As mentioned above, tea is now a major tax item in the imperial court, although salt is more like a business with no capital and ten thousand profits, and the net profit is also higher, but after all, it is a matter of people's livelihood, and I dare not squeeze it too hard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the tea is a pure export Boli project, and it is naturally strictly guarded, but even so, the crude tea bricks for foreign trade from all over the south of the Yangtze River are really only a few dozen yuan of ex-factory price, and when he went to this Serzhu country, he dared to ask for a tael of gold.

What is the concept of a few tens of dollars than one or two gold?

A tael of gold can be exchanged for more than 11 taels of silver, and a tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,100 or 200 copper coins, and now the money has always been 770 yuan.

So who said: if there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it becomes active; With a 50% profit, it takes risks; For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even the danger of hanging.

Although there are Taoist priests, courtiers, and celebrities who are here today, but now the business of the Great Song Dynasty is strong, although it is not to abandon courtesy, righteousness and shame, everyone looks at money, but the keen insight of the Song people's nature into business is also shown at this moment.

When even a middle-aged man who was fat and fat and dressed in a scholar's uniform, he also got up and crossed his hands to worship, and then said: "Dare to ask sir, do you know what kind of origin the Seljuk country is, and what are the regulations in the country now?" ”

Huang Jie also smiled and said: "The origin of this country is called Poor Dao, and it seems that the people of this country themselves understand it best." ”

After speaking, he also attracted a yellow-skinned man with deep eyes and a high nose and a Turkic appearance, and explained: "This one, named Ashina Bilong, is a descendant of Ashina Bilong, the Khan of Xue Yantuo in the Tang Dynasty, who has lived in the capital of the Seljuk Kingdom since he was a child, and at the age of seventeen, he went out with the army to fight in the country of the extreme west, and was later captured as a slave, and came to the Great Song Dynasty, and now it has been twelve years. ”

This Ashina Bilong was also taken in by Huang Jie nearly two years ago, so naturally he had already obtained a good Song Yan, so he also came to introduce the situation of Seljuk.

The Seljuk Empire (1037-1194) was an ****** empire established by the Seljuk Turks in Central and Western Asia in the 11th century, also known as the Seljuk dynasty. At its peak, the empire possessed present-day Iran, Iraq, the Caucasus, much of Asia Minor, and Syria (including Palestine).

The Seljuks were one of the four major tribes of the Turkic Oghuz Tribal Confederation (Oghuz), originally located in the steppes of northern Central Asia, named after their chieftain Saljuq. In the first year of Kangding in the Northern Song Dynasty (1040), Tughluk Berk, the grandson of Seljuk, occupied Khorasan, and then conquered the whole of Persia, and entered Baghdad in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1055). Caliph al-Qaim thanked Tughluk Boek for freeing him from the Shia Bouwihi dynasty, making him sultan and "king of the East and the West".

In the fourth year of Xining (1071), Tugrilberg's nephew and successor Alp-Arslan (r. 1063~1072) defeated the Byzantine army at Manzikert and captured the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV, so that most of Asia Minor to which Byzantium belonged was under his hands, and the reign of Malikshah (1072~1092) was the heyday of the Seljuk Empire.

After the death of Maliksha in the seventh year of the reign of Genyu (1092), the princes were divided and the empire was torn apart. A number of small dynasties have emerged in Syria, Kerman, Asia Minor and other places. The third son, Sanjar (r. 1096~1157), was enshrined in Khorasan. In the third year of Chongning (1104), he became the only surviving heir of the Great Seljuk Empire and the suzerains of other minor Seljuk dynasties, and his reputation grew.

Sanjar, the eldest and only surviving heir of the Seljuk family, was controlled by his maternal family at the age of twelve, and the empire was divided into a number of small Seljuk Sudan dynasties centered on the cities of Baghdad, Damascus, Konya, Mosul, and Diyarbakir.

Even in 1097, the Crusaders found a gap to capture Nicaea, and then invaded Syria and Palestine.

Today, although Sanjar has been in power for many years, the domestic political and military are still under the control of the matrilineal family, and his real power has also been hollowed out by the prime minister. The Seljuk Empire followed the political system of the Abbasids, the Samanid Persian and the Turkic Ghaznavids, with a prime minister (vizier) under the Sultan, who handled political, military, financial, and religious matters on behalf of the caliph. Persian Vizilnizam al-Mulek was a power-in-one and played a leading role in the conduct of state affairs during the reigns of Ayerslan and Malikshah.

However, because the Turkmen were previously nomadic people, the civilization did not last long, so they retained a large number of remnants of the nomadic feudal system, such as the provinces of the empire were administered by Atabeg (or Atabeg), which means "father" in Turkic language, and beg means "chief" in Turkic languageAs a result, these atabegs were mostly held by Seljuk nobles and concentrated local military and political power.

Economically, there was a system of military fiefdoms, known as iktas, most of which had only the right to use and were not hereditary, with the exception of the military governor, who could inherit the land granted by the sultan. The peasants paid the land tax in kind, and part of it was handed over to the state treasury. The state treasury spent huge sums of money to dig canals, build avenues, and open post stations to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes between the east and the west.

Religiously, the whole country embraced Sunniism, built a large number of mosques in the empire, established religious universities named after Nizam al-Mulek in Baghdad and Neshapur, and hired famous scholars from all over the country to teach, disseminated the teachings of the Sunni Ashri school and the Shafi'i school, and trained religious scholars and government officials.

Culturally, the Seljuk Empire rewarded scholars for academic research and writing. The famous scholar Ansari and the mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam all completed their scholarly masterpieces with the patronage and support of the imperial court. It also built a new observatory, recruited scholars to engage in astronomical measurements and research, revised the Persian calendar, and compiled the famous "Jhelal Calendar", which is more accurate than the "Gregorian Calendar".

In general, the system of the Seljuk Dynasty was similar to that of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were many kings with the same surname, and there were many festival envoys in the Tang Dynasty.

After Ashina Bilong explained the system of the Seljuk Dynasty, Huang Jie also pointed to the Seljuk Kingdom on the giant screen with a wicked smile on his face, and said with a smile: "Do you think that this country may be able to be found?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, and they couldn't help but look at each other, and they were all secretly thinking about it, but when they saw Wang Hao, who had been sitting in the front row without making a sound, he suddenly got up and glanced at everyone, and after obviously revealing his identity, he also asked: "How to make it?" On the way to the west, the Western Xia, the Uighurs, and the Tibetans bore the brunt of the attack, and it was difficult to intercept them! ”

Huang Jie came and said with a smile: "Move with affection, know with profit!" ”

Wang Hao asked again: "Who is better to handle this matter?" ”

Huang Jie also replied: "Who else is me!" (To be continued.) )