The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

This is a very common beautiful scenery in the northern steppes of Saibei today.

There were no wars, no fighting, even tribal conflicts disappeared, and the prairie entered a period of peace that had not been seen for many years. This is the luck of the nomads of the steppe, and it is also the luck of the people of the Central Plains!

Because the peace of the grassland today is closely related to the efforts of the Central Plains Dynasty for many years.

When peace really came to the grassland, many people really felt the influence of the imperial court on the various tribes of the grassland.

It's deep, really deep!

Because the grassland today is very different from the grassland of previous years.

At the beginning of the Liaojin War, both sides ignored the grassland, even after the Jurchens bulldozed the Khitan, they also paid more attention to the Central Plains, and ignored the grassland.

As long as the steppe tribes can 'keep to themselves', they will also turn a blind eye.

Perhaps for the Jurchens, the war between the various tribes of the grassland is an opportunity to weaken the tribes of the grassland.

So much so that in those years, the tribes on the northern steppe of Saibei killed and plundered each other, stretching for thousands of miles from the south of the desert to the north of the desert.

However, the leaders of the tribe and the nobles had a hard time, and the life of the low-level herdsmen was even more precarious.

Not only did they have to fend off the enemy on the battlefield, but they also had to be oppressed and exploited by the nobles above. It is not only human lives that are consumed in war, but also the strength of entire tribes - such as war horses, such as livestock.

The nobles can still have enough to eat, but what about the herdsmen at the bottom? It's really a luxury to even fill your stomach.

In the winter, and then encountered a heavy snow and white disaster, I don't know how many tribes disappeared into the vast white snow in those years......

Think about the lives of the tribes on the steppe today.

The aristocrats, one by one, have a luxurious tent, there is wine, meat, tea, as well as the big fish in the sea, the fruits, vegetables, grains and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, even if the fish and meat are pickled or dried, the melons and fruits are only dried fruits, but this kind of luxury, that is the grassland nobles have never had in the next five hundred years.

Some of the leaders of the big clans even had cooks hired from the Central Plains, as well as medical officers sent by the imperial court!

What a luxury?

As for the ordinary tribal people, the food is naturally not as good as that of the aristocratic heads, but there is no problem with food and clothing, and they can even improve their lives every once in a while.

Their dairy products and horns, tendons, skins, dried jerky, and wool and cashmere can all be bought at good prices in the trade zone!

The imperial court opened a trade zone at the junction of many grasslands and plains, which was different from the previous one, and the trade freedom between the two sides was completely unstoppable, whether it was a seller or a buyer.

The cows, sheep skins and animal skins that are not worth anything on the grassland can be exchanged for a lot of daily necessities when they are brought to the trade area.

Cheese and wool cashmere are also expensive.

No tribe did their own wool spinning, because only one (plush) washing was a big problem that they couldn't solve.

Today's grassland tribes can produce their own textiles, which are still fishy felt.

So, using their own wool, cashmere and leather to exchange cloth in the trade area is what every tribe is doing.

Whether it is expensive silk and satin, muslin and cotton, whose prices have been reduced, or coarse linen, these textiles from the Central Plains are rapidly plundering the market of the entire Saiwai grassland.

At the same time, a large number of compressed military rations and a large number of tea bricks were imported by the Central Plains, as well as iron pots!

Since the military dry food entered the grassland area, it has become a necessity for the relief of the grassland tribes in the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Small size, hungry and hungry, low price, and easy to transport. In the eyes of the people of the steppe, this thing is all merit.

And what about the Central Plains side about reducing the output of military rations? It's also increasing day by day.

Against the backdrop of the deepening development of the South Seas and the influx of large quantities of South Sea rice and a large amount of fish from the sea into the Central Plains, the cost of compressed military rations has not only not become larger, but has become even smaller.

All the tribes of the grassland like this thing, and if they have a certain market, it represents a certain benefit. As long as there is money to be made, there will naturally be someone to do it!

As for the tea brick tea, drinking tea relieves oiliness and clears the stomach, which is a truth that the Uighurs and Khitans understood very early.

It's not that the grassland tribes don't understand the benefits of tea, but when the Khitans were in power, they simply didn't have a way to get it in large quantities.

Now the Central Plains is not only open for sales, but also specializes in the production of relatively low-cost tea bricks, so that the popularity of tea has expanded from the high-level nobles of various tribes to the middle and grass-roots levels.

Let's not talk about the level of profits, let's just say that after millions of grassland people became infected with the habit of drinking tea, there was one more check and balance for them in the Central Plains.

And the last iron pot is an invincible weapon that has been proven by history!

In the Ming Dynasty of the original time and space, didn't the Mongols fight with the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years just for a pot?

Although this rumor inevitably has a bit of a laughing taste, the reality is that once the iron pot was popularized on the grassland, it really spread as quickly as the wind on the grassland.

Cooking for daily use, up and down are all wonders!

It is precisely because of the increasing bilateral trade that the people of the grassland and the various departments of the grassland are becoming more and more prosperous. And the Central Plains' control and influence on it have also deepened.

Especially the tribes close to Yinshan, because they are closer to the trade area, regardless of size, they are all very wealthy. Because they not only sold the materials of their own tribes, but also went deep into the grasslands every time and became second-class traffickers.

There are also ethnic groups close to those cities on the grassland-those cities built by the Liao people on the prairie, which are now the garrisons of the Song army, and they are also the first to get the moon near the water.

Therefore, no nomadic tribe dares to have a different heart, and no one dares to easily destroy the current environment.

In today's grassland, this is the general trend.

Zhao Song pacified the tribes of the grassland, from near to far, just like that snowball, rolling bigger and bigger. Now not to say that the overall situation has been decided, it is also the general trend.

Perhaps some of the clan leaders are still suspicious of each other, just trying to lurk their minions for the time being, waiting for the time to come.

But in another ten or twenty years, when the economic intrusion of the Central Plains into the various parts of the grassland is more thorough, when the people of the grassland have become accustomed to eating, drinking, clothing, and food, and are accustomed to the rich and stable living environment brought about by bilateral trade, will they just want to jump back and jump back?

This is a foresight ahead of the times!

This is the inevitable vision of a traverser.

However, the steppe barbarians of the same era, no matter how clever they were, would not have thought of this.

The 'peaceful' living environment also attracted Buddha and Tao to the prairie.

Zhao Gou did not suppress Buddhism, because he felt that the spread of Buddhism in the prairie would be more reliable than Taoism. After all, history has proven this.

Even if the Buddhism that entered the steppe was dominated by Central Plains Buddhism, Tantra was only a small minority.

The latter is mainly from the heritage of the Khitan and Dangxiang people.

Although Zhao Gou is impatient to see them, it is not good to make people's bodies disappear, right?

And he knew very well where Buddhism, which was once prevalent on the prairie, came from!

Zhao Gou did not have much confidence in the success of the spread of Han Buddhism on the grasslands. It's okay to add a little tantra to Chinese Buddhism!

It's just that the Tantra at this time is not the Tantra of the Manchu Dynasty in the original time and space, and the difference between the two is still very large.

Whether they can succeed on the prairie or not, Zhao Gou has no idea at all.

What's more, there is also Taoism in this. These fairy brothers are the state religion of Zhao Song.

Learn about Lin Lingsu's great achievements, and everyone knows Zhao Xuanlang's identity!

Now that a swarm of bees are coming to the prairie, what will be the result? Zhao Gou didn't know.

It's just that with the intention of hitting a pole with and without dates, he still contributed to the large-scale northward movement of Buddhism and Taoism. And allocated a sum of money to build temples and Taoist temples for monks and Taoist priests who went north.