After Cao Bin captured Shaozhou, 100,000 troops advanced along the water and land, and threatened Xingwang Mansion.The Southern Han Kingdom had a vast separatist territory and could not organize a decent war.
Because the Southern Han Dynasty ruler Liu Jixing had no one available in the capital, his power was all in the hands of palace maids and eunuchs. There were as many as 20,000 eunuchs in China, and he had to be an official and castrated himself first.
The Xing Palace was in panic.In addition to the worry of the king and his ministers, there is also a group of special people who are worried and afraid and ready to take the boat to run away at any time; they are the merchants of Dashi.
The Silk Road in the Western Regions at the end of the Tang Dynasty was blocked, and the Dashi merchants came from the sea to the southern coast and once opened up the trade route.
However, Zhu Wen destroyed Tang and later led his troops to Guangdong, and he was short of military expenditure at the end of his journey. At this time, he found a large number of Dashi merchants, and killed all Dashi merchants without saying a word!
Snatch all their goods and belongings.
The sea route trade was blocked for a while, and it was only after 20 or 30 years that the communication was gradually renewed, but the scale was no longer as large as that of the Tang Dynasty.
The Great Cannibal established a trade relationship with the Southern Han Kingdom for common interests and also gave a great food beauty named Mèi Pig, who was deeply loved by Liu Jixing.
The bloodshed has been decades and has been washed away by the waves.But the shadow is still there, and the Dashi merchants are very worried that after the Xing Palace is captured, the Chinese and Turkish soldiers will use their old tricks to do such barbaric actions again.
However, they were unwilling to completely give up their property and commercial profits in the Xingwang Mansion. In addition, they heard rumors that the Middle-earth dynasty was not the Zhu Wen tribe who was desperate to jump to the wall at that time, so they still had a glimmer of hope.
The leader of the Dashi merchant decided to send envoys to the north to meet with the commander of the Zhou army to test the attitude of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Because the cannibal in the south was just a businessman and did not interfere with the war of unification, Cao Bin treated him with courtesy.Cao Bin immediately reported the matter to the court and made some of his own views in the memorial.
Cao Bin roughly affirmed the exchanges between Dashi merchants.
First, the taxes of the court can be increased from trade, and the cannibals mostly buy luxury goods such as silk and porcelain, which will not have much impact on people's livelihood; second, the diplomatic relations between far and near are the essence of ancient sages. Establishing a tribute trade system can expand the prestige of the dynasty... All countries thousands of miles away come to pay tribute, and their face will double!
...When Guo Shao received the memorial submitted from Tokyo, he had already left Lingzhou and was temporarily staying in the Binzhou Palace.
Wei Renpu and others all attached Cao Bin's proposal this time, and increasing taxes is enough for the ministers to support it.
At this time, the treasury expenses were very huge, with the solid foundations of Shu Kingdom and Southern Tang Dynasty. Although the treasury was not empty, the annual expenditure in the past two years was more than twice the normal fiscal revenue, and it was entirely dependent on subsidies from the internal treasury.
Cao Bin's rural military camp will be effective in the short term. Guo Shao is already planning a second batch of 100,000 troops to increase troops... The requirements for the ministers to implement the strategy are very simple, just three words: bring money.
In this situation, even if the Privy Council does not care about finance, it will be anxious.
Once the intravenous inventory plundered through the early war is hollowed out, it would be strange if the income and expenditure of the entire dynasty does not collapse!
Conventional means to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The profits of maritime trade with Dashi are open source, and mosquito meat is also meat.
However, Guo Shao said something that no one paid attention to: How did the big cannibal come to Xingwang Mansion?
Wei Renpu pondered for a moment and said: It should be a boat.
Guo Shao said: It is naturally a boat to come from the sea. The key is that it is thousands of miles apart. It is not easy for the boat to reach us.I remember that when the Southern Tang Kingdom sent people to go north to ask for help from the Liao Kingdom, and they even crossed the near-sea several times. This cannibal route is farther than the East China Sea, so there must be a reason to reach the Xingwang Mansion.
After hearing this, the ministers nodded and said yes, but they didn't seem to pay much attention to it.Because navigation technology is really not particularly critical to the court.
However, Guo Shao paid special attention to this matter... His perspective and insight are different.
Navigation technology may not be very important now, but it will gradually have far-reaching impacts in many years.
