The fifth junior brother Zhang Bo worked hard in the hardest place and the best place. This is Gaochang, the capital of the Uighurs in Western Prefecture.

The difference with the four senior brothers is that Zhang Bo has a good father, his family is a business family, and his family wealth is also up to standard. After entering the school, he was deeply appreciated by Li Ji, and was assigned to the history major, majoring in religious history and business history. The family's wealth also increased three times a day with Li Ji's support, and increased tenfold by the time he graduated. When they reached the level of Xiayangzhou, the Zhang family naturally had to show off a feast, and invited relatives and friends from his hometown to celebrate Zhang Bo's graduation.

Yan'an Mansion, which is close to Western Xia, has a perennial poor harvest, and is frequently harassed by the Xia State, the economy is withering, the people's livelihood is poor, and there are many poor relatives.

Zhang Bo, who was very happy, organized all the young and middle-aged people among his relatives and friends and stuffed them into Wang Xinyu's Northwest Smuggling Group to hone their skills. The recruiters, who originally looked down on these short and poor recruiters, naturally recruited Zhang Bo's brothers into the security reserve without saying a word when they saw the recommendation letter of the boss at the top.

The senior brother relied on Japanese and Korean mercenaries, the second senior brother relied on the Mongols, the third senior brother relied on the Khitan nobles, the fourth senior brother relied on the Jurchens, and the younger brother had to rely on relatives and friends. Why not follow the crowd and rely on the Communists or Uighurs?

The answer is simple, he plays not by force, but by intelligence. His task does not require strong force to ensure the safety of himself and his industry. Archaeology, religious visits, diplomacy, geological expeditions, mapping, and so on do not require the buying of indigenous peoples for commercial colonization and expansion, as the brothers did.

The tasks assigned to Zhang Bo by Li Ji are all things that do not require a large team. The people who crossed the country agreed that there was no need to restart the Middle Silk Road through the Western Regions, and that the Southern Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road from Dali to India and Quanzhou to Basra would be enough to support the political and economic influence of the Great Song Empire on the West.

The Uighurs and Qarakhanid states of Western China, which were tasteless and abandoned, were vast and sparsely populated, without much commercial and industrial value, and almost no strategic value. Therefore, Zhang Bo's task is very trivial and heavy. In addition to the above various technical tasks, there are also various jobs to become the head of the affairs of the Three Kingdoms of Xia, Gaochang, and Black Khan.

It seems that he is in charge of the market development of three countries alone, and Liaoguo is in charge of three senior brothers. Therefore, his ability should be 9 times that of his senior brother. In fact, these three countries can't even compare to a Xijing Road in Liao. The population is so sparse that it is difficult to maintain a rule of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. Large areas of the Gobi, deserts, wastelands, and snow-capped mountains are basically no-man's land. Except for a few sparsely populated areas in the foothills and alluvial fan areas, oases in the desert and saltwater lakes are a bit popular. At the heart of the party's rule is the Yellow River-fed Ningxia Plain, which accounts for 80 percent of the population and only 5 percent of the area. Gaochang and Black Khan are similar, both have extremely uneven population distribution.

After the end of the Tang Dynasty, the severance of trade routes made the countries of the Western Regions basically lose their vitality, and since the Han Dynasty, the countries of the Western Regions have prospered on the Silk Road and have become a bridge between the East and the West, and their cultural and religious diversity is rare in the world. The splendor of Dunhuang, the mystery of Loulan, the wealth of Yanqi, the arrogance of Dawan, the prosperity of the charioteer, the jade and Buddhism of Khotan, and the civilization of Gaochang. The history of the Western Regions is a history of the fusion of Eastern and Western civilizations.

For 200 years after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Gaochang and the Uighurs took advantage of the loopholes to become the lords of the Western Regions, Gaochang was the capital of the Uighurs, and Xizhou was Gaochang, so the Western Uighurs were also called the Uighurs of Gaochang. The current monarch is the Jin Khan of Vijab, who has been passed down to the tenth generation.

The longest-reigning monarch was the lucky of the 28 khans of the regime, having ruled for 49 years. This almost set a record for the length of time a monarch of a minority regime has been in power.

But no matter how long he reigned, he couldn't change the fate of Gaochang's decline. It is a historical necessity that the strategic center of the Central Plains Dynasty shifted from the west and north to the south, and it is impossible for the power of individuals and ethnic minorities to compete with this power of Shunchang's rebellion. That is to say, the decline that is not transferred by the will of man can only be obeyed, not resisted, otherwise it will die faster.

But one day in the tenth year of Yuan You, a windfall hit this sad monarch. Zhang Bo took hundreds of seniors from various Chenji colleges and departments majoring in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, religion and other majors, as well as his relatives and friends, to Gaochang's Bozi Creek Grottoes, Tuyugou Grottoes, Yaerhu Hundred Grottoes, Shengjinkou Grottoes, as well as Qikang Lake Grottoes, Kexiha Grottoes, Da Taoergou Grottoes and Xiao Taoergou Grottoes and other local archaeological and copy cultural relics.

