Zhou Nan couldn't help but be a little overjoyed, Han Cunyi's unintentional words made Zhou Nan figure it out at once!

Now Yanjing is just the two administrative divisions of Nanjing Road and Pingzhou Road in the Liao State before, with the economic strength of the entire Liao State in the old days, it was not able to compete with the Great Song Dynasty, and now only Yanjing and Pingzhou are left, and it is only difficult to make money in the border cities, although Han Cunyi also proposed some methods just now.

However, these measures can only be said to be implemented for a long time, so that we can see the situation of making money in the border market. In a short period of time, there is only one way, and it is also the advantage that Yanjing has now. That is to take advantage of geographical conditions to be a middleman in the economic exchanges between the northern tribes, countries and the Great Song Dynasty!

It is said to be a way, if you go into more detail, in fact, there are two first, the first is to be a middleman to earn the difference; Second, if the Great Song Dynasty and these tribes in the north and the Jin Kingdom (of course, it is mainly the Jin Kingdom, hehe!) Merchants who don't want to go through Yanjing can be middlemen. Then pay the tariff, as for the tariff, of course, you can't do the thing of killing chickens and taking eggs, you have to go through the long stream!

In a word, the merchants in Yanjing are middlemen, and they also collect some taxes appropriately, so that the government and the common people have income; If there are no merchants in Yanjing to participate in the transaction, then the tariff will be doubled, not only to pluck the goose, but also to trickle the water.

It is the so-called backing the mountain to eat the mountain. Needless to say, Tongzhou to the east of Yanjing, Wuqing to the west of Pingzhou, Jizhou area, from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty in history, because of the gathering of merchants from the north and south, with the canal and maritime trade, every year millions of stone grain, rice, silk, tea sugar and other large quantities of materials from Jianghuai to Yanjing through the canal, making this area rise rapidly.

The Western Xia Kingdom is also a small area, but because of the advantages of being located on the "Silk Road" on the road, it is connected to the Great Food Kingdom and the Xizhou Uighurs in the west, and the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, and the Great Song Dynasty in the east. It can be seen that in terms of transit tariffs, the Western Xia State has taken the lead.

Of course, in order to successfully implement one's own strategy, the guarantee of force is indispensable. If the fist is not hard enough, it will definitely be snatched by others. For this, Zhou Nan is still confident.

It's just that Yanjing and Pingzhou can control, and it's only the range from Taihang Mountain to Yingzhou. Now to the north of Yanjing, after Yanshan, it is the territory of the Jin Kingdom. The rest are the sparsely populated tribes of the Divination in the northwest. The merchants of the Jin State were only Yanjing, and they could also take a boat to the Great Song Dynasty from the sea, or set out from Zhongjing in the Liao State and reach the Song Realm from the Hedong Road west of the Taihang Mountain to trade with the Great Song people.

It seems that there is still a lot to be done to realize your vision. First of all, it is necessary to establish a naval army, and the Liao people have been able to build sea ships, so there is no need to worry about this. Build enough warships, use explosive arrows and magic cars, and cooperate with the warships on the sea, it is enough to blockade the Bohai Bay. Once the Bohai Bay is blocked, it will completely cut off the route for the Jin people to go south from the sea and trade with the Great Song people.

Then send troops to the west through the Taihang Mountain, looking for opportunities to seize the three passes of Yanmen, Ningwu, and Yaotou, not to say that it is Gongwei Taiyuan, but only to cut off the north-south traffic, block the economic exchanges between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin people, so as to implement their own transit tariff strategy. Yanmen and other passes are the territory of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and they sent troops to snatch them back from the hands of the Jin people, but I am afraid that Zhao Ji will reward himself. As for the Jin people, retaking back the Shanhe Prefecture and County, which belonged to the Han people, from them, he would not have a trace of guilt. If you let yourself go to seize Taiyuan, Daimyo and other state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty, you really can't do it. In order to make money, I went to innocent wars and killed people, and I really couldn't do it myself.

