Chapter 786: Shen Kuo's Diplomacy

The Great Song Dynasty government will certainly not be more black-hearted than the smugglers who lick the blood with knives, so the two countries will inevitably get even greater economic benefits than before in the exchange.

But in the same way, the scale of trade that the Great Song Dynasty government was able to organize was not a little bit of a fight by smugglers.

So to put it bluntly, this is the most naked economic aggression, but in view of the fact that the two countries are still very backward, this kind of aggression has brought great benefits to the two countries.

In this kind of trade, the Great Song Dynasty will greatly strengthen its control over the two countries, making them a dumping ground for commodities, and it will also carefully control the surplus, and first have to support the two small countries to increase their people's sense of happiness and belonging, and increase their consumption power, otherwise they will not be able to exploit if they want to.

That's the nature of the matter, and that's why the two countries are grateful to Dade.

Su oil is so bitter, not only have to worry about the country, but also have to worry about overseas, to do business, you have to train trading partners first, it's a hell.

Ping Zhengsheng didn't plan to go home, he was just bored and ran to deliver the letter, and handed Shao Bowen's letter: "Mr. Shao said that Ryukyu also has such a request. ”

Ping Zhengsheng is now Shao Bowen's brainless fan, who is Shao Bowen? Without the help of science and technology, they are all characters who know astronomy and geography, and five out of ten fortune tellers on the street in later generations have his signboard!

Fooling a simple Japanese boy who dreams of making a career like Momotaro doesn't even have to open his mouth a few times.

Momotaro...... Su You felt that his nose was a little itchy, and the family crest of the Ping family turned into a butterfly and stopped on the peach.

When I opened the letter, it had been sent from Maluka two months earlier, and it was here that the expedition and the merchant fleet parted ways, recruited the local natives, and sailed southwest along the archipelago.

The research ship was loaded with a large number of provisions, medicines, weapons and ammunition, fishing nets, ropes, construction tools, various precision instruments, including sextants, compasses, huge telescopes, and even a state-of-the-art marine clock.

In addition, it is equipped with a large number of goods for good relations with local indigenous people.

The flotilla was staffed with fifty people, including sailors, charcoal painters, astronomers, mineralogists, experienced old farmers, doctors, accountants, statisticians,...... They are from Si Tianjian, Sitong Trading Company, Hanlin Temple, and Taichang Temple.

There are even two reporters from "Chao Bao" and "Liangzhe Xinbao".

The requirements are very high, and everyone must be a good at one specialty and multiple skills to be eligible to board the ship.

Although Shao Bowen is young, he is the head of this voyage, because this baby is an all-rounder trained by Su Song, Chen Zhaoming, and Su You.

I can't do it with my hands, but I have a good brain.

In the letter, Shao Bowen was full of confidence in the voyage, saying that he had found a large bag of starch extracted from the heart of a palm crop, among the crops used by the locals for food, in addition to potatoes and taro.

There is also coconut, according to the method taught by the teacher, it can be easily extracted from a beautiful oil - coconut oil.

The local method of coconut oil is obtained by Su You from a biography of a local entrepreneur in Bashu in later generations, Nawa and his girlfriend once played on a desert island for 50 days, and finally performed half of the history of Chinese civilization.

Su You felt that if Li Erpi in that ravine crossed over, he might not do any worse than himself.

It's a pity that I have already crossed, and I lost it when I met such a master, it's a pity......

In short, with the ability to obtain starch and oil from the local area, plus fish protein, life can basically be sustainable, which is the source of Shaw's confidence.

The letter also said that I heard from the guide that there are cannibals and headhunters in the local area, and they have a slight headache, and the rest seem to be okay for now.

The starry sky is obviously different from that of the Northern Hemisphere, but the fleet is moving, there is no fixed observation, only the general constellation is divided, and the latest star map is attached to the letter.

This was the end of the letter, and Ping Zhengsheng asked, "When did Mr. Xiao Shao say when will he come back?" ”

Su You smashed his mouth: "Simi Lu, a good thing...... Yes? I don't know, the general will be outside, the king's order will not be affected, and he will not necessarily listen to my words. ”

Ping Zhengsheng was stupid: "Then when will we go back to Japan to catch ghosts?" ”

Su You patted him on the shoulder: "Pingwa, ghosts are all grown in people's hearts, and if you want to catch ghosts, you have to drive them out of people's hearts." Wait, it's not too late. ”

Ping Zhengsheng: "......"

Bianjing, Shen Kuo is finally back.

This baby was originally sent by Zhao Ji to inspect Hebei, but the Liao State sent Xiao Xi to negotiate the ownership of the land of Huangwei in Hedong, and Zhao Ji ordered Han Ji to be responsible for the reception, and the two sides often argued until late at night.