In Guo Shao's memory, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that China's fleet reached Africa and was soon interrupted.
Being able to sail from Arabia to Southeast Asia must have unique features in shipbuilding and nautical experience and skills.
Guo Shao's concepts never underestimated himself to ancient China, nor did he have the blind arrogance of the Celestial Empire.
Compared with the various civilizations in the world at the same time, everyone is behind and worse. He thinks that China is still more advanced in all aspects, and can be considered civilized, prosperous and stable; but not everything is the most advanced, and many aspects still have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Learning each other's strengths will help make progress; for example, the Ming Dynasty was generally strong and advanced, and we still had to learn from foreign countries in terms of firearms and other aspects in order to keep up with the general trend.
Zuo You also served as the Ministry of Rites. He was in Lingnan and issued an order to let Zuo You be responsible for discussing with the cannibals.Guo Shao said.
All the ministers thought that the cannibals were Gentiles. When it comes to diplomatic relations, Cao Bin could not be in charge. He had to use the Beijing officials to represent the central government.
Guo Shao quickly made a decision and wrote two letters, one to Cao Bin and the other to Zuo You, and put forward some of his own attitudes to let them be responsible for handling the affairs in the south.
...At this time, Cao Bin's troops strictly control the water and land roads in Lingnan and advance steadily.
However, in fact, the army of the Southern Han Dynasty was inconsistent in combat and did not have any conventional tactical efforts such as harassing or cutting off food channels. The Zhou army was progressing very smoothly.
Not long after, Liu Jixing sent people to the Zhou army camp to discuss peace.
The envoy actually threatened the Zhou army: If the Zhou army continues to attack, it will burn the Southern Han Palace, so that the Zhou army will not get any property!
The conditions proposed were to cede all the territory occupied by the Zhou army north of Shaozhou and give up the title of emperor; the Zhou army stopped attacking.
Cao Bin thought this condition was ridiculous. The army of the Southern Han Kingdom performed so poorly. Now he was very sure of destroying his country. Why should he tolerate the existence of the Southern Han Kingdom?
After discussing with Zuo You, he rejected the peace agreement of the envoys of the Southern Han Kingdom and put forward new conditions: the Southern Han Kingdom led all civil and military officials to surrender voluntarily, and the court be kind to grant you an official title and a title to ensure you have wealth; if the palace treasury is burned, the crime will be increased by one level, and the death penalty will be inevitable.
Zuo You discussed trade affairs with the Dashi Envoy.
The cannibal came and received courtesy, and then sent more important figures and several Chinese translators and staff hired to accompany him.
Zuo You met him in the tent.The translator waited for the great cannibal to finish his speech and said: Left Minister, his name is XXXX...
What?Zuo You frowned, but he didn't understand it. The name he was talking about seemed to be stuck in his nose, and he was in a vague voice.
The translator thought about it and said: The pronunciation of the name is "Shuaiman".He is the second-person of the Big Food Fleet, and he still keeps his word among the Big Food Fleet.
Zuo You nodded, then he clasped his fists and returned the gift to the cannibal.
Shuaiman looked at Zuo You and said something whispered.
After hearing this, Zuo You turned to look at the Chinese translator, and the man said again: Mr. Shuaiman roughly means that they came to Middle-earth to do business, very kind and without any hostility.Hope to be protected by His Majesty the Emperor.
Zuo You said: The Great Zhou court valued etiquette and virtue, which was completely different from the bandits and thieves in the turbulent times. Although you are relieved, Your Majesty hopes that the envoys of the Great Zhou capital Tokyo will visit the Great Zhou capital and pay tribute to each other.
Shuaiman said through the translation: How should we ensure our safety?
Zuo You pondered: Your Majesty will issue an edict to explain this matter, and the court is willing to communicate with Dashi whether there is any business or not.The Emperor of Great Zhou had a golden word and jade word, and the imperial edict must be counted, which is related to the prestige of the court.
He thought about it and said: However, the agreement between you and the Southern Han Kingdom cannot count, so we have to discuss it again.
Shuaiman felt more relieved when he heard this. Perhaps in their opinion, what can really protect safety is the interests.Since the Zhou court talked about commission, it was just to share the benefits, so we had to have a good relationship.
