In the third year of Jianlong, the first month of spring, at this time of year, it is also an important time for various countries to send envoys and envoys to Kaifeng to congratulate the Great Song Dynasty.

In the first month of the first month, the imperial court ushered in an important guest, this person is Cao Yuanzhong, the envoy of the Guasha Guiyi Festival, since December last year, Cao Yuanzhong came to Beijing to send horses, at the beginning of spring this year, it is already the second time to come to the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, this time he personally came to Kaifeng, and paid tribute to the court horses.

Zhao Kuangyin was very pleased, and also rewarded Cao Yuanzhong with a lot of property from Guasha Guiyi Festival, and then gave a banquet in the Jiying Palace.

The Cao family's sacrifice of horses this time was also to move closer to the Central Plains region and break the blockade of the northwestern tribes against the Gua and Shagui rebels.

Zhao Kuangyin believed that the various ethnic groups in the northwest, such as the Tibetans, Dangxiang, and Uighurs, had fallen apart since the end of the Tang Dynasty, greatly weakened their strength, and no longer posed a great threat to the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty does not produce horses, the northwest region has always been the source of horses in the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty needs hundreds of horses alone, and the Khitan people in the northern Liao State are a people on horseback, and they are good at riding and archery. The Great Song Dynasty was ready to guard against the invasion of the Liao State in the north at any time, so the imperial court also needed to form a cavalry to deal with the Liao invasion in the south at any time.

Although there is no major war between Song and Liao, no one can guarantee that when the internal strife in Liao is calmed down, perhaps Liao will concentrate its forces to the south.

In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, according to the policies of Wang Pu and Zhao Pu, he formulated the strategic policy of "easy first and then difficult" and "south first and then north".

And Zhao Dezhao was also at the banquet in Jiying Hall at the moment, he was thinking about the situation in the northwest, Gua, Sha Cao, and Dang Xiang Li were allies of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were also the source of the Great Song Dynasty's purchase of war horses, and the Great Song Dynasty also carried out border transactions in these places.

According to Zhao Dezhao's knowledge, the market horse trade between the various ethnic groups in the northwest and the Great Song Dynasty in the Central Plains can also be divided into three types, one is the tribute trade, that is, the horses that the Cao family dedicates to the imperial court every year, the second is the official trade between the Great Song Dynasty and the Northwest Region, and the third is the private market trade.

The latter two were the way for the Great Song Dynasty to take the initiative to obtain horses, and Zhao Dezhao was thinking that if he could, he would choose to let the Wuling Qing Wujia car dealer engage in private trade and sell horses.

After the banquet, the next day, Zhao Kuangyin officially implemented the "peace border" policy in the northwest according to the suggestions of hundreds of civil and military officials of the imperial court.

This policy, that is, politically, conferring official titles on the leaders of various ethnic minorities and appeasing them with tenderness. Economically, tributary trade was established, and the horse trade along the border market was continued since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty.

After that, he issued an edict ordering the town to guard the borders of the northwest military towns such as Yan, Huan, and Yuanzhou, that is, the benefits of the central management of the province, and consult them to return to the map for trade, and exempt them from taxes.

After this order was issued, the border ministers were all wealthy, and they were able to raise dead soldiers, make them spies, and send them to the northwest tribes to gain insight into the enemy's situation. Soon, the horse trade in the northwest became more prosperous, which also provided a lot of horses for the Great Song Dynasty and stabilized the northwest border.

The next day, Zhao Dezhao also went to discuss with Wu Lingqing, so that the Wu family car dealer began to conduct private trade in the northwest, and traded privately with various tribes in the northwest, and then sold the horses to the imperial court at a certain price, but it was also cheaper than other private traders.

At the same time, Zhao Dezhao also sent his Changchun Hall people to the northwest to collect information in case of accidents.

The people of Changchun Hall have rushed to the northwest, and the samurai car dealer has also gone to the northwest private market to trade horses.

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A few days later, Gengchen and the female Zhiguo sent an envoy to Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, to pay tribute.

At the Gengchen Dynasty meeting, a middle-aged man dressed in animal skins, wearing a small hat, and a few braids, bent down and said: "Respected Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, I am a woman who sent envoys from the Wanyan tribe, this is the intention of my Wanyan tribe." ”

Zhao Kuangyin sat on the dragon throne, lowered his head and saw the female envoy of the country, this person was short and thick-waisted, he must have been dabbling in the forest all year round, his face was dark. The lame official words of the Great Song Dynasty also made the civil and military officials who sat down laugh secretly.

Zhao Dezhao sat among the hundred officials, his expression was indifferent, he knew that the Jurchens were still under the rule of the Khitans, and the Jurchens were also in a backward era.

At this moment, Zhao Kuangyin raised his right hand and asked politely: "Your envoy has worked, this time I came to Beijing, I don't know how your country and your chieftain are, which tribe are you from?" ”

"My lord, everything is fine, we are the Jurchen Yanbu. This time I came to the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to paying tribute, I also came for the plight of my people...... Your Majesty, now that the Khitans have oppressed our people too much, they will pull strong people at every turn, and my Jurchen people have no choice but to swallow their anger, hoping to help my Jurchen tribe with the help of your country. "Bow down, sincere in language.