Xiao Xi insisted on taking the watershed of Huangwei Mountain as the border between the two countries, but Lai refused to resign at the embassy and told Zhao Ji: "We must meet our requirements before we go back." ”

Zhao Ji had no choice but to call Shen Kuo back, you are one of the top map experts in the Great Song Dynasty, and you joined the negotiation delegation.

Shen Kuo did not start with the map, but went to the Privy Council to check the old documents, gathered the documents of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State to negotiate the territory over the years, and finally found that the Song-Liao border has always been demarcated by the ancient Great Wall!

Now the Huangwei Mountain that the two countries are fighting for is more than 30 miles south of the Great Wall, which is completely unreasonable.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed and praised Shen Kuo and said: "The minister does not investigate the essence and mistakes the state affairs. ”

So he ordered Shen Kuo to draw a picture and show it to Xiao Xi, and Xiao Xi finally had nothing to say.

Seeing that things were progressing, Zhao Ji simply didn't bother the two lords with anything, and gave Shen Kuo a thousand taels of platinum, and asked him to send an envoy to the Liao State to express the opinions of the Great Song Dynasty to the high-level of the Liao State.

After Shen Kuo arrived in Liao, Yang Zunqiao, the privy deputy envoy of Liao, was in charge of contacting him, and Shen Kuo had made full preparations beforehand, and asked his entourage to recite a few of the dozens of lawsuits over the years.

At this time, Yang Zunqiao asked, Shen Kuo only needed a look, and an attaché came out to answer with a document.

It is too much to expect the Liao State to properly keep the documents like the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Zunqiao was furious after returning to the Privy Council, and the document left in his own country could not be found!

So I could only check it repeatedly, and the results showed that Da Song's answers were consistent. Yang Zunqiao couldn't deal with it, so he had to play tricks like Xiao Xi: "The land is so cherished for miles, and he is reluctant to give it to us, but he is willing to abandon the alliance between the two countries, okay?" I'm afraid it will be detrimental to your country......"

Shen Kuo replied: "The teacher is straight and strong, and the song is old." Today, the Liao State has abandoned the great faith of your country's ancestors and used its own people with power, which may not be unfavorable to our dynasty, but only to your country. ”

The talks were held six times before and after, Shen Kuo was justified each time, and the Liao State was unreasonable, so he had to give up Huangwei Mountain, and please take the Tianchi further north as the national boundary, and Shen Kuo returned with the intention of the Liao State.

This baby inherited the fine tradition of the Su Song brothers, and along the way, he blatantly measured the geography of the Liao country, and drew the mountains and rivers in a dangerous and easy way, but the Liao people didn't care!

Well, it's not that I don't care, I checked it a few times in the middle, Shen Kuo opened the record album, and it was full of strange numbers, so I really couldn't understand it!

It's not that it doesn't matter, it's that it can't be managed!

That's even cooler, Shen Kuo became more and more unscrupulous, and finally even directly sent an entourage to inspect the folk customs and folk customs all the way, the people's feelings, the scale of the local economy, and finally even the number of garrisons.

The team was getting slower and slower, and the Liao people couldn't stand it anymore, so they sent two cavalry to clamp the Great Song delegation and "send it out of the country".

After returning to the Great Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo immediately went to Si Tianjian and drew the "Khitan Map", and used wood ash clay to imitate the sand table method to make a topographic map of the mountains and rivers of Liao.

Zhao Ji issued an edict to worship Shen Kuo, a bachelor of Hanlin, and the three envoys of Quan.

When Su You received the news, he couldn't be happy, and said to Zhang Dian: "If all the diplomatic envoys of the Great Song Dynasty are as shameless as Shen Cunzhong, then I will rest assured." ”

In March, Shen Qi, the governor of Guizhou, planned to take Jiaozhi, claiming to be under the secret order of Zhao Xuan, and sent officials to collect Tuding in Xitong as a bodyguard, and gave him a formation map, so that he could still practice when he was old.

Then he ordered people to use the pretext of supervising the transportation of sea salt to gather boat masters and educate water warfare. The author of trade with the state and county, everything is prohibited.

Zhang Fangping used the Xuanhui North Courtyard to make a trip to Qingzhou, before leaving, the emperor asked Fang Ping to take the ancestral imperial strategy, Zhang Fangping replied: "In recent years, the border ministers have built a pioneering proposal, and they are all people who are lucky enough to take risks, and they want to try to throw the safety of the world." If it succeeds, it will benefit, and if it is not successful, His Majesty will let it suffer, and you can't listen to it. ”

pointed out that Shen Qi's method is a bluff to startle the snake, and there may be problems.