At noon, a grand state banquet was held in the Qianyang Palace, and the monarchs, envoys, and chiefs from all over the world were invited to the banquet, and many people brought their wives to see the demeanor of the Great Sui, so this banquet, not only the emperor and queen of the Great Sui attended, but also the princes and ministers of the Great Sui who participated in the banquet also attended with the lady of the Imperial Order.

The magnificent hall is large enough to accommodate thousands of people at the same time, and today is also the first time that it has been used for a state banquet, even if there are many people in attendance, it will not be crowded at all, and hundreds of singers will dance in the orchestral music of silk and bamboo in the exhibition.

Guests on both sides of the hall are talking and laughing loudly, and the spacious hall is very lively with laughter and laughter.

Jindeman, who has been stationed in Luoyang for a long time, changed into a set of festive red satin brocade dresses, such as the delicate flowers with light makeup, looking radiant and beautiful, she found her place under the leadership of Gong E, ranking on the left, relatively front.

Da Sui respects the left, and she is still quite satisfied with her position.

After sitting down, Jindeman looked up and suddenly found that the next seat opposite her was actually Gao Jianwu, the king of Goguryeo, but she felt an irrepressible pride welling up in her heart, and a pair of autumn waves couldn't help but overflow with a light smile.

Judging from this arrangement, the status of the emperor of Gao Jianwu's dignified generation after arriving in the Great Sui was far inferior to her as a royal daughter, which also shows that Silla's status in the eyes of the Great Sui Emperor was much higher than that of Goguryeo.

And under Gao Jianwu, it was the envoy of Baekje, the envoy of Baekje had his eyes wandering, looking around at this magnificent palace, and his eyes showed a look of amazement from time to time, this person may have highlighted his existence, and spoke quite loudly, as if he wanted to suppress all voices, even Jindeman, who was far away in the opposite corner, could hear it, it was nothing more than praising how magnificent Ziwei City was, how magnificent and so on, his expression was extremely undignified, looking left and right, without the slightest self-esteem and self-respect of the envoys of a country, and his demeanor was very frivolous, When people look at it, they can't help but despise it in their hearts.

Jindeman was disdainful in his heart: sure enough, people from small countries, even if they admired the civilization of the Central Plains, could not change the small family spirit hidden deep in the bone marrow......

But when she looked down and saw the small table in front of her, she couldn't be calm, which was full of mountain treasures, sea treasures, upper treasures, and lower treasures, as well as "muddy sheep shut", "spirit burning", "red chest", "brocade turtle everywhere", "hump burning", "camel hoof soup" and other palace secret dishes, and even a lot of melons, fruits, and vegetables that do not belong to winter.

Soon after the guests arrived, a voice came from outside the door: "The emperor and queen have arrived!" ”

The hall instantly became silent, even the music stopped, and everyone's eyes looked at the door in unison.

In front of everyone's eyes, the noble and unparalleled Emperor of the Great Sui entered the main hall from the main entrance, dozens of palace maids followed behind them, and everyone stood up solemnly and bowed to the Emperor of the Great Sui.

Yang Tong smiled warmly and said, "Flat!" ”

walked to the throne with the empress, and at this time, many people saw the appearance of the Great Sui Emperor clearly.

Emperor Shengwu did not wear the imperial crown when he met with representatives of various countries, he wore a purple and gold crown, a set of black embroidered gold imperial robes, a belt decorated with mutton fat and white jade, and a pair of thin-soled soft boots.

This appearance attracted countless eyes, and everyone seemed to be overshadowed in front of him.

If it weren't for the glorious bearing of that faction, people who saw Yang Dong's appearance clearly for the first time would hardly dare to believe that this beautiful son of the world was the king of the Great Sui and the god of war who dominated the world.

The queen of the Great Sui who dances with the king is also eye-catching, her face is beautiful, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a country and a city, ice muscles and jade bones, the most eye-catching thing is Ling but inviolable noble bearing, accompanied by Yang Tong's side, like an indescribable beauty.

