No shortage of walls

Emperor Xia had a discussion at court and had just handed over his credentials to the Song Kingdom. He was also planning to sell goods from the Western and Northern Kingdoms to the Song Kingdom. He also made money by selling the novel, weird and useful things from the Song Kingdom. At this time, I was surprised to hear that they had occupied the Liao Kingdom and converted Liao into the Song Dynasty.

Is the Song army's war going too fast? How much military strength is there? Is the Liao Kingdom that weak?

Although Xia Song had done it before, the most recent time was with His Highness Prince Jing, the eldest son of Emperor Qingyuan. Still, he was the loser, but no matter what, this was the first time he had been in contact with Emperor Song Zhengtong.

By the time the Song army had captured the Liao Kingdom. It was obviously too late to take action at this time, and besides, they were fighting, so it was impossible not to be on guard.

Secondly, it seems that the battle has been won; the Song State is just asking for compensation; now the letter of credence of the Song State has been replied, which is very polite; the Minister of Rites of the Song State should be here soon. The left and right are all about money. If you can make money now, why should you grab it?

Besides, robbing may not necessarily lead to making more money.

Using the army, spending money, food and grass, and there will definitely be people dying to grab the money; it may not be as much as making money. Furthermore, the Song army won a great victory, the morale of the soldiers was high, and they were old friends again; knowing that the Song army fought, they were not afraid of death. Most of the time, the trend of death prevails. If you go to grab it at this time, it is still unknown whether you can win.

From such an analysis, it is more cost-effective to make money than to steal money, and stealing money will kill people; making money is the joy of the whole country, and it is very safe.

The Xia State has no interest in the land of the Song State, just because the Song State is too poor and has a tendency to fight to the death; raising a poor relative is still the kind of poor relative without a conscience. The richest country in the world must raise such a poor relative. Poor guy; he finally became poor himself.

It would be really uncomfortable for the country with the richest man in the world to become poor.

The court analysis, of course, also understands. The Song Dynasty followed the Liao Dynasty, which suddenly changed the world situation and political balance. It's just that Song and Liao are competing in the east, and their impact on Xia is not the greatest. If the Song Emperor only wants revenge, it doesn't matter. If there are still moves, he should pay attention to it.

The only solution now is to send spies to the Song Dynasty to investigate the problem.

Donghu from the north pretended not to know about this matter.

First of all, Emperor Song's business is indeed a bit confusing.

Secondly, Donghu’s territory is too big. People look down on this little thing.

However, Qi Wuyue's nerves suddenly became tense.

The Song Dynasty followed the Liao Dynasty and had a feud with Wu and Yue. The Qi State was in the north and was also in a difficult situation. After analysis, there were two problems.

First of all, it is still a business of the Song Dynasty; everyone has something in mind.

Secondly, it is also a cliché. The Song army has a great victory and its morale is high. This is not a good time to take action.

When the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Song Dynasty went to the foreign Ministry of Rites to talk about revenge with gnashing teeth. Liu Chengwen, the first-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites, arrived at Hezhou Pass on the third day of April. In response to the letter from the seventh prince of Xia Kingdom, we came to discuss business.

This time, the purchase and sale of the Xia Kingdom was handled by the Seventh Prince, Nanwang Xia Feihong. Since the wishes of both parties were almost unanimous, the negotiations for the purchase and sale went smoothly, and the letters of credence were signed within a few days.

The cattle and horses purchased by the Song State from the Xia State were no longer purchased separately; the Xia people were also willing to sell the cattle and horses that had been suspended for a year, and the requirement was that the cattle and horses should be mixed with the sheep, according to the rule of one hundred and two; the Song State required no less than 70,000 cattle and horses. Regarding the number of sheep, regarding the issue of fat and thin size, the two agreed-upon standards are relaxed upward and downward, because Xia Guo intends to suppress Donghu, and also because sheep are fatter and thinner; the price of sheep is reduced by 10%, but the cattle and horses are no longer alone. If you sell it, you have to wait until the snow comes.

