Chapter 235: On Treaty Ports

Although this episode on the first day did not hinder the progress of the Xia-Liao peace talks, on the second day of the peace talks, An Yi was very careful to set up the big tent of the peace talks to the east, rather than choosing to be close to the river.

First, considering that the Liao camp was seriously damaged because of last night's fire, after all, there are still three days left for the peace talks, so the camp has to be maintained and rebuilt, and the noise will always affect the peace talks to some extent.

Second, because An Yijue's incident last night started in Liaoying, for the sake of safety, it is better to stay away.

What is different from yesterday is that Generalissimo Han Guangde was unable to participate in the peace talks for some reason, according to Xiao Yan'er, because the affairs of the army urgently need to be returned to deal with, so she is the plenipotentiary representative.

In this way, Gao Ciyi and some Wenchen on both sides of Xia Liao went out on both sides of the peace talks, which was equivalent to a conversation between An Yi and Xiao Yan'er.

"I wonder if your country has an answer to the matter we proposed yesterday to redraw the Liaoxia border north of Lintao Mansion?"

Xiao Yan'er changed into the dress of a female official of the Liao Dynasty again, sat steadily in front of the table, and looked at An Yi without smiling.

Regarding the matter of demarcating the boundary that she proposed, An Yi also discussed with Gao Ciyi for a long time after returning to the camp last night, and the redefined location that Xiao Yan'er said was north of Gansu Town, which had fallen into the hands of the Liao.

This location is called Tigong River, with a river in the name, but it is an endless desert saline-alkali land, before the definition of the border between the Xia and Liao dynasties was very vague, the Xia Dynasty was relatively strong periods such as Gaozu, Taizong and Ruizong period, at that time the border army post of the Xia army was located in the northernmost part of the Tigong River, almost including the entire Tigong River,

It's just that now the Xia Dynasty is weak, and the external military strength is not as good as before, plus a few years ago, the Liao people came to fight the autumn wind from time to time, resulting in the previous Yelu Xiuke raiding Gansu Town, the border army post was only set up three hundred miles to the north, indicating that the border of Great Xia has actually shrunk to the east by five or six hundred miles.

An Yi said politely: "If the northwest border extends one hundred and fifty miles to the east according to your statement, it is indeed too close to our Gansu town, and once an emergency occurs, it will be difficult for our border army to respond in time. ”

If it continues to extend eastward according to Xiao Yan'er's intention yesterday, then basically most of the place of Tigongchuan is in the hands of the Liao people.

To say that this place is really not very good, not to mention planting crops in the saline-alkali land of the desert, even the sheep don't go there, but what An Yi likes is the buffer brought by this place, according to Xiao Yan'er's statement, then Gansu Town is almost only one hundred and fifty miles away from the national border, so for the cavalry, isn't it just to go down the city wall to the Liao border?

It's too dangerous.

Xiao Yan'er didn't seem to hear the meaning of An Yi's words, and instead said: "To the north is the land of my Liao realm, according to your Han people, our two countries are already good for Qin and Jin, and I don't quite understand what the earl said about the emergency." In fact, the reason why we want to redefine the border in this way is not because we care about the saline-alkali land, but because we want to establish some post stations in the location of Tigongchuan for our merchants to travel to and from Daxia. ”

Although An Yi knew in his heart that the country and the country were all related to interests before, how could there be any good Qin and Jin, Qin and Jin were so good, and they couldn't stop going back and forth, when the Liao people Chen Bing border, when they could come to the town of Gansu within a day, who would they talk to about the good of Qin and Jin?

However, this kind of thing can't be brought to the table, people shouting that Qin Jin is good, and he stretches out his hand to slap others twice, which seems insincere.

"In that case, I have a good proposal here, I don't know if your country can accept it."

Xiao Yan'er raised her hand elegantly, "Listen up." ”

An Yi hooked his hand towards Gao Ciyi beside him, and Gao Ciyi knowingly took out a sketch map of the territory of Great Xia from his cuff and handed it to him,

An Yi spread the sketch in front of Xiao Yan'er, pointed to the large and small red circles that had already been drawn on it, and said, "As for me, I think so." The disputes and frictions between Xia and Liao are no longer a matter of five years and ten years, and can even be traced back to the Gaozu period at the earliest, although there are no large-scale battles between us like now, but the small-scale confrontations on the border are simply countless, especially in autumn and winter.

