Chapter 363: The Silk Incident

Under Han Qi's military order, all the cities affected by the 800-li rush action followed this order, and the people below acted quickly, of course, it affected the upper echelons.

In fact, it seemed that Han Qi was in the northwest and could control everything, but countless eyes were looking at him, because his position and timing were too critical.

During this time period, whether it is the East Mansion or the West Mansion, the core of their target is on the side of Lingzhou, and any movement here will attract their attention.

Although the Liao State was only a demonstration, the soldiers and horses had penetrated deep into Lingzhou, and even in the Twenty Forts, there were no casualties in a short confrontation, but there was friction.

According to some investigations by Han Qi and other channels, at that time, Liao Xingzong had already dispatched the whole army, 100,000 Liao cavalry, plus the attached surrendered Western Xia Army, almost 200,000.

If, one is not careful, it will be a huge war that spreads to the Liao and Song dynasties, and even Hebei will not be spared.

In the end, after Han Qi solved it more perfectly, it did not mean that it would be done once and for all, in case, if there were any changes, the war would break out.

800 miles expedited, or sent so much at once, what the hell happened, could it be that the war broke out.

At the beginning, I didn't know why Han Qi's privy deputy envoy order, and some people came to pay attention to it, but after reading it, it was actually Shu Jin, which made them laugh, and some middle-level officials were even speculating whether it was Han Qi, Han Xiangye, who wanted to be fat for public business.

The order is a collection of silk and satin, or a high-grade Shu brocade as the main body, the more precious the better, this is obviously a chaotic fate.

What is the use of Shu Jin, except for the fact that it is a little more expensive, it has no effect on politics and military, no wonder some people wonder if Han Qi is selfish and wants to take advantage of this critical moment of the Lingzhou Peace Conference to do his own private things.

But in the eyes of the real high-level, they don't look at it like this, what kind of person is Han Qi, perhaps, he has other problems, and his personal ethics have always been very good.

Han Qi is only in his 30s, and he has already reached the rank of privy deputy, and he is not like some officials, who have no ability to develop, but can only work on this basis for himself and his family.

He is still young, and he has been implicated by Fan Zhongyan, and he must go to the place to grind, but those who have a little insight will know that this is Renzong's protection for them, otherwise, let them be on the cusp of the storm, even if the future is immeasurable, when the big waves reach a certain level, they will be washed away.

But at this critical moment, the great contribution of the Lingzhou Peace Conference was made, not to mention that when Lingzhou was included in the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time, the capture in Lingzhou was higher than the cost, which was Han Qi's indelible credit.

But at this key fit, why is this happening, is it possible to be self-black?

Self-black, among the courtiers, this is a common thing, but most of them are some generals, when the generals have made unimaginable contributions, he thinks not of splitting the territory and calling the king a prince, he thinks of a catastrophe coming.

From ancient times to the present, there is no shortage of things, and even some famous ministers through the ages have also defiled themselves because of the relationship between the high and powerful masters, and if they don't do this, their heads will be shifted.

But Han Qi does not have this problem, he is a civil minister, not a military general, it is impossible to control a large number of troops, and at the same time, as long as Renzong transfers him from the northwest and changes any way, it will be fine, this is the difference between Wenchen and military generals, there is no need for him to defile himself at this time.

It's strange, but the high-level people are not in a hurry, because this is not news of the war, just some Shu brocade, even if Han Qi is really trying to defile himself, he has done this step, how can they stop it.

On the one hand, let the people below carry out the corresponding material mobilization as much as possible according to Han Qi's requirements, and on the other hand, waiting for Han Qi's explanation, relatively speaking, they are more concerned about the latter, why Han Qi announced this very strange order.

Finally, in his spare time, Han Qi thought of explaining, but in the entire northwest, almost all the eight hundred li expedited had already been dispatched, and there was no way, so he had to lower the level by one level and use the 400 li expedited.

Because of the late dispatch time, plus the 400 li expedited, compared to the 800 li expedited, it was almost twice as slow, and it was 3 days late, and this was only 400 li expedited in the message, which detailed Han Qi's purpose.

It turned out that in the Lingzhou peace negotiation, the first batch of transactions has been completed, and the Liao State has completed the transaction with a price of more than 3 million cattle, in this transaction, Han Qi made a simple test, with a higher end of Shu brocade, instead of the original ordinary silk, which has been greatly praised, and the Liao State has taken the initiative to increase the share of these, and even squeeze out the iron material, at the expense.

