In fact, what Xi Zhicai said is not entirely accurate. The market that the popular Luan Yi is about to build in Longxi is not so much a market as it is a city.

This city located at the junction of the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions countries, Luan Yi temporarily named it Yangcheng, and in the future it will become the capital of Qiang Dao. At the same time, it was also a trade transit station on the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions.

In fact, this plan was set a year ago and was included in detail in the Third Five-Year Plan of the Church of Our Lady. After another year of design, the sketch of the castle construction has now been produced.

A copy of this sketch is now on his body, and when he faced Bitter Winter's questioning, he immediately took out the sketch and showed it to Bitter Winter.

Seeing the drawings, Ku Dongcai completely believed that Xi Zhicai did not pit him, and Hanting really wanted to build a big bazaar in Longxi, the scale of the bazaar was obvious, and there were more than 300 large and small shops, which could be described as extremely grand.

The drawings also specially divided the Qiang trade area, that is, the area that Xi Zhicai promised to the Qiang people before, and the area does account for one-third of the market, and there are hundreds of shops.

Bitter Winter smiled, that's a hundred shops! It seems that the Han people only gave them more than a hundred shops, but who said that business can only be done in shops? In addition to shops, we can also set up stalls! Taking advantage of the prosperous atmosphere of the city, the stalls can also make a lot of money. In our prison, Sister Qiang is the most important thing to lack is the businessman who sets up a stall!

Thinking of this, Bitter Winter was excited. But after thinking about it, he hesitated again, "Dare to ask Mr. Xi, building such a big market is not a trivial matter, can Hanting have so much money?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Xi Zhi smiled. Over the years, the imperial court has been running deficits year after year, making ends meet, and it may not be able to come up with money for other things. But there is never a shortage of money to build a city.

In this regard, Luoyang City, which is under construction, is the best example. Even such a large-scale city has been built, not to mention a mere sheep city.

As for the method of raising money, it is very simple, just like Luoyang, it is to have an early pre-sale. If you want to buy a shop in Yangcheng, you must first hand over the money to the imperial court, and the imperial court will take the advance payment to buy materials, hire craftsmen, and build the city before handing over the house. In this way, not only does it not cost the imperial court a penny, but the imperial court can also take this opportunity to earn back the military expenses of the expedition against the Qiang people.

It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Xi Zhicai then informed Kuan Dong of Luan's way of recruiting Yangcheng construction funds. (No pop-up ads)

Bitter Winter suddenly opened his eyes when he heard this, and exclaimed: "The city can still be built like this." It was really an eye-opener, and His Royal Highness King Qi was also a true god. ”

Xi Zhicai also told Bitter Winter that the auction of major shops in Yangcheng is expected to be held in Chang'an City in May next year. At that time, in order to occupy a place in Yangcheng and carry out trade with the countries of the Western Regions, the wealthy people from all over the Han Dynasty will continue to gather in Chang'an and take the initiative to hand over the money for the construction of Yangcheng. At that time, if the prison sister Qiang people want to buy more shops, they can also bring more money to Chang'an at that time to bid with the Han merchants. At that time, our Han court will be undeceived, regardless of nationality, whoever bids for a high shop will belong to whomever will not lose his trust.

After listening to Xi Zhicai's words, Bitter Winter's wrinkled old face looked impassive, but in fact, he was secretly calculating in his heart how much savings the clan still has now, and how many shops he can buy back from Chang'an in May next year......

Things have come to the point where the move of the alliance has basically been reached. After briefly describing the prosperity of the current Han Dynasty with Ku Dong, Xi Zhi took out the alliance book that had been prepared long ago from his sleeve.

Ku Dong asked a clansman who knew Chinese characters to translate it, and the content was the same as what Xi Zhicai had just said - Sister Qiang helped the Han Dynasty attack and burn dang, and after winning, she only needed to pay 10 million taels of silver tax to the Han court every year, and the time limit was 50 years, and then it would be discussed after 50 years. At the same time, the Han Dynasty will establish Yangcheng in the territory of Sister Qiang, as a holy place for trade between the east and the west, and transfer one-third of the shops in Yangcheng to the people of Sister Qiang free of charge.

Ku Dong, who was known for his caution among the Qiang people, read the alliance three times, and after making sure that there was no conspiracy trap, he signed his name and stamped the seal of the leader.

The alliance between Sister Qiang and Dahan has since been reached.

Coming out of Longxi, Xi Zhi turned to find the Shen Di Qiang tribe.

As the closest Qiang tribe to the territory of the Han Dynasty, the degree of sinicization of Shen Qiqiang far exceeded that of other tribes. Its mixed-race population of Han and Qiang stands as much as one-third of the entire ethnic group, and most of the people in the clan, from nobles to commoners, can speak Chinese, and Han has become their official language. In daily life, both the way they dress and the habits of life are on par with the Han people - the hanfu made of silk and satin has become the favorite of the upper class of their clan, and the cooked food has gradually replaced the barbaric barbecue food......

As a result, they became outliers in the eyes of the Qiang people - fake Han people.

The closeness of Shen Diqiang's relationship with the Han Dynasty is not only this, the sister of Luo Xuan, the leader of contemporary Shen Diqiang, is also Ma Teng's wife who has just died, that is, Ma Chao's biological mother, and the two families are considered in-laws.

