Xuanzheng Palace.

"Your Majesty, the Tibetan delegation has arrived in Luoyang at noon, and the party has been arranged by Honglu Temple in Xicheng."

Emperor Luo Cheng didn't raise his head when he heard this, still looking at a list of goods from the merchant group of the Fulin Kingdom and the Persian State in front of him.

"These Tubo people, this way can really walk, a walk is a few months, early or late, just in time to arrive in Luoyang City on the second day of the first month, you say, they didn't deliberately get stuck?"

Li Xiandao, the commander of the Imperial City Division, said, "According to the normal itinerary, they should have arrived in Luoyang a year ago, but they were delayed for a long time in Chang'an and other places, and it was indeed a deliberate delay to the Zhengdan Imperial Meeting." ”

Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, is the great ceremonial ceremony of the Great Qin Dynasty, on this day all over the court envoys worship the Son of Heaven, at the same time the envoys of the Quartet, the princes from all over the country also have to congratulate together.

But the envoys of Tubo missed the Zhengdan court, you said they missed it, but they arrived in Luoyang in the second year of junior high school, and they missed that day.

Over there, he wrote a surrender table to Emperor Daqin, claiming to be a vassal and willing to be a minister of Daqin, but on the other hand, he deliberately stuck a little bit and did not participate in the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, and the behavior of the Tubo people made Luo Cheng not know how to evaluate it.

"In the end, the Tubo people are still not convinced, they are not really defeated in the hands of our Qin army, so although they retreated to the plateau and kissed the princess, they still think that they did not lose in our hands last time." The emperor stroked his short beard.

"Sage, but Tubo really sent 10,000 yaks, 50,000 sheep, 5,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver, not to mention the princess Saimaga, who was indeed born to Tubo Zanpu, and is still the eldest daughter."

Five thousand taels of gold and ten thousand taels of silver, this is already a lot of money, not to mention 10,000 yaks and 50,000 sheep, which add up to more than 200,000 yuan.

For individuals, this is indeed a lot of money, but for Emperor Luo Cheng and for the Great Qin court, it is not worth mentioning.

In the Northern Ya Forbidden Army of Great Qin, a soldier's annual support expenditure was at least 50 yuan, and the annual support expenditure of 5,000 soldiers exceeded the sum of the money and livestock sent by the Tubo people.

"Your Majesty, Tubo can't be compared with our Great Qin, which now has more than 8 million households and a population of more than 50 million, but the population of Tubo is only one million, and the number of soldiers is only 60,000. 200,000 yuan of money, spread to a million people, one person has to share 200 yuan. This is no more than the 50 million population of Great Qin, only four yuan.

"Haha, that's true."

Luo Cheng thought for a while, "The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent someone over to prepare for the arrival of Princess Tubo into the palace, and if they have any requirements, they can also try to meet them." ”

The emperor was more concerned about the goods brought by the Tibetan mission, "Send someone to have a good chat with the Tibetan mission, and we can eat all the goods they brought." ”

Whether it is a merchant group from the Western Regions, or a delegation from Tibet, or a delegation from the countries of Silla and Baekje, or a delegation from the various tribes on the grassland.

Generally, the envoys of various ministries would bring a lot of goods to the imperial court in the name of tribute. Of course, the Chinese tradition cannot take advantage of these vassal states, so it will be rewarded.

In fact, this is a disguised trade, but it is not directly said that trade, but that the tributary reward, in general, the reward of Huaxia will always be more valuable than the things brought by the vassals.

But it does not mean that the Central Plains suffers a loss, because most of the things brought by the feudal states are specialty, and these goods are monopolized by the imperial court, and then put on the market for sale.

Therefore, this tributary trade system was liked by the vassal states and the imperial court, and it was an international trade in goods monopolized by the imperial court.

Of course, in addition to the goods brought by the state, the ministers of the vassal states will also bring a batch of goods that belong to the officials or merchants of the vassal states, and they can be much more convenient in terms of procedures by following the mission, and sometimes they can even save the tax on customs clearance.

For these goods, the imperial court will generally eat most of them, and then deliberately leave some to the market, and also leak points for domestic merchants, so that they can also get some benefits.

Whether it is a tribute or an entrainment, in short, this is considered international trade, coupled with the arrival of various caravans and merchant groups, so that now Daqin has finally begun to have international trade again since the Sui Rebellion.

Luo Cheng attaches great importance to this international trade, in this era, the more long-distance trade, the more goods that are not available in the Central Plains can be traded, which also means that these goods are rare and valuable.

For example, the spices brought by the merchants of the Western Regions, as well as the frosted sugar brought by the Tubo people this time, these are all things that are not available in Daqin now.

Spices are even more expensive than gold, and the frosting sugar produced in Tianzhu is also extremely expensive, and the trading of this kind of thing brings great profits.

If the imperial court masters the transactions of these commercial goods, then it can directly make a profit, and it will not monopolize these commercial transactions, and it will also receive a lot of taxes from them.

During the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister Yuan Zai who hoarded spices of several hundred stones, which was widely spread at that time.

To put it bluntly, international trade can not only stimulate the domestic export of porcelain, silk and other commodities to earn gold and silver in exchange for spices and frosted sugar, but also increase taxes for the imperial court. The growth of the export industry will inevitably lead to the development of these industries in China, which is the so-called lack of agriculture, instability, and business.

The emperor now designated the West Market of the three cities of Luoyang as a special market for international trade, whether it is Silla Baekje or Dongying in Haidong, or Xiqi Mur Wei Tiele in the grassland, or the countries of the Western Regions, or even Persia and Fulin in Taixi, or Linyi, Tubo and other southern barbarians, the goods of various countries are unified to the West Market for trading.

"The maritime Silk Road routes in Guangzhou, Jiaozhi and other southeast ports have not yet matured, and when the maritime Silk Road matures, it will be directly connected to Tianzhu and Persia, and at that time, it will be able to bring greater trade volume."

The most direct benefit of trade is money, which can increase the income of the imperial court, including the income from trade, the income of the market, and even the industrial and commercial tax income brought by the development of the foreign trade industry.

If the income from trade can be greatly improved, then Luo Chengcheng can cut down a little on the current extremely high salt tax, so that the people will no longer be so dissatisfied with the price of salt.

Among the goods brought by the Tubo people this time, the most is the frosted sugar produced in Tianzhu, which is actually the white sugar produced in sugarcane. At this time, there was no white sugar refining and decolorization technology in the Central Plains, and the color of the sugar produced was black and yellow. In fact, the frosted sugar produced by the Tianzhu people is not white enough, but the granulated sugar with a yellow color, but it is still chased by the rich and nobles of the Central Plains.

Luo Cheng remembered that it didn't seem to be very difficult to refine brown sugar from sugarcane, and then decolorize and refine white sugar, he vaguely remembered that he could use loess water or something to filter and decolorize, Luo Cheng felt that he could think about it when he had time, and then handed over this idea to the people of the Inner Province to study, if the recipe was studied, then the royal family could establish a frosting workshop, and then they could produce their own frosting sugar to grab the local market, and even sell it to Tianzhu and Persia in turn.

"Tell the Taifu Temple Trade Division, this time the merchant groups of the vassal states are coming, they must do a good job of reception, tell them that trade is a long-term business, don't just make money and make a hammer deal, but to attract more Hu merchants to come to trade."