Things can't be sold!

What a ridiculous thing this is.

To be honest, there were indeed things that could not be sold before, but in recent years there has been basically no such situation.

From the second year after Jiayou to these years, it has been the golden age of merchants. Only the things produced are in short supply, and there is nothing that cannot be sold. What everyone is worried about is where to find raw materials, rather than the things produced cannot be sold.

How come the golden years that have been nearly twenty years have ended like this?

In fact, the problem is simple, and there are two reasons for the current dilemma in Jiangnan.

One is that the Song Dynasty lost a lot of land, and the areas north of the Huai River were all lost. In the past, the consumption in the capital area, especially the consumption in Bianjing City, was enough to support one-third of the world's industries.

The second is the current situation where sails in Jiangnan cannot be put into the sea.

Of course, it’s not that Zhao Xu did not allow merchants to go into business. If he could choose, he not only hopes that merchants would go into business, but also hopes that more people would become merchants.

After so many years of experience, Zhao Xu naturally knew some superficial economic knowledge. Half of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty was supported by overseas markets.

Now that the Song Dynasty has lost Bianjing, the Xia Dynasty has blocked the sea surface. The products produced by this treasure land in Jiangnan are now facing a situation where they cannot be sold. If these things cannot be sold, more than half of the merchants in Jiangnan will die!

Zhao Xu knew what these merchants could bring to the court. If the merchants went bankrupt in large quantities, the treasury of the Song Dynasty would also be at a bottom!

Zhao Xu wanted to solve this problem, so he asked Zeng Bu to solve this problem, but the situation was moving in the direction he didn't want to see.

His right-hand man, one Zeng Bu and the other Cai Jing, is not only not sincerely working together, but also regarded as enemies. The country is about to perish, and they are still fighting in the middle of the fight!

Zhao Xu was angry and hated about this matter, and repeatedly asked Zeng Bu and Cai Jing'er to each other, but although the two of them stopped fighting on the surface, they still had a lot of fun in secret.

Of course, Zhao Xu is not a fool. He can naturally see these tricks when he stands on a high place, but if he wants to remove one of the two people from his post, Zhao Xu hesitated. After thinking hard for a few days and nights, he finally maintained his original state.

The news reached Xixia, and Ouyang Bian was both amused and sighed.

"...He is still like this, he is still doing balance, or balance, and he is disturbed by different theories. Haha, this country is about to perish, he is still like this..."

Zhang Dun sneered: "If he had one-tenth of your mind, why did we reach Xixia? At this point today, he would still have to achieve this balance. If the country is destroyed in the future, we must not blame us."

Zhang Dun has always been dissatisfied with Zhao Xu, so he is not polite when speaking. However, Su Che sighed: "If you continue to do this, it will be the people who will hurt in the end."

Lu Huiqing also sneered: "In the Song Dynasty, how could the people have had a good life? When the Song Dynasty died earlier, the people would live a good life as soon as possible. The people of our Daxia live a life that people live!"

When Ouyang Bian heard his old friends' words, he just smiled bitterly. To be honest, they were willing to come out with him. Although it was his personal charm, if Zhao Xu had not disappointed them, they would never have done such a house-scaping and extermination of the clan.

Of course, if I hadn't been disappointed with Zhao Xu, I wouldn't have come to Xixia to do such a thing as licking blood from the knife.

If you get together, you can't say it's the Avengers, but if you say it's the Disappointer League, it's the most suitable one.

Ouyang Bian concealed himself with a smile, but he didn't tell them that in fact, the current situation in the Song Dynasty was inseparable from him.

Cai Jing is so active in dealing with Zeng Bu, but on the one hand, he really wants to compete for power and profit with Zeng Bu, and on the other hand, he wants to use the power of Cai Qu.

Compared with Zeng Bu and Cai Jing, Cai Que seemed to be inconspicuous in the court, but Cai Jing knew who was standing behind Cai Que.

If Cai Jing wants to confront Zeng Bu, he has to rely on Cai Que's power, or rather, on the power of Ouyang Bian.

Although Ouyang Bian was not in the Song Dynasty, the power he left behind could not be underestimated.

Although these people may not be heading towards the Xia Dynasty, in order to protect themselves, they all protected and helped each other and formed a neutral faction.

Among them are Zhang Heng, Dou Bian, Luo Kai, Deng Kaofu, Wang Hui, Wang Wujiu, Lv Hui, Liu Ku, Liu Yuanyu, Su Shi, Cheng Hao, Yang Ji, Zhang Zai, Zhu Guangting, etc. from the second year of Jiayou.

None of these people is a person. After so many years, most of them have taken important positions. If these people protect and help, if this force surfaces, it will be enough to scare many people.

Although these people were disappointed in the government, they were not allowed to instruct Ouyang Bian at will, but Ouyang Bian could influence them in some matters.

For example, this time Cai Jing proposed the Northern Expedition, which resonated with them, but the statement of the Northern Expedition was proposed by Ouyang Bian to compete with Zeng Bu.

Cai Jing's position was actually far from Zeng Bu, but because of the emperor's trust, he was very popular and was later appointed as the chief of political affairs, which was considered to be a good thing to Zeng Bu.

However, if Cai Jing wants to be on an equal footing with Zeng Bu, the easiest way is to oppose Zeng Bu. Once Zeng Bu cannot do anything to Cai Jing, the revelation for other officials is that this person can compete with Zeng Bu, so this person's power is comparable to Zeng Bu.

This is a very wonderful thing.

And this statement can perfectly fit the ideas of Jiayou in the same year.

Zeng Bu's surrender theory seems logical, but few people like this statement in the Song Dynasty. There is already a saying among the people that Zeng Bu was a treacherous minister.

So this matter was actually Ouyang Bian’s operation behind the scenes, taking advantage of Cai Que’s influence on Cai Jing, and then using the ideas proposed by Cai Jing, so that Jiayou could also participate in the same year in the second year.

In fact, the ultimate goal of what Ouyang Bian did was to make the Song Dynasty fall into internal friction!

Although the Song Dynasty was now confined to the south of the Yangtze River and was blocked by the Daxia Navy on the sea, just the Jiangnan routes and other southern routes were enough for the Song Dynasty to raise a strong army.

To say that the Southern Song Dynasty was weak, you can look at Yue Fei. If the Zhao family had not become a weapon and Yue Fei was directly attacking Huanglong, this historical book would probably not be the same as later generations.
Chapter completed!