The husband and wife, who are not in a hurry, are like fairy couples who have come out of the picture scroll, envying others.

Before reaching the throne, Yang Tong slowly turned around, raised his hand, and smiled: "Please sit..."

"Thank you!"

"Thank you, Saint Khan!"

Everyone thanked and took their seats.

King Qiuzi exclaimed, "This is His Majesty the Great Sui Shengwu Emperor? It's really a heavenly man! ”

Earlier, they were all overwhelmed by Yang Dong's majesty, where did they dare to look directly at the Great Sui Emperor? Yang Tong is now wearing regular clothes to attend, but it allows them to see the true face of Lushan, but compared with the previous sharp momentum, judging the two of them, such a sense of contradiction makes it impossible to contact one person.

In fact, this is also related to the atmosphere deliberately created by Yang Tong before, everyone was terrified in extreme depression, and after seeing Yang Tong, the awe reached the extreme, so that Yang Dong felt majestic and terrifying.

Gao Jianwu glanced at Yang Tong deeply, and did not say a word, he and Yang Tong had a deep intersection, and the other party left a deep impression on him.

This young emperor has always been so kind, but he has a monstrous aura hidden in him, and he is completely a wolf king in sheep's clothing. Slaughtered his imperial capital, Pingyao City, was full of people and rivers of blood, even after a few years, when Gao Jianwu saw Yang Dong, he was terrified.

In fact, there are not a few people who have the same thoughts as Gao Jianwu, among them, Anashi Simo, Yi Nan, Qibi He Li, and Jieli Khan's son Di Luozhi and others are representatives.

'When! ’

A crisp bell rang leisurely echoed in the main hall, and Zhang Xuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Ceremonies, who served as the master of ceremonies for the state banquet, walked to the front of the jade steps and said in a loud voice: "Please give a speech." ”

The hall suddenly fell silent again, Yang Tong picked up the glazed wine, and laughed loudly: "All the monarchs, princes, princesses, and envoys have traveled thousands of miles to my Great Sui to have today's event, I am deeply moved, and I would like to express my gratitude for this thin wine chat!" ”

As he spoke, Yang Tong looked at many exotic barbarians with ill will.

"Thank you!"

Everyone held up the glazed wine jue together, raised their heads, and poured the wine into their stomachs.

In a flash.

The sound of "cough cough" filled the hall.

Except for the Great Sui generals who had tasted distilled liquor, and their family members who had been repeatedly emphasized by their husbands earlier, all exotic men and women felt a spicy eruption from their chests, like a volcanic eruption to the top of their heads, and then spread to the whole body, as if there was a flame burning, and some people who were shallow amounted to their stomachs suddenly felt dizzy.

"Good wine!" Ashina Simo only felt that the warmth continued to spread from the dantian to the hundreds of corpses around him, and his body, which was originally a little frozen, was like being in a furnace.

"What does the Khan think?" Yang Tong looked at Ashina Simo and smiled.

"The minister never thought that there was such a fine wine in the world, please forgive the minister's limited literary talent, indescribable!" These words were praised by many foreign barbarians, and Ashina Simo turned his head to look at Yang Tong and said, "Dare to ask the sage Khan, what is the name of this wine?" ”

"Wine name heroic!" Yang Tong laughed loudly: "I also accidentally found that the cellar is hidden in the Taihang Mountain, but it is hidden by Dayu, there are three or four thousand years ago, I dare not enjoy it exclusively, so I will take this wine to enjoy it with friends from afar." ”

"Thank you!"

In the midst of the laughter of the Sui people, the exotic barbarian suddenly realized that this wine was so mellow, and it turned out to be cellared for three or four thousand years.

There was no shortage of good drinkers, and King Qiuzi was one of them, and he stood up and saluted: "Sage Khan, I don't know if this wine can be left in a recipe?" ”

The crowd listened with their ears pricked up.

