At the beginning of the founding of the country, Duan Siping borrowed troops from the 37 barbarian departments of the Eastern Black and Song Plans. Except for a small number of ethnic groups such as Luowei, Xichu, Situo, and Tierong, the rest are the barbarians of eastern Yunnan, northeast Yunnan, central Yunnan, southern Yunnan, and western Guizhou. Because the Dali regime "depends on the barbarians of the East for its success", at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, "all treasures were awarded, and rewards were awarded" to reduce and exempt conscription. These feudal barbarian nobles were all large and small feudal lords who were "officials and officials, and managed the land and the people".

In the later period, due to the cowardice of the lord of Dali and the economic and cultural progress of the various ethnic groups in the frontier, the consciousness of independence was enhanced, and the factions within the ruling class were numerous, deceitful and deceitful, fighting for power and profit, and the local power became bigger and stronger to the point that the local centrifugal force gradually increased, all of which made the territory actually controlled by the supreme ruler of Dali much smaller than the nominal jurisdiction.

Many of the regions surrounding the Dali regime had more autonomy in the political, economic, and even military spheres, resulting in powerful local tribes supporting their own troops and often encroaching on the land of neighboring ethnic groups in order to expand their own territory and the sphere of power, and even to establish themselves as a state. The rise of these local self-government regimes will inevitably seriously shake the foundation of Dali's rule, and the factors of instability are expanding day by day, and the slightest disturbance will cause turmoil...

The real cause of this unrest is actually very simple, it is because of money. Dali has seven mountains and three fields, and the agricultural income is limited, but fortunately, the handicraft industry is relatively developed, and it was once part of the Silk Road, relying on the ancient tea horse road to have some income, but most of the money fell into the hands of the imperial court and the big tribes. Other tribes mainly relied on the sale of horses, but there was usually only one buyer of horses, and that was the nearby Great Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, it lost its horse grazing place one after another. They could only buy horses from the Khitan and Western Xia at a high price, but the roads were cut off due to frequent wars between them. In order to replenish the military horses, the 'Guangma' could only be bought from Dali. The so-called Guangma refers to the horse bought by the Song Dynasty from Guangnan West Road, and the horse is produced in Dali. The Great Song Dynasty bought more than 3,000 horses every year. The trade volume was around 200,000 taels of silver. Although this money is not much for the Song Dynasty, it is very rich for some tribes in Dali, so that they take horse sales as the main economic pillar, make the tribes rich through the war horse trade, and establish the country with the war horse economy.

Stimulated by the lucrative profits, everyone wanted to get a piece of the soup, and the process of selling horses was inevitably hindered by others, and some tribes built countless checkpoints and fortresses on the transportation points, and sent soldiers to escort them along the way. did not hesitate to use force to break through and open the way, which shows the deep impact of the Great Song Dynasty on their economy. But this bloody trade gradually declined with the accession of Zhao Tan, who had already taken control of large swathes of the grasslands of the northwest, Shaanxi, and southern Mo through a series of wars, and had vast pastures and millions of horses. At the same time, the accessibility of trade routes also made a small number of Hui, Tubo, and Tatar import excellent war horses into the Great Song Dynasty, and the situation of lack of horses was fundamentally reversed.

Because Guangma was short and good at walking on mountain roads with heavy loads, the Song army's baggage troops and mountain troops still had a small amount of purchases. Compared to before, it was already a great cowering, and the battle between the various ministries was more fierce and cruel, and everyone wanted to monopolize the war horse trade and make that small profit. A new dispute began with an edict from the Great Song Emperor.

The trade area between the Song Dynasty and Dali used to be set up in Yongzhou Hengshanzhai on the South Guangxi Road, and the emperor thought that Guangma would supply the Sichuan and Shaanxi regions, and although the horses were also paid for in gold, silver, silk brocade, etc. But more often than not, it is paid in the form of well salt. Considering that there were thousands of miles to drive horses to Sichuan and Shaanxi after the Hengshanzhai trade, it was too inconvenient to transfer salt here. Therefore, it was decided to set up a new city on the right bank of the Jinsha River, which is close to Luzhou, in a place where the water is gentle, so that the two countries can trade with each other.

After repeated surveys by Tongchuan Road officials. Finally, the site is located at the confluence of the Jinsha River and the Niulan River in Luzhou to build a city and set up a horse market, take the meaning of good-neighborliness and good-neighborliness called 'good-neighborly city', and Dali Dongchuan County across the river, the Great Song Dynasty wants to build two rope bridges to facilitate travel, and at the same time send an envoy to discuss with Dali to build a city and build a bridge. Sure enough, as Zhao Ta didn't expect, this suggestion was rejected by Daliguo.

In the past, Dali has been asking the two countries to establish a city of peace in eastern Yunnan, why did they refuse? Because Zhao Ta chose this place sensitively! The Dongchuan Department and the Tongchuan Mansion Road of the Song Dynasty are connected, there are seven Wuman departments, because of the relaxation of the management and control of their seven departments by the Dali State, so the Wumeng Department, the Wusa Department, the Yi Niang Department, the Manbu Department, the Yixi Department, and the head of the Song Dynasty are all interested in throwing themselves into the Song Dynasty. However, because the Song Dynasty has been at war with the Khitan, Jurchen and Dangxiang in the north, and the strategic focus is in the north, there is no time to take into account their 'goodwill', so Yixi and other six departments are actually in a state of relatively independent development, and only the Dongchuan County is still under the control of Dali.

