Chapter 934: G-5 Summit
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This year's New Year is very different from previous years, to be precise, this is the first diplomatic confrontation between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State, because the Jin State also made a New Year's Day meeting, in order to strengthen the influence of the Jin State.
As an upstart, it's useless to be strong, you have to have a sense of existence, it's not that you are the biggest, that's the biggest, this is called self-deception, and you have to be recognized by others, if you want to be recognized by others, then you have to show your strength.
This is very important for the country, and the people of the country also attach great importance to this.
But what does the Jin State rely on, of course, it is a deterrent by force, and the iron hooves of the invincible Jin Army make the surrounding countries afraid and hate, for example, the Western Xia has already been called a minister, so the Western Xia will not send people to the Song State, which is also a means for the Jin State to weaken the Great Song Dynasty, and even according to the treaty of the Maritime Alliance, the Great Song Dynasty has to send people to the Jin State to pay tribute, which Li Qi has no way to change, and this contract must be signed before he comes, which really makes the Great Song lose face.
Although the Great Song Dynasty was not as strong as the Jin State in terms of military strength, the Great Song Dynasty was the economic hub of Asia, and no country dared to despise it, even if it was a country like the Western Xia, they still maintained ties with the Great Song Dynasty, and there were many neutral countries on both sides who did not want to offend, so they simply sent two groups of people, one group to worship in the Jin State, and the other group to worship in the Great Song Dynasty.
After learning the news, the Song court began to believe in the diplomatic war proposed by Li Qi at the beginning, so it attached great importance to this year's New Year's Day court, because the one that has always occupied this land is the Central Plains power, and it has been the leader since ancient times.
If this was in the past, Li Qi would not be uncommon, he would not take care of these things, but now it is different. No matter which country it is, he hopes to be able to bring it over, to put it simply, if you have one more ally on your side, then it means that the Jin country has one less ally.
And Li Qi knew in his heart that economic diplomacy was the most reliable diplomacy of the Great Song Dynasty, so he had long begun to plan to establish an economic summit and use soft power to firmly bind these countries to the Great Song Dynasty.
From the current point of view, in terms of diplomacy, the Great Song Wuzi has an absolute advantage. Due to the attention of the Song Dynasty and Li Qi's propaganda in the past year, the contingent of tributes this time was unprecedentedly large, with Japan and Goryeo in East Asia, Jiaozhi, Sujidan, Xintuo and other countries in Southeast Asia, Dashi in West Asia, and business and political figures from some African countries.
When they all arrived one after another, this first meeting finally kicked off at Honglu Temple. The content of this first meeting was to form an economic summit. Originally, Li Qi was going to go into battle in person. But now he was afraid that his appearance would lead to a distraction, so he sent Qin Hui and two officials from the Commerce Bureau to help.
As soon as Zhao Huan came to power, he faced envoys from all over the world, which made him feel a little frightened. The palms of his hands were in a cold sweat, but there was no way, there were hundreds of officials watching, and he was staring. If you can't, you have to do it.
Fortunately, with Qin Hui and Li Gang, two right-hand men, supporting the scene, and Li Qi personally writing a speech for him, Zhao Huan's performance at the conference was also remarkable. He made a long speech, quoting classics to describe what kind of benefits the economic alliance will bring to each country, and gave examples of some countries in order to seize interests, not hesitating to send troops to plunder, although he did not refer to anyone, but everyone thought of Jinguo, and then Zhao Huan used the example to show that this is actually a very wrong point of view, cooperation is far better than hostility.
Since everyone is for the sake of profit, for the people of their own country to live a prosperous life, although the fact is for the interests of the aristocracy, but the surface mountain still has to say that the people, why not choose the most advantageous method.
The development of an international economic order is the original intention of the economic summit.
Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, those countries have been in a weak position in terms of economy, and now this summit will undoubtedly mention them to the same position as the Great Song Dynasty, although strictly speaking, the Great Song Dynasty is dominant, but the statement is different, and the formation of an economic summit is also very necessary for them, especially in some poorer countries.
Therefore, Zhao Huan's speech immediately caused quite a stir, and the applause was really like thunder.
This is the first time in Honglu Temple.
Zhao Huan saw that everyone supported him so much, and his self-confidence immediately swelled, once this self-confidence was established, it was really like a tiger with wings for a leader, and the more he talked, the more energetic and endless.
The envoys of various countries also expressed great interest, expressed their agreement with Zhao Huan's viewpoint, and also agreed to establish an economic summit. In fact, before they came, they had already received the news, and the country had also discussed it, so these envoys had a lot of power in their hands, and they could almost all make decisions about economic matters.
After getting the approval of the envoys, the two sides began to discuss the details, which are also the framework that Li Qi borrowed from later generations, and then according to the current situation, after a lot of revisions, for three consecutive days, all parties had a heated discussion on the economic summit, of course, it is a discussion, in fact, it is a quarrel, small countries want to get more rights and interests, but large countries are not very willing.
