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Chapter 389 Trade

In fact, this revenge operation was not that Frozen was too fierce, but that was set by Wang Jinghui and the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty when they discussed the possible robbery of Mogus - a fierce counterattack against any raids and robbery of the slogans must be given a fierce counterattack at the first time. This strategy was also the claim made by Wang Jinghui when he considered that the area where the slogans were the birthplace of the Yuanmeng in later generations. Only by starting to destroy the nomadic people with the strongest force can the stability of the border be guaranteed. After all, with the current level of transportation and communication, the Hetao Plain is too far away from Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

However, Bingfeng's record of such a good battle makes people wonder if he had made a falsification, but this is obviously impossible. Don't think that Dingxi Army was stationed in the Hetao Plain as a "special zone" of the Song Dynasty. Bingfeng was the highest military chief and the highest executive. However, the senior officials of the Song Dynasty still had Yuefeng envoys there. In fact, for the political management of the Hetao Plain, Bingfeng envoys was completely allowed to Yuefeng envoys. He just held a nominal official position. Another role of this Yuefeng envoy is the observation post where the Song Dynasty ruled the Song Dynasty was located next to the Dingxi Army.

After defeating the Liao Dynasty's suppression troops, the Liao Dynasty recruited such important officials to be killed on the battlefield for the first time. However, last year, Mogus did not truly unify the ūbu tribe. You should know that the ūbu tribe where he was located had more than a thousand tribes of all sizes and sizes. The positions of these tribes were strange. Mogus relied on his father's old subordinates to become the nominal leader. To be honest, he did not control the ūbu tribe as effectively as the Song and Liao Dynasty, let alone the ūbu tribe living in the ūbu tribe in the north of Xijing Road.

The analysis of the Mogus rebellion by the Song Dynasty's senior ruling leaders was to fight a relatively long-lasting war with the Liao Kingdom. In order to maximize the consumption of the Liao Kingdom's strength, the ruling leaders accepted Wang Jinghui's suggestion and traded with the Liao Kingdom Shangjing Road, which Mogus basically controlled, and even carried out arms trade. The weapons and equipment provided by the Song Dynasty to the Mogus tribe were all weapons and armor gradually eliminated by the Song army in recent years, and even the thunder of the sky exports to Goryeo. However, due to the fact that the Liao Kingdom was still the nominal ruler of the Bubu tribe, they did not dare to increase the number of thunder of the sky exports to the same level as that of Goryeo.

It seems that the strategy of "Turning Tigers and Tun Wolves" that ruled the top leaders of the Song Dynasty was somewhat failed. However, when he thought of this, he gave Mogus a very profound lesson when he started to make the Song Dynasty, so that he could return to the right route.

At this time, Mogus, who had set up his base camp in Shangjingdao Zhenzhou, Liao Kingdom, was also badly beaten by the Song Dynasty's revenge. When he received the message from his subordinates, he was shocked. He did not expect that Song Fang in the south would be so tough. A small blow would wipe out all the grassland tribes around the Hetao Plain, sweeping all the people and animals. This loss was beyond his expectations.

Mogus was not an incompetent and reckless person. In fact, he had already found out through his own channels that the Song Dynasty, as a great empire on par with the Liao Kingdom, could not be compared with the Liao Kingdom in military terms. He had never gained the upper hand in the confrontation with the Liao Kingdom for a hundred years. In his opinion, since his army even the Liao people had to bear it, it would be even more difficult to deal with the Song Dynasty. As a result, it seemed wrong now and so wrong. It was precisely because he ordered a sneak attack on the Song Dynasty caravan that the tribes bordering the Hetao Plain were all destroyed, especially Bai Dadan of the Nanzhubu tribe was attached to him. Such a large tribe was easily uprooted by the Song army. This is not bad news for him.

