The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 165 This is called providing help in times of need
Cao Tan asked how big the Song Dynasty's Western Army would attack Xixia.

After Liang Xin thought carefully.

Answer: "It won't be big, but it won't be small either. If Xixia occupies too many cities, Xixia will send people to the Liao Kingdom, and the Lord of Liao will definitely send envoys. Before they are unable to suppress the Liao Kingdom, Xixia can It won, but it really doesn’t take up much space, but the benefits gained cannot be returned, such as the food for the stone castle.”

Cao Tan: "Husband, do you want to protect the Liao Kingdom?"

Liang Xin shook her head: "Eat."

Cao Tan didn't ask again. If he wanted to ask, he would ask it alone when he had time. It was obvious that Liang Xin did not intend to answer this question at this time.

Is Liao strong?

Not weak is true.

At this time, Xixia's envoys were rushing all the way to the Liao Kingdom. Hehuang was occupied by the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty had thousands of more war horses overnight, from the war horses traded with the Yellow-headed Uighurs and Qiuci.

What makes the people of Xixia feel even more dangerous is that the trade route in the Western Regions has been restarted. Instead of running the business of small traders and hawkers, the Song Dynasty officials seem to have begun to intervene, predicting that the scale will be astonishingly large.

This is what the Xixia people don't want to see.

In addition, this time, the war with the Song Dynasty really started, so naturally he had to go to the Liao Kingdom for help as soon as possible.

At this time, Cao Song had just arrived in Liao.

Presenting a gift to the Lord of Liao.

Mahjong!

Cao Song was also asking how much the Liao Kingdom knew about the affairs between the Jurchens and the Koreans.

How much do the Liao people know?

In short, the Jurchens are suffering.

Yin Guan, who had just returned from his mission to the Song Dynasty, heard the news that a city in Goryeo was attacked by Jurchens and his daughter was snatched away. This made him almost crazy.

He had just been promoted to deputy envoy of the Privy Council of Korea. He went to court three times a day to request troops to fight against the Jurchens.

The King of Goryeo, Wang Xi, is organizing Goryeo ministers to discuss two important matters.

The first thing is to build Hanjing.

That is Nanjing of Goryeo.

The second thing is coinage.

Goryeo learned a lot from the Song Dynasty, and they had realized that the lack of currency had seriously affected Goryeo's business.

Goryeo used to cast iron coins, named Qianyuan Chongbao, with the word Dongguo written on the north side.

The cost of minting money is too high, far higher than the actual purchasing power of money.

So very few were cast and stopped.

Later, Korean merchants tried to use silver.

At this time, King Wangxi of Goryeo wanted to mint money again.

The suggestions given by the courtiers were: Dongguo, Haidong, and Sanhan were the main subjects of the Qianwen. The meaning was very clear, which was to demonstrate sovereignty.

Yin Guan arrived and important matters were being discussed here. He could only suppress his thoughts.

After a while, Ren Yi, a veteran of the Five Dynasties and his disciple Ping Zhangshi (the left prime minister), entered.

His granddaughter is the King of Goryeo and the royal concubine of Renzong.

It can be said that he is one of the largest nobles outside the royal family of the Goryeo Kingdom today.

After Ren Yi sat down, he said, "I think the minting of coins will be in big trouble. There are rumors in the market that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty wants to lend us thirty miles of land to build a quarry. At the same time, he will provide 50 Song coins every year, which is [-] yuan." Ten thousand coins. We in Goryeo cast iron coins that are exactly the same as Song coins. The copper coins we cast cannot produce tens of millions of coins in a year."

Ren Yi: "The official credentials haven't arrived yet, and our people in Bianjing of the Song Dynasty haven't written back. However, the news has spread to the streets of Kaicheng. I think it was passed by the merchants. If you refuse, I'm afraid It’s difficult.”

Ren Yi thought clearly that the biggest business houses in Goryeo today were his Ren family, Pu family, Jin family, Huangfu family and Liu family.

These families have all given birth to queens, and most of the concubines in the King of Goryeo's harem have these five surnames.

Before Ren Yi came, he had met the Pu family and the father of the current queen, the head of the Liu family.

And, the head wife of the newly crowned Crown Prince Wang Mata, the head of the Li family of the Li family.

Regardless of the impact that the Song Dynasty had on ordinary people, just talking about the wealthy families like them, the business with the Song Dynasty was at their doorstep, and the amount could reach tens of millions of dollars every year.

And if the Song Dynasty really provided [-] million coins, no matter how they were exchanged, part of these coins would definitely go into the national treasury, and most of the money outside the national treasury would fall into their hands.

Song money, even the Liao Kingdom, was called the treasure of the country.Not to mention Korea.

Ren Yi then said: "Wang, regarding the coin minting matter, we will wait until the people we left in Bianjing send a letter and we will discuss it again."

Wang Xi was a little reluctant, but there was nothing he could do.

Ren Yi turned to look at the others: "Is there anything else?"

Yin Guan then said: "Yes."

"Speak."

"The Jurchens attacked our city and my daughter disappeared."

Ren Yi said: "If we open a discussion with the Song Kingdom, our country, Korea, will definitely become stronger. Jurchen? It should be the Wanyan clan. They are too arrogant. We should take action against them. Privy Minister Yin, go and do it."

"Yes."

By the way, Wanyanbu will be feeling uncomfortable right now.

They have no advantage in numbers at this time, nor in equipment.

Since they sneak attacked a city in Goryeo and occupied the iron mines and started digging, Goryeo's border guards have begun to respond.

Bianjiang Lingan.

Leading troops and horses out of the Great Wall of Goryeo.

In the first battle, the Jurchens were defeated and scattered for hundreds of miles.

Nianhan personally organized his army and was preparing to fight again when someone came to report: "Report, the Song caravan has arrived."

Nianhan asked: "Where?"

"The guide took them to the mouth of the Duanchuan River. There is a place to park the boat, and people are arranging to build a dock."

"Go quickly." Nianhan was very concerned about what Song's caravan would bring this time.

One day later, at the mouth of the Danchuan River.

A eunuch in his 20s, Zhao Xiaofu.

As the godson of Zhao Youfu, he came here with a caravan, and he was holding a handkerchief wrapped in a sachet and covering his nose.

Stinky, too stinky.

Neither the Jurchens nor the Korean slaves they brought seemed to take baths here. There was an unpleasant smell floating on the entire coast, making him feel dizzy.

Very sticky.

Take out the tokens on both sides and touch them to make them match each other.

Just as Liang Xin and Nian Han agreed, they would recognize the token rather than the person, as long as the token is right.

If the token is lost or damaged, it cannot be traded unless Nianhan comes to Bianjing in person to replace it with a new token.

When Nianhan saw a hundred pairs of armor, he was stunned.

This is iron armor.

A whole hundred pairs, oiled and wrapped in oiled paper.

However, it is not the rumored Song Army Infantry Armor.

Find a soldier wearing armor.

This armor feels like it weighs more than 30 kilograms, and the rumored Song Army infantry armor should weigh more than 50 kilograms.

Zhao Xiaofu asked someone to bring out several rattan boxes.

"This is for the general. There are ten pairs in total, including human and horse equipment."

Full armor.

People have man armor, and horses have vests. This belongs to the equipment of the heavy cavalry army.

Then, there was a whole boatload of Song Army firearms.

And food.

Nianhan immediately selected the most capable soldiers, first equipped with ten heavy cavalry, and then a hundred cavalry.

(End of this chapter)