Zuo You checked it and then mentioned Guo Shao’s request in the letter and said: However, the merchants and other merchants must agree to our dynasty’s two conditions.First, the court must be abide by the laws of the court. Those who commit crimes must be punished according to the laws of the Great Zhou. You shall not obstruct the government's office.
Secondly, the court respects the gods of you and will not interfere with the gods of you and others worship the Bodhisattvas, but will not deceive the people in the Great Zhou territory, otherwise they will be severely punished and will no longer protect the safety of you and others.
Zuo You also suggested that Shuaiman send someone to Tokyo to pay tribute. As long as he gives the emperor some strange gifts, he will definitely get a generous reward.
Gentile tribute is also a kind of trade. For the court, it is a loss-making business. For the tributers, it is a business that allows them to make money without losing money, so it is generally only allowed to pay tribute once a year.
Not only because the court is in order to show its generosity and wealth, the key is to not give people money and others have no motivation to pay tribute; but if the world is not peaceful, the safety of the tribute route cannot be guaranteed... This kind of etiquette is mainly for economic interests, but to expand its prestige and influence, and to look forward to the prosperous situation where all nations come to pay tribute.
...After returning, Shuaiman discussed and accepted the request to go to the capital of Dazhou to pay tribute in order to further examine the attitude of the Zhou court.
The big cannibal prepared some rare goods brought from his hometown to trade. When Shuaiman checked the goods, he found a wooden model of a sailboat. He was furious and found a joint merchant leader and severely punished the people who prepared the goods to serve as a warning.
Shuaiman's reason is that the model of the sailboat given by the person who made the mistake may reveal the shipbuilding design of Dashi to Middle Earth.
All the partners agreed with his reasons, so the person who made the mistake was in trouble and was about to be cut off one hand.
He defended that the Zhou people never valued this thing, and that the model would definitely be placed in the room by the nobles as strange decorations; the reason was that the Middle-earth nobles despised merchants and craftsmen and would not interact with merchants and craftsmen.
But Shuaiman did not forgive him for this and insisted on punishing him.
A group of people discussed the rules that they should not tell outsiders about shipbuilding craftsmanship, navigation experience, mathematics and arithmetic, otherwise they would be executed next time!
They canceled some models from the gift list and replaced them with gold decorations and colorful gems, spices and other items.
Because the Southern Han Dynasty ruler Liu Jixing had no one available in the capital, his power was all in the hands of palace maids and eunuchs. There were as many as 20,000 eunuchs in China, and he had to be an official and castrated himself first.
The Xing Palace was in panic.In addition to the worry of the king and his ministers, there is also a group of special people who are worried and afraid and ready to take the boat to run away at any time; they are the merchants of Dashi.
The Silk Road in the Western Regions at the end of the Tang Dynasty was blocked, and the Dashi merchants came from the sea to the southern coast and once opened up the trade route.
However, Zhu Wen destroyed Tang and later led his troops to Guangdong, and he was short of military expenditure at the end of his journey. At this time, he found a large number of Dashi merchants, and killed all Dashi merchants without saying a word!
Snatch all their goods and belongings.
The sea route trade was blocked for a while, and it was only after 20 or 30 years that the communication was gradually renewed, but the scale was no longer as large as that of the Tang Dynasty.
The Great Cannibal established a trade relationship with the Southern Han Kingdom for common interests and also gave a great food beauty named Mèi Pig, who was deeply loved by Liu Jixing.
The bloodshed has been decades and has been washed away by the waves.But the shadow is still there, and the Dashi merchants are very worried that after the Xing Palace is captured, the Chinese and Turkish soldiers will use their old tricks to do such barbaric actions again.
However, they were unwilling to completely give up their property and commercial profits in the Xingwang Mansion. In addition, they heard rumors that the Middle-earth dynasty was not the Zhu Wen tribe who was desperate to jump to the wall at that time, so they still had a glimmer of hope.
The leader of the Dashi merchant decided to send envoys to the north to meet with the commander of the Zhou army to test the attitude of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Because the cannibal in the south was just a businessman and did not interfere with the war of unification, Cao Bin treated him with courtesy.Cao Bin immediately reported the matter to the court and made some of his own views in the memorial.
Cao Bin roughly affirmed the exchanges between Dashi merchants.