Help? But...... Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to help, but the Jurchens were too far away, and there was a Liao country in the middle, and Zhao Kuangyin had also seen the place where the Jurchens were located from the atlas drawn by Zhao Dezhao, and the approximate range was according to Zhao Dezhao's words, among the mountains, forests, rivers and seas north of Liaobei, and he also knew the situation of the Jurchens from the official and secret agents.

The Jurchens are divided into twelve tribes, the most powerful of which is the Wanyan tribe, but now under the notice of the Khitans of the Liao State, life is not good...... Zhao Kuangyin probably only knows this.

Zhao Kuangyin is not easy to answer the female Zhiguo for the time being, but he also appeased the female Zhiguo and reassured him that since the Great Song Dynasty and the Zhiguo have a friendly relationship, naturally the Great Song Dynasty will also help the female Zhiguo.

Jurchen, also known as female straight or privet. And for the Jurchens, Zhao Dezhao is also very hateful, in history, the Jin State established by the Jurchens destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty established by Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Dezhao thought so, and the concept of resentment in his bones swelled rapidly.

And in history, it is known as the title of "Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible", but Zhao Dezhao thought about it carefully, if it were not for the suppression of the Khitans of the Liao State in history, the Jurchens would not have rebelled, and the Great Song Dynasty was finally made a mess by the descendants of Huizong, and the people were not able to make a living.

But now that he is in this world, he shouldn't let that kind of tragedy happen, so Zhao Dezhao is also secretly determined to change everything, and the northern tribal regime has always been a big trouble.

The envoys sent by the Jurchens also said that the Khitans oppressed the Jurchens, and whether the Khitans or the Jurchens were the henchmen of the Central Plains Dynasty, but Zhao Dezhao also knew that from the consideration of national interests, helping the Jurchens could also appropriately curb the Khitans, that is, the so-called "distant friendship and close attack".

After Fan Sui entered Qin in the past, he wanted King Qin Zhao to offer advice, "The king is not as good as a distant friend and a close attack." If you get an inch, you will go to an inch; get the ruler, and the ruler of the king is also ......", and then King Zhao accepted it as a national policy to annex the six countries.

Now, the Khitans of the Liao State, the Jurchens who were oppressed by the Liao State and the Great Song people, among which there were border conflicts between the Song and Liao, and there were dozens of large and small battles, and the Jurchens and the Song people were far apart, so it can be said that there was no intersection for the time being.

Now that the Jurchens have difficulty in asking for help from the Great Song Dynasty, even if the Great Song Dynasty helps the Jurchens, they can only help them secretly, funding them with weapons, money, food, soldiers and other materials, so that they can resist the rule of the Khitans, and also make the Khitan country unsafe, so that the Khitans are busy quelling the chaos, and the Great Song can relieve the pressure on the north, put most of the troops into the war to pacify the south, and take the opportunity to unify the south.

Historically, after the Great Song Dynasty unified the south, it came to attack the Liao State, at this time, the lord of the Liao State, King Yelu Sleep, was killed, the politics began to stabilize, the civil strife ended, and the Liao State gradually recovered and began to go south.

After the Song Dynasty attacked the Liao State did have a lot of difficulty, and the land of Yanyun has not been recovered, after Song Zhenzong, the Song Liao Dynasty with the Yuanyuan Alliance, the army.

And Zhao Dezhao knows this history, so how to make the Liao State more chaotic is what he cares about, the more chaos in the Liao State, the greater the help to the Great Song Dynasty, the longer the best chaos, the Great Song Dynasty was also able to transfer troops to concentrate on attacking the Liao State after pacifying the south.

After the court meeting, Zhao Kuangyin summoned Wang Pu and others and began to discuss the matter of the Jurchens.

First of all, the important ministers, as well as Zhao Dezhao, agreed that helping the Jurchens could defend themselves against the flank invasion of the Khitans. It's just that in helping the Jurchens, Zhao Dezhao also gave him an answer.

Zhao Dezhao asked Xiao Guizi to bring the map he drew from his dormitory, which was more detailed than the map given to Zhao Kuangyin before, and on this map, the water route, the sphere of influence of each tribe was also drawn.

Zhao Dezhao stood in front of the map, pointed to the sea and land, expounded the relationship between the three with the strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and then proposed to use the method of barter to purchase ginseng and other medicinal materials, mink skins and other things from the Jurchens, and the Great Song Dynasty provided horses, money, food, and soldiers for the Jurchens.

Zhao Dezhao suggested that the imperial court use the original port and shipping routes in the land of Qilu to reopen the sea transportation routes, and at the same time develop northward, passing through Goryeo (at this time, under the rule of Wang Zhao, the fourth monarch of Goryeo, the son of Goryeo Taejo Wang Jian), bypassing the Goryeo Peninsula and not landing from this position on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Secondly, the Great Song Dynasty merchants were allowed to enter northern Liaobei and other places for commercial trade, and transported the goods in the Great Song Dynasty to the territory of the Liao State for sale, and then established a port on the island of Jeju Island in the later world, and developed shipbuilding and animal husbandry.

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Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liang, spoke for a long time, and finally finished speaking, and the hundred officials were also dumbfounded, and Emperor Zhao Kuangyin was even more so.

A few days later, Zhao Kuangyin replied to the Jurchen envoys, rewarded the Jurchens with a lot of materials, and asked the bones to bring their own holy decrees and reward the Jurchen clan.