At this moment, the curtain of the carriage in the middle of the convoy was lifted, and Wu Linglong poked her head out of it.

He looked at the official with a faint gaze and said.

"My name is Wu Linglong, the shopkeeper of Wanxiang Pavilion, and I am also familiar with you Song Zhixian, I don't know if this little brother can be accommodating."

"My Wanxiang Pavilion is out of business, and it's about to go out of business."

Wu Linglong made a pitiful look.

"Could it be that the little brother wants the slave family to go to Yihong Courtyard to sell themselves to pay off their debts?"

The official was slightly stunned, his face showed a pig brother, looking at the poor Wu Linglong, he didn't say anything more.

Just turned around and walked out of the city gate, taking a tacit attitude towards Wanxiang Pavilion's convoy going out of the city.

Wanxiangge's car left Anping City, and on the outskirts of Anping City, it gathered with a much larger convoy and drove to the Governor's Mansion of the Dangyu Army.

Chen Yan met Wu Linglong again in the Dadu Governor's Mansion and received the materials brought by Wu Linglong.

"I have a big business, I wonder if the Metropolitan Governor is interested?"

Wu Linglong said to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan was slightly stunned, frowned and pondered, and asked after a moment.

"What business?"

"New Year's coins! The New Year's coin given to Western Xia by the Great Song Dynasty will be escorted to Western Xia in the coming year, and it will pass through Qinzhou City on the way. ”

Wu Linglong said slowly.

Chen Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, narrowing into a dangerous arc.

A memory of the Song Dynasty's gift to the Western Xia Dynasty slowly emerged in his mind.

In fact, there were two famous peace talks between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, in addition to the "Jingde Peace Conference", there was also the "Qingli Peace Conference" during the Song Renzong period, and the content of these two peace agreements included the Song Dynasty "granted" different amounts of New Year's coins to the Western Xia.

From the time when Xia Taizu Li Jiqian completely broke with the Song Dynasty to the Jingde period, the Song and Xia have been fighting continuously for more than 20 years, and the small Western Xia gradually couldn't stand it.

Before Li Jiqian died, he instructed his son Li Deming (i.e., Xia Taizong) to end the war with the Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

In the third year of Jingde of Song Zhenzong (1006 AD), a peace agreement was reached between Song and Xia. The content includes the Song Dynasty's appointment of Li Deming as the king of Xiping and the envoy of the Dingyan Army; The Song Dynasty lifted the ban on green and white salt; The Song Dynasty gave Xixia 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk, 20,000 pieces of money, and 20,000 catties of tea every year.

This is the famous Jingde collegiate!

The Jingde collegial agreement brought a rare period of peace to the lives of the two countries, but the good times did not last long.

Li Deming gave birth to a sand sculpture son named Li Yuanhao, who abolished his vassal relationship with the Song Dynasty in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1038 AD) and proclaimed himself emperor, officially establishing the "Great Xia" state.

And also took a strange year name called "Heavenly Rite Law Yanzuo". Not only that, but they also wanted to be recognized by the Song government.

Isn't this a pen, this behavior is equivalent to a slap in the face of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, and they specially asked people to stretch the other side over.

The result can be imagined, the life and death of the two countries are downplayed, and they pinch again!

But the military power of the Song Dynasty can be imagined......

Although it is claimed that the victory rate of foreign wars is 70 percent, the foreign wars of the Song Dynasty are different from those of the Han and Tang dynasties, which refer to expeditions to the desert and take the initiative.

But the Song Dynasty's foreign war was a passive defense, which had a seemingly brilliant 70% victory rate, if he couldn't win the defense, the Song Dynasty would really be finished!

The first Song-Xia War broke out between the two countries, which lasted for three years.

Among them, the Song Dynasty was defeated in the Battle of Sanchuankou and the Battle of Haoshuichuan, and only in the Battle of Dingchuan Village did it regain some face, but the Song Dynasty paid a huge price and was considered a failure.

In the three wars, although the Song Dynasty was defeated, the Western Xia was a little more miserable!

After all, the Great Song Dynasty is rich, Lao Tzu can't beat you, and the economic blockade will kill you!

As soon as the war broke out, the Song Dynasty began to implement the Qingbai salt ban again, and the Western Xia itself was relatively poor and could not afford to fight a full-scale war.

Therefore, Li Yuanhao was instigated, and in the second year of Qingli (1042 AD), he sent his minister Li Wengui to Bianjing to sue for peace, and Song Renzong happily agreed.

In the fourth year of Qingli, the two sides formally signed a contract: Li Yuanhao canceled the emperor title and also called the lord of Xia; The Song Dynasty gave Xixia 50,000 taels of silver, 130,000 horses of silk, and 20,000 catties of tea every year, and gave 22,000 taels of silver, 23,000 horses of silk, and 10,000 catties of tea to Xixia every year.

Although it has risen a lot compared to Jingdehe and Yi, the Great Song Dynasty is really rich, and it doesn't care about such a little bit, plus it has been taught a lesson in these wars, so it can be regarded as spending money to buy peace.

As for why the Song Dynasty gave so much money to the Western Xia every year, first of all, it was because the Song Dynasty basically did not take advantage of the decades-long war between the Song and the Xia, and the barren Western Xia had to resort to continuous harassment to obtain more material security in order to make a living.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty "granted" Western Xia property to maintain peace without losing face.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a rich man and a beggar who fights, and the beggar who is barefoot is not afraid to wear shoes, no matter whether he wins or loses, the one who suffers will always be a rich man.

If you can give this beggar a little benefit, which flows from between his fingers, let him stop, and not trouble himself, the rich man is still very happy.

In this way, the Great Song Dynasty gave the Western Xia a sum of money every year to buy peace until the Northern Song Dynasty perished!

Chen Yan's thinking is divergent, during this period of time, the grievances and hatreds between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, the most unavoidable thing is the ban on green and white salt!

To put it bluntly, it was actually the Song Dynasty that imposed an economic blockade on Western Xia!

Xixia is poor, it's really poor!

Basically, the land is a desert, although there are places where grazing can be carried out, and there are places where agriculture can be developed, but it is definitely not enough to feed so many Western Xia people.

Although the land area is not small, there are really not many resources, and if you want to develop agriculture, except for the green space at the foot of those mountains, there are basically no other conditions.

But there is no endless road, and there is a salt pond in Western Xia!

Many, many salt ponds, in other words, the poor in Western Xia only had salt left.

But salt is always valuable in the Central Plains, and if the Tangut people can sell it, their lives will definitely be much better.

But the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty are not stupid, when they look at it, they think it is not good, how can it be possible to make you group of Xixia calves have a good time!

Then, the ban on green and white salt shines in!

In other words, it is forbidden to trade salt with Western Xia!

If you want the Tangut people to have salt, they can't sell it, and the poor only have salt left!

However, after the signing of the "Jingde Collegiate Agreement", the relationship between the Song and Xia countries eased, and the Western Xia wrote a letter requesting that the ban on Qingbai salt be lifted.

As soon as the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty summed it up, they felt that it was okay, after all, the idea of salt was a strategic resource, and the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty felt that they had something to earn, so they agreed.

The bilateral trade, which is dominated by green and white salt, has also begun!