[Ran^文^Library][]. []. [com] The borders of the Great Song Dynasty have been harassed since the beginning of winter, and this year is no exception. 【For more exciting, please visit】

Since the end of autumn, dozens of villages on the northern border of Hejian and Zhending in Hebei Province have been plundered by the Liao cavalry, and the people's food and livestock for the winter have been looted.

Although the people on the border are miserable, but for the Great Song Dynasty, this kind of small cavalry invasion of border villages is not a big problem, after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, Song Liao is nominally a brotherly country, the Song Dynasty every year to the Liao State to pay a large amount of money as "year coin" to maintain peace between the two countries, the two countries have not had a major war for nearly a hundred years.

It's just that the Liao people have a predatory nature, and the Song Dynasty has always been weak, so the Liao people will bully the people of the Song Dynasty from time to time every year.

For the bullying of the Liao State this year, no one in the Song Dynasty and the court did not care about these at all, and there was not even a word of public condemnation and protest against the Liao State...... In addition to being used to being bullied, it is also related to the fact that the Liao State has robbed a lot fewer villages in the Great Song Dynasty this year than in previous years.

The Liao State robbed few villages, not because they realized that it was wrong to rob such a barbaric act, let alone because they were afraid of the Song Dynasty.

Rather, it is because, in recent years, a subject state of the Liao State has gradually risen and separated from the Liao State, becoming a huge force that threatens the Liao State, and the Liao State has to put more troops and attention on the side of the countries that threaten them, as for the weak Song Dynasty, they don't care at all.

This newly rising country is the Jin regime founded by the Jurchen people in the northeast!

At present, there is still a Liao State between the Jin State and the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no border, if the original historical trajectory develops, a few years later, after the Song State and the Jin State made a "maritime alliance" to jointly destroy the Liao State, the remaining Jin soldiers went south strongly, invaded half of the Song Dynasty's territory, caused the difficulty of Jingkang, and made the Northern Song Dynasty perish.

At that time, the entire Shandong and Hebei will be the land of the Jin Kingdom.

But that's all for the future, now there is the Jin State in the Northeast to balance the Liao State, at least the pressure on the Great Song Dynasty is much less, and even the emperor and many ministers in the court and many ministers were secretly relieved to learn that only a few dozen villages in Hebei were plundered this winter, and no county or state capital was robbed......

Amusing!

It's like a person who steals all your pocket money every time, and suddenly one day the other party only takes half of your money, and you are secretly happy......

Shame on you!

However, the "mercy of his subordinates" on the side of the Liao State did not make the entire Great Song Dynasty feel better this winter, although the Liao State stopped, but the Western Xia Kingdom in the northwest grabbed the Great Song Dynasty, but it was not ambiguous at all.

There was no alliance between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, and the bordering areas had always been in constant conflict, and the Song Dynasty's investment in the border defense of the Western Xia was several times that of the border defense of the Liao State. Even so, every autumn and winter, Western Xia would send envoys to the Great Song court to ask for a large amount of goods and various necessities.

If the Song Dynasty didn't give it, or gave less, then I'm sorry, the Western Xia side would immediately gather troops on the border to wage war.

It's naked blackmail.

This year, when the envoys of the Western Xia went to Bianjing to blackmail the courtiers and officials of the Great Song Dynasty, it happened that the officials and ministers of Gao Yu's case were depressed.

The envoys of the Western Xia looked stupid and found that the bamboo poles that were easy to knock in previous years not only did not work this year, but were also inexplicably driven out by others...... Originally, it took him a lot of effort to win the opportunity to travel at this public expense, who would have thought that the prosperity of Bianliang, which he had been longing for, had not yet seen it, and he had to go back to Xixia.

Good! Song Guo actually dares to refuse our request, then we will give you some color to see!

Therefore, this year, the border of Western Xia has been in constant war, and several cities have been looted, with heavy losses!

The national strength of the Western Xia is far inferior to before, even if they capture the cities of the Song State, they are unable to occupy it, so they uphold the "Three Lights Policy", their "Three Lights Policy" is much more "conscience" than the later generations of Wokou, they are robbing the Song Dynasty, robbing the light, and then robbing the light!

Hit where you grab it, and run after grabbing.

Therefore, this kind of battle is also the most difficult to fight, and the entire government army of Western Xia has become a guerrilla bandit, and after grabbing and running there, the entire Western Xia border is restless.