Presumably your country can also see that as a neighbor, our Great Xia can really be said to never take the initiative to provoke trouble, even during the period of Wuzong, there were no less than three million people with armor in the country, and there were countless generals who could fight well, and we never took the initiative to invade and harass any neighboring country. ”

He glanced at Xiao Yan'er's eyes, then paused and continued: "Miss Yan'er is also a member of the court, she should understand that war is just a means to transfer contradictions, if the Liao State can be as self-sufficient as Great Xia, I believe we will not have any more wars."

Therefore, I intend to establish mutual markets in all the important passes and border towns of Xia Liao, so that the two countries can fully trade. ”

Xiao Yan'er understands and agrees with what An Yi said, but she doesn't quite understand how An Yi said this comprehensive trade is a common law.

"The Earl should know that the trade between the two countries between Liaoxia has not been without before, but in the end it was forced to close for various reasons. I also admit that Daxia is vast and rich in natural resources, so I am also very much in favor of the mutual trade between the two countries, but I hope that this mutual market and trade can be more open, not just a non-governmental behavior. ”

For Xiao Yan'er's statement, An Yi was still quite surprised, she was still a girl who didn't touch the spring water with her fingers in Daxia at this age, but she didn't expect to have such vision and insight.

The obvious implication of her words is that she hopes that the mutual trade will not be limited to the pawns of the people, but will rise to the mutual benefit before the two dynasties.

Having said that, An Yi has also turned over a lot of books on trade matters, including consulting the King of Shu and Jiang Ruyue, from his point of view, the previous Xia Liao's trade was called commerce, but in fact, there was no substantive communication at all, but it made many officials like Taketori make a lot of money.

In the final analysis, the main blame for this is Da Xia, who always looks like the Heavenly Empire, anyway, Lao Tzu has a lot of money and lacks nothing!

The Liao people's mutual trade is like a reward and grace in Great Xia, like many basic rice, flour, grain and oil, which are prohibited from circulation, and many other common goods in Great Xia are also limited in quantity.

Therefore, many merchants feel that it is simply unprofitable for the Liao people to do business, and only some folk peddlers and pawns are left to do the leather business, and the people of Daxia have a lot of ideas, and there is no shortage of abduction and deception, so that the scale of trade can only gradually shrink and become a formality.

"That's why I called him a full-fledged trade!"

An Yi moved his finger to the black dots in front of the red circles on the map, and explained: "According to my meaning, in front of a total of six border towns in the north of Gansu, Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, etc., establish mutual market entrances, and the Xia Dynasty will build a simple walled city, and the Xia and Liao armies will jointly garrison them, and these mutual market entrances will be used as trade places between Xia and Liao.

Domestically, in addition to these border towns, the Great Xia will continue to open up Xi'an, Wuchang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing and other cities as inter-market trade cities, and the non-governmental merchants of the Liao State can stay here legally in accordance with the regulations, and can even exchange markets with merchants from other countries, including the subject countries of Great Xia, the Nanyang countries, and even the Franco.

At the same time, the Xia and Liao courts sent caravans to each other, and the caravans could stay for up to three months, twice a year, in the designated treaty cities, including the capital, for the exchange of goods between the two courts. ”

After An Yi finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Yan'er with a mysterious expression, and then said in a deep voice: "The types of goods involved in this trade will be very different from before, including rice, flour, oil and grain, and even fire. Drugs are all within the scope of the mutual market. ”

After listening to An Yi's words, Xiao Yan'er didn't need to say much about the degree of desire for this matter, she knew in her heart that if this matter of trade and mutual market could really be achieved, the fullness of the entire country's treasury and material reserves would make Liao completely self-sufficient like Great Xia, and by that time, Liao's strength would be on a higher level, and all the contradictions and problems between the DPRK and China would be solved, including the Western Regions issue, which would be able to completely free up energy and financial resources to deal with it.

