In fact, Su Yuanjing's words are really heartfelt, in his opinion, this is already the ultimate that he can get as a subordinate, and he himself has always worked hard with this goal, in his opinion, Du Jia and they are all from the grassroots after all, and being able to get this opportunity is already an ancestral virtue, and Diaosi has counterattacked, and he has been an official eunuch and has worked hard for so many years, isn't it just this step? What are you not satisfied with?

But he still underestimated Du Jia and the people of the Tang Kingdom, especially after Song Jiang defected with his henchmen, there were almost no people willing to recruit An, so Du Jia just smiled faintly: "Taiwei still seems to know something, since the moment our Tang Kingdom announced the establishment of the country, we will no longer be subordinate to anyone, and you Song Dynasty is just a well water and not a river water, don't talk about Zhao'an anymore, if there is anyone who is willing to cooperate, you might as well talk about it." ”

Su Yuanjing couldn't believe his ears, he thought that Du Jia and they would take the opportunity to bargain for a reward at most, but he never expected that it would be a refusal, he raised his head and seriously confirmed Du Jia's eyes - found that the other party was really not joking, and then peeked at the surrounding Tang officials - they were all full of indifference, without the slightest look of excitement or even emotion for the emperor's might.

At this time, Su Yuanjing finally had to admit bitterly that the other party was different from him, and he really didn't care about the official position of the imperial court.

This made him very depressed, the biggest hole card in his hand is the high-ranking officials of the court, but if the other party doesn't care about this, he has nothing to do, and what method should he use to persuade them to send troops?

Du Jia also seemed to see Su Yuanjing's embarrassment, and said gently: "Lord Su doesn't have to be embarrassed, I heard that there seems to be a group of rogues in the Western Xia Kingdom who have slipped in to make trouble recently, isn't it related to this matter?" ”

Su Yuanjing was taken aback, and immediately sighed and gave up the struggle completely, it seems that Tang Guo's intelligence system is even better than he imagined, and even this kind of thing has been discovered, which is equivalent to a woman's fruit photos have been seen by others, and now it is necessary to pretend to be a lady.

He had to admit: "Tang Wang Yingming, there is indeed this matter, since His Royal Highness has made it clear that the lower officials will not dare to conceal it, I am here for this matter this time, I hope you can help, even if there are any conditions, as long as the lower officials must agree within the scope of their powers." ”

In fact, this matter has been discussed by the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State a long time ago, and Du Jia said politely and directly: "That couldn't be better, although our Tang State and the Great Song Dynasty do not violate the river water, but it is a friendly country, and the relationship is always better than with those foreign barbarians, this time the Song Dynasty is in trouble, our Tang Kingdom is naturally willing to send troops to help, but we can't let us consume manpower and material resources in vain, and the court must give enough compensation." ”

Su Yuanjing was immediately overjoyed when he heard this, the two parties were not afraid that the other party would not mention the conditions, what they were afraid of was not opening their mouths at all, he hurriedly said: "This is nature, this is nature, then what your country intends to ask for, just open your mouth." ”

Du Jia gave a look to Li Ying, who was on the side, he is now holding the position of the head of the household department, and these things in terms of money and food are naturally his responsibilities, Li Ying hurriedly said: "Su Taiwei, Xia Guan is the head of the Tang Kingdom, this kind of trivial matter does not need our king to worry about, it will be negotiated with Tai Wei by Xia Guan." ”

Su Taiwei didn't dare to despise it, and hurriedly came to meet Li Ying, and Li Ying talked to Su Yuanjing about the conditions that had been prepared, and Su Yuanjing was shocked.

It turned out that there were three conditions proposed by Tang Guo, first, this time the imperial court should spend 500,000 yuan on the army, or replace it with equivalent grain, cloth, silk, horses, tea, wine and other materials; Second, Liangzhou was the largest salt pond in the Song Dynasty, and in the future, one-third of the salt would be given to the Tang State as a gift every year. Third, it is necessary to cede a capital city in Yongzhou to the Tang State, whichever one can be.

And Li Yingyou said first, these conditions must be announced to the world by the imperial court before the Tang State will send troops, credit is not to be discussed, bargaining is also exempt from respect, do not appear Tang Guo finished the matter but was busy in vain - this happened again and again in the original plot, and Du Jia also specially told the people below to have a more heart.

Su Yuanjing was suddenly embarrassed, in fact, the first condition is nothing, you must know that in order to avoid the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty of the Western Xia Kingdom, they will 'reward' 100,000 taels of silver and 100,000 horses of silk and a lot of tea and other materials to the other party every year, adding up to far more than 500,000 guan, and now the Western Xia Kingdom has violated the agreement, and the money is naturally not needed, as long as the Tang Kingdom can defeat Li Dezhong and Chamur, their court will still earn it.

But the second article is not very easy to do, in addition to taxes, in this era, the imperial court can monopolize the industry to make money, one of which is salty salt, don't underestimate this thing, everyone has money to eat something good, no money to eat something bad, but it must not be less salt, otherwise don't say that the food has no taste, not to mention, even the strength can not be born, so Lu Zhishen Wu Song's foodies will not eat wine and meat for a few days will be described as "a bird fades out of the mouth".

Therefore, the people can not drink alcohol or even eat meat, but they cannot not eat salt, but the right to mine and sell salty salt is firmly controlled by the imperial court, and everyone can only buy it from the vendors opened by the government - that is, commonly known as official salt, as for the price, it is completely set by the government, and some black-hearted local officials will also join forces with those unscrupulous merchants to raise the price and make a fortune.

In this way, some people can't stand it, or they are greedy for the huge profits in it, they will find a way to sell salty salt by themselves - that is, commonly known as private salt, the founding general of the Tang Dynasty Cheng Zhijie (that is, Cheng Biting Jin who sits on the tile gang in the romance) has done this before, and has done a very good job, of course, this is equivalent to grabbing food from the national bowl and eating the imperial court naturally does not do it, so it is a resolute crackdown, the two sides have been in the open and secret struggle, but no one can destroy anyone, but the danger of selling smuggled salt is great, If you are discovered, you will be directly killed, and if you are caught, you will be punished with capital punishment.

And now Du Jia actually wants one-third of Liangzhou's salt, which is a lot of money, and more importantly, after opening this precedent, the prestige of the imperial court will inevitably be greatly hit, and the rest of the places will make this request one after another, so what should the country do at that time? Therefore, Su Yuanjing felt extremely troubled, although he was a lieutenant and a favored minister of Huizong, this request was obviously beyond the scope of his authority.

(End of chapter)