Xu Ping listened to Fan Xiang talk about what the first sick lieutenant pulled back from Qinzhou, and nodded again and again. After he finished speaking, he said: "What you do is very good, you can sell what you eat, drink, and play, but you must not sell what can be used for weapons." The party is a little iron, and the war in the past few months has been extremely expensive, and I heard that they are even nervous about the arrows. We must not relax on the number of arrows that will be fired at our own soldiers as much iron as they sell them. ”

Fan Xiang said yes, and then asked: "But now the thieves also forbid the sale of large livestock such as horses and camels, and trade with them, what good will it do us if we can't buy these?" Xia Guan thought about it and had no clue about this matter. ”

"Don't worry, just collect gold, silver and copper coins for the time being, if they have the banknotes of this dynasty, they can also collect them. But they will print out the banknotes, resolutely not, this point must be kept. There are not many gold, silver, and copper coins in the party, and when we have almost collected them, and the people are used to using our goods, they will find a way for themselves at that time. ”

Without selling large livestock such as cattle, horses, and camels, what goods does the party have to balance the trade? People who do business are the most realistic, unprofitable who are busy with the party, and Xu Ping will not subsidize them with his own materials.

Zhao Deming has worked hard for several decades, and the party's social and economic foundation has just begun, and the water conservancy system in the plain areas of Xing and Ling prefectures has begun to recover, and agriculture has improved, but industry and commerce are basically zero.

At present, the only handicraft industry in the whole party project is also subordinate to animal husbandry, and it is not even able to provide iron agricultural tools to the country. In the history of later generations, there is an account of the development of the party's iron smelting industry, which is not known whether it is true or false, but Xu Ping can't even see a shadow. The mole armor that is often taken out and talked about does not exist, at least now, in the party area. The only people in the party with armor were Yuan Hao's personal guards with 3,000 iron cavalry, and the iron armor and equipment were bought and grabbed from the Great Song Dynasty, Khitan and the surrounding areas, and more than 1,000 had been destroyed by Xu Ping in Zhuoluo City. In fact, Yuan Hao couldn't even provide the iron arrow clusters used by the army in wartime, and he needed to prepare the soldiers who participated in the war. Of course, not only arrows, but also knives, guns, horses, and armor had to be prepared by the participants themselves, and the party privy council system was only a matter of registering military registration. When Yuan Hao fights, he is to raise soldiers and horses, and the weapons and armor and food are all the participants' own. Yuan Hao didn't spend anything when he started a war, but the expenses of the people who participated in the war were huge, and once he couldn't loot the materials, his own production would be greatly affected.

When he was in the capital before, Xu Ping didn't know that the party was so overstretched in the country, and he thought that Yuan Hao was full of materials and had enough food. After more than a year in Qinzhou, Xu Ping had already seen through Yuan Hao's reality and reality, he was just a weak patient who had beaten chicken blood and attacked from all sides. Each side raised 100,000 troops and fought for several months with gongs and drums in front of each other, and the consumption of arrows, knives, guns, and other weapons alone was enough to drag the party to a collapse.

With such an economic foundation, he still wants to borrow paper money to collect wealth, and he also wants to buy it from the Great Song Dynasty, and he is reluctant to sell his cattle, horses, and camels, Xu Ping doesn't know what these people rely on.

In history, Yuan Hao was able to successfully force the Song Dynasty to make peace after several big victories, not because the Song Dynasty could not hold on, but because the Song Dynasty's military mobilization ability was too poor, and the main support for the war was Shaanxi Road. At the same time as several major wars, there was a major drought in Shaanxi that lasted for six or seven years, which was rare in history, and the Shaanxi Road and the Party were unable to fight under the natural disasters.

As long as Yuan Hao dares to open a large-scale smuggling trade, Xu Ping will be able to drain the blood of the party in a year's time, and he will not be able to support the war even if he scrapes his own land.

Seeing that Fan Xiang was a little hesitant on the side, Xu Ping said to him: "General judgment, as the saying goes, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift." Fan people are accustomed to eating the wine we sold in the past, used to the utensils we sold in the past, used to drinking the tea we sold, and used to wearing the silk and satin we sold in the past, so how easy is it for them to talk about it all of a sudden? As long as they want to use it, they have to have goods to exchange with us. The party is barren and the people are poor, except for cattle, horses, and camels, what else can they come up with? Rest assured, they will sell sooner or later. ”

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, this thief is cruel and greedy by nature, and under the heavy punishment, I'm afraid it won't go so well."