Although Li Qi did not participate, Qin Hui came to report to him every day, and the prince often came to discuss countermeasures with him.
After several days of intense negotiations, it was finally decided that the first batch of economic summit member countries would be composed of the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Food, Byzantium, the Western Uighurs, Goryeo, and the Five Countries, referred to as the Five Nations Summit. As for other small countries that can only be dominated, this is the rule of cowardice.
In fact, at the beginning, Goryeo has always been ostracized, especially the envoys of Dashi, who clearly looked down on Goryeo, small and poor, why should they be on an equal footing with us, aren't you insulting us. They have always treated Goryeo as the state and county of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Byzantine envoys were even more bullying, and directly shouted at the meeting to ask the Goryeo envoys to sit in the back, they felt that this summit was obviously a game between economic powers, what did you small countries mix, making Goryeo disgraced and wanting to do it, but the other party was tall and big, and they couldn't beat it, there was no way, people ate that Arabs, ancient tyrants, and they could stone you to death with money, and they couldn't do it. As for the Western Uighurs, because of their geographical location, no one bothered them.
Li Qi later thought it was funny when he heard it, but in order to increase the exchanges between various regions, he asked Qin Hui and Li Gang to persuade the envoys of the Western Regions to let Goryeo join the summit.
As for Japan's Tengji Miki, they also want to join this summit very much, there is no reason why you can enter Goryeo, I can't do it in Japan, but there is no way, they are not here on behalf of the imperial court, and being able to sit here is already the greatest favor given to them by Li Qi, and they can only watch these envoys compete for their position in the summit, but they are not idle, and they are trying to promote the spirit of the samurai.
As a result, the so-called samurai spirit became the biggest joke at the meeting.
The reason why Li Qi attaches importance to them is because Japan, as a neighbor of the Great Song Dynasty, has great strategic significance, and he doesn't understand what samurai spirit is, he only knows the AV spirit. Not to mention other countries, you are a small country where birds don't, and you don't represent your country, it's just a sect-like thing, who birds you, we are all hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, it's a waste of time to take care of you, from east to west, there is no envoy from a country who is willing to take care of them, they all rush to find Zhao Huan, expressing their strong desire to introduce Great Song Dynasty goods.
In addition, the time of the summit has also been set, stipulating that it will be held every two years, and the specific time is set for September 10, and the first summit will be held in Guangzhou on September 10 next year
On the main hall.
Song Huizong held the dragon chair high, and when he heard Zhao Huan's report, he laughed, and his expression was very happy, in fact, as a father, he was happier than anything else when he saw his son promising, even the emperor was the same, and said: "Five Nations Summit, okay, Huan'er, what you did this time is really beautiful, so that my father is very pleased, but you can't be complacent, you have to continue to work hard." ”
After all, Zhao Huan is his son, and he is not good at praising him to death, but even so, anyone can see that he likes this prince who he once hated more and more.
Zhao Huan said modestly: "Father's spur, sons and ministers must be remembered, in fact, the reason why this time can be so smooth is all due to the joint efforts of economic envoys, as well as Honglu Temple and officials of the Bureau of Commerce." ”
Song Huizong nodded and said: "Not arrogant or impatient, very good, very good, all those people should be rewarded." ”
Cai You said suddenly: "But how did I hear that the economic envoy has been taking care of the children at home recently." ”
Fuck you, I'm so low-key, you still have to pick bones in eggs. Li Qi smiled: "The British public is right, I have been at home with children all these days, and Li Qi is ashamed of this credit." It's just that I didn't expect that Britain cared about me Richie publicly, and it seems that no one was sent to take care of me. ”
The two of them fought again. The rest of the ministers began to put on a posture of watching the show.
Cai You snorted: "Our Privy Council is very busy, where do we have the time to care about you." ”
Song Huizong had a smile in his eyes and said, "Li Qi." ”
"Wechen is here."
Song Huizong said: "As an economic envoy, how can you ignore this? I know that you have recently been happy with your noble son, but everything has a priority, you should still put state affairs first, and leave the things of raising children to women to do, haven't I already rewarded you with four wives? Isn't that enough? ”
When the ministers heard this, they all bowed their heads and forced a smile.
Zhao Huan was stunned when he heard this, and was about to step forward to help Li Qi exonerate, but Li Bangyan grabbed him, shook his head slightly, and signaled not to say more.
Cai You saw that Song Huizong had finally returned to normalcy and stood on his side, his eyes were full of tears, and he was extremely moved.
Good you emperor Lao'er, this is clearly a personal vendetta of the communiqué, revenge for the last time Lao Tzu ate snails, he made fun of you. Song Huizong was determined to take revenge, and Li Qi had to endure it even if he was reasonable, and saluted: "What the emperor said is that Weichen is guilty." ”
Finally revenge. Song Huizong was very happy in his heart.
This emperor is really boring.
(To be continued)