bp;bp;bp;bp;In a small courtyard next to it, Zhao Zhen changed into casual clothes and sat in the hall with several priests.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Xu Ping talked about the process of the talks with Liu Liufu and said: "Your Majesty, as I see, the Khitan must still be lucky at this time and refuse to break the silver and silk every year. Peace discussions cannot be negotiated in a short time, and it is possible to delay it for a year or two years."

bp;bp;bp;bp;Zhao Zhen thought about it and said, "The 300,000 silver silk is not a huge amount. Why did the Khitan definitely not give it? This money-making money is not allowed to be given by the court, otherwise it will be impossible for the Khitan to discuss peace?"

bp;bp;bp;bp;"There are not many 300,000 horses, but for the Khitan, it is a big deal if it is missing. It is not only the princes and nobles who receive this bet of money and are unwilling to accept it, but they are afraid that their people's livelihood will also be affected."

bp;bp;bp;bp;Xu Ping finished speaking, seeing Zhao Zhen still confused, and said, "Your Majesty, there are very few coins in the Khitan country. They have to use these silver and silk as money. Once the money is cut off and the market is opened, how can the Khitan have no doubts?"

bp;bp;bp;bp;Zhao Zhen nodded repeatedly, and he understood when he said this. The inner treasury was deeply involved in the operation of the Beijing Bank. Zhao Zhen was familiar with the relationship between coins and business, and had a lot of experience in the past two years. In the past few decades, the Song Dynasty gave Khitan 300,000 silver silk every year. This was not the additional income of the Khitan princes and nobles, but also an important hard currency in their country.

bp;bp;bp;bp; Both the Song Dynasty and the Khitan were on the border. Most of the silver in the annual currency flowed back through the Khitan area, and silk was circulated in the Khitan instead of the currency. Since the battle in Xiangtiandu Mountain in Dangxiang, the situation in the northwest was clear, and the Song Dynasty has tightened trade with the Khitan. Silver, copper coins, and various strategic materials were strictly prohibited from leaving the country, mainly using tea, silk, and lacquerware to trade with the Khitan. When the two sides confronted Fengzhou, they closed the border trade together. In the past year, the Khitan area was in short supply.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Khitan insisted on the Song Dynasty to collect annual tribute, not only to be greedy for these wealth, but also needed to use these silver and silk to supplement the imbalance of trade between the two sides. Without opening a mutual market, the Khitan was scarce, and materials such as tea, silk and other materials were indispensable in one day, and the public was in a boiling resentment. After opening a mutual market, it faced a large-scale outflow of gold and silver, which could not balance the trade between the two sides.

bp;bp;bp;bp; From the perspective of international trade, the Khitan could not bear the long-term confrontation with the Song Dynasty. When the situation in Hebei was tense, they hurriedly sent Liu Liufu, who urgently needed to reopen the trade.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Chen Zhizhong said: "Since the battle in Fengzhou, all the border areas have been closed. Hebei and Hedong have been strictly inspected, and no items are allowed to enter the Khitan. It has been nearly a year since now, and the price of silk in the Khitan has increased and silver and money is scarce."

bp;bp;bp;bp;Du Yan said: "But, even if the mutual market is opened, what should the Khitan use to buy tea and silk?"

bp;bp;bp;bp;"Ma and salt, what else can there be?" Xu Ping shook his head slightly, "But the goods that the Khitan can sell are almost the same as Dangxiang. Now the court has a place for Dangxiang, and it is optional to trade in this dynasty. Is Khitan? Youzhou in front of the mountain can produce some silk, but there is nowhere to buy tea. The princes and princes in the north eat more meat, so how can they get rid of the smell of smell without tea?"

bp;bp;bp;bp;The confrontation between the two countries has an impact on their respective social lives in all aspects. Overall, the impact on the Song Dynasty was smaller and the impact on the Khitan was much greater. When heavy troops were deployed on the border, the Khitan national strength could not be supported for a long time. This is one aspect. Severing bilateral trade, a large amount of Khitan's urgently shortage of materials had nowhere to buy, which would have a great impact on people's livelihood.

bp;bp;bp;bp;nomads have developed the habit of drinking tea. Without tea, there will be big problems in daily life. In the past six months, the tea needed in the Khitan can only be purchased by the Koreans. The price has increased several times, and the Khitan can no longer bear it.