All the high-ranking officials who knew about this matter were very excited at first, and the more than one million heads of livestock that had been harvested in Lingzhou had been determined and verified by all sides, some of them were simply settled in Longxi, and some of them were slowly coming to the Northern Song Dynasty through the official road.

With this, as long as the next step is not to fight a full-scale war, the entire Northern Song Dynasty will be invincible, at least, make money.

But this first batch of 3 million transactions, they really didn't expect it to be so fast, it's only been a few days, according to Han Qi's description, from the mobilization of materials to the completion of the transaction, a total of 10 days, that is to say, on the basis of the original seizure, they have taken a step further, making the results even greater.

But in the face of such an advantage, Han Qi still made adjustments, raised the price of luxury goods, and sold the rare Shu brocade at a terrible price here in Liaoguo.

3,000 yuan a horse, the price of 300 taels of gold, that is to say, the price of this top-quality silk is five or six times higher than gold, this price is absolutely moving.

The price is more than gold, which is already describing the price of a certain thing, but the price of selling gold is five times the price, which means that it represents the saving of a lot of materials, especially weapons.

The governors of the Northern Song Dynasty who are qualified to know this result all have an unbelievable idea, this Liao State, is it really stupid, such a self-destruction of the Great Wall, all of them have been done, and they don't want weapons to strengthen their forces, but they want these completely useless silks.

This is true, you can know it by looking at Han Qi's actions, and Han Qi's inference is also in the hearts of high-ranking officials, it is well known, Liaoguo, this big stone that has always been pressed on the body of the Northern Song Dynasty, is really rotten, with a batch of top Shu brocade, in exchange for many step armor, this business can definitely be done, and it must be promoted.

100,000 sets have been paid, even if you want to exchange it back, Liao will not agree, such a big move, is not conducive to the interests of the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time it is possible to remind the Liao State, then give them well, 100,000 sets of equipment, may not be able to change anything, as long as the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty completes the final improvement, so that the combat effectiveness of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is improved, these are acceptable.

But what has been paid can't be changed, the rest, don't have to give, all with Shu brocade instead, since Liao likes silk so much, then try to meet their wishes as much as possible.

This has become a very strange landscape in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the governors, the prime minister and the second assistant, actually put their energy on this silk, the more high-end, the more expensive silk satin, the more so, all are not allowed to sell, all go through the channels of the Privy Council, first in Sijing, and then, in a specific time, transported to the northwest region.

Time, for Han Qi, is a race against time, and for others, it is not the same, the bottom, ordinary silk, the output is huge, and it can support large transactions.

You know, silk, itself is part of the Northern Song Dynasty's financial system, in the tax paid, there is grain, there is also silk and linen, these constitute a huge tax system, Zhang Juzheng's whip law, is the financial reform, these complicated projects, are the same as the city, with money to replace, which greatly saves government expenditure.

Perhaps this caused such and such problems, but on the whole, it was a stimulus to the economy of the Ming Dynasty.

But these high-level people also know that it will take time to transfer these, and even send them to the northwest, it may take a month or two, or even three or four months later, at that time, even if they mobilize more silk, people don't want it, and when they wake up, the daylilies are cold.

They lamented the stupidity of the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State, and also knew that this opportunity was indispensable and must be grasped as soon as possible

For a time, Shu brocade became the only topic in Bianliang, as well as the next Zhejiang brocade, as well as the more top-level Suzhou embroidery, and even some extremely precious, extremely difficult to make silk, all of which are within the scope of mobilization.

Especially when Renzong knew this, he was stunned at that time, the top silk, I am afraid that in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, no one has more than the palace.

As the top silk, it is basically not sold on the market, Shu brocade, Zhejiang brocade, and even Suzhou embroidery, the most boutique type, is tribute.

The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty may be very hard and persecuted by scholars, but there is one thing, he can still do it, to a certain extent, the treatment he should have, or there is, and tribute is one of them.

One of the most important tasks of the most famous brocade workshops is to select the tribute every year, and with the name of this tribute, the other products can obtain sufficient height, so they spare no effort to create fine products for the royal palace, and therefore, over the years, the royal palace has the most brocade.

Of course, Renzong was very prioritizing, at this critical moment, at this juncture that could weaken the strength of the Liao State, in addition to supporting, he still supported, and even used his greatest ability.