With this relationship, Xi Zhicai once thought that Shen Diqiang should be the easiest to persuade among all the Qiang tribes. However, the reality is quite the opposite.

When he asked Luo Xuan to form an alliance in the Shen Diqiang camp, Luo Xuan refused without hesitation.

As for the reason...... In the past few decades, Shen Qiqiang has had frequent exchanges with the Han Dynasty. Many clansmen chose to leave their homeland and go to the Han Chinese territory to pan for gold to support their families. Among them, some worked under the Han industry, and some simply joined the Han army to fight for the Han army.

However, those hateful Han Chinese did not treat the honest and trustworthy Qiang people as human beings, and instead of paying them wages on time, they detained them and drove them like slaves. Only a small amount of food is distributed every day, and they are not treated as human beings.

In the past 20 years, it has intensified, Dong Zhuo, Han Sui and others often led troops to sneak attack Qiang Dao, infiltrated the territory of the Shen Di people, wantonly plundered the Qiang people, brought them back to Xiliang, forcibly placed them in the army, and let them rush to the front to die when they fought.

Such all kinds of bad deeds made the Shen Qiang people hate the Han people deeply, and it would be good if they didn't turn around and raise troops to rebel against the Han court, how could they help the Han people to burn Dangqiang.

Xi Zhicai's lobbying work fell into a stagnation for a moment, and no matter how he persuaded him, Shen Qiqiang was unwilling to unite with the Han Court.

At the same time, there was news that the king of Qiang was ...... That is, the leader of the burning Dangqiang issued an assembly order to the Qiang tribes, asking the twenty-three Qiang tribes to assemble a large army and join them to meet the Han army from afar.

Sister Yan, Beipu, Wuwu, Zhong Cun, Gong Tang, Ji Leng, and Fu Nan responded one after another, and are leading their clansmen to join the Burning Dangqiang people, and now they have gathered more than 200,000 troops.

This number is still growing day after day, and the longer the wait, the more soldiers and horses the Qiang people gather. Although the Church army is not afraid of the large number of Qiang people, after all, the greater the number of enemy troops, the more soldiers and horses you will lose.

Luan Yi didn't want to add casualties and couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to send troops to Qiang Road in the near future.

Xi Zhi knew that if the church army sent troops to Qiang now, and Shen Diqiang did not ally with the Han Dynasty, they would become the primary target at the junction of Han and Qiang.

Out of sympathy for what the Shen Qiang people had suffered for many years, Xi Zhicai couldn't bear to see them being bullied by the Han people again. He personally wrote a letter to Luan Yi and begged for more time, as long as he gave him ten days, and within ten days he would be able to persuade King Shen Qiqiang to surrender to the banner of King Qi.

However, due to the constraints of the current situation, Luan Yi did not agree to Xi Zhicai's request, but only told him that he would be given three more days at most, if Shen Yiqiang did not surrender within three days.

The iron hooves of the Church army are the talisman that sends them to hell.

"Three Days ......" Xi Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, although it was a little tighter, but it should be enough.

Within three days, Xi Zhicai relied on the camp of the Shen Di people, trying to lobby among the high-ranking members of the Shen Di Qiang tribe.

At the last moment when the time limit was about to end, Xi Zhicai threw the last fierce medicine to Luo Xuan, the leader of Shen Diqiang, and the tribal officials, "If Shen Diqiang is willing to help my Han court, my Han court is willing to accept all Shen Diqiang people as Han people, supplemented by Han nationality." From then on, the Shen and Qiang people could enjoy the same rights as the Han people. You can enter the Church of Our Lady, you can study in a church school, and even enter the priesthood. ”

Luo Xuan was stunned when he heard this. For many years, in the eyes of the rest of the Qiang tribes, they Shen Diqiang are Han people, and in the eyes of the Han people, they belong to the Qiang people. Both sides do not want to treat them as their own, so they can only survive in the cracks.

As a result, the relationship between the 23 Qiang tribes, which are now the same root as them, is getting more and more distant from them...... Gradually, they turned away from them. At this time, when they lost their roots, the Han people threw an olive branch to them and offered to accept them......

It is false to say that you dare not move.

"When we join the Han nationality, you won't bully us like you used to do, right?" Luo Xuan was skeptical.

"Naturally not. If you enter the Han nationality, you are a Han protected by the laws of the Great Han Dynasty, and whoever dares to bully you, you will go to the yamen to sue him! ”

Luo Xuan had heard that since the king of Qi was in power, the Han people everywhere were very law-abiding. He also heard that after King Qi defeated Karasuma, some Karasuma people were slaves at first, but later behaved well and obtained Han nationality. Subsequently, some local Haoqiang wanted to bully them, so they sued Haoqiang to the government according to Han Law, and finally won the lawsuit and received a large amount of compensation.

The Karasuma people can get this kind of treatment, and I believe that they can do the same with the Shen Qi Qiang people.

"It's just ......" Luo Xuan stroked his beard and said, "For such a big matter, can Mr. Xi make a decision by himself?" ”

Xi Zhicai said confidently: "Before I came, my Han Protector Sect Master, His Royal Highness the King of Qi gave me full discretion, and I could completely decide on the matter of granting Shen Di and Qiang Han nationality. In addition, your ministry and my Han have shared weal and woe and have had a lot of exchanges. It is natural to give it to your Han nationality, and it is the trend of the times. ”

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