Chapter 366: Lingzhou Peace Talks Expanded

Han Qi's generous decision was to let Liao Xingzong set his own price, but he still told him that in addition to 500 horses, there were thousands of horses, all of which were in Xiping Mansion, that is, even if it was a hard robbery, there would only be so many.

Han Qi's purpose is very simple, if the price is not satisfied, or even openly grabbed, then there will only be 500 horses, perhaps, these are much more than before, but when they see the good ones, and even hear that there are better ones, everything is decided, unless they don't want to get this batch of silk.

How is it possible, in short, to give up these, this is not allowed by Liao Xingzong, he who is addicted to it, he made a decision almost instantly, to get them at all costs, even if it is a huge price to pay.

The top 8,000 guan, the next 5,000 guan, how many you want, in the eyes of Liao Xingzong and many courtiers, these things are worth this price.

At this time, a courtier reminded Liao Xingzong that their total share was only 10 million, and I was afraid that they would not even be able to buy 2,000 horses.

Seeing the things in your hand, it just flies, in fact, even according to the price of 5,000 guan, 500 horses, it is as high as 2.5 million guan, which is not a simple number.

For Liao Xingzong, who sits on the four seas, money or anything else is not a problem, Liao Xingzong is angry, isn't there still livestock.

That's right, the previous Lingzhou peace talks, the materials traded, are only part of the materials owned by the Liao State, most of them are sheep, the Liao State did not stop after occupying the Xingqing Mansion, and the rotten ship still has three catties of nails, everyone knows this, looting is the fastest.

When attacking Xingqing Mansion, the Liao State plundered only some large tribes, some small ones, and did not pay attention to them.

The Liao country has a lot of land, looks down on the land and population of Western Xia, and the adoption is also destructive, even if it is a small and medium-sized tribe, when the sand is gathered into a tower, the total number has become very amazing.

Nomads, if they want to survive, rely on livestock, although eating meat, unlike grain, a person needs several catties to be able to meet the demand, but a sheep, how much meat can be produced.

If you want to ensure that the three or four million people of the Western Xia will eventually survive, the number of livestock should be more than 10 times the population, although the Western Xia has plundered the Northern Song Dynasty many times, but if there is no basic foundation, it will not survive, and all the food can not be looted, in that way, with the strength of the Western Xia, it will be finished long ago.

That is to say, the entire Western Xia has various types of livestock, at least more than 20 million, of which the vast majority are sheep, and only about 30% are large livestock such as cattle and horses.

The carpet search was also opened after the Lingzhou Peace Conference, and the Liao State kept sending small-scale troops to search the entire grassland, not letting go of any point, in a short period of time, blood color, became the only color on the grassland.

Snatching away the herdsmen's livestock is like snatching the peasants' rations, and it is impossible for anyone to be willing to be robbed of them until they are in a desperate situation, not to mention, the cruelty of the Liao State, to a higher level, at least nearly 500,000 people, who have been taken captive, killed, and turned into slaves, and have a huge harvest on such a huge grassland.

These have also become the foundation for Liao Xingzong to complete such a transaction, before, Liao Guo still wanted to keep the most precious, and now, in the face of the silk that could not be refused, including the most sober Xiao Hui, in the face of the beautiful silk, he was also a little unable to take his eyes off, not to mention the other ministers of the Liao State.

They regarded Western Xia as a mineral deposit that could be dug deeply, which used to be like a sieve, but now it is even more far-reaching, and some radical generals even asked to go to Suzhou for a turn.

The news that Yuan Hao fled to Suzhou has already spread all over the world, because it is necessary to stabilize the situation, and Suzhou is too far away, so they have not pursued it, but for the desire for beautiful silk, they can't even care about trekking through mountains and rivers, and always want to get these animals as soon as possible.

Looking at the excited ministers, Liao Xingzong laughed, and he directly skipped the matter of attacking Suzhou, not to mention the difficulty of Yuan Hao himself, just saying that a labor expedition was enough to make him dispel his thoughts.

They have traveled thousands of miles from the capital of Liao to Xingqing Mansion in Western Xia, and then run to Suzhou, the logistics are almost unbearable, and Yuan Hao's own strength has also been verified, even if it is a general like Xiao Hui, facing Yuan Hao, if he is not careful, he will suffer.

However, as long as the monarchs and ministers below work together to collect more livestock and exchange more resources for him, this is still okay.

Thinking of the silk that the Song envoy showed before, he never thought that a simple silk would have so many changes, and compared with these, the one obtained at a high price before was a little ordinary.