"Yes!" Yang Tong nodded and said, "But I have tried several times, but I have failed. ”

"Alas!"

The drunkards deeply regretted it

"Later, I came to a conclusion that this wine needs to be brewed in a specific place, with a specific spring water, and locally produced grain, but unfortunately Taihang Mountain is a strange rocky hill, and the grain output is extremely limited, so the heroes cannot produce a large amount."

The heroic spirit obtained by distillation is much more expensive than the silk porcelain paper medicinal tea, for an alcoholic, just like Tang Ming met Yang Guifei, people can't give up, and foreign men and women like wine, Yang Tong took it out today for representatives of various countries to taste, which is used to earn a lot of foreign exchange for promotion. He went on to say, "Although the output is limited, I can't enjoy it alone, otherwise I will be damned. If you usually have time and like this wine, you may wish to go to the North Market Sales and Supply Cooperative. ”

Everyone understands in seconds!

I know that if I can't beg for it, after today, I want to drink the heroic spirit again and spend my own money to buy it, but for these exotic people in the Qianyang Palace, what they lack is not money, but fine wine, so buy it, it doesn't matter.

Yang Tong is also to the point to stop, as long as these to the North City supply and marketing cooperatives, will find that there are too many things to buy, such as glazed products, glaze is known as the first of the five famous vessels, the status is far before gold and silver, jade, ceramics, bronze, can be used for its precious, but before the Great Sui, the craft has been basically lost, until the appearance of the Great Sui craftsman He Chou, he often reads the ancient map extensively, knows many previous utensils, and restores the glazed craft from the ancient books, and now it can be produced in large quantities, And with a group of craftsmen to make a lot of exquisite handicrafts, he remembered that in his previous life when he looked at modern history, he found that there are many countries that like to take glass failures to go to backward countries in exchange for gold, it sounds ridiculous, but if the operation is good, the profit is even higher than that of salt and iron, so as to obtain a lot of wealth in the Western Regions and other countries.

Now the glazed wine jue and glazed dishes used in the hall are all caused by the Ministry of Industry, and the intention is the same as that of the heroes, they are all advertising, these people have brought gifts to show respect, Yang Tong of course can't let them return empty-handed, so he definitely earns back some precious glass, uh, it is glass products, these high-level people bring back to their own countries, and they will not worry about no sales in the future.

In order to turn the gold of various countries into his own gold, Yang Tong also worked hard and promoted Dasui products at the state banquet.

At this time, he was full of knights, and raised it high and said: "The Central Plains has always been a hospitable country, and I like to make friends from all over the world. ”

"Thank you."

Everyone responded in unison, this time they learned the lesson of the last time, no one dared to take a breath, and drank a few sips in the appearance of others, before they took a sip of wine.

When Yang Tong gets along with strangers, he is not very good at making an atmosphere, so after three cups, Yang Gongren, a Tai Chi master who is under one person and above 10,000 people, is responsible for warming up.

At this time, the drums sounded, the music bursts, and the heroic Shura Wei was as beautiful as a flower, wearing gorgeous armor, and entered the main hall with steps that the six relatives did not recognize. They were armed with swords, guns, swords, shields, and crossbows, and the number was as large as seven hundred.

Yin Mingyue, the leader, wears a bronze mask with a bronze mask and blue fangs, making people unable to see her expression, holding a bright silver spear, and her vigorous posture is matched with that bronze mask, giving people a strange temptation, like a steaming female Shura.

Under her command, the nine hundred Shura Guards quickly formed a formation.

Yin Mingyue coldly ordered: "Six Flower Array, turn!" ”

In the sound of rumbling war drums, the originally airtight shield array suddenly dispersed, turning into zero, forming a small array of seven people, like a goddess scattering flowers, three shield hands in front, two strong crossbowmen in the rear, and two spearmen in the process of changing formations, waiting for the opportunity to stab the spears in their hands out of the gaps in the shields.

