Chapter 972 is from the Liao Dynasty
Yeluja sneered in his heart, don't make money? How can it not be profitable! Now is the period of famine, the Liao Dynasty needs a lot of food, this is life-saving food, even if the price is high, you have to buy it, some clan merchants of the Liao Dynasty even opened a price of 800 Wen per stone, which is an unprecedentedly high price!
"Your Majesty, the price of my Great Liao merchant has been opened to 800 wen per stone, which is about 300 wen higher than the Great Song Dynasty, how can the merchant not make money?! I can't either, I really don't want to! ”
Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "Eight hundred wen is still not enough, I bought five hundred wen in the Great Song Dynasty because there is a court subsidy, there is a liquidation field to lower the price of grain, and there are righteous businessmen who lose money and make money, but why do I give you a subsidy for the Liao Dynasty, why do I give you a loss of money and make money?!" ”
Yelujia was speechless for a while, although what he said was the truth, but how did he feel that he was not facing the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, but the most shrewd businessman?
He Zhao Zhen can always eat people to death, sometimes he is the king of a country who is high, sometimes he is the emperor of Wulie who charges into battle, and sometimes he becomes the benevolent monarch of the world, and now he ...... Now he has become a shrewd businessman......
"According to Your Majesty's wishes, how can you sell food in the field? Your Majesty Rende will never see millions of people in my Daliao cornered and starved in the extreme cold, right? ”
Yelujia's strategy is very simple, that is, he constantly and repeatedly revolves around the topic of "benevolence", as long as he tells him the truth, he will talk to the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty about benevolence, as long as he talks to him about difficulties, he will once again sacrifice "benevolence" as a weapon of great destruction......
Benevolence is the essence of Confucianism, great benevolence and great love is the highest state of Confucianism, Confucius took "benevolence" as the highest moral principle, moral standard and moral realm, in this feudal era that has been influenced by Confucianism for thousands of years, benevolence has become the highest courtesy and glory to people.
Zhao Zhen was a little helpless, and a little excited, in front of him was sleepy to send a pillow, the Great Song Dynasty transportation of grain is not suitable, although the efficiency is amazing, but the cost is also amazing, the transportation of grain from the south to the north in this era is simply a huge project, even if there is a combination of sea transportation, water transportation, and land transportation, it also makes the cost quite huge.
Not to mention the amount of money and grain, the food eaten by the people who transport the grain is not a small expense, and these are all included in the cost, and the cost of the court is naturally high, and the cost of the court is not only to subsidize the price of grain, but also to pay for carriages and horses, forage, accommodation, and so on.
The grain merchants in the south must have made enough money, and after receiving subsidies from the imperial court, they were able to sell grain for 500 wen at a high price, which was already a lot of money, so they would work tirelessly to transport grain from the south to the entire Great Song Dynasty.
But in this way, the imperial court is losing money, and it has lost a lot, plus the cost of using troops in Western Xia and rewarding the three armies, no wonder Bao Zheng has been sparse day and night, telling Zhao Zhen that the treasury is now struggling.
Zhao Zhen looked at Bao Zheng, and then looked at Yelujia, isn't there a good opportunity to recover the cost in front of him? The person who took the plate came, the person who carried the pot came, what else did Da Song have to worry about? When you make a lot of money! How can you miss a good opportunity because of the danger of raising tigers? What's more, Da Song is a hunter armed to the teeth and is not worried about the tiger.
Zhao Zhen still has his own considerations, the current Liao Dynasty is on the verge of patience to the limit, and the Khitans without food and grass will soon become a group of hungry wolves, and the easiest way to survive is to pounce on the "prey" and bite!
The Great Song Dynasty has the ability to beat the hungry wolf, but if all the Liao people go crazy, it will be a protracted war, and the hatred between the two countries will also rise to a new height, which is the last thing Zhao Zhen wants to see at the moment, and the same Liao people don't want to see this situation happen.
That's why he lowered his stature and came to ask Da Song to increase food in the field.
Yelujia already knew that Da Liao would be "slaughtered", but the country really needed these grains, and the Queen Mother issued a strict decree that she must get back grain from the Great Song Dynasty, as long as she survives this year, the grain in the land of Hetao will be able to keep up!
And the Queen Mother said very clearly, the Great Song Dynasty also needs a period of stability, because he Zhao Zhen has just seized Western Xia, and he is moving the party items inward, and he is moving the people westward, how can he not need time? No matter how powerful the Great Song is, it is impossible to start a war with the Great Liao after destroying the Western Xia......
Zhao Zhen looked at Yelujia, and Yelujia also looked at him, the eyes of the two "flashed" with the "brilliance" of the game, Zhao Zhen believed that the queen mother of the Liao Dynasty had figured out the bottom line of the Great Song Dynasty, and the game between the two countries was just like the game between Zhao Zhen and Xiao Tzuli.
There was an eerie silence in the court, and the civil and military officials in the court stared at Zhao Zhen, and some looked at Yelujia, and the sudden silence made people can't help but want to break it out loud, but no one would do it.
Different from ordinary courtiers, the ministers of the two provinces are thinking about the deep meaning, as Zhao Zhen's former companion, Yan Shu, who became the deputy minister of the governor at a young age, naturally knows in his heart, this is afraid that it is a means for the official family to stabilize the Liao Dynasty.
"In this case, then I will add a grain in the field, but it is not allowed to be sold by merchants and pawns without permission, all of them are from the grain stockpiled by the Great Song Dynasty, and the three divisions will be the best!"
Zhao Zhen's words broke the peace in the Qianyu Palace, but it also made the imperial court explode, they didn't expect this good opportunity to beat the water dogs, the official family would actually use the imperial court's grain to go to the relief of the Liao Dynasty, you must know that even the disaster relief grain in the land of Yanyun is transported from the south, not from the treasury to meet the needs of the disaster.
These grain stocks were prepared by the officials in order to guard against the Liao people, and they could not be used, and the army relied on these grains and grass to go on the expedition, but now, the officials want to use these grain stocks to sell to the Liao people? This......
Even Yelujia couldn't think of why the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty would use the stored grain in the treasury to sell the Great Liao, he knew about the grain stored in the Great Song Dynasty, and he never had the slightest idea, because it was useless to think about it, in his opinion, these were the military rations of the Great Song Dynasty, how could they be sold?
In the face of the uproar of the Manchu Dynasty, only the third envoy Bao Zheng came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty is benevolent and benevolent!" In this way, the siege of the Liao Dynasty can be relieved! ”
Unexpectedly, Bao Zheng, the old man, was the first to understand what he meant, Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "The matter of such a negotiation will be handed over to Bao Xianggong, and you can discuss it with the Liao envoy." ”
"Obey the order!"
Bao Zheng turned his head to look at Yelujia, and saluted with his peers: "Yelu envoy, please enter the Yamen of the Three Divisions after the dispersal of the dynasty." ”
Yeluja hurriedly replied: "Dare not obey your fate!" ”
Bao Zheng smiled and nodded, looking at Yelujia's eyes were also very friendly, Chao Chinese Wu felt that Bao Zheng was too kind, but only Yelujia felt quite weird, he was originally born as a businessman, how do you think Bao Zheng's eyes are like profiteers seeing the wronged head......