bp;bp;bp;bp;The largest goods produced by the Khitan from the Song Dynasty were actually sheep and salt. When Xu Ping was in Sanshi, he developed the animal husbandry industry in the mainland. The number of Khitan sheep was reduced year by year, and it was better than nothing in the past few years. Later, when he arrived in Qinzhou, a large number of sheep from the northwest were imported into the Central Plains, completely cutting off the sales of Khitan sheep. Another bulk of goods was salt, which was mainly smuggling trade. The expensive salt in the Song Dynasty was not because of the high cost, but because of the head tax attached to it. Once the miscellaneous taxes were gone, the salt price dropped, and the salt in the Khitan was no longer sold. Now the Khitan could sell large quantities of materials for balanced trade in the Song Dynasty, including gold, silver, horses, camels and grain, which were prohibited from importing the Song Dynasty from the previous Khitans.

bp;bp;bp;The war between Dangxiang and Dangxiang began in the Song Dynasty. The Khitan used mediation to increase annual monies, which was a real need to balance trade. The trade materials were highly similar to Dangxiang. After the Song Dynasty destroyed Dangxiang, the Khitan was in an extremely unfavorable position in bilateral trade. It is precisely because of this that they refused to give up the 300,000 silver silk every year.

bp;bp;bp;bp;whether military or economic, the Song Dynasty and the Khitan maintained a dynamic balance in the past. Once the balance was broken, it would affect the two countries from all aspects of military and economic aspects. Now it is only the beginning, and the pressure of the Khitan will grow day by day in the future. The Khitan is not Dangxiang, and Yelu Zongzhen is not Yuanhao, so they cannot adopt their barbaric and rough methods. The empire has the face of an empire. Once shameless, the Khitan's ruling system over the surrounding ethnic groups will collapse, and then the pressure will not only come from the Song Dynasty.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Since Khitans were sure that they had to seek peace and trade with each other, Xu Ping would not make any concessions. Being able to trade equally is already showing kindness to the Khitans. Considering the arduousness of the internal military reform task, other Khitans could not think too much about it.

bp;bp;bp;bp;There is nothing left and right. Zhao Zhen and several prime ministers together, counting the materials that the Khitan could sell to the Song Dynasty, and how much it took to balance the bilateral trade. I don’t know, but I was shocked when I calculated that the Khitan needed to sell nearly one million chunks of goods in the Song Dynasty.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Chen Zhizhong said: "Now the goods that can be sold in the north are horses as the main body. Sheep and came from the northwest, and the imperial court will not buy them. One million guan, wouldn't it be that the Khitan sells more than 20,000 horses every year!"

bp;bp;bp;bp;Xu Ping smiled and said, "Where is 20,000 horses enough! Now there are horses in the northwest, which are better than Khitan horses. Where can one horse in the north sell for fifty taels. Based on the price at the border, twenty taels cannot be more, and less than twenty taels are possible."

bp;bp;bp;bp;The horse breeding industry in Qinzhou has already risen. With the development of the Mainland Chinese herds department and the supply of horses from Dangxiang, the supply has increased greatly, and the horse price will inevitably drop. Who will sell a 50-jin per Khitan to? Twenty-jin may not be sold.

bp;bp;bp;bp;Zhao Zhen said with some concern: "There is not that many of the Khitans who are willing to sell for 50,000 horses. If this is true in the future, how can the Khitans start trading with each other? I am afraid that the thief will join in and start the war easily, and there will be no peace in the northern border."

bp;bp;bp;bp;"If you can rob, the Khitans have already come to rob them, so why can't they send people to discuss the oath!" Xu Ping shook his head repeatedly, "Last year, the Battle of Fengzhou should have taught the Khitans. When they fought, they are not able to do it now. To be honest, if our dynasty is in the northern expedition and want to recover Yan Yun, the military strength will be insufficient. The so-called defense but insufficient attack is insufficient. For this dynasty and Khitan, it is the same now. Either the oath is re-making, the two countries are still brothers and trade with each other. Or as we are now, the two countries will send troops to the border to see who can overwhelm who."

bp;bp;bp;bp;Ding Du said: "But if we counted, the Khitan did not have so many horses, how could they trade with each other?"
Chapter completed!