There are 40,000 dans of miscellaneous grains at the same price, and a total of 5,000 dans of cotton, medicinal materials, etc. The certificate of credence is signed and delivered, and the goods are delivered by the border customs as before.

Most of the things sold by the workshops in the Song Dynasty were still the same as before; because the workshops were not yet fully able to supply, the signed certificates were still living certificates.

But Xixia is still the richest country in a hundred countries. The workshop's fine cotton cloth requires more than 3,000 pieces, tentatively 2,000 pieces. The certificate of credence received at the border shall prevail. In addition to ordinary cotton cloth, white linen and jute cloth, the total is 7,000 pieces. Only the newly released white sugar is said to have unstable output and is a novelty. There is really no way to determine the number of tens of thousands of kilograms, so I still signed a demand deposit.

Perhaps due to the restraint of the Ministry of Rites, Xixia only scolded the Song Emperor for attacking Southern Liao; Liu Chengwen gritted his teeth and told about Song Ru's rebellion against the Song Dynasty; he was willing to die on the battlefield regardless of his old age, Xixia In the end no troops were sent.

As for the new liquor produced by Cui Zheng's workshop, it has not been produced at this time; once it is produced, when Cui Zheng ships it, it will naturally be sent abroad first. Each country sent him ten kilograms and quoted the price; if the other country wanted it, he would naturally place an order with the Song army commander at the border. The border commander would naturally divide his troops into two groups and ride all the way back to the court and all the way to the workshop.

As soon as Song Xia's credentials were signed, grains and other grains began to come in; the border guard sent someone to ride back to the court, handed the original of the credentials to the Holy Lord, and copied the copy and flew it to the workshop.

Within a few days, the three additional issues of the April newspaper for the third year of Orthodoxy were distributed on April 29th.

The first article of the newspaper took three pieces of paper; it made a long speech about Emperor Xia and the seventh prince of Xia Kingdom, and gave serious and severe praise; all the good words in the world were placed on Emperor Xia's head ;Write Emperor Xia as an unprecedented sage, and I am afraid there will be no other sage in the future! Except for the fact that Emperor Xia did not attain enlightenment and become an immortal, ascend to immortality and become a feather, ascend to the upper world, and enjoy the incense and salary from the lower world, all other words to praise the wise and sage monarchs were placed on Emperor Xia's head.

The second thing is that Emperor Xia showed mercy to the people of Xia and Song Dynasties; the price of sheep was reduced by 10%, as well as the number of sheep and miscellaneous grains; cloth and other purchased items. He also indirectly praised Emperor Xia, but he never mentioned the cattle and horses, and he never mentioned the size of the sheep.

The third is that His Majesty, the wise and mighty orthodox emperor of the Song Dynasty, called on the people of the Song Dynasty to eat three meals a day if they could afford it. If they did not have enough food themselves, they could buy mutton and grains from foreign countries. Chaoting also doesn't make money. It calculates the distance of the journey, adds freight and taxes, and sells it. After eating, they worked hard to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. The excess rice and grains would be purchased by the court later; the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, starting from July, the whole army had to eat three meals, but the article did not mention the potatoes from the palace of His Majesty the Orthodox Emperor. Sweet potato seeds.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty all knew this. They were afraid that foreign countries would be jealous and cause a war, so they only pushed it to buy grains. Help the people of Xia make more money.

As long as you work hard, you won't be hungry.

The fourth thing is what the Song Dynasty sold to the Xia Kingdom. Except for the cloth, the other items were living documents. I am deeply sorry to say that the production capacity of the workshop is not enough; but we will do our best.

The rest are two folk tales and a dirty joke.

One folk tale comes from the northern part of the Song Dynasty. One is circulated in the Xia Kingdom. It is a dirty joke from the southern riverside. It has been passed down for many years; it is said to be true.