The entire handsome tent has fallen into an extreme desire for silk, and I am afraid that the most sober person is only Zhou Wenxiu.

To be honest, when he saw these silks, he was also attracted by silk and couldn't take his eyes off it, but he knew very well that this thing was just a foreign object, and how much foreign things worked, it was not as good as weapons and equipment, but all the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State took a fancy to it, so it had an effect, and used this to weaken the Liao State.

As a dead room with high hopes from the Privy Council, although for a long time, what he needs to do is to be silent, no longer noticeable, and waiting for the moment to be activated, but this simple confrontation shows the difference between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.

The Northern Song Dynasty is exhausted of its drawbacks, and it has been in high spirits, but the Liao State, even if it won the Western Xia, faced with the temptation of wealth, but made the most unwise choice, under the elimination of the other, the Northern Song Dynasty only used 5000 horses of brocade, in exchange for the most few tens of millions of livestock, under the elimination of the other, I am afraid that the Northern Song Dynasty will have a few years to build the same heavy cavalry army as the 2000 people under his command, there is no problem.

Itself, because of the favor of the Liao State, at such a young age, just through a war, he has achieved what position he is now, more or less, a little hesitant, but after this incident, everything is no problem.

People tend to be strong, even if Zhou Wenxiu was taught by the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the camp of the Liao State, if the Liao State suppresses the Quartet, the Northern Song Dynasty is about to perish under the premise that Zhou Wenxiu will not change, it is difficult to say.

But now, when the result of the matter is that the Northern Song Dynasty has the upper hand, and even the momentum of decadence has been revealed, Zhou Wenxiu's loyalty has of course risen greatly.

Liao Xingzong didn't know that in a transaction and display, the biggest discovery of this expedition to Western Xia, among the younger generation of Liao, Zhou Wenxiu, who was most likely to become a famous general, would have such an idea, and he began to discuss the price with the ministers, and was ready to determine the price at this time.

Everything that follows, about the mobilization of weapons and the mobilization of goods, is simple, more than 5,000 horses of brocade, and finally priced at 35 million guan, this transaction is higher than the government income of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Liao State still did not eat it completely in the end.

That's right, this amount is too large, with an average price of only the usual price per animal, 35 million pieces of silk requires at least 35 million animals, of which there must be a considerable number of large animals such as cattle and horses.

In the end, he just recognized 25 million guan, in order to pay this money, the Liao State gave all the cattle of Xixia to dig three feet into the ground, whether it was useful or useless, and took it out, and some excellent horses would be considered in the past, which would not be used as a trade, but now it doesn't matter, as long as it is not a war horse, or rather, as long as it is not a well-trained war horse like an iron harrier, everything else can be traded.

Among them, there are many populations that may give birth to good horses, and this point is not unexpected, but Liao Guo believes in his own technology even more.

It is no wonder that the Liao State spent hundreds of years, in the gradual exploration and war, to summarize the skills of training military horses, the leather room army and the Tielin army, the reason why their war horses are so miraculous, this is not just well-trained.

Nomads, and farming people, these are two completely different development directions, just as the nomads do not understand, farming people's skills in planting crops, the same, the kind of skills carved in the bones, so that nomads in many aspects related to grazing, have great strengths, and farming people, good at other things.

In fact, it is really like this, even if the Han Dynasty of the Xiongnu and the invincible cavalry of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty are still different from the cavalry of the Xiongnu in terms of combat effectiveness, the reason why the Han Dynasty army can win depends more on weapons, logistics, and discipline, and the ability to gather team battles, which is the key to the victory of the Han people.

The desire for silk has overcome the influence that may be in success, besides, these are the cattle of Western Xia, with the spoils of war, the spoils of war themselves are white things, no matter how much they cost, as long as they are exchanged for what they want, it is also worth it.

Because of this cognition, in the end, the volume of the Lingzhou contract began to skyrocket, 2 million horses, suddenly increased to 5 million, the number of cattle also increased to 8 million, as for sheep, there were a lot of transactions before, and it was a little difficult to call from there, but the Liao State wrote the holy decree and divided it into two parts, one part, from the Northern Song Dynasty, to the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, and the other one, from the Western Xia Liao State, returned to Dadu, raising at least 15 million head of livestock.

In this way, the whole transaction will be divided into two parts, the first part is on the Lingzhou side, mainly a huge number of livestock and all the silk, and on the other hand, it is a supplementary trade, placed in the direction of Hebei, and the livestock raised from the hinterland of the Liao State will be sent to Hebei in a steady stream.