"Don't worry, the Holy Queen won't kill me, at least not for the time being."

After saying this, Wu Ning didn't want to dwell on this issue anymore, "Where did you go?" ”

Taiping thought for a moment, "Encourage the maritime merchant to finish." ”

"It should be...... In the way of feudal merchants, it should be tightly put in the east and west. ”

"Why is that?" Taiping looked puzzled, "Tighten the east and put the west?" Could it be that the trade of the feudal merchants at sea was strict and heavy, while the merchants who came by land from the Western Regions treated them differently? ”

Wu Ning nodded, "Exactly." ”

"But in this way, the profits of the feudal merchants from the sea were reduced, and they were forced to come to Tang by land. In that case, wouldn't the tax revenue of the imperial court be reduced? ”

"On the surface, it looks like this." Wu Ning took the key points extracted from the book and explained it to Taiping.

"But in fact, because of the geographical relationship, some foreign merchants have to go to sea, and they have no choice."

"The relaxed policy of the Western Regions only forced those merchants who could come to Tang by land to take the Silk Road to trade."

"Moreover, once the Tang maritime merchants occupy the sea route, the land route will become the best choice for the foreign merchants to enter the Tang Dynasty."

"I don't understand." Taiping leaned lazily against the wall, "If the merchants from the Western Regions also collect heavy taxes, wouldn't the Datang fiscal taxes be higher?" Why this extra move? ”

"I can teach you if I don't understand." Wu Ning was quite patient, pointed to the paper and said, "If you say that the increase in finance and taxes is more important than the stability of the Western Regions?" ”

"Oh??"

Taiping was a little interested, "It seems that stability is more important." ”

"That's right!"

It is the most important thing for Datang to make the Silk Road more prosperous and to connect the countries of the Western Regions and Datang more closely with commercial means.

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"Tighten the East and Let the West ???"

The old lady Wu, who was thousands of miles away, also thought about such a sentence.

The old lady seemed to understand Wu Ning's intentions a little, but she couldn't grasp it accurately, so she quickly took out the next piece of paper from the box.

“......”

As a result, the old lady was confused, "What kind of trick is this??? ”

I saw that on the paper, there was a mess of ink lines that she couldn't understand.

Well, it's called a graph.

Wu Ning regards the passage of time as the x-axis and the amount of silver as the y-axis.

Then, the trade quota between the Tang Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions in the past 60 years, as well as the amount of goods lost by the border states when there were conflicts and looting, was made into a hyperbolic chart.

This thing is the first time Mrs. Wu has seen it, how can she understand it at once.

However, after Wu Ning's subtle explanation, coupled with her outstanding talent, Mrs. Wu quickly discovered the clues.

She found that the line representing trade, once it reached a high trend, the line representing border friction and barbarian raids would move very low.

Even in the later period of Zhenguan, when the trade routes of the Western Regions were prosperous, there were almost no wars on the border.

On the other hand, once there was a disaster in the Western Regions and Tibet in recent years, or trade was reduced, the two lines were reversed.

"That's fun!"

Old Lady Wu groaned, "He wants to say that because of the war, trade has decreased?" ”

However, the meaning conveyed by Wu Ning in this picture does not seem to be entirely like this.

What he wants to say is, these two lines are, are they complementary? War will inevitably block trade, but trade may also reduce war.

Now the old lady understands Wu Ning's meaning of "tightening the east and letting go of the west".

To put it bluntly, survival is the most important thing. If you can survive, no one will like to be the enemy of the strongest Tang Dynasty in the world.

This is not Wuhu entering China, let alone the Great Song Dynasty of later generations, they all come and go as soon as they want.

Datang is used to your problem?

I can really chase down your grandmother's house and dig up all the ancestral graves for you.

Wu Ning wanted to tell Wu Zetian through this map that if the trade in the Western Regions could continue to flourish, and the countries in the Western Regions would benefit from it and sustain their survival, then the war investment in the entire western region would inevitably decrease. Even if someone wants to destroy this prosperity, they don't need Datang to make a move, and the countries of the Western Regions will attack it en masse.

This is much lower than the cost of chasing people to someone's grandmother's house and digging up the ancestral grave.

"Well, that's good!!"

Wu Zetian was quite satisfied with this suggestion, if the Western Regions and the Tibetan countries could be stabilized, then the Tang Dynasty would not need to invest a large number of troops in the west, and then shift its strategic focus to the Khitan in the north.

For this reason alone, the importance of this suggestion is more popular with Wu Zetian than maritime trade.

......

However, in addition to rejoicing, Wu Zetian was also deeply shocked by Wu Ning's talent, such a demon, can he be allowed to grow savagely among the people?

Looking at the box where she had only seen a little bit.

If she didn't have this box, she could have been paying attention to it and ignoring it as she has done for the past ten years. Because this uncle and nephew has extraordinary significance to Wu Zetian, and even has great use.

But now......

"Kuro, Kuro! How do you let me keep you!? ”

Wu Zetian had already made up his mind at this time, and after reading this recital, even if he didn't kill Wu Ning, he would be taken captive and sent to the Eastern Capital to be kept in solitary confinement.

......

"Holy Queen!"

A light call beside him pulled Wu Zetian back from his contemplation, and when he looked up, it was Shangguan Wan'er who had been serving aside.

"Holy Queen, it's late at night, rest!"

Wu Zetian realized that it had already darkened, and rubbed his swollen eyebrows.

"Tomorrow, Wan'er and Fangzhou will go to a secret letter, secretly take strict care of Wu Jiulang, and after Taiping returns to Beijing, he will be secretly sent back to Beijing!"

“......”

Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment, and blurted out, "The Holy Queen finally ......"

"Finally what?" Wu Zetian asked rhetorically, "Do you want to say that you are finally no longer soft-hearted and benevolent?" ”

"Wan'er doesn't dare!"

"Whew." Old Lady Wu let out a long breath, picked up a piece of newspaper from the box again, leaned over and looked at it, "Wan'er is not yet a weapon, she will not understand." It's not kindness, it's just a last resort. ”

Raising his head slightly, "If it is not a last resort, I will still keep that pair of uncles and nephews until the day the truth is revealed!" ”

"Holy Queen!" Shangguan Wan'er picked up the newspapers scattered everywhere and said, "The Holy Queen still can't forget the old case?" ”

"It's not that you can't forget, it's that you can't forget!"

"It's a pity that ......," he looked down at the report, "but now he has to take this child down, and he can't see the day when the truth will be revealed." ”

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A report, Wu Zetian read it for seven days.

For seven days, the old lady did not go to court, did not see the foreign ministers, except for eating and sleeping, she held the box and studied carefully.

The more she looked down, the more frightened Mrs. Wu became, if it weren't for the fact that it was in front of her, she really couldn't believe that it was from the hand of a sixteen-year-old boy.

I couldn't believe that Helan Minzhi could actually teach Wu Ning to such a terrifying level.

The more I looked down, the more I felt that Wu Ning could not stay, and the old lady had even moved to kill.

Finally saw the last page, but Wu Zetian was stunned, followed by a panic, then a thunderstorm, and finally ......

"Where is Shangguan Wan'er!? Report to the state, keep that bastard ......"

"Leave it !! for now"

The last sentence, "Survive for the time being", the old lady roared out with a trill.

Gritted teeth, hideous face:

"Wu Ning ......"

"Sooner or later, I'll kill you!!"

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