After the imperial court officially canonized the Xikang Kingdom, Xingtai built a mansion in Changshou Fang in the west of Chang'an City, which was the palace of the Queen of Xikang.

When Yongwang Yi arrived at the Changshou Fang, Ye Ali, the queen of Xikang, and a group of Tang Fan members had already been waiting in the gate for a long time.

"Chen Yeli, welcome His Royal Highness King Yong!"

Seeing King Yong get out of the car, Ye Ali, who was dressed in a scholar's robe, approached the front and bowed down.

When Li Tong saw this, he bent down and said with a smile: "King Xikang is my good friend, he lives in Chang'an, and he waits in the middle hall, why do you need to be so polite!" ”

Although Ye Ali is dressed as a scholar, after all, there is a difference between men and women, and Li Tong is inconvenient to walk with his arms, and his fingers can be closed at the touch of the crook of his arm.

Ye Ali also got up, standing sideways behind King Yong, only half a head shorter than Li Tong, he was already extremely tall among women, and there was a slight softness in his heroic spirit, even if he didn't say anything, it was already a pleasing picture.

"If Your Highness has a teaching, let people go and tell them, and the ministers will go and bow to the order. Before the king came to the house, the ministers dared to be disrespectful! ”

Ye Ali looked at King Yong with both eyes, and there was an undisguised joy in his eyes.

When the two were greeting, all the members of the Xikang Palace's palace also came forward to worship. Although Ye Ali, the queen of Xikang, lives in Chang'an, it is by no means just a false title, and its country and its people are a key point in the management of border affairs, so they are also fully staffed, and the personnel structure is second only to Yongwangfu.

Among them, there are both Xingtai and his selection of mansions, such as Su Yue, who served as the governor of Xikang after the expiration of his term as the governor of Chang'an County, and Tian Shaoan was also borrowed as a royal official. In addition, there are also a cadre of subordinates that Ye Ali brought with him when he entered the Tang Dynasty, as well as several officials hired in Chang'an City. Now when he went out of the house to greet him, there were twenty or thirty people.

In Chang'an City, it is not that there are no monarchs and chieftains of Fanbang who live in the guest house, but when it comes to standard treatment, it does not exceed Ye Ali's. Her own identity is not bad, and she entered the Tang Dynasty as the princess of Tubo, and now the title of Queen Xikang is operating from scratch. If it is said that there is also a difference between the fetters and the forces, Xikangguo is undoubtedly the lineage of Xingtai.

Even putting aside the intimacy, the belonging of Xikang Kingdom has also brought tangible benefits to Xingtai. In the recent World Expo alone, Xikangguo's foreign trade procurement contributed no less than 3 million yuan of trade volume, which is unrivaled among all states. This alone is worthy of Corporal Li Tong Lixian's close and preferential treatment.

Between Sichuan and Tibet, the ditches and mountains are vertical and horizontal, compared with Shuzhong and Guanzhong, it can be called a poor mountain and bad water, but this does not mean that Xikang itself has no economic value and no purchasing power.

Although most of the townships are wild and barbaric, their social structure is still in the state of tribal slave owners, and the chiefs of the tribes have absolute authority within their respective tribes, and have absolute control over the lives and property of their subjects.

The constant yield of cultivation and weaving is meager, but it is also quite impressive. Minerals such as gold and copper, dansha, yaks, pack horses and other livestock, musk, bait, salt and other goods are also highly valued commodities.

Moreover, this realm is located between the two great powers of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and the strategic location is needless to say, and the trade profits of the tea and horse trade alone should not be underestimated. In the later Tang Dynasty, the eight kingdoms of Xishan with Shengqiang as the main body rose in the mountains of western Sichuan, which grew up through war and trade.

Since the Tubo Lun clan came to power, the relationship with the Tang Dynasty has fallen to the freezing point because of the strategy and management around Tuyuhun, and the official business activities are naturally impossible, but the demand has not decreased, but has become more vigorous. At least one-third of the Shu merchants made a lot of money by smuggling tea and horse merchants.

Man's pursuit of profit is endless. The geographical situation in western Sichuan is complicated, and it is absolutely impossible to block it if you want to block it. If the imperial court can really send a large army to completely block the tea and horse trade road, then it is enough to investigate the smuggling of a fart and directly rush to the plateau to kill Tubo.

Regarding this point, Guo Yuanzhen combined his personal experience and made a very detailed report, believing that it is better to block than to sparse.

If the company continues to crack down on the tea and horse trade, not only will it not be able to ban this trade route, but it will force those smugglers to be more out of the law, making the smuggling trade even more uncontrollable. For the sake of the huge profits contained in this, it is even possible to embark on the road of armed smuggling, which will make the border situation even more severe.

Li Tong deeply agreed with this, so he supported the pro-Tang force of Xikang Women's State, as the only commercial object in the region, to squeeze the profit margin of smuggling through official commercial and trade activities.

The regular export of goods has guaranteed considerable profits, and if it is concentrated on the output of prohibited goods, it is much easier to check, after all, the source of prohibited goods itself is not out of control, and there are only so many customer groups. Stuck these two nodes, no matter how secret the passage is, even if it goes up to the sky and into the ground, once a large number of logistics movements occur, they can be found out more concisely.

