Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 582 A Good Deal

"Princess Anna is very beautiful and charming. But restarting the Silk Road is a big event, and Song Dynasty needs to make more preparations." Zhao Huan explained with a smile.

And Anna asked Humbert suspiciously in Hungarian: "Did my figure become unattractive after traveling thousands of miles? Or did the wind and sand along the way make my face show signs of aging?"

"Why is the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty able to block my charm?"

Zhao Huan looked helplessly at the subtitles in front of him, what language you switch to, I can translate it with this system, okay?

Humbert replied: "I heard that there are three thousand concubines in the palace of the Central Plains Dynasty."

"There are so many? Can he be busy?" Anna looked at the emperor of Song Dynasty in surprise.

"How could there be 3000 people?" Zhao Huan shook his head helplessly, and said, "After my court meeting, I will give the princess an answer."

"You still understand Hungarian?" Anna's expression was more than just surprise.The emperor knows everything.

And Zhao Huan was too lazy to understand a little bit.

Yu Wenxu said with a smile: "I also invite the envoy to go to the station to rest. If there is any news, I will inform you."

"Looking forward to meeting His Majesty again." Anna politely left Wende Hall.

"What does Mr. Yuwen think about sending envoys to the Roman Empire?" Zhao Huan sighed as he looked at the Kanyu map.

Yu Wenxu nodded and said: "It's not impossible. Before that, the Liao Kingdom obtained a large amount of silk and tea through the market, and sold them to the Western Regions and Daqin. In the absence of the Hexi Corridor, starting from Shangjing Road is also a Good choice."

"Chen Dong?" Zhao Huan asked suspiciously.

Yu Wenxu thought for a while and said, "It's possible."

"I don't know the specific situation over there, so send someone to ask." Zhao Huan said.

"Ah Choo." Chen Dong sneezed suddenly, he touched his nose, the wind and sand in the grassland was really too big.

He looked at the Tianshan Mountains in the distance, and took a deep breath. The officials sent him to test Qinghe City's defenses.

He successfully accepted the defense of Qinghe City.

Yelu Dashi ran very fast, and Qinghe City had no one left to defend.

Chen Dong looked at the mountain pass in the distance. On both sides of the mountain pass were tall and straight cliffs and lush trees. Beyond the mountain pass was a rushing river, and this river was named Chu River.

On the upper reaches of the Chu River, there is a city-state, which is Suiye City, an important town in the former Tang Dynasty.

And this named Tianshan Corridor has an ancient commercial road, which is a commercial road that bypasses the Hexi Corridor, but there is a roadblock on this commercial road.

That is Yelu Dashi.

After Yelu Dashi was defeated by the Kelie tribe near Zhenzhou, he completely withdrew from the east of the Tianshan Mountains. While dominating the Western Regions, Suiye City was also under the control of Yelu Dashi.

This locked the possibility of Da Song wanting to continue to explore the trade route westward.

"The government is lying! There is no gold here! It has been dug up by the predecessors!" Chen Chong looked at the towering Tianshan and sighed.

Jinshan had already been mined in the former Han Dynasty.It has been completely dug up to now.

Along the Tianshan Mountains, you can go to Suiye City, and through Suiye City to enter the Seljuk Empire, you will completely open up the business route to the western world. This is Chen Dong's plan to come here.

Although the commercial route from Qinghe City to Zhenzhou to Datong is already very safe, the merchants of the Song Dynasty are still blocked by the Khitan people.

In the past, the Shangjing Road was in the hands of the Khitans, and the goods transported by the Song Dynasty to the Western Regions were scraped by the Khitans. Now, the Shangjing Road is in the hands of the Dasong, and the goods are still scraped by the Khitans.

It's abominable!
Chen Dong looked at the Tianshan Mountain Pass not far away, and asked Niu Gao beside him: "Commander Niu, do you think we can take Suiye City with these 5000 people?"

Niu Gao nodded, looked into the distance and said, "I think it's okay."

Chen Dong laughed loudly, hammered Niu Gao hard, and said with a big laugh: "Okay, let's stop dreaming. Let's go back to Qinghe City."

"What I said is true, Mr. Chen." Niu Gao scratched his head and said with a silly smile.

Yelu Dashi's hands are all young and middle-aged Khitans. They have at least [-] cavalry, about [-] main troops, more than [-] auxiliary troops, and hundreds of thousands of horses. Only with such fighting power can they be powerful in the Western Regions.

When Niu Gao and Chen Dong had 5000 people to hit the Yelu boulder, they undoubtedly hit the stone with eggs and stones with eggs.

Niu Gao sneered, reined in the horse, and returned to Qinghe City.

Qinghe City has typical Western Region-style buildings, towering minarets, surrounded by oval roofs, towering stone pillars and arched buildings, all over the place.

But that is a high-end building that can only be owned by the servants of the gods. The ordinary people in the city don't even have a bungalow. They dig a hole in the wall at will, and call it their home after laying irregular bluestones on it.

The people here live a poor life. As more and more caravans have recently traveled from Qinghe to Zhenzhou, and then passed through the straight road from Zhenzhou to Datong Mansion, Qinghe City has become more prosperous than the naked eye.

And Chen Dong himself is just a scholar, and he only learned horse riding skills when he came here on Shangjing Road.