The Six Flower Array, which was created by Li Jing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, perfectly avoided the congenital weakness of women in strength, and brought the characteristics of agility into full play.

They continue to dance in the hands of the soldiers, small steps, back and forth, left circle, right, first deviation, then Wu, Yuli, goose through, Kei Zhang, wing Shu, staggered flexion and stretching, head and tail back to each other, back and forth.

Each formation can be ten 'petals' small formations, counting ten formations, and they are constantly changing formations in the majestic war drums, neat steps, and consistent movements, which makes people feel like they are on the battlefield. The representatives of the different races at the banquet had never seen such music and dancing, and they were dazzled, dumbfounded, and amazed.

In the past, the entertainment programs above the court banquets were mainly pleasing to the eye and graceful dancing and soft singing, but these savage exotics would only think that they were 'moaning without disease', and everything else was boring except for watching beautiful women.

And today's program is all based on 'martial arts'. Compared with twisting and kneading dance, these capable and domineering shows are obviously more in line with their appetite. Especially the steaming large-scale program "Six Flowers", which made everyone stunned.

After a few 'martial arts' were withdrawn, Yang Tong said loudly: "I want to announce a great event, and the Great Sui led by me has discussed it with the countries of the Western Regions. It was decided to change the name of Xingtai Province in the Western Regions to the Great Sui Silk Road Cooperation Alliance, whose purpose and principles are mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, and seeking win-win results. ”

"Security cooperation is a key area of cooperation of the Silk Road Alliance, and its core is to fight against horse thieves and bandits on the Silk Road and hostile forces that try to harm the interests of all countries. In order to cope with the future war, the coalition army was expanded to 60,000 people, and the generals sent by our Great Sui were responsible for training and commanding. Politically, the Silk Road Alliance solves the border problems of various countries, consolidates mutual trust and good-neighborly relations among member countries, and expresses support in the name of the 'Great Sui Silk Road Cooperation Alliance' on issues of concern to member countries. ”

"In terms of education, the Great Sui will establish the Great Sui Silk Road School Palace in Yinming County, and I will send famous teachers to teach language, and basic etiquette such as benevolence, loyalty, and filial piety, and the students' food, housing and school expenses will be deducted from the money paid by the Silk Road Alliance every year."

"In terms of economy and trade, business travelers from various countries only need to hold the customs clearance documents issued by the 'Great Sui Silk Road Cooperation Alliance' to enjoy preferential treatment of tariff exemption in the alliance countries, and at the same time, they can also get accommodation, security and other conveniences given by the Silk Road Alliance and other countries."

Speaking of this, Yang Tong stopped. The political and military aspects are just like that, no different from before. But education is undoubtedly a cultural invasion, when the time comes, most of the people who study are the children of nobles from all over the world, and then only need a few years of brainwashing, the civilized and elegant Han culture will penetrate into their bone marrow, once they come out, more or less able to guide the people of all countries to have a good impression of the Great Sui.

As for the abolition of tariffs, the benefits to the Great Sui naturally outweigh the disadvantages, and the countries in the Western Regions add up to that big, how many goods can they enter the country? The Great Sui is different, there are countless merchants from all walks of life, and the taxes exempted will be astronomical. And what can the Great Sui court get? The key is the customs clearance document led by the Great Sui, the caravan with this document enjoys too many preferential policies, and nothing else, and the long-distance merchant is most afraid of safety problems, if you are unlucky, you will run into a horse thief, and you will lose your goods and money, and your life will not be guaranteed, so everyone is quite concerned about safety, and if your caravan wants to get safe, you can buy customs clearance documents from the imperial court, and even allow you to ask the coalition army to escort you all the way.

And everyone, after listening to Yang Dong's words, was in an uproar.

Not to mention the representatives outside the member countries of the 'Great Sui Silk Road Cooperation Alliance', many generals and ministers of the Great Sui were shocked.