Mogus was also criticized by the leaders of various tribes under his rule. Except for a few people who were attacked by the Song army, they were basically free of children and dogs. Such a huge loss made all tribe leaders unable to sleep or eat, especially in tribes near the Hetao Plain. After receiving the news, they couldn't even think about resistance. The entire tribe ordered to set out to migrate north, and some had even moved their positions to avoid being attacked by the Song army.

Mogus' biggest trouble lies not in this. What's more important is that his rash behavior caused the Song Dynasty to terminate its trade with him, which was the biggest blow to the Bubu tribe - the salt, tea, and the weapons and equipment that the grassland tribe needed most were needed by the army under his command all needed the Song Dynasty to supply. They did not have enough craftsmen and minerals to make weapons, and even the nobles of the grassland tribe were eager for the high-end luxury goods of the Song Dynasty. This further aroused his subordinates' dissatisfaction with him.

Although there has not been much battle between the Song Dynasty and the Bu tribe so far, even the revenge of the Song army was also achieved by the sudden attack without the preparation of the nomadic people. In fact, the two sides did not face the battle head-on with real swords and spears. However, the leaders of the tribes of the Mogus and the Bu tribe were already frightened by the strong revenge of the Song army. Based on the actual needs, Mogus decided to put down his figure and acknowledge his mistakes from the Song Dynasty. He sent his envoy to the Hetao Plain and decided to go to the legendary golden city of Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, to meet the supreme ruler of the Song Dynasty, hoping to get the gift and restore its trade relations, and to say that he would never invade the Song Dynasty!

After seeing the peace talks sent by Mogus, Song sent an army to escort them, and asked the Northwest Intelligence Station located in the Hetao Plain to send messages to Zhong Yan and the Biandu Intelligence Bureau of Xingqing Prefecture, the former Xixia. Due to the long road, the carrier pigeon took eight days of transmission and flight to bring the letter to Kaifeng, Biandu. However, Mogus' envoys would have to walk at least one month on the road to reach here. The senior leaders of the Song Dynasty had enough time to discuss and set a tone.

"I think it's not possible!" Sima Guang was the first to step forward and said, "The Bu tribe was the Shangjing Road of Liao. Although the rebellion made the Liao Kingdom have no time to wipe out him, he is still the place of Liao Kingdom in name. If my Song Dynasty rashly admitted him, then Liao Kingdom would definitely not give up, and the military fronts of the two countries will rise again! Please think twice about the emperor and all ministers!"

After saying that, Sima Guang turned around and looked at Wang Anshi next to him thoughtfully, and finally stopped his eyes on the young prince-consort for a long time and refused to leave. As soon as the news of Mogus' request for peace and gift reached the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Xu immediately summoned the ministers to discuss. Of course, this matter was of great importance, and naturally Wang Jinghui, who had made the plan, began a fierce debate in the Funing Hall.

Emperor Zhao Xu frowned a little after hearing this. Seeing Sima Guang looking at Wang Jinghui, he knew that Wang Jinghui's suggestions would have a key role in this matter. He skipped Wang Anshi and said to Wang Jinghui: "What do you think?!"

Wang Jinghui knew Sima Guang's concerns. Sima Guang attached great importance to the concept of "righteousness". This shows how important "righteousness" is in Sima Guang's heart from his "Zizhi Tongjian". Although Wang Jinghui does not care about "righteousness", in later generations, as long as the opportunity is controlled by a hostile country, he will never let go of no matter how dead it is. As long as the country is strong, these boring problems can be put aside. In later generations, the United States, Taiwan, and the West dismembered the Soviet Union. However, in this era, you still have to pay attention to your face.

"Master, Sima's statement is reasonable. I, the Song Dynasty, cannot openly enthrone Mogus publicly, otherwise it will inevitably arouse strong opposition from the Liao Kingdom. It is not a false statement to fight again between the two countries!" Wang Jinghui stepped forward and said. Although Emperor Zhao Xu gave them a stool, he still had to get up when speaking out of the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects.