Dali can not care about the past, but if the city is built, it can not help but make a move, because Dali has already had such a thing, that is, the rise of its neighboring Ziqi country, they are through the war horse trade to get rich quickly and become strong, and they are the only ones in the barbarians. And dare to claim to be stronger than Hengshan, expand the scope of its power in the form of tribal alliances, has surpassed Luodian, and has risen to become the most important minority regime in the southwest region after Dali, not only threatening its border security, but also robbing them of a lot of wealth.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Gao's refusal to build a city in Dongchuan County on the grounds of preventing the emergence of a second Ziqi State is just a pretext, and what he is really worried about is that the rapid rise of the barbarians through trade with the Great Song Dynasty threatens Gao's rule over the Dali Kingdom, so that they gradually lose their current status, so they try their best to stop it.

For the blind refusal of Minister Gao Shunzhen to prevent himself from getting rich, of course, the Dongchuan tribes hated it so much, but at this time they had not lost their minds, and they knew that they were not Gao's opponents. However, at this time, when they heard that the Great Song Dynasty was going to build a city here, some Song Dynasty merchants with a keen sense of smell had already rushed to the city, and seeing that the government could not reach an agreement, some of them wanted to bypass the governments of the two countries and find the largest local leader of the Wumeng tribe to make a private deal.

But these merchants did not take a fancy to Dali's horses, but the barren mountains in front of them, and they offered a price of 500 yuan to buy the ownership. Luo Jichang, the leader of the Wumeng Tribe, couldn't think of the use of barren mountains and mountains that could grow some prey in addition to blocking the way in their eyes, and this money was enough for him to buy a hundred acres of good land in Dali, and if he sold the thousands of barren mountains he belonged to to these Great Song Dynasty merchants, he could get 500,000 yuan at once.

Luo Jichang felt that this deal was very cost-effective, he could cultivate good land and keep it for himself, and the barren mountains had turned into silver, and this money was enough to make his three generations eat and drink without worry, so he readily agreed at the moment. What surprised him even more was that the legendary treacherous and cunning merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were very fair in their dealings, and even the trees on the mountain, the stockade they built, and even the dam fields on the mountain were converted into silver and returned to him, totaling 600,000 yuan. 600,000 taels of silver piled together like a hill, in the face of this windfall from the sky, Luo Jichang was so happy that he almost fainted, and the Wumeng people were all overjoyed, everyone's good day has arrived!

Where in the world is there an impermeable wall, they wear gold and silver, eat and drink spicy food to show off their wealth, the Wumeng Department made a fortune soon spread to the ears of other departments in Dongchuan, they have come to the door to ask for the secret of making a fortune. Lao Luo couldn't keep this secret in the face of his brothers, and said it 1510. Hearing that the barren mountain that had always been regarded as waste by them was sold for such a high price, he hoped that the Wumeng Ministry would make an introducer to contact Song Shang and ask if he could buy their mountain as well.

Luo Jichang thought about it and agreed, do you have money to earn! But as soon as he told Song Shang, they got angry, saying that they Wumeng people were not trustworthy, and told the matter to the truth, and shouted for them to return the money - not to buy it. Lao Luo then remembered that the two sides had indeed said during the negotiation that it was good for both sides of this matter to know their own ways, and they must not spread it, so as not to attract the attention of the official, and if there is a violation, not only will the money be refunded, but also half of the total price will be compensated. He was stupid, not to mention that the money he had just arrived was returned to others, and he had to pay 300,000 yuan, where did they have it!

No one wants to spit out the fat in their mouths, let alone such a large amount of wealth. Luo Jichang even asked a few people what to do, but he had already made up his mind in his heart that no matter what way he wanted to keep the money. Song Shang sighed a few times to explain the reason, it turned out that the problem was Gao Shunzhen, the minister of Dali State, after the Song envoy failed to negotiate the establishment of the city, he proposed to rent a mine in Dongchuan County, Dali State, and these businessmen heard the news in advance, so they bought the mine and wanted to make some money from it, so they asked them to keep it secret, otherwise the news would be leaked and nothing would be found.

Luo Jichang was furious when he heard this, but he didn't hate Song Shang for being cunning, but hated Gao Suzhen, the Great Song Dynasty wanted to rent the land of Dongchuan County and they didn't know anything about it, they must have wanted to put the money in their pockets, not to mention that they couldn't even drink soup if they ate meat. So he immediately said that he had the final say on this land, and even if the two countries failed to negotiate, they would hand over the land to them in accordance with the agreement, and they would never be allowed to suffer, but I hoped that Song Shang could buy the barren mountains of the other ministries as well.

Merchants are mercenary, and finally the leaders of the six tribes in Dongchuan sacrificed to the gods, and promised after making a blood oath, but because they don't have so much money, they can only pay a part of it in cash, and the rest can be compensated with goods. For the sake of money, everyone agreed... (To be continued......)