First, the taxes of the court can be increased from trade, and the cannibals mostly buy luxury goods such as silk and porcelain, which will not have much impact on people's livelihood; second, the diplomatic relations between far and near are the essence of ancient sages. Establishing a tribute trade system can expand the prestige of the dynasty... All countries thousands of miles away come to pay tribute, and their face will double!
...When Guo Shao received the memorial submitted from Tokyo, he had already left Lingzhou and was temporarily staying in the Binzhou Palace.
Wei Renpu and others all attached Cao Bin's proposal this time, and increasing taxes is enough for the ministers to support it.
At this time, the treasury expenses were very huge, with the solid foundations of Shu Kingdom and Southern Tang Dynasty. Although the treasury was not empty, the annual expenditure in the past two years was more than twice the normal fiscal revenue, and it was entirely dependent on subsidies from the internal treasury.
Cao Bin's rural military camp will be effective in the short term. Guo Shao is already planning a second batch of 100,000 troops to increase troops... The requirements for the ministers to implement the strategy are very simple, just three words: bring money.
In this situation, even if the Privy Council does not care about finance, it will be anxious.
Once the intravenous inventory plundered through the early war is hollowed out, it would be strange if the income and expenditure of the entire dynasty does not collapse!
Conventional means to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The profits of maritime trade with Dashi are open source, and mosquito meat is also meat.
However, Guo Shao said something that no one paid attention to: How did the big cannibal come to Xingwang Mansion?
Wei Renpu pondered for a moment and said: It should be a boat.
Guo Shao said: It is naturally a boat to come from the sea. The key is that it is thousands of miles apart. It is not easy for the boat to reach us.I remember that when the Southern Tang Kingdom sent people to go north to ask for help from the Liao Kingdom, and they even crossed the near-sea several times. This cannibal route is farther than the East China Sea, so there must be a reason to reach the Xingwang Mansion.
After hearing this, the ministers nodded and said yes, but they didn't seem to pay much attention to it.Because navigation technology is really not particularly critical to the court.
However, Guo Shao paid special attention to this matter... His perspective and insight are different.
Navigation technology may not be very important now, but it will gradually have far-reaching impacts in many years.
In Guo Shao's memory, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that China's fleet reached Africa and was soon interrupted.
Being able to sail from Arabia to Southeast Asia must have unique features in shipbuilding and nautical experience and skills.
Guo Shao's concepts never underestimated himself to ancient China, nor did he have the blind arrogance of the Celestial Empire.
Compared with the various civilizations in the world at the same time, everyone is behind and worse. He thinks that China is still more advanced in all aspects, and can be considered civilized, prosperous and stable; but not everything is the most advanced, and many aspects still have their own strengths and weaknesses.
Learning each other's strengths will help make progress; for example, the Ming Dynasty was generally strong and advanced, and we still had to learn from foreign countries in terms of firearms and other aspects in order to keep up with the general trend.
Zuo You also served as the Ministry of Rites. He was in Lingnan and issued an order to let Zuo You be responsible for discussing with the cannibals.Guo Shao said.
All the ministers thought that the cannibals were Gentiles. When it comes to diplomatic relations, Cao Bin could not be in charge. He had to use the Beijing officials to represent the central government.
Guo Shao quickly made a decision and wrote two letters, one to Cao Bin and the other to Zuo You, and put forward some of his own attitudes to let them be responsible for handling the affairs in the south.
...At this time, Cao Bin's troops strictly control the water and land roads in Lingnan and advance steadily.
However, in fact, the army of the Southern Han Dynasty was inconsistent in combat and did not have any conventional tactical efforts such as harassing or cutting off food channels. The Zhou army was progressing very smoothly.
Not long after, Liu Jixing sent people to the Zhou army camp to discuss peace.
The envoy actually threatened the Zhou army: If the Zhou army continues to attack, it will burn the Southern Han Palace, so that the Zhou army will not get any property!
The conditions proposed were to cede all the territory occupied by the Zhou army north of Shaozhou and give up the title of emperor; the Zhou army stopped attacking.
Cao Bin thought this condition was ridiculous. The army of the Southern Han Kingdom performed so poorly. Now he was very sure of destroying his country. Why should he tolerate the existence of the Southern Han Kingdom?