They couldn't have imagined that in just a few days, the eccentric emperor would come up with this 'Great Sui Silk Road Cooperation Alliance'. However, seeing the calm appearance of Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shanhui and the monks, he knew that these people had already known about it.

And this is also the benefit of dictatorship, before this, Yang Jian and Yang Guang could not be so arbitrary, because each of their policies needs to take into account the interests and feelings of the Guanlong magnates, and when it comes to Yang Tong, everything no longer exists, and the current Dasui officialdom is completely a hall of words, whoever opposes Yang Dong is finished.

But Yang Tong was obviously not a reassuring emperor, and soon threw out a thunderbolt on a sunny day: "The current coins of the Great Sui only recognize Yanhuang Tongbao, and gold, silver, and brass cannot be traded, so the merchants from all over the world who come to my Great Sui to do business are generally bartering, rich in cattle, sheep, horses and leather, and the northerners exchange goods for Yanhuang Tongbao, and then purchase the goods they need; The Silla people, who are rich in ginseng and mink skins, exchange ginseng mink skins for Yanhuang Tongbao: Countries rich in gold and silver naturally exchange gold and silver for Yanhuang Tongbao. Barterers are good to say, but those who exchange gold and silver are very problematic, because my Great Sui is not allowed to privately exchange gold and silver for Yanhuang Tongbao, what is the reason? In order to prevent people from using fake money and bad money to defraud honest people and defraud merchants from various countries who don't know real money, so foreign gold merchants can only go to the government to exchange Yanhuang Tongbao, but in this way, there is a problem, that is, if all are exchanged for copper money, it is too heavy, not only inconvenient to carry, but also unsafe. In view of this, I will set up an exchange department in the border county called Qian Zhuang. For example, if you bring a hundred taels of gold, the money dealer will issue you a certificate of one hundred taels of gold, and then you can go to the money village in Luoyang to exchange it for a hundred taels of gold Yanhuang Tongbao. You keep this credential close to you, so that no one will find out that you have a lot of money on the road alone, which is easy and safe. ”

Everyone was stunned for a while, and then, the representatives of various countries were all happy, because they themselves are giant businessmen in various countries, and they naturally know the benefits of this money bank, although it is a new thing, but Yang Tong said it so bluntly, it is not difficult for everyone to understand.

"Sage Khan! The minister asked. King Yanqi arched his hand.

"Please!"

"For example, if the minister brings a thousand taels of gold, if a thousand taels voucher is issued, but you don't want to exchange it for Yanhuang Tongbao at one time, what should I do?"

"Easy!" Yang Tong said with a smile: "The voucher has two templates, yellow and silver, each with six quotas, one tael, ten taels, one hundred taels, five hundred taels, one thousand taels, and ten thousand taels!" Your 1,000 taels of gold can be exchanged for two 500 taels, or 10 100 taels of gold, or you can cross-exchange them for the equivalent of 1,000 taels. In order to prevent the person in charge of the money bank from falsifying, all vouchers are made by the imperial court and stamped with a unique seal! The person in charge of the bank only needs to fill in the name of the county where the voucher was issued, as well as the name of your country. If you can't use up so much this time, you can bring it back to your home country and use it again next time, and if you can't come, you can also give it to someone else, because the money bank only recognizes the voucher and not the person. Of course, if the gold you bring at one time reaches a certain height, you can go to Sanmi Mountain, where the Silk Road Alliance is located, to issue a special customs clearance document and ask for an escort from the coalition forces! ”

Yang Tong is not a financial professional, but the financial system of Dasui is a blank sheet of paper, no matter how he designs and paints, there will be no problem of adaptation.