The group entered the palace and boarded the hall, and Shi Suyo, the governor of the palace, first reported the delivery progress of the previous trade. Although Xikangguo bought a lot at the World Expo, it was not a direct exchange of money and goods, and most of them were converted into raw materials.

really wants a deal of money and goods, not to mention that Xikangguo can't come up with so much money at all, even if he can get it, Li Tong is not willing to do it.

The value of many things that Xikang can export is extremely high, and the focus of commerce and trade between the two sides is not the entry and exit of money and goods between each other, but the greater profit space derived from it. After communicating with each other, and then choosing other business objects based on this, the profit will be multiplied several times.

Ye Ali is in Chang'an, and he can only control state affairs remotely, and such a large outflow of goods cannot be completed in a short period of time by relying solely on his forces left in the Eastern Regions. For this point, Xingtai also fully understands that one of the important tasks of Lu Yuanfang's tenure as the governor of Yizhou is to integrate the power of private businessmen in Shuzhong. For example, Guo Wanjun, a Shu merchant who had followed Guo Yuanzhen to the inner border of Tubo, would enter and leave western Sichuan to transport all the materials of Xikang. All kinds of transportation costs incurred in this are naturally borne by Xikangguo.

After all, once these Datang products arrived in Xikang, and then sold them to the Zhou border region, the profits were also amazing. Even such a large volume of trade is simply not something that Xikang can eat. In the early years, some of the merchants in Tongbo in Shu had been integrated, and their original trade volume had also been merged.

Compared with the profits from this trade, Ye Ali was more concerned about the garrison in Longnan. Her current status as Queen Xikang is only officially recognized by the Tang Dynasty, and she is still the princess of Chizun in the Eastern Regions in Tubo, and the fiefdom of the Eastern Regions is also based on the contradiction between the Zampu royal family and the ministers of the Lun clan.

This time in trade, if a large number of Tang goods arrive in Xikang, the wealth is moving, and such an astonishing profit is enough to make Zampu and Qinling coveted, and they may put aside the previous contradictions and join forces to grab a hand.

If this kind of thing really happens, Xikang alone will definitely not be able to defend it, and it will inevitably need strong force protection. Only by going deep into the garrison can we deter both Zampu and Qinling.

"The proceeds of this trade are not yet known. But no matter how much he can collect, after deducting all kinds of expenses, Ye Li is willing to donate to His Royal Highness to strengthen the military of southern Taiwan! In the future, it will be given year by year, and it must be guaranteed that Longnan Jiawu Heng will be abundant! ”

After the members finished reporting and retreated, Ye Ali stood up again and saluted.

After Li Tong heard this, he said with a smile: "Xingtai garrison in Longnan, although it does not lose the plan to protect Xikang, but its own military plan has its own plan. King Xikang and I wish to be guests and friends for a long time, how can we be obsessed with short-term profits and heavy burdens? ”

"Before the ministers entered the Tang Dynasty, they were just a kind of evil who was persecuted by the power of the various families and struggled to survive. Only after entering the Tang Kingdom and being protected and loved by His Royal Highness did he know what it was like to be a living person. Xikang sealed the land, and he had already surrendered to His Highness, and he received this vanity, just to make Xingtai more cheap in the Eastern Regions. How much can you enjoy? If love begets greed, and even more vain schemes, and does not divide the evidence, this is the real long-term plan! ”

Speaking of this, Ye Ali raised his head and looked up at King Yong: "The minister implores His Highness not to treat him as a distant guest of the Fan State, but he can grow up in the belly of the king's sect, and his wish is enough!" Since he was born, he has been persecuted a lot, but His Royal Highness cares deeply. It's not what I wanted......"

Li Tong lowered his head and saw the sincere and enthusiastic eyes, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and sighed with nostalgia: "I was not born to be powerful, reminiscing about my predecessor, and the queen is not without meloquity, and I have a feeling of loneliness and pity." Feeling this heart, the queen can abandon everything and come to me from afar, and have such a loving entrustment, how can I bear to refuse?

But when I am alive, the queen can do everything without worry, regardless of the choice of forces, but the sympathy of those who confidant him. The same is the end of the world, I have reached first, and I have benefited people, the world is not ruthless, but I meet occasional or unsatisfactory. ”

At present, although Xikang has also received a lot of attention from Xingtai, it is still not the most important place to use Xingtai at present. Since Ye Ali entered the Tang Dynasty for more than a year, public and private affairs and Li Tong have also been in contact with him many times, in addition to appreciation, he is indeed sympathetic.

A woman is no longer tolerated by her family and country, pinning her life on an enemy country thousands of miles away, and being manipulated by human power. It seems to be honorable, but in fact, the road is getting narrower and narrower. The so-called Xikang Kingdom does give it a lot of vanity at the moment, but if the situation between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo changes in the coming year, it may be its life-threatening talisman.

Therefore, Li Tong is also willing to give her a promise that no matter whether there is a change in the business strategy around this Xikang country, he will give her a protection.

Hearing King Yong's words, Ye Ali was also in tears for a while, and bowed to the chief.