After discussing with Zuo You, he rejected the peace agreement of the envoys of the Southern Han Kingdom and put forward new conditions: the Southern Han Kingdom led all civil and military officials to surrender voluntarily, and the court be kind to grant you an official title and a title to ensure you have wealth; if the palace treasury is burned, the crime will be increased by one level, and the death penalty will be inevitable.
Zuo You discussed trade affairs with the Dashi Envoy.
The cannibal came and received courtesy, and then sent more important figures and several Chinese translators and staff hired to accompany him.
Zuo You met him in the tent.The translator waited for the great cannibal to finish his speech and said: Left Minister, his name is XXXX...
What?Zuo You frowned, but he didn't understand it. The name he was talking about seemed to be stuck in his nose, and he was in a vague voice.
The translator thought about it and said: The pronunciation of the name is "Shuaiman".He is the second-person of the Big Food Fleet, and he still keeps his word among the Big Food Fleet.
Zuo You nodded, then he clasped his fists and returned the gift to the cannibal.
Shuaiman looked at Zuo You and said something whispered.
After hearing this, Zuo You turned to look at the Chinese translator, and the man said again: Mr. Shuaiman roughly means that they came to Middle-earth to do business, very kind and without any hostility.Hope to be protected by His Majesty the Emperor.
Zuo You said: The Great Zhou court valued etiquette and virtue, which was completely different from the bandits and thieves in the turbulent times. Although you are relieved, Your Majesty hopes that the envoys of the Great Zhou capital Tokyo will visit the Great Zhou capital and pay tribute to each other.
Shuaiman said through the translation: How should we ensure our safety?
Zuo You pondered: Your Majesty will issue an edict to explain this matter, and the court is willing to communicate with Dashi whether there is any business or not.The Emperor of Great Zhou had a golden word and jade word, and the imperial edict must be counted, which is related to the prestige of the court.
He thought about it and said: However, the agreement between you and the Southern Han Kingdom cannot count, so we have to discuss it again.
Shuaiman felt more relieved when he heard this. Perhaps in their opinion, what can really protect safety is the interests.Since the Zhou court talked about commission, it was just to share the benefits, so we had to have a good relationship.
Zuo You checked it and then mentioned Guo Shao’s request in the letter and said: However, the merchants and other merchants must agree to our dynasty’s two conditions.First, the court must be abide by the laws of the court. Those who commit crimes must be punished according to the laws of the Great Zhou. You shall not obstruct the government's office.
Secondly, the court respects the gods of you and will not interfere with the gods of you and others worship the Bodhisattvas, but will not deceive the people in the Great Zhou territory, otherwise they will be severely punished and will no longer protect the safety of you and others.
Zuo You also suggested that Shuaiman send someone to Tokyo to pay tribute. As long as he gives the emperor some strange gifts, he will definitely get a generous reward.
Gentile tribute is also a kind of trade. For the court, it is a loss-making business. For the tributers, it is a business that allows them to make money without losing money, so it is generally only allowed to pay tribute once a year.
Not only because the court is in order to show its generosity and wealth, the key is to not give people money and others have no motivation to pay tribute; but if the world is not peaceful, the safety of the tribute route cannot be guaranteed... This kind of etiquette is mainly for economic interests, but to expand its prestige and influence, and to look forward to the prosperous situation where all nations come to pay tribute.
...After returning, Shuaiman discussed and accepted the request to go to the capital of Dazhou to pay tribute in order to further examine the attitude of the Zhou court.
The big cannibal prepared some rare goods brought from his hometown to trade. When Shuaiman checked the goods, he found a wooden model of a sailboat. He was furious and found a joint merchant leader and severely punished the people who prepared the goods to serve as a warning.
Shuaiman's reason is that the model of the sailboat given by the person who made the mistake may reveal the shipbuilding design of Dashi to Middle Earth.
All the partners agreed with his reasons, so the person who made the mistake was in trouble and was about to be cut off one hand.
He defended that the Zhou people never valued this thing, and that the model would definitely be placed in the room by the nobles as strange decorations; the reason was that the Middle-earth nobles despised merchants and craftsmen and would not interact with merchants and craftsmen.
But Shuaiman did not forgive him for this and insisted on punishing him.
A group of people discussed the rules that they should not tell outsiders about shipbuilding craftsmanship, navigation experience, mathematics and arithmetic, otherwise they would be executed next time!
They canceled some models from the gift list and replaced them with gold decorations and colorful gems, spices and other items.
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