In the first year, in addition to replenishing and purchasing food and materials, they basically stayed in these archaeological holy places, in addition to harvesting a large number of cultural relics and copying high-quality imitations, hundreds of thousands of sketches, fine brush paintings, miniatures, and cultural relics analysis reports were almost piled up in the warehouses of the Gaochang stronghold. Gaochang, who believes in Buddhism, is very supportive of this behavior, after all, Gaochang, who is financially embarrassed, can no longer maintain the huge grotto construction project like the previous dynasties, and it is basically difficult to maintain the financial and manpower to maintain it, if the state does not maintain basic rule, these precious grottoes may have been stolen and excavated long ago.

Although Zhang Bo, who has studied the history of Buddhism deeply, has not become a monk, the Dharma name of Zen Buddhism has also been given, and the professor of Buddhism at Chenji Academy is the master of Shaolin Temple (a senior monk of the Huanglong School of the Rinzai Sect) gave Zhang Bo a Zhikong Dharma name.

When the manuscripts and reports were sent back to the academy, the teachers and students of Buddhism, religious studies, art history, painting and other related majors were almost exhausted with joy. Just sorting out these endless treasures consumes a great deal of time, and even delays normal teaching.

The museum's collection grew tenfold almost overnight. A large number of precious engraving and printing sutras, manuscripts, Sogdian and other dead scripts filled the storeroom. Gao Jing almost soaked in the warehouse day and night to sort out the drawings and restore the cultural relics.

A year later, the massive archaeological team returned with a full load. Four hundred cartloads of complete Buddha statues alone were brought back, and more than fifty large boxes were crammed with murals and various microfilms.

At the meeting, Li Ji excitedly pointed out that Zhang Bo's contribution was far greater than that of the four senior brothers, and this kind of team civilization contribution is difficult to replicate. Gaochang will be the most important focus of cultural work in the future, and teachers and students from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Arts will go to Gaochang for internships and investigations, which will form a set of systems.

Although economically, the decline of Gaochang is inevitable, culturally, it is still a rich country that has inherited a large inheritance from its ancestors. Our job is to protect and even move back this wealth, which can create countless cultural service industry output values in the future.

Although Li Ji was very shocked when he saw the budget report handed over by Zhang Bo, after all, hundreds of people are not engaged in production, and it costs a lot of money to work archaeological work in many grottoes, but this kind of budget really makes Li Ji sad. The per capita subsidy is less than 50 yuan, which is simply a crime and is not responsible for the life and health of archaeologists. The almost abandoned monasteries and grottoes are all in the wilderness, and the procurement of materials is very inconvenient, and the cost of living is extremely high. With a lack of water and no source of food, it takes dozens of miles to procure food and fuel to the nearest settlement. Although there are still remnants of monks in some temples, the poor people of Gaochang can't afford much incense money to worship them, and their lives are tight.

Most of the budget is about buying these artifacts and buying off the cave administrators. Most of this money will be purchased in the mainland into the materials and commodities urgently needed by Gaochang, and after arriving in Gaochang, it will be doubled several times and less than 200 yuan per capita, and the budget of the team of 500 people is only 500,000 Chen base money, and a box of precious Buddhist scriptures alone is worth 1 million. In order to better carry out his work in Gaochang, Li Ji waved his pen and approved 12 million Chen Ji Qian for the operation of Zhang Bo. This money is almost more than the combined start-up capital of the four senior brothers.

With an annual GDP of only 2 million guan and a population of less than one million, the Uighurs began to grow strongly under the pull of this huge amount of foreign capital, and all kinds of goods were imported into Gaochang from the strongholds of Tubo, Western Xia, and Liao under the control of the people. With the investment of foreign capital, the troika of Gaochang began to be launched.

A large number of cheap goods from the Great Song Empire entered Gaochang through the wide avenues of Qingtang City, destroying the local handicraft industry in an instant, and when the quality of imported textiles was extremely high, several times higher than that of local goods, and the price was only half of the price, all the local workshop owners rushed to the streets.

The consequence of the high purchase of agricultural and sideline products and various industrial raw materials also raised the cost of the local handicraft industry, and after one entry and one exit, all the 'national industrial capitalists' went bankrupt.

Zhang Bo, who was not short of money, bought a large number of bankrupt workshop owners' real estate and real estate at high prices, and built modern chemical factories with local advantages in the cotton industry, wool textiles, silk textiles, beet sugar, Chinese herbal medicine, canned fruits, dairy products, winemaking (wine-based), cement, jade and jewelry in the new planning area outside the city. Using the upstream and downstream channels and connections of the bankrupt workshop owners, they set up an intensive joint stock monopoly giant. Those big people who once controlled the guilds of various industries in Gaochang have now become marginalized minority shareholders or grassroots managers of Gaochang's large factories, and after handing over almost all channel resources and assets, they can only receive dividends and dividends every year with peace of mind.

Although the economic upheaval led to a boom and a surplus in Gaochang (10 times as much wool was exported as it was imported cashmere, and only three times as much traded). This state is similar to Australia's trade surplus)

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