In fact, even if the Song Dynasty gave all the blackmail orders according to the Western Xia, the Western Xia would still come to such a "three-light policy", but they would not be so blatant, and the government army would only come to rob after pretending to be bandits.

No way, who made the Song Dynasty so rich, but so weak militarily and diplomatically?

Who do you rob if you don't rob?

Not only the Western Xia, but also the borders around the Song Dynasty, in addition to Dali, even the Nanban tribes dared to intrude on the Great Song Dynasty from time to time, hit here and there, and grab a little bit of this and that.

And looking at the entire international situation, the West has entered the end of the Middle Ages, all kinds of chaos, the most powerful country is the Holy Roman Empire; The Middle East also saw the rise of several vast dynasties, mainly Egyptians and Arabs; On this side of East Asia, the Song Dynasty was surrounded by tigers and wolves, Liao, Jin, Tibet, Dali, and Nanban...... The Korean Peninsula is now called Goryeo, and Japan was still in the era of Emperor Heian in a slave society.

Among these countless countries, the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the most shining star, regardless of economy, politics and culture, other countries are far behind, but this bright star is facing the eyes of many strong enemies, and if you are not careful, it will be destroyed.

However, no matter how bad the geopolitics of the Song Dynasty were, there was only one thing, that is, the merchants of the Song Dynasty, no matter in which country they were in were the existence of the local government, and it can be said that the merchants of the Song Dynasty had much more face outside than the Song Dynasty.

Even barbarians like the Western Xia, when they invaded the borders of the Song Dynasty, as long as they were government troops, they rarely harassed them after seeing the Song caravans in the past.

Because those merchants sold the daily necessities and handicrafts that their people needed most, or all kinds of porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and other items that the nobles loved, and offended the folk merchants of the Song Dynasty, then they could not meet the large demand of their own people for the goods of the Song Dynasty by robbing.

In fact, for the people of the Western Xia Liao State, they do not want to participate in the war all the year round, no matter how great the ambition of a country's high-level is, the common people are absolutely peace-loving. And the reason why the common people of Western Xia carried sabers and stepped on war horses to join the war was mainly because they had to.

The nomads had almost no handicrafts, they could hardly make even the most basic pots and pans, and all they could do was some cattle, sheep and livestock, which were not in high demand in the Song Dynasty before, so it was difficult for them to exchange for the necessities of life, so they had to wage war and carry out robbery.

As everyone knows, every time the Western Xia army came back from plundering the county towns and villages in the Song Dynasty, everyone's horses were hung with black cauldrons, or spoons, shovels, metal wine jugs and other objects......

Due to the perennial invasion of the territory of the Song Dynasty in the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty imposed economic sanctions on it and did not trade with it, but in recent years, the situation has changed, the commerce of the Great Song Dynasty has become more and more developed, and the demand for animal husbandry products in the Western Xia has also been much greater, so some merchants have disregarded the ban and started smuggling.

No one does the business that loses money, what does someone do when it loses its head!

As for the Song Dynasty and the Liao State, it was specially opened up to open up the Rongchang to exchange trade, the original Rongchang was limited to trading some bulk commodities, and now those commodity controls have become virtually non-existent, the Liao State forbade its own merchants to sell war horses and other war materials to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty also prohibited copper coins and books from flowing into the Liao State.

But as a result, the merchants of the two countries were very happy to smuggle, the Great Song Dynasty ate a large number of war horses, and the Liao State earned a lot of copper coins, and even the copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty have become the official currency of the Liao State......

This frequent business exchange is also one of the main reasons that have supported the two countries to be war-free for a hundred years.

However, on the whole, the demand for Song Dynasty goods in the Liao State was greater than the demand for Liao goods in the Song Dynasty.

In Wu Zhi's view, whether it is the Liao State or the Western Xia, there is still an important resource that has not been developed on their side, and that is dairy products!

The market that needs to be developed is naturally in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

If milk is regarded as an indispensable food and drink by Chinese as in later generations, then this will not only greatly enhance Chinese physique, but I am afraid that the huge demand for milk will be enough to make the people of Liao or Western Xia or even Mongolia put down their butcher knives and turn to the milk of cows......

When the time comes, who will go to the battlefield to work hard, hurry up and milk to earn the money of the Song people, if you have money, you don't want anything?

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