Su Ji, two guides from the Fan, and a compass, compass, etc. Orienting instruments, and negotiating with the shipbuilder to install protective iron sheets on key parts without affecting the overall balance and performance of the ship. It took nearly half a year for the preparation and slight modification of the sixteen ships, which can be described as strenuous effort .

At the end of March of the following year, the Suji ocean-going fleet set off from Mingzhou harbor full of silk, porcelain, sugar, textiles, tea, hardware, etc. In the end, this time is like a gamble. It is doubtful whether such a ship can survive the stormy seas and whether it can reach the destination smoothly. Maybe there will be no response in a year, two, three, or ten years, but once the trip is successful, The waterway was opened, and since then, money has been pouring in, and it can't be stopped.

The estimated date of the voyage is ten months, because along the way you have to pass through Champa, Chenla, Srivijaya, Kelantan, Boni, Balingfeng, Langli, Undercut, Sanyu, Dashi, Daqin, Persia, etc. There are more than a dozen countries, and the voyage is nearly ten thousand miles.

Calculate the return journey, it should be in February of the ninth year of Qingli, and Su Jin came to Mingzhou to wait with his family and his family after the Lantern Festival in the first month. In addition to handling government affairs sent from various places, Su Jin What must be done is to wait for half an hour at the port of Mingzhou until the sea breeze blows hard and the whole body is icy cold before going back under the persuasion of everyone.

The return date in February came day by day, and passed day by day, until the end of March, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, there were no shadows of the sixteen Su Ji ships. Su Jin's heart gradually became cold, and the money lost Secondly, although the total value of the 2000 ships and their cargo exceeds more than 1000 million, more importantly, the lives of more than [-] fleet personnel were buried in the sea, and their lives did not exchange for any value.

On March 29, the imperial court sent someone to invite Su Jin to Beijing. There was an important matter to be discussed by the court. Su Jin had another reason to stay in Mingzhou. On the day when he got up early in the morning, Su Jin still went to the port to look at the sea. The morning fog on the sea was still hazy. The white mist shrouded the blue water, and nothing happened.

Su Jin sighed, and was about to get into the carriage, when suddenly he heard the high-pitched chirping of seagulls. He looked up and saw thousands of seagulls flying up and down in the mist, chirping and chasing after him. After passing the signs, Su Jin stood up again, set up a pergola and looked out over the sea, only to see tall masts, with Su Ji’s special red flag hanging slowly coming out of the mist, one after another, for a total of sixteen There were quite a few sea-beaten ships, and the entourage cheered loudly. Su Jin only felt his eyes sour, and tears flowed down at some point.

Sixteen Suji trading merchant ships, after a year of arduous voyage, were fully loaded with ivory, coral, agate, pearl, frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, pepper, glass, tortoiseshell, alluvial gold, beads, medicinal beads, mercury, antler, Poria cocos; Hundreds of commodities such as sulfur, snail head, pine board, cypress, and Luo board returned to Mingzhou Port; as if adhering to the tradition of Su Ji’s big boss, this big adventure finally came to a thrilling conclusion purpose. [