When his army controls the Bohai Sea in the east and the Yanmen area in the west, it is vast for thousands of miles, cutting off the two "difficult brothers" of the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, and even the Goryeo Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty are also isolated, and at that time, the Jin Kingdom and the Goryeo Kingdom will only come to Yanjing to buy the goods they need.

The Great Song Dynasty is not much better, and the agricultural economy, after all, cannot produce leather goods and the like. Besides, he didn't want to rob them, he just asked them to pay taxes, and after paying taxes, Da Song also made money.

Now he only needs to return to Yanjing and rush directly to Yingzhou by the sea, where he will gather shipbuilding craftsmen to build warships, and at the same time recruit sailors to form an invincible fleet at sea, so that the undefeated battle flag of the Wansheng Army will fly to the sea.

"If the Great Song Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, as well as the northern Divination people and other tribes, all come to Yanjing to trade, or we will be the Zhongren, do you think this trade can be done?" Zhou Nan couldn't help but ask Han Cunyi with a smile.

"Naturally, I made money lying down." Han Cunyi said casually.

"If there are many people who come to Yanjing to trade and sell, where is the best place to trade?" Zhou Nan couldn't help but start thinking about the place of trading in the future.

"Where? Naturally, it is the north of the city, the horse market, and the three streets and six markets in the city! Han Cunyi didn't react for a while, thinking that Zhou Nan didn't know about the market in Yanjing City.

"What if the three streets, six markets, and horse markets are not enough?" Zhou Nan asked with a smile.

"If it's really as the horse said, then it's worth building another city!" Han Cunyi thought of what Zhou Nan asked just now, and finally understood, "Do you want to set up a field near Yanjing?" Attracting merchants from all over the world? ”

"Almost!" Zhou Nan said vaguely that he already had a plan, in Tongxian County, east of Yanjing City, according to the Empress Dowager Xiao River dug by the order of the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State, build a border city.

This border city is close to Yanjing and close to the canal, which can communicate the five major water systems of the Haihe River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River and the Qiantang River from the waterway. In this way, it is convenient for merchants to travel between the two cities, and it is also convenient for goods to be transported to various places.

Moreover, the increase of goods has greatly promoted the widening and dredging of the canal waterway, so that all parts south of the canal, along both sides of the river have also been driven, instead of like now, the Xianghe River and Wuqing area are all desolate, and there are puddles and rivers everywhere, wasting that piece of land in vain.

"The leather goods you delivered a few days ago, but have you already made a move?" Zhou Nan had a general idea of the future transit tax collection, so he asked about agreeing to Cai You.

"Those leather goods were just transported and prepared, and when she came, the princess also instructed that in recent days, the supply has been cut off with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, so she didn't dare to make a move, and they were all stored in the warehouse." Han Cunyi explained.

"Why are supplies cut off these days?" Zhou Nan asked puzzled.

"The princess said that this time the concubine went to Bianjing, she would definitely talk to the Song emperor about the border city, and she would always let the Song emperor know that I came out of the Great Liao and also had the products that the Great Song Dynasty urgently needed, so that the concubine and the Song emperor could easily negotiate, at least they would not have to suffer from his idleness."

"The princess has a heart." Zhou Nan couldn't help but think of Yu Liyan's pink and bright face in his heart, but Yu Liyan was thousands of miles away, but he missed it in vain, and Zhou Nan said again, "The wife and brother of Cai Shu in the Song Dynasty are engaged in leather goods, can you give him some leather goods there?" ”

"But it's up to the horses. The princess said that there are only more than 30,000 pieces of leather goods, as long as the horses are useful, they can be given away for nothing. Han Cunyi said dryly.

"There is no need to give him away in vain, but he said that he has also received it at a higher place than before. In that case, I'll ask him to send someone to contact you another day. It is he who is begging us now, and the money should be earned. Zhou Nan told Han Cunyi that he was afraid that Han Cunyi would really give more than 30,000 skins to Cai You's wife and brother.

When Zhou Nan asked Han Cunyi's address, he asked Han Cunyi to go back with the deputy capital. Thinking about the transit tariffs and the border city, Zhou Nan was extremely excited, and he wanted to write to Yu Liyan immediately and tell her these two major events in detail.

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