The New Year is approaching, the people of Tokyo City at this time began to get busy, the more busy it has become a common phenomenon in Tokyo City, the workers of the factory have to rush to produce goods, the guys of the restaurant have to pile up smiling faces to welcome the merchants, the City of Tokyo has become the largest trading place, many foreign merchants will come to the City of Tokyo to buy goods.

The border yards can no longer meet the demand, and can only be used as a place to collect customs duties.

Eight wildernesses are contending, and all countries are not talking, Khitan people, party members, and even Tubo and Dali people gather here.

The big cart is full of goods in the Great Xiangguo Temple to trade goods, the merchants from the party have to sell all the goods and buy the goods of the Great Song Dynasty to go back, and the New Year is the best trading time!

As long as the Khitans and the party people enter the city of Tokyo, they must abide by the rules here, the carriage can only travel in the middle of the road, if you dare to cross the red fork and hit the pedestrians, sorry Kaifeng Mansion prison food guarantee you are satisfied!

For this kind of road like walking on the clouds, they are naturally envious for a long time, and they have also sent envoys to make a special trip to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for it, although the posture is low, but the appearance of not wanting a penny makes Zhao Zhen roll his eyes, really when the Great Song Dynasty is easy to bully, you can give what you want?

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty is very different from the Great Song Dynasty when Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, occupying thousands of miles of Hongzhou and Yanzhou of the party. It's good not to go to your trouble.

The Liao Dynasty was a serious dynasty, although it could not be asked for openly, the price that could be offered was also very low, with thousands of cattle and sheep, and dozens of horses......

Cattle and sheep are actually not lacking for the Great Song Dynasty, but cattle cannot be slaughtered as an important production tool for farming, but the shrewd Great Song Dynasty merchants came to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from Tufan to trade, consuming cattle!

The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty found that there were too many things that consumed cattle, and they were full of treasures!

Meat can be eaten, milk can be drunk, even manure can be dried as fuel, and the smell is not very bad, more importantly, its wool can be used for clothes or tents, and leather is a good material for tanning.

So the Song people used the tea and cotton cloth that the Tubo people needed the most to exchange, and the way of bartering was welcomed by the Tubo people, and the worthless coarse tea in the Great Song Dynasty became a treasure in the eyes of the Tubo people after being pressed into tea bricks.

It is not easy to eat beef in the Great Song Dynasty, and cattle consumption does not belong to the category of cultivating cattle in the Great Song Dynasty, so naturally no one will make it difficult for these beef merchants. The government even issued special cattle selling documents for these merchants, making the business industrial.

This also made the cattle and sheep controlled by the Dangxiang and the Liao people less important, and now the trade has become a deficit, with much more goods exported from the Great Song Dynasty than imported......

Zhao Zhen directly rejected their request in the main hall, and tactfully expressed the objective fact that your party and Khitans could not afford it.

Indeed, the construction of roads was quite expensive, and even in the Great Song Dynasty, local merchants were able to raise funds for construction, and local governments allowed them to share the money they collected, and tolls became an important source of local finance.

When local governments have money, they will naturally work harder to build their own characteristic industries, and the so-called local officials are not fools, so they naturally know what local special output value money is, and they will attract investment and development.

Porcelain from Jingdezhen is a prime example, and Haizhou's seafood products also take advantage of this

It sells well in Tokyo City and even in Liaoguo.

Driven by Cai Kee, the consumption of catering continues to promote the development of coastal areas, seafood is often easy to spoil after long-distance transportation, and the emergence of dry goods has made this embarrassing situation proudly alleviated, kelp, seaweed, fish and shrimp, scallops, etc. have become the food on the table.

Dali, Dangxiang, Tufan, Uighur and other inland areas became the object of dry goods dumping, and the umami taste of delicious seafood that swelled after encountering water immediately touched the people in these areas, from the nobles to the common people.

The only one who can compete with the Great Song Dynasty is the Liao people, but it is a pity that the Liao people are not good at making, and most of the merchants go to Tokyo City to trade, and the dry goods of the Liao people in Tokyo City are often unattended.

After several years of construction, the highway of the Great Song Dynasty has been initially formed, although it is only between the important state capitals, but such a scale is already quite remarkable, and the power of merchants is huge, and they connect the four capitals of the Great Song Dynasty.

With Tokyo Bianliang as the center, extending outward, Beijing Daimyo's Mansion, Nanjing Yingtianfu, Xijing Henan Mansion are all within the scope of the highway, the highway financing model is the most popular among businessmen and officials, businessmen get long-term benefits, officials get political achievements.

Zhao Zhen valued the strong transportation capacity brought by the road, which was exactly what the party and the Liao people were worried about.

Their merchants' eyes saw the terrifying transportation capacity of the Great Song Dynasty, a large car can carry 30 to 40 people, under the pull of the four horses, day and night, it only takes more than an hour to reach Zhengzhou Guancheng from Tokyo City, and half a day's work can reach Xijing, such a speed can be described as fast as thunder.

If the highway develops at this speed, paved to Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, it will be too much pressure for the Liao people, only a few days, the Great Song Dynasty's soldiers, horses, money and food can reach the front line, this uneasiness deeply stimulates the nerves of the Liao people, even Zhang Jian, the official residence of the left prime minister, personally participated in this year's mission to the Great Song Dynasty.

He was struck by the capacity of the road to transport.

In the Liao Dynasty Capital Pavilion on the South Gate Street, Zhang Jian sat on the top and frowned slightly, the Liao people below were already arguing, for them, the Song Dynasty emperor's refusal of the Liao people's request was simply a sheep's rejection of the Tiger King!

But Zhang Jian knew that the Great Song Dynasty at this time was no longer a sheep, if he had to say it, he was a wolf in sheep's clothing!

The official family of the Great Song Dynasty was not the Emperor Zhenzong of the year, although he was known as benevolent, but his benevolence would only be suspicious of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and it could be seen from the use of troops by the Great Song Dynasty against the party.

The Great Song Dynasty's Western Expedition not only gave the party a heavy blow, but even the Liao Dynasty was shaken, Zhang Jian didn't believe all this at first, until the Liao Dynasty's spies sent back the news, he gradually believed that the Great Song Dynasty's military had made great progress.

The Khitan warriors below were still shouting for the threat of force, the nerves on Zhang Jian's head kept beating, and a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman beside him gently picked up the tea bowl and said: "The temperament of the Khitan people is like this, the natural bravery, as if the blood and qi are inexhaustible, Prime Minister Zhang Cheng should not be surprised!" ”

Zhang Jian squeezed out a wry smile and said: "King Han still has kung fu jokes, the strong army of the Great Song Dynasty is in front of him, and it is really ...... to say what Bing Feng pointed out at this time."

Xiao Hui said with a smile: "This is the characteristic of my Khitans, the bloody thing cannot be lost at any time, even if it is faced with several times our strength, we have to fight!" If you don't even have this bit of courage, how can you compete with the Great Song Dynasty, when my Emperor Taizu of Daliao was set to go to Beijing with one arrow, how could he do it without such courage? ”

Zhang Jian said nothing, these Khitans are still Khitans after all, and the idea of bravery in their minds can't fade......