Sima Guang frowned and stretched out his brows after hearing Wang Jinghui's words, and even a smile appeared on his face; Wang Anshi, Zeng Gongliang and Wen Yanbo next to him were still expressionless, as if he had nothing to do with him; as for the deputy envoy of Privy Councilor Guo Kui, he was anxious, but unfortunately, at this time, his speech would not have any effect, and he also had to worry about his identity - the Chief of Staff of the Song Dynasty, the Deputy Envoy of Privy Councilor did make him embarrassed.

"In fact, the most important thing about Mogus sending envoys to Kaifeng, Bian Capital is not to ask me to enthrone him by the Song Dynasty. In fact, he doesn't care about the enthronement of the Song Dynasty. What he cares about is the trade relationship between the Budu tribe and the Song Dynasty!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile, "The grassland environment is harsh, mainly because of grazing, and the material resources are far less abundant than that of the Song Dynasty. The most important thing is their diet - their food is mainly meat. If there is no salt and tea, it is easy to suffer from illness. He will not care about the enthronement of Mogus. He only cares about the salt tea and weapons and equipment of the Song Dynasty!"

After hearing this, Wang Anshi's eyes showed a gleam in his eyes. He nodded but did not say anything, but Wang Jinghui saw his expression in his eyes. He knew that Wang Anshi had already seen the purpose of the Messenger Mogus, and probably Zeng Gongliang and Wen Yanbo thought so. As for Guo Kui, he could ignore it - he was okay in his war, but he was still far from being in front of national strategies. It is estimated that he would be at this level in his life.

Wen Yanbo stepped forward and said, "Master, I think the intention of the messenger Mogus is roughly as the prince consort said!"

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "Although Mogus had bad intentions towards the Song Dynasty, after the attack of the Dingxi Army, he would probably be honest for a while, so it is not impossible to reopen the trade with Mogus, but you must pay attention to safety. I think you can re-sign a secret treaty to regulate the trade between the two sides when the envoy of Mogus came to Bian Capital!"

Wang Anshi asked: "How to regulate trade between the two sides?!"

"There are actually a large number of minerals in the areas where nomadic people live, but their mining and smelting level is limited and cannot be used. Therefore, in order for Mogus to surrender to the Song Dynasty for a long time, the talent and technology of metal mining and smelting must not be obtained by them. Therefore, the Shubu people must reject any requests in this regard! Not only that, the Song people will also stop supplying Mogus weapons and equipment within one or two years. Of course, if Mogus and the Khitans conflict, they can start weapons trade again, otherwise this weapon trade will never be opened! As for the trade of the Shubu people, only salt tea trade is used in exchange for livestock and horses in the hands of the Shubu people. Of course, if they ask for books, it is fine. In the end, no matter what, all the goods will increase by 20% in the trade of the Shubu people, as a price to punish them for offending me this time!" Wang Jinghui said coldly.

As soon as Wang Jinghui finished speaking, everyone in Funing Hall exchanged glances. Wang Jinghui also paid close attention to the reactions of the senior leaders of the Song Dynasty rulers to this suggestion, but most of them were his. Sima Guang did not frown, which made him feel relieved. To be honest, although he was afraid of the Bubu tribe, he was still unwilling to give up the Bubu tribe line unless he had to. After all, the situation of the Jurchen tribes in the Northeast was not very optimistic. Moreover, whether it was the Northeast Jurchens, the predecessor of the Jin Dynasty, or the Jurchens, the Yuan Meng, the predecessor of the Bubu tribe, was not a good person. The surgical operation performed by the Song Dynasty on the Liao Kingdom now was just playing with fire for himself. If one was not well controlled, it was a proof that the Bubu tribe sneaked into the Song Dynasty caravan was a proof.

Wang Anshi stepped forward and said, "Master, I think the strategy of the prince consort is feasible!"