Xu Ping said with a smile: "He can take all the chiefs to loot and make a fortune, and the fans will endure his cruelty, once he can't do it, who will listen to him as a lone husband!" Hao thief alone, can really suppress all the wealthy chiefs in the territory! According to the general judgment, the two countries are not only fighting bloody battles on the battlefield, but also pumping the enemy's blood through trade to replenish their own bodies, which may be more powerful than 100,000 soldiers. If you do it well this year, you must remember that if we make consistent money, the thieves may lose dozens of times. The more money you make from there, the less blood you'll shed when you go into battle. Trade is also a war, although there is no sword and sword, and there is no blood in killing, but the damage to the people is more deadly. In the beginning, when they came to buy goods, they could collect gold, silver, and copper coins, which were not many of them, and the surrounding countries also wanted them. If you do it well, you may not be able to get the party item in a month or two. At that time, Hao thieves were not allowed to sell large livestock and the like, and the people below always had a way to sell them. ”

Fan Xiang Shili: "Jingluo said that it is true, go back to the lower officials, and then make a better plan." ”

At this moment, Li Zhang hurriedly came in and said with his hands crossed: "Jingluo, Hexi Shazhou sent envoys to pay tribute, and they have arrived in Qinzhou." ”

"Oh, they can't wait. A few days ago, I heard that King Beiting Khan had recaptured Shazhou, so he came to make it. Xu Ping stood up, "The general judge will go back first, and do as I say." Shazhou is coming, I can't forgive the delay, I'll go and see you. ”

After speaking, while walking out, he asked Li Zhang to call Liu Lian. He is an envoy of Zhao'an and is in charge of these affairs.

The countries of the Western Regions paid tribute, and the first route they took was from Lanzhou to Lingzhou, which was the escape route of Yuanhao of Zhuoluo City. However, since Zhao Jiqian occupied Lingzhou, this road was cut off, and they entered Qinzhou from Miaochuan instead. As the first stop for the reception of the western Tibetan countries, Qinzhou has perfect reception facilities and even a field for tributary trade. However, Yuan Hao rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and there have been no envoys for more than ten years, and the last time was when Khotan, who was in the third year of Tiansheng, paid tribute.

Xu Ping changed into his official clothes, and when he arrived in the living room, he found that Liu Jian had arrived, and there were a few people dressed in beards talking.

Seeing Xu Ping coming in, several people stepped forward to salute: "The king of the Khan of Beiting in Shazhou sent the ambassador An Zhizhi and the deputy envoy Li Ji to pay tribute to the kingdom, and I have seen the prince of Jingluo. This is Jin San of Khotan, and when we set out, he happened to be in Shazhou, so he came with us. In the future, Khotan will also send envoys to Beijing to meet the Han officials. ”

Xu Ping looked at a few people, all dressed in Han style and Hu style, but it didn't look weird, I think it was such a custom to come to them. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Western Regions, that area has always been a mixed place of Han and Fan, and after the late Tang Dynasty, it was isolated from the Central Plains, but the local government was still mixed with Han. The envoys sent to the Central Plains to pay tribute, the practice is that the main envoy is a Fan person, and the deputy uses a Han person.

After returning the salute, Xu Ping asked a few people to sit. Shazhou ambassador An Gezhi took out a gift list and handed it to Xu Ping: "Jing Liuxiang Gong sits in Qinzhou, his prestige spreads far and wide, a few days ago, Zhuoluo City was in a battle, Hao thief and clown fled overnight, and all the countries in the Western Regions knew the prestige of the Han family. Our Khan admires Xiang Gong deeply, but he is so entangled in mundane affairs that he cannot come in person. This small gift is the Khan's dedication to the minister. ”

It is customary for envoys to give gifts to Xu Ping, who is a border commander, Xu Ping took it, glanced at it, and saw ten five-flowered horses written on the front. The back is nothing more than frankincense, jade and other things, which are not precious. The Western Regions sold a lot of frankincense to the territory of the Song Dynasty through tributary trade, which has been accumulated over the years, and the official and private treasury is everywhere, and it has long been flooded.

Five-flower knife, daughter Qiu, Xu Ping memorized this poem by Li Bai in his previous life, and he was quite impressed. The five-flowered horse is a special product of the country of Khotan, Shazhou is close to there, and this time I specially bought a batch of money, including one for Xu Ping.