There is also a problem that even if the current Great Sui has not yet been unified, it is also the first power in Asia, politically, military, cultural, and economic are all more than ten or twenty grades beyond the surrounding countries, so the economic center position in Asia can be said to be well-deserved, and in the transaction with various countries, it is properly on the trade surplus side, and the Hu merchants will purchase a lot every time they come, and buy back the rare goods that their country does not have and lack, and the value of the goods they bring is simply not enough to meet their needs. In the trade with the Great Sui, the Hu merchants were purely the side of the secondary growth, and with the emergence of luxury goods such as wine heroes and glass products, the negative growth of the Hu merchants would be further expanded, bringing more gold.

The duty-free customs clearance documents of the Silk Road Alliance concocted by Yang Tong were to encourage the merchants of the Great Sui to go abroad and plunder the wealth of various countries in groups. After all, the Silk Road is too long, too far, and there are too many insecurity factors, so the treatment of the coalition escort is not something that everyone can refuse, once the trust is established, these people will definitely exchange a large amount of gold and silver for a free guard, and then exchange for a bunch of vouchers similar to paper money, which is also a trick that Yang Tong came up with in order to quickly collect the gold of various countries for his own use.

If a country rises to become a confidant of the Great Sui in the future, it can immediately ban the circulation of certificates with its name, and the economic system of that country will collapse in an instant.

Of course, this kind of warfare with money as a weapon also needs to be built on strong military strength, otherwise, if you encounter a country with nomads as the main body, it is useless, because nomads don't care what economic system you have, they only know how to rob food, money, women, and all that can't be robbed is killed and burned...... Therefore, when the five indiscriminate, the Mongolian scimitar raged all over the world, and when the Jurchen iron hooves trampled on the Central Plains, any civilization was like a girl's membrane that would break through in the face of barbaric force.

"Thank you Sage Khan for solving your doubts, the minister understands!" King Yanqi smiled and said, "A total of 500 people came to the Great Sui this time, and they have the intention of purchasing some scarce things to return to China. This, can the minister experience the convenience of the bank? ”

"Of course you can!" Ling Jing, who was the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, got up and said with a smile: "The money village is located in the Great Sui Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the person in charge now knows the existence of gold and silver certificates. If the monarch is interested, he can exchange some vouchers with me tomorrow, and then go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to exchange them for Yanhuang Tongbao. Qianzhuang is a convenient and safe initiative, but at present, no one has used it, if the monarch becomes the first person, it will be engraved on the history books of my Great Sui, and your name and country name will be passed down for thousands of years. ”

"The matter is settled! Early tomorrow morning, I will go to the official residence to meet Ling Shangshu. King Yanqi smiled.

A good name is not just the patent of the Central Plains.

Others also did not want King Yanqi to be beautiful in front of him, and they all said that they wanted to embody Qianzhuang, and Ling Jing naturally agreed one by one.

Seeing that representatives from all parties outside the Silk Road Alliance were eager to try, Yang Tong said with a smile: "I have approved the opening of mutual markets in places bordering or close to other countries, and in the future, anyone can go to the Qianzhuang Bazaar to exchange gold and silver vouchers. At the same time, merchants in your country only need to pay taxes in the local county according to the rules to obtain customs clearance papers. You can freely enter and exit the open area of the inter-market. If you encounter danger, persecution, or threats in the territory of our Great Sui, you can seek refuge from the local government with the customs clearance documents! "These countries that are not part of the Silk Road Alliance, of course, do not enjoy tax exemption.

Turkic, Tibetan, Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and other countries are remote from the rich land of the Central Plains, and many materials are very scarce, but after the opening of the Great Sui to the mutual market, many problems can be solved!

For the Great Sui, trade was not only able to plunder their wealth, but also entangled with the interests of neighboring countries, which in a way was equivalent to tying everyone to the chariot of the Great Sui.

……

Compared with the bustle of the commercial state banquet in Ziwei City, the mansion of the right guard general at this time was deserted.

Shen Guangcheng stopped patrolling, and directly invited the pair of master and servant to go home to the study

And the gods are mysterious, so that the family and the guards are guarded outside, and no one can be allowed to come close to the range of ten zhang, not even his wife and children. Violators will be severely punished!