When Wang Anshi made this statement, Guo Kui also stepped forward to express his approval attitude. In fact, among the officials present, Guo Kui was the most engaged in trade with the Bubu tribe. Because he believed that Wang Jinghui's "killing people with a knife" caused domestic consumption in Liao was a very good choice for the current Song Dynasty, that is, the Bubu tribe wanted to attack the Song Dynasty, and the first opponent faced by the Bubu people was also the Dingxi Army stationed in the Hetao Plain of the Song Dynasty. Not only was the combat effectiveness of the troops ranked first in the Song Dynasty, but the Yellow River also blocked each other. It was impossible for the Bubu people to defeat the Dingxi Army.

Wen Yanbo stepped forward and said, "Master, I have some more additions!"

"Mr. Yanbo, but it's okay!" Emperor Zhao Xu said with an expressionless face. Wang Jinghui looked at the young emperor and felt more and more that Zhao Xu had matured too quickly...

"I have some objections to the complete termination of weapons trading with the slogans who said that the prince consort said! I think that firearms like bows, crossbows and arrows and firearms cannot be sold to the slogans, but weapons like leather armor, swords, and swords are still fine!" Wen Yanbo said.

Wang Jinghui was shocked after hearing this. Did Wen Yanbo fall in love with business? But what he didn't know was that although he used his own funds and creativity to promote the development of the weapons industry in the Song Dynasty, he did not participate in the specific actions. At most, he intervened in solving some problems during the development of weapons. In fact, the entire weapon system is very complicated. It is not that even if it is finished, it is even a dress-up change of new weapons. The millions of troops in the Song Dynasty dare not say that they have changed all the clothes, but that even if they change the clothes of seven or eight hundred thousand of the imperial guards is unimaginable to ordinary people.

As an auxiliary product for artillery research, steel smelting not only made a qualitative leap in quality and output, but also made the Song army able to use new steel materials to make weapons and armor. However, how to deal with the old weapons replaced is also a difficult problem. At present, the Song Dynasty only completed the weapon armor replacement of 150,000 troops from the garrison troops around Biandu. However, the number of weapons replaced is already considerable. When the old weapons were not included in the trade list, it could only be re-smelted. However, this is obviously not as cost-effective as selling weapons. However, there is a problem here - Goryeo, the first weapon importer of the Song Dynasty, did not have the ability to digest so many weapons and equipment, and the Privy Council tasted the sweetness from it. Now it would be too uncomfortable to let them give up the weapons trade of the Tu Ministry.

Besides, the military dressing is a costly project, and it is absolutely impossible to have no money. Otherwise, they will either go to the road of military force or watch the samples of advanced weapons without money to change them. No matter which of these two roads is unacceptable to the Privy Council. This weapon export trade just solves this crux of the crux. The old weapons of the Song Dynasty were nothing in the eyes of the Song army, who had seen the power of artillery. Even the swords made by the new smelting method used in their hands were also the first-class equipment of this era. However, these eliminated old equipment are different in Goryeo and other countries, and they can also sell them at a good price. Judging from the current operation results of the prince-consort, the funds obtained from selling old equipment can match the cost of manufacturing new weapons of four-fifths. How can the Privy Council give up such benefits?!

Wen Yanbo also knew that limiting the weapons trade against the Budu Ministry was imperative, which was unstoppable. Otherwise, anything would be enough to ruin his political life, or even unpleasant things would happen after his death would be enough to cause his reputation to be damaged. However, he divided weapons into low-level protective armor, such as cowhide armor; divided weapons into long and short weapons, such as swords, are short weapons, and of course, firearm exports are absolutely not allowed.

Wen Yanbo's suggestion was undoubtedly opposed by Sima Guang and Guo Kui, but Wang Anshi and Wang Jinghui agreed very much. Wang Jinghui was about to burst into laughter at this moment. It turned out that Wen Yanbo also cried poorly. In fact, Wen Yanbo had been influenced by Wang Jinghui and changed a lot. This old minister of Qingli was not very rigid in his mind. Although he was still in a proper manner in his work, he was somewhat in his mind from the benefits of the Royal Sea Escort Fleet of the Song Dynasty.
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