So she asked An Yi: "What you said, did you do the Lord?" ”

An Yi didn't rush to answer, but turned the palm of his hand into a knife-shaped, and drew a horizontal line on the map in the middle of the Tigong River: "Gansu Town to Tigong River 600 miles, for the new boundary line of Xia Liao, 600 miles to the north is the Liao border, I don't know what your envoy wants?" ”

The meaning of comfort is also obvious, if you want to know if I can be the master, you have to see if you Xiao Yan'er can be the master.

Xiao Yan'er leaned back on the seat, hugged her two arms, bowed her head and pondered for a moment, before raising her eyes and nodding towards An Yi, "Okay!" But I hope that what the Earl says will keep his promise, and if the goods provided by Great Xia do not match the truth when the trade market opens, then I will be deemed to have torn up the contract without authorization. ”

An Yi nodded with a smile and promised him: "Your envoy can rest assured, as long as I am comfortable in the court, I will never break my word." ”

"Good!"

"For the rest of the details, let's let Lord Liu on our side explain it in detail."

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Until it was dark and several people walked out of the big tent after the peace talks, Gao Ciyi still didn't understand the comfortable all-round trade.

Gao Ciyi always felt that for this kind of comprehensive trade, the Liao Dynasty's demand for these inter-market commodities would be far greater than their Great Xia, so in this way, the Liao people who benefited the most from this kind of inter-market trade were the Liao, and they might take this opportunity to raise their national strength to a higher level, and it might not be good news for the Great Xia Dynasty at that time.

An Yi told him that the Great Xia Dynasty was an extremely rich place for the Liao Kingdom and even the Western Regions, the Nanyang States and even the distant Franco, and we could include silk, ironware, porcelain, tea and even other kinds of goods, and for some small places, many things like salt and iron were irreplaceable.

To give a simple example, many sparsely populated countries, they mine their own iron and even dry salt, but they do not have the mature technology and resource advantages of Great Xia, so it is not as cost-effective as buying these things from Great Xia.

But thinking about it the other way, buying it is indeed cost-effective, once there is any friction with Great Xia, only cutting off the trade is enough for these small countries to drink a pot, I am afraid that they will have to use a wooden stick to touch the steel knife and iron sword of Great Xia,

Isn't it cost-effective to control these countries thousands of miles or even thousands of miles away through trade than to send expeditionary forces?

However, the Liao State is different, although the Great Xia Dynasty will definitely be in a superior position in trade, it will not be controlled by the Great Xia so easily.

However, Great Xia could use its own trade to control the trend of domestic commodity trade in the Liao Dynasty.

An Yi gave him another example, such as animal skins,

Now the Great Xia Dynasty has nothing more than a demand for animal skins, but one day the queen will appear in the palace wearing a beautiful animal skin product.

What will this bring?

All the concubines, princesses, and even officials will take this as a fashionable thing, so for the two countries that trade with each other, the purchase of animal skins in Daxia will increase greatly, and what about the Liao State? Of course, it's not stupid, and it will raise the mutual market price of animal skins.

In this way, for the Liao Dynasty, merchants will find that it is more profitable to receive a good animal skin than to transport three or five horses or even a cart of grain to Daxia, and they will also go to the homes of various hunters to buy animal skins.

Orion earns a lot of money one by one, and the daughter-in-law and children are smiling, and the farmers in the field are not blushing? The herdsmen on the horse farm are not red-eyed? They are all a people on horseback, who is not a natural hunter anymore?

This will lead to the original herdsmen and farmers becoming hunters, so what about the second year? What about the third year? Really came to the day when the Liao and Daxia fell out, and trade was cut off, how many grains of grain did they take out of their treasury?

After Gao Ciyi heard An Yi say this, she simply admired the five bodies to the ground, and excitedly held An Yi's hand, saying that after I ascend the throne, I must let you be my first assistant.

An Yi couldn't cry or laugh, but let him endure the temperament, these things are all skin, and what is done is inside.

Just as these two people were talking, Jin Mingyin hurriedly ran over behind them,

"Brother Yi, something happened to the Liao people!"

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