Looking at the increasingly taller and taller city walls and the caravans entering the city at the gate, he frowned and said: "If the city fee can be collected, it will undoubtedly be a gold mine, but the government will not allow it." It’s a pity to pay the entrance fee.”

"If the city fee is collected, we will be driven away." Niu Gao shook his head and reminded.

Their role in this city is more like managers than owners.

There are very few Han people here, and the people who live here are all Sogdians, who are brave and aggressive.

"Dear Chinese envoy, I heard that you have visited the Tianshan Pass. If there is a need, please do not hesitate to ask. Arslan is willing to obey the envoy's dispatch." A red-haired Sogdian stopped Chen Dong and his party. the way forward.

The Sogdians are good at doing business, and they were well-known merchants on the Silk Road. It is their nature to seek profit. There is a saying among the Sogdians that "the husband will go to a neighboring country at the age of twenty, and there will be no shortage of profits." It's their nature to not be able to make money.

Sogdian people have a more familiar name in the Central Plains, called Zhaowu Nine Surnames.

And this Sogdian named Arslan was keenly aware of the owner of this city, and he was a little troubled.

This is an opportunity for them.

"Convincing Ju'er Khan to open the trade route to the Seljuk Kingdom is our current trouble. Prince Arslan, do you have any good ideas?" Chen Dong asked with a smile.

Arslan's Sogdian blood was only half. His mother was a Turkman, and his father was the king of the Huoxun Kingdom, a subsidiary state of the Seljuk Empire.

Huoxunguo is what Chen Dong calls them, and they prefer to be called Huacizimo.

Arslan put his hands on his chest humbly and said: "Angel Chen, I have a Chinese name. My surname is Shi and my name is Kang, and my name is Lida. Our Huoxun Kingdom was once a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and was given the surname Shi by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Dear Chinese envoy."

Shi Kang is Arslan's Chinese name.

Chen Dong has dealt with this Shi Kang a lot, so he naturally knows his Chinese name, but his purpose of choosing this name is only for the convenience of doing business.

"Dear Han envoy, are you worried that the caravan of Song Dynasty will be intercepted by Ju'er Khan? Isn't it enough to pay a fee to pass Suiye City?" Arslan helped Chen Dong get off the horse, wondering asked.

Passing through other people's territories and paying taxes to the other party is the proper meaning.

The sovereignty of Qinghe City is disputed, so everyone did not pay taxes in Qinghe City, but they will make up for this tax when they go to the residences in Zhenzhou or Datong Prefecture.

Arslan didn't know why Chen Dong was worried about it.

Chen Dong glanced at Niu Gao, and said with a sneer: "Prince Arslan is really pretending to be ignorant. Anyone who has never heard of it can pass through Suiye City, but the caravans of Han people cannot pass through Suiye City." city?"

Yelu Dashi has completely experienced the demise of the Liao Kingdom. During this process, the role played by Song Dynasty is very disgraceful.

Moreover, Yelu Dashi used to beat Tong Guan hundreds of miles away at the price of three thousand against one hundred thousand on Yanjing Road.

This Juerhan Yelu Dashi looks down on Song people from the bottom of his heart.

The current caravans of the Song people can only go to Qinghe City, as long as they cross the Tianshan Pass, they will be killed by the Khitan people.

Therefore, the Song people's caravans in Qinghe City will be handed over to the Sogdians to continue westward.Most of the profits were divided among the Khitan and Sogdians.

That's why Chen Dong said that Arslan pretended to be confused while pretending to understand.

Arslan smiled humbly: "A fly drinking honey will die in sweetness. Today Juerhan will attack the Song people, and tomorrow he will attack the Sogdians."

"I am willing to help Angel Chen once. I know a road that can bypass Suiye City and enter the Seljuk Empire."

Chen Dong looked at Arslan's determined expression, and said with a smile: "You Sogdians have a famous saying, sometimes, a person pays a higher price for what he gets for free."

"I don't know Prince Arslan, what do you want?"

Arslan supported Chen Dong and said with a gloomy face: "The Seljuk Empire is the Seljuk Turks, an empire built by Seljuk."

"Seljuk's grandson: Tughluk Burke, successively defeated the Ghazni Kingdom, Persia and occupied the entire territory of Persia, and entered Baghdad. And Tughluk Burke was honored as the Sultan, which means King of East and West."

"Chen Angel, there is a saying in the East that says that where there is prosperity, there must also be decline. If the speed of prosperity and collapse is very fast, how do you say it?"

Chen Dong thought for a while and said: "It's booming, it's also vigorous, and its death is also sudden."

Arslan nodded repeatedly, and said, "As expected of a scholar of the Eastern Dynasty, this is the sentence. I haven't heard of Wang Hua for a long time, and my Sinology only has a few sentences about business. Angel Chen laughed."

"Tugluk Burke's Seljuk Empire was the most prosperous time. At that time, the Seljuk Empire could even threaten Byzantium. But with his death, Seljuk also quickly weakened."

"40 years ago, the last king of the Seljuk Empire, Nizam Mulek. He was assassinated and killed in the Persian territory. The Seljuk Empire fell apart, and many royal heirs surrounded the major city-states."

"Our life in Huoxun Nation is not easy. If one day the Great Song Empire is able to take the Heavenly Soldiers to the Caspian Sea, please help Huoxun Nation."

"It is a very good deal for me and my family to exchange the insignificant information of a small road for the friendship of the empire."

　Thanks to "another novice" for the reward, thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)